Ripe for Harvest

S ESSION 4: N URTURE AND T RANSITION • 341

God Is a Warrior Rev. Dr. Don L. Davis • See www.tumi.org/churchplanting

I. The Lord, as a Man of War, Fights to Liberate His People from Bondage – The Picture and Drama of the Exodus from Egypt.

A. Exod. 15.3–4 (“The LORD is a Man of war”), Exod. 15.1-7 (ESV) – Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. The Lord is a man of war; the Lord is his name. Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea. The floods covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone. Your right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, your right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy. In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries; you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.” B. Like a mighty hero girded with a sword, Ps. 45.4 (ESV) – In your majesty ride out victoriously for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness; let your right hand teach you awesome deeds! C. Like a mighty horseman, Ps. 18.6-14 (ESV) – In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears. Then the earth reeled and rocked; the foundations also of the mountains trembled and quaked, because he was angry. Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from his mouth; glowing coals flamed forth from him. He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under his feet. He rode on a cherub and flew; he came swiftly on the wings of the wind. He made darkness his covering, his canopy around him, thick clouds dark with water. Out of the brightness before him hail stones and coals of fire broke through his clouds. The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the Most High uttered his voice, hailstones and coals of fire. And he sent out his arrows and scattered them; he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.

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