Revival From Bondage Exodus 6:1-13

Introduction –

· The crack of the taskmaster’s whip told the whole story. The people of Israel were slaves in Egypt. They had been slaves for 400 years and it looked as though they were going to stay that way forever. Tens of thousands of their forefathers had been born, lived and had died slaves in Egypt.

o Then, one day, a man named Moses shows up; a man who had been born into one of the poor slave families of Egypt. A slave that had even been adopted into Pharaoh’s house, but one who was still the offspring of slaves. One of their own! He came to them telling them stories of meeting the God of their Fathers.

o Moses claimed to have met God on one of the mountains. His stories were of God’s love for them and of God’s great plans to deliver them from their present bondage. At the first, it had been exciting for the people of Israel to think that they would be set free, but Pharaoh had not been amused. He had increased their work and had ordered the taskmasters to be more cruel than usual.

· Most of Israel had come to believe that Moses was just an old fool who was trying to get the people killed.

o They even shared their feeling with Moses, Ex. 5:20-21.

· Moses, in turn, takes their complaint before the Lord.

o In response, God issues the people of Israel a splendid promise. As you read the Lord’s response to His people, you will find there are seven “I will” statements made by the Lord. These are things God intends to do on their behalf.

§ God was going to change their states from Slave to Free! But first they had to let God change them!

o What I want to suggest today first, what revival is; Revival, “is a movement of God”

§ And revival comes when His people are caught up in His moving.

· This means that we are changed.

o Our states changes.

o That we move from who we are, to something we don’t yet know, but we move because we believe God said move and we followed Him.

§ So Revival is a moving From something, and a moving TO something.

§ From darkness, To Light

· That is what we see in the life of Israel in the book of Exodus, “Revival From Bondage”

READ TEXT… Stand (CSB)

Exodus 6:1–5 CSB

1 But the Lord replied to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: because of a strong hand he will let them go, and because of a strong hand he will drive them from his land.” 2 Then God spoke to Moses, telling him, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’ 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as aliens. 5 Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

Prayer… Good Father, help me to preach the message that WE need to heir today. In Jesus name, Amen.

3 things to bring forward from this passage:

1. (V. 1-5) Bondage Does Not Require Faith.

a. Moses was the man of God who God called to a God sized task, To take the people of God from bondage to freedom.

i. Change is always difficult, but it is often needed.

ii. Understanding change is needed, is not the same as changing.

1. Illustration: wiring that old brown shirt that is conferrable saying, “I should get a new shirt.” Is entry different, then throwing that shirt away and putting on a new one. Thought the new is better, brighter, laking defect, we straggle to move to it don’t we? WHY? We have relationship with the old shirt that we don’t have with the new one. It takes effort to put on a new one. It take overcoming our unfamiliarity with the old to move on to the new.

iii. SEE: to stay with the old requires nothing on our part.

b. Israel was in a hard spot.

i. The mighty bondage warden was very powerful.

1. Pharaoh, had the most powerful man, in the most powerful country, in the most powerful city in all the earth at the time.

2. And God Said it would take “a strong hand (before) he will let them go”

a. Pharaoh was not about to let go easily.

Exodus 3:19 (CSB)

19 “However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, even under force from a strong hand.

3. A strong hand of man, would not be sufficient to change the mind of the great warden of Israel.

a. It was going to take An ALL powerful hand a “strong hand” of GOD!

c. 400 years of bondage.

i. God’s man, Moses was before these people with a message from God to be free, but generation after generation of people in bondage have a fear of getting out of it. Why? That is all they know.

Exodus 6:9 CSB

9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.

d. You see, to move out of bondage requires going into the unknown. They were raised in bondage, and it was a major faith step to leave even this harebell miserable situation.

i. You and I can experience bondage in our raising as well.

ii. It hits us at the cure of who we are as people when God calls us to change us from how we were resid

iii. If how we where raided keeps us in bondage, we were raised wrong.

e. Illustration: This is Israel, 400 years of slavery. It was all you know, it was all your daddy know, all his daddy, and his daddy, and his daddy before him.

i. All each generation know how to do was to teach the next generation how to live in bondage.

f. Illustration: My grandfather took up a lot of time with me and thought me lot’s of great things passing down what he know to the next generation. He taught me how to Drive a nail, Drive a screw, Drive a Tracker and a truck, but he also taught me to look down at people of color as second rate people.

Rick was the young black man who helped by Grandfather from time to time. He always rode in the back of the truck, never come in the house, and always ate lunch in the baron by himself as the rest of us ate in the house at the table.

1. We often excuse sinful behavior, especially of our own family as “well, that is just the way they were raised.”

ii. Later in life I had an encounter with the gospel of King Jesus.

