Exiting Egypt Chapter 6 P6

Exiting Egypt

“God’s Great Encouragement”

By Dennis Lee: Chapter 6 P6

3. I will redeem you

I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments (Ex. 6:6)

Their redemption was to come through nothing else but God. God is our redeemer. And God redeems us through the shedding of blood. The Bible tells us that without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sin.

For Israel, this was done through the blood of the Passover lamb. As God saw the blood upon the doorpost and lintels of the house, He passed over that house sparing the life of the first-born. It was this last plague that finally released the Jews from their slavery.

For us today, our redemption comes through the blood of the ultimate Passover Lamb, Jesus Christ, whom John the Baptist described as the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. And that is exactly what Jesus did as He died upon the cross on Passover, taking upon Himself our sins, as He took our place and died our death, as the Bible declares, “the wages of sin is death,” although He was without sin. He was sinless.

And so, when we come into that saving relationship with Jesus, accepting Him as our Savior, it is then His blood that is placed upon the doorpost and lintels of our hearts, and when God sees that blood, He too passes over our sins and redeems us from our slavery to sin.

“You were dead because of your sins and because your sinful nature was not yet cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ. He forgave all our sins. He canceled the record that contained the charges against us. He took it and destroyed it by nailing it to Christ's cross” (Col. 2:13-14 NLT)

4. I will take you

I will take you as My people (Ex. 6:7)

What a beautiful promise. It is a promise of intimacy. Literally, God adopts them, as He adopts all of us, where we are not only His people, but we are His children, which then leads to the next promise that we are His children, because He is our God, and as such, our Father.

5. I will be your God

I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians (Ex. 6:7)

Let me wrap these two promises up with what the Apostle Paul says,

For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ""Abba," Father." The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory (Rom. 8:15-17 NIV)

Now, what I find really neat about these promises that God gives is that they were not limited to their deliverance from Egypt, but that they spoke to God’s promises about their future. God’ promises affect not only our present, but our future as well. These promises are then found in the last two “I wills.”