Moses The Man Series

Acts 7:23 - 29 Moses the Man

For Forty Years God Promoted Him - 7:17-28

For Forty Years God Prepared Him - 7:29

For Forty Years God Propelled Him - 7:30-38

1. The Inclination of the Man - what Moses thought

The Delay - 23 And when he was full forty years old,

The Desire - it came into his heart

The Draw - to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

2. The Indignation of the Man - what Moses did

His Venture - 23 to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

His Vexation - 24 And seeing one of them suffer wrong,

His Virtue - he defended him,

His Vengeance - and avenged him that was oppressed,

His Violence - and smote the Egyptian:

3. The Indiscretion of the Man - what Moses hoped

His Mistake 25 for he supposed his brethren would have understood

His Mission - how that God by his hand would deliver them:

His Misunderstanding - but they understood not.

4. The Intervention of the Man - what Moses found -

Ignorance of -

His Majesty - 26 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove,

His Mission - 26 and would have set them at one again, saying,

His Message - Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another

His Merit - 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

His Motive - 28 Wilt thou kill me, as thou diddest the Egyptian?

John 12:37-41

The Miracles - 37 though he had done so many miracles before them

The Mistrust - yet they believed not on him:

The Message - 38 that the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?

The Millstone - 39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,

The Act - 40 He hath blinded their eyes,

The Attitude - and hardened their heart;

The Abandonment - that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart,

be converted, and I should heal them.

The Majesty - 41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.

The Mystery - Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.

5. The Intimidation of the Man - why Moses fled

The Cause of His Fear - 29 Then fled Moses - at this saying,

Exodus 2:14 And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.

The Confirmation of His Fear -

He is Branded - Ex 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.

He is Banished - 15 But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh,

and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.

He is Betrothed - Exodus 2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: (Reuel or Jethro) and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.

He is Broken - 22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.

The Cost of His Fear - and was a stranger in the land of Madian,

The Consolation in His Fear - where he begat two sons.

He is Blessed - Exodus 18:2 then Jethro, Moses’ father in law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, 3 and her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:

4 and the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of Pharaoh: