Freedom

Exodus speaks of slavery and also of freedom.  The Israelites were enslaved by the Egyptians so God sent Moses and his brother Aaron to Egypt to tell the Pharaoh there to let His people go and after many plagues Pharaoh finally did let them go.  The Egyptians became fearful of the Israelites because they were growing in number, so the Pharaoh made them slaves and told his men to make them work harder and faster, hoping that that would take care of the problem.  But, despite all the extra work they were told to perform, they grew stronger and stronger and multiplied more and more.  Instead of this solving the problem, it caused a much bigger problem because God came on the scene to defend His people and to set His captives free.  When God comes on the scene you never know what He might do to bring about what He wants to accomplish in His people’s lives.

This brings to mind two verses in the Word of God, but I will add a few more.  Read this in Proverbs 3:1-7, “My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments: for length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: so shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.”

God’s ways and His will for us are always the best, so trust Him with your problems and decisions and always confide in Him, He always knows what is best.  Back to Exodus, God not only set His people free but they did not go away empty handed, the Egyptians wanted these people out of Egypt and they lent them jewels.  Read what it says in Exodus 12:36, “And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.”

There were ten different plagues, but the last plague was the central theme of the Word of God, it stood for the redemption, restoration and forgiveness that Jesus Christ would accomplish on the cross when He died, was buried and resurrected again, praise the Lord!!  This was very costly but Jesus was willing to pay the price!!  This was the last plague, read Exodus 12:3-13, “Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: and if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: and ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.”

For God’s people to survive this plague they would have to kill an innocent lamb without any kind of defect and put the lamb’s blood on the two side posts and the upper door posts of their houses and when the death angel passed over they would be spared, when he saw the blood.

Read what it says about Jesus in John 1:29-34, “The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. This is he of whom I said, After me cometh a man which is preferred before me: for he was before me. And I knew him not: but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore am I come baptizing with water. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, Upon whom thou shalt see the Spirit descending, and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.”

Just like the plan that God had to set His people free in Egypt, He had a plan from the foundation of the world, and that was that the innocent would die for the guilty.  The Word says that we all stand guilty before God and we need a redeemer because no amount of works or anything else we could do would render us innocent before our creator, and the only way we could get to God is through His Son.  The Bible says without the shedding of blood there is no remittance, or forgiveness, of sins.  So God made a way through the blood of His beloved Son Jesus who was a perfect man.  Read John 3:17-18, “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”

This is such good news, and you can do nothing to receive it except believe in Jesus and repent of your sins, which means to be sorry for your sins and turn away from them, and ask the Lord to come into your life and to be your Lord and Savior.  If you are truly sincere, and only you and the Lord can know the answer to that, then let the Lord fill you with His peace, love and joy and find a Bible teaching church and start growing in your faith and share with others what the Lord is doing in your life.  May the good Lord bless you and yours and may you have a super day!!