Every summer five weeks out from out VBS week, we start a sermon series that covers the nightly themes of our VBS, so that the adults that attend C3 can experience the same Bible teachings that our children are learning throughout the week. This past Sunday we started with Moses and The Burning Bush. This summer we are hoping that our children will learn that throughout the Bible that people were often meet by God and experienced His presence by fire!
Moses was one of those people and his experience is one that is a centerpiece of both the Christian and Jewish world. Moses was an adopted Israelite son of the Pharaoh of Egypt! What a lineage! But Moses, choosing to be identified with his Jewish brothers, kills an Egyptian and then accused by his Jewish brothers of possibly killing one of them.
Moses chooses to run for his life and 40 years later God comes to him in the form of the Burning Bush. Moses experiences God in the fire of a bush. He experiences the Holiness of God.
God is not holy because of what he does - God is holy because that is exactly what he is: HOLY! Holy means to be pure, it is the loving nature of God, separate from evil. When we surrender our lives to Jesus he takes over our bodies, we are living sacrifices, Romans 12:1,2; we are the temples of God, 1 Cor. 6:19. If we are the living/dwelling places of God, His command to us in 1 Peter 1:15 & 16, to be holy is to be like God, to have his very presence flowing through our veins. To be holy means to be separate from evil. We need to separate ourselves from evil, by not associating with evil, being found in a situation where one could get the idea of being evil.
Moses covered his face because he was looking at God and he realized that he was in serious trouble. But we, the temples and very home of God are to shine the light of a holy God! Live as the burning bush - burning with a passion that will draw all men to Jesus!
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