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The Israelites knew they were powerless against the Egyptians, but they were still not entirely trusting in God to save them.

The Israelites could see the protection that God put between them and the Egyptians. If we trust God to protect us, He will separate us from the sins that spoil our lives.

The enemy was defeated by God’s power and our enemy, sin, can be defeated if we trust in the Lord Jesus and repent of our sins.

The Lord Jesus died on the cross to take the punishment for our sins. He protects us from being punished if we repent and believe in Him.

Yes, God had promised His people that He would give them their own country where they could live in peace and freedom. It was the land of Canaan and is referred to as the ‘Promised Land’ in the Bible.

Yes, God guided the people throughout their journey through the wilderness. The Bible tells us that God will guide us through our lives too if we trust in Him.

God performed a mighty miracle. He sent a huge pillar of cloud in the sky at night and a huge pillar of fire at night. The pillars of cloud and fire would always be visible and showed the people exactly where to go. God will always take care of His people.

Yes, God guides us with the Bible. In the Bible we are told about how we can have our sins forgiven and how we can know God as our Friend and Saviour. The Bible shows us how to live our lives in a way that pleases God which is also the way which leads to true joy and peace for ourselves. The Bible shows us how we can go to Heaven to be with God when we die.

Refusing to listen to God will lead to all sorts of sad situations in our lives. We will not know the joy of having our sins forgiven and of knowing that we will be taken to heaven one day.

Yes, Jesus has taken the punishment that we deserve upon Himself. All our sins can be taken away and when God looks at us He sees the perfect life of Jesus. What wonderful love!

To repent means to say sorry and truly mean it. Repentance also means that we don’t want to carry on our sinful ways anymore and we ask God to help us with this.

God has never broken a promise. Just as he guided the Israelites many thousands of years ago to their Promised Land, so He will forgive our sins and guide us all through our lives until we die and go to heaven to be with Him forever.

Yes, there were 10 plagues in total. God’s people were being held as slaves in the land of Egypt. The Lord God sent Moses to speak to Pharaoh and ask him to let God’s people go free, but Pharaoh refused to listen and mocked the Lord. The Lord sent plagues to show Pharaoh how powerful He was and that He was the true God of heaven and earth. But even though he saw many mighty acts Pharaoh refused to believe and hardened his heart.

Yes, the angel of death went through the land of Egypt that night and many eldest sons across the land were killed. How sad that Pharaoh’s stubborn heart of unbelief led to such severe punishments been given.

Yes, the lamb chosen was to be a healthy, perfect, spotless lamb. This is because the lamb is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ who was also perfect.

They were to paint the lamb’s blood on the door frames of their house as a sign that they trusted in God and had obeyed His command.

They were saved and did not die. God never breaks His promises and if we trust in Him then He will surely save us from our sins just as He saved the Israelite sons.

Yes, these are all ways in which the Passover lamb is a picture of how the Lord Jesus Christ would come to earth many years later to die on the cross. He was punished for the sins of all those who trust in Him so that they can go free.

Yes, What a wonderful Saviour He is. He loves us so much even though we don’t love Him as we ought.

Yes, coming to Christ brings us so many wonderful blessings. What a kind and gracious Saviour He is.

Yes, coming to Christ brings us so many wonderful blessings. What a kind and gracious Saviour He is.

Yes, coming to Christ brings us so many wonderful blessings. What a kind and gracious Saviour He is.

A plague is something which causes great suffering and distress to those it affects.

God did not destroy Pharaoh’s palace or take his gold. He sent him much worse plagues which not only affected Pharaoh, but also the Egyptian people.

Pharaoh constantly refused to release the Israelite slaves (Gods people), so God sent him plague after plague to punish him for his cruelty and hardness of heart. This also demonstrated God’s great power to all those who witnessed the plagues and to us when we read of the plagues in the Bible.

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth” Exodus Ch. 9 vs. 13 & 14

Pharaoh refused to obey God’s commands/warnings to release His people (Israelite slaves). He hardened his heart towards God and the more God punished him the harder his heart became. He was a foolish and cruel man.

All of the answers are true. We all, by our sinful natures, want nothing to do with Almighty God. We live our lives as we want to and seek to please ourselves rather than Him.

“But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you..” 1 Samuel Ch. 12 V.15

God will send us to Hell forever for refusing to take notice of His commands to repent of our sins. When you attend Sunday school or watch the lessons on the computer, it is very important that you listen carefully to what the teachers tell you. They teach you about the only way to get your sins forgiven and to go to Heaven, by believing that Jesus Christ died for you and repenting of your sinful life.

