Exodus 3: A Reluctant Deliverer — A Resolute God Pt 2

     The Self-Revelation of God (3:5-10)

     ++Before God gives Moses a mission,

       He gives him a theology

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     a. God Reveals His Holiness (v. 5)

  ++“Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground”

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     b. God reveals His identity - 

     the covenant God of the patriarchs (v. 6)

  ++ "He said also, 'I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the 

  God of Jacob.' Then Moses hid his face, for he 

  was afraid to look at God.”

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     c. God reveals His awareness of Israel’s suffering (v. 7)

  “The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt, and have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters, for I am aware of their sufferings.”

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     d. God reveals His redemptive plan (v. 8)

++"So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite."

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     e. God reveals His divine motivation (v. 9)

++"Now, behold, the cry of the sons of Israel has come to Me; furthermore, I have seen the oppression with which the Egyptians are oppressing them.."

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     f. God reveals His purpose for Moses (v. 10)

++"Therefore, come now, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring My people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt."

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