Exodus 4
"Me And My Excuses!" • 9.23.10 • Calvary Christian Fellowship, Thursday Night Bible Study
Intro.
- Last week, we left God and Moses in the beginning of their appointment. God had appeared to Him and revealed that at 80 years of age, Moses would now be the deliverer of Israel.
- This was the job that he had wanted 40 years earlier. But now, he was a shepherd and all the confidence that he once had as a 40 year old, was gone.
- He is as far away physically from Egypt as he feels he mentally in processing this position.
- To Moses, this makes the job untenable. To God, this makes Moses the perfect candidate.
- God has to work on what Moses can believe. This chapter represents what God has to do with each of us.
Text
• Exodus 4:1-5 : "Then Moses answered and said, 'But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ So the Lord said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' He said, 'A rod.' And He said, 'Cast it on the ground.' So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Reach out your hand and take it by the tail' (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand), 'that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.'" : You will notice immediately the tenor of Moses' arguments. It begins with looking at myself.
- "Who am I?" We cannot fathom that we could have any lasting spiritual effect upon anyone.
- That much is true. But God will be with us, as He was with Moses.
- Now, Moses continues to look on the human plane as he looks now at the audience that he will stand before. "What if they will not believe me or listen to my voice?"
- What is God's response at this point? God wants him to acknowledge what He has in his hand. In Moses' hand was a shepherd's rod. A large stick.
- It had been Moses' constant companion for 40 years. With it, he corrected the way of Jethro's flock. He had used it to protect them. God says, "I want to use what is in your hand."
- Before the Lord gives us something else, He first takes what is in our hands and makes it useful for His purposes.
- When Moses threw the stick on the ground, it became a serpent. God in a moment of time, took a dead piece of wood and altered it completely to become a snake.
- It was fierce enough that Moses fled from it. He immediately feared and did what was natural.
- God tells him to to pick it up, which Moses finally does. That had to be hilarious to watch!
- Remember that God had given Moses this sign so that they would believe in Him. Moses makes that clear in the narrative. These signs are to point to God.
- One of the first signs that God chooses to use is the serpent. God is going to use the very symbol of the enemy himself, as He wages war against him!
• Exodus 4:6-9 : "Furthermore the Lord said to him, 'Now put your hand in your bosom.' And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, like snow. And He said, 'Put your hand in your bosom again.' So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was restored like his other flesh. 'Then it will be, if they do not believe you, nor heed the message of the first sign, that they may believe the message of the latter sign. And it shall be, if they do not believe even these two signs, or listen to your voice, that you shall take water from the river and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take from the river will become blood on the dry land.'" : The first sign was stunning enough, but God provides Moses with two more signs, the first being leprosy.
- Moses' hand would go in healthy and come out in the complete stage of leprosy. It would come out white and decayed.
- The final sign was to take water from the NIle and pour it out onto the ground where It would become blood.
- These were signs for the convincing of Israel and for the comfort of Moses. God is meeting the lack of faith that Moses had, showing Him what He will do through Him
• Exodus 4:10-12 : "Then Moses said to the Lord, 'O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.' So the Lord said to him, 'Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.'" : When looking at myself and my audience fails, one can always default to "look at my talents!" Moses discounts his skills. Read this with a growing whine. "Lord I am not eloquent."
- I like the NLT's rendering: "But Moses pleaded with the Lord, 'O Lord, I'm just not a good speaker. I never have been, and I'm not now, even after you have spoken to me. I'm clumsy with words.'"
- Many chasten Moses at this point, as 40 years earlier, it was written of him that he was mighty in words and in deeds. They reason that he must have been incredibly articulate.
- We have to remember that Moses has been out of Egyptian culture and learning for 4 decades. That will make any person feel as though they are not on top of their game.
- Moses is ramping up his case to be excused from service.
- We cannot deny that we have all been here before. We are experts at pointing out why we cannot do something.
- Yet, the fact remains that when we do something like this, we are ignoring the one fact that evens everything out: God never makes mistakes! He calls people that He knows will respond.
- Before He called Moses, He already knew what He was capable of and what He would do through Him. That is still true today and it is still true with you.
- Listen to what God tells Him: Who has made man's mouth? Each of these statements are rhetorical in nature. They are questions that are not really questions. The answer is firmly "God."
- He has made the mouth, the mute, the deaf, the seeing and the blind! This is unsettling for each of us. We believe that everything should have what God here says are lacking in people.
- We believe that any aberration physically must have happened outside of God's providence. Yet, we see here that God takes responsibility.
