God Knows

God Knows Exodus 2:11-25 March 1, 2020 THE BIG IDEA: Moses’ life story reveals to us that God never stops his work of guiding our circumstances and seeking our hearts. In the story of the Hebrew people’s suffering, we learn the true nature of God, and we see His determination to redeem people, beginning with His covenant people. Exodus 2:11-25 2 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. § § § Acts 7:22 Hebrews 11:24-25 Moses is a man of deep compassion. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 12 § § Moses is a man of recurring anger. Moses seeks to be a deliverer, but does it his way, not God’s way. 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. § When it comes to the shaping of our hearts, God will not rush things. 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.” 16 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. 23 FOUR THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT GOD: o o o o God Hears. God Remembers. God Sees. God Knows. 13 § § Moses loses credibility with his own people and learns he is not ready to help change circumstances or lead people. At 40 years of age, God sends Moses into “the wilderness”, where Moses will spend the next 40 years coming to know God and being prepared to be the Deliverer of the Hebrews. Spiritual Truths Revealed in This Scripture 1. We can do the right thing the wrong way. 2. We all have deeply ingrained tendencies, for good and bad. Ask the Lord to use the good and tame the bad. 3. We can be completely forgiven by God and still have a price to pay with people who know our sins. 4. Whatever you are dealing with, God knows. 5. Jesus is the Deliverer from bondage that we all need. [Romans 8:1-4]