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Exodus 15:22-27
In this message, Pastor Jeremy ‘dove’ back into an examination of the Red Sea crossing. To begin with, he had us try to re-conceive our love for the sea and look at things through the superstitious eyes of the ancients. One has only to skim the pages of Homer’s epic masterpiece, The Odyssey to realize that for the ancients, the sea was the symbol of untameable chaos. It was this widespread relationship with the sea which both the Israelites as well as the Egyptians carried with them to the very shore of the Red Sea. (Exodus 14)
Which Side of the Sea Are You On?
Exodus 12-13
Exodus 7-11
Exodus 5&6
Going Deeper. Questions for group discussion:
Download Audio Exodus 3:1-15 The story of God appearing to Moses in the burning bush is one of the most recognizable stories in the bible. It is filled with significance and hope. This is the passage where we start to get a clearer picture of who God is and what He does. In this sermon we will discover that God is the one who demands our attention, the one who knows the suffering you experience, the one who is always present and the one who simply “Is”. It is God who defines himself, we don’t define Him. But yet many of us worship a God of our own making. A god who we have formed and fashioned from our own thoughts and opinions. But God has not left that up to us, He has given us passages like this one to discover who He is and what He does. Further to this; if God is who he says he is, then we ourselves are defined by Him. And that is both liberating and empowering.
Going Deeper:
Questions for group discussion: (You don't have to work through all these questions. Just pick a few that you feel will keep things rolling.)
Exodus 1-2 To belong, and to live in peace. These are basic longings for each of us. For the people of Israel, living in slavery and oppressed by violence in ancient Egypt, neither of these were realities. Yet in the midst of their unreal persecution, there was a glimmer of hope. A delicate basket floating down the crocodile infested waters of the Nile River carried the precious cargo of hope, the baby Moses. His story, the unlikely rise to the position of deliver of the people of Israel had the fingerprints of God on it from the very beginning. This story, crafted by God, is not just history though. Our journey through Exodus aims at exploring how this is also our story. It is our story because of what it tells us about the bondage we live in and who our true deliverer is, Christ Jesus.
Going Deeper
Questions for Group Discussion: The oppression recorded in the first chapter of Exodus is on a level which had simply not been seen in the Biblical record before. However, we can often easily read these passages as such distant history that we skip over the humanity of the people involved.
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