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A single night brought judgment so severe that every home in Egypt felt its weight, and yet that same night marked the birth of freedom and hope.

Today we continue our year-long Bible study in the book of Exodus, the gospel one rescue at a time.

In this episode, Paul shows how the night of death in Egypt was also a night of new life for God's

people, ultimately pointing us to the cross of Christ. To hear more of these studies, visit paultrip.com slash exodus.

Here's Paul, teaching from Exodus 12.

You see, you do not want to be in a world

where the one ruling the world doesn't take evil seriously

and does not judge it righteously.

Yeah. ruling the world doesn't take evil seriously and does not judge it righteously. Well, we are now in Exodus 12, 29 through 32, and I have entitled this passage, life, and death.

At midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the lands of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on the throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn in the lands of Egypt. From the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on the throne to the

firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock. And Pharaoh

rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt,

for there was not a house where someone was not dead. Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, go up, go out from among my people,

both you and the people of Israel, and go and serve the Lord as you have said,

take your flocks and your herds as you have said and be gone and bless me also.

I don't know if you've thought about this or not, but this night of death was also a night

of life, new life.

Let me explain.

The firstborn of the families of Egypt were experiencing the horrible but perfectly righteous judgment of a perfectly holy God.

There is probably not a more horrific scene to imagine and consider than that night when all the firstborn sons of Egypt were

struck dead. God's patience with Egypt had ended. There would be no more request for Pharaoh to

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