The School of Faith Learning to Know the LORD - The LORD Keeps His Covenant Exodus 6:1-5

        Introduction

  Some lessons can only be learned by walking 

  with God through testing circumstances.

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* ++Circumstances can appear to contradict God’s promises

* ++Satan’s question remains: “Did God really say...?”

* ++Exodus 6 shows what God does with a discouraged servant

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 1. Moses Learns That the LORD Keeps His Covenant

  ++Governing Truth:

  ++When circumstances appear to contradict God’s promises, faith looks beyond what it sees to the LORD who keeps covenant.

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  a. The LORD Redirects Moses’ Eyes (v. 1)

  "Now you shall see what I will do to Pharoh..."

* ++God turns Moses’ eyes from Pharaoh back to Himself

* ++Faith begins when God becomes larger than our circumstances

* ++“This is God’s grace”

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  b. The LORD Reveals His Person (vv. 2–3)

             “I am the LORD’”

* ++God reveals who He is before explaining what He will do

* ++Patriarchs knew Him as God Almighty

* ++Moses will know Him as the covenant-keeping Redeemer

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 c. The LORD Anchors Moses in His Covenant (v. 4)

  “I also established My covenant with them...’”

* ++Interpret circumstances through God’s promises

* ++Maturing faith judges what it sees by what God has said

* ++Pharaoh does not write the ending  the LORD does

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  What Have You Just Seen About Your God?

* ++Gracious with a discouraged servant

* ++Sovereign over powers that frighten us

* ++Faithful across generations

* ++Tender toward suffering people

  ++All of this is seen most clearly in Jesus Christ.

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     What This Passage Calls Us to Do

1. ++Stop letting circumstances interpret God for you

2. ++Bring your groaning honestly to the LORD

3. ++Fix your eyes on Christ (the cross and the empty tomb)

4. ++Take the next step of obedience

  ++Faith rests in the LORD who keeps covenant.