“Let My People Go”

Abstract

ABSTRACT The sermon was preached at Cottonwood Presbyterian Church in Holladay, Utah on Sunday, September 1, 2002, the normal Sunday morning 11:00 am worship service in a medium sized Protestant congregation. Texts used were the lectionary readings for the day: Exodus 3: 1–15, and Matthew 16: 21–28. The Exodus text speaks of the oppression of the Jewish exiles in Egypt. In verse 7 God said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters.” As Sept. 1 was marked as “Societal and Domestic Violence” Sunday in the PCUSA calendar, and the Month of October 2002 highlighted Domestic Violence I was guided to the topic of Domestic violence in all its many shapes and forms for my sermon. The Gospel reading spoke of Societal Violence, as Jesus spoke to His disciples about the suffering he was to undergo in Jerusalem. It seemed to me that God had pointed me in the direction of preaching about Domestic Violence. My wife, Una, has been involved for some ...