Exodus
Series Schedule:
- Aug 6: Exodus 1 / Israel’s oppression
- Aug 13: Exodus 2:1-10 / Moses’s birth and adoption
- Aug 20: Exodus 2:11-25 / Moses in Midian
- Aug 27: Exodus 3-4 / The burning bush
- Sept 3: Exodus 5-6 / Moses confronts Pharoah, God promises freedom
- Sept 10: Exodus 7-11 / Passover & escape
- Sept 17: Exodus 12-14 / Egyptian pursuit
- Sept 24: Exodus 14-15 / Water, manna, quali provided
- Oct 1: Exodus 15-16 / Rescue from thirst and enemies
- Oct 8: Exodus 18 / Jethro’s visit
- Oct 15: Exodus 19-20 / Sinai and the 10 Commandments
- Oct 29: Exodus 21-24 / Other laws
- Nov 5: Exodus 25-28 / The Objects of Worship
- Nov 12: Exodus 29 / How to consecrate
- Nov 19: Exodus 30-31 / The plan for the implements of worship
- Nov 26: Exodus 32 / The golden calf
- Dec 3: Exodus 33-34 / The tent of meeting
- Dec 10: Exodus 35-39 / Making the objects of worship
- Dec 17: Exodus 40 / Setting up the tabernacle
Exodus 12-13: The Passover
This morning we are in week 7 of our walk through of Exodus. Last week we looked at one of the most well known and powerful stories in Exodus: God’s judgment on Egypt through the ten plagues. In these plagues God judged Egypt’s idolatry, worship of false gods, proving them to be powerless. Perhaps there were real spiritual forces at work, but they were no match for The Most High God. Also through these plagues, God revealed to Pharaoh and…
Exodus 7-11 The Plagues
Today’s passage is a story of war, a war between God and the nation of Egypt. And it is a war between God and Egypt’s gods (or their so-called gods). The Egyptians worshiped dozens, even hundreds of false gods. And through the Story of the Ten Plagues, the Lord easily defeats all of them. God is the initiator of this war because his chosen people, the descendants of Abraham are enslaved, being violently oppressed by the king of Egypt. And…
Exodus 5-6: God’s Faithfulness in our Faithlessness
Today’s passage sits at a transition between two famous “scenes” in the Exodus narrative: The Burning Bush, and the Plagues. It sets the stage for one of the most important and encouraging messages God sends his people by his actions in delivering them from their bondage. Paul puts it this way to his young protege Timothy: 13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful, for he cannot deny himself. 2 Timothy 2:13 (CSB) Let’s back up into our passage from…
Exodus 3-4: The Burning Bush
Let’s read Exodus 3:1-10. Exodus 3 (CSB) 1 Meanwhile, Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 Then the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed. 3 So Moses thought, “I must…
Learning to see the invisible
In today’s passage, we see a story of trying to carry out God’s work in our own timing and in our own strength and with our own wisdom, and how this always brings about disaster. Last week, we studied the narrative of Moses’s birth and God’s amazing protection and providence in his being saved from genocide, and being adopted by a princess of Egypt. In today’s passage, the narrative fast forwards through all of Moses’s upbringing and early adult life,…
Exodus 2:1-10 Moses’s Birth and Adoption
In this passage, God is at work in his providence through simple human deeds, all of it working towards sending a deliverer to redeem Israel from centuries of cruel bondage.
Exodus 1: Israel’s Oppression
We are beginning a sermon series for the Fall on the Book of Exodus. Exodus is filled with many well-known stories: These are all remarkable, inspiring stories that tell us who God is, and we see examples of both faith and unbelief. Examples of great deeds of faith, and extraordinary acts of evil. Almost 2/3 of the book is stories. Yet Exodus has even more to offer us than those stories. For there is something grand going on at the…