WEBVTT 00:00:00.421 --> 00:00:03.596 Exodus, chapter 1. 00:00:03.596 --> 00:00:18.524 For those that might be visiting tonight, or a reminder for those that are not visiting, we are going through a new series. 00:00:18.524 --> 00:00:28.547 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. 00:00:28.547 --> 00:00:30.231 So we're going to be covering Exodus tonight. 00:00:30.231 --> 00:00:34.323 Now some of you are thinking I got work tomorrow. 00:00:34.323 --> 00:00:35.405 I didn't bring a sleeping bag. 00:00:35.405 --> 00:00:37.331 Maybe I need to slip out. 00:00:37.331 --> 00:00:40.287 Don't worry, we're not planning to be here till midnight. 00:00:40.287 --> 00:00:49.551 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. 00:00:49.551 --> 00:00:52.909 God redeems his people for the purpose of worship. 00:00:52.909 --> 00:00:57.932 So if you can just take away one thing tonight, highlight that and note it. 00:00:57.932 --> 00:01:01.170 I thought about having us all say it together, but I don't want you to feel like you're in kindergarten. 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:05.150 But God redeems his people for the purpose of worship. 00:01:05.150 --> 00:01:08.319 So I'm going to read some from Exodus. 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:12.391 I'm going to read the first part of Exodus and the last part of Exodus. 00:01:12.391 --> 00:01:23.155 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. 00:01:23.155 --> 00:01:25.072 Not always, but sometimes they will. 00:01:25.072 --> 00:01:28.625 So I'm going to read Exodus, chapter 1, verses 1 to 6. 00:01:28.625 --> 00:01:34.921 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob. 00:01:34.921 --> 00:01:43.484 Each came with his family Reuben, simeon, levi and Judah, issachar, zebulun and Benjamin, dan and Naphtali, gad and Asher. 00:01:43.484 --> 00:01:47.033 The total number of Jacob's descendants was 70. 00:01:47.033 --> 00:01:49.626 Joseph was already in Egypt. 00:01:49.626 --> 00:01:56.712 Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation eventually died. 00:01:56.712 --> 00:02:19.199 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. 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:23.503 The cloud covered the tent of meeting and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 00:02:23.503 --> 00:02:32.022 Moses was unable to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud rested on it and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. 00:02:32.022 --> 00:02:36.953 The Israelites set out whenever the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle throughout all the stages of their journey. 00:02:36.953 --> 00:02:53.945 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. 00:02:56.050 --> 00:02:57.774 Let's go back to chapter 1 of Exodus. 00:02:57.774 --> 00:03:01.782 This is a continuing story. 00:03:01.782 --> 00:03:15.572 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. 00:03:15.572 --> 00:03:25.973 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt Jacob and his sons. 00:03:25.973 --> 00:03:28.195 And then it goes on. 00:03:28.195 --> 00:03:31.020 Now back to Exodus 1. 00:03:31.020 --> 00:03:33.325 How does Exodus 1 begin? 00:03:33.325 --> 00:03:35.370 These are the names of the sons of Israel. 00:03:35.370 --> 00:03:36.271 It's the same verse. 00:03:36.271 --> 00:03:37.401 Do you see that there? 00:03:37.401 --> 00:03:39.526 So this is like a to be continued. 00:03:39.526 --> 00:03:43.781 If Genesis is the series season finale, it's like a cliffhanger. 00:03:43.781 --> 00:03:49.713 And then Exodus picks up, the to be continued with the same story that we saw back in Genesis. 00:03:49.713 --> 00:03:52.649 And there's more of a connection point to Genesis here. 00:03:52.649 --> 00:03:54.465 If you see what's going on there. 00:03:54.525 --> 00:04:03.733 In verse number seven of Exodus one, the Israelites were fruitful, increased rapidly and multiplied. 00:04:03.733 --> 00:04:09.444 Can you think about where in the Bible we've heard of being fruitful and multiplying? 00:04:09.444 --> 00:04:10.826 That was back in Genesis. 00:04:10.826 --> 00:04:16.908 So what God had wanted in the garden, we see it happening in some measure here. 00:04:16.908 --> 00:04:19.516 It's like, wow, this is amazing. 00:04:19.516 --> 00:04:22.966 What God wanted, the people are multiplying, they're fruitful. 00:04:22.966 --> 00:04:25.492 But is it just like the Garden of Eden. 00:04:25.492 --> 00:04:36.882 No, it's not just like the Garden of Eden, because you can see there in verse number six, all that generation eventually died. 00:04:36.882 --> 00:04:41.627 So there's a fruitfulness, but there's still death. 00:04:41.627 --> 00:04:43.050 That's pervasive there. 00:04:45.232 --> 00:04:55.468 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. 00:04:55.468 --> 00:05:02.173 There's a kind of pallor of death that hangs over the first part of the book of Exodus. 00:05:02.173 --> 00:05:12.351 These people need deliverance, they need redemption, they need to be brought out from the slavery that they're in. 00:05:12.351 --> 00:05:15.100 That's where the title of the book comes from. 00:05:15.100 --> 00:05:30.463 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. 00:05:30.463 --> 00:05:30.964 We have exit signs. 00:05:30.964 --> 00:05:35.882 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. 00:05:35.882 --> 00:05:38.728 They need to be rescued and delivered. 00:05:38.728 --> 00:05:43.105 So there's this idea of deliverance in this theme of redemption that we see here. 00:05:43.105 --> 00:05:50.732 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. 00:05:50.732 --> 00:05:53.524 There's a need, a real need, for redemption. 00:05:53.524 --> 00:05:58.461 We see that plan worked out in the first 18 chapters of the book. 00:05:58.461 --> 00:06:01.427 So that's the first half of the book. 00:06:01.468 --> 00:06:03.192 If you can kind of divide the book in two halves. 00:06:03.192 --> 00:06:12.021 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. 00:06:12.021 --> 00:06:12.543 Why does he do it? 00:06:12.543 --> 00:06:19.319 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. 00:06:19.319 --> 00:06:28.134 And then chapters 20 to 40 are all about worship or about things that flow from worship. 00:06:28.134 --> 00:06:48.865 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. 00:06:48.865 --> 00:06:52.035 So yes, the book begins with the need for redemption, god redeems his people, and the book ends with worship. 00:06:52.035 --> 00:06:52.757 There's kind of a quick flyover. 00:06:52.757 --> 00:06:56.071 Let's go in and double click on both halves of the book a little bit more here. 00:06:56.733 --> 00:07:01.867 So if you look down in verse 11, chapter one of Exodus, still we talk about God redeeming his people. 00:07:01.867 --> 00:07:05.374 He redeems his people from slavery. 00:07:05.374 --> 00:07:08.069 I mentioned that, but let's just make sure we have our eyes on it. 00:07:08.069 --> 00:07:18.413 So, verse number 11, chapter 1, the Egyptians assigned taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. 00:07:18.413 --> 00:07:25.512 We see also in verse 16 that God redeems his people from the threat of extinction. 00:07:26.740 --> 00:07:31.872 Verse 16, when you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them as they deliver. 00:07:31.872 --> 00:07:36.110 If the child is a son, kill him. 00:07:36.110 --> 00:07:38.947 It's a striking instruction. 00:07:38.947 --> 00:07:45.492 So, yeah, they're enslaved, but they're also trying to be extinguished in some sense. 00:07:45.492 --> 00:07:50.591 And the person that gives that instruction is the king, is Pharaoh. 00:07:50.591 --> 00:08:00.711 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. 00:08:00.711 --> 00:08:09.173 Only he's presented as a kind of satanic overlord ruling as a despot. 00:08:09.173 --> 00:08:22.771 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. 00:08:22.771 --> 00:08:31.031 And Pharaoh here, who is here, and God also redeems his people in remembering his promise. 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:35.611 Turn over to chapter 2, and you'll see that in chapter 2. 00:08:35.611 --> 00:08:38.366 Look at verse 23. 00:08:38.366 --> 00:08:45.970 After a long time, the king of Egypt died. 00:08:45.970 --> 00:08:49.639 The Israelites groaned because of their difficult labor. 