In this talk, we’ll look at Moses’ encounter with God which propelled him from a place of failure into what became the most famous Old Testament rescue mission.
We’ll briefly remind people of the story so far:
- God created us to thrive in a healthy and whole relationship with Him, with each other, with ourselves and with creation.
- We rejected God and choose our own way and as a result all those four relationships are broken - and we cannot fix it
- God chose Abraham to be the father of the Jewish people through whom Jesus would eventually come. Abraham became the father of Isaac who became the father of Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel and who had 12 sons whose family line would become the 12 tribes of Israel.
- One of Jacob’s sons, Joseph, was sold as a slave by his brothers and ended up in Egypt. God turned the story around and Joseph eventually became the Prime Minister of Egypt - saving the nation from a terrible famine. Joseph’s family ended up coming to Egypt looking for food too, and Joseph forgave his brothers and gave them a home in Egypt.
- 400 years later, Israel’s (Jacob’s) family in Egypt has grown so large in Egypt that the Egyptian Pharoah makes them all slaves and they become heavily oppressed.
- A young Israelite baby, Moses, is miraculously adopted by the daughter of Pharaoh and grows up in Egyptian culture. But as he grows up, he knows that he is, in reality, an Israelite and one day he kills an Egyptian soldier who is beating one of the Israelite slaves. Moses flees Egypt feeling like a complete failure, leaving his enslaved people behind and going to live in the desert of Midian. This is where our story picks up today.
What would you do if you had a divine encounter that resulted in an invitation to return to the place of your greatest failure and re-write the story?
Key Scriptures: Exodus 3:1-10
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