FREED TO WORSHIP 4: IT’S TIME TO GO Teaching Series through Exodus
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INTRODUCTION
Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?”
God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’ ”
SERMON
PROVING THAT GOD IS THE LORD
PROVING THAT GOD IS THE LORD
GOD IS SHAPING A PEOPLE
· The purpose of which is to demonstrate His Lordship in the earth
The call of Moses
LORD occurs 6,828 times in the Old Testament. That’s more than three times as often as the simple word for “God” (Elohim — 2,600; El — 238). What this fact shows is that God aims to be known not as a generic deity, but as a specific person with a name that carries his unique character and mission.
· But His Lordship against all other competing gods:
The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”
TABERNACLE – VISIBLE PRESENCE OF GOD
· IN BUILDING HIS TEMPLE GOD IS NOT ANNOUNCING THAT HE IS HERE; HE IS ANNOUNCING THAT IT IS HIS INTENTION TO TAKE OVER AND TO DEMONSTRATE HIS LORDSHIP OVER ALL OTHER COMPETING GOD’S
BUT THIS GRACE IS NOT MERELY THE GRACE OF BEING SAVED; IT IS THE GRACE THAT HAS TRANSFORMED ORDINARY PEOPLE INTO MEN AND WOMEN WHOSE LIVES DETHRONE THE GODS OF THIS WORLD
· THIS IS THE PROBLEM WITH THE GOLDEN CALF: THEY CREATED THAT WHICH THEY WERE TO DESTROY
· DEMONSTRATE THE LORDSHIP OF GOD HAS COME ON THE EARTH BY
I. OUR COVENANT LOYALTY TO HIM OVER OTHER GODS
I. OUR COVENANT LOYALTY TO HIM OVER OTHER GODS
§ THIS IS THE KEY POINT IN THE FIRST 18 CHAPTERS OF EXODUS: ALL THAT HE IS ABOUT TO DO IS TO DEMONSTRATE HIS LORDSHIP
· PHAROAH ASKED: WHO IS THE LORD THAT I SHOULD OBEY HIS VOICE (5:2)
But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
o HERE IS WHAT I WANT TO KNOW:
THE WORLD IS ASKING THE SAME QUESTION OF CHRISTIANS TODAY: WHO IS THIS CHRIST THAT I SHOULD WORSHIP HIM? THAT I SHOULD YIELD MY LIFE, MY TIME, MY LEISURE, MY TREASURE TO HIM?
(PROBLEM WITH THE GOLDEN CALF)
GOD HAS DELIVERED THEM BUT THEY HAVE CREATED THE CALF
WE HAVE OUR CALFS TODAY - THE WORLD IS ASKING WHO IS THIS LORD THAT WE HEED YOUR VOICE ABOUT CHRIST AND OBEY HIM - WHEN YOUR LIFE IS LIKE MY LIFE - YOUR GODS ARE LIKE MY GODS
WE HAVE Political calfs
WE HAVE Ethic Calfs
WE HAVE Cultural calfs
§ BUT – My will be done on earth as it is in heaven
· 1 PETER 1:10-12
Concerning this salvation, the prophets who prophesied about the grace that was to be yours searched and inquired carefully,
inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.
It was revealed to them that they were serving not themselves but you, in the things that have now been announced to you through those who preached the good news to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven, things into which angels long to look.
§ THIS IS WHAT ANGEL’S LONG TO LOOK ON
HOW THE LORD, WHO DELIVERED US FROM THE CONDEMNATION OF SIN WILL DELIVER SINNERS FROM SIN BY HANDS AND HEARTS AND LABOR OF OTHER HUMAN BEING
· IT IS THE GRACE THAT HAS TRANSFORMED ORDINARY PEOPLE INTO MEN AND WOMEN WHOSE LIVES DETHRONE THE GODS OF THIS WORLD
HERE IS A PROBLEM OF AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY
WE HAVE BELIEVED THAT SALVATION WAS PRIMARLY ABOUT GOING TO HEAVEN: IT IS PRIMARILY ABOUT THE ESTABLISHING OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
ADAM WAS TO ESTABLISH THE ABODE OF GOD, AS IT WERE, ON EARTH
SO TOO ARE WE. THE POINT OF THE RESURRECTION AND EASTER IS THAT GOD HAS COME AND INIAGURATED HIS KINGDOM ON EARTH
II. OUR WORKING IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS OF DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT
II. OUR WORKING IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS OF DELIVERANCE FROM EGYPT
§ GIFTS AND SKILLS – FOR THE BULDING OF THE TABERNACLE
· SHOW CONNECTION BETWEEN GOSPLE AND RESURRECTION
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
RIM 1:16: POWER OF GOD (DUNAMIS – DYNAMITE)
EXPLAIN
Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
o PHIL 3:9-10 POWER OF HIS RESUURECTION (DUMANIS)
Resurrection is how God will, by the people of God, destroy the idolatry of the world
HOW?: HE GAVE GIFTS
· He gave gifts: so your gift is your contribution – demonstration – of the Lordship of Christ on earth, among the people of God, such that that people can be a model of the Lordship of God in that community
· Have you ever understood your gifts this way:
· So when Paul says 1 cor 12:7 – manifestationof the Spirit
o A clear indication of the existence or presence of God
§ OUR WORKING IN THE FAMILY BUSINESS IS OUR DESIGNED JOY
· Talk about this point
· God will not force a blessed person to be a blessing since being a blessing is the way that we experience the blessing of His presence and joy
· 35:5. 21, 22
Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord’s contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;
o Generous heart
Attitude bent towards the Lord’s work
Exodus 35:21 (ESV)
And they came, everyone whose heart stirred him, and everyone whose spirit moved him, and brought the Lord’s contribution to be used for the tent of meeting, and for all its service, and for the holy garments.
Heart stirred
To take and lift
To be in debt
You pay debt because you owe
Whose spirit moved him
Incite or urge (like a riot)
The spirit within a man redeemed by God is incited to labor for God because of His grace
o Willing heart
Same as generous
PAUL SAYS, THEREFORE, IN 1 cor 15:10-
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
· LANE BY WHICH WE SEE GOD’S WORK THROUGH US AND IN US
o LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR;
The purpose of the family business is for each of us, working as we are gifted, to be operating a idol breakers among the saints and, as a result, demonstrating that the Lord has truly come, in our life and witness.
So…
· The continual and deepening experience of worship is directly tied to my exercising the God-given gifts in my life
· The continual experience and seeing of God being powerfully at work in and through my life is conditioned upon my willingness to use what He has given me for His service and Lordship