Theme: Exodus means the way out, and the book is about God’s faithful provision of salvation’s deliverance to His people (1 Cor. 10:13). God’s power to save is greater than the enemy’s power to destroy; it gives birth to a covenanted people; and it calls those people to respond in reverent worship and faithful obedience.
Why study Exodus?
Whose idea was Exodus?
What is Exodus about?
- The need for deliverance and the provision of a deliverer (1:1-4:31).
- Israel’s need for deliverance (1:1-14).
- Israel’s need for deliverance was unknown to her in her prosperity (1:1-7).
- Israel’s need for deliverance was unknown to Pharaoh in his wisdom (1:8-12).
- Israel’s need for deliverance became known through slavery (1:13-14).
- The provision of a deliverer (1:15-2:10).
- God delivers Israel through two midwives (1:15-21).
- They were Hebrews (1:15a).
- Their names were known (1:15b).
- They feared God (1:16-21).
- God delivers Israel through Pharaoh’s daughter (1:22 – 2:10).
- The deliverer was the daughter of the destroyer (1:22-2:3).
- The deliverer was a humane person (2:4-6).
- The deliverer was the employer of Moses’s mother (2:7-9).
- The deliverer was influential for Moses’s future (2:10).
- The deliverer’s preparation (2:11-25).
- Moses made a life-changing decision (2:11-15a).
- Moses learned a life-regulating patience (2:15b-22).
- Moses’s God heard a life-saving cry (2:23-25).
- The deliverer’s call (3:1-4:31).
- God’s declaration of deliverance (3:1-10).
- God declares His unapproachable holiness (3:1-5).
- God declares His covenant to the fathers (3:6).
- God declares His love for those in need (3:7-9).
- God declares His desire to use a human instrument (3:10).
- Two answers for the questions of the deliverer (3:11-17).
- Who am I? (3:11-12).
- What is His name? (3:13-17).
- Promised provision for the deliverer (3:18-22).
- God provides co-laborers (3:18a).
- God provides the message (3:18b).
- God provides ultimate control over response (3:19).
- God provides the miracles necessary (3:20).
- God provides the spoils of victory (3:21-22).
- Exhortations for the excuses of the deliverer (4:1-17).
- They will not believe me (4:1-10).
- “I can use you to withstand the serpent” (4:1-5).
- “I can use you to cure the leprosy” (4:6-8).
- “I can use you to dethrone the idolatry” (4:9).
- I cannot (4:10-17).
- God has designed Moses’s abilities (4:10-11).
- God will instruct Moses what to say (4:12).
- God compensates for Moses’s lack of faith (4:13-17).
- The obedience of the deliverer (4:18-31).
- True obedience must be done the right way (4:18-26).
- Obey with the right assurance (4:18-19).
- Obey with the right expectation (4:20-21).
- Obey with appreciation for God’s love (4:22-23).
- Obey with reverence for God’s rules (4:24-26).
- True obedience can catalyze more obedience (4:27-5:2).
- One-another encouragement to obey (4:27-30).
- Leader-follower encouragement to obey (4:31-5:1).
- The discouragement of disobedience (5:2).
- The deliverance (5:1-18:27).
- Deliverance resisted (5:1-7:13).
- Deliverance is spiritual war against resistance (5:1-6:1).
- Satan’s arrogance is the enemy.
- Pharaoh views God as less than sovereign (v. 2).
- Pharaoh views God’s Word as less than true (vv. 9, 10).
- Pharaoh views God’s people with suspicion (vv. 4-18).
- God’s condescension is salvation.
- God condescends with a simple request (v. 1).
- God condescends with simple messengers (v. 3).
- God condescends with a simple explanation (5:22-6:1).
- Deliverance requires God in the face of resistance (6:1-8).
- The Lord saves completely and eternally (6:1-2).
- The Lord saves faithfully and compassionately (6:3-6a).
- The Lord saves powerfully and purposefully (6:6b-8).
- Deliverance requires power in the face of resistance (6:9-7:13).
- Man’s power is insufficient to deliver (6:9-6:27).
- God’s power is sufficient to deliver (6:28-7:7).
- Conflict between man’s power and God’s power (7:8-7:13).
- Deliverance irresistible (7:14-12:36).
- Plague one: when diplomacy ends (7:14-25).
- The hard heart of Pharaoh thwarts diplomacy (v. 14).
- God’s Word warns of the end of diplomacy (vv. 15-18).
- God’s hand executed the end of diplomacy (vv. 19-25).
- Plague two: frogs and the freedom of worship (8:1-15).
- Worship without political interference (vv. 1-4).
- Worship without religious confusion (vv. 5-11).
- Worship without a hard heart (vv. 12-15).
- Plague three: lice and the finger of God (8:16-19).
- The finger of God belongs to the mighty Creator (8:16-17).
- The finger of God belongs to the author of truth (8:18-19).
- The finger of God belongs to the victor over Satan (Luke 11:14-23).
