EXodus

The life we live in Jesus Christ is filled with much joy and much pain. Times when things go as we planned and many times when they do not. One this is for sure God’s people can confidently say they are exactly where God wants them to be. He is working in it all.

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Sermon Preview for Sunday, January 25, 2026

We have looked at this verse before and now it is important to look at it again. In Genesis 50:20 Joseph says to his brothers, “you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive as they are today.” In many ways this verse becomes the thesis verse of God’s redemptive purposes. We do not serve a God who is limited in resources and power, we serve the One, True, and Only God who actively takes the destruction and devastation of sin and fully purposes good from it. Now before we would accuse God and say something like, “wouldn’t it be better if God just eliminated sin and its destruction altogether” let us always remember that the greatest and most profound example of God putting Genesis 50:20 into action involves the most painful day in His existence, and who was the cause of this pain? We were of course. It was our sin that caused it. The evil intent of crucifying God’s one and only Son could never be matched and yet God, in his infinite wisdom and power, uses the destructive plans and purposes of this evil to accomplish the greatest good this world has ever known. It was the destruction of God’s Son that also paid the penalty we rightfully deserved because we sinned against God. Therefore, only because of the death and destruction on that day can you and I say we are free and have life in the name of Jesus Christ. Furthermore, for anyone who is truly a disciple of Jesus through faith and repentance, the Holy Spirit is actively at work to sanctify us on a daily basis. This means that through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God IS actually in the process of eliminating sin. He is just starting with the sin inside you and I and going from there. 

Sermon Preview for Sunday, January 18, 2026

In our last discussion aimed at knowing how to combat the reality and presence of sin we looked at some of the more obvious and massive sins. The realities of love of money and pornography, for example, destroy our lives from the inside and pose an obvious and cancerous threat. In Matthew 5:21-48 Jesus provides for us an important nugget of truth in this battle against sin, a nugget of truth worth more than any amount of gold to our lives. He says in our battle against sin there are smaller sins that so easily go unnoticed directly connected to the more obvious sins that can take us out, and paying attention to these smaller sins will go a very long way in protecting us from the sins that can strangle us fully. Men and women are very skilled at keeping the more noticeable sins under control by mere human will and in so doing fool others, and worse yet ourselves, into believing we are doing better than we really are with our sin. In reality the whole time the not so noticeable sin of our lives remains out of control. Truly, it is only a matter of time until these sins we keep under wraps will burst forth in the form of the more noticeable ones unless the grace, mercy, power, love, and truth of God permeate thoroughly thru and thru each and every cell sized deviant in our heart that does not reflect the perfect character and nature of our Almighty God. Brothers and sisters in Christ, cut off all sin at the smallest level possible and be active in helping other brothers and sisters to do the same. God help us in this battle for without Him we are easy prey.