The Divine Crash

Sunday’s sermon was cooking! At least I thought it was…..and then my recorder stopped functioning so there will be no podcast update this week.

I started with a traditional Hebrew prayer and then began with Genesis 1:1 where we will be spending the next few weeks.

The first thing I talked about was how Moses wrote Genesis in about 2500 BC during the Exodus and was leading not just Israelites but a “motley crew” of people who had been slaves their entire lives, because that is who God rescues: Those who have been kept out of freedom for far to long.

I spoke about Elohim being both masculine and feminine and singular and plural all at the same time.  Then I mentioned that God could only create the heavens and the earth if He was above them and this is important to know for Israelites wandering around the wilderness because it would remind them that God was with them everywhere they went and would never leave them.  Sometimes we need that reminder too?

Then I talked about the radical usage of Elohim and how it would be a slap in the face to every other religion out there because it says that this God is not dependent on where you grew up or how you were raised.  This is why Abraham is such a radical he leaves the land of his father.  Not only is he leaving everything he ever knew but he is leaving the one who taught him, his father.  Without his father he would not know how to worship properly.

We know people like this. That only follow religion because of how we were taught? We are taught by our family that our job is more important than family.  That having a good retirement plan is more important than serving others?  That Jesus is only important when bad things happen?  God says, leave the land of your father and follow me to somewhere new.

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