The revchristruelsen’s Podcast

And There Was Darkness Over the Whole Land

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This week we talk about Exodus 10.  

God strips Egypt bare of vegetation with locusts, and yet pharaoh will still not relent.  A man who thinks he's god faces the true God.  A powerful darkness fills the land.  Judgment is coming . . . .  What other times is a powerful darkness mentioned in Scripture, and how did God cut through it?  

Hymn #785 We Praise You, O God   

Fixing the Unfixable

Exodus 9.  

Do you ever wonder if some people are just completely lost causes?  

It may seem so, but God is greater than our brokenness.

 

A newly recorded hymn this week: #732 All Depends on Our Possessing

The Unmistakable Work of God

Exodus 8.  

The book of Romans points out that we should be able discern God from nature.  And it is true-if we do not deny it.  

Pharaoh saw the unmistakable work of God.  Would he turn away from his hardness of heart, and away from the precipice in time?  

What banner did pharaoh operate under?  What banner do we fly?  

 

Hymn of the week: For All the Saints

Only God knows Your Thoughts

Exodus 7.  

In the times that we fear, it is comforting to know that only God knows our thoughts.  

Even darkness is as light to Him, for He sees all and knows all.  

He makes nothing out of the false gods of Egypt. 

In the modern world, God's work has been relegated to insignificance in the minds of the proud, but God has a way of pushing the swords of the supernatural into the world whether mankind likes it or not.  

This is a comfort, because He sent His Son Jesus to make payment for our sins, and restore us completely by grace, through faith, in Him.  

GOOD Help with BAD Eggs

Discussion is on Exodus 6 

 

The serpent has been laying its eggs through the world in various times and places, but God is far bigger and unmatched in His glory might and power.  He removes the serpent's eggs for us, and He has crushed the head of the serpent through His Son Jesus Christ . . . . 

 

Hymn: What is the World to Me?  

The God Who IS, WAS, and EVER WILL BE

The discussion is on Exodus 5.  

The God we worship is eternal-He is, He was always, and He ever will be, for eternity . . . .  He reveals who He is to Moses, and now Moses must go before Pharaoh and tell Pharaoh who He is . . . .  Pharaoh does not know who this God is.  But he is about to find out.  

 

The hymn:  My Faith Looks Up to Thee 

More than a Coincidence

 

Text for discussion: Exodus 4.

Many of you have probably heard someone say that they experienced a miracle.  Many people just say "look at the world, and you can see them everywhere."  And yes, the evidence of God's work can be seen in the world itself.  Yet there are others who use the same evidence and say, "Those aren't miracles at all."  

In this discussion on Exodus 4, we look at miracles big and "small."  God points us to something more than coincidence, more than a slight hiccup of nature, and those miracles point us to the Divine.  

The song this week is Battle Hymn of the Republic.  

In the End, God Always Wins

The discussion covers Exodus 3

It's just as the title says: in the end God always wins . . . . 

 

The hymn: O Love How Deep 

The Evil Fade Like the Grass

Our discussion is on Exodus 2.  

Times of great evil are real, but they can't last, and in the end they will completely fade away.  God's judgment will come.  God does not forsake His people . . . . 

Moses lived in a time of evil, and of onerous slavery and cruelty, but God used His servant Moses to bring about judgment on Egypt.  

The hymn is Built on the Rock . . . . 

Evil Hides in Plain Sight

Exodus 1 

If I define something as not evil, is it not evil anymore?  It doesn't depend on your perspective . . . .  It's an objective matter.  Christ's forgiveness and salvation was also an objective matter, and for those who look to Christ, His mercy and grace vitiates sin and evil, for those who seek His life and forgiveness.  

 

 

Hymn Jesus Lives!  The Victory's Won