1. The salvation that is offered freely to “Anyone who believes” – John 3:16.

2. A God who Loved the outcast, and Calls His followers to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” – Mark 12:31

3. This God was the God of freedom, not the god of bandage.

g. The sin of racism is the opposite of the Gospel of King Jesus, yet I was raised to be raciest. It did not take faith for me to be a racist why? That was all I ever know.

i. What took faith was hiring the truth of God, being encountered with it demand to change me at the very core of who I was, and following Christ by adopted Father rather then my heritage of my grandfather who loved me and gave me so many good things, but in this case he was simply wrong.

h. What may natural grandfather was passing down was the bondage of sin that leads to death.

i. What my Adopted Father was teaching me was a MOVE from bondage into freedom of life!

i. But we want to say where we are because our…

Bondage Douse Not Require Faith

2. (V. 2-9) Presser Moves Us From Bondage.

Exodus 9:6–9 CSB

6 The Lord did this the next day. All the Egyptian livestock died, but none among the Israelite livestock died. 7 Pharaoh sent messengers who saw that not a single one of the Israelite livestock was dead. But Pharaoh’s heart was hard, and he did not let the people go. 8 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Take handfuls of furnace soot, and Moses is to throw it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. 9 It will become fine dust over the entire land of Egypt. It will become festering boils on people and animals throughout the land of Egypt.”

b. In this passage there are seven “I will” statements made by the Lord.

i. V. 6

ii. I will bring you out from the forced labor

iii. I will rescue you

iv. I will redeem you

v. V. 7

vi. I will take you as My people

vii. I will be your God.

viii. V. 8

ix. I will bring you to the land

x. I will give it to you as a possession

c. We know that these promises are true and that they are available because of 5 statement in V. 2, 3, 6, 7, 8 “I am the Lord.”

i. This is:

1. the unchanging God,

2. the God who keeps His promises,

3. the God who is only good and always has our best at heart.

4. The all-consuming, all-powerful, uncreated creator God!

d. And Israel had an edge that the past generations did not have.

i. V. 3 (they new God personally, they know His name) God said

Exodus 6:3 CSB

3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’

1. We have a personal God who is good and right and full of love. He has a name, JESUS! Who so loved us that He took our penalty of sin on Himself so that we might be set free from the bondage of sin.

ii. This God named JESUS payed the high price of our slavery by Himself dying your slave death. He literally took on hell in your place so that you could be free, and with Him.

1. This Jesus offers each of us His free gift of salvation to anyone who would believe, but would you believe that He gets turned down all the time!

iii. WHY?

e. What takes place here in Exodus 6 can help us understand why. V. 9 “Moses told this to the Israelites, (this being the 7 I Will promises from the personal named God) but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.”

i. Why was Israel not absolutely thrilled at the thought of being set free?

ii. Why were they not jumping at the chance for the change?

1. Clearly for the same resin you and I don’t jump at the chance to change.

iii. We can’t see on the other side of change.

f. We fist have to relies that were we are is leading us to death and not life in order to change.

g. Illustration: Dr. Tom Rainer in his book Who Moved My Pulpit tells this story.

i. “A physician gave a man in his late fifties a warning. The X-rays showed his lungs to be scarred from years of smoking. The doctor had seen such situations many times. Lung cancer or emphysema would follow. Either path would lead to death, often a cruel and painful death.

ii. But the doctor offered the man hope. He did not have cancer at the moment. He did not have emphysema. The damage to his lungs, the physician explained, could be at least partly reversed if he just stopped smoking. If he did not, his life would likely be cut short.

1. The choice was simple; change or die.

iii. To be certain, the change would be difficult. Anyone who has kicked the smoking habit will tell you that.

1. But the decision itself was basic: change or die.

iv. The man chose to keep smoking. He made NO attempt to kick his habit. And he died at the relatively young age of 62.”

1. The chilling part of this story is that it is about the authors own father.

h. Israel was living in death, in bondage, held incapable of fulfilling the full plan and blessing of God that He had intended for them.

i. What if Israel had stayed?

ii. What if Israel had not followed God in the change that He called for?

iii. What if they had missed the blessings of God?

1. The Red sea parting

2. Mana from heaven

3. Given the land of milk and honey

4. Jerusalem and the temple of God

5. Being the seed of God that brought salvation to the WORLD for eternity by being the line of JESUS CHRIST!

i. Israel would have MISSED out on ALL that!

i. All because they did not trust God when the time come to change or die!

1. Praise Jesus they let God bring them out!

j. What might we be missing out on if we stay where we are and don’t change?

i. What REVIVEL is; is change. It is moving with God

1. IT is living in sin, lookwromness, and uncaring THEN being moved by the MIGHTY hand of GOD to freedom of Rightness, Fire for God, loving others more them ourselves!

a. That’s revival, but it stats with a change.

k. God moves His people to change by using the presser of Faith.

i. The Israel lights felt the presser of freedom in God. They had to believe in what the God of the universe had promise would come true.

l. Illustration: I were braces for 2 years and 8 months of my life. (I am not bitter) To this day I can’t stand somebody in my mouth. It was like having my face in a vice all the time. Every month would go back to they could tighten the vice more. It was painful!

i. My Mom said “it was good for me, but it was very hard to believe that when I was seating in a chair with a man over me with a pare of pliers tinting this thing.”

