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Before beginning the story of the ten plagues which G-d brought upon Egypt, it presents the genealogy of the first three tribes of Israel – Reuben, Shimon and Levi. Rashi (6:14) explains that the Torah wanted to tell us about the family background of Moshe and Aharon, the ones who confronted Pharaoh and brought the plagues, and who descended from the tribe of Levi. It therefore began from the first tribe, Reuben, and continued until it reached Moshe and Aharon. The Torah concluded this section by stating, “This is Aharon and Moshe, to whom G-d said: Bring Beneh Yisrael out of the land of Egypt… They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh, king of Egypt…this is Moshe and Aharon” (6:26-27). Rashi, explaining the need for the seemingly repetitious phrase, “this is Moshe and Aharon,” writes: “They kept to their mission and their piety from the beginning until the end.” The Torah goes out of its way to emphasize that Moshe and Aharon remained committed to the goal of bringing Beneh Yisrael out of Egypt, until the very end. They retained their devotion, and their righteousness, throughout the entire process. It is common for people to grow weary and give up. When we start something new, like a new project or new spiritual undertaking, we are filled with excitement and enthusiasm, which fuels us and keeps us going. Inevitably, however, this excitement wanes with time. It is all but impossible for the enthusiasm felt at the beginning a new endeavor to last. Whether it's a new personal project, a new community project, a new business, or a new hobby – people so often give up in the middle, once the excitement that had kept them going wears off. This is one of the reasons why it is customary to make a festive Siyum celebration upon the completion of the study of a Masechet (tractate of Gemara), or of another significant portion of Torah. We celebrate not only the accomplishment itself, but also the person's persistence, his long-term commitment to the goal. It is relatively easy to begin a Masechet, and to study the first several pages. But seeing the project through to completion is far more difficult. Rashi's comments here teach us to follow the example set for us by Moshe and Aharon, to persist in pursuing our ambitious goals even after the initial excitement has waned. If we've taken on an important, meaningful project, let's apply ourselves to see it through to completion, despite the challenges and proverbial “bumps in the road” that we will inevitably encounter. In order to achieve, we must be prepared to put in the work even when we feel like giving up. Like Moshe and Aharon, we must be committed to making it until the end, to achieving the goals that we've set out to achieve.

