Be Ready to Go! Exodus 11-12

Have you ever had a friend or family member that doesn't keep their promises? This person love to say they are going to do this or that, but more often than not doesn't follow through. You take everything they say with a grain of salt knowing they may or mostly like won't do what they adamantly promise. They have great intentions and a good heart, but it's usually a passionate moment that doesn't last. God bless them, they mean well.
This persona is the exact opposite of God.
In Exodus 11 and 12 he tells the people of Israel to "be ready to go". They are to put the full weight of their trust and faith in his promise and hold nothing back, just in case he doesn't follow through.
God wants hearts of faith with full trust in Him.

TIDBITS FROM EXODUS 11-12

• In the tenth and final plague both the firstborn of men and animal die
• This plague causes the Egyptians to highly esteem the Israelites and shower them with gifts
• God provides for His people so that if they trust Him they will not only escape the plague that is to come, they will also be free from slavery.
• Because in this plague the angel that carries death passes over Israel it will become the Passover ceremony still celebrated today by the Jewish people.
• Jesus in so many places in scripture gives us a foretaste of Himself as the lamb that takes the sins of the world. The instructions He gives the Israelites to prepare and eat this lamb have special significance.
• 2 Peter 3:9New International Version (NIV)⁹ The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

• 1 Corinthians 1:18-25 
• ¹⁸ For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. ¹⁹ For it is written:
• “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
•     the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”^[a]
• Romans 10:9New International Version (NIV) ⁹ If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
• Romans 5:8New International Version (NIV)
• ⁸ But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
• Romans 3:22-24New International Version (NIV)
• ²² This righteousness is given through faith in^[a] Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference between Jew and Gentile, ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.

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