In this lesson, we look at Exodus 2-4 and how God raises up Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt. In our study, we notice that Moses’ expected method of deliverance does not turn out to be God’s method. We therefore consider application for ourselves; do we sometimes find ourselves disappointed, discouraged, and depressed when God keeps His promises in a different way than we expect?
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by the way there’s a handout to go with today’s class so if you didn’t get one make sure you speak or you connect with Gregor Roy I think they have the handouts last week we examine some issues related to the chronology of Israel in Egypt that we heard a lot of specific information on that topic I just want to view some of the more big picture topics with you before we start class review Egyptologist often assert a chronology for ancient Egypt that stretches a very long period of time and it has a more or less linear progression of Egyptian dynasties and several dark periods of weakness and little historical record and that’s the standard chronology but Answers in Genesis asserts a different chronology and this you heard last week articulated articulated by archaeologist David down what are some difference between Answers in Genesis chronology and the conventional chronology for ancient Egypt what’s one of the main differences yeah raw right and the conventional chronology ancient Egypt begins much earlier than it should according to from what we understand from the Bible so the answers in genesis chronology is condensed it takes some of the events of ancient egypt and make sure that they all happen but just not in such a long period of time what else is different what’s different about the dynasties not a linear not a strictly linear progression but a overlapping we have some of the dynasties overlapping we have rulers beginning to rule before the previous dynasty dies off and we have different dynasties ruling at the same time we also have shorter dark periods those those three intermediate periods they’re shorter in Answers in Genesis chronology I may also remember that we talked about how Egyptian history ancient Egyptian history is mainly divided into three periods Old Kingdom Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom and which period do most Egyptologists say the Bible indicates the exodus took place when do they say the Bible indicates the exodus took place which Kingdom period the New Kingdom that’s right based on the detail of the city of ramses being built by the Israelites and maybe one or two other things they say the exodus had to take place in the New Kingdom according to the Bible and yet they reject the exodus as a fiction why so the Bible indicates it took place in the New Kingdom but it couldn’t have taken place in New Kingdom why because there’s no evidence of a Semitic population in Egypt at that time or a mess or a mass movement of people in which period though is there evidence of a Semitic population and enslaved Semitic population in Egypt which Kingdom period the Middle Kingdom the Middle Kingdom and remember that Semitic population disappears abruptly leaving behind many of the everyday items so there actually is evidence for what the Bible describes happening to the patriarchs and the children of Israel in Egypt the most archaeologists and egyptologist don’t acknowledge this evidence because right it’s taking place the wrong period of time they say it can’t be the Israelites because if the Israelites were there would have to be in the New Kingdom they’re not willing to adjust their assumptions about when Israelites could have been in Egypt but we need to let God’s Word determine and assess our assumptions that was the the main point that’s always been one of the main points of this course we always need to start with and stick with God’s Word questions about last week’s lesson okay now we’re back in Exodus the Israelites are crying out to God because of their bondage the bondage that God told their forefather Abraham would happen he told Abraham in advance but in remembrance of his covenant now God is ready to act on behalf of his people and his deliverance is going to come through one man Moses but as we’ll see today Moses is both a ready and a not ready participant depending on the time but he’s very obviously not ready later why was Moses so unwilling to be Israel’s deliverer can we sometimes feel like Moses did how can God’s Word and boldin us and instruct us to accomplish what God has called us to do we’ll investigate some of those questions today as part of today’s lesson here’s an outline what we’ll be looking at we’re going to Vesta gate the birth and upbringing of Moses that’s recorded in Exodus two then we’ll observe the circumstances that led to Moses is departure from Egypt and then we’ll examine the revelation of God to Moses through the burning bush let’s pray before we move on oh god you were great what you’ve accomplished on behalf of Israel and on behalf of all people is great thank you Lord for revealing it to us help me to be able to explain it well and God you left Moses example for our instruction so Lord I prayed that we would learn and that we would no longer become discouraged when things do not turn out the way that we expected them to but we would trust that you are keeping your promises in Jesus name and let’s start by reading the account Moses’s birth in Exodus too so please open your Bibles and turn the exodus chapter 2 verses 1 to 10 this is the familiar account too many of you probably sense your childhood days but let’s examine it more closely let me read starting from verse 1 Exodus 2 verse 1 now a man from the house of Levi went and married a daughter