Weekly Sermons

 

Exodus Chapter 5

“William Bradford, speaking in 1630 of the founding of the Plymouth Bay Colony, said that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties, and both must be enterprised and overcome with answerable courage…

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”                   -President John F. Kennedy, Sept. 12, 1962 at Rice University

Exodus is best described with two words – ___________________ and Worship.

Genesis 15:12-14                           Genesis 50:24-26

I Kings 6:1 tells us that Solomon’s fourth year as king was 480 years after the Exodus. Archaeology tells us that that Solomon’s fourth year was 966/965 B.C. That means the Exodus happened in 1445 B.C. 

Genesis ends with Israel down in Egypt with 70 people; Exodus will end with Israel as a nation of ______________ worshipping God at Mount Sinai.

Moses Confronts Pharaoh with God’s __________________                 V. 1-5

What is significant about what Moses says there in the last part of verse 3?

Now of course Pharaoh doesn’t know or obey Israel’s God, so he just gets angry at God’s people, which has been _____________________ throughout history.

Pharaoh ____________________ God’s people Israel                              V. 6-19

Satan didn’t want Israel back in the Promised Land, so Satan uses Pharaoh to keep Israel enslaved and defeated. Their deliverance was coming, but that didn’t mean life would be ____________________.

The __________________ game commences!                                            V. 20-23

What does Moses the leader do in Exodus 5 when the people complain to him?

I love how Exodus tracks God’s ___________________ of Moses’ faith, and the model it is for us as our faith grows!