Exodus The Book Of Redemption

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Exodus 4-6

Last Time In Exodus 3:7, My People

• Exodus 3:7 The LORD said, "I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt…

• This is the 1st. Use by God of the term “My people”

• God’s relationship to the patriarchs and their descendants will bequeath to the family/nation in Egypt, and on into eternity

Exodus 4:1, What If?

• Exodus 4:1 Then Moses answered and said, "What if they will not believe me, or listen to what I say? For they may say, 'The LORD has not appeared to you.'“

• What will people think?

Exodus 4:2, What’s in your hand?

• Exodus 4:2 The LORD said to him, "What is that in your hand?" And he said, "A staff.”

• Did God need a little info from Moses?

• Genesis 3:9 Then the LORD • God called to the man, and • said to him, "Where are you?"

Exodus 4:3, It Became A Serpent

• Exodus 4:3 Then He said, "Throw it on the ground." So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it.

• Not, “Behold, there was a serpent.”• That would allow for magic.• 40 years as a shepherd, it must have been

poisonous.

Exodus 4:4, It Became A Staff

• Exodus 4:4 But the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand and grasp it by its tail "-- so he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—

• It was a snake, it became a • staff• No room for sleight of hand

Exodus 4:5, That They May Believe

• Exodus 4:5 "that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.“

• God is giving reasons for His actions again.• He doesn’t not have to explain Himself to

anybody! But He is gracious.• As a father I’ve said, “Because I said so!”

Exodus 4:6, Leprosy Had No Earthly Cure

• Exodus 4:6 The LORD furthermore said to him, "Now put your hand into your bosom." So he put his hand into his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous like snow.

Exodus 4:7-9• God gives 3 “if/then” scenarios

Exodus 4:9, Nile Will Become Blood

• Exodus 4:9 "But if they will not believe even these two signs or heed what you say, then you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground; and the water which you take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground."

• Ryrie Study Bible notes on page 70, say “If Moses could turn the water of the Nile, considered the source of the prosperity of Egypt, into blood, a sign of death, surely his power over pharaoh would be accomplish."

Exodus 4:10, I’m Not Up To Your Job

• Exodus 4:10 Then Moses said to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither recently nor in time past, nor since You have spoken to Your servant; for I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

• God can use us in our weakness, or even in spite of our strengths.• 2 Corinthians 12:9 My grace is sufficient for you, for power is

perfected in weakness.• He even used Peter (3 X’s denied Christ), and James and John the

"Sons of Thunder,” (Mark 3:17) to patiently and lovingly build the early church.

• So rather than looking at your strengths or weaknesses, look to God, and humbly say “Yes LORD”, then get to work.

Exodus 4:11Psalm 94:8-9

“Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?”

Ex 4:11, TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT“Another Miracle Of Sight”

• Exodus 4:11 The LORD said to him, "Who has made man's mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

• “…The eye is a chemical and technological wonder. It would take thousands of carefully directed mutations for an eyeless creature to develop sight. And since a partial eye doesn’t provide sight, each of these thousands of mutations would offer no advantage to the creature.

• The fact is, of course, that mutations don’t happen this way. All the true mutations we know about have harmed rather than helped the creature with the mutation. This fact places the thought of

Ex 4:11, TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT“Another Miracle Of Sight”

• thousands of positive mutations in a row outside the realm of scientifically reasonable consideration. In addition, neither living nor known fossil animals show any evidence of gradual development of eyes. Therefore, the most reasonable scientific conclusion is that there is a Creator Who designed and created the eye.

• The lens of the eye is a marvel of chemistry. It is made up of a concentration of protein molecules inside water-lined cells. When scientists learned this, they were amazed. Protein molecules in water are not transparent, as the lens must be. After more research, they discovered God’s

Ex 4:11, TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT“Another Miracle Of Sight”

• secret. The high concentration of protein molecules in the lens of the eye causes the proteins to pack together something like the molecules of window glass. As a result, the normally opaque protein solution in the lens becomes transparent.

• The eye does more damage to ideas about origins that leave out God than almost any other feature of the creation because it allows us to see the Creator’s fingerprints all around us!”

Exodus 4:12, Who’s Gonna Do The Doin’

• Exodus 4:12 "Now then go, and I, even I, will be with your mouth, and teach you what you are to say."

