Moses' Revival Series

How did a spoiled rich kid, raised in a royal palace, decide to choose the people of God over high position and worldly riches? Let's look at how God used Moses to provide revival to an enslaved people.

From the burning bush to being refused entry into the land of promise, Moses led one of the greatest national revivals in history. Israel’s freedom from slavery involved a massive miraculous and logistical undertaking. Exodus is about a mass emigration of Egypt’s slave labor and God’s provision. To accomplish the task required God miraculously feeding millions of people in the desert for a generation. The revival actually took two generations to accomplish, because the first generation lacked faith to enter the land of promise, so they missed out. Conquest of the land came a generation later. Revival began as, “By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward.” (Hebrews 11:24-26) Launched in one humble heart, is often where revival begins, “Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of the earth” (Numbers 12:3).

“Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream. Not so with My servant Moses; He is faithful in all My house. I speak with him face to face, Even plainly, and not in dark sayings; And he sees the form of the Lord. Why then were you not afraid To speak against My servant Moses?” (Numbers 12:6-8)

A nation of slaves was given new life and land. Nation is like a big family. Of this nation of Israel, God had plans to use them to bless the whole world. Slaves have no freedom to worship as they please, so step one was to lead them to freedom. Was the nation going to be grateful or just complain. Given freedom, that first generation still did not show their gratitude, but went back to worship a golden calf. New life does not always guarantee gratitude, so that first free generation lost their rights to a new land except for two families. Life came to the next generation as they began to inhabit the land, and take it from a perverted people group that sacrificed its children to idols. And God even forbad Moses entry into the land, because he had sunk into arrogance. Land and freedom to worship God is a picture of our rest in an eternal land of promise.

Rejoice, lovers of God, do not be discouraged by grumblers because the revival in your heart can bless many people, but beware lest revival cause us to become arrogant.