THE LORD IS REDEEMER (2 OF 8)
Scripture: Exodus 5:1, Exodus 14:31
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The Lord Is Redeemer (2 of 8)
Series: Exodus
Patrick Edwards
Exodus 5:1-14:31
Introduction
''Just you wait, just you wait.'' That's the refrain uttered again and again throughout the opening song of the 2015 musical Hamilton, ''Just you wait.'' The premise behind this phrase, and really the motivation throughout Alexander Hamilton's life, is this man who came from nothing, pigeon-holed by the world as to who he could be and what he could do, fighting to prove to himself and everyone else that he could be great and do great things. ''Just you wait,'' thus, is this opening salvo whereby we're told to watch this man show who he really is.
I can't help, then, but think of this line when Moses first comes to Pharaoh to ask for permission for Israel to worship the Lord and Pharaoh responds, ''Who is the Lord that I should obey him by letting Israel go?'' (Exodus 5:2a). Who is the Lord? Well, boy, Pharaoh, just you wait.
You see, last week we began this new series through the book of the Exodus, and we highlighted how the Exodus not only tells the story of these very real events whereby God rescues the Israelites from slavery and then makes them His people, but also how the Exodus provides us with the paradigm for understanding the Bible and understanding the human condition. We have to be freed from slavery to death and sin and then freed to truly knowing God. We saw how God's ultimate purposes are to reveal Himself to Israel and then through Israel to reveal Himself to the world. The book of Genesis shows us God's ultimate purposes, to fill the earth with His glory, but the book of the Exodus shows us how He will do it, by making Himself fully known.
And how timeless this need proves to be. Who is God? What is God? These are questions left unanswered in our culture today, and what answers are given are often highly personalized and highly rationalized. Humans make God in their own image expecting Him and wanting Him to be what they need and what w ...
Series: Exodus
Patrick Edwards
Exodus 5:1-14:31
Introduction
''Just you wait, just you wait.'' That's the refrain uttered again and again throughout the opening song of the 2015 musical Hamilton, ''Just you wait.'' The premise behind this phrase, and really the motivation throughout Alexander Hamilton's life, is this man who came from nothing, pigeon-holed by the world as to who he could be and what he could do, fighting to prove to himself and everyone else that he could be great and do great things. ''Just you wait,'' thus, is this opening salvo whereby we're told to watch this man show who he really is.
I can't help, then, but think of this line when Moses first comes to Pharaoh to ask for permission for Israel to worship the Lord and Pharaoh responds, ''Who is the Lord that I should obey him by letting Israel go?'' (Exodus 5:2a). Who is the Lord? Well, boy, Pharaoh, just you wait.
You see, last week we began this new series through the book of the Exodus, and we highlighted how the Exodus not only tells the story of these very real events whereby God rescues the Israelites from slavery and then makes them His people, but also how the Exodus provides us with the paradigm for understanding the Bible and understanding the human condition. We have to be freed from slavery to death and sin and then freed to truly knowing God. We saw how God's ultimate purposes are to reveal Himself to Israel and then through Israel to reveal Himself to the world. The book of Genesis shows us God's ultimate purposes, to fill the earth with His glory, but the book of the Exodus shows us how He will do it, by making Himself fully known.
And how timeless this need proves to be. Who is God? What is God? These are questions left unanswered in our culture today, and what answers are given are often highly personalized and highly rationalized. Humans make God in their own image expecting Him and wanting Him to be what they need and what w ...
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