THE CALL OF MOSES. -- Exodus 3:1-12. GOLDEN TEXT. --_. will be thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say._ -- Exodus 4:12. TIME. --B. C. 1491, when Moses was eighty years old. PLACE. --In Arabia, among the mountains of Horeb. HELPFUL READINGS. -- Exodus 2:11-15; Exodus 2:16-22; Acts 7:20-36. LE... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ANGEL OF THE LORD. It is properly. term of _office,_ and not of _nature,_ and is used to denote not only human and spiritual _messengers,_ but also any of the impersonal agents, such as winds, fires, pestilences, remarkable dispensations, etc., which serve as. _medium_ to make known the divine... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL NOW TURN ASIDE AND SEE. Moses came out of curiosity, but was called by God; so did many to the ordinances for novelty, as the Jews did to John Baptist; or for some other sinister respect; to catch, it may be, and are caught, as those in John 7:46. Or as in Austin, who, coming to Ambrose to hav... [ Continue Reading ]
II. THE CALL OF GOD. 4. GOD CALLED TO HIM OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE BUSH. Hundreds of years had passed since there had been. divine revelation. The last of which we have any record was made to Jacob at the time when he was on his dying bed. God has only broken the eternal silence when some crisis ar... [ Continue Reading ]
DRAW NOT NIGH HITHER. This may be taken as proper to the Old Testament dispensation, which was. dispensation of darkness, bondage and terror, which the Gospel happily frees us from, giving us boldness to enter into the holiest, and inviting us to draw near.--_ M. Henry._ We must come to God; we mus... [ Continue Reading ]
AM THE GOD OF THY FATHER. The term father seems to be used collectively for the forefathers of Moses. THE GOD OF ABRAHAM. God who had revealed himself to the old patriarchs and entered into covenant with them. MOSES HID HIS FACE. The awe produced by the divine voice and the declaration that Jeh... [ Continue Reading ]
III. THE CRY OF. SRAEL HEARD. 7.. HAVE SURELY SEEN THE AFFLICTION OF MY PEOPLE. Their oppression had now lasted for. period of eighty years, and in their affliction they were beginning to turn to God for deliverance. The long discipline of affliction was beginning to have. wholesome result.... [ Continue Reading ]
AM COME DOWN TO DELIVER THEM. When the Scriptures speak of God "coming down" they use the language to adapt themselves to human understanding. It is meant that God would now intervene for the deliverance of his people. BRING THEM... TO. LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY. A proverbial description o... [ Continue Reading ]
HAVE ALSO SEEN THE OPPRESSION, ETC. God's eyes are always upon his people, he notes all their sorrows, and their oppressors will finally have to reckon with him.... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL SEND THEE TO PHARAOH. He will go as God's messenger and ambassador. The word he carries will be the word of God. The work is. momentous one. To return, after forty years' exile, to demand of. proud king and people the emancipation of an enslaved race, to brave and defy all Egypt's power; such.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO AM I, THAT. SHOULD GO UNTO PHARAOH? Moses puts in many pleas to be excused from this grave task. The Lord patiently and encouragingly hears all these scruples of his creature's mind, gives. satisfactory explanation, and applies. complete remedy to every difficulty, until there is nothing in the... [ Continue Reading ]
WILL BE WITH THEE. The Lord is not moved from his purpose by the objection of Moses. He obviates it by undeniable argument, _I will be with thee._ The power of God with us certainly surmounts all difficulties. This promise will hereafter be embodied in. name, _Immanuel_ --God with us. Here it is fr... [ Continue Reading ]