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FREEDOM (5 OF 10)

by Dave Gustavsen

Scripture: Exodus 11:1-10, Exodus 12:1-51
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Freedom (5 of 10)
Series: From Here to There - Exodus
Dave Gustavsen
Exodus 11-12


We're taking this summer to walk through the book of Exodus, and today we come to an event that is arguably the most important event in the entire Old Testament. It's the event that the book of Exodus is named for. ''Exodus'' comes from a Greek word that literally means ''a way out'' or ''a road out.'' So after more than 400 years of slavery in Egypt, and more recently, after multiple unsuccessful attempts by Moses to convince Pharaoh to let the people go, God is providing a way out.

So we're going to be in Exodus chapters 11 and 12 today. And I want to read through and get the highlights of this story-starting in Exodus 11, verse 1. I invite you to hear the Word of God...

1 Now the Lord had said to Moses, ''I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely. Go to verse 4: 4 So Moses said, ''This is what the Lord says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt-worse than there has ever been or ever will be again.

Go down to chapter 12, verse 1: 1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 ''This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household. Verse 5: 5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it ...

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