of Levi the woman conceived and bore son and when she saw that he was beautiful she hit him for three months but when she could hide him no longer she got him a wicker basket and covered it over with tar and pitch and she put the child into it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile his sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe that the Nile with her maidens walking alongside the Nile and she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her maid and she brought it to her when she opened it she saw the child and behold the boy was crying and she had pity on him and said this is one of the Hebrews children then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women that she may nurse the child for you Pharaoh’s daughter said to her go go ahead so the girl went and called the child’s mother then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her take this child away and nurse him for me and I will give you your wages so the woman took the child and nursed him a child grew and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son and she named him Moses and said because I drew him out of the water ok let’s as always start our investigation of this passage with some basic observations remember at this time we’re in phase 3 phase 3 of Pharaohs plan to weaken the people of Israel that is Pharaoh command that all has people to throw the Hebrew infant boys into the Nile to be killed it so happened according to the text a man and a woman from the house of Levi marry and have a son we actually get the names and most his parents later on in Exodus does anybody know their names that’s right am red and yoga bed or jock a bed so Java bed was actually we also learned later on was am Rams father’s sister so it’s another close relation marriage that appears before the law before the law is given but anyways most his parents they have this son and manage and jockey bed but they do not obey the command to destroy the baby boy why not it’s because he was beautiful at least that’s one of the reasons that’s a really interesting detail it’s mentioned here and it’s mentioned later on when this account was recovered I was Moses a particularly beautiful baby or is this simply the way any parent would feel toward his own child toward his own image bearer and an image bearer of God but most of the beauty as a child was notable it is also mentioned later on in the scriptures that faith played a role in their decision to preserve Moses Hebrews 11 23 says by faith Moses when he was born was hidden for three months by his parents because they saw he was a beautiful child and they were not afraid of the Kings edict so yes Moses was beautiful but the parents are exercising faith and saying we’re not going to worry about the penalty of the king we’re going to keep our baby alive of course this is also God’s sovereignty parents are he moved the parents to do this they hide baby Moses over everything was called before we got that name for three months as the baby grew however they could no longer hide him and they decide to make an arc for him you have the word translated basket here but it’s actually the word Ark it’s the same word that we saw earlier in Genesis when talking about the ark met Noah built it’s the word teba they put him in this arc and they put him in the nile by the way speaking of the ark what description here do you have of this arc that reminds you of the earlier one well it’s definitely reminding us of no in the arc but what’s the description that’s consistent with both of these arcs yeah it’s the covering right tar in the pitch that was something that helped that other arc go through the water and that’s something that helps this art go through the water remember we really don’t know what teeba the Hebrew word means but based off of its use here and earlier in Genesis probably best translated lifeboat so Moses’s mother makes this lifeboat for Moses puts the baby into it puts it on the Nile and Moses his sister Miriam stands at a distance to see what will happen to Moses now what obstacles does baby Moses encounter as he floats down the Nile trick question none as far as we know but if you’ve seen any films about this or any cartoons about this encounter you might have noticed it’s a bunch of crocodiles and some Rapids or something like that but really it’s likely that none of that actually took place in fact the text says that he was set among the reeds so he’s probably on the side of the Nile not moving at all now it just so happens that Pharaoh’s daughter comes to bathe in the Nile at this moment or sometime after Moses was placed on the side of the Nile her attendant maids are walking with her along the Nile and Pharaoh’s daughter notices this basket this Ark is she calls one of her maids to bring it to her what does Pharaoh’s daughter notice when she opens the ark yeah there’s a baby inside it’s a boy and he’s crying and she also notices something else he’s a Hebrew this is one of the Hebrew children she concludes she notices and how does she respond after making these observations and she feels pity for him she has compassion on him now noticing the princess’s compassion for the baby Moses his sister comes up offers to find the Hebrew nurse true Pharaoh’s daughter Pharaoh’s daughter accepts Miriam promptly gets Moses’s real mother Pharaoh’s daughter agrees to pay Jacques Abed turn nurse and raise Moses Moses grows up a little Djoko bed then brings him back to the princess the boys named Moses what does Moses mean drawn out drawn out from remember Moses is an Egyptian name it’s featured as part of the names of many pharaohs ok made these observations let’s ask a few interpretive questions now why does Moses’s mother decide to put Moses