- He is referring to those who are born in the conditions that He speaks of here. Why has God done it that way? He does not explain Himself here.
- I will say this: Whatever God does, He does for the purpose of His own glory. Let me give you an example. Turn over to John 9.
- Jesus and His disciples have encountered a man that has been blind from birth, which prompted the disciples to ask a question.
• John 9:2,3 : "And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered, 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him."
- At some point in a person's life, whatever they are and have been physically, reflects a special plan and purpose from the Lord for them. I say that for us, but it is not God's point.
- His point is not to tell Moses this for the sake of clarifying creation. He is pointing Moses' thinking to His ability to affect powerfully any disability.
- He tells Moses, "I will be with your mouth and teach you what to say." God would strengthen that faculty that would serve Him best. "What" he said would be more important than "how" he said it.
- Whatever thing that we must give to Him for use, we will find Him strengthening and honing.
- At the same time, whatever teaching and training we need, He will be sure comes into our hands. He will not leave Moses to his own talents or his own understanding. Both would increase!
• Exodus 4:13-17 : "But he said, 'O my Lord, please send by the hand of whomever else You may send.' So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said: 'Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do. So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God. And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.'" : It comes down to this: Moses just doesn't want to do it! "Just send someone else please!"
- When all else fails, it comes down to honesty and the truth of where our excuses come from.
- We are not worried about our reputation, talents or lack thereof. In the end, often times, we want the heavy lifting to be done by someone else!
- Perhaps in our youth, we talk a good game and find ways to more subtle and spiritual ways to disguise this, but Moses is past that. He simply does not want to do it. "Send someone, anyone else!"
- It is a sad day when the person who loves God simply does not want to do what God wants Him or her to do. It's not sad because God can't find someone else.
- There are countless others that God can call. Additionally, it's not sad for the sake of the work, as God will get His will accomplished.
- What's sad is that the work will produce something in the believer that cannot take place when they resist, and as a result, that believer remains stunted in their growth by their own hands!
- It's sad for the believer. It's angering to the Lord. This is the first time in recorded history and the first time in the Bible that the anger of the Lord is mentioned.
- The first time this phrase is used is right here when a godly man, devoted to Him, refuses to enter the fray of potential ministry! The NIV "God's anger burned against Moses."
- What happens? Does God strike Him down? Does He put out the bush flame and just leave Moses to His sheep? No. Instead He continues to work on Moses.
- God offers to send His brother Aaron with him. God would speak to Moses who would in turn speak to Aaron, who in turn would speak to Pharaoh.
- In the final analysis, Aaron's participation will be more of a problem than a blessing.
• Exodus 4:18-23 : "So Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, 'Please let me go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.' Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, 'Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.' Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand. And the Lord said to Moses, 'When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: 'Israel is My son, My firstborn. So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.'" : Moses submits himself to the Lord. He goes back to Jethro and gives him a bit of a cover story. He lets him believe that he is wanting to search out family.
- Would you have wanted to tell him the truth? "I was in the back 40 when a bush caught on fire. When I got close it was God and He is sending me back to Egypt to free 3 million of my people!"
- Jethro says his goodbye and as Moses' plans are unfolding toward his obedience, God comes to him and tells him not to worry about the men who once sought to kill him.
- The family set out to return to Egypt. You'll note here that in the process of time, Moses has had at least one more son.
- I can only imagine what he must have been thinking as he brought them along. What would they face? What difficulties would come their way as a result of his obedience?
- As he looks lovingly at Gershom his first born, God catches up with him again. He tells Moses that even after he has shown all of his divine works, the Pharaoh will only be hardened.
- Read it and understand: God says that He will harden the Pharaoh's heart so that he will not let the people go.
- First, Moses needs to understand that the job that he is submitting to will be more difficult than he could have imagined. I love that God does that for us. He gives us accurate information.
- Second, God Himself would be the agency that would make Pharaoh so obstinate.
- Moses must have listened to this and wondered. Yet, there is no struggle that is recorded. There is no question. God made a statement that will forever baffle each of us.
- Without giving much away, understand that what God will do will be the natural consequence for the Pharaoh's initial response. God is declaring the end from the beginning.
- God was declaring war. Israel was His firstborn. Pharaoh had killed or attempted to kill His own child. Now, God would do the same to Him.
• Exodus 4:24-26 : "And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, 'Surely you are a husband of blood to me!' So He let him go. Then she said, 'You are a husband of blood!'—because of the circumcision." : "Moses?" "Yes Zipporah?" "God is here." "Cool, I'll be right out." "Uh, He wants to kill you!"
