27th Jan sermon notes without those from the rest of the month.
Exodus 15:22 - 27
From next week: Unstoppable - from Acts
Alpha - Life's big questions:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU-NpM8xWfo Alpha starting Tues 12th February
Together as one.
Colossians 3:12 - 16
1 Corinthians 13:4 - 7
Ephesians 2:14 - 20
Genesis 3
The world changed completely
A curse
Gen 3:16 - 19
A bias. Humanity has one towards sin.
We need a healer.
Exodus 15:22 - 27
The Israelites had no water. Their opinion of God plumeted.
Marah - a place of bitterness
We all have a place of bitterness in our lives
God had lead them to this place.
vs 25
God was testing them.
Can we praise God in a time of testing?
vs 26
Job 13:15
Before the original sin - there was no illness and decay.
The LORD who heals - Yahweh Rapha
Refreshment and rejuvination
Living water
John 7:37 - 39
Exodus 15
God stepped in to heal the water.
We have the Spirit
Streams of living water in our heart
We need to draw on those streams.
God's goal for our lives is not comfort, but character development.