February 2 – God gives deliverance (Exodus 7-27)

By Dave

God’s deliverance is the definition of His salvation. He rescues undeserving sinners by the riches of His love and mercy.

Exodus 15:1, 4, 5, 10, 12
Exodus 10:16 – “Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.”
2 Timothy 4:18 – “The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever.”
Pharaoh was evil. His pride, His desire to be god…His unjust rule over a nation was not left unpunished…
We have much to learn from Pharaoh. Our evil toward God will not be left unpunished… We must desire to be rescued from the punishment. That is salvation. That is deliverance.
The cross is the triumph over our evil hearts.
We must understand that Biblical salvation is rescue from evil and receiving undeserved good. It’s not entering good without payment for the evil.
The children of God were RESCUED from the evil oppression of Egypt. It would make no sense for them to travel across the wilderness, through a massive Red Sea if there wasn’t something they were rescued FROM.

Exodus 15:2-3, 11, 18
Our song must be for Him alone. We live in a culture that sings to itself too much.
God is the foundation of our praise, because God is the foundation of our salvation. Many in the church don’t really get this yet.
“My Father’s God” – a reference to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob…from Exodus 3:6.
We sing because we are redeemed. We praise, because we have been given victory over our rebellion.
2 Samuel 22:47 “The LORD lives, and blessed be my rock; And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation”
Matthew 26:26-28…in the Lord’s Supper, before Christ absorbed His Father’s wrath, He praised Him.

Exodus 15:6-9, 13, 18
The purchase for the people in Exodus was the spilled blood of the lamb in Exodus 12
The purchase was sealed at the defeat of the enemy.
Titus 2:14 “who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”
The Lamb of God (John 1:29) covered the door for us (Romans 3:25), triumphed over evil (Romans 5:17), and gave us passageway to the glory of God forever (Hebrews 10:19).
This came AT A COST.
The rushing enemy was unknowingly running toward their end.
The Red Sea gave redemption and wrath at the same time.
Are we on the safety side of His splendor or are we drowning in His punishment? Christ gives both.

The Cross is our deliverance. The Cross is our Passover. The Cross is our redemption. The Cross is His purchase of undeserved sinners.

God’s deliverance is victorious over evil. God’s deliverance must be the foundation of our praise. God’s deliverance came at cost.

Will you live as a purchased saint…OR, as an enemy that unknowingly running toward a drowning death?

Filed in: Podcasts • Wednesday, February 9th, 2011