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The Exodus was an upheaval of power. A triumph of good over evil. God’s ways over man’s ways. It’s a prophetic narrative that formed forms a prophetic community. A community that calls everything into question and points to a radically free & creative God. One God. Now zoom forward several hundred years to the time of the early Church. The post-Jesus-death-and-resurrection Church. The Church that the apostle Paul is trying to frame and build up. Let that frame Romans 12:21 “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”

The Exodus was an upheaval of power.

A triumph of good over evil.

God’s ways over man’s ways.

It’s a prophetic narrative that formed forms a prophetic community.

A community that calls everything into question and points to a radically free & creative God. One God.

Now zoom forward several hundred years to the time of the early Church. The post-Jesus-death-and-resurrection Church.

The Church that the apostle Paul is trying to frame and build up.

Let that frame Romans 12:21 “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”