Sermons

While Moses kept drawing back before Pharaoh, protesting that he could not do it, Aaron went quietly with him as his spokesman, down a road that might have cost them both their lives. Yet when the people threatened him and demanded a golden calf, he could not overcome his fear and gave way to that sin.

Though he lived as second to Moses, he did not envy him but kept to his place, and God saw that heart. Even the sin of wavering in weak faith when circumstances grew too hard, God forgave. Aaron had sinned, yet the faith running beneath it all held firm, and so God clothed him in the garments of the high priest.

People may never know the service given out of sight, but God knows it. Christians must keep their eyes on God rather than on people. Those who quietly give themselves without any conditions, God repays with blessing.

The Red Sea lies before the Israelites, and the Egyptian army is behind them. The people grumble against Moses and cry out that they would rather go back to Egypt.

Moses gives no command to fight, nor does he tell them to flee. Instead he urges them not to be afraid, but to stand still and see the salvation God will bring about. To stand still here means to do nothing and to acknowledge the power of God.

The grace received until now was not won by anything we did either; God gave it freely, of his own accord. When we close the mouths that once complained, stand still and acknowledge the power of God, it is through that faith that we come to see miracles.