Sermon Tone Analysis

God’s character and attributes are changeless.

Even before delivering the Israelites out of Egypt, he was the God of the exodus.

We will study the Exodus of Abraham before the Exodus of the Israelites and one will lead to the other.

The longing for every human being is to be known.

We all find our end in the Lord himself, as He has promised through the Abrahamic covenant, to make His name known through us!

Our chief end is found in YAWEH.

All the nations of the world were seeking a “name” for themselves, and YAWEH tells Abraham that through him…

And then toward the end of Abraham’s life,

God called Abraham out of Ur of the Chaldeans, an ancient Mesopotamian man, along with his wife, Sarai, out of exile and initiated a relationship that would be the first of many.

Abraham is the first fruits of the exodus.

The Exodus pattern can be strongly seen in the life of Abraham.

This is the Abrahamic Covenant, a closer look from Jeremiah shows the practice of passing between the pieces of the animal for a covenant.

“Plunged into and delivered out of this night of darkness and deathly terror, Abram had experienced a foretaste of Israel’s exodus.

Through this vision, Yahweh assured Abram that he would indeed deliver his children out of foreign oppression—and more, he showed him how that deliverance would be accomplished: through the blood of sacrifice, the seed of Abram would pass through walls of death.

Yahweh’s passing through the pieces in Genesis 15:17 is described in the next verse as his making a covenant with Abram.

By its association with this ceremony, Israel’s Passover meal obtains a covenantal character, and celebrates first of all God’s faithfulness to the nation’s patriarch.”

- Exodus Old and New, L. Michael Morales.

Just as YAWEH would pass through the death of the animal, the children of Israel would pass through the death/chaos walls of water with the plunder from Egypt.

More than just the covanental bond and transcendant message through the vision, Abraham literally walked through the exodus story with his wife in a real way.

The future children of Israel will be in fear for the lives of the young boys, the Egyptians will seek to keep the woman as slaves, the Lord will judge the house of Pharaoh, and the Israelites have a mass exit from Egypt with all their increased wealth.

These stories are parallel.

Perhaps the most significant story in the life of Abraham that presents us with the need for passover.

The opposing forces are worried with making a “name” for themselves, and Abraham is faced with murdering the very essence of his name/future.

We see here an incredible progression out from exile requires complete trust and reliance on YAHWEH.

YAHWEH had already passed through the death of the sacrifices and came out on the other side as a pillar of cloud and fire, proving that YAHWEH would provide life out of the death that our exile had produced.

Abraham says in verse 5 that he and Isaac would return… Abraham knew that if he obeyed YAHWEH and sacrificed his only son, that YAHWEH would resurrect him.

We know from the story that YAHWEH provides a ram for the sacrifice.

What we have is the first sacrifice that was a pattern for the need to have sacrifice in exile.

The Lord promised to give the promised land of Canaan to Abraham, but YAHWEH would shew the need for sacrifice as a prefigurment to ultimately the ONLY SON who would come and pass through the bondage of death and defeat it once for all, leading the human race out of exile and into the eternal Kingdom of God!

This story is a prefigurment of Passover, and Passover is the prefigurment of the cross.

Every story of exile and exodus from exile in scripture points to the ultimate exodus that humanity can experience by being buried with Christ in His death and then raised to life through the Power of the Gospel!

Abraham’s faith:

Led to the TEMPLE: Same Mountain

I want us to step back and consider a few things:

Abraham surrendered his life completely to God.

Abraham didn’t allow his new life to change his obedience.

Abraham’s purpose was directed by God’s promise.

If God were to lead you out of something, would you allow Him to continue to lead you to something else?

Are there any places that are off limits to God?

Are you willing to repent for the unclaimed territories of your heart?

Have you considered that the new ground your being led to might be for someone else to develop?