Exodus 4:13, Anybody But Me

• Exodus 4:13 But he said, "Please, Lord, now send the message by whomever You will.“

• Exodus 4:14 Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, "Is there not your brother Aaron the Levite? I know that he speaks fluently. And moreover, behold, he is coming out to meet you; when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

Exodus 4:13, Anger Of The LORD

• This is the 1st. of 35 uses of the term “anger of the LORD”

• All are in the OT• Where is the greatest example of “the anger of the

LORD”?• Isaiah 53:10 But the LORD was pleased To crush

Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.

Exodus 4:15-16, As God To Him

• Exodus 4:15"And you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do. 16 "Moreover, he shall speak for you to the people; and it shall come about that he shall be as a mouth for you, and you shall be as God to him.

• Exodus 7:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.

Exodus 4:17-31

Exodus 4:20, The Staff Of God • Exodus 4:20 So Moses took his wife and his sons and mounted

them on a donkey, and returned to the land of Egypt. Moses also took the staff of God in his hand.

• Exodus 7:9… 'Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh…• 7 X’s after Exodus 4:20 the NASU refers to “your staff”. Only in

Exodus 17:9 is “the staff of God”• How would you like to have “The Staff Of God”?• John 15:16 "You did not choose Me but I chose you, and

appointed you that you would go and bear fruit, and that your fruit would remain, so that whatever you ask of the Father in My name He may give to you.

• 1 John 5:15 And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.

Exodus 4:20, The Staff Of God

• Mark 10:35 James and John, the two sons of Zebedee, came up to Jesus, saying, "Teacher, we want You to do for us whatever we ask of You."

• 36 And He said to them, "What do you want Me to do for you?“

• John 14:13 "Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

Exodus 4:21, I Will Harden His Heart

• Exodus 4:21 The LORD said to Moses, "When you go back to Egypt see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders which I have put in your power; but I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

• Yet future, (not yet), and there are 3 ways this is described;

• Pharaoh will harden his own heart • God will harden his heart• Pharaoh’s heart was hardened

Exodus 4:24, The Wages Of Sin Is Death

• Exodus 4:24 Now it came about at the lodging place on the way that the LORD met him and sought to put him to death.

• Delayed obedience and partial obedience is disobedience.

• 1 Samuel 15:14 But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"

• KJV Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Exodus 4:25, Zipporah Circumcised Him

• Exodus 4:25 Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and threw it at Moses' feet, and she said, "You are indeed a bridegroom of blood to me.“

• Some think that she was the reason they were not already circumcised, and that she did it to save Moses' life.

• “her son's foreskin” is singular in both Hebrew and Greek texts. I’m betting that she cut both, and only threw one.

Exodus 4:25 and 18:1 Zipporah Circumcised Him

• Exodus 18:1 Now Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father-in-law, heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt. 2 Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, took Moses' wife Zipporah, after he had sent her away,

• Some think the circumcising incident is when she got kicked out, and sent home.

Exodus 4:31, Salvation Order Is Always

• Exodus 4:31 So the people believed; and when they heard that the LORD was concerned about the sons of Israel and that He had seen their affliction, then they bowed low and worshiped.

• They hear the LORD’s messenger • They believe• They humble themselves and worship• They are then saved

Exodus 5:1-23

Exodus 5:1, the LORD, the God of Israel

• Exodus 5:1 And afterward Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.”

• 1st use of “the LORD, the God of Israel”• Genesis 26:24 The LORD…said, "I am the God of your father

Abraham…• Genesis 28:13…the LORD…said, "I am the LORD, the God of

your father Abraham and the God of Isaac• Exodus 3:6…"I am the God of your father, the God of

Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob."

Exodus 5:1, the LORD, the God of Israel

• So when people say that “Allah” is just the Arabic word meaning “God”, you might want clarify things by suggesting the use of the personal names God uses of Himself in the Bible.

• Wikipedia says, “The term Allāh is derived from a contraction of the Arabic definite article al- "the" and ilāh "deity, god" to al-lāh meaning "the [sole] deity, God…”

• So, if we’re discussing the one, true God who created heaven and earth, and everything in it, as described in the Bible (not Molech or Baal). Why not use the personal names God uses of Himself in the Bible, “the LORD, the God of Israel” or “the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Jesus said in Matthew 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter.

• Exodus 5:3 Then they said, "The God of the Hebrews…

Exodus 5:1, the

LORD, the God of Israel

Exodus 5:2, Great Question!

