Trust the Lord, Don't Test the Lord - Pastor Tom Loghry

Trust the Lord, Don't Test the Lord - Pastor Tom Loghry
Rockland Community Church

in Exodus 17, the people once again demonstrate their forgetfulness and their lack of faith in the Lord. They test him by calling into question whether he is actually with them.

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   No one really likes a backseat driver, right? At least when you're the driver. Sometimes some of us like to be backseat drivers. There's a basic assumption that if you get in someone's car, that you trust them to drive the car safely. And when you start giving commentary from the backseat, it suggests that you're beginning to rescind that trust, that you don't think that they are competent to drive and that you might do better behind the wheel. The person who trusts their driver might ask them some questions instead, or maybe make some requests.

"Do you know if there's a bathroom coming up soon? I could really use a stop." Or, "Hey, do you know any good places to grab a bite along the way? I'm getting a bit hungry." Or even, if you don't ask too many times, "How much longer until we get there?" All of those kinds of questions demonstrate that you actually trust your driver.

Now, as we follow the Israelites in their journey to the promised land, it is the Lord who is their driver. He's quite literally leading them by the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire. He's the one who is bringing them there. But as we saw last week, and as we'll continue to see here and in other episodes moving forward, the people simply don't trust the Lord. They question whether he's behind the wheel at all.

Picking up in Exodus 17, we first look at verses one through three to learn their complaint. Says, "The whole Israelite community set out from the Desert of Sin," or it could be pronounced Sin. It has nothing to do with the moral, immorality. That's just the name of it, Desert of Sin. "Traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink. So they quarreled with Moses and said, 'Give us water to drink.'

Moses replied, 'Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you put the Lord to the test?' But the people were thirsty for water there, and they grumbled against Moses. They said, 'Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?'" Now again, as I've said, it is the Lord who is leading them.

As we see in verse one, they're traveling from place to place as the Lord commanded. And so the Lord brings them to this place called Rephidim, uh, to set up camp. But to the eyes of the people, this doesn't seem like a great place to stop. There's no water there, and they're in the middle of a desert, remember.

And so they begin to quarrel with, with Moses, saying, "What," basically, "What's going on here? Why are we stopping here?" They're questioning whether Moses knows what he's doing, and implicitly they're questioning whether the Lord really knows what he's doing. Is he really with them? And we see this doubt really take a very sharp sort of edge in verse three, where they say, "Why did you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst?"

Just let that sink in, the accusation that they're making there. They were enslaved in Egypt. They were crying out for deliverance, and the Lord heard their cries and delivered them by a mighty hand through all sorts of signs and plagues, and He brought them through the Red Sea so that they might be free, so that they might inherit the land that had been promised to their fathers.

And now look at the accusation that they're making here. What's God doing here? Is He just bringing us out into the desert to die? A complete reversal. They've been crying out to the Lord, and God had been blessing them and leading them towards blessing. Now they're saying, "God's just taking us out here to kill us."

There's times in our lives where we might have a lack of confidence, we might have some doubts, and that stirs us to seek the face of God, asking him to lead us and guide us. Those sorts of instances where we might pray as the man did in responding to Jesus, saying, "I believe, but help my unbelief." Those occasions are, are different than what we see here, where they're accusing both Moses and implicitly the Lord of actually not looking out for their own good.

Now, we know later on, as we learn in Romans 8:18 and 28 from the Apostle Paul, that God is working all things together for our good. Even the tough stuff, even the hard and painful stuff. Paul, Paul says there, he says, "I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that we will be revealed in us... And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." You see, what the people have, have done here really is they've lost sight of who God is, and they've lost sight of the promised land, of where they're, where they are being taken.

And the same sort of thing can be, can happen to us as we go through hardships in this life, is we can begin questioning, what's this all about? And I think it, it's because we sometimes forget that this is not the destination. Your current span of life, which is like a mist, it's here one day, it's gone, gone the next.

