Hey everybody, welcome to an untimed edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Oh no, we are in trouble. Yeah, well, my clock died, so I don't know how long we're going. Is it time to be done yet? I I was just gonna say it's probably start time to start wrapping it up So if you could just kind of speed this thing along bring your bibles and tune in again tomorrow No, man, we're in a new book brand new book exodus and this one I think we get to read all the way through in fact There's several books that we get to read all the way through before we start hopping around Yeah, but hopping around is fun too. It is. Yeah, i'm not i'm not mad about it But I also kind of like straight through continuity nice about that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that is nice Yeah, this is the the second book In the bible, but not the second book that we'll finish because we've already finished joe. That's true Yeah, we have sometimes we forget that so Yeah, anyways what day is today? Today is thursday thursday thursday. Yeah, exodus one two and three exodus one two and three. Yeah Excited about that. Hey this weekend. We're back in the gospel of john Oh, yeah, i've been out of the gospel of john for a while for a long time, man I almost forgot we were doing that book. I know me too. Yeah. Yeah see but but we're back in Yeah back in chapter 16 and you can hold me to this. We're gonna finish john by the summer Hey, man, you don't got to write checks that you may not be able to cash. It's okay. We love the preaching. We'll be there regardless I'm confident. Here's my dilemma. You don't know my dilemma. I'll let you in. I'll let everybody in on this So we've got Easter coming up And right now we're in, we're literally in the garden of Gethsemane in john and we're in john 16. We've got john 17 coming up the high priestly prayer. You can't tackle that in one sermon. There's just too much in there So we're going to break that up. Okay And then we get into the arrest and the betrayal and the crucifixion and the way it's going to play out with easter Is we're hitting that and then we're hitting it again like right In in not right next to each other because then I could move some things around But there's like a couple of weeks and then it's like back to the cruise. Let's go to it again direction again Which if we're gonna hit what a thing what if you skip it and come back to it? No, no, it's the other way around so we hit easter Ahead of time ahead of time. Oh, just speed it up then man. Come on. You could do it. Come on It would be so perfect. Yeah, it would be it really it just it's almost dead on and and yet it's just like You don't want to do it. I don't know how you know It's a shame that you're not preaching for the rest of your life. Otherwise, I'll never have a chance to preach a section again Touche, but I just, I know it's your church. You get to preach here for as long as you want. Well, I get God willing. Yeah, I get that. It's just, I, I don't want people to be out there and be like, I can't believe you took that much text at one time. And John, how dare he do that? Yeah, but you get it. He is a pastoral privileges. The pitchforks and tar would come out and you could always come back and be like, you know, I'm going to do a special series about. The crucifixion or the, you know, the high priestly prayer. Yeah, that's true. That's true, I guess. So we'll see. Maybe we'll just fast forward. But this week we're talking about the Holy Spirit. I mean, Jesus literally says, it's better for you that I should go away. Then if I should remain because if I don't go away, you're not going to get the holy spirit. Yeah Yeah, the jesus inside you is better than jesus beside you. Yeah Yeah, and and man our theological camp the holy spirit not focused on a whole lot So we're going to focus on the holy spirit this weekend. Wow, and he's going to point us back to jesus. Totally exactly Yeah, we're not going to do anything crazy. We're not doing strange strange fire or anything like that But that's where we're going this weekend Our goal is not to be written about by any of john mccarthur's books. No or any of his books Cronies either that's true. Yeah, let's let's not do that. All right, let's jump into exodus exodus is such a rich book and as paul ends who's a commentator wrote on it It's it's good to remember that this is in the context of the pentateuch at large that this is a chapter In these first five books that God is is writing about the history and the, the formation of Israel. We are picking up with a very familiar account, very familiar story. You've got Pharaoh, you've got Moses, you've got all these players on the scene that you've known for a long time. If you've grown up in the church, but remember pastor, you always like to point out the amount of time that's that span. So about 430 years since we've last seen Israel, as we open up in the book of Exodus, crazy. Yeah. So this is not like, okay, there's Joseph's gone now and tomorrow and the next day there's a new Pharaoh on the scene. But in the meantime, what has God been doing? God has been verse seven, multiplying the people in Israel. God has been faithful to the Abrahamic covenant. And so the people are blowing up and it says in verse seven, they grew exceedingly strong so that the land, the land of Egypt here was filled with them. And as would happen, a new Pharaoh arose, a new King who. Joseph. Now, is he the first one that didn't know Joseph? Who knows? 430 years have passed. Probably not at this point, but at least he's the first one that doesn't have a recollection of Joseph and the kindness of Joseph that that God had used to bless. Israel and bless Egypt even during that time. And so he's looking at the Israelites as a threat. He's going, man, these people are growing so strong. They're overwhelming us and we need to do something about it. And so he starts to make life hard on Israelites, which sets the table for what's going to happen in this book. As the people begin to groan and to begin to grumble, God is going to respond to that. But before that, it turns out that the Pharaoh says, you know how I'm going to stop him. I'm going to stop him by, I'm going I'm just going to weed them out. I'm going to eradicate them. Oof. Yeah. I mean, this is, this is nothing short of genocide. And the way he's going to go about that is he's going to take every male born to them and he's going to make sure that every male child that's born is going to be killed. And yet you've got this group of midwives that. Fear the Lord. And I just think that's super cool. We talked about it last episode. What was their knowledge of God? How much did they know about him? There's 430 years that we can't account for of theological development within the nation of Israel. And it's just fascinating to think, and maybe someday God will be kind to allow us to know this, but how did they develop this concept in this fear of God, the way that they had that led them to look at the most powerful man in the world and say, yeah, you've ordered us to kill these babies, but we're not going to do it. How did these midwives deliver the 603, 000 people? I mean, there's that many women and there's two guys, two gals here listed. How do you propose a reconciliation with that, with that idea of these two gals doing this? I imagine there's more than just the two gals. The two, I think these are just the figureheads. Yeah. So like a management scenario, they're the ones who oversee it. Right. Right. An easy solution to a thorny problem that people have suggested in the past. So if there's that many Hebrews and that many Israelites, which is going to be something we're going to come up against soon about how quickly they multiply. If we're talking about 600, 000 of them that are that are around in the Exodus, that puts them about, about the ballpark of one to 2 million at a conservative estimate, which means that one to 2 million plus are marching through the desert, which seems to be. Impossible apart from some kind of divine intervention, which is I think what both of us would propose, right? Yep. Yeah Well, one of these babies that's gonna be born is Moses and Moses is born and hidden by his parents In fact, the writer of Hebrews says that they noticed that he was beautiful that there was something about this child that caused them to say there's something distinct about him. And so out of faith, it says there in Hebrews 11, they hide him from Pharaoh. They're, they're not going to let Pharaoh get to him because Pharaoh says, okay, you know what? If the midwives aren't going to kill them, then I'm just going to have the Egyptians do it. He can conscripts everybody in Egypt to, to kill these. These Israelite toddlers, these Israelite male children, two years and under these these boys. And he just a horrific thing. But anyways, Moses is famous as we're going to hide him. And that leads to the scene with Moses in the basket in the Nile river and Pharaoh's daughter stumbling upon him there and taking him into her care and calling Moses's mom to come and be his, his wet nurse and to take care of him. That's just a measure of God's grace there to allow his mom, even though she had to give up her son to still have that. that time with him and that, that those early stages there. But, but Pharaoh or Moses rather goes into Pharaoh's household through this interaction of a Pharaoh's daughter finding him there in the the Nile river. Verses 11 through 22, then Moses has grown up in Pharaoh's household and goes out it says in the text to see what's going on amongst his people. So he had this awareness probably because his mom is, his mom is raising him and teaching him and nursing him is, is teaching him these things about who his people truly were. And he sees this Israelite being abused and ends up killing him. And not the Israelite, the Egyptian and