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:54.231 They cried out in their cry for help because of the difficult labor sent to God. 00:08:54.231 --> 00:09:02.491 God heard their groaning and God now you might expect it to say God took pity on them and saw them in their suffering. 00:09:02.491 --> 00:09:08.980 True, he is a God of mercy and compassion, but it says something different here in verse 24. 00:09:08.980 --> 00:09:17.648 He heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 00:09:17.648 --> 00:09:32.620 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. 00:09:32.620 --> 00:09:36.990 Now those themes should sound very familiar to us. 00:09:36.990 --> 00:09:37.533 I hope they do. 00:09:39.799 --> 00:09:43.710 Redemption from slavery John 8, 33. 00:09:43.710 --> 00:09:48.541 We are descendants of Abraham and never been enslaved to anyone. 00:09:48.541 --> 00:09:50.144 How can you say you will become free? 00:09:50.144 --> 00:09:52.330 Jesus responded. 00:09:52.330 --> 00:09:58.423 Truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. 00:09:58.423 --> 00:10:01.268 Redemption from the threat of extinction John 10.10. 00:10:01.268 --> 00:10:03.812 A thief comes to kill and destroy. 00:10:03.812 --> 00:10:08.458 I have come that they might have life and have it in abundance. 00:10:08.458 --> 00:10:12.030 Redemption from satanic power Hebrews 2, 14 and 15. 00:10:12.030 --> 00:10:26.750 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. 00:10:26.750 --> 00:10:30.931 Redemption on the basis of God's promise Titus 1, 2. 00:10:30.931 --> 00:10:36.629 In the hope of eternal life, that God who cannot lie. 00:10:39.634 --> 00:10:40.096 Exodus. 00:10:40.096 --> 00:10:50.899 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. 00:10:50.899 --> 00:11:05.880 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. 00:11:05.880 --> 00:11:14.335 Also very important in this first half of Exodus is that God redeems his people through a mediator. 00:11:14.335 --> 00:11:26.594 He uses Moses to be a mediator and there are also pattern-like ways in which Moses anticipates the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:11:26.594 --> 00:11:35.813 Both Moses and Jesus are portrayed as shepherds and prophets and rulers. 00:11:38.681 --> 00:11:50.008 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. 00:11:50.008 --> 00:12:00.304 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. 00:12:00.304 --> 00:12:04.144 Moses leads the people. 00:12:04.144 --> 00:12:14.611 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. 00:12:14.611 --> 00:12:20.490 So when they come out of Egypt, how do they come out? 00:12:20.490 --> 00:12:30.754 They come out right on the heels of the Passover, where there's this instruction from God put blood over the door. 00:12:30.754 --> 00:12:45.370 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. 00:12:45.370 --> 00:12:49.811 So those that have the lamb are rescued. 00:12:51.380 --> 00:12:53.729 Mediator brings a blood ritual of redemption. 00:12:53.729 --> 00:13:02.330 The Lord, jesus Christ, as the New Testament so wonderfully brings out, christ, our Passover lamb, is sacrificed. 00:13:02.330 --> 00:13:09.269 We're redeemed with imperishable things, not with the blood of bulls and goats, but with the precious blood of Christ. 00:13:09.269 --> 00:13:17.187 Unlike Moses though this is very important Moses instructed them about slaughtering the lambs. 00:13:17.187 --> 00:13:20.033 Jesus Christ himself is the lamb. 00:13:20.033 --> 00:13:28.710 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. 00:13:28.710 --> 00:13:34.831 Moses communes with God and seeks to bring people into communion with God. 00:13:34.831 --> 00:13:37.427 Moses intercedes for the people. 00:13:37.427 --> 00:13:38.905 Now, this is actually in the second half of the book. 00:13:38.905 --> 00:13:41.548 But Moses intercedes for the people. 00:13:41.548 --> 00:13:45.769 Our Lord ever lives to intercede for us. 00:13:45.769 --> 00:13:50.471 So be looking for these divinely inspired patterns. 00:13:50.471 --> 00:13:52.005 God redeems his people. 00:13:52.005 --> 00:13:53.225 That's the first half of the book. 00:13:53.225 --> 00:13:55.167 Turn over to chapter 19. 