20260126 Exodus 7:14-12:51 The Plagues of Egypt: Abraham, Joseph, Job, and Jesus
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August 17, 2025 was Exodus 7
Let us continue to worship God
Acts 2:42 (LSB)
And they were continually devoting themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to the prayers.
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42 They did not remember His power, The day when He redeemed them from the adversary, 43 When He performed His signs in Egypt And His miracles in the field of Zoan, 44 And turned their rivers to blood, And their streams, they could not drink. 45 He sent among them swarms of flies which devoured them, And frogs which destroyed them. 46 He gave also their crops to the grasshopper And the fruit of their labor to the locust. 47 He killed their vines with hailstones And their sycamore trees with frost. 48 He gave over their cattle also to the hailstones And their herds to bolts of lightning. 49 He sent upon them His burning anger, Fury and indignation and distress, A band of destroying angels. 50 He leveled a path for His anger; He did not hold back their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague, 51 So He struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The first of their vigor in the tents of Ham.
14 Then Yahweh said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hard with firmness; he refuses to let the people go. 15 “Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he is going out to the water, and station yourself to meet him on the bank of the Nile; and you shall take in your hand the staff that was turned into a serpent. 16 “And you shall say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now.” 17 ‘Thus says Yahweh, “By this you shall know that I am Yahweh: behold, I am about to strike the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.
Introduction: Exodus 7:14-12:51 The Plagues of Egypt: Abraham, Joseph, Job, and Jesus
Why we’re in Exodus and Romans
The Holy Spirit and Moses and the writing of the Pentateuch
After the Exodus in 1446 - Preparing for the renewal of the covenant and the entry into the land
With that in mind:
(1) Obedience and disobedience in the Books of Moses
16 “And you shall say to him, ‘Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let My people go, that they may serve Me in the wilderness. But behold, you have not listened until now.”
There is obedience. And there is disobedience. There are good times and there are times of struggle and testing. In Exodus we see the plagues of Egypt and we see those who are obedient and those who are disobedient. And if God is in control why doesn't He instantly deal with pharaoh? Why are there not one or two but ten plagues? Why do both the obedient and the disobedient experience the plagues? How does Genesis 50:20 apply to the Book of Exodus? And why did the sinless Son of God, who was perfectly obedient in every way, suffer and shed His blood for those who were disobedient?
Obedience and disobedience throughout Genesis - Adam and Eve, Cane and Abel, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph
The covenant - choosing death and life
Joshua - choose you this day whom you will serve
Job - curse God and die - when he has tried me I will come forth as gold, I know that my Redeemer lives
Jesus
9 “He who has ears, let him hear.”
(2) The hardness of the human heart
14 But a natural man does not accept the depths of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually examined.
13 Yet Pharaoh’s heart was hardened with strength, and he did not listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.
10 times pharaoh hardened his heart
10 times God hardened Pharaoh’s heart
The Scriptures make it clear: God hardened Pharaoh's heart. Pharaoh was punished for his wickedness towards the Israelites and his disobedience to God. But is that fair? Was God being unjust towards Pharaoh since God was the one who hardened Pharaoh's heart? Did God create evil in the heart of Pharaoh? In this message,
The nature of wickedness in the heart of man and God's just dealings with creatures who refuse to obey Him.
9 “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can know it?
All that God had to do to harden Pharaoh's heart, or to harden your heart, is to withhold His own grace.
What about your heart?
14 And a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple fabrics, a worshiper of God, was listening, whose heart the Lord opened to pay attention to the things spoken by Paul.
23 Guard your heart with all diligence, For from it flow the springs of life.
Proverbs 3:5 - trust in the Lord with all your heart
(3) The plagues: obedience, disobedience and grace
The plagues and the idols of Egypt - idols and self made gods - pharaoh
The plagues, in order, were: blood, frogs, lice/gnats, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, and finally, the death of the firstborn
We are by nature worshipers of false idols
The requests of Moses - let my people go and the Lord will not punish you
The grace of God - only the Egyptians
The Passover - grace and obedience, the necessity for all people to obey
The blood of the lamb - Jesus dying for the disobedient
Abraham and Isaac - God will provide the lamb
Evil overcome by good, God being glorified, people being saved
20 “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to do what has happened on this day, to keep many people alive.
Now may the Keeper of Israel keep you. May God our Father keep you from stumbling. May the Son of God keep you near the cross. May the Spirit of God keep you from idols. Amen.
