Lessons from Exodus
The word Exodus is from the Greek and means going out or departure. It was giving
this name because the main story in this book is the departure of the children
of
The theme of the book.
Exodus 19: 4
'You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on
eagles' wings and brought you to Myself.
5 'Now therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep
My covenant, then you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for
all the earth is Mine. 6
'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the
words which you shall speak to the children of
God power against the
Egyptians – the plagues and the killing of them in red sea
God love for his chosen
people as he delivered them from Egyptian bondage.
Gods call for his people
to obey and consequences if they do not. VRS 5.
I believe there are 2 key
words to this book Deliverance and
redemption. Delivered from the Egyptians and redeemed by entering into a
covenant relationship with God.
Key phrases Let my people Go and that you may know that I am the Lord
Key chapters 12-14
In the book of Genesis we
learned about the origin of mankind and development of Abrahams family. In
Exodus we see this one family become a nation and we begin to see the progress
of Gods promises to Abraham.
Genesis 22: 17
"blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your
descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the
seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 "In your seed all the
nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."
God will give all the
descendants. Gen.
15:12-21
3 MAJOR DIVISION
1.
Israel in Egypt, 80
years of Moses, the 10 plagues
2.
Passover, journey to
red sea and there first taste of freedom
3.
Israel’s idol worship,
the giving of the law and the construction of the tabernacle.
AUTHORSHIP
Moses wrote this book and
their are several passages that state that.
Exodus 17:13-14 3 So Joshua defeated Amalek and his
people with the edge of the sword. 14
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in the book
and recount it in the hearing of Joshua,
Exodus 24:4 And Moses
wrote all the words of the LORD This
refers to all that God said in Ex. 20 -23.
Exodus 34:27 27
Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for according to the
tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you and with
Joshua and Jesus both
credit Moses with writing the 10 commandments in Exodus 20.
There are several things
we learn about God in the Book of Exodus
1. Sovereignty ( supreme power)
Power over nature in the
10 plagues
Power over the Pharaoh
power over all kings and nations
Power to defend his
children
2. God is everlasting
Ex.
3. God is a jealous God
Exodus 20:3 " You
shall have no other gods before
4. God will answer your prayers.
Exodus
I think its really neat
how the book of Genesis prophecies of what would happen in the book of Exodus.
GENESIS REVEALS THE
EVENTS IN EXODUS
Genesis
God also tells Jacob that
he will make a great nation out his people in
EXODUS
CHAPTER 1
1-5 JACOBS FAMILY IN
6 JACOB AND HIS BROTHERS
+ GENERATION
7
8-22 A NEW KING WITH A NEW
PLAN
8-10
King was scared and rightly so the children of
1st
plan 11 – 14 His first plan was to work them so hard they wouldn’t even think
about having more children but it didn’t work
2nd plan 15 -21 Hebrew midwives were suppose to
kill the male children but not the
females. They could intermarry with the girls. They feared God more the king. Acts
3rd plan 23 He
gets all his people involved and wants
them to cast every male into the river. His plans were similar to King
Herod who slaughtered all those male children under 2 years of age. Of course
in Chapter 2 we learn that Moses escapes this wicked plan of the Pharaoh
however we will examine that in more detail next week. The Book of exodus is
another excellent book that we should study and learn from. In our lesson
tonight we have learned more about Gods Character and how he deals with those
who cry out to him.