Sermon Tone Analysis

And our musical worship today.

I hope that you get to enjoy and maybe even occasionally.

Look back on your order service with your bulletin.

Maybe go online.

And in CD intentionality with which we try to build the service is not so that you can be impressed by any means.

That's not the point.

So that you can grasp some of the richness that we're trying to build into our time together as a community.

One of my favorite words in the English language is rescue.

Or rescuer.

The first thing that comes to my mind is, of course, a lifeguard diving into the water after someone that needs save, someone that is perishing and completely unable to save themselves.

God is our rescuer.

Or at least he wants to be.

Sometimes we think of God as a little bit like a self-help mechanism.

I think.

I don't think any of us in this room would probably say that but I think sometimes we act like it as do.

We have things pretty well under control but we need a little bit of help to cross the finish line of life into eternity.

We've got things pretty well-handled here but we recognize our need for a savior.

Are the eschaton for the Hereafter for eternity.

And let me remind you, let me tell you, let me encourage you and maybe even chastise you, you are completely unable to save yourself.

You and I, we need a rescuer and that rescuer is God, the Holy Trinity, father, son, and spirit God, the father has sent the son into the world to save.

Sinners that son, willingly gave himself on the cross shed his blood for you.

And for me, and when we place our faith and trust in him, we too can be raised to newness of life just as he was on the third day.

These are the essentials of the Gospel message and often times to, to quote them, to learn them, to share them with others.

We would turn perhaps to the Book of Matthew or one of the other gospels, but rarely do we turn to the Book of Exodus.

Exodus reveals to us the covenants.

God Yahoo. the Covenant name of God, who dwells with his people, gives them the law and then shows them that the blood of a lamb shed for them can be The Rescuer

the book of Exodus reveals to us the themes that are carried on throughout the entire Bible and is really the the Capstone of the pentateuch Genesis, Exodus Leviticus Numbers, and Deuteronomy

The pentateuch really is a single book, should be considered as a single book in our mind, traditionally thought to have been written by Moses.

There's some good different theories on whether or not Moses spend every single word in the pentateuch.

Instead of getting stuck in the weeds by that, I'll just tell you that.

There's some very small problematic things to say, Moses wrote every single word.

For example, Moses saying, and Moses was the most humble man that ever lived.

but, It is with good authority and end in good Integrity academically that we can say.

Moses was the primary person who penned the pentateuch.

and any additions that were made were also inspired by the Holy Spirit and the finished autographs that we have very good copies of in translations of are at a good version of that, something we can call the word of God.

Exodus was written.

A long time ago.

If you want a good date for the book of Exodus, you could you could turn over to.

Where's my notes?

Your first Kings.

I will go back to that.

Make it 7. Welcome back to that first, king seven, where it tells us that Solomon.

Solomon had his rain and it was 480 years after.

Moses.

And so if we take the dating for four solid in which we can pretty authoritatively say was 966, Then we can say that about 1446.

BC is a good date for the book of Exodus.

There are other good biblical interpreters, that would say.

Otherwise that, they would say, well 480, that's a pretty coincidental number, maybe it's more symbolic, maybe it means twelve Generations.

And they would put a little bit earlier of a date on its or later of a date on it based on their perspective.

But we have a, a good Historical, understanding of the book of Exodus that it is not simply a myth, not simply a story, but something that took place in space and time in history.

But that it is not itself intended to be a history book but it is written the genre as a theological history.

Exodus has written to reveal the relationship, the work between God and His Covenant.

People.

That's really what the pentateuch in and later the all the scriptures are show me ways.

Exodus is the beginning of the Bible, with Genesis being The prequel, that's how we got to, where we're going.

How we got the world?

How we got Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

And how Jacob's 12 sons ended up.

In Egypt.

I invite you to stand for the reading of God's word is.

We read Exodus 11 and following

These are the names of the sons of Israel.

Who came to Egypt with Jacob each with his household.

Ruben Simeon, Levi in Judah, issachar zebulun and Benjamin.

Dan and not tally, Gad and Asher.

All the descendants of Jacob were 70.

Persons.

Joseph was already in Egypt when Joseph died and all his brothers and all that generation.

But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly.

They multiplied and grew exceedingly strong so that the land was filled with them.

Now, there are rows in New King over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.

And he said to his people behold.

The people of Israel are too many and too Mighty for us.

Come, let us deal rudely with them, unless they multiply, and if War breaks out, they join our enemies in fight against us in Escape From the land.

Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens, they built for Pharaohs store cities, pithom and Ramsay's first 12, but the more they were oppressed the more they multiplied in the more they spread abroad.

And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

So they ruthlessly ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and made their lives better with hard service in Mortar in brick in all kinds of work in the field.

In all their work, they Roost ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

Then the king of Egypt, said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named shiffrin the other pool when you serve as Midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birth stool.

If it is a son, you shall kill him.

But if it is a daughter, she shall live.

But the midwives fear, God and did not do with the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live.

So the king of Egypt, call the midwives and set them.

Why have you done this and let them male children.

Live wife said, the Pharaoh because women are not like the Egyptian women, their vigorous and give birth before the Midwife comes to them.

Do God dealt well, with the midwives and the people multiplied and grew very strong and because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Then Pharaoh commanded all the people.

Every song that is born to the Hebrews.

You shall cast into the Nile but you should let every daughter live.

This is God's word.

Exodus 1 begins as the story.

Of those like the children up here.

Wondering when is dinner?

They saw God working in and through Joseph, how God used Joseph to save to rescue the people of Israel from the famine and they went down to Egypt in good faith.

They follow the command of God, that they were to go down to Egypt.

And there in Egypt, it would have become fair for some of the people or of all of the nation of Israel to say, God, when is dinner, I don't see anything on the counter being prepared.

I don't smell anything in the oven or on the stove.

That makes me think you have been working.

It would be fair to say that it seemed like God was not at work at all.

Or had perhaps abandoned them, or perhaps was just a myth from their forefathers.