NOTES: Living Your Exodus, Part 1
Sermon: Living Your Exodus: Week 1- Departing Egypt
Date: Sunday, January 12, 2025
Text: I Corinthians 10:1-13
1 Corinthians 10:1–13, “For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ. 5 Nevertheless, with most of them God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did. 7 Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.” 8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day. 9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, 10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come. 12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Let’s Connect:
The Biblical vision of Heaven (complete freedom):
Text Explained:
The Biblical account of Exodus as an example “that we might might not desire evil as they did.” (! Cor. 10:6)
Israel’s slavery and oppression (Exodus 1-13):
Exodus 1:13–14, “13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves 14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
The protection in the Passover and the departure from Egypt (Exodus 13-14):
Israel faces the Red Sea and the impending doom of their powerful enemy- Egypt:
Exodus 14:10–15 (ESV)
11 They said to Moses, “Is it because there are no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness? What have you done to us in bringing us out of Egypt? 12 Is not this what we said to you in Egypt: ‘Leave us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”
Why do we sometimes see Egypt as the “greater good,” when it’s actually killing us?
‘Egypt' represents the tyranny of sin and ultimately death.
Sin distorts our perception of reality so that we desire the wrong things.
So that what is actually bad, feels right—-”like home”
and things that are good cause fear and uncertainty.
Until the Egypt in my life is destroyed, its power remains.
Romans 8:2, “2 For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.”
1 Cor. 10:12-13 12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Romans 6:12–14, “12 Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. 13 Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. 14 For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.”
Power verses influence:
Story of the Red Sea deliverance:
13 And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.”
15 The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.
Our Challenge:
Celebrate often God’s triumph over your Egypt!
Communion:
Remembering the work of Christ to save and deliver us from sin and death.
Ps. 23: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies”