Exodus Wk 2 - Sermon - God Redeems

Justin Ashurst

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WELCOME/INTRO

RIGGED VIDEO GAMES

This is like God, but in a good way.

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Continuing in Exodus today

We’ll be in

BIBLES

WEEK 1 RECAP

Genesis Story - Creation, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph — Egypt

Exodus - Things not going well for Israel

Obedience does not equal Ease

When Suffering / unmet expectations comes our way

Lament

Remember

Persevere — together

Today, things get worse

But we have a GOD WHO REDEEMS

RESOURCES

PRAY

leadership, kids, Iran

THINGS GET WORSE

Phase 1 of Jewish Pop Control if a Failure.

Exodus 1:12–14 ESV

12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves 14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

Notice What is driving Pharaoh:

says they were in “dread” of the people of Israel

But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves 14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

This means they both feared them and began to hate them.

I think the Parallels to Nazi Germany and the Jewish Holocaust are uncanny here.

Pharaoh’s plan of systematic persecution isn’t working.

So he implements PHASE 2: POPULATION CONTROL

Exodus 1:15–16 ESV

Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

Exodus 1:15-

WHAT’S HAPPENING HERE?

PHRH, the most POWERFUL PERSON IN THE WORLD

The man who THINKS HE IS GOD INCARNATE

Summons these two women and commands them to betray their own people and begin killing the boys that are born.

Now, WHAT IS A MIDWIFE?

Men: it’s not some kid of witch doctor, or something you get before you get a full wife

It’s a person’s whose job is to HELP BRING LIFE INTO THE WORLD.

They deliver babies.

PHRH, who is a picture of satan here, does what Satan does:

He takes that which was meant to bring life and turn it to bring death.

These women would have READY ACCESS to carryout this horrific plan.

No doubt if they disobeyed their life was at stake.

This was a MAN OF IMMENSE POWER.

On the other hand, if they succeeded undoubtedly they were promised great wealth.

PHRH assumed that “there is no sort of evil that people will not do if there is adequate personal gain for doing it (cf. ).”

there is no sort of evil that people will not do if there is adequate personal gain for doing it (cf. ).

This is the MORAL DILEMMA these women faced.

What would they decide in the face of such danger?

You’ve got to FEEL THIS TENSION.

What would they choose?

Other’s lives for the sake of their own?

Or their own life for the sake of others?

Let’s find out:

Exodus 1:17 ESV

But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

Phew! Oh thank God!

NOTICE WHY...

They “feared God”

There are really only two options here:

Fear God or Fear man

Love God or Love Self

Galatians 1:10 ESV

10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.

These women chose God.

“The fear of the Lord” is the beginnning of Wisdom

“A woman who fears the Lord is to be praised”

They chose Godliness

That’s why these two women are named by NAME here.

This is extremely significant.

Not even Pharaoh is named here.

But these two women are.

the Hebrew construction is not just mentioning the women’s names in passing but actually focusing on them

WHY?

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

The answer would appear to be that they were to be regarded as heroes in Israel’s early history—so noteworthy for their bravery in choosing to obey God rather than Pharaoh that they deserved to be remembered so that others might follow their example.

EXCURSUS ON WOMEN IN THE BIBLE

Now, I just want to point out something here.

Some claim that the BIBLE DEGRADES woman.

But we see just the opposite here: THE BIBLE IS UPLIFTING WOMEN

In-fact in this section today we will see 5 different women that play a crucial role in God’s plan of salvation.

4 of them will be named in the book of exodus, the exception being pharaoh’s daughter who we will see in a moment.

These two women are mentioned by name!

Rather than oppressing women, we see the Bible dignifying them.

And at ONE HOPE CHURCH we value are women.

We have some incredible women here…AMEN!

This CHURCH isn’t what it is without some of the strong women of faith we have here.

So let me ask you, WOMEN OF ONE HOPE:

Are you a woman who fears the Lord rather than man?

Would you have chosen as Shiprah and Puah did?

I hope so!

If you want to grow to be this kind of woman we have a number of things going on:

Women’s Group that meets on Monday Nights

Women’s Bible Study that is meeting on Tuesday Nights

Mom’s Group that meets on Thursday Mornings

Our Women’s Facebook Group is active and a great place to connect.

One of our leaders is going to be helping women understand the First five books of the Bible (exod being number 2) through this FACEBOOK Grp

If you are a woman and want to get more connected then

fill out your connect Card and in the Prayer/Comments say something like “I wanted to get more connected with One Hope Women”

Ok, that was all FREE let’s jump back into Exodus.

THE DAY OF RECKONING.

Now, it would have take sometime, perhaps years, for PHRH to realize the midwives had disobeyed him.

But when he found out he summoned them.

Exodus 1:

Shiphrah and Puah were almost surely the senior midwives, functioning as the leaders, or administrators, over an indefinite number of others

Midwife - not a witchdoctor

Why they are named / what they were offered?

What would they do?

Exodus 1:17 ESV

But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

Exodus 1:18–19 ESV

They would betray their people, or their God

They feared the Lord rather than man.

Exod 1:18-

The loved the Lord rather than self

This is the mark of God’s people.

So they tell a little fib.

Fear of the Lord / vs. man

Love of God / vs. self

WOMEN WHO FEAR THE LORD

The Lord uses

Lifts up Women

Some say Bible degrades women, but contrary it uplifts them

Are you a woman who fears the LORD?

Women’s stuff:

Katie’s Women’s FCBK stuff, Mom’s Group, Women’s Connect Group. Women’s Bible Study

Exodus is just reporting what happened.

This likely took a few years for pharaoh to realize they weren’t doing their job.

Some women, amen, I with that was my story.

But now it’s reckoning time

What will happen to them?

Exodus 1:18–22 ESV

18 So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” 19 The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before the midwife comes to them.” 20 So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. 22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

Exod 1:18

Exodus 1:20–21 ESV

20 So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. 21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Exod 1:20

They faced death

But God preserved them “God dealt well with them”

Not only that, he blesses them with Children.

Apparently these women were unable to bear children.

And the people continued to grow.

So PHRH goes to phase 3 “have the Egyptians do it”

Exodus 1:22 ESV

Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”

The call is now to all Egyptians.

The Nile was a source of LIFE AND FLOURISHING FOR EGYPT

and again, we see

what was meant to bring life is used as an instrument of death.

Here’s what happens when a man ‘thinks he is God’

He does not know God and does not Love God

When this happens in leadership, eventually it always leads to atrocities.

In the HISTORY of the WORLD when a society moves away from the God of the Bible

whether that’s Atheism, Communism, Islam, Buddhist, Hindu...

eventually atrocities happen.

Nazi Germany

Communist/Athesit Russia

Communist/Atheist China

Communist/Atheist North Korea

They way women and children are treated in predominately muslim countries.

And in our own COUNTRY the killing of the unborn over the last 50 years dwarfs all of these

60 million lives taken

42,000 already this year.

Did you know today is SANCTITY OF LIFE SUNDAY?

January 13, 1984, President Ronald Reagan issued a proclamation designating January 22 as the first National Sanctity of Human Life Day.

Abortion not only is tragic for the baby but has untold consequences on the women who experience them.

Now, I am very aware that when we bring up abortion

There are women in this room who have experienced this are immediately filled with shame, fear and guilt

I want to take a moment and speak to you.

Jesus forgives all sin. Jesus takes your shame. Jesus died for you.

This is a place for the church to walk alongside of you.

We love you and want to help in any way we can.

But we would also call you to stand with us for the right to life.

Abortion not only is tragic for the baby but has untold consequences on the women who experience them.

The church is here for you.

I want to take a moment an invite my friend Yvette up to share about a ministry that she leads.

APPLAUD AND THANK HER

SERVE EXPO PLUG

We believe in a God of redemption.

There is nothing outside or beyond God’s redeeming power.

Let’s see how this plays out in Exodus.

GOD REDEEMS

This is what happens when a LEADER things he’s God

Fears man rather than God

Loves self rather than God and his people.

It leads to Atrocities, it always does eventually.

The NILE was a source of LIFE, but being used as an INSTRUMENT OF DEATH

Remove the God of the bible from a society and sooner or later atrocities come.

Russia, Nazi Germany, China, North Korea

America is in a war for it’s very soul right now.

The Killing of Babies is not a new thing.

In our DAY:

God can do amazing things through just one life.

Abortion

Sanctity of Life Sunday

We fear God and obey him.

A WORD TO THOSE WHO HAVE HAD AN ABORTION:

Let’s look at what God did through one (un-aborted) LIFE THAT WAS SAVED

Compassion, Grace, Forgiveness

Walk alongside of you and fight for life.

For others hoping that God will give you a child

This is about a God who redeems.

GOD REDEEMS-

Only God can turn evil for good.

tragedy to triumph, suffering to salvation.

Let’s see how he does it this time:

Exodus 2:1–3 ESV

1 Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. 2 The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. 3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

Exodus 2:1–3 ESV

Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

EXO 2:1-

God’s people still multiplying

Trying to save their beautiful baby boy.

Now put yourself there

Every day someone’s coming around looking for any baby boys

Will yours survive?

This whole scene is akin to Nazi Germany.

Imagine this.

Exodus 2:4 ESV

And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.

She’s keeping watch over him.

This is Miriam, who we will hear about later ()

Another woman that’s being highlighted in the Bible

The sense here is of suspense, she’s wants to be aware if anything goes wrong

Then something does.

Exodus 2:5–6 ESV

Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

PHRH’s own daughter!

Surely this kid is a gonner, but something stills Miriams’ voice until the right time.

She watches this take place, is it going to be the end of her baby brother

Is she going to just drop him in the water there?

The suspense!

Finally Miriam speaks up:

Exodus 2:7 ESV

Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

What is she going to say?

Moments like this being an advocate at thrive.

Exodus 2:8–9 ESV

And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

Exodus 2:8–10 ESV

8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. 9 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

He’s safe!

exo 2:8-

GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY AT PLAY

Ok, remember that video game you couldn’t beat?

