Title: God of Wonders Text: Exodus 7-10 Theme: The supremacy of God is displayed in his works of both judgment and salvation. Teaching Notes: Pharaoh refused to obey God’s command to let the Israelites go, asking, “Who is this Yahweh, that I should obey him?” He’s about to find out. Ten plagues (or “strikes”) will reveal his sovereignty over all the gods of the Egyptians and over every facet of creation. Even in judgment, there are numerous opportunities for mercy available to all who choose to fear and trust the LORD. Click on link below: Notes and Questions for Life...
Title: God of Promises Text: Exodus 5-6 Theme: The fulfillment of God’s promises may be delayed for a divine purpose, but it will never, ever be denied. Teaching Notes: Moses must be feeling good after gathering the elders of Israel, telling them of Yahweh’s impending deliverance, and seeing them respond in worship. But Pharaoh has different plans. He doesn’t acknowledge Yahweh, he accuses the Hebrews of laziness, and he doubles their workload. The people groan to Moses in despair, and he openly accuses God of evil. God’s response is to say, “Step back and watch what I do next –...
Title: “I AM” Has Sent You Text: Exodus 3-4 Theme: You must see who you are in light of who God is and what he’s empowering you to be and do. Teaching Notes: After 40 years in the wilderness, Moses encounters an astonishing sight: a bush is burning but not being consumed. The LORD speaks to him out of the bush and commissions him to go to Egypt to liberate his covenant people. But Moses is more focused on his fears and his sense of inadequacy than on who God is and what God has called him to do. Click...
Title: God Prepares A Deliverer Text: Exodus 2 Theme: The Lord uses both the miraculous and the mundane to prepare you to participate in his rescue of others. Teaching Notes: Exodus 1 ended by revealing the Israelites desperate need of a deliverer, and Exodus 2 introduces us to that deliverer. But, spoiler alert, this chapter covers 80 years of Moses’ life – and there’s no deliverance. Instead, God uses a series of events to prepare Moses for his eventual and most famous calling. These are not wasted years; they are formative. How might God be doing the same kind of...
Title: From Favor to Affliction Text: Exodus 1 Theme: The Lord preserves the identity and future of those who fear him. Teaching Notes: We begin the story of Exodus right where Genesis left off, with the twelve sons of Jacob – and they’re multiplying rapidly. The new Pharaoh sees them as a growing threat that must be stopped, using the weapons of slavery and slaughter. So the Israelites go from experiencing God’s favor to experiencing affliction. Where is God? Does he even care? Click on link below: Notes and Questions for Life Application
Title: Formed: Apprentices to Jesus Text: Galatians 2:10 Theme: Pursue the lifelong formation that comes from following Jesus daily. Teaching Notes: Everyone is being formed; the question is by whom or what. Scripture calls followers of Jesus to be intentionally formed as His apprentices, living from union with Him, as the Spirit transforms us into Christ’s image over time through ordinary, faithful rhythms of grace. Click on link below: Notes and Questions for Life Application
Title: First Things First Text: Matthew 6:33; 13:44-46 Theme: Pursue the righteous reign of Christ before all else. Teaching Notes: Everyone is a seeker. We’re all pursuing something we believe will make us happy – will satisfy us. Many of our pursuits provide temporary pleasure followed by shame, emptiness, and more craving. Jesus invites us to a better pursuit. He calls us to seek God first as our sovereign King, our standard of goodness, and the Savior of our every aspect of our lives. Click on link below: Notes and Questions for Life Application
Title: The New Covenant Text: Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ezekiel 36:22-32 Theme: In Christ, God gives us a new heart and a new power to trust and obey. Teaching Notes: With generation after generation of God’s people failing to keep the terms of their covenants with God, God promised a New Covenant. It would be enacted on better promises – and it would be unconditional. God would write his law on hearts, wipe away sin, give personal and direct knowledge of himself, and send the gift of the Spirit. Jesus ratified this New Covenant with his blood, so eternal salvation is found...
Title: The Davidic Covenant Text: 1 Samuel 7:1-17; 1 Chronicles 17:1-15 Theme: Jesus not only fulfills the promises of God, he expands them to include you. Teaching Notes: Hundreds of years after the Exodus, the Israelites decided they wanted a human king just like all the other nations and kingdoms. After a disastrous few decades under their first king, Saul, the Lord chose the shepherd boy David to lead them. And God made a covenant with David that his throne would be established forever. By the end of the Old Testament, however, centuries passed without a king on David’s throne. Then Jesus...
Title: The Abrahamic Covenant Text: Genesis 12:1-7; Galatians 3;6-14 Theme: Jesus fulfilled God’s covenant with Abraham, bringing salvation and blessing to every nation. Teaching Notes: After the Tower of Babel, humanity had again lost the plot of living as God’s people in God’s place under God’s rule, receiving God’s blessing. So God essentially rebooted the storyline with one childless seventy five year old pagan man named Abram. If he trusted and obeyed God, God would make him into a great nation, give him a promised land, and bless all the peoples of the earth through him. Where Abram and his...
