Leaving the Old for the New

Exodus 6:6-8

1) What are all of the main ideas/concepts/points in this passage?

What is being conveyed by the events themselves?

What is the author trying to communicate by the way it has been presented?

God speaking to Moses - telling him to convey this to the people

I am the LORD - reminding the people who he is

and what he is going to do, that he is in control

redeem - alot packed in here, outstretched arm and with judgements

mighty acts, judgement against Egypt, so they can know the LORD

LORD your God, they will be his people

oral passing of information: up to this point they knew the LORD and his promises as and intellectual exercise, but had never seen the LORD at work, experiential knowledge

know - more than a mental knowing, understanding, but a personal knowing the LORD as their God

yoke of the Egyptians - slavery, or is teaching a part of the yoke - burden in KJV, enslavement NET

is a partnering included in yoke?

2) What are the important background details that contribute to understanding the passage?

Where are we in the storyline of the People of Israel?

big picture background

brief history of Israel, how did they get to Egypt,

3) What are the key questions it answers or issues it is addressing for the first hearers of the Pentateuch, which was the People of Israel in the Wilderness, and then those already settled in the Promised Land?

reminder or memorial

they were witnesses of God’s mighty acts

reminder of all that God had done from them

4) How are those questions/issues similar to what we face today? (Uncovered Tension)

we need to be reminded, we easily forget what God has done for us in the past

5) What is the NECESSARY LIFE TRANSITION that we should be highlighting?

What is God’s role in that transition?

What is OUR role?