Midwives Refuse

Nile Option

Basket

This is pharaoh against God.

If PHRH (satan) takes what is good and turns it for evil.

God does the exact opposite

takes what was meant for evil and turns it for God

And he does so in the most amazing ways.

God did not oversee Moses’ birth despite Pharaoh’s edict to kill all newborn males. It was not as if the Lord “reacted” to the decree and thought, “What am I going to do now?”

Rather, it is precisely by means of this decree that God brings deliverance to his people. God is in full control both of Moses’ birth and of the external circumstances that threaten to undo it.

God does not remove Moses from the situation, nor does he strike down Pharaoh who dares to oppose him, both of which he certainly could have done. Instead, God places Moses in the same Nile that Pharaoh intends for the boy’s harm, brings the boy right to Pharaoh’s doorstep, and has him raised in Pharaoh’s house.

Why? To defeat the enemy decisively at his own game, at the very heart of his strength. Now the savior of Israel can grow up safe and secure, free not only from Pharaoh’s wrath but from the debilitating effects of slavery. It was the discovery by an Egyptian, under other conditions likely to lead to the boy’s death, leads instead to a perfect protection of his life. This is God at work, providing deliverance in an unanticipated yet wonderful way.

A BASKET? I DON’T THINK SO!

We just read, and you’ve all probably heard, that MOSES was put in a BASKET

THAT’S NOT THE WORD HERE!

GUESS WHAT IS: ARK! IT’S A LITTLE ARK

The only other place this word is used in all of the bible is in the Story of NOAH!

28x In the WHOLE BIBLE

2 here and 26 in the STORY OF NOAH’S ARK.

When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket …She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

Exodus 2:3 ESV

3 When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.

And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:7 ESV

7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives with him went into the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

LOOK AT GOD’S MASTERFUL STORY.

Just as NOAH was preserved from the waters of DESTRUCTION through and ARK

So to Moses would be preserved through the waters of destruction through an ARK

The very thing PHRH had intended for the DESTRUCTION of MOSES is how he is SAVED.

Not only that...

12 Chapters from NOW the Hebrew Nation will pass through the waters of the Red Sea and be saved from PHRH’s destruction.

It would be these same waters that SAVED THE HEBREWS that would DESTROY THE EGYPTIAN ARMY ()

but THERE’S MORE, b/c God writes the BEST STORIES

The REDEMPTION IN THE EXODUS STORY foreshadow’s the REDEMPTION that will be offered in Christ.

A REDEMPTION by the LIFE, DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF CHRIST

So that the CHRIST is an ARK (vessel) by which we are saved from the “waters of destruction” due to sin.

Christ worked salvation for his people not DESPITE HIS DEATH but PRECISELY IN HIS DEATH

A death by which Satan thought he was winning.

which is SIGNIFIED I N THE WATERS OF BAPTISM.

God WRITES A BETTER STORY, A MAJESTIC STORY

CLOSING

This is MY GOD, OUR GOD

IT IS IN HIM and in HIS ABILITIES to REDEEM that we find our HOPE.

this is TRUE HOPE, a LIVING HOPE.

A HOPE that says even if God doesn’t deliver you, doesn’t give you want.

even if we suffer, even if we despair, even if we suffer loss.

Our God REDEEMS.

So that even in DEATH there is life

This is what RESURRECTION IS ALL ABOUT.

REDEMPTION — a LIVING HOPE.

This is why ONE HOPE EXISTS

so that the CITY, NATIONS AND GENERATIONS will find and experience that hope of God in Jesus Christ.

A hope that cannot be defeated.

CLOSING EXHORTATION

So if you are hurting, if you are confused, if you are in pain or distress, or you just feel lost.

Look to the God of the BIBLE

make HIM YOUR GOD

Give HIM YOUR WHOLE LIFE

TRUST in HIS REDEMPTION

This is something the WORLD CAN NEVER TOUCH OR TAKE FROM YOU.

in fact nothing can separate us from the LOVE OF CHRIST.

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?…35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?...37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;

English Standard Version Chapter 8

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

English Standard Version Chapter 8

31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?...37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

That which was to destroy Moses he is preserved through.

Now watch this, this is really cool.

God tells the best stories:

The word is not ‘basket’

it is ‘ark’ as in Noah’s Ark

God preserves his people, and moses through an ark through the water.

10 chapters later, God’s peole will be saved through the waters that destroy the egyptians.

Years later god’s people would be saved through another vessle of teh waters of destruction - By Christ’s atoning sacrifice.

And God’s people would represent their death and resurrection thorugh Christ through what?

Being immersed in and drawn out of water through Batpism.

God is so cool

Exodus 2:10 ESV

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

This is what our hope is in: Redemption

God’s story

Even if we die, we live, God redeems

Where is your hope?

God’s ability to redeem evil is more majestic and marvelous than having never experienced evil.

What people need in their grief, is not to be placated, is not to be ignored, but is to trust in a God who transcends evil and can bend it for good.