Audio of “Exodus & Our Christian Walk” (1 Hour, 6 min)

Background

  • Author: Moses + God (Mark 7:9-10)
  • Historical: Exod. 6:14-27; Mark 12:26 (see also Patterns of Evidence)
  • The Story: Israel was delivered from oppression by Moses–largely by the Passover Lamb and Red Sea. In the desert, God sustained them, gave them his law, and then tabernacled among them.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:7: “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed”
  • 1 Corinthians 10:1-11 – “examples for us…written down for our instruction”

Moses & Jesus: Exodus 1-14

  • 1 Corinthians 10:2 – “baptized into Moses” (compare Romans 6:3)
  • Birth (Exodus 1:13-22 = Matthew 2:16-18); desert beginning (Acts 7:30 = Matt. 4:1-2); 1st wonder (Exod. 7:20-25 = John 2:1-11); serpent and sickness power authenticates (Exod. 4 = Mark 1); deliverer (Acts 7:35 = Galatians 1:4); mediator (Exod. 20:18-20 = 1 Timothy 2:5); ascend to the Father (Exod. 20:21 = Luke 24:51); people forsake before their return (Exod. 32:1-6 = 2 Pet. 3:3-4); builds God’s tabernacle (Exod. 40:1-2 = Matt. 16:18; Heb. 3:1-6)

The Christian Life: Exodus 12-19

  • Justification (Passover Lamb): Exod. 12:12-13 = 1 Corinthians 5:7; Romans 3:25
    • Unto worship (Exod. 4:23): contrast Exod. 8:25, 28; 10:11, 24
  • Sanctification (Lamb within): Exod. 12:8-11 = Romans 8:9; Galatians 5:18-25
  • Communion (Annual Passover Feast): Exod. 12:24-27 = Luke 24:14-23
  • Consecration: Exod. 13:1-2 = Romans 6:13
  • Spirit Led (Cloud-Fire): Exod. 13:21-22 = Rom. 8:14
  • Holy Spirit Baptism (Cloud): Exod. 14:19-20 = 1 Cor. 10:2; 12:13
  • Baptism (Red Sea): Exod. 14:21-22 = 1 Cor. 10:2; Matt. 28:19; Rom. 6:1-4
  • Songs and Dancing (of Miriam): Exod. 15 = Eph. 5:18-19
  • Healing: Exod. 15:26 = James 5:14-16
  • Bible Study (Daily Manna): Exod. 16 = Matt. 4:4; John 6:47-51
  • Spirit given (Water from rock): Exod. 17:6 = John 7:37-39; 1 Cor. 12:13
  • Warfare: Exod. 17:8-16 = Ephesians 6:10-20
  • Appointed Leadership: Exod. 18:24-26 = Acts 14:21-23; 1 Tim. 3:1-13
  • Building Up the Church (Tabernacle): Exod. 12:35-36; 25:1-9; 35; 38:24-25 = 1 Cor. 12-14
  • God Alone! Exod. 12:13; 14:13-14; 19:4; 20:8-11, 25-26; 31:12-17; 35:1-3; etc.

The Law: Exodus 20-24

  • Law written by Spirit Externally: 10 commandments (Exod. 20:1-17)… “tablets of stone, written with the finger of God” (Exod. 31:18)
  • Law written by Spirit Internally, fulfilled in Christ: Romans 8:1-11; 10:4; 2 Cor. 3:3; Gal. 5:16-24

The Tabernacle: Exodus 25-40

  • Hebrews 9:1-5 – “Of these things we cannot now speak in detail.”
  • Mercy Seat = Christ & His Sacrifice: Exod. 25:17-22; Hebrews 9:5; Romans 3:25
  • Most Holy Veil = Christ’s body: Exod. 26:31-33; Matt. 27:50-51; Hebrews 10:20
  • Exod. 40:34-38 – Only God resided in tabernacle

For Further Study

Transcript of “Exodus & Our Christian Walk” Audio (generated by MS Slack)

0:00: And with Exodus here.
0:04: If you have an outline or even if you don’t, well, if you have an outline, that is definitely abbreviated version, the full version, you will find if you want to follow along at the FMI 360.com/1 shows all of them.
0:18: And with usually within a day, I’ll post this recording as well there.
0:23: So the old, the other teachings we’ve done, I think it’s number 8 or something, are all there.
0:27: , This week we’re doing Exodus.
0:31: It’s another one of those books, guys.
0:33: It’s 40 chapters.
0:35: It would take 2.5, 3 hours just to read it.
0:38: So we’re not gonna cover it’s, it’s jam packed.
0:41: Not only do you have Moses’s whole life, you know, well, 80 years before he starts his ministry.
0:46: Then you have to go through the plagues of Egypt, like you literally are extracting an oppressed people out of a nation.
0:53: I mean that in its own place.
0:55: You’re not even, you’re only one floor through the book.
0:58: And then you have Passover, Red Sea, all stuff we’ll get to, beautiful history of God’s people in the desert.
1:07: And you’re still not even halfway through the book.
1:08: Then you have the giving of the law, and you’re just that halfway to the book, you know, you’re now at stuff, and then, and then it just opens up into the tabernacle and all these things in the tabernacle.
1:16: I mean that is a rich.
1:18: There’s no way.
1:19: There is a way though.
1:20: I’m going to keep it to an hour, OK?
1:22: And, but I’ll put the teaser out there for people who want, and Jesse’s ready.
1:25: For people who want, I do have goodies, books like,, hey, here’s some understanding of the Tabernacle and stuff like that, and people would like to go for that.
1:32: That’s why we have the after Bible study.
1:34: Kind of a time.
1:34: So I, it’s like, like Jesus with the parable.
1:36: Sometimes he really explained every detail, and sometimes he just gave you a little bit you can chew on later.
1:41: , to start though, to look at the, think about Exodus as a whole, let’s go to Mark 7.
1:47: I like to look at the New Testament,, to, you know, some people say the, the New Testament is the Old Testament revealed, and the Old Testament is the New Testament concealed, that they really need each other, or others have said it’s like a double-edged sword.
2:02: God, you know, God’s word is a double-edged sword, and sometimes we only use one edge, the New Testament.
2:07: What about the Old Testament, you know, there, God puts or some people call the 1st, 1st covenant and the second covenant, you know, however you want to look at it.
2:13: , there, it’s all important.
2:16: So Mark 7, these are Jesus’ own words, right in the middle of speaking to,, of, of people who are very sure of their ways so that they’re following God the right way.
2:29: He rebukes them.
2:30: He says, You’re following traditions of man.
2:32: You think they’re God, but they are not.
2:34: And in the middle of his rebuke, he says something.
2:36: Yeah, that would be helpful.
2:37: Thank you.
2:37: , Matthew or Mark chapter 7, verses 9 and 10.
2:43: And Jesus said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition.
2:55: For Moses said, honor your father and your mother, and whoever revivals father or mother must surely die.
3:04: You have two quotations, Jesus is giving.
3:08: Anyone know, maybe you have a footnote there.
3:10: Where are those quotations found?
3:14: Exodus 20 and The other one is from, I believe, Exodus 21.
3:20: So right in the middle of Exodus, he’s quoting.
3:23: And who does he say?
3:26: Told you these things.
3:29: Moses, right.
3:30: Moses said these things.
3:33: But if you look back, anyone remember what was happening?
3:35: This might be hard if you haven’t read it in a while.
3:37: Exodus 2021.
3:39: That is when Moses is with God.
3:41: God is the one speaking these things.
3:43: He’s gonna inscribe these things on, on, on tablets.
3:47: And so it’s clearly the words of God, yet he’s also saying it’s the words of Moses.
3:54: Which one is it?
3:54: Obviously, he’s saying it’s both.
3:57: In fact, that’s his whole point.
3:58: He says, you have a fine way of of of rejecting the word of God.
4:01: That’s what it says in verse 9.
4:02: The command of God, for Moses said such and such.
4:06: So my point is, already he’s establishing, even though God was the one who authored the tablets, Moses was the scribe who wrote it down.
4:14: Jesus says that.
4:15: He says it on Twitter in John 5, he says, you, if you would know Moses, you’d know me because Moses wrote about me.
4:21: He also establishes the prophetic element of Moses’ words there in John 5 that he’s writing about me, even though I lived 1500 years after.
4:31: He’s also establishing that,, it’s the word of God, Foly.
