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A Sermon by Dr. Bob Griffin, Teaching Elder at Sovereign Grace Church
I. REVELATION OF NEED
A. MOTIVATION
>>1. GOD’S TIMETABLE – Ex 2:23a During these [40] years, the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help.
>>2. GOD’S ATTENTIVENESS – Ex 2:23b Their lament for help from slavery came up to God; (also Ps 130; Lam 2:18; Josh 24:14)
B. REACTION
>>1. GOD’S PROMISE – Ex 2:24 God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. (also Is 49:15)
>>2. GOD’S KNOWLEDGE – Ex 2:25 God saw the people of Israel – and God knew. (also Mt 23:23; Ps 34:15; 145:9; 33:13-15)
II. REVELATION OF GOD
A. SITUATION
>>1. GOD’S MAN – Ex 3:1 Now Moses continued keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb [the mountain of God]. (also Jn 21:2)
>>2. GOD’S PRESENCE – Ex 3:2-3 And the messenger of YHWH appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not consumed.”
B. DIRECTION
>>1. GOD’S CALL – Ex 3:4 When YHWH saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he answered, “Here I am.” (also Jn 1:18; Gen 22:11; I Sam 3:10; Lk 22:31; 10:41; Acts 9:4)
>>2. GOD’S COMMAND – Ex 3:5 Then He said, “Stop coming closer; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
C. PROCLAMATION
>>1. GOD’S CREDENTIALS – Ex 3:6a And He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” (also Is 43:10-11; Gen 15:12b-16, 18-21)
>>2. GOD’S HOLINESS – Ex 3:6b And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
III. REVELATION OF PROVISION
A. INTENTION
>>1. GOD’S DISCLOSURE – Ex 3:7 Then YHWH said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
>>2. GOD’S ANNOUNCEMENT – Ex 3:8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
B. ACTION
>>1. GOD’S LOVE- Ex 3:9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
>>2. GOD’S PLAN – Ex 3:10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” (also Eph 2:8-10; II Cor 6:1)