Part 1 “The PURPOSE of the Wilderness”
From Exodus 19
📖 Exodus 19:1-3 (ESV) On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. hey set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3 while Moses went up to God. The LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel:
1. In the wilderness God’ calls to us.
📖 Exodus 19:3 (ESV) “The LORD called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel”
”God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.” – C. S. Lewis
📖 Exodus 19:4 (ESV) ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
The wilderness from what’s so that we can become with the of .
2. In the wilderness God’s begins in us .
📖 Exodus 19:5 (ESV) Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant…
* The Covenant is God’s PROMISE to Abraham to bless and multiply his descendants.
📖Exodus 2:24 (ESV) And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
📖 Exodus 6:5 (ESV) Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.
Some people want God to SAVE them but not TRANSFORM them.
A. We want God to take US out of THINGS. (SAVE US)
B. God wants to take THINGS out of US. (TRANSFORM US)
“God I realize that I am addicted/attached to __. I have also realized that _ is not going to satisfy me. Teach me to love you more than I love ___. I want to change. I need you to create in me a clean heart.”
3. In the wilderness God’s are made to us.
📖 Exodus 19:5 (ESV) Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
📖 John 15:16 (ESV) “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
The Lord doesn’t want to take the out of the … He wants to take the out of the so that the can the .
