Search The Scriptures — Study 14 — Exodus 19 and 20

Study 14  From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 19 and 20

We are stopping here to go back to the book of Acts and finish it. It will take us a little while before we go back to the book of Exodus again.

1. What revelation is given in these chapters concerning (a) the character of God, and (b) His purposes for His people?
2. What are the standards of worship and behaviour that God expects of His people? Try to summarize them briefly in your own words.

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Search The Scriptures — Study 13 — Exodus18

Study 13 From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 18

1. Consider the parts played by Jethro, Moses and God in this chapter.  What can we learn about guidance from this?
2. What kind of men are to be chosen as rulers of the people of God?  Cf. Acts 6:1-4

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Search The Scriptures — Study 12 — Exodus 17

Study 12  From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 17

1. What is the significance of the sequence of the two events recorded in this chapter?
2. What lessons are taught here about the importance of prayer and its relationship to activity in the life and witness of the church? What further lesson was Israel meant to learn from the defeat of Amalek (verses 14-16)?

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Search The Scriptures — Study 11 — Exodus 15:22-16:36

Study 11 From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 15:22-16:36

1. What reason is given twice in this passage as to why God allowed His redeemed people to suffer thirst, disappointment, and hunger?  Cf. Dt. 8:2, 3; 1 Pet. 1: 6, 7
2. What response is demanded from those for whom God provides? In what ways does God’s provision test this response?

Note. 1 Cor. 10: 1-6 indicates that these experiences in the wilderness where spiritual as well as physical and material.

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Search The Scriptures — Study 10 — Exodus 14:1-15:21

Study 10 From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 14:1-15:21

1. Chapter 14. What can we learn here about God, about faith, and about the completeness of God’s salvation?
2. Chapter 15. What does this song of triumph teach us about how to worship God?  How ought we to follow its example?

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Search The Scriptures — Study 09 — Exodus 12:37-13:22

Study 09  From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 12:37-13:22

1. What are the two major responses that God expects from those who are redeemed?
2. What lessons about guidance are taught in 13:17-22?

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Search The Scriptures — Study 08 — Exodus 12:1-36

Study 08 From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 12:1-36

1. Why did the angel of death pass over the houses of the Israelites? How does this illustrate our redemption in Christ? Cf. 1 Pet. 1:18, 19.
2. How were the Israelites to use the lamb’s blood and its flesh? What is the New Testament counterpart of this? Why was unleavened bread used? Cf. 1 Cor. 5:6-8; 2Tim. 2:19.

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Search The Scriptures — Study 07 — Exodus 10 and 11

Study 07 From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 10 and 11

1.      What was the outcome in Pharaoh’s life of his persistent refusal to heed God’s warnings? See particularly 10:29.

2. What lesson can we learn from Moses’s consistent refusal to compromise where God’s command was concerned? What was the source of Moses’s great courage?  Cf. also Heb. 11:27

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Search The Scriptures — Study 06 — Exodus 9

Study 06 From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 9   

1. How does Pharaoh’s attitude show the difference between sorrow for the consequences of sin and true repentance?
2. Contrast the nature and the consequences both of faith in God’s word, and of unbelief, as illustrated in this chapter.

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Search The Scriptures — Study 05 — Exodus 8

Study 05 From The book of Exodus Is: Exodus 8

1.      What is mentioned in this chapter as the double purpose of the plagues? Cf. Is. 45:22-25;

Rom. 1: 18.

2.      What new evidences are given of God’s power, and how would these encourage the Israelites?

Note Verse 26.  A reference to the sacrifice in Israelite worship of bulls, cows or oxen, which in Egypt were sacred to Isis and therefore sacrosanct. 

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