September 29 Sermon Notes

September 29, 2019
Exodus 1
“All According To God’s Plan”

Exodus: Freedom
• The very structure of Exodus tells us that (true) Freedom is (always) both “freedom from” and “freedom for”
o Freedom from slavery, pharaoh, sin, etc.
o Freedom for…God, His purposes, worship, etc.

All Is Well (Exodus 1:1-7)
• If I were a movie director…

Connection between Exodus 1:1-7 and Genesis 1:
o “…but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful;
 they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers
 and became so numerous
 that the land was filled with them” (Exodus 1 7)

Pharoah
• “there arose a Pharoah who did not know Joseph” (Exodus 1:8)

• Pharoah is like Darth Vader, “Thanos” full of:
• Fear
• Scheming
• Enslaving
• Murder
• Genocide

Pharoah… like the Serpent in Genesis 3
1. A Genesis 1-like context
2. Pharoah says: “Let’s deal shrewdly with them”—sounds like the serpent who was more “crafty than any of the other wild animals” (Genesis 3:1)

John 10:10
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy;
I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10)

Where Is God?
• Unsettling question?

“I will go down to Egypt with you,
and I will surely bring you back again” (Genesis 46:4)

“Know for certain that for four hundred years
your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own
and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.
But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves,
and afterward they will come out with great possessions” (Genesis 15:13-14)

God is more than just a “fortune teller”—God has God’s “foreknowledge”:
i. knowledge about the future
ii. a plan to be at work in that future
iii. always working for good

“Experiences without explanations—
that is what the first chapter of Exodus is all about.
Our only comfort is that God comes to us in the day of darkness and lovingly reassures us that, “It is all right, it is all planned and it will all be well” [Alec Motyer, The Message Of Exodus, pg 33]

The Cross Of Jesus: the plan of God

Communion…