Redeemer- God reveals Himself through judgement as the Redeemer. Exodus 7:8-13:22

God reveals Himself through judgement as the Redeemer

Exodus 7:8-13:22

God reveals Himself to Israel and to the world through the Exodus as the Redeemer.

Recap God’s word to Moses…

Exodus 7:1-7

“And the Lord said to Moses, ‘ See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.” Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. Now Moses was eighty years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.”

This is exactly what we are going to see happen in our passage today because it’s exactly what happened in history. And as we walk through this large section of Exodus we will see the 10 plagues, and our sermon holds 10 primary points!

Moses and Aaron did exactly as God told them to do.

Exodus 7:10 Cast down the staff

Exodus 7:20 struck the water with the staff

Exodus 8:5-6 stretched out his hand with the staff over the rivers, canals, and pools

Exodus 8:17 (struck the dust with his staff)

Exodus 8:20 (spoke to Pharaoh)

Exodus 9:1 (spoke to Pharaoh)

Exodus 9:8 took soot from the Kiln and threw it up in the air in front of Pharaoh

Exodus 9:13 (spoke to Pharaoh, and to tell Pharaoh that these next plagues are coming from God himself, Moses stretched out his hand to the sky)

Exodus 10:3 (Spoke to Pharaoh, stretched out his hand)

Exodus 10:21 (stretched out his hand to the sky)

Exodus 11 & 12 (Spoke to the Israelites, Pharaoh, followed through the Passover lambs, and were ready to go when God moved across the land of Egypt)

God did signs and wonders exactly as He told them He would.

Exodus 7:10-12 (Staff to snake)

Exodus 7:20-21 (Nile to blood)

Exodus 8:5-6 (Frogs all over the land of Egypt)

Exodus 8:16-17 (Gnats all over the land of Egypt)

Exodus 8:21-24 (Flies all over the land of Egypt)

Exodus 9:1-6 (The livestock of the Egyptians died)

Exodus 9:8-10 (Boils on all the Egyptians)

Exodus 9:18-25 (Hail on all of Egypt except Goshen- where the Israelites were)

Exodus 10:3-6, 12-15 (Locusts ate everything of the Egyptians)

Exodus 10:21-23 (God caused there to be darkness all over the land, darkness so dark they could not see one another)

Exodus 11:4-10, 12:29-32 (Death of the firstborn of every Egyptian household, including their livestock)

Pharaoh responds exactly as God told them he would.

Pharaoh cried out for mercy or for the judgments to stop… but over and over again Pharaoh hardens his heart and doesn’t let them go.

Pharaoh began to break and negotiate with them after the 7th plague.

8th plague, locusts, Pharaoh says the men can go, but not anyone else.

9th plague, Darkness, Pharaoh says the whole family can go, but they have to leave their livestock.

Why did God harden Pharaohs heart?

Exodus 9:16 “But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.”

Exodus 9:27-35 “Pharaoh sent and called to Moses and Aaron and said to them, This time I have sinned: the Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. Plead with the Lord, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer. Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that all the earth is the Lord’s. But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the Lord God… 34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants. so the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the Lord had spoken through Moses.”

Later when the locusts come, Pharaoh asked for a special one time forgiveness from God so that the plague would stop. (Exodus 10:16-17)

To display His power and so that all of Egypt and all the earth would know God.

What does it mean that God hardened Pharoah’s heart?

Come back to this…

Pharaoh drove the Israelites out of Egypt, similar to how God dove Adam and Eve out of the Garden. So, in one sense we see God delivering Israel as the he forces the enemy to drive mankind (Israel) out of the world and back toward the Garden where His presence is.

The Egyptians came to know the truth about God as He said they would.

- The magicians used magic tricks in an attempt to copy what God was doing for real.

Pharaohs magicians were able to mimic some of the signs God did

Exodus 7:11-12 (copied the staff to snake)

Exodus 7:22 (copied the Nile to blood)

Exodus 8:7 (copied the frogs)

Exodus 8:18 (they could not)

Pharaohs magicians were some of the first Egyptians to see God for who He is.

Exodus 8:18-19

Some of the Egyptians began to follow God’s instructions through Moses

In Exodus 9:11 the magicians were impacted by the boils and unable to come and stand before Moses.

Exodus 9:20, the Egyptians who feared the Lord followed the Word of the Lord and brought their slaves and livestock into their houses.

Exodus 10:7 Pharaohs servants plead with him to let the Israelites go because of what was happening to them.

Many of the Egyptians revered Moses and the Israelites.

Exodus 11:1-3

Some of the Egyptians were delivered with the Israelites

this happened when the followed the Lord with the plague of hail… and

In Exodus 12:38 we see that a mixed multitude left in addition to the Israelites.

