Sermon Tone Analysis

We are in awe of you.

We are in all of you father son and spirit that you are, holy that you are not like us even though we have been created in your image.

We want to image bear.

We want to reveal you.

Well, father, son and spirit but it is hard because of our sin.

Will you drawers to you?

That we may be ever like you in Jesus name, we pray.

Amen.

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Ethos, it's a parents weekend.

So, parents glad you could be here joining us for those of you that are here for those of you that didn't have your parents come.

It's okay.

I'm sure they still love you.

Hopefully.

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We're going to Exodus rescuer God.

Reveals himself in Exodus.

That wasn't my introduction.

That was just an introductory statement.

Moses was raised in Egypt, the first 40 Years of his life.

He had the privileged life of an educated and experienced Prince of Egypt, who thought not very little of himself.

it seemed like he had some sense that he was supposed to be either they or a type of rescuer for the people of God in Egypt and he acted upon that understanding by killing an Egyptian and revealing himself to one of his Countryman one of his siblings siblings, so to speak and then he was exiled.

another forty years in the desert unlearning all that he had learned that he was something special That he was privileged for a purpose and he devolved into a sort of.

Well, I guess I'm just here in the desert.

I don't know this but I suspect it that he lost so much of his initiative that he had been raised with that, he couldn't even get his own sheep.

Remember Jacob one of his ancestors, Jacob, when he was tending, his father-in-law's sheep.

You remember that?

Jacob struck some Bargains.

Jacob earned.

Stole.

Some of his father-in-law's sheep and started his own flock and it started to Prosser.

But here we are 40 years later.

And Moses doesn't even have his own sheep, his own flock, he is still Incorporated solely into the family of his father-in-law Jethro.

The priest of Midian.

And he's keeping his father-in-law's flock of sheep in the desert and he goes to the the west side of the desert, he goes to the far side of the desert as those a desert isn't far enough to flee.

He goes further away further away from his raised identity further away from society further away from any place that he could go to find Shuman.

Meaning he goes out into the middle of nowhere, weather of his own volition or led by the spirit of God.

I cannot tell you

But he ends up in Horeb.

where the Mountain of God is at

and as he's minding his own business or rather, minding his father-in-law's business, Casey's.

Something.

Not too remarkable.

He sees a fire.

The rather primitive piece of technology.

Something most people have seen a fire but he sees that this fire is interrupting.

The expectation that he has of what a fire does.

Define the Old Testament represents the presence of God.

In many instances represents the presence of God or trees, powerful and full of wisdom because they're old often.

Well you can't really get a tree in the desert for the closest thing apparently God found to a tree was a bush.

And so here we have the presence of God in the presence of God.

Manifesting itself together.

But one not consuming the other.

And right here, Moses gets clued in as does do the heroes of the story.

That is true that Moses is writing for the people and he sees something unexpected.

You see the god? that Moses was about to meet, is the god that bends the laws of nature at his whim.

You don't fire, doesn't burn things up.

If you don't know that, just come to my house Would burn some stuff.

You know what I mean?

But fire did not burn this bush.

So Moses approached it and he was interested in.

So, He goes near and we find that the angel of the Lord, not simply an angel of the Lord, but the angel of the Lord is in the midst of the bush.

In the text, the Old Testament doesn't really explicitly.

Tell us if this is the pre incarnate Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity, but if it's not this Angel of the Lord for Phil's, this same role, That Jesus Christ.

Fulfills.

So it's either literally Jesus Christ, praying Carnot, or does metaphorically.

Jesus Christ functioning, in the same role, calling Moses, To the bush.

Or from the bush.

And in A Very Old Testament, sort of way God calls out to Moses.

Not once.

But twice, Moses Moses.

The Cry Of God goes out to Moses, the person of God is present.

And he's calling out to Moses and Moses response.

How are you?

How do you respond to the person of God?

Here I am was Moses response.

Are you preparing yourself to listen when God speaks to you?

In the rustling grass.

I hear him pass.

God is not limited.

by speaking to you, in church,

But in some mysterious way, he can be limited by your listening or lack thereof.

You can have a hundred text a thousand emails, an endless social media or news feed today.

you can buy noise cancelling headphones at pump music directly, or almost directly to your eardrums podcast Galore and more video streaming services than you can shake a stick at, you would have coworkers children relatives, or even your spouse coursing, every spare moment of attention from you, but have you stopped to respond appropriately to the person of God

When God calls you by name.

What is your response?

Have you ever responded to him in faith and belief and said, yes, here I am.

And I give my life to you, I Surrender my life to you.

I turn for my wickedness and turn towards Jesus cuz that's the first step.

He wants you to listen to what he is saying to you.

Are you reading your Bible regularly?

Not here for a guilt trip, but a little bit of accountability and encouragement.

Are you praying to him?

Plenty.

Have you considered fasting frequently?

When did you grant God an audience?

So that when he speaks your name, you are ready to listen.

I hope you do it daily and don't get distracted.

Moses was ready to respond.

He responded with here I am and there he met the person of God.