Exodus Overview

The Book of Exodus's big picture – God’s rescue from the bondage of human depravity not just a historical event from the 1400s BC, it is the great metanarrative for all live. It is always man who corrupts and God who rescues. He does this out of love for us. That rescue has its ultimate fulfillment in Jesus, whose life, death, and resurrection give ALL people the opportunity to be set free from the bondage of their sin; free from its desires in that it gives us hope beyond material pleasures; free from its consequences in that through Christ our sins may be pardoned and washed clean from our record. Time and time again throughout the rest of Exodus through Deuteronomy we read of the many occasions Israel looked back to Egypt and longed for their home among pagan ways, in so doing they transgressed their faith in God and God punished them for it. Today, Paul commands that we shall not continue in sin that grace may abound. Those of us who have been baptized into Christ’s death are raised into a new life with Jesus; this new life is free from the bondage of sin just as Israel was free from the bondage of Egypt. We are free to live for the righteousness of God; just as Israel was made free to become a people who served God. Let us never forget the freedom that is found in Christ, the freedom to be a child of God, the freedom to escape the corruption of this world. Let us embrace our own Exodus from our former lives and seek to live forever in the service of the one true righteous King, Jesus our Lord and Son of God.