Hebrews 11:28-31

📖  John 17:15-16 ESV I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

📖  Galatians 1:4 ESV who gave himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father.

Everybody in this room is carrying 3 questions:

1. Am I okay with God?

2. Can I ever really get free of my old life?

3. Where do I belong?

How does our faith in God get us out of the world?

1. When God sees the , judgment passes . 

📖  Exodus 12:12-13 ESV For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD. 13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

God doesn’t check the . He checks the .

📖  Leviticus 17:11 ESV For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it for you on the altar to make atonement for your souls, for it is the blood that makes atonement by the life.

📖  Hebrews 9:22 ESV Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

📖  John 1:29 ESV The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, "Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!"

📖  Romans 5:9 ESV Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.

📖  Exodus 12:22 ESV ...None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

📖  Exodus 12:11 ESV In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover.

2. When I go through the , my old master can’t follow me . 

📖  Exodus 14:7-8 NLT He took with him 600 of Egypt’s best chariots, along with the rest of the chariots of Egypt, each with its commander. 8 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, so he chased after the people of Israel.

📖  Exodus 14:11-14 ESV Is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us away to die in the wilderness?…12 It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness. 13 And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again. 14 The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent."

📖  Exodus 14:30 ESV Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

The blood handled the judgment. The cut them off from the old master.

📖  1 Corinthians 10:1-2 ESV For I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, 2 and all were baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea.

📖  Colossians 2:12 ESV having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

📖  Galatians 3:27 ESV For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

3. When I come out, God’s welcomes me . 

📖  Joshua 2:15 ESV Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.

📖  Joshua 2:9-11 ESV I know that the LORD has given you the land... 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt…11 for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.

📖  Hebrews 11:31 ESV By faith Rahab the prostitute did not perish with those who were disobedient, because she had given a friendly welcome to the spies.

📖  Joshua 2:18 ESV Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.

Walls to that looks .

📖  Joshua 6:25 ESV But Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

📖  Matthew 1:5 ESV and Salmon the father of Boaz by Rahab, and Boaz the father of Obed by Ruth, and Obed the father of Jesse.

📖  John 1:12 ESV But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.

📖  Hebrews 10:24-25 ESV And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

📖  Hebrews 13:2 ESV Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

📖  Romans 15:7 ESV Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Sermon in a Sentence: 

Faith doesn’t just save me from the world, it walks me of it: Jesus’ blood passes judgment me, the water brings me and cuts off my old master, and God’s family welcomes me .

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