Sermon Tone Analysis

Housekeeping:

Open your bibles to Exodus Chapter 11 this morning If you dont have a bible…

Introduce myself… Church Plant Resident, plant in 2023.

Before we Jump in: Pastor Brock is @ Doxa this morning to celebrate their 2 year

- today is 7 year anniversary at Redeemer!

Introduce the name.... Ascend Bible Church

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Sermon Introduction:

Pull up chart from Last week I want us to remind ourselves where we have been… Last week we discussed how God is the one true God, and there is no other…

- God through the first 9 plaques is showing his power and authority over egypt that he is in control of all things ....

And today we are going to look at the final plaque but before we do that I want to take stock of where you are at…

Do you believe God is in control of all things?

I imagine this is a belief most of us hold Formally but do we hold it functionally

Ask yourself Functionally is there a time that if you were honest you stop believing God is in control?

Graham & The Playground… (mostly blind faith in me.. but there are limits)

It is easy to say God is in control, when we functionally could be in control of said thing.. but once it is out of our control it is a a lot harder release control over to God.

Transition: I would argue there is nothing harder to release over to God than the power of life and death....

- My hope is through Today’s passage we can see that God is the only one who is truly in control of life and death....

There is no doctor, no man, no leader, our yourself that can control life and death.

This mornings Big Idea:

The Gospel of The Passover:

Big Idea: God is in the position of authority over life & death.

We will see God establish his authority in two scenes…

A. Scene 1: God vs Egypt (Gods Power over death)

B. Scene 2: Gods protection for the people of Israel… The Passover (Gods power over life)

Scene 1: Gods authority over death.

How does this hit you?

Do you question Gods actions?

Is God just…

I want us to try to get our mind clear on this… and I think its important we think through a few things because this is heavy…

In your theology … Does God have the authority to do this.

Two things I think we should note…

Killing of the firstborn ....

In Gods omnipotence you think he doesn’t know the weight of this loss?

Also, This isn’t the first time someone has assumed authority over life and death…

In fact this is how the book of Exodus begins… …

Egypt’s attempt to control Life and Death.

Exodus begins with a pharoah attempting to kill all the baby boys of Israel… and they failed

This is the story of Moses… He is a failed attempt for a Pharoah to take control over life & death.

But When God shows his authority over death...

When the Pharoah of Egypt enacts his authority he not only fails… but When God inacts his authority not even a dog will growl....

THE Lord makes a distinction....

There are those who follow God and those who do not.

Make no mistake there is a distinction between the way God see his people, and those who are outside of his household.

Transition: What we are about to look at as we turn to chapter twelve is how God marks and redeems the people of Isreal… because I don't want us to get the false Idea that the people of Israel have done anything to earn Gods favor.....

This is where we begin to see the Good news of Exodus.

Scene 2: God authority over life.

(The Passover)

The Passover that we are about to Read about:

- Is a defining moment for Israel .

- will send redemptive reverberations all the way to the cross of

Jesus Christ.

Dont miss it this morning God will offer a way for his people to conquer his wrath, and rather than receive death have life this leads us to scene 2.

Jesus Christ himself will celebrate the Passover and make a bridge that connects the passover to the New Covenant.

If It was just you and I..

I would read it and just go “the what ”....

Elements of the Passover:

The Lamb

The Blood

The Bread

The Lamb

Exodus 12:1–6 (ESV)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be for you the beginning of months.

It shall be the first month of the year for you.

Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household.

And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old.

You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.

What is the sacrifice to be like:

A lamb without blemish

1 year old.

The Blood

The Blood of the blemish-less lamb is the sign to passover death.

And in doing this....

When God’s Judgement comes, you will be passed over.

The Bread

God is instituting that his people keep the passover.

So lets recap:

God is showing his authority over life and death with one final plaque..

A terrible death, and he is making a way for his people to be passed over from his wrath… using these elements, and is going to instruct a celebratory meal that they do in remembrance of this forever.

Transition: and they do it… We are going to skip 21-28 because we have just read where God instructs Moses and then the latter verses repeat Moses giving that instruction.

So lets listen to these events unfold.

Back to Part Scene 1....

Back to Scene 1:

Can you imagine:

430 years Isreal was in captivity in Egypt.

God never forgot about them.

God was always at work in holding true to his covenant with his people.

The Lord keeps by his people.

Transition: as we close out the message this morning there is one more part to chapter 12 that I really think we cant skip over.

What we have done:

Established Gods authority over life and Death and Egpytians lack of authority

Understood the Elements of the Passover…

Listened to the events of the passover unfold

but there is one more part of Chapter 12 I think we would be sad to skip over, and first glance it may not seem significant.. oh but it is.

Lastly in closing: The Institution of the Passover

The Household of faith: God makes a clear distinction between his people and everyone else.

This story should grow our view of God.

We should respond it faith.

When we look at the elements of the passover on this side of the Cross we shouldnt be able to do anything but fall on our knees in worship.