Exodus Week 3 - Group Questions

Main Text(s)

Exodus 2:11–22 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. 12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 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?” 14 He answered, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid, and thought, “Surely the thing is known.” 15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well. 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. 17 The shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up and saved them, and watered their flock. 18 When they came home to their father Reuel, he said, “How is it that you have come home so soon today?” 19 They said, “An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock.” 20 He said to his daughters, “Then where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.” 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses his daughter Zipporah. 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.”

Supplemental Text(s)

Acts 7:22–23 ESV

22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. 23 “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel.

Acts 7:22–24 ESV

22 And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. 23 “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian.

Hebrews 11:

Hebrews 11:24–26 ESV

24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, 25 choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 26 He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.

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.”

Philippians 2:6–9 ESV

6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name,

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Sermon In Brief

This week we saw Moses’s life take a dramatic turn. He went from living in luxury and abundance to being a fugitive in the Midian desert in a matter of days. Forty years have passed from to and in that time Moses has been raised in Pharaoh’s home and instructed in the ways and wisdom of the Egyptians. During those same 40 years the Hebrew people continue to be enslaved and abused. Moses wrestles with his situation and feels called to be the deliverer of God’s people. He first attempts to live out this calling in his own power and timing but it goes horribly and he ends up losing everything. Sitting at a well in Midian he rescues the seven daughters of a Midianite priest from bad shepherds and this turns out to be his deliverance as he settles in their home and eventually marries one of the daughters, Zipporah. They give birth a son whose name means “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land” thus beginning a new chapter of Moses life. God will spend the next forty years forging Moses’s character to prepare him to lead His people out of Egypt.

Big Idea:

Moses’ life is turned upside down as he goes from riches to rags in a matter of days. God had preserved and protected Moses in Pharaoh’s house. Now, in the Midian desert can prepare Moses to lead his people and what he would need most is humility. We too must be broken before we can be built up again for His name’s sake. God must do a work in us before he can do a work through us.

We must be broken before we can be built up again for His name’s sake. God must do a work in us before he can do a work through us.

Group Questions

Read the text out loud together.

What stood out to you as you read it?

What stood out to you as you read it?

What was it about that that made it stand out?

What was it about that that made it stand out?

What stood out to you from the sermon?

What stood out to you from the sermon?

Describe a time in your life when you did something you though you were supposed to do and it went horribly.

What did God teach you during that time?

We saw that God protected and preserved Moses so that he could eventually prepare him. In this we ask: Why has God given me so much? Who has God called me to serve?

How would you answer those questions right now in your life?

When has God worked through circumstances in your life in the past which you were unaware of at the time?

What circumstances has God put in your life that he might be working through?

What circumstances has God put in your life right now that he might be working through?

To what extent are you pursuing humility? ()

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.”

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.”

What does that (or has that) look like in your life?

In what ways have you been humbled by God?

In what way might you need to be humbled by God?

Do you feel strongly that God has called you to something but it hasn’t yet come to fruition?

What might God need to do in you before you are ready?

Where do you find yourself frustrated with God in this?

Where do you find yourself on the 7 Steps to Humility?

Step 1 - Come to know him, give your life to him ()

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

​Acts 2:38 ESV38 And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Step 2 - learn his voice - primarily through the word of GodJohn 10:3-5 The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. Step 3 - learn obedience — no matter the cost

Step 2 - Learn his voice - primarily through the word of God ()

​Matthew 16:24–25 ESV24 Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

​Romans 1:5 ESV5 through whom we have received grace and apostleship to bring about the obedience of faith for the sake of his name among all the nations,

Step 3 - Learn obedience — no matter the cost (, , )

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

Step 4 - Learn dependence on him — no matter the situation ()

​2 Corinthians 1:9 ESV9 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.

Step 5 - Follow Him until the end.

Step 5 - Follow Him until the end. (, )

​Matthew 28:20 ESV20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”

​John 21:19 ESV19 (This he said to show by what kind of death he was to glorify God.) And after saying this he said to him, “Follow me.”

Step 6 - Watch him work In and through You

Step 6 - Watch him work In and through You ()

​Philippians 2:12–13 ESV12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Step 7 - Rejoice regularly

Step 7 - Rejoice regularly (:4)

​Philippians 4:4 ESV4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

a. What would it take you to move to the next step?

PRAY TOGETHER

Trying just praying together. Try not sharing your requests just pray them together.

Also, consider this: If God answered the prayers you’ve been praying would it change anyone else’s world but your own?

Consider this. If God answered the prayers you’ve been praying would it change anyone else’s world but your own?