Divine Emancipation Proclamation
John 8:34-36
The need for a way (Problem)
slavery
The state of being an unpaid servant, whether through forcible subjection or voluntary submission. Slavery was common in biblical times, and Scripture lays down strict guidelines as to how slaves are to be treated by their masters, stressing the new status that slaves have as a result of being believers in Jesus Christ. The image of slavery is also used to describe the state of sinful human beings.
The need for the Truth(solution)
29 Now it came about at amidnight that bthe LORD struck all cthe firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of dcattle.
30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was aa great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.
31 Then ahe called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, bget out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, 1worship the LORD, as you have said.
32 “Take aboth your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”
Exodus of Israel
33 aThe Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.”
34 So the people took atheir dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.