1963 Life of Moses

Notes from R. B. Thieme, Jr.'s study

1963 Life of Moses            Ex. 1:1–23 2:1–5 Heb. 11:23                             689_0001

Reuben is the oldest and named first.

The gospel was provided by Joseph’s bones.

Exodus 1:1 And these were the names of the sons of Israel who came into Egypt with Jacob; they each one came in with his house:

Exodus 1:2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah,

Exodus 1:3 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,

Exodus 1:4 Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

Exodus 1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls, Joseph being in Egypt.

Exodus 1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

They began to have a great population explosion and they were doing very well.

Exodus 1:7 And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased very much, and multiplied, and became very strong; and the land was filled with them.

The Hyksos Dynasty was ruling in Egypt; they were Semitic rulers in Egypt at this time. A new king rising up refers to a new dynasty, the 18^th dynasty.

We need several dates to orient this historically.

1871 b.c. is the approximate date of Israel going into Egypt. When Jacob came down with the 12 patriarchs. Ex. 12:40–41 Gen. 15:13–31 is how we get this date.

1520 b.c. is the approximate date of the birth of Moses, born during the reign of Thutmose I.

1441 b.c. the time of the exodus. 1Kings 6:1 and so on

The new dynasty was an Egyptian dynasty. 1546–1525 b.c. is the time during which Aminhotep was reigning. He had only one legal son, Thutmose I. The word mose means son; son of Thot. This was a name for deity. Same idea as Mc, Mac. Thutmose I has no surviving mail heirs. We have an ignorance of history. It is important to understand that Thutmose I had no legitimate surviving heirs. Bastards not allowed. He had a famous daughter, one of the most brilliant women in all of Egypt. Cleopatra was highly overrated and she was not Egyptian but a Greek, descended from Ptolemy.

Hapshetsit is the daughter’s name. Thutmose loved this son that she adopted. Thutmose II was the illegitimate son of Thutmose I. Hapshetsit did not like Thutmose II. So she married Thutmose II. 1508–1504 was his short reign. Illegitimate son Thusmos III. There was an unnamed daughter of Hapshetsit. There was a basket that Hapshetsit saw. Her husband had just died. She had one daughter by her dead husband. She called this boy in the Nile Moses.

Thutmose II had a short reign and was illegitimately born.

She was not a pharaoh and could act as a regent until her son becomes of age. Moses is the heir of the throne. 1455–1482 I think are the years of her regency. He had to reach a certain age. When he got to age 40, he would become the pharaoh of Egypt.

1482– Thutmose III reigned and this was a zenith for Egypt. He was a great leader; but his mother-in-law chose Moses, and he hated her for that.

Aminotep II was the pharaoh of the exodus; he was the ruler when Moses returned. 1450–1425 was when he reigned. The oldest son was killed in the plague of the firstborn; his second son came to the throne as Thutmose IV. 1425–1412 was his reign. He had a very famous dream that he recorded on red granite. It was translated, and it said that one day, there appeared to him a prophet who said, someday he would reign as king rather than his older brother. Then he awoke and came back to reality. This became reality when his older brother was killed by the judgment of the firstborn.

Many of the passages will require us to understand the historical reign of these monarchs and the regency of Hapshetsit.

Moses was the most brilliant of all; and had he made an opposite decision, he would have been the greatest pharaoh in human history. Moses is a great man and important for us to study. Aminhotep II died when Moses was in the desert. It was his son who was on the throne when Moses returned.

Exodus 1:7 And the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased very much, and multiplied, and became very strong; and the land was filled with them.

When the Jews arrive anywhere and integrate, they prosper.

Exodus 1:8 And a new king arose over Egypt, who had not known Joseph.

When the Hyksos were expelled; the Egyptians came up and they said, “These Jews were friends ot the Hyksos,” and they were made guilty by association with the Hyksos.

Exodus 1:9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the sons of Israel are many and stronger than we.

This is propaganda; this is the use of fear to manipulate the people.

Exodus 1:10 Come, let us deal craftily towards them, lest they multiply and it shall be that when war occurs they will also add to our enemies, and will fight against us and go up from the land.

These cities were built over a long period of time.

Exodus 1:11 And they put over them slavemasters in order to afflict them with their burdens. And he built store cities for Pharaoh: Pithon and Raamses.

They worked these Jews hard.

Exodus 1:12 And as much as they afflicted them, so much they multiplied and so much they spread. And they were afraid before the sons of Israel.

Exodus 1:13 And Egypt made the sons of Israel to serve with harshness.

Exodus 1:14 And they made their lives bitter by hard service, in clay, and in bricks, and in all work in the field; all their work which they made them do with harshness.

They were going to kill off the males or keep them in slavery. They apparently believed that they could control the females. There will be two decisions which lead to the big decision.

2 midwives will take a stand under great pressure. Then there will be a woman, Jocabed, who makes a great decision; and then Moses will makes a great decision.

Exodus 1:15 And the king of Egypt said to the midwives of the Hebrews, of whom the name of one was Shiphrah [= beautiful, glamorous], and the name of the second, Puah;

The women were told to kill males and to allow daughters to live.

Exodus 1:16 and he said, When you midwife the Hebrew women, and look on the birth-stools, if it is a son, you will kill him; and if it is a daughter, it shall live.

These women were believers.

Exodus 1:17 And the midwives feared God, and they did not do as the king of Egypt said to them. And they kept the male children alive.

Exodus 1:18 And the king of Egypt called to the midwives and said to them, Why do you do this thing and keep alive the male children?

They claim that these women are bearing children before the midwives alive. They have the strength to bear pain.

This pharaoh was stopped here; he did not know how to argue with these women.

Exodus 1:19 And the midwives said to Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous. Before the midwives come to them they bear.

God blessed these midwives.

Exodus 1:20 And God dealt well with the midwives; and the people multiplied and became exceedingly strong.

God established a posterity for these women. For two such women to speak up as slaves indicates great faith in God. They did not fall apart; they were relaxed. They put themselves in the hands of the Lord.

These people were living normal lives in the midst of all these difficult pressures.

Exodus 1:21 And it was, because the midwives feared God, He made houses for them.

Exodus 1:22 And Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, Every son that is born, you shall cast him into the river. And you shall keep alive every daughter.

Exodus 2:1 And a man went from the house of Levi and took a daughter of Levi.

Exodus 2:2 And the woman conceived and bore a son; and she saw him, that he was beautiful. And she concealed him three months.

Exodus 2:3 And she was not able to hide him any longer, and she took a basket for him made of papyrus, and she daubed it with bitumen and with pitch. And she put the child in it, and placed it in the reeds by the lip of the Nile.

The sister kept an eye on the ark. This was normal common sense. This is not a detraction from faith.

Heb. 11:23 Being born, Moses was by faith hidden by his parents three months, because they saw the child was fair; and they did not fear the king's decree.

This was a time of great apostasy. This might be why women are taking a stand and the men are not. When there is a group of believers who do not get with it, a generation. This might be true today. In many places around the United States, it is the woman who is teaching their children doctrinal information. The men are just going along with it.

Joshua 24:14 indicates that there was false religion becoming a part of the life of the Jews.

The mother decides to put this boy in an ark in the river; and she had 3 months to provide for her son. Women, you will have children up until age 13 or 14; and then, in their teens, they begin to act independently. They lack the closeness with the family.

During these early years, the mother and father should spend time teaching their children doctrine. A well-trained child will eventually come back to good teaching.

There are some children that Bob will be unable to teach because his authority has been undercut in church by their parents.

A parent must recognize that their children must become independent. That same parent needs to know when they can shove them into the basket and let them go down the river of life.

Exodus 2:4 And his sister took her stand from a distance, to know what would be done to him.

This country is not in the condition that the rest of the world today. This country would look like heaven to many other countries.

During the time of our founding fathers, our country was saturated with demonism, which is a part of the Indian culture.

4 seminary types went with Bob to see his baby, and they thought he was quite ugly. Bob loved him greatly, even though he was ugly.

Moses is beautiful from the day he is born, like a cesarian baby.

It is a terrible world, but it always has been. We should train our children in the things of the Word of God. They should be able to face everything in life and give an account of themselves.

Jocabed is a testimony to mothers who have done this right.

10 disciples fell apart and the 5 ladies carried the ball in that generation at first. The two midwives stood up to pharaoh. Many times ladies get discouraged, and one reason is, they cannot preach, and this must get to them. Many women get discouraged with the way that men handle things in a church.

There is only so much that we can do for our children. We must train them when they are young because the time will come that they will go out on their own.

The Egyptians were the cleanest people in the world. Joseph would not go into pharaoh until he had shaved and bathed. Pharaoh’s daughter took a bath in the Nile every day. And we will see what came into her bathtub.

Exodus 2:5 And the daughter of Pharaoh went down to bathe at the Nile. And her slave women were walking on the side of the Nile. And she saw the basket in the midst of the reeds, and sent her slave-girl and took it.

Exodus 2:6 And she opened it and saw the child, and, behold, a boy crying! And she had pity on him and said, This one is of the children of the Hebrews.

Exodus 2:7 And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call a woman for you, a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?

Exodus 2:8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and called the child's mother.

Exodus 2:9 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give your wages. And the woman took the child and nursed him.

1963 Life of Moses  Ex. 2:10 via Acts 7:21-23 Heb. 11:24–25                    689_0002

Moses born around 1520 b.c.

Aminotep I began the 18^th dynasty. Only a legitimate son could be heir to the throne.

Legitimate daughter marries illegitimate son. Thutmose III was the greatest pharaoh, the illegitimate son by a favorite concubine. Extra-Biblical history records that Hapshetsit is very beautiful; statues. Beautiful daughter in love with Moses and Moses was legally adopted by Hapshetsit, making him heir to the Egyptian empire. He would have been the greatest pharaoh in the history of Egypt. His rival for the daughter of Hapshetsit, and he was also a very brilliant man, whose life was obscured for awhile by Moses.

Daughter of Hapshetsit marries Thutmose III, and their child is the pharaoh of the exodus.

His name means rescue, to lift up and draw out; rescuer (his name was changed slightly)

Exodus 2:10 And the child grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh. And he became a son to her, and she called his name Moses, and said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Moses was learned in all of the education of the Egyptians.

When Moses was 40, he was stronger than ever.

Acts 7:21 And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

Moses was brilliant; well-schooled, and keen on speaking. Moses was the heir apparent to the throne. He had proved himself in every field. He was able to thrown his weight around.

Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

What would Moses have been had he decided to ascend to the throne of the Egyptians. Life begins at 40. He had explored all of the fields, and he could have gone into nearly any field. He was popular and powerful. He was living it up and really enjoying life.

Acts 7:23 And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

A man reaches maturity around age 40.

Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter

Moses chose to suffer with the people of God instead of the pleasures of sin, which would have been following his lust pattern. It is the pleasure of the sin nature. It is gratification of the sin nature.

He provided Egypt with good administration. He provided wonderful music for Egypt. He saved Egypt from the Ethiopians. He was popular in Egypt. He had ego and approbation lust. He had a well-stimulated ego. There was nothing that you could buy him for Christmas. He had sexual lust and he had his fill of that as well.

There were 5 activities in Moses decision. Some of us cannot make decisions.

Moses used faith; that means he claimed the promises of God and applied doctrine to experience. All good decisions based on the faith rest techniques. He refused one item and chose something else.

Bob is trying to have fewer and fewer ceremonies. Every time you make a decision, you are both choosing and refusing. Moses did. The final factor was, he was occupation with Christ.

Hatshepsut is her name.

Hebrews 11:25 and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.

Hebrews 11:26 For he considered reproach for the sake of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.

Hebrews 11:27 By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king's anger, for he persevered, as one who sees Him who is invisible.

Hebrews 11:28 By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

Hebrews 11:29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned.

1963 Life of Moses                  Ex.  2:11-22 3:1–4:15                                   689_0003

Moses is still a relatively new believer; and he is in the status quo of one victory is, everything must remain smooth sailing.

Exodus does not give us the actual decision of Moses, but what happened after the decision.

We know from Acts that Moses is 40 years old at this time.

Moses was a very powerful person; he was capable of killing a man with his bare hands.

Exodus 2:11 And it happened in those days, even Moses was grown, and he went out to his brothers and looked upon their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian man strike a Hebrew man of his brothers.

Exodus 2:12 And he turned here and there and saw that no man was there. And he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Moses walks out into the field and there is a disagreement and Moses discovers the man who is wrong; and this man said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us?” Moses was afraid when he realizes that this random person knows that Moses killed this man.

Exodus 2:13 And he went out on the second day, and, behold, two men, Hebrews, were fighting. And he said to the guilty one, Why should you strike your neighbor?

Exodus 2:14 And he said, Who appointed you as a man, a ruler and a judge over us? Are you saying to kill me, as you killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely the thing is known.

We begin with v. 23, which is Moses’ decision.

Acts 7:23 "As he was approaching the age of 40, he decided to visit his brothers, the sons of Israel.

We learn something of Moses’ motivation.

Acts 7:24 When he saw one of them being mistreated, he came to his rescue and avenged the oppressed man by striking down the Egyptian.

He expected the Jews to understand who he was.

Acts 7:25 He assumed his brothers would understand that God would give them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

Moses tries to solve a problem.

Acts 7:26 The next day he showed up while they were fighting and tried to reconcile them peacefully, saying, 'Men, you are brothers. Why are you mistreating each other?'

Acts 7:27 "But the one who was mistreating his neighbor pushed him away, saying: Who appointed you a ruler and a judge over us?

Acts 7:28 Do you want to kill me, the same way you killed the Egyptian yesterday?

Moses goes off to the land of Midian.

Acts 7:29 "At this disclosure, Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.

Hebrews 11:24 By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter

Hebrews 11:25 and chose to suffer with the people of God rather than to enjoy the short-lived pleasure of sin.

Hebrews 11:26 For he considered reproach for the sake of the Messiah to be greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, since his attention was on the reward.

Moses in Ex. 2:15 seated by a well in Midian. From the time that Moses left Egypt, to the well at Midian, he had rebounded. We know this from the next verse. This tells us what happened between Egypt and Midian. It takes faith to use 1John 1:9.

Hebrews 11:27 By faith he left Egypt behind, not being afraid of the king's anger, for he persevered, as one who sees Him who is invisible.

Pharaoh heard about this and sought to kill Moses. Moses was afraid in Ex. 2:14, but at the well of Midian, several hundred miles away, he was no longer afraid. He left he was afraid; but he later did not fear the wrath of the king. So Abraham turned things around when traveling to the well. The secret in the life of any believer is the ability to rebound and to do so quickly. He crossed the desert and he rebounded.

Exodus 2:15 And Pharaoh heard this word, and he sought to kill Moses. And Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And he sat down by the well.

The next not covered:

Hebrews 11:28 By faith he instituted the Passover and the sprinkling of the blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

Hebrews 11:29 By faith they crossed the Red Sea as though they were on dry land. When the Egyptians attempted to do this, they were drowned.

Acts 7:30 After 40 years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush.

Knowledge of doctrine, orientation to grace and spiritual growth.

Exodus 2:15 And Pharaoh heard this word, and he sought to kill Moses. And Moses fled from before Pharaoh, and lived in the land of Midian. And he sat down by the well.

Moses has now rebounded. A priest of Midian who apparently has no sons and his daughters keep the sheep; water the sheep in desert country; while they are engaged in this, some rival shepherds drove them out.

Exodus 2:16 And the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew and filled the troughs to water their father's flocks.

Because these are women, some shepherds come and drive them away. Moses sees an act of injustice. Last time he saw an act of injustice and he killed a man. This time Moses does not kill anyone, but he still stands up to them. This is a genuine act that requires physical strength. Now he is in fellowship and he uses his physical strength. He might be a little stronger now. Before he failed, he sinned by using his physical strength. This time, he is right to do what he does.

We will find out a little later that Moses will whip these shepherds.

Jethro is the priestly title and Ruel is the man’s proper name.

Exodus 2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away; and Moses rose up and saved them, and watered their flocks.

Exodus 2:18 And they came to their father Reuel; and he said, Why have you hurried to come today?

