Exiting Egypt Chapter 6 P5

Exiting Egypt

“God’s Great Encouragement”

By Dennis Lee: Chapter 6 P5

Read Ex. 6:6-8

God begins His encouragement of the people as He did with Moses, He declares just who He is, and that seems to be the way the Lord works. First He tells His name, which tells us who He is, and then declares His promises based upon His name, which declares His character. And these promises that He gives to the people speak to the exact meaning of His name, Jehovah, or Yahweh.

Now, He declares these promises through seven “I wills.”

1. I will bring you out

I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians (Ex. 6:6)

What the Lord is saying is that He and He alone will deliver the people, not Pharaoh, not Moses, and certainly not the people. God himself will come and deliver, and as we will see, He does so through a series of ten plagues, that Egypt describes as nothing less than the finger of God.

Further, He says that He will bring us out from under the burdens, and for us, that means the burdens of life. Burdens are those things that trouble us, which include our worries, concerns, and our problems. And God’s promise is that He will bring us out from under the weight of these burdens.

Peter tells us that we are to cast all of our care, which speaks to the same things as burdens, upon the Lord. Now, the word cast means to throw them and suggests a once and for all throwing. And Jesus tells us that we are to do this by coming to Him, “Come to Me all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest” (Mt. 11:28 NIV).

And so, God’s first promise is to bring us out from under all the burdens of life.

2. I will rescue you

I will rescue you from their bondage (Ex. 6:6)

Other versions say, “I will deliver you.” What a great word this is, it means that God will free and save us from the bondages of life. Now, bondages are different than burdens. Bondages are those things that control us, which in the case of Israel were the Egyptians. But there are other bondages than people. There are bondages people have to possessions, substances (like drugs and alcohol), sins, and attitudes.

How is such a rescue accomplished today, through Jesus. Jesus said, “If the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (Jn. 8:36).