00:13:55.167 --> 00:14:02.594 We'll double click now on the second half of the book, a little bit Exodus 19. 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:09.950 A lot of people, when they are in the book of Exodus the first part of the book they're so excited about. 00:14:09.950 --> 00:14:19.602 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. 00:14:19.602 --> 00:14:25.022 And then they come to the second part of the book and there's Mount Sinai and they're clapping. 00:14:25.022 --> 00:14:35.869 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. 00:14:35.869 --> 00:14:39.101 I was like am I reading the blueprint for a bathroom design here? 00:14:39.101 --> 00:14:40.946 What's with all the shower curtain rings? 00:14:40.946 --> 00:14:41.768 I don't understand. 00:14:41.768 --> 00:14:46.764 You've heard the expression don't lose the forest for the trees. 00:14:46.764 --> 00:14:50.432 Don't lose the tabernacle for the turbans. 00:14:50.432 --> 00:14:56.884 Okay, trees, don't lose the tabernacle for the turbans. 00:14:56.884 --> 00:14:58.428 Okay, it's all important, it's all good, it's all divinely inspired. 00:14:58.428 --> 00:14:59.974 So every detail is there for our edification, instruction. 00:14:59.974 --> 00:15:04.448 But don't get so lost in the details that you forget to see the big picture. 00:15:04.448 --> 00:15:11.107 This is all instructions about, of course, not a bathroom, but the place of worship for the Lord. 00:15:11.808 --> 00:15:12.591 Exodus 19,. 00:15:12.591 --> 00:15:14.181 Look at verse number three. 00:15:14.181 --> 00:15:20.933 Moses went up to the mountain to God, and the Lord called to him from the mountain. 00:15:20.933 --> 00:15:26.272 This is what you must say to the house of Jacob and explain to the Israelites. 00:15:26.272 --> 00:15:31.511 You've seen what I did to the Egyptians, how I carried you on eagle's wings and brought you to myself. 00:15:31.511 --> 00:15:33.626 Now there's the redemption part. 00:15:33.626 --> 00:15:48.989 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. 00:15:51.363 --> 00:15:56.208 At the heart of this old covenant, or Mosaic covenant, is the priority of worship. 00:15:56.208 --> 00:16:02.288 Sometimes we think of worship merely as performing certain rituals. 00:16:02.288 --> 00:16:12.250 It includes rituals, but it's meant to bring us into friendship with God, into enjoying God, to communion with him. 00:16:12.250 --> 00:16:24.870 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. 00:16:24.870 --> 00:16:26.543 What does he then have them do? 00:16:26.543 --> 00:16:33.027 He doesn't have them immediately go out into all the nations and tell them about my redemptive work, and that's it. 00:16:33.027 --> 00:16:35.572 I'm not saying it's not important, it's critically important for us. 00:16:35.572 --> 00:16:43.672 But the very first thing he does after this grand redemption he brings them out into the wilderness and instructs them about worship. 00:16:43.672 --> 00:16:46.844 That's stunningly important. 00:16:46.844 --> 00:16:51.956 In God's mind, worship is what we're going to be doing forever. 00:16:52.878 --> 00:16:54.542 It's important throughout the pages of the Bible. 00:16:54.542 --> 00:16:56.164 It's important here in Exodus. 00:16:56.164 --> 00:17:01.605 That's especially why God has redeemed us for worship. 00:17:01.605 --> 00:17:13.973 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? 00:17:13.973 --> 00:17:15.703 God wants us to belong to him. 00:17:15.703 --> 00:17:18.569 He wants his people to revere him of everyone else. 00:17:18.569 --> 00:17:26.780 So all the other do's and don'ts flow out of that God-centered perspective of keeping God in the center of place. 00:17:26.780 --> 00:17:34.204 It's similar in the New Testament, romans, chapter 12, present your body as a living sacrifice in view of God's mercy. 00:17:34.204 --> 00:17:40.641 How we live should flow from a heart that's received God's mercy and adores the Lord. 00:17:42.262 --> 00:17:46.468 Turn over to chapter 25, exodus 25. 00:17:46.468 --> 00:17:58.945 There's another repeated idea here in this second part of the book of exodus and these instructions about the tabernacle. 