1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:02,700 Got a lot of ground to cover this morning, we're going to be 2 00:00:02,708 --> 00:00:08,000 studying the book of Exodus and we're going to kind of be going 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,800 through the majority of the book kind of bouncing back and forth 4 00:00:12,800 --> 00:00:15,700 between a bunch of verses. So if you would like to follow 5 00:00:15,700 --> 00:00:18,100 along in your Bible, that's great. 6 00:00:18,300 --> 00:00:20,800 I've going to put the verses that we're going to be touching 7 00:00:20,800 --> 00:00:24,800 on this morning on the screen for our convenience but the book 8 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:28,400 of Exodus I want to as we study at this morning, I want us to 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,200 understand or look at the questions. 10 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:33,600 And of how. And why does God save us? 11 00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:40,100 So asking that question, obviously we need to assume or 12 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:42,500 we do assume that that that means that we need to save me 13 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:45,600 saved from something and we know that we have all sinned against 14 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:50,100 God, every one of us here and that is a serious problem and 15 00:00:50,100 --> 00:00:52,600 it's our most serious problem that we encounter in our lives 16 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,200 because it separates us from God. 17 00:00:56,600 --> 00:01:00,500 If we're not saved from sin, will live now, physically, but 18 00:01:00,500 --> 00:01:05,500 we will eventually die and be separated from God is and that's 19 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:08,100 not the way that we want to live or die or spend our internally. 20 00:01:08,100 --> 00:01:11,200 We need to be saved from sin. So how does God save us? 21 00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:16,400 And maybe a question, we don't often to stop stop and think 22 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:19,200 about why does God save us? How? 23 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,600 And why does God save us? So, I want us to look at these. 24 00:01:21,700 --> 00:01:25,200 And think about these questions as we look at the book of 25 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:30,300 Exodus. First God Saves Us by his grace. 26 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:36,200 That is how God Saves us, the answer, the Bible gives us in 27 00:01:36,200 --> 00:01:40,100 the book of Exodus as that he saves Us by his grace and grace 28 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,300 is God's unmerited, mercy, that's what Grace is. 29 00:01:44,300 --> 00:01:46,400 God Saves Us by showing Mercy to us. 30 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:50,900 When we do not deserve Us in the Bible deserve it, the Bible 31 00:01:50,900 --> 00:01:54,300 teaches that we deserve destruction and death for our 32 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:57,500 sins and that is a Biblical statement that we see. 33 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:00,500 In the book of Exodus, the excellent Book of Exodus is a 34 00:02:00,500 --> 00:02:03,400 picture of that. Particularly when we look at 35 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,100 pharaoh and the Egyptians. So if we want to go to we're 36 00:02:07,100 --> 00:02:11,400 going to be in chapter 7 first. God through Moses told pharaoh 37 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:15,600 to let his people go out of Egypt and they were slaves. 38 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,900 There. But Pharaoh refused to let them 39 00:02:19,900 --> 00:02:22,700 go. As we know in chapter 7, verses 40 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,600 14 through 18. It says, so the Lord said to 41 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,800 Moses Pharaoh's heart is hard. He refuses to let the people go 42 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:33,300 go to, Pharaoh, Pharaoh, in the morning when he goes out to the 43 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:37,000 water and you shall stand by the rivers Bank, to meet him, and 44 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:40,200 the rod which has turned to his serpent, you shall take in your 45 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:44,000 hand and you shall say to him, the lord of the, the Lord God of 46 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:48,300 the Hebrews has sent me to you saying, let my people We'll go 47 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:53,400 that they may serve me in the wilderness but indeed until now 48 00:02:53,700 --> 00:02:57,400 you would not here. Thus says the Lord by this, you 49 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,800 shall know that I am the Lord behold, I will strike the waters 50 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,100 which are in the river and the rod with the rod that is in my 51 00:03:04,100 --> 00:03:07,800 hand, and they shall be turned to blood and the fish that are 52 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:10,600 in the river shall die. The river shall stink in the 53 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,500 Egyptians will load to drink the water of the river. 54 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,900 And that begins the first of the ten plagues that we see in the 55 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:23,400 book of Exodus that happened in Egypt, this was the plague of 56 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,900 blood, it was followed by the plague of frogs in the plague of 57 00:03:25,900 --> 00:03:28,300 gnats. Fourth was a plague of flies 58 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:33,500 then livestock dying boils followed by hail Locust and then 59 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,200 the plague of darkness and all these plagues were clear 60 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,000 pictures of God. Punishing the Egyptians for 61 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:45,500 enslaving. The Israelites every one of them 62 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:49,500 came in about in response to Favors Rebellion against God and 63 00:03:49,500 --> 00:03:55,000 that sets the stage for the final plague and for the tenth 64 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:57,700 plague, the final judgment, the plague of the firstborn in 65 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:02,500 Exodus 11 verse 4 through 6. It says then Moses said thus 66 00:04:02,500 --> 00:04:05,900 says the Lord about midnight, I will go out into the midst of 67 00:04:05,900 --> 00:04:10,100 Egypt and all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die from 68 00:04:10,100 --> 00:04:12,300 the firstborn of pharaoh, who sits on his throne. 69 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:15,600 Even to the firstborn of the female servant, who is behind 70 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,600 the hand Mill and all the firstborn out of the animals, 71 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,600 then there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt 72 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:26,600 such as was not like it before. Nor shall it? 73 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,900 Be like it again. So, even after favor was 74 00:04:30,900 --> 00:04:35,700 threatened with this, if they were still refuse to obey, God, 75 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:37,300 and that sets the stage for what? 76 00:04:37,300 --> 00:04:41,600 We know, as the Passover, which we see in Exodus 12, when God 77 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:45,500 promised, that he would send a destroyer, And that's the word 78 00:04:45,500 --> 00:04:48,600 that shoes in. Exodus 12 and 23, a destroyer 79 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:52,300 who would strike down every first born child and animal in 80 00:04:52,300 --> 00:04:56,200 Egypt. And we also need to understand 81 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:59,700 too that the Israelites were also in Egypt to, they were 82 00:04:59,700 --> 00:05:02,500 there and that meant that the Destroyer would come over their 83 00:05:02,500 --> 00:05:05,000 homes as well. God's people, a picture of the 84 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,600 payment do not just to Pharaoh, but to all the people in their 85 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,300 sin, neither Pharaoh nor the Egyptians nor the Israelites 86 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:18,500 were innocent of sin before the holy God. the promise of excess 87 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:23,700 was that destruction was coming over all however, God in his 88 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:28,500 grace and his unmerited, Mercy provided deliverance and life 89 00:05:28,500 --> 00:05:32,100 through sacrifice. God provided a way for the 90 00:05:32,100 --> 00:05:35,500 firstborn and homes to be saved and ultimately for the slaves to 91 00:05:35,508 --> 00:05:38,500 be freed through sacrifice specifically. 