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Youth Worship 16th September 2023 : "Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?"

Text: Exodus 10:1-20
16 September 2023

YOUTH WORSHIP SERVICE 16 September 2023

Message: “Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?” Exodus 10:7

Text: Exodus 10:1-20

INTRODUCTION

1. Review Plagues

a) Blood
b) Frogs
c) Lice
d) Flies
e) Livestock disease
f) Boils
g) Hail

2. What impact has these made on:

a) The Pharaoh?
b) The Egyptians?

A SPECIAL TEACHING POINT

1 Now the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may show these signs of Mine before him,
2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and your son’s son the mighty things I have done in Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.”

Exodus 10:1-2

1. The Pharaoh

a) These were signs from the LORD
b) But their hearts were hardened
c) They could not respond appropriately

2. The children of Israel

a) They are to learn about the mighty works of God
b) They are to pass this knowledge to the generations to follow
c) That they may truly know that He is the LORD their God

THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS

3 So Moses and Aaron came in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
4 Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
5 And they shall cover the face of the earth, so that no one will be able to see the earth; and they shall eat the residue of what is left, which remains to you from the hail, and they shall eat every tree which grows up for you out of the field.
6 They shall fill your houses, the houses of all your servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians—which neither your fathers nor your fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were on the earth to this day.’ ” And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:3-6

1. Another demand from the LORD to let the children of Israel go

2. The stubbornness and arrogance of the Pharaoh would not yield

3. The threat of a locust plague was issued

a) This will be a devastating plague
b) They will eat what was the residue from the hailstorm
c) They will even enter into all the Egyptian houses

4. Moses then walked out of Pharaoh’s presence

THE PLEA OF THE SERVANTS OF PHARAOH

Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is destroyed?

Exodus 10:7

1. The servants of Pharaoh appealed

2. They urged him to release the children of Israel

3. Let them go and serve the LORD their God

4. Egypt was slowly but surely being destroyed by all these plagues

PHARAOH CALLED MOSES AND AARON BACK

8 So Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve the LORD your God. Who are the ones that are going?”
9 And Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old; with our sons and our daughters, with our flocks and our herds we will go, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”
10 Then he said to them, “The LORD had better be with you when I let you and your little ones go! Beware, for evil is ahead of you.
11 Not so! Go now, you who are men, and serve the LORD, for that is what you desired.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Exodus 10:8-11

1. Moses and Aaron were brought back to see the Pharaoh

2. The Pharaoh was willing to consider letting the children of Israel go

3. But the children must not go with them

4. He pretended concern that the wilderness would be hazardous for the children

THE RESPONSE OF MOSES

1. It was the same response

2. All the children of Israel must go

a) The young
b) The old

3. In addition:

a) They will also take their flocks
b) They will also take their herds

4. Pharaoh became angry and drove them out from his presence

THE PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS

12 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land—all that the hail has left.”
13 So Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested on all the territory of Egypt. They were very severe; previously there had been no such locusts as they, nor shall there be such after them.
15 For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. So there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:12-15

1. Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt

2. An east wind brought the locusts

3. This was the severest plague of locusts ever experienced

4. All vegetation was wiped out

A HASTY RECALL OF MOSES AND AARON

16 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and said, “I have sinned against
the LORD your God and against you.
17 Now therefore, please forgive my sin only this once, and entreat the LORD your God, that He may take away from me this death only.”
18 So he went out from Pharaoh and entreated the LORD.
19 And the LORD turned a very strong west wind, which took the locusts away and blew them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the territory of Egypt.
20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go.

Exodus 10:16-20

1. Pharaoh’s confession

a) He asked for forgiveness of his sin
b) He pleaded with Moses to ask God to remove the locusts

2. Moses responds favourably

a) He entreated the LORD
b) God sent a west wind to blow the locusts into the Red Sea
c) Every single locust disappeared from Egypt

3. The end result

a) Pharaoh’s heart remained hardened
b) God hardened it too
c) The children of Israel were not released from Egypt

LESSONS TO BE LEARNED

1. Psalm 111 and its teachings about the works of God

a) To be reviewed
b) To be remembered

2. The hardening of the heart

a) It is a serious problem
b) The heart must not become hardened