They think that Moses is an Egyptian, possibly because of his clothing and hair and whatever.

Exodus 2:19 And they said, An Egyptian man rescued us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew for us and watered the flock.

The man asks for Moses to be brought to him.

Exodus 2:20 And he said to his daughters, And where is he? Why then have you left the man? Call him, and let him eat bread.

Moses eventually lived with this family and married one of the daughters.

Exodus 2:21 And Moses consented to live with the man; and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses.

Gershom means that Moses knows he is in this land only temporarily. He knows that he is going back someday and that God will use him to deliver. He has learned something already.

Exodus 2:22 And she bore a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have become an alien in a foreign land.

Exodus 2:23 And it happened during these many days that the king of Egypt died, and the sons of Israel groaned from the slavery. And they cried, and their cry went up to God from the slavery.

Exodus 2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

Exodus 2:25 And God saw the sons of Israel, and God knew them.

This sounds a lot like David keeping the flock of his father. God trained many of his leaders with sheep. Many times, the Jews talked when they should have been listening.

So, why is this the mountain of God?

This is a mountain and a mountain range. One of the mountains in this range is called Sinai; it is very familiar to Moses. He was very familiar with it. Moses wasn’t lost; he knew his way around this area.

Exodus 3:1 Meanwhile Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

Here, Moses is possibly on Mount Sinai. The Angel of the Lord is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is always the manifest person of the Trinity. Jesus Christ walked with Adam; He came to Hagar. Etc. It is the Lord Jesus Christ Who now appears to Moses.

Moses sees a bush burning, and this requires a second look, because he does not want this to erupt into a forest fire. He sees this bush from a great distance. The burning does not stop and the burning does not spread.

Exodus 3:2 Then the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire within a bush. As Moses looked, he saw that the bush was on fire but was not consumed.

Moses decides to take a side trip to check it out.

Exodus 3:3 So Moses thought: I must go over and look at this remarkable sight. Why isn't the bush burning up?

When Moses goes over there to look, God calls to him from the bush.

Exodus 3:4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from the bush, "Moses, Moses!" "Here I am," he answered.

God tells Moses to remove his shoes.

Exodus 3:5 "Do not come closer," He said. "Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground."

With God in the bush, it is impossible for the bush to be consumed by the fire. The energy is non-stop. This is the filling of the Spirit illustrated. The first burns out the impurities.

God gives revelation from the past. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are all physically dead; but they all have human spirits which are in the presence of God. They all have life. They were all in a place called Abraham’s bosom. They had consciousness and an awareness of God’s vision. Abraham is living, as it were, in paradise.

God is a God of the Living; and not the dead. Jesus Christ is saying out of the burning bush, “I keep My word.” At this point, Moses just has to believe the Word of God. Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look upon God.

Exodus 3:6 Then He continued, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.

God will keep His Word to the people of Abraham. Moses needs to apply some doctrine to experience. God knows about His people.

Exodus 3:7 Then the LORD said, "I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I know about their sufferings.

Revelation of the future. God intends for the Jews to have the land that God gives them. This paragraph comes right out of the Abrahamic covenant.

When God’s promise comes to a hopeless situation, then there is deliverance from the hopeless situation.

Exodus 3:8 I have come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the territory of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

The Jews are in a hopeless situation, and yet God will come and deliver them.

Exodus 3:9 The Israelites' cry for help has come to Me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.

The purpose for Moses to go to Pharaoh is to lead God’s people out of Israel. On graduation day, Moses will claim that he cannot do it; he is afraid.

Exodus 3:10 Therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead My people, the Israelites, out of Egypt."

round 1 vv. 11–12. “Who am I to deliver Your people?” Moses has his eyes on himself; he recognizes his personal unfitness, and he is doubting God, as God said, “You’re the one.” Moses is questioning the wisdom of God.

Exodus 3:11 But Moses asked God, "Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?"

God promises that He will be with Moses. Moses wrote everything from Gen. 1:1 to the second to the last chapter in Deuteronomy.

Moses kept going back and forth up the mountain and he was up there for a month or so. He does not need a month up there. He gets the entire Bible on the mountain. Moses wasn’t there. During the time of the golden calf, Moses wrote Genesis and Exodus.

Exodus 3:12 He answered, "I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain."

vv. 13–22 found 2 “I am not worthy or able.” Moses anticipated that he will get static from the Jews. I need a message; what can I tell them? The message is always important.

Exodus 3:13 Then Moses asked God, "If I go to the Israelites and say to them: The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, 'What is His name?' what should I tell them?"

God’s “I am” is doubled. The deliverance of the Jews depends upon God; only He can deliver the Jews.

Exodus 3:14 God replied to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: I AM has sent me to you."

This is Who God is.

Exodus 3:15 God also said to Moses, "Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever; this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

Exodus 3:16 "Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

The message begins with Who and What God is; and then what this promise is. Absolte strength and omnipotence.

Exodus 3:17 And I have promised you that I will bring you up from the misery of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites--a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 3:18 They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Exodus 3:19 "However, I know that the king of Egypt will not allow you to go, unless he is forced by a strong hand.

Exodus 3:20 I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt with all My miracles that I will perform in it. After that, he will let you go.

Exodus 3:21 And I will give this people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

Exodus 3:22 Each woman will ask her neighbor and any woman staying in her house for silver and gold jewelry, and clothing, and you will put them on your sons and daughters. So you will plunder the Egyptians."

Round 3:

Exodus 4:1 Then Moses answered, "What if they won't believe me and will not obey me but say, 'The LORD did not appear to you'?"

So, they will say, God has not appeared to you. Moses has been carrying a shepherd’s staff for many years made out of hardwood.

Exodus 4:2 The LORD asked him, "What is that in your hand?" "A staff," he replied.

He throws the staff on the ground and it becomes a snake; maybe a cobra. Moses runs.

Exodus 4:3 Then He said, "Throw it on the ground." He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake. Moses ran from it,

However, God tells him what to do. Moses was smart here. Running from it. That would make sense. The cobra represents Egypt. Moses first ran away from Egypt, and God tells Moses to go back and grab it. If God tells you to do it, then you do it.

No one is authorized to handle snakes today; the last half of the final chapter of Mark is not found in the Word of God.

Moses has to follow instructions, which is picking up the snake by the tail, not the head. You must first know and then follow the Lord’s instructions.

Exodus 4:4 but the LORD told him, "Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail." So he stretched out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand.

Exodus 4:5 "This will take place," He continued, "so they will believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you."

When you have leprosy, you are in a hopeless situation. There is nothing that can be done for you. You cannot cure leprosy. But with God, there is no such thing as a helpless situation. God put his hand back under his cloak and took it out and it was healed.

Exodus 4:6 In addition the LORD said to him, "Put your hand inside your cloak." So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was diseased, like snow.

Exodus 4:7 Then He said, "Put your hand back inside your cloak." He put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it had again become like the rest of his skin.

Exodus 4:8 "If they will not believe you and will not respond to the evidence of the first sign, they may believe the evidence of the second sign.

We’ll look at this sign later on.

Exodus 4:9 And if they don't believe even these two signs or listen to what you say, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground."

Moses has another complaint.

Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and in deeds.

Moses was well-trained. Moses claims to speak slowly because he has a slow mind. This is an outright lie. Moses is a brilliant speaker with a brilliant mind behind it.

Exodus 4:10 But Moses replied to the LORD, "Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent--either in the past or recently or since You have been speaking to Your servant--because I am slow and hesitant in speech."

In physical birth, God fashions certain abilities. God ignores this complaint, essentially. Don’t worry; I will teach you, God promises.

Exodus 4:11 The LORD said to him, "Who made the human mouth? Who makes him mute or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

Exodus 4:12 Now go! I will help you speak and I will teach you what to say."

Round 5, Moses gets kayoed.

Exodus 4:13 Moses said, "Please, Lord, send someone else."

Look, you need to send someone else. Being slow of tongue and slow of speech fits Aaron exactly. God puts Aaron, a lousy public speaker, in charge of speaking. He does such a lousy job, the Moses shoves him aside and begins talking and does not stop talking again.

Moses is from the tribe of Levi. Aaron heads the priestly tribe. The line of Moses will not survive. Aaron’s line will survive. It will be the family of Aaron which will survive. Moses did not have any surviving progeny who took part in the spiritual life of Israel.

Insofar as we know, Moses has 2 sons, but these 2 children do not stay with him, apparently. There is one attempt at reconciliation.

Aaron is a mouse, as we will find out. Moses in his day, has no progeny. Cursing will be turned to blessing; Moses will take over.

Exodus 4:14 Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses, and He said, "Isn't Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, he is on his way now to meet you. When he sees you, his heart will rejoice.

You will tell Aaron what to say. I’ll tell you and you tell him and then he will speak. Apparently, God’s plan was all about making the line of Moses the priestly line, but Moses kept that from happening.

Exodus 4:15 You will speak with him and tell him what to say. I will help both you and him to speak, and will teach you both what to do.

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There is some thought and then there is the message. The thinking and the message should reside in one person. For awhile, the thinking will belong to Moses and Aaron will be Holy Spirit mouth.

Service for the Lord is not a one-man show; everyone is involved. Christian service is teamwork.

Exodus 4:16 He will speak to the people for you. He will be your spokesman, and you will serve as God to him.

There is no bonafide serving of the Lord without thinking.

Exodus 4:17 And take this staff in your hand that you will perform the signs with."

Moses goes back to get permission from his father-in-law. Moses thinks about someone besides himself. It is a matter of courtesy; Jethro is the head of his tribe, and this is proper protocol.

Moses will not leave with hard feelings. It is often for sheer lack of feeling for others that a person is not courteous.

Exodus 4:18 Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, "Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still living." Jethro said to Moses, "Go in peace."

There are providential circumstances from time to time. Teamwork, power, divine power, providential circumstances. God’s timing is perfect. All of those who knew about the murder, and Thutmose III is dead; and Aminotep his son is on the throne.

Exodus 4:19 Now in Midian the LORD told Moses, "Return to Egypt, for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead."

The power for returning to Egypt. If God wants you to do something, then God provides the means by which it can be done. God provides everything. He provides the power to return to Egypt.

Moses takes his entire family with him and he sets out for the land of Egypt. The rod of God stands for God’s power. Moses has a conflict here, but he does not know about it; God knows about it. A wife and 2 sons and it will become clear that the wife does not care much for any of this. Moses is on a crash program with tremendous pressures and Moses could not stand up under these pressures with this kind of wife. Before he gets to Egypt, his wife and sons will leave him. This will be a permanent separation. It will be a physical and emotional separation. God often severs the closest of human ties.

Exodus 4:20 So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey, and set out for the land of Egypt. And Moses took God's staff in his hand.

We anticipate the great problem of Egypt, which is the hardening of Pharaoh’s heart. Let’s anticipate with Moses what he will face. God does not tell Moses that everything will be wonderful and happy.

God promises that He will harden Pharaoh’s heart. Sometimes, we have instructions anticipating what we will face.

God does not send us into a situation blindly. He gives us an idea as to what we are facing.

Exodus 4:21 The LORD instructed Moses, "When you go back to Egypt, make sure you do in front of Pharaoh all the wonders I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he won't let the people go.

God gives Moses instructions. When a person has strong negative volition, Moses will have to be patient with this situation. Antiphony. Pharaoh will sing the chorus “no, no, no” and the Jews sang “we told you so, he said no; we told you so, and he said no.” Moses will have to be patient.

Abraham was a gentile until he was born again. Jacob was born a Jew but his twin brother was a gentile. Esau was probably a better person than Jacob. The basis and foundation of the Jewish race is regeneration. Rom. 9 brotherhood in the human race is based upon regeneration. Apart from this, you can develop a rapport of sin natures with others. Gal. 3:26.

At the time of the Passover, all of the Jews were born again. God tapped pharaoh on the shoulder and said, these are My people; it is time for Me to take them. Pharaoh, let go.

Exodus 4:22 Then you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the LORD says: Israel is My firstborn son.

It is God’s purpose to have the Jews serve Him. From the divine viewpoint this was 400 years of training. This prepared them to be strong enough to walk out of Egypt.

Exodus 4:23 I told you: Let My son go so that he may worship Me, but you refused to let him go. Now I will kill your firstborn son!"

There was a problem. Then God gave Moses directions. Then there is some discipline. Moses had become a little sloppy in his thinking. He had a fight with his wife over their youngest son. The oldest son had been circumcised, but the wife refused to have the younger son circumcised. So she kept him from being circumcised.

We do not have the mechanics as to how God began to kill Moses. Moses would have died had this not been taken care of.

Exodus 4:24 On the trip, at an overnight campsite, it happened that the LORD confronted him and sought to put him to death.

Zipporah takes a sharp stone and she circumcises her son and throws the foreskin at Moses’ feet. She calls him a bridegroom of blood. Zipporah obeys her husband and circumcises her son. She did not want to do it. She is opposed to the whole thing. Zipporah came from a background where it is bad luck to refuse the request of a dying man. She displays her utter hatred. She tells Moses that she purchased the life of her husband by shedding the blood of her son.

Exodus 4:25 So Zipporah took a flint, cut off her son's foreskin, and threw it at Moses' feet. Then she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood to me!"

Essentially, she is saying that she purchased his life by shedding the blood of her son; but she had determined that Moses would be alone from thereon. She will see him once again and they will not reconcile.

She says this because of the circumcision. God has spared Moses’ life but the family is broken up. What Moses will need to do, he needs to be separate from her.

The grace of God is indispensable in the Lord’s service. God does not need us; we need Him. We need His grace and the provision of grace. Had Moses not complied,

Exodus 4:26 So He let him alone. At that time she said, "You are a bridegroom of blood," referring to the circumcision.

Moses is alone in the world. You can be in a crowd and alone. Because of the nature of this particular problem, Moses will have the friendship of his brother whom he has not seen for over 40 years.

Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord. All of the plagues were outlined for Moses, but we only heard about one of them. Every plague was told to Moses before he entered Egypt.

Exodus 4:27 Now the LORD had said to Aaron, "Go and meet Moses in the wilderness." So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him.

Exodus 4:28 Moses told Aaron everything the LORD had sent him to say, and about all the signs He had commanded him to do.

Moses and Aaron go through the proper channels. They gather up the leaders to speak to them.

Exodus 4:29 Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites.

Aaron speaks. Moses tells Aaron what to say and then he tells the elders. These various things will happen. The whole deal is covered. All the Jews had to do was listen and then go along with it. But the Jews complained and screamed and fell apart with each plague.

Exodus 4:30 Aaron repeated everything the LORD had said to Moses and performed the signs before the people.

Now, the people there saw the miracles and what Aaron said, and they believed. So the Jews started out well. They had faith rest and worship.

Exodus 4:31 The people believed, and when they heard that the LORD had paid attention to them and that He had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

However, then there will be discouragement. The Jews will understand how wonderful God is.

There must always be cursing and blessing.

Lamentations 3:32 Lam 3:32 Even if He causes suffering, He will show compassion according to His abundant, faithful love. For He does not enjoy bringing affliction or suffering on mankind.

Jer. 3:32 or something. Moses’ cursing will be turned into blessing. This is a Friday night class. The first Friday after the new year.

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after 40 years of preparation, Moses fought 5 rounds with God.

Bob sees two attitudes toward courtesy. Some think of good manners as being a sign of weakness. Or some people think that good manners are characteristics of liberals? So he has been in groups of believers where the manners were atrocious.

Rom. 4:20, God provided power for Moses to return. Vv. 21–31.

There was the loss of Moses’ first wife. He was under the sin unto death because he had not circumcised his son. He knew what was wrong. The wife circumcised the kid, threw the foreskin at Moses, and called him a bridegroom of blood. Ex. 18 his father-in-law came to try to effect a reconciliation, but it did not work out.

When his wife leaves, Moses is alone; so God gets him with his brother whom he had not seen for 40 years.

It was easy for these people to fly off the handle. All of the seeds of slavery were in their souls. They are petty, filled with envy and hatred, and guilty of all the mental attitude sins of human viewpoint. They fall into bitterness and self-pity.

