Power vs. Position

Exodus

Chapters 6,7

Sunday School Class                                                                                        Oct. 4, 98

First Baptist Church, Aberdeen                                                                                              

6:1-3  Power as well as position

“but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.”

6:4,5 Promise Keeper

“And I also established My covenant, ---I have remembered My covenant.”

6:6 Method- personal involvement

“I will bring you out ---with an outstretched arm--.”

6:7,8 Reward, possession of the Lord

“Then I will take you for My people--- I will give it to you for a possession;”

6:9 Moses speaks, no one listening

6:10-13  If my people won’t listen, why will my enemy listen?

6:14-27  Family history

6:28-30  Review of history

7: 1-2   You go in My place

7:3-  I will harden him, I will exalt Myself

(Read Romans 9)

9:1, 17-24  “I made Pharaoh (and all that “Pharaoh” implies); I can do with him/it as I please; don’t push it.”

7:4  Egypt (worldliness/humanism) pushed down, hosts (Christendom) lifted up

7:5-7 Moses and Aaron obey the Lord God, just as we must do for the church to have victory in history.