Moses, Called To Be A Deliverer
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When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. – Acts 4:13
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. – Ephesians 2:10
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LAST SUNDAY - we kicked off our 2016 Summer Series, “Heroes, Amazing Stories Of Faith.”
NOW – what we are doing each week this summer is unpacking the lives of some of the Heroes that we find in bible to see what God’s intends for them to teach us (to teach you and I) about being used by God and moving forward in our faith journey.
LAST WEEK – we looked at Noah, a dad who saved his family.
AND REMEMBER - dads who save their families (and people that God uses)…
• Make themselves available
• Understand the dangers of living in a fallen and broken world, and in ways that are against God
• Dare to be different (than the world they live in)
• Walk with God
• Never give up
YEAH – last Sunday was an awesome day… from seeing some dads knee up here committing and recommitting to be the dads God wants them to be…
Here is a picture of those dads from first service
AND – the day was topped off when I had the privilege of baptizing Laurie’s ONE (John Falwell) into Christ/
NOW – our hero this week is a very familiar hero…
He was one of the great leaders of the Old Testament and he actually wrote the first 5 books of the bible, (which are?)
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Today’s conversation is about Moses… and I am calling this mornings conversation, “Moses, Called To Be A Deliverer.”
NOW - Moses life could really be divided into 3 parts, or 3 Acts…
AND - each Act is 40 years…
Life Of Moses
Act One
NOW IF YOU - know Moses’ story you know that he was fortunate to even be alive.
YOU SEE - at the time of his birth, the Israelites were living in Egypt…
REMEMBER – Jacob (Abraham’s grandson)…
AS - the book of Genesis closes brings his entire family to Egypt in order to survive the famine that was sweeping across the world.
AND SINCE – Jacob’s son Joseph, was like, the number two guy in all of Egypt. God’s people were both welcomed and honored guests…
HOWEVER – we read the following in Exodus chapter 1…
Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor. – Exodus 1:6-11
OKAY, PHAROAH…
• Is afraid of God’s people
• So he enslaves them and tries to crush them with heavy labor
• But the more he oppressed them, the more they multiplied
SO HE – decides to roll out plan B…
Have all new born babies thrown into the Nile River drowned…
What a brutal man!
What a hateful plan!
UNDERSTAND…
WHEN GOD - sees a helpless child whose life is in danger God says, ‘I need to protect that child, because life is precious and who knows this may be the child I will use to save an entire nation.
BUT…
WHEN - the devil sees a helpless baby he says, “kill it! Get rid of it! You see he hates life and he is afraid becasue that baby may become the next Mother Teresa or Martin Luther King Jr…
AND LISTEN – just as this cruel plan for the murder of innocent babies is rolling out, we read in Exodus chapter 2 that a couple from the tribe of Levi had a baby boy.
Now they already have two children a 3 year old boy named Aaron and a ten year old girl named Miriam.
AND UDERSTAND - Moses parents were godly people so there was no way they were going to obey the Pharaoh’s command… SO - they hide Moses for three months.
AND LISTEN - this was a huge act of FAITH, one that they are commended for in Hebrews 11…
By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. – Hebrews 11:23
BUT EVENTUALLY – his size and his sounds make it impossible to hide him any longer.
SO - in Exodus 2:3 we read,
But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
IMAGINE – what that must have been like for his mom Jochebed…
BUT UNDERSTAND – Moses mom is a very wise and godly women. AND - she has a plan.
She knows where Pharaoh’s baths in the morning.
SO - she floats Moses her way, while having his ten year old sister watch and follow from the river bank.
Then Pharaoh’s daughter went down to the Nile to bathe, and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her female slave to get it. She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.
Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”
“Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother. Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.
How cool, How God is that?
When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.” - Exodus 2:5-10
(3-12 years of age)
AGAIN - Pharaoh’s daughter finds him, and at some point she brings him home and evidently like a lot of daughters she was able to use her big brown eyes to get what she wanted. “Daddy! Daddy! Can I keep him? Can I keep him?”
And in his mind Pharaoh probably thought, “hey, what harm could one little Hebrew toddler cause…
AND SO - the daughter takes him home and she names him Moses.
