10/02/16 Sermon Pastor Seth Gatchell Pacific Church of Irvine www.pacificchurch.com 4th message in a series entitled, "The Story"

1. The Story
Deliverance

2. Genesis gave us insightful looks into four categories of life:
a. Who is God?
b. Who is man?
c. What's wrong with man?
d. How can man be fixed?

3. Exodus 1:7 "Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites
have become much too numerous for us. 10 Come, we
must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even
more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our
enemies, fight against us and leave the country."

4. Exodus 1:16 "When you help the Hebrew women in
childbirth and observe them on the delivery stool, if it is a
boy, kill him; but if it is a girl, let her live."

5. 17 The midwives, however feared God and did not do what
the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys
live.

6. Genesis 15:13 Then the LORD said to him, "Know for
certain that your descendants will be strangers in a country
not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated
four hundred years. 14 But I will punish the nation they
serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with
great possessions.

7. God reveals His ______.
Exodus 3:1 Now Moses ... came to Horeb, the mountain
of God.
nature

8. God reveals His ______.
2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in flames
of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the
bush was on fire it did not burn up.
nature

9. God reveals His ______.
4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God
called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And
Moses said, "Here I am."
nature

10. God reveals His ______.
5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off your
sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy
ground."
nature

11. God reveals His ______.
6 Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob." At this,
Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
nature

12. God reveals His _____.
Exodus 3:7 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the
misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying
out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned
about their suffering.
heart

13. God reveals His _____.
8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of
the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a
good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and
honey….
heart

14. God reveals His _____.
9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I
have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
heart

15. God reveals His _____.
10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my
people the Israelites out of Egypt." 11 But Moses said to
God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the
Israelites out of Egypt?"
heart

16. God reveals His _____.
12 And God said, "I will be with you. And this will be the
sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have
brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on
this mountain."
heart

17. God reveals His _____.
Exodus 3:13 Moses said to God, "Suppose I go to the
Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your fathers has
sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is his name?' Then
what shall I tell them?" 14 God said to Moses, "I AM
WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: 'I
AM has sent me to you.'"
name

18. God reveals His _____.
Exodus 6:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Now you will
see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand
he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will
drive them out of his country."
power

19. God reveals His _____.
Exodus 6:6 "Therefore, say to the Israelites: 'I am the
LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of
the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them,
and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with
mighty acts of judgment.
power

20. God reveals His _____.
7 I will take you as my own people, and I will be your
God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out from under the yoke of the
Egyptians.
power

21. God reveals His _____.
8 "And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted
hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give
it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.'"
power

22. Passover
Exodus 12:7 Then they are to take some of the blood and
put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the
houses where they eat the lambs.

23. Passover
12 "On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike
down every firstborn - both men and animals--and I will
bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

24. Passover
13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where
you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you.
No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

25. Deliverance!
Exodus 14:29 But the Israelites went through the sea on
dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their
left.

26. Deliverance!
30 That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the
Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the
shore.

27. Deliverance!
31 And when the Israelites saw the great power the LORD
displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the
LORD and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.

29. Deliverance!
John 1:29 Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the
sins of the world.

30. Deliverance!
1 Corinthians 5:7 For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been
sacrificed.

31. The Story
Deliverance