Part 2 | Thou Shalt Not Negotiate
From Exodus 8-19
God’s in :
1. God sets us free from the to Him.
📖 Exodus 8:1 ESV Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.”’”
📖 Matthew 20:28 ESV “Even as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
2. God sets us free from the to Him.
📖 Exodus 10:9 ESV Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
📖 Proverbs 10:22 NIV The blessing of the LORD brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
3. God sets us free from to Him.
📖 Exodus 11:1 ESV The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.”
4. God sets us free from to with Him.
📖 Exodus 19:4–6 ESV “‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 5 Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine; 6 and you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the people of Israel.”
📖 Romans 5:17 ESV For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
📖 Genesis 1:28 ESV And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
The wants to me out of my .
First Negotiation: “Worship the Lord without Leaving Egypt.”
📖 Exodus 8:25–27 ESV Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.” 26 But Moses said, “It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us? 27 We must go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as He tells us.”
1. The enemy wants me to settle for .
📖 1 Corinthians 3:1–3 ESV But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ. 2 I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for it. And even now you are not yet ready, 3 for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
📖 Romans 8:5 ESV For those who live according to the flesh (carnality) set their minds on the things of the flesh…
📖 Romans 8:6–7 ESV For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. 7 For the mind that is set on the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God’s law; indeed, it cannot.
Second Negotiation: “Don’t go too far.”
📖 Exodus 8:28 ESV So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you must not go very far away. Plead for me.”
2. The enemy wants me to settle for .
📖 Revelation 3:15–16 ESV “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! 16 So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.”
📖 Revelation 3:17 ESV For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
Third Negotiation: “Go, but leave your children.”
📖 Exodus 10:8–11 ESV So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, “Go, serve the LORD your God. But which ones are to go?” 9 Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.” 10 But he said to them, “The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind. 11 No! Go, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.
3. The enemy wants me to settle for .
📖 Exodus 3:6 ESV And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
📖 Genesis 1:26 ESV Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion…”
Fourth Negotiation: “Go, but leave your treasure in Egypt.”
📖 Exodus 10:24–26 ESV Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve the LORD; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.” 25 But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God. 26 Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.”
4. The enemy wants me to settle for .
📖 Luke 14:28 ESV For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
📖 Luke 14:33 ESV So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Sermon in a Sentence:
True means coming of the world and going with Christ, holding .
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