What is your security built on when money cannot stop illness and the best-laid plans collapse in a single moment? This sermon takes us to Egypt, where through ten plagues God shows Pharaoh, and us, that everything we build our lives on apart from Him sooner or later proves insufficient (Exodus 7-12). The story of Pharaoh’s hardened heart and the blood of the Passover lamb leads straight to Christ, the true Lamb who brings us out of slavery to sin. Listen and ask yourself whether your hope lies in how tightly you hold on to God, or in the fact that God holds tightly on to you.
Discussion questions
For your small group or for personal reflection after the sermon.
- In Exodus 7:5 God says the Egyptians will know that He is the Lord. How does this verse help explain why God sent ten plagues instead of freeing Israel right away?
- The plagues struck what Egypt trusted most, such as the Nile, its source of life. What do these events reveal about the power of Pharaoh and his magicians compared with God?
- During each plague Pharaoh asked for prayer and promised to let the people go, but once relief came he went back to his old ways. Where do you see the same pattern in your own life or prayers?
- The sermon says Pharaoh's problem was not a lack of evidence but an unwillingness to acknowledge God as Lord. Why do more miracles not always lead to a changed heart?
- God said: when I see the blood, I will pass over you. What does the story of the two fathers, one at peace and one trembling with fear, teach you about what your salvation in Christ, the Lamb of God, rests on?
- What does your sense of security really rest on today: money, career, health, control? What one area do you want to deliberately entrust to God this week?