00:17:58.945 --> 00:18:02.651 25, verse number nine. 00:18:02.651 --> 00:18:05.881 You must make it according to all that. 00:18:05.881 --> 00:18:08.525 I show you the pattern of the tabernacle. 00:18:08.525 --> 00:18:10.888 Then look down at verse number 40. 00:18:10.888 --> 00:18:18.327 Be careful to make them according to the pattern you have been shown on the mountain. 00:18:18.327 --> 00:18:25.642 God gave Moses a pattern to follow, a kind of blueprint. 00:18:25.682 --> 00:18:33.375 Yes, interestingly, the book of Hebrews speaks of the earthly tabernacle as a copy and shadow of heavenly things. 00:18:33.375 --> 00:18:37.750 God was giving the people a little slice of heaven. 00:18:37.750 --> 00:18:41.263 Don't you want to get it right? 00:18:41.263 --> 00:18:43.962 If you're going to get a little slice of heaven, I hope so. 00:18:43.962 --> 00:18:44.905 We should right. 00:18:44.905 --> 00:18:45.808 They should want to do that. 00:18:48.382 --> 00:18:54.493 And the tabernacle was in many ways like Mount Sinai. 00:18:54.493 --> 00:18:56.507 Can't go through all those tonight. 00:18:56.507 --> 00:18:59.971 You can go back to Pastor Doug's message on the temple from a few weeks ago. 00:18:59.971 --> 00:19:09.930 But just like Mount Sinai has God's word and his presence, the Garden of Eden had God's word and his presence. 00:19:09.930 --> 00:19:12.087 Now the tabernacle is the place where we have God's word and his presence. 00:19:12.087 --> 00:19:14.539 Now the tabernacle is the place where we have God's word and his presence. 00:19:14.539 --> 00:19:35.829 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. 00:19:35.829 --> 00:19:46.839 God redeems his people for the purpose of worship and it's so we can worship together. 00:19:48.799 --> 00:19:50.935 Each Israelite wasn't told to construct a little tabernacle in their backyard for their own quiet time. 00:19:50.935 --> 00:19:52.765 Quiet times are great, not opposed to that at all. 00:19:52.765 --> 00:19:54.326 We should worship the Lord in our closets. 00:19:54.326 --> 00:19:59.511 But there's an emphasis here on the covenant people of God coming together to worship. 00:19:59.511 --> 00:20:13.344 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. 00:20:13.344 --> 00:20:18.009 Don't think of coming on Sunday morning as simply, I got to have my routine for the week. 00:20:18.009 --> 00:20:20.773 We need the kids to have kind of a moral foundation. 00:20:20.773 --> 00:20:22.174 Those are good reasons. 00:20:22.174 --> 00:20:33.093 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. 00:20:33.093 --> 00:20:38.750 God redeems his people for the purpose of worship. 00:20:40.442 --> 00:20:41.686 Now I mentioned this Exodus. 00:20:41.686 --> 00:20:44.199 Pattern is developed in other portions of scripture. 00:20:44.199 --> 00:20:46.163 We're going to consider some of those now as well. 00:20:46.163 --> 00:20:48.150 Turn over to Isaiah 11. 00:20:48.150 --> 00:20:50.664 So if you don't have your Bible, you can grab the pew Bible there in front of you. 00:20:50.664 --> 00:20:52.671 We're going to be looking at a few different passages. 00:20:52.671 --> 00:21:04.849 This pattern of an exodus or a deliverance that in this case, occurs through redemption. 00:21:04.849 --> 00:21:09.539 This is a theme that comes up throughout the Bible, especially in the prophets. 00:21:09.661 --> 00:21:13.009 And while I'm doing that, I'll just mention a couple resources. 00:21:13.009 --> 00:21:15.528 Here's a book called the Gospel of Exodus. 00:21:15.528 --> 00:21:20.872 This deals more with the theology inside of the book. 00:21:20.872 --> 00:21:26.185 There's another guy named Alistair Roberts, so not Alistair Begg. 00:21:26.185 --> 00:21:31.390 I know you guys know him, but Alistair Roberts has some lectures called Echoes of the Exodus. 00:21:31.390 --> 00:21:33.622 There's a book as well, if you wanted to go online. 00:21:33.622 --> 00:21:39.013 He focuses more on how the themes of the Exodus come in other pages of Scripture. 00:21:39.013 --> 00:21:40.605 So you might find those resources helpful. 00:21:41.220 --> 00:21:44.611 But Isaiah, chapter 11, look at verse number 11. 00:21:44.611 --> 00:22:00.853 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. 00:22:00.853 --> 00:22:04.819 He will lift up a banner for the nations and gather the dispersed of Israel. 