Leaving Egypt

For the children of God, Egypt was a place of burdens and bondage. They looked to the Lord to save and deliver them, and he answered their cry.

Exodus 6:6 KJV - Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

Sin is like Egypt – it is a burden that is a heavy weight and bondage that only Jesus can save and deliver us from.

Just as Pharaoh ruled Egypt, the devil is the ruler, the god of this world (2Cor.4:4).

Just as the Lord’s stretched out arm - God’s power to redeem, brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, the arm of the Lord – God in a human body – is able to bring us out of sin.

Isaiah 53:1, 5 KJV - Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? … He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

Just as God judged Egypt, God judged his own flesh on the cross. It was through water – the Red Sea – that the children of Israel were saved, and Pharaoh and his armies destroyed (Ex.15:19).

When we leave Egypt – a life of sin – by repentance, we are on the path to God’s promised inheritance of eternal life with Jesus in heaven (Rom.6:23, Acts 26:18).

Jesus saves us by water – baptism in Jesus name for the remission of our sins – destroying sin and the devil in our life (Mark 16:16, 1Pet.3:21, Heb.2:14-15, Rom.6:3-6, Acts 2:38).

Jesus promises us the gift of his Holy Ghost to give us power to live holy (Acts 2:38, Acts 1:8). The Holy Ghost is God’s Spirit in us, to lead and guide us in righteous living (John 14:26). It is the earnest of our inheritance (Eph.1:13-14).

To leave Egypt, we need to leave all the things of the world that would drag us back to our old life of sin. The god of this world, the devil, would like to keep us blind to the ways of God (2Cor.4:4, Acts 26:18).

To keep from failing and to become stronger in Jesus daily, we must guard what we watch, what we listen to, what we read, and where we go (1John 2:15-17, Luke 9:23-26, Heb.12:1).

Jesus has equipped us with His name, His blood, and His Spirit. Through Jesus we have the victory!