Sermon Tone Analysis

Israel for many years had prospered while living in Egypt.

While Joseph was alive they lived there without being taxed and lived in freedom to worship God.

After the death of Joseph says a new Pharaoh ruled in Egypt who did not know Joseph.

The Pharaoh then oppressed Israel and this oppression grew worse as the year passed.

Israel lived as slaves in Egypt for 430 years.

Moses was the man chosen by God to lead Israel out of Egypt.

An Israelite raised as an Egyptian in the royal courts.

One who was marked to be the next king of Egypt.

An adopted child was to be the heir.

and Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

Ellen White says, His intellectual greatness distinguishes him above the great men of all ages.

As historian, poet, philosopher, general of armies, and legislator, he stands without a peer.

Yet with the world before him, he had the moral strength to refuse the flattering prospects of wealth and greatness and fame.

Ellen Gould White, The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets as Illustrated in the Lives of Holy Men of Old, vol. 1, Conflict of the Ages Series (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1890), 246.

Israel for many years had prospered while living in Egypt.

While Joseph was alive they lived there without being taxed and lived in freedom to worship God.

After the death of Joseph says a new Pharaoh ruled in Egypt who did not know Joseph.

The Pharaoh then oppressed Israel and this oppression grew worse as the year passed.

Israel lived as slaves in Egypt for 430 years.

Moses was the man chosen by God to lead Israel out of Egypt.

An Israelite raised as an Egyptian in the royal courts.

One who was marked to be the next king of Egypt.

An adopted child was to be the heir.

and Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

Ellen White says, His intellectual greatness distinguishes him above the great men of all ages.

As historian, poet, philosopher, general of armies, and legislator, he stands without a peer.

Yet with the world before him, he had the moral strength to refuse the flattering prospects of wealth and greatness and fame.

Ellen Gould White, The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets as Illustrated in the Lives of Holy Men of Old, vol. 1, Conflict of the Ages Series (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1890), 246.

Israel for many years had prospered while living in Egypt.

While Joseph was alive they lived there without being taxed and lived in freedom to worship God.

After the death of Joseph

With Moses having all this at his fingertips turns his back on the fame of the world and chooses Christ.

says, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he looked to the reward.

Moses at the age of 40 ends up tending sheep for his father-in-law in Midian.

Patriarch’s and Prophets tell us that while there he unlearned the influences that had surrounded him in Egypt.

his own high position as the king’s grandson, the dissipation on every hand, the refinement, the subtlety, and the mysticism of a false religion, the splendor of idolatrous worship, the solemn grandeur of architecture and sculpture—all had left deep impressions upon his developing mind and had molded, to some extent, his habits and character.

Time, change of surroundings, and communion with God could remove these impressions.

Ellen Gould White, The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets as Illustrated in the Lives of Holy Men of Old, vol. 1, Conflict of the Ages Series (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1890), 248.

His intellectual greatness distinguishes him above the great men of all ages.

As historian, poet, philosopher, general of armies, and legislator, he stands without a peer.

Yet with the world before him, he had the moral strength to refuse the flattering prospects of wealth and greatness and fame,

Ellen Gould White, The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets as Illustrated in the Lives of Holy Men of Old, vol. 1, Conflict of the Ages Series (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1890), 246.

While unlearning all that he had been taught and while in the wilderness tending sheep Moses under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit writes the book of Genesis.

A book that speak about God the creator and His love for those He longs to be with.

A book that stands in contrast to the religion of the Egyptians as well as a book that stands in contrast to many word views of today.

Many people today prefer a truth that is rational, demonstrable, and accessible to all.

They frown on a truth through divine revelation and an acceptance of truth through faith.

Moses and us to day lived and live in a world where God is being eroded down to that which we can prove logically.

says a new Pharaoh ruled in Egypt who did not know Joseph.

The Pharaoh then oppressed Israel and this oppression grew worse as the year passed.

Israel lived as slaves in Egypt for 430 years.

Moses was the man chosen by God to lead Israel out of Egypt.

An Israelite raised as an Egyptian in the royal courts.

One who was marked to be the next king of Egypt.

An adopted child was to be the heir.

and Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

Ellen White says, His intellectual greatness distinguishes him above the great men of all ages.

As historian, poet, philosopher, general of armies, and legislator, he stands without a peer.

Yet with the world before him, he had the moral strength to refuse the flattering prospects of wealth and greatness and fame.

Ellen Gould White, The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets as Illustrated in the Lives of Holy Men of Old, vol. 1, Conflict of the Ages Series (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1890), 246.

With Moses having all this at his fingertips turns his back on the fame of the world and chooses Christ.

says, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt, for he looked to the reward.

Moses at the age of 40 ends up tending sheep for his father-in-law in Midian.

Patriarch’s and Prophets tell us that while there he unlearned the influences that had surrounded him in Egypt.

his own high position as the king’s grandson, the dissipation on every hand, the refinement, the subtlety, and the mysticism of a false religion, the splendor of idolatrous worship, the solemn grandeur of architecture and sculpture—all had left deep impressions upon his developing mind and had molded, to some extent, his habits and character.

Time change of surroundings, and communion with God could remove these impressions.

Ellen Gould White, The Story of Patriarchs and Prophets as Illustrated in the Lives of Holy Men of Old, vol. 1, Conflict of the Ages Series (Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1890), 248.

Moses was called to free a people that had been in bondage for hundreds of years and had lost to some extent the knowledge of God’s law and had departed from it.

The Sabbath had been generally disregarded and had little faith in God.