He Heard My Cry!
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This Week’s Theme: God Knows Your Situation
Word for the Week is Hearing: In Scripture, both physical hearing and spiritual apprehension. God hears the prayers of his people and the cry of the oppressed. People must hear and respond to God’s word.
Memory verse: Psalm 3:4 I cried to the Lord with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill.
Essence of the Text in a Sentence: When Moses went to the mountain to check out an incredible site of a bush on fire but not consumed, the LORD God of his fathers commissioned him to deliver the children of Israel from Egypt because He see their oppression.
Sermon Proposition: Christians can be assured that the LORD sees their afflictions and hears their cries.
Sermon Objective: I want those in attendance who are Christians to continue to live in confidence knowing that God sees them and hears them and those who are not Christians to give their lives to God through Christ because He sees them.
Sermon Text: Exodus 3:7-8
7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
INTRODUCTION:
TRANSITION:
I. God is Looking Out
I. God is Looking Out
MOSES WENT UP A MOUNTAIN TO SEE AN EXTRAORDINARY SITE. THERE WAS A BUSH ON FIRE BUT IT DID NOT CONSUME IT.
UPON HIS ARRIVAL MOSES DID NOT REALIZE THAT HE STEPPED INTO A JOB INTERVIEW.
7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
The LORD has seen the tactics used by the Egyptians to oppress the children of Israel
POINTS TO THE OMNIPRESENCE OF GOD
3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the Lord, And He ponders all his paths.
ILLUSTRATION WITH HAGAR
13 Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”
ILLUSTRATION WITH LEAH
32 So Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben; for she said, “The Lord has surely looked on my affliction. Now therefore, my husband will love me.”
15 The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry.
12 For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.”
HE IS LOOKING AND
II. God is Listening For
II. God is Listening For
7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
23 Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
24 So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.
OMNISCIENCE OF GOD
4 I sought the Lord, and He heard me, And delivered me from all my fears.
6 This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
44 Nevertheless He regarded their affliction, When He heard their cry;
God regarded (to see, look at, inspect, perceive, consider) their affliction, when he heard their cry
4 I cried to the Lord with my voice, And He heard me from His holy hill. Selah
III. God is Laboring For
III. God is Laboring For
8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
The LORD has come down to deliver them
The LORD will bring them up from that land
The LORD will bring them to a good and large land
The LORD will bring them to a land flowing with milk and honey
The LORD will bring them to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites
ILLUSTRATION: REMEMBER THE STORY OF SODOM AND GOMORRAH IN
20 And the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave,
21 I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”
10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
12 So He said, “I will certainly be with you. And this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt;
17 and I have said I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’
19 But I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not even by a mighty hand.
20 So I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My wonders which I will do in its midst; and after that he will let you go.
21 And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be, when you go, that you shall not go empty-handed.
14 The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.”
3 The Lord is a man of war; The Lord is His name.
30 The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes,
22 You must not fear them, for the Lord your God Himself fights for you.’
4 for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
He is able to DELIVER (Dan 3.17)
He is able to FULFILL PROMISES (Rom 4.21)
He is able to DO EXCEEDING ABUNDANTLY ABOVE ALL (Ep 3.20)
He is able to KEEP YOU FROM FALLING (Jude 21)
HE LOOKED, LISTENED, AND LABORED PROVIDING
LOVE TO THE LONELY
COMPASSION TO THE CONDEMNED
FORGIVENESS TO THE FUGITIVE
VICTORY TO THE VICTIM
ACQUITTAL TO THE ACCUSED
DELIVERANCE TO THE DOOMED
REDEMPTION TO THE REBELLIOUS
SALVATION TO THE SINNER
I follow Him because:
He will never leave me,
never forsake me,
never mislead me,
never forget me,
AND HE WILL never overlook me
IN THE MIDST OF MY
…crisis, He is my Comfort…
…helplessness, He is my Help…
…loneliness, He is my Friend…
…sorrow. He is my Joy…
…perplexity. He is my Peace…
…problems. He is my Solution…
…grief. He is my Glory…
...faults. He is my Forgiveness…
…burdens, He is my Blessing,
…adversity. He is my Assurance…
...sinfulness. He is my Salvation…
Kept in the Father’s Name
Kept in His Safety