Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old Testament
Sermon Text: Exodus 4:18-31
Sermon Title: “A Covenant Relationship is a Two-Way Street”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: We Expect a Lot from God … But What Does He Expect from Us?A Covenant Relationship with God is a Two-Way Street.
SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – Our Covenant Faithfulness to God … Needs Work (4:18-26)SLIDE 3 – 1 John 2:18, 24, 26 – “Children, it is the last hour, and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come. Therefore we know that it is the last hour … Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you … I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.”SLIDE 4 – 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 – “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation … Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.”SLIDE 5 – Exodus 3:18 – “The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.”SLIDE 6 – Proverbs 21:1 – “The king's heart is a stream of water in the hand of the Lord; he turns it wherever he will.”SLIDE 7 – Exodus 8:15 – “But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.”SLIDE 8 – Matthew 2:13-15 – “Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, ‘Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.’ And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, ‘Out of Egypt I called my son.’”SLIDE 9 – Genesis 17:10-14 – “This is my covenant, which you shall keep, between me and you and your offspring after you: Every male among you shall be circumcised … and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and you. He who is eight days old among you shall be circumcised … So shall my covenant be in your flesh an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant.”
SLIDE 10 – Sermon Point 2 – God’s Covenant Faithfulness to Us … Is Perfect (4:27-31)
SLIDE 11 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your LifeSLIDE 12 – Our Obedience Should Never Be Dependent on our Circumstance.SLIDE 13 – The Details of God’s Will Matters.SLIDE 14 – Our Faithful Obedience is Permissible Only Because of Christ’s Obedience was Perfect.
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