Transcript God_Called_A_Deliverer

The Call of God to Old
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Lesson 3
Lesson Text—Exodus 3:3-6
Exodus 3:3-6
3 And Moses said, I will now turn
aside, and see this great sight, why
the bush is not burnt.
4 And when the LORD saw that he
turned aside to see, God called unto
him out of the midst of the bush, and
said, Moses, Moses. And he said,
Here am I.
Lesson Text—Exodus 3:3-6
5
And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put
off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the
place whereon thou standest is holy
ground.
6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy
father, the God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And
Moses hid his face; for he was
afraid to look upon God.
Lesson Text—Exodus 3:7-8
Exodus 3:7-8
7 And the LORD said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people which
are in Egypt, and have heard their cry
by reason of their taskmasters; for I
know their sorrows;
Lesson Text—Exodus 3:7-8
8
And I am come down to deliver them
out of the hand of the Egyptians, and
to bring them up out of that land unto
a good land and a large, unto a land
flowing with milk and honey; unto the
place of the Canaanites, and the
Hittites, and the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the
Jebusites.
Lesson Text—Exodus 3:9-10
Exodus 3:9-10
9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the
children of Israel is come unto me:
and I have also seen the oppression
wherewith the Egyptians oppress
them.
10 Come now therefore, and I will send
thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest
bring forth my people the children of
Israel out of Egypt.
Lesson Text—Psalm 105:26-27
Psalm 105:26-27
26 He sent Moses his servant; and
Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They shewed his signs among
them, and wonders in the land of
Ham.
Focus Verse—Exodus 3:4
Exodus 3:4
And when the LORD saw that he
turned aside
to see, God called unto him out of
the midst
of the bush, and said, Moses,
Moses. And he said, Here am I.
Focus Thought
When God was ready to bring
Israel out of bondage, He started
by calling a man to lead them.
Culture Connection
Call to Attention
Leadership
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I. God Leadership is critical to the success
of any endeavor. In the past, many
strong church leaders were austere
and even dictatorial. Many people
considered this demeanor to be a
display of strength. Leadership today
has changed. People are more
educated and independent, and this
has made them more discriminate.
They will follow leaders who respect
them and allow their involvement in
decision making.
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Many successful leaders today have
learned to work with groups
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(committees and teams). They lead not
so much by making demands, but by
inspiring and facilitating. Even though
leading has changed, leading is still an
essential element for getting things
done.
Leadership does not always include
a position or title. An individual can
lead without holding an office or a
position. John Maxwell calls this
“leading from the center of the pack.”
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A good leader is someone with sterling
integrity and knowledge of the
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undertaking. He or she is faithful,
dependable, and willing to sacrifice.
The successful leader possesses some
charm or charisma and has the ability
to influence others.
God calls special people to lead. A
perceptive Christian will be able to
recognize God’s call on a life and
respect it. Many times our leaders have
titles and hold positions of authority.
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The Bible teaches us that it is our
responsibility not only to acknowledge
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Attention
but to submit to spiritual authority
wherever we encounter it. God’s
calling comes with His equipping and
anointing. Moses was a great leader.
He was called, equipped, and anointed
to lead the Hebrews from bondage into
the Promised Land. He was not a
perfect man, but God’s call made him
effective.
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of the desert, God
spoke to Moses “face to face, as a man
speaketh unto his friend” (Exodus
33:11). Moses might have questioned
the Lord’s call and felt his inadequacy
as a man who would presume to fulfill
the divine command, but there was no
question in his mind he had heard from
God. The phenomenal sight of the
burning bush and the voice from the
bush convinced Moses he was
standing on holy ground.
I.
Perhaps the flame in the bush reignited
a desire in his heart to see the Hebrew
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slaves—his people—set free.
As a prince in an Egyptian palace,
Moses had known of Israel’s slavery;
but he had never felt the lash of a
taskmaster. Yet being in the care of his
mother in his formative years had
given him a Hebrew identity he still
harbored. His mother probably told
him of his own miraculous deliverance
from death as an infant.