4:35: It’s the word of God, and yet it’s the word of Moses, right?
4:38: And that’s all thrown into Exodus.
4:41: I mean there’s other examples I could give, and I think I wrote a few others down, but we don’t need to go too far in those.
4:47: So another thing though to think about is, is it historical?
4:51: because some people say, well, the exodus, hopefully no one here, but I mean, there are teams of scholars sadly.
4:58: But I mean, we shouldn’t be surprised.
5:00: God confounds the wisdom of the world all the time.
5:03: But there are plenty of scholars you could find who would say, no, the ax didn’t happen.
5:09: Thankfully, I, I have this little rule.
5:10: Shannon knows we’ve talked before.
5:12: I think God always reserves a tithe to Himself.
5:15: It’s a remnant.
5:16: A tithe means a 10th.
5:17: It’s, it’s probably not the majority, but he always reserves reserves a faithful remnant.
5:21: And there are faithful scholars who are saying, wait, hold on, let’s relook at these things, and they’re saying, no, there is a good case for it.
5:27: One of the best things I can recommend, Jess, you might remember this, and I wrote it there is something called Patterns of Evidence.
5:32: Has anyone watched that before?
5:34: It is good.
5:35: It’s a guy who’s a doubter.
5:36: It’s a documentary series, and he doubted that God because of the exodus.
5:41: And he starts going on a journey, and now I think they’re up to like 4 different documentaries on the Red Sea crossing and all elements of Exodus.
5:49: He, he has all sorts of things.
5:51: It is awesome.
5:52: And, and he comes to the conclusions like this is solid.
5:55: So if you need historical, if that helps you, if you like the documentary, that’s great.
5:59: He also does a kids version.
6:00: Our kids really liked it where they.
6:01: Dig into the archaeology and stuff to show Exodus is trustworthy.
6:05: So that is just a nice little supplemental thing.
6:07: You don’t need those words.
6:08: We have got Jesus’ words.
6:10: That is sufficient to say that Exodus is trustworthy.
6:12: But you know what, if Jesus says it’s trustworthy, I’m not surprised when there’s corroboration on that.
6:17: I expect corroboration on that, and that’s a good corroboration on that.
6:22: The story.
6:23: Now, I say in a nutshell, and maybe you remember, maybe you don’t, but it’s the people, God’s people are in Egypt.
6:32: They are being oppressed in Egypt.
6:33: So if you can imagine, Egypt’s like this, they’re in Egypt.
6:36: They’re slaves to Egypt.
6:39: And God is bringing them, bringing them, bringing them out.
6:42: And I say that because you can see that the plagues are part of his, come on, come on, come on.
6:47: It’s all part of his glory.
6:48: We’re gonna talk about that more, all part of his glory.
6:50: He’s bringing them out.
6:51: And then the final cut of them coming out was really, I think, a twofold cut to say they get out of Egypt that oppression, the final, the slicing, if you will, the extricating.
7:02: Anyone know what would that be?
7:03: And maybe you already know cause you read the thing, but if you think about just reading it.
7:08: The first born, the final plague, the Passover lamb.
7:12: was definitive.
7:14: There was a second element though that was, that was true.
7:17: That was almost like the objective of getting them out in their experience of walking out and saying you are done for good with with Egypt, and you know what that was.
7:27: That’s the second thing, the Red Sea crossing.
7:30: The Red Sea came, buried exodus, buried Egypt behind them, and now they are a people completely who have separated from Egypt.
7:39: Now they’re being brought into the desert, and the rest of Exorcist, their dealings in the desert.
7:45: We’re talking about that not too long ago, like sometimes we’re in the wilderness and we think, oh, where’s God?
7:49: I mean, sometimes God is really specially in the wilderness and he has you in a wilderness season for a while.
7:55: So they’re in the wilderness.
7:57: God’s working with them.
7:57: God’s moving them all to the point, honestly, the pinnacle of Exodus is the tabernacle.
8:02: He’s making a place to dwell.
8:03: He’s making a place to live amongst them, to be their God, and they be their people, and there’s a communing with the two.
8:10: And that’s how you can see that Exodus ends with God in His glory filling the tabernacle.
8:17: In fact, I wanna go there real quick.
8:18: Go to Exodus 40, cause I know an hour comes quickly, so if I don’t go to the end of the book, we’ll never get there.
8:24: So, Exodus 40.
8:28: To show the end here.
8:34: And it says, Exodus 40 verse 30,.
8:42: Verse 33, we’re gonna start here.
8:44: This is when, this is after all of the work of the Tabernacle.
8:48: Oh man, I know I’m kind of going, bouncing around, but you can see, I’m, I’m bouncing around, but it starts with them.
8:58: Oh man, this is good.
8:59: The Tabernacle, they had to have goods to get the tavern.
9:02: How do the people in the desert get goods to make a tabernacle?
9:05: I don’t even know where did they get the gold, the silver, the garments plunder the Egyptians.
9:11: That’s all part of the extricating.
9:13: They were, there was an extrication that happened.
9:15: They plundered the Egyptians.
9:18: Now they’re to use that first start of using those materials, golden calf, idolatry.
9:26: Why, man, I know I’m gonna, I, I know I knew I found the math, it’s gonna be like, you didn’t stay in the.
9:30: OK.
9:32: 1st, 1st time of using it.
9:34: Why did they go into idolatry and you remember?
9:36: Because this man Moses is taking forever to come back.
9:40: When will he ever come back?
9:42: Does that sound familiar?
9:43: Peter says that.
9:43: He says the people are gonna say, Jesus ascended.
9:46: When will he ever come back?
9:48: And they’re gonna start in idolatry.
9:49: So they’re using what God gave them to make an idol.
9:53: God was ready to have it done with him, and but then Moses said, I’ll be the,, can I be the man in the gap?
9:58: Can you, you know, take me instead of them?
10:00: He has a beautiful way of looking like Jesus.
10:03: And God spares his people.
10:06: And he uses those plundered goods, and they build this tabernacle from the least to the greatest, yeah, from the least to the greatest amongst them, amongst the tribes.
10:16: They give so much that Moses had to say, be held back, be held back.
10:21: And,, and they build this beautiful tavern I call, and then we get to Exodus 40 here, verse 33, and he erected the court around the tabernacle and the altar and set up the screen of the gate of the court.
10:34: So Moses finished the work.
10:36: If you’re thinking already, Moses and Jesus, there are some parallels.
10:40: Moses finished the work.
10:41: He’s finished the work in Hebrews actually says just like Moses was faithful in his house and finishing the work, how much more Jesus is faithful in in the work of of us, the temple.
10:51: Verse 34, then the cloud covered the tent of meeting.
10:56: And the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle, and Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the clouds settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
11:05: Throughout all their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the people of Israel would not set out.
11:11: But if the cloud was not taken up, then they did not set out till the day that it was taken up.
11:15: For the cloud of the Lord was on Tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night in the sight of all the house of Israel throughout all their journeys.
11:24: The end of Exodus is now God.
11:29: has a house.
11:30: God has a dwelling place.
11:32: It started with Israel had a dwelling place where they shouldn’t have been in oppression in Egypt.
11:37: Comes out now to God has a dwelling place among his people and the glory, and it’s all for His glory if you notice there.
11:44: It was a tabernacle unto the glory of the Lord.
11:47: So I hope you can see from the start to finish that’s, that’s what we’re going for.
11:51: Now let’s walk through it because this is a parallel.
11:53: I would say, and I call it Exodus and your Christian walk because it’s gonna, we’re talking about this parallels our own walk with Christ.
12:01: Exodus, we don’t have time to do this, but read Exodus side by side with the book of Romans.
12:05: Hopefully I’ll show you enough here, but like the parables of Jesus, I’m gonna show you some but not everything.
12:10: And so, some on your own and some we can talk about later.
12:13: So, next, I want you to go to 1 Corinthians 5:7.
12:22: So this is Paul’s words, but he’s talking now.
12:26: About The dealings of Exodus, the Passover lamb.
12:35: And he says, in 1 Corinthians 5:7.
12:43: Yep.
12:45: He says, Cleanse.
12:51: Out the old leaven that you may be a new lump.
12:55: I was talking about the feast of unleavened bread.
12:59: As you really are unleavened.
13:04: For Christ, our Passover lamb has been sacrificed.
13:08: Verse 8.
