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BACK FOR A GREATER PURPOSE Series: 3 Steps Forward… 2 Steps Back Pastor Shawn Mitchell February 7, 2021

TEXT: Exodus 5:1-23 ​ ​

Key Point: God often uses a setback to move us forward. ​ ​

I. SET BACK FOR A GREATER PURPOSE

1. Face to Face with Pharoah Exodus 5:1-14 ​ ​

V1 Let my people go : The King & God of Egypt

V2 “I don’t know the Lord”

V3 But God has told

2.Facing Adversity Exodus 5:15-19 ​

V15 Why is this happening?

V19 In trouble = Adversity

V21-23 Things were bad… Now they’re worse

3.Facing Discouragement Exodus 5:20-23 ​

V21 – Jewish Elders

V22 – Moses and Aaron

Key Phrase: Why Me?! ​ ​

4.Facing Resentment Exodus 7:3 ​ ​

6:8 “I will bring you to the land… I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.”

6:9 … but they did not listen to Him because of their discouragement and harsh labor.

5.Face to Face with God! Exodus 5:22; 6:1,2,10-13,28,29 ​ ​ ​

V6-8 The 7 “I Wills” of God ​ ​

THE PLAGUES OF GOD AND THE GODS OF EGYPT

Plagues Extent Egyptian ​ Attacked by the Plagues

1. Water turned to blood “All the land of Egypt” -god of the (7:14-25) (7:21b) -goddess of the Nile -guardian of the Nile 2. Frogs “Covered the land of -goddess of birth, with a frog (8:1-5) Egypt” (8:6b) head 3. Gnats (or “All the land of Egypt” Set-god of the desert mosquitoes) (8:17b) (8:16-19) 4. Insects (or flies) “All the land of Egypt” Re-a sun god (8:20-32) (8:24b) Uatchit-a god possibly represented by the fly

5. Livestock epidemic “All the livestock of Egypt -goddess with a cow head (9:1-7) died” (9:6b) -the bull god, symbol of fertility - of Heliopolis

6. Boils “On man and beast -goddess with power over (9:8-12) through all the land of disease Egypt” (9:9b) Sunu-the pestilence god Isis-goddess of healing 7. Hailstorm “All the land of Egypt” -a sky goddess (9:13-35) (9:25a) -god of crops & fertility Set-god of storms Seth-protector of crops 8. Locust “All the land of Egypt” Nut-a sky goddess (10:1-20) (10:14a) Osiris-god of crops & fertility Seth-protector of crops

9. Darkness “All the land of Egypt” Re,,,-all sun gods (10:21-29) (10:22b) Nut,Hathor-sky goddess

10. Death of firstborns “All the firstborn in the -god of reproduction (11:1-12:32) land of Egypt” (12:29a) Isis-goddess who protected children Heqet-goddess of birth Pharoah’s firstborn son-a god