• Exodus 5:2 But Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice…

• To bad he got the wrong answer

Exodus 5:5 Deuteronomy 5:3, Seventh Day Adventist, The Clear Word Bible

• Question: Some Seventh day Adventist friends have what they call "The Clear Word Bible." Something doesn't sound quite right, and it looks like verses have been changed to support their teachings.Response: We would agree with your concerns about the Clear Word Bible. One doesn't have to go through much of this version to determine that words have been added or meanings changed in order to "more clearly" support their particular teachings….

• Consider Exodus 5:5: "And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens" (KJV).

• The Clear Word Bible: "You've created enough problems by making them rest every week on your Sabbath...." Pharaoh is made to be complaining about the Jews keeping the Sabbath prior to the Law! In truth, this passage says nothing about keeping the Sabbath, and this twisting of Scriptures removes the meaning from this passage of Holy Scripture. From the context, it is clear that Pharaoh is the one adding to the burden of the Jews…. GotQuestions.org

Exodus 5:14, Hebrew Foremen

• Exodus 5:14 Moreover, the foremen of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, "Why have you not completed your required amount either yesterday or today in making brick as previously?“

• Exodus 5:15 Then the foremen of the sons of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying, "Why do you deal this way with your servants?

• They had considerable clout, they came into Pharaoh’s presence, but were beaten.

Exodus 5:23, Well I Think That…

• Exodus 5:23 "Ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Your name, he has done harm to this people, and You have not delivered Your people at all.“

• Well I think that You should have done more by now God.

• Don’t we do this too?

Exodus 6:1-13

Exodus 6:3, Progressive Revelation

• Exodus 6:3 and I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name, LORD, I did not make Myself known to them.

• But now He has made Himself known to them by His name, LORD (YHVH, or YHWH).

Exodus 6:5, I Have Remembered

• Exodus 6:5 "Furthermore I have heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I have remembered My covenant.

• Gingrich’s definition of this Greek word in the LXX says, “…Remember in the sense think of, be concerned about…”

Exodus 6:11, Out Of His Land

• Exodus 6:11 "Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.”

• Exodus 3:11 But Moses said to God, "Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt?“

• Exodus 3:18 …'The LORD, … let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.‘

• Exodus 5:3, 8, 11, 1 …Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Let My people go that they may celebrate a feast to Me in the wilderness.'"

THE END

• Colorful Desserts To make us think of the sweet taste of redemption

Proverbs 20:12 Amos 4:13 Exodus 4:11, Miracle Of Sight

• TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT• ANOTHER MIRACLE OF SIGHT• Listen• Psalm 94:8-9• “Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he

that formed the eye, shall he not see?”• The eye is a chemical and technological wonder. It would take thousands of carefully directed mutations for an eyeless

creature to develop sight. And since a partial eye doesn’t provide sight, each of these thousands of mutations would offer no advantage to the creature.

• The fact is, of course, that mutations don’t happen this way. All the true mutations we know about have harmed rather than helped the creature with the mutation. This fact places the thought of thousands of positive mutations in a row outside the realm of scientifically reasonable consideration. In addition, neither living nor known fossil animals show any evidence of gradual development of eyes. Therefore, the most reasonable scientific conclusion is that there is a Creator Who designed and created the eye.

• The lens of the eye is a marvel of chemistry. It is made up of a concentration of protein molecules inside water-lined cells. When scientists learned this, they were amazed. Protein molecules in water are not transparent, as the lens must be. After more research, they discovered God’s secret. The high concentration of protein molecules in the lens of the eye causes the proteins to pack together something like the molecules of window glass. As a result, the normally opaque protein solution in the lens becomes transparent.

• The eye does more damage to ideas about origins that leave out God than almost any other feature of the creation because it allows us to see the Creator’s fingerprints all around us!

• Prayer: • I thank You, dear Lord, for the gift of sight by faith that allows me to see the clear evidences of Your handiwork all around me.

Teach me to show others, whose sight may not be so clear, that You are not only our Creator, but our Savior. Amen.• Notes: • I. Peterson. 1983. “Why the Eye Lens is Transparent.” Science News, April 16.• Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The LORD has made both of them.

Proverbs 20:12 Amos 4:13 Exodus 4:11, Miracle Of Sight

• TODAY'S CREATION MOMENT• ANOTHER MIRACLE OF SIGHT• Listen• Psalm 94:8-9• “Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise? He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that

formed the eye, shall he not see?”• The eye is a chemical and technological wonder. It would take thousands of carefully directed mutations for an eyeless creature to

develop sight. And since a partial eye doesn’t provide sight, each of these thousands of mutations would offer no advantage to the creature.