Why? Because Moses means “to draw out of the water.”
AND – come on is that awesome or what…
PHARAOH – bringing into his own home the very one that God would use one day to cripple his empire.
Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. – Acts 7:22
• Language
• Writing
• Science
• Math
• Architecture
• Leadership
• Military strategies…
Acts One Of Moses’ story ends this way…
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
14 The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian… - Ex 2:11-15
Life Of Moses
Act Two
NOW - there is not much ink devoted to Acts 2 of Moses story… IN FACT - only 10 verses to document 40 years.
40 years where Moses goes from
• the palace to wilderness
• the prince of Egypt to a shepherd of sheep
Talk about a tanking life story
• Rejected by his own people
• A murderer
• A man with a price on his head
• A fugitive
• A runaway
• Living in the barren wilderness
NOW - in the wilderness some good things do happen,
Moses marries into a godly family and has a couple of sons.
AND LISTEN - even while in the wilderness, God was working His plan and preparing Moses for the greatest work of his life.
AND THAT (btw) – is often how our God rolls.
POINT…
IF – you find yourself in the wilderness this morning.
IF – your life at this moment seems to be (dry, dusty, hot, barren and lifeless).
UNDERSTAND – the Sovereign King of the Universe is still at work…. Romans 8:28 is true.
And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.
That’s why the wilderness (like James said in chapter 1) can actually be a cause for joy.
YEAH – I wonder what God is going to do with this mess.
OKAY – now for the..
Life Of Moses…
Act Three
AND – let me tell you this Act gets a ton of ink…
FROM - Exodus 3 to Deuteronomy 34, 137 chapters – in all!
AND – as this act opens up Moses is 80 years old.
He’s been tending sheep for over 14,000 days. Come on, think about that. 14,000 days of desert heat, desert and smelly, dirty sheep. I MEAN - every day like was exactly like the last one (hot sun, sand-sand-sand, baa-baa-baa).
Just counting the days to the closing chapters of his life story.
No, doesn’t look like much is going to happen here.
BUT B/S…
Little did he know that he was tending sheep in God’s neighborhood.
OR THAT – he was about to be invited to play a major role God’s deliverance plan,
AND THAT - that by the time the sun set that night things would never be the same again!
UNDERSTAND – we never know what our God is fixing to do!
AND – when the Creator of the Universe decides to move,
THINGS – can happen really fast.
I MEAN – who knows this may be the very week that God’s plan for your life begins to unfold in greater fullness.
HEY, look up – it really could be about to happen.
Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.”
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
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… - Exodus 3:1-8
HEY – did you catch all the first person pronouns that God is using? I have seen… I have heard… I’m concerned… I’m coming down. I am going to do something.
UNDERSTAND – God’s mind is set. His plan was in motion. FAILURE – was not an option (it never is for God). Nothing would stop Him or stand in His way. His people would be delivered! Mark it down it was going to happen. The redemption mission would go on as scheduled.
AND MOSES - is thinking,
“Yeah, God! Awesome! Thank You, God, for intervening. I knew you would. We’ve been praying for it for so long. IT – is going to be so incredible to see your people set free!”
BUT - in verse 10 Moses hears that God’s plan is going to involve him. God says, “So now, Moses, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
And Moses says to God… “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
NOW – I think what was going through Moses’ mind are the same kind of thoughts that race through our minds whenever GOD calls us to do something that seems beyond our abilities…
God are you serious?
Is this a joke?
Have you mistaken me for someone else?
You don’t really think I can pull this off, do you?
Actually no.
UNDERSTAND GOD – was not counting on Moses’ skill or power to break the chains that help His people captive. No, God was going to be doing all of the heavy lifting. He was just offering Moses an invitation to join Him.
NOW NOTICE – God didn’t respond to Moses with a pep talk. He didn’t send Moses to the center for ‘You can do it’ Training in an effort to boost his confidence. No God does not try to pump up Moses self esteem… “Come on Moses, you can do this! I believe in you!”
INSTEAD – God answers Moses’ ‘who I am question?’ with FIVE LIFE SHIFTING WORDS, as He simply affirms, ‘I will be with you.”
