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Monday Sep 26, 2022
Monday Sep 26, 2022
People often ask, “Why do all religions seem to have the same practices and prayers?” The answer is simple: we all come from the same place. We are all, regardless of race, language, or geography, one people. We are sons and daughters of Adam and Eve. We are sons and daughters of Noah and his sons. World religions look similar in because our ancestors all heard from one God. Over time, people added their own ideas to the words of the one true God, and multiple religions emerged, but they all contain remnants of the original worship of the true God.
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
God has entered into a covenant with Israel. His chosen people have His moral law written on stone tablets. How are they now to apply that law to the everyday situations they may face? This section of Exodus answers that question. In chapters 21-23, God “sets rules before” His people that are to govern how they are to interact with one another as a called-out community of faith (Exodus 21:1). And then in chapter 24, we see the closing ceremonies of the covenant.
Monday Sep 12, 2022
Monday Sep 12, 2022
In Mere Christianity and The Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis argues for an objective moral reality that governs the way we treat one another in society. He says that there is a common thread that runs throughout human society. There is no society which prizes adultery or theft as a virtue, and no one wants to be lied to. All people inherently recognize these things as sin when they are sinned against, even if not all people would use that term. Romans 2:15 tells us that God’s law is “written on [our] hearts.” Here in the “second table” of the Ten Commandments, we see God make clear His expectations of His people, that they would treat one another in ways that honor Him. God spells out what we all understand to be wrong. In doing so, He points to a way of life that is only fully realized in the person of Jesus Christ.
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Throughout human history, there have been important moments where God broke through into time and space and changed everything for us, forever. The first and most easily recognizable intervention is at the very beginning of time, and of Scripture. “In the beginning, God…” (Genesis 1:1). God’s establishment of a covenant with Abraham was another time everything changed (Genesis 17). Thousands of years later, God kept His promises and sent His Son Jesus to live perfectly in human flesh and die in our place for our sin (John 1:1, 14; 1 Corinthians 15:3; 2 Corinthians 5:21). In this passage of Exodus, we will read about another interaction of God with Man where everything changed forever.
Monday Aug 29, 2022
Monday Aug 29, 2022
The scene in the Exodus narrative shifts here and focuses on Israel and Mount Sinai. God uses Moses as His mediator as He addresses the Israelites. About seven weeks have passed since the events at the Red Sea, and Moses has led his people out of Egypt and into the wilderness of Sinai (Exodus 19:1). The journey has encompassed over 400 miles, traveled by foot! Now they reach Mount Sinai, where the remainder of the events in Exodus will take place. God will soon reveal His covenant through Moses. Before He does that, God prepares His people for His presence.
Monday Aug 22, 2022
Monday Aug 22, 2022
As we move through Exodus, we transition from the first half of the book (God delivers His people), to the second half (God instructs His people). Exodus 17 and 18 are the last section in the story of God’s deliverance of His people. In these two chapters, we see the presence of Gentiles (non-Jews) and their interaction with Israel. Some will join Israel in worshipping the LORD, while others attack Israel, ignoring God’s hand on His people. In these situations, we see God protecting and teaching Israel. This has bearing on us today as God, through Christ, protects and teaches His Church, causing her to be healthy and fruitful.
Monday Aug 15, 2022
Monday Aug 15, 2022
As God’s people leave the Red Sea and journey into the wilderness, they become thirsty and they cannot find water. They travel on, beginning to be hungry, and realize they also lack food. Still further, they face another lack of water. The way the Israelites respond to these hardships is telling. God’s people have just seen the ten plagues that God brought against Egypt. With their own eyes they have watched the Red Sea give way to their crossing, and then drown the Egyptian army behind them. But only three days later, they lose faith in the God who provided them deliverance from slavery (Exodus 15:22).
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Monday Aug 08, 2022
Victory has occurred! The Israelites have been rescued and their enemies have been drowned at the bottom of the Red Sea. God has finally and fully destroyed the Egyptians. No more bondage, no more oppression, no more slavery in Egypt. What is the response of Moses and the Israelites to the mighty power of God and his deliverance? A song. This song, often entitled “The Song of the Sea” is the first recorded hymn of the Hebrew nation.
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Monday Aug 01, 2022
Jude has explained in various ways the apostasy (abandoning the faith) of antinomianism. Antinomianism is the wrong belief that, because of Christ’s work on the cross, Christians are no longer required to obey the commands of Scripture. The belief holds that because we are “not under law but under grace” (Romans 6:14), we do not have to live in accordance with it. Paul’s response is succinct: “What then? Are we to sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means!” (Romans 6:15) and “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?” (Romans 6:1-2)
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
En garde is French for “on (your) guard.” In fencing, the phrase is shouted by the referee at the start of each match. This exclamation tells the fencers to assume a position ready for action, to prepare to contend against their opponents. Jude gives a similar exclamation at the opening of Jude 11: “Woe!” The word is an interjection. Jude is sounding the alarm, telling the church to be en garde against those who act falsely, to be in a position of readiness to recognize them, and to contend against them.