13:09: Let us therefore celebrate the festival, the unleavened bread festival.
13:14: It’s all an exodus.
13:15: It’s all what they did was for 7 days at the time of the Passover lamb, they would have 7 days where you don’t eat any leaven in your house.
13:22: It’s all symbolic of them coming out of Egypt.
13:25: You don’t even have it.
13:27: But look at verse 8.
13:28: How do we celebrate it?
13:29: So some get, should we get to go, go get a lamb, guys, go get a lamb and get it all and get ready and then we make sure we don’t have any leaven.
13:36: Better make sure we have no leaven.
13:37: But look at how they celebrate it here.
13:39: Look at how we’re, we’re called to celebrate.
13:41: Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old Len, the leaven of malice and evil.
13:47: OK, already hint hint, we’re not talking about actual yeast.
13:51: We’re talking about sin in our heart.
13:52: That’s much more important to God.
13:54: But with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
13:58: So he’s applying Exodus, the unleven, the Feast of Unleavened bread, and he’s using it for spiritual realities.
14:06: Can you see that there?
14:07: And right in the midst of that, Our Passover lamb.
14:14: Who?
14:15: See that Christ, our Passover lamb.
14:18: So now, what did we say earlier?
14:20: Oppression in Egypt?
14:22: Just think about this.
14:22: What, what does that mean then?
14:24: Oppression in Egypt.
14:26: That is, you name it, what is oppressing before Christ comes.
14:30: Death, sin, sla what are you slaves of?
14:34: You were slaves of Satan, you were slaves of self, you were slaves of sin.
14:37: Read Romans.
14:38: You were slaves unto unrighteousness.
14:40: You were slaves in all those ways.
14:42: If only we had a way to get out of that of Egypt.
14:45: Christ, our Passover lamb, was the bringing out of them.
14:51: Was one of the, one of the the separations, OK?
14:54: , and we’re gonna go with all this, we’re gonna go in a little more detail and kinda zooming in, if you will, giving you the big picture, and then we’re going in.
15:04: And then go to 1 Corinthians 10 1 through 11.
15:11: Now it’s almost like he’s saying, just just just in case I need to make it a little more clear.
15:20: Well, I’ll, I’ll I’ll, I’m not even gonna say it.
15:21: I’ll just read it cause you see what it says here.
15:23: 1 Corinthians, so there’s a couple of chapters to the, to the right in the same book.
15:27: 1 Corinthians 10.
15:30: Verse 1, For I do not want you to be unaware brothers.
15:35: Again, this is, you, yes guys, just remember, before we go on, you’re in the New Testament.
15:39: You’re 1500 years after Exodus, OK?
15:43: Paul’s talking, Jesus has resurrected, all these things.
15:46: I do not want you to be unawares, unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud and all passed through the sea, and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
15:59: Wait a second, does that sound like something?
16:04: And all ate the same spiritual food.
16:08: And all drink the same spiritual drink.
16:12: For they drink from the spiritual rock that followed them.
16:16: Before I even go further, you might have already read ahead, but try not to if you haven’t.
16:19: , something else you get in Exodus, and again, I have to cover a lot of ground without showing it because it takes so long.
16:25: But in Exodus, there was a time, I don’t remember this time where they were saying we need water.
16:29: They were parched.
16:30: This is after they’ve been extricated out of Egypt.
16:33: We need water.
16:34: They’re complaining and grumbling.
16:36: Well, come on, maybe we, maybe Egypt wasn’t that bad.
16:38: We need water.
16:39: Remember what God said to Moses?
16:42: Anyone?
16:44: Strike the rock.
16:46: And water will come out.
16:50: Sure enough, Moses takes the staff, strikes the rock, water comes out for the people.
16:56: It’s a wonderful, it’s a wonderful miracle, wonderful story.
16:58: They had water.
17:00: And if that was the end of it, I mean that in itself is worthy of praising the Lord.
17:04: But now Paul comes, that same exact story, and he says, wait, let’s look at it with spiritual eyes.
17:10: It actually relates to our Christian walk, because look at what he says next.
17:13: Verse 4, for they drank from the spiritual rock that followed them.
17:19: And the rock was Christ.
17:21: Oh man, you didn’t know what Christ was hiding, he was the lamb.
17:25: He was also hiding out in the desert in that rock.
17:28: Not literally, of course, but he was, he, metaphorically, he was that rock.
17:35: Before I go on, just think about that for a moment.
17:38: What is that even getting at?
17:40: Christ, wait, if Christ was the rock, what was the water?
17:44: We don’t have to wonder that.
17:46: Hold your hand there.
17:47: Go to John 7.
17:48: I know we haven’t even gone right into Exodus, but we, we kinda have.
17:51: We, we, we, we actually covered the whole book of Exodus already if you were listening.
17:54: So anyway, just John 7.
17:59: Verses 37 through 39.
18:01: This is on the feast of booths.
18:05: It’s a different feast, a different time of the calendar year.
18:09: So the Passover feast would be an unleavened bread would be in the our spring.
18:15: The feast of boots as the tabernacles would be in our fall, Octoberish time.
18:23: And,, in that time, they were celebrating, and look at this verse 37, John 7:37, on the last day of the feast of Booths, that great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, If anyone thirst, let him come to me and drink.
18:41: Whoever believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.
18:48: Now this he said about the spirit whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the spirit had not been given because Jesus was not yet glorified.
18:59: You see that language there?
19:01: On that last day of the feast, he yelled out, so this now, I’ll be clear here, this does not say this in the Bible, but I have checked multiple commentaries.
19:08: Everyone is in agreement.
19:09: This is, this is one of those like, it’s not just some in the corner person say this.
19:13: So read commentaries on your own.
19:14: It is extra biblical, but they said at that time, It was the tradition of the Jews.
19:21: It was pretty well established that they would, they would commemorate.
19:24: They would quote from Isaiah where it talks about the waters of salvation, and they would and they would talk about when the water came from the rock, when God gave the water from the rock.
19:33: So there is a tie in there that is actually there that Jesus is talking about the water, but here he says the water represents.
19:40: What?
19:42: The Holy Spirit.
19:44: So let’s put this together back to 1 Corinthians 10.
19:47: If the rock symbolizes Christ, again, we already said it’s historical.
19:51: It happened, it happened.
19:52: There was a real rock, but it spoke to something beyond just that, right?
19:58: If it speaks to.
20:00: , if the rock speaks to Christ and the water speaks to the Holy Spirit, what could the striking speak to?
20:11: Crucifixion.
20:12: It’s gotta be.
20:13: Jesus even says, when he dies, what happened?
20:17: The back to the tabernacle, the curtain was torn from top to bottom.
20:21: That’s all in the holy of holies in the tabernacle.
20:24: It was torn and the spirit was given out to all flesh.
20:27: The spirit was now given and a powerful thing you find out, some of you know, some of you don’t.
20:33: Moses, we don’t find this in Exodus.
20:35: Stay tuned for the next one.
20:36: We do,, not next month, but I’m hoping Leviticus, I’m super excited about numbers also, I’m getting punk logs.
20:43: But in numbers, you find out why Moses was not allowed to go to the Promised Land.
20:48: Does anyone know why?
20:54: Yes, speak up low.
20:55: There’s the other.
20:58: And There was another time, that was before, there’s another time in the desert where they were thirsty for water.
21:06: And God said, OK, here’s water.
21:10: Speak to the rock now, and the water will come.
21:13: And Moses got, he’s, I’m so upset with these people.
21:15: He struck the rock again.
21:17: He says, and now you will not enter the promised land.
21:20: Now you see, you look at it and say, that seems, wow, that was pretty, you know, OK, God can do what he can do.
21:24: But, well, why did that all happen?
21:27: Think about this.
21:28: The word for rock in Exodus is a sunken down rock.
21:32: In numbers, it was an exalted rock.
21:34: It was like a rock that’s set up, set up here.
21:37: So what do you do?
21:37: The first time, the rock had to be struck.
21:40: That’s the crucifixion, and then God’s spirit comes out.
21:43: What do we do now?
21:44: Is Christ had to be crucified all over again?
21:46: God forbid there’s actually anathema.
21:49: We speak now to him boldly.
21:52: I like that, and the water comes out.
21:56: So you have right there, OK, this is why I said the hour goes quick.
21:59: Well, we’re back to 1 Corinthians 10.
22:03: And,, so he’s interpreting these, but he’s saying, I’m recasting this.
