Moses and Aaron Go Before Pharaoh
The Revelation of the True God in Exodus • Sermon • Submitted • Presented • 44:52
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I. Introduction
I. Introduction
II. Moses and Aaron spoke to Pharaoh
II. Moses and Aaron spoke to Pharaoh
1 Afterward Moses and Aaron went and said to Pharaoh, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness.’ ”
“Thus says the LORD” - prophetic messenger speech formula from Ex 4:22
“Thus says the LORD” - prophetic messenger speech formula from Ex 4:22
22 Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son,
2 But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and moreover, I will not let Israel go.”
3 Then they said, “The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”
III. Pharaoh demonstrated his hardness of heart.
III. Pharaoh demonstrated his hardness of heart.
4 But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens.”
5 And Pharaoh said, “Behold, the people of the land are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens!”
6 The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen,
7 “You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past; let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8 But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, ‘Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.’
9 Let heavier work be laid on the men that they may labor at it and pay no regard to lying words.”
10 So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, “Thus says Pharaoh, ‘I will not give you straw.
11 Go and get your straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least.’ ”
12 So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
13 The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.”
14 And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, “Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?”
15 Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, “Why do you treat your servants like this?
16 No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, ‘Make bricks!’ And behold, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people.”
17 But he said, “You are idle, you are idle; that is why you say, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’
18 Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.”
19 The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said, “You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day.”
IV. The foremen of Israel chided with Moses and Aaron.
IV. The foremen of Israel chided with Moses and Aaron.
20 They met Moses and Aaron, who were waiting for them, as they came out from Pharaoh;
21 and they said to them, “The Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us.”
V. Moses turned to the LORD.
V. Moses turned to the LORD.
22 Then Moses turned to the Lord and said, “O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you ever send me?
23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all.”
VI. The LORD promised to deliver.
VI. The LORD promised to deliver.
1 But the Lord said to Moses, “Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh; for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land.”
VII. What do you see about God?
VII. What do you see about God?
1. The presumption that a good God never lets dangerous or harmful events happen to his people, false as it has always been, is a very old belief. (Douglas K. Stuart, Exodus, vol. 2, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2006), 167.)
1. The presumption that a good God never lets dangerous or harmful events happen to his people, false as it has always been, is a very old belief. (Douglas K. Stuart, Exodus, vol. 2, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2006), 167.)
2. God reassured Moses that Pharaoh would send the people out, just as He had promised.
2. God reassured Moses that Pharaoh would send the people out, just as He had promised.
3. God knows the future and He is able to subject all things to His will to accomplish what He says will happen.
3. God knows the future and He is able to subject all things to His will to accomplish what He says will happen.