Micah McCormick: Exodus, chapter 1.
Micah McCormick: For those that might be visiting tonight, or a reminder for those that are not visiting, we are going through a new series.
Micah McCormick: It's going to be through each of the books of the Bible, so we're kind of calling it Route 66 or a study in the book of books, and we're in Exodus tonight.
Micah McCormick: So we're going to be covering Exodus tonight.
Micah McCormick: Now some of you are thinking I got work tomorrow.
Micah McCormick: I didn't bring a sleeping bag.
Micah McCormick: Maybe I need to slip out.
Micah McCormick: Don't worry, we're not planning to be here till midnight.
Micah McCormick: We are going to cover Exodus, not in every little detail, but in broad strokes, and this is the one big theme I want you to take away tonight.
Micah McCormick: God redeems his people for the purpose of worship.
Micah McCormick: So if you can just take away one thing tonight, highlight that and note it.
Micah McCormick: I thought about having us all say it together, but I don't want you to feel like you're in kindergarten.
Micah McCormick: But God redeems his people for the purpose of worship.
Micah McCormick: So I'm going to read some from Exodus.
Micah McCormick: I'm going to read the first part of Exodus and the last part of Exodus.
Micah McCormick: Sometimes, when you're going through a book, the early verses and the last verses will give you some insight or window into the structure or emphases of the book.
Micah McCormick: Not always, but sometimes they will.
Micah McCormick: So I'm going to read Exodus, chapter 1, verses 1 to 6.
Micah McCormick: These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob.
Micah McCormick: Each came with his family Reuben, simeon, levi and Judah, issachar, zebulun and Benjamin, dan and Naphtali, gad and Asher.
Micah McCormick: The total number of Jacob's descendants was 70.
Micah McCormick: Joseph was already in Egypt.
Micah McCormick: Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died.
Micah McCormick: Now turn over to chapter 40 of Exodus, so the very last chapter of Exodus, of Exodus, the very last chapter of Exodus, and we'll read verses 34 down through verse 38.
Micah McCormick: The cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
Micah McCormick: Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
Micah McCormick: The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey.
Micah McCormick: If the cloud was not taken up, they did not set out until the day it was taken up, for the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day and there was a fire inside the cloud by night, visible to the entire house of Israel throughout all the stages of their journey.
Micah McCormick: Let's go back to chapter 1 of Exodus.
Micah McCormick: This is a continuing story.
Micah McCormick: So if you hold your finger in Exodus 1 and just turn back a few pages to Genesis 46, look at Genesis 46, verse 8.
Micah McCormick: These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt Jacob and his sons.
Micah McCormick: And then it goes on.
Micah McCormick: Now back to Exodus 1.
Micah McCormick: How does Exodus 1 begin?
Micah McCormick: These are the names of the sons of Israel.
Micah McCormick: It's the same verse.
Micah McCormick: Do you see that there?
Micah McCormick: So this is like a to be continued.
Micah McCormick: If Genesis is the series season finale, it's like a cliffhanger.
Micah McCormick: And then Exodus picks up, the to be continued with the same story that we saw back in Genesis.
Micah McCormick: And there's more of a connection point to Genesis here.
Micah McCormick: If you see what's going on there.
Micah McCormick: In verse number seven of Exodus one, the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly and multiplied.
Micah McCormick: Can you think about where in the Bible we've heard of being fruitful and multiplying?
Micah McCormick: That was back in Genesis.
Micah McCormick: So what God had wanted in the garden, we see it happening in some measure here.
Micah McCormick: It's like, wow, this is amazing.
Micah McCormick: What God wanted, the people are multiplying, they're fruitful.
Micah McCormick: But is it just like the Garden of Eden.
Micah McCormick: No, it's not just like the Garden of Eden, because you can see there in verse number six, all that generation eventually died.
Micah McCormick: So there's a fruitfulness, but there's still death.
Micah McCormick: That's pervasive there.
Micah McCormick: In fact, what we're going to see in Exodus, what we do find in Exodus, is that the people of God are in slavery, so they're subjected to harsh bondage.
Micah McCormick: There's a kind of pallor of death that hangs over the first part of the book of Exodus.
Micah McCormick: These people need deliverance, they need redemption, they need to be brought out from the slavery that they're in.
