Sun, Feb 4, 2024 – “You Shall be to Me… A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy Nation” (Exodus 19:1-6)
Part of Exodus: Freed to Worship and Serve—Jan 2023
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2. The Exodus: 12 Miracles/10 Plagues (Exodus 7:8-15:21) Memory Verse(s): Exodus 15:2-3 – 2 The LORD is my strength and my song, and he has become my salvation; this is my God, and I will praise him, my father’s God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name.
3. The Journey to God: Grumbling in the Desert & Preparing for Sinai (Exodus 15:22-18:27) Memory Verse(s): Exodus 16:4 – Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day’s portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
4. The Sinai Covenant (Exodus 19:1-24:11)
5. The Worship of God (Exodus 24:12-31:18)
6. Sin and Restoration (Exodus 32:1-40:38)
(Exodus 19:1-6)
Memory Verse – Exodus 19:4-6b – 4 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.
Exodus 19:1-6 – 1 On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai. 2 They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain, 3 while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel: 4 ‘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.”
Exodus 19:1 – On the third new moon after the people of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on that day they came into the wilderness of Sinai.
19:2 – They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain,
Exodus 3:12 – He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
19:2 – They set out from Rephidim and came into the wilderness of Sinai, and they encamped in the wilderness. There Israel encamped before the mountain,
19:3 – while Moses went up to God. The Lord called to him out of the mountain, saying, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob, and tell the people of Israel:
19:4 – ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
19:5 – 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;
19:6 – 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.”
Exodus 19:4 – ‘You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.
Deuteronomy 32:10 – “He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
19:4 – … I bore them on eagles’ wings.
Deuteronomy 32:11-12 – Like an eagle that stirs up its nest, that flutters over its young, spreading out its wings, catching them, bearing them on its pinions, 12 the LORD alone guided him, no foreign god was with him.
Deuteronomy 7:6-8 – “For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the LORD loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Romans 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Titus 3:4-5, 7 – 4 But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, 7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
1 Peter 2:9-10 – 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
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1. What textual details, words, or phrases in the main passage(s) did you find particularly helpful? What about in any of the other passages cited?
2. According to the sermon, what central message(s) do we find from the text of the main passage(s)?
3. Are there other Biblical passages that help us understand the main passage?
4. From the sermon, what particular insights stand out to you? What was your one takeaway that you need to apply to your personal life?
5. In what areas of your life—spiritual growth, family, work, community, etc.—do you need further or deeper understanding of these truths?
6. What’s really weighing on you that needs prayer and can’t be fixed unless God does something?