Exodus 5

The Bible tells the same amazing story over and over: God rescuing folks from impossible and desperate situations.

• Job out of a hostage situation and out of the city of Sodom

• Jacob out of Laban’s treachery

• Joseph out of Potiphar’s home and out of prison

• David out of Saul’s maniacal quest to hunt him down

• Israel from the clutches of a long train of oppressors in Judges

• Hezekiah from defeat by the Assyrian forces at Jerusalem

• The Exiles from Babylon and Persia, back to Israel

• The Apostles out of the prisons

And on and on!

What is the greatest rescue and redemption story in the Bible? Surely Exodus, right!?

Partly yes, except Exodus is also a foreshadow and picture of the Cross of Jesus: where the whole world of sinners was offered open prison doors! In Jesus, we find our escape once and for all from the devious devices of satan and the pernicious “passing pleasures of sin” that enslaved us and enacted a devastating, bankrupting toll on our lives.

In Exodus 5 this Sunday, we will learn 5 lessons of bondage and helping those who are enslaved to the spiritual “Pharaoh” of satan, sin, and this world.

Peace!

~Jeff