A guy from a plymouth brethren background. He was told by his father that higher education was of the devil. And this guy said he was crawl to college if necessary. Some fundamentalist circles are suspicious of education; and they do not even look at preparation for the ministry as being important.

Moses was a prepared man; and the people of Israel were prepared.

This is the first contact between Moses and Pharaoh. Moses is facing the son of the previous pharaoh.

Exodus 5:1 Later, Moses and Aaron went in and said to Pharaoh, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Let My people go, so that they may hold a festival for Me in the wilderness."

God and Israel have a relationship. The Jews belong to God and not to pharaoh. Omission of the verb indicates that pharaoh is angry. Who is the Lord that I should obey? With his pride, pharaoh would obey no one.

Exodus 5:2 But Pharaoh responded, "Who is the LORD that I should obey Him by letting Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and what's more, I will not let Israel go."

Moses and Aaron both speak up.

Exodus 5:3 Then they answered, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God, or else He may strike us with plague or sword."

Pharaoh remains implacable.

Exodus 5:4 The king of Egypt said to them, "Moses and Aaron, why are you causing the people to neglect their work? Get to your labors!"

Exodus 5:5 Pharaoh also said, "Look, the people of the land are so numerous, and you would stop them from working."

Exodus 5:6 That day Pharaoh commanded the overseers of the people as well as their foremen:

The pharaoh decides to make the lives of the Jews worse than before.

Exodus 5:7 "Don't continue to supply the people with straw for making bricks, as before. They must go and gather straw for themselves.

Pharaoh made it more difficult for the Jews to gather the straw. He requires the same quota, but straw was no longer provided.

Exodus 5:8 But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers--that is why they are crying out, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.'

Pharaoh wants these people to ignore Moses and what he has to day.

Exodus 5:9 Impose heavier work on the men. Then they will be occupied with it and not pay attention to deceptive words."

There is some discouragement here.

Exodus 5:10 So the overseers and foremen of the people went out and said to them, "This is what Pharaoh says: 'I am not giving you straw.

Exodus 5:11 Go get straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but there will be no reduction at all in your workload.'"

Exodus 5:12 So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Exodus 5:13 The overseers insisted, "Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided."

The leaders went to pharaoh with human viewpoint.

Exodus 5:14 Then the Israelite foremen, whom Pharaoh's slave drivers had set over the people, were beaten and asked, "Why haven't you finished making your prescribed number of bricks yesterday or today, as you did before?"

They will call themselves Pharaoh’s servants 3x.

Exodus 5:15 So the Israelite foremen went in and cried for help to Pharaoh: "Why are you treating your servants this way?

With divine viewpoint, they would have sought out God rather than pharaoh.

Jer. 17:5 This is what the LORD says: Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes human flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

This is a shrub without any roots; so this becomes a tumbling weed in the desert. Bob saw a giant Christmas tree in Arizona made out of tumbling weeds. Apart from that, he does not have much to say about it. A believer who is a tumbling weed has not root in doctrine. Moses came with a message and the promises of God. Believers without roots in doctrine inhabit the parched places in the desert. A salt land is a city that has had salt sown in a city, destroying the soil. The Romans destroyed Carthage; and sowed salt to destroy the land around the city.

Jer. 17:6 He will be like a juniper in the Arabah; he cannot see when good comes but dwells in the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one lives.

Jer. 17:7 Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence indeed is the LORD.

The tree stores water. The roots go into the Word and spread out. Even in the heat, there are green leaves and shade provided. Moses continues steadfast and patiently to deal with pharaoh. What should be the attitude of these Jews?

Jer. 17:8 He will be like a tree planted by water: it sends its roots out toward a stream, it doesn't fear when heat comes, and its foliage remains green. It will not worry in a year of drought or cease producing fruit.

Lam. 3:17 My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

Lam. 3:18 Then I thought: My future is lost, as well as my hope from the LORD.

Lam. 3:19 Remember my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.

Lam. 3:20 I continually remember them and have become depressed.

Lam. 3:21 Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:

Lam. 3:22 Because of the LORD's faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end.

They trusted in pharaoh; they should have trusted in Moses.

Lam. 3:23 They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!

Lam. 3:24 I say: The LORD is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in Him.

Lam. 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the person who seeks Him.

Lam. 3:26 It is good to wait quietly for deliverance from the LORD.

They criticize Moses. They think that it is his fault. The leaders have been beaten and they complained to pharaoh rather than to Moses or to God. This is great discouragement. Moses has done exactly what God told him to so and now things are much worse.

Exodus 5:16 No straw has been given to your servants, yet they say to us, 'Make bricks!' Look, your servants are being beaten, but it is your own people who are at fault."

Exodus 5:17 But he said, "You are slackers. Slackers! That is why you are saying, 'Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.'

Exodus 5:18 Now get to work. No straw will be given to you, but you must produce the same quantity of bricks."

Exodus 5:19 The Israelite foremen saw that they were in trouble when they were told, "You cannot reduce your daily quota of bricks."

Exodus 5:20 When they left Pharaoh, they confronted Moses and Aaron, who stood waiting to meet them.

Exodus 5:21 "May the LORD take note of you and judge," they said to them, "because you have made us reek in front of Pharaoh and his officials--putting a sword in their hand to kill us!"

Moses did what he should have; he went to God and asked what is going on. He did what he was asked to do and now things are twice as bad as before.

Exodus 5:22 So Moses went back to the LORD and asked, "Lord, why have You caused trouble for this people? And why did You ever send me?

Exodus 5:23 Ever since I went in to Pharaoh to speak in Your name he has caused trouble for this people, and You haven't delivered Your people at all."

the sun will come up and Moses will begin to deliver this people. The pressure will remain as a challenge to faith and blessing.

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Last time, we saw the principle of encouragement through discouragement.

7 points from the other day are covered. When you face any kind of adversity or trial or heartache, you should note if you utilize a promise of God or look at things from the human viewpoint.

Our peace and provisions depend upon Who and What the Lord is and what He has provided. Do we use the promises of God when we face troubles and difficulties. Cast our your cares upon Him because He cares for you. Fear not for I am with you.

God promises deliverance. God will do the doing. This should remind us of grace. God does the doing. In grace, every adversity that comes to us is a moment to glorify God. God gets the glory when we use His provisions. God will shake loose the children of Israel from pharaoh, pharaoh will still exercise a strong hand.

Exodus 6:1 But the LORD replied to Moses, "Now you are going to see what I will do to Pharaoh: he will let them go because of My strong hand; he will drive them out of his land because of My strong hand."

A promise is no stronger than the person who makes it. God can only keep promises; that would be outside of His character to ignore one of His Own promises. What Moses is complaining about now means nearly nothing compared to where his life will take him.

Exodus 6:2 Then God spoke to Moses, telling him, "I am Yahweh.

The promise of the deliverance; the Person of the deliverance and the faithfulness of the Deliverer. Isaac was waiting around to age 40 before he had someone find a wife for him. Jacob is a thorough scoundrel. His name means chiseler. Only in his last 17 years did he get with the faith-rest technique.

Exodus 6:3 I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I did not make My name Yahweh known to them.

God made promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; so Moses needs to apply them. The faithfulness of the One Who delivers. Jesus’ promises stand as His character stands. God has the character which requires Him to deliver.

Exodus 6:4 I also established My covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land they lived in as foreigners.

The grace of the deliverer is covered next. Jesus will do the doing. Behind the promise is the Person of God. The importance of understand the doctrine of divine essence. We could take every promise in the Bible and construct it on the basis of the essence box.

Moses needs to prepare himself for a dark night and get his eyes on the Lord right now. Moses gave amazing long, beautiful sermons. Bob estimates that he spoke for 3 hours for one sermon.

Moses is a leader; he cannot tell you, it could be this or that.

Exodus 6:5 Furthermore, I have heard the groaning of the Israelites, whom the Egyptians are forcing to work as slaves, and I have remembered My covenant.

Exodus 6:6 "Therefore tell the Israelites: I am Yahweh, and I will deliver you from the forced labor of the Egyptians and free you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment.

The Jewish race was founded on regeneration. Abraham was born a gentile. He did not become a Jew until after he was born again. They were founded on regeneration.

Exodus 6:7 I will take you as My people, and I will be your God. You will know that I am Yahweh your God, who delivered you from the forced labor of the Egyptians.

The promise of the deliverer.

Exodus 6:8 I will bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD."

And now, things become worse. Moses goes to the Jews and they say “No.” The Jews won’t listen to him and Pharaoh won’t listen to him. It will take several plagues before the Jews pay attention to Moses.

Most of the ministers that Bob knows would have resigned by this time.

Exodus 6:9 Moses told this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their broken spirit [shortness of breath] and hard labor.

Exodus 6:10 Then the LORD spoke to Moses,

Exodus 6:11 "Go and tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the Israelites go from his land."

Exodus 6:12 But Moses said in the LORD's presence: "If the Israelites will not listen to me, then how will Pharaoh listen to me, since I am such a poor speaker?"

Exodus 6:13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them commands concerning both the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 6:14 These are the heads of their fathers' families: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi. These are the clans of Reuben.

Exodus 6:15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman. These are the clans of Simeon.

Exodus 6:16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their genealogy: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari. Levi lived 137 years.

Exodus 6:17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, by their clans.

Exodus 6:18 The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.

Exodus 6:19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the clans of the Levites according to their genealogy.

Exodus 6:20 Amram married his father's sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses. Amram lived 137 years.

Exodus 6:21 The sons of Izhar: Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.

Exodus 6:22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.

Exodus 6:23 Aaron married Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab and sister of Nahshon. She bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar.

Exodus 6:24 The sons of Korah: Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph. These are the clans of the Korahites.

Exodus 6:25 Aaron's son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the Levite families by their clans.

Exodus 6:26 It was this Aaron and Moses whom the LORD told, "Bring the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their divisions."

Exodus 6:27 Moses and Aaron were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

Exodus 6:28 On the day the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 6:29 He said to him, "I am the LORD; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I am telling you."

Exodus 6:30 But Moses replied in the LORD's presence, "Since I am such a poor speaker, how will Pharaoh listen to me?"

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Faithfulness of the deliverer; relationship with the deliverer, promise of the deliverer. Over 7000 promises for the believer to help them orient to life. There is no adversity in life for which God does not have a promise. Faith rest has been printed and is available.

Our faith becomes stronger in time through faith rest and depending on these promises. Moses and Aaron represent God before the Egyptian court. Moses will appear as a god to pharaoh.

Aaron did the speaking and Moses stood at the side. And Moses got tired of listening to Aaron speaking, and he will push him out of the way, and from thereon in, Moses will do the speaking.

Worldliness is a mental attitude. It is the way that people look at life from the human viewpoint. There are several types of resistence to the purpose of God.

There are believers today who are psychotic or neurotic and they have made themselves miserable. It always impresses someone to say, “The devil’s after me.” He avoids such believers as we ought to.

Exodus 7:1 The LORD answered Moses, "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

Exodus 7:2 You must say whatever I command you; then Aaron your brother must declare it to Pharaoh so that he will let the Israelites go from his land.

God warns that there will be resistence. This is a prophecy.

God has permitted few people to go full throttle on negative volition. The restrainming ministry of the Holy Spirit will be cancelled, and mankind will be allowed to sin as they want.

This hardening of pharaoh’s heart will call for another miracle. There is a wide impact of these miracles. The Egyptian area was a vast empire.

Exodus 7:3 But I will harden Pharaoh's heart and multiply My signs and wonders in the land of Egypt.

Moses is prepared for pharaoh not to respond to him.

Exodus 7:4 Pharaoh will not listen to you, but I will put My hand on Egypt and bring out the ranks of My people the Israelites, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment.

Exodus 7:5 The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I stretch out My hand against Egypt, and bring out the Israelites from among them."

Moses obeys God’s purpose.

A 5 paragraph field order. Moses will obey, and he knows what he is up against. This summarizes the first 9 plagues.

Exodus 7:6 So Moses and Aaron did this; they did just as the LORD commanded them.

Preparation to fulfill the God’s plan. It took Moses 40 years of preparation in the desert. When he started out, he flailed about, killing the Egyptian. 1 year of preparation for every year of service. This would provide better pastors for our churches.

Exodus 7:7 Moses was 80 years old and Aaron 83 when they spoke to Pharaoh.

From purpose to provision. There will be a resistence to the purpose of God. It is important for believers to know why we are here and where we are going.

Exodus 7:8 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,

Without the Word and its doctrine, nothing can be accomplished. This places the Word in its proper focus.

Bob does not enjoy coming to Bible class and telling people things, and it goes in one ear and out the other. Then, a few months later, they need that doctrine, and they don’ know what to do.

God has divine power. Provision of the Word means provision of power.

Exodus 7:9 "When Pharaoh tells you: Perform a miracle, tell Aaron: Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh. It will become a serpent."

obedience and utilization of this provision.

Exodus 7:10 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and did just as the LORD had commanded. Aaron threw down his staff before Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a serpent.

Pharaoh’s magicians could do these things as well. Satan has a power greater than human power, but much less than God’s power. Satan is a counterfeiter.

Bob says this is Janes and Jambres from 2Peter. Satan is in the miracle business; he has many ways of performing miracles. Some diseases are a result of demon-possession; the disease disappears when the demon is removed. Counterfeiting of the gift of tongues; communicating with the dead; demons can indwell a person and throw the voice and make is sound as if it is coming out of a grave.

Exodus 7:11 But then Pharaoh called the wise men and sorcerers--the magicians of Egypt, and they also did the same thing by their occult practices.

Satan as a miracle worker. The significance of the swallowing of the staffs will come out in the 3^rd plague.

Exodus 7:12 Each one threw down his staff, and it became a serpent. But Aaron's staff swallowed their staffs.

God does not take the wraps off Pharaoh’s negative volition.

Exodus 7:13 However, Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

Exodus 7:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh is unresponsive: he refuses to let the people go.

The sorcerers were able to duplicate some of what Moses and Aaron did; but that stopped after a bit.

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we will complete the fight for freedom.

The agricultural crowd expected pharaoh to go down to the water to perform some traditional thing to insure rain, etc. Moses is there waiting for him.

The Nile and the fishing the Nile were worshiped.

Exodus 7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning. When you see him walking out to the water, stand ready to meet him by the bank of the Nile. Take in your hand the staff that turned into a snake.

Exodus 7:16 Tell him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness, but so far you have not listened.

Exodus 7:17 This is what the LORD says: Here is how you will know that I am the LORD. Watch. I will strike the water in the Nile with the staff in my hand, and it will turn to blood.

Exodus 7:18 The fish in the Nile will die, the river will stink, and the Egyptians will be unable to drink water from it."

Exodus 7:19 So the LORD said to Moses, "Tell Aaron: Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt--over their rivers, canals, ponds, and all their water reservoirs--and they will become blood. There will be blood throughout the land of Egypt, even in wooden and stone containers."

Exodus 7:20 Moses and Aaron did just as the LORD had commanded; in the sight of Pharaoh and his officials, he raised the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile was turned to blood.

Exodus 7:21 The fish in the Nile died, and the river smelled so bad the Egyptians could not drink water from it. There was blood throughout the land of Egypt.

The magicians of Egypt were able to imitate what Moses does.

There are limitations put upon the negative volition of people so that mankind does not destroy himself. God simply allows the volition of pharaoh to play out.

2Thess. 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is at work already; only the one who now restrains will do so until he is out of the Way,

miracles do not assure that one is from God; some demonic forces can do miracles.

2Thess. 2:8 and then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of his mouth, and wipe out by the appearance of his coming,

2Thess. 2:9 whose coming is in accordance with the working of Satan, with all power and signs and lying wonders,

The result is deception.

2Thess. 2:10 and with every unrighteous deception against those who are perishing, in place of which they did not accept the love of the truth, so that they would be saved.

2Thess. 2:11 And because of this, God sends them ?a powerful delusion? so that they will believe the lie,

2Thess. 2:12 in order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth, but delighted in unrighteousness.

The magicians were able to duplicate this feat.

Exodus 7:22 But the magicians of Egypt did the same thing by their occult practices. So Pharaoh's heart hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

There had to be some water somewhere else in Egypt which was normal, so this was just the Nile and its tributaries. So the magicians could duplicate this miracle.