We must realise that God is angry with us and that our sin must be punished. When we realise that we are sinners, we must humbly admit this to Almighty God, ask Him to forgive us and change the way we live our lives to please him (repent).

“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin…”

2 Chronicles Ch. 7 v.14

Surely we don’t need to check do we?!

Moses settled into a very quiet and humble life looking after his father-in-law’s sheep.

He got the first surprise of the day when he saw the bush on fire, but it wasn’t turning black or getting burned up.

This was the second great surprise of the day: to hear the voice of God calling his name!

Although we can’t see God or hear His voice as Moses did, He is still a living God. He sees everything we do and knows our every thought, and He speaks through His word, the Bible.

The Bible helps us to understand how holy God is. The Bible helps our consciences to work and understand that we are all sinful, and we need to be humble and repent of our sins.

God loves His people and doesn’t want them to suffer. He set out a plan to stop the suffering of the Israelites and lead them to the Promised Land.

We can never earn our own freedom from sin or make ourselves good enough for Heaven, but God has always had a plan to save us, by sending the Lord Jesus to take our punishment.

God has power over everything. He created everything, including us. We can ask God to help us when we pray to Him and he can help us to have His power over sins in our lives.

Do we really need to ask after all these weeks?!

Moses was raised as a prince of Egypt and as such enjoyed all that comes with being royalty.

The people of Israel were treated cruelly and their lives were difficult with little money and back-breaking work. So Moses’ life and the people’s lives were as different as they could possibly be.

Moses knew that he could not carry on living as an Egyptian because they had no time for God. He loved God and knew that the right place for him was with God’s people.

The same is true for us today. There is nothing in this world – even all its riches, fame and power – that can compare with God’s love.

Moses ran away and worked as a shepherd where Pharaoh would not find him. He hid there for 40 years!

Whether we believe in the Lord Jesus and repent of our sins or not is not just the most important choice for our lives, but it is the decision that will decide where we spend eternity after we leave this world. You must choose the Lord today, without waiting another week or even another night.

Remember our chorus:

Choose you this day Whom you will serve,
Choose you this day Whom you will serve;
But as for me, as for me, as for me, as for me,
I will serve the Lord.

Of course you have!

We all have sin in our hearts which separates us from God.

Just checking!

We have been learning about the Lord Jesus Christ and what He said about Himself.

“And the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.” John ch 1 vs 14

He is! Everlasting life given to us when Jesus saves us.  When sinners trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and repent of their sinful lives, He forgives all of their sins and ‘saves’ them from the power of sin and the Devil. He also gives them the Holy Spirit and promises them everlasting life.

“ But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life”  John ch 4 vs 14

Jesus fed 5000 men, without counting the women and children who were with them. This is one of the amazing miracles of Jesus Christ.

“So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were sat down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost” John ch 6 vs 10 – 12

All these are true, and more besides. If we do not know the Lord Jesus Christ for ourselves, we are blind to all the important things in life.

“But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world (Satan) hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them” 2 Corinthians ch 4 vs 3-4

Shepherds spent most of their time with their flocks in all weathers and seasons, day and night. There were thieves, wild animals and many other dangers to contend with while they kept their sheep safe, so they were most definitely tough and brave people.

“Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture” Psalm 100 vs 3

Jesus Christ lived a perfect, sinless life and then willingly died on the cross in unimaginable pain and suffering so that our sins could be forgiven. He was also resurrected (brought back to life), so that if by His grace (undeserved love) we are enabled to repent and believe on Him, we will have everlasting life with Him in Heaven. What can be more amazing and glorious than this!

Jesus said “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” John ch 3 vs 3

(Once spiritually dead, but ‘born again’ with the Holy Spirit and a new life in Christ)

The Lord Jesus Christ said in the bible: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” John ch 14 vs 6

A true Christian will be changed by God’s love and bear fruit. They will show love, joy, goodness and much more besides. True Christians do still sin, but they will be very sad when they do these things that are wrong and offend the God they love.

“But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.” Galatians ch 5 vs 22-23

John the Baptist told the gathered crowds that Jesus would take away the sins of the world, meaning that people from every country around the globe would believe and repent and have their sins taken away.

“ The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” John ch 1 vs 29

The following Bible verses show the answers:

“Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people”

Psalm 77 vs 14

“But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible”

Matthew ch 19 vs 26

“Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things”

Psalm 72 vs 18