92 00:05:38,500 --> 00:05:42,400 God saved his people by the blood of the lamb in Exodus and 93 00:05:42,400 --> 00:05:46,700 exodus. 12 starting in verse one, will go through verse 13. 94 00:05:46,700 --> 00:05:50,300 It says they're now, the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the 95 00:05:50,308 --> 00:05:53,500 land of Egypt, saying this month shall be your beginning of 96 00:05:53,500 --> 00:05:55,600 months. It shall be the first of the 97 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,400 month of the year to you speak. To all the congregation of 98 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,900 Israel saying, on the 10th of this month, every man shall take 99 00:06:02,900 --> 00:06:06,900 for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb 100 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:10,900 for a household, And if the household is too small for the 101 00:06:10,900 --> 00:06:13,300 lamb, let him. And his neighbor next to his 102 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:15,600 house, take it. According to the number of the 103 00:06:15,600 --> 00:06:18,400 persons. According to each man's need, 104 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:20,700 you shall make your count for the lamb. 105 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 Your lamb shall be without blemish. 106 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:26,700 A male of the first year, you may take it from the sheep, or 107 00:06:26,700 --> 00:06:29,700 from the ghost. Now, you shall keep it until the 108 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:33,300 14th day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the 109 00:06:33,300 --> 00:06:36,500 congregation of Israel, shall kill it at Twilight. 110 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:38,700 And they shall take some of the blood. 111 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:42,500 And put it on the two-door post and on the lintel of the houses, 112 00:06:42,500 --> 00:06:46,000 where they eat where they eat it, then they shall eat the 113 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:49,600 Flesh on that night roasted and fire with unleavened bread and 114 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,400 with bitter and with bitter herbs. 115 00:06:51,400 --> 00:06:54,300 They shall eat it. Do not eat it, raw or boiled at 116 00:06:54,300 --> 00:06:57,700 all with water. But roasted in fire its head 117 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:01,400 with its legs and its intros. You shall let none of it remain 118 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,600 until morning. And what remains of it until 119 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:06,600 morning. You shall burn with fire and 120 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,900 thus you shall eat it with a belt on your waist, your 121 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:12,600 sandals, on your feet, and your staff in your hand. 122 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:16,300 So shall eat it, so you shall eat it in haste. 123 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:21,100 It is the Lord's Passover for. I will pass through the land of 124 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:24,100 Egypt on that night and will strike all the firstborn in the 125 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,200 land of Egypt, both man, and Beast, and Against The Gods of 126 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,100 Egypt, I will execute judgment. I am the Lord. 127 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:32,900 Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the house. 128 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:35,300 Where you are. And when I see the blood, I will 129 00:07:35,300 --> 00:07:39,800 pass over you and the plague shall not be on you to destroy 130 00:07:39,800 --> 00:07:41,800 you. When I strike in the land of 131 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:45,100 Egypt. Okay, understand the picture 132 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:51,100 here, taking a perfect pure spotless lamb that God said to 133 00:07:51,100 --> 00:07:54,800 go and get bring it into your house for 14 days. 134 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,900 She says, and I know our household and I'm sure there's 135 00:07:59,900 --> 00:08:03,200 others here, you know, you bring it animal into your house for a 136 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:08,800 certain amount of time, you're going to create a bond. 14 days. 137 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:12,900 If it was two days at our house, to be a bombed, the 14 days, you 138 00:08:12,900 --> 00:08:16,700 have this lamb in your house, your kids are taking care of it, 139 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:20,000 feeding it playing with, whatever might be getting used 140 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,600 to this land, you take it and you Slaughter it. 141 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,200 You take its blood with your children, watching you wipe it 142 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:29,900 across the doorposts of your home. 143 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:32,400 And that's an image that's going to stick with your family and 144 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,200 your children for a long, long time. 145 00:08:34,799 --> 00:08:40,200 You can imagine your your children asking mom or dad, why 146 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,799 are you doing this? What is the reason for this and 147 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:47,300 your response would be destruction and death are 148 00:08:47,300 --> 00:08:51,400 coming? But because of this slam, it is 149 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:54,900 a substitute sacrifice and you look at your older brother, you 150 00:08:54,900 --> 00:08:57,100 know, if you were another child you had an older brother. 151 00:08:57,100 --> 00:08:59,700 You look at your brother and realize that this lamb died for 152 00:08:59,700 --> 00:09:02,000 him. Instead. 153 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,500 That night you can only imagine the cries coming from all the 154 00:09:06,500 --> 00:09:09,400 homes across Egypt and the only people who were exempt from the 155 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,600 judgment on that night. Were those who trusted in the 156 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,800 blood of that sacrificial lamb judgment did not pass over the 157 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:20,600 Israelites because they were better people, not at all. 158 00:09:22,200 --> 00:09:25,100 It didn't pass over them because they were sinless judgment only 159 00:09:25,100 --> 00:09:28,800 passed over the edge of lights because they trusted in the 160 00:09:28,808 --> 00:09:31,400 blood of that lamb. A substitute sacrifice provided 161 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:36,700 by God in his grace. So we'll come back to Exodus 12 162 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:39,300 here in a minute, but we're going to go over to Exodus 24. 163 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:43,600 After the Passover and the plague of the firstborn. 164 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:49,600 God's people did leaving Egypt and they came to Mount Sinai to 165 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:52,500 worship God and to enter into a covenant relationship with him. 166 00:09:52,800 --> 00:09:57,200 In Exodus 24, it is the first fully describe public worship 167 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:58,700 service that we can read in the Bible. 168 00:09:59,100 --> 00:10:01,600 It's kind of like a marriage celebration of God, committing 169 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:05,400 himself to his people and then committing themselves to God. 170 00:10:06,300 --> 00:10:12,600 Beginning in verse 3 of Exodus 24, it says So Moses came and 171 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,100 told the people, all the words of the Lord, and all the 172 00:10:15,100 --> 00:10:18,400 judgments and all the people answered with one voice and 173 00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:22,200 said, all the words, which the Lord has said, we will do and 174 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:24,200 Moses wrote all the words of the Lord. 175 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:28,600 And he rose early in the morning and built an altar at the foot 176 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:31,600 of the mountain and twelve pillars across according to the 177 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:35,200 12 tribes of Israel. Then he sent young men of the 178 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:38,700 children of Israel who offered burnt offerings and sacrifices, 179 00:10:38,700 --> 00:10:41,400 peace, offerings of oxen to the Lord. 180 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,400 And Moses took half the blood and put it in basins and half 181 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:48,400 the bloody sprinkled on the altar. 