Exodus 7:23 Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and didn't even take this to heart.

Exodus 7:24 All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink because they could not drink the water from the river.

Exodus 7:25 Seven days passed after the LORD struck the Nile.

Now, the Egyptians could produce more frogs, but they could not get rid of them.

Exodus 8:1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to Pharaoh, and say to him, So says Jehovah, Send away My people that they may serve Me.

Exodus 8:2 And if you refuse to send them away, behold, I am about to smite all your territory with frogs.

Exodus 8:3 And the river will swarm with frogs. And they shall go up and enter into your house, and into your bedroom, and on your couch, and into your servants' house, and on your people, and into your ovens and into your kneading troughs.

Exodus 8:4 And the frogs will come up on you, and on your people, and on all your servants.

The would get into bed and there were a couple hundred frogs. There was a carpet of frogs everywhere people stepped.

Exodus 8:5 And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals, and over the pools. And bring up frogs on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8:6 And Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8:7 And the priests did so with their secret arts. And they brought up the frogs on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8:8 And Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron, and said, Pray to Jehovah that He may remove the frogs from me and from my people. And I will send away the people that they may sacrifice to Jehovah.

“You tell me when you want the plague removed, and I will remove it at that time.” Pharaoh would get the glory for choosing the time, but ultimately this is to God’s glory.

Moses has total confidence in what God can do.

Exodus 8:9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me. For when shall I pray for you and for your servants and for your people, to cut off the frogs from you, and from your house, that they may be left only in the river?

Exodus 8:10 And he said, For tomorrow. And he said, According to your word, so that you may know that none is like Jehovah our God.

Moses glorifies God, not himself. He has a clear picture of grace. The frogs would remain, but they would stay in the rivers only.

Exodus 8:11 And the frogs will depart from you, and from your houses, and from your servants, and from your people. They will only be in the river.

Exodus 8:12 And Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh. And Moses cried to Jehovah concerning the frogs which He had set on Pharaoh.

Moses did exactly what he promised. When millions of frogs have died, they stink.

Moses has great confidence. Nile River was a source of worship and so were the frogs, Hekt was a god to the Egyptians with a woman’s body and a frog’s head. This shook up the troops.

The Egyptian priests shaved all the hiar from their bodies and they baithed twice and even 7 times a day. And they did this to get rid of gnats. It has a painful sting. They could be so bad that yoiu breathe them in. And here, it is multiplied.

Exodus 8:13 And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses. And the frogs died from the houses, from the courts, and from the fields.

Exodus 8:14 And they gathered them in heaps and heaps; and the land stunk.

Exodus 8:15 And Pharaoh saw that there was relief. And he made his heart heavy, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.

Now Moses brings forth gnats.

Exodus 8:16 And Jehovah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, and let it become lice in all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 8:17 And they did so, and Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth. And the lice were on man and on beast. All the dust of the earth became lice in the land of Egypt.

God does not allow the demons to reproduce this sign. There was lice everywhere; and apparently the magicians could do this before.

Exodus 8:18 And the priests performed with their secret arts to bring forth lice, and they could not. And the lice were on man and on beast.

The magicians agree that this is the finger of God. Janis and Jambres are the names of two of these magicians. They withdraw from this competition.

Exodus 8:19 And the priests said to Pharaoh, It is the finger of God. And Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said.

Exodus 8:20 And Jehovah said to Moses, Get up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh. Behold, he is about to go out to the water. And say to him, So says Jehovah, Send away My people that they may serve Me.

The swarms is a mixed group of bugs. There were 3 types of bugs. Flies here is in italics. The Jews will be exempt from the remaining plagues. The houses of the Egyptians and the ground would be covered with insects. Dog flies, a terrible pest in Egypt; the cockroach; the beetle (the sign of the sun god) (also known as the scarab); There is no such thing as good luck in the plan of God. There is no place for luck in the Christian life. Every believer is in the plan of God. For the Egyptians, beetles were seen as lucky. No such thing as good luck for the Christian; no such thing as bad luck either. It is blessing or discipline.

Exodus 8:21 And if you do not send away My people, behold, I am about to send swarms of insects on you, and on your servants, and on your people, and on your house. And the houses of the Egyptians will be full of swarms of insects, and also the ground on which they are.

Exodus 8:22 And in that day I will separate the land of Goshen with My people resting on it, that there be no swarms of flies, so that you may know that I am Jehovah in the midst of the earth.

There would be a division between the Jews and the Egyptians.

Exodus 8:23 And I will put redemption between My people and your people. This miracle shall be for tomorrow.

Exodus 8:24 And Jehovah did so. And teeming swarms of flies came into Pharaoh's house, and the house of his servants, and into all the land of Egypt. And the land was destroyed before the swarms of flies.

The pharaoh said the Moses and Aaron could go and sacrifice to their God in the land. Separation is necessary for the Christian life.

Exodus 8:25 And Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go! Sacrifice to your God in the land.

The animal sacrifices that they would use would be seen abominable before the Egyptians; they woud kill things that Egyptians worshiped. They are concerned that, they would be killing some of their gods, in their eyes.

Exodus 8:26 And Moses said, It is not right to do so, for we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God. Behold! If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?

Moses proposes that they go 3 days into the wilderness to sacrifice.

Exodus 8:27 We will go into the wilderness, a journey of three days, and sacrifice to Jehovah our God, as He may say to us.

Exodus 8:28 And Pharaoh said, I will send you away, and you may sacrifice to Jehovah your God in the wilderness; only do not go very far off. Pray for me.

Exodus 8:29 And Moses said, Behold, I am about to go out from you, and to pray to Jehovah. And the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, and from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. But do not let Pharaoh continue to deceive, not to send the people to sacrifice to Jehovah.

Exodus 8:30 And Moses went out from Pharaoh. And he prayed to Jehovah.

Exodus 8:31 And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses, and the swarms of flies departed from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; and not one was left.

Exodus 8:32 And Pharaoh made heavy his heart this time also, and he did not send away the people.

Moses was not upset because of the hardening of pharaoh’s heart.

Exodus 9:1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, So says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Send away My people that they may serve Me.

Exodus 9:2 And if you refuse to send away, and you still hold onto them,

The cattle in the field would die, but not those belonging to the Jews. And the Egyptians had some cattle under shelter. Some Egyptians believed in the Lord and they did whatever necessary to preserve their cattle.

Exodus 9:3 behold the hand of Jehovah is going to be on your livestock in the field, on the horses, on the asses, on the camels, on the herds, and on the flocks, a very heavy pestilence.

Exodus 9:4 And Jehovah will make a distinction between Israel's livestock and Egypt's livestock. Also of all that belongs to the sons of Israel, not a thing will die.

Exodus 9:5 And Jehovah set a time, saying, Tomorrow Jehovah will do this thing in the land.

Exodus 9:6 And Jehovah did this thing on the next day, and all the livestock of Egypt died. And from the livestock of the sons of Israel, not one died.

The pharaoh hardens his own heart again.

Exodus 9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not even one was dead from Israel's livestock! And Pharaoh's heart was made heavy, and he did not send away the people.

The furnace is a sign of industry. Egypt depended upon the Nile, the soil and the furnace, all of which are the picture of prosperity. God can turn the things that we love and admire and turn them into judgment. The principle is, only what God provides can be a legitimate source of happiness.

Exodus 9:8 And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron, Take for yourselves the fullness of your hands of soot from the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward the heaven before Pharaoh's eyes.

These blisters could be like poison oak or poison ivy. When you have a good case of any of these things, you cannot be happy. There is no way to gratify these things without making yourself miserable.

Exodus 9:9 And let it become dust on all the land of Egypt, and let it become an inflammation breaking out into a boil on man and on livestock in all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9:10 And they took soot of the furnace and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses sprinkled it toward the heavens, and it became an inflammation breaking out into boils on man and on livestock.

Exodus 9:11 And the priests were not able to stand before Moses, before the inflammation. For the inflammation was on the priests and on all the Egyptians.

For the first time, Jehovah hardens pharaoh’s heart.

Exodus 9:12 And Jehovah made heavy Pharaoh's heart, and he did not listen to them, as Jehovah had said to Moses.

Now we go to hail. God gets Moses up early in the morning. Most ancient rulers always had to get up early and they had to work for many hours. Louis XIV may have partied all night, but he would get up early and dispatch orders and make plans all day long. He got up at 5 am each morning and did not go to bed before 2am. The idea was to get up and meet pharaoh when he first got up; then is when pharaoh’s head was the clearest.

Exodus 9:13 And Jehovah said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, So says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Send away My people that they may serve Me.

Exodus 9:14 For at this time I am going to send all My plagues to your heart, and on your servants, and on your people, so that you may know that none is like Me in all the land.

Exodus 9:15 For now I have sent forth My hand and have stricken you and your people with pestilence, and you have been destroyed from the earth.

All of these plagues evangelized the world. It is because of pharaoh that people throughout the world were evangelized.

Exodus 9:16 And for this reason I have made you stand, in order to cause you to see My power, and in order to declare My name in all the land.

Exodus 9:17 You still are exalting yourself against My people, so as not to send them away.

Exodus 9:18 Behold! I will rain very heavy hail about this time tomorrow, such as has never been in Egypt from the day of its foundation until now.

God warns of a great hailstorm and that which was outside would die, cattle and people.

Exodus 9:19 And now send out, bring your livestock to safety, and all belonging to you in the field. All men and livestock found in the field, and not brought to the house, the hail will come on them, and they will die.

There were those who trusted God brought their livestock into their houses. There are born again gentiles in the land of Egypt. They will leave Egypt with Moses and be called the mixed multitude.

Exodus 9:20 Of the servants of Pharaoh, the one who feared the Word of Jehovah made his slaves and his livestock flee to the houses.

Others did not believe.

Exodus 9:21 And the one who did not set his heart on the Word of Jehovah left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

There was a hailstorm like never before.

Exodus 9:22 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand to the heavens, so that hail may be in all the land of Egypt, on man, and on livestock, and on every plant of the field in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9:23 And Moses stretched out his staff to the heavens. And Jehovah gave thunder and hail. And fire came down to the earth, and Jehovah rained hail on the land of Egypt.

Exodus 9:24 And there was hail, and fire flashing in the midst of the hail, very heavy, which never had been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

Exodus 9:25 And the hail struck in all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field, from men and to livestock. And the hail struck every plant of the field, and it broke in pieces every tree of the field.

Only Jews in the land of Goshen were free from this hailstorm. You do not have to recognize that you are a sinner; but you still have to believe in Jesus Christ.

Exodus 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the sons of Israel lived, there was no hail.

Pharaoh admits that he has sinned; and he recognizes that Moses and Aaron are righteous. If people could be saved by working for it, they would be saved.

It takes a little more than no faith at all to be saved. The faith of a mustard seed. Not the quality of your faith but the object which is key. Quality is not an issue until after salvation. There is no such thing as a head belief and a heart belief. The most ignorant people in the world medically were those who translated the KJV; and they didn’t know any difference; and they came up with the weirdest things, like the word bowels.

Heart refers to thinking in the frontal lobe and mind is the place where the thought-process is. You believe with your brains. Morons are automatically saved because they do not have brains enough to be saved. It would be better to be born an unbeliever moron than an unbelieving genius. The former is saved, if there is not enough intelligence to be saved.

Back to Judas; he departed and went out and hanged himself. Many holiness groups think you need to be sorry for your sins, make restitution, name your sins; but they forget to add in, “Then hang yourself.” It is human merit to apologize. However, this may improve your relationships with people, because relationships are based on merit.

Exodus 9:27 And Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have sinned this time. Jehovah is the righteous One, and I and my people the wicked ones.

Exodus 9:28 Pray to Jehovah and let it be enough of the thunders and hail of God. And I will send you away and you shall not continue any longer.

Exodus 9:29 And Moses said to him, As I go out of the city I will spread out my hands to Jehovah. The thunder will cease, and the hail will not still be, so that you may know that the earth is Jehovah's.

Exodus 9:30 And as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear before Jehovah God.

Exodus 9:31 And the flax and the barley were stricken. For the barley was in head, and the flax in bud.

Exodus 9:32 And the wheat and the spelt were not stricken, for they were late.

Exodus 9:33 And Moses went out from Pharaoh, from the city, and he spread out his hands to Jehovah. And the thunder and the hail ceased. And rain was not poured out toward the earth.

Exodus 9:34 And Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, and he continued to sin. And he made his heart heavy, he and his servants.

Exodus 9:35 And Pharaoh's heart was made strong, and he did not send away the sons of Israel, as Jehovah had said by the hand of Moses.

God tells Moses that He made pharaoh’s heart heavy.

Exodus 10:1 And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh, for I have made his heart heavy and the heart of his servants, so that I may set these signs of Mine in their midst;

Exodus 10:2 and so that you may recount in the ears of your son and the son of your son what I exerted Myself to do against Egypt, and My signs which I have done among them, and you may know that I am Jehovah.

Exodus 10:3 And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, So says Jehovah the God of the Hebrews, Until when will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Send away My people so that they may serve Me.

Exodus 10:4 For if you refuse to send away My people, behold, I am going to bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.

Exodus 10:5 And they will cover the eye of the land, and no one will be able to see the land. And they will eat the rest of that which escaped, that which is left to you from the hail. And they will eat every tree that sprouts to you from the field.

Exodus 10:6 And your houses will be full, and the houses of all your servants, and the houses of the Egyptians, which neither your fathers nor the fathers of your fathers have seen; from the day of their being on the earth until this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:7 And Pharaoh's servants said to him, How long shall this one be a snare to us? Send away the men that they may serve Jehovah their God. Do you not yet know that Egypt is perishing?

Exodus 10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, Go, serve Jehovah your God. Who and who are the ones going?

Exodus 10:9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters. We will go with our flocks and with our herds. For it is a feast of Jehovah to us.

Pharaoh wants the children to be left.

Exodus 10:10 And he said to them, May Jehovah be so with you, as I send you away, and your little ones. Watch! For evil is before your face!

Exodus 10:11 Not so! You and the men go now and serve Jehovah; for you were seeking it. And he drove them out from the face of Pharaoh.

Exodus 10:12 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand for the locusts over the land of Egypt, so that they may go up on the land of Egypt and may eat every plant of the land, all that the hail left.

Exodus 10:13 And Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt. And Jehovah brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. And at morning the east wind lifted up the locusts.

Exodus 10:14 And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested on all the territory of Egypt, exceedingly many. Never were there locusts like them before, and afterward none will be like them.

Exodus 10:15 And they covered the eye of the earth, and the land became dark. And they ate every plant of the land, and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. And no greenness was left in the trees and in the plants of the field in all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 10:16 And Pharaoh hurried to call Moses and Aaron. And he said, I have sinned against Jehovah your God and against you.

Exodus 10:17 And now pray forgive my sins only this time, and pray to Jehovah your God that He may take away from me this death only.

Exodus 10:18 And he went out from Pharaoh, and he prayed to Jehovah.

Exodus 10:19 And Jehovah changed to a west wind, very strong. And it carried the locusts and threw them into the Sea of Reeds. Not one locust was left in all the territory of Egypt.

Exodus 10:20 And Jehovah made strong the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not send away the sons of Israel.

Exodus 10:21 And Jehovah said to Moses, Stretch out your hand to the heavens so that darkness may be on the land of Egypt, and one may feel darkness.

Exodus 10:22 And Moses stretched out his hand to the heavens, and darkness of gloom was in all the land of Egypt three days.

They did not move; they were unable to move in al of this darkness.

Exodus 10:23 They did not see each one his brother, and they did not rise up, each one from his place for three days. Yet to all the sons of Israel there was light in their dwellings.

Exodus 10:24 And Pharaoh called to Moses and said, Go, serve Jehovah. Only leave your flocks and your herds behind. Your little ones may go with you.

Exodus 10:25 And Moses said, You must also give into our hands sacrifices and burnt offerings so that we may prepare for Jehovah our God.

Exodus 10:26 And also our livestock shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left. For we shall take from them to serve Jehovah our God. And we do not know with what we shall serve Jehovah until we come there.

