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Big Idea
Tension: Who will deliver Israel from their oppression in Egypt?
Resolution: God alone.
Exegetical Idea: God alone will deliver Israel from their oppression in Egypt.
Theological Idea: Salvation comes through Christ alone.
Homiletical Idea: Christ alone delivers.
Intro
I want to ask you a question today to start off.
How much of salvation depends on you?
When you and God meet, what do you bring to the table?
Do you feel the need to polish your spiritual resume?
Do you feel the need to puff up your chest?
Do you feel the need to make much of yourself?
The 4th century monk Pelagius thought that we needed to do a great bit.
That yes, God gives us grace, but we have to show that we’re worth it.
We have to show that we have something to offer.
We have to show God that we’re not taking advantage of God.
Yes, God forgives, but God’s forgiveness is like student loan repayment.
You have to do your part in order to get God to do his part.
Of course the early father, Augustine, was not tolerant of this at all.
Augustine who was a bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa, wrote a withering 13 books that just slammed Pelagius.
HE believed that God’s grace was the only reason that any of us are saved.
That is has absolutely nothing to do with anything at all that we do.
That God’s grace comes prior and before there is antyhing good in us.
SO the question before us is, who is right?
What does Exodus say?
How can we be saved?
Do we save us?
Or does God save us?
Is Pelagius right, or Augustine?
Do we trust in our own good works, or do we trust in his?
God Promises Deliverance
“I am the Lord” (vs2): So this story starts out with God declaring his name.
Now, we have already seen this name earlier in the book of Exodus.
There, in chapter 3, Moses asked who God was that he was sending him, and God says, “i am that I am.”
Well, now, after Moses has been through his initial trials, after Moses has come up against the persecutions and strifes and trifles of this world, and Moses has just been utterly broken, God reminds Moses of that encoutner.
And God says “I am the Lord.”
You see, when Moses thought that he would provide deliverance, then he was utterly downcast.
You see, God was showing Moses that there was nothing he could do to deliver Israel.
So when Moses is at his lowest point, he is forced to almost ask, who can possibly deliver Israel now, to which God speaks and says, “I am the lord.”
God, the Lord, the Almighty, alone will deliver.
Not Moses.
Not Aaron.
Not Miriam.
Nobody can deliver but God alone.
And in these verses, God demonstrates the different ways that he will deliver.
Now here is what I want to show you as we’re going on in this.
That every single action that God takes in this chapter, is fulfilled in christ.
So we are going to keep drawing these connections so that you and I will see that all of God’s promises ifnd their yes in Christ.
God reveals (vs 3): First, God will deliver by revealing.
Look here in vs. 3.
He says, “I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and To Jacob, as God Almighty.
But my name the Lord I did not make myself known to them.”
So here God says, I spoke and appeared to and revealed myself to your forefathers Moses.
Now, a lot of people have really taken on this verse and gone back and tried to figure out how this could be.
But here’s the point of this.
That when God delivers his people, he shows more of who he is.
God’s delvierance, God’s salvation, God’s rescue always gives us a deeper insight into who he is.
When God saves us, it is always so that we might see and glorify him more.
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God reveals in Christ: So if God revealed himself in a greater way to Moses than he did to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, then God reveals himself in a greater way still in Christ.
After all says.... God’s revelation reached their climax, their perfection, their utter and perfect revelation in Christ and in Christ alone.
God covenants (vs4) So not only does God reveal, God covenants.
Now, we have been using the language of covenant to talk about GOd’s relationship with us.
God’s covenant is simply the relationship that he makes wiht us that he promises to keep.
God’s covenant is not a contrat.
A contract is a business agreement.
Those have their place.
But God’s covenant is more like a marriage vow.
It is when God says, “I am going to keep up my end of hte deal, no matter what.
THat I will not abandon you.”
YOu see, when God saves his people, it is never dispassionate, it is never disinterested, it is never apathetic.
No, when God saves his people, it is through relationship with them.
God covenants in Christ: Of course, while this covenant God made with them was amazing, God’s covenant that he makes with us is far greater still.
After, all says that....
You see, God’s covenant in Christ is eternal.
Never without end nor without beginning.
It is.
And that is why God does not leave us or forsake us, God just is.
God hears (vs 5): When means, not only does God reveal, not only does God covenant, God hears.
Look at this next verse in vs. 5.
God says, “moreover I have heard the groaning of hte people of Israel whom the Egyptians hold as slaves.”
God says I have heard.
I think sometimes we don’t realize that God cares about our suffering.
God cares and hears and understands.
When we are suffering, when the trials of the world weigh us down, when nothing really makes sense, God does not forget about his people.
He hears.
God hears through Christ: Of course, God hears us in a greater way through Christ.
Because if we have faith in Christ, then we have been adopted by God.
And God has not forgotten us.
And we can pray at any time as …
God remembers (vs.
5) But not only does God reveal, not only does God covenant, not only does God hear, God also remembers.
Look at the end of vs. 5.
God says, “I have remembered my covenant.”
You and I have a tendency to get excited about somethign for about five minutes.
Myabe if you have a lot of focus and a lot of discipline, yhou can stay focused on something for longer.
Then we have to start to forget somethign so that we can think about the next thing.
But God always remembers.
Have you ever thought about that?
That God does not have an attention span.
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