Exodus records one of the greatest miracles in the Old Testament.

1. The deliverance of Israel from Egypt
2. Accomplished by the blood of the Passover lamb.
3. Picturing the coming Lamb of God

God calls Moses for this task

• The burning bush is not consumed
• It speaks of our eternal self-sufficient God.
• Moses is afraid

God comforts Moses concerning His people by making these 4 statements.

"I have seen the affliction of my people"

Nothing escapes His view   read Exodus 3:7

1. In other words, there is no place to hide from God.
   We learned from The Hiding Place message we can hide IN God but we can not hide FROM God.
   
2. read Psalm 139:1-16
3. God sees the things you thought didn´t matter

Look at God´s tender gaze

1. He sees the heartaches; sees the tears
2. He sees the burdens; ills and fears
3. He sees the grief, the worry and despair
4. He loves His own and longs to carry every care

"I have heard their cry"

read Exodus 3:7

Let´s stop and consider what the life of an Israelite must have been like.

• Working under unbearable conditions
• Son´s born to die at the kings command
• The discouragement they must have felt
• Crying out to God in prayer
• Thinking "what´s the use?"

But God hears their cries  Psalm 34:4,6   read 2 Chronicles 7:13

He Heard Their Cry!

I know their sorrows

read Exodus 3:7

1. God had measured all their tears
2. He knew every strike of the whip in Egypt
3. He knew the pain at the end of the day
4. He knew all about their sorrows
5. Jesus came as the Man of Sorrows to save us

I am come down to deliver them

read Exodus 3:8

• Now compassion becomes action
• He will deliver from slavery to freedom
• Jesus came down to free us from the bondage of sin

In verse 10 God tells Moses "I will send thee"

I´m sure that up to this point Moses must have been thrilled!     Now it´s personal: He´s chilled

Let God use you to bring others to freedom in Christ! Amen!!

Bible Studies Home

Exodus 3:1 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
² And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
³ And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
⁴ And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
⁵ And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
⁶ Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
⁷ And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
⁸ And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
⁹ Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.
¹⁰ Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
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?
¹² And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.
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Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows
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Psalm 139:1 O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
² Thou knowest my down sitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
³ Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
⁴ For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
⁵ Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
⁷ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
⁸ If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
¹⁰ Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
¹¹ If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
¹² Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
¹³ For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother´s womb.
¹⁴ I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
¹⁵ My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
¹⁶ Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.
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Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows
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Psalm 34:4&6 4 I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
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Exodus 3:7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows
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2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
¹⁴ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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Exodus 3:8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
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Exodus 3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.
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Last updated on September 15, 2005