Preaching Goes Viral

The New Normal

Analogies to Mythic Narratives

So it's just, so what I'm saying is right now for us, our normal is to be completely overloaded all the time and just have access to everything that's going on in the world. And then we wonder why we are so fearful and worried and anxious all the time. Even though we're being constantly bombarded by this message. And it's because we were intended by God to carry only so much in our mind and in our hearts. Well, in that way, we're kind of like the people leave Egypt back here, you know, because they had this new normal, they, they were used to not having enough kind of like we are, many of us today are used to, to not really get enough. A lot of it Are you used to not getting enough sleep. Right? A lot of that's Our normal for a Lot of us, we're used to spending too much money all the time that that's our normal. We're just so what we're seeing in Exodus chapter 14, isn't just, God's people coming out of Egypt or territory. What they're coming out of is what they've known as normal. And so, while it sounds sexy, you know, whew break, open the doors, I'm coming out. What, you know, I I'm, I'm, I'm rising up from this, this old lifestyle I'm getting out of the grave. And so what, what have we gotten so used to the death? That real life seems weird. Get back to normal. I'm not so sure about that. And this is how it starts. And this is how the Israelites expressed it.

2022-12-16

Pastor John Melvin

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