This is not our destination. We are not in the promised land here. We are in the desert. We are in the wilderness. And what we are looking forward to is the new heavens and the new earth, the new creation that God is going to introduce when Christ returns on the final day. And so everything is working towards that end.

So, and that's how Paul can say that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Paul says, "I'm willing to suffer all this because it's working towards that end." And until you feel the full weight of that reality, the full weight of that glory, you will always struggle to accept the suffering and hardships you endure in this life, because it seems to have no purpose, because you don't see the greatest, greater purpose, the greater end that all things are working towards, the good that God intends for us.

Now, to put yourself in the shoes of, of Moses, if you had led these people through everything they've been through and seen how God had intervened every time for their deliverance, your response in this situation would probably not be so different from Moses's response. We pick up in verses 4 through 7.

It says, "Then Moses cried out to the Lord, 'What am I to do with these people? They are almost ready to stone me.' The Lord answered Moses, 'Go out in front of the people, take with you some of the elders of Israel, and take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go. I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. Strike the rock, and water will come out of it for the people to drink.' So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel. And he called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord, saying, 'Is the Lord among us or not?'"

So the people are quarreling, getting feisty with Moses, saying, "All right, did you just lead us into the desert to die?" And so M- Moses turns to the Lord. Says, "What am I to do with this, these people? They're ready to stone me." He's at a loss, but he's going to the right source. He's not trying to figure it out on himself. He's turning to the Lord.

But this whole experience of being rejected even when you're doing the right thing, this is an experience that's familiar to the Christian life. It's the experience of Christ himself. He came, and while he had some disciples, he was ignored by many. He was rejected. He was despised. He had disciples and, who then turned their back on him. And then on the day of his crucifixion, everyone basically fled.

Christ was familiar with rejection and, and people not following him in the way that they should. And we know that that sort of experience can be our experience as well as we try to lead others in the truth. And the thing is being a, leading people isn't just a pastor thing. You can try to lead others as a friend, as parents, as employers, as managers, leading them to do the right thing, but especially in the case of, within the context of the church, where you're trying to lead one another closer and closer to God in the way of Christ.

But Jesus reminds us that sometimes we'll come up against rejection. In Luke 10:16, he tells his disciples, "Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. But whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me." Now, what Jesus is telling us here is, is that we should remember that when we are rejected, sometimes we, we bear that burden solely on ourselves, like, "Oh, people are rejecting me," and we hate, human beings hate to be rejected by others. But we have to remember that it's really not all about us. Like, you gotta get, get out of that, it's not all about you. When you are faithfully communicating the truth to others and they reject it, it's not so much that they're rejecting you, they're rejecting Christ.

And that's what really matters more than anything, than them, than rejecting us. It's rejecting God, rejecting Christ. Jesus, in Matthew 10, verses 24 through 25 says, "The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for students to be like their teachers and servants like their masters. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebub, how much more the members of his household?" This is him saying, "People have called me the devil. How much more should you be called the devil? How, how much more should we expect that if you're my students and I'm your teacher that people are gonna call you evil for walking in my ways?"

And then lastly in First Thessalonians four, verses seven through eight, the Apostle Paul tells us, "For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you His Holy Spirit." And so that kinda circles back around to 10:16, is that there's a basic conflict that's ongoing in this world.

And while we have interpersonal conflicts with others, and that sometimes might come into the head, come to a head and might be an issue, there's a fundamental conflict between God and mankind. And when you begin to speak the truth about God, you should not be surprised when people reject that truth, 'cause there's an ongoing rebellion. Now it's bringing us back here to Rephidim.

Moses has come to the Lord. He says, "What am I to do?" And the Lord's answer is this He says, "I'm, go out in front of the people and basically make a, a demonstration." He's going, God's gonna show them that He's present among them. He says, "Go out in front of the people, take some of the elders of the Israel, of Israel with you. They're gonna be right there with you, very up close eyewitnesses." And then he said, "Take that staff that I'd given you, that staff that you had used to strike the Nile and the Nile turned to blood." Now you're gonna take this staff and you're gonna strike it at this rock at Horeb. Now, Horeb is, is Mount, Mount Sinai.