After this, Moses will do all of the speaking. He cannot let Aaron do the talking any more. He was quite made, filled with the Spirit he was stirred with anger.

Exodus 10:27 And Jehovah made strong the heart of Pharaoh, and he was not willing to send them away.

Exodus 10:28 And Pharaoh said to him, Go away from me. Be careful for yourself. Do not see my face again, for in the day you see my face you shall die.

Exodus 10:29 And Moses said, You have spoken rightly. I will not see your face again.

Exodus 11:1 And Jehovah said to Moses, I will bring still one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will send you from here. When he sends you away completely, driving he will drive you out from here.

Exodus 11:2 Now speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, each man from his neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.

Exodus 11:3 And Jehovah gave favor in the eyes of the Egyptians toward the people. And the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of the people.

Exodus 11:4 And Moses said, So says Jehovah, About the middle of the night I will go out in the midst of Egypt.

Exodus 11:5 And every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh, the one sitting on his throne, to the first-born of the slave-girl who is behind the mill; and every first born of animals.

Exodus 11:6 And a great cry shall be in all the land of Egypt, such as never has been, and nothing like it shall be again.

Exodus 11:7 And a dog shall not sharpen his tongue against all the sons of Israel, toward man and toward livestock, so that you may know that Jehovah distinguishes between Egypt and Israel.

Exodus 11:8 And all these servants of yours will come down to me, and bow to me, saying, Go out, you and all the people at your feet. And afterward I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in the heat of anger.

Exodus 11:9 And Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that My miracles may multiply in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these miracles before Pharaoh. And Jehovah made strong the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not send away the sons of Israel from his land.

It is the Passover that opens everything up.

They need their cattle in order for the animal sacrifices

Exodus 10:26 And also our livestock shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left. For we shall take from them to serve Jehovah our God. And we do not know with what we shall serve Jehovah until we come there.

God did not touch pharaoh; he simply removed the cap off pharaoh’s negative volition. Pharaoh is ready to let them go and Moses says, we’re not going without the blood. God said, “If you don’t let them take the blood with, then I will shed your blood.” The death angel killed every firstborn. Pharaoh rejected the cross and the blood, and this was the final lesson. Pharaoh is angry and Moses is angry. As they face each other in anger, one is empowered by Satan and the other is motivated by God.

Chapter 11 is very simple. God brings one plague upon pharaoh and Egypt; and then pharaoh would let them go.

If God gives you favor with people, great; and if not, fine. More people do everything they can to get the favor of people.

The last thing that Moses said is in vv. 4–8.

Pharaoh went places that no one else has gone to with negative volition.

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Up until this point, Moses has been very restrained. Now he will be able to cut loose on pharaoh.

These few verses come before Ex. 12:1. No one finds out what life is all about until one is born again.

Exodus 11:1 And Jehovah said to Moses, I will bring still one more plague on Pharaoh and on Egypt. Afterward he will send you from here. When he sends you away completely, driving he will drive you out from here.

Exodus 11:2 Now speak in the ears of the people, and let them ask, each man from his neighbor, articles of silver and articles of gold.

Exodus 11:3 And Jehovah gave favor in the eyes of the Egyptians toward the people. And the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of the people.

Exodus 11:4 And Moses said, So says Jehovah, About the middle of the night I will go out in the midst of Egypt.

Exodus 11:5 And every first-born in the land of Egypt shall die, from the first-born of Pharaoh, the one sitting on his throne, to the first-born of the slave-girl who is behind the mill; and every first born of animals.

Exodus 12:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

The bondage of sin where the people can put up with any problem in life.

The Chaldean and Egyptian calendar all bring around January. Many of these are lunar month calendars.

The Jews will begin a new life, and they will go from bondage to freedom in one night. Therefore, this point in time will be marked as the new beginning for them. This is their life and their deliverance.

The fact that the beginning of their month begins at this time is a big change; and this continues throughout the rest of Israel’s history. This indicates that this is a big important change.

Exodus 12:2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

Instructions are given. 10^th day of lamb. Every person must take a lamb; which means every person must take a lamb for themselves. A lamb per each house, but each person had to get a part of that lamb.

Exodus 12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

Every person must eat from the lamb himself; everyone had to eat part of a lamb. The lamb was to be taken at the 10^th of the month, the 10^th of April.

Exodus 12:4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

There was a 3 day time period. Jesus Christ is the lamb who would take away the sin of the world. Sovereignty is not subject to death. Immutability means that Jesus Christ cannot change. The Deity of Jesus Christ is not subject to death. He must become a man; that is what it means, God with us.

These 3 days represent the 3 year ministry of Jesus Christ. These things demonstrated that He was the unique Person of the Universe. On the 14^th of April, He died spiritually and physically.

The humanity of Jesus Christ must be perfect; and that is the lamb without blemish here. They did not have enough sheep or goats to go around. Both would be used in the propitiatory offerings and other offerings in Leviticus.

Exodus 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

The Passover was observed for the first time 14April 1441 b.c.; and this would be fulfilled 14April 32 a.d.

The Jewish day was reckoned from sundown to sundown. This reads between the evenings. Our Lord was on the cross from 9am to noon, and 4 things were said which are recorded. Then, at 12 noon until 3 pm, Jesus Christ bore our sins.

The Deity of Christ is not subject to physical or spiritual death.

Exodus 12:6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the evenings.

This memorial also looked forward. They were to look back to what God had done; but this also looked forward to the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Exodus 12:14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

The animal is killed and the blood is drained out. It is painted on the two side-posts of the upper door. Outline given first and then God went back and gave the details.

The hyssop is very important, but it is not even mentioned here. The blood just goes on one door, the door of the house where they are eating.

Exodus 12:7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

How the lamb is to be eaten; the night of this plague, they are to eat the flesh of the lamb, and it will be roasted with fire and fire represents judgment. All of the human good was rejected on the cross, and this is what we are judged on at the end. The bitter herbs speaks of the principle of grace. We can only come to God on the basis of Who and What He is.

Bob never reads this without thinking about Brussel sprouts. They liked lamb and they enjoyed the unleavened bread, but the bitter herbs reminds us that we do not come to the grace of God on our own means or power. Every member of the human race is able to eat. How people eat is one thing but everyone eats. We all have the equipment which allows us to eat. That means there is no merit in eating. Good people and bad people can both eat. Eating is a great illustration in the Bible of faith in the frontal lobe. Faith is thinking. It is a certain type of thinking; it is non-meritorious thinking.

Juices are secreted in the mouth. The first tube that food goes into is the lungs, and if it goes into the trachea, you will not live long. The epiglottis figures out where things go. It cuts off the air and the food goes down the esophagus. Great people and lousy people all eat. This is a nonmeritorious system of appropriation. This appropriates food.

Exodus 12:8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

We will go off to Rom. 9

Rom. 9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn't follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;

Rom. 9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn't arrive at the law of righteousness.

Rom. 9:32 Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Rom. 9:33 even as it is written, "Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; And no one who believes in him will be disappointed."

It is Jesus Christ Who is the basis of our righteousness.

Rom. 10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Rom. 10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, "The one who does them will live by them."

Jesus does not have to be resurrected from the dead a second time.

Rom. 10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, "Don't say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?' (that is, to bring Christ down);

Rom. 10:7 or, 'Who will descend into the abyss?' (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)"

Then we have a result clause. His faith is in his brain. Because of this, this is the result. Think it up in your brain and, at some point, you believe in Jesus Christ.

Rom. 10:8 But what does it say? "The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart;" that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

Rom. 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

You believe in your frontal lobe. Salvation is right there with you. The Law is outside of you on a piece of paper; but salvation is right there in your soul. You are eternally saved; you are saved because you think it.

Rom. 10:10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Rom. 10:11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."

Then you are told how to eat it. You must not eat it raw; it must be subjected to fire. Eat it not saturated with water. Don’t eat it baptized. Ceremonialism is no substitute for the blood of Christ.

Exodus 12:9 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

Each person must eat part of the lamb for himself. It must all be eaten. If you do not eat, the alternative is fire. There is a time period during which you can believe, and after that, you cannot eat.

Exodus 12:10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

Loins girded means that you are ready to move and you can walk. The robe is rolled up partially up the leg so that you can move.

A weak conscience is someone without doctrine in the frontal lobe. The person who is ignorant of doctrine. A weak conscience; and they may have been saved for 50 years. Only one way to be ready to go and that is with doctrine in the soul. With doctrine, you will not have a guilt complex or whatever. You cannot make up past mistakes. A person with a guilt complex will end up in the psychopathic area.

Shoe on the feet means production. That is production. Staff in hand is the Word of God. Specifically the promises of God. Eating in haste is the absorption of doctrine. Maximum absorption in the minimum amount of time. One person takes in just a little doctrine, so that they can determine how to live up to it. When you need it, you need it. Adversity and pressure; you cannot draw what is in your frontal lobe. Gulp it down now because the time may be near when you need it but badly. You cannot get spiritual indigestion. Rebound, be in fellowship; shoes on the feet; promise in the frontal lobe, eat in haste, maximum absorption of doctrine in a minimum amount of time.

Exodus 12:11 This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.

The alternative to all of this is judgement. God would strike down the firstborn. The gods of Egypt are the animals which are worshipped.

The alternative is judgement; the alternative is the eternal Lake of Fire. People only go there based upon rejecting Jesus Christ as Savior.

Exodus 12:12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

Exodus 12:13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

This is a memorial; and when God sees the blood, He will pass over that house. Everyone in the house is secure. Everyone is secure forever. They looked forward to the cross and we look back. We have the bread; they had the lamb and the unleavened bread. They only had the blood on that first Passover. From then on, the Jews did not live in houses. They lived in tents. So they drank from the cup instead; they drank from the cup as do we; and all represents the blood.

Exodus 12:14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

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We are either missing a lesson or Bob left out some verses.

Exodus 12:15 Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

Exodus 12:17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

Exodus 12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

Exodus 12:19 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

Exodus 12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

Exodus 12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.

Exodus 12:22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

Exodus 12:23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

Exodus 12:24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

Exodus 12:25 It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

Exodus 12:26 It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

Exodus 12:27 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

Exodus 12:28 The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Exodus 12:29 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

Exodus 12:30 Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Exodus 12:31 He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said!

Exodus 12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

Exodus 12:33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."

Exodus 12:34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

Exodus 12:35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.

Exodus 12:36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

We begin with these verses. We have Levites, wives and children, and this gives us around 2 million people. This must have been a fantastic transition to make. They covered a lot of ground and this means that Moses developed an excellent organization or they just did this on their own.

This is a fantastic thing. Bob has seen military organizations which have practiced for months and can’t go 5 miles in a day.

Two routes they could have taken. The highway would be the northern route into Palestine, but this is a well-fortified area. There would be one year of marching and training before the Jews could enter the land. But they still won’t be ready; they will not have developed faith rest. They will go into the land with a zero score for faith rest. That generation would have to die out immediately.

Rameses is later known as Tannas; built by the slave labor of the Jews.

Exodus 12:37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

The mixed multiple is a warj of foreign. Nubian, Egyptians, etc.

Exodus 12:38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much cattle.

All of the Jews who walked out of Egypt were in good health. A little exercise never hurt anyone and the Jews had 400 years of strenuous exercise. Jews, saved or unsaved, are interested in the matter of heatlh.

Exodus 12:39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.

I may have nodding out between 5 min. and 30 min.

Exodus 12:40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

Exodus 12:41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

Exodus 12:43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it,

Exodus 12:44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

Exodus 12:45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

Exodus 12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.

Exodus 12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

Exodus 12:48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

Exodus 12:49 One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."

Exodus 12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Exodus 12:51 It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

We are where we ought to be, now, in Ex. 13.

The oldest person in the family was the family priest; the oldest child was sanctified or set apart to God.

Exodus 13:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Being born again, we have a life dedicated to Jesus Christ. Too many of the wrong kind of missionaries on the mission field. False to think that what a person needs to do is get out to the mission field. God does not lead everyone to the mission field. It takes 1000 people to support one missionary. Missionaries have months and months of monotony, they suffer from exposure and the like; and it is a very difficult discouragement for them.

Every believer is in the Lord’s service; we are His firstborn. God has a purpose for our life where we are. Whatever we are doing, we ought to be the best. We ought to be the best executive. It is not simply a job with us. We must do it as unto the Lord. Our job, whatever it is, ought to be the best. This is one calling that is very rare.

Every believer is in Christ and you cannot get out of that. If you lack this trust, then you cannot serve God. The old sin nature makes human good and sin.

The holiness crowd is all energy of the flesh. If you have any doubts about salvation, then you are working to keep saved than to glorify Christ.

Human good in two areas. The unbeliever always produces human good and it is rejected by God. The only issue the believer faces is, will I produce divine good in the power of the Spirit, which is imitating God; or human good, which is imitating man. In fellowship the believer imitates God, out of fellowship, the believer imitates the moral unbeliever or the immoral unbeliever.

The evangelist often is not a good student of the Bible; most believers at Berachah Church are better students of the Word. They have the gift of gab and a scintillating personality; and they get into evangelism; and they have a barrel of 15 or 25 messages. They can say these messages beautifully; but there is a bottom to that barrel. Most of them do not understand salvation by grace. Bob can only think of one who does. They are the world’s worst when it comes to studying. A lot depends upon who influences the evangelist where he is.

Christ being Lord over all is only true for a very small number of believers. 1% might be the number of believers who are under the Lordship of Jesus Christ. Service is based upon experiential sanctification. The believer must be filled with the Spirit in order to produce.

Exodus 13:2 "Sanctify to me all of the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of animal. It is mine."

Moses asks the people to remember what God is doing with them, bringing them out of Egypt. You have to recognize these things. The Jews did not liberate themselves; they did not come out by human ingenuity, not by there first 9 miracles, not by a revolution, not by any human system. We cannot work for salvation. The Jews did not work for liberation. Slave market of sin is seen by living in Egypt. They came out not by their own ability. This was to remind them that they would be tested.

They could do nothing to get out of Egypt; you can do nothing after salvation. Salvation is Who and What Christ is; after salvation, it is all about Who and What the Holy Spirit is. Jesus Christ on the cross did all of the work. When he hung between heaven and earth, he bore our sins. Jesus died spiritually; then He dismissed His spirit, dying physically. He was identified with the rich man in His deaths.

With few exceptions, the Jews did not operate on the faith rest technique. Moses, Joshua and Caleb; the others from their generation did not.

Bob has been observing a tremendous amount of human good. There are intersections of human good and divine good. If a believer is filled with the Spirit, then it is divine good. Filled with the Spirit witnessing counts; not being filled, it does not count. Lent is human good; never divine good. It is not authorized by the Word of God under any circumstance. Make every day lent.

Sabbath observance. Some are upset because businesses are open on Sunday. If someone wants to run their business on Sunday, it is okay. There is no such thing as Sabbath or Sunday observance. Bob would not have his business open on Sunday; he’d want to give them the weekend off; that is common sense in business and has nothing to do with the Word of God. This city has a code on that, and it is as wrong as it can be. Bob witnessed to a guy who had his business open on Sunday, but it was difficult because he thought all ministers favored blue laws. Lent is a part of the same, sloppy thinking.

Why do we have bunnies at Easter time? It is the worship of the goddess of fertility. Christ is the issue. No wonder we have no testimony to the rest of the world. They won’t go to church because there are hypocrites there; but they will do business with anyone, hypocrite or not.

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Principle of dedication of the firstborn. Service to the Lord is based on experiential sanctification.

We will see a continued phrase, by strength of the hand of the Lord. Also, with a strong hand. The children of Israel went out with a high hand. The workmanship of His hands in Psalm 19:1. He is said to have created the universe with His fingers. Mentioned with eternal security and with salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ is often mentioned in this connection. Jesus Christ is mentioned as the hand; this is always related to His power and strength.

It was God Who did the delivering; God who did all of the work. It was not Moses. The communion table is orientation to the grace of God.

Exodus 13:3 Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.

This is the first month in the Jewish year; the month of their deliverance. Life begins anew the moment you are born again.

Exodus 13:4 This day you go forth in the month Abib.

