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This week we are looking at Psalm 136 as we focus on God's steadfast love and mercy.

So each day we're looking at a different section of the Psalm, and today we're going to look

at verses 10 through 16. I'll read them here.

To him who struck down the firstborn of Egypt for his steadfast love endorsed foreverres forever and brought Israel out from among them for his steadfast love endorsed forever with a strong hand and an outstretched arm for his steadfast love endorsed forever to him who divided the red sea in two for his steadfast love endorsed forever and made Israel pass through the midst of it for his steadfast love endures forever. But over through

Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea for his steadfast love endures forever, to him who led his people

through the wilderness for his steadfast love indoors forever. So as you read through those passages,

you guys have to really reckon with, all of us have to reckon with what God did as described in the

book of Exodus. And if we're being honest, I mean, you really might struggle with what you read

there because it can be kind of rough, right? I mean, so beginning in Exodus 7, we see the first

of the 10 plagues of Egypt, right? So that's water turned to blood. And then in Exodus 8, we see the

second plague of frogs, the third

plague of gnats, the fourth plague of flies. Exodus 9, we see the fifth plague of the death

of the livestock, the sixth plague of boils, the seventh plague of hail. And then in Exodus 10,

we see the eighth plague of locusts and the ninth plague of darkness. And look, these plagues were not random. I mean, they were

targeted strikes against Egypt. It went at their little G gods and little L lords. It took out their

economy. It destroyed their land. It attacked the claimed deity of Pharaoh, right? I mean,

it really shook the very foundations of their entire society. And then we get to the most

severe plague, the 10th, the death of the firstborn. So let's go to Exodus 12, starting in verse 29.

At midnight, the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of

Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the

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