How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him. Let’s study the meaning of the word good, means philanthropic! Acts 10:38 When we doing anything to promote the Kingdom we are a philanthropist, a person that seeks the welfare of others especially generous donations of money.
Aggravating Prayers
Moses actually made God angry by his cop-out, excuse-making prayers. He wanted God to send somebody else to do the job. God promised to send Aaron to help him. He gave Moses some impressive miracle-working powers (turning a rod to a serpent, a hand to leprosy, water to blood, etc.). Sometimes our prayers aggravate God, but He graciously answers anyway.
Exodus 4:10 - "And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue."
I Will Be With Thy Mouth
When God calls a man, He assumes full responsibility for his future. God assured Moses that He would teach him everything he should say to Pharaoh. God also promised that Moses would "do signs" with the rod he carried with him. God foretold Moses of all the plagues He would send to Egypt, and how Pharaoh would respond. Moses simply had to follow God's leading, and he did for forty more years.
Exodus 4:12 - "Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say."
Firstborn
God instructed Moses to inform Pharaoh that Israel was God's firstborn. If Pharaoh would not free Israel, God would destroy Pharaoh's firstborn. God claimed Abraham's firstborn - "thine ONLY SON Isaac" (as if Ishmael had never been born). When Esau and Jacob were born, Esau despised his role as firstborn, so God claimed Jacob as his firstborn. This is not saying that Israel was God's first son, "because ALL the firstborn are mine," Numbers 3:13.
Exodus 4:22 - "And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn."
A Bloody Husband
Zipporah was Moses' wife, daughter of a Midianite priest whom he met during his personal exile. His name was Reuel, later referred to as Jethro (possibly a priestly title meaning "excellency"). Zipporah was hostile about the Jewish circumcision, apparently refusing to allow Moses to circumcise their two sons, Gershom and Eliezer, until God forced the issue by threatening to kill Moses. Their disagreement was so sharp that Moses sent her back to her father for a while (18:2). The entire family rejoined Moses later.
Exodus 4:26 - "...then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision."
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Moses Interviews God
What do you want to know about God? What do you need to know about His will for your life? Ask Him. It is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but it is the honor of kings to search it out (Proverbs 25:2). God delights in our interest in Him.
Exodus 3:13 - "And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the Children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?"
I AM
Moses asked God His name, so he could tell the people. God said, "I AM." It means "the Self-Existent One." It also means, "the cause." Nothing else in the universe existed before God, and without Him, nothing would exist. His Spirit nature is the primordial stuff - more elemental than atoms. God is the basis of all things.
Exodus 3:14 - "And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the Children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you."
Ye Shall Not Go Empty
How on earth could Moses ever evacuate two million Jews from Egypt? How on earth could such a multitude survive such an upheaval and transition? Well, he certainly could not do it if not for the mighty hand of God to work miracle after miracle in their behalf. NEVER underestimate the power of God. Israel left with a vast horde of Egypt's riches.
Exodus 3:21 - "And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:"
What Is That In Thy Hand?
I love this vast spiritual principle. God uses whatever you have available. Never underestimate God's ability to use ordinary things mightily. Moses had a stick in his hand. God turned it into a snake. He parted the Red Sea with it. He drew water out of a rock with it. That was the mightiest stick in the history of man, but only because God Almighty made it so. What is that in YOUR hand?
Exodus 4:2 - "The LORD said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod."
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Pitched Within And Without
Jochebed saved baby Moses by daubing an "ark of bulrushes" with slime and pitch. That made it water-proof and made it float. Noah did a similar thing with the great Ark. "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; ...pitch it within and without," (Genesis 6:14). My brother, David, suggested to me that if we want to be saved, we need to be pitched within and without with holiness and righteousness.
Exodus 2:3 - "She took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein."
Moses' Early Life
Pharaoh's daughter rescued baby Moses from the Nile River, and his sister, Miriam, offered his mother to her as a wet nurse. God was working wonderfully! Although raised in Egypt's royal household, Moses was a blue-blooded, one-God Hebrew. In his youth, he impulsively killed an Egyptian who was assaulting a Jewish brother. He quickly hid the corpse, but the news spread like wildfire. Moses fled Egypt to the wilderness near Midian.
Exodus 2:15 - "Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh."
When Slaves Pray
I have often wondered why God told Abraham his descendants must spend time in bondage in Egypt. Typologically, Egypt represents the world of sin. Every man and woman must suffer bondage in the world of sin. But when we earnestly cry out to God, He hears and He delivers.
Exodus 2:23-24 - "...and the Children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob."
"Who Am I?"
There are times when we all feel that we are unworthy to serve the Lord. But God will give us courage to fulfill every task. He never calls us to do a job without empowering us to do it. Moses was VERY reluctant to accept the call of God to deliver Israel from Pharaoh, but God had answers to all his objections. God will surely enable us.
Exodus 3:11 - "And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the Children of Israel out of Egypt?"
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