Sermon Tone Analysis

THE PLAGUES OF EGYPT & THE POWER OF GOD & THE PAYMENT OF REDEMPTION

I.

The Transformation of Moses

READ: EXODUS 7:1-7

The book of Exodus is a study of Moses growing into his job.

He had to go through a transformation, from the spirit of timidity to a Spirit of power, love and a sound mind.

a.

His Timid Personality.

Moses most self-descriptive phrase is I am of uncircumcised lips!

He was impulsive (Exodus 2:11-13).

He was hesitant (Exodus 3:12-4:13).

He was one to get over on his skies (Exodus 5:1).

He could be whinny at times and utterly void of self-confidence.

See Exodus 4:10, 12; 6:12, 29-30

b.

His Godlike Transformation.

However, there came a point where he took upon his shoulders the mantel of his anointing.

He became a Spirit-infused man, even Godlike in power and authority.

The Biblical writers saw inspired speech as not originating from the mind or knowledge of the speaker but the speaker becoming a mouth piece for God in which his Spirit would speak through them the prophetic word of God.

Exodus 4:12 ESV - I will be with your mouth and teach you what you will speak!

Isa.

50:4; Jer.

1:9; Ezek.

33:22; Matt.

10:19, 20; Mark 13:11; Luke 12:11, 12; 21:15

Exodus 7:1,6 ESV - And the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

...[6] Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the LORD commanded them.

Luke 12:11-12 ESV - 11 And when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious about how you should defend yourself or what you should say, 12 for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”

Luke 21:14-15 ESV - 14 Settle it therefore in your minds not to meditate beforehand how to answer, 15 for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.

He became a man of unflappable calm in the face of furry (Exodus 10:29).

He began to show total confidence in even the timing of miracles (Exodus 9:5)!

An abiding sense of fearlessness before Pharoah kept rising in his soul so that he was not afraid to make his demands and to even put Pharoah in his place.

The crucial transformation: By what inward processes of thought and decision Moses reached his crucial transformation we are not told.

He entered the presence of the Lord with complaints about his failure (Ex 5:22–23); he emerged, as subsequent chapters will prove over and over again, as the man who had no words other than those God had taught him, no acts other than those God had commanded, and no position except that of a man sent from God - Motyer, A. (2005).

The Message of Exodus: The Days of Our Pilgrimage.