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Its hard to believe that this is our 1 year anniversary!
What an amazing thing God has done and is doing at Exodus Church.
This is likewise a big day for us for a few other reasons
Today we are starting our new Children Curriculum on the Psalms
This will be a four year curriculum where we take our kids through all 150 Psalms.
We have a group of men and women working together to write, and plan these lessons.
With this curriculum we are raising up a young generation that will be taught how to
Think the way the bible thinks
How to read and understand the Bible rightly
How to listen to sermons when they come in here to worship with us.
They will be trained on how to feel rightly,
How to sing the Psalms
How to pray the Psalms
How to rejoice, and how to be angry.
How to praise God and how to fight against evil.
I am convinced that there is no better book, no better curriculum, we could possibly use to disciple our young kids.
Another reason this is an exciting Sunday is because we are starting our series on the Sacraments.
(after this three week series we will be back in the Gospel of Mark looking at Jesus’ final week in chapter 11-16)
The very first Elder Meeting we had as elders of Exodus Church was back in August of last year.
We sat around a table and I told the guys that this year I would like us to study the sacraments together.
I believed they were greatly important yet painfully ignored in our thinking.
We all agreed and we have been diligently studying Baptism and the Lord’s supper for a year and half.
I now can say confidently that I know far less about the sacraments than I thought i did then.
This study has been like looking at diamond wanting to understand its complexity and its beauty but not realizing how many facets are found in a diamond.
Turn it just slightly and there is a whole new perspective, a whole new glory, a whole new beauty.
Intro to the Sacraments
As we begin this three week series on the Sacraments we will be diving into the meaning of Baptism and the Lords Supper.
So to start off I want you to turn with me to
1 cor.
10:1-5
Context of the chapter
The OT typified Baptism and the Lords Supper.
What Paul is doing here is laying out the biography of Israel in the Exodus story and doing so by shaping their entire experience according to the sacraments.
they passed through the red sea - Baptism
They ate the manna from heaven - the body of Christ
They drank from the rock - the blood of Christ
The Exodus story is so rich with symbolism and meaning for us today.
Crossing the Red Sea was Israel leaving the old world and entering into the new world as God’s covenant people
Here God will call them to live differently, he gives them laws, and structure on worship and relationships, and food, and clothing and so on.
All to show that they are no longer part of the old world of sin and slavery, but they are members of the new world, this new covenant that God would establish.
Eating the manna from heaven was God not forgetting his people, but feeding them faithfully.
This would be a foretaste for them to the feasts that God would establish for them to enjoy.
Drinking from the Rock was partaking in the divine blessing though they deserved wrath and condemnation.
If we were to go on in the exodus story we would see that in they arrive at mount Sini where God would then teach them his laws, and give them instruction on worship and right living.
The order of the Exodus is this.
God Redeemed them from Slavery (Salvation)
God brought them through the water (Baptism)
God then fed them and gave them water in the wilderness (Communion)
God them Taught them at Sinai (Discipleship)
This is the order of the Christian life in covenant with Christ.
He redeems us, we are then baptised, we then can take communion, we then are discipled in the faith.
Israel was formed by the Sacraments, and Paul brings this reality to bear in 1 cor.
Upon Jesus’ ascending into heaven we find that he has left us with two sacraments in order to form us as a people.
In order to commune with him.
and in order to partake in his blessings.
My friends, the scriptures give great emphasis to these sacraments, and as a church we must likewise seek to understand all that Christ has given us, so that we too may be formed according to God’s good pleasure.
The Sacraments: An Introduction
There has been centuries of debate around the two sacraments
Baptism
dunk, dip, drip, sprinkle.
Forwards or backwards?
once?
twice?
three times?
Infants?
Little kids?
Teens?
Adults?
Indoors? outdoors?
Lord’s supper
What happens to the elements?
Transubstantiation?
Consubstantiation?
Memorial?
Spiritual presence?
Wine or Juice?
Cracker or bread?
These debates and discussions require a zoomed in approach to the study.
Which is really important and necessary.
And I assure you that the Elders of Exodus Church have and will continue to spend time discussing and studying these issues and will teach on them more in the future.
However, this series is not going to be a zoomed in approach, but rather it will be a more 30,000ft view, a wide angled lens, of the sacraments which is a view most churches don’t teach from.
Because being up that high, or looking into a diamond, can be kind of dizzying.
But I am confident there will be benefit for you individually and us corporately if we seek to see the full orbed nature of the sacraments as opposed to zooming in in order to see the details.
So this morning I am going to focus on four common questions concerning the sacraments.
Then the next two weeks we will focus on the Baptism and Communion respectively.
Is it a sacrament or an ordinance?
What is a sacrament?
How many sacraments are there?
Why are the sacraments important?
Is it a Sacrament or an Ordinance?
I had a conversation with a southern baptist pastor about a year ago and he was asking me about our Church.
I told him about our mission and visions.
That we would be a church seeking the redeeming, renewing and restoring of all thing in Christ.
I told him about our location.
I told him about how we walked through a liturgy where we have
a call to worship followed by a song
a time of confession followed by a song
the assurance of pardon followed by a song.
We would then move into the sermon where we would preach expository sermons
followed by an offering
And then we would have communion and benediction.
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