EXODUS
Key Verse: I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with
great judgments:
And I will take you to me for a people,
Ex 6:6-7.
A. ISRAEL REDEEMED FROM EGYPTIAN SLAVERY, 1-19
1. Moses and the gods of Egypt: I will take
you for My people, 1-11
2. The Passover and exodus from Egypt: The
Egyptians will know that I am God, 12-19
B. ISRAEL PREPARED FOR THEOCRATIC LIVING, 20-40
3. Ratifying God's covenant by blood: Israel
becomes a theocratic nation, 20-24
4. Blueprint of the tabernacle: The way
by which God can live among sinful man, 25-27
5. Blueprint of the tabernacle: The way
by which man can come to the holy God, 28-31
6. Breaking the Law: Moses standing in the
gap between a holy God and sinners, 32-34
7. God's workmen: All work is a calling
and is dignified in God's sight, 35-39
8. God dwelling on earth: God descending
to live in the tabernacle among sinners, 40
C. CONCLUSION: THE TABERNACLE IS GOD'S PORTRAIT OF CHRIST.
9. The Law with its ritual was a shadow
of things to come, which reality is Christ.
Jesus said,
"Come to Me," not by obeying the Law but by believing in the
Lamb
of God, who
takes away the sin of the world by His sin offering on the cross.
He alone gives
life everlasting to those who believe like faithful Abraham.