Sermon Tone Analysis

(Slavery In Exodus)

Introduction

Unwanted addiction can be like slavery.

Unwanted addiction can be like slavery, We are going to have a discussion around the exodus story found in the bible an how it relates to addiction recovery and if there is some wisdom we can glean.

Big Idea

Big Idea

When things are going well for you, you remember how awful the past was, But, when times get tough we can have a cap-city to begin to romanticise the past, and the old slavery can once again seem appealing to you.

What do we do when that happens?

When things are going well for you you remeber how awful the past was,

But when times are tough?

Then you can begin to romanticise the past and the old slavery can seem appealing to you.

A discussion around the Exodus Story and how unwanted addiction can be like slavery.

THE ISREALITES MISERY WHEN THEY WERE ENSLAVED

Exodus -

There enslavement

The Israelites never intended to go into slavery, Most people who get addicted never intended to get addicted.

If anything they were looking to ease their burden as there was great famine in their land.

6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

We must keep them from growing too strong (Verse 10) addiction doesn't help us to grow, it can actually distract us

A discussion around the Exodus Story and how unwanted addiction can be like slavery.

8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.

9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

Most people who get addicited never intended to get addicted

They appointed Brutal slave drivers , hoping to wear them down with crushing labour (Verse 11) (Brutal, Crushed, hoping to where them down)

11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly.

14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly

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Without Mercy (verse 14)

Made their lives bitter, forcing - compelling, ruthless.

(verse 14)

Discussion Questions

In what ways can addictions seem Like slavery?

15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, 16 “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live.”

17 The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.

18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this?

Why have you let the boys live?”

19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, “Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive.”

20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.

21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.

22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

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The cruelty of their slavery - Pharaoh is like a cruel god whom they are forced to serve and his power seems overwhelming

Solutions

Just when there is hope that they could get themselves out of the situation pharaoh keeps them down, kills off their hopes and dreams of freedom.

They are in sinking sand they Need help to pull them out.

Thats addiction, our will power our resolve alone wont get us free or keep us free and the more you wiggle the faster you sink.

With sinking sand you need someone to pull you out.

So God sends Moses to command Pharoh to let go of his people and what does pharoh do?

23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died.

The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

They are in sinkin

They get whipped and beaten and kicked while their down and it just spirals out of control?

Things are BAD!

They are in sinkin

Gods amazing Deliverance

They See God do miracles the likes that no one has ever seen, (The plagues) God doing extraordinary things to set them free, no Gods can compare to theirs

Staff becomes a snake

The nile to blood

Aaron’s Staff Becomes a Snake

The Frogs

They see a physical pillar of fire go before them and block their enemies,

Locusts, Frogs and Flies

Boils

Hail, and Terrible weather.

They see their God part the Red see so that they can cross and then the whole Army drowned,

They see their God part the Red see so that they can cross and then the whole Army drowned,

And then God turns the egyptions sin on their heads when all of their firsborns die.

God recues his people from horrendous slavery and oppression and provides for all of their needs.

but.

God sends the plagues.

They see amaizing things Pharaoh heart just gets harder and harder and he will not let Gods people go

Pharaoh heart just gets harder and harder and he will not let Gods people go

God causes the Egyptians to let them go and provide for all their needs on the way, the Israelites get to see God appear as a pillar of Fire and God Parts the red sea before their very eyes and they see the pharaohs army destroyed in front of them.

They See God do miracles the likes that no one has ever seen, God doing extraordinary things to set them free, no Gods can compare totheirs

They see a physical pillar of fire go before them and block their enemies,

They see their God part the Red see so that they can cross and then the whole Army drowned,

For some of you you've crossed the red sea out of slavery and egypt and you have no intention of going back to slavery, to bondage to pharaoh, your looking ahead to the promised land.

Times Get tough in the wilderness.

When things are going well for you you remeber how awful the past was, But when times are tough?

Then you can begin to romanticise the past and the old slavery can seem appealing to you.

But when times are tough?

Then you can begin to romanticise the past and the old slavery can seem appealing to you.

Despite all that they have seen, and the fact that God dwells in their midst in a giant pillar of smoke and fire and is providing bread from heaven, Look what they Israelites do.

Numbers 11:406

Talk about a loss of perspective.

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Do you think when we hit tough times its possible to be like the Israelites?

Forgetting just how bad things were.

What should we do to be different from them.

How does Egypt lie to us?

How do we stop ourselves from falsely romanticising past slavery, (A greater affection)

They had stopped seeing with the eyes of faith and had lost sight of their goal and of God’s guiding presence.

The recovery journey is much like Israel’s experience in the wilderness.

As things get tough, it is easy to look back at our old life with longing.

We need to keep our eyes on God and his promises for us.

If we do, he will eventually lead us to a new and better life.

We often fail to see our greatest blessings.