A repetition of promises connected with the land. God promised Abraham unconditionally that He would be given the promises. The Jews are to believe the promises of God.

This land was promised to the fathers, which are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. When God gives something, He always gives the best. God always goes first class; He always goes with the best. He gives a land flowing with milk and honey (obviously, an idiom for a wonderful and prosperous land).

Exodus 13:5 It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.

Why not one day? What is the difference here? Jesus Christ died once for sin. Fellowship with Jesus Christ will go on forever. When you believe in Jesus Christ, it is a one shot faith and an eternal relationship that results. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. The 7^th day is a feast to the Lord; this is an additional sabbath. There were as many as 4 Sabbaths during some weeks.

Jesus died on the Passover. 3 days later, the feast of the firstfruits, and that was a Sabbath. 4 days later was the feast of the unleavened bread. 4 sabbaths during the week that Jesus died.

Exodus 13:6 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.

There was to be no yeast with the bread. The impeccability of the humanity of Christ. The local church should not legislate what children can do and not do. It has been done in the past and it was very detrimental.

Parents decide these kinds of things. If the Bible does not speak to it, then we don’t deal with it. The Levites were teachers and prophets for teachers; but the basic teaching occurs in the home. “When you get in the land, you teach your children.’

Exodus 13:7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you, neither shall there be yeast seen with you, in all your borders.

The Passover is the basic principle which Jews were to teach their kids. “The Lord did this for me; I did not do it; God did it.” It isn’t who and what we are, it is Who and What the Lord is.

Bob knew two kids in MIT who really caught on to what he was teaching; they had legalistic parents. Whatever was fun on Sunday, they could not do it. They only heard a poor teaching of the gospel from the pulpit and taboos. These young men had been taught various taboos as young children and they reacted to it.

Exodus 13:8 You shall tell your son in that day, saying, 'It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.'

the sign is doctrine. Eating bread is doctrine. They learned by doing these things. A memorial between the eyes is the frontal lobe. They placed these things into the brain. The Bible is not an idol; you don’t worship the Bible. The pharisees got into a worship of scraps of paper where they have written down Scripture.

The Law being in your mouth means, you first had it in your brain.

Exodus 13:9 It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.

Fellowship in time should continue from salvation to your death. You do this from year to year.

Exodus 13:10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

God has just given them deliverance, which is the big thing. The little thing is giving them the Land of Promise.

You can run around and tell people about your problems until you are blue in the face, but that will not solve anything. You may tell friends and they sympathize with you, and then you begin feeling sorry for yourself. Beware of crying people. It is a sign of unbelief. There is a bonafide reason for weeping; Jesus did it 3 times.

The people lacked faith rest and did not go into the land; Joshua and Caleb were the exceptions. God told the people, “I have given you the land; walk in and take it.”

The Jews had their first test, and they will fail.

Exodus 13:11 "It shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,

Animals and children were to be set apart to God. The males are the Lord’s.

Exodus 13:12 that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes from an animal. The males shall be Yahweh's.

The law of the ass. You redeem a donkey with an ass. The firstborn represents the born again. The ass is often used to describe the unbeliever. You could not use an ass to pull a plow or anything else until he had been redeemed. You had to sacrifice a lamb before putting the ass to work. That is our testimony. We cannot serve God until we are redeemed. You cannot serve God until you accept Jesus Christ as your substitute. The lamb had to be first slain. Redemption precedes service. If you do not redeem the ass, then you must break its neck. The person who reject Jesus Christ, there is an eternal judgment.

You must also redeem your firstborn. The firstborn are the believers. Every believer is in the Lord’s service. He has been redeem or purchased.

Exodus 13:13 Every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck; and you shall redeem all the firstborn of man among your sons.

Again, teaching children comes into view. When your child pesters you with questions; you patiently answer every question you can. Bob heard a parent tell his kid, “Shut up.” The kid was just asking normal questions. Why do children ask questions? This is to learn.

You need to be concerned when the kids stop asking questions. Bob could always tell when Bobby is in the house. Bob learned to study through all that din. But he investigates when Bobby is there and it is quiet. Then he is up to something. When children stop asking questions, something is wrong.

The parent is to initiate information in a spiritual field and teach informally by answering questions. The tenor of the teaching is always the same; it is what God has done. Do not teach legalism in the home. Everything must be based on grace; grace makes people strong; legalism destroys children. Makes them weak. Grace produces strength. Legalism produces sneaky type. One man Bob knew was known for breaking up churches. Legalism produces weakness and hypocrisy. 2Cor. 12:9 He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. Grace produces strength; legalism produces weakness.

Exodus 13:14 It shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, 'What is this?' that you shall tell him, 'By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage;

The sacrifice of the firstborn in Egypt were commemorated by this redeeming of the firstborn.

Exodus 13:15 and it happened, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that Yahweh killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of animal. Therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'

frontlet between the eyes is doctrine inside the frontal lobe. The Jews broke the unleavened bread and ate it with their hands. That is a token of salvation. It was a means of teaching salvation by God. Between the eyes indicates faith in the frontal lobe. Again an emphasis on the power of God.

Exodus 13:16 It shall be for a sign on your hand, and for symbols between your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt."

The route is then covered. From Memphis, there was a caravan route that went straight across and connected with the Sinai peninsula. There were a lot of fortifications by the Philistines, who were Greek warriors.

God was worried that the people might change their minds when they see war for the first time. The Philistines would be very tough fighters. That was the quickest way up. But they had to be prepared spiritually to go into the land. They needed spiritual training. You might meet the right person for you to marry; but you need to marry after they have grown spiritually. You marry the right person, but too quickly; and your marriage can be a mess as a result.

Exodus 13:17 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"

God led the people through the more scenic route. They did not go right up to the Land of Promise. They went a more circuitous route. God puts us under pressures so that we can grow thereby. Do not envy the unbeliever because you think he has an easier time of it.

Exodus 13:18 but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

We are aware of this. Joseph told the Jews to save his bones and take them into the Land of Promise.

Exodus 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had made the children of Israel swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you."

Exodus 13:20 They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

Jesus Christ guided them. I would not have you ignorant, that our fathers were under the cloud; they were baptized into Moses...they drank of the spiritual rock that followed them and that rock was Christ. Christ followed them and Christ went before.

Exodus 13:21 Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them on their way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:

They did a lot of traveling by night, so they followed the pillar of fire. All they had to do at night, they simply followed the pillar of fire. This was like a giant spotlight. If they wandered out of the light, there were all kinds of things in the desert. They had to walk in the light.

Exodus 13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.

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Exodus 13:22 the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, didn't depart from before the people.

There was a famous caravan route, which was not followed, and a major highway; and God did not take the Jews in either direction. They were taken in the middle.

That the testing of your faith. Is more precious than gold and silver. Faith only grows through pressure, suffering and adversity. God blesses through suffering. Jesus Christ is glorified when a believer exhibits strong faith during a time of testing.

Jesus Christ will return to the earth during a time of great pressures. We look not at the things which are seen, but the things which are not seen. Faith is the evidence of things not seen. Jesus Christ because real to us because we see Him through the eyes of faith.

The faith-rest technique has an object. Object promises from the Word and doctrine. It is not necessary to enter a church to praise God.

God will deliberately lead the Jews into a trap. No smart person would enter into a trap.

Exodus 14:1 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

There are two groups of mountains here; Baal Zephon is one. God led them right into a trap. They cannot cross, there are mountains on each side, and it is a perfect trap. There is an Egyptian armor force. They cannot fight their way out; they cannot cry their way out; there is no hope. This is a hopeless situation for them. This cul de sac is pressure for them. This gives our faith some exercise. Adversity, heartache, frustration. Just because you are in a hopeless situation, this does not mean that God is disciplining you. If you’ve been out of fellowship, then you rebound and cursing is turned to blessing.

Exodus 14:2 "Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn back and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, before Baal Zephon. You shall encamp opposite it by the sea.

How the Egyptians happened to be there to close the trap. God tells Moses ahead of time, that this is a trap. Mountains to the north and in the south, and the Egyptians will close the trap, and the sea will be to the backs of the Jews.

Exodus 14:3 Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, 'They are entangled in the land. The wilderness has shut them in.'

The pharaoh discovers that the Jews are trapped. God says that the pharaoh will glorify Him. Moses knows all about this. God is telling Moses what’s going to go on.

Exodus 14:4 I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and he will follow after them; and I will get honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh." They did so.

Exodus 14:5 It was told the king of Egypt that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, "What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?"

Exodus 14:6 He made ready his chariot, and took his army with him;

These are the pharaoh’s best chariots.

Exodus 14:7 and he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over all of them.

Going out with a high hand means that he goes out with the Lord Jesus Christ. The Egyptians then go in pursuit of them.

Exodus 14:8 Yahweh hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel; for the children of Israel went out with a high hand.

Exodus 14:9 The Egyptians pursued after them: all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen, and his army; and overtook them encamping by the sea, beside Pihahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

You can see the dust of an army long before you see the army. The Jews cry out to the Lord. There are 3 failures here. Like so many believers who are saved, they never get with the Word of God. The Jews keep their eyes glued on the army approaching them. They were almost hypnotized by the snake. They did not have their eyes on the Lord; their eyes were on the Egyptians. Their eyes were on people rather than on the Lord. The panic spread. Those who could not see the Egyptians were frightened by those around them who were frightened.

Exodus 14:10 When Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians were marching after them; and they were very afraid. The children of Israel cried out to Yahweh.

Then the people begin to complain to Moses and they blame hiim. They are hysterical. They are neurotic. God led them here.

Exodus 14:11 They said to Moses, "Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us forth out of Egypt?

Then they go to “I told you so.” Human viewpoint expressed. Apostasy expressed.

Exodus 14:12 Isn't this the word that we spoke to you in Egypt, saying, 'Leave us alone, that we may serve the Egyptians?' For it were better for us to serve the Egyptians, than that we should die in the wilderness."

they have failed here. They are in a hopeless situation. There are doctrines for time; promises for time. However you are as a believer, there is no place for fear in the believer’s life. Whatever is not of faith is sin.

Exodus 14:13 Moses said to the people, "Don't be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today: for the Egyptians whom you have seen today, you shall never see them again.

We know that God will deliver these Jews. All of the promises, they are going to the land of milk and honey. It is not God’s will for them to die in the desert. Stand still in your mind and you watch God; He will work on our behalf.

Every now and again, a politician comes up with a vote-getting idea for everyone to pray. There are certain limitations to prayer.

Exodus 14:14 Yahweh will fight for you, and you shall be still."

Exodus 14:15 Yahweh said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.

The rod is a symbol of divine power. The rod grew out in the desert. Moses used it as a shepherd to guide his flock. This rod was in his hand at the burning bush and used in the Egyptian plagues. We carry a rod too. It is the Word of God in our frontal lobe.

Exodus 14:16 Lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

The Angel of God is the Lord Jesus Christ here. The pillar of cloud was first in front of them leading them, and then it moved behind them to stand between them and the Egyptians.

Exodus 14:17 I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall go in after them: and I will get myself honor over Pharaoh, and over all his host, over his chariots, and over his horsemen.

Exodus 14:18 The Egyptians shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have gotten myself honor over Pharaoh, over his chariots, and over his horsemen."

Exodus 14:19 The angel of God, who went before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them; and the pillar of cloud moved from before them, and stood behind them.

Exodus 14:20 It came between the camp of Egypt and the camp of Israel; and there was the cloud and the darkness, yet gave it light by night: and the one didn't come near the other all the night.

The pursuit of the Egyptians.

Exodus 14:21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and Yahweh caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

Exodus 14:22 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

Exodus 14:23 The Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea: all of Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

Exodus 14:24 It happened in the morning watch, that Yahweh looked out on the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of cloud, and confused the Egyptian army.

Exodus 14:25 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"

Exodus 14:26 Yahweh said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the waters may come again on the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their horsemen."

The Lord saved the Jews. Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the shore. Israel saw the great work that the Lord did upon the Egyptians. Before they feared the Egyptians; now they fear the Lord.

Exodus 14:27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it. Yahweh overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

Exodus 14:28 The waters returned, and covered the chariots and the horsemen, even all Pharaoh's army that went in after them into the sea. There remained not so much as one of them.

Exodus 14:29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

Exodus 14:30 Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.

They feared the Lord and trusted the Lord now.

Exodus 14:31 Israel saw the great work which Yahweh did to the Egyptians, and the people feared Yahweh; and they believed in Yahweh, and in his servant Moses.

1963 Life of Moses                     Ex. 15:1-27 16:1–5                                     689_0013

The principle of divine service is preparation. God does not use people who are not prepared. The Jews will be prepared over the period of a year. There will be problems; too much water, no water and the wrong kind of water.

The failure of emotion. There is a magnificent hymn; nothing wrong with the lyrics, but there was a problem with the singing. Spiritual life based on emotion means nothing. The weird things today, the Beatles to these long-haired birds that don’t make any sense today. Bob had to give up singing for speaking. But people love singing, because it stirs them up emotionally.

Those who sing must be filled with the Spirit, otherwise, it is just an emotional outlet.

This desert is a great wall. 3 days into the desert. Moes spent 3 days getting there. No water for 3 days and everyone is thirsty. 2 million adults who do not have any water. They need to be in a hopeless situation and claim the promises of God.

Somehow, we are in v. 23 already. Did I sleep during the hymn?????

Bob read through this quickly with little comment. This song was sung after the Jews passed through the Red Sea.

This is a hymn of great lyrics. People sing songs with great lyrics, but then they wander off and do exactly the opposite. The Word of God authorizes and commands singing; but such people must be filled with the Spirit. But doctrine is needed, otherwise it is just an emotional outlet.

Exodus 15:1 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the LORD. They said: I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea.

Exodus 15:2 The LORD is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise Him, my father's God, and I will exalt Him.

Exodus 15:3 The LORD is a warrior; Yahweh is His name.

Exodus 15:4 He threw Pharaoh's chariots and his army into the sea; the elite of his officers were drowned in the Red Sea.

Exodus 15:5 The floods covered them; they sank to the depths like a stone.

Exodus 15:6 LORD, Your right hand is glorious in power. LORD, Your right hand shattered the enemy.

Exodus 15:7 You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.

Bob just reads this....

Exodus 15:8 The waters heaped up at the blast of Your nostrils; the currents stood firm like a dam. The watery depths congealed in the heart of the sea.

Killing lust.

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: "I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil. My desire will be gratified at their expense. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them."

Exodus 15:10 But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

Exodus 15:11 LORD, who is like You among the gods? Who is like You, glorious in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?

Exodus 15:12 You stretched out Your right hand, and the earth swallowed them.

Exodus 15:13 You will lead the people You have redeemed with Your faithful love; You will guide them to Your holy dwelling with Your strength.

However, in a little while, they would be dreaming about the fleshpots of Egypt.

Exodus 15:14 When the peoples hear, they will shudder; anguish will seize the inhabitants of Philistia.

Exodus 15:15 Then the chiefs of Edom will be terrified; trembling will seize the leaders of Moab; the inhabitants of Canaan will panic;

Already, they walked through the land of Edom. They are filled with emotion and minus faith.

Exodus 15:16 and terror and dread will fall on them. They will be as still as a stone because of Your powerful arm until Your people pass by, LORD, until the people whom You purchased pass by.

They sang all of this and how wonderful the Lord is. They have seen the Lord’s deliverance and they fell flat on their face.

Exodus 15:17 You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your possession; LORD, You have prepared the place for Your dwelling; Lord, Your hands have established the sanctuary.

People singing “How I love Jesus,” and they have no power in their faith. Emotionalism will not make you a spiritual giant.

Exodus 15:18 The LORD will reign forever and ever!

If we put a period here, everything would be fine.

Exodus 15:19 When Pharaoh's horses with his chariots and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.

Let’s not forget the dancers. The women go out there dancing, with tambourines and dancing.

Exodus 15:20 Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron's sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

Miriam sings too.

Exodus 15:21 Miriam sang to them: Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; He has thrown the horse and its rider into the sea.

Sincerity and emotion will not get the job done for the Lord. It takes doctrine and faith to do it.

