Exiting Egypt Chapter 8 P5

Exiting Egypt

The Third Plague – The Finger of God

Exodus 8:16-19

By Dennis Lee: Chapter 8 P5

Read Ex. 8: 16-19

Now, what changed the minds of Pharaoh’s magicians was nothing other than the power, or finger of God, could turn the dust into lice. It revealed their weakness, and it scared them, and they realized the hopelessness of opposing God.

Let’s take a moment and look at the Finger of God throughout the Bible, and how it calls us to address aspects of our sinful human existence.

1. The Finger of God Addresses our Character

Then the Lord delivered to me two tablets of stone written with the finger of God, and on them were all the words which the Lord had spoken to you on the mountain from the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly (Deut. 9:10 NKJV)

God wrote the Ten Commandments with His finger. But what we see is that no one can live up to them, but rather they were written to reveal the basic flaw of human character. In other words, the whole purpose of the law was to expose our sin.

So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy, righteous and good. Did that which is good, then, become death to me? By no means! But in order that sin might be recognized as sin, it produced death in me through what was good, so that through the commandment sin might become utterly sinful (Rom. 7:12-13 NIT)

The Commandments were given to expose that we are nothing more than sinners, because while the law is holy, righteous, and good, we are not, and it exposes this flaw of the human character known as sin.

Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor (Gal. 3:24-25 NIT )

Therefore, the law brings us to our need for a Savior, Jesus Christ, and that it is by God’s grace that we have been saved through faith, and not by works lest anyone should boast (Eph. 2:8-9).