in the ark on the river certainly she’s in a difficult situation but why this choice what do you think so it was it was an attempt to protect Moses but one might think he put him on the river he’s just going to die there we don’t really get much background as to why they chose this particular plan perhaps it was in a desperate hope to save the baby hoping that God would provide something miraculous after all they hit him by faith for three months so this decision to place him on the Nile was likely also born out of faith perhaps though there was a bit of a scheme involved Moses’s mother knew that Pharaoh’s daughter was coming down to bathe and so she plants Moses in the princess’s path in hope that Pharaoh’s daughter will have pity on the baby and let him live again we don’t really know but this was an important choice because God was going to use their faith to not only let Moses survive but also to plant him in Pharaohs household second question why does Pharaoh’s daughter take Moses has her own son means so she has pity on the boy but why may kim her own son did mention what possible reason last week yes right if this is a this is a Pharaoh’s daughter like Sobek neferu who was an actual an actual person who was childless and she may have been looking for an heir a son and that may would even explain why she’s bathing in the Nile this is actually a an act of worship to the god of the Nile the fertility god happy and so she sees Moses as an answer to her prayer however the text tells us she notices something about Moses about the child as we saw she knows that he’s a Hebrew boy now doing this it might be difficult to interpret this as a answer to prayer from the god unless she thought that maybe the God would would have provided her a Hebrew boy but whatever the reason God caused her to have compassion on the boy perhaps drawing on her natural maternal instinct it was easy to just go along with edict when these boys are far away and you don’t know them you don’t see them but she encounters a helpless crying Hebrew boy in front of her Pharaoh’s daughter is guided by god to do the unexpected to adopt this Hebrew as your child and consequently make him an heir to Pharaoh we don’t completely know why these people are making the choices that they do but we do know overall that this is part of God’s plan God is in control he’s moving people in circumstances to accomplish his good plans and fulfill his promises to his people and a very nice arrangement for Moses his family not only does Moses live but then he’s given back to his mother to nurse and to raise and even get paid for it that’s pretty nice jacobin may have even sensed considering that Pharaoh’s daughter was now adopting her son that Moses would one day be in perfect position to deliver the Hebrews out of bondage he would have potentially the power and the desire to free all the Hebrews we’re oiled I wonder if she commuted it communicated this to young Moses in some way before she sent him off because of what later happens in the text let’s actually read the next section now look at Exodus chapter 2 verses 11 to 15 we move forward about 40 years verse 11 now it came about in those days when Moses had grown up that he went out to his brethren and looked on their hard Labor’s and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew one of his brethren so he looked this way and that when he saw there was no one around he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand he went up the next day and behold two Hebrews were fighting with each other and he said to the offender why are you striking your companion but he said who made you a prince or a judge over us are you intending to kill me as you killed the Egyptian Moses was afraid and said surely the matter has become known when Pharaoh heard of this matter he tried to kill Moses but Moses fled from the presence of Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian and he sat down by well alright we’ll stop there it makes more quick observations on this passage according to Stephen speaking about Moses and acts 7 Moses is about 40 years old here at this point he’s been raised as royalty join all the pleasures and education of the Egyptians Moses decides whoever one day that he wants to get more acquainted with the hard lives of the Hebrews while doing so Moses encounters an Egyptian beating a Hebrew what word do you notice is repeated between verse 11 and 12 brethren right verse 11 says it went out to went to his brethren and looked on their heart Labor’s and in verse 12 we said it saw him beating a Hebrew or at the end of verse 11 I’m sorry not verse 12 beating Hebrew one of his brethren idea of brethren being repeated here for emphasis when he sees the beating why does Moses look around yeah Rob well it’s not so much about talking to Hebrews cousin do much talking in this first instance he’s looking around yeah he wants to make sure there are no witnesses to the murder he’s about to commit right later on there he’s not looking around for witnesses Moses strikes and the Egyptian that is he kills him and he hides the Egyptians body in the sand the very next day Moses goes to break up a fight between two Hebrews and notice the words of the one in response who made you a prince or a judge over us what does this response communicate by asking this question what is he really telling Moses yes sir yeah it’s a rejection of Moses in some way you’re not really our leader you’re you don’t have authority over us I reject your authority I reject your help get lost then the Hebrew mentions Moses’s day old murder Moses realizes that the word on what he did is out and he has to flee he knows he has to flee to avoid recompense from Pharaoh Pharaoh does try to kill Moses