OUT OF EGYPT

TITLE: OUT OF EGYPT
THE NAZARENE

INTRO
Chains on the wrist, mud on the hand,
Tears in the brick pits, blood in the sand.
But heaven heard what Pharaoh ignored,
A cry went up and reached the Lord.

VERSE 1
Exodus opens where Genesis slept,
Joseph was buried, but the promise was kept.
Israel grew in a foreign place,
Carrying Abraham’s covenant grace.

But a new king rose with a cold-eyed throne,
Said, “These people are many, they’re not our own.”
So he crushed their backs with the weight of bricks,
Empire got rich from the slave-lord’s tricks.

Store cities rising while the children cried,
Mothers held babies with fear inside.
Pharaoh spoke death over sons newly born,
But God was awake before mercy’s dawn.

A baby was placed in a basket of reeds,
River of danger, river of seeds.
Moses floated where judgement ran,
God hid a prophet in Pharaoh’s own land.

Pharaoh’s daughter drew him near,
Heaven was laughing through Egypt’s fear.
The child they tried to drown and erase
Was nursed by his mother under Pharaoh’s face.

HOOK
OUT OF EGYPT, OUT OF CHAINS,
GOD BREAKS POWER AND GOD BREAKS PAIN.
BLOOD ON THE DOOR, STAFF IN THE SEA,
THE LORD STILL SAYS, “LET MY PEOPLE GO FREE.”

OUT OF DARKNESS, OUT OF NIGHT,
FIRE IN THE CLOUD AND A PATH THROUGH THE TIDE.
FROM SLAVERY’S GRIP TO THE MOUNTAIN GLOW,
THE GOD OF THE COVENANT LEADS US HOME.

VERSE 2
Moses grew up with two worlds in his chest,
Palace gold and the slave camp’s stress.
Saw his own people bleeding in clay,
Saw oppression eating the day.

He struck a man down, then ran from the crown,
Desert wind wore his thunder down.
Forty years with the sheep and dust,
Learning that zeal needs holy trust.

Then a bush caught fire but would not die,
Flame in the thorn with the voice from the sky.
“Moses, Moses,” the Holy One called,
Sand became sanctuary, pride dissolved.

“Take off your sandals, the ground is Mine,
I have seen their sorrow, I have heard their cry.
I know their suffering, I come to save,
To break the empire, to open the grave.”

Moses trembled, “Who am I?”
God said, “I will be with you by your side.”
“What is Your name?” and the heavens breathed,
“I AM WHO I AM. Tell them I sent thee.”

BRIDGE
Not I was. Not I might.
I AM in the fire, I AM in the night.
I AM in the exile, I AM in the cry,
I AM the Living One who does not die.

VERSE 3
Back to Egypt with a shepherd’s rod,
A weak man sent by the mountain God.
Aaron beside him, message like thunder,
“Let My people go,” tearing pride under.

Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord to me?”
That question shook the empire’s sea.
Nile turned blood, creation groaned,
Egypt’s false gods lost their throne.

Frogs in the palace, gnats in the dust,
Flies like judgement on royal trust.
Livestock fell, boils burned skin,
Hailstones hammered the pride within.

Locusts arrived like hunger with wings,
Darkness swallowed the land of kings.
Pharaoh kept hardening, stone in his chest,
Mercy knocked, but pride said yes to death.

Then came the night no empire can boast,
The firstborn judgement moved like a ghost.
But God gave Israel a sign to adore,
A lamb’s blood painted over the door.

HOOK
OUT OF EGYPT, OUT OF CHAINS,
GOD BREAKS POWER AND GOD BREAKS PAIN.
BLOOD ON THE DOOR, STAFF IN THE SEA,
THE LORD STILL SAYS, “LET MY PEOPLE GO FREE.”

OUT OF DARKNESS, OUT OF NIGHT,
FIRE IN THE CLOUD AND A PATH THROUGH THE TIDE.
FROM SLAVERY’S GRIP TO THE MOUNTAIN GLOW,
THE GOD OF THE COVENANT LEADS US HOME.

VERSE 4
Passover night, sandals tied tight,
Bread with no yeast in the midnight light.
The lamb was slain, the people stood,
Saved from judgement under blood.

Not because Israel was strong or wise,
But mercy had marked them before God’s eyes.
The destroyer passed where the blood was seen,
Grace stood firm in the doorway between.

