Knowing God the Deliverer
For Christmas a few years ago, our kids bought us one of those escape room events. The whole family went into a locked room, and we had to work together to figure out the clues on how to get out. It was very fun, but I found it very frustrating! I can promise you that if I had been put in that room by myself, I would likely still be in that room even now. I was pretty horrible at trying to figure out the clues that would eventually help us escape the locked room.
To prepare for this Sunday’s teaching time, read Exodus 11 & 12. The story we will walk through is, “The First Passover.” Passover is a common phrase that is thrown around in the Christian church life. When we take communion, we often refer to the Passover because Jesus shared the Passover meal with his disciples at that table—which is why we call this event “The Lord’s Supper.” Jesus and the disciples were commemorating and remembering the event recorded in Exodus 11 & 12. It is an escape story. It is a story of deliverance by the hand of the God, who is the Deliverer.
I am asking you not only to read these two chapters slowly, but contemplate for yourself a few of these questions before you come…
- What is different about this 10th plague (the death of the first-born) in comparison to the other 9 plagues we saw before?
- Why do you think the death angel struck down the first-born? Why not others?
- Why did God instruct them use the blood from an innocent lamb as a sign?
- What did this sign on the doorpost really mean?
- Why do you think God used a plague that was so harsh and graphic?
As we study this together, I want you to think about the trap of life that we all find ourselves in. The complications of life and the consequences of this world seem to come at us at every turn, and often there seems to be no rhyme or reason to them. There is a great depth to this story that I don’t think we can ever get to the bottom of…
- Depth of despair
- Depth of hopelessness
- Depth of the trap we find ourselves in
- Depth of our sin
…but then set all this despair up against the depth of God’s love.
See you Sunday morning at 10 a.m. as we study together.
