(09-08-19) Ptr. Lynard Molo
5,467 promises written in the Bible.
=Exodus Sermon Series: The Promise Keeper=
Ex: out
Odus: going out
Exodus: way going out
"How faithful is our God to His People?"
*Exodus 1:1-8
"1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who went to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family:
2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah;
3 Issachar, Zebulun and Benjamin;
4 Dan and Naphtali; Gad and Asher.
5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt.
*Goshen is described as the best land in Egypt suitable fot both crops and livestock.
6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,
7 but the Israelites were fruitful and multiplied greatly and became exceedingly numerous, so that the land was filled with them.
God's promises to Abraham:
*Genesis 12:2
"2 "I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
*Genesis 15:5
"5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars--if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be."
God's promises to Isaac:
*Genesis 26:4
"4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
God's promises to Jacob:
*Genesis 32:12
"12 But you have said, 'I will surely make you prosper and will make your descendants like the sand of the sea, which cannot be counted.' "
8 Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power in Egypt.
9 "Look," he said to his people, "the Israelites have become much too numerous for us.
How the Pharaoh controlled the rapid multiplication of the Jewish people?
1. Through afflicting the adults
*Exodus 1:10-14
"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."
11 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites
13 and worked them ruthlessly.
14 They made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their hard labor the Egyptians used them ruthlessly.
2. Killing the Jewish boys at birth.
*Exodus 1:15-21
"15 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
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."
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.
*Do not compromise your faith.
18 Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, "Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?"
19 The midwives answered Pharaoh, "Hebrew women are not like Egyptian women; they are vigorous and give birth before the midwives arrive."
20 So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.
21 And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of their own.
3. By drowning the male babies.
*Exodus 1:22
"22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: "Every boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live."
"God is faithful to His Promises.
God is faithful to His People."
God's Promises:
1. Are true and never change.
2. He fulfills His promises.
*Number 23:19
"19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?"
3. No one can hinder His promises.
4. It remains forever.
*Matthew 24:35
"35 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.
Application:
1. Believe on His Promises.
*Hebrews 11:1
"1 Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
2. Stand on His Promises.
3. Claim His Promises.
4. Keep His Promises.