182 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,800 He then then he took the book of the Covenant and read it in the 183 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:55,000 hearing of the people and they said all that the Lord has said 184 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:59,000 we will do and be obedient and Moses took the blood sprinkled 185 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,000 it on the people and said, this is the blood of the Covenant, 186 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:04,300 which the Lord has made with you. 187 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:10,500 According to all these words, Moses read all the words in the 188 00:11:10,500 --> 00:11:13,400 rules from God, to the people of Israel. 189 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:17,800 He did it twice in this passage and after reading those the 190 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,800 people of Israel said, we're going to go ahead and Obey those 191 00:11:21,500 --> 00:11:24,300 but as soon as they said that what did Moses do? 192 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,900 Moses sent men to offer sacrifices. 193 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:32,900 So if the people were going to follow all the rules of what God 194 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:37,300 said, why would Moses have to go ahead and immediately offer a 195 00:11:37,300 --> 00:11:39,700 sacrifice? That's because the people 196 00:11:39,700 --> 00:11:43,400 couldn't keep their promise, sinful people could not keep the 197 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:44,800 province. They just said all the words 198 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:46,400 that the Lord has spoken will do. 199 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,100 But that wasn't true. They were Sinners. 200 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:51,100 Just as you and I are and it wouldn't be long before they 201 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:55,300 would go totally against God's word and they would send rebel 202 00:11:55,300 --> 00:11:57,700 against God and His Covenant, and the payment for sin is death 203 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:04,700 which we see in Romans Verse 23. So, God provided sacrifices by 204 00:12:04,700 --> 00:12:08,500 his grace, Moses Through Blood over the altar, as a picture. 205 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:12,100 Again, another picture of a substitute sacrifice to cover 206 00:12:12,100 --> 00:12:19,700 sin to show that the the death penalty for sin has been paid by 207 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,400 another sacrifice. And this picture was see, the 208 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:25,500 just penalty due to Synod had been paid through sacrifice. 209 00:12:25,500 --> 00:12:27,500 Then we get the excess 24 and eight. 210 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:34,000 Gets a little weird in excess in that in that eighth verse they 211 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:36,800 say, the people say we will obey all God's words, then Moses 212 00:12:36,800 --> 00:12:39,800 starts. Throwing Blood on the people, 213 00:12:40,100 --> 00:12:44,200 that's kind of odd. I'm glad we don't practice that 214 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,800 today, you know, I think if we did that today we would not get 215 00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:54,200 many people coming to worship Our God, but the point is, That 216 00:12:54,700 --> 00:12:57,100 Sinners can only come into a covenant relationship with the 217 00:12:57,100 --> 00:13:00,500 holy God of the universe. If there is a sacrifice that is 218 00:13:00,500 --> 00:13:05,400 the only way. Just like God saved his people 219 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:09,100 by Blood of the lamb and exodus 12 here in Exodus 24, God seals 220 00:13:09,100 --> 00:13:12,100 his promise with the blood of another's life, a substitute 221 00:13:12,100 --> 00:13:16,100 sacrifice and then we get to verse 9 of chapter 24. 222 00:13:16,100 --> 00:13:20,300 It says then Moses went up. Also Aaron nadab. 223 00:13:20,300 --> 00:13:24,400 And a by Hugh, and 70 of the Elders of Israel and they saw 224 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,100 the god of Israel and there was under his feet. 225 00:13:27,100 --> 00:13:31,300 As it was were a paved work of sapphire stone and it was like 226 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:33,200 the very heavens in. It's Rarity. 227 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,400 But on the Nobles of the children of Israel, he did not 228 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,300 lay his hand. So they saw God and they ate and 229 00:13:40,300 --> 00:13:48,100 they drink, they beheld God. Sinners were beholding the god 230 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:51,100 of Israel. Our God, they had a meal to 231 00:13:51,100 --> 00:13:53,100 celebrate their relationship with God. 232 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:56,900 And one thing I love about the Bible is its Unity that we can 233 00:13:56,900 --> 00:14:02,600 see from beginning to end. It's one big story that has huge 234 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:07,500 ramifications, not only for those during the time of the 235 00:14:07,500 --> 00:14:11,500 Bible, but us as well. It's not just a story about the 236 00:14:11,500 --> 00:14:14,800 Israelites, it's a story about you and us today, we have all 237 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:18,900 sinned, me, you all of us have sinned against God. 238 00:14:21,100 --> 00:14:25,100 In Romans 6:23 verse 23. Makes it clear that the payment 239 00:14:25,100 --> 00:14:28,000 for our sin is destruction and death and eventually physical 240 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:30,300 death. We will die and eternal, 241 00:14:30,300 --> 00:14:33,200 spiritual death separated from God, for eternity. 242 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:38,100 But in God's grace, in his unmerited, mercy, God has not 243 00:14:38,100 --> 00:14:43,800 left us alone myself or any of you in our sin alone. 244 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:48,400 By his grace, God, made a way for us to be saved from 245 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,700 destruction and get death. God, sent Jesus, his son to come 246 00:14:52,700 --> 00:14:57,500 here to this earth, to be the perfect, sacrifice to live, the 247 00:14:58,200 --> 00:15:01,700 to live a perfect life, that none of us could live. 248 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:07,000 Then although he had no sin price to pay for, you know, he 249 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:11,100 died that sacrifice on the cross for our sins. 250 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:17,600 Jesus died as our substitute sacrifice for our sins. 251 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:22,000 Jesus is the Lamb of God, whose blood saved us from destruction 252 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,500 and seals us from eternal life, just like the Israelites. 253 00:15:25,500 --> 00:15:30,800 However, many years ago, trusted in the blood of a lamb 254 00:15:31,100 --> 00:15:33,300 sacrificed or an animal sacrifice. 255 00:15:34,700 --> 00:15:37,300 And that covered their sin, Jesus covers our sin for 256 00:15:37,300 --> 00:15:44,200 eternity. no matter what we have done, no matter how guilty are 257 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,400 conscious, maybe no matter how stained our past is, no matter 258 00:15:50,500 --> 00:15:55,600 how ashamed we might be no matter no matter what, no matter 259 00:15:55,700 --> 00:16:01,100 what We are saved by the grace of God, if we come into the 260 00:16:01,100 --> 00:16:03,100 contact of the blood of Jesus Christ. 261 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:09,000 We can behold God in a covenant relationship with him which is 262 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:13,300 why it happens. We get to get to worship today. 263 00:16:13,300 --> 00:16:17,900 With a New Covenant. We get to partake of the Lord's 264 00:16:17,900 --> 00:16:21,600 table every week. God, prescribes a meal, where we 265 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:24,200 are to celebrate the giving of Jesus's blood in the shedding of 266 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:26,900 Jesus. Jesus is body and the shedding 267 00:16:26,900 --> 00:16:28,000 of Jesus, his blood for our sins. 268 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,200 Matthew 6:26 says then he took the cup and gave thanks and gave 269 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:34,900 it to them saying drink from it. All of Of you for. 270 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:38,200 This is my blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many 271 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:42,600 for the remission of sins. That's why we come together 272 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,100 every week to remember and celebrate the reality that we 273 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:48,300 have been forgiven by the blood of Jesus. 