burying him in the sand and then finds out the next day, Hey this has become known and he fears that Pharaoh is going to kill him for doing this. And so he flees into Midian medium being the middle of nowhere and ends up staying with a man named Jethro and marries one of his daughters named Zipporah. And during that time, Zipporah is going to give birth to Moses's firstborn son, who's going to be named Gershom. You said the guy's name is Jethro. Yeah. My Bible here says in verse 18, that his name is Ruel or Raul Raul. Which one is it? It's both. You think it's both? It's both. Okay. Yeah. I think multiple names. We've seen that multiple times, which by the way, one name that we haven't mentioned yet, but is actually in the text, I think anyway, is. Moses sister, Miriam. So even though she's not mentioned as Miriam, just keep her in mind. She delivers him by catching him and catching Pharaoh's daughter and saying, Hey, by the way, would you like me to find someone to nurse him? I know just the person, and she goes and gets her mom. So just notice, that's Miriam here. She delivers him, and eventually Moses will deliver her. Yeah. Yeah, cause Miriam's not gonna be great later on. She has a few dark spots, but overall, I think she's Probably good good at it. Yeah. Yeah dark spots or white spots depending. Oh leprosy. Yeah Bible nerd joke Yeah, so he's there in Midian and in verses 23 through 25 Then we get this transition section where back in Egypt the Israelites under the the harsh treatment of Pharaoh are crying out under God's Are crying out to God rather for deliverance under the harsh treatment of Pharaoh Treatment from pharaoh and it says there and god saw them heard their cry and god knew and and that's just a A weighty word there that he knew he was acquainted with he was aware of and he was not Ignorant to what they were going through at the time Time frame marker here starting at verse 11 all the way through the end of this chapter. Moses is 40 years old Yep, this is chapter one of his life He's got three chapters basically and this is chapter 140 40 40 is how you break down his life This is the first 40 years that we've gone through a lot. I mean he was born like three verses ago Yep. And now he's 40. So you're missing some timeframe here, but just notice we're looking at a 40 year old man who's now looking at the next phase of his life. And it's going to be a scary one. Yeah, wilderness wandering. I feel that to you. I've chapter one of my life 40s done now I'm in my second second 40 a chapter dude 40 is gonna be crazy your third 40 gnarly anyways yeah, so we've got the the situation taking place where the Israelites are crying out to God for deliverance and that's what exodus is really Going to be all in response to and so chapter 3 we hear it is we get The burning bush God shows up appears to Moses while he's in Midian while he's Tending the flock, the sheep and median is really a formative time in Moses's life because he's going to be there taking care of these sheep Preparing to go and take care of the flock of God as he's going to lead them out from Egypt. And so Moses is there taking care of Jethro's sheep, but then God shows up in this bush that's on fire, but not being consumed. Moses turns aside, goes to see it. And God there calls him to the task at hand. And he instructs him on how to go about it. He also tells him that the Egyptians aren't going to listen to him, but that he would compel them through mighty works and wonders. And so we get this opening call here for Moses, which would be great if Moses said, check, Roger, let's go. I'm ready to go. Yeah. As we're going to find out. I think in tomorrow's episode, he's, he's not going to say that. Which I find so fascinating because you would expect Moses to be like this man of faith, this incredible man of strength that says, yes, Lord, anything, anytime, anyplace. And yet he's not right. He fights God. In fact, in chapter four, we're going to see some of the things that he says to God as excuses for why he can't do this. And I wonder why God would use a man like Moses because he. Pushes moses into this role and then he makes him lead them and then at certain points, he's like I give up lord You're not gonna lead these people Then just kill me. Please help me just deal with this. Why do you think he does this first corinthians chapter one, right? I mean, it's not the the wise Those of you you weren't not many of you were noble. Not many of you were wealthy Not many of you were wise but god chose what is weak God shows the things that are not in order to shame the the proud the proud and so I think if you had a leader here who was You know You know, super eloquent and on the front lines and strong and brave and everything else like that. We might be tempted to look at him and give him glory. Whereas this, when we read this, we give God glory. We're like, okay, God, you used a broken instrument to bring about this