1. Exodus 1 The Deliverance of God

2.  Creation account (ch.1-2)  Temptation & fall (ch.3)  First murder - Cain & Abel (ch.4)  Noah & the flood (ch.6-9)  Babel (ch.11)  Abraham (ch.12-17)  Abraham’s faith (ch.20-21)  God’s provision of Isaac & Abraham’s test (ch.22)  Sodom & Gomorrah (ch.18-19)  Isaac’s Sons Esau & Jacob (ch.25)  Isaac had learned from Abraham (ch.26)  Jacob the deceiver (ch.29-33)  Joseph (ch.37-50)  His faithfulness under trail  God’s provision for the family  God’s redemptive plan for man  The family in Egypt (ch. 50)  The narrative continues (Exodus 1:6) A review of Genesis

3. Exodus 1:1-22

4. The narrative continues Then Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation. Exodus 1:6 (ESV)

5. God Blessed Israel But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them. Exodus 1:7 (ESV)

6. God Blessed Israel Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. Exodus 1:8 (ESV)  God was preparing & preserving Israel  God was blessing them  There was a problem

7. The New King And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.” Exodus 1:9 (ESV)  New family dynasty  Motivated by fear  Not motivated by love

8. The New King Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.” Exodus 1:10 (ESV)  New family dynasty  Motivated by fear  Not motivated by love

9. A Series of Wicked Plans Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses. Exodus 1:11 (ESV)  #1 hard labor But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. Exodus 1:12 (ESV)

10. A Series of Wicked Plans So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves. Exodus 1:13-14 (ESV)  #2 make life harder

11. A Series of Wicked Plans Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other Puah, “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.” Exodus 1:15-16 (ESV)  #3 kill every son

12. A Series of Wicked Plans But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. Exodus 1:17 (ESV)  #3 kill every son

13. A Series of Wicked Plans Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.” Exodus 1:22 (ESV)  #4 throw boys in the Nile

14. How far fear will take you

15. A Tale of Two Fears  The king feared man  The midwives feared God But the midwives feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but let the male children live. Exodus 1:17 (ESV) So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this, and let the male children live?” Exodus 1:18 (ESV)

16. A Tale of God’s Blessings  Israel  The midwives So God dealt well with the midwives. And the people multiplied and grew very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families. Exodus 1:20-21 (ESV)

17. Fear… …or trusting God