My hope and prayer as we start this new sermon series is that Exodus will bring us face to face with our incomparable and inexhaustible God and that we will learn to see and cherish Christ afresh in all our daily activities. Pray with me that we will be drawn to rest in the hope that God sovereignly saves a special people for his own glory.

Exodus is very much a book of two halves. In the first half (Ex 1–18), the LORD frees the Israelites from Egypt. In the second half (Ex 19–40), the LORD instructs the Israelites on what kind of people they are to be now that he has freed them. 

God didn’t set Israel free from slavery to Pharaoh so that they could invent their own identities and design their own lifestyles. No, he set them free so that they would belong to him. The exodus was a transfer of ownership, from one master to another. As Alastair Roberts and Andrew Wilson stated in their book 'Echoes of Exodus', “Those who serve Pharaoh become beasts and perish. Those who serve the Lord become priests and flourish”. 

In the context of the exodus, “Let my people go!” is not a complete sentence. That phrase almost always concludes with: “that they may serve me” (7:16; 8:1; 8:30; 9:1; 9:13, etc.). Exodus will help us learn that only in total service to God can we find perfect freedom.

The subtitle of our sermon series is SAVED TO WORSHIP. God rescues a people who are unable to rescue themselves not so they can become ‘beasts and perish’, but rather so they can worship their redeemer and glorify him with all of their lives. Exodus will remind Christians that our freedom is not for the purpose of personal autonomy; it is for worship. We are not only set free but also set apart – to be a holy, counter-cultural nation of missionaries who demonstrate and declare the glory of the God who saves people who cannot save themselves. We are not our own; we were bought with a price, and we must live lives that align with who God is and what He has done.

Jesus is the new Moses who has come to set the captives free. Jesus is the spotless lamb who was sacrificed to protect his people from God’s judgment.

Without Christ, we are all slaves to something; whether it is sinful habits, shame from our pasts, or anxiety about our futures, we all experience a sense of captivity to these domineering masters. Therefore, it is exceedingly good news to be reminded that God loves to free people who cannot free themselves.

Pray with me as we prepare for this sermon series. Join us on Sundays and invite your friends. We would love for you to participate in our Growth groups during the week as we discuss these passages of scripture and help each other apply them practically to our everyday lives. Come be blessed and be a blessing as we help one another remember that we are saved to worship.

Please click on this link to watch a short animated video that gives a short overview of the book of Exodus: https://bibleproject.com/guides/book-of-exodus/