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White Horse Inn

Out of Slavery and to the Promised Land: Why Moses?

White Horse Inn

Sola Media

Grace, Scripture, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, God, Knowledge, Christ, Gospel, Jesus, Faith, Belief, Religion, Christian, History, Theology, Bible, Reformation, Horton, Discipleship

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Called by God to lead his people to the promised land, Moses is heralded as a prophet like no other—one with whom God spoke face to face. But between his murderous past, bursts of anger that ultimately kept him from entering the promised land, and his own record that he was the most humble man to ever live, is he the hero we think? In this episode of White Horse Inn, hosts Michael Horton, Justin Holcomb, Bob Hiller, and Walter Strickland tackle the complicated details of Moses’s life, reflecting on how God works in and through sinners.

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So he does, he makes this golden calf and God gets angry up on the mountain and says,

0:07.0

I'm going to go down and destroy him, fascinatingly enough, Moses in the account talks him out of it.

0:12.0

And then he comes down and kind of unlike Jesus does, sees what's going on and gets furious.

0:19.0

And this is my favorite line of the Bible because like, if I'm Aaron, this is exactly what I'm saying.

0:23.0

What's going on? There's this golden cow. Where did this come from? Aaron goes, I don't know.

0:28.0

The people gave me their gold and I threw it in the fire and outwalked this cow.

0:33.0

It's just right. They're out of the cow. So good.

0:36.0

And Moses gets angry and he says, okay, and they crushed the cow.

0:40.0

He forces the people to drink the gold and then says, who is with me?

0:46.0

The Levites rise up, his own tribe rises up and he says, now slaughter a number of men.

0:50.0

I think they killed 3,000 people that day who worshiped the cow.

0:53.0

What's it mean to be grafted into that?

0:56.0

This is where it starts to get very strange to me.

0:58.0

Can I add one more?

0:59.0

I mean, I know there's another things, but that stood out to me because when we're thinking about which episodes,

1:03.0

his particular failure in numbers 20 also stands out where before in Exodus 17, God tells him,

1:11.0

take up the rod and strike the rock. And then Moses did that.

1:15.0

And then you have in numbers 20, take the rod and speak to the rock, but he spoke to the people and struck the rock twice.

1:21.0

And that, you know, that was his big disobedience, like eating the fruit from a tree.

1:25.0

People kind of go, what's the big deal about that? He had a rock.

1:27.0

Well, he took credit for what God was going to do.

1:30.0

He lost his temper again and then he was in a front to God's power.

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