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Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies) by Chris Tomlin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOkImV2cJDg
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Opening Hymn
Announcements:
Next week I hope to have a brief business meeting following our morning worship.
3 Worship songs
Prayer Chorus
Prayer
Sermon:
The Seven Promises of God We Can All Depend On
When I began this series, I expected to blow by Chapters 5-7 in one sermon.
Then as I got into it, and I found three key elements here.
You have Moses and the Israelites fretting and stewing over what God is doing, you have a hard-hearted Pharaoh representing those in the world that refuse to bow to God, and in the center is God.
First He declares His abilities by disclosing His identity.
Then He gives seven very important promises that not only pertain to the Israelites in this moment, but will also pertain to all peoples throughout time who have ever pledged their devotion to God.
Stand with me as we once again read this passage from Exodus 5:22-6:8.
The Word of God for the people of God.
Thanks be to God!
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I. Seven Promises You Can Count On
Someone once asked, “What is Faithfulness?”
To which another responded with these following examples.
AMG Bible Illustrations (What is Faithfulness?)
A shepherd once came to the city of Edinburgh from the country.
He had his small obedient dog with him.
While there, the man died and was buried.
That little dog lay upon its master’s grave—not for a day, a week, or a month, but for 12 years.
Every day at one o’clock a gun was fired in the castle of Edinburgh.
When the gun was fired the dog would run to the local baker who gave it food and water.
Then back to the grave it would go.
This continued till the dog died 12 years later.
That was faithfulness!
A man threw a goose, which had been run over and crushed by a car, into an oil drum.
For seven years the gander, that goose’s mate, never went more than ten feet away from that oil drum.
That was faithfulness!
George Mueller prayed for 52 years for a certain man to come to Christ.
A pastor visited an elderly man 21 times before being admitted, but then he befriended the man and led him to Christ.
That was faithfulness!
A Welsh postman had the British Empire Medal conferred upon him by Queen Elizabeth; he had not missed a day’s service in 43 years.
Paul Dhrlick, the chemist, performed 605 unsuccessful experiments; the 606th was a success!
Thomas Edison made 18,000 experiments before he perfected the arc light.
After experiencing 50 failures on another project he said, “I have found 50 ways it cannot be done!”
That was faithfulness!
During the Korean War a man buried himself in the muck and mud of a pig sty (except for his nose and mouth so he could breathe) for eight days and nights rather than betray his buddies and surrender to the enemy.
That was faithfulness!
Each of these stories amaze us due to the endurance of time that is required to be considered truly faithful.
However, not even any of these shining examples comes close to God who has endured thousands of years waiting for us to be ready to receive His promises.
We can count on His faithfulness to deliver because the scriptures are full of His promises and many have already been fulfilled revealing His ability to deliver.
Last week, I zeroed in on verse 3 where God reveals a new name for Himself to the people.
In our current translations it is stated as LORD, all in capital letters.
In the Hebrew Bible, it is YHWH.
Either way, it means the same, “I AM!” A bold declaration of His status as the only one to have always existed!
This declaration of His existence as God is followed in verses 6-8 with seven very special promises for Israel.
However, as we look down through history and the events that come before and after this event, we find that these promises hold an even greater promise for all those who have or will put their trust in God.
These seven declarations all begin with, “I will...” and they are firmly linked with the covenant that God made with Abraham.
The first three are found in verse 6, and we find that they are...
A. Promises of Freedom & Redemption (6:6)
Notice how God first declares who He is and then He makes these 3 promises.
1. “I will bring you out...”.
2. “I will free you...”.
3. “I will redeem you...”.
These three promises are regarding being freed from enslavement.
However, the freedom is not something that is easily attained.
It is not a gift from the enemy.
It is something that comes at a price and one for which the Israelites cannot pay.
In other words, it is redeemed.
God is declaring to Israel, fret not!
I am going to bring you out of Egypt and the slavery you are experiencing there.
I will free you from being slaves.
I will buy your freedom with the mighty acts of judgment that I will bring upon those who have enslaved you.
These promises are still celebrated by Jews today.
They play a part in the Passover celebration.
As they celebrated Passover that first night and in the years to follow, they remember that 400 years of slavery and how God promised to deliver them and He did.
This promise would be repeated later and broadened to include us all as we are all slaves to sin.
We also know that all men have sinned.
No one, except Christ, are without sin.
In our American history, there were many slaves that tried to escape.
Many were caught and brutally punished, and sometimes even murdered for trying to escape.
There were some who succeeded to escape, but when it comes to sin, there is no escape we can accomplish on our own.
Only God can free us from this bondage of sin.
To Israel God declared,
I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
(v 6)
For us, God offers us freedom from the yoke of sin.
Galatians 5:1 (NIV)
1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free.
Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
We live in a world that keeps trying to persuade us that freedom is being able to live by our own emotional desires.
It is the ability to choose anything you want.
However, this is not freedom because it only brings on disastrous consequences that draw us deeper and deeper into despair.
For example, people fight to live by their lusts.
They want to be free to have sex with whomever they want, whenever they want.
In some cases, this leads to unwanted pregnancy.
No biggy!
I will just get an abortion.
However, that comes with many of its own consequences; emotional depression, feelings of guilt, sometimes there is damage done that prevents future pregnancies, all which just cause more emotional distress.
This is one of many, many examples.
This is not freedom!
Jesus offers us a better way.
We take off the yoke of sin and we put on the yoke of salvation.
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