Doubling Down
Teaching Pastor; Staff Governing Elder; Staff Director
In this passage, God uses Moses’ genealogy to establish Moses’ legitimacy as a leader for Israel and a messenger to Pharaoh from God. Although God meets Moses in his weakness and inadequacy with kindness, he still commands Moses to go before Pharaoh, and Moses obeys because he is receptive to God.
Study Questions
Application
How have you seen God act in kindness toward you when you trusted and obeyed him even in difficult circumstances?
Is there an area in which you feel entitled to sin because of your weakness?
Key Points
God takes his enemies’ efforts to thwart his purposes and turns them into agents of deliverance for his people.
God does not despise our weakness—he meets us in it—but he still requires obedience from us. This is how we grow.
God is severe to those who continually harden their hearts against him, but he is kind to those who obey and trust in him.
God has plans for us that will subvert our will.
What we do—whether we obey or reject God’s will for us—reveals who we are and what we believe.