I MEAN – it’s as if God is saying to Moses, “don’t worry about who you are just focus on the reality that I am going with you! And if I go with you everything is going to work out just fine.
BOTTOM LINE – God and anybody else is an overwhelmingly powerful and unstoppable team.
BUT – Moses is still not convinced…
Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
NOTICE - God didn’t say my name is I WAS.
OR - my name is I WILL BE.
He said tell them, “I AM has sent me to you.”
I AM…
That’s because God is omnipresent. If you go back ten thousand years in time, God is there. If you go ten thousand years in the future, God is already there. There is no place that God is not. He has no beginning and He has no ending. He can’t learn anything new or be taken by surprise because He’s already there before the result comes to pass. There is nothing or no one that can prevent Him from anything He desires. He is in complete control over everything in every domain.
UNDERSTAND – God knew that it was imperative for Moses to know who He was – that He was I AM.
I AM is the present tense, active form of the verb to be…
AND AS - God’s name it declares that God is unchanging, constant, unending, always present, always God.
LISTEN - GOD was telling Moses’ and all of God’s people from that point forward (including us)…
This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations. – Exodus 3:15
I AM
I AM the center of everything
I AM running the show
I AM all powerful
I AM in control
I AM all knowing
I AM the Savior
I AM the same every day, forever
I AM the owner of everything
I AM the Lord
I AM the Creator and Sustainer of life
I AM more than enough
I AM inexhaustible and immeasurable
I AM God
NOW (even after God’s big reveal), Moses still tries to weasel out of God’s call…
What if they don’t believe me?
What if they don’t listen to me?
SO - the Lord reveals to Moses three different miraculous ways in which he would be able to convince the Israelites that this really was God’s plan and that they should follow Him.
He says, “Moses, throw down your staff.” And he throws his staff down on the ground, and it immediately becomes a snake. Then God says, “Pick him up by the tail.” (come again)
I would love to see that. SO – Moses reaches down, and when he touches the tail it immediately becomes a staff again.
THEN – God said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” And Moses did, and when he pulled his hand out it was a hand that was covered with leprosy. He said, “Put it back in again.” And when he pulled it back it was totally whole and clean.
God said, “If they still don’t believe you after that, then I want you to get some water from the Nile River (the Egyptians saw the Nile as sacred) and I want you to pour it out on the ground. And when you pour it out on the ground, that water will become blood.”
QUESTION - do you see what God is doing?
God is silencing Moses’ argument that he can’t make a difference, that he can’t convince people to follow him.
UNDERSTAND…
• When God calls, He always equips
• And that He will never send us to do anything without going with us
AND B/S - that was true thousands of years ago… AND - it’s still true today.
Amen?
NOW - I want you to notice that when Moses puts all of his excuses before the Lord, God never says, “Oh, Moses, you are so humble. Man, I’m so encouraged by your humility.”
No, the Bible says that God got angry with Moses.
Do you know why?
BECAUSE – Moses was not being humble; it was being selfish.
YOU SEE - insecurity is not humility; it’s pride. It’s too much focus on self, on protecting self.
“I can’t do this. I can’t do that. I don’t think I can speak well enough. I don’t think they’ll listen to me. I really would rather not do it. Find someone else.”
Where is the focus? “I, I, I.”
QUESTION – how do you think God feels when you and I make the same kind of excuses today when he asks us to do something…
BUT HEY – eventually something happens and Moses changes. He gets it, and he becomes obedient and he goes to Pharaoh, the leader of Egypt who had millions of Israelites under slavery.
UNDERSTAND – and you may want to write this down
“We will never see the power of God in our life until we obey the word of God is our life…”
“The Holy Spirit doesn't need to equip you for what you're not going to do, so if you're in rebellion against Jesus and refusing His right to be Lord, He doesn't need to send the Holy Spirit to equip you for service. And, tragically, you miss out on the joy that He brings. So let the Holy Spirit deal with anything that's keeping you from obeying Christ.” ? Henry T. Blackaby
NOW - most historians believe that since this is around 1450 B.C. that the Pharaoh at this time is Thutmose. You say, “Well, what’s the big deal about Thutmose?”
