Miraculously Saved

Introduction

The Book of Exodus

Exalting Jesus in Exodus (Why Exodus?)

Exodus provides the primary model of redemption in the Old Testament and New Testament, and it stands as one of the keys for understanding the cross and salvation. Notice some of the similarities between Israel and believers today:

• Like Israel, we are saved from something (from slavery to sin) for something (to witness and to worship). This idea of being delivered “out of Egypt” gets recorded many times in the Bible (Exod 3:10; 3:17; 20:2; Ps 81:10; Matt 2:15; Jude 5).

• Like Israel, we are saved by the blood of a lamb (Exod 12; 1 Pet 1:18–19; Rev 5).

• Like Israel, we have been saved, and we are now sojourners and a holy priesthood, seeking to glorify God in word and deed until we reach the promised land (1 Pet 2:4–12).

- Christoper J.H. Wright

Three dynamics of every story...

The people (us)

The deliver (Moses)

God

I. The People (vv 10-12)

Complaining v. 11

Complacency v. 12

II. Moses (vv 13-14, 21,27)

Confidence vv 13-14

Promises answered

A multiplied nation

Genesis 12:1–3 NASB95

1 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, And from your relatives And from your father’s house, To the land which I will show you; 2 And I will make you a great nation, And I will bless you, And make your name great; And so you shall be a blessing; 3 And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”

Genesis 46:27 NASB95

27 and the sons of Joseph, who were born to him in Egypt were two; all the persons of the house of Jacob, who came to Egypt, were seventy.

Exodus 12:37 NASB95

37 Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.

Descendants of Abraham

Exodus 12:38 NASB95

38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.

Exodus 12:43–45 NASB95

43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it; 44 but every man’s slave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it. 45 “A sojourner or a hired servant shall not eat of it.

Exodus 12:48–49 NASB95

48 “But if a stranger sojourns with you, and celebrates the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it. 49 “The same law shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you.”

Release from bondage and make rich

Genesis 15:13–14 NASB95

13 God said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, where they will be enslaved and oppressed four hundred years. 14 “But I will also judge the nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with many possessions.

Exodus 12:33–36 NASB95

33 The Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.” 34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders. 35 Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; 36 and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

Compliance vv. 21, 27)

III. God (vv 15-20)

Command vv. 15-18, 26

Cover vv. 19-20, 22

Conquest vv. 23—27-30

Conclusion

God delivered the people through moses.

Moses is a picture of Jesus.

Deuteronomy 18:15 NASB95

15 “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your countrymen, you shall listen to him.

Egypt - Cory Asbury

I won't forget, the wonder of how You brought Deliverance, the exodus of my heart 'Cause You found me, You freed me Held back the waters for my release O Yahweh

You're the God who fights for me Lord of every victory Hallelujah Hallelujah You have torn apart the sea You have led me through the deep Hallelujah Hallelujah, oh

The cloud by day, is a sign that You are with me The fire by night, is the guiding light to my feet 'Cause You found me, You freed me Held back the waters for my release O Yahweh

'Cause You stepped into my Egypt And You took me by the hand You marched me out in freedom Into the promised land Now I will not forget You, God I'll sing of all You've done Death is swallowed up forever By the fury of Your love

Baptism

Exalting Jesus in Exodus The Lord Saves Sinners (Exodus 14:10–31)

Paul said the Israelites were baptized into Moses (1 Cor 10:1–4) as we are baptized into Jesus (Rom 6:3; Gal 3:23). They were identified with him, as we are identified with Christ. As Moses led his people through the waters of judgment to the other side, those who are in Christ will pass through the waters of death to the other side safely because of His mighty resurrection. That is exactly what the ordinance of baptism represents: passing from death to life.

1 Corinthians 10:1–4 NASB95

1 For I do not want you to be unaware, brethren, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea; 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea; 3 and all ate the same spiritual food; 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink, for they were drinking from a spiritual rock which followed them; and the rock was Christ.

Romans 6:3 NASB95

3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death?