Many of you know that our church lives out of a box, well really there is 5 boxes, you see, we are one of those churches that rent a school for our main service. Every Sunday brings us a new adventure and this last Sunday was of no exception. Just before the final stretch of my sermon, mid sentence (and it was a good one) the fire alarm went off. It seems like one of our 3 year olds, just for fun, wanted to see what that red box on the side of the wall would do if he would pull down the handle. Well, he learned and so did the rest of the church. When you pull down the arm, everyone jumps into action. The nursery workers, the other students meeting in different parts of the building, the janitors, and the fire department down the street, the adults, and the pastor . . .everyone was moving.

But alarms do not have to always be attached to a dangerous think like a fire. Thinking back of the history of Israel, After the exit from Egypt, alarms were used because of the largeness of the group.

Look at what is recorded in Numbers Chapter 10

Numbers 10:1-9

AND THE Lord said to Moses, Make two trumpets of silver; of hammered or turned work you shall make them, that you may use them to call the congregation and for breaking camp. When they both are blown, all the congregation shall assemble before you at the door of the Tent of Meeting. And if one blast on a single trumpet is blown, then the princes or leaders, heads of the tribes of Israel, shall gather themselves to you. When you blow an alarm, the camps on the east side [of the tabernacle] shall set out. When you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps on the south side shall set out. An alarm shall be blown whenever they are to set out on their journeys. When the congregation is to be assembled, you shall blow [the trumpets in short, sharp tones], but not the blast of an alarm. And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets, and the trumpets shall be to you for a perpetual statute throughout your generations. When you go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresses you, then blow an alarm with the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the Lord your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.

Alarms were important for the nation of Israel. It communicated very clearly what needed to happen. And the common cord that ran through them all was the fact that when the alarm sounded, they moved.

So what do you do when the alarms in your soul go off? Do you know what to do; do you know what the alarms are telling you? When important benefit that we receive with God’s spirit is a very accrete and detailed alarm system of the soul. God desire for us to be able to grow in our faith and walk His way. To help us with that both in times of danger and times of direction, the soul alarms are telling us what we must do. But, it is still up to us to move.

My prayer for us today is that we will learn to know and recognize the alarms of the soul and also know how and when to move out.