When you are out on the firing line, let’s see what happens. They fought a great fight back in the barracks, but let’s see how they do on the battlefield.

3 is the number of testing. Just like Abraham traveling 3 days to sacrifice Isaac.

Exodus 15:22 Then Moses led Israel on from the Red Sea, and they went out to the Wilderness of Shur. They journeyed for three days in the wilderness without finding water.

First problem, they are out there for 3 days and no good water. They need to trust God to take care of them. Rumor is, there is a water hole up ahead. They will depend upon the water rather than upon God. God can make a lake in the middle of Death Valley.

The Jews give this water the name Mara. This is how they respond to this experience. They call it “Bitter;” that is typically of believers who are surcharged with emotion.

Some people just turn bitter; and the woods are filled with bitterness. They saw the Lord work in many cases, and then, they respond here with bitterness. They responded with bitterness, and this is after singing that doctrinal song. All of the brass bands in the world cannot provide and power

Exodus 15:23 They came to Marah, but they could not drink the water at Marah because it was bitter--that is why it was named Marah.

They call the place bitter and they are angry with Moses. The first 19 verses were inspiring; but now they are angry and bitter. Murmuring means that they are expressing unbelief. There are people who love to sing hymns, but they could care less about Bible teaching.

Exodus 15:24 The people grumbled to Moses, "What are we going to drink?"

many people when they have a difficult situation, they look to leave mara. A change of circumstances or a change of environment doesn’t change anything. God led them to mara where the water was bitter. There is no accident in this situation. When you find yourself facing a situation that looks humanly impossible, you should look to the Lord.

We are dealing with a difficult circumstance and the reason for that is, faith learns in difficult circumstances; faith does not learn in easy situations.

He cried to the Lord. If you have no solutions, you go to the Lord in prayer. He takes the Word of God and apply it to a difficult and bitter situation. Only the Word of God can be used in a bitter and difficult situation. The only answer is God’s Word to a difficult situation. They did not learn anything. They came to Mara, which became Mara when they arrived. So they are upset with Moses. Once again, God delivers them.

They do have some time where they are not murmuring; everyone is drinking.

God tests them here; this is done to develop their faith. Their faith is weaker. They have had too much water. One of the most dramatic deliverance of one time was all of these people going along a path with water stacked up 20 or 30 ft. high on both sides. And then, the next morning, they saw this water close in on them. And so, they sang this great hymn.

Why not stand up and sing now? This was as great as the previous deliverance, but it was not as dramatic. People love the dramatic. This is why some like missionary speakers. You are better off staying away from people who try to work you up emotionally. That is a farce.

What made the bitter water sweet? The tree? It is God Who made the difference. You never heard of people throwing in a dead tree to clear up the bitter water. It is the Word of God that changes everything. The tree is the Word of God.

Exodus 15:25 So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he threw it into the water, the water became drinkable. He made a statute and ordinance for them at Marah and He tested them there.

A junior high school boy hears you but he doesn’t hear you. Here, we are talking about listening to the Word of God and retaining it. One of the psalms tells us that the Jews came out of Egypt in perfect health. Every Jew who walked out of Egypt was healed. Psalm 105:37.

Exodus 15:26 He said, "If you will carefully obey the LORD your God, do what is right in His eyes, pay attention to His commands, and keep all His statutes, I will not inflict any illness on you I inflicted on the Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you."

wilderness of Sin, which means mire, the desert where they bag down.

Exodus 15:27 Then they came to Elim, where there were 12 springs of water and 70 date palms, and they camped there by the waters.

Exodus 16:1 The entire Israelite community departed from Elim and came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left the land of Egypt.

Exodus 16:2 The entire Israelite community grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.

They ate the most miserable stuff in the world. They put whatever in it. It was a big pot which was cooked. Survival food cooked. They ate gophers, snails, worms, grass. It was pitiful and yet they want to go back to that. God has great things for you and you want to return to the flesh pots of Egypt. You want to go back to status quo unbeliever. What do you miss that you used to have?

Exodus 16:3 The Israelites said to them, "If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. Instead, you brought us into this wilderness to make this whole assembly die of hunger!"

God provides for them while they are complaining.

God did not tel Moses to whip these people into shape. All of the people of Israel are murmuring, and God still takes care of them. God gets the glory; they deserve nothing of what they get.

Grace means, we don’t earn it and we don’t deserve it. Even not deserving it, God still provides logistical grace for them.

Exodus 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow My instructions.

1963 Life of Moses                             Ex. 16:5-                                             689_0014

The began with too much water; then they had no water; and then the wrong kind of water; and finally, enough water. There were a lot of murmurers; short of memory, short of sight and short of faith. They must be prepared to enter the land and to use divine provision.

The Jews were to gather a specified amount of bread each day; and they had to gather double on Friday. The instructions were given and did not follow a specified law.

Exodus 16:4 Then the LORD said to Moses, "I am going to rain bread from heaven for you. The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day. This way I will test them to see whether or not they will follow My instructions.

Unfathered manna would melt and disappear. The manna inside of the tent was preserved. Whatever remains overnight in the tent would stink a breed worms. But, that which was kept overnight Friday night did not spoil.

Exodus 16:5 On the sixth day, when they prepare what they bring in, it will be twice as much as they gather on other days."

they will see something every evening, and that would remind them that the Lord is there; manna in the am and quail in the evening. God does all of this stuff for Israel during a time that Israel was murmuring.

This is all grace. They did not earn it and they did not deserve it.

Exodus 16:6 So Moses and Aaron said to all the Israelites: "This evening you will know that it was the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt;

Exodus 16:7 in the morning you will see the LORD's glory because He has heard your complaints about Him. For who are we that you complain about us?"

God takes care of them as an act of grace. This was great healthfood. The principle was grace. God began this when they were at their lowest.

Jesus Christ saved sinners; He saved the enemies of God; He saved haters of God.

Most people who claim great experiences with God are involved in legalism. What we have in this context is murmuring; and yet, God is still faithful to these Jews.

Exodus 16:8 Moses continued, "The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and abundant bread in the morning, for He has heard the complaints that you are raising against Him. Who are we? Your complaints are not against us but against the LORD."

They ought to get a vision of the Lord.

Exodus 16:9 Then Moses told Aaron, "Say to the entire Israelite community, 'Come before the LORD, for He has heard your complaints.'"

Jesus Christ speaks from the cloud.

Exodus 16:10 As Aaron was speaking to the entire Israelite community, they turned toward the wilderness, and there, in a cloud, the LORD's glory appeared.

Exodus 16:11 The LORD spoke to Moses,

God says that He had heard all of the murmuring. God still blesses them. My God shall supply all of your needs. God does not provide the needs of simply the spiritual believer or the mature believer. All blessing to the human race comes because of Who and What Christ is.

Exodus 16:12 "I have heard the complaints of the Israelites. Tell them: At twilight you will eat meat, and in the morning you will eat bread until you are full. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God."

The Israelites will have bread and quail. God deals with them in grace, and that is how they know it is God. The standard, according to the Word of God, is 2 meals a day.

Getting the quail was easy. No bird dog required.

Exodus 16:13 So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.

Exodus 16:14 When the layer of dew evaporated, there on the desert surface were fine flakes, as fine as frost on the ground.

The Israelites saw this stuff and they said, “What is it?” Manna, manna is what they kept saying. Moses said to them,

John 6:31 our fathers lived in the desert; Moses did not give you the bread from haeven; My Father gave you the bread.

Moses became very exasperated with this people. There was no trade-off. God didn’t say, “If you are good today, you get bread; if you aren’t then no bread.” God was faithful to them, not because they deserved it, but because of His Own character. That is grace.

Then Jesus tells them, “I am the Bread of Life.” That is the analogy based upon manna.

Exodus 16:15 When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, "What is it?" because they didn't know what it was. Moses told them, "It is the bread the LORD has given you to eat.

There was an equal distribution of manna. These were terrible people, but God gave to them anyway. These are not nice people at all. Bob is glad that he did not live in the exodus. There is no other church that one could go off to and join. You were with the group.

There is no such thing as a partial rapture, all believers go up at the rapture. All believers who are carnal or fail in this life; and you are raptured or taken into heaven.

The best thing that will be done for you will be done out of love. A gift given in love is far better than a gift that is associated with a status symbol.

Bob was first going out with girls. And he thought that you ought to give girls things. He bought a girl a $5 allowance, which was all of his allowance at the age of 10. “You shouldn’t have done it.” Bob thought about that and kind of agreed with her.

Bob’s efforts in woodshop was a sad thing. “Something you made in woodshop” is what would have impressed her. A gift of love is much more important. The Jews were receiving gifts from the Lord, from someone who loved them. But they treated the Lord terribly. They would complain about it; they wanted the leeks, garlic and pomegranates from Egypt.

Mulligan Stew is whatever they had went into those pots. They gathered a specific amount per person.

We have different capacities spiritually. Our capacity is based upon how much we grow. If a baby is filled with the Spirit, and a mature believer is filled with the Spirit is going to be more productive.

Exodus 16:16 This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Gather as much of it as each person needs to eat. You may take two quarts per individual, according to the number of people each of you has in his tent.'"

Exodus 16:17 So the Israelites did this. Some gathered a lot, some a little.

Exodus 16:18 When they measured it by quarts, the person who gathered a lot had no surplus, and the person who gathered a little had no shortage. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat.

Coming, manna was preserved, but it spoiled.

1963 Life of Moses                            Ex. 16:19-                                            689_0015

Bob says we are a half chapter behind. Behind what?

The tremendous grace of God. Manna was provided at a time when the children of Israel were complaining against the Lord.

Manna could be preserved on some days, before a Sabbath. However, on other days, it stank and bred worms.

In time of pressure, it is what we have in the frontal lobe that counts. We learn Bible doctrine when there is no pressure.

With regards to manna, they had to follow instructions perfectly. But doctrine was not as real to them as what they saw and what they felt. They were confused and disoriented throughout these 40 years.

Exodus 16:19 Moses said to them, "No one is to let any of it remain until morning."

Exodus 16:20 But they didn't listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it bred worms and smelled. Therefore Moses was angry with them.

Exodus 16:21 They gathered it every morning. Each gathered as much as he needed to eat, but when the sun grew hot, it melted.

Exodus 16:22 On the sixth day they gathered twice as much food, four quarts apiece, and all the leaders of the community came and reported this to Moses.

At the end of 6 days, everything was provided for man; all that man would need in innocence.

Exodus 16:23 He told them, "This is what the LORD has said: 'Tomorrow is a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil, and everything left over set aside to be kept until morning.'"

Exodus 16:24 So they set it aside until morning as Moses commanded, and it didn't smell or have any maggots in it.

Exodus 16:25 "Eat it today," Moses said, "because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you won't find any in the field.

Exodus 16:26 For six days you may gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none."

Exodus 16:27 Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find any.

Exodus 16:28 Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep My commands and instructions?

Exodus 16:29 Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day He will give you two days' worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day."

Exodus 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

Exodus 16:31 The house of Israel named the substance manna. It resembled coriander seed, was white, and tasted like wafers made with honey.

There were those in Num. 21:5 who did not like manna.

Exodus 16:32 Moses said, "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Two quarts of it are to be preserved throughout your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

Exodus 16:33 Moses told Aaron, "Take a container and put two quarts of manna in it. Then place it before the LORD to be preserved throughout your generations."

Exodus 16:34 As the LORD commanded Moses, Aaron placed it before the testimony to be preserved.

Exodus 16:35 The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

Exodus 16:36 (Two quarts are a tenth of an ephah.)

If God has done the most for us when we are His enemies; then what more will He do for us when we are reconciled to Him? When you fail, then you are disciplined in time; but not 10 years after a sin.

11 causes for suffering, and 10 of them are designed for blessing. The Jews are exactly where God wants them to be. Will they trust God in times of pressure?

These people are looking forward to having water; and this place of refreshments seems to be in front of them.

Exodus 17:1 The entire Israelite community left the Wilderness of Sin, moving from one place to the next according to the LORD's command. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.

They should be saying, “Thank you, Lord, for letting us come here and not find water.” We know that all things work together for good. But this is not how they reacted. They chided with Moses.

They are blaming Moses, and they are going to threaten his life. They are saying that Moses just brought them out into the desert in order to kill them. They are making the wildest accusations. Moses was not a crybaby.

Exodus 17:2 So the people complained to Moses: "Give us water to drink." "Why are you complaining to me?" Moses replied to them. "Why are you testing the LORD?"

Exodus 17:3 But the people thirsted there for water, and grumbled against Moses. They said, "Why did you ever bring us out of Egypt to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?"

Exodus 17:4 Then Moses cried out to the LORD, "What should I do with these people? In a little while they will stone me!"

The rod that he will carry which represents the power of God; divine power in human hands.

Exodus 17:5 The LORD answered Moses, "Go on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take the rod you struck the Nile with in your hand and go.

Jesus is struck as the Rock of God; and this is analogous. “Come you to the water and drink.”

Exodus 17:6 I am going to stand there in front of you on the rock at Horeb; when you hit the rock, water will come out of it and the people will drink." Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

They began to make a patsy out of the Lord. Why did the Lord let this happen to me?

Even in failure, they can beat their enemies.

Exodus 17:7 He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites complained, and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

Amalek attacked them from the rear. This is an ancient race founded by Esau.

Anything that the unbeliever can do is not the Christian way of life.

There are several concepts needed here; rebound, knowing specific doctrines related to this, orientation to the concept of grace.

Exodus 17:8 At Rephidim, Amalek came and fought against Israel.

The first trap is ivory towerism; I no longer sin. This denies the existence of the sin nature or minimizes its existence. Christianity is not a set of morals. It starts with you on the inside. If you think it, it’s sin, like murder, and adultery. Christianity starts with what you think. Self righteousness minimizes the mental sins; it minimizes lust. It makes a great to-do over sins.

Deut. 25 tells us that Amalek attacked from the rear; it is part of a great hymn.

The rod of God for us is God the Holy Spirit indwelling us. The rod represents to us. The rod stands for the content of the Word.

Exodus 17:9 Moses said to Joshua, "Select some men for us, and go fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the hilltop with God's staff in my hand."

Aaron is the high priest from the tribe of Levi; Hur is from the tribe of Judah. Joshua is from the tribe of Ephraim. Levi is the priestly tribe. The rulership was lost to Judah.

When the rod is up, they are winning. When it is down, they are losing.

Exodus 17:10 Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought against Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

Exodus 17:11 While Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, but whenever he put his hand down, Amalek prevailed.

Exodus 17:12 When Moses' hands grew heavy, they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat down on it. Then Aaron and Hur supported his hands, one on one side and one on the other so that his hands remained steady until the sun went down.

The word used here is standing over an enemy and standing on them. When someone knocks you down and stands on you, you are uncomfortable.

Exodus 17:13 So Joshua defeated Amalek and his army with the sword.

The memorial for the victory.

Exodus 17:14 The LORD then said to Moses, "Write this down on a scroll as a reminder and recite [repeat] it to Joshua: I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven."

Moses built an altar.

Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar and named it, "The LORD Is My Banner."

Exodus 17:16 He said, "Indeed, my hand is lifted up toward the LORD's throne. The LORD will be at war with Amalek from generation to generation."

1963 Life of Moses                 Ex. 18:1–19:3 20:1–26                                   689_0016

This prepares us for the golden calf episode.

Exodus 18:1 Moses' father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

Exodus 18:2 Now Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, had taken in Zipporah, Moses' wife, after he had sent her back,

Jethro was a wonderful and brilliant man; a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and full of good advice. He also goes by the name Regual. Jethro means excellence.

Ex. 4:22–26 is the last time we heard about Zipporah. God is not going to use a disobedient person. Moses had become disobedient about circumcising his youngest son. Apparently, Zipporah was mad about this. After circumcising the boy, the woman called him a blood-bridegroom. Moses had the problem of a wife who did not love him. Moses had to have peace at home, and the only way he could get this is without Zippy around. She was a lot of trouble to him and she took the boys and went back to her father.

There is no further discussion of Zipporah, and God uses their separation so that Moses can lead the people.

