Preaching: Exodus II Sermon Week 3

Holistic Preaching

Head:

Mind, intellect, logic, rationality — what is text saying?

Proposition: “it is not about the gifts but about the giver.”

If we come to God and abide in him he will meet all of our needs

Words: manna = ‘what is it?’ points to Jesus

Torah = God’s instruction

Heart:

Emotions, desires, wants — how does the text disrupt me?

Tension: How do we continue on in our tiredness? How do we find the strength to go on?

Pull:

Connect: We are all tired and wondering where our energy to continue will come form

from slaves to sons

learning how to live free, how to trust a loving father.

Hand:

Action, outcome, will — what is the text calling me to do?

Trust in the Lord through obedience

Trust in the Lord for our daily needs/wants/desires

Trust in the Lord for a weekly sabbath

So What??

God has made a way for us to Know Him — the Lord who saves us.

God really will meet your needs, becuase He is your father who love you.

God really is real and present and here.

So That??

We will come to him with all our needs

We will abide in Him as daily bread.

What is the fallen condition focus?

The Fallen Condition Focus (FCF) is the mutual human condition that contemporary believers share with those to or about whom the text was written that requires the grace of the passage for God’s people to glorify and enjoy him.

They struggled to trust God for their needs/wants/desires - as we do

They struggled to obey God’s instruction - as we do

Why? — the don’t know how to live free.

Their hearts long for Egypt

Acts 7:39 CSB

39 Our ancestors were unwilling to obey him. Instead, they pushed him aside, and in their hearts turned back to Egypt.

They didn’t really have a trusting faith in the Lord

— but we do! Through Christ and his spirit.

Tim Keller: Five Questions

Here’s the problem

We don’t obey God b/c we don’t trust God

Our hearts are still turned to sin

Here’s what we must do

we are called to obey the Lord’s instruction

Why we can’t do it

we are afraid, our faith is small, we don’t see God as he is.

How Jesus accomplish this for us

Jesus perfectly obeyed the Lord with all of his heart, soul mind and strength

How though faith in Jesus should we live now

He dies for our failures and gives us his perfect life

He also gives us his spirit to empower us to live as he did.

through our daily walk = feeding = abiding In Him.