Exodus II Notes Week 1

Goals:

Recap 1st Half of Exodus — very briefly

Exodus 14:30–31 ESV

30 Thus the Lord saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore. 31 Israel saw the great power that the Lord used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the Lord, and they believed in the Lord and in his servant Moses.

Cast Vision for the Series.

Made to Worship

Song — a form of worship

Big Picture

Why is God making for himself a people?

Deuteronomy 4:6–7 ESV

6 Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him?

Why does God save Israel?

the make a people after his name.

A kingdom of priests

Exodus 19:3–6 ESV

3 while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”

Exodus 33:15–16 ESV

15 And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here. 16 For how shall it be known that I have found favor in your sight, I and your people? Is it not in your going with us, so that we are distinct, I and your people, from every other people on the face of the earth?”

What is God’s Purpose?

Genesis 12:3 ESV

3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 3:15 ESV

15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”

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Thoughts

C's Lewis on praise

“But the most obvious fact about praise—whether of God or any- thing—strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise…. The world rings with praise— lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game….My whole, more general difficulty about the praise of God depended on my absurdly denying to us, as regards the supremely Valuable, what we delight to do, what indeed we can’t help doing, about everything else we value. I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.” (Reflections on the Psalms, 94-95)

Exodus means departure

First used in Exodus 19:1

Exodus 19:1 ESV

1 On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.

Exod 19:1 Τοῦ δὲ μηνὸς τοῦ τρίτου τῆς ἐξόδου τῶν υἱῶν Ισραηλ ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ ἤλθοσαν εἰς τὴν ἔρημον τοῦ Σινα.

Jude 5 ESV

5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

Departing Egypt means entrance into something else. After all, God’s people didn’t just exit slavery, they entered into freedom and a new kind of relationship with God. A God that would be in their midst.

In the first part of our Series last year, we looked at God’s great working in deliverance from the bondage of Pharoah. When they crossed through the red sea they were free. But exiting Egypt was only half the journey, what is it hey were entering? A personal relationship with God in the Wilderness.

Three Reasons you should read exodus:

Their Story is Our Story:

The symbolism and connections are so rich. They were a people under bondage (Egypt) as were we (under sin). They were delivered not by their own power but God the power of God, so are we (Saved by the Cross). There was a sacrifice for sin so that by faith they would be passed over, (so are we through the blood of Christ). They exited Egypt and entered the wilderness on their way to the promise land and so are we having been saved from sin, we now are in the wilderness of the world on our way to the promised land (heaven). God’s presence was with them all the way and set them apart as distinct to provide for them, protected them and empower them, we to Have God’s presence through the spirit to protected us, provide for us and empower us. God saved them to be a light to the nations, and God has called us to be salt and light to the nations.

The Exodus gives us insight into what it looks like to walk with God.

Sin, Idolatry and suffering were present all along the way, but so was grace, forgiveness and a greater revelation of God. God’s presence continually followed his people. He led them by a pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day.

Exodus gives us a picture of the Savior.

God worked through one man, Moses, to lead his people. Moses leads them, intercedes for them, and passes on God’s instruction. Moses is a type of Jesus figure, of which Jesus totally fulfills. Just as moses dies before the promised land becuase of sin, so Jesus dies on the cross becuase of sin.

Themes:

1. Personal Relationship With God Glorifies God

Exod 15:2 The Lord is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

Exodus 33:15 ESV

15 And he said to him, “If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here.

John 14:23 ESV

23 Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 14:17 ESV

17 even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.

Contrast w/ Pharoah

Exod 15:9 The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them. I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’

2. Worship is the proper response to God’s Glory

Exod 15:1 Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying, “I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.

Exod 15 is a song to God after deliverance

Expression of Worship completes the experience (C.S. Lewis)

Exod 15:11 “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?

3. God’s Supremacy over all things

Exod 15:6 Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.