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This world is not our home
Preached at Southbridge on 2~/1~/04
Preached at Farmington on 4~/24~/04
Preached in Quabbin Valley on 1~/8~/12
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*Introduction*
            I want to give you all some background for the text we are going to look at today.
We will be looking at the book of Exodus in a general way.
We will be focusing on the Exodus out of Egypt the wandering and the Promised Land all in an overview fashion.
Not in an in-depth study.
But I want to remind us of the background.
At the end of Genesis Jacob and all his sons and their families are in Egypt.
Joseph is the second in command of all Egypt, second only to Pharaoh.
As we move into the book of Exodus we find a recap of the sons of Jacob and we start to see the making of a nation.
Well almost as soon as we start reading the book of Exodus we find a new Pharaoh comes into power that the text says knew not Joseph or didn‘t know Joseph and he convinces the rest of the Egyptians that the Israelites are growing in number and power and they need to do something about this.
And that is where we will start our lesson this morning.
*Ex 1:8-14*
8 Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
9 "Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too numerous for us. 10 come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country."
11 So they put *slave masters *over them *to oppress them *with *forced labor*, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and *worked them ruthlessly*.
14 They *made their lives bitter *with *hard labor *in brick and mortar and *with all kinds of work *in the fields; in all their hard labor *the Egyptians used them ruthlessly*.
The scriptures go on to tell us how Pharaoh wanted the male children killed and when we asked the Hebrew midwives to do it they didn’t so Pharaoh said to all the people that when a Male child is born they are to be thrown into the Nile river, they are to be killed.
Let’s ask the question, was life in Egypt for the Israelites good, fun, or happy?
No! Far from it.
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Bondage to Pharaoh (give scriptural examples)*
            *A) *The first thing to note is that the Pharaoh put slave masters over the Israelites.
They were slaves to Pharaoh and the Egyptians, Oppressed, they were forced to work and it was hard work, their lives were bitter, and the Egyptians used the Israelites ruthlessly.
I think it would be good for us to define some of these words quickly.
*Slave:  **1.
*A person who is the property of and wholly subject to another.
*            2.
*A person entirely under the domination of some influence or person.
*Oppression: **1.
*The exercise of authority or power in a cruel or unjust manner.
*Ruthless*: without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless.
*Bitter:  **3.
*Hard to bear: /a bitter sorrow./
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*Causing pain: /a bitter chill./
*            B) *These people were not free to do as they pleased.
*C) *There was fear I am sure, especially when the Pharaoh told all the people they had to throw their children into the Nile.
*D) *They were abused and mistreated.
Was there anything good about the life they lived in Egypt?
I think we can see that life was far from good for the Israelites in Egypt.
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Bondage to sin (give life examples and scriptural)*
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            I don’t know how many of you have taken a good look at the state of this world lately but it’s not a very Holy happy place.
We have poverty and people who are homeless and can’t get enough to eat people who are in slavery.
Before you came to Christ what was life like?
A) The Bible says that we were slaves to sin and to Satan.
How were we slaves?
What are we talking about?
*Slave to Alcohol*
            I remember before I was a Christian I used to get home from work and open up a can of beer or on the weekend go out and drink it up.
I was a slave to Alcohol, oh sure I thought I was in control but I wasn’t.
I remember saying to myself I am going to quit drinking and I would on occasion make it a year or almost a year but then I was back to drinking.
I was a slave to drinking.
Even when I wasn’t drinking I wanted to be drinking.
I can remember waking up in the morning not wanting to wake up.
Feeling like my life was drained from me.
My relationship with my family suffered and work suffered.
All because of my being a slave to alcohol.
It’s not only alcohol or drugs that people are slaves to.
We have something called Credit cards.
These  can and often do enslave people.
Money and things.
*Salve to Credit Cards*
            You know the average person over the Christmas season spent $1,000 on gifts and placed it on credit cards.
That $1,000 will turn into being $2,000 if you pay only the minimum payment that could actually be higher depending on the interest rate.
That $1,000 dollars that you put on that credit card will cost you $2,000 at the end and take you 13 to 15 years to pay it off just paying the minimum payments.
That GI Joe you bought Little Billy is going to take you until Billy is in collage to pay it off.
That’s what I call slavery.
Abuse.
And of course we have slavery to sex.
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*Slave to Sex*
            When I worked for lucent technologies there was a young man I worked with.
I didn’t know him really I only saw him around.
One day I was sitting with some other coworkers and this young man came over, he knew some of the people sitting with me and he started to tell these people how he had gone out that past weekend and how he was trying to meet a woman.
By the end of that conversation he was having with a few of these people he had explained pretty clearly how his hope desire and motivation in life was to meet and sleep with as many women as he could within the shortest time possible.
The man was very much a slave to sex.
Sex, like alcohol or drugs or money, sex was his master.
But really all you have to do is turn on the TV or log onto the Internet and you will see how much sex has become a slave master to a lot of people.
That’s what it’s like for every person who is in this world they are slaves to something.
Ultimately we know that they are slaves to Satan and to sin just like we were.
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Freedom from Pharaoh (give scriptural examples)*
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            You know God doesn’t leave the Israelites in the bondage that they were in.
They cry out to God and God has compassion.
God hears the cries of the Israelites and he responds.
*Ex 2:23-25*
23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died.
The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
NIV
 
            God has been involved with the Israelites the whole time they were in Egypt but now He is going to bring them out of Bondage.
He is going to send them someone to lead them out of Egypt and to a land of plenty.
Now God speaks to Moses and prepares him and then sends him, and you should go home later today and read this story in depth but we are going to pick up after the ten plagues.
God has to teach Pharaoh who is really in change and finally the Egyptians let them go.
*Ex 12:31-36*
31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Up!
Leave my people, you and the Israelites!
Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go.
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