He Brought Us Out to Bring Us In! Exodus 1-4

Exodus 3:7-9 (ESV Strong's)
7 Then the LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

He Brought Us Out to Bring Us In!

The story of God rescuing Israel from the bondage of slavery to the Egyptians is a story of redemption.  It is a picture of God saving us from our slavery to sin.   Egypt, in this picture, is the land of sin.  We always seem to want to return there (as we will see the Israelites want to do over and over in the book of Exodus).   God will, eventually, bring them out after God slays the first born of the land (a picture of Christ’s death).   But, God did not just want to “bring them out of the land of Egypt,” he wants to bring them into the the “promise land.”  As Egypt is a picture of the land of sin, the Promise Land is a picture of the sanctified, holy believer living on promises of God’s rich blessing of grace.   God does not JUST want to save us from sin, He also wants to bring us into a victorious live of living in His abundant grace.   God saved us to give us victory of the slavery to sin, but also victory in our lives each day in His grace.   This is not always physical blessings.  But, it is always victory in His grace.   Some believers will believe that Jesus died for their sins and they are set free from the penalty of sin.  But, they will not always realize that God saved us FOR something ... to walk in the victory of His grace.   That is the story of Jesus redeeming the Israelites and bringing them into the promise land.  It is God saving us from our death penalty and into a victorious walk in grace by His Spirit.