Hebrews 11:28, Exodus 11-12:51
“This day shall be for you a Memorial Day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.”
- Exodus 12:14
Big Idea: The Grace Of God Delivers Me From The Wrath Of God Through My Faith In God
“By faith he (Moses) kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.”
- Hebrews 11:28
“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of the land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey .... Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
- Exodus 3:7-8; 10
By the grace of God, I am delivered:
1) From God’s wrath (Exodus 11-12:14)
Realities of God’s wrath:
1) Apart from God’s grace, death and destruction are coming for us all (Exodus 11:5-6; 12:12-13)
“As it is written: ‘None is righteous, no, not one ... for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.”
– Romans 3:10; 23
“For the wages of sin is death ... “
– Romans 6:23a
“Note then the kindness and the severity of God: severity towards those who have fallen, but God’s kindness to you, provided you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.”
– Romans 11:22
2) God did not exempt His people, but He did cover His people (Exodus 12:7,13)
2) Through God’s substitute (Exodus 12:1-32)
“For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.”
– 1 Corinthians 5:7
“Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
– John 1:29
“Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned – every one – to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth.”
– Isaiah 53:4-7
My response to the gospel (Exodus 12:7-27):
1) Receive it through faith (v. 7; 13; 28)
“because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
- Romans 10:9
2) Readiness (v. 14; 26-27)
3) Remembrance (v. 14; 26-27)
4) Rejoicing (v. 14; 27)
3) For God’s Glory (Exodus 11:9; 12:14-51)
3 Ways God was glorified:
1) God provided for His people (Genesis 15:14; Exodus 12:35-36)
2) God multiplied His people (Genesis 12:2; Exodus 12:37)
3) God diversified His people (Genesis 12:2; Exodus 12:38)