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Pyramids
-One of my wife's favorite things to do is to put puzzles together
-i for one am not a puzzle person,
-I don’t have the patience for it, I don’t have the eye for it
-she’s one of those people who can just look at a puzzle and go
ope there’s a piece.
ope there’s another one
-i on the other hand was not given the gift of puzzle building
-because I will stare at that thing for hours and hours and find nothing
-some people are puzzle people I unfortunately am not
-but my wife is.
-and we don’t put them together now as much as we used to, but before we had kids we almost always had a half finished puzzle on the table
-we’d have it on a piece of poster board so that when we needed the table we could move it, to a different table and everything would stay in tact
-and then when you have it on the posterboard you can take hodgepodge glue and glue it together and hang it on the wall and it’s really cool.
-and so it took quite a while to finish it because life events kept getting in the way
-and we kept having to move the puzzle to another room,
-and so I want to say it took us almost a year to finish it, just because other things kept coming up.
-well unbenounced to us,
-a friend of ours decided that it would be a really fun prank to hide one piece
-so that when she finished this 1000 piece puzzle we would panic because there was a missing puzzle piece
-and then he would return with the puzzle piece
-and we’d all laugh and everything would be fine
-and it was just a silly little prank between friends .
-that’s not what happened.
-because life events came up, and it took us so long to finish the puzzle
-our friend ended up losing that one piece that he was hiding.
-so now we have this 999 piece puzzle with one little hole in it where a piece was supposed to go.
-it was imperfect
-keep in mind we had already picked out the perfect frame and the perfect spot on the wall, and and the right kind of glue that you need
-everything was perfect
-but there’s a missing piece in the puzzle
-and we tried to come up with all sorts of solutions
-we thought about cutting out a piece of cardboard and painting it to fit the missing spot
-we thought about just framing it against a background that would blend in and hide the missing piece
-we even went so far as to consider buying a wholenew puzzle just for that one piece
-we ended up not doing that last option because that would be torture
-and so at the end of the day we were stuck with this imperfect puzzle
-and no matter how hard you try, if you take something that is perfect and you try to mix it with something that is imperfect
-it’s gonna clash
-it doesn’t fit
-much like our relationship with God
-we are imperfect people with a perefect God
-and so the question I want us to answer today
How does a perfect God interact with imperfect people?
Exodus 17:8-13
-This is one of those Bible stories that you maybe heard in Sunday School
-You might have read this story in a Sunday School class
-and if you have, you’ve probably heard the explanation of this story to be a little bit something like this:
-Moses’ friends helped moses to Rely on God
-And that’s not a bad interpretation
-that’s a perfectly fine way to read the Bible
-In fact if you read this passage
-and you walk away thinking to yourself
-You know, I should rely on my friends
-because when my faith is weak, they can help me.
-that is a perfectly acceptable way of applying this passage of scripture
-If we’re thinking about our pyramid method
-Remember the base layer of the pyramid is simply “what does the Bible say”
-and then the next layer up from that is “how do I apply this to my life”
-and by reading the story this way we are focusing on those two base layers of the pyramid
-and there’s nothing wrong with that
-But today I want to encourage us to dig a little bit deeper
-and see Gods’ word a little bit more clearly
-rather than simply being content with reading for the base layer
-Which is why I asked the question at the beginning
-how does a perfect God interact with imperfect people
-that is a tip of the pyramid question
-that’s a big question
-that’s the kind of question we think about and wrestle with for our entire lives
-and so as we look at this passage
-I am going to challenge you by saying
-that the main point that God wanted the Israelites to see was not simply “we should help each other to have faith in God”
-that was a point
-but I don’t think it was the point
-And the reason I say that
-is because if we zoom out and look at this passage in the broader context of the book
-we see that it is a continuation of the theme “so that you will know that I am God”
-in fact if you had a friend or family member who had never opened the Bible
-and they wanted to know in one sentence what the book of Exodus is about
-you could define the entire book with the phrase
-”so that you will know that he is God
-That’s it
-if you get nothing else from this entire Exodus series
-you should know the phrase “so that you will know that I am God”
-up until this point in Exodus
-we have learned two things
God is Perfect
We are imperfect
God is strong
We are weak
God is Good
We are Bad
-Which raises the question
-how does a perfect God interact with imperfect people
-Remember all the way back in Genesis
-God walked with Adam and Eve side by side in the Garden
-But because of Sin
-because of our imperfectness that relationship was severed
-Gone are the days in which you can just walk up to God in the Garden
-can’t do it
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