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Key Question:

What Is A Wilderness Season?

A season of life where things are:

• Difficult
• Confusing
• Disorienting
• Uphill
• Out of the ordinary

Wilderness Seasons are a MAJOR PART of the Christian Walk

• We anticipate them

A WILDERNESS SEASON IS WHERE WE LEARN WHO GOD IS, HOW HE LOVES US, AND HOW WE SHOULD INTERACT WITH HIM

1 Peter 1:6-7

6 You rejoice in this, even though now for a short time, if necessary, you suffer grief in various trials 7 so that the proven character of your faith—more valuable than gold which, though perishable, is refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
This series is about MAKING THE MOST out of these seasons

• Don’t waste pain
• Learn what God is teaching

We will be looking at the TRUE story of the EXODUS

The freeing of the people of God (Israel) from captivity in Egypt

One of the most powerful stories in human history

The story up to this point:

• Joseph
• 400 years in Egypt

Exodus 1:13-14

13 They worked the Israelites ruthlessly 14 and made their lives bitter with difficult labor in brick and mortar and in all kinds of fieldwork. They ruthlessly imposed all this work on them.

The Exodus story is also Moses’ story

• Placed into a basket on the Nile
• Rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter
• Raised in Pharaoh’s Household
• Kills an Egyptian taskmaster
• Flees to the “WILDERNESS” for 40 years
• Burning Bush
• God sends him BACK to Egypt

The Great Rescue
We have a people who are:

• Oppressed
• Broken
• Tired
• Under Pressure
• Stuck
• LOST

Step 1 of God’s Rescue is:

Exodus 6

2 Then God spoke to Moses, telling him, “I am the Lord. 3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I was not known to them by my name ‘the Lord.’ 4 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as aliens. 5 Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant.

6 “Therefore tell the Israelites: I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians and rescue you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment. 7 I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from the forced labor of the Egyptians. 8 I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord.” 9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit and hard labor.
Israel’s freedom is found in God (Yahweh) ALONE

God is REINTRODUCING himself to his people

• He reminds them of His promise to their ancestors

But the people DO NOT believe

• They are so broken
• So LOST

How will God free them from the most powerful kingdom in the known world?

Step 2 of God’s Rescue is:

Exodus 7

1 The Lord answered Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet. 2 You must say whatever I command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh so that he will let the Israelites go from his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart and multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt. 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put my hand into Egypt and bring the milita