but Moses totally leaves Egypt and goes to Midian and Midian the land of Midian would be on the south west coast of the Middle East so that’s actually part of Arabia that’s where Moses goes now let’s ask some more interpretive questions why does Moses kill the Egyptian the answer may seem obvious but let’s fully tease this out why killed the Egyptian what’s one of the reason that’s right it’s to protect the Hebrew he sees him being beat he says I got to stop this but why else he didn’t you could have stopped the beating without killing the Egyptian but why does he kill him yeah really well that’s going to be an important point that we’re just we’re going to investigate more in just a second but yeah he’s definitely identifying with the Hebrews over the Egyptians but why kill the Egyptian yeah wrong okay it could yeah it could partly be a practical consideration recess if he sees me interceding for the Hebrews here and he might tell Pharaoh parent might get mad I don’t want there to be any witnesses that could be part of it yeah come on oh yeah he was angry but it what kind of anger or what what’s the motivation for his anger when I’m kind of driving to will investigate a verse that or actually sue I don’t think it could be like that i think it is like that yeah it’s a vengeance here he sees not only one of his brethren being hurting what’s to stop that but he wants to punish the person who did that how dare you strike one of my brethren how dare you beat him and he wants to kill the man who did that he sees her this is this is an important moment it indicates a lot about Moses’s attitude he sees the Hebrews as his brethren and they are to be protected they are to be delivered and they are to be avenged and these are actually righteous impulses we do want to see wrong punish and we do want to see the oppressed delivered but Moses’s application of those impulses is murder was the Egyptian doing wrong yes but that did not give Moses the right to kill him I think of a somewhat similar situation than unfolded in the Garden of Gethsemane you remember the Jewish ruling body the Sanhedrin they had agreed to unjustly apprehend Jesus and even execute him seeing Jesus about to be taken captive by the sanhedrin’s and possibly killed what does Peter do and he draws his sword and immediately tries to kill one of the mob members it cuts off the servant of the high priest ear which you’ve probably heard me and he was aiming for the head is going for a lethal blow now Peter there was acting on righteous impulses his loyalty and love for Christ a desire to protect the innocent and punish evil but Jesus rebuked Peter no one has the right to murder or to oppose with violence the governing authorities established by God even when they are unjust Peters action like Moses’s came from good impulses but it was against God’s law it was sin it’s not what God ordained but back to Moses this moment of killing the Egyptian was very significant because what is Moses turning on his back but what is Moses turning his back on here his Egyptian upbringing he’s basically saying I stand with the Hebrews I will kill Egyptians if I have to and this aspect of Moses his actions by standing with his brethren and rejecting Egyptian life was very righteous Hebrews 11 24 to 26 makes comment I’ll just read you the text Hebrews 11 24 to 26 by faith Moses when he grew up when he had grown up refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter choosing rather to endure ill treatment with the people of God and to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin considering the reproach of Christ greater riches in the treasure of Egypt for he was looking to the reward this is an act of faith though the application of it is marred by sin now not only is Moses choosing to identify himself with the people of Israel here he very likely at this moment is ready to overturn the social order and deliver his people from bondage he wants to act as a deliverer this is just the start because listen what Stephen says in acts 7 verses 23 to 25 again you don’t have to turn there but acts 7 23 to 25 to give you context this is stephen follower of christ giving a speech to the Sanhedrin member the unrighteous Sanhedrin and he was making the point to them that you are just like unrighteous Israel in the past you are constantly rejecting and opposing God sent deliverers and this was what Stephen says or and of course he has in mind Jesus you rejected Jesus just like all your forefathers rejected the deliverers godsend here’s what Stephen says or his part of what Stephen says about Moses acts 7 23 to 25 but when he Moses was approaching the age of 40 it entered his mind to visit his brethren the sons of Israel and when he saw one of them being treated unjustly he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian and he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him but they did not understand this is king Moses saw himself as the Hebrew deliverer he was ready to lead them to free them to take them out of Egypt who better to do it he’s got the position in Pharaohs household he seemingly set up to be the perfect deliverer he would be the Hebrew Savior and so naturally he’s not only going to take vengeance for them but he’s going to make peace between them make peace between these two Hebrews that are fighting but the words he got in response to his actions was who made you are ruler and judge I don’t accept your authority I don’t accept your leadership he was rejected and this must have utterly shocked Moses don’t you understand and I’m your deliverer I’m here to help you but they want to know part instead of all the Hebrews lining up behind Moses like he expected Moses found himself alone and on the run rejected