1. Exodus – Outline
1:1-2:25 The Setting: Growth and Oppression of Israel in Egypt
3:1-6:27 The Call and Commissioning of Moses
6:28-15:21 The Miraculous Deliverance from Bondage
15:22-18:27 The Journey to Mount Sinai
19:1-24:11 The Covenant at Sinai
24:12-31:18 Instructions Regarding the Tabernacle
32:1-34:35 Rebellion, Covenant Breaking, Covenant Renewal
35:1-39:43 The Construction of the Tabernacle and Its Furnishings
40:1-38 The Tabernacle is Set Up and the Glory Descends
Gordon D. Fee and Douglas Stuart, How to Read the Bible Book by Book: A Guided Tour (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), 34-42

2. Fraxinella

3. Why Me?

4. The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”… (Judges 6:14)
Ah, Sovereign LORD,
” I said, “I do not know
how to speak;
I am only a child.” …
(Jeremiah 1:6)
Why Me?

5. Moses – Like God

6. When is a staff not a staff?
Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded…Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake…(Exodus 7:80-13)
When is a staff not a staff?

7. When is a staff not a staff?
Each one threw down his staff
and it became a snake.
But Aaron’s staff swallowed
up their staffs…(Exodus 7:12)
When is a staff not a staff?

8. Hardened Hearts v Soft Hearts
Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the LORD had said… (Exodus 7:13)
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go… (Exodus 7:14)
...and Pharaoh’s heart became hard; he would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the LORD had said… (Exodus 7:22b)
Hardened Hearts v Soft Hearts

9. The LORD would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend… (Exodus 33:11)
The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to say to you: Let my people go, so that they may worship me in the desert… (Exodus 7:16)
Relational God

10. N.I.V. Application Commentary Peter Enn
When our hearts and minds are imbued with a personal knowledge of our creator…proper morality will follow…Our actions flow from who we are at the very core…And who we are is determined by whom we worship…whether God…the world…or ourselves…
The plague narrative…the whole book of Exodus…indeed, the whole bible itself…is a call to worship the true God…and it calls us to that goal by telling us who he is…
N.I.V. Application Commentary Peter Enn