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Series Overview . SERIES-BASED CURRICULUM . FRISCO BIBLE CHURCH . Series Overview SPRING 2016 Objective Theme What we hope to see God accomplish Premise What the study is about in us through this study Why we are studying this This first section of the book deals That we enjoy the full application of People of every age need to experience greatly with identity—something the divine redemption. the “way out” that comes only through word “name” represents in the Bible. God’s gracious hand. The Lord provides YHWH self-identifies as the One who STATEMENTS OF THE OBJECTIVE freedom for all prisoners who join His controls history, covenants with people “You will lead the people people, just as He provided for Israel in by grace, is self-existent, is the faithful You have redeemed the exodus from Egypt. Whatever the kinsman-Redeemer, and the with Your faithful love; struggles of our lives, we can always find transcendent Judge. He is the only way You will guide them to Your holy a way of conquest by following YHWH out [exodus], and engaging with Him dwelling and trusting in His name. For Frisco Bible changes people. with Your strength.” Church in particular, the Exodus and —Exodus 15:13 HCSB Passover hold particular emphasis during This change process in Exodus is used a year when our annual vision is to be throughout the rest of the Bible as a type “All acts of deliverance in Jewish [and more than conquerors. for what Jesus does in the lives of those who follow Him. Christian] history can be seen as STATEMENTS OF THE PREMISE consequences of the Exodus and God’s STATEMENTS OF THE THEME deliverance, and they have been “Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the celebrated as extensions of the pillar of fire by night left its place in front “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM.’ He Passover.” of the people.” said further, ‘Thus you shall say to the —Ian Barnes & Josephine Bacon —Exodus 13:22 HCSB Israelites, “I AM has sent me to you.”’ The Historical Atlas of Judaism God also said to Moses, ‘Thus you shall “Ultimately, the book of Exodus presents say to the Israelites, “The LORD, the God the story of salvation—how God crashes of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, TABLE OF CONTENTS dramatically into human history to save the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, His people. So while fascinating and has sent me to you”: This is my name Cover 1 dynamic people like Moses and Pharaoh forever, and this my title for all God Provides During Persecution 3 are critical to the story of Exodus, the generations.’” God Protects His Servant 5 truth is that the book of Exodus is —Exodus 3:14–15 HCSB God Reveals True Theology 7 primarily about God.” God Answers Inadequate Objections 9 — Danny Hays & Scott Duvall “These texts focus on the fact and God Prepares His Leader 11 The Baker Illustrated Bible Handbook significance of God’s presence (as given God Reveals His Sovereign Hand 13 by his name Yahweh and his glory)…His God Authenticates His Leader 15 attributes of justice, truthfulness, mercy, Appendix 17 faithfulness, and holiness are also highlighted. Thus to know God’s ‘name’ is to know him and his character.” —Walt Kaiser Exodus 1 . SERIES-BASED CURRICULUM . FRISCO BIBLE CHURCH . ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The content of this study guide is based on the sermon and personal study notes of Dr. Wayne Braudrick Senior Pastor, Frisco Bible Church Lesson plans are developed by the Frisco Bible Curriculum Team PERMISSION You are welcome to copy and distribute this study guide for your personal or group study. FOR MORE INFORMATION Frisco Bible Church 8000 Sanctuary Drive Frisco, TX 75033 972.335.8150 [email protected] www.friscobible.com 2 . SERIES-BASED CURRICULUM . FRISCO BIBLE CHURCH . God Provides During Persecution Exodus 1 LESSON OVERVIEW LESSON 1 OBJECTIVE: We Hold to God’s Promises in the Face of Pain DISCUSSION Theme The years passed into decades, the What is your favorite movie about decades into centuries. Exodus 1:7 tells the exodus? Why? The Hebrews faced an entirely unfair us, “The people of Israel were fruitful and How long is 400 years? What was situation: three pogroms brought on only increased greatly; they multiplied and happening in your nation 400 years because of racial fear. Their only hope is grew exceedingly strong” (ESV). This was ago (around the year AD 1600)? the clear declaration of God’s promise. also promised (Gen. 12:2, 35:11, 46:3). It must have been seen as a great blessing. What is redemption, and why do