I.
Now, after a forty-year exile in the land
of Midian, the God of the Hebrews
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called Moses to deliver His people
from Egyptian bondage. Though
separated from Israel by both time and
space, he felt an overwhelming burden
for his people’s freedom.
The Lord’s burden to deliver Israel
would become the burden of Moses.
For the rest of his life this man felt
God’s matchless call. It caused him to
risk the displeasure of the mighty
Pharaoh of Egypt and, at times, the
hatred of his own people.
I.
This call set a nation gloriously free,
but it happened only after Moses had
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continuously faced what seemed to be
impossible odds. Who else but Moses
could stand at the Red Sea with a rod
and a prayer and expect to see Israel
delivered from the Egyptian army?
Who else could lead millions through a
barren wilderness for forty years
without natural provision? In summary
of his amazing life, Deuteronomy 34:10
declared, “There arose not a prophet
since in Israel like unto Moses.”
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Why, we might ask, would God call
such a complex man as Moses to
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deliver His people Israel out of the land
of Egypt? He was a son of slaves and
yet a prince, an individual with an
impressive education but an impulsive
nature, a man with latent leadership
qualities and yet who felt inadequate.
Moses had never forgotten the
trauma of slaying an abusive Egyptian
taskmaster only to suffer the sneers of
his own people.
I.
This blight on his past made him
apprehensive about appearing in
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Pharaoh’s court, and worse, he
suspected his own people would not
believe his message from God or
accept him as their leader. He was all
too aware of his own inability to speak
well. How could he persuade Pharaoh
to set the slaves free, much less rally
the slaves to follow him into a deadly
wasteland? Yet God saw qualities in
the man others could neither see nor
appreciate.
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Moses’ Attention
Some people look for God in
stately churches or ornate temples.
Moses found God in a burning bush.
Matthew Henry has commented that
he “saw more of God in a desert than
ever he had seen in Pharaoh’s court.”
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from the familiar to the unknown, from
the ordinary to the extraordinary. When
the Lord calls a man He calls him to set
others free. This is always God’s plan.
This is the heartbeat of Heaven, and it
is why individuals leave the security of
the present to step by faith into the
uncertainty of the future.
What miracle must God perform to
capture our attention? For Abram it
was the voice of the Almighty calling
him from Ur of the Chaldees.
I.
For Jacob it was a vivid dream of
angels ascending and descending a
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heavenly ladder. For Isaiah it was a
breathtaking vision of the Lord
enthroned in the Temple. For Peter,
James, and John it was a miraculous
number of fish caught and flopping in
their net.
One momentous day as Moses
tended the flock of Jethro, his fatherin-law, his search for pasturage drew
him near Mount Horeb, whose Semitic
name means “drought” or “desert.”
He came upon a common sight: a
bramble or thornbush that had
combusted in the dry heat. Since Moses
expected the bush to flare up for a
minute and then dwindle to a charred,
misshapen stalk, he started to pass it by.
Suddenly a curious phenomenon drew
his attention. “And the angel of the LORD
appeared unto him in a flame of fire out
of the midst of a bush: and he looked,
and, behold, the bush burned with fire,
and the bush was not consumed”
(Exodus 3:2). This event became the
catalyst that forever changed the
shepherd’s life.
I. God Got Moses’ Attention
I.
God first prepared a place, a bush
burning near the foot of Mount Horeb;
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then He prepared a heart: “When the
LORD saw that he turned aside to see,
God called unto [Moses] out of the
midst of the bush” (Exodus 3:4). From
that turning point Moses viewed the
miraculous works of the Almighty as
few men have seen them. Moses may
have hidden his face at the burning
bush “for he was afraid to look upon
God” (Exodus 3:6), but he eventually
saw God humble Egypt and exalt His
people Israel.
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served to
transform his vision, his attitude, and
his purpose.
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out when the voice called his name.
