Exodus 7:14-25
Moses and Aaron did just as the Lord had commanded. He raised his staff in the presence of Pharaoh and his officials and struck the water of the Nile, and all the water was changed into blood.
Pharaoh would not listen to Moses and Aaron, just as the Lord had said.
And all the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water, because they could not drink the water of the river. Pharaoh did not take even this to heart.
The Nile, heart of the nations economy and worship - its life-blood - turns to blood: the fish cannot live in the chick, red water.
Why?
Moses and Aaron did these judgments in presence of Pharaoh, let Pharaoh know that it is the judgment of the Lord.
Pharaoh was not care his people's living. He didn't care what people drinking.
God knows everything before it is happen, but all of these are under God's sovereignty.
Nine times God acts, and Pharaoh, his magicians and all the gods of Egypt are powerless to reverse God's judgments. The magicians may counterfeit, but they cannot countermand(取消命令，反對命令).
How?
God's judgment is severe than anything in the world. No any one can countermand God's word.
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Friday, May 6, 2016
The Egyptians will know that I am the Lord
Exodus 6:28-7:13
Aaron to speak for Moses: the Lord said to Moses: "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aron will be your prophet."
I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions my people the Israelites. And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.
Aaron's staff becomes a snake. and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
Pharaoh has heard and rejected Moses' request. He has shown the sort of man he is;" Who is the Lord...? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go'.
Now God begins a series of judgments which will teach Pharaoh and his people who the Lord is, and show them the extent of God's power over all creation.
Why?
"God will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though God multiply his miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen". Because Pharaoh's heart did not acknowledge the Lord, refused to listen to God's word. He did not afraid God. So God let Egyptians know "Who is the Lord?"
Suffering are caused by their heart and refuse to turn to the Lord.
How?
Listen to the Lord is beginning of blessing and freedom.
Aaron to speak for Moses: the Lord said to Moses: "See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aron will be your prophet."
I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my divisions my people the Israelites. And the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring the Israelites out of it.
Aaron's staff becomes a snake. and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts. But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs.
Pharaoh has heard and rejected Moses' request. He has shown the sort of man he is;" Who is the Lord...? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go'.
Now God begins a series of judgments which will teach Pharaoh and his people who the Lord is, and show them the extent of God's power over all creation.
Why?
"God will harden Pharaoh's heart, and though God multiply his miraculous signs and wonders in Egypt, Pharaoh will not listen". Because Pharaoh's heart did not acknowledge the Lord, refused to listen to God's word. He did not afraid God. So God let Egyptians know "Who is the Lord?"
Suffering are caused by their heart and refuse to turn to the Lord.
How?
Listen to the Lord is beginning of blessing and freedom.
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Then you will know that I am the Lord your God
Exodus 6:1-27
God will not make himself known to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
"Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians."
God make confirmation again to Moses, his mighty hand, his promise, his Holy name.
Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and cruel bondage.
Who are Moses and Aron? The genealogy identifies them as the descendants of Jacob through the line of his son Levi. The list is an extract from the longer one in Numbers 26.
Why?
The name YHWH is used in Genesis from 2:4, but of course it was known to those who later wrote the stories down.
God gives freedom to his people, God redeems them from slaves with mighty acts of judgment.
One who turns the Lord and be chosen by the Lord will know that He is the Lord.
Much people under discouragement and cruel bondage won't listen to the word of God. For they did not know the mighty of the Lord and his love until his has no choice.
How?
Turn to the Lord more early, then take less pain and struggling in our life. After suffering we will know that the Lord is my God.
God will not make himself known to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.
I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
"Then you will know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians."
God make confirmation again to Moses, his mighty hand, his promise, his Holy name.
Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and cruel bondage.
Who are Moses and Aron? The genealogy identifies them as the descendants of Jacob through the line of his son Levi. The list is an extract from the longer one in Numbers 26.
Why?
The name YHWH is used in Genesis from 2:4, but of course it was known to those who later wrote the stories down.
God gives freedom to his people, God redeems them from slaves with mighty acts of judgment.
One who turns the Lord and be chosen by the Lord will know that He is the Lord.
Much people under discouragement and cruel bondage won't listen to the word of God. For they did not know the mighty of the Lord and his love until his has no choice.
How?
Turn to the Lord more early, then take less pain and struggling in our life. After suffering we will know that the Lord is my God.
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
God's way to the promised land
Exodus 5:1-23
The first requested to Pharaoh merely aggravates the situation.
The people turn against their 'deliverer'.
Moses in his frustration turns once again to God. And God renews his calling, reminding Moses of who God is and telling him what he intends to do.
The requests: This seems less than the whole truth; but it is in the nature of a test case. Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians. Pharaoh's reaction reveals his implacable hostility, already predicted by God.
Access to Pharaoh if Ramesses II is the pharaoh in question, he is known to have made himself available even to ordinary petitioners. Moses, brought up in the harem, knew how to attract Pharaoh's attention.
Why?
Following God's commands may have more difficult and complain from environment. God's promises are confirmed after a few hard works.
