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Outline: The Call of Moses
Called for a specific task Equipped for Service Excuses made, excuses rejected
I have a joke for you this morning….
Pharaoh was an avid swimmer.
Out of all the swimming moves (the doggy paddle, the back stroke, the forward stroke), what was one he dreaded the most?
The Dead Man Float.
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This morning, We are starting a series on THE EXODUS.
The Exodus basically means the exit.
Usually when we hear about the Exodus, we oftentimes hear the account of Moses and the Israelites; the account of Pharaoh and the plagues.
We know that an account is a major event when it makes it to the children’s church curriculum.
The Exodus is almost always included in children’s church curriculum and Sunday school.
It is a defining moment for the people of Israel, the Hebrews.
Before we get to the Exodus,
Joseph - Sold into Slavery
Joseph - Interpreted Dream (Seven years Famine, Seven Years Harvest)
The Hebrews - Multiplied
New Pharaoh - Did not know of Joseph or what he had done
The Hebrews - Enslaved
The Hebrews - Baby boys killed
Moses - Saved in waterproof Basket
Moses - killed Egyptian
Moses - Fled to Midian
Moses - Married Zipporah
Moses - Burning Bush Experience
we have to take a look back at the account of Joseph.
Joseph, a son of Jacob, was sold into slavery by his brothers.
He ended up in Egypt.
While he was in Egypt he interpreted a dream for the king.
The dream was that Egypt would have 7 years of harvest followed by 7 years of famine.
Joseph saved all of Egypt from starvation.
He was later reunited with his family and they found place in Egyptian society.
The Hebrews grew and grew and multiplied and multiplied.
They soon were starting to outnumber the Egyptian people.
Joseph had died and several generations had gone by.
There came to power in Egypt a pharaoh who did not know what Joseph had done.
This new pharaoh noticed the increase in the Hebrews and was concerned that they would overthrow the Egyptians.
The Israelites were placed into slavery.
The Egyptians were made the Israelites work long and hard.
They were oppressed.
The Israelites kept on increasing and increasing.
Pharaoh had ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill every male child that was born.
The midwives were Godfearing and would not do so.
Pharaoh then ordered every male child 2 and younger be thrown into the Nile and killed.
Even in their oppression, they still cried out to God.
Moses mother hid him as long as she could and then made a waterproof basket for him.
She put him in the river.
He was found by Pharaoh’s daughter and she had compassion on him.
Pharaoh’s daughter paid Moses’s mother to nurse him.
Moses grew up in an in-between status.
He wasn’t fully Egyptian, but he wasn’t fully Hebrew either.
He didn’t fully belong to either group it seemed like.
Fast forward into his adult life, Moses killed an Egyptian after seeing him oppress one of the Hebrews.
He was fearful that he would be killed, so he ran away.
Fast Forward even more and we find that Moses is in Median.
He marries Zipporah and has a son.
Moses’ life is very different now.
He is a shepherd for his Father-in-law.
He is building a family of his own.
He begins to form and settle into this new identity of shepherd, of husband, of father, of son-in-law.
All while this is happening, the Pharaoh had died and another had risen to power.
The Hebrews groaned because of their slavery and cried out to God for help.
This is not part of the sermon this morning, but one thing that we can learn from the Israelites/ the Hebrews during this time period is that
Whatever the oppression is that we face in life, whatever the heartache, whatever the toil, whatever the injustice, whatever the ailment is that holds us back, We should still cry out to God for help.
God heard their request.
He saw their pain.
He heard their screams and groans calling out for mercy and relief and for deliverance.
This morning, I want to look at Three different observations of the events that happened in the life of Moses.
One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian.
He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God.
There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush.
Moses stared in amazement.
Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up.
“This is amazing,” Moses said to himself.
“Why isn’t that bush burning up?
I must go see it.”
When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Moses!
Moses!”
“Here I am!” Moses replied.
“Do not come any closer,” the Lord warned.
“Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground.
I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.”
When Moses heard this, he covered his face because he was afraid to look at God.
Then the Lord told him, “I have certainly seen the oppression of my people in Egypt.
I have heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers.
Yes, I am aware of their suffering.
So I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land.
9 Look!
The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them.
10 Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh.
You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”
11 But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before Pharaoh?
Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?” 12 God answered, “I will be with you.
And this is your sign that I am the one who has sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God at this very mountain.”
13 But Moses protested, “If I go to the people of Israel and tell them, ‘The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,’ they will ask me, ‘What is his name?’
Then what should I tell them?” 14 God replied to Moses, “I Am Who I Am.
Say this to the people of Israel: I Am has sent me to you.”
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