This Week's Sunday School Lesson, 'Discipline Promotes Obedience" Exodus 9:27-35, 10/13/2019

    

DISCIPLINE PROMOTES OBEDIENCE

Ex 9:27-35

God is a great parent. He provides for his children, He protect,

He comforts, He directs and He disciplines when needed.

The Pharaoh of Egypt was a very unruly child. He was proud,

arrogant, and disrespectful. The plagues against Egypt was

because of his disobedience.

Discipline is not just for the child who is disobedient, but for

all children to see and learn the authority of the parents.

Our children need to be disciplined and understand that

Punishment comes with disobedience.  

TO REMOVE THE HURT, SOME WILL LIE

V:27-28 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. "This time I have sinned," he said to them. "The Lord  is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong. 28 Pray to the Lord , for we have had enough thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don't have to stay any longer."

1.    The Pharaoh’s mind was affected by the plagues God put on

     Egypt.  In Chapter 5, Pharaoh said I don’t God and will not  

     listen to  him.

 2. Through the plagues, he came to know the name of the Lord

     and His power and authority over nature. 

 3. Not only the name of the Lord, but he came to know the

consequences of his actions on him and his people.

    The Pharaoh acknowledge the authority of the Lord and

the power of praying to the Lord for help.

He went from total disobedience to a false outward show of

repentance.  He changed from saying I will not let the

people go, to I will let the people go.

Habits don’t change over night. But they start with discipline.

GOD GIVES US CHANCES TO REPENT

 V:29-32. Moses replied, "When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands in prayer to the Lord . The thunder will stop and there will be no more hail, so you may know that the earth is the Lord 's. 30 But I know that you and your officials still do not fear the Lord God."

31 (The flax and barley were destroyed, since the barley had headed and the flax was in bloom. 32 The wheat and spelt, however, were not destroyed, because they ripen later.)

1.    Not only did the Pharaoh need to experience and understand  

    the power and authority of God, but the people of Egypt

    needed to experience it also.

  2. The nation of Israel needed to understand the God  they

      would follow on the road to freedom.

  3. When you walk with God, you can discern the mind of the

      enemy. Moses was not fooled by the words of the Pharaoh.

     A snake never stops being a snake. He may crawl into a corner

     But he is ready to strike at any time.

  4. God’s grace and mercy covers everyone. While God destroyed

     much of the Egyptian harvest, He left some for food for the

     Egyptians and the Israelites.

GIVE OTHERS THE BENEFIT OF DOUBT

V:33 Then Moses left Pharaoh and went out of the city. He spread out his hands toward the Lord ; the thunder and hail stopped, and the rain no longer poured down on the land.

 1.  We learn to trust God through our service to Him. We gain

      confidence in His power through our obedience. The more

     Moses dealt with Pharaoh, the more confidence he gained

     In the power and authority of God.

     God trains us through our service for greater work for

     the people of God.

2. Our experience with God is a testimony to what God will

   Do with us next.

WHEN THE PAIN IS GONE, SOME WILL RETURN TO OLD HABITS

V:34-35. When Pharaoh saw that the rain and hail and thunder had stopped, he sinned again: He and his officials hardened their hearts. 35 So Pharaoh's heart was hard and he would not let the Israelites go, just as the Lord had said through Moses.

  1.  God’s plan is not hindered by our disobedience.

  2. God knows beforehand what we are going to do before we

      do it. It was no surprise to God that Pharaoh lied and would

      not let Israel go.

  3. It was God who continued to harden the Pharaoh’s heart

  so that he would not let Israel go. God purposed all the

  events to fix in the mind of the Israelites the power and

  authority of the God they would serve.

  4. If we never have any difficulties, we will never know to call

    on God.

 5. If we never have any difficulties we would never know to

    trust God.

TRIALS ARE LEARING EXPERIENCES

We learn to love God by realizing who He is and what He does

For us.

The Israelites knew of God, but they had never had to depend

On God. They had not experience the power of God. For 400

Years, they saw Pharaoh as the power and authority. The   

 plagues were designed to show Israel the their God is the

 supreme Power and authority.

The hardships in our lives are designed to teach us to love and

Trust God in all situations.

Rev. M. Mitchell

Asst. Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church

5510 West Sam Houston, Parkway North

Houston, Texas 77041

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