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hey, anybody who still reads this - I'd love your feedback

I'm working on a sermon for the Thanksgiving Weekend. Here is my basic premise

How are we to live as an already/not yet people drawing from the story of Israel as an already/not yet people (leaving Egypt and wandering).

Key points:
Freedom - offered freely and yet we must choose it - sometimes we even long for bondage.
Small Victories (Exodus 13:17 ff) - God knows us and rejoices with us in small victories.
Salvation - Again and again God saves from ourselves and others - (Red Sea)
Complaints and Questioning - (Exodus 16)

Hope - The hope we cling to is that of His Kingdom coming (already, not yet, near, and delayed)- We cling to Jesus and His promise that this live is temporal; there are better things to come.

I'm looking for something to string these themes together - I heard the greatest message on tithing once and it had 5 simple words "Leave, Go, Get, Give, Change." Through the proclamation in that message the listener went on a journey with the storyteller. I'm hoping to do something similar with this, but it's still percolating.

Thoughts?