Exodus Week 1 Sermon Notes - Pastor Johnny Scott & Jennifer Scott

We are all in slavery / bondage in some way
God comes to deliver us

Leadership
Moses led in the most difficult circumstances
Moses led ungrateful people who fought him

Marriage
He brought his wife with him on this trip

Mental Health
No Bible character got closer to God more often than Moses
And he still struggled with:
-Deep depression
-Suicidal thoughts

The Exodus isn’t just something God did…
it’s how God works.

Backstory
How did we get here?
-Joseph
-Famine
-Salvation

Genesis 50:24–25
Then Joseph said to his brothers,
“I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
25 And Joseph made the Israelites swear an oath and said,
“God will surely come to your aid, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Exodus 1:8
Then a new king came into power over Egypt.
He did not know Joseph

Pharaoh later says:
“I do not know the Lord” (Exodus 5:2)
-Israel multiplied in number
-God protected the midwives who protected the male babies

Because oppression does not stop God’s plan—
it often accelerates it.

The Cry of the People
Exodus 2:23–25
During that long period, the king of Egypt died.
The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out,
and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God.
24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant
with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.
25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

God’s Response 
Exodus 3:7–8
Then the Lord said,
“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt
and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters.
I know their sufferings,
8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians
and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land,
a land flowing with milk and honey,
to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites,
the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.”

God Sees
Exodus 3:7
“I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt”
Nothing wasted
Destroy the lie that God doesn’t see
Proverbs 15:3
“The eyes of the Lord are everywhere,
keeping watch on the wicked and the good.”
2 Chronicles 16:9
“For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth
to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.”

God Hears Your Cry
Exodus 3:7
“…and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters.”
Psalm 18:6
“In my distress I called to the Lord;
I cried to my God for help.
From his temple he heard my voice…”

God Knows Your Suffering
Exodus 3:8
“I know their sufferings”
Psalm 34:18
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted
and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

Corrie Ten Boom:
“You can never learn that Christ is all you need
until Christ is all you have.”
God doesn’t just see your pain,
He feels the weight of it
He knows what it’s like from the inside

God Will Come to Deliver You
Exodus 3:8
“I have come down to deliver them…”
Exodus 14:13–14
“Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today…
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

God sees
God hears
God knows
God comes down
The Exodus isn’t just what God did…
it’s how God works.