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Moses and Aaron obeyed God’s command to speak to Pharaoh. God prepared a sign: Aaron's rod turned into a serpent, symbolizing divine authority, challenging Pharaoh’s godhood. Pharaoh’s magicians imitated the sign, but Aaron’s rod devoured theirs, showing God’s superiority. Pharaoh hardened his heart. Next, God instructed Aaron to stretch his rod over the Nile, turning it to blood. The water became undrinkable, and fish died, causing a stench. Pharaoh’s magicians duplicated the sign but couldn’t reverse it. Pharaoh remained stubborn. This first plague judged the Nile, associated with the gods Hapi and Isis, emphasizing God’s supremacy over Egyptian deities. God warned Pharaoh again, but when he refused to free the Israelites, a plague of frogs covered Egypt. This judged the goddess Hequet, linked to fertility. Pharaoh asked Moses to remove the frogs, promising to let the people go, but he reneged once the plague ended. Without warning, God sent a plague of lice, which covered people and animals. Pharaoh’s magicians couldn’t replicate it, admitting, “This is the finger of God.” This plague judged Set, god of the desert, and disrupted Egyptian worship rituals. Despite his counselors’ advice, Pharaoh rejected God. The plagues demonstrated God’s power over Egypt’s gods, showing Pharaoh and the Israelites that only God is supreme. Pharaoh’s resistance mirrored the human tendency to reject God’s authority. The Bible emphasizes that Jesus is the way to eternal life, and rejecting Him leaves one to bear the penalty for sin, unlike Christ, who bore it for us.
Exodus - Part 11 - Exodus 7:8-8:19
At the end of Exodus chapter 5, Moses was complaining to God because Pharaoh had just increased the people’s burden. Now at the opening of chapter 6, God lays out his agenda and assures Moses that Pharaoh will let the Israelites go. It was time for Moses to get on board with God’s agenda. God’s agenda here is to free His people who are oppressed. God’s agenda would not be stopped because Pharaoh said no. First, God tells Moses to speak to the Israelites saying, God is the God of their forefathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and identifies HIs name as The LORD. He reminds them that He made a covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan and that He would rescue them from their bondage in Egypt. Then they would know without a doubt that He is God. But, the people wouldn’t listen, because they could only see how bad their current circumstances were. They didn’t think God could do it. God then tells Moses to speak to Pharaoh again to let the Israelites go. But, Moses still isn’t on board with God’s agenda. He asks God how would Pharaoh be convinced by what Moses said if the people didn’t even believe him. Moses tells God he has “uncircumcised lips”, which means “I can’t speak well”. Moses used this argument before at the burning bush, but as before, that argument wasn’t going to work. God gives Moses and Aaron a command to speak to Pharaoh, and they obeyed. Though Moses must have been pretty hesitant. But he was going to be part of God’s plan whether he wanted to be or not and he was going to learn to depend on God. God tells Moses exactly what to expect. Pharaoh is not going to listen to him. Pharaoh’s heart is going to be hardened so that God can multiply His signs and wonders in the land. He will bring His people out by great judgements and the Egyptians will know that He is the Lord. God is using this opportunity not only to prove to the Israelites that He is God, He wants the Egyptians to recognize it as well. God’s agenda is for all people to know Him.
Exodus - Part 10 - Exodus 6:1-7:7
This week, we pick back up where we left off in Exodus. Moses and Aaron are before Pharaoh with a message from God: to let His people go so that they can worship God. Pharaoh has no concept of this “god” and so he refuses. In fact, he does more than refuse. He increases the workload by removing the straw required to make bricks. This forces the people to go out and gather their own straw. When the people complain to Pharaoh about the treatment, Pharaoh responds by telling them that they are lazy and that’s why they want to leave. Pharaoh believed that more work would make them too busy to even think about going to worship God. When the people got this response, they complained to Moses. But was their complaint really against Moses and Aaron? They were really complaining about what God was doing. Perhaps they expected God to fix their situation right away and took out their frustration on the messengers God sent. However, Moses’ response to this attack was identical. Moses turns around and complains to God. This was a test of faith for both the Israelites and Moses. Moses said yes to God’s call to go and deliver the people. He said yes to God and now he was starting to regret it. Perhaps he was expecting God to deliver His people right away. But God had a plan to display his full power so that the Israelites, the Egyptians, and all the surrounding people would know that He is God and there is no other like Him. God still operates the same way today. We may not understand why we need to wait for something to happen in our lives, but God is orchestrating a plan for us far greater than anything we can see or comprehend. All we have to do is be obedient and trust Him for it.
Exodus - Part 9 - Exodus 5:1-23
Today we celebrate Veterans Day, observed annually on November 11th, which honors all U.S. military veterans for their service to the country. Its origins trace back to the end of World War I, often called "The Great War." On November 11, 1918, at 11 a.m., the armistice ending World War I went into effect. This date and time symbolized the conclusion of hostilities and became known as Armistice Day. It was later renamed Veterans Day to acknowledge veterans of all wars. We also reflect today on the mercy of God. It is around us every day and He gives us chance after chance to show that we are a people who will follow after Him. If America would turn back to the Lord, He promises that the land will be blessed. But as Christians, we can’t sit back and watch from the sidelines. More than ever, the Church needs to lead the charge for godly, biblical morality. Biblical morality is a dividing line has caused splits within the Christian community. It’s the reason we have so many denominations of churches. Churches disagree on the authority of scripture, on gay marriage, and too many other issues to list here. The Bible warned that scoffers would come in 2 Peter. That is exactly what we are seeing in the modern church. 2 Peter also is a reminder that God judged the world once for crossing these lines with a flood and the next time, the judgement is going to be with fire. We can’t ignore that warning. Now, we have God’s mercy. We need to humbly seek it and not take it for granted.
