Video Transcript: Exodus and Redemption
Francis - The story of Exodus is huge, because in the story, you've got God telling Moses, hey, warn these people, if they don't don't let you go, here's what I'm gonna do to them. And then time and time again, God follows through, you know, with all the plagues, and I think it's an important time to show your disciple that God isn't bluffing. You know, sometimes you see parents and in depending on what type of home you grew up in, some parents will say, Hey, you do this Johnny, and you know, I'm gonna send you to your room, and then they don't do it. You know, they don't follow through with the punishment. So we get this attitude almost like, well, when God says it, just kind of No, he sent us, I mean, killing the first born of every household. I mean, that seems just like, How could God do that, but we learn about the nature of God through his actions and go no, if God says he's gonna do it he's really going to do it. He drowned all of those people in that sea. He literally had them weeping and wailing, every house going, like my first born is dead. And I know we don't like to talk about these things. But it's reality. Our culture is is trying to make us think, Oh, God would never carry out His wrath.
David – Right. And therefore a lot of people in the church think, oh, that's, that's not the God I believe in. But remember, and this goes back to why and stuff in the previous lessons in foundational, like, we believe this word, and we trust God. And in this picture of his wrath. There's obviously questions, all kinds of questions that should come up, as we read stories like this, like, wow, this is judgment and death and punishment that's been poured out here, but to remember that God's wrath, it's it's not disconnected from His love, His wrath and His love go together. And love, in a sense, requires wrath. Like, if I love Jewish people, then I will hate the Holocaust. I will absolutely hate it. If I love my wife and kids, I will be absolutely I am absolutely opposed to anything that will bring them harm. And so God's love is not indifferent. God's love. He is absolutely opposed to what destroys us. And what hinders us, he hates sin. And the beauty of the gospel instead of bringing that whenever you wrestle through these questions with people, your discipling, bring it back to the gospel. So the whole picture of the cross is God's love and wrath displayed in one. His wrath. This is his judgment on sin being poured out. At the same time, this is his love, because He's enduring that judgment in our place. And so if we dilute the wrath of God, we'll actually miss out on the glory of God's love in the process. So yeah, these are good questions.
Francis - Because it's also this may be the first part where someone's going well, I don't like that, about God. It doesn't sit well with me, and you, we can take on a very arrogant attitude, well God can't do this. The God, I believe, well, this is just to that, like when he was talking to Moses, the first time, and Moses, who should I say, sent me because I am who I am. That's a strong, there's no one to
compare me to I am, who I am, I am. He doesn't say I am, whoever you want me to be? Whatever you like about me, you know, whatever you feel in your heart, because I am who I am telling us who said like there was a sense of authority. And again, it goes back to creation, you know, it goes back to wait, he's the creator, who am I to say, he had no right to do that to Egypt. He had no right to do it to the firstborn of, you know, these, these are the times to get some of this arrogance, it's in all of us. Just to bring it to the surface and going on sometimes, I almost judge God and he shouldn't be this way, because I don't like that. And yet we all have different ideas of what he ought to be like. And especially you start going to other countries, and what they think God ought to be like, based upon what they were raised with. And that's where again, God's word
David - and it's a dangerous thing. We start pointing the finger at God and saying you're not good. We don't say we may not say that we just think it. But be careful to remember when there's he's all wise. He is all knowing and, and even to flesh out the practical implications of this. So when it comes to his wrath, as you continually So the lesson on the fall is not the only time when you spend time in confession of sin so as you continue to, to confess sin to each other, as you're walking through these lessons and spending life, and spend time in your lives with each other to remember man, God hates this sin. And so but but also to remember that Jesus has taken the wrath do us. So we don't have to really be afraid of his wrath anymore. As followers of Christ, we've been delivered from his wrath. But so we don't run from sin now because we fear his wrath for us. We run from sin now because we feel His wrath towards sin. We know he hates this. And so we want to run from it. And then it also motivates us to share the gospel and make disciples why do we need to do this was for so many reasons, but one of them is, there are people who God said in His Word, that live right around you and the people that you're discipling who are under his judgment apart from Christ and on a road that leads to a total wrath, and we have good news of God's grace. And so to constantly come back to who's sharing the gospel with and this is not just for personal intake here this is for people's lives for eternity or based on whether or not they believe these things and follow Christ. And so let there be motivation for sharing the gospel and making disciples from passages like these