So they're very close. Like, next week I'll show you a map. They're very close to Mount Sinai here. So they're just kinda camping out on the periphery. So he says, "Go strike this, this rock, and when you do so, I'm gonna be there." The Lord is present there by Moses, and water is going to come out from this rock, water that they can drink.

And so it says that Moses did that in the sight of the elders of, of Israel. Paul says in, in referencing this passage in 1 Corinthians 10, that this rock is an image of Christ. 1 Corinthians 10, verses one through six, he says, "For I do not want you to be ignorant of the fact, brothers and sisters, that our ancestors were all under the cloud, and that they all passed through the sea. They were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea. They all ate the same spiritual food and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ. Nevertheless, God was not pleased with most of them. Their bodies were scattered in the wilderness. Now these things occurred as examples to us, to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things as they did." So Paul isn't saying here that the, that the rock is literally Christ, but that it's represent, it's a spiritual rock really. That this rock, this rock is representing Christ and Christ's provision for the people.

It's, it's acting again as a foreshadowing, as a sign, as a signpost looking towards Christ, just as we talked last week about manna, how manna points to Christ as the true bread of life. Now, the warning that Paul is making here is look at all the, look at all the things that God gave the people, all these signs, this deliverance, this water from this, this rock which is really in its essence Christ, Christ's provision for them. They had all that, and yet they sinned.

Their hearts were evil. They were rebellious. He's saying this is an example for us, that we should not do the same even as we have received even a more blessing from God in Christ living on this side, the other side of the cross. We are invited to drink of Christ. And as we drink of Christ, that should bring forth real true life in us, not just in life, in perpetuity, but actual transformation of our lives. In John 4:10, again, I think I referenced this last week also, Jesus with the woman at the well, Samaritan woman at the well. He says, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."

Because Jesus is at this well with this woman and he asked for a drink. And so he's saying here, if you really knew who I was living water. And then in Revelation 22: 17, we hear this cry, the spirit and the bride say, come and let the one who hears say, come, let the one who's thirsty come and let the one who wishes take the free gift of the water of life.

Now we, in our society, we take water for granted, faucet and water comes right out, but you need water to live. And the people in this desert, they're desperate for this water. And what God is showing them by this rock is that I'm the one who gives you life. Too often we are tempted to seek other sources for our life in this world.

We forget that if we don't have God, we don't have anything. And the life that we seek can only be found in Jesus Christ. Now, this episode on a whole, while it certainly reveals God's goodness and glory, it reflects negatively on the people.

In verse seven it says that Moses called the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the Lord saying, "Is the Lord among us or not?" That's their basic doubt. They're, they are doubting, is the Lord really with us or not? They were testing the Lord. Now, we've heard about God testing people, and we can ask, "Well, why does he, he do that? Is it 'cause God lacks knowledge of what, what we will do?" That's not the case. In Proverbs 15:11 we see that it says, "Death and destruction lie open before the Lord – how much more do human hearts!" And so as we're reading the scriptures and we see God testing people, we have to keep in the balance the other testimony that we have from across the scriptures that remind us that God knows all things.

And so if he's testing people, what is he about? What, what is he doing here in, in, in doing, offering this testing? Well, later on in Exodus 20 verse 20 we hear that one of the things that God is, is doing in, in, in testing his people in various ways is, um, he said, "Do not be afraid. God has come to test you, so that the fear of God will be with you to keep you from sinning."

So God's testing them to keep them from sinning. And in this case, when they're at the foot of Mount Sinai, they, they see God and all this, his, this cloud descending on Mount Sinai, and they're overwhelmed and the thundering, and they're saying, this is too much for us. And Moses says, "He's doing this to keep you from sinning."

In Deuteronomy 8 verse 3 and verse 16 we read, it says, "Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands." That's verse three. So it would seem like, oh, maybe he's doing this 'cause he doesn't know what they're gonna do.