Veterans Day - God’s Mercy
Elections are stressful. It doesn’t matter which side of the aisle you’re on. Anxiety is at an all-time high in society and we try everything to find a solution. However, the word of God has excellent advice for dealing with anxiety. Pray about it. The word of God says not to be anxious about anything but to make our requests known to God through prayer. Anxiety is not something we can deal with alone. There is something powerful about talking about it with God. He already knows everything we are dealing with because He is all-knowing. However, we tend to hang on to our problems. Talking to God about it helps us to release our problems so that we don’t carry them around anymore. For some of us, that anxiety reflex is natural. So, it can be difficult to hear that we have a conscious choice whenever we encounter something that causes anxiety. We can either hang on to it or let it go and give it to God. The longer we hang on to it, the worse it can make us feel. God wants us to give it to him so that we can have life to the full. Worry less, pray more.
God's Solution For Election Anxiety
If you were to name two things that don’t mix, you would probably say religion and politics. However much of the Bible has to do with laws and policies. Particularly God’s laws and policies. But it also instructs us what to do when human laws contradict God’s laws. In the Old Testament, God gave the Israelites 613 laws because the Israelites had been slaves for over 400 years and now they had to govern themselves. Those laws govern anything any nation will ever need; education, economics, immigration. You name it, it’s there. So, you could say that God established a complete civil government for the Israelites. Faith and religion absolutely can go hand in hand. In America, the First Amendment was put in place for a reason. However, politics has been pushed out of the Church because of the concept of separation between Church and State. But it has been deceptively twisted. In 1802 when Thomas Jefferson was president, he explained to the Baptist Convention the protective authority of the First Amendment. He explained that government intrusion into religion is limited by the First Amendment. It’s there to protect the church from the government, not the government from the church. In 1954, the Johnson Amendment prohibited any 501c3 from participating in election activity. It intimidated pastors from speaking out for fear of losing their tax exemption status. This was a true violation of the separation of church and state because the state put pressure on pastors to not say anything that could be construed as political. It is often said elections have consequences and that is true. As Christians, we need to vote for the most biblical policies that we can find. While the church isn’t becoming more political, political issues are becoming more spiritual. As good stewards of what God has given us, we have a moral obligation to make our voices heard.
Jesus and Politics
One of the Greek words used in the New Testament for Church is Ekklesia. It has the meaning of an assembly of people whether it is in a building or in the public square. In the ancient world, the public square is where people would discuss and debate ideas or they would gather to hear any official announcements from the king or the emperor. Early Christians would also gather at the public squares to share the gospel. Today, our churches are shying away from engaging in the modern day version of the public square. The Word of God is being watered down and some pastors are afraid to preach on certain subjects. Jesus taught that we are to be salt and light and that requires our church leaders to be bold and not be afraid. Every political issue we see today is also a spiritual issue. We have the tools to speak to and address those spiritual issues. The Church needs to have a place in today’s public square if we are to be salt and light. Let’s pray that an awakening and revival happens in our churches.
Prayer For The Church
We’re continuing to focus on prayer in a season where everything seems overwhelming. But as Christians we know that prayer helps us to release those issues to God. We can’t bury our heads in the sand, when we are supposed to be interceding for all the issues around us. There is an obvious rise in wickedness everywhere and we are called to pray against that. Everywhere we look we see that things are broken. In government and in personal lives. As Christians we believe that the rise in wickedness is responsible for this. Some will call us conspiracy theorists because of that and that’s ok. We need to be awake and aware of what is going on around us. Our enemy is not the people around us. Our enemy is the Prince of the World also known as the Devil. He wants us distracted fighting with each other. We need to pray against that. God isn’t done working in this world. He isn’t done with performing miracles. God is bigger that we think, God is closer than realize, and God is better than we imagine.
Prayer Against Corruption
As Christians, we are called to pray for our leaders, our country, for God’s people Israel, and all the other political issues around us. In America, we have the privilege of voting for our leaders, so we ought to vote in accordance with our values as well as pray. In Proverbs it is written, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Good, Godly leaders are badly needed in America and around the world. We also need to do what it says in 2 Chronicles and humble ourselves, seek God, and repent of our sins. As it is written, then God will hear from heaven, and heal the land. Being humble before God is crucial and it makes our prayers more effective. This is also how we can be salt and light and be the best witnesses to the people and culture around us. Being humble before God also increases our own faith. When we humbly pray, we bring our requests before God and give them to Him. That means we don’t have to worry about what we have asked God for. When we pray more we can worry less. We can’t make anything happen by worrying about it. Worry only breeds discouragement in our hearts. But, God can make our requests happen by His will if we bring them to him and we will feel encouraged. The conditional promise that is written in 2 Chronicles was originally written for God’s people Israel. Christians have not replaced Israel, even though we have access to the same promises through Jesus Christ. We are called to pray for Israel and to bless Israel.
Praying For Our Leaders
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