Our Text taken from the book of Exodus 8:1-16
The story of Moses was a story about the enemies preventing true worshipers from worshiping the true and living God. The devil is a liar and he would do anything to prevent us from going near to God. God gave the 10 plagues to Egypt throughout the land except the Israelites. All ten plagues come because Pharaoh used by the devil would not let the people of God to worship Him.
The ten plagues were turning the 1. Water to Blood - 7:19 2. Frogs 8:2-4 3. Gnats or Lice 8:16 4. Flies - 8:21 5. Livestock Diseased - 9:3 6. Boils - 9:8-9 7. Thunder and Hail - 9:18 8. Locusts 10:4-5 9. Darkness - 10:21-22 10. Death of the Firstborn
A) Exodus 8:8
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and said, "Entreat the LORD that He remove the frogs from me and from my people; and I will let the people go, that they may sacrifice to the LORD."
1st Deception: Pharaoh like the devil is a liar.
B) Exodus 8:28
Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the desert, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me."
New Living Translation (©2007)
"All right, go ahead," Pharaoh replied. "I will let you go into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God. But don't go too far away. Now hurry and pray for me."
2nd Deception: Why? If they go, Pharaoh and his armies would chase them back again with horses and chariots. The devil does not want us to go far too extreme to worship God. Don’t get involved too much.
C) Exodus 8:26
But Moses replied, "That wouldn't be right. The Egyptians detest the sacrifices that we offer to the LORD our God. Look, if we offer our sacrifices here where the Egyptians can see us, they will stone us.
English Standard Version (©2001)
But Moses said, “It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
3rd Deception: No animals sacrifice no worship and the wrong sacrifice also. They were all abomination sacrifice and polluted.
D) Exodus 10:8-11
Pharaoh said, “Go and serve the Lord your God. But who are the ones that are going?”
GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Moses answered, "Everyone! We'll be taking our young and old, our sons and daughters, our flocks and herds with us. For us it's a pilgrimage festival in the LORD'S honor."
King James Bible
And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD.
E) Exodus 10:11- Pharaoh said No so! Go now you who are men only and serve the Lord. Men can go only. 4th Deception: Why? Men will come back to their families sooner or later.
Judgement: Locust came and covered the face of the whole earth and the land was darkened and ate all the trees and greens, plants, etc of the land of Egypt.
F) Exodus 10:24- “Pharaoh said, “Go serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept back. Let the little ones also go with you… but 5th Deception: No sacrifice no worship’
But Moses said, "You must allow us to take [our animals] for the sacrifices and burnt offerings we have to make to the LORD our God. Moses must obey God.
Therefore, our livestock too shall go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we shall take some of them to serve the LORD our God. And until we arrive there, we ourselves do not know with what we shall serve the LORD."
Last judgment – At the Lord’s Passover God was coming against all over the gods of Egypt – Exodus 12:12
But only when I see the blood (symbol cross) I will pass over you. And destroy Egypt with plagues of death. They have to put a lamb’s blood upon the lintel of their doors as God told
them. The plagues came by night and…The first born of Egyptians all died. Likewise, Jesus sacrificed his blood at the cross was enough to get the enemy released all. Why! The blood of Jesus defeated all their enemies. The blood protected the people of God but as the same time destroyed the enemy’s camp.
Today, you and I are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. It is not your deeds or your works. It is not even our good name or good standing. The blood of Jesus is for more than just to save our souls from hell. It is for protection, healing. deliverance and provision. The blood purged our evil conscience. It takes away guilt and condemnation. The blood gives us peace joy and righteousness with God. When we plead the blood of the Lamb over any situation, do it with authority and confidence. The forces of darkness cannot pass through or cross the line of the blood of Jesus shed from the CROSS for us.
Why plead the Power of His Blood?
Hebrews 9:11-14 - "... how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
Hebrews 11:28 - "Through faith he kept the passover, and the SPRINKLING OF BLOOD, lest He that destroyed the firstborn should touch them."
Hebrews 12:24 - "And to Jesus the mediator of the New Covenant, and to THE BLOOD OF SPRINKLING, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."
Revelation 12:11 "And they overcame him (devil) by the blood of the Lamb, and the word of their testimony; and loved not they lives unto the death."
May we have receive all the blessings and protection in the Blood of Jesus today!
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