A New Year's Resolution Worth Making and Keeping

In January 2020, excited about the new year, I sat down as I do every year. I sat down and reflected on the year before by answering the same questions I do every year and start writing down what I wanted to do for the new Year. I look back on my goals for the year, I didn’t accomplish most of the goals on the sheet.

If you are like me you might have started the year off with the same feeling. I know I should write some things down, but it seems as if the old sayings particularly true of 2020. “Write you plans in pencil, for God might erase them and write his own plans for you in pen.” Is it worth writing down your goals this year. Is it worth writing down your resolutions for the year? As I was preparing for this week’s message, I found One New Year’s Resolution Worth Making and Keeping.

Our Text today, is Exodus 7:1-7, However before we read it let me tell you the situation we find Moses in.

Breakdown

Moses has gone to Pharoah and was unsuccessful in his demand of Pharoah to let my people go. Pharoah did not let go. Moses comes back to God and says it didn’t work it got worse instead of getting better.

God tells him go back and tell my people I am delivering them.

Israel Doesn’t Listen nor 2 reasons (1) broken spirit and (slavery)

God then says Go tell my people.

Moses then says to God.

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?”

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (Ex 6:12). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

the Bible gives us a lineage of who Aaron and Moses are there lineage can be traced back to being a descendant of Jacob’s Son Levi. They are part of the destiny of the priesthood. They are God’s men for this appointed time.

Again he repeats he is a man of uncircumcised lips. ( His mouth is not dedicated to the Lord.

We get to our reading

Text

Resolution: Be God

Being God is Being Human

Pharoah being Divine and the territorial God of the Egyptians

Pharoah believed that every people had their Gods and that the way God’s showed supremacy was that their God had more territory, more land, more status.

Exodus and Genesis is all one package. When he created Adam and Eve in His image, it meant that they were his (1) representatives and (2) that the glory of God would shine through them.

This glory was shone through His (1) knowledge of God and (2) His obedience of him, and (3) his wonder-working through their life.

Moses is reaching his capacity. He is what is truly human. Whenever we fall short of what we believe we should be we say we are just human. But that was never God’s original intent, to be human meant for Him to Shine through his original man. So that to be less is to be subhuman. The violence and the hate and the unforgiveness and the bitterness that isn’t humanity that is sub humanity.

Habakkuk 2:14 ESV

For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

Although Moses isn’t God, he is functioning as God to Pharoah and it manifest itself in his obedience to God, his delivering his message of salvation to the powers, and his

Moses is a predecessor, he comes in the long line of people who show glimpses of true humanity.

He is the sign so that when we get to who the sign points to we understand who we dealing with.

Moses is the Sign.

But the Destination, the point on the map

Is Jesus Christ.

He is called the Second Adam, where the first Adam failed the Second Adam did not fall short of the glory of God.

He is the glory of God. He is so intimate with the Father that they are one.

When We look at Jesus we Become Truly Human and We Become Like God.

Being God is Trusting and Worshiping The True Human

2 Corinthians 3:7–18 ESV

Now if the ministry of death, carved in letters on stone, came with such glory that the Israelites could not gaze at Moses’ face because of its glory, which was being brought to an end, will not the ministry of the Spirit have even more glory? For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory. Indeed, in this case, what once had glory has come to have no glory at all, because of the glory that surpasses it. For if what was being brought to an end came with glory, much more will what is permanent have glory. Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

We Become what we Behold.

We have something surer than Moses.

(1) Repent

(Shift the weight of your life from the ground you think is holding you up to, what he is calling you to…..

Jesus is Truly Human, you can be what God has called you to be, because you have trusted the one Who has already accomplished it.

You reach your goal, not by trying to be him, but trusting that He has been good enough for you.

This brings you peace.

(2) Submit to His Word

(look at him, what is he saying, what is he doing, what are you feeling, what are you thinking. Journaling….

(3) Do What He Says.

When you come out of that time, When you come out of the wilderness be encouraged, feel his power