saved you by sheer grace, obey me.” He does not say, “Obey me, and I’ll save you.” No, it’s, “I’ve saved you; now obey me.” Motyer adds that the whole narrative from the Passover to the exodus to Mount Sinai is “a huge visual aid before our eyes.”4 It’s a visual aid. Of what? Of the gospel! An Israelite could have said this: I was in bondage under penalty of death. I was a slave in a foreign land. But I took shelter under the blood of the lamb. And I was led out and saved by the mighty arm of God.