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Chief of Sinners.
In Exodus 2:23-25, God hears the cries of the oppressed, remembers His covenant, and orchestrates deliverance - even through human failures and detours - assuring ultimate redemption for His people.
Key Themes and Daily Insights:
Sunday: God’s People in Egypt
"The Exodus narrative confirms: God hears our groaning (Exodus 2:24), remembers our names (Isaiah 49:16), and redirects our missteps - guiding us from bondage to eternal Promised Land."
Key Themes and Daily Insights:
Sunday: God’s People in Egypt
- Israel’s exponential growth despite oppression (Exodus 1:7, 12) fulfills God’s covenant promise (Genesis 15:5).
- Crucial link: Afflictions strengthen God’s people, proving His faithfulness when hope seems lost.
- Joseph’s rise from slavery to leadership (Genesis 41:41-44) showcases God’s providence, later forgotten by Egypt’s rulers (Exodus 1:8).
- Crucial link: God works behind the scenes in suffering to fulfill His redemptive purposes.
- Shiphrah and Puah’s holy disobedience (Exodus 1:17) prioritizes God’s law over Pharaoh’s genocide decree.
- Crucial link: Courage to defy unjust authority (Acts 5:29) preserves God’s plan.
- Moses’ rescue through women’s faith (Jochebed, Miriam, Pharaoh’s daughter) and his formative Hebrew upbringing (Exodus 2:1-10; Acts 7:23).
- Crucial link: God uses faithful individuals, especially the overlooked, to advance salvation.
- Moses’ flight to Midian after killing an Egyptian (Exodus 2:11-15) redirects his path from prince to shepherd.
- Crucial link: God repurposes human failures for preparation (Romans 8:28), offering "living water" in wilderness seasons.
- God’s sovereignty adapts to human choices, using hardship to shape servants (like Moses’ 40-year detour).
- Crucial link: Prayers of the oppressed move God to act - assuring His covenant faithfulness in every crisis.
"The Exodus narrative confirms: God hears our groaning (Exodus 2:24), remembers our names (Isaiah 49:16), and redirects our missteps - guiding us from bondage to eternal Promised Land."
rob
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The lesson portrays "faith principles" as types and "faith" as examples in similes on earth, so Israel could fathom faith.
But Israel saw only the world literals and not the divine literals the verses pointed to.
For example "Moses was a simile of Jesus on earth"
Manna was a biological simile of faith on earth.
It is interesting Israel did not like faith and it's light taste as bread. They wanted the tasty burgers of Egypt instead.
Nu 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Shalom
But Israel saw only the world literals and not the divine literals the verses pointed to.
For example "Moses was a simile of Jesus on earth"
Manna was a biological simile of faith on earth.
It is interesting Israel did not like faith and it's light taste as bread. They wanted the tasty burgers of Egypt instead.
Nu 11:5 We remember the fish, which we did eat in Egypt freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick:
6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.
Shalom