The Story
Deliverance
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Why read the Bible?
Because it tells us an alternative Story
If you want to change a society, then you have to tell an
alternative story.
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Jacob and Sons
God is making a people to get to know him and make him known
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The family grows to a nation in Egypt and the Story moves on
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Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in
Egypt.
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Increased numbers
‘Kill the baby boys’
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What kind of puny god can’t even protect his own people?
How might God make himself known and advance the Story?
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‘Send someone else’
‘I am who I am’
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God makes himself known in mighty deeds
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‘Exodus’ becomes a pattern of God’s saving deeds
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Isaiah
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‘They spoke about his departure,[exodus] which he was about to bring to fulfilment at Jerusalem.’
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‘This is my body given for you.’
‘This cup is the new covenant sealed by my blood.’
Jesus understood his death and resurrection as a new Passover and Exodus - God’s
deliverance
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The Story has moved forward and casts its shadow across the centuries - God’s mighty deeds are seen
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Is there enslavement or oppression in your life?
What ‘exodus’ might God be leading you towards
How might God want to use you as a ‘Moses’ to work for
the exodus of others?
Remember that Jesus has given himself for our exodus