Celebrating God's power changes your heart.
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When you worship God because of His power it transforms your heart and strengthens your faith.
When you worship God because of His power it transforms your heart and strengthens your faith.
<Exodus 15:1-18>
A. Israel praises God for His power. (v.1-3)
A. Israel praises God for His power. (v.1-3)
The Israelites have seen the incredible acts of God and they can’t help but celebrate.
1. Scripture repeatedly declares God’s power.
1. Scripture repeatedly declares God’s power.
Mark 10:27 (NASB95)
Looking at them, Jesus said, “With people it is impossible, but not with God; for all things are possible with God.”
a) God’s power means He can do the impossible.
God came to Abraham to reaffirm His promise to give him a son through Sarah.
It had been 25 years since God originally made the promise and Abraham was nearly 100 and Sarah would be 90 when the boy was born. (Genesis 17:16)
“Is anything too difficult for the Lord? At the appointed time I will return to you, at this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
b) God’s power isn’t dependent on anything.
nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things;
c) God’s power is evident in creation.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
2. Creation is one of the most persuasive demonstrations of God’s power.
2. Creation is one of the most persuasive demonstrations of God’s power.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God created out of nothing.
God is powerful and When you worship God because of His power it transforms your heart and strengthens your faith.
B. Israel rehearses God’s demonstration of power. (v.4-8)
B. Israel rehearses God’s demonstration of power. (v.4-8)
God’s power is exhibited far more than you may imagine.
DEFINE: Miraculous
Certainly, we look at the events in Exodus and can agree that these are miracles.
However, it’s important that we think biblically about miracles, because there’s far more “miraculous activity” going on than we may acknowledge.
God’s sustaining of creation is no less miraculous.
Hebrews 1:2–3 (NASB95)
in these last days has spoken to us in His Son, whom He appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the world. And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
2. Salvation is a miraculous event.
even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
a. It’s common to take God’s sustaining power for granted, however, without it we wouldn’t exist.
These things are miracles, that we might define as:
God’s ordinary caretaking of His creation for His glory.
God’s ordinary caretaking of His creation for His glory.
Miracles are going on every second of every day and your intimacy with Jesus will grow closer as you consider this from His perspective.
Therefore, building on that definition we might sat that, what are often called miracles are:
God’s extraordinary (out of the ordinary) caretaking of His creation for His glory.
God’s extraordinary (out of the ordinary) caretaking of His creation for His glory.
C. God turns back His enemies. (v.9-13)
C. God turns back His enemies. (v.9-13)
1. The Egyptians believed they were powerful. (v.9-10)
1. The Egyptians believed they were powerful. (v.9-10)
a. There’s a caution for us in this because we tend to resist God in those times that we feel powerful.
The Apostle Paul’s statement seems especially appropriate.
And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
2. Israel acknowledges that God is the only One who truly has power. (v.11-13)
2. Israel acknowledges that God is the only One who truly has power. (v.11-13)
a. v.11 Emphasizes God’s uniqueness.
There is none like You, O Lord; You are great, and great is Your name in might.
Being immersed in Egyptian culture for centuries, Israel saw their God much like they saw countless other gods that were worshipped.
Now they knew something very different in the wake of God’s awesome power on display.
b. God cannot be thwarted.
At the end of the book of Job he confessed:
“I know that You can do all things, And that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
“For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”
D. Israel’s experience with God built their faith. (v.14-18)
D. Israel’s experience with God built their faith. (v.14-18)
Israel celebrates their enemies fear because of God’s power. (v.14-16)
2. Notice their confidence in v.17-18.
As much as Israel had a reason to have confidence in the all-powerful God, we have more.
God demonstrated His power through the incarnation and work of Jesus.
God demonstrated His power through the incarnation and work of Jesus.
<Ephesians 1:19-21>
If you know Jesus, knowing that He is infinitely powerful should mean something practical in your life.
God’s power should cause all people to humbly praise and worship Him.
God’s power should cause all people to humbly praise and worship Him.
The unbeliever can’t do this without God.
And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
Having seen from Scripture who God is, repent and believe.
Christian, Scripture calls on us to worship God.
O come, let us sing for joy to the Lord, Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, Let us shout joyfully to Him with psalms. For the Lord is a great God And a great King above all gods,
Does your soul acknowledge God’s power?
Is your heart filled with joy and confidence over God’s power?
Certainly, we worship God for His power in our corporate services, however:
2. Does your personal devotional time include routine study, acknowledgement, and praise to God concerning His power?
Your notes from this sermon should be helpful in personal study of God’s power.
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Study and meditate on God’s Word to continue to renew the spirit of your mind.
Routinely look for display’s of God’s power and celebrate it.
One way to do that is in your conversations with friends, maybe over a meal, bring up the power of God.
When you worship God because of His power it transforms your heart and strengthens your faith.
When you worship God because of His power it transforms your heart and strengthens your faith.