In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, A Night to Remember.

It's not hard to understand why God would send plagues on the Egyptians,

because they had incarcerated, made slaves

out of God's chosen people, and had been going on for a long time.

And on nine separate occasions, God sent a plague into Egypt, and each time the message was, let my people go,

and of course, Pharaoh just ignored it. His heart was hardened. He promised to let them go over and over

again, but he reneged on his promise. So now he's facing the last plague.

So I want us to title this message, A Night to Remember,

because indeed it was, and it's the 12th chapter of Exodus,

and I won't read that chapter for a time's sake,

but first of all, I want to talk about what was the purpose

that God had in mind in sending all these plagues?

And you remember as we went through each one of them

all the way to the final one, which was the death of the firstborn

throughout all of Egypt.

And so his first purpose was to judge Egypt and their gods.

That was his first purpose, to send divine judgment upon them

because they had kept God's people for several hundred years.

They remember they started out as a blessing as a result of saving Egypt from destruction, from famine.

And now when the scripture says this Pharaoh came along who did not know Joseph, he put him in bondage.

And so first of all was judgment upon Egypt and their gods. Secondly, to liberate Israel from Egyptian bondage was a vital part of its purpose.

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