But again, we keep in balance the rest of scripture. And then you get to verse 16, "He gave you manna to eat in the wilderness, something your ancestors had never known, to humble and test you so that in the end it might go well with you." So that in the end it might go well with you.

We can imagine the people didn't have that mindset as they were questioning the Lord here, that he was allowing all these things to happen in order that in the end it might go well with them. We have to ask ourselves the same thing. Do we have that mindset when we're going through hardship? Is God allowing these things to transpire in my life in order that in the end it might go well with you and me?

The writer of Hebrews suggests that's exactly what God is doing in our lives. In Hebrews 12 verse 7 and 10 through 11, it says, "Endure hardship as discipline. God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their fathers? They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good in order that we may share in his holiness. No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it." Now, when we hear the word discipline, we usually have a very negative connotation, is that we are being beaten. But that's not what the writer of Hebrews is suggesting here.

He's saying the hardship that we are going through, God is using that to build us up so that we might become the people that he is calling us to be, that we might share in his holiness, so that we might, so that a harvest of righteousness and peace might be produced for those who have been trained by it.

So, so we can almost view it as a sort of training. Now, that doesn't mean it's enjoyable. It's like, I've seen God working in that kind of way in my life all the time, and I'm like, "God, there's not an easier way? Like, just tell me what I need to do, and I'll need to get straight in my mind and, you know, I'll just do that."

But God knows us better than we know ourselves. God knows us better than we know ourselves. And again, it's also not just all about you, too. We can't be egoistic here and just think everything that's going on in the world is about us. But God work is, is so great that he's able to work in all things for the good of those that love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

So that's what God's testing is about. But human testing has no good in mind. Human testing in the end really assumes the spirit of the serpent, which says, "Will God really do such and such?" You know, fill in the blank for whatever you might have in mind. We see this in Genesis 3:1-5 when the serpent is tempting Eve.

He says, "Did God really say you must not eat from any tree in the garden?" And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat from the trees in the garden, but God did say you must not eat from the fruit that, from, eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not touch it or you will die." "You will not certainly die," the serpent said to the woman, "for God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." We, we assume that sort of, we, we buy into that lie when we begin to question what God is really up to and we begin to say, "Well, I'm gonna test this out and see if God's claims are, if what God is saying is actually true or not."

In, in Psalm 78, the psalmist Asaph, recalling this whole episode from the Exodus says, "They forgot what he had done, the wonders he had shown them. They willfully put God to the test by demanding the fruit, food that they craved. They spoke against God. They said, 'Can God really spread a table in the wilderness? True, he struck the rock and water gushed out, streams flowed abundantly, but can he also give us bread? Can he supply meat for his people?' When the Lord heard them, he was furious. His fire broke out against Jacob and his wrath rose against Israel, for they did not believe in God or trust in his deliverance. Again and again they put God to the test. They vexed the Holy One of Israel. They did not remember his power the day he redeemed them from the oppressor."

What we see going on here with the people, what we see back in Eden is a very corrosive, kind of deconstructive way of, of testing, testing God, putting God on, on trial rather than walking towards God in faith. Because on the other hand, we do see cases in scripture where God seems to invite people to test him.

But it's because of the direction. They're not deconstructing. Their faith is being built up in God. So we think about, like, the example of Gideon. Those of you who have been in church for a while, you might be familiar with the story of God calling Gideon to overthrow the Midianites who have been oppressing the land, and Gideon sets out a test of setting out a fleece so that he puts it on the ground so that one day it's wet, but the ground around is dry, and then the, the second time that the ground would be covered with dew, but the fleece would be dry. Kind of a strange episode, but it seems like Gideon's kind of in a position of weakness, but God is allowing him to do, do this in order that his faith might be built up.

That's different than the attitude of approaching God and making requests as though to put him to the test. That, "God, if you don't do this in my life, then I'm just not gonna believe you, in you anymore if you don't make things my way."