Micah McCormick: That's where the title of the book comes from.
Micah McCormick: The title Exodus is actually a Greek term that the Greek translators gave to this book gave to this book, and it describes people leaving a place.
Micah McCormick: We have exit signs.
Micah McCormick: There could be exodus signs in a certain kind of a sense, but the people are not just leaving because they want to go somewhere else.
Micah McCormick: They need to be rescued and delivered.
Micah McCormick: So there's this idea of deliverance in this theme of redemption that we see here.
Micah McCormick: So we do see in the beginning, with the death that's there, and as you go on in chapter one, you see more of the nature of this slavery.
Micah McCormick: There's a need, a real need, for redemption.
Micah McCormick: We see that plan worked out in the first 18 chapters of the book.
Micah McCormick: So that's the first half of the book.
Micah McCormick: If you can kind of divide the book in two halves.
Micah McCormick: The first half of the book, if you can kind of divide the book in two halves, part one of Exodus is God redeeming his people.
Micah McCormick: Why does he do it?
Micah McCormick: Well, that's where the second half of the book comes in, in chapter 19, the people come to Mount Sinai and they receive God's law.
Micah McCormick: And then chapters 20 to 40 are all about worship or about things that flow from worship.
Micah McCormick: And so what we got to there at the very end of the book, when the tabernacle, this tent of worship, has been set up, god's glory cloud comes down and the people are ready to worship and the people are ready to worship.
Micah McCormick: So yes, the book begins with the need for redemption, god redeems his people, and the book ends with worship.
Micah McCormick: There's kind of a quick flyover.
Micah McCormick: Let's go in and double click on both halves of the book a little bit more here.
Micah McCormick: So if you look down in verse 11, chapter one of Exodus, still we talk about God redeeming his people.
Micah McCormick: He redeems his people from slavery.
Micah McCormick: I mentioned that, but let's just make sure we have our eyes on it.
Micah McCormick: So, verse number 11, chapter 1, the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor.
Micah McCormick: We see also in verse 16 that God redeems his people from the threat of extinction.
Micah McCormick: Verse 16, when you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver.
Micah McCormick: If the child is a son, kill him.
Micah McCormick: It's a striking instruction.
Micah McCormick: So, yeah, they're enslaved, but they're also trying to be extinguished in some sense.
Micah McCormick: And the person that gives that instruction is the king, is Pharaoh.
Micah McCormick: So if you go back to verse 15, the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives so there's, the bad guy in the book of Exodus is Pharaoh.
Micah McCormick: Only he's presented as a kind of satanic overlord ruling as a despot.
Micah McCormick: And in Exodus the ultimate conflict is not just between Moses the man and Pharaoh the man, but between the God of the Israelites and the false gods of the Egyptians.
Micah McCormick: And Pharaoh here, who is here, and God also redeems his people in remembering his promise.
Micah McCormick: Turn over to chapter 2, and you'll see that in chapter 2.
Micah McCormick: Look at verse 23.
Micah McCormick: After a long time, the king of Egypt died.
Micah McCormick: The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor.
Micah McCormick: They cried out in their cry for help because of the difficult labor sent to God.
Micah McCormick: God heard their groaning and God now you might expect it to say God took pity on them and saw them in their suffering.
Micah McCormick: True, he is a God of mercy and compassion, but it says something different here in verse 24.
Micah McCormick: He heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
Micah McCormick: So it's God's own memory of his promise to Abraham, the father of the Israelite nation, and the way he reiterated that promise to Isaac and to Jacob that because of that promise God's going to redeem his people.
Micah McCormick: Now those themes should sound very familiar to us.
Micah McCormick: I hope they do.
Micah McCormick: Redemption from slavery John 8, 33.
Micah McCormick: We are descendants of Abraham and never been enslaved to anyone.
Micah McCormick: How can you say you will become free?
Micah McCormick: Jesus responded.
Micah McCormick: Truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.
Micah McCormick: Redemption from the threat of extinction John 10.10.
Micah McCormick: A thief comes to kill and destroy.
Micah McCormick: I have come that they might have life and have it in abundance.
Micah McCormick: Redemption from satanic power Hebrews 2, 14 and 15.