22:08: I’m looking at this Exodus story and saying these have spiritual realities for you.
22:11: The rock was Christ.
22:13: Now we looked at John 7, the striking of it was like the cross.
22:16: The water is like the Holy Spirit.
22:18: In verse 5, I do think we need to consider.
22:22: Nevertheless, with most of them, God was not pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
22:27: That is actually the sober warning here.
22:31: He said, yes, they went through.
22:34: Just like us Christians, they went through the Red Sea, they went through the cloud, they went through all this stuff.
22:40: Doesn’t mean you’re great with God though.
22:43: Take some humility.
22:45: Be, get sober minded and get right with God, because God was not pleased with them just for going through that, neither does that mean you have a path to do whatever you want because you were baptized.
22:54: You were, you have, you have the Holy Spirit.
22:57: So there’s a warning in this too.
22:59: Verse 6.
23:00: Now these things took place as for us that we might not desire evil as they did.
23:05: So you’re told these things, what things?
23:09: The exodus story are examples for Christians.
23:12: So again, I’m not out of line.
23:13: I’m not adding to the word.
23:15: I’m quoting the word.
23:16: You see the same in verse 11.
23:19: Now, these things happen to them as an example, but were written down for our instruction on whom the end of the ages have come.
23:27: Happened to them, real historical events, but were written down for us to understand spiritual reality.
23:32: So I hope that makes a lot of sense.
23:35: Let’s go now to a few other things to capture the vision, so to speak.
23:39: So first, you see at 1 Corinthians 10, stay in here, though, you’re gonna keep your finger here because we have a lot here.
23:44: 1 Corinthians 10.
23:46: It says, I don’t want you to be unaware brothers.
23:49: OK, so we’re talking about that, that they were all baptized into Moses.
23:54: Isn’t that a weird, isn’t that an interesting way to say it?
23:56: I think I already gave away a little why that was said that way, but they were baptized.
24:00: That was going, them going to the Red Sea into Moses.
24:04: But what does it say?
24:06: About our baptism.
24:08: We’re baptized into.
24:10: And you remember.
24:11: , OK, you’re getting this, that’s the cloud part, that’s the cloud part.
24:16: We’re gonna, we are getting there.
24:17: So very good.
24:19: But the person we are baptized into, if you look at Romans 63, So there were two baptisms.
24:28: Stacy’s kind of, I mean, she hit it more than she might even realized that that we’re gonna get into both baptism.
24:33: There was a cloud baptism and a water baptism.
24:37: The water baptism, think about Romans 6:3, it says, do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
24:51: So we were baptized, where?
24:54: Into Christ.
24:56: 1 Corinthians 10, they were baptized into Moses.
24:58: We are baptized into Christ.
25:01: So that Red Sea water baptism, we should get some pictures there just like our baptism.
25:06: And when we talk about water baptism, it was, it’s the taking away, it’s literally the cutting off of the flesh.
25:11: It’s your old self, your old sinful stinking self is put under the water and you come up and that old stinking self stays and you come up, you know, metaphorically.
25:23: What happened in Egypt?
25:25: Their oppressors went through the water.
25:27: When they came up, their oppressors stayed and they kept walking on.
25:33: So the first thing though, we’re talking about Moses and Jesus,, and dancing dancing and hopefully you’re following along.
25:38: Lord, help us.
25:39: , and, and,, Moses and Jesus though, not only is there a parallel here, but think about Moses was their deliverer.
25:48: He was the human deliverer, he was the mediator,, the one between God and man.
25:55: For them to come out of Exodus or come out of Egypt.
25:59: He was born, do you remember his birth?
26:01: They were killing what what I had, they were killing babies, especially male babies at his birth.
26:09: He then goes out to the desert for 40 years before he starts his public ministry.
26:17: His first miracle to get them out of Egypt.
26:23: What was it?
26:24: I remember that, the first plague, first wonder?
26:27: What’s that?
26:30: Water turned to blood.
26:31: Jesus’ first miracle.
26:33: Water to wine.
26:36: The authentication of Moses’ ministry was because he had power over the serpent and power, remember, he put his hand in it and he took it out in Exos 4, he had power over,, sickness.
26:47: So sickness and Satan, he had power over the serpent and sickness, he had power over it.
26:51: He says, and God says, that’s how they’re gonna know you’re from me.
26:54: Jesus’ power is authenticated through his healing and through his deliverance of Satan.
27:00: Mark one.
27:00: , and we go on, and we go on, even to the point, like I said, when Moses ascended, and they said his his coming back is taking too long, and they sinned.
27:10: Jesus ascended where we are today.
27:12: His coming back seems to be taking too long, people sin.
27:16: He will come back.
27:18: Moses did come back, we see that.
27:20: For anyone wondering, is Jesus coming back?
27:22: Yes, he will come back.
27:25: So we see, this is how Moses speaks to Jesus.
27:28: So now, I actually want us to go.
27:30: I know our, our time is already more than halfway.
27:34: Go to Exodus chapter 4.
27:36: We’re OK, we’re OK.
27:37: We’re, we gotta make heavy brush strokes.
27:41: Exodus chapter 4.
27:44: This is Forecasting.
27:48: , The whole Passover, the whole what’s gonna happen, OK?
27:57: So this is what Moses has been in the desert now, he’s 80 years old.
28:00: He’s an old man.
28:01: He’s coming back to bring the people out of Egypt.
28:06: And he is, we are warned here in Exodus chapter 4.
28:10: Verse 21.
28:14: And it says, and the Lord said to Moses, when you go back to Egypt, see that you do, before Pharaoh, all the miracles that I have put in your power, but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.
28:27: Then you shall say to Pharaoh, thus says the Lord, Israel is my first born son.
28:33: And I say to you, let my son go that he may serve me.
28:38: If you refuse to let him go, behold, I will kill your first born son.
28:43: Remember the plague?
28:45: It was a killing of the first one.
28:45: Now you know why, because Israel as a whole represents God’s first born son, OK?
28:52: And and then I’m not gonna go into it, but he, God shows how serious he is.
28:56: He’s about to kill Moses because there hasn’t been a circumcision over his first born son.
29:01: There needed to be blood.
29:02: Moses before he even could go, had to have blood shed so his first born son could be spared.
29:07: And that forecast the entirety of what his, his ministry is.
29:12: So we have here, let my son go, and it shows you why.
29:17: Let him go so that he may be his own master.
29:20: God forbid.
29:21: Let my son go so that verse 23, he may, what does it say?
29:29: Some say worship, some say serve.
29:30: You may not know this, you may know us.
29:32: That’s the same word.
29:33: That’s why people call it a worship service.
29:36: That’s just a redundancy.
29:37: OK?
29:38: Worship and service are the same.
29:41: Being a servant of God is being a worshiper of God.
29:44: And being a worshiper of God is being a servant of God.
29:46: In fact, we make it nicer language.
29:49: We say servant is actually slave.
29:50: The word for slave and servant,, the English are choosing when to put both in, but it was, it’s the same word used.
29:55: I forgot what it is in the Hebrew, but it’s, it is a clear word for slave because one person did a study, I didn’t, but I trust this guy.
30:03: He said, if you look at.
30:06: The Times that talks about slavery, it actually mentions more in Exodus and and throughout their story of, of coming out more often that they’re gonna be a slave to God instead of that they are leaving slavery from the Egyptians.
30:21: It does say you’re a slave to Egypt, but you’re going to be a slave to God.
30:24: You don’t, you don’t have, you’re, you’re not a neutral party here, so they’re being brought from one master to another.
30:30: Thank the Lord.
30:31: We are by His blood, we are brought to a good master, but you are brought to a master.
30:37: This is the whole point of it.
30:38: So now, let’s go here.
30:40: Go to Exodus.
30:43: So now we have Exodus 8.
30:45: Go ahead to Exodus 8.
30:47: So we have the forecast, you’re going to come out of Egypt.
30:52: And But I’m gonna bring you out through, through signs, through wonders, through the plagues, through a heavy hand, because Pharaoh’s heart is gonna be hard, but it’s all part of my purposes, and he’s doing play and sign wonder wonder after wonder after wonder.
31:08: OK?
31:08: And you can see a little of the back and forth and why didn’t it, why didn’t, what happened earlier before the Passover lamb?