274 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:50,900 And now we behold God in a relationship with him. 275 00:16:50,900 --> 00:16:56,600 That will last forever. How is it possible? 276 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:03,300 For a room full of sinners. Like, you and me to gather today 277 00:17:03,500 --> 00:17:07,200 before the holy God, and worship him and enjoy him. 278 00:17:07,900 --> 00:17:10,700 How is that possible? And it's only possible by his 279 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:15,599 grace, by the grace of God. Not one of us here, can get it 280 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,500 done by Merit by any means by anything that we do. 281 00:17:18,500 --> 00:17:21,900 The only reason here that we are worshipping as because the mercy 282 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:25,500 and grace of God, he saves Us by our Graves by his grace 283 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:30,900 Secondly, God Saves us for his good. 284 00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:34,000 I'm sorry that should say, for our good, not his good at should 285 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:41,600 be our good. Pardon my pension. 286 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:49,400 I got that one wrong. So There's two answers in. 287 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:55,800 Exodus that why God Saves us first is because God Saves us 288 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:02,400 for our good. The end of chapter 13, we 289 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:05,400 discover that God would lead his people with a pillar of cloud by 290 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,800 day and a pillar of Fire by night. 291 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:14,800 You have a mass amount of people who are following a cloud where 292 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:17,900 the cloud tells them, where to go, where not to go, where to 293 00:18:17,900 --> 00:18:21,100 stop. We're not to stop and in Exodus 294 00:18:21,100 --> 00:18:22,900 14. God leads them to the edge of 295 00:18:22,908 --> 00:18:26,700 the Red Sea and by this time the Egyptians were wishing that they 296 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,200 had their slaves back. They wanted those slaves back 297 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:31,300 foot. So pharaoh An army after them. 298 00:18:32,700 --> 00:18:35,900 Some people never learn, you know, Pharaoh, he just would not 299 00:18:35,900 --> 00:18:40,300 give up on getting what was his? And he just never learned and 300 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:43,300 they're Israelites, of course, were frightened for good reason, 301 00:18:43,300 --> 00:18:46,600 you got a huge body of water in front of, you know, where to go. 302 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:49,500 And you got an army that's coming to get you behind you. 303 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:54,700 You got nowhere to go. Moses tells them and Chapter 14 304 00:18:54,900 --> 00:18:57,600 verse 13. It says, and Moses said to the 305 00:18:57,608 --> 00:19:02,400 people fear, not stand firm and see the salvation of the Lord. 306 00:19:02,500 --> 00:19:06,000 Lord, which he will work for you today for the Egyptians whom you 307 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:09,900 see today, you shall never see again, the Lord will fight for 308 00:19:09,900 --> 00:19:13,400 you, and you have only to be silent. 309 00:19:14,300 --> 00:19:18,700 All of a sudden, God, splits the sea in half and sends his people 310 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:22,200 through on dry ground. And we need to understand that 311 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:23,900 was dry ground. You know? 312 00:19:24,100 --> 00:19:27,300 I would have we know good and well if you were to remove water 313 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:32,100 from a lake bed, now immediately you would be just silty muddy 314 00:19:32,100 --> 00:19:39,300 sticky but God provided a safe way through Dry ground and all 315 00:19:39,308 --> 00:19:42,000 of a sudden you know as the Egyptian Egyptians made it 316 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:46,300 through the the I'm sorry, the Israelites made it through the 317 00:19:46,300 --> 00:19:48,900 Egyptian started walking through in the waters, came crashing 318 00:19:48,900 --> 00:19:51,100 down upon them. So we're starting to get A 319 00:19:51,100 --> 00:19:54,600 picture of the good that God Saves his people for God leads. 320 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:59,000 God fights for his people. This is why God Saves us to save 321 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,000 this for our good. He leads guides and fights for 322 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:04,900 us. Then we get to a song of worship 323 00:20:04,900 --> 00:20:09,400 in Exodus 15 where we see three Miracles back-to-back. 324 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,600 First, the water God's people come to is bitter so he 325 00:20:12,600 --> 00:20:16,800 miraculously makes it sweet in chapter 16 they can't find food. 326 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:20,400 So God provides bread. From heaven in the morning and 327 00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:24,200 meet In the evening. In Exodus 17, they can't find 328 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,200 any water. God, miraculously provides water 329 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:30,500 out of a rock. And in all this, we see how God 330 00:20:30,500 --> 00:20:34,900 sustains and satisfies and strengthens his people. 331 00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:40,600 When we, when we get to Exodus 18, God gives wisdom to Moses on 332 00:20:40,600 --> 00:20:44,000 how to lead his people, which was not an easy task. 333 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:48,400 That sets, the stage for one of the most significant and famous 334 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,300 moments that we can read about in the Old Testament, when God 335 00:20:51,300 --> 00:20:53,100 gives his people the words starting with the Ten 336 00:20:53,100 --> 00:20:58,000 Commandments in Exodus 20, The first commandment, I am the 337 00:20:58,000 --> 00:21:01,300 Lord, your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt. 338 00:21:01,300 --> 00:21:04,200 Out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods 339 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,300 before me. And I want us to think about how 340 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:09,300 all of these Commandments are good for us. 341 00:21:10,100 --> 00:21:12,400 And the first commandment, God is showing us the way to 342 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:14,600 Abundant Life, through worship of the right God. 343 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,500 No other gods before me none. What if you were to live our 344 00:21:18,500 --> 00:21:23,000 entire life, we would, we would live dedicating ourselves to 345 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:27,500 something living for something. Having that, that that thing the 346 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:29,500 center of our lives. But when we come to the end of 347 00:21:29,508 --> 00:21:31,600 our life and realize it was totally empty. 348 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,100 We only find out that we've wasted our life and God is 349 00:21:37,100 --> 00:21:41,500 saying here, there is a way to Abundant Life with the right 350 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:45,100 center, which is him. He is the god of gods, there is 351 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:50,400 no other God before him. Life at God is a sinner. 352 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,800 He is our foundation and the second commandment God shows us 353 00:21:53,800 --> 00:21:56,200 the way to Supernatural. Love through Worship in the 354 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:59,400 right way. It says there in chapter 20 355 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:05,000 Verses 4 through 6. You shall not make for yourself 356 00:22:05,100 --> 00:22:08,700 a carved image or any likeness of anything that is under in 357 00:22:08,700 --> 00:22:12,100 Heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the 358 00:22:12,100 --> 00:22:15,300 water, under the Earth, You shall not bow down to them or 359 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:18,900 serve them for the Lord. Your God, am a jealous God. 360 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:22,800 Visiting the iniquity of the father's on the children to the 361 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,900 third, and the fourth generation of those who hate me, but 362 00:22:25,900 --> 00:22:29,200 showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me 363 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,100 and keep my Commandments. God, here is not Prescribing, 364 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:35,600 I'm sorry. God is prescribing not just? 365 00:22:36,100 --> 00:22:40,600 Who is worthy of worship? But how we ought to worship him 366 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:44,700 in a way that leads to an experience of what God wants us 367 00:22:44,700 --> 00:22:48,700 to have, you know, we have to worship him in a correct way for 368 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:52,100 us to gain the blessings of God that leads to the third 369 00:22:52,100 --> 00:22:53,900 commandment here. In verse 7. 