- Plague four: the swarm that could tell the difference (8:20-32).
- The God whom God’s people worship is different from the gods others worship (vv. 20-21a).
- The ground on which God’s people stand is different from the ground others stand upon (vv. 21b-23).
- The worship God’s people offer their God is different from the worship of others (vv. 24-28).
- The grace God extends is different than the hard heart of others (vv. 29-32).
- Plague 5: Something heavy and someone hard (9:1-7).
- The heavy plague came after a gracious warning that
someone hard refuses to obey (vv. 1-3).
- The heavy plague graciously promises what someone
hard hopes to disprove (vv. 4, 6b-7a).
- The heavy plague graciously waits in a day during
which someone hard refuses to change (vv. 5-6a, 7b).
- Plague 6: When the Lord hardens a heart (9:8-12).
- It is a heart that is already hardened (9:7).
- It is a heart that deserves to be hardened (Rom. 9:15-18).
- It is a heart that fulfills God’s Word (9:12).
- It is a heart that sins the sin for which the Lord dies (9:12).
- Plague 7: The heart of the matter (9:13-35).
- God’s purpose for Pharaoh – glorify God (vv. 13-16).
- Pharaoh’s purpose for Pharaoh – self-exaltation (vv. 17-18).
- God’s treatment of Pharaoh – merciful (vv. 19-26, 31-33).
- Pharaoh’s treatment of Pharaoh – destructive (vv. 27-30, 34-35).
- Plague 8: Locusts eat away Pharaoh’s lies (10:1-20).
- Pharaoh believed the lie that he need not bow (vv. 1-7).
- Pharaoh believed the lie that he knew best (vv. 7-11).
- Pharaoh believed the lie that his false repentance could save him (vv. 12-20).
- Plague 9: Pharaoh’s darkness (10:21-29).
- The total removal of visible light (vv. 21-23).
- Materialism (vv. 24-26a).
- Self-made religion (vv. 26b-29).
- Plague 10: the fall of Egypt (11:1-10, 12:29-36).
- Powerfully executed by the Lord (11:1, 9-10).
- Faithfully proclaimed by Moses (11:2-8).
- Tragically destroyed her people (12:29-33).
- Frees her slaves (12:34-36).
- Deliverance executed (12:1-28, 12:37-13:22).
- The Passover is instituted (12:1-28).
- Christ, our Passover sacrifice (12:1-11, 21-22).
- A new creation (v. 2).
- An innocent victim (vv. 3-7, 21-22).
- A menu for participation (vv. 8-10).
- An exodus anticipation (v. 11).
- Christ, our Passover propitiation (12:12-13, 23).
- The problem solved is the Lord (vv. 12, 23a).
- The solution provided is the blood (vv. 13a, 23b).
- The power executed saves the house (vv. 13b, 23c).
- Christianity, our Passover commission (12:14-20, 24-28).
- Unchanging from one generation to another (vv. 14, 17b, 24-27).
- An assembly with a twofold mission (vv. 16, 19).
- No tolerance for leaven (vv. 15, 17-20).
- Requires obedience (v. 28).
- God leads His newborn people (12:37-51, 13:17-22).
- With special provisions (12:37-42).
- With a special identity (12:43-51).
- With special love (13:17-22).
- Blessings of the firstborn (13:1-16).
- They are blessed with holiness (13:1-4).
- They are blessed with a personal relationship (13:5-16).
- They are blessed with an inheritance (13:5-12).
- They are blessed with redemption (13:13-16).
- Deliverance irreversible (14:1-31).
- Can God’s salvation fail? (14:1-14).
- Remember God’s purpose when it seems so (14:1-8).
- Accept God’s challenge when it seems so (14:9-14).
- God’s salvation never fails (14:15-31).
- God split the seas; He did not fail (vv. 15-16, 21-22).
- God hardened the Egyptians; He did not fail (vv. 17-18, 23).
- God used the pillar; He did not fail (vv. 19-20, 24-28).
- God caused Israel to believe; He did not fail (vv. 29-31).
- Deliverance celebrated (15:1-21).
- Moses’s song tells us about his singing (vv. 1-2, 20-21).
- Moses’s song tells us about his God (vv. 3-8).
- Moses’s song tells us about his enemies (vv. 9-12, 14-16).
- Moses’s song tells us about his future (vv. 13, 17-19).
- Deliverance lamented (15:22-17:7).
- The truth about our troubles (15:22-27).
- Flesh for fleshly complainers (16:1-13).
- Lessons from the bread from heaven (16:14-36).
- Murmuring for water – take two (17:1-7).
- Deliverance blessed (17:8-18:27).
- The life of the delivered (19:1-40:38).
- A covenantal life (19:1-25).
- A lawful life (20:1-24:18).
- A worshipping life (25:1-40:38).
- Worship designed by God (25:1-31:18).
- Worship counterfeited by man (32:1-33:23).
- Worship renewed (34:1-40:38).