Sensing an awesome presence, the
shepherd answered, “Here am I”
(Exodus 3:4). Jethro’s sheep probably
shied away from the flaming bush, but
it riveted Moses’ attention. He would
have stepped even closer, but the
Voice commanded, “Draw not nigh
hither: put off thy shoes from off thy
feet, for the place whereon thou
standest is holy ground” (Exodus 3:5).
I.
Holy ground? There was no sacred
shrine or cathedral in this lonely spot.
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Attention
The very presence of the Almighty
sanctified it. In awe, Moses removed
his sandals and stood barefoot in the
sand. He had never experienced
anything like this astounding
presence. He felt as if the fire from the
bush had purged, purified, inspired,
and humbled him. Yet even though the
voice singled him out and he answered
“Here am I,” the command of God to
deliver the Hebrew slaves from Egypt
gave him pause.
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he ever accomplish
I. God
Moses’
Attentionsuch a
preposterous feat? It seems that those
who sense God’s presence in the
strongest manner become acutely
conscious of their own weaknesses.
(See II Corinthians 12:9.)
C. God Identified Himself
C. God
Identified
Himself
Moses realized that the powerful
demonstration and the voice came from
the one true God. The voice thundered,
“I am the God of thy father, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he
was afraid to look upon God” (Exodus
3:6).
I. God Got Moses’ Attention
As the shepherd of a flock, Moses
recognized the voice of the Great
Shepherd. God talks to a person
who knows Him, who listens to Him,
and who obeys Him. He marvelously
guides and uses people who humble
themselves in His presence.
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When the Almighty calls individuals,
He awakens them to an urgent need,
yet they sometimes falter when the
small barrier of their own inadequacies
eclipses their vision of the vast need.
Similarly, the significantly smaller yet
closer moon can block the brilliance of
the sun when it moves directly
between the earth and the sun.
I.
Thus Moses hesitated and tried to
excuse himself from the call, but the
God
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Lord gave him no reprieve. Though
we may feel ill equipped and ill
prepared to accomplish the task God
has set before us, we must not delay;
the King’s business requires an
immediate and positive response (I
Samuel 21:8). God calls us because
He knows we are equal to the task,
even if we ourselves do not know. He
will not change his mind about the
call and will continue to confront us
with it.
A. God Saw Israel’s Pain
A. God Saw Israel’s Pain
God’s compassion for Israel has
endured through the centuries
although the nation has often been
unfaithful to Him. Time after time this
people forgot their Lord (Jeremiah
2:32), but He could never forget Israel.
Isaiah 49:15-16
“Can a woman forget her sucking
child, that she should not have
compassion on the son of her
womb? yea, they may forget, yet
will I not forget thee. Behold, I have
graven thee upon the palms of my
hands; thy walls are continually
before me” (Isaiah 49:15-16).
no longer
endure the
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bitterness and cruel affliction of His
people (Exodus 1:14). The Egyptians
forced the Hebrew slaves to gather
their own straw in a race to meet their
daily quota of bricks. Worse, many of
them labored under a heavy load of
grief because of Pharaoh’s decree that
every one of their newborn sons
should be thrown into the Nile.
B. God Heard Israel’s Cries
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Israel
had wandered
from God
during their sojourn in Egypt (Joshua
24:14; Ezekiel 20:8), but God had not
forsaken them. They belonged to Him;
He claimed them for His inheritance.
He would deliver them “out of Egypt,
from the midst of the furnace of iron” (I
Kings 8:51). How remarkable that the
Almighty turned to an insignificant
shepherd on the backside of the desert
to accomplish His purpose.
God told Moses, “I have surely seen the
affliction of my people which are in
Egypt, and have heard their cry by
reason of their taskmasters; for I know
their sorrows. . . . Come now therefore,
and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that
thou mayest bring forth my people the
children of Israel out of Egypt” (Exodus
3:7, 10).
