Part 4 | Shaped for Purpose and Glory
From Exodus 15-17
Sanctification is God setting me for Himself, me inside and out, empowered to for His .
We sanctification, we don’t just about it.
📖 Exodus 15:19–23 ESV For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. 20 Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. 21 And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.” 22 Then Moses made Israel set out from the Red Sea, and they went into the wilderness of Shur. They went three days in the wilderness and found no water. 23 When they came to Marah, they could not drink the water of Marah because it was bitter; therefore it was named Marah.
Phase 1: in the Wilderness.
📖 Exodus 15:24-25 ESV And the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?” 25 And he cried to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the LORD made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them.
📖 John 19:28–30 ESV After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), “I thirst.” 29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth. 30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
When you’re , ask: What was I and ?
God allows places of to expose when we’ve made following Him about our instead of His .
📖 Exodus 15:27 ESV Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there by the water.
📖 Exodus 16:1 ESV They set out from Elim, and all the congregation of the people of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had departed from the land of Egypt.
Phase 2: in the Desert.
📖 Exodus 16:2-3 ESV And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness. 3 And the people of Israel said to them, “Would that we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots and ate bread to the full, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”
is a fruit of .
📖 Exodus 16:4–5 ESV Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not. 5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather daily.”
📖 Exodus 16:19–20 ESV And Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it over till the morning.” 20 But they did not listen to Moses. Some left part of it till the morning, and it bred worms and stank. And Moses was angry with them.
📖 Exodus 16:27–28 ESV On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. 28 And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?”
The purpose of is to wean us off seeking and learning .
📖 John 6:25–26 ESV When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, “Rabbi, when did you come here?” 26 Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.”
📖 John 6:32–33 ESV Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”
📖 1 Corinthians 9:27 NIV No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
Phase 3: at Rephidim.
📖 Exodus 17:1-6 ESV All the congregation of the people of Israel moved on from the wilderness of Sin by stages, according to the commandment of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. 2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?” 3 But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?” 4 So Moses cried to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.” 5 And the LORD said to Moses, “Pass on before the people, taking with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock at Horeb, and you shall strike the rock, and water shall come out of it, and the people will drink.” And Moses did so, in the sight of the elders of Israel.
📖 John 19:34 ESV But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.
📖 Ephesians 5:26–27 ESV (Christ cleanses) by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
God brings us to places of so that we will be completely by Jesus.
Sermon in a Sentence:
God is you at every stage of , , and even for His and in Christ Jesus.
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