5/29 at The Gathering
Blake Coffee and Tony Diamond each taught from Exodus on Sunday, May 29. The videos from both of those lessons, followed by the scripture, are below:
Core Lesson (Tony Diamond)
Holy, Holy, Holy
Exodus 32:7-14, 30-34
Core Listening Guide
Intercede: to act or interpose in behalf of someone in difficulty or trouble, as by pleading or petition: to intercede with the governor for a condemned man.
I. Holy Moses
When God told Moses that his people were, at that moment, breaking one of the new commandments, Moses asked for forgiveness. Then, imagine what he saw. Talk about being knocked off your mountaintop! Moses then went back up and again asked for them to be forgiven.
He modeled for Christians how to properly plead with God.
II. Holy Christians
We read and study continuously how early Christians behaved. They prayed for safe travel, for others to know Christ, for healing and health, for spiritual growth and so on. Stephen prayed forgiveness for those killing him. As did our Lord Jesus Christ.
They modeled for us how to pray for others above ourselves.
III. Holy You
God is honored when you intercede. We are never alone as we pray for others. The Holy Spirit is in us and with us always joining us in intercession. Remember that sometimes, the fact we are praying for others may be what God wants to happen.
We model for others how to live for and like Christ.
How does this holy chain strengthen your discipleship today?
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Venture Lesson (Blake Coffee)
Changing the Mind of a Changeless God
Exodus 32:7-14, 30-34
Venture Listening Guide
We are a short-sighted people. If we do not find the hand of God or the voice of God as often as we want, we conclude He is either not there or does not care. Either way, we are embarrassingly wrong.
Effective prayer of any kind always includes an attitude of worship and praise and acknowledgement that God is in fact God.
Helping the world understand the truth about God is always a concern for God’s people.
The Bible is filled with prayers reminding God of His own words and His own promises. God has expressed a clear preference for this.
The deepest form of intercessory prayer is standing with a friend in the face of the consequences of his own sin.
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Exodus 32:7-14; 30-34
7 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down, because your people, whom you brought up out of Egypt, have become corrupt. 8 They have been quick to turn away from what I commanded them and have made themselves an idol cast in the shape of a calf. They have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and have said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.’
9 “I have seen these people,” the LORD said to Moses, “and they are a stiff-necked people. 10 Now leave me alone so that my anger may burn against them and that I may destroy them. Then I will make you into a great nation.”
11 But Moses sought the favor of the LORD his God. “LORD,” he said, “why should your anger burn against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and a mighty hand? 12 Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’? Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster on your people. 13 Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Israel, to whom you swore by your own self: ‘I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and I will give your descendants all this land I promised them, and it will be their inheritance forever.’” 14 Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
30 The next day Moses said to the people, “You have committed a great sin. But now I will go up to the LORD; perhaps I can make atonement for your sin.”
31 So Moses went back to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made themselves gods of gold. 32 But now, please forgive their sin—but if not, then blot me out of the book you have written.”
33 The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against me I will blot out of my book. 34 Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
