Exodus 4: Moses Fears He Will Fail

Bible Book Club

Susan Merrill & Heather Rubio

Exodus, Susan Merrill, Spirituality, Heather Rubio, Bible, Genesis, Christianity, Leviticus, Bible Book Club, Religion & Spirituality, Religion

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🗓️ 24 January 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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In Exodus 4, join Susan and Heather as they discuss the cycle of doubt that Moses follows with God. God persists and eventually, Moses obeys but it isn't without a few excuses attempted first! Sound familiar? We are happy you are part of the club. Make sure to take a peek at the show notes below for Hayley's recap! Questions How have you failed? Are you trying to hide in obscurity? Do you think that you don’t deserve a future?What did you learn from your failure or time in the desert? ...

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0:00.0	The Bible. Are you intimidated at the thought of reading such a complicated book? Do you find it
0:10.4	daunting or delightful or both? Welcome to the club. The Bible book club where we read every word
0:19.4	of this great book and then study it together.
0:26.1	We're back with Exodus. And last episode, Moses, he's a prince of Egypt. He fell from grace a little.
0:34.0	He killed an Egyptian. And he tries to hide hide it and he runs. He runs to Midian
0:39.9	begins a second 40 years of his life living it basically in obscurity. Nobody knows him or
0:46.4	where he is. But he's going to rise to greatness again. He gets married and then he has some sons and he goes to Mount Sinai. This is the mountain
0:58.6	where he will eventually return with the Israelites and he meets God in a burning bush. So God
1:04.2	calls him to lead the Israelites but Moses is not having it. He begins this conversation with God
1:10.4	that's just really an argument. He's fighting with God.
1:14.5	And so he thinks, God, you got the wrong guy. Please not want the job. I'm like, you're crazy.
1:21.8	I have a stutter or whatever it was. You got the wrong guy. Go look somewhere else, please. And eventually, he has to just
1:31.2	understand that God is the great I am and God knows what he's doing. But I think Moses still has
1:37.2	some doubts there. Right. Right. Which we're going to see. Yeah, he doesn't believe that God's
1:41.5	going to manage both the Israelites and the Egyptians, but we're going to
1:44.7	get into that this week. So first, to set this scene up, I really want us to understand the
1:50.9	storyline of chapter four and to understand that we need to pause and ponder the storyline of our
1:57.6	hero. Where is Moses coming from and what in the world is he thinking? So remember,
2:04.9	Moses is now 80 years old. And for the first 40 years of his life, he was told that he is special.
2:11.5	He's royal. He's powerful. In fact, even Jacobed, his mother, his Israelite mother, probably told him that as a wee little child.
2:20.6	Because you remember, she got to raise him for the first few years until he was weaned.
2:24.4	From the moment he was born, she thought he was special.
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