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April 15, 2022
The God Who Brought You Out of Egypt
This week the Jewish world is celebrating Passover and remembering how God set their ancestors free from slavery in Egypt some 3500 years ago. There is something in this story for all of us because the God of Israel—our God—described Himself as the one who had brought about this miracle of deliverance. Therefore, we can expect Him to also set us free from our bondages today.
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Well, this week the Jewish world is celebrating Passover and remembering how
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that God set their ancestors free from bondage and slavery some 3,500 years
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ago. So this week on my Shabbat Shalom devotional, when I try to share a little
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inspiration and bring a little peace to the clothes of your busy week, I wanted
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to focus on Passover. You know, skeptics and critics try to debunk the Bible and
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any of the miracles that it contains, especially the amazing story of the
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Israelites exodus from Egypt. You know, there's a funny story about a pastor that
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was going on about the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea and the skeptics
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said, but don't you know the water was really only six inches deep, so that wasn't
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a miracle. And the pastor said, oh, what a miracle! The Egyptian army drowned in
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six inches of water. So however you look at it, there's a miracle. There's no way
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to explain away all of these incidences. But you know, the real proof of this
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truth of the story is the fact that as soon as the Israelites got out of Egypt,
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they began celebrating the miracle of the Exodus. Do you think they would
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celebrate it if it hadn't really happened? Of course not! And they've been
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celebrating it for 3,500 years now. It is the moment they were taken from death
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into life and given a hope and a future. It's the watershed moment in their
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history and they were commanded to remember it and to celebrate it forever
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in all generations to come. Now when they got into Sinai, God began to reveal
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himself to his people and one of the ways that he described himself is found
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in Exodus 20. He says, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of
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the land of slavery. This is the God of Israel, the God of the Bible, our God. He's
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the God who frees from bondage and slavery. So whatever your need is, your
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bondage, the problem that has overcome your life and made you a slave or it's
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become your master, know you serve the God who set his people free of bondage
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and he can do it for you too. So as you take a little Shabbat rest this weekend,
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reflect upon this amazing God, the God of Israel, the God of the Bible and what
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he can do in your life and with that I wish you Shabbat Shalom.
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Well, this week the Jewish world is celebrating Passover and remembering how
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00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:12,360
that God set their ancestors free from bondage and slavery some 3,500 years
3
00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:17,840
ago. So this week on my Shabbat Shalom devotional, when I try to share a little
4
00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,880
inspiration and bring a little peace to the clothes of your busy week, I wanted
5
00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:28,760
to focus on Passover. You know, skeptics and critics try to debunk the Bible and
6
00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:35,600
any of the miracles that it contains, especially the amazing story of the
7
00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,920
Israelites exodus from Egypt. You know, there's a funny story about a pastor that
8
00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:47,320
was going on about the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea and the skeptics
9
00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:52,920
said, but don't you know the water was really only six inches deep, so that wasn't
10
00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:59,080
a miracle. And the pastor said, oh, what a miracle! The Egyptian army drowned in
11
00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:05,240
six inches of water. So however you look at it, there's a miracle. There's no way
12
00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:12,200
to explain away all of these incidences. But you know, the real proof of this
13
00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:17,840
truth of the story is the fact that as soon as the Israelites got out of Egypt,
14
00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:25,160
they began celebrating the miracle of the Exodus. Do you think they would
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00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:31,200
celebrate it if it hadn't really happened? Of course not! And they've been
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00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:38,120
celebrating it for 3,500 years now. It is the moment they were taken from death
17
00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:45,040
into life and given a hope and a future. It's the watershed moment in their
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00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:51,480
history and they were commanded to remember it and to celebrate it forever
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in all generations to come. Now when they got into Sinai, God began to reveal
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00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:05,800
himself to his people and one of the ways that he described himself is found
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in Exodus 20. He says, I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt, out of
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00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:21,600
the land of slavery. This is the God of Israel, the God of the Bible, our God. He's
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the God who frees from bondage and slavery. So whatever your need is, your
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00:02:29,100 --> 00:02:35,320
bondage, the problem that has overcome your life and made you a slave or it's
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00:02:35,320 --> 00:02:41,400
become your master, know you serve the God who set his people free of bondage
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and he can do it for you too. So as you take a little Shabbat rest this weekend,
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reflect upon this amazing God, the God of Israel, the God of the Bible and what
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he can do in your life and with that I wish you Shabbat Shalom.
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