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