All of the Egyptians acknowledged God as He is

Exodus 12:33 the Egyptians were urgently moving the Israelites out of the land for fear that God would kill more than their first born.

God glorified Himself by using the Egyptian gods to judge and deliver.

Nile to blood

Frogs

Gnats

Flies

Livestock die

Boils

Hail

Locusts

Darkness

Firstborn

God delivered Israel exactly like He told them He would do it.

Exodus 12:50-51 “And all the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.”

Everything that happened was exactly as God told Moses it would be. This truth is foundational for our faith, and for our obedience.

God does exactly what He says and calls us to obey exactly what He has said and depend completely on Him.

God calls us to what he says the way that he says to do it, and doing it the way He says to do it means following His Word, in all things.

Doing things the way He says to do it also means depending on Him… One way or another God will work in our lives until we are dependent on him.

God provides what we need, his treasuries are vast and cannot be exhausted. And by treasuries I mean more than simply finances, though he holds all of that in his hands as well. But you cannot exhaust his mercy. You cannot exhaust his grace.

You cannot exhaust His supply of strength for the task, or faith for the moment. He will supply all of your needs, and honestly finances are probably the least valuable ways in which God moves.

Mercy is greater

Grace is greater

Strength is greater

Forgiveness is greater

Hope is greater

Faith is greater

The world can give you riches… and the church or people who make riches the end all be all will miss the beauty of what God is doing in the hearts and minds of people.

One of my greatest influences in life and ministry is Hudson Taylor, missionary to China in the 1800’s. Hudson said:

“Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.” - Hudson Taylor

God will supply what we need, even financially. But I have learned the truth of what Hudson says here when he says that God can supply our needs ahead of time as much as he can afterwards… becuase the way he supplies depends on his purpose. Hudson went to the field to serve the Lord without the needed resources. He went with faith that God would provide what He needed becuase he was doing what God desired.

The same is true for us. We must be people of faith, not by sight.

Galatians 2:20 says, “I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.”

We are called to walk by faith, not by sight. And each one of us should look inward to see what it is that we are depending on. Is it faith? Or is it sight? And may we trust the Lord and be people of faith… who obey the Word, doing what He says, the way that He says to do it, depending on God to supply what we need.

God delivered Israel from Egypt by substitutionary sacrifice of a lamb for their first born, just like He delivers us from sin by the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus in our place.

The lamb died in the place of the firstborn of Israel.

Every home in Egypt that did not have the substitutionary blood of the lamb over the door lost their firstborn son.

Jesus died in the place of all who believe in Him.

Every person that does not believe in Jesus as the promised Messiah and savior of the world will be judged in the end and condemned to hell.

God redeemed Israel from Egypt to bring them to Himself, and redeems us from our sin through Jesus to bring us to Himself.

The word starts with an “H” but it isn’t heaven… it’s himself.

Too many people look at the promised land as the goal of God’s deliverance. But, the truth is the promised land was the place where He promised his presence to them. And he gave it to them in the temple.

but, he gave it to them in the wilderness through the tabernacle, and at the end of our section we see that God is with them through the cloud and the fire.

From the biggest of pictures in the Bible we see…

What was lost in the garden is glimpsed through the tabernacle and the temple, accomplished through the cross and the empty grave, but fully gained through Jesus Christ at his return!

Garden- tabernacle- temple- Jesus- Holy Spirit- New Jerusalem

The new heaven and the new earth are the place where God has promised to dwell with us forever!

God saves us and sends us to live a life of remembering what He has done, obeying what He has said, and spreading His fame through all the earth.

In the same way that God used Israel to bring the Egyptians to himself

in the same way that God used Israel to spread His fame and His glory all over the earth… He has done the same thing through us as His people.

God reveals Himself to us and to the world through Jesus as the Redeemer.

Exodus 7:8-13

Exodus 7:14-25

Exodus 8:1-15

Exodus 8:16-19

Exodus 8:22-32

Exodus 9:1-7

Exodus 9:8-12

Exodus 9:13-35

Exodus 10:1-20

Exodus 10:21-29

Exodus 11:1-10

Exodus 12:1-28

Exodus 12:29-32

Exodus 12:33-42

Exodus 12:43-50

Exodus 13:1-2

Exodus 13:3-10

Exodus 13:11-16

Exodus 13:17-22

Salvation and judgment- God’s glory… this is the cross

the Egyptians came to know God that way through judgment

The world, all who have not believed in God by faith in Jesus Christ will too

Don’t be surprised when God does exactly what he said, in the exact way that He said He was going to do it.

God is going to do what He said in the way that He said He was going to do it.

God calls us to do what He said in the way that He said to do it.

God’s work done in his way quote…