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E67: Exodus 16

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So far this season, we’ve caught up with the Israelites from where we left off in Genesis and seen God’s faithfulness to His word and His covenant with Abraham back in Genesis 15. 

We met a man named Moses who had a heart for rescuing God’s people, the Israelites.  Moses’s story was complicated, but God chose him to rescue His people out of the land of their slavery and lead them into a land of abundance – The Promised Land.   

After 400 years of oppression – right on time based on God’s promise to Abraham back in Genesis – God moved on behalf of His people to rescue them.  He executed 10 plagues because one man refused to humble himself. 

Last week, we saw the last plague unfold.  A broken-hearted and angry Pharaoh finally conceded to let God’s people go, but then chased them with his entire army.  The Israelites were trapped between the Red Sea and the Egyptian army, but God had a plan to fight for them.

Reflection Questions

  1. Recap the story in your own words.
  2. Think about how the Israelites must be feeling and thinking.  They’ve been through a lot in a couple of short months.  But they have also seen a lot.  What does they behavior and their words imply?  What are they failing to do?
  3. What is God’s response to that failure? 
  4. Write or say a prayer to God in light of what He’s taught you.

E66: Exodus 15

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E66: Exodus 15
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In our last episode, In Exodus 14 we watched as God used the stubbornness of Pharaoh and his hard heart to accomplish God’s purpose to glorify His name.  Do you remember what He used to obtain that glory?  The hard heart of a man and an obedient people.  Let’s continue with Exodus 15.

Reflection Questions

  1. What stood out to you today?  Did anything surprise you?
  2. How does this scripture point us to Jesus?
  3. Yahweh identifies himself with a new name.  Do you remember it?

E65: Exodus 14

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E65: Exodus 14
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Yesterday, after rescuing His people from captivity, God led the people through the wilderness.  Do you remember why?  God knew the direct path was also a path that led to a different enemy, the Philistines.  He knew the Egyptians were not ready to face another battle.  He knew their faith had to grow, so he led them through the wilderness.  Let’s see what happens next in Exodus chapter 14.

Reflection Questions

  1. What did you learn for the first time today?
  2. How do you see God moving and working?  What does that tell you about who he is?
  3. How do you need to respond?

E64: Exodus 13

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E64: Exodus 13
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In our previous episode, God gave the Israelites instructions for the first Passover and how to commemorate it once they made it to the promised land.  God executed his judgment on Pharaoh’s hard heart and the gods of Israel through the last plague:  The death of all the firstborn whose door posts were not covered with the blood of a spotless lamb.  Pharaoh cast out all of God’s people and because God gave them favor with the Egyptians, they gave them all their wealth as they went.  Let’s continue with Exodus chapter 13.

Reflection Questions

  1. What did you see God doing in this passage? 
  2. As I read, did anything surprise you?  What jumped out at you?
  3. Use these next few minutes to ask God how you should respond. 

E63: Exodus 12

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In our last episode, Moses delivers God’s final message to Pharaoh.  He tells him what God is going to do and why, but Pharaoh’s heart remained hard.  Let’s see what happens next in Exodus chapter 12.

Reflection Questions

  1. Recap the instructions God gave to the Israelites in your own words.
  2. How does the passover point us to Jesus?
  3. What stood out to you today?
  4. What can you learn about the character of God from this passage?

E62: Exodus 11

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E62: Exodus 11
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So far this season, we’ve caught up with the Israelites from where we left off in Genesis and seen God’s faithfulness to His word and His covenant with Abraham back in Genesis 15.  God’s people were strangers living in a foreign land oppressed by the enemy for 400 years.  Speaking of strangers living in a foreign land, we were introduced to Moses. 

Moses was very familiar with being a stranger in a foreign land.  He never quite fit as part of the Pharaoh’s royal family.  They adopted and raised him as a prince in Pharaoh’s household despite having Hebrew blood running through His veins. 

He  was a stranger again in the land of Midian when he exiled himself from Egypt for 40 years.  Why did he exile himself, oh because, you know, he murderer a man who was beating a Hebrew slave.  Murderer or not, God could still use him.  God chose him to do what he already had a passion for:  rescuing his people. 

Right on schedule, after 400 years of oppression, God starts to move on behalf of His people to rescue them, and last week we saw Him doing just that by execute His judgment through 9 plagues. 

So far….the Nile turned to blood.  Then, frogs came up from the waters and hopped into everything.  Next were annoying gnats followed by nasty flies.  For the first time, God limited the plague only on the Egyptians.  Then, a plague killed their livestock.  Next, Festering boils irritated and tortured them followed by hail that destroyed everything, and locusts ate all of the Egyptian crops.  When we left them, a thick, terrifying darkness covered the land.

All because one man refused to humble himself before God. 

Let’s continue with the story in Exodus chapter 11.

Reflection Questions

  1. What stood out to you today? 
  2. What was God doing in the midst of Pharaoh’s hard heart?
  3. God caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the people of Israel so that the enemy would know that the Lord makes a distinction between His people and those belonging to the enemy.  What does this teach you about God’s character?  What does this teach you about how he treats those that people to Him?