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Exod 1–7
Things were difficult for Israel yet ‘the more they were oppressed the more they multiplied’ (1:12).
Difficult times can be the making of God’s people!
Moses sins (2:12).
God graciously forgives (Micah 7:18-19) - this is salvation.
His sin forgiven, Moses is called to service.
He is called by the eternal God, the God who draws near to His people (3:14-15).
Moses had to learn that ‘our competence comes from God’ (2 Corinthians 3:5).
Part of God’s provision for Moses was Aaron (4:14-16).
We are not called to go it alone.
What encouragement there is in the support of our fellow-believers.
Moses had to learn to wait for the fulfilment of God’s promise.
God’s own people were not listening to him.
How could he expect the unbelieving Pharaoh to listen to him (6:9,12)?
It was not easy.
Nevertheless, this ‘charge’ had been given - ‘bring the people out’.
It shall be done!
God’s purpose of grace moves forward according to His power and not our weakness.
Moses spoke ‘with faltering lips’ (6:30).
God worked miracles (7:8-24).
‘Our God is marching on’ - to glorious victory.
Exod 8–12
In the plagues, we see God’s power and Pharaoh’s pride.
There is a conflict between the reality of God and Pharaoh’s fantasy.
Conflict is God’s training ground for spiritual growth.
We take our stand on the reality of God.
Those who oppose God live in a fantasy world, imagining that they can successfully oppose the mighty God of salvation.
Pharaoh was neither the first nor the last to oppose God - and fail!
Put to death by men, Christ was raised by God (Acts 2:23-24) - Hallelujah! Pharaoh ‘confessed’ his sin, but didn’t really mean it.
He had had ‘enough’ of God’s interference.
That was his ‘reason’ for admitting his sin.
This was not real repentance - only a dislike for suffering!
Make your decision for Christ, and make it real!
Pharaoh’s stubborn unbelief becomes his own undoing.
Pharaoh doesn’t want God.
God confirms him in his unbelief (10:28-29).
God says, ‘You can go your own way, but you will be spiritually dead’ (Psalm 106:13-15).
God says, ‘Do not harden your heart.
You may be very close to the point of no return’ (Hebrews 3:8; Proverbs 29:1).
Before you lose all inclination to return to the Lord, let Christ’s love touch your heart.
Only His love can ‘create in you a clean heart’.
Only His love can ‘put a new and right Spirit within you’ (Psalm 51:10).
‘When I see the blood, I will pass over you... you must eat unleavened bread’ (12:13,20).
Forgiveness of sins and holy living belong together.
We are not to rejoice in God’s forgiveness and then gloss over His call to holy living: ‘justified by faith’, we are to ‘walk in newness of life’ (Romans 5:1; 6:4).
Exod 13–18
God delivered His people from their bondage (13:3,14,16).
Israel’s deliverance from the land of bondage was also deliverance for a new life in ‘a land flowing with milk and honey’ (13:5).
We look back in grateful remembrance.
We look forward in eager anticipation.
We have received ‘the first fruits of the Spirit’.
There is more to come - ‘the glorious liberty of the children of God... the redemption of our bodies’ (Romans 8:21-23).
Sometimes, the Lord leads us ‘by way of the wilderness’ - a way of apparent fruitlessness.
Why? - So that ‘equipped for battle’, we might learn to serve Him better (13:18).
The Lord does not leave His people in the wilderness.
He leads them on to His promised land.
Worshipping this God of grace - the redeeming God (15:13) - and glory - the reigning God (15:18) - , we say, ‘You are my God, and I will praise You’ (Psalm 118:28).
God allows His people to suffer difficulties.
Why? - To strengthen our faith (15:25; 16:4; Deuteronomy 8:2,16; 1 Peter 1:6-7).
God’s great concern is that His people move forward together.
The work is not to be left to the few (18:18).
God is looking to faithful servants who will ‘bear the burden’ together (18:21-22).
Exodus 19-23
Before law, there is Gospel - what God has done for us (19:4).
Before our love for God, there is His love for us.
He is the God of redemption.
He has redeemed us.
We are His people.
This is His doing.
All the glory belongs to Him (20:1-2).
We are to live as His people.
He is to have first place in our lives (20:3).
We do not live by an ethic of legalism.
This is an ethic of redemption (20:1-2).
Forget the God of redemption, and you have nothing but a lot of rules and regulations.
Become obsessed with rules and regulations, and there will be no room for the Redeemer and His redemption.
‘Earmarked’ for Jesus, we are to ‘serve Him for life’ (21:6).
No turning back!
We are bound to Him by love - not law!
What love He has for us!
We travel from grace to glory - from ‘Egypt’ to ‘the promised land’.
In the wilderness there are many pitfalls.
We can become careless in our obedience to Christ.
Do not ‘leave a pit open’ - you may cause a brother to stumble (21:33; Romans 14:13).
God is love: He loves ‘the stranger’ (23:9).
God is holy: He ‘will not acquit the wicked’ (23:7).
He wants to reproduce His love and holiness - in us.
Not holiness without love: that is self-righteous legalism.
Not love without holiness: that is spineless sentimentalism.
Exodus 24-29
Moses was alone with the Lord - receiving the Word of the Lord (24:1-2).
Moses went to the people - speaking the Word of the Lord (24:3).
There was also a written ministry of the Word (24:4).
God dwells among His people (25:8).
Christ lives in us (Galatians 2:20; Colossians 1:27).
This is full of Christ!
We don't ‘read into’ the Old Testament things which aren’t really there.
We read this part of Scripture in the light of the full revelation of God.
We see Christ as the Central Theme.
Above everything else and everyone else, there is Jesus Christ our Saviour.
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