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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Carlos Moretta

Right Foot, Left Foot, Lessons From the Journey

I hope you're praying for me this morning because my mind is everywhere.

And I really, I really want to share hopefully something that will inspire at least 1 person, just 1 person this morning along their journey.

How many graduates are there here among us this year, or right now that are graduating this year?

It is a beautiful time of year, isn't it?

When you start seeing those golden arches on center campus, they're going up and they're going up for you.

It's a beautiful season and the next few Sabbaths will be high Sabbaths for you.

So really ponder about the goodness of God and how He's brought you to where you are right now.

So Those of you, excuse me, I'm going to take out my gum so that I don't offend anyone.

For those of you who know me and have heard me speak, you know that I'm big on practical Christianity, so that's what you're getting again today.

It was October or November 1987, a little thing called Junior Presentation at Great Lakes Adventist Academy where I graduated from.

And I remember we were, me and my classmates were all huddled close on the stage And we were getting ready to sing our class, the song that we had chosen as our class song, a little song by a popular Christian singer called Steve Green.

Somehow we had chosen that as our class song.

And the chorus went like this, Oh may all who come behind us find us faithful.

May the fire of our devotion light their way.

May the footprints that we leave lead them to believe, and the lives we live inspire them to obey.

And of course, the stanzas were along that theme as well.

It's a song that spends more time looking backwards than it does looking forward.

But would worrying about our faith legacy be enough to keep those of us, and my class members, approximately 90 of us, over the last 27 years, mercy, did I just say that?

Would it be enough to worry about our past to keep us on the path up into this day?

The title of my message is titled, or is, Left Foot, Right Foot Lessons from the Journey.

Because as we soon found out, after junior year came what?

Then marriage, then kids, hopefully in that order, then life.

Would you bow your heads with me as we pray?

Father in heaven, I just ask 1 thing of you this morning, that Jesus Christ be lifted through this message and that 1 person, at least 1 person, would be inspired to continue in this journey.

I want you to open your Bibles to the book of Exodus, chapter 12.

You'll forgive me that I'm using my phone, but I have a font problem.

Something happened in the last year where up until this age I'd never needed glasses before and then everything went downhill in the last 6 months.

I went from no glasses to about 3 different pair.

So every font in the Bible, unless they're really big, maybe I've been in denial for a long time, I don't know.

Verse 3, it says, They shall take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house.

And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls.

Every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb Your lamb shall be without blemish a male of the first year He shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats and he shall keep it up until the 14th day of the same month and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening, and they shall take of the blood and strike it on the 2 side posts and on the upper door posts of the houses wherein they shall eat it." So we know the context of this scripture, right?

The last of the 10 plagues, the Passover.

We know that through the sacrifice of this little lamb that the children of Israel were separating themselves from the Egyptians.

We're drawing a line of distinction so that they would begin this journey out of Egypt.

God was separating them, sanctifying them, if you will.

So through this lamb, through this lamb, God sanctified and delivered his people and they began their journey to the promised land.

And do you see yourself in the storyline?

Because I'm going to keep asking you that.

Somewhere along the line, somewhere along in your life, you came to know the Lamb, right?

You accepted him into his life, you were sanctified, you were set apart and you began this journey with Jesus to where?

Turn in your Bibles to Exodus 13, 3 through 9.

Exodus 13, We're going to be doing a lot of scripture search today.

And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, remember this day, Advent Hope, in which he came out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Put that on the shelf somewhere, because we're going to come back to it.

For by strength of hand the Lord brought you out of this place, there shall be no leavened bread eaten this day coming out in the month of the month of Bib, and it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Hivites, the Jebusites, which he swore unto thy fathers to give thee a land flowing of milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

7 days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast unto the Lord.

Unleavened bread shall be eaten 7 days and there shall be no leavened bread be seen with thee neither shall there be leaven seen in all thy quarters.

And thou shalt show thy son in that day saying this is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt and it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thy hand and for memorial between thine eyes that the Lord's law may be in thy mouth for with a strong hand hath the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.

God here emphasizes the importance of remembering.

Remembering where you were and what God brought you out of.

Is anyone able to tell where they were and where they are now?

And that there's a clear line of distinction.

You also highlighted in these verses the connection between salvation, Again, from your current lost or oppressed state.

Redemption by the blood of the lamb who gets what you deserve while you get what the lamb deserves.

Sanctification When God sets apart you as a special individual with a special purpose.

And then what problem does God have with leaven?

We don't have enough time to go in and do a study right now on it, but Levin represents sin.

Do you see yourself in the storyline here?

What God has to do to cleanse you, to purge that sin out of your life, which he continues to do to this day.

There's something tangible God has to do in God's teaching to the Israelites.

Listen, don't let the stuff be seen among you.

And then finally, in the verses that we just read, God talks about The law, the law of God, this contractual obedience.

And you can't separate the deliverance of the children of Israel out of Egypt without talking about the law of God.

God said you are under this control here.

Now you're under this control as my people.

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