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Outline Preparation Worksheet

Name: Kyle Lammott Text:

Instructions: In your group, you will have 5 minutes to present on your text. For your assigned text, please respond to the questions below and provide copies of this one-page handout (front and back) to each of your group members. This will assist your group in offering productive feedback. New participants and those who would like assistance with these questions should visit simeontrust.org/prepare/ to find additional information about each of these concepts.

1. How has the author organized the text? Answer this question in two ways: 1) show the author’s structure with sections and verse references, and 2) explain how you arrived at this structure.

Opening Genealogy: Connecting the Story with Genesis (1:1-6)

Verses 1-6 offer a historical introduction to the book of Exodus by calling the reader back to Genesis

Population Control: Labor (1:7-14)

Verse 7 shifts to the current reality of God’s people

Verse 8 is the final link to Genesis and sets the stage for the Exodus narrative.

Verses 9-14 describe the physical labor endured under Pharaoh

Population Control: Genocide (1:15–22)

The New American Commentary: Exodus 3. A New Pharaoh’s Initiative: Genocide as Population Control (1:15–22)

3. A New Pharaoh’s Initiative: Genocide as Population Control (1:15–22)

Verses 15-16 - The physical labor did not keep the Hebrews from multiplying so Pharaoh comes up with a plan: Genocide.

Verse 17-19 - The Hebrew midwives feared God, deceived Pharaoh, and would not kill the Hebrew boys.

Verses 20-21 - God blesses the midwives

Verse 22 - Sets the context for chapter two: Pharaoh wants to kill the baby boys in the nile.

2. How is the meaning of your text informed by its context? Answer this question using 1) the immediate context (the closest passages on both sides of your text), 2) the context of the whole book, and 3) the historical context.

Immediate Context: Exodus one is the transitional chapter between Genesis and the life of Moses.

Context of the Whole Book: Exodus one sets the scene for the birth of Moses, the plagues, and the crossing of the Red Sea.

Historical Context: Exodus one calls our attention back to in that God promises to multiply Abrahams seed () It also calls our attention back to showing that God foretold the 400 years of slavery. It also prepares the reader for the fulfillment of ; which is the exodus story.

3. What is the main idea (or aim) that the author is communicating to his audience? Answer this question with one simple sentence.

God is faithful to his covenant by multiplying Abrahams seed even in the midst of persecution.

4. What are a few ways that your text relates to or anticipates the gospel?

God advances his kingdom through suffering. We see this clearly on the cross and we see it lived out in the early church in

No amount of persecution can alter God’s plan, he is faithful to his covenant in all circumstances.

Christ forms his people in the crucible

5. What is the primary argument (i.e. main idea) of your sermon? Answer this question by showing the implications and/or applications for both the unbeliever and the believer.

In the midsts of suffering the faithful God calls for a faithful people

Believers: Like the midwives, be faithful in the midsts of suffering

Unbelievers: Apart from God you cannot make sense of suffering

6. What is your homiletical outline?

Opening Genealogy: Connecting the Story with Genesis (1:1-6)

God is faithful to his covenant ( and 15)

2. Population Control: Labor (1:7-14)

Verse 8 is the final link to Genesis and sets the stage for the Exodus narrative.

God calls us to suffer

Verses 9-14 describe the physical labor endured under Pharaoh

Population Control: Genocide (1:15–22)

God calls us to be faithful as we suffer

God blesses those who are faithful