Who do you trust? Who do you allow yourself to completely relax and be yourself with? Who do you share your deepest secrets, insecurities, questions and joy with? Who do you know you can count on, no matter what? Today we hear about trusting God through prayer, food and sabbath In the story from Exodus, the Israelites have been freed from the oppressive powers of the Egyptian empire, released from Pharoah's exhausting dictates to do more They're wandering through the wilderness toward the promised land And they begin to complain It's been about six weeks since they fled Egypt and their memory seems to betray them /         /         / Just before this passage they complain “If only we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread; for you [God] have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” (Ex 16:3) It has been observed that the Israelites were taken out of the Egyptian empire at the Red Sea, but it took all of the wandering in the wilderness for the empire to be taken out of the Israelites They long for what they perceive now as the good ‘ol days The LORD hears their complaint, and responds with a promise and a test The LORD promises enough to eat, and rest on the Sabbath We see the Israelites struggle with the idea of enough We see the Israelites resist rest We are so much like the Israelites          /         /         / When the promised bread shows up in the morning They ask, “What is it?” Manna – literally means “What is it?”      /         / We live also within a society where our food is often unrecognizable With processed and packaged foods like hot dogs and Doritos Our summer BBQs take on a manufactured flare Even turkey at the deli and chicken at the meat counter are often unrecognizable from their animal source What is it? We, like the Israelites, struggle with knowing, and understanding We, like the Israelites have issues with our food The industrial revolution and our unsatiable consumption have changed us… so the question… “What is it?” Has been silenced within the roar of our collective appetite for more We don't ask “What is it?” But continue to consume more than our portion We don't ask “What is it?” As the gears of the American food economy continue to churn We don't ask “What is it?” Because the empire is within us, and we are the empire        /         / We are so much like the Israelites, not only about our food But also through how we know God The Israelites knew God, perhaps intellectually… as the one who brought them out of Egypt They knew God in their mind, but perhaps struggled to trust God in their hearts They worried: what if there wasn't enough bread tomorrow They collected more bread than they needed, failing one of God's tests This denial of the limit of enough caused the bread to spoil and become foul It stank/        /         it was odius   /         reeking throughout camp Many of our farming practices have also become odius … and reeking Our denial of the limit of enough has placed such a demand on animal production, that Factory farms now keep animals in conditions unrecognizable to their habitats Forcing them to grow and gain weight at unprecedented speeds Kept in crowded spaces that reek We are like the Israelites They knew God, but didn't quite know God's promises God promises enough God promises rest Sabbath is not merely a demand  /         / But a promise of care        / A promise of freedom… because “Whatever you can't rest from you're a slave to” (Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley) Created in the image of God, humankind needs rest God took a sabbath on the seventh day of creation How do we think that we are beyond needing rest? We justify our busy selves and persuade ourselves out of “a day of solemn rest, a holy sabbath to the LORD” (Ex 16:23) We think this puts us ahead But it really makes us exhausted  /         /         and enslaved   /       / A recent study found that over 77% of working adults are currently experiencing burnout at their jobs God promises us, and has built into creation, time to rest… sit… dwell… stay where we are… To STOP!     /         / recognize our freedom And observe the holiness of God  /         / We are so much like the Israelites They knew God, but persisted in controlling things beyond their control Doubting God's promises, and resisting God's commandments They thought they knew better They thought they could ensure a more secure future for themselves They doubted that God would continue to hear their cries and respond They were tempted by the idea of more and better All of this resistance and doubt creates questions about God Who is God to them? Maybe by controlling the bread and building their sense of security They began to create an illusion of themselves as gods Sabbath and limitations, or commandments, serve to reinforce that We are not God! “The LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and instructions?  See!  The LORD has given you the sabbath” (Ex 16:28-29) We are so much like the Israelites How long will we reject accepting what is enough How long will we collect and consume more than what is needed How long will our practices continue to foul creation How long will we push ourselves through times of rest How long will our behaviors cause us to become exhausted and burnt out /         /         / In the Gospel, Jesus comes to us reinforcing this message Teaching us to pray “Give us each day our daily bread.” (Lk 11:3) Encouraging us to “Ask, and it will be given you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.” (Lk 11:9) A challenge we face, though, like the Israelites Living within a society that proclaims control and responsibility for all aspects of our life Who is God to us?   /         /         / Can we impose limits upon ourselves Can we accept our need to rest Can we stop the gears of consumption and quest for more … And let God be God… Our lives depend on it Creation depends on it Wendell Barry, writer, farmer and environmental activist observes: The industrial era at climax…has imposed on us all its ideals of ceaseless pandemonium.  The industrial economy, by definition, must never rest…There is no such thing as enough.  Our bellies and our wallets must become oceanic, and still they will not be full.  Six workdays in a week are not enough.  We need a seventh.  We need an eighth…Everybody is weary, and there is no rest…Or there is none unless we adopt the paradoxical and radical expedient of just stopping.   As Christians, we have inherited the paradoxical antidote to this depressing reality which we currently face God hears our cries The solution lies within the promises that God rains down upon every one of us We are not gods, but God is God We can stop,          / we can use restraint,       /we can rest We can trust… not in the empire, but in God See!  The LORD has given you the Sabbath Amen.

