Exodus Wk 3 - Notes

Thoughts:

Note the the leadership role of Shepherd for God’s people.

Moses was a shepherd for 40 years

David was a shepherd.

The MOTIF of leadership in the OT

Israel’s rejection of Moses leadership in

This is a motif that is repeated in Moses leadership over Israel

in the Book of Judges over and over again

And in the book of Kings

Not to mention this is our experience with God all of our lives.

This is a pattern that we continually need saving

Foreshawdowing:

Moses leaves Egypt — as will the Egyptians in the exodus — as will Christ as a child.

Flow

Moses is being brought up in Pharaoh’s house. He knows that he is a Hebrew. What an awkward position to be in...

To see your people oppressed and abused for 40 years.

Talk about guilt and shame that must have gnawed at you.

Finally he decides to do something. Afterall, he’s a powerful man. A Prince of Egypt.

Exodus 2:11 ESV

11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.

“He went out and looked on their burdens”

Was this something he did regularly?

He sees an opportunity to right a wrong so he does.

He kills an egyptian.

Again this is like a Jew killing a german in Nazi Germany.

I’m guessing Pharaoh was none to pleased when he learned what his daughter had done, yet he seems to have allowed it.

Perhaps he suspected it was only a matter of time before something like this happened.

but when it did, he would be ready, and at last he would have his reason for killing moses

Exodus 2:13 ESV

13 When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, “Why do you strike your companion?”

Exo 2:

Evidently, Moses is trying to play peacemaker.

I can only imagine the scorn he received.

Oh here is the Moses who lives in luxury while we all suffer with backbreaking labor all day long.

By this point there are some who have born that all they have ever known is slavery

just like in American Slavery.

These people would have never known a life without slavery.

This would have been Moses story, but God saved him.

I’m guessing they would have hated Moses.

Perhaps Moses felt a growing question of why he was in this position.

This is the point we all need to ponder. Why has God given me so much?

Why has God put me in this position?

What does he want to do with all he has given me?

MOSES FOUND OUT

Moses was found out.

He was now in danger

He had to leave, with very little notice.

He probably didn’t leave with much and indeed pharaoh wanted him dead.

Who knows how long he fled…but at last he sat down at a well.

Exodus 2:16 ESV

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Moses stands up for them.

Exod 2:

WHAT IF HE HADN’T??

Hard to imagine what is going on in his head right now.

He has just lost everything he ever knew

His home, his family, his people.

CALLING

Yet…when trouble comes

He still fights for justice.

Why?

I’m wondering if Moses felt his call. And became sure of it.

He was a deliverer.

This is what he figured out.

This is why God has spared me. To use this power to deliver others.

So he tries with the E-H, then with the H-H, but it doesn’t work.

He is sure of his calling, but something is not right.

He loses everything.

He had to lose everything to be used by God.

So sure of his calling is that when another time comes he delivers these women as well.

LEARNING TO WAIT ON GOD

I imagine that he is learning to wait on God.

God has to do a work on us, to do a work in us, to do a work through us.

Moses is not ready to follow God and lead these people

He needs training (shepherd), mostly he needs…Humility.

Defined as knowing God’s place and know ours.

You want to lead God’s people — you have to learn to follow God’s leading

You want to step into your calling — first you have to learn the callers voice

not just the WHAT, but the WHEN and the WHERE and the HOW.

Moses knew his calling, but he had not yet grown into his calling.

Maybe this is some of you.

You feel so strongly about what God has called you to do.

But you are not ready yet.

You are not fully dependent on God yet.

So the question is not IF but WHEN

In the meantime do what God has put in front of you, learn his voice and follow it.

My story: very early on I felt called to preach the gospel, but it would take 7 years before I ever got the chance.

Why?

B/C i needed to be humbled

I needed to learn somethings

one of which is you don’t need to be on a stage to preach the gospel.

You do it with how you live your life

how you treat other people

How you study the bible

How you love God

How you share his love with others.

I was trying to live content in the land…God came and got me.

Can you hear HIS VOICE?

Do you know it?

It will be imperative for Moses to learn humility.

To learn leadership

To learn the Father’s voice

It got to the point where moses would speak to God face to face as you would with a friend.

Is that your relationship; with God? b/c it can be.

Exodus 33:11 ESV

11 Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Step 1 - come to know him, give your life to him, get baptized today

Step 2 - learn his voice - primarily through the word of God

Step 3 - learn obedience — no matter the cost

Step 4 - learn dependence on him — no matter the situation

2 Corinthians 1:9 ESV

9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

5. Step 5 - Follow Him until the end.

6. Step 6 - Watch him work in and through you.

7. Step 7 - Rejoice.

GOD PROVIDES

Moses listened to God’s voice…what if he hadn’t?

God provided.

For he rescued these daughters, he then found a home with them.

some of you are looking for a home, and if you would just trust God and follow him you would find it. RIGHT BEFORE YOU.

Some of you just need to commit to God and join his Church!

Some of you need to commit to God and join a Group and begin a life with God’s people.

God’s spirit, God’s word and God’s people — where are they in your life?

He met his wife there and started his family.

maybe this is you in this church? many have

This was Elise and I’s story.

We met b/c we went to the same church, then the same group…God did it.

We obeyed.

DEPENDENCE AND HUMILITY

Then it says...”I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”

Exodus 2:22 ESV

22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.”

Moses now begins to understand what hardship is. What life would have been like for his people.

He went from living in Luxury and having it all to being practically homeless with nothing.

Then God began to work.

Numbers 12:3 ESV

3 Now the man Moses was very meek, more than all people who were on the face of the earth.

1 Peter 5:5 ESV

5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”

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Moses saw himself as 2nd in line

The meek are not weak.

This is in direct contrast to Pharaoh — pride.

CONNECTION TO CHRIST

Just as Moses came from prestige and privilege to identify with his people and to lose it all to be scorned by the enemy and by god’s people…so to Jesus left heaven to identify with his people and bear the ultimate scorn and reproach from his enemies and his people.

Moses driven out to the desert

Jesus driven out (by the spirit) to the desert

The Hebrews will be driven out to the desert

You may be driven out to the desert.

GREAT COMMENTARY

The NIV Application Commentary: Exodus Contemporary Significance

How true it is that the Lord will drive us out of our comfort zones in order that we may learn the painful lesson that only he is our comfort.

By being forced to rely on his grace more fully, we are being prepared for service to him (cf. 2 Cor. 12:7–10). In making this spiritual journey, we are not only living out Moses’ experience but Christ’s as well. Is this not what the writer of Hebrews had in mind? “Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered” (Heb. 5:8). We cannot say that Christ “learned” in the same sense as we do. Nevertheless, there is a tie that binds us to Christ, our brother. We, too, learn obedience from what we suffer.

The NIV Application Commentary: Exodus Contemporary Significance

The Moses of Exodus 2:11–25 must precede the Moses of Exodus 14. The Christ born of lowly circumstances, who was despised and rejected by men, who died with great shame, must precede the Christ of the resurrection. We, too, must be broken before we can be built up again, for his sake.

Hebrews 11:24 ESV

24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

FEEDBACK FROM PREACHING MEETING:

A little long

strong ending

Did Yvette thing distract?

It was good to do, but still some questions about outsiders think about Thrive

Abortion — do people have guilt or shame?

Are people feeling this?

Maybe you are “feeling shame, or guilt or condemnation”

Maybe you hear ‘abortion’ and you feel pride? and do you feel justified?

maybe come out and just say this is what we believe?