The Move we need it? So far, life was good as an Israelite in Four hundred years is a long time. The Egypt! Sure, there was an ancestral What was your own situation when Bible tells us that the descendants of rumor of returning to Canaan, but who God made His rescue of you real— Jacob, or Israel, lived in the land of Egypt wanted to do that? when His presence showed up and for four hundred years. They were 70 led you out of your slavery to sin? individuals in all when they first moved to The Pain Egypt to escape a multi-year famine in the Levant (the land generally between Eventually, a new Pharaoh took control, one who was more concerned by the officially-sanctioned, brutal murder of Egypt in the south and Turkey in the newborn Hebrew males (1:12–22). north). The famine included Egypt in its historical cultural ties of the descendants grip; but God provided for Egypt through of Israel, the Hebrews, to other nations— Life wasn’t so good anymore. Life wasn’t the life of Joseph, one of Jacob’s sons enemy nations—north of his borders. pleasant, nor was it even guaranteed. who had risen to become second in This Pharaoh saw them as a threat to Slavery and death was now the norm, Egypt only to Pharaoh. The story of national security (Ex. 1:8–10). Ruthless with no chance of rescue anywhere in Joseph and the migration of his family slavery ensued in an attempt to check sight. closes the book of Genesis. their growth (1:11). When this proved ineffectual, it was followed by the But that promise—that old, old The book of Exodus begins almost four promise—was still there in the collective hundred years later. Hebrew memory. A whisper of hope from four centuries past and ancestors The Promise long dead, must have now begun to echo aloud in the emptiness of the despair of God promised two events: that those clinging to life. “God will visit you Abraham’s descendants would live in and bring you up out of this land to the another land, and that after four hundred land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, years He would bring them back (Gen. and to Jacob” (Gen. 50:24 ESV). 15:13–16). God told Jacob to accept Joseph’s invitation to move to Egypt, and God promised, and God is faithful. The promised Jacob that He would lead them same God is faithful to His people today, back (Gen. 46:3–4). Jacob relayed this no matter the circumstance. “Let us hold promise to Joseph and his sons (Gen. fast the confession of our hope without 48:21). And Joseph also relayed the wavering, for he who promised is promise before he died (Gen. 50:24–25). faithful” (Heb. 10:23 ESV). 3 . SERIES-BASED CURRICULUM . FRISCO BIBLE CHURCH . WHAT DO YOU SEE? WAY OUT People of every age need to experience As background to Exodus 1, first read Genesis 45:4-11, 25–28; 46:1–7, 26–27; 47:27–28; the ‘way out’ that comes only through 50:22–26. God’s gracious hand. The Lord provides freedom for all prisoners who join His Then read Exodus chapter 1 together. people, just as He provided for Israel in What are the three stages of oppression laid on the Hebrews by Pharaoh? the exodus from Egypt. Whatever the struggles of our lives, we can always What is the ostensible reason Pharaoh gives for oppressing the Hebrew people? find a way of conquest by following What is the effect of these oppressions? YHWH and trusting in His name. Who in this chapter is blessed by God, and why? —Wayne Braudrick, Study Notes, Premise of the Series GENESIS 15:3–6 ESV WHAT DOES IT MEAN? And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of Review the promises of God to Abraham: Genesis 12:1–3, 13:14–17, 15:3–6, 15:13–14. my household will be my heir.” And Which of those promises are being fulfilled as events unfold in Exodus 1? behold, the word of the LORD came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; Which of those promises lead to suffering for God’s people? your very own son shall be your heir.” Which promises are being set up for fulfillment through these events? And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the The family of Jacob moved voluntarily (at least as it must have seemed to them) from stars, if you are able to number them.” Canaan to Egypt. As Exodus 1 closes, what are their descendants’ options for leaving? Then he said to him, “So shall your How does the Hebrews’ situation in Exodus 1 mirror every person’s situation before offspring be.” And he believed the God’s rescuing act of salvation occurs in his or her life? What are our options for LORD, and he counted it to him as voluntarily leaving the bondage of sin? righteousness.
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