31:14: Well, look at Exodus 8 verse 25, and it says, This is after the fly’s plague, by the way, just one thing I noticed with all the plugs, it always starts, it’s it’s, it’s actually a crescendo up on where the location of the plug is.
31:32: First it’s in the waters, and then it’s the frogs that come out, I think, as I remember, come out from the waters, then it’s the dust on the ground, and then it’s the rising, and then it’s the the the animals, and then it’s up to the people, and then it’s up to the heaven you watch it, it’s a crescendo up, all these plagues.
31:48: Of what’s going on, and I think the crescendo is like he’s making an arrow pointing up and saying, eyes to God, eyes to God.
31:56: They belong to me, not you.
31:58: He got their eyes out from Egypt all the way to God.
32:00: So he’s got 19 plagues so far that are going towards that direction to get your eyes out of Egypt into onto God.
32:07: And in the middle of that, now we have the 4th plague, the fly’s plague.
32:11: We have Exodus 8:25, and it says, then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.
32:23: So that’s the first offer he gave.
32:25: OK, fine, fine.
32:26: Just stay in Egypt.
32:28: God said, absolutely not.
32:29: Well, you can read on.
32:30: Moses said, it would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the Lord or God are an abomination to Egyptians.
32:36: If we sacrifice offerings abominal to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
32:40: We must go 3 days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice the Lord our God as he tells us.
32:48: First answer?
32:49: No.
32:50: We are going to serve God.
32:52: This is the point to all Egypt is all of us, all of our sin, all of our worldliness, all of our remnant old self.
33:00: A lot of people want to stay couched right in Egypt and still serve God.
33:03: He said, no, you need a 3 day journey.
33:05: Think about that.
33:05: That’s like Christ.
33:06: That’s, you need a full death and resurrection.
33:10: Don’t stay in Egypt.
33:11: That’s the first part.
33:12: Then he goes on, and he says,, he, he says in Exodus 8:28,, so Pharaoh said, I will let you go to sacrifice the Lord to God in the wilderness, only you must not go very far away.
33:24: So the second offering, he says, well, go but just stay around.
33:29: No, there needs to be a clean separation, and I say this to us now because in the spirit, this is what the Lord is saying to us.
33:36: There needs to be a clean separation out of Egypt.
33:40: And he goes on to the next time.
33:42: So let’s skip on now over to Exodus chapter 10.
33:52: Verse, 11.
33:56: , OK.
34:03: Hold on, no, I don’t think that’s the right one, let me get it here.
34:08: Oh, yeah, yeah, OK.
34:11: Verse 7, sorry, 107.
34:16: Verse 8, and he says, go.
34:18: So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh, and he said to them, Go, serve the Lord your God, but which ones are to go?
34:23: Moses said, we’ll go with our young, our old, everyone.
34:26: Verse 10.
34:27: But he said to them, the Lord be with you if ever I let you and your little ones go.
34:31: Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.
34:32: No, go the men among you.
34:35: Go the men among you and serve the Lord.
34:38: That’s what you’re asking.
34:39: So now he wants it to be, you can go fully, but leave your family.
34:43: Leave you.
34:44: No, I, if We’re in with God.
34:46: We’re all in with God.
34:48: Don’t make,, OK, fine, we’ll leave that in Egypt.
34:50: We’ll leave that in Egypt.
34:51: We’re going full out.
34:52: So that’s the 2nd, the 3rd time you can see the back and forth.
34:56: Then you get to the final time before the, the final plague, the, the first born, Exodus 10:24.
35:05: Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, Go, serve the Lord.
35:10: Your little ones also may go with you.
35:12: Only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.
35:17: So now I said fine.
35:18: Every owner you go, just leave the animals.
35:20: Just leave the animals.
35:21: , Exodus 10 10:24.
35:26: Thank you.
35:27: Yup.
35:28: But Moses said, you must also let us sacrifice and burn offerings.
35:31: So he, he said, some of your stuff, you can leave in Egypt, stuff that belonged to God.
35:37: Again, I just want to challenge, this was a challenge I got in preparing the study.
35:41: From someone else, how much are we trying to leave in Egypt?
35:44: How much are we, are we truly,, what about our possessions?
35:47: Even all down to our possessions, have we put them, because they were all meant to be service to the Lord, all of us, all of us, a full 3 days.
35:55: That means your whole death and resurrection from Egypt, your possessions, everything, given over to the Lord.
36:01: So, Pharaoh did not like the terms, so then God said, I didn’t ask you to set the terms.
36:07: , I set the terms.
36:10: So,, he moves on and he sets the terms clearly in Exodus 11 and in Exodus 12, and that’s where we have the, the, the Passover, which we talked about.
36:23: You can see in Exodus 12 verses 12 through 13.
36:27: It says, for I will pass.
36:29: OK, so here we go.
36:30: , so I, I’m sorry, I, I know for the sake of time, I got, there’s a lot of content here, right?
36:35: But it’s talking about the things I’m skipping over the lamb you have to choose is a spotless lamb.
36:40: Hey, hey, we already know this earlier, guys.
36:42: I’m not giving anything away.
36:43: Christ is our Passover lamb.
36:44: We read it 1 Corinthians 5, and it says he’s got to be spotless lamb.
36:48: He’s no blemish.
36:50: Male prime of his life, all these powerful things.
36:54: And and when you take the land, you were, you weren’t to break the bones of it.
36:58: If you look at John 19, they actually, it was on the Passover day when Christ was struck, and they looked at him and they said they broke the bones of the other two to kill them, but they said he’s already dead.
37:08: We don’t need to break his bones.
37:09: His bones were not broken.
37:11: He literally was and is and forever will be our Passover lamb.
37:17: So, he is there.
37:18: Now, look at the effects of the Passover lamb.
37:20: Look at this.
37:20: Exodus 12 verses 12 and 13, for I.
37:24: ,, actually, OK, I, I, I know I skip around.
37:30: Go to verse 22 1st, how, how you apply it, and then we’ll go back to 12 and 13.
37:35: Verse 22.
37:38: In verse 21, verse 21 and 22.
37:40: Then Moses, so verse 21 of Exodus 12, called all the elders of Israel and said to them, Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
37:49: Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and touch the lintel.
37:53: And the two door post with the blood that is in the basin.
37:56: None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
37:59: So notice you are coming here and they’re taking that blood of that killed unblemished lamb.
38:05: They’re putting it, but not on this side of it.
38:07: I don’t know this will work again.
38:09: They’re putting it on this side of it, right?
38:11: Why didn’t they put it on the inside?
38:12: You guys, you guys know, you remember?
38:14: We’ll get to that.
38:15: What’s that?
38:18: Huh?
38:21: OK, I can’t.
38:22: I’ll, we’ll look at in a minute.
38:22: Sorry, I can’t hear you that well.
38:23: So the blood here, here, here, they’ve used a hiss app to apply the blood.
38:30: I think that’s important possibly because Solomon, believe it or not,, he had a gift of categorizing.
38:36: The trees, you look at the 1 Kings 4, and he categorized all the trees, and he’s a botanist, and it says he categorized from the cedar, the biggest, all the way down to and guesses what the smallest of all the trees were the hyssop.
38:50: It says in 1 Kings 4.
38:51: So the hyssop to the cedar, he was categorizing the trees.
38:54: He took the hyssop and and so, so the hyssop is the smallest of all the trees.
38:59: Perhaps it speaks to our humility.
39:03: We are not so special, as I said at the beginning.
39:06: We are to take the hiss off, and that’s what we use.
39:08: That was the only thing we use in the whole transaction to apply that blood, that little hissop.
39:13: The blood is applied on the outside because it’s for God’s eyes, not for us.
39:18: So now go to Exodus 12 verses 12-13.
39:24: It says, for I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and on all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgment.
39:36: I am the Lord.
39:37: The blood shall be assigned for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will.
39:47: Everyone pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
39:56: So God is the one going out, the angel that at midnight, which that corresponds, Jesus says the judgment is at midnight in the parable in one of his parables, so it makes sense.
40:04: This is the final hour, the darkest hour, the judgment is here.
40:08: At midnight, he goes out.
40:10: Guess what?
40:11: If you read all of Exodus 12, it’s a long chapter.
40:14: There are a lot of things that they were to do with that lamb.
40:17: They were to eat it, they were to bake it a certain way, they were to do all sorts of things with that lamb.
40:23: How much of those things that God look for to make sure they had life or death?
40:29: How much of all those things that he was he looking for?