by his people and because the crime he committed no longer able to return the Pharaohs household things couldn’t have turned out worse more different than Moses probably expected have you felt this way you pursued something you thought was God’s will something that just seemed to line up perfectly with your circumstances but then it completely blew up in your face you finally decided to witness that one family member and their response was so hostile that your relationship with that person is now completely ruined or you spent so much time preparing to serve the Lord and a certain career or ministry but then something caused it to all fall through all the time you spent preparing going to school no longer mattered because you can’t work that way you can’t get that job or you prayed you sought counsel you thought that pursuing a certain person in marriage was the right thing to do but when you did it was just a complete fiasco and you say God why what was the point of all that God it was I was trying to follow you was trying to be obedient to you I went on a limb I went out on a limb for your sake and you left me hanging out to dry and two words begin to repeat themselves in your mind never again I don’t ever want to risk that again you become tentative or you gonna say Danny yeah I think that’s that’s a huge part of it to repeat your comment Danny to repeat your question do I think that Moses was attempting this deliverance in his own strength and his own wisdom and in his own timing absolutely and as will say more about later but as I’ve written here on the slide this was not the way God was going to deliver it looked like it could be the way but it was not the way that God had her date and when and when Moses saw what happened as a result of his attempt he was I’m sure very discouraged where you can say bill yes yes that’s a great point bill it’s we have to be really careful and i’m going to say more about this a little bit later but we think we’re doing God’s will or sometimes we even are doing God’s will but based on their the outcome we then feel like God he was unfaithful to us he didn’t back us up he didn’t give us what we were supposed to get when we followed after him but we misunderstand a little bit about God’s will I’ll say more about that later on but Moses likely goes through some severe shock base over what happens in Egypt and the reason why I say this is partly because of his expectation according to heat according to Stephen acts but also because of how Moses responds when God later does call him to deliver Egypt and that’s when I want to look at with you now let’s go to Exodus chapter 3 skip over the second half of chapter to Moses fleas Egypt he meet the family of shepherdesses he delivers them from the minor ill treatment of some other shepherds and then Moses Mary’s one of the shepherdesses Zipporah and start the family and he serves his father-in-law in Midian for 40 years so after those 40 years when Moses is about 80 God appears to Moses and that’s what we’re going to pick up the account in chapter 3 verse 1 now Moses was pastoring the flock of jethro his father-in-law the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb the mountain of God horeb it’s another name for Sinai the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush and he looked behold the bush was burning with fire yet the bush was not consumed so Moses said I must turn to sign now and see this marvelous sight why the bush has not burned up when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look God called to him from the midst the bush and said Moses Moses and he said Here I am and then he said do not come near here remove your sandals from your feet for the place on which you were standing is holy ground he said also I am the God of your father the God of Abraham the god of Isaac and the God of Jacob and Moses hid his face he was afraid to look at God the Lord said I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt I have given here to their cry because of their taskmasters for I am aware of their sufferings so I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land to a land flowing with milk and honey to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the amorite and the parasite and the Hittites and the jevi side now behold the cry of the sons of Israel has come to me furthermore i have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them therefore come now I will send you to Pharaoh so that you may bring my people the sons of Israel out of Egypt we’re not going to make specific observations on these verses but will just summarize Wow God himself appears to Moses in the form of a burning bush the angel the Lord and in this bush and affirms God affirms that he knows and cares about what’s going on with the Hebrews any Commission’s Moses to do that which Moses had originally intended deliver Israel lead them out of Egypt and into the Promised Land but Moses is not that excited about this we’re going to do a little activity now I should have received a handout that goes along with this next section of Scripture as a number of a it’s a table with a number of blanks what I want you to do by yourself or with those sitting near you I want you to read Exodus 3 11 2x just for 17 and as you read I want you to note two different things that the two columns on your worksheet first note Moses’s different objections to being used by the Lord Moses objects to God’s plan five different times write down Moses Moses objections second note God’s provisions and assurances in response to Moses’s objections how does God seek to a a Moses’s concerns write these down as well I’ll give you about seven minutes to do this questions about what you’re being asked to do okay