Sunday School is for All Ages!

Moses, with Aaron, returned to Egypt, confronted the Pharaoh, and did exactly what the Lord had commanded them to do. And for a time it made things much, much worse (Exodus 5:6-19). Even their Israelite kinsmen confronted them angrily (Exodus 5:20-21).

The illusion that perfectly obeying the will of God always leads to good things is rife among believers, but is not Biblical. Moses felt regret, but God was just getting started.

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Sunday School is for All Ages!

As God had instructed, Moses and Aaron stood before the Pharaoh and voiced God’s command to “Let my people go…” (Ex. 5:1).

The Pharaoh’s response in that day is the same response of any heart not made new and kept by the Spirit of God: “Who is the LORD that I should obey Him…?” (Ex. 5:2). Pharaoh acknowledges no authority greater than his own and no power surpassing his own might. For a time, he flexes his own strength against the word of the Lord—but only for a short time longer.

Sunday School for all ages begins weekly at 9:45 AM. All are warmly welcome.

Sunday School is for All Ages!

The commission God gave to Moses was no simple ask: Return to the place where you were rejected by your kinsmen (Ex. 2:13-14) and where you took the life of another (Ex. 2:12), stand before the most powerful ruler of the day, and issue a command on My behalf that will surely be rejected (Ex. 3:19). Sometimes we focus on his five objections to the call of God without the balance of the weight of Moses’s calling. The responsibility for which Moses was commissioned was great, but the promise of God to go with him and guide him was greater.

Sunday School for all ages begins weekly at 9:45 AM. All are warmly welcome.

Sunday School is for All Ages!

Struggling with his calling to go to the pharaoh & the Israelites bound in Egyptian slavery, Moses raised two key objections.

His first: “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” (Ex. 3:11). God’s answer was revealing—He rightly restored Himself as the center of the narrative (Ex. 3:12).

Moses’s second objection, in essence, is “Who are you?” (Ex 3:13). God’s answer was again revealing: “I AM WHO I AM” (Ex. 3:14). No human in all of history can make that claim. We are because our parents were first. A.W. Tozer writes, “Man is a created being, a derived and contingent self, who of himself possesses nothing but is dependent each moment for his existence upon the One who created him after His own likeness” (1961, emphasis mine).

Only God can say, “I AM THAT I AM.” The rest of us say, “I am because He is.”

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A.W. Tozer. (1961). The Knowledge of the Holy. New York: Harper Collins.

Sunday School is for All Ages!

In the fullness of time, God revealed to Moses His plan to deliver Israel from Mizraim (the Hebrew word for Egypt meaning cramped, tight, or narrow place) into a good & spacious land flowing with milk & honey. Yes, God was going to deliver them from slavery & He was going to judge Egypt, but that’s only the beginning. In His announcement that He has “come down to rescue them,” God is also promising His presence among His people, a far greater gift. The message the Apostle John records in Revelation 21:1-6 is an updated version of the message Moses received 4000 years prior. God desires to dwell with His people.

Sunday School for all ages begins weekly at 9:45 AM. All are warmly welcome.

Sunday School is for All Ages!

A fugitive murderer hiding on the backside of the desert married into the family of an unusual priest. Is there anyone less likely to receive a visitation from the Lord than Moses in Midian? Yet, God knew exactly where Moses was and exactly the purpose he had been delivered as an infant to fulfill, regardless of his past.

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Sunday School is for All Ages!

Two generations of ruthless and bitter slavery was enough to make any Israelite believe that God had forgotten His covenant promise to them—if it was ever a real thing at all. The stories of Joseph were so old and distant—far more the tales of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. Had God ever really spoken to their forefathers? Had He promised a people, a possession, and a purpose for them? Israel may have had time to forget, but God had not, and when the time was right for deliverance, God knew.

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Sunday School is for All Ages!

Because of the faithfulness of his mother, a daughter of the tribe of Levi, Moses was saved through the waters of death in an ark, drawn from among the reeds. Because of the bravery of his sister, Moses was nursed by his mother, then raised by the daughter of the same pharaoh who would have had him murdered. Before Moses would deliver a nation, he was delivered by faithful and brave daughters strengthened by the Lord.

Sunday School for all ages begins weekly at 9:45 AM. All are warmly welcome.

Sunday School is for All Ages!

The name of the specific pharaoh of Exodus chapter 1 is lost to history—we’re just unsure which king of Egypt wreaked genocide against boys born to Hebrew slaves. But, the names of two midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, are preserved for posterity because they feared the Lord more than they feared the king of Egypt. These daughters of Israel interposed themselves between the king whose crown bore the serpent and the boys they were commanded to murder, becoming Israel’s first deliverers.

Sunday School for all ages begins weekly at 9:45 AM. All are warmly welcome.

This is Our Story

Join our Adult Sunday School class on a one-year journey through the entire storyline of Scripture, and see how Jesus is the Hero from beginning to end.

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