This was a shadow, a sign, a flame,
Pointing ahead to a greater Name.
Christ our Passover, Lamb once slain,
Blood on the cross breaks sin’s domain.

Pharaoh finally cried, “Go, leave this place,”
So the slaves walked out by sovereign grace.
Silver and gold in their trembling hands,
Egypt paid wages to the Lord’s command.

But freedom felt strange under open sky,
Slavery still whispered, “You’re safer if you die.”
Behind them chariots, ahead of them sea,
Fear screamed louder than memory.

Moses stood where the waters roared,
“Stand still and see salvation from the Lord.”
Staff lifted high, wind began to blow,
The deep split open like a road below.

CHOIR
Through the sea, through the sea,
The Lord made a path where no path could be.
Through the sea, through the sea,
The chains sank down and the slaves walked free.

VERSE 5
Walls of water on left and right,
Israel marched through the impossible night.
Pharaoh’s horses charged in pride,
But judgement closed with the returning tide.

Miriam danced with a tambourine flame,
Women sang thunder to the Lord’s great name.
“The horse and rider He threw in the sea,”
Worship erupted from the newly free.

But the wilderness tests what the miracle births,
Freedom must learn heaven’s worth.
Bitter waters at Marah’s edge,
Grumbling rose from the desert ledge.

God made bitter turn sweet by wood,
A whisper of the cross where healing stood.
Then manna fell with the morning dew,
Bread from heaven, mercy made new.

Quail came down when hunger spoke,
Water burst from the wounded rock.
Paul would later unveil the theme:
That Rock was Christ in the wilderness stream.

HOOK
OUT OF EGYPT, OUT OF CHAINS,
GOD BREAKS POWER AND GOD BREAKS PAIN.
BLOOD ON THE DOOR, STAFF IN THE SEA,
THE LORD STILL SAYS, “LET MY PEOPLE GO FREE.”

OUT OF DARKNESS, OUT OF NIGHT,
FIRE IN THE CLOUD AND A PATH THROUGH THE TIDE.
FROM SLAVERY’S GRIP TO THE MOUNTAIN GLOW,
THE GOD OF THE COVENANT LEADS US HOME.

VERSE 6
Then Sinai smoked with holy fire,
Mountain wrapped in thunder choir.
Trumpet blast and lightning crown,
The people trembled as God came down.

Moses climbed where the cloud turned bright,
Into the terror of covenant light.
Ten words written by heavenly flame,
Not to earn love, but to bear God’s name.

“No other gods before My face,
No carved idol in My holy place.
Honour My name, keep Sabbath rest,
Let worship order the human chest.”

Honour your parents, do not kill,
Guard your marriage, tame your will.
Do not steal, let truth be told,
Do not crave your neighbour’s gold.

But while the mountain burned above,
The people forged a calf from love
Bent out of shape into golden lies,
A little god for frightened eyes.

They danced around what their hands had made,
Glory swapped for a thing that fades.
Moses came down with tablets bright,
And the camp lay drunk on borrowed light.

BRIDGE
Still the Lord made a way to dwell,
With sinners rescued from Pharaoh’s hell.
Tabernacle curtains, mercy seat,
Blood and incense where heaven would meet.

VERSE 7
Exodus is not just history smoke,
It is every chain Christ came and broke.
Pharaoh is pride with a crown on sin,
Egypt is bondage that traps within.

The sea is death with an opened floor,
The lamb is Jesus, the blood-marked door.
The manna is mercy for daily breath,
The rock is Christ struck under death.

The law is holy, but cannot save,
It shows the heart that needs the grave
To be conquered, emptied, rolled away,
By the Son who rose on the third bright day.

So when the world says, “Stay in line,
Build my bricks, give me your mind,”
The Gospel thunders through empire’s show:
In Jesus’ name, let My people go.

OUTRO
Out of Egypt, out of shame,
Out of the chains that knew our name.
Through the waters, through the night,
Led by fire, fed by light.

From Passover blood to Calvary’s tree,
From Sinai smoke to the Spirit set free,
From desert dust to the throne’s bright glow,
The God of Exodus leads us home.

FINAL CHOIR
OUT OF EGYPT, CHRIST HAS COME,
THE GREATER MOSES, THE PROMISED SON.
THE LAMB WAS SLAIN, THE SEA WAS CROSSED,
THE SLAVE IS FOUND, THE CHAINS ARE LOST.