Title: Moses in Darkness
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Exodus 5:1-9
Title: Moses in Darkness
If you want to go to Korea, you don't have to take a plane right away. I got up early and went to the airport to check in my luggage, go through security checks, and do ticketing.... These are not things that I have to go through, but things I have to go through to get on an airplane... And I sit bored in the plane for more than 16 hours. there should be
It doesn't seem like it's going anywhere. But eventually they arrive in Korea.
The level of exodus of the people of Israel was clearly accomplished by God's work by God's power.
However, if you look at the process, there are some corners and corners that seem not to be fulfilled. There are dark times when it seems that God does not work at all. There are times when you may not be able to believe at all in the God who saves. There are times when we feel disappointed, discouraged, and do not want to believe in God.
But after patience, God was there and always worked.
1. When Moses said that he would go down to Egypt to meet the elders of the people and leave Egypt, the people believed Moses. (4:31) Moses gained great strength: a sign that things were going well, a hundredfold of courage
He meets Pharaoh with Aaron and the Lord tells him to let the Israelites go. So I ask you to let me go
2. Pharaoh's response to this: He is cold, who is the LORD, that I should listen to him? I do not know him, so I cannot let him go; I refuse.
3. Moses earnestly asks to let him go. We are going to go about three days to worship our God. If we don't, we may die.
Now, obey God's word and say, "Let me go." If we say no, it means that we have violated God’s will, and “we may die.” It appealed to their emotions.
4. Then Pharaoh enters the practical problem and refuses.
The work of building Rameses and Pidom now requires a lot of people, so how can we stop this work? It is impossible. Then, he calls the middle leaders of the place of work and gives the order, “From now on, let the people of Israel buy their own straw to make bricks.” When I went to pick up the hump, I ended up with more hump. The relief from the pain actually made me do more difficult work.
5. Middle leaders go out to the field and give orders to the people of Israel. Then we can't produce bricks as much as we used to. He then told me to pick up straw and produce the same number of bricks as before.
So, the people had to work harder than the time it took to gather straw. It was more difficult than before Moses came. So I can't stay still. I went to Pharaoh.
6. Doing more work than before while being beaten by Pharaoh is afflicting your people, and I appeal to you to reduce the work.
7. The people said that they thought that because they were lazy that they went to worship after three days, and they said that they would not give straw and produce the same bricks.
Here, the people think of it as if Moses had scraped it and made it into crumbs, and they go to Moses and pour out painful things.
Because of you, we got our hairs stuck in Pharaoh, and we died even more. It wasn't like this before, but after you met Pharaoh, they complained about the pain that they made us work with the intention of killing us.
8. Knowing that the situation is worse than before, Moses goes to God and prays.
I thought it would be fine, but it got worse. Why did you send me to such a difficult task?
Why didn't you save the people and make them more abused?
I tell God that it seems that God is not doing the work of salvation, and that work seems to be getting more difficult.
9. God answers. They appeared to your ancestors, but they did not tell you my name, but I told you to lead my people by telling you my name as well. He says that God's salvation is clear. And he tells the genealogy of Aaron and Moses in detail. It seems that Moses did not see this, so he may not know it, but you and Aaron are here today because of the work of the Lord. The God who worked in the past is the God who works now and in the future. He gives you a sign to clearly believe in the workings of God.
In these words, we can examine the situation of the three groups.
1. Moses and Aaron: After believing the word of God, he went to Egypt and met Pharaoh according to the word of God. It is a group that believes and obeys God. But I didn't see things going well, I saw things worse.
Your faith in God will be questioned. You will feel skeptical about your obedience.
2. The elders and people of the people of Israel: I first believed in Moses and had hope in his words. How good it is to be freed from this damn slavery. I endured the pain in hope.
They believed in them and they believed in God. However, the result of what Moses was doing was returned to them with greater torment. They resented Moses and did not believe in his leadership.
3. Pharaoh and his ministers; Moses, a person whom he did not expect to have gone well, appears and tries to err. They say that they will take out the people of Israel who are good to be pampered by using the name “Jehovah”, so they will see Jehovah and Moses as thorns in their eyes. You will not believe in Jehovah at all, and Moses will look disgusting.
Overall, it seems that God is not a good God.
However, looking back on this case after the
It was an event in God's saving history.
It was an event that required patience to believe and depend on God.
It was not that God did not exist, but it was God's wisdom to accomplish a greater work of God.
Therefore, if we suffer in spite of living by faith and obedience, we will have to trust and rely on God with patience.
God is present in the moment and knows the pain. We must not lose hope as we look to God who is working to achieve greater salvation rather than turning away.
James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when you meet trials of various kinds, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience, so that you may be perfected, so that you may be complete and complete, lacking in anything .