You’ll find a new feature here on the site: links to mp3 audio of an ongoing series of Bible teaching entitled “Exit Strategy: The Gospel of Jesus in the Book of Exodus.” The series will also be accessible via podcast starting Monday. The series emerges from my Sunday morning Bible study at Ninth and O Baptist Church here in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Exodus account isn’t someone else’s story. It is the story of our ancestors, the people through whom we have our Christ. And, even more importantly, the Exodus account typifies the journey we have already made, through the waters of the wrath of God into the promised inheritance at the right hand of God, and the journey we are currently making, through the wilderness of this present darkness to the promised Kingdom of our Christ.
“Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe” (Jude 5 ESV).
This class gets the Exodus account, long before we began this study. They are active every week sharing the Gospel, feeding the hungry, helping women and children in crisis at a local homeless shelter. They preach and organize Bible studies at local nursing homes and retirement centers. They witness door-to-door and in workplaces all over the metro area. And they do so because they remember they were once aliens and strangers (Eph 2). They remember they were once enslaved to the Pharaoh behind the Pharaoh (John 8). They remember that Yahweh saves (Gen-Rev). They remember.
Pharaohs fall; Messiah rules. Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus.
