Pastor Matt's Podcasts

Through Moses and Aaron, the gospel came to the children of Israel and the people rejoiced and worshiped God for the message of salvation. Everyone wante to be free from slavery; however, no one understood that salvation can only come thorugh resistance. In this sermon we study Pharoah's response to the request of freedom. Instead of releasing them, he made things more difficult for them. Instead of blaming Pharoah, the people blamed Moses and Aaron for their problems.

This sermon is expecially relavent in the attack on the Christian faith by the State today.

God called Moses and yet used Aaron for many of the great tasks. Aaron was a cushion for Moses, one step away from the people so that the people wouldn'd become familiar with him. Familiarity leads to presumptuous sin. We study this along with Numbers Chapter 16 to get an understaning of the disastrous consequences of the sin of presumption.

God protects those who are His own. In this sermon we examine two implications of this. First, those who keep God's people from worshiping and serving Him and second, those who do not teach and train their children in the covenant. God's anger and retribution comes against both.

When God told Moses that he was to go back to Egypt and preach the word to Pharoah and the Israelites to let God's people go, Moses had some objections. Each objection is very familiar to us, we too are called by God to se the captives free by preaching the Gospel of Salvation. In this sermon, we see how God answers each objection. The call of God on our lives is to turn our faith into action.

In this episode, Moses asked God who he should say God is that called im to free the Children of Israel. God said, "I AM, or Jehovah. In this statement, Jesus identifies Himself as Jehovah in several texts in the book of John. In this sermon, we see what this really means and how it relates to us all.

In this episode we examine Moses and the burning bush. Everying about this scene is just as relavant to us as it was to Moses. What are we to do in order to fulfill our call in Christ?

Moses left Egypt and his Hebrew when he went to Midian. There he met Jethro, his future father-in-law. Moses had to step out of Egypt and he had to step away from the Hebrews in order to become educated without their influence. Jethro, as priest of Midian was able to aid and encourage this education. Moses would then be able to go back to Egypt speak justice with righteousness.
This same concept holds true in the church. If we want to be effective in the world today, we have to have a biblical worldview in order to speak into both the world and the church world (Egypt and Hebrews).

In this sermon we study the Way the Truth and the Life of Exodus. The life of Moses also exemplifies this. So that Moses didn't go the way of the Egyptians, nor the way of the Hebrews, Moses left for Midian. Egypt represented the State while the Hebrews represented the people of God serving the State.
This is an important step for modern Christians as well. Once we repent and leave the way of Egypt, (the world) we can't embrace the way of a church (the people of God) that serves Egypt (according to the way of the world). We have to step back from both in order for God to teach us His justice and righteousness. Then we can engage with the Word of God rather than the ways of men.

We can't read current events, find a pattern, then read that pattern into scripture. This perverts what the scripture is to really say. Rather, we are to read scripture, find the pattern, then interpret current events according to that pattern.
In the first chapter of the book of Exodus, we find a pattern of the State as it fears the church. What Pharoah did to the Hebrew children was very similar to what the State does to the church today.

Before reading and studying through Exodus, it is important to get the proper perspective on the covenant. In this sermon, we look at the difference between Covenant Theology and Dispensationalism. The way we read through scripture has consequences, we have had consequences of both.