1. But I came out of that movement with changed teeth! Straight and right in place.

m. We buck against the presser to move because it is uncomfortable.

i. But it is the presser of FAITH to follow Christ that God uses to bring us to were His full blessing are for you and me lives.

Bondage Does Not Require Faith

Presser Moves Us From Bondage

3. (V. 10-13) God Calls Us Out Of Bondage.

Exodus 6:10–13 CSB

10 Then the Lord spoke to Moses, 11 “Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land.” 12 But Moses said in the Lord’s presence, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker?” 13 Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them commands concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

b. Moses was the mouth peace of God in the lives of the enslaved Israelites.

i. Moses was concerned because His speaking ability was not good. He did not have the charismatic power of the gift of gab.

ii. God told Moses, “that’s ok Moses, because I am going to give you instructions of what to do, so that, when I act, Israel will clearly know that I am moving them from bondage into freedom.”

c. God did not die on the cross of Calvary so that you could live in bandage.

i. He died that you might have LIFE and in Abundance.

1. Jesus said, “I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.” – John 10:10

d. What did Jesus say?

Matthew 6:33 CSB

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

1. Revival is this: Dropping everything we have ever known, and seeking the kingdom FIRST!

e. God calls His people out of the bondage of all sources of bondage.

i. Bondage of Pornography

ii. Bondage of Adultery

iii. Bondage of Laying

iv. Bondage of Stilling

v. Bondage of self-satisfaction

1. A lie of the slave master (Satan) is that we need to keep doing these things for our or others own good.

a. It is a stress roseleaf to view pornography a little, it is just me.

b. It is good for others for me to tell a little white lie now and then.

c. It is not hurting for me to take what is not mine because I am using it to benefit others.

2. Our justifications are like chains raped around our ankles, and each time we fall pray to our sin they get heavier and heavier.

vi. SOME of you are in Bondage of Being a good person

1. You have been trying so hard to be Southernly Sweet, or the, give them the shirt off your back, good old boy, for so long you think that is what it means for be a follower of Christ.

2. You know the death of the darkness of your heat, your thoughts, the unhappiness that rots within you, but you can’t seen to let go, because, “everyone would know that I am not good.”

vii. You’re a slave to your own goodness, You in bondage.

1. Your in bondage to the fact that you look so clean on the outside, but are hypocritical, Nasty on the inside.

a. Jesus said, “STOP washing the outside of your cup”

f. Illustration: in Matthew 23 This is what Jesus was saying to the Pharisees and scribes. They had created a culture of goodness, and it had them in chains. Generation after generation passed down this bondage of hypocriticy, yet they loved the fact that people sow them as GOOD more then what God through of their heart.

Matthew 23:25–26 CSB

25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside of it may also become clean.

g. Three cups, two with clear water “freedom” one with dirty water “slavery” – all are clean on the outside, but when poured, in to a pitcher, out you see which is a slave and which is free.

i. The third cup is to dink from. Jesus said,

John 4:14 CSB

14 But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.”

1. A well spring of life sounds like freedom to me!

h. Some Bondage we can clearly see:

i. Sexual immorality – Any sexual act outside of the bonds of Marriage, same sex couples.

ii. Drug addiction

iii. Achiral addiction

i. Some Bondage we are blind to

i. Hatred – which is the same as murder

ii. Lust – that is Adultery

iii. Self-Idolatry – worshiping ourselves rather then worshiping God.

Conclusion:

· Some of you know your cup is nasty on the inside, but you like your slavery.

o You have found a since of secretary, and though it is fading away, pleasure in your slavery.

o It takes NO faith to stay in bondage. You’re like a child that refuses to have is dipper changed. Yes, this mess will cause me great pain, but it worm and it mine!

The God Named Jesus, dead to pay your penalty for that Sin. He is offering you freedom from your slavery, but must trust in Him.

Some of you are NOT like the cup. At least your genuine. Everyone can see your slavery, and you don’t care. At least, that is what you would have us all to believe.

The God Named Jesus, dead to pay your penalty for your Sin. He is offering Your freedom from your slavery, but you have to trust Him.

Some of you remember what it was like to be a slave to sin. God has washed your cup, inside and out. Your got joy like a fountain.

WHY? Because The God Named Jesus, dead to pay your penalty for your Sin. He gave you freedom from your slavery, you have to trust Him, now, You can be a light in this dark world.

GO, duplicate yourself. Makes disciples.

You might be like Moses, “but I can’t speak in a charismatic way.”

God dose not need you to be “Your ideal” Christian, All God asks is that you trust Him, by your obedience to His commands that lead to life. That’s it.

Slaves, COME the way of the cross!

Because freedom is just over the other side of the Hill of cleverly!

Prayer: “Good Father, Thank You that You payed in full our debt of sin. Lord, we no longer have to go to hell, because You went to hell in our place, came back to raise to new life so that we might live eternally with you. Lord, FREE the changes of bandage that are holding us back from trusting You. The first step is the hardest. But it is in taking that first step that we relies that every proms You have made is completely true. Lord, today, may the captive follow You, out of bondage, into freedom! In Jesus Name, and if you agree with that prayer would you say, Aman!”