40:34: Huh?
40:36: Yeah, the answer is 0.
40:41: He was not looking at how well did they eat it, how well did they do it with the bitter leaves, how well did they have unleavened bread, how well did they do this, how well is this?
40:49: He wanted them to do it well, but when it comes to life and death, it is nothing you can do.
40:54: It is all on the blood of Christ that you are covered and you are made good.
41:00: So when you and Satan comes and says, well, have you done this enough?
41:02: Have you done this enough, you can just say the blood is there.
41:07: Passover.
41:08: .
41:10: OK, I don’t want you guys to go there.
41:11: You can stay in Exodus 12, but I’m gonna read this so you can hear the power of this,, of this reality in Christ.
41:18: I know there’s a lot of Exodus and not a lot of time, but this is a really important to me critical piece of the whole book.
41:25: Romans 3:25, just listen here.
41:29: It says, actually 24, it says, we are justified by God’s grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
41:38: Verse 25 of Romans 3.
41:39: I’m just reading it.
41:40: It’s, it’s in the notes, whom God put forward as a propitiation, that’s the wrath of God by His blood to be received by faith.
41:52: This was to show God’s righteousness because in his divine forbearance, he had passed over former sins.
42:01: Jesus’ blood passes over former sins.
42:05: It passes over your sins.
42:08: And that house, at midnight, every single house had death in it.
42:14: You either had a dead lamb, Or a dead firstborn.
42:20: At the time of judgment, and I can’t say this, I mean, with enough sober mindedness, at the time of judgment, when our midnight hour comes.
42:32: There will absolutely be death in every transaction at judgment Day.
42:37: The question is, is the death gonna be put on Christ or on you?
42:43: We have an option in the Passover lamb.
42:46: Like Christ can take our death.
42:48: And we can pass on out of Egypt.
42:51: OK.
42:52: So in addition now, not only was that blood, that lab, that’s how, that’s called justification.
42:59: That’s made your, it’s it’s in the Bible called justification.
43:02: Some think of it this way, it’s a fancy word, but it just as if I’d been righteous is a good way to say it, OK?
43:09: You’re covered is that justification by Christ’s work, all of his work.
43:13: He’s the one that finishes the work.
43:16: Meanwhile, that wasn’t the last thing they did with that lamb, do you remember what else did they do with that lamb?
43:22: They, well, we’ll read it for ourselves.
43:24: Exit 12, 8 through 11.
43:29: Verse 8, and they shall eat the flesh that night.
43:34: That same lamb, that same spotless lamb, they get to have within them.
43:39: Roasted on the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, they shall eat it.
43:43: And there’s more instructions there, but that same spotless lamb was their justification, was their covering outside.
43:52: It also was their life within and what did it need?
43:55: Why did they need that energy?
43:57: I don’t even know why did they need a, a big meal at midnight.
43:59: journey.
44:01: They’re about to leave Egypt.
44:03: They gotta walk themselves out of there.
44:05: OK?
44:06: Does that sound like us?
44:07: That is our Christian walk, guys.
44:09: There’s two words, justification and sanctification.
44:12: That Lamb gave them both.
44:15: The Lamb of God, that is Christ.
44:16: He gives us both.
44:19: He is the one who passes over all of our sins.
44:21: He is also now indwelling us by the Holy Spirit.
44:26: To now us, we walk out of Egypt and it shows them as they were led when the next thing they’re led by the cloud, you remember that?
44:34: Does that sound like our, our life now?
44:36: We’re led by the spirit.
44:39: The very first major place that they were led to when they became.
44:48: When they, God passed over, when it became actually, and I didn’t even say this,, if you’re still in Exodus 12.
44:53: Look at this.
44:54: Verse 1, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, this month shall be for you the beginning of months.
44:59: It shall be the first month of the year for you.
45:02: It became a new beginning for them.
45:05: That new beginning started with a, a spotless lamb.
45:10: And his work, he did the hard work, he died.
45:13: We just take that little hiss up, apply it.
45:16: And then that same spotless lamb we take in, and he is within us now to walk out of our sin, our oppression, our slavery, all of the stuff we are slaves to sin and all sorts of things by the power of Christ within, we walk that out.
45:29: And the first place they went to now is if you skip over to Exodus, well, actually, oh, this is before I got there I got ahead of myself.
45:37: Exodus 13.
45:40: You might say, well, what happened to those first borns that were spared?
45:44: I’m so glad you asked that question.
45:46: What happened to those first borns that were spared?
45:50: You remember the first borns either died or the lamb died, in which case, the first borns were spared.
45:56: What were they spared for?
45:57: Look at, look at what it says in Exodus 13.
46:01: 1 and 2.
46:03: Ben, do you happen to be there?
46:04: You can you have a loud voice.
46:05: Go ahead, read it.
46:06: Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Sanctify to me every first born, the first offspring of every womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and beast.
46:18: It belongs to me.
46:19: .
46:24: It’s not that you leave the slavery of Egypt to be your own master.
46:29: It’s not that the blood of the Lamb came just to save you.
46:34: The blood of the lamb also came to purchase you.
46:39: You can’t get one without the other.
46:42: If you were spared, it was unto a purpose, and I’m gonna read again.
46:45: Remember I told you earlier just to, it’s good to have Romans side by side with access.
46:49: Just listen to this.
46:50: Don’t go there, but just listen.
46:52: Romans 6:13, and it says, 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.
47:07: For sin will have no dominion over you since you are not under law but under grace.
47:13: We are now to present that new life and earlier got into the baptism and stuff we’re getting there we present that new life to God.
47:22: We are not our own.
47:24: That’s Exodus 13.
47:25: Next, think oh Romans 6, sorry, Romans 6, I have the reference here.
47:36: Yeah, that sounds good, buddy.
47:37: Romans 6:13.
47:38: Romans 6:13.
47:41: OK.
47:43: So now we have this.
47:45: I will also mention that if you read the Passover lamb chapter on its own, it’s a pretty long chapter, Exodus 12, and part of why it’s long is God gives a lot of details on to what they should be doing after this year, every year to come, which is a really hopeful thing.
48:01: He’s, he’s that.
48:02: Point they probably wasn’t looking so hopeful for that, we’re still on each other.
48:06: And God’s like, don’t worry, you’re gonna be out in a years down the road, millennia down the road.
48:10: In fact, forever and ever, I want you to think about what’s gonna happen next.
48:14: And he gives all these stipulations and he says, every year, I want you to have a feast to remember my deliverance.
48:21: Well, guess what?
48:23: Right before Jesus was crucified, he had a feast.
48:27: What kind of a feast?
48:28: He had a Passover feast.
48:30: He has now transferred it over from that kind of a feast as being communion.
48:36: And he is the Passover lamb, and he’s saying now whenever we get together as a church, it talks about when you get together as a church to take him in as, as our, as, as, as remembering now.
48:50: We’re not crucifying him all over again, just like in Passover, they were, it wasn’t like the deliverance happened all over again, but it was a, a yearly reminder for us.
48:59: It’s as often as you come together, you take that and you remember it.
49:02: So communion.
49:03: So I say that because look at.
49:05: I hope you’re seeing, even if we don’t cover all this, and we got, I, hey, I still got 15 minutes, I think, right, Jessie?
49:11: , OK.
49:13: I still got 10 minutes, but even if, even if I, you know, however I far I go, look at all of these things.
49:21: Thank you, that,, that show, we are, it’s like we’re reading Romans, guys.
49:27: We’re talking about dead from your sins, sanctification, consecration, baptism.
49:33: I, I, I think, I hope this is, this is powerful for you guys to see because I do think the Old Testament is underutilized, and I think part of why it’s so powerful is because Romans gives the doctrine.
49:44: This gives it in picture.
49:45: I’m a pictorial person.
49:46: I like to see the pictures and know, oh, that’s what he meant by, that’s what he meant by justification.
49:52: He literally means he just passed over all my sin just by seeing that blood.
49:55: Wow.
49:56: OK.
49:57: So we go, we’re going down the list here if you’re following along.
50:01: We have now, and we’re going to exodus 14, this was kind of Stacey alluded to it, perhaps,, earlier.
50:11: In 1 Corinthians 10, he says you were baptized by 2 or they were baptized by two means, you remember that?
50:17: The what and the what?
50:19: And you remember this going all the way back.
50:21: What’s that?
50:25: No cloud cloud in the seat.