• The fact is, of course, that mutations don’t happen this way. All the true mutations we know about have harmed rather than helped the creature with the mutation. This fact places the thought of thousands of positive mutations in a row outside the realm of scientifically reasonable consideration. In addition, neither living nor known fossil animals show any evidence of gradual development of eyes. Therefore, the most reasonable scientific conclusion is that there is a Creator Who designed and created the eye.

• The lens of the eye is a marvel of chemistry. It is made up of a concentration of protein molecules inside water-lined cells. When scientists learned this, they were amazed. Protein molecules in water are not transparent, as the lens must be. After more research, they discovered God’s secret. The high concentration of protein molecules in the lens of the eye causes the proteins to pack together something like the molecules of window glass. As a result, the normally opaque protein solution in the lens becomes transparent.

• The eye does more damage to ideas about origins that leave out God than almost any other feature of the creation because it allows us to see the Creator’s fingerprints all around us!

• Prayer: • I thank You, dear Lord, for the gift of sight by faith that allows me to see the clear evidences of Your handiwork all around me. Teach

me to show others, whose sight may not be so clear, that You are not only our Creator, but our Savior. Amen.• Notes: • I. Peterson. 1983. “Why the Eye Lens is Transparent.” Science News, April 16.• Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear and the seeing eye, The LORD has made both of them.

Exodus 5:5 Deuteronomy 5:3, Seventh Day Adventist, The Clear Word Bible

• Question: Some Seventh day Adventist friends have what they call "The Clear Word Bible." Something doesn't sound quite right, and it looks like verses have been changed to support their teachings.

Response: We would agree with your concerns about the Clear Word Bible. One doesn't have to go through much of this version to determine that words have been added or meanings changed in order to "more clearly" support their particular teachings.

• For example, Deuteronomy 5:3 in the KJV reads, "The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day." In this passage, Moses is stating that the Sabbath Day was given by God to a named people (the Jews) as part of the Mosaic Law. This verse reads the same in all alternate translations that we consulted (NIV, NASB, ESV, NLT, etc.).

• The same verse from the SDA paraphrase (the Clear Word Bible) reads, "It wasn't only with our ancestors that He made a covenant, but with us and with all who are alive today." It is clear to see that the meaning of the passage has been changed. There is a reason. Many SDAs believe that those who came before--Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the patriarchs--all kept the Sabbath. So, Jack Blanco, who produced the Clear Word Bible, changed "not with our fathers" [did He make a covenant] to "It wasn't only with our ancestors that He made a covenant...." This is clearly wresting the Word of God.

• Consider Exodus 5:5: "And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens" (KJV).• The Clear Word Bible: "You've created enough problems by making them rest every week on your Sabbath...." Pharaoh is made to be complaining about the Jews

keeping the Sabbath prior to the Law! In truth, this passage says nothing about keeping the Sabbath, and this twisting of Scriptures removes the meaning from this passage of Holy Scripture. From the context, it is clear that Pharaoh is the one adding to the burden of the Jews.

• SDAs have historically gone through a "purging" process every few decades or so. The last major one was in the 1980s, when many theologians, pastors, and members left when Ellen G. White's plagiarism was highlighted and the governing body nonetheless issued the directive to recognize the "spirit of prophecy" (i.e., Ellen G. White's status as a prophet) and submit.

• In SDA President Ted Wilson's inaugural sermon he chastized those who don't emphasize the Sabbath and those who speak against "the spirit of prophecy." In his address "Go Forward" (General Conference Sabbath Sermon from July 3, 2010), he emphasized the "correct way" to interpret Scriptures: "hold your leaders, pastors, local churches, educators, [et al.] accountable to the highest standards of belief based on a literal understanding of Scripture. Utilize wonderful resources such as the Biblical Research Institute's new book on hermeneutics that helps us know the correct way to interpret the Scriptures."

• Again we read in Selected Messages, Book 1 (by Ellen G. White), on p. 170, "Do not overstrain the meaning of sentences in the Bible in an effort to bring forth something odd in order to please the fancy. Take the Scriptures as they read."

• • The irony of this is that many SDA doctrines, such as the Investigative Judgment, do not take the Scriptures as they are read. With the "Clear Word" Bible, there has

been some "wresting" that slants the verses in this paraphrase towards particular doctrines of SDAs.• GotQuestions.org