We give glory to the Lord by living from and toward Christ!

In Romans 1:16, Paul (carried along by the Holy Spirit) called the Gospel "the power of God for salvation."  In Exodus 14 we experienced a powerful story of how God accomplished salvation for His People even though at one point their hand was high in pride, and at another point low in despair.  It is the Lord that saved His People for His Glory, which is always good for us.  

We tend to live our Christian lives oscillating between High Handed Christianity and Drop Hand Christianity.  The Solution for both is the same:  Look at the Salvation of the Lord--Literally, "Look at Jesus."  When we consider the exodus of Jesus on the Cross, with his hands outstretched for the defeat of our sin and death.  Our only response is to lift our hands in worship of the One True Lord and Savior--restoring us to a right relationship with our Creator.  Glory be to God!   Amen and Amen!  

Constantly and consistently recalling how the LORD has saved us is vital to nurturing our relationship with Him.  The Lord gave the Israelites 3 ways to commemorate the Exodus from Egypt that are helpful for us to consider today, as well.  

God provides a sign of his mercy for His just judgement to passover His people who participate (by faith) in the distinction He has made.

God reveals Himself through Signs some receive for salvation, but others receive for condemnation.

Noah Coates preaches on the genealogy interruption and the beginning of the signs of judgment on Egypt calling us to repent from trusting in counterfeits in the world, because we have a God who saves and fulfills all our desires.

Are you discouraged from the hardships produced by those who are opposed to God?  We are called to resist the opposition by listening to the Word of God.  Your spirit may feel broken, but you have been given the Holy Spirit who is not discouraged or broken.  The Holy Spirit reminds us of what God has done (saved us) and what God will do (return in glory).  As we wait through the hard, we are sustained and changed to be more like Jesus.  In this same way, we are empowered to be witnesses.  Therefore, as we resist the opposition, proclaiming Jesus as Lord, we also proclaim Jesus as Savior.  

God graciously addresses our skepticism and moves us to listen, believe, and obey him.

Over and over again in Exodus 3 the Lord presents Himself and His call with High Invitation and High Challenge.  It is important for Moses in the text, it is important for the Israelites reading this in the ancient world, and it is important for us to hold these truths in tension.  If we neglect the challenge and make the invitation about us, we stay put in a comfort.  If we neglect the invitation and make the challenge about us, we'll try to accomplish God's Plan without his Power or Presence and we will be crushed by it.  Neglecting both lands is in apathy--completely disengaged.  However, if we lean into the invitation, "I will be with you" and the challenge, "Go and tell pharaoh..." we'll experience the Person of God; his power and presence.  This requires faith enough to take the first step toward Egypt.  Through this, we'll be transformed, or better yet, conformed to be more like Jesus.  

We see that in all things—even when it appears that evil is winning—God is working, sometimes through the most unlikely people.  All people made in the image of God have the capacity to image God in their actions.  

We see that people fail and things don’t go the way we think they should.  However, God never fails and He is working all things together for His purpose, which is way better for us and others than we could have ever hoped.  

We see Jesus prefigured in Moses’ Exodus out of Egypt, only to go back and make a way for his people to be rescued.  On this side of the Bigger and Better Exodus of Christ, we have been delivered from the oppression and slavery of sin.  We have been given a new identity and are free to identify with others who suffer under oppression and injustice, but we know that we are not the savior.  Jesus is the only Savior.  We can image God by trusting Him and following Him in order to stand up for others without becoming an oppressor ourselves.