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Strive to Enter That Rest | Hebrews 4:1-13

https://youtu.be/vPvYVelbUM4 Therefore, while the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us fear lest any of you should seem to have failed to reach it. For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who …

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Today, If You Hear His Voice, Do Not Harden Your Heart | Hebrews 3:7-19

https://youtu.be/qoK_PupL7b8 Therefore, as the Holy Spirit says, “Today, if you hear his voice,do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,            on the day of testing in the wilderness,where your fathers put me to the test            and saw my works for forty years.Therefore I was provoked with that generation,and said, ‘They always go astray in …

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Let Us Celebrate the Festival | 1 Corinthians 5:6-8

This Good Friday sermon was preached in 2022. Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the …

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The LORD Descends | Exodus 19:9-25

https://youtu.be/Rv12UsHMNJU In their album based on the epistle of Hebrews, Psallos has a song about the tabernacle and the old covenant that was made with Israel at Sinai. In that song, they call it a come-but-stay-away covenant, and our present text will display how true that description is. At the very heart of our passage …

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A Kingdom of Priests | Exodus 19:1-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EIqBskLLmc Licentiousness is not liberty. Much infernal schemes have made that statement quite difficult to believe, but it is true nonetheless. Freedom is not the ability to do whatever pleases you because a life dictated by pleasure is a life of slavery, a life dominated by momentary desires. Such a life is nothing more than …

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Blessed Be the LORD | Exodus 18:1-12

Exodus 18 is a positive unfolding of chapter 17. Exodus 17 began with Israel quarreling with Moses, placing God on trial, and God Himself taking Israel’s rightful judgment. It then ended with a nation of Gentiles attacking the weak and weary Israel. Exodus 18 is the reverse. In this first half, we begin with Jethro, …

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The LORD Is My Banner | Exodus 17:8-16

https://youtu.be/CZcvGQKC034 The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty. As a little kid, I had a job: Obey my mother. Don't lie. Play hard. Be kind to my sisters. At the time, that job was actually difficult. My mom kept saying things like, "Come here." And, …

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Give Us Water to Drink | Exodus 17:1-7

https://youtu.be/rPHDjKzsCIE I must confess that I am sort of ready to be done with all these passages about Israel's grumbling in the wilderness. I do not find the repetition to be boring by any means. Instead, I am reminded all over again that God's Word really is alive and active, slicing like a sword through …

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Bread from Heaven | Exodus 16:13-36

https://youtu.be/a3oq5ZH6wCQ While this chapter of Exodus most notably describes the miraculous gift of manna (the bread of angels) to the Israelites in the desert, we began the chapter last week without discussing the manna much at all. Instead, we focused upon the grumbling of the Israelites, the provision of God, and the reason for both …

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Then You Shall Know That I Am the LORD Your God | Exodus 16:1-12

https://youtu.be/7u6gEC8YlOs Having been redeemed from their slavery in Egypt, chapters 15-19 of Exodus provide us with a description of Israel's journey from the Red Sea to the foot of Sinai. Through the wonders that the LORD worked upon the land of Egypt, God made His name known to Israel, to Egypt, and to Pharaoh personally. …

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