Exodus II Preaching Questions Week 6

Holistic Preaching

Head:

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

Proposition:

God has a vision for his people to be his (1) treasured possession, (2) a kingdom of priests and (3) and Holy Nation

God saves first and then calls them

This is an opportunity to be God’s people, but they are afraid, they stand at a distance

Moses functions as mediator

They must ‘prepare’ to meet God

God wants to authenticate the leadership of Moses

God is ‘testing’ his people so that they may not sin

What kind of ‘fear of the lord’ invokes obedience, or worship

God has a vision/calling for his people — based on grace.

(His awesomeness was for them first, it still is)

God is to be revered and respected

God reveals himself that we might worship him and in worshiping him we would obey him.

Heart:

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

Tension:

How can we love (and thus obey) a God we are terrified of (fear)?

God doesn’t want terror stricken obedience. He could get that easily.

He wants your heart to see him as the most worthy/lovely thing in all existence.

What if the most awesome being in the universe was not against you, but you? (Rom 8:32)

How can God be present with a sinful people?

Pull:

Fear — fear of God, awe/terror

Why is God doing this all?

You are his bride — love, longing and affection.

Ferocious Love.

Hand:

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

Fear God — revere God — respect God

Justice delayed is not justice denied

embrace grace

Don’t keep your distance

Don’t be afraid

Jesus has made a way

Listen to Him

Keep his Covenant (the faith)

Become (realize) you are his treasured possession

Embrace your calling as a kingdom of priests

We’ve God to deal with God

The world has to deal with God, there is no fear of God in their eyes.

What is wrong with the world today?

There is no fear of God before their eyes.

So What??

So That??

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.

Tim Keller: Five Questions

Here’s the problem

Here’s what we must do

Why we can’t do it

How Jesus accomplish this for us

How though faith in Jesus should we live now