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God’s Prophet
Intro
The story of Moses is a miraculous one.
That is one of the reasons that he is so revered in Jewish tradition.
Moses had a special relationship with God.
Moses had communion with God.
Moses was chosen by God to do great deeds.
And it all began with his birth.
In the first chapter of Exodus, we read about the fact that Abraham’s descendents had been in Egypt for 400 years.
Remember they moved there during the great famine of Joseph’s life, and they stayed there for a long time.
But over time things started to turn from good to bad and from bad to worse for the Israelites.
Kings had changed and those that knew Joseph and knew about Joseph died off.
At the same time the Israelites were increasing in number.
Ex 1:7 “7 But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.”
They were being very fruitful.
They were multiplying greatly.
They were fulfilling the mandate that God had given them and God was fulfilling the promise he had made to Abraham.
But the new leadership in Egypt didn’t like the fact that there were so many of them.
Ex 1:10-11 “10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land.”
11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens.
They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.”
So they were enslaved.
They were forced to work.
They were oppressed.
This oppression and enslavement only increased God’s blessing on the Israelites.
Ex 1:12 “12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad.
And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.”
So the king came up with a new solution.
He was going to kill the first born male of the Israelites.
The King tried to conspire with the Israelite midwives to commit this evil act.
Ex 1:16 “16 “When you serve as midwife to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, you shall kill him, but if it is a daughter, she shall live.””
But the midwives loved God and did not listen to the Egyptian King.
And God continued to bless his people and these midwives.
The king was upset that no matter what he did, the Hebrew people continued to grow in number so then he spread his command not just to the midwives, but also to all his people.
Ex 1:22 “22 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.””
This leads us to the story of Moses.
(Ex.
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Moses was born under this tyrannical king.
But Moses’ Momma was smart.
For three months after Moses’ birth she hid him until she couldn’t hide him anymore.
Then she placed him in a basket in the Nile river.
But she did this when the daughter of Pharoah was taking a bath.
The Daughter of Pharoah found Moses and saved him from death.
Even better than that, she called on Moses’ mother to nurse him until he was weened.
Moses then grew up in the House of the Pharoah as a prince in Egypt.
He had all the access to the treasures of the King.
He was in a special relationship with all the royalty.
He was a boy that would rule one day, if he continued to quietly obey.
But there was a restlessness in his bones.
There was a broken connection between his adoptive family and his true family.
So one day he left the palace and his whole life changed.
Exiled Prince
Moses was broken hearted over the treatment of his people.
And Moses murderers an Egyptian for beating and Israelite.
Then he hid him in the sand.
But this deed was not unnoticed.
There were those who had witnessed what Moses had done.
In fact, he went out again to go be with his people and witnessed two Israelites fighting.
He confronts them and they end up confronting him.
They ask if he is going to kill one of them like he did the Egyptian.
Now Moses is afraid.
His deeds have been made known.
So he runs away.
Moses is chased out of the palace and out from his people b/c of his brashness.
Moses killed a man for harming his kin folk.
Moses’s people were afraid of him b/c he was a murderer.
The king was angry b/c of Moses’ action and rather than face his judgement, Moses fled to the land of Midian.
There Moses met his wife, Zipporah.
She was not from Israel.
She was a Gentile.
Yet together they had a son, Gershom.
And for 40 years he lived in that desert.
He lived as a shepherd.
Meanwhile, the Israelites in Egypt are struggling under the weight of the oppression.
But God doesn’t forget about them.
Ex 2:23-25 “23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help.
Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.”
So Moses spends Day after day, night after night attending to his father-in-law’s sheep.
And on a night like any other, something amazing happened.
Moses was tending the sheep near a mountain.
Then he sees a bush on fire.
Ex 3:2-3 “2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.
3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.””
God then tells Moses that he has heard and seen the cries of the people and the torment that they have endured.
And he is going to respond by calling Moses to deliver his people from the crushing hand of Pharoah.
But Moses isn’t Sure that he’s the right man for the Job.
He is reluctant to do what God wants him to do.
Reluctant Prophet
God reveals to Moses his name and his nature.
God establishes that He is the God that can save.
The God that will deliver.
The God that hears and sees the pain of his people.
But Moses doesn’t feel qualified.
He doesn’t believe that the people will listen to him.
But God reassures him that it isn’t about Moses’ qualifications or past, but its about the work of God.
In fact, God gives Moses three signs that will help to convince the people that he is coming in the name of God.
Ex 4:1-9
The first sign is Moses’ staff.
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