Sermon Response Guide

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PRIMARY SCRIPTURE: Exodus 3:1 – 15

Key Points

• God is far above all we can fathom, yet nearer to us than we can imagine.
  
• Though God is so much more than we know, God is someone we can know.
  
• God gives us God’s name: “I AM WHO I AM” (or I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE).
  
• In other words, we don’t determine who God is. God alone reveals to us who God is.
  
• We cannot limit God. All the qualities of God are infinite.

Memory Verse

Ask God to write this word on your heart this week:

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.”
- Proverbs 9:10 ESV

Questions for Reflection

Take time to reflect and respond to these questions on your own in the presence of the Holy Spirit, or with trusted friends or family members:
 
1: Why do you think we have names? What purpose does a name serve?
 
2: Look back at Exodus 3:11 – 15. What does the act of God revealing God’s name tell you about God? What significance does it hold for you that God gives us God’s name?
 
3: Before today, if you heard God referred to as “the great I AM,” what did you think that meant? After today, how would you explain God’s self-disclosed name, “I AM WHO I AM” to someone?
 
4: Not only is God infinite, but all the qualities of God are infinite. How have you personally experienced the infinite qualities of God?
 
5: Revisit Exodus 3:2 – 4. What can we learn from Moses deciding to “turn aside to see?”
 
6: Read Acts 17:22 – 28. In view of what Paul preaches in Athens, how might Moses’ posture of seeking be related to God’s revelation in Exodus 3?

7: When is the last time you turned aside to seek God? What happened? Did God meet you in your seeking?

8: Just as God called Moses forth and sent Moses out (promising to be with Moses) in Exodus 3:10 – 12, how is God sending you out today? What is God asking you to do in response to what God has revealed to you today?

Pray

Lord, you spoke through your prophet Jeremiah long ago, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart,” (Jeremiah 29:11 – 13). Lord, we confess that you alone are our hope, our future, and our welfare. Lord, we are crying out for you. Show us so much more of who you are. Draw us close to you and send us out with you in your holy name.

references 

For those interested in further study, our pastors want to share resources that have aided them in their sermon preparation (in conjunction with the Bible and the Holy Spirit):
 
·      The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer
·      Not God Enough: Why Your Small God Leads to Big Problems by J. D. Greear
·      Your God is Too Small: A Guide for Believers and Skeptics Alike by J. B. Phillips
·      Knowing God by J. I. Packer
·      The Ten Commandments: Ethics for the Twenty-First Century by Mark F. Rooker
·      For the Glory of God: Recovering a Biblical Theology of Worship by Daniel I. Block
·      Exodus (Apollos Old Testament Commentary Series) by T. Desmond Alexander
·      Classic Christianity: A Systematic Theology by Thomas C. Oden
·      A Commentary on the Psalms, Volume 3: 90-150 (Kregel Exegetical Library) by Allen P. Ross
·      Proverbs (Baker Commentary on the Old Testament Wisdom and Psalms) by Tremper Longman III

Find more devotional resources for 2021 here.