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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”

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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.

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.

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