Êxodo 3

Êxodo 3

Henry - God notices the afflictions of Israel. Their sorrows; even the secret sorrows of God's people are known to him. Their cry; God hears the cries of his afflicted people. The oppression they endured; the highest and greatest of their oppressors are not above him. God promises speedy deliverance by methods out of the common ways of providence. Those whom God, by his grace, delivers out of a spiritual Egypt, he will bring to a heavenly Canaan (ED: AFTER 1000 YEARS IN THE Millennial Kingdom ). Exodus 3:8 "So I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite. I have come down - Ge 11:5,7 Ge 18:21 Ge 50:24 Ps 18:9-19 12:5 22:4,5 34:8 91:15 Isa 64:1 Joh 3:13 6:38 deliver - Ex 6:6-8 Ex 12:51 Ge 15:14 50:24 a good and spacious land - Ex 3:17 13:5 33:2,3 Ge 13:14,15 15:18 Nu 13:19,27 14:7,8 De 1:7,25 De 8:7-9 11:9-24 26:9-15 27:3 28:11 Ne 9:22-25 Jer 2:7 11:5 Jer 32:22 Eze 20:6 Canaanites - Ex 22:23-31 34:11 Ge 15:18-21 De 7:1 Jos 9:1 Ne 9:8 GOD IS SPEAKING TO MOSES eMOSES' PREPARATION TO EXPERIENCE GOD So - Term of Conclusion - They had cried out from bondage, groaning, affliction and because of His faithfulness to His covenant with Abraham, He heard their cry in Ex 2:24. THOUGHT - We need to cry out...What a picture of OUR HIGH PRIEST today Who is able to come to the aid of those who are continually (peirazo in present tense = continually) being tested/tempted (Read Heb 2:18+ and note that the Greek word "come to the aid" is boetheo which means to run to one's aid upon hearing a cry for help! Application? We need to Cry Out to Jesus! - play song Cry Out)! I have come down to deliver them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land - God says I have come down, which He had done twice in Genesis for judgment --- He came down and confused the languages at the Tower of Babel (Ge 11:5,7) and He came down to Sodom and Gomorrah (Ge 18:21ff). The purpose for God coming down is to deliver Israel. Notice that here God says that He is the One Who will deliver Israel from the power of Egypt, whereas in Ex 3:10 he says Moses will bring Israel out (deliver Israel out) of Egypt. So here we see God's sovereignty interacting with Man's responsibility. God could have done it without Moses but chose to use a man to bring about the deliverance.