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I preached this morning on Moses, with the opening point being “Passion Without Knowledge”. Moses saw a problem - ‘his’ people being persecuted, and even beaten - so he took matters into his own hands and killed the Egyptian who was beating the Hebrew slave. Not only did that result in him having to flee as a fugitive, it obviously didn’t do anything about the problem. The main reason he didn’t do anything constructive was because though he had passion - he ‘felt their pain’ - he didn’t have proper knowledge. He was trying to fix a symptom - the Hebrew slaves persecution - while ignoring the real problem: they were slaves! They didn’t need better working conditions. They needed FREEDOM!

Since this book is about an ‘up-and-coming’ politician, it seems fitting to challenge how often politicians today ‘pull a Moses’. They obviously don’t kill anyone to try to alleviate problems, but they do propose and promise a lot of ‘fixes’ that merely deal with symptoms! Of course, there’s a reason for that: most symptoms have as their root cause a sinful nature, and no politician, or law for that matter, can change that! We don’t need a better slavery - we need freedom as well, which can ONLY be found in Jesus Christ.

He may not get many votes during this or any other political season - but I hope He has yours.

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