00:22:04.819 --> 00:22:08.510 He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 00:22:08.510 --> 00:22:16.208 Listen and hear that, in light of the Exodus story, he's going to do it a second time. 00:22:16.208 --> 00:22:18.788 Well, that implies something's already happened. 00:22:18.788 --> 00:22:22.069 It's come in the past and the prophets remembering the past. 00:22:22.069 --> 00:22:28.030 But he's looking to a future event, and here he speaks also of there being a banner for the nations. 00:22:28.030 --> 00:22:31.849 So there's hope that others will be brought into this new Exodus. 00:22:32.359 --> 00:22:34.026 Turn over to Isaiah 27. 00:22:34.026 --> 00:22:35.170 Isaiah 27. 00:22:35.170 --> 00:22:42.332 Just a few more chapters. 00:22:42.332 --> 00:22:43.099 Isaiah 27. 00:22:43.099 --> 00:22:44.413 Isaiah 27. 00:22:44.413 --> 00:23:04.587 Verse number 12. 00:23:04.587 --> 00:23:13.395 Blown, and those lost in the land of Assyria will come as well as those dispersed in the land of Egypt. 00:23:13.395 --> 00:23:20.718 There's the pattern that looks back to Egypt, but there's going to be a similar thing happening in Assyria. 00:23:20.718 --> 00:23:30.421 And then look what they're going to do and they will worship the Lord at Jerusalem and on the holy mountain. 00:23:31.845 --> 00:23:33.106 Turn over to Hosea 11. 00:23:33.106 --> 00:23:39.317 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. 00:23:39.317 --> 00:23:40.680 Hosea 11. 00:23:40.680 --> 00:23:48.642 So again, these prophets are writing hundreds of years after the historical events of the book of Exodus. 00:23:48.642 --> 00:23:51.759 They're writing many years later, but they haven't forgotten. 00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:56.155 They saw a pattern and they're going to say this pattern is going to happen again. 00:23:58.538 --> 00:24:03.767 Hosea 11, verse number one when Israel was a child. 00:24:03.767 --> 00:24:10.204 I loved him and out of Egypt I called my son. 00:24:10.204 --> 00:24:18.421 That sounds very much like what we just read about in the book of Exodus, verse 2, israel called to the Egyptians. 00:24:18.421 --> 00:24:26.326 Even as Israel was leaving them, they kept sacrificing to the Baals and burning offerings to idols. 00:24:26.326 --> 00:24:34.784 So the people experienced redemption from Egypt, but Egypt was still in their hearts. 00:24:34.784 --> 00:24:38.203 They needed a spiritual deliverance. 00:24:38.203 --> 00:24:44.954 Just the physical movement of exiting didn't take care of the problem. 00:24:44.954 --> 00:24:52.115 There was something deeper in their own hearts that was necessary problem. 00:24:52.115 --> 00:24:54.720 There was something deeper in their own hearts that was necessary. 00:24:54.740 --> 00:24:57.544 Now look down to verse number 11 of the same chapter, hosea 11. 00:24:57.544 --> 00:24:58.486 Let's start at verse number 10. 00:24:58.486 --> 00:25:01.296 They will follow the Lord. 00:25:01.296 --> 00:25:03.980 He will roar like a lion. 00:25:03.980 --> 00:25:08.828 When he roars, his children will come trembling from the west. 00:25:08.828 --> 00:25:28.028 This is the Lord's declaration Pattern of redemption in the past, an expectation that it's going to happen again. 00:25:28.028 --> 00:25:33.163 Assyria is going to take you captive, but God's going to bring you out of captivity Repeated pattern. 00:25:34.384 --> 00:25:38.182 Now, this passage I just read is quoted in the Gospel of Matthew. 00:25:38.182 --> 00:25:40.428 We already had a sermon on this. 00:25:40.428 --> 00:25:41.474 That's okay if you don't remember. 00:25:41.474 --> 00:25:43.217 Review is good, right. 00:25:43.217 --> 00:25:44.759 So let's go over to Matthew for a moment. 00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:46.740 Matthew, chapter 2. 00:25:46.740 --> 00:26:01.796 So I'm trying to show you that you know it's not just my ideas about the patterns of Exodus. 00:26:01.796 --> 00:26:08.044 The scripture writers themselves have these same patterns in mind and they're divinely inspired. 00:26:08.044 --> 00:26:13.310 Matthew, chapter 2, verse number 13. 00:26:15.295 --> 00:26:24.035 After they were gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying get up, take the child and his mother. 