SERMON – 3rd March 2019
Series: Growing in Liberty
Title: The Exodus – Knowing Who You Are
Main Texts: Exodus 1:1-14
1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin; 4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy[a] in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died, 7 but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
8 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. 9 “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. 10 Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites 13 and worked them ruthlessly. 14 They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brickand mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.
Intro – The Context
- EXODUS MEANING – The name Exodus is from a Greek word. Exodus means exit or departure.
- Exodus in the continuation of Genesis and that is why you see the word “NOW” in the beginning of the book of Exodus. (KJV)
- The subject of Exodus is that God is with His people and rescued them from slavery – So that they can serve and worship Him.
- He also wants to take them in the land of Canaan – which He promised Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
- The Israelites grew in Numbers
- They became a threat to the Egyptian national security
- Israelites wandered in the *desert for 40 years.
- The immediate relevance in our day!
- The plan of God regarding the divine exit.