Pastor Ron continues the Wednesday night Bible class in Exodus. Jethro advises Moses to share the load by appointing leaders who fear God, are trustworthy, and hate bribes. Pastor Ron ties this to Deuteronomy 1, where the people choose their own leaders, and to how a nation is only as strong as the men who lead their homes. He follows Jethro’s family through Numbers, Judges, and the story of Jael to show that God works through people outside our circle.

At Mount Sinai, God calls Israel his treasured possession and a kingdom of priests. Pastor Ron connects this to Deuteronomy 32, the “apple of his eye” imagery, and the church being grafted in. He sees the third day, the thunder and lightning, and the mountain's holiness as pictures of the resurrection and Pentecost. He closes with the first two commandments, explaining that they existed before the law and are reinforced in the New Testament, and warns against letting anything take God’s place, including money, kids, and AI.

Pastor Ron continues the Exodus study in Exodus 16–18. He starts with Israel’s grumbling over the Sabbath and the manna. He then connects the manna to Jesus as the true Bread of Life in John 6, which is God giving Himself and not just provision. Israel quarrels again over water at Massah and Meribah, and the wilderness journey becomes a picture of our own lives. The battle with Amalek, with Moses’ hands held up, leads into a walk through Scripture on who Amalek was and why God judged them. The night ends with Jethro’s visit in Exodus 18 and a video on a theory about Jethro, the Kenites, and the faith preserved outside Egypt.

Picking up after the Red Sea crossing, Pastor Ron walks verse by verse through Israel’s response to God. They sing in worship, then complain three days later when the water is bitter, and again six weeks in when they run out of food. He argues that after 430 years in Egypt, Israel is being reintroduced to God, so we should read their struggles with sympathy. Worship is a declaration of who God is, not a performance, and he encourages everyone, men especially, to sing out and to “write your own song” about what God has done in their lives. God leads His people to places of testing (Marah) and places of refreshing (Elim), and maturity means responding well in both. Complaining against a spouse, boss, or pastor is really grumbling against the Lord. The manna teaches daily reliance on God (“give us this day our daily bread”), trust over fear and hoarding, and the first mention of the Sabbath. God’s love is open to anyone, but it calls for obedience that flows from the heart, not works-based salvation. The message closes with Ecclesiastes: to fear God and keep His commandments is the whole duty of man.

Israel leaves Egypt, and the Passover statutes, the consecration of the firstborn, and the pillar of cloud and fire set the pattern for a people who must remember what God has done. Pastor Ron walks through the exodus from Exodus 12:40 through the crossing of the Red Sea. He shows how Israel is trapped between Pharaoh’s army and the sea, and how they complain and say they would rather be slaves than free. God answers by telling them to be still, trust that He will fight for them, and take a step of faith toward the water. The message closes with a challenge: when you’re backed against the wall, the choice isn’t fight or flight. It’s faith.

Opinions on Israel run high and the cultural noise is loud, so this message steps back and asks what Scripture says. It works through five questions: Who is Israel? What happened to Israel? Is God done with Israel? What's going to happen to Israel? What's happening in Israel right now? It then closes with how we should respond. The message traces God's covenants with Israel (Abrahamic, Mosaic, Davidic, and New), explains how Israel's disobedience led to exile, and shows from the Old Testament and Paul's letters that God's promises to Israel are still standing. It ends with a Christian response to Israel: bless rather than curse, see Israel as set apart by God, and pray for Israel's salvation.

The message picks up in Exodus 10 and moves through the last plagues: locusts, three days of darkness, and the death of the firstborn. Along the way it shows how Pharaoh’s heart hardens each time he is confronted and refuses to repent. God then establishes the Passover and the first month of the Jewish calendar. The lamb without blemish, the blood on the doorposts, eating the whole lamb, and being dressed and ready to go all become pictures of salvation in Christ. The pastor ties these to obedience and faith, the danger of picking and choosing which parts of Christ to accept, and the urgency of going out to share the gospel. The message ends with Israel’s departure from Egypt, with the Egyptians urging them out and giving them silver, gold, and clothing.

Continuing the Exodus series, Pastor Ron walks through plagues two through seven: frogs, gnats, flies, the death of livestock, boils, and hail. He ties each plague to the Egyptian god it dismantles: Heqet, Geb, Uatchit, Hathor and Apis, Isis and Imhotep, and Seth. The point of the plagues isn't only to defeat false gods. It is to announce to the whole world that there is one God, Yahweh.

The message wrestles with the tension between God's sovereignty and human responsibility. Pharaoh hardens his own heart first, and only later does God harden it. Pastor Ron turns to Romans 9 to show that God is free to display his power however he chooses, and that we have no standing to put him on trial. He applies this to our lives: the tendency to negotiate with God's word, to repent only to escape consequences, and to come to worship while unreconciled with others. He also contrasts confessing God with truly fearing him. The message closes with the question Pharaoh's own servants ask, "How long?", and a call to surrender before our choices ruin the people around us. Pastor Ron also previews Sunday's message, "Why Does a Loving God Kill Women and Children?"

In Exodus 5–7, Moses' first meeting with Pharaoh has just made things worse for Israel: double the work, no straw, and a people ready to blame him. Moses turns and questions God himself. God answers with a reminder of who he is: "I am the Lord," the God who remembers his covenant, redeems his people, and takes them as his own. The message looks at what happens when we let our circumstances drive our emotions, and why a daily reminder of who God is matters.

The message then walks through the genealogy of Levi in chapter 6 and why it is placed in the middle of the story: it establishes the authority of Moses and Aaron. It ends with the first plague, when the Nile turns to blood. That plague is a direct challenge to Hapi, the Egyptian god of the Nile, and it leads to a closing question: what are you trusting in that you should be trusting God for?