50:27: You got it, got it, yep.
50:28: They were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
50:35: So as we said earlier, that’s a picture of Christ.
50:38: The sea makes sense, the water, that makes sense, right?
50:41: You’re going, you’re in the water.
50:43: What does it mean to be baptized in the cloud?
50:47: Well Yes.
50:50: We already said the cloud was leading them.
50:52: That sounds a lot like being led by the spirit.
50:53: Now that cloud from above literally was saturating them.
50:58: It actually said it became light to them and it was darkness to, to Egypt.
51:02: So part of their crossing over, I mean, you have about 2 million people.
51:05: So this is a big crossing over that was happening.
51:07: And so part of their crossing over though, was,, was that they gave darkness to the Egyptians.
51:14: And they were able to go through smooth things.
51:16: So there’s a baptism in the Holy Spirit.
51:18: I will just mention this, that I do think if you look later in 1 Corinthians, that term baptism in the Holy Spirit can mean two things as I see it in the scriptures.
51:27: One is you are just a belie like the whole church is a believer.
51:30: There are times where it’s used in that kind of a reference because we all have the Holy Spirit with them.
51:34: That’s fine.
51:35: And that might be what it’s in Exodus.
51:37: There is another time though where it talks about being filled with the Holy Spirit and being baptized in the Holy Spirit and signs and wonders.
51:43: Both may we have both, you know.
51:45: OK, I’m jumping around a little bit.
51:46: Remember the priest when he would go, if you read Exodus, you might remember this little detail.
51:50: Remember how he had, he had a, a pomegranate and a bell and a pomegranate and a bell, and he was supposed to, so you could hear the jingle everywhere he went.
51:59: I think that’s a symbol, beautiful symbol of the fruit and the gifts of the Spirit, fruit and gifts and fruit and gifts.
52:05: And as we walk wherever we go, ministering to Christ, we should have fruit like 1 Corinthians 13, the fruit of love and all these things.
52:12: We should also have gifts side by side.
52:14: 1 Corinthians 12:14, the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
52:16: So we should be looking for both.
52:18: All right, so back to Exodus 14 now.
52:21: , we already talked about this, I guess,, that they went through the cloud, that was like from above.
52:27: They were baptized by the cloud,, like being baptized by the Holy Spirit.
52:32: They were baptized in the,, in the water.
52:37: That was their first act, like I said, was having the Holy Spirit.
52:43: It sounds like Acts, doesn’t it sound like Acts 2?
52:45: The first thing said the church, what, what did they say?
52:48: They say, repent and receive the Holy Spirit and, and be baptized.
52:53: That’s the first thing.
52:54: If God is with you, the Lamb of God within you leads you out of Egypt, he wants.
52:59: To seal that deal, to seal that deal, you need His presence and the Holy Spirit.
53:04: You also need to have a clean break from Egypt, and that’s what the baptism is.
53:09: Baptism is your clean break.
53:10: It is easy.
53:11: It’s relatively easy for all of you to say you’re a believer.
53:15: It’s, it’s, you know, even in your heart, and maybe you can say it in front of others, but to get in the water takes a commitment.
53:22: To get in the water, now you’re saying.
53:24: It’s a, it’s a, it’s a done deal.
53:26: It’s a sign that I am truly all with Christ.
53:30: And we don’t maybe feel it as much in this,, in America, but in other countries, it is a death sentence to get in the water.
53:38: They feel it.
53:40: Sometimes they will get, I’ve heard stories of them like they get their will ready right before baptism because they know, once I, I am declared making a declaration, a public declaration of who I am, that’s the power of the Red Sea.
53:52: So I told you two things really,, finalize their leaving Egypt.
53:56: The Passover land was clearly the big thing, but also that water, that Red Sea crossing.
54:02: Was was the final deal that the Egyptians now were buried.
54:06: That is to us, like I said, that’s like baptism.
54:08: That’s when you read the Book of Acts, you read Jesus’ ministry.
54:10: That’s the first thing that they would do.
54:12: Here’s some water.
54:13: Why don’t I get baptized the Ethiopian eunuch right at right at that moment.
54:16: So if you, if you’re listening now and you’re saying, I’ve received Christ’s blood, I’ve received him within.
54:24: And you’re waiting, you’re, you haven’t got baptized in water.
54:28: You’re waiting for the Holy Spirit, knock knock.
54:31: I maybe I shouldn’t say it that way, but here, here, here he is.
54:34: I mean, he’s saying this is, this is what God’s calling you to do, to make it official, to get baptized in water, and to say, I want a clean break.
54:43: I want it to be shown before all, clean break.
54:45: I’m out of Egypt, OK?
54:47: So that’s a clean break.
54:48: X is 14.
54:49: I know my time is dwindling, but here we go.
54:52: We’re we’re going well now.
54:54: Xit is 15.
54:55: They have a song.
54:57: I love it.
54:58: When you’re filled with the Spirit, when you’re seeing the deliverance of God, it should be songs that are coming out of you.
55:03: In fact, we are commanded to sing and teach each other in songs.
55:06: We’re commanded to not be drunk with wine, but be filled with the spirit by and singing should be happening.
55:13: When someone gets drunk with wine, you know what we hear, you hear bar songs, right?
55:16: You hear people, you know, you hear songs.
55:19: Well, guess what?
55:20: If we’re gonna be filled with the Holy Spirit, I hope we’re gonna get a bunch of songs, OK?
55:24: That, that just makes sense to me.
55:26: , and that’s what they had.
55:27: They had a song.
55:28: They had dancing, that’s Exodus 15.
55:30: Exodus 16 now.
55:32: If you remember back to 1 Corinthians 10, he said they were baptized in the water, the sea, the cloud.
55:38: They ate the spiritual food.
55:41: Now we’re here.
55:41: Exodus 16.
55:42: They’re eating the spiritual food.
55:46: And,, Remember the spiritual food?
55:49: Where, what, what, what was it?
55:51: You could have said yes, because that’s mana means what was it?
55:54: Yeah, you’re right, it is manna, but it literally means what was it or what is it?
55:58: , they saw this, where it came from heaven to earth.
56:03: Now, Christ comes along and he says in John 6, I am that man.
56:08: I am the presence of the Lord.
56:10: I am, that is me.
56:12: How does that, how does that make sense?
56:14: What makes a lot of sense.
56:15: He’s the one who came from heaven to earth.
56:17: And he says, by believing in me, you are taking me in.
56:19: That’s a beautiful picture.
56:21: But he also says, man does not live by bread alone, Matthew 404, but by Every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.
56:29: So I think it’s also very accurate to say scripture, be that is, is that manna, that it is, it is, it came down from heaven.
56:38: God’s word, God’s ultimate authoritative word and scripture comes down from heaven.
56:44: And we are to gather it up now.
56:46: Something, two things about the manna.
56:49: They were to gather it up early in the morning.
56:53: Before it withered away.
56:55: And they were also to use what they gathered up or grew maggotty.
56:59: I want to hear the two applications I want to challenge everyone in this room with.
57:05: Now it might be a literal 1 to 1.
57:08: God’s calling you to get up early in the morning.
57:11: I know with brother Jesse, he’s got, he’s got a different shift, so that might be not quite translate, but I’m gonna say what I do think is the Lord might be is, I will say good chance he is calling you to draw away with him.
57:26: In some way, some capacity, whatever you can where you haven’t been, if, if you haven’t been, I should say, if you haven’t been to draw away with him to gather up his word.
57:37: Jesus did it with prayer.
57:38: He says before anyone woke up, he gathered.
57:40: If you think you’re busy, well try being Jesus.
57:43: I came out wrong, but,, Jesus is busy.
57:46: Let’s put it that way.
57:46: , he gathered in the early morning.
57:49: He drew away to pray before they could wake up, and I think there’s something precious there about when can you, is there any time at all to draw away with the Lord?
57:59: All right.
58:00: Timewise, what are we,, how many, how much time we got left?
58:03: What’s it?
58:05: Sweet.
58:06: Well, we are only in Exodus 16.
58:09: OK.
58:10: Exodus 17, we already spoke about.
58:14: And,, Exodus 17 is was the water.
58:17: So that’s like receiving the spirit another and something else I might mention here, you might say, wait, I thought the lamb was Jesus, yes.
58:24: I thought the rock was Jesus.
58:26: Yes.
58:26: I thought the priest was Jesus, yes.
58:30: I thought Moses right.