go ahead and get started and look up please when you’re finished okay we’re going to go over the answers now if you didn’t finish that’s okay will help fill in what’s left let’s go over this sheet now we’ll move row by row get the objection and then God’s responses in provisions and assurances what Moses first objection Who am I I’m not significant enough to do this work for you what does God what are God’s provisions and assurances I will be with you that’s kind of interesting right he doesn’t say you are significant no he says I will be with you right and he says something else that’s right I’ll give you a sign when you come out of Egypt you’ll come back and worship on this mountain you’ll come back to this place so God says I will be with you and here’s the sign you’ll return to this mountain worship on this mountain what’s Moses second objection Rob exactly Who am I going to say when they asked me who sent you how am I going to respond I won’t know how to answer if they asked me for your name what are God’s provisions and assurances what’s one of them it gives them the name you need a name I’ll give you the name I tell them I am since you also tell them the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob sent me to you but then God gives more what other provisions and assurances what does he guarantee yeah he says some well he says the number of things but certainly part of our affirmation that he’s going to fulfill the promise promise to given to Abraham you look down at our Judy you have something well the miracles are part of the the third objection but God does provide those things as well and just responds to the second objection notice and verse 18 God says they will listen to you that’s a great assurance right and he even says what’s going to happen next they’ll listen to you you’ll go to Pharaoh but Pharaoh won’t listen to you but don’t worry that’s part of the plan I’m going to bring these judgments I’m going to bring you out with treasures and you’re going to leave but only after I force Pharaoh to make you leave so not only does it give him the name but he says they will listen to you and I’ll tell you what’s going to happen next yeah Danny yeah yeah yeah yeah it’s a good point Jenny to repeat your comment too it’s interesting to note the contrast between how Moses attempted to deliver the people out of Egypt and how God says he’s going to do it and also most of this attitude is very different and we’re as you noted Danny he seemed like can do let’s get this done I can do it and now here perhaps he’s got even like totally opposite like oh I can’t do it there may be a little bit of humility there but gone even further away from humility to just a total total lack of trust in God being able to accomplish anything with him but yeah that’s the second objection those are some more assurances from God what’s the third objection what if what if they don’t believe me didn’t God just tell you that they’re going to listen to you what does God say though what does God provide in response he gives him three signs the sign of the staff turning into a snake and back to a staff the sign of his hand turning leprous and then turning healthy again and then the sign of the Nile water when poured on the ground turning into blood he says if they don’t listen to the first two signs or if they don’t believe the first two signs give them the third and they’ll believe you but Moses has another objection so number three says what I don’t believe me God gives them three signs what’s the fourth objection I’m not a skilled speaker I never have been not even when you started speaking to me did I get better I’ve never been a skilled speaker what’s God’s what are God’s provisions and assurances in response yeah Craig yeah and he gives him a little reminder also he says I’m the creator I made them out I know how to make the mouth work then then he says I will be your mouth and I will teach you what to say doesn’t matter how skilled you’re able to speak because I’m going to speak through you and then Moses one last objection your translation might say please send whomever you will what does Moses actually saying there please send somebody else yes be translated that way and that’s the sense here please send someone else notice though God doesn’t simply say no you’re the one God gets angry but then God gives him a provision what’s the provision yeah I will provide Aaron as your mouthpiece I’ve heard he’s a fluent speaker he’ll speak for you you’ll be I’ll get my words to you and you will give my words to him and he’ll speak he’ll be your helper so his last objection please send someone else but God says Aaron will be your helper now we look at all this and there’s a there’s a lot that we can we can say about this but let’s just focus on what God demonstrates about himself in this exchange what attributes of God are really clear yeah Rob yeah yeah yeah I think that’s definitely one of the strong attributes or that’s one attribute strongly on display here to repeat your comment the Khan is demonstrating great patience with Moses here now there may be of some practical aspect to the questions that Moses is giving but really as is clear by the last objection Moses does not want to go and so when Moses gave the first objection God could have said enough with this and smited Moses but God doesn’t simply not kill Moses but he graciously gives some accommodations I’ll help you don’t worry this is gonna this is going to work out i’ll give you the sign and even when he gets mad even when god’s anger is displayed against Moses God still accommodates Moses he says I’ll give you Aaron as a helper that’s great patience that’s great graciousness from God what else perhaps more obvious but God’s