Sermon Series: Exodus: The Gospel According to the Old Testament
Sermon Text: Exodus 12:29-42
Sermon Title: “The Great and Greater Exodus”
Sermon Slides:
SLIDE 1 – Today’s Big Idea: The Exodus Solves an “Egypt-Sized” Problem.But a “World-Sized” Problem Needs a Greater Exodus.
SLIDE 2 – Sermon Point 1 – The Great Exodus … is Out of Egypt (Ex. 12:29-42)
SLIDE 3 – Genesis 47:1-7 – “So Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, ‘My father and my brothers … have come from the land of Canaan … ‘We have come to sojourn in the land … for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan.’ Then Pharaoh said to Joseph … ‘The land of Egypt is before you … Let them settle in the land of Goshen’ … Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.’’’”
SLIDE 4 – Mark 10:29-30 – “Jesus said, ‘Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time … with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.’”
SLIDE 5 – Sermon Point 2 – The Greater Exodus … is Out of the Grave(Jn. 20:1-9)
SLIDE 6 – John 20:1-9 – “Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, ‘They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.’ So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen cloths lying there, and the face cloth, which had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the linen cloths but folded up in a place by itself. Then the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went in, and he saw and believed; for as yet they did not understand the Scripture, that he must rise from the dead.”
SLIDE 7 – Deut. 18:15 – “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen.”
SLIDE 8 – Matthew 17:5-6 – “He [Peter] was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
SLIDE 9 – John 8:34-36 – “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin … if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”
SLIDE 10 – 1 John 3:8 – “Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.”
SLIDE 11 – 1 Corinthians 15:20-24 – “But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep … For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive. But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.”
SLIDE 12 – Three Uses of This Sermon for Your Life
SLIDE 13 – Jesus Christ Ties Together both the Old and New Testaments.
SLIDE 14 – Our Escape from Sin … is Not Escapism from this World.
SLIDE 15 – Christ’s Resurrection Victory Means We Now Belong and Live for Him.