- We have come through some difficult and weird passages. This one always takes me aback.
- On his way to do what the Lord has asked him to do, the Lord Himself comes and seeks to kill Moses. Most scholars believe that Moses was struck by some disease.
- It seems that Moses had left something undone. Zipporah took action to circumcise their son. It does not say 'sons.'
- Moses had neglected to enter his son into the covenant of God's people. We learned in Genesis 17 that if one was not circumcised by the 8th day, then he was to be cut off.
- Zipporah did this and then cast the foreskin at Moses feet. She had had to do dirty work and was not very happy about it!
- Why would God want to kill His man over the lack of circumcision? Learn this lesson: It is better to obey than it is to serve!
- If a man is going to serve God's people, He Himself must learn to obey all of God's words and value all that God values.
• Exodus 4:27-31 : "And the Lord said to Aaron, 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' So he went and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him. So Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses. Then he did the signs in the sight of the people. So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped." : While Moses is on the way back to Egypt, God is beginning to speak to Aaron. He is preparing Moses on this side and Aaron on the other side.
- Aaron went out and met Moses at the place where God had met Him. Moses showed him all of the signs that God had given him to show, as well as sharing the plan that Aaron will speak.
- Aaron begins immediately when the elders of Israel are gathered.
- The end of this chapter would seem to have been a great indication of how things would go, but as we know, this will not be the standard response.
Conclusion
- In the life of every believer, there is a moment in time where we will be asked to step into something well outside of our comfort zone.
- We are always asking to grow and this is God's way of doing it! He knows your shortcomings and your excuses. He wants to work with you anyway!
- I pray that you will take this chapter and remember that you don't want to act like Moses!
"Me And My Excuses!" • 9.23.10 • Calvary Christian Fellowship, Thursday Night Bible Study
Intro.
- Last week, we left God and Moses in the beginning of their appointment. God had appeared to Him and revealed that at 80 years of age, Moses would now be the deliverer of Israel.
- This was the job that he had wanted 40 years earlier. But now, he was a shepherd and all the confidence that he once had as a 40 year old, was gone.
- He is as far away physically from Egypt as he feels he mentally in processing this position.
- To Moses, this makes the job untenable. To God, this makes Moses the perfect candidate.
- God has to work on what Moses can believe. This chapter represents what God has to do with each of us.
Text
• Exodus 4:1-5 : "Then Moses answered and said, 'But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ So the Lord said to him, 'What is that in your hand?' He said, 'A rod.' And He said, 'Cast it on the ground.' So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Reach out your hand and take it by the tail' (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand), 'that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.'" : You will notice immediately the tenor of Moses' arguments. It begins with looking at myself.
- "Who am I?" We cannot fathom that we could have any lasting spiritual effect upon anyone.
- That much is true. But God will be with us, as He was with Moses.
- Now, Moses continues to look on the human plane as he looks now at the audience that he will stand before. "What if they will not believe me or listen to my voice?"
- What is God's response at this point? God wants him to acknowledge what He has in his hand. In Moses' hand was a shepherd's rod. A large stick.
- It had been Moses' constant companion for 40 years. With it, he corrected the way of Jethro's flock. He had used it to protect them. God says, "I want to use what is in your hand."
- Before the Lord gives us something else, He first takes what is in our hands and makes it useful for His purposes.
- When Moses threw the stick on the ground, it became a serpent. God in a moment of time, took a dead piece of wood and altered it completely to become a snake.
- It was fierce enough that Moses fled from it. He immediately feared and did what was natural.
- God tells him to to pick it up, which Moses finally does. That had to be hilarious to watch!
- Remember that God had given Moses this sign so that they would believe in Him. Moses makes that clear in the narrative. These signs are to point to God.
- One of the first signs that God chooses to use is the serpent. God is going to use the very symbol of the enemy himself, as He wages war against him!
• Exodus 4:6-9 : "Furthermore the Lord said to him, 'Now put your hand in your bosom.' And he put his hand in his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous, like snow. And He said, 'Put your hand in your bosom again.' So he put his hand in his bosom again, and drew it out of his bosom, and behold, it was restored like his other flesh. 'Then it will be, if they do not believe you, nor heed the message of the first sign, that they may believe the message of the latter sign. And it shall be, if they do not believe even these two signs, or listen to your voice, that you shall take water from the river and pour it on the dry land. The water which you take from the river will become blood on the dry land.'" : The first sign was stunning enough, but God provides Moses with two more signs, the first being leprosy.
