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My name is Keith Simon and right now we're going through the

book of exodus. My wife and I have four kids, three boys and one girl. And if you

have a girl what you find is that people warn you that when that girl hits her teenage

ears that she and her mom are going to have a weird relationship. Now they

eventually get it worked out and I know a lot of moms and daughters including my own daughter and my own wife who are very close.

But there were a few rough years and when they had those rough years my wife would look at me and

she would be completely baffled like what in the world do I do and I would look at her and I would say hey let me handle this I've been dealing with this kind of thing in our marriage for a long time. I've had lots of practice.

Now I was just joking with my wife. I always got a eye roll from her when I said

something like that. But what I was saying is let me be a mediator between you and her.

A mediator is a go-between. We're used to using that term in a legal setting where a mediator tries to resolve the dispute

between two parties. Well what we're going to see in Exodus 18 is that Moses is

the mediator between God and the Israelites, that he's representing God to the people

and he's representing the people to God.

But Moses is a human being just like us,

so he can't be the ultimate mediator.

Instead, he's a type or a picture pointing us to the true

mediator who is Jesus. Because Moses was a human being like us, we can look at him and learn something about ourselves.

But because he points to the true mediator, we can also learn something about Jesus.

Now as mediator between the Israelizing God, Moses had a huge responsibility.

Here's what it says in Exodus 1813. The next day Moses took his seat to serve as judge for the people

and they stood around him from morning till evening. Now imagine

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