How To Read A Children's Bible (Exodus 10:1-29) Series

And if Yahweh is with him, who can be against him?

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I'd like to close today by reflecting on the first two verses:

(1) And Yahweh said to Moses,

"Go to Pharaoh,

because I am making heavy his resolve/heart, and the resolve/heart of his servants,

in order that I may do these signs of mine in his midst,

and in order that you may recount in the ears of your son and your grandson

(1) how I abused /made a fool of Egypt,

and (2) my signs that I did against them,

and that you may know that I [am] Yahweh,"

What you are supposed to take away from this story, is an understanding of who Yahweh is. Yahweh tells you, what you should learn about him from the story. Yahweh "will be, what He will be." And what He will be, is the God who laughs at his enemies (Psalm 2). Who abuses them. Who makes a fool of them. Who does whatever He wants to them.

Pharaoh can oppress Israel, and refuse to let them go. He can threaten Moses. But compared to God, what is Pharaoh? Pharaoh is a paper tiger. At this point, when we hear Pharaoh's last words, we hear them from God's perspective. We laugh. "Tough guy, talking big, can't back it up."

If I've learned one thing over the past year, it's that God is bigger than our problems. He's bigger than my problems. He's bigger than your problems. God "will be" more than enough for me.

And since God is with me, I will win. I will conquer. In Christ, I'm an absolute monster. And so are you. You walk around like Moses, knowing Who is with you, Who is fighting for you, Who backs up your faith-words.

And if we do suffer in this world, like the Israelites did, we know that this is not the end of God's story. It's not the end of my story. And it will never be the end of the church's story. So long as we stay faithful to Jesus, and walk in step with the Spirit (trying to grab Romans 8:4-5, 13, and holding that with what follows), we will conquer. Our last word, is always, conquer.

Let's read from Romans 8:28-39:

31 What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 He who did not withhold his own Son, but gave him up for all of us, will he not with him also give us everything else? 33 Who will bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? It is Christ Jesus, who died, yes, who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who indeed intercedes for us.[w] 35 Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will hardship, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all day long;

we are accounted as sheep to be slaughtered.”

37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.