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Welcome:
before we dive into this morning passage I think it would be important maybe even helpful to know there is no temptation that is not common to all.
Thanking about this topic of anxiety, depression, fear
these are issues where I can identify
what I want us to grab a hold in the next couple of weeks is that fear and anxiety can become informative rather then dis-stressing
Introduction:
This text represents a massive shift in the Exodus narrative
The introduction, we might say, is closed in these few verses
God’s behind-the-scenes work comes into focus or to the center
and, following this short interlude, His massive plan of deliverance is displayed
In these short verses, God has seen fit to reveal part of His reasoning for His actions
And this is a gracious thing
God brings to view a greater confidence in Him, which is the only way we can face our fears
He shows that His people should call on Him in prayer
They should trust Him as He works
and rest in His unmatched blessings
I want to start our two week sermon series with a question:
How do we navigate the fear, worries, and unknowns of life?
“Every single person who ever lived is personally familiar with fear.
It is an inescapable feature of earthly life “ ( Running Scared - 9)
Freedom or oppression both bring fear:
Both oppression and freedom can incite (activate) fear
Freedom resolves the fear and anxiety associated with persecution and oppression, but it increases the fear of personal failure.
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With freedom comes more choices, which means more opportunities to get it wrong
Pick your poison, they both contribute to fear and anxieties
How do we deal with Sin? (By us or to us) Medicate or Exterminate
Do we talk about it
Simply live with it
or do we try to make friends with it
Two basic ways ( The secular way and the Christian way)
The Secular way -
We go to a therapist and they give us a disorder, syndrome, or a condition
they prescribe medicine
they listen to us & we come back next week
No healing only therapy that tells you this fearful, worried, anxious person is who you are so just learn to live with it
There’s NO deliverance because our issues are either natured into us from a sick culture
or nurtured by jacked-up parents
If your problem is outside of you what can you do?
The Christian way
We go towards discipleship/counseling that uses the Bible to address our fears and worries and our sin as it points us towards hope, purpose and our God-given giftedness.
Healing and deliverance have been purchased by Christ and both are available.
Yet our sin and satan plans will have to be dealt with thru the power of the Holy Spirit and promises of God’s Word.
You see if I have a problem within me and Jesus provides the remedy, I can experience victory.
The Truth about fear
Our fear, worries, and doubts aren’t waiting patiently to leave.
Fear is a core issue in many of our lives and must be brought to the surface to be defeated.
Fear is impatient, self-protecting, and skeptical (Fear has tried God once and He didn’t work)
Fear often skews reality
Fear runs from
It runs from things, people, responsibility
Fear knows the danger but it does not where to find peace and rest
Just when someone is moving towards biblical community fears default kicks in and reminds them people are unreliable and you can only trust on yourself.
So they slip back into an independent life characterized by self-control and self-protection
Let fear point us to a knowledge of God, and let the Spirit of God, by way of Scripture, teach us the knowledge of God
The Remedy for fear
Knowledge of God is the only means by which we can banish fear and replace it with faith
Prayer, fasting, and casting our cares on the Lord are all responses to knowing God; Knowing God is first
The opposite of fear is not courage, it is faith.
Before we create action steps toward healing and wholeness
we must realize that without a foundation of knowing God it will all be in vain.
Two Great Exodus’: Israel’s & yours
The Exodus story
A people who only knew slavery (400 yrs -This was sin done to them that has affected everything about their life and identity)
A Slavery that’s only getting worse
A God who is mighty to Save
Main Idea: The God who heard and delivered Israel is the same God who hears us and delivers us in the midst of our fears, worries, and unknowns of life
The God Who hears v.23
So we can pray
V. 23 “During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help.
Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.”
v.23 begins with an important fact:
“the king of Egypt died.”
This meant Moses could return to Egypt as a prophet and not as a fugitive
Despite the change in government, the slavery remained severe
We read, “their cry for help ascended to God.”
Picture the intense grief, distress, and agony here in these cries
They had nothing—no power, no property, and no prestige
Some people would say, “They didn’t have a prayer,”
but in fact a prayer was the one thing they did have
“The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God” (v.
23b)
The Bible uses three different words to describe the desperate prayers of God’s people
Together they express intense grief, bitter distress, and painful agony
Turn to Psalm 5:2 “Give attention to the sound of my cry, my King and my God, for to you do I pray.”
Another psalmist wrote:
Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord;
O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
(130:1, 2)
When we hear of Groaning it typically is done vocally to indicate pain
Sometimes without words one can understand
Deut 26:6-9 says; “And the Egyptians treated us harshly and humiliated us and laid on us hard labor.
Then we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers, and the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.
And the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great deeds of terror, with signs and wonders.
And he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.”
Do you feel their desperation?
Harsh treatment, humiliation, hard labor, affliction, toil & oppression
On occasion God’s people find themselves in such desperate hardship that the only thing they can do is groan for God’s help
God hears our prayers
The God who was working behind the scenes now enters the scene explicitly
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