Pastor Tony Ashmore teaches on "Exodus" in this Wednesday evening celebration.Exodus
Pastor Tony Ashmore
Wednesday, April 02, 2012
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Sermon Notes:
1 Corinthians 10:
I don’t want you to forget, dear brothers and sisters, about our ancestors in the wilderness long ago. All of them were guided by a cloud that moved ahead of them, and all of them walked through the sea on dry ground. 2 In the cloud and in the sea, all of them were baptized as followers of Moses. 3 All of them ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all of them drank the same spiritual water. For they drank from the spiritual rock that traveled with them, and that rock was Christ. 5 Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. 6 These things happened as a warning to us, so that we would not crave evil things as they did, 7 or worship idols as some of them did. As the Scriptures say, “The people celebrated with feasting and drinking, and they indulged in pagan revelry.” 8 And we must not engage in sexual immorality as some of them did, causing 23,000 of them to die in one day. 9 Nor should we put Christ to the test, as some of them did and then died from snakebites. 10 And don’t grumble as some of them did, and then were destroyed by the angel of death. 11 These things happened to them as examples for us. They were written down to warn us who live at the end of the age. 12 If you think you are standing strong, be careful not to fall. 13 The temptations in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
Psalm 135:18 “And those who make idols are just like them,
as are all who trust in them.”
Exodus 20:7 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.” Not about vocabulary or profanity—it is about ‘representation’ and ‘ambassadorship’. We are adopted—we ‘take His name’—and we are not to ‘misuse’ it by misrepresenting Him.
Exodus 3
“One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up. 3 “This is amazing,” Moses said to himself. “Why isn’t that bush burning up? I must go see it.”
4 When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
“Here I am!” Moses replied.
5 “Do not come any closer,” the Lord warned. “Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground. 6 I am the God of your father[c]—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God…. 13 But Moses protested, “If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what should I tell them?”
14 God replied to Moses, “I Am Who I Am.” John 8:58 “Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I Am!”
• The ‘coming out’ of Israel is anticipated and prepared for by God:
- Moses saved from a period of abortion (John the Baptist began his ministry, received the Holy Spirit, in the womb, when he was 9 inches long and weighed about 1 ½ pounds)
- Moses trained to lead as a crown prince for 40 years
- Realizes who he really is and chooses to leave that kingdom
- Trains to lead Israel in the wilderness (Midian and Sinai) for 40 years
- His destiny begins with Jesus and Grace at the Burning Bush
* Thorn Bush = symbol of the curse/sin
* Fire = Judgment
* Not consumed = Grace
* Voice, Identification with God = Jesus
Exodus is God’s covenant with Israel—they entered Egypt as a family and they emerge as a nation. Their story is a miraculous story of survival through intentionally planned annihilation.
Egypt represents the world: anti-Bible and anti-God. Overthrown by divine judgement as the world will be when Jesus takes rightful ownership of what he has the title to through his blood purchase.
Rescue: not by our effort, our goodness, our ‘nationality’, but only by the power of the Blood as exemplified by Passover.
Major features of Exodus:
• 10 plagues were directed at the false worship of Egypt. The scarab/swarms were dung beetles which were the Egyptian symbol of the god of creation. Their highest deity—note they have become like the gods they worship.
• Egypt, like the world, is built upon ambition, pleasure and force. The result is harshness, unforgiving, pride and materialism.
• The Tabernacle (John 1): beautiful inside, outside is ‘not comely in appearance’. Goat hair (scapecoat who carries away the sin) Rams skins died red (the ram in the bush, the blood sacrifice) Inside gold, brass, silver, embroidery. You must go inside to realize the beauty.
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