Worship Preparation - November 5, 2023
Sunday, November 5, 2023
Read the sermon text: Exodus 19:1-25
Read the sermon summary: In Exodus 19, the author portrays the growing distance between God and the people. Although God was willing to meet with Israel and make them his special priesthood, the people were unholy and unwilling to meet with God on the mountain top. Instead, the author portrays Moses speaking the Ten Commandments to the people to show Moses as the giver of the law and the mediator between God and the people. In Exodus 20 the people state that they are afraid and do not want to hear God speak with them anymore. Again, the author tells us that the people are standing at a distance from God. As the author continues his book, he speaks of a coming day, when a prophet, like Moses from among the brothers of Israel would meet with God face-to-face and would be a lawgiver who enables obedience from the peoples.
Read the following song lyrics in relation to the sermon:
Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me
What gift of grace is Jesus my redeemer
There is no more for heaven now to give
He is my joy my righteousness and freedom
My steadfast love my deep and boundless peace
To this I hold my hope is only Jesus
For my life is wholly bound to his
Oh how strange and divine I can sing all is mine
Yet not I but through Christ in me
The night is dark but I am not forsaken
For by my side the Saviour he will stay
I labour on in weakness and rejoicing
For in my need his power is displayed
To this I hold my Shepherd will defend me
Through the deepest valley he will lead
Oh the night has been won and I shall overcome
Yet not I but through Christ in me
No fate I dread I know I am forgiven
The future sure the price it has been paid
For Jesus bled and suffered for my pardon
And he was raised to overthrow the grave
To this I hold my sin has been defeated
Jesus now and ever is my plea
Oh the chains are released I can sing I am free
Yet not I but through Christ in me
With every breath I long to follow Jesus
For he has said that he will bring me home
And day by day I know he will renew me
Until I stand with joy before the throne
To this I hold my hope is only Jesus
All the glory evermore to him
When the race is complete still my lips shall repeat
Yet not I but through Christ in me
When the race is complete still my lips shall repeat
Yet not I but through Christ in me
Yet not I but through Christ in me
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