Elpis Israel by John Thomas (The Hope of Israel) Part Third THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD IN THEIR RELATION TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD Chapter 6 The restoration of Israel indispensable to the setting up of the kingdom of God — Israel to be grafted into their own olive on a principle of faith — Not by Gentile agency, but by Jesus Christ, will God graft them in again — Britain, the protector of the Jews, as indicated by Isaiah 18 — The British power in the south, the Moab &c, of "the latter days" — The second exodus of Israel — The nations of the Image to be subdued by Israel to the dominion of their king — The New Covenant delivered to Judah and the kingdom of God set up in Judea — The returning of the Ten Tribes to Canaan will occupy forty years — Elijah's mission — Israel re-assembled in Egypt — They cross the Nile, and pass through the Red Sea, on foot — They march into Canaan, receive the New Covenant, and, re-united to Judah, form one nation and kingdom under Christ for 1,000 years — The blessedness of the nations, and their loyalty to Israel's king — Of the end of the thousand years — Chronology from the Creation to the end of the Melchizedek Kingdom https://www.wilderness-voice.org/

“They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:” ‭‭— Psalms‬ ‭78:42-43‬ ‭ The older we get, the more we forget. This is especially true when it comes to a relationship with God. The people of Israel often remembered what they should have forgotten and forgot what they should have remembered! (vv.42-43). The Jews had seen God perform ten miracles on their behalf in Egypt. Moses even pointed out that this was the hand of the Lord, yet they forgot all about it. Their constant cry was, “Let’s go back.” What did they remember about Egypt? They remembered the leeks and the onions and the garlic and the cucumbers. They remembered the things that satisfied their stomachs. They did not remember the spiritual victories that God had given, His deliverance or His guidance. He had fed and led them, protected and provided for them; and they forgot about it. The same is often true of us. We forget what God has done for us, and when we forget, we start to go backwards. Forgetfulness has consequences (V.41). Imagine—feeble, and unbelieving man limiting Almighty God! But that’s what happens when we forget Him. Don’t limit God in your life today. Don’t turn back. Look ahead. Don’t rest Him. Trust Him and remember His mercies. The same God who worked miracle after miracle for Israel is the One who is working for you today. Don’t live with the flawed memory. Meditate on God’s faithfulness and goodness.

Jacob sends his sons to buy grain in Egypt—They bow before Joseph—He makes harsh accusations against them, imprisons Simeon, and sends them back for Benjamin. The post Genesis 42 appeared first on Sacred Text Daily.

Jacob sends his sons to buy grain in Egypt—They bow before Joseph—He makes harsh accusations against them, imprisons Simeon, and sends them back for Benjamin. The post Genesis 42 appeared first on Sacred Text Daily.

Have you ever thought about Communion in the context of the Psalm 23? What about Peter’s denial and redemption in the context of the first Passover out of Egypt? They have more in common than you might think. In all of these, God prepares a table to SHARE with us in the presence of our … Continue reading Episode 013 – Table Fellowship

We Are Like The IsraelitesThe Israelites were in a tight spot. In front of them the impenetrable barrier of the Red Sea, behind them the advancing Egyptian army. They were caught in a trap, with nowhere to go — and they were panicking.“What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt?” They cried out to the Lord. “It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness" ‭Exodus‬ ‭14:11-12‬ ‭ESV‬‬These were the very people who had witnessed, first hand, the power and protection of God in their escape from slavery. Yet with every advancing step of the Egyptian army, their faith and trust in God’s plans and promises crumbled. From lips that once praised Him now came accusations and blame. How quickly the tide had turned.And yet don’t we do the same? When we are called to fight uphill battles with insurmountable odds, we respond with panic.Panic that erodes our trust and weakens our defenses.Fight The Storm With PeaceYet this is not the life He has planned for us. Instead of running, blaming and accusing, we are called to stand up and fight. Fight our storm...with peace.“And Moses said to the people, ‘Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which He will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent’” ‭Exodus‬ ‭14:13-14‬ ‭ESV‬‬Peace in the midst of the storm, calm in the face of chaos. This is the response God is calling us to, this is the antidote to our fear. When fear creeps in and panic prevails, we can trust God, and declare with confidence: “The Lord is with me; I will not be afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?” (Psalm 118:6). And there, in the midst of our storm, find peace.