58:31: I said that.
58:31: I thought Moses was Jesus, yes.
58:34: The beauty of it, it’s kind of like the offerings.
58:36: There’s only Jesus did one offering, one sacrifice.
58:38: Yeah, if you studi Leviticus, there’s 5 different offerings.
58:41: All of those are different dimensions of this great one offering he gave.
58:45: So when you look at all these things that are speaking of different things of who Jesus is or who the Spirit is.
58:52: It doesn’t mean it’s redundant.
58:54: It actually is showing different elements of it.
58:55: It’s kind of like God has called our king.
58:57: He’s called our father.
58:58: He’s called our husband.
58:58: He’s called her,, you know, what am I miss, master.
59:01: He’s called our,, he’s called a shepherd.
59:04: Why, why all those things?
59:05: Cause, cause one of those doesn’t, doesn’t gather the whole of who God is.
59:10: In the same way, we see these different types, these different pictures because it’s supposed to together give us a, oh, and we had, 000, I hope we have those moments like wow, God is really that big and that’s what it’s supposed to be.
59:23: So, Exodus 17, like I said, I hope even that little bit of, wow, the rock was struck and the water came out.
59:29: , we’re gonna go to Exodus 18.
59:31: I’m not gonna have time to go through it, but I am just gonna say that,, 00, I’m sorry for that.
59:38: Exodus 17, I do think it’s kind of critical.
59:41: After all of this wonderful thing, the Passover lamb, the Passover lamb within us, the Red Sea crossing, the water, the cloud over them, the men are coming, the, 00 my goodness, isn’t this amazing?
59:54: You think, man, this is a good time to set your feet up and say we did it, God.
59:58: No, the next thing is, of course, that’d be the problem there is like you did it?
1:00:02: You mean I did it.
1:00:03: , the next thing is, in verse 8 of Exodus 17, then Amelech came and fought with Israel at Reedem.
1:00:11: So Moses said to Joshua, choose for us men and go out.
1:00:14: , now the warfare starts.
1:00:18: If you haven’t known warfare.
1:00:21: Let me just say that I would really start taking some assessment of whose side you’re on because if, as one person said, they said, when I came to Christ, I didn’t want to deal with all this warfare stuff, but I wanted, you know, Jesus was good, and he said, and then I realized saying yes to Jesus is a declaration of war to Satan.
1:00:38: I, I, I’m serious.
1:00:40: If you are saying a yes to Jesus, especially you’re making the public, you’re gonna get baptized.
1:00:44: You’re saying this is a yes, this is a clear yes.
1:00:46: My whole body is saying the yes to Jesus.
1:00:49: You are declaring war against Satan.
1:00:52: Don’t worry though, God is with you.
1:00:53: Like if you’re saying, oh, then what should I say yes to Jesus?
1:00:56: Yes, you should.
1:00:56: Yes, you always should, cause he is with you.
1:00:59: And so he shows how he’s with you.
1:01:00: Just like in Ephesians, after all the wonderful things and mercies of God, you have Ephesians and you have the armor of God.
1:01:09: I’ll be a little over, but I’m the armor of God and, and, and you’re, you’re, you’re battling, and he says, stand strong in the Lord, stand firm in the Lord.
1:01:21: And, and, and, and he has all the armor of God, but there’s only 6 pieces and then it says, and don’t forget prayer.
1:01:28: Well, that’s the 7th because look at what happened when they had the battle.
1:01:31: Does remember there’s two ways that they won that battle.
1:01:34: One was Joshua over here with the sword and with all the armor, but there was another way that was critical.
1:01:41: Does anyone happen to remember this?
1:01:42: I’m, I know I’m drawing you back a little bit.
1:01:45: There was also someone here in the corner.
1:01:48: Yeah, he had to have his arms lifted up.
1:01:52: And I used to wonder, I’m like, Is that a picture of the cross?
1:01:54: And I mean, you know, maybe it could be, but then, then you read the story, and he says, this is me offering my hand, you know, coming to you.
1:01:59: That was what the hands were coming to you in prayer.
1:02:01: He actually says at the end of Exodus 17.
1:02:03: And so,, so I went, well, OK, that’s what it is.
1:02:07: So you have two dimensions to your warfare.
1:02:10: One is the armor of God well laid out, those 6 pieces, but then you don’t forget the 7th, if you will, piece over here where only God can see and you’re and you’re praying and seeking the Lord.
1:02:21: OK, so I see my time has come to an end, so I will only say this here at the end,.
1:02:31: Now I’m not, I just have to go through this.
1:02:33: You also next will have as as should happen, as should happen as we grow in the Lord as a community, appointed leadership.
1:02:40: Exodus 18, that’s what happened next.
1:02:42: Moses was doing everything himself like, wait, whoa, you need to have delegated leadership.
1:02:46: That’s another thing for the body of Christ.
1:02:47: Read First Timothy.
1:02:48: Read Acts.
1:02:49: This is a very good thing to have.
1:02:52: Then you have.
1:02:54: The building up of the tabernacle comes next.
1:02:57: , and that’s a picture of Christ Tabernacleling with us.
1:03:03: And I do want to read this.
1:03:07: This might be the last thing we’ll read, then I, I’ll, I’ll say the, I’ll say the last thing, how about that?
1:03:13: So go to Exodus chapters,.
1:03:17: Chapter,.
1:03:21: 14 This was right when they were crossing the Red Sea.
1:03:31: Again, you might say, whoa, this enemy thing is more than I bargain for X 14 versus 13 and 14.
1:03:39: 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.
1:03:49: The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.
1:03:54: The Lord is doing the work.
1:03:56: I give other scriptures there.
1:03:57: I’ll have you read on your own.
1:03:58: Over and over, you see the Lord is doing the work, and one of the ways you know that is through the Sabbath.
1:04:02: The Sabbath is mentioned so much in Exodus over and over and over and over because he wants you to remember God does the work, not you.
1:04:09: So this is a work of you in Exodus 19.
1:04:11: He actually says, I carried you out of Egypt.
1:04:14: So if you’re saying, wow, that’s a lot.
1:04:16: I don’t know if I can do that.
1:04:17: You can’t, you can’t.
1:04:20: You’re like Aaron, making idols while he’s calling you to be the high priest.
1:04:25: And he still uses you.
1:04:28: He’s a redemptive God,, and he, he does it for his glory’s sake.
1:04:33: So I said I didn’t get the last, last little thing here is just that you have the law.
1:04:38: I know there’s a lot in the law.
1:04:39: I’ve written stuff on the law and so I don’t want to get too much into it, but I will just say the law, Jesus sums it up, it starts to be given in Exodus 20 to 24.
1:04:48: You get this?
1:04:48: It’s love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, love your neighbor as yourself.
1:04:53: You can see that in the 10 commandments.
1:04:54: The 1st 4 are love God.
1:04:56: There’s 26 where I really love your neighbor.
1:04:58: You can see all that law, but there’s something powerful.
1:05:01: The law is written with the finger of God on stone here, but then it says, when you come to Christ, he is the end of the law for you.
1:05:09: And instead of stone being over you, instead of that yoke, he writes it on your heart now.
1:05:14: The principles of the law are much greater than the stone tablets.
1:05:17: The principles of love now are being written to you in you by the, by Christ within.
1:05:22: That’s what I’ll say in the law.
1:05:24: And my closing words are appropriately.
1:05:29: And I’ll stop the recording.
1:05:31: Come from Hebrews chapter 9 on the Tabernacle, which everyone I know has been waiting for.
1:05:36: Hebrews 9:1, you can read along here, verses 1 through 5, and then we’re done.
1:05:41: Now, even the first covenant.
1:05:44: Had regulation for worship and an earthly place of holiness, for a tent was prepared.
1:05:49: The first section, which were the lampstand and the table and the bread of the presence.
1:05:54: It is called the Holy Place.
1:05:56: Hebrews 9:3.
1:05:57: Behind the second curtain was a second section called the Most Holy Place, having the golden altar of incense and the ark of the Covenant covered on all sides with gold, and which was a golden urn holding the manna and Aaron’s staff that budded and tablets of the covenant.
1:06:12: So he just give an outline of all the rest of Exodus right there in the in the tabernacle.
1:06:16: And, and he says it all connects to Christ.
1:06:18: In verse 5, above it where the chairman of glory, overshadowing the mercy seat of these things, we cannot now speak in detail.