March 14 elevate review

At elevate this week

We took a look at the general excuses/reasons Moses gave God as to why God was making a mistake and asking him to go back to Egypt. Moses knew that he could not show up under the authority of his own name. He had done this the last time in his own power, and concept of rescuing his people yet committed murder and become feared by the Hebrews and hated by the Egyptians. So God answered him with the name that has become revered highly amongst the Jewish traditions the name "I Am"
with that settled God reviewed for Moses is wonderful plan on moving the people out of Egypt into the promised land. He did make it clear that the king of Egypt would have trouble letting them go but God would put the king under pressure and ultimately they would be released.
Moses Then argued that he would be called a liar. He probably was fearing the memory of his last attempt would cloud peoples opinion regarding his motive for this attempt. God responded by giving him two miracles to perform, one was turning his walking stick into a snake and then back to walking stick, the second was turning his hand from being clean to being filled with leprosy and then back again, and a third one was promised that if he took water from the Nile god would turn it into blood.
Moses then appealed again to the fact that he no longer spoke fluent Egyptian. He was probably unaware of the latest customs and would be offensive to the Egyptians. To this excuse God got angry and agreed to allow Moses's brother to be his spokesperson in front of the Egyptian court.

Moses brought his entire family which involved a wife and two sons.
On his way to Egypt Moses had forgotten, or possibly put off to a more convenient time something that God had required of all Hebrew babies for many years. The circumcision of male babies to recognize the covenant between God and Abraham.Moses's son was done on the road, just before their arrival in to Egypt.it seems that his delay in obedience was grounds for death as far as God was concerned. The way the Hebrew tradition puts it God litter really had a hold of Moses's throat and was going to kill him, so his wife preformed an emergency circumcision and threw the skin on/at Moses his feet so the angel could see that it was accomplished and Moses was released. (A weird little story that most preachers tend to skip)
I think it speaks to the fact that many of us get called to do something big for God and we forget all the little things that God expects us to do as a regular part of our lives. Those little things are what allow us to have the conduit of power and blessings from God. It is not only important to maintain our daily walk with God when we are living a normal life it is also very important to maintain those daily routines if were called to some form of earthly greatness.

When he arrived Moses was greeted warmly by his brother. His brother believed that Moses had received the call of God and supported him wholeheartedly. Moses then went with Aaron to the elders of the Hebrew people, and they also received with excitement the leadership of Moses and the potential of moving out into the promised land.
Moses and Aaron went to the king on a wave of popularity and blessing, and immediately were shot down and dismissed. I do not blame the King for not recognizing the Hebrew God as someone to obey, and I imagine it would have been cultural suicide for the king of the Egyptians to just do what ever anybody wanted based on a belief that their particular God told them so.
In response to the desire of the Hebrews to go worship God for three days in the wilderness, the Egyptians gave the Hebrews even more work to do. Their logic was that if the Hebrews had things to be thankful for and to celebrate they clearly were not working hard enough for the Egyptians. This made life very ugly and brutal for the entire Hebrew nation throughout the country of Egypt.
The Hebrews responded understandably negative toward Moses and Aaron's leadership. Moses in turn responded very negatively toward God and asked a very reasonable question. He basically said if all you wanted to do was make life worse for the Hebrews why did you have to send me ?

In general we saw a couple basic applications.
When God asks you to do something he will equip you to do it.
When you are accomplishing a task for God did not forget to do your daily routines to stay connected to God.
Knowing the beginning (everyone will believe you) and knowing the end(you will move into the promised land) does not mean that everything in the middle will go smoothly.
The call of God is not an event but a journey, so walk on.