Gershom is the oldest son whose name means banishment, stranger. Moses was bitter because of his banishment from Egypt, as this is when this boy would have been born. You inflict many of your problems yourself. Moses was bitter about being chased out of Egypt. However, his mental attitude turned around.

Exodus 18:3 along with her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom (because Moses had said, "I have been a stranger in a foreign land")

The second son reveals that Moses is operating on doctrine at this point.

Brother-in-law Hobab is not mentioned at this time; but he will be mentioned later and in Judges.

Some women can be more effective with silence than they can be with making noise.

Exodus 18:4 and the other Eliezer (because he had said, "The God of my father was my helper and delivered me from Pharaoh's sword").

Exodus 18:5 Moses' father-in-law Jethro, along with Moses' wife and sons, came to him in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God.

Jethro calls the boys, “Her two sons.”

Exodus 18:6 He sent word to Moses, "I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you with your wife and her two sons."

Exodus 18:7 So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and then kissed him. They asked each other how they had been and went into the tent.

Moses talks about all the things that the Lord has done; not what he did. So many magazines are “Why I am a great believer.”

Exodus 18:8 Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel's sake, all the hardships that confronted them on the way, and how the LORD delivered them.

God delivered the Exodus generation even though they failed again and again. Jethro got the picture, that this was all the Lord’s doing.

Exodus 18:9 Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel when He rescued them from the Egyptians.

Exodus 18:10 "Blessed is the LORD," Jethro exclaimed, "who rescued you from Pharaoh and the power of the Egyptians, and snatched the people from the power of the Egyptians.

God is greater than all of the Egyptian gods.

Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods, because He did wonders at the time the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel."

Exodus 18:12 Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses' father-in-law in God's presence.

There are a lot of people with problems. He spends all day judging the people. All their problems and grievances.

Doctrine you learn today may not be used for 10 years or 40 years; but you will never get enough doctrine; never. The more doctrine you know, the more useable you are before the Lord. Moses listened to all of the cases and grievances between the people, which was a sunup to sundown mediation process. He had a lot of doctrine. Bob knows ministers who quit the ministry because they could not stand people.

A former congregant writes Thieme from California: I am fed up with undisciplined churches.

The pastor needs to be the authority, and to teach the Word. People will leave but no problem.

Exodus 18:13 The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening.

Exodus 18:14 When Moses' father-in-law saw everything he was doing for them he asked, "What is this thing you're doing for the people? Why are you alone sitting as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?"

Exodus 18:15 Moses replied to his father-in-law, "Because the people come to me to inquire of God.

Exodus 18:16 Whenever they have a dispute, it comes to me, and I make a decision between one man and another. I teach them God's statutes and laws."

good advice.

Exodus 18:17 "What you're doing is not good," Moses' father-in-law said to him.

Doing all of this is too much. No one person can handle this.

Exodus 18:18 "You will certainly wear out both yourself and these people who are with you, because the task is too heavy for you. You can't do it alone.

Exodus 18:19 Now listen to me; I will give you some advice, and God be with you. You be the one to represent the people before God and bring their cases to Him.

The key is to teach the flock; feed the flock. Jethro is an organizer; he is a person who can deal with groups. It takes a team in leadership to handle groups of people.

Exodus 18:20 Instruct them about the statutes and laws, and teach them the way to live and what they must do.

A metric organization here. Bob thinks we’re going over to a metric system in the United States. Let these judge the people.

Exodus 18:21 But you should select from all the people able men, God-fearing, trustworthy, and hating bribes. Place them over the people as officials of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

Exodus 18:22 They should judge the people at all times. Then they can bring you every important case but judge every minor case themselves. In this way you will lighten your load, and they will bear it with you.

You might be able to handle all of this if you get some people to work for you.

Exodus 18:23 If you do this, and God so directs you, you will be able to endure, and also all these people will be able to go home satisfied."

Moses was a great man because he recognized good advice and took it. He doesn’t get that horsey attitude; that attitude of pride. He did all that he had said. People who can take advice are moving toward greatness. Most people come for a special answer to Bob and if they don’t get that answer, they check out.

Exodus 18:24 Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.

Exodus 18:25 So Moses chose able men from all Israel and made them leaders over the people as officials of thousands, hundreds, fifties, and tens.

Exodus 18:26 They judged the people at all times; the hard cases they would bring to Moses, but every minor case they would judge themselves.

Moses never saw his two sons or his wife again. This was it. As far as we know, Moses did not have any more children.

Exodus 18:27 Then Moses said goodbye to his father-in-law, and he journeyed to his own land.

The 3 parts of the Mosaic Law. On income tax, no matter how much you make you pay the same percentage. Rich people should be able to keep 90% of their money. The Mosaic Law is for the Jewish people, believers and unbelievers. That is why it is given the way it is.

The Mosaic Law was for Israel only. Ex. 19:3 it was said to the house of Jacob. Acts 15:5 we are not under the Law as Christians. Tithing is taxation; it is personal income tax. Our income tax is unfair.

Exodus 19:1 In the third month, on the same day of the month that the Israelites had left the land of Egypt, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai.

Exodus 19:2 After they departed from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai and camped in the wilderness, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

Exodus 19:3 Moses went up the mountain to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain: "This is what you must say to the house of Jacob, and explain to the Israelites:

Eagles are all about grace. They push the children out of the next until they learn to fly?

Exodus 19:4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I carried you on eagles' wings and brought you to Me.

Exodus 19:5 Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,

Now to the Mosaic Law.

Exodus 20:1 Then God spoke all these words:

Exodus 20:2 I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the place of slavery.

Exodus 20:3 Do not have other gods besides Me.

Exodus 20:4 Do not make an idol for yourself, whether in the shape of anything in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth.

No one pays for their children’s sins. No one pays for the sins of their father or grandfather. Children must be guilty of their parent’s sins before they are punished for their parent’s sins. The Jews had a weakness or a fondness for idolatry. They will violate the first two commandments over and over again. They repeat the sins of the fathers and grandfathers.

Exodus 20:5 You must not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the fathers' sin, to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Every person is put to death for their own sins.

Deut. 24:16 "Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers; each person will be put to death for his own sin.

Jer 31:29–30 "In those days, it will never again be said: The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. Rather, each will die for his own wrongdoing. Anyone who eats sour grapes--his own teeth will be set on edge.

We inherit some of the things from our parents. But we are only responsible for our own sour grapes. The law of culpability.

The second commandment is continued.

Exodus 20:6 but showing faithful love [mercy, grace] to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commands.

#3: this does not mean just cussing or profanity, although this includes that. This is using the name of God for any unworthy cause. Like telling a lie and saying, “God is my witness” or “So help me God.” You are saying that God sponsors your lie. Using God’s name in necromancy and witchcraft and so on.

Exodus 20:7 Do not misuse the name of the LORD your God, because the LORD will punish anyone who misuses His name.

Remember the Sabbath day. God is not tired and God does not get tired. Everything was provided by God in innocence. Therefore, the Jews were to stop working on the 7^th day to show that they depended upon God entirely.

The great farce of Houston; the blue laws. If anyone wants to open and run a business on Sunday, that is not the business of the city or the county. The local government has no right to interfere. This is a farce. Pious frauds.

The Jews were taught grace through this law. It is how they learned what grace was. To help with this, there was a Sabbatical year. They were to trust the Lord throughout the entire 7^th year.

Exodus 20:8 Remember to dedicate the Sabbath day:

Exodus 20:9 You are to labor six days and do all your work,

Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You must not do any work--you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates.

The principle is explained here.

Exodus 20:11 For the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything in them in six days; then He rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and declared it holy.

You cannot flaunt authority without facing problems. Children if they are strong enough cannot hurt their parents without shaving years off of their lives.

Honor the authority of your parents and you are going to live a long life.

Exodus 20:12 Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Soldiers can kill in battle; Christians should be the best killers in their outfit. Social gospel has destroyed what is true.

Exodus 20:13 Do not murder.

Exodus 20:14 Do not commit adultery.

Exodus 20:15 Do not steal.

This prohibits perjury, gossip, maligning.

Exodus 20:16 Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Do not lust for those things which are not yours.

Exodus 20:17 Do not covet your neighbor's house. Do not covet your neighbor's wife, his male or female slave, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.

Rom 7:7–12 What should we say then? Is the law sin? Absolutely not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin if it were not for the law. For example, I would not have known what it is to covet if the law had not said, You shall not covet. And sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, produced in me coveting of every kind. For apart from the law sin is dead. Once I was alive apart from the law, but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. The commandment that was meant for life resulted in death for me. For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me. So then, the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.

Divine good versus human good. Paul started here in discovering the truth about the sin nature from the 10^th commandment.

Exodus 20:18 All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

Exodus 20:19 "You speak to us, and we will listen," they said to Moses, "but don't let God speak to us, or we will die."

Exodus 20:20 Moses responded to the people, "Don't be afraid, for God has come to test you, so that you will fear Him and will not sin."

Exodus 20:21 And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

Exodus 20:22 Then the LORD told Moses, "This is what you are to say to the Israelites: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven.

God knew that, when these Jews said, “We will keep these commandments” that would be the first place where they broke faith with God.

Exodus 20:23 You must not make gods of silver to rival Me; you must not make gods of gold for yourselves.

Exodus 20:24 "You must make an earthen altar for Me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats, as well as your cattle. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I cause My name to be remembered.

Exodus 20:25 If you make a stone altar for Me, you must not build it out of cut stones. If you use your chisel on it, you will defile it.

Exodus 20:26 You must not go up to My altar on steps, so that your nakedness is not exposed on it.

1963 Life of Moses                          Ex. 19:5–61-                                           689_0017

Introduction to the golden calf incident.

Exodus 19:5 Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own unique possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine,

The Jews did not make it as a client nation. They did not obey God and they did not keep His covenant.

There were problems with the Jews and idolatry. Found 4 times in the Law; the Jews were to be warned over and over again about idolatry.

Exodus 19:6 and you will be My kingdom of priests and My holy nation. These are the words that you are to say to the Israelites."

Exodus 19:7 After Moses came back, He summoned the elders of the people, and put before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.

The people agree to do all the God has said. They will say this again in Ex. 24:3 Moses came and told the people all the commands of the LORD and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, "We will do everything that the LORD has commanded." It took 40 days and 40 nights to get all of the specs for the Tabernacle.

Moses wrote these things all down. When you receive this universal priesthood, it will be made up of believers only. Moses will be up in the mountains for 40 days. Before He can get all of this information, he has to make sure that all of his fences are mended. He has to get this in written form. They have heard 4 times that they are not to be guilty of idolatry and they now have it in writing (v. 7).

Under this covenant, the sprinkling of the blood, then we will be a kingdom of priests. Moses takes them up for a short trip up the mountain; they will be remaining behind. They must be occupied with the Lord. I think this is his leadership group.

Exodus 24:1 Then He said to Moses, "Go up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel's elders, and bow in worship at a distance.

Moses is occupied with Christ.

Exodus 24:2 Moses alone is to approach the LORD, but the others are not to approach, and the people are not to go up with him."

Exodus 24:3 Moses came and told the people all the commands of the LORD and all the ordinances. Then all the people responded with a single voice, "We will do everything that the LORD has commanded."

Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote down all the words of the LORD. He rose early the next morning and set up an altar and 12 pillars for the 12 tribes of Israel at the base of the mountain.

Exodus 24:5 Then he sent out young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.

Exodus 24:6 Moses took half the blood and set it in basins; the other half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.

Exodus 24:7 He then took the covenant scroll and read it aloud to the people. They responded, "We will do and obey everything that the LORD has commanded."

the blood.

Exodus 24:8 Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you concerning all these words."

Exodus 24:9 Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel's elders,

the purpose of the written word is to teach. Among teachers, they must stick to that which is the absolute. There must be uniformity. This helps to explain the completed canon of Scripture.

It is very rare to find any expository teaching today. Without knowledge of the original Scriptures, it requires even more time. From the standpoint of time and preparation, it requires more work. People often say they want preaching instead of teaching. They don’t want any real teaching; they just want the emotion. If the public speaking is good and scintillating, they like that. The days of expository teaching is gone.

Exodus 24:10 and they saw the God of Israel. Beneath His feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire stone, as clear as the sky itself.

Exodus 24:11 God did not harm the Israelite nobles; they saw Him, and they ate and drank.

The key is having the text and teaching from the text. It is the text which is the absolute criterion.

Exodus 24:12 The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commands I have written for their instruction."

Moses is going up to get more text so that he can teach more. Joshua goes with him. Joshua would someday take the place of Moses.

Exodus 24:13 So Moses arose with his assistant [successor] Joshua, and went up the mountain of God.

Tribe of Levi and tribe of Judah are here. Aaron and Hur would be judges.

Exodus 24:14 He told the elders, "Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute should go to them."

The people kept their eyes on Moses. Believers cannot depend upon human leadership for a crutch, unless you are a brand new believer. You need it enough to get the milk of the Word. You do not depend upon human leadership for your spiritual life, apart from the gift of the pastor-teacher.

Bob has been asked to run around to pat people on the head, going to hospitals, etc. 3 people are mad because he would not to that. You cannot depend upon people. There are people in Berachah who have terrible problems. They do not need to call up the pastor to tell them how good they are.

Bob’s responsibility is to study and teach and that is true of every pastor he knows. 100 calls in a week means about 100 hours to run around to say 5 nice words. He’d have to quit eating, sleeping and studying. There is a gamble. Bob is trying to give us enough doctrine before we get mad.

Moses is gone, and the people are using him for a crutch. He left the Word behind. The people did not all flip flop on this thing, but a lot of them did.

Moses left the mouse Aaron behind.

At this point, I cannot figure out where Bob is. He is talking about Aaron and the people asking that he make gods for them. Maybe it is Ex. 32.

Exodus 24:15 When Moses went up the mountain, the cloud covered it.

Exodus 24:16 The glory of the LORD settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day He called to Moses from the cloud.

Exodus 24:17 The appearance of the LORD's glory to the Israelites was like a consuming fire on the mountaintop.

Exodus 24:18 Moses entered the cloud as he went up the mountain, and he remained on the mountain 40 days and 40 nights.

Exodus 19:8 Then all the people responded together, "We will do all that the LORD has spoken." So Moses brought the people's words back to the LORD.

Exodus 19:9 The LORD said to Moses, "I am going to come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you and will always believe you." Then Moses reported the people's words to the LORD.

Exodus 19:10 And the LORD told Moses, "Go to the people and purify them today and tomorrow. They must wash their clothes

Exodus 19:11 and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.

Exodus 19:12 Put boundaries for the people all around the mountain and say: Be careful that you don't go up on the mountain or touch its base. Anyone who touches the mountain will be put to death.

Exodus 19:13 No hand may touch him; instead he will be stoned or shot with arrows, neither animal or man will live. When the ram's horn sounds a long blast, they may go up the mountain."

Exodus 19:14 Then Moses came down from the mountain to the people and consecrated them, and they washed their clothes.

Exodus 19:15 He said to the people, "Be prepared by the third day. Do not have sexual relations with women."

Exodus 19:16 On the third day, when morning came, there was thunder and lightning, a thick cloud on the mountain, and a loud trumpet sound, so that all the people in the camp shuddered.

Exodus 19:17 Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they stood at the foot of the mountain.

Exodus 19:18 Mount Sinai was completely enveloped in smoke because the LORD came down on it in fire. Its smoke went up like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain shook violently.

Exodus 19:19 As the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.

Exodus 19:20 The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, at the top of the mountain. Then the LORD summoned Moses to the top of the mountain, and he went up.

Exodus 19:21 The LORD directed Moses, "Go down and warn the people not to break through to see the LORD; otherwise many of them will die.

Exodus 19:22 Even the priests who come near the LORD must purify themselves or the LORD will break out in anger against them."

Exodus 19:23 But Moses responded to the LORD, "The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since You warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consider it holy."

Exodus 19:24 And the LORD replied to him, "Go down and come back with Aaron. But the priests and the people must not break through to come up to the LORD, or He will break out in anger against them."

Exodus 19:25 So Moses went down to the people and told them.

It appears that we have moved to Ex. 32:1 because it is the people going to Aaron and asking him to make gods for them.