370 00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:59,200 You shall not take the lord's name in vain for the Lord will 371 00:22:59,200 --> 00:23:02,700 not hold him Guiltless. Who takes his name in vain this 372 00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:04,200 commandment shows us how to cultivate. 373 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,400 God a god glorifying. Reverence the greatness Glory 374 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:12,300 Majesty, the Wonder in splendor of God Live humble. 375 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:16,500 Holy understanding the mind-blowing breathtaking. 376 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,700 Aw and reverence that we need to have for God. 377 00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,400 That will change the way that we live if we understand and 378 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,900 reverence God the way that he needs and deserves to be 379 00:23:28,900 --> 00:23:34,600 reverenced, commandment number 4 gives us a countercultural 380 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:38,300 rhythm to work and rest. If we see looking verse 12 of 381 00:23:38,300 --> 00:23:41,200 chapter twenty four and six days, the Lord made Heaven and 382 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:44,200 Earth the sea and all that is in them and rested on the seventh 383 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:45,700 day. Therefore the Lord blessed the 384 00:23:45,708 --> 00:23:49,200 Sabbath day and made it holy, you know, especially in our 385 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,500 fast-paced culture that we live in now. 386 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:56,000 Now, it's always work. Work work, work, work and more 387 00:23:56,000 --> 00:24:00,800 work and if that is all that we do, world will always look into 388 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,900 work as hard as we can, but not take the rest. 389 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,300 That's really kind of goes against what God is. 390 00:24:07,300 --> 00:24:10,700 Prescribing here for the Sabbath, we need to rest, our 391 00:24:10,700 --> 00:24:13,100 bodies need rest, our minds need rest. 392 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:20,700 We can actually rest in God. Sometimes in our pride, you 393 00:24:20,700 --> 00:24:24,500 know, we can say I'm just too busy to do that for God today. 394 00:24:24,500 --> 00:24:26,100 I'm too busy to go to worship on. 395 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:30,100 I'm too busy, you know? We're not busier than God 396 00:24:30,100 --> 00:24:33,200 himself. God rested on that seventh day. 397 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:37,400 We're not that busy. We must rest and God must 398 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,700 himself model that for us. So we need to have that balance 399 00:24:41,700 --> 00:24:45,800 of work and rest, fifth God gives opportunity. 400 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,500 I'm sorry. God gives us priority on honor 401 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:53,100 and our homes. Exodus 20 verse 12 honor your 402 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:56,100 father and mother that the days may be long in the land. 403 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:00,500 The Lord your God is giving you children and students, whatever 404 00:25:00,500 --> 00:25:03,300 the case may be, it is good to honor your mom and dad because 405 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:06,100 it is a reflection of Honor for God. 406 00:25:07,300 --> 00:25:13,900 It will be good for your life. Sixth a priority on protecting 407 00:25:13,900 --> 00:25:15,500 others Health, you shall not murder. 408 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:19,300 This is where we realize that this commandment in verse 13. 409 00:25:19,300 --> 00:25:21,500 Like some of the other commands we sweetsie Through the Bible. 410 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:26,300 It's not just a Prohibition against this particular Act of 411 00:25:26,300 --> 00:25:31,900 murder. It's against any act that may 412 00:25:31,900 --> 00:25:36,500 physically harm another person. God. 413 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:39,200 Clearly speaks here and in other places throughout his word, 414 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:44,700 against any form of physical violence, or Blues abuse, even 415 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:46,800 anger, or rage. For our good. 416 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:50,600 God tells us in his word to prioritize protecting other 417 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,800 people, the seventh commandment guards, the enjoyment of 418 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:56,200 sexuality. According to God's design, when 419 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,300 we read, you should not commit adultery. 420 00:25:58,300 --> 00:26:01,500 Don't just think about adultery. But based on all of throughout 421 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:04,700 God's word, there are clear Commandments against all sexual 422 00:26:04,700 --> 00:26:07,500 activity. Tivity outside of marriage 423 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:14,200 between a man and a woman. God gives us command clearly for 424 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:15,700 our good. This is where each one of us 425 00:26:15,700 --> 00:26:20,100 needs to decide if we're going to trust the word of God on 426 00:26:20,500 --> 00:26:23,900 sexuality, or we're going to trust the world and we certainly 427 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:29,100 want to trust God. He has it right for our good. 428 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:34,600 Commandment number 8, you shall not steal this promotes, the 429 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,700 enjoyment of possessions that God has given to us the 430 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:40,200 provisions. That he's given to us the things 431 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:44,200 that we might have. He wants us to be content in 432 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,200 what he has provided us with not to go out looking for somebody 433 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,200 else's stuff or to gain more or anything like that. 434 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,700 Number 9, you shall not ball bear. 435 00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:55,100 False witness against your neighbor. 436 00:26:55,100 --> 00:26:58,200 God is holding us up for truth and trustworthiness in a world 437 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,600 of lies and let Downs. You know, we don't we want to 438 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:07,400 long for that in a society where there's so much lies around us. 439 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,100 So much untruth. We need truth to be able to 440 00:27:11,100 --> 00:27:15,900 Anchor in the tenth commandment offers joy and contentment in 441 00:27:15,908 --> 00:27:18,500 this world of jealousy and envy and competition. 442 00:27:18,700 --> 00:27:21,700 The 17th verse of chapter. 20 says, you shall not covet your 443 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:23,600 neighbor's house. You shall not covet your 444 00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,700 neighbor's wife or his male servant or his female servant or 445 00:27:26,700 --> 00:27:28,400 his ox or his donkey or anything. 446 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:33,300 That is your neighbors. We can live with joy and 447 00:27:33,300 --> 00:27:36,300 contentment with what we have instead of being caught up in 448 00:27:36,300 --> 00:27:42,300 jealousy, God's word is good. And God's word is good for our 449 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:45,300 good as well. And when we put it all together, 450 00:27:45,300 --> 00:27:49,200 it's not that's just what God saved us, from sin and death and 451 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,000 destruction. He does Deliver Us from that. 452 00:27:53,100 --> 00:27:57,000 But he also saves us to something as well, which would 453 00:27:57,008 --> 00:27:59,500 be joy and freedom of life. And there's an idea out there 454 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:04,300 today that that you know, when you when you follow Jesus, when 455 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:06,900 you choose the, the Christian lifestyle that you're not 456 00:28:06,900 --> 00:28:10,100 allowed to have fun anymore, you know, it's not joyful, it's not 457 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:13,600 pleasurable and that is a complete lie that we need to 458 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,300 reject Get his God is not saved us to make us miserable. 