Message Notes

YOUTH WORSHIP SERVICE 27 May 2023

Message: “God remembered His covenant” Exodus 2:24

Texts: Exodus 2:13-25

INTRODUCTION

1. Three areas of concern are noted in Exodus 1-2

a) The children of Israel had become enslaved

b) The life of Moses as the son of the daughter of Pharaoh

c) The LORD God

2. How do we see the connection?

MOSES FLEEING FROM EGYPT

13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why are you striking your companion?”

14 Then he said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?”

So Moses feared and said, “Surely this thing is known!”

Exodus 2:13-14

1. He was not accepted by the Hebrews

2. He was hunted by Pharaoh because he had killed an Egyptian officer

3. Moses had no choice but to flee from Egypt

MOSES IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN

16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters. And they came and drew water, and they filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. 17 Then the shepherds came and drove them away; but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.

18 When they came to Reuel their father, he said, “How is it that you have come so soon today?”

19 And they said, “An Egyptian delivered us from the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew enough water for us and watered the flock.”

20 So he said to his daughters, “And where is he? Why is it that you have left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.”

21 Then Moses was content to live with the man, and he gave Zipporah his daughter to Moses. 22 And she bore him a son. He called his name Gershom, for he said, “I have been a stranger in a foreign land.”

Exodus 2:16-22

1. The scene at a well

a) Wells were important places

b) They supplied water for both human beings and animals

c) The daughters of Reuel, who was a priest, were shepherdesses

d) They had brought their father’s flock to the well

e) But they were bullied by some shepherds

2. Moses was a gallant young man

a) He saw the shepherdesses being bullied by the shepherds

b) He went to help the shepherdesses

3. The daughters reported this incident to Jethro

a) His daughters were instructed to invite Moses for dinner

b) He ended up marrying Zipporah

4. His firstborn was called “Gershom”

To symbolise that he was “a stranger in a foreign land”

THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN THE LAND OF EGYPT

Now it happened in the process of time that the king of Egypt died. Then the children of Israel groaned because of the bondage, and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.

Exodus 2:23

1. The Pharaoh that had enslaved the children of Israel had died

2. But this did not mean that life was easier

3. If at all, things had become even harder

a) The children of Israel groaned because of their bondage

b) They cried out

c) Their cry came up to God because of their bondage

THE LORD’S RESPONSE TO THE CRIES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL

24 So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.

Exodus 2:24-25

1. A masterful description of how God responded

a) God heard

b) God remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

i) This does not mean that God has forgotten

ii) It means that God is going to fulfil what He had promised

c) God looked upon the children of Israel

i) He understood them

ii) He felt compassion towards them

d) God acknowledged them

i) They were the children of Israel

ii) They were the descendants of Abraham and Isaac

2. The LORD was now going to execute a great plan

a) To deliver Israel from Egypt

b) To bring them into the land of Canaan

c) To fulfil His covenant promise to the patriarchs of Israel

CONCLUSION

1. God knows all the problems we have in our life

2. He will respond to us when we cry out to Him

3. He will help us overcome life’s many challenges