00:26:24.035 --> 00:26:27.734 This is baby Jesus and Mary and Joseph. 00:26:27.734 --> 00:26:31.554 This is baby Jesus and Mary and Joseph. 00:26:31.554 --> 00:26:36.021 Flee to Egypt and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to kill him. 00:26:36.021 --> 00:26:39.509 So he got up and took the child and his mother during the night and escaped to Egypt. 00:26:39.509 --> 00:26:43.136 He stayed there until Herod's death. 00:26:43.136 --> 00:26:45.381 Now just pause here before we keep going on. 00:26:45.381 --> 00:26:48.526 The king is trying to kill all the babies. 00:26:48.526 --> 00:26:50.269 What does that sound like? 00:26:50.269 --> 00:26:58.358 Sounds like a pattern we already had in the Bible, right? 00:26:58.358 --> 00:27:00.164 So he got up, took the child during the night and escaped to Egypt. 00:27:00.164 --> 00:27:00.526 Verse 15,. 00:27:00.526 --> 00:27:07.642 He stayed there until Herod's death so that what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet might be fulfilled Out of Egypt. 00:27:07.642 --> 00:27:08.643 I called my son. 00:27:10.465 --> 00:27:17.141 He's quoting the verse I just read in Hosea, but he does it in a very interesting way, doesn't he? 00:27:17.141 --> 00:27:19.205 When I read Hosea. 00:27:19.205 --> 00:27:22.957 Hosea didn't say hear ye, hear ye. 00:27:22.957 --> 00:27:27.826 In the last days, baby Messiah is going to come out of Egypt. 00:27:27.826 --> 00:27:29.049 That wasn't what Hosea said. 00:27:29.049 --> 00:27:40.839 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. 00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:50.557 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. 00:27:50.557 --> 00:27:51.700 So there's going to be a pattern. 00:27:51.700 --> 00:27:53.586 It's going to be happening again. 00:27:53.586 --> 00:28:01.867 So Matthew sees that pattern finding fulfillment in the Lord Jesus. 00:28:01.867 --> 00:28:06.859 Hmm, that's very interesting, isn't it? 00:28:06.859 --> 00:28:12.150 The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. 00:28:13.895 --> 00:28:19.525 What was needed for the people was deliverance, not just from a geographical place, but from the idolatry of their hearts. 00:28:19.525 --> 00:28:21.701 That can only happen through Jesus. 00:28:21.701 --> 00:28:25.645 That can't happen by just moving people around physically. 00:28:25.645 --> 00:28:32.945 And what happens to Christ happens to his people. 00:28:32.945 --> 00:28:34.910 He's our representative. 00:28:34.910 --> 00:28:38.578 You see that nexus actually with Moses. 00:28:38.578 --> 00:28:41.806 Moses is in Egypt, Remember. 00:28:41.806 --> 00:28:47.686 He kills the guy and he has trouble and he flees and he goes out to the mountain where God appears to him. 00:28:47.686 --> 00:28:49.193 That's what's going to happen to all the people. 00:28:49.193 --> 00:28:49.848 They're going to leave Egypt and go out to the mountain where God appears to him. 00:28:49.848 --> 00:28:50.329 That's what's going to happen to all the people. 00:28:50.329 --> 00:28:53.144 They're going to leave Egypt and go out to the mountain where God has. 00:28:53.144 --> 00:29:04.875 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. 00:29:05.297 --> 00:29:24.232 One last passage Turn over to the gospel of Luke Luke, chapter 9. 00:29:24.232 --> 00:29:27.446 Luke 9. 00:29:27.446 --> 00:29:33.742 , verse number 28. 00:29:33.742 --> 00:29:38.490 About eight days after this conversation, he took along this is Jesus. 00:29:38.490 --> 00:29:47.394 He took along Peter, john and James and went up on the mountain to pray. 00:29:47.394 --> 00:29:54.259 As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed and his clothes became dazzlingly white. 00:29:54.259 --> 00:29:59.308 Can you think of other places in the Bible where someone went on a mountain and their faces were lightened up? 00:29:59.308 --> 00:30:02.657 That was what happened to Moses. 00:30:02.678 --> 00:30:07.606 Now Moses appears with the disciples here and Jesus far greater than Moses. 00:30:07.606 --> 00:30:17.196 But it says in verse number 30, two men were talking with him, moses and Elijah. 