Moses’ questions, God’s responses

We are still in Exodus 3 today. Right now, we are going to be focusing on the question of Moses to God in the chapter. Then we will look at the answers God gives to Moses to his questions.

MOSES’ QUESTIONS FOR GOD

God tells Moses that he has seen the oppression of his people in Egypt. He has heard their cries of distress because of their harsh slave drivers. Because God is aware of their suffering, he has come down to rescue them from the power of the Egyptians. God has come down to lead them out of Egypt into their own fertile and spacious land. He describes it as a land flowing with milk and honey. The Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites were living there at the time. But the cry of the Israelites had reached God and he had seen how harshly the Egyptians abused them. So God said he was sending Moses to Pharaoh to lead his people out of Egypt. That leads us to the questions in our text.

1. Who am I to appear before Pharaoh?
2. Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?
3. What should I tell them your name is?

GOD’S RESPONSES TO MOSES

1. God promised to be with Moses.
2. The sign that God was talking to Moses would be when they worshipped God at Mount Sinai after Moses brought them…