Destination Deliverance

Written by Ryan Simmons
 Sunday, 11 March 2007 06:41

The Jesus Thing: Through the Moses Lens

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Sermon Outline

Exodus 11-12: In today's central passage, we see that God brings the 10th and final plague on Pharaoh and Egypt, which is the death of every firstborn in Egypt. God told the Israelites that each Israelite family should sacrifice a lamb and then to take some of the lamb's blood and apply it to the door post of their home where they eat the lamb. The blood was a sign for the Lord to passover that house so that the destructive plague would not touch the people in that household. God used this final act to deliver the Israelites from their slavery to the Egyptians.

1. There was motivation for God's deliverance

God is love. His love motivates Him for action.

2. What is the cost of deliverance? Death.

Because of God's holiness, His only answer for unholiness was complete and utter elimination.

3. What is the impact of deliverance? Redemption.

God redeemed the Israelites from their slavery.

4. What about the Jesus thing?

  • We are all sinners.
    • Romans 3:10 "...There is no one righteous, not even one."
    • Romans 3:23 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."
  • God's love motivates Him.
    • Romans 3:25 "God presented him [Christ Jesus] as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood."
    • Romans 5:8 "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
  • God's justice demanded death
    • Romans 3:25-26 "... He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished — he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time..."
    • Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death..."

What did Christ's death accomplish?

  1. The cross satisfies the tension of what God ought to do out of anger and what He wants to do out of love.
  2. Jesus' death brings us into a new relationship with God.

What does this mean for us?

  • Killing the lamb wasn't enough. The blood of the lamb had to be applied to the door posts. The blood of Christ needs to be applied to our lives.
  • We need to be delivered through Jesus Christ. Jesus can deliver us from our enslavement, whatever it is.

Small Group Questions

This week Ryan spoke on how Christ is our Passover ?lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world?, and how we can live daily in that reality.

Possible Icebreaker:

Have you ever been ask to do something you thought was crazy only to later found out that it wasn?t as crazy as you thought? What was it?

Possible Questions:

Read Exodus 11 and 12

  • What purpose did the blood on the doorpost serve?
  • What was the impact of this blood application?

Read Romans 3

  • How does the story of Exodus parallel our your bondage?
  • What purpose did the cross serve? What was satisfied in God?
  • What does ?application of the blood? mean for you and I?
  • How does that make a difference in your life today?
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