Exodus 24 - God is ALWAYS doing something. Even when He is resting, He is doing something. Even in the summer when we are resting, we are still building relationships and stirring our vision. We are focused on lifting and raising the level of the leadership in this church.

If we want leadership in any area of our lives, we have to climb the mountain. As a leader, we want the ability to influence people in our jobs, our families etc. There will be times when we are in the forefront and WE have to make a decision - its just us and God and sometimes God won’t even say anything! He is waiting for us to decide - He directs our STEPS, not our standing.

“The leaders went up the mountain” (Ex. 24:9) - leaders are able to exert themselves. Leaders do things that are difficult. There are “mountains” in the kingdom that you have to be able to climb as a leader. For any Christian, the first mountain to climb is prayer. Then, we have to climb the mountain of God’s word…otherwise, we are being spoon-fed. We have to get to the point where we are feeding our spirits. Children can feed themselves by the time they are one year old - we must learn to do things for ourselves and not always rely on our pastors or leaders to feed us. We have to climb the mountain of attitude - pick any kingdom principle you want to conquer and that is a mountain.

God lives on the mountain. When we climb the mountain, we find God. When we are down here, we are living our daily lives - God doesn’t care about what color shirt we wear. He wants us to exert some energy and get to the top of the mountain where He is. God isn’t just ON the mountain - He is doing supernatural things.

Its always good to go up the mountain with other people (they shared a meal together - Ex. 24:11). We are people of the table - we eat and fellowship together. After we go through things together, we have a new sense of bonding - it changes your life. This church is about building a community of people that are doing life and discovering life together. This building that we are building is like a mountain that we are climbing together. God is building us through this project. The transfer that goes on in the lives of the people doing something together is powerful.

Exodus 24:13 - Moses and Joshua went further up the mountain - God had something more for them up higher. This isn’t a life where we sit back and think we’ve arrived. God is ALWAYS going to be calling us higher. Moses & Joshua had a meal in the presence of God and still went higher. God will visit us and give us instruction for our lives. Moses went even further up the mountain and a cloud covered him for 6 days. He stayed on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights - no food, no water. There are lots of supernatural things going on in the natural - Moses was sustained on the mountain.

While Moses is with God, the followers down at the bottom were getting restless. They created a golden calf and began to worship it. They wanted something they could SEE - idol worship is about not having enough faith to believe in God that we can’t see. 3000 people died that day, and coincidentally, 3000 people were saved on the day of Pentecost. Don’t be a person that doesn’t have faith to start climbing the mountain. If we don’t climb the mountain, we look to carnal things.

The people crossed the Red Sea, which is symbolic of our salvation experience. Even in the wilderness, God still fed them manna and provided for them. There was still more water to cross - the Jordan River. We don’t actually possess anything until we go through the Jordan and get to the Promised land. God didn’t stop the Jordan until they STEPPED in. Leaders are constantly stepping out and trusting a God that they can’t see…except when we climb the mountain, and see God - our faith and trust comes from our mountain experience. Climbing the mountain will change us.