“In God’s Time and in God’s Way” (Exodus 2:11-15)

“In God’s Time and in God’s Way” (Exodus 2:11–15)

Pastor Cameron Jungels

Eastside Baptist Church

Sunday PM, March 19, 2017

 

Exodus 2:11–15 (NIV)

¹¹ One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. ¹² Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. ¹³ The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?”

¹⁴ The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.”

¹⁵ When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.

 1.  The unfolding of God’s plan often seems very slow to us (11).

 ²⁰ "At that time Moses was born, and he was no ordinary child. For three months he was cared for by his family.  ²¹ When he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter took him and brought him up as her own son.  ²² Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. (Acts 7:20-22, NIV)

 

² Have mercy on me, LORD, for I am faint; heal me, LORD, for my bones are in agony.  ³ My soul is in deep anguish. How long, LORD, how long?  ⁴ Turn, LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love.  (Psalm 6:2-4, NIV)

 

⁴ But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,  ⁵ to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. (Gal. 4:4-5, NIV)

 

²⁸ Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.  ²⁹ He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.  ³⁰ Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;  ³¹ but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint. (Isa. 40:28-31, NIV)

 2.  We must identify with our God and his covenant people, even if that means trading the pleasures of the world for the temporary sorrows of this life (11).

 ²⁴ By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.  ²⁵ He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.  ²⁶ He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. (Heb. 11:24-26, NIV)

 3.  In our pursuit of God and his kingdom, let us not rashly rush ahead of God’s timing and pursue the right things in the wrong way (12–15).

 ²⁵ Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue them, but they did not. (Acts 7:25, NIV)