Micah McCormick: Now, since the children have flesh and blood in common, jesus also shared in these so that through his death he might destroy the one holding the power of death that is the devil, and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by fear of death.
Micah McCormick: Redemption on the basis of God's promise Titus 1, 2.
Micah McCormick: In the hope of eternal life, that God who cannot lie.
Micah McCormick: Exodus.
Micah McCormick: Like so many parts of the Bible in the Old Testament, there are these patterns and recurring themes that get picked up and developed and repeated throughout the Bible.
Micah McCormick: We'll see more of those tonight, but there's just a sample of these themes of redemption find great echo and expansion and a deeper way for those of us who know and enjoy God that we can be redeemed from our own sin.
Micah McCormick: Also very important in this first half of Exodus is that God redeems his people through a mediator.
Micah McCormick: He uses Moses to be a mediator and there are also pattern-like ways in which Moses anticipates the Lord Jesus Christ.
Micah McCormick: Both Moses and Jesus are portrayed as shepherds and prophets and rulers.
Micah McCormick: In Exodus, chapter 3, moses has that encounter at the burning bush and many commentators think that who Moses is encountering is the Son of God.
Micah McCormick: It's described as a messenger of God or angel of God, but it talks about hearing the voice of God and seeing the angels, the kind of identity there.
Micah McCormick: Moses leads the people.
Micah McCormick: As the God-appointed mediator for this particular time and season, for this particular earthly redemption, moses leads the people in a ritual of blood redemption.
Micah McCormick: So when they come out of Egypt, how do they come out?
Micah McCormick: They come out right on the heels of the Passover, where there's this instruction from God put blood over the door.
Micah McCormick: I'm going to bring judgment wherever the blood is not, but wherever the blood is, I'm going to pass over and the people pass over the waters and through the waters, while the Israelite army is swallowed up in the judgment of God.
Micah McCormick: So those that have the lamb are rescued.
Micah McCormick: Mediator brings a blood ritual of redemption.
Micah McCormick: The Lord, jesus Christ, as the New Testament so wonderfully brings out, christ, our Passover lamb, is sacrificed.
Micah McCormick: We're redeemed with imperishable things, not with the blood of bulls and goats, but with the precious blood of Christ.
Micah McCormick: Unlike Moses though this is very important Moses instructed them about slaughtering the lambs.
Micah McCormick: Jesus Christ himself is the lamb.
Micah McCormick: That's where, again, these patterns are magnified in Christ and they're amplified in Christ that he himself is not only the mediator but he's the sacrifice.
Micah McCormick: Moses communes with God and seeks to bring people into communion with God.
Micah McCormick: Moses intercedes for the people.
Micah McCormick: Now, this is actually in the second half of the book.
Micah McCormick: But Moses intercedes for the people.
Micah McCormick: Our Lord ever lives to intercede for us.
Micah McCormick: So be looking for these divinely inspired patterns.
Micah McCormick: God redeems his people.
Micah McCormick: That's the first half of the book.
Micah McCormick: Turn over to chapter 19.
Micah McCormick: We'll double click now on the second half of the book, a little bit Exodus 19.
Micah McCormick: A lot of people, when they are in the book of Exodus the first part of the book they're so excited about.
Micah McCormick: There's the Pharaoh and the slavery and the plagues and the water and the blood and the rescue through the Red Sea and the dancing and celebration.
Micah McCormick: And then they come to the second part of the book and there's Mount Sinai and they're clapping.
Micah McCormick: And then they got instructions about the tabernacle and there's a lot of turbans and priestly garments and curtain rings and I started getting a little bit like whew.
Micah McCormick: I was like am I reading the blueprint for a bathroom design here?
Micah McCormick: What's with all the shower curtain rings?
Micah McCormick: I don't understand.
Micah McCormick: You've heard the expression don't lose the forest for the trees.
Micah McCormick: Don't lose the tabernacle for the turbans.
Micah McCormick: Okay, trees, don't lose the tabernacle for the turbans.
Micah McCormick: Okay, it's all important, it's all good, it's all divinely inspired.
Micah McCormick: So every detail is there for our edification, instruction.
Micah McCormick: But don't get so lost in the details that you forget to see the big picture.