power and his control right he says this is what’s going to happen i’m going to empower you to do it and then you’re going to leave them all you’re going to lead them out of Egypt God’s in complete control of the future circumstances and he’s going to use Moses to bring them to pass other attributes we could say there too but there was definitely strongly now why is Moses so hesitant here isn’t this exactly what he had always wanted well I’ve already given you a little bit of my take on this I believe the reason for Moses is hesitancy in fear was because of what he previously experienced that failure the great and traumatic failure when he first tried to deliver Israel from Egypt he’s so afraid of a repeat failure and a repeat rejection that even with the strong assurances of God to the contrary he’s very slow to believe I’ll say more about that just a second but we might wonder what was the point of all of that we might wonder just like Moses probably wondered what was the point of putting Moses and Pharisees Pharaohs household if God was just going to remove modes is from Egypt anyways if you’re going to use an outside deliverer for the people of Israel God why bother putting Moses in the Pharaohs household at all if that wasn’t the way you’re going to deliver Egypt or deliver Israel what do you think well Danny I think you mentioned one aspect already in that there’s some training some character building that’s going on with Moses here what else yeah Carol that’s right he is going to eventually say let my people go he’s gonna be a lot more confident right now he’s not that way why why might have God chosen to do it this way hmm I’ll repeat your comment but let me ask you to explain a little bit more not very many people would stand up to the princess of Egypt in terms of protecting the boy once you or you’re talking about Pharaoh’s daughter one cheat when she found him in the river how’s that connected ok I see what you’re saying yeah so not so much about the deliverance aspect in terms of his own becoming a royal rule double lots of power but that this was going to be the way that God protected Moses whether he’s going to be in Pharaohs household or not you had somebody with power who was protecting Moses yeah that’s a good point that’s certainly part of it Danny hmm yeah yeah we’re definitely going to see we see through this way of delivering so God’s going to demonstrate he’s going to demonstrate his attributes because demonstrate his glory even in Moses’s disappointment and his hesitancy to go to Egypt God is going to show his patients to Moses Moses and he’s going to show us sovereignty yeah George yeah yeah I think that’s another great point George he’s making the point to Israel that it’s not man who delivered you or a certain man who’s delivering you it’s God it’s got in his power yeah Roy yeah yeah it’s like it that’s a great point Roy just repeat your comment all the things that might have helped Moses be able to deliver Egypt before his power his authority his education his contacts in the world house 40 years removed from that none of that really helps him anymore but that’s just going to emphasize even more no it’s not man it’s not any part of man that’s gonna deliver it’s going to be all of God we can say more things and I appreciate your giving comments here I do want to mention two other things though in wrapping up today’s lesson one thing that we we know as part of God’s decision to do it this way is that he wanted to use Moses as an example of faith turning back turning his back on his he his Egyptian heritage saying no I’d rather be with the suffering people of Egypt then continue to live in this royal household as we already saw from Hebrews I think another thing that we see and I think we touched on a little bit in some of your answers is that God is also reminding us that his way is not our way he has a mode of deliverance he has a mode of action that’s often not what we expect and really we cannot know what presume the secret will of God God reminds us of that and he reminds Moses of that in the way he’s chosen to deliver Israel and this is something we’ve already seen in our in our study of the scriptures consider how long Abraham and Sarah waited for a Sun God prams them one it wasn’t happening now and Sarah thought she had figured out God’s will God’s will by giving Hagar to Abraham this is how it’s going to work this must be God’s provision but I was wrong and it led to unnecessary trouble for the family I’ll consider how God contravened custom multiple times with the patriarchs and having the younger brother inherit the blessing instead of the older that didn’t make sense that didn’t look like the way it was supposed to be but that’s exactly the way God wanted it to be and even in the scriptures we haven’t studied we see this happening again again the scriptures when looking for a king for Israel after saw Samuel goes over to the sons of Jesse says surely this is the King looking at David’s older brothers or a older brother and God says nope not him you’re looking as a man sees that’s not the way I look at people eventually finds David a shepherd that’s the perfect king of Israel or when one of the prophets laments to god about Israel’s idolatry and need for repentance God says I know just what to do I’m going to bring a more wicked nation against Israel and destroy Israel and that’s how I’m going to bring them to repentance that didn’t make sense their profit why would you do that but lord I wait to see how you approve me of course ultimately Jesus Christ himself it didn’t make sense the people at the time the Messiah would suffer and die he was supposed to restore the kingdom to Israel you’re supposed to kick out the Romans that’s what