The Almighty considered Israel His
firstborn son (Exodus 4:22; Hosea 11:1;
Jeremiah 31:9). He told Moses to use
this same designation for Israel when
delivering God’s message to
Pharaoh:
I. God Got Moses’ Attention
I.
“Let my son go, that he may serve me:
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and if thou refuse to let him go, behold,
I will slay thy son, even thy firstborn”
(Exodus 4:23). The Lord has always
wanted a close father/son relationship
with Israel, even though on many
occasions, they forsook Him, went
their own way, and worshiped other
gods. Still, Jehovah assured Moses
that He would respond to His people’s
cries and deliver them from Egyptian
oppression.
C. God Was Moved to Action
C. God Was Moved to Action
The compassion of God would not
let Him ignore Israel’s cry for
deliverance. Forsake His people now?
Leave them in their affliction? Never!
He would turn the waters of the land
into blood before He would abandon
His people. He would turn the dust into
lice, smite Egypt with hail, locusts, and
darkness in order to bring deliverance.
I.
He would even take the lives of the
firstborn of Egypt “from the firstborn
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of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne,
even unto the firstborn of the
maidservant that is behind the mill;
and all the firstborn of beasts” (Exodus
11:5).
The Lord said, “I am come down to
deliver them out of the hand of the
Egyptians, and to bring them up out of
that land unto a good land and a large,
unto a land flowing with milk and
honey” (Exodus 3:8). When God chose
to move, nothing could hinder.
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A. God Said to Let His People
Go
The audacity of Moses and Aaron’s
demands insulted and enraged
Pharaoh. The two Hebrews entered his
presence as if they were some key
foreign dignitaries bearing a message
from a royal court.
I.
The idea that he, as ruler of the
mightiest empire of the day, should
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simply allow the Hebrew slaves to
shirk their duties for three days to
sacrifice to their God was
preposterous. Pharaoh demanded,
“Who is the LORD, that I should obey
his voice to let Israel go? I know not
the LORD, neither will I let Israel go”
(Exodus 5:2).
Pharaoh, like the heartless tyrant
who afflicts our souls, rejected the
message of God as well as the
messengers of God.
I.
He disdained Moses and Aaron’s
message as “vain words” or, as one
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translation says, “a pack of lies”
(Exodus 5:9). Far from allowing the
Israelites to leave, he retaliated by
burdening them further.
The king commanded the Egyptian
taskmasters and the Israelite foremen
to quit supplying the straw the laborers
used to make bricks, forcing them to
gather their own straw while producing
the same quota of bricks. This was
impossible.
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soon fell
behind though
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they scoured all of Egypt for straw, and
when that ran out they settled for
stubble. The Hebrew foremen suffered
the consequences of the shortage by
being beaten by the Egyptians. It was a
dark day for Israel.
B.
B.
God
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to
Humble
God Planned to Humble
Pharaoh
Pharaoh
Pharaoh could boast that he was
god of the Nile and have babies thrown
to their death in the river. He could
even boast against Jehovah Himself.
But Egypt soon would become a
broken reed, and God would cause the
Egyptians to detest the mighty Nile
they had worshiped for thousands of
years. Through Moses all the Egyptian
gods would be proven powerless.
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observed
the miracles
performed in behalf of Israel, but he
was not impressed; instead he
hardened his heart. Focused upon
himself, his insensitivity to the things
of God caused him to do what
countless others have done: he
closed the door on every opportunity
God gave him to repent.
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counsel of the Lord. With each
particular plague, he pleaded for
respite; but when it came, he dug in his
heels and refused Moses’ petition. The
Book of Exodus records fifteen
instances that emphasize Pharaoh’s
hardening heart. Not only did Pharaoh
harden his heart (Exodus 8:15, 32), but
God hardened it as well (Exodus 4:21).
I.