Micah McCormick: This is all instructions about, of course, not a bathroom, but the place of worship for the Lord.
Micah McCormick: Exodus 19,.
Micah McCormick: Look at verse number three.
Micah McCormick: Moses went up to the mountain to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain.
Micah McCormick: This is what you must say to the house of Jacob and explain to the Israelites.
Micah McCormick: You've seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagle's wings and brought you to myself.
Micah McCormick: Now there's the redemption part.
Micah McCormick: Right Now, if you will carefully listen to me and keep my covenant, you'll be my own possession out of all the peoples, although the whole earth is mine, and you will be my kingdom of priests and my holy nation.
Micah McCormick: At the heart of this old covenant, or Mosaic covenant, is the priority of worship.
Micah McCormick: Sometimes we think of worship merely as performing certain rituals.
Micah McCormick: It includes rituals, but it's meant to bring us into friendship with God, into enjoying God, to communion with him.
Micah McCormick: God wanted to dwell among his people, just like in the Garden of Eden, and think about this for a moment Something so grand and magnificent as God redeeming his people out of Egypt.
Micah McCormick: What does he then have them do?
Micah McCormick: He doesn't have them immediately go out into all the nations and tell them about my redemptive work, and that's it.
Micah McCormick: I'm not saying it's not important, it's critically important for us.
Micah McCormick: But the very first thing he does after this grand redemption he brings them out into the wilderness and instructs them about worship.
Micah McCormick: That's stunningly important.
Micah McCormick: In God's mind, worship is what we're going to be doing forever.
Micah McCormick: It's important throughout the pages of the Bible.
Micah McCormick: It's important here in Exodus.
Micah McCormick: That's especially why God has redeemed us for worship.
Micah McCormick: Yes, there are do's and don'ts, ten Commandments, but even how the Ten Commandments begin no other gods before me Do you see how it's still grounded in no idolatry?
Micah McCormick: God wants us to belong to him.
Micah McCormick: He wants his people to revere him of everyone else.
Micah McCormick: So all the other do's and don'ts flow out of that God-centered perspective of keeping God in the center of place.
Micah McCormick: It's similar in the New Testament, romans, chapter 12, present your body as a living sacrifice in view of God's mercy.
Micah McCormick: How we live should flow from a heart that's received God's mercy and adores the Lord.
Micah McCormick: Turn over to chapter 25, exodus 25.
Micah McCormick: There's another repeated idea here in this second part of the book of exodus and these instructions about the tabernacle.
Micah McCormick: 25, verse number nine.
Micah McCormick: You must make it according to all that.
Micah McCormick: I show you the pattern of the tabernacle.
Micah McCormick: Then look down at verse number 40.
Micah McCormick: Be careful to make them according to the pattern you have been shown on the mountain.
Micah McCormick: God gave Moses a pattern to follow, a kind of blueprint.
Micah McCormick: Yes, interestingly, the book of Hebrews speaks of the earthly tabernacle as a copy and shadow of heavenly things.
Micah McCormick: God was giving the people a little slice of heaven.
Micah McCormick: Don't you want to get it right?
Micah McCormick: If you're going to get a little slice of heaven, I hope so.
Micah McCormick: We should right.
Micah McCormick: They should want to do that.
Micah McCormick: And the tabernacle was in many ways like Mount Sinai.
Micah McCormick: Can't go through all those tonight.
Micah McCormick: You can go back to Pastor Doug's message on the temple from a few weeks ago.
Micah McCormick: But just like Mount Sinai has God's word and his presence, the Garden of Eden had God's word and his presence.
Micah McCormick: Now the tabernacle is the place where we have God's word and his presence.
Micah McCormick: So the tabernacle was almost in some ways like a little slice of heaven, a transportable Mount Sinai that people could pick up and take with them on all their journeys so that the Lord could be with them, so that the Lord could be with them.
Micah McCormick: God redeems his people for the purpose of worship and it's so we can worship together.
Micah McCormick: Each Israelite wasn't told to construct a little tabernacle in their backyard for their own quiet time.
Micah McCormick: Quiet times are great, not opposed to that at all.
Micah McCormick: We should worship the Lord in our closets.
Micah McCormick: But there's an emphasis here on the covenant people of God coming together to worship.
