Paul and the New Exodus People

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Christianity, Old Testament, Torah, Theology, New Testament, God, Demons, Tim Mackie, Bible Study, Angels, Bible, Jesus, Spiritual Beings, Jon Collins, Religion & Spirituality, Spirit, Satan

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Exodus Way E11 — After Jesus’ death, resurrection, and ascension, his followers grew into a movement known simply as “The Way”—a new exodus people delivered from sin and death, following the narrow way of Jesus through the wilderness of our present world and awaiting entry into a promised new creation. The Apostle Paul is a central figure in this movement, commissioned by the risen Jesus to spread the good news of the new exodus to the nations. He planted churches in several Roman cities and wrote letters to congregations of Jewish and Gentile believers. Paul was a Jewish man steeped in Israel's Scriptures, which is why we see him infusing Exodus language and imagery into his letters to the early Church. In this episode, Jon and Tim explore Paul’s letters to the churches in Corinth, Galatia, and Rome, discovering how Paul saw the death and resurrection of Jesus, the life of the Christian, and the larger story of creation as a cosmic exodus.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Bible Project Podcast.
0:07.2	One of the largest themes in the story of the Bible is the Exodus.
0:10.6	It's the road out of slavery, the road through the wilderness, and the road into the land of promise.
0:16.5	Now, gospel authors, they intentionally frame the story of Jesus as a new exodus, with Jesus as the new Moses.
0:25.2	And he came to confront the spiritual powers that empower human evil and enslave us all.
0:30.6	So he's there to confront that pharaoh, a spiritual pharaoh.
0:33.8	He would go first through the death night of Passover ahead of his people to open up a way out the other side.
0:42.9	Jesus is also the blameless life represented in the Passover land.
0:47.8	God participates in the pain as the one who can deliver us out of it.
0:52.2	And so the first followers of Jesus called themselves the way.
0:55.9	They are the Exodus people who are on the road out of slavery, the road through the wilderness,
1:02.3	awaiting a future inheritance, a time when all creation is renewed. Now, a central figure in this
1:07.6	movement is the Apostle Paul, who traveled through the Roman Empire, declaring
1:11.8	the new Exodus, planting churches made up of Jews and Gentiles. On today's episode, we're
1:18.3	going to look at how the Apostle Paul used Exodus metaphors to address the real-life problems
1:23.1	facing the churches that he planted. For example, Paul tells the church to continue to celebrate the
1:29.1	Feast of Passover. Paul sees all of Christian life as an ongoing celebration of Passover. It's a
1:36.8	perpetual celebration of our liberation from bondage. In the letter to the Galatians, Paul tells the
1:42.4	church to walk the road of the Exodus by following God's spirit, just like Israel followed God's glory through the wilderness.
1:50.3	He's turned the road out into something Jesus did on your behalf,
1:54.1	but now you have to choose to walk that road out yourself with the glory of God guiding you, the Spirit.
2:03.6	And just like Israel was groaning in slavery under Pharaoh and God heard them, Paul talks about
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