Our difficulties with accepting a situation started with our first parents—Adam and Eve in the Garden. After they had sinned and realized what they did, they hid from God. They didn’t want to face the reality that they had rebelled against their loving Creator. They sewed fig leaves together to not have to look at their shame. They blamed others for what got them into the predicament in the first place. And not much has changed. We don’t like to stare at our failures and shame. We want to blame others for what got us where we are. We want to busy ourselves and hide from reality. We do this in our everyday life because we haven’t accepted the fact that we are meant to be broken. We don’t want to sit in the fact that the world is broken. The beauty of the Christian faith is its willingness to accept this brokenness. // I am so glad that early in my Christian faith, I was encouraged to read the Psalms. I read them out loud and their sound was so different than what I heard at church…what I heard in my head. Too many times when someone is going through pain and struggle, we want to make them feel better. “Hey, God’s got a plan.” Or “Don’t cry. It’ll all get better.” This is cruel. The Bible shows us that, as one author put it: “It is an act of faith and wisdom to be sad about sad things.” Wisdom because looking at the world through tears acknowledges the fact that this broken world is not as it was intended to be. Faith because it looks up to God to restore it. Psalms 120-134 are a section of psalms called Songs of Ascent. These were sung when people made pilgrimages to Jerusalem for special holy days. Jerusalem was built on a hill and the Temple was at the top. So as they are walking up to worship in the Temple, they are singing this song. And each song is sung through tears. Two points. Follow the structure of the song. Vv.1-3 Faith Looks Back at God’s Faithfulness (V.1-3) In the midst of grief, it is easy to forget that you laughed or smiled or were joyful. The great lie of the Enemy is to heap more guilt and shame where the Lord has restored. It is a good thing to look back at life and see how God saved you. How he delivered you. // Maybe it was a job that sucked life out of you. Maybe it was an overdose that didn’t kill you. Maybe it was a friend that was crazy. Maybe it was a a darkness that would not lift. // Each one of us, if we will have the eyes of faith to see how we are still alive. We’re still breathing. If we have eyes to see that, even now is a gift, it’s a sign of God’s deliverance and that he’s not done with you. But looking back isn’t fun sometimes is it? We have to come to terms with the fact that too many times it was our decisions that brought harm to us. After all, this is what Israel had to face. They had been thrown into Exile because of their choice to follow their own way rather than bend their knees to God. Yet we see that God is not like you and me. They had rebelled, yet they were brought back to a place of abundance. Someone failed us or hurt us or said one thing and did another? We condemn. We despise. We hate. // Praise God (!), he is not like us. Nor does he treat us as our sins deserve! V.1: The Lord restored. V.2: The Lord has done great things. Repeat. V.3: The Lord has done great things. The tendency in life is to think that “I’m going to fix this. I’m going to double-down and tighten my boots.” But faith looks at God’s faithfulness. The Lord restored his people. When they were in Exile, what did they do to get out of that slavery? They didn’t try to coerce or make it happen. They owned their sin and they cried out to God. As slaves in Egypt…They cried out. The first step to restoration is repenting. It’s seeing a situation and really repenting. Crying out to God and saying, “Show me your ways and I will walk in them.” You and I too often run to other streams, first. We put our hope in our ability. I’m gonna be a better parent. I’m gonna be a better husband. I’m gonna try harder. But we must start by crying out to God. //. Don’t get me wrong, it is a good thing to want to be better. That’s what God is seeking to do in our lives. To re-shape us, to restore us to his image that we were created in. When God created Adam and Eve in the Garden, he said, “Let us make humankind in our image.” So in the image of God he created male and female. In the image of God. You are made in the image of God! When we sinned against God, the image of God in us was not lost. It was scarred. And God is not simply putting makeup on the scars. He is doing reconstructive surgery on our hearts. And it’s this reconstructive surgery that is so painful in our lives. Because as we ascend the heights, our hearts still hurt. We remember that we experienced joy, but it seems so far away. That laughter and joy and gladness, seem like a distant memory. A dream. Faith Looks Forward to God’s Faithfulness (vv.4-6) If God was faithful to you in the past, why would he stop now? If God was good to you in the past, why would he stop being good now? Our problem is that we look to the streams in our life and assume 1:1 correspondence between them and God. People betray us. People harm us. So we think the same of God. All good things flow from him, but they are not him. What seems like harshness is his severity. Severity because he is committed (more committed than us) to change us…to make us better. We see again that, while we run to other streams that we think will satisfy, they will always dry up. Family will fail you. Friends will turn on you. That job that was so good, will frustrate you. Because God is leading you into the desert. He’s taking you into a dry and weary land where there is no water… God is not content to let us live in the clouds. He’s pulling our feet down into the sand. He’s forcing us to see how everyone and every hope and every dream will run dry. He leads us to the desert. So that we cry out to him. V.4 “Restore our fortunes, O Lord, like streams in the Negeb—this is the desert region in the south of Israel.” So that we see that he is the stream in the desert. He is the one who satisfies us. He is who we were created to be filled up with. But it’s only when our other streams run dry and our tears seem to run dry, that brings shouts of joy. When we truly experience the deliverance and restoration of God in our lives, then we shout for joy. We can’t hold back. We may look like a fool to others, but we know who has delivered us and it really doesn’t matter what they think anyway does it? They didn’t deliver us! They didn’t save us! They didn’t satisfy the thirst of our souls. So we shout and declare among the nations—“The Lord has done great things for me!” But this shouting for joy is not separate from the tears. For those of us who are struggling right now, this may seem so far away from your experience. // The Lord is shaping you even now in the Negeb. He wants to remind you that, although the weight seems heavy and the faucet of tears still drips and flows at times…he is watering the soil of your life. To be able to receive him. To receive his goodness. To receive his power of deliverance. But our eyes of faith have to be washed with the saline of suffering. Do you remember what we heard in Isaiah 43: 18 “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. 19 Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people, 21 the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise. What is this new thing? Well, we got a glimpse of it in our reading from John’s Gospel. Jesus came to the town of Bethany to see three of his beloved friends, one more time. Mary, Martha, and Lazarus—whom Jesus had raised from the dead. John mentions this because he doesn’t want us to forget that Jesus was at the tomb of Lazarus when he died and Jesus wept. He wept with Mary and Martha. And he said to them: I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die. Why? Because he came to die for all those who turn from their ways and bow their knees to him. Who submit to him as King of their lives. While all the pain and suffering we experience now seems overwhelming, we are reminded that we have one great suffering left. Each of us will die. And yet, even this desert is made into a river. A river that carries us to God. For whosoever believes in him, shall not perish but have everlasting life.

