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Series: Rhythm
Steve Jones
Exodus 14:11-12
SERIES SUMMARY: We all want to live an abundant life and a holy life but sometimes we struggle. To struggle less we must stay in ‘‘rhythm’’ with the Holy Spirit. This series is about how to stay in ‘‘rhythm’’ with the Holy Spirit by practicing what are traditionally known as the spiritual disciplines.
SERMON SUMMARY: This sermon seeks to motivate Christians to DO the rhythms recommended in the sermon series. Motivation comes from: 1) Remember What’s at Stake. 2) Learn the Law of Process. 3) Embrace the Rhythms. 4) Start Today.
INTRODUCTION: In his book ‘‘Sick from freedom’’ historian Jim Downs writes that despite the optimism and hope shared by millions of enslaved people immediately following the civil war, many ended up either critically sick or dead. He explains, ‘‘Emancipation liberated bondspeople from slavery, but they often lacked clean clothing, adequate shelter, proper food, and access to medicine in their escape toward Union lines. Because of these extreme hardships, some of the newly emancipated men and women opted to return to the same plantations from which they recently escaped.’’
We read about something similar in Exodus. God had powerfully freed his chosen people from the oppressive slavery of the Egyptians, but when that freedom brought them face to face with new hungers, dangers, and unknowns, their first instinct was to become slaves again.
‘‘They said to Moses, ‘Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? Is not this what we said to you in Egypt? ‘‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians?’’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness’’’ (Ex.14:11-12).
Again, when the Israelites finally made it to the edge of the Promised Land, they grasped at slavery rather than taking hold of their God-given freed ...
Series: Rhythm
Steve Jones
Exodus 14:11-12
SERIES SUMMARY: We all want to live an abundant life and a holy life but sometimes we struggle. To struggle less we must stay in ‘‘rhythm’’ with the Holy Spirit. This series is about how to stay in ‘‘rhythm’’ with the Holy Spirit by practicing what are traditionally known as the spiritual disciplines.
SERMON SUMMARY: This sermon seeks to motivate Christians to DO the rhythms recommended in the sermon series. Motivation comes from: 1) Remember What’s at Stake. 2) Learn the Law of Process. 3) Embrace the Rhythms. 4) Start Today.
INTRODUCTION: In his book ‘‘Sick from freedom’’ historian Jim Downs writes that despite the optimism and hope shared by millions of enslaved people immediately following the civil war, many ended up either critically sick or dead. He explains, ‘‘Emancipation liberated bondspeople from slavery, but they often lacked clean clothing, adequate shelter, proper food, and access to medicine in their escape toward Union lines. Because of these extreme hardships, some of the newly emancipated men and women opted to return to the same plantations from which they recently escaped.’’
We read about something similar in Exodus. God had powerfully freed his chosen people from the oppressive slavery of the Egyptians, but when that freedom brought them face to face with new hungers, dangers, and unknowns, their first instinct was to become slaves again.
‘‘They said to Moses, ‘Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? Is not this what we said to you in Egypt? ‘‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians?’’ For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness’’’ (Ex.14:11-12).
Again, when the Israelites finally made it to the edge of the Promised Land, they grasped at slavery rather than taking hold of their God-given freed ...
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