All scripture King James Version. These notes are what I got from sermon, not necessarily what was preached. Sermons are available to view/listen to at Grace Church website for approximately 1 month from time sermon preached.
Grace Church
03/07/2007
Pastor Bob Yandian
Moses and the Miracles 1
Each of the miracles of God in the book of Exodus took on one by one, ten of the Egyptian gods.
Heb 11:23 KJV
(23) By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
Proper here means he was a child of a city.
Heb 11:24-25 KJV
(24) By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
(25) Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
Abraham showed his life was a pilgrimage. He was looking for a city. This child Moses was a child of that city. God had His hand on him.
Moses had a call from God and blew it. But that call never was removed.
Gen 15:12-16 KJV
(12) And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him.
(13) And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;
(14) And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.
(15) And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
(16) But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
What does this have to do with Moses? God is telling Abraham here that there will come a time when Abraham's descendants will get the land but it will be 400 years later. Moses when out in his own power when God said that Moses would deliver the Hebrews, but the 400 years were not up yet. When God has a call on your life, do not rush out the door till you know all the deal. The Amorites had 400 years of grace. They never accepted it, so the time had come now, not 40 years earlier.
Moses then lived in the wilderness for 40 years. It took that long to get Egypt taken out of him. He was now able to be lead people who needed the same. He has gone from self-sufficiency to being a timid person.
Gen 15:18 KJV
(18) In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:
Exo 3:1-2 KJV
(1) Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
(2) 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.
The angel of the Lord means Jesus. The bush is a type of our human flesh. Our bodies should burn up when we receive Jesus but we do not.
Exo 3:3-5 KJV
(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.
(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.
The place was holy because God was there, not because Moses was there.
Exo 3:6 KJV
(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.
He was their God and He would be theirs as well.
Exo 3:7-8 KJV
(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;
(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.
The place was not in what is now know as Israel. It was not the ground that made it holy, it was the presence of God that did it.
What does the current church do with the term Holy Ground?
Act 6:13 KJV
(13) And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place, and the law:
They try to make the temple or the city holy. It is not so. There is no one place that is holy.
Act 7:30-33 KJV
(30) And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
(31) When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,
(32) Saying, I am the God of thy fathers, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled, and durst not behold.
(33) Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.
Stephen was trying to say that the presense of God is what makes it holy, not the building or the ground. When Jesus died God left the temple and it was no longer holy.
Gal 4:25 KJV
(25) For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
Jerusalem is now in bondage so it is no longer holy because of the temple. Moses saw God in Sinai, in Arabia, not holy to the Hebrew people, but God says it is holy ground.
Exo 2:18-19 KJV
(18) And when they came to Reuel their father, he said, How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
(19) And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
Moses acted like an Egyptian so all thought he was. He may have even thought he was.
Forty years later Moses heard the voice of God again. Why now. He has no more confidence in himself. God puts on a show and speaks to him, but now Moses says he cannot do it.
Five arguments of Moses:
Who am I Lord? He does not have any power or authority to lead them out.
Exo 3:9-12 KJV
(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.
(11) And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
2. Who are you? Who will I tell them who sent me.
Exo 3:13-22 KJV
(13) And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?
(14) And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
(15) And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
(16) Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
(17) And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey.
(18) And they shall hearken to thy voice: and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The LORD God of the Hebrews hath met with us: and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
(19) And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand.
(20) And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you go.
(21) And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:
But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.
3. What will I tell the courts of Pharaoh? God replies what do you have?
4. I can not speak. OK, Arron will speak for you.
5. I do not want to go!
If you are still alive, God can use you. God can pick up where you, like Moses , messed up. Become weak in yourself and strong in the Lord.
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