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Introduction
The Fall - Perfect Creation, Consequences of sin
The Flood - Judgment & Salvation
Abraham and the covenant
Abraham and Isaac - Penal substitutionary atonement
Jacob and Esau
Joseph - Egypt
Egypt - Slavery
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A Nation Enslaved
Exodus 1:1-14
God keeps His promise - v7 the people of Israel were fruitful and increase greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them
Egyptian king feared Israel - v12 “the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves...”
Subjected them to slavery
Even commanded them to kill the first born sons
As numerous as they were - hopeless
The more they tried in their own strength, the worse their situation became
They even started t
Accepted their
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In many ways, the plight of the people of Israel reflects the state of the world today
Slavery
Human trafficking
Human trafficking
Economic slavery
Slavery to idols
devices
money - even ministries built around the idol of money
self image (selfies)
All only symptoms of the real problem - Slaves to sin
Born in sin - enslaved to sin
We sin because we are sinners
We sin because we are enslaved to sin
All corruption and evil in our world today is a symptom of the world’s enslavement to sin
Everything we try in our own strength makes the situation worse
World wars are proof of that
Politics hasn’t solved anything
More and more we have seen culture turn away from God and to what seems best in our own minds
Degenerating society - divorce, abortion, sexual perversion
Nobody is immune to it - all are slaved
No innocent victims
Israel weren’t innocent - they were turning on each other
2. The God who Keeps Covenant
Exodus 2:23-
Salvation comes when we turn our eyes and trust away from ourselves and towards God
God remembered His covenant with Abraham and his descendants
On THAT basis, God acts
The people of Israel haven’t got any virtue in God’s eyes that would make God deem them worthy of redemption
God acts on the basis of His promise
The Psalms speak constantly of God’s faithfullness
“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations”
“For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.”
“Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations”
Ps 89:
“if we are faithless, he remains faithful— for he cannot deny himself.”
So on the basis of His covenant with Abraham, God comes to the rescue of the people of the promise - to Abraham’s descendants
So on the basis of His covenant with Abraham, God comes to the rescue of the people of the promise - to Abraham’s descendants
As in the case of Noah, God chooses a mediator between Him and His people - He chooses Moses
Deut
Exodus 3:4-
3. The God Who Redeems
And so begins the redemption of Israel
At first it didn’t feel like redemption
Moses asks Pharoah, Pharoah makes life tougher
God hardens Pharoah’s heart
Their redemption would be more than a decision to up and leave - that would be impossible
Their redemption will require God to act on their behalf - a miraculous intervention
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Again, this reflects our reality
Enslaved to sin, we cannot redeem ourselves
The very fact that we are enslaved means that we don’t even desire to be set free
“as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.”
- desires and passions of our flesh
It is going to take more than a decision - and even if we could make the decision, the sin that enslaves us will not let us go
So our only hope for salvation doesn’t come from within ourselves
It doesn’t come from turning over a new leaf (New Year’s resolutions always fall flat)
Try as you might to be morally perfect, we don’t take long to fall back into old habits
We will always fall back to acting in a way that is consistent with our nature
Our hope is not in our own abilities then, but in God
We rely on God to act on our behalf
Our hope the
We rely on God to come with a divine intervention, a miraclous intervention
As we will see: Israel’s redemption was 100% the divine intervention of God
It was not the result of a nation standing up together to fight against the evil Egyptian regime, and winning by physical strength and numbers
Our salvation
They needed God to act on their behalf
“But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.”
Our redemption from slavery will never be the result of a human act - not even a decision
John 1
Our redemption begins with God who acts in mercy and grace and comes to our rescue - not on the basis of our virtue, but, on the basis of His promise
3. The God Who Redeems
Exodus 6:1:
God begins to reveal His strength
So begins the 10 plagues
Water turned to blood
Frogs
Gnats
Flies
Livestock die
Boils
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