deliverance. You used a broken vessel to do this. And you've worked in spite of Moses weaknesses. And if you can use Moses, then here I am, send me, I'm ready to be used. I've got my own weaknesses, just like Moses had. But use me the way you use moses to do great things Is moses a good type of leader in other words? Is he the kind of person that we should say man if I if I aspire to leadership ala first timothy three titus one I should be like moses. I should not want to lead I should maybe even in some ways push against it And only do it unless god makes me do it There's a measure of humility that's demanded of any leader and there's a measure of Of trepidation before stepping into a leadership role. That should be true that any leader should have. But the Bible also says the one who desires to be an overseer, to be a pastor desires, a noble task. And so there's a, there's a point at which the scriptures commend the desire to go into pastoral ministry. And that desire to do that is not the desire that we see in Moses. Moses is saying, send anyone else about me. I don't want to do this. In fact, Peter says of qualifications in first Peter chapter five, that An elder needs to shepherd the flock, not under compulsion. In other words, not that somebody is making him do it, but willingly. Now he goes on to say, not for sorted gain, not for those things, but the desire, the motivation to do it is, is something that a leader needs to have. A leader needs to step in and say, okay, I'm ready. God, here I am. Use me. That's a good word. Yeah. Note here in verse 14, God uses his name. I am who I am Yahweh. And that's going to become the predominant name that God uses to refer to himself from this point forward. Now he's going to even say, and we'll get to this tomorrow. He's going to say, I didn't, I didn't reveal myself this way to your forefathers, but this is who I'm revealing myself to you as. And we'll talk about why that's significance significant there. Shout out to the LSB, the Legacy Standard Bible. They will use God's name, Yahweh, in the text, which I do appreciate. I kind of wish the ESV would do something like that. I know that's a textual choice, but why does the ESV choose not to do that? Readability, making it contextualizing. Yeah, making it readable for people that don't know Hebrew, so that if somebody picks up the Bible and reads it. Tradition, too, and there's some of that, too. We have a translation that is a traditional translation that actually has, one, two, three, I think three connections to it that are older. So it's, it's not a matter of faithfulness. It's not a matter of fidelity, but if you do like something like that, the LSB is a good option to supplement your ESV reading. You know what else has it? What else has it? The y'all Bible. The y'all Bible. It says Yahweh. Yeah. But see, that doesn't have a leather cover. It's not as nice. Not yet. Unless you go post Tenebroso. I, yeah, I'm still waiting to hear back from those guys. They've not gotten back to me, man. How long is their backlog? Hey, PTL. We got to get you, I mean, I know you're listening. I know they're listening. They are obviously anyone who's anyone in Christendom is listening to this podcast. Yeah, yeah. It's yeah, you're right. I think it is tradition because the Jews, the tradition amongst the Jews is they would not pronounce the name Yahweh instead. In fact, still today, they won't. Even the scribes, as they were writing the divine name, Yahweh could not be interrupted for anything because they didn't want to have somebody interrupt them and, and the name would be defiled through a pen stroke even. So I think that carried over into Christendom that, that led to that. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I mean, the high view of God is a great thing. It's one of our distinctives, but I think we go beyond the pale of what scripture calls when we get into that point. Yeah, that's good. Hey, let's let's wrap up by praying and then we will continue on tomorrow with another edition God, thanks for this this text this portion and we are grateful for what we read in The account of the exodus in the greater exodus that all of us have come to know through The deliverance works for us at the cross by jesus christ on our behalf. And so we're grateful for that father Thank you for the better Moses the one who went for us to deliver us to free us from our sins As we read this god help us to be men and women who are attentive Attentive to detail who are paying attention to what you're doing with Israel here in understanding The the foreshadows and everything else that are pointing us to jesus all the while while we read it So we are grateful for this passage grateful for this text and pray this in jesus name. Amen Hey, keep reading your bibles and tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the daily bible podcast. See you folks. Bye. 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