How many of you have heard of Kanye West? Yeah. Most of you have heard, heard of Kanye West. Several years ago, he, very, kind of, in a very prominent sort of way, he said he, he became a Christian, and he put out a whole album called Jesus is King. Was going on tours, leading people in Christian music. Nowadays, he's not following Christ, and it's because, in part, one of the things that has been mentioned is he pray, he was praying that God would reconcile him to his wife, Kim Kardashian, and that didn't happen. And so he said, "Okay, I give up on God then," because that didn't happen. That's approaching God with an attitude of, of testing him. That's not right. But there's times where God invites us, if, if God invites us to step out in faith, we're not testing him.

We're building up our faith in him as we step out. So we think about Isaiah 7 verse 7 and verses 10 through 3, 10 through 13 rather. We have King Ahaz. He's got enemies on all sides that are approaching Jerusalem. Things are not looking good. But the prophet Isaiah comes to him and, and says, "Yet this is what the Lord Sovereign, the Sovereign Lord says, 'It will not take place. It will not happen.'" And in verses 10 through 13, it says, "Again, the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 'Ask the Lord, your God, for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.' But Ahaz said, 'I will not ask. I will not put the Lord to the test.' Then Isaiah said, 'Hear now, you house of David. Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also?'" So God was inviting Ahaz to ask for a sign. He said, "No, no, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't put God to the test."

But what he is actually revealing there was his, his lack of faith. It was a false sort of humility. And there was consequences for that. Assyria eventually came and swept through and overtook the land.

We have a positive example of what it looks like to ask in faith in Jeremiah verses 14, verses 7 through 9. The prophet Jeremiah prays, "Although our sins testify against us, do something, Lord, for the sake of your name. For we have often rebelled, we have sinned against you. You who are the hope of Israel, its savior in times of distress, why are you like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays only an, a night? Why are you like a man taken by surprise, like a warrior powerless to save? You are among us, O Lord, and we bear your name. Do not forsake us." Notice that last line there. Jeremiah is in this experience where the, the people of Judah are under God's judgment, and actually, God's gonna respond here and says, "No, I'm gonna judge the, I'm judging the people here."

But notice the faith of Jeremiah. Unlike the people of Israel who question, "Is the Lord among us," Jeremiah says, "You are among us, Lord." And it's on that basis of, of faith, that confidence that he has in the Lord, that he's making that appeal. And so we can go through times in our lives where we're saying, "God, what's going on here?"

But we can appeal to him in faith by saying, "God, I don't understand what you're doing, but I know that you're among us, and that's why I'm calling upon you." And I think as we keep that in mind that the Lord is among us.

We do that in order that we might have both the faith that we ought to have in God, and that's what we see lacking in the people here. They just, they're lacking faith by testing God in the way that they are. But when we begin to test God, when we begin to doubt him in that corrosive, deconstructive sort of way, it really demonstrates that we lack a proper fear of, of God.

Our society is, has tended to kind of declaw God, has tended to turn God from kind of like a lion to a golden retriever. We have to remember that God both saves and He also judges. In Deuteronomy 6, verses 14 through 17, the people are later told, "Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you. For the Lord your God who is among you is a jealous God and his anger will burn against you and he will destroy you from the face of the land. Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did at Massah. Be sure to keep the commands of the Lord your God and the stipulations and decrees he has given you."

So the presence of the Lord brings promise as we trust in him, as we seek him, that we know that he's not going to forsake us, that he's not going to abandon us. But the presence of the Lord should also make us tremble should we decide that we're going to forsake him and turn against his ways.

Of course, the best example that we have of someone who is faithful and did not put God to the test is, is Christ himself. And we see this in his 40 days of fasting in the wilderness. And you might be familiar, when the devil took him to the holy city and put him on the top of the temple. Said, "If you are the Son of God," he said, "throw yourself down. For it is written, 'He'll command his angels concerning you, and they'll lift up, lift you up in their hands so that you'll not strike your foot against a stone.'" Devil's referencing Psalm 91 there. Jesus replies, he says, "It is also written, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" See, if Jesus had leapt off, that would have demonstrated that he didn't really actually have faith in his Father.