It’s actually Thutmose III. Well, here is the thing. Most people…historians think that he would’ve been Moses’ half-Egyptian brother.
So they would’ve grown up together in the palace, and now forty years have passed. Here is this shepherd. Moses is eighty years old at the time, and he is standing before the king.
And this is what Moses says to Pharaoh.
He says, “The Lord God says, ‘Let my people go.’”
I MEAN - you’ve got to understand this is an incredibly telling moment. It’s Winston Churchill staring down Hitler and telling Parliament, “We shall defend our island. Whatever the cost may be, we shall never surrender.” This is Ronald Reagan saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall….times 1000”
Moses looks at Pharaoh on behalf of God and he says,
“Let my people go.”
And Pharaoh looks back at Moses and he says, “Because you have made this request, do you know what I’m gonna do? I’m gonna do? I’m gonna tell all the Israelite slaves that they must continue to make the same number of bricks, But from now on, because of you, they’ve got to go gather their own straw. We won’t provide the straw. They’ve got to get it themselves.” In other words, “Same production with fewer supplies.”
And Moses exits, and all the Israelites hear the story and they say to Moses, “Thanks for nothing.” We got our hopes up. We thought God was involved in this, and now we’ve got more work.”
But Moses doesn’t stop there. He begins on a series of visits to Pharaoh. While some of them appear to get Pharaoh’s attention and soften his heart, none of them stick, and he refuses to let the Israelites go.
And over a period of time, these are the major plagues that God brought upon the Egyptians.
The first one is that of Nile…the Nile River turned to blood. The second was frogs everywhere…followed by gnats everywhere. And then it became a plague of swarms of flies and then diseased livestock, then boils all over their skin and then thunderstorms of hail, and then locusts and then darkness for 3 days.
Crazy… still where God’s people lived.
AND - after plague number nine, Pharaoh says, “I don’t ever want to see your face again, Moses.” And he says, “The day I see your face again I will put you to death.” And Moses looks back at him and in Exodus 11:4 Moses says to Pharaoh, “
This is what the LORD says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’”
The Bible says that Moses is “hot with anger.”
I MEAN – it did not have to be this way (your people did not have to suffer all of this)…
BUT - your stubborn pride and refusal to listen to God has brought all of this on you and on your nation…
AND - that tenth plague happened just as God told Moses it would—the death of every firstborn son. And the pain that it caused in every home rocked all of Egypt.
NOW- whether you are young or old, if you are a firstborn male, would you just stand right now? And just remain standing. Just look around. In one night’s time, every person standing…wiped out. You can be seated.
If that were to happen today, over night I would lose - my brother, my son John and my grandsons Zeb and Micah…
Can you imagine the pain that was in Egypt that night?
UNDERSTAND – after these 10 plagues… everyone throughout the Egyptian Empire has seen the power of God and the foolishness of ignoring Him…
So this massive exodus begins. Pharaoh gives Moses permission for these two to three million Hebrews to leave a life of slavery. They are led out of Egypt by Moses as God directs them on the path to the new life that God has for them…
Cloud by day (kept heat off), Fire by night (keep them warm)
NOW - sometime after Pharaoh has let them go, guess what happens. His heart is hardened again as he realizes, “I’ve just allowed our entire workforce to leave and on top of that they worked for free.” So Pharaoh riles up the Egyptian troops and says, “We’re going after them.” And I doubt that it needed to be a really strong speech in light of the fact that all of them had had family members who had passed away in recent days.
AND SO - the Egyptians go after them, and they go after them in huge numbers. Thousands of Egyptian soldiers plus six hundred chariots, the Bible tells us, to track them down and to capture them.
Moses has two to three million people that he is leading. And as he leads them, God directs them to a place where, all of a sudden, they look up and the direction that they are moving…they are pinned in by water on all sides except behind them.
They turn around behind them, and here come the Egyptians marching over the hill; and they’re coming after them!
And do you know what the Israelites say to Moses? They say, “Thanks a lot! Not enough graves in Egypt for us? Did you bring us out here just to die?
