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| Let’s stay under the cloud (05/30/04)
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Text: Exodus 13:20:21
Introduction.
- The time of traveling was 11 days. But it really was 40 years.
- God turned his people from the Philistine’s way.
“God not always take us to the easy way, but gives us the power to go through the hard way.
- v. 21. “And the Lord went ahead of them…” The own presence of God.
- Clouds in the desert. How? If cloud itself form from water?
- Take a look in its local geography. It is impossible to form the clouds.
- Any water that comes from the Mediterranean Sea would become vapor.
- Why the invitation: Let’s stay under the cloud.
| 01. | The cloud drives us from old to new life. |
- John 14:6. “I am the way...”
- Colossians 2:6. “Walk in him...”
- Jesus is the complete way for salvation and for daily life.
- Egypt represents slavery. Canaan is liberation.
| 02. | The cloud is the fulfillment of all necessities. |
- Exodus 12:37:38- A crowd left Egypt.
- Exodus 3:14. God says “I am everything.”
- Day and night’s orientation
- I Corinthians 10:1-4. The rock was Christ. We can say that the clouds as well.
| 03. | The cloud is the God’s glory among us. |
- Exodus 40:34.
- II. Chronicles 5:13. The priests couldn’t stand.
- N.T. Luke 9:34. The experience of the transfiguration.
Conclusion
- Exodus 40:37. Let’s follow the clouds movement.
- What is God’s direction?
- There is total delivery. Confidence.
- “It was easier to take the people from slavery than to take slavery from people”
- In the moment of insecurity, weakness, God takes his people to the desert and makes a great work.
- Deuteronomy 8:15-16 “...to do well in the end.”
- The world is a desert, completely insecure.
- The invitation: Let’s stay under the cloud.
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