everybody expected that’s what made sense but that’s not what God was going to do from a human perspective throughout the scriptures God does things that are very unexpected no one would have thought they were going to happen just looking on the outside circumstances but remember this point and I’ve said it before but it’s really important for us to realize god never promised to communicate his will to us through circumstances something looks like it will happen looks like it’s God’s will just looking at the circumstances it might not be or something looks like it won’t happen doesn’t look like it’s God’s will it still might be we cannot know this secret will of God so does that mean that we’re just going to walk around blind without any direction oh of course not God doesn’t leave us in the dark he does give us how to proceed in his word he says i will show you my will follow my word it has all the principles that you need for each life situation apply my word when we proceed to what God actually wrote in his word and when we act on the promises that God actually gave us rather than the promises that we make up and the expectations that we make up then we’ll be doing God’s will we can never tell exactly how each situation that we encounter is going to turn out but we do know and we can act upon the knowledge that God will keep his promises one way or another and this we also saw before right Abraham sacrifice my son that doesn’t make sense but God promised God will bring someone back from the dead if he has to before he breaks his promises therefore we were to act on his promises God was going to teach Moses and the whole nation of Israel this truth many times situation may look terrible but God will provide we’re situation may look wonderful but there’s going to be trouble and God’s gonna bring you through that trouble life does indeed have many unknowns but God has made himself known to us and we are to cling to him through the troubles and through the prosperity putting aside our expectations that go beyond the scriptures we can only expect what God has promised things like I will be with you rely on me and my word as dayley provided mana remember some people will accept you accept your word and some people won’t I will reward you I will ultimately turn out every one of these circumstances from my glory and you’re good those types of things when we have expect expectations’ beyond these will become disappointed we’ve become disillusioned and will become depressed one person once said expectations are just premeditated disappointments it’s a very true you don’t know and I don’t know how God exactly is going to do things we have to act based on what he has promised and then let God do what seems good to him don’t hang on so tightly to your own plans and expectations for a situation we are not to become fearful and tentative like Moses this is a negative example from us to learn for us to learn from and I think as Danny was saying Moses probably previously rely too much on his own wisdom his own power for what he thought should happen but God showed him and us it’s all about God he’s the one with the power he’s the one with the wisdom no God was still going to use Moses mightily but it was going to be in reliance on god and he’ll do the same with us you might be thinking you may have thought as Moses has that Moses did I’m too weak and insignificant and to unknowledgeable to be used by God no God it’s God who has the power he uses the weekend insignificant and on those that don’t have a huge amount of knowledge and uses them to accomplish really powerful thing it’s not even just a little I mean what he does with knows this is going to be huge and Moses a man just like us final comments or questions on today’s lesson yeah George that’s a good question right that’s a good good point yeah I just repeat your comment was Moses really unskilled in speech as he tells God and you noted in acts 7 Stephen says that Moses was demanded power and word and deed and we would expect someone who was well educated by the Egyptians it’s actually probably a pretty good speaker and he does a lot of speaking later on as he’s leading Israel through through out of Egypt and in the wilderness so that was probably not even true that’s true too that’s a good that’s a good comment as well bill we do know that even in the New Testament we have Paul claiming I’m not that I didn’t come to you with eloquent speech but I came to you in the power of God and perhaps that’s what Stephen is referring to an ax seven when talks about Moses speaking in powerful words that he’s speaking with God’s Authority and with God’s power and that’s what made his words powerful maybe he wasn’t a skilled Speaker I would expect that he was and maybe he was just just not feeling very good about his speech ability when he was talking to God but yeah it certainly he learned later on to rely on the Lord’s word any other questions or comments really good instruction I think from this this account from Scripture we have a new memory verse starting this week it’s the first two Commandments from the Ten Commandments Exodus 20 verses 1 to 5 a please memorize that with your family with your children let’s read it together as we close Exodus 20 verses 1 to 5 a and God spoke all these words saying I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt out of the house of bondage you shall have no other gods before me you shall not make for yourself the carved image any likeness of anything that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth you shall not bow down to them nor serve them let’s pray father you you do reveal your glory you reveal your patience you review your holiness you reveal your power again and again through the