459 00:28:18,300 --> 00:28:23,200 God has saved us to have a full enjoyable life that will last 460 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,600 forever. And that doesn't mean that life 461 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:27,800 is going to be easy. It doesn't mean it's going to be 462 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,200 a cakewalk its life is full of sin. 463 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,100 You know, we live in a world that's full of sin involves hurt 464 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:37,400 and pain following Jesus. You know, as we've talked about 465 00:28:37,400 --> 00:28:42,200 before it could actually make your life a little harder but 466 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,200 our life will be Fuller and deeper. 467 00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,200 When we experience the supernatural love in the 468 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,300 Supernatural, Delight that we can have in God is as he leads 469 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:55,600 us. God Saves Us by his grace for 470 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:57,700 our good. God desires are good. 471 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:01,300 He doesn't save you for the bad. He saves you for your good. 472 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,600 Additionally, God Saves us for his glory. 473 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,400 This is Central to understanding the purpose of Our Lives. 474 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:15,600 We're going to go through a bunch of verses here pretty 475 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,100 quick. You know why did God deliver the 476 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:20,400 people out of slavery? You ask ourselves. 477 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,000 Why did he do that? What was the purpose and back? 478 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,100 Six back in Exodus 3 with the burning bush. 479 00:29:26,100 --> 00:29:29,300 God told Moses to go to fail to fire off a road to bring his 480 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:32,900 people out of sleep slavery. So I want to ask the question. 481 00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:35,100 Why? We'll start. 482 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:37,900 Next is 3 verse 12. It says there. 483 00:29:38,300 --> 00:29:41,500 So he said I will certainly be with you and this shall be a 484 00:29:41,500 --> 00:29:43,200 sign to you that I have sent you. 485 00:29:43,700 --> 00:29:46,900 When you have brought the people out of Egypt, You Shall Serve 486 00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:53,200 God on this mountain. This word serve here. 487 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,400 Sometimes is translated as worship. 488 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,700 And we know that service is worship. 489 00:30:01,500 --> 00:30:04,400 You know, we serve God all week long, we don't just worship him 490 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,100 here in this building twice a week. 491 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,800 Our worship to him is all week long six, other days out of the 492 00:30:10,808 --> 00:30:14,100 week. So notice this notice this as we 493 00:30:14,100 --> 00:30:18,700 go through X is 4 verse 23, where God tells Moses, what's 494 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:21,000 going on to happen, what's going to happen and what he should 495 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,600 say. And I say to you, this is what 496 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:28,700 Moses says to Pharaoh. Let my son go that he may serve 497 00:30:28,700 --> 00:30:33,000 or Worship You, Exodus 7 verse 16, they were doesn't let them 498 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:34,800 go. So God begins to send the place. 499 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,000 Why does God say he's going to deliver his people and you shall 500 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,300 stay? And you shall say to him the 501 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:45,100 Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you saying, let my people 502 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:48,500 go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. 503 00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:53,200 Exodus 8 worm one where we're told God would be sending frogs 504 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,700 the Lord God said to Moses Godin to pharaoh and say to him thus 505 00:30:57,700 --> 00:31:01,800 says the Lord, let my people go, that they may serve me. 506 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:09,200 Next and ate 20 and verse 20 of chapter 8, then the Lord said to 507 00:31:09,208 --> 00:31:11,800 Moses rise up early in the morning and present yourself to 508 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,500 Pharaoh as he goes out to the water and say to him thus says 509 00:31:15,500 --> 00:31:18,000 the Lord. Let my people go, that they may 510 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:23,100 serve me. 9:1 then the Lord got that. 511 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:26,400 Lord said to Moses, go into pharaon, say to him thus says 512 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,300 the Lord the god of the Hebrews. Let my people go that they may 513 00:31:30,500 --> 00:31:35,800 serve me noticing the pattern. Noticing What's Happening Here X 514 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,900 is 9 verse 13. Then the Lord said to Moses rise 515 00:31:38,900 --> 00:31:42,000 up early in the morning and present yourself before pharaoh 516 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,800 and say to him, thus says the Lord, the god of the Hebrews. 517 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,800 Let my people go that they may serve me. 518 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:52,700 Couple more. It's interesting. 519 00:31:52,700 --> 00:31:55,900 When we get to verse 7 favor of servants get in on the action 520 00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:58,500 here they say then Pharaoh servant said to him. 521 00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:01,100 How long shall this man? Be a snare to us. 522 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:03,900 Let the men go. That they may serve the Lord, 523 00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:06,300 their God do not. Do you not yet? 524 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:09,700 Understand that Egypt is ruined. So Moses and Aaron were brought 525 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:14,200 back to pharaoh and said to them go serve the Lord your God but 526 00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:18,200 which ones are to go. The Pharaoh actually didn't let 527 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:23,000 them go later in Exodus 10, we see the plague of darkness in 528 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,600 verse 26, where we read what that Moses is saying. 529 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:28,400 Our livestock also must go with us. 530 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,500 Not on a hoof, not a hoof shall be left behind for. 531 00:32:31,500 --> 00:32:35,300 We must take them to serve the Lord, Our God, and we do not 532 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:39,200 know that we do not know with what we must serve. 533 00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:43,400 The Lord until we arrive there. Finally, we get to Exodus 12 534 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,200 where God institute's the Passover, the Deliverance of the 535 00:32:47,208 --> 00:32:51,300 people of Egypt, then, of course, we see what Moses says 536 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:52,500 it all. Builds up to this moment. 537 00:32:52,500 --> 00:32:56,200 In verse 31, then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and 538 00:32:56,200 --> 00:33:00,000 said, go out from among my people, both you and the people 539 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:05,300 of Israel, Israel and go serve the Lord as you have said. 540 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:12,000 Pharaoh learned all too late that you do not stand in the way 541 00:33:12,000 --> 00:33:17,100 of worship to God. The whole point of the exes from 542 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:20,200 Egypt is that God delivers his people out of slavery as we've 543 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,700 already seen for their good. He then brings them to Mount 544 00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:24,500 Sinai where they serve and worship him. 545 00:33:24,900 --> 00:33:27,700 And the rest of the book of Egypt of Exodus will show us 546 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,600 God's instructions on how he is to be served and worshipped. 