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Review: Last week we looked at how learning from the past is so important. Moses confronted Pharaoh to let God’s people leave Egypt, and he was hard hearted. We took some time to think through what causes this hard-heartedness to God’s Word and his messengers. God comforted Moses with this initial setback by reassuring His heart with His Names and His covenant faithfulness, and how God had proven Himself to the patriarchs.
Title: Delivered from Egypt
Text: Exodus 12:21-32
Memory verse: Exodus 12:13, “13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.”
Theme: God delivers His people from their bondage.
Introduction: In this week’s lesson it opens with the statement, “The coming of god’s kingdom will mean the overthrow of the wicked and the vindication of the righteous. The historical events described in Exodus 7-14 foreshadow the inauguration of God’s kingdom with Christ’s first coming and its consummation with His second coming” (p. 37). God displays His power and compassion to Pharaoh, the Egyptians, and His people.
Opening Discussion Question (s): What are your Christmas traditions? Have you ever tried to change or implement a new tradition and how did that go? When it comes to traditions sometimes we inherit it, marry into it, and sometimes we start it.
Context:
God displays his omnipotence over the Egyptian’s false deities repeatedly. The Egyptians had gods for various purposes like war, wind, the afterlife, and popular in this list were the gods of the Nile and the sun gods. The plagues confronted the idolatrous practices of the people and exposed their powerlessness. Yahweh displays his power of sin, brokenness, and these false deities and points to Himself as the only sufficient Redeemer. Pharoah repeatedly hardened his heart and the he and the Egyptians experienced the plagues, while God’s people—Israel—experienced God’s grace and protection in Goshen. What a picture of the gospel! God instituted the Passover which would go on to be celebrated pointing to the ultimate blood sacrifice once-for-all of the Messiah through Whom we are saved and rescued. This final plague preempted the Egyptians to demand that they leave and even give them many precious gold and jewels for their journey, as God promised Moses they would be plundered in exodus 12:36.
Main Points:
- Instruction (Exodus 12:21-23)
“21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.”
- In Exodus 11:1, God announces His final plague on Egypt to set the stage for this awesome display of His power with the words, “The Lord said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.”
- God gives the instructions for Israel to cover their doorframes in the blood of a spotless one-year old lamb or goat to protect the family’s firstborn son. This information was dispensed through the chain of command to the elders to the people. The instruction was given on the tenth day of the month to give time for the selection process of the animal and it’s killing on the fourteenth day of the month.
- This points to Jesus and the gospel, as He is the Lamb of God wo takes away our sin. John 1:29, “29 The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” One of my favorite verses in all the Bible.
- The hyssop branch was to be used a s a brush, later used by David to mean cleansing from sin: Psalm 51:7, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Those with the blood covering the doorposts who stayed din the house would be protected by God from the plague.
Key Doctrine: Salvation: Lifeway Explore the Bible says, “Salvation involves the redemption of the whole man and is offered freely to all who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, who by His own blood obtained eternal redemption for the believer.”
Discussion: If God has purchased all of our lives and we’re completely washed in His blood, how does this transform how we use our time and what we do with our time, our thoughts, actions, words, behaviors, responses?
Luke 1:68-69, ““Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
for he has visited and redeemed his people
69 and has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David,”
I Thessalonians 5:23-24, “23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 24 He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.”
Application: Believers will be blessed by obedience.
Discussion: How would the Hebrews have felt as they anticipated the coming plague?
II. Celebration (Exodus 12: 24-28)
“24 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25 And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. 28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.”
- The exhortation in verse 24 has larger implications to our lives, to heed God’s Word.
- The feast would be an annual observance for Israel until the ultimate and final sacrifice of the Lamb of God would be given. Then our focal celebration each year would be resurrection Sunday.
