Daring Escapes Exodus 1-15

Moses “There is properly no history; only biography” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) “There is properly no history; only biography” (Ralph Waldo Emerson) “The study of history is nothing more than the study of great men and women” (Thomas Carlyle) “The study of history is nothing more than the study of great men and women” (Thomas Carlyle)

Moses “Genesis, for example, is nothing more than the biography of twelve men wrapped up in a historical account of God’s movement on this earth” (Charles Swindoll, p 191) “Genesis, for example, is nothing more than the biography of twelve men wrapped up in a historical account of God’s movement on this earth” (Charles Swindoll, p 191) Adam, Cain, Abel, Seth Adam, Cain, Abel, Seth Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth Noah, Shem, Ham, Japheth Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph

Moses

Faith Answers The Call

Calling

Exodus 3:11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?“ NASU

Excuse: Who am I? (3:11) Answer: “It is who I Am…” Excuse: Who are you? (3:13) Answer: “I Am” - God of fathers What if no one listens? (4:1) Answer: “I will help you” I don’t speak well (4:10) Answer: “I made mouths” I don’t want to (4:13) Answer: God became angry

Courage Exodus 4:1-3 Then Moses said, "What if they will not believe me or listen to what I say? For they may say, 'The Lord has not appeared to you.'" 2 The Lord said to him, "What is that in your hand?" And he said, "A staff." 3 Then He said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. NASU

Courage Exodus 4:4-5 4 But the Lord said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail" — so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand — 5 "that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you." NASU

Courage Exodus 4:20 20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand. NASU

Faith Answers The Call

STOP: Stop making excuses STRENGTH: Focus on His strength, not our weaknesses STAFF: Give Him our staffs

Exodus 7-11

Faith Focuses on The Father

Exodus 4: But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go. 21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, 22 but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

1 Samuel 6:6 Why should you harden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? After he had dealt severely with them, did they not send the people away, and they departed?

Exodus 7:3-5 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 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. 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.”

Exodus 9: For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth. 16 But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.

The Plagues

SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION SELF: Frogs, Lice, Flies, Boils, First-born SUSTINANCE: Blood, Hail, Locust, Darkness SPIRITUALITY: – NILE - Blood (“Father of life/gods”) – SUN - Darkness (Ra) – EARTH - Hail/Locust

SYSTEMATIC DESTRUCTION

Faith Focuses on The Father

Egypt looked to their gods, their land, their strength God turned their gaze upon Him Where are we looking?

Exodus 6-11

Faith Eats Standing Up

PREPARATION PREPARATION PASSOVER PASSOVER

Ex 12:1-4 Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 "This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. 3 "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers' households, a lamb for each household. 4 'Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb NASU

Ex 12:5-10 unblemished blood 5 'Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 'You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. 7 'Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 'They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 'Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails. 10 'And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.

Ex 12:1-13 with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste 'The blood shall be a sign 11 'Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste — it is the Lord's Passover. 12 'For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments — I am the Lord. 13 'The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. NASU

Ex 12: Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did., for there was no home where there was not someone dead. "Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also." 29 Now it came about at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead. 31 Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, worship the Lord, as you have said. 32 "Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also." NASU

1 Corinthians 5:6-8 1 Corinthians 5:6-8 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough? 7 Clean out the old leaven so that you may be a new lump, just as you are in fact unleavened. For Christ our Passover also has been sacrificed. 8 Therefore let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. NASU NASU

John 19:36-37 John 19: For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, "NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN." 37 And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED." 36 For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, "NOT A BONE OF HIM SHALL BE BROKEN." 37 And again another Scripture says, "THEY SHALL LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED." NASU NASU

Mark 14:12-13 Mark 14: On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, "Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?" 12 On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover lamb was being sacrificed, His disciples said to Him, "Where do You want us to go and prepare for You to eat the Passover?" NASU NASU

Mark 14:22-25 Mark 14: While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body." 23 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 And He said to them, "This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 25 "Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." 22 While they were eating, He took some bread, and after a blessing He broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is My body." 23 And when He had taken a cup and given thanks, He gave it to them, and they all drank from it. 24 And He said to them, "This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. 25 "Truly I say to you, I will never again drink of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." NASU NASU

PREPARATION PREPARATION PASSOVER PASSOVER

Faith Eats Standing Up

Freedom Comes at a Price Freedom Comes at a Price Faith Eats Standing Up Faith Eats Standing Up Forgetting is Not an Option Forgetting is Not an Option

Faith Walks in Water

Ex 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones from here with you. Ex 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones from here with you." Gen 50: Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely take care of you, and you shall carry my bones up from here." 26 So Joseph died at the age of one hundred and ten years; and he was embalmed and placed in a coffin in Egypt.

Faith Walks in Water

I will sing to the Lord exalted I will sing to the Lord exalted Horse and rider hurled into the sea Horse and rider hurled into the sea He’s my strength, my song, and salvation He’s my strength, my song, and salvation He’s my God, I will praise He’s my God, I will praise

He’s a warrior, mighty warrior He’s a warrior, mighty warrior The Lord is His name The Lord is His name He’s a warrior, mighty warrior He’s a warrior, mighty warrior The Lord is His name The Lord is His name

I will sing to the Lord exalted I will sing to the Lord exalted Horse and rider hurled into the sea Horse and rider hurled into the sea He’s my strength, my song, and salvation He’s my strength, my song, and salvation He’s my God, I will praise He’s my God, I will praise

He’s a warrior, mighty warrior He’s a warrior, mighty warrior The Lord is His name The Lord is His name He’s a warrior, mighty warrior He’s a warrior, mighty warrior The Lord is His name The Lord is His name

I will sing to the Lord exalted I will sing to the Lord exalted Horse and rider hurled into the sea Horse and rider hurled into the sea He’s my strength, my song, and salvation He’s my strength, my song, and salvation He’s my God, I will praise He’s my God, I will praise

He’s a warrior, mighty warrior He’s a warrior, mighty warrior The Lord is His name The Lord is His name He’s a warrior, mighty warrior He’s a warrior, mighty warrior The Lord is His name The Lord is His name

Daring Escapes Exodus 1-15