Interlocked Lesson 12 Part 2

Ben wofford

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The Passover Part 2

SONGS:

The Way

Living Hope

INTRO:

Talk about the time I drove home from school and a bad storm came up.

Couldn’t see 5 feet in front of me.

I just focused on the yellow lines in the road. It’s all I could see and I followed that hoping and praying nobody was in front of me.

It’s much easier to drive when it’s clear, but when it’s not clear, we have to trust what we can see.

Transition and point:

God isn’t trying to make it difficult for us to see Him and what He is doing.

He has made it clear to us.

He not trying to give you poor visibility as you navigate life.

He has made it clear how to find Him and learn about who He is.

God wants to be known.

We will see that this morning through 5 lessons from Egypt.

5 Lessons from the Flood, Egypt, and Jesus:

Grace before Judgment

Whom to save, whom to judge

Only one way of salvation

Man and Nature impacted

How to be saved: by faith.

God gave all 5 of these lessons before the flood occured.

In the same way, God followed this same pattern with the passover.

God also has shown us this same pattern today for how Jesus saves people.

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Grace before judgment:

How was there grace before the 10th plague of the death of the firstborn sons in Egypt?

How many plagues preceded the 10th plague?

Nine plagues certainly seems like a time of grace before judgment does it not?

But after each of the plagues it seemed Pharaoh’s heart was hard to let Israel go.

For example: Exodus 8:15 “15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was relief, he hardened his heart and would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.”

Not only Pharaoh, but the Egyptians themselves followed Pharaoh’s example and hardened their hearts to God.

Some did turn though.

When God announced the 7th plague (plague of hail), some Egyptians believed and acted on God’s words.

Exodus 9:20–21 “20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. 21 But those who ignored the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field.”

Some of the Egyptians even left Egypt with Israel after Pharoah finally let them go after the passover plague.

Exodus 12:37–38 “37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.”

ESV says “A mixed multitude”

NLT says “A rabble of non-Israelites”

KJV “A mixed multitude”

In other words, the Exodus of Israel from Egypt also included people who were not Israelites, but had come to follow the true God.

Their faith was their salvation.

the point is this:

before the final judgment came, there was a period of grace that was open to anyone and everyone, not just to the Jews.

After the plague, we see some who were saved by their faith in God’s Word.

We also live in this same place.

Our time of grace is our very life.

We can only place our faith in Jesus during our lifetime.

However, if we die without Christ, that’s it bro.

That’s why Jesus tells believers to be a warning bell for non-believers around us:

Mark 16:15–16 “15 He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.”

Our grace period is the lifetime God has given us to live.

What grace God gives.

To those that love him and to those that hate him, He gives them one life to live.

God always gives grace before judgment.

2. Whom to save and whom to judge.

During the flood, Those on the boat were saved, those outside the ark were not.

During the Exodus, Those with the blood of the lamb on their homes were saved, those without the blood of the lamb were not.

Today, those who trust in Jesus’ blood to cover our sins are saved, those who reject Jesus are not saved.

In the fourth plague, only the Egyptians were affected

Exodus 8:22 “22 “ ‘But on that day I will deal differently with the land of Goshen, where my people live; no swarms of flies will be there, so that you will know that I, the Lord, am in this land.”

5th plague, all Egyptian livestock died.

Exodus 9:4 “4 But the Lord will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and that of Egypt, so that no animal belonging to the Israelites will die.’ ””

7th plague, the only place where it didn’t hail was where the Israelites were.

Exodus 9:23–26 “23 When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt; 24 hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. 25 Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree. 26 The only place it did not hail was the land of Goshen, where the Israelites were.”

In the final plague, a distinction was still made between Egyptian and Israelite.

Exodus 11:4–7 “4 So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. 7 But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you will know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.”

God’s judgments are not fuzzy or blurry.

His judgments are clear.

It was clear who would be saved and who would not be in the plagues of Egypt.

God has still made it clear for us today to find salvation.

John 3:16–18 “16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.”

Everyone stands condemned before Jesus already.

BUT for those who place their faith in Jesus, they will find salvation.

God does not make things blurry, He makes it clear who will be saved and who won’t.

Are we also bringing this clarity to the world around us?

3. Only one way of Salvation.

The flood provided one way of salvation - the door to the ark.

The Exodus as well, the blood of the lamb.

Jesus - Himself.

Some people, maybe even some of us in this room think that there are many ways to be saved.

But guys, this isn’t the case. There is only one way.

Man doesn’t randomly make up the rules and expect God to abide by our rules, feelings, and expectations.

God is God and we are not.

He has given the rules.

And even better, He has provided the way of salvation.

He’s given it clearly, without confusion.

John 14:6 “6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

That doesn’t say that Jesus is A way, A truth, or A life… that would change everything.

No he is THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE.

That means, Jesus proclaims he is THE CREATOR.

There is no other being responsible for all that is in creation.

Trusting that He took the punishment of death we owe, He is THE SACRIFICE.

Trusting that HE rose from the grace, providing reconciliation with God.

Our debt of sin is paid in full, and now the new life Jesus lives, he offers to those of us who believe!

There is only one way.

4. Man and Nature impacted

The flood destroyed the entire earth

The plagues of Egypt certainly affected nature there as well.

The waterways were affected. (Exodus 7:9-25. and 14:21-29).

Animal life (Exodus 8:2 - 10:20).

Crops, plants, and trees (Exodus 9:18-26, 10:12-15).

The landscape of nature in Egypt was wrecked from God’s judgment through the plagues.

All of Egypt felt the affects of judgment through the physical world around them.

In the same way, our bodies are all deteriorating.

But one day, we will have a new body in Christ.

1 Corinthians 15:50–53 “50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.”

Our resurrected bodies will never grow sick, old, or develop cancer… Oh what a day that will be.

Finally,

5. How to be saved: by faith.

Noah believed, built the ark, entered in with his family, and through His faith in both of those things, He was saved.

For the Israelites, They trusted God as well to pass over their homes.

They were saved.

For us, we must trust Jesus is enough.

That He is the way, the truth, and the salvation.

After the Israelites finally leave Egypt, they are standing on the shore of the Red sea, terrified.

Exodus 14:13–14 “13 Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.””

What did the Israelites have to do to get across the water?

Have faith.

In the ark, in the blood covered house, getting across the water, or spending eternity with God, the way to salvation is always the same.

Jesus does all the work.

Our work is to have faith.

To go all in on Christ.

To trust that what He has done is enough.

Do you believe that today?

Isaiah 55:10–11 “10 As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, 11 so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”

God’s Word will accomplish what God desires it too.

Our part of that is to send it.

Are you knowing God through His word?

Are you prioritizing spending time with Him?

Are you then sharing His Word with those around you?

Romans 10:13–15 “13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 15 And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!””