Livestock in Egypt

Exodus 9:1-7

Introduction: Cow Disease

If all the livestock died, how did the Egyptians chase the Hebrews after the 10th plague?

Options:

    -A gross exaggeration 

    – A contradiction 

    – This affected animals in the field not barns (verse 3)

    – The way the word “all” is used here (collectively not distributively)

The attack on September 11th

  – Pentagon is a symbol of power

  – Whitehouse is a symbol of power

  – World Trade Center was a symbol of power

The symbol of economic power in biblical times was in

As the Israelites are taken out of Egypt — Egypt also needs to be taken out of them.

The gods of Egypt

The Bull was a symbol of fertility

Isis was depicted with cow horns

Hathor was represented with the head of a cow and the sun between her horns

Egyptians (like the Hindus) liked their sacred cows and these were central to their worship

In Egypt: Worship was tied to their wealth

Idolatry

“God demands absolute allegiance from His people…Beside Him, there is no god, so it is foolish to trust in other deities who cannot save. To refuse to worship him but to worship another is idolatry.” ~ RC Sproul

God absolute allegiance from

Idolatrous attitudes and practices don’t have to be religious in the sense of being directed toward some

Matthew 10:37-39

God demands absolute allegiance 

“Every fallen creature has its idols, and we must be particularly sensitive to what the world is calling us to worship in place of the one true God. Neither sex nor power nor fame or anything else deserves primacy in our lives, …none is the Lord and creator of all.” Sproul

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Matthew 6:24

Signs that Money might be an Idol

1. If you about wealth
2. If you in money
3. If you to get more of it
4. If you refuse to those in need
5. If you give for your
6. If you are i about money
7. If we on monetary gain
8. If we are of other people 

When we look at our and what Christ has we will worship Christ because of his great worth!