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, May 10, 2026

We have read in Genesis 22 the story of God requesting the sacrifice of Abraham’s firstborn son, only to stop the sacrifice at the last minute and provide a ram to be sacrificed instead. We are told ahead of time at the beginning of this story in Exodus 4:23 the “wonder” that will finally move the heart of Pharaoh will be when God kills his firstborn son, yet the firstborn sons of the Israelites will go free. Our God is always governed by righteousness. All his works perfectly pass through the test of what is right without any flaw or failure. From our perspective this can be an impossible thing to comprehend because many times God acts in a way contrary to how we would do something, but we must remember at these moments, we are not the omniscient ones, we are the limited ones. God has wrath, He gets angry, the Scriptures are full of stories depicting God’s judgements, and yet in each and every one of these things He never crosses the line into unrighteousness, actually at times the unrighteous thing it seems God is guilty of most is letting certain things go unpunished even when it is obvious justice is due. How do we explain this? All of the stories in this section of Scripture with reference to the firstborn son being killed point to the amazing Truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God. For Him there was no substitute, no way out, no chance of rescue. This is because He is the substitute for us, He is the way out of the righteous wrath of God we deserve, He is our rescuer. God has poured His wrath for sin upon His firstborn Son so that all who believe in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior will be eternally saved.

Sermon Preview for Sunday, May 3, 2026

Now what? God has put to rest all protests, counterpoints, and questions. God has repeatedly declared the most important thing will be true, namely, “I will be with you”. God has said He would be with Moses’ mouth and with his speech. God sent Aaron as an act of mercy and grace in His anger to provide the mouthpiece for Moses. Furthermore, God has clearly told Moses all that would happen, which is a luxury not very often afforded to us in our walk with Christ. This moment of decision and finality is a moment we as disciples of Christ know all too well. This is the moment of human responsibility each one of us, who desire to follow our Savior, face on a daily basis. Our lives of Christian living and sanctification are marked by moments of alignment between God’s sovereign will and our human consciousness and freedom. When both of these are in complete alignment we see the largest spiritual growth but it is never easy. It seems as if the moments of highest potential for spiritual growth come at the most difficult of circumstances. So far in the story of Moses, God’s Sovereign will has already been on full display, and now is the moment for Moses’ will to be in submission and surrender to God’s as the Master servant relationship demands. How does it usually turn out when you are put into this situation? What goes through your mind when God has made something clear to you? Are you living with a strong will of your own toward God or is it sensitive toward Him ready to fall whenever He impresses upon it something different? The life of faith opened to us in Jesus Christ is one committed to Christ’s leading at all times and in all things.