The Bible Study Podcast, episode 28, part two on Moses, the reluctant servant of God.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen.

Today in the show, we go back to the book of Exodus,

and we're going to pick up the story in Exodus chapter three, where Moses encounters a burning bush.

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock

to the far side of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert,

and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire

from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire, it did not burn up. So Moses

thought I will go over and see this strange sight, why the bush does not burn up. When the Lord saw that he had

gone over to look, God called him from within the bush, Moses, Moses, and Moses said, here I am.

Do not come any closer, God said, take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.

Then he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,

and the God of Jacob. At this, Moses hit his face because he was afraid to look at God.

The Lord said, I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out

because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering, so I have come down to

rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land and into a good

and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the home of the Canaanites, Hittites,

Amorites, Parasites, Hivites, and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me,

and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now go. I am sending you to Pharaoh

to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I that I should go to

Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?

And God said, I will be with you, and this will be the sign that I have sent you.

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