NOTES: On the Move, Part 1

Sermon: On the Move: Week 1

January 8, 2023

Text: Matthew 2:13-15, 13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” 14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt 15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, “Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Let’s Connect:

We are invited into the abundant life and mission of Jesus

One primary revelation of the life and mission of Christ is as the Deliverer

Text Explained

Joseph: is willing to abandon what was most familiar

He follows God’s leading; he doesn’t overthink it.

What is significant about Egypt?

Beware of Egyptification!

Jesus is revealed as the Deliver  “out of Egypt (bondage) I called my son (the Deliver)”.

Psalm 18:2 (ESV) (character of God)

  2     The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer,

my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge,

my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

God chooses to remake history in the Person of Jesus Christ

Let’s Relate:

Following Jesus is not only our way out of Egypt, but also how to stay out of Egypt.

1.       Readiness to Leave— the past/bondage

2.       Comment to Follow— Jesus…(seek first)

What does your Egypt look like?

What does your deliverance look like?

Colossians 1:13–14 (ESV)13 He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, 14 in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Challenge:

The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it has established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. —G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Together, we’ll keep On the Move towards our True North.