Know Me by Name
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· 2 viewsIn this sermon, Pastor Bill explores God's unyielding covenant with His people through the Exodus narrative. We witness how God remains faithful to His promises despite human weakness and forgetfulness. The passage emphasizes God's strength in weakness, illustrating how He remembered His covenant with Israel even when they forgot. It underscores God's commitment to His promises, as evidenced by His "I will" statements in Exodus 6:6-8. Despite challenges, we are encouraged to trust in God's faithfulness, and it ends with practical steps for deeper covenantal living and a call to prayer for renewed faith and intimacy with God.
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Opening Thoughts
Mother’s Day
Introduction
The difference between a covenant and a contract.
Take a mother’s love for her child. A good mother makes a covenant to love and protect her child with all her mind, soul, and body.
It’s nice when you have a mutual covenant between to people like in a marriage where both parties give themselves to the covenant. But even if one parties breaks the covenant it doesn’t give right for the other to break it.
When we accept Jesus Christ has our Lord and Savior we enter into a covenant relationship with him. He has promised to never leave us or forsake us. The cost of our sin is paid in full by his blood. We are given a token of the covenant with indwelling of the Spirit. God is faithful to the covenant he has made through his Son, Jesus.
How is your covenant with God?
1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; 2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.
So you can be a christian living under the covenant of God or you can be a christian living in covenant with God.
Exposition
God Remembers His Covenant.
God Remembers His Covenant.
Israel was under bondage and slavery, and they could not escape on their own. They didn’t understand and had forgotten that they were in a covenant relationship with the Almighty God.
God’s strength is made perfect in weakness.
God’s strength is made perfect in weakness.
1 But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
God established his covenant with Abraham.
God established his covenant with Abraham.
Abram and Sarai were barren, yet God had promised to make them a great nation. Without the strength of the Lord, this promise could not be fulfilled.
5 And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” 6 And he believed the Lord, and he counted it to him as righteousness. 7 And he said to him, “I am the Lord who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
The strength of God’s covenant is his power, not ours.
The strength of God’s covenant is his power, not ours.
12 As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram. And behold, dreadful and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then the Lord said to Abram, “Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners in a land that is not theirs and will be servants there, and they will be afflicted for four hundred years. 14 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions. 15 As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age. 16 And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.” 17 When the sun had gone down and it was dark, behold, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch passed between these pieces. 18 On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your offspring I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, 19 the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, 20 the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,
God has the power to bring about his promises.
God has the power to bring about his promises.
2 God spoke to Moses and said to him, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them. 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. 5 Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
There is Power in the Name of the Lord.
There is Power in the Name of the Lord.
The weakness of our flesh doesn’t determine the strength of His Spirit.
The weakness of our flesh doesn’t determine the strength of His Spirit.
You think you know, but you don’t know!
You think you know, but you don’t know!
When we forget our covenant with God, He remembers.
When we forget our covenant with God, He remembers.
God hears your groanings and sees your bondage.
God hears your groanings and sees your bondage.
God intervenes not because of the faithfulness of his people, but because of his name is on the line.
God intervenes not because of the faithfulness of his people, but because of his name is on the line.
Israel didn’t know God, but God knew them.
Israel wasn’t serving God, but God would serve them.
God’s Will Be Done
God’s Will Be Done
God makes seven “I will” statements to the children of Israel. When God makes a promise, he will keep it.
6 Say therefore to the people of Israel, ‘I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord.’ ”
I will bring you out of your burdens. The weight of this world.
I will bring you out of your burdens. The weight of this world.
I will deliver you from your slavery. The oppression of sin.
I will deliver you from your slavery. The oppression of sin.
15 What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, 18 and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
Slavery is a mindset that must be broken.
Slavery is a mindset that must be broken.
You are a slave as long as you submit to slavery. The truth will set you free.
You are a slave as long as you submit to slavery. The truth will set you free.
I will redeem you with power and judgment. The redemption from sin and shame by the blood of the lamb.
I will redeem you with power and judgment. The redemption from sin and shame by the blood of the lamb.
18 knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
I will take you to be my people. Accepted in the beloved.
I will take you to be my people. Accepted in the beloved.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ
I will be your God. Protected as His children.
I will be your God. Protected as His children.
14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you, 18 and I will be a father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to me, says the Lord Almighty.”
I will bring you into the promised land.
I will bring you into the promised land.
He has the power to keep his promises.
He has the power to keep his promises.
He not only brings us out of something but brings us to something.
He not only brings us out of something but brings us to something.
He makes a way where there is no way.
He makes a way where there is no way.
I will give it to you for a possession.
I will give it to you for a possession.
11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory.
God’s People need to Believe.
God’s People need to Believe.
9 Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery. 10 So the Lord said to Moses, 11 “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.” 12 But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?” 13 But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
It’s hard to hear with a broken spirit and harsh slavery.
It’s hard to hear with a broken spirit and harsh slavery.
The goal of the world system is to break your spirit and steal your faith in the Almighty God.
The goal of the world system is to break your spirit and steal your faith in the Almighty God.
The weapon of the world system is to entangle and enslave you to steal your hope in God.
The weapon of the world system is to entangle and enslave you to steal your hope in God.
When you walk in covenant with God, all things are possible.
When you walk in covenant with God, all things are possible.
Even when you are broken and enslaved, God will still come through.
Even when you are broken and enslaved, God will still come through.
Jesus has overcome the world.
Jesus has overcome the world.
33 I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.”
Next Steps
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understand.”
Don’t let your covenant with the Lord be one-sided. Walk as children of God.
Watch as the Lord makes a way where there is no way.
Call to Prayer
What is stealing your faith and hope in this world?
How can you draw close to God as he draws close to you?
RGroup Questions
Reflect on James 4:6-10.
What do you feel is your greatest strength in your covenant relationship with God?
What can you do better walk with God in your covenant relationship?