“Surely the wrath of man shall
praise thee” (Psalm 76:10). Pharaoh’s
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proud nature caused him to oppose
the divine plan, but by opposing the
Almighty’s purpose to deliver Israel,
the Egyptian king simply magnified the
supremacy of God. Before the plague
of hail, Moses spoke as the Lord’s
mouthpiece: “In very deed for this
cause have I raised thee up, for to
shew in thee my power; and that my
name may be declared throughout all
the earth” (Exodus 9:16).
C.
C. God Planned the Destruction
God Planned the
Destruction
of Egypt
of Egypt
God purposed to cripple Egypt with
a series of blows so severe that
Pharaoh would free the Israelite slaves
(Exodus 3:20), for God promised, “I will
redeem you with a stretched out arm,
and with great judgments” (Exodus
6:6).
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Had Pharaoh only known the black
cloud of doom brooding over Egypt, he
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surely would have granted Moses’
petition after the first plague of blood.
Observed by Pharaoh and his
servants, Moses struck the waters of
the Nile with his rod, and all the rivers,
streams, ponds, and pools of water in
Egypt turned a dark red and began to
congeal.
Later Moses used his rod to call
forth frogs to flood the land, swarms of
lice or gnats to infest the people, and
locusts to devour the crops.
I.
Each plague resulted in devastation.
After the eighth plague when the
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locusts had chewed the vegetation
down to stubble, Pharaoh’s servants
tried to reason with him. “Let the men
go, that they may serve the LORD their
God: knowest thou not yet that Egypt
is destroyed?” (Exodus 10:7). But
Pharaoh would not.
The last plague pierced the heart of
every Egyptian from Pharaoh to the
lowliest prisoner in the dungeon. All of
their firstborn, both humans and
cattle, died at the midnight hour.
I.
As a great cry arose eerily in the dark
of the night, Pharaoh summoned
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Moses and Aaron to expel the
Israelites out of his kingdom. On the
eve of this night, the Israelites had
partaken of the newly instituted
Passover by eating a sacrificial lamb
and applying its blood to the side
posts and lintels of their doors. This
protected their firstborn from the threat
of death. In the morning, while the
Egyptians were burying their firstborn
sons, the Israelites marched out of
the land in triumph
(Numbers 33:3-4).
D. God Planned to Bless Israel
always keeps
His covenants.
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Israel He
had made a covenant with Abraham to
give his descendents the land from the
Nile to the Euphrates (Genesis 15:18-21).
Many years later on the backside of the
desert, God told Moses that the Almighty
would bring Israel up “unto a good land
and a large, unto a land flowing with
milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8). During
the plagues, the Lord had drawn a
distinction between Goshen (east of the
Nile Delta where the Israelites lived) and
the rest of Egypt.
I.
But Goshen, though well-watered
and suitable for pasturage, was not the
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land God intended to give to His
people. They would inherit Canaan, a
fertile land where they would taste the
sweetness of honey and drink rich,
nourishing milk. Alien tribes inhabited
the Promised Land—Canaanites,
Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites,
and Jebusites—but God would go
before His people and fight for them,
as He had fought for them in Egypt
(Deuteronomy 1:30). The land would
become theirs as God had
promised.
IV. God Provided
a Delivererafor
God Provided
Us
Deliverer for Us
Although Moses wrought a great
deliverance for Israel, there was One
coming who would offer a still more
wonderful freedom.
A.
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A. To Bring Us Out of Spiritual
Bondage
Bondage
Jesus Christ came to set men free
from the powers of darkness and
fetters of sin. One example is the
Gadarene demoniac who dwelt among
the tombs, howling, cutting himself
with stones, and breaking the fetters
with which the terrorized townspeople
tried to subdue him. But wrenching off
his chains could not free him from the
bondage of demonic powers.
I.
Unfazed by any satanic display, Christ
delivered the man from an entire legion
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of demons, and the townsfolk beheld
him in amazement as he sat calmly,
clothed, and in his right mind,
worshiping his deliverer (Mark 5:1-15).
