Advice on Living Through A Plague: Part 1 Exodus 6:28-7:24
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INTRODUCTION: Let me tell you a story of bad guys, dark magic, snakes fighting, and water turning to blood.
You might say that isn’t allowed in church, but its the Bible.
We are speaking about plagues…Imagine living through a time where (funny Covid).
Whether its covid or just the storms of life, we can all learn from this.
28 On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.” 30 But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”
Repeat/recap what we spoke about last week.
Theme: I am the Lord. Nothing else really matters.
He was still scared - uncircumcised lips.
1 And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.
Like God to Pharaoh - weird statement. But as a prophet, he was speaking as God. That’s not me. God’s word is prophetic. I’m not.
Aaron shall be your prophet - Not God, yours.
2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.
You shall speak - so Moses was still speaking. Aaron was sent as his helper, but God will still stretch you.
all that I command you - It is easy to preach some of what is commanded. But all is hard.
3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt,
But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart - Discuss. fortify his heart.
If you don’t want to have your heart hareded, then believe in him.
4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.
Regardless of what will happen pharoah will not listen. Meaning that all that is going on is bigger than pharaoh.
He is telling him exactly what is going to happen.
Realize it’s in God’s hands.
Realize it’s in God’s hands.
5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.”
You want to know God before he stretches his hand out against you. One day every knee will bow. But you get to choose now if it will be under your own volition or because God made you.
6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Scripture is clear: you are never to old or to young to be used by God and obey God.
8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 9 “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Prove yourselves by working a miracle,’ then you shall say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it may become a serpent.’ ”
Prove yourselves - this is the second time they spoke to him. haha illustration: prove it!
working a miracle - He isn’t going to believe it. So don’t say if I saw a mirccled I would believe. Not necisarrily.
serpent - reptile creature.
10 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, and it became a serpent.
Apprently Praroah asked him to prove it.
11 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts.
He would have wise men and sorerers. They were like witch doctors.
You can pinch a snake to make them go limp.
12 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs.
Awesome. They faked it, but God was real. Satan tries to imitate God. But God is the authentic.
Some have said they can train snakes. We don’t know.
Satan can imitate the power of God, but not overcome the power of God.
Satan can imitate the power of God, but not overcome the power of God.
Satan is able to confuse and replicate God’s working. He is able to mak things look good, but it is fake.
(EXAMPLES: ......)
13 Still Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
The important thing here is - As the Lord had said.
14 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.
Rituallistic bathing?
16 And you shall say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But so far, you have not obeyed.
17 Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.
18 The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile.” ’ ”
Plagues expose our idols.
Plagues expose our idols.
19 And the Lord said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’ ”
Everything turns to blood.
20 Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.
21 And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
Have you ever smelled dead fish? Imagine every fish died.
22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same by their secret arts. So Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
Once again, they mimic it. This one is easy. They brought some dye out.
23 Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.
24 And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile for water to drink, for they could not drink the water of the Nile.
A Move of God can’t be stopped.
A Move of God can’t be stopped.
Turn water into blood.
The first plague, turning the Nile to blood, was a judgment against Apis, the god of the Nile, Isis, goddess of the Nile, and Khnum, guardian of the Nile. The Nile was also believed to be the bloodstream of Osiris, who was reborn each year when the river flooded. The river, which formed the basis of daily life and the national economy, was devastated, as millions of fish died in the river and the water was unusable. Pharaoh was told, “By this you will know that I am the LORD” (Exodus 7:17).