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Discipleship Focus: Obedience, Power
- Obedience: Genuine and satisfying obedience comes out of our identity. Our true identity comes only from Father.
- Power: This is the natural outcome when we truly get our authority from the king. When our authority is from God, we are equipped with His power to accomplish His will. We act on His behalf in a world that He desperately loves.
With the conclusion of the plagues, we’ll complete our simultaneous
look at the covenant and kingdom triangles.
Here as Passover and the last plague occur, we have a great look into
obedience and power.
Of course by now we know that obedience comes out of our identity
and our identity comes out of the Father.
We can see this powerfully in this story. God comes to Moses and explains to him the
Passover. He tells the Hebrew people to
trust in the blood of the lamb that they sprinkle over their doorpost. Imagine being obedient to such a
command! Would you be able to stay still
knowing that the only thing that was separating you from death was a little
lamb’s blood? No, this is only possible
because the Hebrew people have understood their identity as God’s people. The act of Passover is an incredible outcome
of an understanding of one’s identity.
However, we also get a great display of power in this
chapter. Of course, there is the power
of God on display in the angel of death.
What an incredible display of power that is. But there is also a display of power on behalf
of the Hebrew people. As I wrote about
yesterday, God enables the Hebrew people to plunder the Egyptians – or perhaps
it is better said that God has put the Egyptians in a position of wanting to
buy an escape out from under God. In
this position, the Hebrew people act out of their authority and embrace the
power of plundering the Egyptians.
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