Reference

Exodus 13:1-16

Sermon Slides

Sermon Notes

I. We ________________ to the LORD (v. 1-2)

II. ________________ has delivered us (v. 3-16)

A.  ________________ is a reminder of God’s deliverance (v. 3-10)

B. We need to teach our ________________ (v. 8-16)

Going Deeper

  1. Read Exodus 13:1-2. Now read Numbers 8:17. What is the Lord claiming? Why is he claiming the firstborn? Read 1 Peter 2:9. How has God claimed us? What should we do in response?
  2. Read 1 Cor. 6:18-20. Why is sexual sin so damaging? Whose are we? How does this help you battle with sexual temptation? Memorize Romans 13:14. When you are tempted, quote that verse in your heart!
  3. Why does God establish the Passover and the Feast of unleavened bread (see Exodus 13:3-5). What reminders has God given us today that He has delivered us out of sin and slavery and eternal death
  4. Read Exodus 13:8-10. If you have kids, in what ways are you teaching them about the Lord? What are some new ways you will teach them about the Lord?
  5. Read Exodus 13:11-13. Lambs being sacrificed for Donkeys? This is confusing! R. Kent Hughes explains:
    The Israelites were allowed to use donkeys as pack animals, but they were not permitted to eat them or to offer them as sacrifices. God considered them ceremonially unclean and therefore unacceptable to use for a holy sacrifice. However, the firstborn donkey still belonged to the Lord; so he had to be given over somehow. How was this to be done? One option was simply to break the donkey’s neck, but the owner could also redeem the donkey by offering a lamb in its place. To redeem is to buy back through the payment of a price. In this case the cost of redemption was the sacrifice of a lamb offered as the donkey’s substitute. What about firstborn sons? Believe it or not, they fell into the same category as donkeys! No sooner had Moses given the instructions for donkeys than he went on to say, “Redeem every firstborn among your sons” (Exod. 13:13b). This comparison is worth reflecting on for a
    moment. Donkeys were unclean. This was not so much a matter of hygiene as of spiritual principle. God had divided the animals between clean and unclean in order to teach his people how to distinguish between the sacred and the secular, the holy and the unholy. By setting certain things apart as holy to the Lord, the Israelites learned that they too were set apart for God’s service. But here in Exodus 13 God places his people in the same category as donkeys. This showed them that they were sinners in need of salvation. In a word, they needed to be redeemed. Otherwise they would perish, as the donkeys did if they were unredeemed.
  6. R. Kent Hughes says: “One reason God gave his people so many ways to commemorate the exodus — Passover, the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the consecration of the firstborn — was so they would have plenty of opportunities to give their children the facts of salvation.”
  7. Read 1 Peter 2:24. R. G. Lee in a sermon: “Jesus Christ becoming for all sinners all that God must judge, that sinners through faith in Christ Jesus might become all that God cannot judge.”
  8. Peter Enns: “The consecration of the firstborn is a reminder of the once-for-all substitutionary death of the beloved firstborn Son who is to come.”
  9. Alec Motyer: “Such a work of salvation needs no repetition and requires no re-presentation. It cannot be amplified; it can only be remembered.”
  10. Alec Motyer: “At Calvary, by ‘the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all’, everything that God required to be done, and we sinners needed to have done on our behalf, was accomplished, and accomplished so finally, fully and effectively that the sins of those for whom he died are not even remembered in heaven (Heb. 10:10-18). No further sacrifice for sins is possible (Heb. 10:18).” Read Hebrews 10:10-18. What is the good news according to these verses? What has God done for us? With whom do you need to share this good news this week?