Category Archives: Old Testament

From Bad to Worse (Worship Service, April 2nd, 2017)

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Title: From Bad to Worse

Passage: Exodus 5: 5-21

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: April 2nd, 2017

As we consider ch 5 in light of the whole book of Exodus, we are taught not to be deceived by our circumstances, but to look up and hope in God. As we look around us at the world, it seems to be spinning out of control. The darkness around us gets blacker and blacker. We too, like the Israelites, may be tempted to lose hope in our trials. But we must not. Amidst a very dark age, we must keep the flickering candle of our hope in Christ aflame. In light of this, I want you to get this central message from this sermon: believers hope in God, no matter how black the world’s darkness becomes.

Let My People Go (Worship Service, March 26th, 2017)

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Title: Let My People Go

Passage: Exodus 4:27 – 5:4

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: March 26th, 2017

I have organized this morning’s message around the two responses to Moses that we see in this passage. The first is the response of the Israelites in 4:31: And the people believed. The second response is that of Pharaoh in 5:2, Who is the LORD? Here we have illustrated the two ways to live. As we look at our text this morning, I want you to ask yourself, how do I respond to God? Does my life bear the marks of a response of faith, or of unbelief?

The Pleasures and Perils of Serving Yahweh (Worship Service, March 19th, 2017)

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Title: The Pleasures and Perils of Serving Yahweh

Passage: Exodus 4:18-26

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: March 19th, 2017

The return to Egypt is now before us. The ESV breaks the text into three paragraphs, and in each of them we see how God prepares Moses for his great return to Egypt. These lessons are instructive for us, for they both unfold important parts of the Exodus narrative and illustrate timeless principles for God works with his servants. This morning, I want you to see that God graciously fits his servants for the work he wants them to do. We already know that God will be with Moses. As Moses returns to Egypt, we see something of what that looks like. 

Send Someone Else (Worship Service, March 12th, 2017)

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Title: Send Someone Else

Passage: Exodus 4:1-17

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: March 12th, 2017

Moses’s three questions in chapter 4 expose Moses’s fear and unbelief. Yet for each of Moses’s three objections, God patiently brings himself back into Moses’s thoughts. Moses was very hesitant to obey God’s call. All of us can be the same way. The point is this, we must submit to God’s will. In big things, in little things, in hard things, and in difficult things, we must lovingly submit to the will of God. In this passage, there are three reasons why we should submit to God. 

He Does Whatever He Pleases (Worship Service, March 5th, 2017)

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Title: He Does Whatever He Pleases

Passage: Exodus 3:16-22

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: March 5th, 2017

The LORD has sovereign power and authority over all things. Yahweh is in control over everything that happens in the book of Exodus. That is because the Lord is over everything that happens, period. This passage is not only about what is about to happen, it is also about a Sovereign God who foretells what will certainly happen because he decreed those events. In light of this truth, the point of this morning’s message is we should trust our sovereign God who does whatever he decrees. Why should we trust God? 

Biblical Lessons from The Sacred Name (Worship Service, February 26th, 2017)

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Title: Biblical Lessons from The Sacred Name

Passage: Exodus 3:10-15

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: February 26th, 2017

Today we consider the theological and practical implications that our God is the I AM WHO I AM or Yahweh. If this is the name by which God is to be remembered throughout all generations, then it is fitting to spend time considering more carefully the meaning of Yahweh, and what it means for us.

The Sacred Name, Part 2 (Worship Service, February 19th, 2017)

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Title: The Sacred Name, Part 2

Passage: Exodus 3:10-15

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: February 19th, 2017

In a way similar to his call of Moses, God calls us to do extraordinary, things for his sake. He calls us to tasks we are unequal to. I include with this our response to God’s calling on us as Christians, in our vocations and responsibilities, and as evangelists and ministers of Christ to others. As we hear God’s response to Moses, I want us to respond the way God wants Moses to respond: with trust. We must trust the God who calls us.

The Sacred Name, Part 1 (Worship Service, February 5th, 2017)

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Title: The Sacred Name

Passage: Exodus 3:10-15

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: February 5th, 2017

God calls each one of us to be something extraordinary; he calls each one of us to our life’s work. And in each of these spiritual and vocation callings, we, like Moses, need to trust the God who calls us. Whether we’re Moses leading the children of Israel out of Egypt, or we’re a man who believes God might have called him to be a pastor, or we’re a housewife struggling to homeschool, or we’re a believer struggling to be holy, we, like Moses, need to trust the God who calls us. God’s answers to Moses in this passage give us three reasons to trust God ourselves.

Holy Ground, Part 3 (Worship Service, January 29th, 2017)

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Title: Holy Ground

Passage: Exodus 3:1-6

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: January 29th, 2017

Our passage last Lord’s Day and this one tells of God’s self-revelation to Moses. The Holy Spirit gave us this word that we might too might behold the holy God who dwells in the bush. When we hear texts such as Exodus 3:1-6, we must respond to God’s true revelation of himself with faith and love. 

Holy Ground, Part 1 (Worship Service, January 15th, 2017)

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Title: Holy Ground, Part 1

Passage: Exodus 3:1-6

Speaker: Pastor Ryan Martin

Service: Sunday Morning Worship Service

Date: January 15th, 2017

When God reveals himself to men, he does so that they might believe on him and love him, so that we might worship and glorify him. So as we come face to face with a monumental passage like Exodus 3:1-6, the point must always be that we must respond to God’s true revelation of himself with faith and love. If it is true that we must respond to God’s true revelation of himself with faith and love, then we should want to know, how does God reveal himself to us? In the text, we see the Lord reveal himself to Moses in four ways: