TRUE Word, Faith for LIFE! with Dr. Shawn

Why Do I Feel So Far From God?

Nine of the Ten Commandments leave evidence. One of them doesn't.

That one is last for a reason, and it's why Israel backed away from
the mountain instead of running toward it. They had just heard a law
that reached somewhere their hands couldn't follow, and they understood
what that meant about them.

So they asked for someone to stand in between.

Most of us read these ten as a scorecard. Keep enough of them, stay on
the right side of the line, hope the math works out. The text refuses
that reading before it even starts. Before God says a single "you shall,"
He says what He has already done. Rescue first. It's always rescue first.

We're in Exodus 20 today, in the Hebrew, in the covenant world these
words were actually spoken into. And we're following the question Israel
asked at that mountain all the way to the answer God sent.

If you've been trying to close the distance on your own, start here.

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God doesn't open this chapter with a demand. He opens it with a memory.
I bore you on eagles' wings, and brought you to Myself. The Hebrew word is nesher, the bird that carries its young on its back rather than in its talons, on the very surface that takes the blow first. And the destination was never the mountain. It was Him.
Then He says segullah over a nation that three months earlier was making bricks without straw. In the ancient Near East that was the private treasure of a king, his own hoard, not the treasury of the state.
And only after all of that grace does He say, if you will obey My voice.
In this episode, Dr. Shawn Greener works through nesher and segullah and goy qadosh, why the order of grace and obedience is the whole argument of the chapter, why the boundaries around the mountain were never the goal, and why the God who carries you on His back and the God who makes the mountain tremble are one God and not two.
He did not carry you out of Egypt to leave you at the bottom of a mountain.
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The Week Your Own Strength Ran Out
Song, water, bread, strength, capacity. Five days, five places a freed people hit the end of themselves in the wilderness. And every single time, God was already standing there holding exactly what they'd run out of.
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Are You Trying to Carry This Alone?
Moses is sitting as judge over an entire nation, alone, from morning until evening. It takes an outsider, someone who'd never carried what he was carrying, to say the thing nobody else would.
00:00 Are you carrying this alone
00:52 Welcome
01:57 An outsider tells Moses the truth
06:36 Why the correction mattered
09:17 The line that never seems to end
11:44 The burden that was never yours alone
14:20 What to do this week
15:00 The choice in front of you
15:58 Prayer
16:55 A prayer to meet God today
18:02 New here? Start at Day 1
18:21 Closing
18:52 Share this
19:15 Blessing
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Who's Holding Up Your Arms?

Two crises in one chapter: a thirsty nation ready to stone Moses, and an enemy army that can only be beaten by arms too tired to stay raised on their own.

00:00 Your arms are shaking
00:58 Welcome
01:55 A rock, a battle, and tired hands
05:54 What God's positioning reveals
09:06 Who's actually holding you up
12:22 The Rock and the endless intercession
15:16 What to do this week
15:59 The choice in front of you
16:52 Prayer
17:55 A prayer to meet God today
19:03 New here? Start at Day 1
19:22 Closing
19:55 Share this
20:15 Blessing

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