When was the last time you shared the gospel? What was it like when you heard the gospel for the first time? How did u respond? Different people hear the same gospel but have different responses. Today, we'll read in this passage too how God's Word came to 2 groups of people who responded in different ways.
In the past 2 studies, we've been reading about Moses' encounter with God at the burning bush. God revealed HIs rescue plan of the Israelites and what Moses had to do.
Who are the people that God uses? Every hero of the faith is carefully scrutinised, and the careful reader of the Bible is left with no qualms about the insufficiency of their heroes. We get this experience in today’s passage, and the questions we have to ask ourselves are “What is God doing with people like that?”, and “Why is He acting in this way?”.
You and I love making plans. But we also know that our plans do not always work the way we want them to. We make many big plans, only to find out later that we cannot achieve it. Today, we come before a different Person’s plan; we come before God’s rescue plan for the Hebrews. Does this plan seem likely or unlikely to pass? Keep this in your mind as you consider His plan.
Is God just a nice concept? Isn't it easier to just box Him up and limit Him into a nice, tame version of who He is? In our passage in Exo 3 today, we'll read of Moses' encounter with God and consider afresh who He is as He has revealed Himself to be.
Last week, we ended on a dramatic cliff-hanger: the God of the Israelites is one who knew His people personally, and the stage is set for His redemptive action. In our passage this week, we pick up on that tension and learn that God’s first action is to call Moses, and in doing so, reveal aspects of His holy nature. But what does it mean that God is holy? How does a holy God act?
The people of Israel also had no reason to believe that their God existed by this time in Exodus 2. Based on their circumstance and where they lived, it is tempting to believe that all that they were taught about their God is not true. They are in slavery and subjugated under Egyptian superpower. They have no reason to believe that there is a God. But as we’ve been seeing in the past few weeks, we see how God is the invisible hand working in the background and preparing Moses for something. What it is, we do not know yet, but we will slowly see it.
To many Christians, Moses could be seen as a man of faith and even a model to be like. But, the writer of Hebrews in Heb 11 felt that it is important for us to see some other important things about Moses. Heb 11:23-27 helps us to see that Moses was a man of faith who had too much Egypt in Him and God needed to make him into a certain kind of man before he could be useful to God.
Do you believe in coincidences? Do you believe that things happen just because they happen? Or is there a cause behind every event, and a reason for every happening? Today’s passage tells us that a surprising sequence of events that happened in Egypt was not a matter of coincidence - God’s mighty hand was behind it!
In Exo 1:8-22, we will see again 2 different ways of looking at the world. There are 2 different reactions to the life God has given us. If we claim to be Christians, which perspective informs our understanding of the world?
We begin our almost year-long study in Exodus by reading the opening verses of Exodus. But what is this book about? Is Exodus just an ancient fable of irrelevant people and characters? How is it relevant and why is it important for us to read?
Advent is about the coming of Jesus, and Luke 2 is part of the narrative surrounding His birth. When we read Luke 2, we notice that there're a lot of people hearing and telling things to each other. If we focus on Luke 2:18-19, we read that who heard the words of the shepherd wondered at what was told them. The shepherds were preachers, announcing things to even the parents of the child, and it had a profound effect on Mary. In this series, we have been treasuring up all that has been said about Christ and pondering it in our heart. Today, we will consider how the baby born in Bethlehem is also the Lord of Might.
Today’s passage is probably an unfamiliar for most of us. At a glance, it’s confusing. At two, you feel like skipping the chapter. At three, you ask if you need a Masters of Divinity to understand it. But this passage can be understood, especially when we read it in context! Read on to find out what this challenging passage has to tell us about Christ!
What does the name ‘Jesus Christ’ mean to you? A Saviour? The Son of God? The Lord of your life? We sometimes struggle to reach a definite conclusion, and we might even find ourselves thinking of Jesus in the abstract.
This study's text helps us to formulate a better understanding of who Christ is. Here, we encounter a baby that was born to a young woman by the name of Mary and her fiancé Joseph. Read on to learn what testimony was given about this child!
For this Advent series, the names of Jesus are taken from the hymn “O come O come Emmanuel”. In this study, well look at Jesus, the “root of Jesse”. The significance of this might be lost on many of us, and 1 Sam 16:1-13 shows us the root of Jesse, whose name is David. This is kind of like the origin story of David, thus if we don’t understand David, we will not be amaze or impressed when Jesus is repeatedly called “Son of David”. Let's spend time looking at the Root of Jesse, David, and see the relationship between kings and Christmas.
If you met someone who was really struggling in great pain and deep sense of personal loss, what would you do to comfort this person? Some of us might tell them that everything will be okay. Others might sit there and just feel their pain with them. But most of us honestly just don’t know what to do in these situations. In John 11, Jesus meets people like that. What did He do?
How would you describe a "bad person"? Perhaps you would even identify yourself as one, and think that you are "too bad" for God to save you? Tonight we’ll explore what it means to be a bad person and what it means when Jesus meets with someone like this!
Jesus meets the “seeker” Nicodemus. What it really means in this context is Jesus meeting someone who is looking for truth, meaning, enlightenment in this life. Many of us might actually find Nicodemus relatable! Despite all that we have, there could be a quiet (or loud) voice of discontent. What did Jesus have to tell him?
Last week we read of Jesus meeting a skeptic. This week we continue and see Jesus' encounter with another group of people -- people at a party, who weren't at the party to seek Jesus, but He found them. What can we learn from this encounter?
This new series is titled "Meeting Jesus", but you might ask, why would anyone want to meet Jesus Christ? For starters, Jesus Christ is the most influential human being to have ever walked the planet. In this passage, Jesus meets with Nathanael. Nathanael is a 21st century man - a skeptic - and he has all of these doubts, questions, and uncertainties. Jesus’ interaction with Nathanael reveals very important things about what belief in Jesus means, and we'll focus on this interaction today.