Micah McCormick: So it's no surprise that in the New Testament as well, we have this huge emphasis on the church coming together as the redeemed people of God to worship our king, coming together as the redeemed people of God to worship our King.
Micah McCormick: Don't think of coming on Sunday morning as simply, I got to have my routine for the week.
Micah McCormick: We need the kids to have kind of a moral foundation.
Micah McCormick: Those are good reasons.
Micah McCormick: But think of it as I'm gathering with the covenant redeemed people of God, to enjoy God and grow in my friendship with him and to exalt his name.
Micah McCormick: God redeems his people for the purpose of worship.
Micah McCormick: Now I mentioned this Exodus.
Micah McCormick: Pattern is developed in other portions of scripture.
Micah McCormick: We're going to consider some of those now as well.
Micah McCormick: Turn over to Isaiah 11.
Micah McCormick: So if you don't have your Bible, you can grab the pew Bible there in front of you.
Micah McCormick: We're going to be looking at a few different passages.
Micah McCormick: This pattern of an exodus or a deliverance that in this case, occurs through redemption.
Micah McCormick: This is a theme that comes up throughout the Bible, especially in the prophets.
Micah McCormick: And while I'm doing that, I'll just mention a couple resources.
Micah McCormick: Here's a book called the Gospel of Exodus.
Micah McCormick: This deals more with the theology inside of the book.
Micah McCormick: There's another guy named Alistair Roberts, so not Alistair Begg.
Micah McCormick: I know you guys know him, but Alistair Roberts has some lectures called Echoes of the Exodus.
Micah McCormick: There's a book as well, if you wanted to go online.
Micah McCormick: He focuses more on how the themes of the Exodus come in other pages of Scripture.
Micah McCormick: So you might find those resources helpful.
Micah McCormick: But Isaiah, chapter 11, look at verse number 11.
Micah McCormick: On that day the Lord will extend his hand a second time to recover the remnant of his people who survive From Assyria, egypt, pathros, cush, elam, shinar, hamath and the coasts and islands of the west.
Micah McCormick: He will lift up a banner for the nations and gather the dispersed of Israel.
Micah McCormick: He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
Micah McCormick: Listen and hear that, in light of the Exodus story, he's going to do it a second time.
Micah McCormick: Well, that implies something's already happened.
Micah McCormick: It's come in the past and the prophets remembering the past.
Micah McCormick: But he's looking to a future event, and here he speaks also of there being a banner for the nations.
Micah McCormick: So there's hope that others will be brought into this new Exodus.
Micah McCormick: Turn over to Isaiah 27.
Micah McCormick: Isaiah 27.
Micah McCormick: Just a few more chapters.
Micah McCormick: Isaiah 27.
Micah McCormick: Verse number 12.
Micah McCormick: Blown, and those lost in the land of Assyria will come as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt.
Micah McCormick: There's the pattern that looks back to Egypt, but there's going to be a similar thing happening in Assyria.
Micah McCormick: And then look what they're going to do and they will worship the Lord at Jerusalem and on the holy mountain.
Micah McCormick: Turn over to Hosea 11.
Micah McCormick: This is the last passage we'll look at from the Old Testament, and then we'll look at just a couple passages in the New Testament.
Micah McCormick: Hosea 11.
Micah McCormick: So again, these prophets are writing hundreds of years after the historical events of the book of Exodus.
Micah McCormick: They're writing many years later, but they haven't forgotten.
Micah McCormick: They saw a pattern and they're going to say this pattern is going to happen again.
Micah McCormick: Hosea 11, verse number one when Israel was a child.
Micah McCormick: I loved him and out of Egypt I called my son.
Micah McCormick: That sounds very much like what we just read about in the book of Exodus, verse 2, israel called to the Egyptians.
Micah McCormick: Even as Israel was leaving them, they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols.
Micah McCormick: So the people experienced redemption from Egypt, but Egypt was still in their hearts.
Micah McCormick: They needed a spiritual deliverance.
Micah McCormick: Just the physical movement of exiting didn't take care of the problem.
Micah McCormick: There was something deeper in their own hearts that was necessary problem.
Micah McCormick: There was something deeper in their own hearts that was necessary.
Micah McCormick: Now look down to verse number 11 of the same chapter, hosea 11.
