The whole point of what happened on Mt. Sinai was to prepare people for what would happen 1500 years later on another mountain (Mt. Calvary)... where Jesus took our sin upon his shoulders, and placed his perfect obedience upon ours.

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You are the people who get to go into a world that is absolutely drowning in bad news - more and more every day - and give people the best news they could ever possibly hear: "˜God has provided free salvation, for all of us, through the perfect life and death of Jesus!'

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"The person with the Spirit makes judgements about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgements, for, "Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ."

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

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God doesn't want us to sit on the sidelines and assume that he will find a way to reach the people he wants to reach with the gospel. Instead, God wants us to assume that we are the way for him to reach the people he wants to reach with the gospel. We are the ones who have been told to "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation."

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Exodus is not a book about Moses or the Israelites; it is a book about God. A God who is consistent when his people are inconsistent. A God who is faithful when his people are faithless. A God whose mercies are new every morning and whose love never, ever fails.

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When it comes to life's biggest problems, we are not in control - but God is. God fights our battles for us! All we need to do is be still.

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Forgiveness, as it turns out, is the LORD's specialty. While it is true that the LORD crushes his enemies when he has to... what he loves to do more than anything else is to save his people.

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As I hear this part of the story... as I see God dealing with Moses in grace, and patience, and love... I start to say "˜Wait a minute, I know exactly who this is in the burning bush.' This is my God! And I know this, because he deals with me in the very same way.

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EXCERPT: "On the cross, Jesus solved our biggest problem of all. And he did it not with violence, but with peace... not with hatred, but with love."

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If you are getting exhausted by the pain you see in the world around you, and the pain you see in your own life... Take a moment to remember all the promises God has made you, and to appreciate the fact that where you are right now is just one stop along a journey that ends in heaven.

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