First Unlearn Everything: How the Ten Plagues Reveal Who God Really Is | Exodus 7-10

The first step in knowing God is unlearning everything you think you know.

In Exodus 7–10, God doesn’t just free His people from Egypt—He dismantles Egypt’s entire way of seeing the world. Through the Ten Plagues, He reveals Himself by unmaking their reality and tearing down the false gods they had trusted for meaning, security, and control.

In this message, we'll explore our response to the God who hides in plain sight, kills our "gods," and thrusts our lives into emptiness and chaos... so that he can make us new.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Do you know God?
• 1:01 “I never knew you.”
• 2:08 The surpassing greatness of knowing Christ
• 2:44 Why plagues? A long, brutal lesson
• 4:41 “Who is Yahweh?”—so that you may know
• 7:41 Snakes & staffs: power swallowed whole
• 8:54 Three waves of plagues (1–9)
• 14:12 The tenth plague: a chilling distinction
• 15:41 Layer 1: God in the details (like a Rubik’s Cube)
• 18:43 Watch & pray: learning to pay attention
• 20:23 Layer 2: Killing the gods of Egypt
• 21:52 Lice, priests, and a shutdown
• 23:37 Weighing Pharaoh’s heart (Maat’s feather)
• 25:43 Our modern gods—& Jesus’ hard ask
• 28:29 Layer 3: De-creation → New Creation
• 33:52 Be unmade: Baptism & Communion
• 36:49 Denny’s & the refusal to let go
• 42:01 Fire of Love: Isaac the Syrian
• 43:45 Tormented by the Invasion of Love