YAHWEH: THE GOD OF THE EXODUS (2 OF 17)
by Drew Hunter
Scripture: Exodus 3, Exodus 4
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Yahweh: The God of the Exodus (2 of 17)
Series: Exodus: Delivered to Dwell
Drew Hunter
Exodus 3-4
[Read Exodus 3-4]
There is a notion deep within us that goes like this...
...The kinds of people whom God uses are the really great ones. They are the ones that had special abilities.
But stories like this one flip that around. God does just the opposite with Moses. It is not the adequate ones who do great things for God, but the inadequate ones who can't do anything great for God... that he uses.
That's Moses. Moses wasn't prepared, he wasn't ready, he wasn't waiting, and he wasn't willing.
So this story isn't about how to be the kind of great person that God will use. Because it's once we think we're the kind of person God could never use; we are then just the kind of person God loves to use. He just asks that we be willing.
?But this story is about something larger still.
This is the central salvation event in the Old Testament, and it exists as a pattern for the greater exodus of Jesus' death and resurrection.
The focus of this story is on God. It's about the God who saved Israel, and the God who saves us.
And the main point we see is this: When God saves his people, he uses all of Moses' inadequacy in order to put all of his own adequacy on display.
Salvation is about God. He initiates, he is sufficient, and he is committed to carrying it through. This is the pattern for how God works. Moses and Israel had to learn this. And so do we.
I. GOD'S INITIATIVE (3:1-10)
So, first, we see God's initiative in 3:1-10.
It's helpful to remember what this story follows.
Look back with me at 2:23-25. ''the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel - and God knew.''
Israel is in great need. And now God is ...
Series: Exodus: Delivered to Dwell
Drew Hunter
Exodus 3-4
[Read Exodus 3-4]
There is a notion deep within us that goes like this...
...The kinds of people whom God uses are the really great ones. They are the ones that had special abilities.
But stories like this one flip that around. God does just the opposite with Moses. It is not the adequate ones who do great things for God, but the inadequate ones who can't do anything great for God... that he uses.
That's Moses. Moses wasn't prepared, he wasn't ready, he wasn't waiting, and he wasn't willing.
So this story isn't about how to be the kind of great person that God will use. Because it's once we think we're the kind of person God could never use; we are then just the kind of person God loves to use. He just asks that we be willing.
?But this story is about something larger still.
This is the central salvation event in the Old Testament, and it exists as a pattern for the greater exodus of Jesus' death and resurrection.
The focus of this story is on God. It's about the God who saved Israel, and the God who saves us.
And the main point we see is this: When God saves his people, he uses all of Moses' inadequacy in order to put all of his own adequacy on display.
Salvation is about God. He initiates, he is sufficient, and he is committed to carrying it through. This is the pattern for how God works. Moses and Israel had to learn this. And so do we.
I. GOD'S INITIATIVE (3:1-10)
So, first, we see God's initiative in 3:1-10.
It's helpful to remember what this story follows.
Look back with me at 2:23-25. ''the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel - and God knew.''
Israel is in great need. And now God is ...
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