Exodus

Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, the books people skip, but shouldn’t

February 15, 2016 by untilfulllight

Exodus isn’t too hard because we have the story of the Children of Israel and the exodus with all its drama to keep us entertained, but then we get into the hard stuff.

The later part of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers contain God’s laws, regulations, and rules for his people. Many of these are hard to understand and don’t make sense in our current world of “everything goes” Christianity. It’s so easy today to put God into a box and not have Him or his way of living intrude into our daily lives. But He is our God and is part of all we do. We need to live with an awareness of being His servants always.

To help you in your reading, following is a PDF of an overview lesson I did of this section of the Bible. ***NOTE: I took out the section on Typology–I’ll do a separate post on that.

I do want to do an audio recording of it, but my recording equipment had a major malfunction and it’s going to take me some time to figure it out (or as I suspect, I need new recording equipment).

Regardless, the PowerPoint below should prove helpful. Click on the image below to open the PDF.

Exodus 3-7: Beware the burning bush, a message directed especially to Boomers

February 6, 2016 by untilfulllight

Some of us remember more about the 60’s and 70’s than the caricatured images in the media. We lived them. We may have worn the bell bottoms and flashed an occasional peace sign, but we weren’t into sex, drugs, and dropping out.

Some of us were part of the Jesus movement. We flooded the college dorms with evangelism; we witnessed in coffee houses that played the new folk-sounding Christian music; we studied the Bible in small groups that the institutional church sometimes considered suspect. We felt we were part of once again turning the world upside down for Jesus.

Yet, somewhere along the way, as the song goes, the music died

We married, some had kids, most had careers. The passion that at one time fueled evangelism was turned to making money and a good life. We turned John 10:10 from a promise of the eternal life of God gave to believers into a justification for pursuing our version of what “life to the full” meant. We settled. From studying the Bible, we turned to studying stock portfolios, investment options, and how to get ahead. From concentrating on evangelism, we perfected our golf game or the perfect recipe in our spare time. We look forward to retirement.

I imagine Moses, at age 80 may have had similar thoughts. At one time he wanted, he tried, to do something great for God. He felt God had called him to free Israel from oppression; he felt it so strongly he even killed a man he saw wrongly treating a fellow Israelite. But instead of his Jewish brothers recognizing him as liberator, his actions forced him to flee Egypt.

That was a long time ago and Moses had settled into a routine in the desert—tending sheep, raising a family. Wandering around the desert. At 80, I wondered if he couldn’t help but think that maybe it was time to spend a little more time in the tent than tending the flocks. He was probably tired.

But one day a bush was burning.

The God of second chances never stops calling

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The promise of a good ending does not mean an easy journey

January 28, 2011 by untilfulllight

As we start the book of Exodus in our reading, we find a challenging lesson on how to face the inevitable challenges we face as we travel through life. We know our final home, our destination is heaven, but how easy it is to forget that promise when we stumble on the path as we travel. Here is how that challenge plays out in the opening of Exodus:

Before the Israelites began their exodus from slavery Egypt, God promised the final result—a good land of their own.

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. Exodus 3:7-8

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