Exodus 7

Russell Tyler- Pray that God breaks him.

Are we really still talking about this?

Exodus 6:30 NASB95

But Moses said before the Lord, “Behold, I am unskilled in speech; how then will Pharaoh listen to me?”

How will Pharoah listen to Me?

Moses knows that Pharaoh has rejected God.

Look back with me to

Exodus 5:2 NASB95

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

This is the attitude of Pharaoh.

He doesn’t give a rip about what God says.

He doesn’t care.

His heart is hard to the things of God and to God Himself.

God isn’t God to him.

He believes himself to be god.

he isn’t going to obey God’s voice.

What has to happen for Pharaoh is either their has to be a change on the throne over Pharaoh’s heart, where he will willingly will submit to God’s word, or God will break him and take what is rightfully His.

Pharoah attitude mirrors that of a lot of the people today.

3% of the population in the united States are Atheists.

This is loud minority.

Frankly, atheists are more passionate about getting people to believe that there is not a God than we are about getting people to believe that there is a God.

But these people have the attitude of Pharoah.

At times, I feel the same way Moses felt in 6:30.

Surely, they wont listen to me.

Moses is then given a command.

Exodus 7:1 NASB95

Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

Moses will be a mouth piece for God.

Moses will speak on behalf of God.

Moses will be the one receiving the Word, whether or not Aaron communicates it or not.

Moses is the prophet here.

He will speak God’s Words.

Aaron as promised would be Moses’s spokesperson.

Look in verse number 2

Exodus 7:2 NASB95

“You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land.

This is God’s word. Not Moses.

But Moses is God’s leader not Aaron.

God has called Moses to do this and that is precisely how it will go down.

Moses is not to speak his own words. He is to speak God’s words.

Moses’s words have no power. no authority over pharaoh. God’s Word does.

Exodus 7:3 NASB95

“But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.

God is going to show His power in humbling Pharaoh.

Paul quotes this in Romans 9

Romans 9:16 NASB95

So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

Romans 9:17 NASB95

For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.”

His power will be demonstrated in Pharaoh.

This is a quote from .

Turn to that passage.

Exodus 9:16–17 NASB95

“But, indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth. “Still you exalt yourself against My people by not letting them go.

Exodus 9:16 NASB95

“But, indeed, for this reason I have allowed you to remain, in order to show you My power and in order to proclaim My name through all the earth.

Pharaoh will be humbled.

God will achieve His purposes.

Exodus 7:4 NASB95

“When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments.

This language here can be confusing.

lay my hand sounds kind of gentle.

This will not be a gentle “laying of the hand.”

This will be God bringing JUDGMENT upon the land of Egypt.

While His hand is there, he will take whats his.

He will do this by great judgments.

He will do this so that the people of Egypt will know His name.

Exodus 7:5 NASB95

“The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.”

It will be clear to all who observe that the Lord is God.

God is going to bring judgment and then he will remove His people through the judgment.

Through Hs judgments, His people will be preserved.

And everyone will look around and know who is God.

This is what God is after.

Knowledge and recognition of who he is.

Don’t forget

Exodus 5:2 NASB95

But Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go.”

Pharaoh is finna find out.

And with every plague God will give him a little reminder.

Exodus 7:17 NASB95

‘Thus says the Lord, “By this you shall know that I am the Lord: behold, I will strike the water that is in the Nile with the staff that is in my hand, and it will be turned to blood.

Exodus 8:10 NASB95

Then he said, “Tomorrow.” So he said, “May it be according to your word, that you may know that there is no one like the Lord our God.

Exodus 8:22 NASB95

“But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where My people are living, so that no swarms of flies will be there, in order that you may know that I, the Lord, am in the midst of the land.

Ex 8:

Exodus 14:4 NASB95

“Thus I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and he will chase after them; and I will be honored through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.” And they did so.

Exodus 14:18 NASB95

“Then the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord, when I am honored through Pharaoh, through his chariots and his horsemen.”

Ex 14:

Every judgment God brings is so that they know who is God and who isn’t.

Modern Day Application:

You know this hasn’t been done in a long time.

There are people living today as if there will never come a day where they will have to answer for their actions.

No Fear.

Only God can judge me.

But there is coming a day where He will.

Romans 14:11 NASB95

For it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to Me, And every tongue shall give praise to God.”

Philippians 2:10 NASB95

so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

People can buck all they want, but let it be known. They will bow. Everyone will bow. Every knee. Every tongue.

The Knees that ran from him. The knees that pushed against him or the knees that humbly bowed before him they will bow.

Every tongue that cursed Him. Every tongue that mocked Him. Every tongue that blasphemed, and Every tongue that sang praises to Him will know that He is God.

My prayer is that we will acknowledge that today because it will not be pretty tomorrow.

Pharaoh is about to find this out.

Exodus 7:6–7 NASB95

So Moses and Aaron did it; as the Lord commanded them, thus they did. Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

We will look into what they did next week.

And I know Im leaving you hanging again.