00:30:17.196 --> 00:30:20.261 So there's another confirmation of this pattern now coming in Christ in a greater way. 00:30:20.261 --> 00:30:29.359 They appeared in glory and were speaking of his and the Christian Standard Bible here has his departure. 00:30:29.359 --> 00:30:33.307 Anyone has a different translation there for that word in verse number 31? 00:30:33.307 --> 00:30:34.729 They were talking about his. 00:30:34.729 --> 00:30:41.064 Anyone else have a different one than departure, deliverance, anything else that all of you has? 00:30:41.064 --> 00:30:46.959 Departure there, okay, his what? 00:30:46.959 --> 00:30:47.640 His decrease? 00:30:47.640 --> 00:30:48.461 What translation is that? 00:30:48.461 --> 00:30:49.144 That's interesting? 00:30:49.144 --> 00:30:49.965 Okay, spoke translation. 00:30:49.965 --> 00:30:50.607 Is that that's interesting? 00:30:50.607 --> 00:30:51.650 Okay, it spoke of his decrease. 00:30:51.650 --> 00:30:55.148 That's interesting. 00:30:55.148 --> 00:31:05.528 Well, the Greek word here is the word that you find in the title of the book that we're talking about tonight. 00:31:06.959 --> 00:31:13.875 They were speaking about his exodus, jesus' exodus, verse 31, which he was about to accomplish in Jerusalem. 00:31:13.875 --> 00:31:25.359 So when we think of an exodus, we think of it as usually a big group of people going somewhere, migrating somewhere. 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:29.749 How can one person, jesus, experience an exodus? 00:31:29.749 --> 00:31:34.116 Well, it's said he's going to accomplish it at Jerusalem. 00:31:34.116 --> 00:31:37.763 What is he on his way to Jerusalem to do? 00:31:37.763 --> 00:31:43.558 He's going to suffer and die and bring deliverance from the slavery of sin. 00:31:43.558 --> 00:31:52.310 And yes, he's just one person, but all those who belong to him are with him. 00:31:52.310 --> 00:31:55.403 So the Bible can say when he died, we died. 00:31:55.403 --> 00:31:57.542 When he rose again, we rose again. 00:31:57.542 --> 00:32:03.988 So it is an exodus of a group of people in the sense of those who are in Christ and belong to him. 00:32:06.256 --> 00:32:09.686 The scriptures are just radically Christocentric. 00:32:09.686 --> 00:32:16.157 The scriptures are just radically Christocentric. 00:32:16.157 --> 00:32:17.622 I don't mean by that that there's a lot of topics in the Bible. 00:32:17.622 --> 00:32:18.644 Jesus is probably topic number one. 00:32:18.644 --> 00:32:20.067 Church is another good topic. 00:32:20.067 --> 00:32:24.640 I don't mean by Christocentric that he's the most important topic, although that is true. 00:32:24.640 --> 00:32:32.250 I mean he's the center point from which so many other points of scripture converge. 00:32:32.250 --> 00:32:41.781 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. 00:32:42.795 --> 00:33:17.244 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. 00:33:17.244 --> 00:33:18.627 This has destroyed this temple. 00:33:18.627 --> 00:33:19.415 I'll build it again. 00:33:19.415 --> 00:33:21.140 He was talking about the temple of his body. 00:33:21.140 --> 00:33:25.718 He is the tabernacle and the temple to which the Old Testament was pointing. 00:33:25.718 --> 00:33:39.378 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. 00:33:40.603 --> 00:33:51.448 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. 00:33:52.088 --> 00:33:58.965 Let's pray, lord, god, how we thank you that there is such a richness and wealth in scripture. 00:33:59.115 --> 00:34:04.124 We can barely take it all in, but we wanna drink it more and more. 00:34:04.194 --> 00:34:11.704 We wanna see how your word itself explores these themes and brings our minds and hearts to the Lord Jesus Christ. 00:34:11.704 --> 00:34:16.164 Thank you that he was made sin for us, who knew no sin. 00:34:16.164 --> 00:34:24.802 That he faced your judgment, and not just the destroying angel, but the very wrath of God. 00:34:24.802 --> 00:34:37.460 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. 00:34:37.460 --> 00:34:42.269 Oh Lord, give us a heart that is bursting with praise. 00:34:42.269 --> 00:35:14.980 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. 00:35:14.980 --> 00:35:16.807 We pray In Jesus' name amen.