The Deliverance Of Faith Series

Series: Living By Faith

Scripture: Hebrews 11:28 By faith he (Moses) kept the Passover and the application of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel – NIV

Title: The Deliverance of Faith!

Proposition: This is a profound passage, rich in typology, that points to how God delivers us from the ultimate bondage of sin!

Intro: Our scripture text points us to a historic moment in which God that set a nation of people free from 400 years of slavery.

Our nation’s national anthem contains within it these words, “the land of the free, “ but are we really free?

In America you are free to come and go as you please. You are free for example if you are of age drink alcoholic beverages, smoke, gamble, but again the question I want to ask is this – are we REALLY FREE?

Many are bound by addictions of all sorts. Drugs, tobacco, gambling, pornography, even food!

We are the most medicated country in the world. We are bound by fears, hatreds, hang-ups etc. How free are we

really?

These examples point us to the reality that Jesus pointed out to even the religious leaders of his day:

John 8: 34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

If you sin, then you are a slave according to Jesus!

That is why I believe this message is so important, for it points us toward what I’ve entitled this message after:

Title: The Deliverance of Faith!

Proposition: This is a profound passage, rich in typology, that points to how God delivers us from the ultimate bondage of sin!

So in order to simplify let begin to look at it in an elementary fashion by looking at first of all:

I. The Problem they needed deliverance from?

A) Problem?

1. Slavery!

Exodus 2: 23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.- NIV

B) Picture of everyone?

1. Jesus said:

John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

2. Paul wrote:

Romans 7:14 We know that the law is spiritual; but I am unspiritual, sold as a slave to sin

Titus 3:3 At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

3. Peter said to Simon the Sorcerer:

Acts 8:23 For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin." – NET

2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity--for "people are slaves to whatever has mastered them."- NIV

4. Jesus also said to the religious leaders of his day:

John 8: 44a You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires.

5. Paul wrote to Timothy that there are those who are in:

2 Timothy 2:26b the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

C) Point of our scripture text:

1. God came down to Moses and said:

Exodus 3:7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

Exodus 3: 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

D) Problem?

Exodus 3: 19 But I know that the king of Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. 20 So I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that, he will let you go.

E) Predictable!

Exodus 5: 2 Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.”

F) Possibility?

1. Pharaoh never heard of Jehovah= The Self -Existing; Eternal One, or if he did, would not acknowledge him as God!

II. The Provision for deliverance?

A) Provision?

1. Signs – a mark, demonstration, a token?