547 00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:37,200 And if we were to summarize the book of Exodus, the first 20 548 00:33:37,500 --> 00:33:40,900 chapters are about the salvation From Slavery, and then the final 549 00:33:40,900 --> 00:33:45,200 20 chapters about the worship of God, and these A really 550 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,500 incredible. There's visions of God is a 551 00:33:48,508 --> 00:33:54,000 consuming fire there in Exodus 19 and in chapter 34 in a 552 00:33:54,008 --> 00:33:57,500 powerful scene that that the Bible talks about over and over 553 00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:01,500 again, God causes his glory to pass in front of Moses. 554 00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,300 So Moses falls on his face and worship and Moses will meet with 555 00:34:05,300 --> 00:34:09,300 God, and Come Away with his face shining than the book ends, with 556 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:12,500 the glory of God, filling the Tabernacle in the middle of his 557 00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:14,600 people. The whole point is God. 558 00:34:14,699 --> 00:34:16,100 God Saves his people for the good. 559 00:34:16,100 --> 00:34:20,100 But also for his glory, when we put all that together, there's 560 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:22,500 two implications that I think that we cannot miss. 561 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:30,900 First, this means that. Casual worship before God is not 562 00:34:30,900 --> 00:34:35,900 possible. Sinners deserve destruction and 563 00:34:35,900 --> 00:34:38,699 death before a holy God yet. Sinners can be saved. 564 00:34:38,699 --> 00:34:41,600 Not by anything they do. But by what? 565 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:48,199 God and Jesus has done for us. So when we have been saved like 566 00:34:48,199 --> 00:34:52,300 that, what do we do when we understand the whole picture, 567 00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:55,199 the whole ramification of what God has done for us? 568 00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:58,300 What do we do? What's one thing we do? 569 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,500 We seen, right? We seen, not only because we're 570 00:35:03,500 --> 00:35:08,700 commanded to because we cannot keep our joy in, We Sing, and 571 00:35:08,700 --> 00:35:13,300 Shout to the Lord. We sing his Praises, we praise 572 00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:18,800 him and worship him in song. It is not possible to be saved 573 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,500 to serve and worship the God and be bored by him. 574 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,000 It is not possible. We worship Him. 575 00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,700 And all the more for us, those of us who have been saved by the 576 00:35:29,700 --> 00:35:33,100 blood of Jesus, we gather together every week before, this 577 00:35:33,100 --> 00:35:36,600 God, it's not possible to know this God and to be casual about 578 00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:37,800 what we're doing here this morning. 579 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,000 A complacent. It's not possible. 580 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,900 We have different personalities, but when we realize that what 581 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:47,100 we've been saved from and what we've been saved, too. 582 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:51,700 And the god whose Grace is the only reason for all that we are 583 00:35:51,700 --> 00:35:56,800 driven to scene. Casual worship is not possible 584 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:01,200 before God who satisfies leads and guides and fights for us. 585 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:06,300 The second implication that I want us to understand here, the 586 00:36:06,300 --> 00:36:11,100 spread of the Gospel is not negotiable the phrase they or 587 00:36:11,100 --> 00:36:13,900 you will know that I am. The Lord that phrase is used. 588 00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:18,200 I believe it's 50 different times in the first four books of 589 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:22,800 the Bible, I want to show us one example in Exodus 14. 590 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:31,400 This is the historical path that historians believe that Moses 591 00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:36,800 and the children of Israel made from Egypt to to cross the Red 592 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:41,200 Sea. The first thing I thought of 593 00:36:41,207 --> 00:36:44,500 when I saw this map is why not just go over the northern tip of 594 00:36:44,500 --> 00:36:46,300 that red. See it seems like a lot easier 595 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:49,100 path to me. It's a basically, a straight 596 00:36:49,100 --> 00:36:51,900 shot and then you head south. But but before they got to the 597 00:36:51,900 --> 00:36:53,700 Red Sea, they headed south forever. 598 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:56,200 How long going through mountain mountain ranges? 599 00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,000 It looks like and came to the Red Sea and then that's where 600 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:06,200 they crossed. This is the historical picture 601 00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:12,700 of where it is. It is thought or This is where 602 00:37:12,707 --> 00:37:16,100 they think that the crossing happened of the Red Sea. 603 00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:20,000 And if you can see this, I'll try to describe it. 604 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:23,900 But it's basically a beach with where you have a steep mountain 605 00:37:23,900 --> 00:37:27,000 range behind you. There's no escape to the other 606 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:29,100 to the northern side. Looks like I guess that'd be the 607 00:37:29,100 --> 00:37:32,200 southern side and then you have the Egyptian forces coming from 608 00:37:32,300 --> 00:37:34,100 the northern side. You got nowhere to go. 609 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,700 You got nowhere to go. I'm not a military expert by any 610 00:37:39,700 --> 00:37:42,200 means, but I think I would know enough. 611 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,500 If I were leading people, that this is probably the worst place 612 00:37:44,500 --> 00:37:49,500 to take my people to be saved to a dead end where you're trapped 613 00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,000 right behind you have the opposing Army that has the power 614 00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,400 to overtake. You that just doesn't seem smart 615 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,600 yet. That's what God exactly did in 616 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:00,600 Exodus 14. He deliberately leads his people 617 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,600 to the edge of the Red Sea, with the Egyptian Army about to 618 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,400 overtake them. Why would God do this? 619 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,200 Why would God strategically lead the people of Israel to this 620 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:17,300 particular place X is 14. Verse 1 says, then the Lord said 621 00:38:17,300 --> 00:38:21,800 to Moses, tell the people of Israel to turn back and in Camp 622 00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:26,400 in front of Pi harith off between migdal and the Sea. 623 00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,800 And the front of bile is a van. You shelling Camp facing it by 624 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:35,700 the Sea for Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, they are 625 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,700 And in the land, the Wilderness is shut them in and I will 626 00:38:38,700 --> 00:38:40,900 harden, Pharaoh's heart and he will pursue them. 627 00:38:41,300 --> 00:38:45,900 And I will get Glory over pharaoh and all his host, and 628 00:38:45,900 --> 00:38:50,200 the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord and they did. 629 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:54,800 So Why did God lead his people to a dead end? 630 00:38:55,200 --> 00:39:00,800 The reason why is so God could split that Red Sea in half to 631 00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:05,000 allow his people to walk on it and the Egyptians would know 632 00:39:05,100 --> 00:39:10,200 that there is one God. One and only true God, the 633 00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,100 Egyptians would understand that and he is glorious. 