Micah McCormick: Let's start at verse number 10.
Micah McCormick: They will follow the Lord.
Micah McCormick: He will roar like a lion.
Micah McCormick: When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west.
Micah McCormick: This is the Lord's declaration Pattern of redemption in the past, an expectation that it's going to happen again.
Micah McCormick: Assyria is going to take you captive, but God's going to bring you out of captivity Repeated pattern.
Micah McCormick: Now, this passage I just read is quoted in the Gospel of Matthew.
Micah McCormick: We already had a sermon on this.
Micah McCormick: That's okay if you don't remember.
Micah McCormick: Review is good, right.
Micah McCormick: So let's go over to Matthew for a moment.
Micah McCormick: Matthew, chapter 2.
Micah McCormick: So I'm trying to show you that you know it's not just my ideas about the patterns of Exodus.
Micah McCormick: The scripture writers themselves have these same patterns in mind and they're divinely inspired.
Micah McCormick: Matthew, chapter 2, verse number 13.
Micah McCormick: After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying get up, take the child and his mother.
Micah McCormick: This is baby Jesus and Mary and Joseph.
Micah McCormick: Flee to Egypt and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to kill him.
Micah McCormick: So he got up and took the child and his mother during the night and escaped to Egypt.
Micah McCormick: He stayed there until Herod's death.
Micah McCormick: Now just pause here before we keep going on.
Micah McCormick: The king is trying to kill all the babies.
Micah McCormick: What does that sound like?
Micah McCormick: Sounds like a pattern we already had in the Bible, right?
Micah McCormick: So he got up, took the child during the night and escaped to Egypt.
Micah McCormick: Verse 15,.
Micah McCormick: He stayed there until Herod's death so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled Out of Egypt.
Micah McCormick: I called my son.
Micah McCormick: He's quoting the verse I just read in Hosea, but he does it in a very interesting way, doesn't he?
Micah McCormick: When I read Hosea.
Micah McCormick: Hosea didn't say hear ye, hear ye.
Micah McCormick: In the last days, baby Messiah is going to come out of Egypt.
Micah McCormick: That wasn't what Hosea said.
Micah McCormick: It seemed like, when you're looking at Hosea, it seemed like Hosea was looking back at the exodus event of the people of God in Egypt and how they came out and God rescued them.
Micah McCormick: But remember, even in Hosea there was a pattern, because even in Hosea, at the end it talked about God bringing the people out again from a series.
Micah McCormick: So there's going to be a pattern.
Micah McCormick: It's going to be happening again.
Micah McCormick: So Matthew sees that pattern finding fulfillment in the Lord Jesus.
Micah McCormick: Hmm, that's very interesting, isn't it?
Micah McCormick: The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight.
Micah McCormick: What was needed for the people was deliverance, not just from a geographical place, but from the idolatry of their hearts.
Micah McCormick: That can only happen through Jesus.
Micah McCormick: That can't happen by just moving people around physically.
Micah McCormick: And what happens to Christ happens to his people.
Micah McCormick: He's our representative.
Micah McCormick: You see that nexus actually with Moses.
Micah McCormick: Moses is in Egypt, Remember.
Micah McCormick: He kills the guy and he has trouble and he flees and he goes out to the mountain where God appears to him.
Micah McCormick: That's what's going to happen to all the people.
Micah McCormick: They're going to leave Egypt and go out to the mountain where God appears to him.
Micah McCormick: That's what's going to happen to all the people.
Micah McCormick: They're going to leave Egypt and go out to the mountain where God has.
Micah McCormick: So there's already a pattern in Exodus of the leader represents the people, and so here is Christ who represents those who belong to him having this fulfillment.
Micah McCormick: One last passage Turn over to the gospel of Luke Luke, chapter 9.
Micah McCormick: Luke 9.
Micah McCormick: , verse number 28.
Micah McCormick: About eight days after this conversation, he took along this is Jesus.
Micah McCormick: He took along Peter, john and James and went up on the mountain to pray.
Micah McCormick: As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed and his clothes became dazzlingly white.
Micah McCormick: Can you think of other places in the Bible where someone went on a mountain and their faces were lightened up?
Micah McCormick: That was what happened to Moses.
