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The Exodus is presented as a divinely intended type of the gospel: Egypt signifies bondage under sin, and Israel’s release signifies salvation through Christ’s Passover sacrifice. Spurgeon stresses that conviction of sin precedes true liberty and that the Holy Spirit uses sin’s misery to drive sinners to the Savior. Salvation is complete and effectual: every one of God’s people will ultimately be delivered, at the precise time appointed by God. Yet outward participation in church life does not prove conversion, so hearers must examine themselves and respond urgently to Christ.
Theological center: Salvation is God’s sovereign and effectual deliverance of His people from sin through the atoning blood of Christ, securing their final perseverance.
Applications: Examine Yourself for Genuine Faith · Do Not Procrastinate Repentance · Flee to Christ for Pardon · Rejoice in Complete Deliverance
Primary texts: Exodus 12:41 · Hebrews 3:15 · 2 Corinthians 13:5
“And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.” Exodus 12:41 IT is our firm conviction and increasing belief that the historical books of Scripture were intended to teach us by types and figures spiritual things. We believe that every portion of Scripture history is not only a faithful transcript of what did actually happen, but also a shadow of what happens spiritually in the dealings of God with His people, or in the dispensations of His grace towards the world at large. We do not look upon the historical books of Scripture as being mere rolls of history, such as profane authors might have written, but we regard them as being most true and infallible records of the past, and also most bright and glorious foreshadowings of the future, or else most wondrous metaphors and marvelous illustrations of things which are verily received among us, and most truly felt in the Christian heart. We may be wrong—we believe we are not. At any rate, the very error has given us instruction and our mistake has afforded us comfort. We look upon the book of Exodus as being a book of types of the deliverances which God will give to His elect people. Not only as a history of what He has done in bringing them out of Egypt by smiting the first-born, leading them through the Red Sea, and guiding them through the wilderness, but also as a picture of His faithful dealings with all His people, whom by the blood of Christ He separates from the Egyptians, and by His strong and mighty hand takes out of the house of their bondage and out of the land of their slavery. Last Sabbath evening we had the type of the Passover—the Paschal Lamb, and we showed you then, how the sprinkled blood and the eaten lamb were types of the blood applied for our justification, and of the flesh received by inward communion with Jesus, the soul living and feeding upon Him. We now take the Exodus, or the going of the children of Israel out of Egypt, as being a type and picture of the going out of all the vessels of mercy from the house of their bondage, and as the deliverance of all the lawful captives from the chains of their cruel taskmasters, by sovereign and omnipotent grace, through the Passover of our Lord Jesus Christ. The land of Egypt is a picture of the house of bondage into which all God’s covenant people will, sooner or later, be brought on account of their sin. All those whom God means to give an inheritance in Canaan, He will first take down into Egypt. Even Jesus Christ…