It was, it'd be as though the Father had to prove something to him. But Jesus knew that the Father had nothing to prove. He was in perfect unity with the Father and with the Spirit. Christ is inviting us to have the same sort of faith, a faith that led him to be willing to go to the cross and die. You talk about hardship, going to a cross and dying, trusting that resurrection is on the other side.

Christ is inviting us to take up that same posture of faith. Jesus invites us to give up our backseat driving, to trust that the Lord knows the way, that Christ is guiding our path, that there is a plan and purpose working together for God's glory and our good. And so the first lesson that we have here in this passage is for ourselves.

We who are Christians, we who are the people of God, His children by faith in Christ, we are invited to trust God, and trusting in, in Christ not only for our salvation, but also for all the other details that make up our lives, trusting that there is a way forward through the hardships that we suffer, that God's way is truly the best way, and that the ways of this world or any other way that we might conceive in our own minds cannot compare.

Until we do this ourselves, until we can trust God in that sort of way, we can hardly invite others to really trust in Christ. At least we can't do so without being hypocrites. So yes, the first lesson here is for us, but it also stands as an invitation to all people to come and trust Christ so that they may know Him as their God and know that the Lord is indeed among us. This is an invitation that's not only about our future salvation. It's not only about what lies far ahead. This invitation is about our future salvation and our present peace. Without Christ, without trusting that the Lord is among us and guiding us, we are relegated to a never-ending state of anxiety and grumbling. Because even if we should choose not to trust the Lord, guess what? The hardships don't go away. They're still there. Only worse because now we're just on our own. The question is, is how will we carry on in the midst of hardship? Do we have good reason for confidence, peace, and hope? This passage reminds us that we have good reason to trust the Lord, and that He can give us that confidence, peace, and hope.

This passage also reminds us that as Christians following in the footsteps of Moses and of Christ, that people will sometimes despise us when we point them to the truth, when we call them to trust the Lord, and we should not be surprised by this. Like Moses, and as Jesus told His disciples, we need to remember that it isn't really about us. It's about the fact that people are failing to trust the Lord. More than rejecting you and me, they're rejecting Him. Now, such rejection is in itself a kind of hardship, but we see how Moses trusted the Lord in the face of that hardship. So whether it be the hardship that we face because of this kind of rejection or hardship of any other kind, we can have confidence remembering that the Lord is among us. We can remember what Christ has promised in Matthew 28, verses 19 through 20. He sends his disciples out into the world with the gospel, disciples both then and now, including you and me, and he promises us, saying, "And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age." The presence of the Lord is our peace. The presence of the Lord is our supply so that we may persevere in all circumstances. Let us pray.

Dear Father, as we follow the Israelites in their journey to the promised land, we are just continually humbled because as we see their conduct, Father, we see ourselves in them. Father, we confess that there have been times where we have really doubted you in a way that we shouldn't. Father, we know that you understand that we go through, through doubts and we have questions, but Father, we confess that there's times where we've, like them, tested you and questioned are you really among us or not?

Father, forgive us for this. Forgive us for this. Have mercy on us in Christ. And Father, we pray that you would lead us to trust in you, to trust in Christ, to have the confidence that the Lord really is among us, and that you would give us strength and faith and peace to persevere in all circumstances 'cause we trust in your goodness.

We trust that you are leading us to a good place. And Father, we are looking forward to that day when we get beyond this wilderness, when we get beyond this desert, when all things will be made new at the time of Christ's return. We give you praise, Father, in the name of Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.

Hey there, Pastor Tom here. I hope you enjoyed this sermon I offered to Rockland Community Church. Rockland Community Church is located at 212 Rockland Road in North Scituate, Rhode Island, just around the bend from the Scituate Public High School. We invite you to join us in person or virtually this Sunday as we worship God together. It's our joy to welcome you into our community

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