- Moses' hand would go in healthy and come out in the complete stage of leprosy. It would come out white and decayed.
- The final sign was to take water from the NIle and pour it out onto the ground where It would become blood.
- These were signs for the convincing of Israel and for the comfort of Moses. God is meeting the lack of faith that Moses had, showing Him what He will do through Him
• Exodus 4:10-12 : "Then Moses said to the Lord, 'O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.' So the Lord said to him, 'Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the Lord? Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.'" : When looking at myself and my audience fails, one can always default to "look at my talents!" Moses discounts his skills. Read this with a growing whine. "Lord I am not eloquent."
- I like the NLT's rendering: "But Moses pleaded with the Lord, 'O Lord, I'm just not a good speaker. I never have been, and I'm not now, even after you have spoken to me. I'm clumsy with words.'"
- Many chasten Moses at this point, as 40 years earlier, it was written of him that he was mighty in words and in deeds. They reason that he must have been incredibly articulate.
- We have to remember that Moses has been out of Egyptian culture and learning for 4 decades. That will make any person feel as though they are not on top of their game.
- Moses is ramping up his case to be excused from service.
- We cannot deny that we have all been here before. We are experts at pointing out why we cannot do something.
- Yet, the fact remains that when we do something like this, we are ignoring the one fact that evens everything out: God never makes mistakes! He calls people that He knows will respond.
- Before He called Moses, He already knew what He was capable of and what He would do through Him. That is still true today and it is still true with you.
- Listen to what God tells Him: Who has made man's mouth? Each of these statements are rhetorical in nature. They are questions that are not really questions. The answer is firmly "God."
- He has made the mouth, the mute, the deaf, the seeing and the blind! This is unsettling for each of us. We believe that everything should have what God here says are lacking in people.
- We believe that any aberration physically must have happened outside of God's providence. Yet, we see here that God takes responsibility.
- He is referring to those who are born in the conditions that He speaks of here. Why has God done it that way? He does not explain Himself here.
- I will say this: Whatever God does, He does for the purpose of His own glory. Let me give you an example. Turn over to John 9.
- Jesus and His disciples have encountered a man that has been blind from birth, which prompted the disciples to ask a question.
• John 9:2,3 : "And His disciples asked Him, saying, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?' Jesus answered, 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him."
- At some point in a person's life, whatever they are and have been physically, reflects a special plan and purpose from the Lord for them. I say that for us, but it is not God's point.
- His point is not to tell Moses this for the sake of clarifying creation. He is pointing Moses' thinking to His ability to affect powerfully any disability.
- He tells Moses, "I will be with your mouth and teach you what to say." God would strengthen that faculty that would serve Him best. "What" he said would be more important than "how" he said it.
- Whatever thing that we must give to Him for use, we will find Him strengthening and honing.
- At the same time, whatever teaching and training we need, He will be sure comes into our hands. He will not leave Moses to his own talents or his own understanding. Both would increase!
• Exodus 4:13-17 : "But he said, 'O my Lord, please send by the hand of whomever else You may send.' So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and He said: 'Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. Now you shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth. And I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and I will teach you what you shall do. So he shall be your spokesman to the people. And he himself shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be to him as God. And you shall take this rod in your hand, with which you shall do the signs.'" : It comes down to this: Moses just doesn't want to do it! "Just send someone else please!"
- When all else fails, it comes down to honesty and the truth of where our excuses come from.
- We are not worried about our reputation, talents or lack thereof. In the end, often times, we want the heavy lifting to be done by someone else!
- Perhaps in our youth, we talk a good game and find ways to more subtle and spiritual ways to disguise this, but Moses is past that. He simply does not want to do it. "Send someone, anyone else!"
- It is a sad day when the person who loves God simply does not want to do what God wants Him or her to do. It's not sad because God can't find someone else.
- There are countless others that God can call. Additionally, it's not sad for the sake of the work, as God will get His will accomplished.
- What's sad is that the work will produce something in the believer that cannot take place when they resist, and as a result, that believer remains stunted in their growth by their own hands!
- It's sad for the believer. It's angering to the Lord. This is the first time in recorded history and the first time in the Bible that the anger of the Lord is mentioned.
- The first time this phrase is used is right here when a godly man, devoted to Him, refuses to enter the fray of potential ministry! The NIV "God's anger burned against Moses."
