Sunday Message: (un)Reasonable Trust #3—Habakkuk 3:1-16 —Praise
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Fine Print? (Exodus 34:7)
Fine Print?
(Exodus 34:7)
Like the burning bush that kicked off the whole thing, an unquenchable fire blazed within Moses. He wanted to see God. In unparalleled wisdom, he was certain no amount of personal success could slake his thirst. He would only be satisfied with God. (3 Minutes/800 Words)
Read moreJesus Is the King We Should Follow (Mark 1:2-4)
Jesus Is the King We Should Follow
(Mark 1:2-4)
Mark rarely quotes from the Old Testament Scriptures. When he does quote them, it is only the characters of the particular episode -- usually Jesus -- quoting them. (3 Minutes/800 Words)
Read moreArchival Post: Battling Creeping Unbelief
Battling Creeping Unbelief
Archival Post
Creeping, slowly and steadily, unbelief was ready to pounce on the early Jewish believers. They were, after all, outcasts in their culture, for their acceptance of Jesus as Messiah made them different, societal pariahs. So the author of Hebrews compared their generation to Moses'.
Read moreExodus 38-40
As I shared with you in our previous study, these last five or six chapters of the Book of Exodus, they feel fairly repetitious because we already, at a previous section in Exodus, have learned about all these different instruments and dwelling places that God has prescribed for the people of Israel. Part of the reason that this is said twice, it's not just to help us see what obedience looks like but to help us understand that God is identifying with this structure.
Read moreExodus 35-37
Chapter 35, and all the way to the end of the book in Chapter 40, is fairly repetitive in that the exact descriptions that God gave to Moses of the tabernacle on the mountain are now said by Moses, exactly as he received them, to the people so that they might get busy about the mission of building this tabernacle. But the repetition need not scare us as believers today. The repetition is helpful because it helps us understand that we must heed the word of God precisely, not loosely, but we must precisely heed the word of God.
Read moreExodus 33-34
As a reminder, we're here in the book of Exodus, in the middle of a three-chapter section where the people of Israel first rebelled in building the golden calf while Moses was still on Mount Sinai. Then secondly, and we'll see it in this chapter, Moses will mediate for the people. He's actually already begun mediating for the people a little bit in chapter 32, which we saw in our last study together. And then finally, God is going to restore the people of Israel. So that's the flow that we're in, in this little three chapter section. Rebellion of Israel, the mediation of Moses for Israel, and then the restoration of God to Israel.
Read moreExodus 32
The section that we're entering into here in chapter 32 actually extends all the way through to chapter 34. We're not going to cover all three chapters in one sitting, though that would be an appropriate exercise because they are a unit. And this unit is meant to communicate a message about the rebellion of the people, the mediation of Moses in interceding for the people, and God's restorative process in the people's lives, bringing them right back into the covenant.
Read moreExodus 30-31
We looked at what the priests were in Exodus 28 and 29, and this week we will look at what they do in Exodus 30 and 31 to learn lessons about what God expects, desires, wishes, longs for, wills for our lives to be today. In other words, a question that we should ask is if they were called to be a kingdom of priests and if we are called as a holy priesthood, a nation of priests today as the church, what did those priests do that might help inform what we ought to be doing today?
Read moreExodus 29
Here in the second half of the book of Exodus, we're listening in on God giving directions to Moses on the construction of the tabernacle, which they have yet to build. God is going to describe the consecration of all the priests in general, but of the high priest in particular.
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