The Exodus

"...the emphasis of the story as the suspense builds up is that YHWH is not merely intent on liberating slaves but on reclaiming worshippers." Christopher Wright, The Mission of God, 270

However, less we be purely reductionistic, Wright in typical well nuanced fashion keeps us from dangerous reductionism:

"The exodus, then, was indeed deliverance from slavery to sin--not Israel's own sin, but the sin of those who oppressed them. The exodus was a climactic victory for YHWH against the external powers of injustice, violence, and death. In the exodus God brought his people up and out from under the enslaving power to which they were in bondage..." ibid, 278

"...I do not reject or reduce the terribly serious spiritual realities of sin and evil that the New Testament exposes, or the glories of the spiritual dimension of God's redemptive accomplishment in the cross and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. I simply deny that these truths of the New Testament nullify all that the Old Testament has already revealed about God's comprehensive commitment to every dimension of human life, about his relentless opposition to all that oppresses, spoils and diminishes human well-being, and about his ultimate mission of blessing the nations and redeeming his whole creation." ibid, 280