- The feasts were a way to pass down one’s faith to the next generation. How can we better pass on our faith to the next generation? Family devotions? Faithful commitment to church over sports? Verbally sharing your faith with your neighbors, inviting them to a Christmas concert? If you have experienced salvation, we have a responsibility to pass it down.
- In verse 26 God doesn’t want mindless repetition. He wants our hearts.
- Their response was right to kneel and worship as God enacted the plague on those who rejected and His protection on those who accepted.
- The words, “as the Lord commanded” are repeated about 60 times depending on your translation. God is serious about what He tells us to do. Maybe that’s the application of this lesson for us. Spend time listening to God’s Word and take it seriously.
Discussion: “Why is it important for older generations to share God’s truth with younger generations?”
III. Victory (Exodus 12:29-32)
“29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, ‘Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!’”
Bible Skill: Observe when and for what purpose a New Testament passage includes an Old Testament reference. Read Exodus 12:14-20 and I Corinthians 5:7-8. What connection did Paul make between the Passover event in Exodus and Jesus’s sacrifice?
Answer Aid: According to page 1690 of the John MacArthur Study Bible, “Just as the unleavened bread symbolized being freed from Egypt by the Passover (Exodus 12:15-17), so the church is to be unleavened, since it has been separated from the dominion of sin and death by the perfect Passover Lamb, the Lord Jesus Christ. The church is, therefore, to remove everything sinful in order to be separate from the old life, including the influence of sinful church members.”
How did Paul relate the observance of Passover to the problem of immorality in the Corinthian church (I Cor. 5:1-6)? “It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife. 2 And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you. 3 For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present, I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing. 4 When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my spirit is present, with the power of our Lord Jesus, 5 you are to deliver this man to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord.[a] 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?”
Answer Aid: According to page 1690 of the John MacArthur Study Bible, “It was not good because their proud sense of satisfaction blinded them to their duty in regard to blatant sin that devastated the church. leaven. See note on Mark 8:15 …[Note on mark 8:15, page 1440 of the John MacArthur Study Bible, “leaven of the Pharisees and…Herod. ‘Leaven’ in the NT is an illustration of influence…and most often symbolizes the evil influence of sin. The ‘leaven’ of the Pharisees included both their false teaching (Matt. 16:12) and their hypocritical behavior (Luke 12:1); the ‘leaven’ of Herod Antipas was his immoral corrupt conduct (cf. Mark 6:17-29). The Pharisees and the Herodians were allied against Christ (3:6).”]… “In Scripture, it is used to REPRESENT INFLUENCE (emphasis mine), in most cases evil influence, although in Matt. 13:33 it refers to the good influence of the kingdom of heaven (cf. Ex. 13: 3,7). whole lump. When tolerated, sin will permeate and corrupt the whole local church.”
- In verse 29 we see God striking down the first born sons in the households with no blood covering the doorposts, and this is the same verbiage used in Isaiah 37:36 when God destroyed 185,000 Assyrians.
- As Pharaoh had tried to kill all the first born Hebrew sons—the firstborn being a place held in honor—so God responded to Pharoah’s unrepentant, hard-heartedness by taking his firstborn, many of the rejecting Egyptian households feeling the impact of their stubbornness.
- In verse 30 there was a “great cry” from them, a “wailing” according to the CSB and this wording echoes the anguish and wailing of the Israelites in 3:7. Pharoah temporarily gives in and tells them to go, and he acknowledges Yahweh when he asks Moses and Aaron to bless him. What a curious request from this grieving, terrified Pharoah who lived with the knowledge that the deaths of so many Egyptians as well as all of those Hebrew firstborn males was on his shoulders. Hard-hearted behavior breeds death when there could have been life. But there is hope found in the blood of the Lamb over the lives of those who chose it.
Closing Discussion: What victory are you trusting God to bring into your life? Why can you trust Him in that?
Devotional: “A Warning Against Hard Heartedness ” Link: https://drcalebwalker.com/2024/12/10/a-warning-against-hard-heartedness/
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