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2 million Israelite people were led into the wilderness. That was a huge number of people, comparable to the entire population of Devon, Cornwall and Somerset put together. They all had to be provided with food to eat and water to drink.

Moses cried out to the Lord God in prayer for help and the Lord graciously provided Moses with instructions on how to make the water sweet by putting a certain tree into the lake of water. Almighty God will always answer the cries/prayers of His people (Christians).

“ The righteous (Christians) cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles”

Psalm 34 Verse 17

God is very kind to His people (Christians) and provides them with all they need every day. He does not give Christians too much as this would spoil them and make them greedy, lazy and unthankful. He gives them sufficient grace every day, but we must trust in Him and pray to him.

God allowed the people to gather twice as much food on the Saturday so that it could be eaten on the next day (Sunday). God also prevented the food (manna) from stinking and being infested with worms on the Sunday as this was a special day (Lords Day).

Sunday is the Lords Day (sabbath day) and we should all stop doing unnecessary work and spend the whole day worshipping and thanking Almighty God for his kindness to us every day of our lives. God actually commands all people to “remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy” Exodus Ch.20 v.8. This is the eighth of the ten commandments you may have learnt in Sunday School.

“But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work…For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it”

Exodus Ch.20 Vs. 10,11

They did not trust that God would provide them with all that they needed. Because of this distrust, they felt uncomfortable and scared in the hot desert and thought they would die. They wanted to go back to Egypt where they knew they would at least have some food and drink, even though the Egyptian people were very cruel to them. If only they had trusted in a kind Lord God to provide them with all they needed! Then they would not have been scared, angry or complaining, but would have instead been happy, calm and contented.

God gets very angry with us when we complain against Him as He is very kind and provides us all with many good things in our lives. Unfortunately we sin against God every day and we deserve nothing from Him but His just punishment for our sins. However, God commands us all to repent of our sins and turn to Him and trust in Him. If He forgives us our sins and we become a Christian, we then receive many other blessings from Him such as the promise of Heaven when we die, peace in our hearts, a new life of living for Him and telling other people of the glorious gift of salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ.

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.