Welcome to a year in the Bible with Daily Grace.

This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ and all of Scripture.

Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the New,

seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.

Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are

hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present

throughout the entire biblical story, but the center of it. Hello and welcome back to a year in

the Bible. My name is Beth and I am here with my co-host Alexa. Hey everyone, today we are going

to dive a little deeper into the passage we annotated yesterday, Exodus 4, 22 through 23. Yeah,

Alexa, why don't you tell us where this passage fits in the overall story of scripture? Well,

last week we talked a little bit about God's call and command to Moses to be the one who will lead Israel out of slavery. At this time, the Israelites are in slavery in Egypt, and God desires for Israel to be freed so that he can lead them to the promised land and form them into a nation for his own glory. In order to make this happen, God uses Moses to ask the Pharaoh of Egypt to let the

Israelites go. And what's interesting is that God is also working through the Pharaoh in a unique way.

We read this before Exodus 422 through 23. The Lord instructed Moses, when you go back to Egypt, make sure you do before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power, but I will harden his heart so that he won't let the people go.

So God is preparing Moses, essentially telling him that even though Moses is going to perform all of these wonders, God is going to harden the Pharaoh's heart, and the Pharaoh will not let the people go.

So in Exodus 4, 22 through 23, God gives Moses what he is going to say to the Pharaoh, which is

basically a warning that judgment is going to come upon the Pharaoh's firstborn son because he

has refused to let the people go. Yeah, that's really helpful.

So what thing can we learn about God's character from this passage?

I think God's sovereignty is displayed in this passage, especially if we think back to verse 21 and how God hardens the Pharaoh's heart.

We could spend a lot of time breaking that down and, you know, wrestle with this question

like, is God responsible for hurting Pharaoh's heart or is Pharaoh responsible for hurting his own heart? spend a lot of time breaking that down and you know wrestle with this question like is god

responsible for hurting pharaoh's heart or is pharaoh responsible for hardening his own heart

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