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Exodus 11:1-8: Salvation Only Comes From God

The Plague on the Firstborn
And finally this will bring us to our last Plague Pop: The Plague Pop of Death. Reading from Exodus: 11:1-8:

Now the Lord had said to Moses, “I will bring one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. After that, he will let you go from here, and when he does, he will drive you out completely.

4 So Moses said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. 5 Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. 6 There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt—worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. 7 But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.’ Then you will know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel. 8 All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that I will leave.” Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

12 “On that same night [when] I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood [of the Passover lamb] will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt. 14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.

Something I have noticed about this plague is… 
Just like God saved His people, the Israelites when the Egyptians firstborns died, God has saved us when His firstborn Son, Jesus died. God saved them through the blood of the Lamb and God saves us through the blood of the lamb. Salvation comes from Christ alone. Review: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8, 9,10, 11. What is the Most Important thing to remember about the plagues?

To go with these plague pops that I have been speaking about, we have made enough cake pops for everyone to have at least one after the service and it really is my hope that as we share these cake pops today that we will do it in remembrance of Jesus and all that God has done for us and I truly do hope that from now on whenever we see a cake pop that we might remember that Salvation only comes from God.

Let us pray: Dear God, Please let us remember that salvation only comes from You, from Christ alone. Amen.

 By Sarah-Grace Ramsay
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