Sunday 05/11/2025
Series: That You May Know
Title: introduction to the 10 Plagues
Main Passage: Exodus 7:14-25

[Slide1]
Introduction to the 10 Plagues
Exodus 7:14-25

[Slide 2]
There are several purposes for the plagues?

Judgment (Gen 15:14)

Building Faith (Deut 4:33-35)

Warning (Ex 9:16; Josh 2:8-11; 1 Sam 4:8)

[Slide 3]
God’s primary purpose for the plagues:

That You May Know

Ex 5:2; 6:5-7; 7:5

[Slide 4]
The Plagues

Basic Structure: focus, effect, severity
Primary Pattern: warnings
Magicians Response
The Status of Pharaoh’s Heart
The Mercy of the LORD

[Slide 5]
Plague #1 Water to Blood
Exodus 7:14-25

[Slide 6]
Basic Structure:
The Nile River - and all connected water would turn to blood, fish would die, river would stink, and the people would grow weary of drinking from from the river

[Slide 7]
The Warning:
This would occur when Moses struck the water

[Slide 8]
Magicians Response:
They “did the same”

[Slide 9]
That You May Know:
This plague would provide the knowledge that the LORD is over all gods

Ps 36:7-9; Acts 17:28; Deut 30:15-20; Deut 6:5-6

[Slide 10]
Pharaoh’s Heart:
Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened, he would not listen to the LORD, and he did not take this plague to heart

[Slide 11]
The Mercy of the LORD:
The plague was not final; it lasted for seven-days, and He allowed water to be found at the river’s edge

[Slide 12]
The judgment for all sin is death

Rom 3:23; 3:10-12; 6:23; John 2:1-11;

[Slide 13]
Sin brings us from life to death; but Jesus brings us from death (in sin) to life with Him (joyous and everlasting)

Rom 6:23; John 10:10; Col 2:13-15