634 00:39:13,300 --> 00:39:15,700 God says, I will gain the glory and that is awesome. 635 00:39:15,700 --> 00:39:19,100 God, gives his grace and God gets the glory god saves. 636 00:39:19,100 --> 00:39:22,300 His people not just for his glory among them, but for his 637 00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:29,200 glory among the world, Exodus 9 and 16, this is right before the 638 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,200 plague of hail God, says to Pharaoh. 639 00:39:31,800 --> 00:39:35,700 But for this purpose I have raised you up to show you my 640 00:39:35,700 --> 00:39:37,900 power. That my name may be I'm through 641 00:39:37,900 --> 00:39:42,500 all the Earth. God put Pharaoh in place, God 642 00:39:42,500 --> 00:39:44,900 raised him up to be in that position. 643 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,700 So God in the end could show his glory and power to the entire 644 00:39:48,700 --> 00:39:50,600 world. That is amazing. 645 00:39:55,300 --> 00:39:59,100 God is causing his people to receive his grace in a way that 646 00:39:59,100 --> 00:40:03,600 his glory and Neymar proclaimed. And that is our mission today. 647 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,200 You know, the congregation here laborers for the spread of the 648 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:12,000 Gospel throughout the world. We have multiple things that we 649 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:18,900 do here to get the gospel out, we do the podcast. 650 00:40:18,900 --> 00:40:21,100 I'm going to, I'm going to show you that's a picture. 651 00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:25,200 I forgot to to go to but that's Moses with God's help. 652 00:40:25,300 --> 00:40:29,900 Splitting the Red Sea, but our podcast, this was taken last 653 00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:31,800 night's little snapshot this information. 654 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:36,900 We've had I think we started this in early 2019. 655 00:40:38,600 --> 00:40:45,100 Since then, we have had 97,000 434 listens since that time 656 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:50,900 roughly an audience size of 200 for people within the last seven 657 00:40:50,900 --> 00:40:59,100 days. Okay, this map shows A places 658 00:40:59,100 --> 00:41:02,000 where our podcast has been heard throughout the world. 659 00:41:03,500 --> 00:41:11,100 Over 60 countries, we got places like Oman Thailand China, 660 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:18,300 Russia, the Czech Republic, Canada to Bago Morocco and I 661 00:41:18,308 --> 00:41:24,300 could go on and on and on and on and on additionally we send 662 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:27,900 financial support to preachers in foreign lands to help them 663 00:41:27,900 --> 00:41:30,100 sustain the spread of the Gospel or whatever. 664 00:41:30,100 --> 00:41:32,500 Needs, they have Frank has been to the Philippines. 665 00:41:32,500 --> 00:41:37,200 Multiple Times to help that grow in that area, we've spent 666 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:41,800 finances on Advertising which is given us leads and communication 667 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:45,100 with people of the community to do all these things. 668 00:41:46,700 --> 00:41:50,600 And I started thinking about this last night and this 669 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:57,600 morning, you know, What we've done here is easy, the podcast 670 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,100 is easy, sending finances is easy. 671 00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:08,300 What what is hard but is most effective is our personal 672 00:42:08,900 --> 00:42:11,500 contact that we have with those that are around us every day. 673 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,700 That's hard. To share the gospel with 674 00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:20,800 somebody to open up to them or have them open up to us or to 675 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,700 invite them here. That's hard. 676 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:25,600 Because that gets us out of our comfort zone. 677 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,300 This stuff that we do or we be able to spread the gospel all 678 00:42:29,300 --> 00:42:31,400 over the world, that's easy stuff. 679 00:42:32,900 --> 00:42:37,800 But the hardest stuff has the best reaction to it. 680 00:42:38,300 --> 00:42:42,900 It is the most effective. So I challenge us to apply the 681 00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:45,600 book of Exodus to our live in three ways. 682 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:49,000 First I want us to lean wholeheartedly on God's grace 683 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:52,300 and what Jesus has done for us. Secondly, I want to challenge us 684 00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,900 to live our life in a way that maximizes this Gospel, According 685 00:42:55,900 --> 00:43:00,700 to God's word for our good, for your good, don't buy into the 686 00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:03,100 idea. That Christ means not living for 687 00:43:03,100 --> 00:43:06,500 any good and third. I want to challenge us to live 688 00:43:06,500 --> 00:43:09,600 as maximum as we can for our good label for God's glory 689 00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:14,000 throughout our life. You know, Liv live that so 690 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,000 others can see the glory of God through our lives. 691 00:43:20,500 --> 00:43:26,600 Make him known to those that we come in contact with. on a local 692 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:31,500 level here and, and the word will spread The Gospel of Jesus 693 00:43:31,500 --> 00:43:34,900 includes hearing the word of God here in the good news that Jesus 694 00:43:34,900 --> 00:43:37,700 came and died for our sins has made a way for us to be 695 00:43:37,700 --> 00:43:40,200 redeemed. Believing in Jesus that he is 696 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,500 the Son of God and that were believing is loaded. 697 00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:48,200 It includes things that we have to do because we believe Jesus 698 00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,800 is the son of God. We believe that he came here and 699 00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,600 died for our sins, we believe in him. 700 00:43:54,100 --> 00:43:57,700 So when we do that, then we change the way of Our Lives 701 00:43:57,700 --> 00:44:02,100 because we believe in we Don't live that sinful life anymore. 702 00:44:02,100 --> 00:44:04,200 We come following Jesus as the model. 703 00:44:04,700 --> 00:44:07,200 Additionally, we confess his name as a Son of God and we are 704 00:44:07,207 --> 00:44:10,600 baptized for the remission of our sins, and its own van and 705 00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,800 only then that Jesus adds us to his church. 706 00:44:12,900 --> 00:44:15,800 And when we start to live a life that puts Jesus as our lord, 707 00:44:16,100 --> 00:44:17,800 it's the best life we could ever live. 708 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:22,500 It's not the perfect life. By any means, only Jesus lived, 709 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:26,100 a perfect life, but when we do this, we live this life and we 710 00:44:26,100 --> 00:44:29,500 make mistakes, which we will, we can now go to God on our own and 711 00:44:29,500 --> 00:44:34,400 confess those sins to God directly through Jesus, we have 712 00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:36,900 that privilege. That was not possible before. 713 00:44:36,900 --> 00:44:40,800 Jesus died on the cross, we can directly speak with God because 714 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:44,100 of what Jesus has done for us. If there's one here that needs 715 00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:46,500 the prayers of the church or would like to be baptized, 716 00:44:46,500 --> 00:44:48,800 please come while we stand while we see. 717 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,200 We thank you for listening to our podcast, put on by the 718 00:44:54,200 --> 00:45:00,000 Church of Christ at 22:15 plans. Road in Bakersfield, if you 719 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,200 would like any additional information or you would like to 720 00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,200 receive a free Bible correspondence, course by mail. 721 00:45:06,900 --> 00:45:10,700 Please email us at info at True Church of Christ 722 00:45:10,700 --> 00:45:14,700 Bakersfield.com. Our service times are on Sundays 723 00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:20,100 at 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. and Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. 724 00:45:20,200 --> 00:45:24,400 M, please make plans to join us. We would love for you to be our 725 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:25,300 honored guest