FREEDOM ON GOD’S TERMS (4 OF 10)
by Jeff Strite
Scripture: Exodus 3:1-10
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Freedom on God’s Terms (4 of 10)
Series: Broken Chains
Jeff Strite
Exodus 3:1-10
In March 2013 - in Texarkana, Texas - a woman and her son were cleaning up their yard when they came across a black snake.
Now, I don’t know if the snake was poisonous… but I do know it frightened them. In their panic they doused the snake with gasoline and then they set it on fire.
Unfortunately, the snake didn’t just lie there. It slithered off under a bush, and THAT caught fire.
The bush was close by their house… and THAT caught fire.
They managed to call 9-1-1 and said ‘‘We were trying to kill a snake with fire!... It done caught the house!’’
Firefighters rushed to the scene, but not only was the house destroyed, their neighbor’s house was damaged too.
And I’m not sure they ever did find that snake.
(Uncle John’s Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader, p. 246)
In that story, a snake set a bush on fire and it changed the life of an entire family.
In our story from Scripture today, GOD set a bush on fire… and it changed the life of an entire nation.
But there is something significant about THIS bush… and THIS fire. This bush and this fire and been planned by God.
It wasn’t an accident… it wasn’t a coincidence.
This bush was chosen by God.
And this fire was created by God.
One of the things that really annoys me about cable channels like History or Discovery channels is that, when they present a ‘‘documentary’’ about Biblical events, their experts always seem to try to pass off the miracles of God as if they were mere coincidences. As if those miraculous things told us in Scripture could somehow be explained away as being the results of well-timed natural disasters.
That’s what the priests of Pharaoh tried to do during the 10 plagues… and they could do it for awhile. But eventually there were just too many coincidences for their liking, and they finally had to confess to Pharaoh: ‘‘This is the finger of God.’’ Exodus 8:19
As I was studying this passage, a ...
Series: Broken Chains
Jeff Strite
Exodus 3:1-10
In March 2013 - in Texarkana, Texas - a woman and her son were cleaning up their yard when they came across a black snake.
Now, I don’t know if the snake was poisonous… but I do know it frightened them. In their panic they doused the snake with gasoline and then they set it on fire.
Unfortunately, the snake didn’t just lie there. It slithered off under a bush, and THAT caught fire.
The bush was close by their house… and THAT caught fire.
They managed to call 9-1-1 and said ‘‘We were trying to kill a snake with fire!... It done caught the house!’’
Firefighters rushed to the scene, but not only was the house destroyed, their neighbor’s house was damaged too.
And I’m not sure they ever did find that snake.
(Uncle John’s Perpetually Pleasing Bathroom Reader, p. 246)
In that story, a snake set a bush on fire and it changed the life of an entire family.
In our story from Scripture today, GOD set a bush on fire… and it changed the life of an entire nation.
But there is something significant about THIS bush… and THIS fire. This bush and this fire and been planned by God.
It wasn’t an accident… it wasn’t a coincidence.
This bush was chosen by God.
And this fire was created by God.
One of the things that really annoys me about cable channels like History or Discovery channels is that, when they present a ‘‘documentary’’ about Biblical events, their experts always seem to try to pass off the miracles of God as if they were mere coincidences. As if those miraculous things told us in Scripture could somehow be explained away as being the results of well-timed natural disasters.
That’s what the priests of Pharaoh tried to do during the 10 plagues… and they could do it for awhile. But eventually there were just too many coincidences for their liking, and they finally had to confess to Pharaoh: ‘‘This is the finger of God.’’ Exodus 8:19
As I was studying this passage, a ...
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