The power of the Lord Jesus over
sin and darkness remains today. He is
able to release us from spiritual
bondage and remove our guilt and
shame. No other liberty can compare
to that which comes from surrendering
our lives to Jesus. He has called us
“out of darkness into his marvellous
light” (I Peter 2:9).
I.
He has called us to be victorious—to
God
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conquer
sickness,
and Satan
himself (Mark 16:16-18).
Israel experienced exhilaration on
their way out of Egypt, but we
experience much more liberation and
joy as we are born again of water and
Spirit. We have been brought out of the
spiritual realm of darkness and death
and into the light and life of God’s
kingdom. Even as Israel left Egypt
completely behind, we should break all
ties with our sinful past.
I.
The people of Israel “were all
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baptized
Moses
in the cloud and
in the sea” (I Corinthians 10:2),
whereas we are baptized in the name
of Jesus Christ for the remission of our
sins. A cloud protected and led the
Hebrews by day, and a pillar of fire
warmed them by night on their way to
the Land of Promise. But we receive
the promise of the Father, the baptism
with the Holy Spirit.
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In the wilderness they experienced the
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dwelling
God in the
Tabernacle in the midst of their camp;
today we become the very temple of
Christ’s Spirit. Moses received the
commandments of God on Mount
Sinai, but now the Lord writes His law
“not in tables of stone, but in fleshly
tables of the heart” (II Corinthians 3:3).
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B. To Give Us an Eternal
Heritage
Heritage
God gave land to Israel for an
inheritance (Deuteronomy 3:28; 4:1;
Psalm 105:11). With an everlasting
covenant, God pledged to remember His
people even when they were exiled from
their land; and someday He would call
them back to bask once again in His
blessings (Deuteronomy 30:1-5).
Messianic Rabbi Loren Jacobs wrote that
ultimately the regathering of Israel to the
land “will be greater even than the
Exodus out of Egypt.”
What, we may ask, is our inheritance
as the born-again children of God? Out
of many precious promises for faithful
believers, the greatest blessing of all,
the most breathtaking reward, will be to
dwell forever in the presence of the Lord
Jesus in a holy city. In the Book of
Revelation, John described the holy city,
the New Jerusalem, as having walls of
jasper and gates of pearl. He stated that
“the city was pure gold, like unto clear
glass” (Revelation 21:18). Beyond the
glory of the heavenly city, however, we
will see the splendor of our King.
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I.
“And the city had no need of the sun,
neither of the moon, to shine in it: for
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the glory of God did lighten it, and the
Lamb is the light thereof” (Revelation
21:23).
Christ will become our everlasting
portion. We love Him supremely, for
through His shed blood He delivered
us from eternal death. By faith we now
enjoy the riches of Christ (Ephesians
1:3, 7), but one wonderful day we shall
“inherit all things” that God has
prepared for us (Revelation 21:7).
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Then we shall behold the fullness of
Christ’s glory. “For now we see
through a glass, darkly; but then face
to face: now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known”
(I Corinthians 13:12).
Internalizing the Message
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have humbled
Moses to
tend sheep for his father-in-law in
Arabia after more than thirty years of
privilege afforded to him as a prince in
an Egyptian palace. Instead of the
pomp and bustle of the royal court, he
now spent his days in solitude caring
for the sheep and enduring extremes
of heat and cold. But it was here that
God called Moses. At the burning bush
the exiled prince received a call and a
burden to lead Israel out of terrible
bondage.
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daunting,
and though
he at first
hesitated, he felt compelled to obey
the Lord’s call. God went with Moses,
sanctioning his words with signs and
wonders. The Almighty delivered His
people with a strong right arm. With
ten major plagues He crushed Israel’s
oppressors and humbled Pharaoh
himself. After a 430-year sojourn in
Egypt, Israel embarked on a trek back
to the Promised Land.
of the exodus
of Israel
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Moses’
Attention
points to a greater Deliverer. It
speaks of Jesus Christ, the Savior
of the world. He has become the
Passover Lamb, the source of
deliverance—not just for a nation
but for all mankind.