Oculi Sermon - 3/3/2013
Given a couple conversations I had this week, this past Sunday's sermon for Oculi seems appropriate to post here. Set Apart Exodus 8:16-24 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Whenever we read anything from Exodus, I cannot help but think of Charlton Heston as Moses. I have a picture of him in my mind going before Pharaoh and telling him that God is going to send a plague of flies as the fourth plague. I see him before Pharaoh with his red, black, and white striped robe explain that with this particular plague, Egypt will be afflicted, but the Israelites will be spared. God’s people will be set apart, and no swarm of flies will afflict them. And so it was, throughout the land of Egypt the land was ruined by the flies. But where the Israelites were, where God’s people were, there were no flies. While I text doesn’t go any further, it does not end there. The 5 th plagues i...