Remember when the Israelites were in Egypt? They were waiting for God to rescue them from slavery for 400 years. They were waiting for the Lord. When God appeared to Moses, he said, “I have heard the cry of my people.” “Yes, 400 years of crying what took you so long,” we might imagine the... The post Gospel-Homily for First Sunday of Advent (2018) appeared first on St. Clement Eucharistic Shrine.

July 1, 2018 The Remembrance Freedom Isn’t Free It’s Transformative 2 Corinthians 8:9 Synopsis: I’m sure you have heard many times that “Freedom Isn’t Free” and that is true in many different ways. The price for freedom from the wages of sin and death is far beyond our human ability to pay. The good news, as Paul points out, is that freedom is possible in Christ Jesus simply because Jesus paid the price. But that is not all of the story. True “Freedom” in Christ Jesus “Isn’t Free It’s Transformative.” Freedom that isn’t transformative may best be described as anarchy. I would argue that the framers of The Declaration of Independence insisted that free people are not to be anarchist but patriots. Think with me for just a moment. Do you remember the stories of the struggles the Children of Israel had as they broke away from Egypt? They were free from Egyptian bondage, but they were not yet transformed. Anarchy seemed to rule the day. Moses was often frustrated trying to deal with the People of anarch. It took a long time but step by step they were transformed into the People of God. Eventually they were able to enter the Promised Land. Today, as we come to the Lord’s Table we are celebrating our freedom in Christ Jesus while taking transformative steps in our daily life that will truly let freedom ring. Jesus transformed the meaning of the bread and wine of Passover to living signs of His brokenness for our wholeness and the establishment of a new covenant relationship that is for our transformation. Text (NIV): 2 Corinthians 8:7-15 Scripture Reading: Psalm 130:1-4, NIV