Get Out!

O.T. #164  "Get Out!"
Nov. 7, 2013
Exodus 4-Part 4
Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron during the night. "Get out!" he ordered. Leave my people-and take the rest of the Israelites with you! Go and worship the LORD as you have requested.
Exodus 12:31 NLT

LET IT GLOW

Because the first-born of the Egyptian people and animals on the night of the tenth plague and Passover, Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron that night.
Pharaoh ordered the Israelites to:

• Get out!
• Leave my people.
• Take the rest of the Israelites with you!
• Go and worship the LORD as you have requested.
• Take your flocks and herds, as you said.
• Be gone.
• Go, but bless me as you leave.

These were words long awaited-go, get out, leave. Not only was Pharaoh wanting the Israelites out of the land, so did the Egyptian people (verse 33). They were afraid they would all die.

Are there times that we linger in a place too long? Has the Lord told us to leave a situation and we stay? Do we bless others before we leave?

LET IT GROW

After spending 430 years in Egypt (verse 40), the children of Israel finally got to leave-their Exodus.
What did they take with them?

• bread dough before yeast was added,
• clothing from the Egyptians,
• articles of silver and gold from the Egyptians,
• plus all their stuff.

So the children of Israel were free to leave Egypt.
God's prediction to Abraham that his descendants (seed) would be a stranger in a foreign land, serve the foreigners, and be afflicted by them "four hundred years" (Gen. 15:13).

Are we trusting God to free us from this world when out time to "get out" has come?

LET IT GO

Go worship the LORD Jesus when He opens the door.

Trust Jesus to take us home to heaven.