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Kalamazoo SDA Church

The Exodus & God Almighty

Daniel Ferraz

The Pharaoh That Knew Not Joseph

Moses Refused

The Meekest Man in Midian

The Plagues in Egypt

“I AM” Has Sent Me

The Great Deliverance

As you're here sitting today, are you open to the voice of God for the Advent people at this stage of earth's history?

What is the message that the Lord has for you as a Seventh-day Adventist sitting in the pew for me as a minister of the gospel preaching the Advent message.

You know, I don't know if you've noticed, but I love the church, the Seventh-day Adventist church, and its message.

I love it not because it's a more intellectual set of beliefs than another denomination.

I love it because I have confidence that the Lord has raised up the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Now having said that, I realize that not everybody and not everything that has happened in the Seventh-day Adventist Church is perfect.

But that is what gives me hope because I know that the Seventh-day Adventist Church is a movement, a prophetic movement that fulfills Bible prophecy.

In the book of Revelation 10 and 11 and chapter 14, because I believe that, I believe that there is hope.

And we must know why we're here and what is the mission that God has given us.

And so I pray for a revival, I pray for revival in my own life, in my own heart, and for this church and for every Seventh-day Adventist church.

You know we're going through hard times right now.

It's not easy to be a Seventh-day Adventist.

And that thought always comes, you know, can the minority be right?

Well I'm not worried about being the minority or being right.

I'm worried about staying close to Jesus.

If we do that, friends, though the way may be tough, though we may have hard times, the Exodus is proof that God is almighty.

He makes a difference between the people that follow him and those that don't, those that are faithful to him and will go forward courageously at His bidding.

Father in heaven, Lord, you know I am tired physically, emotionally, but Lord, I'm not tired spiritually because I know that your promises can never fail.

Dear God, you have been with us these 9 years and 4 months that we have been here in the United States.

You have blessed us, you have taken us through challenges and difficulties.

You've brought us through, and Lord, we pray that you may continue to keep your regard upon your church.

Bless us, Father, Help us to realize our identity more now than ever before.

Help us to realize our wanderings and to come back to you before it is too late.

Oh, Father in heaven, may you speak to your congregation today is my prayer.

So it seems like in my series I'll only have enough time to preach 7.

This is number 6, the Exodus and God Almighty.

And so we have part 6, the plagues that fall in Egypt.

I shared with you what was called the greatest movie of the biblical Exodus.

It's not the Exodus story that's summarized in this little book, but it is the 1 that has been in the cinema screens that have portrayed Moses and God in a rather unbiblical light.

The director, Ridley Scott, is the director, or was the director of the Gladiator movie, and friends, I really am sorry about that movie because it doesn't really portray the biblical story as we read in the Bible.

But there is a number of documentaries that I'd encourage you to look at.

That came out last year around Christmas, a little bit before the 1 by Ridley Scott.

It is a documentary made by Tim Mahoney who searches for answers to these questions amid startling new finds that may change traditional views of history and the Bible.

This documentary was 12 years in researching, 4 years in the making, 50 interviews conducted with leading experts and explorers, over 1200 film hours and 10, 000 photos.

I encourage you to try and find a copy of that 1.

You can find it on patternsofevidence.com.

And you know the story of the Exodus really is the story of the challenge that Satan puts to God and his people.

The story of the Exodus is about who is right.

And you know, as we go through life, I'm more and more convinced that everything we encounter is a challenge to these great truths.

And his lies, Are they what we should follow?

You think of any conflict you have, any situation you may be in, it can be narrowed down to whether what God says, is that true Or is what the world telling us the truth?

So patterns of evidence, you can look that up and find some very good, well-researched documentary material on that.

And so we left off Moses at the burning bush and him kind of grappling with the Lord and asking him, how can I know that you are sending me and I am weak, I have got no skills, I am not a very good speaker, and he's giving all of these excuses?

And God says to him and proves to him that he will be with him.

He shows him a number of miracles, with the rod and his hand turning leprous and the staff turning into a snake.

He's showing him these signs, he's convincing him.

And he says that, you will come with the people from Egypt, you'll bring my people up out of Egypt, and you will come and worship me on this mount.

Now that was an amazing statement, because that mount, the Mount Sinai, the Mount Horeb, we discovered last time we were together is in northwest Saudi Arabia, in Midian.

The Bible tells us that God told Aaron to go and meet with Moses.

And so they meet after so many years of separation.

And they share with each other what it has been like.

And Moses shares with Aaron what God has told him and the plan for the great Exodus and deliverance of God's people.

And so in Exodus chapter 4, 29 to 31 we read, and Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel.

It's interesting that before they actually set off on their journey, Moses thinks to bring along his wife and his children, and you remember the episode of the angel stopping Moses and his wife doing the circumcision, and notice that incidence because He had to do, and we have to do, everything that we know to be right to survive in these last days.

He was going on an important mission, yes or no?

Could He have anything undone that had to be done according to the biblical story.

And so that was a very important detail that teaches us that we need to do what we know to be right.

So, verse 30, And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.

So they've gone back to Egypt, and they've been able to meet up with their brothers, and the people believed.

And when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that they had looked upon, and that he had looked upon their affliction, Then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

Friends, I want to notice the journey now as it begins.

They said, yes, okay Moses, we believe that God has sent you to deliver us.

He tried to do it in his own strength, and now he is totally submissive to God, and he's afraid because he realizes that this task is too big for a man to do by himself.

All along the way, God had to guard Moses and protect Aaron with his angels.

And then we read, as they got to Egypt, afterwards Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness." And of course this would have been the institution of the first Passover feast.

And Pharaoh said, and this is where now we see the battle start to heighten.

Series

The Exodus & God Almighty

The Plagues in Egypt

Transcript

Parent Series

Sponsor

Recorded

Eric Walsh Weekend

01 Purified in Persecution

1h 1m

Ron duPreez ~ No Matter What: How morality impacts your mortality

Military and Morality

56m

Acts

God’s Triumph is Unstoppable!

38m

Experiencing Righteousness Through Faith in Christ

3. How the First Angel’s Message Prepares for the Second Advent

54m

Go Forward

57m

Stephen Bohr: Ready for His Appearing

Reflections on Daniel 11

1h 17m

Turning Stones Into Bread

1h 13m

Gerard Damsteegt: Spring 2013 Week of Prayer

Revival as It Is in Jesus

48m

The Shadow’s Light

A Tale of two Journeys

55m

Surprise Attacks, Part 1

1h 3m

Direction is Everything

44m

Plenary

Where Are We

1h

Sound Doctrine