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New Life!!New Life!!

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Real Life…

…overcomes sin!…overcomes sin!

There is

ONLY ONE

Power over sin!!

There is

ONLY ONE

Power over sin!!

Only when Jesus shines in our hearts…

Only when Jesus shines in our hearts…

Then we become NEW people with

REAL LIFE!Then we become NEW people with

REAL LIFE!

God wants us to have new life!

But what’s wrong with the old?

S L A V E R Y !!

EXODUS 1:8-10 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt. “Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become far too numerous for us. Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

What made the Israelites slaves?

• First, who? Pharaoh

• Pharaoh was a fearful person.

• A person full of fear made them slaves.

• So, what makes people slaves?

USING A LITTLE

FEAR!!!

So what makes people slaves?

FEAR!!!

What does fear do?

EXODUS 1:11-14 So they put slave masters over them to oppress them

with forced labor, and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for

Pharaoh. But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied

and spread; so the Egyptians came to dread the Israelites and worked them

ruthlessly. They made their lives bitter with harsh labor in brick and

mortar and with all kinds of work in the fields; in all their harsh labor the

Egyptians worked them ruthlessly.

Fear makes people mean and cruel.

Fear makes people want more and bigger stuff they can see and touch.

FEAR!!!

What else does

fear do?

EXODUS 1:15, 16 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew

midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah, “When you are helping the Hebrew women during childbirth on the delivery stool, if you see that the baby is a boy, kill him; but if it is a girl,

let her live.”

Fear kills! Even babies.

What else does fear do?

WHY?!!

Why was the pharaoh so fearful?

EXODUS 1:10b,c “…or they will become

even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

Fear has no room for trust and love!

Fear only knows how to be afraid.

Fear is afraid of losing.

doesn’t

know

how to

REALLY

WIN!

And what for?

EXODUS 1:11a

“So they put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced

labor...”

EXODUS 1:11b “…and they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for

Pharaoh.”

So, what’s wrong with the OLD?• Slavery to Fear• No trust – some people aren’t worth much• No love – some people are to be used• No justice – some people don’t deserve a life• The old life is about storing up stuff for the rich.

How will the Israelites get away from the old?

How would the Israelites get away from slavery to

fear?