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She Did What She Could Do
Series: Exodus

Speaker: Chris Oswald
Sunday Morning
Date: 12th May 2024
Passage: Exodus 2:1-10

Understanding Covenant Theology
Speaker: Chris Oswald
Date: 6th May 2024
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Originally preached on July 24 2022 at Providence Community Church

Exodus: The Serpent & The Seed
Series: Exodus

Speaker: Micheal Meador
Date: 5th May 2024

Overview: Israel in the Exodus
Series: Exodus

Speaker: Chris Oswald
Sunday Morning
Date: 28th April 2024
Passage: Exodus 1:1
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I. Exodus
Let’s start with the title of the book: Exodus
Most people don’t know that there’s an actual exodus pattern that shows up over and over again in the bible.
First, let me define the word Exodus.
James B. Jordan says that “Exodus is a movement brought by God from an old place to a new place. From a worse place to a better place.”
In broad strokes, the pattern has three phases:
Old state - Egypt (slavery, sin, stuck)
Middle state - Wilderness (waiting on the Lord, struggling, enduring)
New state - Promise Land (resolution, strengthened, confirmed, established)
We see two Exoduses in Adam’s story.
Adam 1:
Old state: Adam’s creation
Middle state: Adam watches God create the garden
New state: Adam is moved into the garden
Adam 2:
In Genesis 2, God looks at Adam and says, it is not good for man to be alone. I will make a helper for him. And he caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep. And when he awoke, Adam was in a new place (or a new state).
Noah:
Noah moves from an old world to a new world. And probably the most famous thing about Noah is his ark. The ark is his middle state.
Abram:
From there we could talk about Abram. Leave your father’s household and go to the place I will show you. And as we know, Abram moved out of the land, along with a substantial amount of wealth, and entered an in-between state. There was a famine in the land.
This in between state is almost always testing and trust oriented. It often looks like death (or flirts with death). There’s usually an opportunity to get into trouble, to doubt God, succumb to some kind of temptation, etc…
Now Abraham goes through multiple exodus. And we begin to see another them in the exodus pattern. Deception and plunder.
Abraham went into Egypt, the Pharaoh attempted to conscript Sari into his harem. There’s some deception going on in this story. Abram tells Pharaoh Sari is his sister. Pharaoh gives him a whole bunch of livestock. But Pharaoh is in the wrong, he’s holding someone that isn’t his to hold. Plagues befall Pharoah’s household. Pharaoh sends Abram and Sari out of the land.
Same thing happens in chapter 20 with Abimelech - another king. Takes Sari into his harem. God visits him in a dream tells him he’s dead if he doesn’t return her to Abram. Abimelech gives Abram a bunch of livestock and servants and sends him off.
By the time we get to Jacob, the pattern is very developed.
Jacob goes through multiple Exodus. He uses deception to plunder Esau’s blessing and birthright. He moves out of the inferior state into the superior state.
He then goes to Laban’s household. And becomes a slave. Jacob is a prefiguring of the nation of Israel. Laban is a prefiguring of Pharoah. Laban deals treacherously with him. He keeps renegotiating their deal — why? Because Jacob gets winning. He is more and more fruitful (And there’s some deception going back and forth). All of this comes to a head when God tells Jacob to take all of his wealth and his wives and flee the land of Laban. Rachel plunder’s Laban’s idol. Laban pursues him. God meets with Laban and tells him, “let my people go.” Laban listens. Jacob flees into the wilderness.
So that’s the Exodus pattern. God moves a person from a bad place to a better place — and there’s always some time spent in a middle place. Sometimes there’s deception involved in leaving the bad place. There is almost always plunder of some kind.
Now here’s why I think its important for you to know about this. That pattern is core to our Christian experience. God moves us from one place to another place with some middle place playing a key role.
As we know, the Exodus is a picture of salvation. The movement out of slavery to sin and into Christian freedom. Ultimately into the New Heavens and the New Earth — the promise land of promise la

The Status of the Jews in the New Covenant
Speaker: Chris Oswald
Podcast
Date: 27th April 2024
Passage: Genesis 12:1-5
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In this podcast, pastor Chris presents the classic reformed view regarding the status of the Jews in the New Covenant. He also addresses how we ought to think about the current nation of Israel and concludes the podcast sharing the gospel with Jewish friends.

Chris & Dov Talk Forgiveness
Podcast
Date: 21st April 2024