The Kingdom of God is Near to Us

As we pray the Orthodox Prayer to the Holy Spirit, this truth is communicated to us, "O Heavenly King, O Comforter, the Spirit of Truth Who art in all places and fillest all things."  As Christians, do we live in the truth that God is in all places and fills all things; that He permeates everything in in every aspect of our lives?  Or, do we live a life that somehow compartmentalizes God; a life that believes in the experience of God when we are doing the "Christian things" such as prayer, worship, or ministry; but not so much at other times in the most mundane moments of our lives?  The Incarnation brought the Kingdom of Heaven to earth for the experience of mankind unto the salvation of our souls.  God is never distant and there is never a moment of our lives when we cannot fellowship and experience God and all of the benefits of His Kingdom now manifest in the earth.  The purpose of this series is to assist us in living the true Christian life where the Kingdom of God is near to us.

The Exodus & Our Life in Christ

The story of the Exodus is the story of every Christian and the story of the Church.  In Exodus, we see a people in bondage and slavery to an oppressive Pharaoh be delivered by God's chosen deliverer.  We see the oppressor thrown down by the mighty deliverance of God as God calls His people to Himself.  We have before us the journey of the Hebrews with God as their guide through a trying wilderness on their way to the Promised Land.  And in this wilderness, we see clearly the Christian struggle in the wilderness of this life.  Our approach to this study of Exodus will be from the perspective of the Early Church having only the Old Testament as their Scripture.  In this series, we will glean from the Early Church Father's interpretations of Exodus and how they used it to teach about our new life in Christ and our journey with Him and in Him to Paradise.