What s With the Burning Bush?

What s With the Burning Bush?

Last Week: The Enemy s Plan of Attack: 1) The enemy dealt SHREWDLY with them. v10 2) The enemy applied RUTHLESS OPPRESSION. v11-14 3) The enemy inflicted UNTHINKABLE PAIN. v15-22

The purpose of the enemy s attack was to cause us to: Give up Lose hope Be discouraged Accept Defeat

God s Response: A glimmer of HOPE in the form of a baby Moses. Chapter 2

Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. Exodus 2:1-10 (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV ) Copyright 2001 by Crossway,a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2011

Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you? Exodus 2:1-10 (ESV)

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. So the girl went and called the child's mother. And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages. So the woman took the child and nursed him. When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, Because, she said, I drew him out of the water. Exodus 2:1-10 (ESV)

Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds. When he was forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. Acts 7:22-23 (ESV)

One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people. He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the wrong, Why do you strike your companion? Exodus 2:11-15 (ESV)

He answered, Who made you a prince and judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? Then Moses was afraid, and thought, Surely the thing is known. When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. Exodus 2:11-15 (ESV)

Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet not consumed. And Moses said, I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned. Exodus 3:1-5, 7-8, 10 (ESV)

When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, Moses, Moses! And he said, Here I am. Then He said, Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. Then the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. Exodus 3:1-5, 7-8, 10 (ESV)

I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land; a land flowing with milk and honey Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. Exodus 3:1-5, 7-8, 10 (ESV)

God gave Moses a Burning Bush Experience After 40 years in the desert Moses likely felt: Disqualified Worthless Purposeless Insignificant Defeated The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV ) Copyright 2001 by Crossway,a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2011

A Burning Bush Experience: 1) God often speaks in EXTRAORDINARY ways through ORDINARY things. v.2 "For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise...not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:26-27 (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV ) Copyright 2001 by Crossway,a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2011

A Burning Bush Experience: 2) God required Moses to pay attention and TURN ASIDE. v.3-4 Do Not Quench the Spirit 1 Thessalonians 5:19 The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV ) Copyright 2001 by Crossway,a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2011

A Burning Bush Experience: 3) God gave Moses AMAZING GRACE when he really listened. v.4 God spoke to Moses 3 things: Moses, I know where you live Moses, I know your name Moses, I am not done with you "LORD, if You kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? Psalm 130:3 Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV ) Copyright 2001 by Crossway,a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2011

A Burning Bush Experience: AMAZING GRACE is the unearned and undeserved loving-kindness, goodwill and charity of God toward us. Though we deserve God being against us instead He is for us. Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004, 2007, 2013 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. The Holy Bible, English Standard Version (ESV ) Copyright 2001 by Crossway,a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2011