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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 1: "An Introduction"

The story of the Exodus is the story of all Christians. Tonight we begin the journey through Exodus discussing our approach to this series and the major themes we will encounter throughout the Book of Exodus.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 4 "The God Who Sees the Suffering of His People"

Even as Moses, in Exodus 2, looked out among the Hebrew people he was a "type" that shows forth the Nature of God toward our fallen and oppressed condition. This session of our series focuses on God's compassionate heart for us all and how fiercely the love of God moves to overthrow our oppressor and redeem His beloved people.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 5: "The Burning Bush - God's Divinity in Things Created"

In the burning bush, our God Who is a consuming fire fully manifest Himself without destruction to the bush. In this session, we look at this reality of God making Himself endurable within the things of His creation in order to reveal Himself to mankind and restore that which had fallen. We see the burning bush as a "type" later to be fulfilled. And, ultimately, we see it fulfilled in and through our Lord Jesus Christ Who made it possible for God to dwell within us.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 6: "The I AM & The Overcoming of Doubt"

In this session we look at God revealing Himself to Moses as the I AM and what that name tells us about God. We see the experience Moses has with God in the Burning Bush move from fear and perhaps shame to fellowship and revelation. Moses presents to God all of His doubts about being the one God should send as the deliverer of the Hebrew people. One by one, God by the revelation of Himself to Moses diminishes the doubts Moses has about what He is being called to do. God will do the same for us by granting us the experienced revelation of Himself. For as God reveals Himself to us, we are made whole again.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 7: "The Beginnings of Deliverance"

Moses & Aaron faithfully go to Pharaoh as God commanded asking Pharaoh to let God's people go for God was beginning His deliverance ministry on behalf of His people. The response of Pharaoh was harsh and the result is that he increased their oppression and suffering. Is this not how it works so often with us. When God begins to deliver us from the depths of our brokenness, Satan (just like Pharaoh) increases our oppression because the last thing Satan wants is the people of God to experience the deliverance of God in their lives. This teaching explores this reality in our Christian life and how to press through waiting on God as He seeks to release us from our bondage.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 8: "The Plagues"

In Part 8 of our series, we look at the plagues God brings upon Egypt in order to free His people from their oppressors. In each plague we see God casting down the gods worshipped by the Egyptians and showing Himself to be the One true God. Also in each plague, we see God strategically weakening the enemy of His people by the plagues and by doing so enacting perfect justice for what Pharaoh had done to Israel. As we look at all of this, we see very clearly that God is our salvation. He is the One that wars victoriously over our oppressor granting us freedom to live in Him and worship Him.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 9 "Passover"

The Old Testament is filled with types that are fully realized in and point to the finished work of Christ our God for the salvation of the world. There is no greater type than the Passover narrative in Exodus 12. Here we see the theology of the "Sanctification of Time" by God. And, here we see the Eucharist very clearly in the instructions God gave His people so that they would escape death, have their oppressor thrown down, and be freed from their bondage to follow God and worship Him in the wilderness.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 10 "Baptism & the Crossing of the Red Sea"

Egypt feeling the sting and sorrow of the final plague, the death of all of the firstborn in Egypt, finally releases God's people from their captivity. In this session we focus on the plundering of Egypt as God's people leave their slavery and oppression, God leading them in the wilderness as a cloud by day and pillar of fire by night, and we see Israel's ultimate deliverance through the waters of the Red Sea as our Lord, by those same waters, utterly destroys their enemy; their oppressors. Each of these events are types that are fulfilled in Christ our God; from the harrowing of Hades to the Sacrament of Baptism.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 11: "The Blessing of the Waters at Marah"

Just after God's miraculous salvation of His people through the waters of the Red Sea, we find God's people praising God as we see the Song of Moses. But after three days, having witnessed the wonders of God, they had been without water in the wilderness and became afraid and anxious for their lives. God leads them to the bitter waters of Marah. There, as God has Moses place a tree in the waters, the nature of the water was changed entirely for the health and sustenance of His people. In this teaching, we explore the Eastern & Western Rite Orthodox blessings of the waters, the teachings of the Early Church, and Christ speaking about His being the Living Waters that heal. The blessing of the waters at Marah are fulfilled in Christ our God for our benefit and for our salvation.

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The Exodus & Our Life in Christ Part 12: "The Bread From Heaven"

God's people grow hungry in the wilderness and complain against Moses and Aaron saying, "Oh that we were back in Egypt eating the pots of meat and having bread. But you have led us out here to perish." Even with the lack of faith of God's people, the mercy of God pours toward them. Our Lord would provide manna in the morning and quail in the evening for His people. In this session we consider three topics: 1. The longsuffering nature of God toward His people. 2. We are too often like Israel in that we long for the food of slavery (the passions and enticements of this life) that weaken us and feed us the food of diminishing returns. 3. We see the manna in the wilderness fulfilled in our Lord Jesus Christ Who says to us, "I am the bread of life. I am the bread of heaven."

The story of the Exodus is the story of every Christian and the story of the Church. In Exodus, we see a people in bondage and slavery to an oppressive Pharaoh be delivered by God's chosen deliverer. We see the oppressor thrown down by the mighty deliverance of God as God calls His people to Himself. We have before us the journey of the Hebrews with God as their guide through a trying wilderness on their way to the Promised Land. And in this wilderness, we see clearly the Christian struggle in the wilderness of this life. Our approach to this study of Exodus will be from the perspective of the Early Church having only the Old Testament as their Scripture. In this series, we will glean from the Early Church Father's interpretations of Exodus and how they used it to teach about our new life in Christ and our journey with Him and in Him to Paradise.