AND - I want you to watch what happens. This man of insecurity and inadequacy, this shepherd who struggles with public speaking…this is what he says with confidence: (Exodus 14:13)
“Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
And in one of the most famous miracles of all the Old Testament the Lord instructs Moses to raise his staff and the Red Sea parts. God brings a strong wind to keep back the water, and the children of Israel…they go across on dry ground… AND PHARAOH and his army are no more.
UNDERSTAND - the Bible makes a very strong point when it says, “The entire army was wiped out. Not one of them survived.” And the Israelites realize that they are free at last! Free at last! There is no more slavery for them.
AND – it is as God had said, “I am the Lord.”
Wow, that is some good stuff!
Now for a few quick but powerful truths that explode from the life of Moses….
Truths
AND LISTEN – these truth are essential to us be a deliverer…
God Sees/God Cares
QUESTION – are you going through a hard time right now?
God sees, God cares…
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… - Exodus 3:7,8
NOW – I don’t know about you, but there have been a few times in my life where I have doubted that God see, God cares…
But Zion said, “The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me.” “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
– Isaiah 49:14-16
God sees and God cares, because God loves us…
“I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. – Jeremiah 31:3
I am loved!
I have been rescued!
God Sees/God Cares… I AM
UNDERSTAND - for every cry of the human heart, there is one answer… “I AM”
I need help
I AM
I need hope
I AM
I need a fresh start
I AM
I need a reason to go on
I AM
This is way too big for me
I AM
My marriage is crashing and I don’t know where to turn
I AM
I can’t hold on
I AM
Who can I really trust
I AM
I feel all alone and overwhelmed
I AM
I’m tired
I AM
I’m really worried
I AM
I’ll never get beyond this
I AM
I don’t know how to change and become who you want
I AM
I can’t
I AM
God Calls
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Just like in the days of Moses, GOD – is looking across this community…
Where you live, where you work, where you go to school,
AND – He is looking across this world…
AND
HE SEES – the hurt and the pain and the suffering
HE HEARS – the cries of the lost, the broken, weak, the hungry, the lonely,
AND - He CARES!!!!!!
AND – He has called us His people to GO
HE – has sent us to GO to them and them get free…
To preach good news to the poor
To release those oppressed by this world
To set captives free
UNDERSTAND – God almost always delivers through people.
People like Moses, people like you, people like me
Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?” I said, “Here I am. Send me.” – Isaiah 6:8
In - Matthew 5:14-16 Jesus says that we ARE the light of this world, we are a city on a hill!
When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. – Matthew 9:36
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God is calling us His people from this moment until He returns to unleash His love and compassion on this world like never before!
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He is calling ‘US’ to be a church that makes a difference in this world for Him.
He is calling ‘US’ to be a church that let’s this world know that our God is alive and well, that His kingdom is here and that they are invited to be part of it…
God Delivers
UNDERSTAND – God is all about delivering people from where they are to where he wants them to be…
God delivers from slavery to freedom.
God hates oppression and injustice.
NOW - for us, different sins can become our master and God can free us from slavery as well.
Moses was enslaved to the sin of fear. That was his struggle.
What’s yours?
What is holding you captive?
Do you believe that God can set you free.
Secondly,
God delivers from despair to hope.
UNDERSTAND - His deliverance gives us freedom now, but it also gives us hope for the future.
And finally,
God delivers from death to life.
UNDERSTAND - this story in Exodus is a preview of salvation and resurrection.
And when the Israelites are brought out of Egypt, God is saying that no amount of human power can stop Him from fulfilling His plan.
And when Christ comes out of the grave, the same message is there.
God is saying that no amount of human power can stop Him from fulfilling His plan.
To give us life in all of it’s fullness…
To pay our debt
I tell you the truth, those who listen to my message and believe in God who sent me have eternal life. They will never be condemned for their sins, but they have already passed from death into life. – John 5:24
God sees, God cares
God see, God cares… I AM
God calls
God delivers
Now before we leave this story, I want to go back, because I didn’t talk about what spared the Israelites from having their own firstborn sons die on the night of the tenth plague. How were they spared? How were they saved?
Does anyone remember?
Because…
• They had faith
• When God told them what to do, they did it
• They applied the blood of a lamb to the doorposts
How were they delivered? By the lamb’s blood…
