Salvation by blood

v. 19-23

Those seeking his life are now dead

Just as Jesus when he was a baby,

Joseph was told to leave Egypt, because Harod was dead

giving some assurance to Moses

Moses takes his family and the staff

Family

He did not leave them behind.

at some point he does send them back because he fetches them later, but for now he does take them

Families serve together

parents are to be teaching kids how to do ministry

Parents need to be ‘seen’ doing ministry

don’t just do what i say, but watch as i do.”

God’s staff

notice no longer called ‘Moses’ staff’

God has made it his, a tool for his purpose and use

Symbol of God’s power and the salvation of his people

mighty acts done in Egypt, parting of Red Sea, flowing water from a rock

We now have a new symbol of God’s power and salvation

the cross

Acts to be done for the people and for Pharaoh

one for their assurance, the other for power

Pharaoh’s hard heart

Important theme in the Exodus story

God’s sovereignty, His will

God will use this as an example of God’s power and His will

There is only one this that will soften this hard heart, and that will be death, but not of Pharaoh

My son and your son

God has laid claim to the Hebrew people

They are my son, you have refused me my son

God is not only laying claim to them, but showing his authority over Pharaoh himself.

God showing Pharaoh you are only a vassel, I am the true King. You work for me and you have held my son from me.

He was preventing them from serving their father

Grand theme of Exodus: God saving his sons from slavery so that they could serve him.

eye for an eye, a son for a son

Exodus—Saved for God's Glory God’s Firstborn Son

Dutch Bible scholar Cornelis Houtman writes, “In the dispute about the question to whom Israel belongs and who is her legitimate ruler, Pharaoh or Yahweh, Yahweh at last will show that he has intimate emotional ties with Israel. Pharaoh had better know that to Yahweh Israel is not just his own people, they are also dear to him.… Pharaoh is going to be hit at his most sensitive spot, the spot where he has touched Yahweh himself, in the love for the firstborn.”

This is why God sent his only son to be our savior

Christ is the perfect son

served his father with complete devotion, everything God wanted in a son.

Exodus—Saved for God's Glory God’s Firstborn Son

Charles Spurgeon writes, “The Lord Jesus comes, identifies himself with the enslaved family, bears the curse, fulfils the law, and then on the ground of simple justice demands for them full and perfect liberty, having for them fulfilled the precept, and for them endured the penalty.”

We are now children of God, sons of God.

The perfect Son came, rescued us, and sets us as Sons of God

Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.

A bloody Bridegroom (v 24-26)

Moses nearly dies?

yes!

why?

Moses was called to bring the Covenant people out of Egypt, but he himself had not identified with the covenant

He failed to circumcise his son

covenant required on the son’s 8th day

Egypt they would do this on the day the son turned 14.

This sin led to his near death

for the wages of sin is death...

Due to his condition, Moses could not do it so his wife did

she cut off her oldest son’s foreskin and touched it to Moses

“bridegroom of blood” she was not mad at him.

what saved Moses was the circumcision of his son

why death?

For Moses refusal to go to Egypt God was patient with him

but for the refusal to accept the covenant, was death.

Moses needed to set the example

if he was to lead them out, he needed to keep the covenant.

“How could he be Israel’s prophet if he neglected his spiritual responsibility to his own family by failing to include them in God’s salvation?”

Lessons about salvation

spiritual importance

today not circumcision but baptism

Col 2:11-12 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.

Though baptism does not save, it is the sign of your salvation

“if you declare me before man i will declare you before the father, if you deny me before man i will deny you before the father.”

without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness

this was a test for Moses

giving Moses first hand experience of salvation

the wages of sin put him under God’s wrath

wrath was turned aside by blood

Moses had to be touched by the blood otherwise he could not be identified with it.

“Moses was saved from God’s wrath by the shed blood of a substitute.”

“Everyone who believed in Jesus Christ will be saved from God’s wrath through the vicarious sacrifice he offered on the cross. There is no other way to be saved.”

Back in Egypt (v. 27-31)

Moses Meets Aaron

shows him the signs God instructed him to

they show the people

the people believe

comfort in knowing God hears your cries

comfort in knowing God will help

Comfort in knowing you are not alone in your troubles.