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If you have been keeping up to date with the blog then you know that I didn't have to work last night since I am done with night-shift altogether - Hallelujah, Praise the LORD! So I got in total about 14 hours of sleep last night. My first 3 hours were from 9 pm to 12 am, then from 4 am to 3 pm. I am still working on getting back to a normal sleeping pattern. It will take me about another 3 days to do that. Maybe you are dying to wonder what I did from 12 am to 4 pm, and if you're not I'm going to tell you anyway. I caught a mouse and read the Bible. Actually the mousetrap caught the mouse and I didn't read the whole Bible, just a little bit in Exodus.
As we start Pathway Christian Fellowship in Medicine Hat (we move in 3 weeks baby!)and part of our vision is that we will permeate a lifestyle of worshiping God. I was reading about some of the plagues in Egypt last night and found some really cool things.
1. God brought plagues on Egypt for Pharaoh to "Let my people go so they can worship Me."
2. God killed the firstborn of every family in Egypt (except for those whose door posts were covered in blood) so God's people would be released to worship Him.
3. God says to sin, "Let my people go so they can worship Me."
4. Jesus (God's First Born) died so we could worship God in Spirit and in Truth.
Here's the deal - Adam and Eve walked with God and they could truly experience worshiping God because He was right there with them - then sin came into the picture and that relationship was broken, and it wasn't until 6 generations after that until people started to seek God again.
Sin puts us into horrible slavery and our souls cry out to be free, just like when the Israelites were in slavery in Egypt, they cried out to God for generations to be free. The only way we are going to be free from sin is if God does something about it, just like God did something about it with the Israelites. The good news is that God did do something about it. His name is Jesus and He set us free from sin by sacrificing His life on the cross so sin could let go of us and we could worship God and walk with Him. Everybody has this opportunity, and we are looking forward to bringing this opportunity to Medicine Hat so people can worship God by walking with Jesus at Pathway Christian Fellowship.
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That story defined the NT church perhaps more than any other. Christianity was and is a New Exodus religion. For more on how Paul and others understood this, really must read N. T. Wright's commentary on Romans in The New Interpreter's Bible. Chapters 1-4 retell the fall - Abraham, and chapters 5-8 cover the Exodus, where we find that some of Paul's foundational theology is rooted in the ways that Jesus leads His people out of bondage to sin and death and into the promise. Great stuff.
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