Edgefield Church Nashville – Sermons

This psalm celebrates the presence of the Lord with his people as the purpose of the Exodus. But what do you have when you have God's presence?

In the story of the Exodus, God's people Israel were tested in the wilderness for 40 years. In the New Testament, Jesus was tempted in the wilderness for 40 days. Israel repeatedly turned away from their Father in Heaven, but Jesus faced his temptation without sin. In this Jesus shows that He is the Son of God. And as the Son of God who was perfect, Jesus' death and resurrection purchased for us t...

This psalm offers us the chance to learn from Israel's mistakes, to fear the Lord who takes sin seriously, and to trust in the God who remembered what Israel had forgotten.

This psalm models three ways to respond to God's grace in our lives.

Psalm 81 is a celebration of God's faithfulness to his people and a warning not to repeat the mistakes of Israel's past. With the exodus as the backdrop, God's message is clear: seek satisfaction in God and God alone.

We've heard it said that those who fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it. That's why the psalmist calls us to remember God's faithfulness and warns us about the cost of forgetfulness. Even so, we see God's ultimate faithfulness--that he has not forgotten us--through the work of Christ.

The Song of Moses reminds us that God is worthy to be praised, for what he has done and what he continues to do.

How can we make the story of Exodus the story of our lives?

This command gets to the heart of why we often struggle to love our neighbors as ourselves. It gives us an opportunity to consider where covetousness attacks us, and how to fight back.

It's relatively easy to see that honesty is good for us. Why then is it so hard to be consistently honest? And where do we find the strength to live with open, transparent freedom?

A familiar command calls us to remember the generosity of God who has set us free in Christ to be a generous people.

Behind this straightforward command is a perspective on sex that is as unusual in our culture as it was when it first appeared. But it's a perspective full of joy, of hope and of healing.

Human life is precious because God says it is. That means none of us has the right to take the life of anyone else. But there's far more to the sixth commandment than avoiding murder. If we've experienced the life-affirming, life-saving grace of God in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, we will want to follow his lead in protecting and promoting vulnerable lives wherever we can.

The first commandment aimed at how we treat one another is the command to honor your father and mother. What makes this such a foundational command? What would it look like for us to obey it?

In a list of commandments, it can seem peculiar for God to require his people to rest. What did it mean for the Israelites to remember the Sabbath, and what does it mean for us today?

What does it mean to take God's name in vain, and how can we avoid it?

The command not to make and worship any images can seem like an easy command to obey. Really, we aren't as safe as we might believe. But by God's grace we can be.

What are the Ten Commandments, and why should we care about them?

God redeems his people not to leave them to themselves but to bring them to himself, where they can know the joy of true freedom--a relationship of trust and obedience, with God as their Father.

Israel is out of Egypt, but they are not yet in the Promised Land. In between lies a wilderness. But in this wilderness, and in ours, God continues the work he began in Egypt, showing us who he is and setting us free.

God continues to provide a way for his people to move from certain death to eternal life. First with Moses and now with Jesus, we can stand firm knowing God will fight for us.

In a way this story resolves the tension that's been building throughout Exodus. But it's a resolution that is also full of tension. It's a story of judgment and of mercy. It's a story of death and of life. It's the story of Israel's redemption that pictures the redemption of everyone who trusts in Jesus.

These nine signs of power serve one central purpose. They reveal to us who the Lord really is. What do they tell us about him?

Pharaoh's challenge to God's demand--"Who is the Lord?"--was meant as a rhetorical question. But it's a question God takes seriously and intends to answer, for Pharaoh and for Israel and for us, through all the comes next.

Through watching God respond to Moses in his moments of doubt, we learn what grace we can expect from God in our own doubts.