- What happens? Does God strike Him down? Does He put out the bush flame and just leave Moses to His sheep? No. Instead He continues to work on Moses.
- God offers to send His brother Aaron with him. God would speak to Moses who would in turn speak to Aaron, who in turn would speak to Pharaoh.
- In the final analysis, Aaron's participation will be more of a problem than a blessing.
• Exodus 4:18-23 : "So Moses went and returned to Jethro his father-in-law, and said to him, 'Please let me go and return to my brethren who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.' Now the Lord said to Moses in Midian, 'Go, return to Egypt; for all the men who sought your life are dead.' Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set them on a donkey, and he returned to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in his hand. And the Lord said to Moses, 'When you go back to Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh which I have put in your hand. But I will harden his heart, so that he will not let the people go. Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord: 'Israel is My son, My firstborn. So I say to you, let My son go that he may serve Me. But if you refuse to let him go, indeed I will kill your son, your firstborn.'" : Moses submits himself to the Lord. He goes back to Jethro and gives him a bit of a cover story. He lets him believe that he is wanting to search out family.
- Would you have wanted to tell him the truth? "I was in the back 40 when a bush caught on fire. When I got close it was God and He is sending me back to Egypt to free 3 million of my people!"
- Jethro says his goodbye and as Moses' plans are unfolding toward his obedience, God comes to him and tells him not to worry about the men who once sought to kill him.
- The family set out to return to Egypt. You'll note here that in the process of time, Moses has had at least one more son.
- I can only imagine what he must have been thinking as he brought them along. What would they face? What difficulties would come their way as a result of his obedience?
- As he looks lovingly at Gershom his first born, God catches up with him again. He tells Moses that even after he has shown all of his divine works, the Pharaoh will only be hardened.
- Read it and understand: God says that He will harden the Pharaoh's heart so that he will not let the people go.
- First, Moses needs to understand that the job that he is submitting to will be more difficult than he could have imagined. I love that God does that for us. He gives us accurate information.
- Second, God Himself would be the agency that would make Pharaoh so obstinate.
- Moses must have listened to this and wondered. Yet, there is no struggle that is recorded. There is no question. God made a statement that will forever baffle each of us.
- Without giving much away, understand that what God will do will be the natural consequence for the Pharaoh's initial response. God is declaring the end from the beginning.
- God was declaring war. Israel was His firstborn. Pharaoh had killed or attempted to kill His own child. Now, God would do the same to Him.
• Exodus 4:24-26 : "And it came to pass on the way, at the encampment, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses’ feet, and said, 'Surely you are a husband of blood to me!' So He let him go. Then she said, 'You are a husband of blood!'—because of the circumcision." : "Moses?" "Yes Zipporah?" "God is here." "Cool, I'll be right out." "Uh, He wants to kill you!"
- We have come through some difficult and weird passages. This one always takes me aback.
- On his way to do what the Lord has asked him to do, the Lord Himself comes and seeks to kill Moses. Most scholars believe that Moses was struck by some disease.
- It seems that Moses had left something undone. Zipporah took action to circumcise their son. It does not say 'sons.'
- Moses had neglected to enter his son into the covenant of God's people. We learned in Genesis 17 that if one was not circumcised by the 8th day, then he was to be cut off.
- Zipporah did this and then cast the foreskin at Moses feet. She had had to do dirty work and was not very happy about it!
- Why would God want to kill His man over the lack of circumcision? Learn this lesson: It is better to obey than it is to serve!
- If a man is going to serve God's people, He Himself must learn to obey all of God's words and value all that God values.
• Exodus 4:27-31 : "And the Lord said to Aaron, 'Go into the wilderness to meet Moses.' So he went and met him on the mountain of God, and kissed him. So Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which He had commanded him. Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses. Then he did the signs in the sight of the people. So the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped." : While Moses is on the way back to Egypt, God is beginning to speak to Aaron. He is preparing Moses on this side and Aaron on the other side.
- Aaron went out and met Moses at the place where God had met Him. Moses showed him all of the signs that God had given him to show, as well as sharing the plan that Aaron will speak.
- Aaron begins immediately when the elders of Israel are gathered.
- The end of this chapter would seem to have been a great indication of how things would go, but as we know, this will not be the standard response.
Conclusion
- In the life of every believer, there is a moment in time where we will be asked to step into something well outside of our comfort zone.
- We are always asking to grow and this is God's way of doing it! He knows your shortcomings and your excuses. He wants to work with you anyway!
- I pray that you will take this chapter and remember that you don't want to act like Moses!
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