Micah McCormick: Now Moses appears with the disciples here and Jesus far greater than Moses.
Micah McCormick: But it says in verse number 30, two men were talking with him, moses and Elijah.
Micah McCormick: So there's another confirmation of this pattern now coming in Christ in a greater way.
Micah McCormick: They appeared in glory and were speaking of his and the Christian Standard Bible here has his departure.
Micah McCormick: Anyone has a different translation there for that word in verse number 31?
Micah McCormick: They were talking about his.
Micah McCormick: Anyone else have a different one than departure, deliverance, anything else that all of you has?
Micah McCormick: Departure there, okay, his what?
Micah McCormick: His decrease?
Micah McCormick: What translation is that?
Micah McCormick: That's interesting?
Micah McCormick: Okay, spoke translation.
Micah McCormick: Is that that's interesting?
Micah McCormick: Okay, it spoke of his decrease.
Micah McCormick: That's interesting.
Micah McCormick: Well, the Greek word here is the word that you find in the title of the book that we're talking about tonight.
Micah McCormick: They were speaking about his exodus, jesus' exodus, verse 31, which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem.
Micah McCormick: So when we think of an exodus, we think of it as usually a big group of people going somewhere, migrating somewhere.
Micah McCormick: How can one person, jesus, experience an exodus?
Micah McCormick: Well, it's said he's going to accomplish it at Jerusalem.
Micah McCormick: What is he on his way to Jerusalem to do?
Micah McCormick: He's going to suffer and die and bring deliverance from the slavery of sin.
Micah McCormick: And yes, he's just one person, but all those who belong to him are with him.
Micah McCormick: So the Bible can say when he died, we died.
Micah McCormick: When he rose again, we rose again.
Micah McCormick: So it is an exodus of a group of people in the sense of those who are in Christ and belong to him.
Micah McCormick: The scriptures are just radically Christocentric.
Micah McCormick: I don't mean by that that there's a lot of topics in the Bible.
Micah McCormick: Jesus is probably topic number one.
Micah McCormick: Church is another good topic.
Micah McCormick: I don't mean by Christocentric that he's the most important topic, although that is true.
Micah McCormick: I mean he's the center point from which so many other points of scripture converge.
Micah McCormick: It's more like the spokes of a wheel and he's the center part of the wheel, and I'll just give one application for that.
Micah McCormick: So when we talked about how this elaborate construction of the tabernacle shows the priority of worship and people gathering together to worship, and we come to the New Testament church and there's a priority of redeemed people worshiping and gathering together for worship, jesus blesses the tabernacle, he blesses the church, but he's the central thread that connects those two things, because when he came he tabernacled among us.
Micah McCormick: This has destroyed this temple.
Micah McCormick: I'll build it again.
Micah McCormick: He was talking about the temple of his body.
Micah McCormick: He is the tabernacle and the temple to which the Old Testament was pointing.
Micah McCormick: So that now, because we're united to Christ, we're a new temple, a new tabernacle of worship because we're in him, not just because it's similar or like the old covenant tabernacle.
Micah McCormick: So as we think about the scriptures, let's be looking for these patterns and let's rejoice that God redeems his people for the purpose of worship.
Micah McCormick: Let's pray, lord, god, how we thank you that there is such a richness and wealth in scripture.
Micah McCormick: We can barely take it all in, but we wanna drink it more and more.
Micah McCormick: We wanna see how your word itself explores these themes and brings our minds and hearts to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Micah McCormick: Thank you that he was made sin for us, who knew no sin.
Micah McCormick: That he faced your judgment, and not just the destroying angel, but the very wrath of God.
Micah McCormick: That you delivered up your firstborn son for us, that we might be free free from idolatry, free from fear of Satan and slavery to him.
Micah McCormick: Oh Lord, give us a heart that is bursting with praise.
Micah McCormick: Give us a heart that is eager to grab hold of all those who belong to this new temple and say let us worship the Lord together, let us adore him as we remember his work in the past and look forward to a future time when we gather in heaven before the glorious presence of our risen Savior, where we see the lion and the lamb, where we have the marriage supper, that lamb, where we have the marriage supper that is so much greater than the Passover meal Come quickly, lord.
Micah McCormick: We pray In Jesus' name amen.