The Sin Spiral

1:1-18 – Ideal 1:19 – I can’t

Deuteronomy 7:17–21 (ESV) 17 “If you say in your heart, ‘These nations are greater than I. How can I dispossess them?’ 18 you shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt…

21 You shall not be in dread of them, for the LORD your God is in your midst, a great and awesome God.

Exodus 14:24–25 (ESV) 24 And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic, 25 clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians.”

Exodus 15:3–4 (ESV) 3 The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name. 4 “Pharaoh’s chariots and his host he cast into the sea, and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.

Psalm 20:6–7 (ESV) 6 Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand. 7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.

1:1-18 – Ideal 1:19 – I can’t 1:20-30 – I won’t

Compromises• Put to forced labor• Foreigners lived with

the people

1:31-33 – Living in the world

1:34 – Total failure

The Sin Spiral