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Exodus: Called Out • Sermon • Submitted 3 years ago

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Fear and doubt lead us to inaction. We become paralyzed in the moment and unable to be obedient to the leading of the Lord. God in His grace and mercy is ever faithful to supply His people with all the equipping necessary to go where He desires to lead us. The movement occurs as allow our dependence and trust in the Lord to grow beyond our fear and doubt. The story of the Passover and the details of how God delivered His people serves as an ignitor of this kind of dependence and trust.

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Freedom

Exodus 12:31–42 NIV

During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.” The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!” So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians. The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves. Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years. At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt. Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.

The picture is one of war. The Israelites are the conquerors and they are paraded out as the conquering army.

They are loaded down with the spoils of war.

But the war looked very different than the war that Moses had though was needed when he killed the Egyptian taskmaster.

Often times our view of how things should happen varies from the Lord’s, but in whom do we trust?

The people of God left Egypt with all that they needed to not only escape, but all that they needed for the journey ahead. God is always faithful to equip us for what He has instore for us. He does not leave us unequipped

2 Corinthians 1:3–5 NIV

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ.

Through the wars of our life, God has equipped us for the battles that lay ahead, not just our battles but the battles of others.

Our Rock

Exodus 12:43–51 NIV

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: “No foreigner may eat it. Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him, but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it. “It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones. The whole community of Israel must celebrate it. “A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it. The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.” All the Israelites did just what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.

The table of the Lord is open to all who walk with the Lord.

It is about an ongoing relationship and not the works of our hands.

Where is your devotion to the Lord? Are you trusting in Him with the battle plans of your life?