His ory

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Living
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His ory
Immersion
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Identify the Character

• Born when ruler wanted babies killed
• Escapedlived in Egypt
• Came to passed through water
• Went into the desert
• Tempted to do wrong
• Gave speech on a mountain detailing blessings for
  obeying God

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Identify the Character

• JESUS AND MOSES
• Pharaoh/Herod slays the male children Ex 122
  Mt 216
• Moses/Jesus escape Ex 215 Mt 214
• Moses/Jesus called to save his people Ex 310
  Mt 123
• Moses/Jesus return after death of leader Ex
  223/419 Mt 219-20
• Straight pass from water to desert Ex 1421-25/1
  Cor 101-5/ Mt 3-4
• In wilderness, received testing Num 111 Mt
  41ff.
• Moses/Jesus give sermon on mount Ex 19-20 Mt
  5-7

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Matthews Point

• What Moses was for Israel, Jesus is for the world
• Gods grand story is being told and retold
• By recognizing the story, we recognize God

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The Call of the Epistles

• Have this mind in you, which was also in Christ
  Jesus
• Jesus leaving us an example, that we should
  follow in His steps
• Paul Follow me, as I follow Christ

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Thinking About the Water

• Why was Jesus baptized?
• Not about creating doctrinal debates
• Not about Jesus sins or sinlessness
• Part of the larger story

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Thinking About the Water

• Moses
• 2 choices return to Egypt (fear), or move ahead
  (faith)
• The only direction of faith
• Turning back leads to the comfort of slavery
• Passing through the water is the crossing over
  mark. There is no going back.
• Once you cross over, daily existence entirely in
  Gods hands

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Thinking About the Water

• Joshua
• 2 choices return to wilderness (fear), or move
  ahead (faith)
• The only direction of faith
• Turning back leads to the comfort of normalcy
• Passing through the water is the crossing over
  mark. There is no going back.
• Once you cross over, it is all new territory.
• Set up monument to remember!

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Thinking About the Water

• Jesus
• He recognized the role of faith in the story of
  God
• Turning back leads to the comfort of anonymous
  Nazareth.
• Passing through the water is the crossing over
  mark. His identity is known and the task of
  suffering is accepted. There is no going back.
• Once He crosses over, he is a marked man.
• The voice from heaven will forever be His
  reminder.

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Thinking About the Water

• You and me
• Do we recognize the role of faith in the story of
  God?
• At the waters edge, do we recognize that turning
  back leads to the comfort of self, but is also
  the defeat of faith (and the rule of fear)?
• Passing through the water is the crossing over
  mark. Our identity is known and our task is
  accepted.
• Once we cross over, the road is entirely up to
  God (not us)!
• Have you crossed over?

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Thinking About the Water

• There is a great dividing line
• Between the lost and the saved
• Between the past and the future
• Between the life of self and life of service
• The story of God has never been an up-to-you
  cafeteria-style religion!
• The calling of God is to be overwhelmed with the
  call of commitment.