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Pyramids
Overview: After a series of devastating plagues, Pharaoh still refuses to let the Hebrews leave.
In response, God takes the life of all the firstborn in Egypt.
We will wrestle through this difficult passage, and find out what it means for us.
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If you have your bibles
-or if you’d like you can also follow with us in the youversion bible app
-but we’re going to be chugging right along in our pyramids series on Exodus
-And what we’re doing here is we’re looking at the bible from a layered perspective, like a pyramid
-Where at the very base level we just want to know what the bible says
-what the language says, what the historical contexts were like, all of that stuff.
-And then a layer up from that we want to know what God is asking us to do in response
-and then above that, we start asking how does this story point me back to Jesus
-and then the final layer, the one I think we should strive after the most
-we want to know, what does this story tell us about God
-So Every week I’m trying at least to bring out something from each layer as we’re reading along
-So up to this point in exodus,
-Pharaoh has been enslaving the isrealites
-he’s been treating them poorly
-and and God raises up one man to be the one who is going to deliver his people
-and God takes this one man, Moses
-God promise him that He is going to rescue Isreal
-And last week we looked a series of plagues that God inflicts upon egypt
-and these plagues come in sort of a predictable pattern
-Moses says release the isrealites so that we can worship the Lord
-Pharaoh says no
-God sends a disaster
-and Pharaoh says OK, you can go
-God removes the disaster
-and then pharaoh says “never mind, you can’t go”
-and this pattern repeats more or less the same way
-9 times.
-and each time the plague that god inflicts gets worse and worse
-until during the 9th plauge God blots out the sun for 3 days
-and still, pharaoh refuses
-and so today I want to look at Exodus chapter 11 and see where God’s story goes.
Exodus 11:1-6
-I’ve been praying a lot over how to present this passage of scripture
-because when you read this portion of scripture there are two responses that most people have
-and they’re kind of on both ends of a spectrum
-and either one, I really don’t like
-they both kind of worry me
-Here’s what I mean by that
-On one end of the spectrum you have the person who has been a Christian for a long time
-maybe they’ve grown up hearing these stories
-and for that person, when they read this portion of exodus
-there’s almost an apathy to it
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-about midnight I will go throughout Egypt.
Every firstborn son in egypt will die.
There will be wailing throughout egypt
-And that person just kind of breezes over the fact that thousands of children died!
-because you’ve read it so many times that you’ve been almost conditioned to
-it doesn’t bother you any more
-that person is almost numb to it
-that’s one end of the spectrum
-the other end is the person who is maybe new to faith
-or maybe they’ve been a Christian for a while
-but they’re new to really exploring all of God’s word
-and they are going to get to this passage
-and there’s going to be a brain malfunction that happens
-I know that in the new testament it says that God is love
-I know that Jesus was compassionate
-and I just can not wrap my brain around how the same God who is so caring and compassionate in the new testament
-can do something like this in the Old testament
-And by the way these are good questions to be asking
-I think if you’re not asking these hard questions
-if you’re not wrestling with the Bible
-then you’re probably not invested in it enough
-I think you should always have questions
-you should always feel like there’s something more for you to learn.
-So we have these two extremes
-and here’s the problem that I have with these two extremes.
-let’s call them new christian and old christian
-even though I think in a lot of cases you can be on either side no matter how long you’ve been a christian
-but for now we’ll call them new christian and old christian
-and they’re in a bible study together
-and a passage like this comes up
-and new christian says
-how could God do that?
-why did God have to kill the first born sons
-what did Pharaoh’s son ever do to deserve that?
-and Old Christian usually says something like this
-well you know, the egyptians practiced child sacrifice and they did evil things, and they worshipped idols
-and they god what they deserved
-and besides those children would have grown up to become evil
-and so God was just doing them a favor and stopping that evil because He knew that they were going to grow up to be evil.
-I’m just going to say this with all of the love in my heart that I can possibly muster
-this is coming from a place of love
-If you’re “old christian”
-stop saying that
-It’s not helpful
-That’s the kind of thing that is going to take new Christian
-and make them start to question their faith more than they already were before
-and so I’ve been praying about this passage for quite some time
-because I want to make sure I’m not pushing you in that direction
-while also confronting that the Bible says what the bible says
-I can’t deny what the Bible says, it’s right there in the text
-And the conclusion that I’ve come to is that this passage
-and the following passage
-rely on the most difficult to accept belief that we hold as Christians
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