Flight to Midian
- Exodus 2:11-15
- Moses tries to reconnect with his people
- Seeks to deliver
- Furtive
- Unappreciated
- Pharaoh seeks to avenge
- Moses flees to Midian
- Exodus 2:16-22
- At the well
- Seven daughters of Reuel (Jethro)
- Mean shepherds – Moses helps
- Early return
- Duty of hospitality
God remembers His promise
- Exodus 2:23-25
- No doubt Israel had already been praying for deliverance
- Here, it is time for God to deliver as He had planned
- Leads us to the burning bush
- Reads Moses in on the plan
Moses and the burning bush
- Exodus 3:1-8
- The attention getter
- Who can resist a burning bush that doesn’t burn
- God introduces Himself to Moses
- He is holy as the ground around Him
- Moses reacts – hides face
- This is why I am here
- This is where we are going
Who am I?
- “I will send you to Pharaoh …”
- Objections of Moses
- Who am I
- Seeks to minimize self
- Who better to be the negotiator?
- Israelite
- Raised in Pharaoh’s household
- Well educated
- Former failure stifled his enthusiasm?
- Tried to deliver
- Rejected by his own
- Those who had raised him sought to kill him
- Who am I
I AM THAT I AM
- “I Am” in its simplicity
- Not dependent on time
- Depends not on anyone’s ideas
- 1st century Jews – understood
- John 8:58; Revelation 1:8; 21:6; 22:13
God’s prediction of success
- Exodus 3:16-22
- You will inherit the Promised Land
- Pharaoh will refuse you
- I will compel him – let you go
- You will plunder Egypt as you leave
Signs for Pharaoh
- Exodus 4:1-9
- What if they won’t believe me? (Exodus 4:1)
- Staff to serpent and back to staff (Exodus 4:2-5)
- Hand to leprosy and back to normal (Exodus 4:6-8)
- Water of Nile to blood (Exodus 4:9)
- But even after all that …
God’s anger burns
- Exodus 4:10-17
- Moses – not eloquent (I Corinthians 1:17; I Corinthians 10:10)
- God – Who made your mouth?
- Moses – Send someone else!
- God -
- Aaron your spokesman
- I’ll put words in both of your mouths
- I’ll direct your actions
Moses leaves Midian for Egypt
- Exodus 4:18-23
- Takes his leave from Jethro
- God informs Moses of death of Pharaoh
- God reminds Moses of the task
- Reminds Moses that Pharaoh’s heart will harden
First stop, then Aaron
- Exodus 4:24-31
- Rest stop
- God seeks to kill Moses
- Zipporah intervenes
- God sends Aaron
- It’s been forty years
- Moses reads in Aaron
- Gathering of the elders
- Aaron does the spokesman thing
- They believe – for now
Get your own straw
- Exodus 5:1-23
- Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh – Let my people go
- Pharaoh – Who is he, and no
- Moses and Aaron
- Three days’ journey for sacrifices
- Or bad things happen
- Pharaoh
- Back to work
- No straw for bricks
- Make quota