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I’ve noticed a change in myself over the past year in how I handle emotions.
And I blame Adalynn.
I used to be able to pretty stonefaced when it came to my emotions.
When I was happy, you would know it.
But when I was upset or angry or sad, you would never know it in public.
Now I watch some sappy video about babies or parenting or families and my eyes start watering.
No lie.
We went to the Coke factory museum when some of our friends came to visit.
And when you first go there, they show you like this 5 minute long Coke commercial showing all these stories of great family milestones, and of course Coke is with them every step of the way, as it should be.
And I’m sitting there crying at this commercial.
Its ridiculous.
It’s like I’ve gone back to being a child when you can’t control your emotions.
Isn’t that the worst thing in the world as a kid.
I used to be an angry cryer, which when you’re already in 6th grade is a terrible thing to be.
If you don’t know what an angry crier is, its when you cry when you get angry.
I used to get mad while playing baseball, and then it would make me cry, and then I would even angrier at myself for crying, and then it would make me cry more, and it was the most embarrassing thing in the world.
But I couldn’t stop.
Which might be the reason that once I could control my emotions when I got older, I made sure that I was always stoic when upset.
But this limit I put on myself is a limit that we put on God.
We limit God’s emotions.
We limit God by saying he can’t have emotions.
He’s God.
God can’t have emotions.
If God has emotions, he might do something spontaneous or different because of those emotions.
As if God acts like this.
Show confetti gif and Spock gif.
But I don’t buy that.
God isn’t Spock.
Nor is he a spelling bee champion that looks bored.
God is a God of passion.
God is a God who cares passionately about us.
The Bible is filled with emotional language about God.
And you might hear, especially any of you going to college soon and who take any philosophy courses, that the Bible is just anthropomorphic language to describe God.
Big word time.
That means using human terms to describe God because we have no other way to describe him.
God doesn’t actually have emotions, we just don’t have any other way to say what’s happening to God.
To that, I say pooey.
You don’t need to try to outsmart the Bible.
The Bible describes God as having emotions because God has emotions.
In fact, we have emotions because God has emotions.
We were made in the image and likeness of God, and our emotions are a reflection of emotions that God also has.
So tonight we are going to be looking at God’s Limitless Passion.
We are going to see that God cares without limits, and why that matters so much to us.
We aren’t going too much farther in the story, so turn in your Bibles to ’m going to start reading in verse 12, but let’s set the stage first.
We just heard last night about how God is sending Moses to free the people of Israel.
Moses is worried the people won’t believe that God sent him, so God gives him a few miracles he can do to show them.
First, he can throw his staff on the ground, and it will become a serpent.
And when he picks it up it will turn back into a staff.
If that doesn’t work, he can make his hand become leprous, and then make it healthy again.
And if that doesn’t work, he can turn water from the Nile into blood.
And even after all that, Moses is still whining.
But God, I’m not a good speaker.
And then we get to verse 12.
Ex 4.12-1
God’s passion: Anger
The Lord’s anger burned against Moses.
God is angry.
God is passionately angry.
For some of you, depending on the kind of church you grew up in, this is either something you’re hearing for the first time or something you’ve heard constantly.
Churches like to go to either extreme with God’s anger.
God’s not angry with you, he’s just disappointed.
Or God is constantly angry at everybody all the time.
Of course, neither of these options are good.
God is not a God who stays angry all the time, but he also isn’t a God who never gets angry.
He’s not the soft, lovey dovey who just says, “I’m disappointed.”
God’s anger burns against Moses because he is unwilling to obey.
Moses is unwilling to obey
God is asking Moses to do something, and Moses is trying as hard as he possibly can to say no.
God, no, please, ask somebody else.
I don’t want to do it.
You’ve picked the wrong guy.
No no no.
And I know there have been times where I was unwilling to obey.
There have been times where God has asked me to do something, and I’ve said, naahhh.
I think somebody else will do that.
I specifically remember in high school being burdened and convicted that I needed to share the gospel with one my teammates.
And I didn’t do it.
I didn’t want to do it.
I mean, the whole baseball team knew that I was a Christian.
I lived the Christian life.
I already got enough jabs and jokes thrown my way because of what I didn’t do and what I did do.
I didn’t really need to add to that.
I really didn’t need to give them more ammunition.
I’m sure somebody else will do it eventually.
And when I look at Scripture, I’m fairly certain God was angry at me for doing that.
I just said no. I’m not gonna do that.
Now, I can’t look back and say this is how God’s anger manifested towards me.
But that’s not the point.
The point is that defying God angers him.
His anger burns at disobedience.
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If we skip ahead a few more verses to verse 24, we see God’s anger burning against impurity and forgetting the covenant.
Ex 4.24
God’s passion: His Covenant
In , God commands to Abraham that all males are to be circumcised.
It is the sign of the covenant, and it is the sign that the Israelites are God’s people.
And his anger once again burns against Moses because he has forgotten the covenant.
He has not remembered the covenant.
He has not honored the covenant.
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