Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast where pastor and bestselling author Paul David Tripp

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life. Have you ever felt God calling you back

to the very place you once ran from? Today we continue our year-long Bible study in the book of

Exodus,

the gospel one rescue at a time. In this episode, Paul unpacks Moses's return,

God's hardening of Pharaoh's heart, and how scripture holds together both God's sovereignty

and our responsibility in every choice we make. Here's Paul, teaching from Exodus chapter 4.

Thank you. Here's Paul, teaching from Exodus chapter 4. God is sovereign over everything, and we are always responsible for our choices and actions.

...and... Well, there could be no better title for this part of the story of Moses than back to the future.

This is Exodus 418 through 23.

Moses went back to Jethra.

His father and said to him,

please let me go back to my brothers in Egypt

to see whether they are still alive.

And Jethyl said to Moses, go in peace.

And the Lord said to Moses and Midia and go back to

Egypt for all the men who were seeking your life are dead. So Moses took his wife and his sons

and had them ride on a donkey and went back to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the staff of God in his

hand. And the Lord said to Moses, when you get back to Egypt,

see that you do before Pharaoh all the miracles that I've put in your power.

But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

Then you shall say to Pharaoh, thus says the Lord, thus says the Lord,

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