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Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Exodus 7:1-13.  For context, we’ll also include Exodus 6:28-30.  Let’s go! 

Exodus 6:28-Exodus 7:1 (NIV)
28  Now when the LORD spoke to Moses in Egypt,
29  he said to him, “I am the LORD. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.”
30  But Moses said to the LORD, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
1  Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet.

On Exodus 6:28-Exodus 7:1:  Notice the difference in the way Moses saw himself and the way God saw Moses.  Moses focuses on his inability and weakness, his “faltering lips” (v30).  God says He has made Moses to be like God to Pharaoh and Aaron to be Moses’ prophet (v1). It goes to show that God sees us differently than the way we naturally see ourselves.  If like Moses you have a tendency to focus on your weaknesses and limitations, know that God sees you in a completely different light: He sees you as forgiven, strong, an overcomer (see 1 John 2:12-14).  Part of becoming more godly is learning to see yourself the way God sees you.

Exodus 7:2-7 (NIV)
2  You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.
3  But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt,
4  he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites.
5  And the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.”
6  Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD commanded them.

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Exodus 6:1-13.  Let’s go!

Exodus 6:1 (NIV)
1  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh: Because of my mighty hand he will let them go; because of my mighty hand he will drive them out of his country.”

On verse 1:  Moses and Aaron had approached Pharaoh about letting the Israelite slaves go, but Pharaoh rejected their request and even increased the Israelite slaves’ workload as a result.  Moses could not understand why, especially when God had promised that Pharaoh would let the Israelites go (see Exodus 5:22-23).  God reassures Moses that Pharaoh will (eventually) let the Israelite people go.

What can we learn from this?  When God promises to do something, He will do it according to His timing, not your timing.  Rather than getting upset with God because God didn’t do things according to your way and timing, trust God that His way and His timing are perfect.  When God doesn’t do it in your way and your time, it means that He is writing a greater story than the one you have in mind.

Exodus 6:2-8 (NIV)
2  God also said to Moses, “I am the LORD.
3  I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name the LORD I did not make myself known to them.

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Exodus 4:18-31.  There are so many lessons we can learn from this passage.  In this GAME sharing we’ll deal only with verses 27-31 today . Let’s go!

Exodus 4:27 (NIV)
27  The LORD said to Aaron, “Go into the desert to meet Moses.” So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.

On verse 27:  Aaron, Moses’ older brother who was 3 years Moses’ senior (see Exodus 7:7), hears from God that he should go to the desert to meet Moses.  So Aaron goes to meet Moses at “the mountain of God” (which is likely Mount Horeb where Moses first encountered God in the burning bush) and the brothers are reunited.  How was Aaron, an Israelite slave in Egypt, able to freely leave Egypt to visit Moses?  One theory is that Aaron was a respected elder among the Israelites and had the permission of Pharaoh to go.  Another theory is that Aaron escaped the slave camp without being discovered.

In any event, the fact that Aaron independently sensed from God that he should go see Moses, soon after Moses himself had heard God’s call to go back to Egypt, must have been very encouraging to both Moses and Aaron.  They both must have seen this as a sign from God.  It goes to show that when God wants to do something big, He tends to involve not just one person but multiple trusted leaders in the discerning of it. 

Hi GAMErs!

Today’s passage is Exodus 3:11-22.  Let’s go!

Exodus 3:11-12 (NIV)
11  But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”
12  And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.”

On verses 11-12: In Exodus 3, we see one of the most significant moments in Israel’s history taking place: out of a burning bush God calls Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt.  God calling Moses was not based on how good or strong Moses was, but based on how good and strong God is.  So when Moses questions who Moses is to think he can go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt (v11), God answers by simply saying, “I will be with you” and promising that Moses will be successful (v12). 

Hi GAMErs,

Today’s passage is Exodus 2:11-25.  Let’s go!

Exodus 2:11-14 (NIV)
11  One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
12  Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
13  The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”
14  The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

On verses 11-14:  There is so much packed into these verses that if you fail to read between the lines there is so much you could miss.

First of all, this passage jumps from Moses as an infant in verse 10 to Moses as an adult in verse 11.  We’ve just fast forwarded past the rest of Moses’ childhood, adolescence and early adulthood.  According to Acts 7:23-24, Moses was 40 years old by this time. 

Second, this passage shows Moses’ transition from identifying himself as an Egyptian to identifying as a Hebrew.  Keep in mind that Moses grew up in Pharaoh’s royal palace and called Pharaoh’s daughter “mom”.