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Moses has been away from the camp for more than a month.
The Israelites begin to assume that he has had an accident, or simply gone away and left them.
They were never very impressed with him anyway.
Bricks in the Wall Don’t Matter without the Mortar
PRAY WITH ME AND FOR ME PLEASE
Think about the shell of this building and about each and every brick on the outside.
Do those
Think about the shell of this building.
Think about each wall that you see on the outside and about every single brick in those walls.
Is there something special or spectacular about those bricks allowing them to constitute those walls as a protective shell around what happens on the inside?
No, there is not is there, and in fact if the builders of our current church building would have simply stacked them one on top of the other, we more than likely would have no church building standing would we.
What keeps those walls standing and those bricks together is the cement mortar place ever so carefully and skillfully in between each brick.
If it were not for that mortar, the bricks would not matter, and the contents of the building would not be protected.
Translate that into a spiritual context.
Christians are the church building.
We are the bricks in the wall and our ministries to others and service for Christ are the contents.
What then is the mortar that keeps the bricks held together and protects the contents?
Intercessory Prayer.
Christians/church members who are an intercessor, who are the people who intercede for one another, for the country and for the lost.
The word "intercede" comes from the Latin "inter" meaning "between" and "ced" meaning "go".
So it literally means "go between".
To stand in/fill in the gaps.
God searches for , but, even though everyone should, not every Christian answers.
Is there a need for intercessors in our church, and for our country?
Church members in America have gone from attending 3-4 times a week to attending 1-2 a month.
Churches in America are closing at a rate of 900+ per year and climbing because of members leaving for unbiblical reasons or refusing to change in order to reach the lost.
About 6,000 plus in Union County who claim no religious affiliation.
8 million lost people in Illinois.
7 out of 10 Americans no relationship with Christ.
All of this, yet we rarely baptize anyone in that pool behind me.
Church members have gone from attending 3-4 times a week to attending 1-2 a month.
Churches are closing at a rate of 900+ per year and climbing.
I would say yes we need more intercessors praying in JFBC for our church.
Bill’s girlfriend, Karen, got a job at a local hardware store.
Karen told Bill, "The owners don't want us hanging out with our friends.
If you stop by, tell them you're my brother."
On Bill’s first visit, he walked to the customer service desk and asked an older woman there, "Is Karen around?"
When the woman looked at him quizzically, Bill added, "I'm her brother."
The woman smiled and said, "What a nice surprise.
It's so nice to meet you; I'm Karen's mother!"
More people than ever are decrying - publically denouncing the moral decline of our country - 77%.
Yet they do not recognize sin anymore.
91% - say its morally acceptable to use birth control
73% - say divorce is morally good
69% - have no problem with pre-marital sex
63% - see nothing wrong with someone being in a gay/lesbian relationship
62% - believe having a baby outside of marriage is no biggie
57% - think that people should be allowed to have assisted suicide
36% - feel viewing porn is acceptable
Each one of these figures are all time highs.
Many of these people who answered the survey are more than likely Christians.
I would say yes we need more intercessors praying in JFBC for our country.
One of the best biblical examples of being an intercessor is Moses.
He goes between God and the people on several occasions.
The passage we will read tonight is in .
The type of praying we are going to find that we should emulate of Moses is his humble “Saving Prayer.”
“Saving Prayer”
STAND WITH ME IN HONOR OF OUR HOLY GOD AS WE READ HIS HOLY WORD
STAND WITH ME IN HONOR OF OUR HOLY GOD AS WE READ HIS HOLY WORD
Exodus
The Context: Look back at - Moses has been away from the camp for more than a month.
The Israelites begin to assume that he has had an accident, or simply gone away and left them.
They were never very impressed with him anyway.
They call upon his less faithful brother to help them commit a rebellious act of idolatry only days or at least a couple week after declaring commitment to all that God says.
Read it.
They want Aaron to make for them “real” gods they can see and touch for themselves.
In Aaron’s defense, as a leader, he did not initiate the rebellion, but the people’s rebellion comes from their issues with leadership - God’s leadership through Moses.
In , his own people did not want him acting on their behalf.
They confront him, questioning his right to do something to help and his actions.
In , after reluctantly returning to Israel to help them Exodus from Egypt, Moses own people won’t Moses gone and they ask God to get rid of Him.
In , many of the people were so blinded by their selfishness they doubted whether God had truly called him to lead them.
After successfully making an exodus, the people show their fickleness - proving that their loyalties and commitment change with their comfort and preferences.
We see that in and -
They are miraculously rescued by God through the leadership of Moses, and they celebrate greatly.
They go a short distance or a couple days later, and find themselves in a difficult and uncomfortable place and they turned on Moses.
Fast forward to Mt. Sinai: Moses is gone for 40 days, the people have a crisis of anxiety, and they place their focus on themselves and not God.
They willfully and blatantly sin against God.
God tells Moses, Hey let’s just start over, me and you, but we see here one example of why the Bible says Moses was the most humble man to ever live.
Imagine Moses refuses Gods offer of being the start of the next great nation of God.
Imagine what that was like.
Yet, Moses refuses Gods offer of being the start of the next great nation of God.
As one of God’s ultimate intercessors, a prototype of Jesus, we can learn from and emulate:
The Life of Moses
The Leadership of Moses
The Love of Moses
In the leadership of Moses, we find he had a double responsibility as an intercessor: 1) He had to identify with God (How God felt as the offended) and 2) He had to identify with God’s people (putting himself in the place of the ones who did the offending) When we stand in the gap, going between God and others we have the same responsibility whether it is praying for someone in the church, whether its the pastor, SS leader, Music leader, volunteer or fellow attender.
From the life of Moses, we learn to serve others more than ourselves.
Moses was given to helping others.
It is what lead to his trouble as a young man.
When he travels into the desert, we find at the end of where he helps the 7 daughters of the Midianite who were attacked by shepherds at a well.
God appeals to this sense of service in calling him to return to Egypt and lead the Exodus of the people.
Jethro, has to help Moses take some stress off himself with a plan to have other men hear the smaller cases of the people, because Moses was running himself thin trying to serve 2 million people.
Moses’ whole life is given to helping others which is the catalyst for his saving prayer.
The lesson God taught me about my frustrations being selfish - from a long housing buying process
The lesson God taught me about my frustrations being selfish - from a long housing buying process
You will find yourself more prone to pray for others when you take on this mindset and life of serving other more than self.
The life of Moses translated to his leadership.
In the leadership of Moses, we find he had a double responsibility as an intercessor: 1) He had to identify with God (How God felt as the offended)
v.30 - God was angry because the people had offended His holiness.
He had every right to be offended.
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