​“God’s Calling Renewed” (Exodus 6:28–7:7)

​“God’s Calling Renewed” (Exodus 6:28–7:7)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday PM, July 16, 2017

Exodus 6:28–7:7 NIV
²⁸ Now when the Lord spoke to Moses in Egypt, ²⁹ he said to him, “I am the Lord. Tell Pharaoh king of Egypt everything I tell you.” ³⁰ But Moses said to the Lord, “Since I speak with faltering lips, why would Pharaoh listen to me?” ¹ Then the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. ² You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country. ³ But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, ⁴ he will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions, my people the Israelites. ⁵ And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.” ⁶ Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord commanded them. ⁷ Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.

Exodus 6:12–13 NIV
¹² But Moses said to the Lord, “If the Israelites will not listen to me, why would Pharaoh listen to me, since I speak with faltering lips?” ¹³ Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron about the Israelites and Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he commanded them to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

Exodus 4:10–17 NIV
¹⁰ Moses said to the Lord, “Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” ¹¹ The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the Lord? ¹² Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.” ¹³ But Moses said, “Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else.” ¹⁴ Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. ¹⁵ You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. ¹⁶ He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. ¹⁷ But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”

1. The weakened confidence of God’s chosen deliverer (6:28–30).

2. God’s gracious renewal of Moses’ commission (7:1–7).
      a. Renewal of Moses’ and Aaron’s roles in the mission (1–2).
      b. Reminder of the mission’s challenges (3–4a).
      c. Reassurance of the mission’s ultimate success (4b–5).
      d. Response to the mission’s mandate (6).
      e. Removal of normal human limitations (7).

Main Idea: When we are most discouraged, let us look to God to remind us of our purpose and mission and be reassured of his strength and victory.