Salvation by blood
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v. 19-23
v. 19-23
Those seeking his life are now dead
Just as Jesus when he was a baby,
Joseph was told to leave Egypt, because Harod was dead
giving some assurance to Moses
Moses takes his family and the staff
Family
He did not leave them behind.
at some point he does send them back because he fetches them later, but for now he does take them
Families serve together
parents are to be teaching kids how to do ministry
Parents need to be ‘seen’ doing ministry
don’t just do what i say, but watch as i do.”
God’s staff
notice no longer called ‘Moses’ staff’
God has made it his, a tool for his purpose and use
Symbol of God’s power and the salvation of his people
mighty acts done in Egypt, parting of Red Sea, flowing water from a rock
We now have a new symbol of God’s power and salvation
the cross
Acts to be done for the people and for Pharaoh
one for their assurance, the other for power
Pharaoh’s hard heart
Important theme in the Exodus story
God’s sovereignty, His will
God will use this as an example of God’s power and His will
There is only one this that will soften this hard heart, and that will be death, but not of Pharaoh
My son and your son
God has laid claim to the Hebrew people
They are my son, you have refused me my son
God is not only laying claim to them, but showing his authority over Pharaoh himself.
God showing Pharaoh you are only a vassel, I am the true King. You work for me and you have held my son from me.
He was preventing them from serving their father
Grand theme of Exodus: God saving his sons from slavery so that they could serve him.
eye for an eye, a son for a son
Exodus—Saved for God's Glory God’s Firstborn Son
Dutch Bible scholar Cornelis Houtman writes, “In the dispute about the question to whom Israel belongs and who is her legitimate ruler, Pharaoh or Yahweh, Yahweh at last will show that he has intimate emotional ties with Israel. Pharaoh had better know that to Yahweh Israel is not just his own people, they are also dear to him.… Pharaoh is going to be hit at his most sensitive spot, the spot where he has touched Yahweh himself, in the love for the firstborn.”
This is why God sent his only son to be our savior
Christ is the perfect son
served his father with complete devotion, everything God wanted in a son.
Exodus—Saved for God's Glory God’s Firstborn Son
Charles Spurgeon writes, “The Lord Jesus comes, identifies himself with the enslaved family, bears the curse, fulfils the law, and then on the ground of simple justice demands for them full and perfect liberty, having for them fulfilled the precept, and for them endured the penalty.”
We are now children of God, sons of God.
The perfect Son came, rescued us, and sets us as Sons of God
Gal 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
A bloody Bridegroom (v 24-26)
A bloody Bridegroom (v 24-26)
Moses nearly dies?
yes!
why?
Moses was called to bring the Covenant people out of Egypt, but he himself had not identified with the covenant
He failed to circumcise his son
covenant required on the son’s 8th day
Egypt they would do this on the day the son turned 14.
This sin led to his near death
for the wages of sin is death...
Due to his condition, Moses could not do it so his wife did
she cut off her oldest son’s foreskin and touched it to Moses
“bridegroom of blood” she was not mad at him.
what saved Moses was the circumcision of his son
why death?
For Moses refusal to go to Egypt God was patient with him
but for the refusal to accept the covenant, was death.
Moses needed to set the example
if he was to lead them out, he needed to keep the covenant.
“How could he be Israel’s prophet if he neglected his spiritual responsibility to his own family by failing to include them in God’s salvation?”
Lessons about salvation
spiritual importance
today not circumcision but baptism
Col 2:11-12 and in Him you were also circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, in the removal of the body of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ; having been buried with Him in baptism, in which you were also raised up with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead.
Though baptism does not save, it is the sign of your salvation
“if you declare me before man i will declare you before the father, if you deny me before man i will deny you before the father.”
without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness
this was a test for Moses
giving Moses first hand experience of salvation
the wages of sin put him under God’s wrath
wrath was turned aside by blood
Moses had to be touched by the blood otherwise he could not be identified with it.
“Moses was saved from God’s wrath by the shed blood of a substitute.”
“Everyone who believed in Jesus Christ will be saved from God’s wrath through the vicarious sacrifice he offered on the cross. There is no other way to be saved.”
Back in Egypt (v. 27-31)
Back in Egypt (v. 27-31)
Moses Meets Aaron
shows him the signs God instructed him to
they show the people
the people believe
comfort in knowing God hears your cries
comfort in knowing God will help
Comfort in knowing you are not alone in your troubles.