The challenge to face is out faith to the problem and the hard ways.
It is not the easy way to the promise land. But the faith and courage may lead us to the milk and fruitful promised land.
When Moses met difficult he turned to the Lord, this is our way either.
How?
Turn to the Lord when there seems no way, God has his way for me. He is the Lord, He is my way.
The first requested to Pharaoh merely aggravates the situation.
The people turn against their 'deliverer'.
Moses in his frustration turns once again to God. And God renews his calling, reminding Moses of who God is and telling him what he intends to do.
The requests: This seems less than the whole truth; but it is in the nature of a test case. Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians. Pharaoh's reaction reveals his implacable hostility, already predicted by God.
Access to Pharaoh if Ramesses II is the pharaoh in question, he is known to have made himself available even to ordinary petitioners. Moses, brought up in the harem, knew how to attract Pharaoh's attention.
Why?
Following God's commands may have more difficult and complain from environment. God's promises are confirmed after a few hard works.
The challenge to face is out faith to the problem and the hard ways.
It is not the easy way to the promise land. But the faith and courage may lead us to the milk and fruitful promised land.
When Moses met difficult he turned to the Lord, this is our way either.
How?
Turn to the Lord when there seems no way, God has his way for me. He is the Lord, He is my way.
Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Be humble and courage to serve the Lord
Exodus 4:1-31
God gave a few signs to Moses, let him may express to others. People will know the Lord do have appeared to him.
Moses said he is slow of speech and tongue. The Lord said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is is not I, the Lord" Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."
But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it." Then the Lord's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do."
The Lord told Moses the Pharaoh will not listen to him, and God will kill their firstborn son, then they will let him go.
Before serve the Lord, Moses need circumcision, so his wife Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses's feet with it.
The people won't believe me, God gives Moses three sings with which to convince them that he really has met with God. This is the kind of magic they are familiar with: the kind that went with the religion of Egypt.
'I am no speaker', 'But God who made him will enable Moses to speak.
'Please send someone else',. This God will not do, but Moses is allowed his brother Aaron as spokesman.
Why?
Moses had not any faith to do this mission - bring Israelite out from Egypt, so he wanted many miracle signs and he said he is slow to speak.
God will help his servant to speak and to do the miracle things. Do not afraid. God like our humble before him.
How?
Be humble and be courage to serve the Lord, I am not along, God always be with me.
God gave a few signs to Moses, let him may express to others. People will know the Lord do have appeared to him.
Moses said he is slow of speech and tongue. The Lord said to him, "Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is is not I, the Lord" Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say."
But Moses said, "O Lord, please send someone else to do it." Then the Lord's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do."
The Lord told Moses the Pharaoh will not listen to him, and God will kill their firstborn son, then they will let him go.
Before serve the Lord, Moses need circumcision, so his wife Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses's feet with it.
The people won't believe me, God gives Moses three sings with which to convince them that he really has met with God. This is the kind of magic they are familiar with: the kind that went with the religion of Egypt.
'I am no speaker', 'But God who made him will enable Moses to speak.
'Please send someone else',. This God will not do, but Moses is allowed his brother Aaron as spokesman.
Why?
Moses had not any faith to do this mission - bring Israelite out from Egypt, so he wanted many miracle signs and he said he is slow to speak.
God will help his servant to speak and to do the miracle things. Do not afraid. God like our humble before him.
How?
Be humble and be courage to serve the Lord, I am not along, God always be with me.
Monday, May 2, 2016
I AM WHO I AM
Exodus 3:1-22
The Lord called Moses, he said,"Here I am"
God said to Moses, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob."
The Lord have see the misery of his people. He come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
God said, "I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you."
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."
God knows that the king of Egypt will not let them go unless a mighty hand compels him. So God will stretch out his hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that God will perform among them. After that, he will let them go. And Moses and Israelite will not go empty-hand.
Moses is actually at Sinai the very place where he will later receive the law, when God calls to him.
Born a Hebrew, brought up an Egyptian, Moses is facing his own crisis of identity, made worse by his people's rejection.
As he wanders the desert, he is halted by the sight of a blazing bush. Is it real? Is it a vision? He turns aside - and God meets him with an astounding commission: 'Be my messenger to Pharaoh: lead my people to freedom.' But the emissary is most reluctant. He raises one objection after another, ad each is countered by God.
Why?
Who am I? This is Moses' dilemma(困境). It goes deeper than 'I am not up to the job.'(我不勝任工作) And God's response is not 'you are uniquely qualified' - not 'you are' anything - but 'I am'. What gives us identity, what give Moses authority, is God's identity, his presence, 'I will be with you.'
How am I to explain to people who you are? Moses cannot go back simply with a subjective experience. God describes himself more clearly; 'I am' is the living God, from whom all existence derives. And God connects himself to what the people already know; he is no stranger to his people. He is the God of Abraham and the rest, whose stories they know.
The LORD: The capital letters used in most English Bibles indicate the 'personal name' of God in Hebrew 'YHWH', probably pronounced 'Yahweh', traditionally read as 'Jehovah'.
Here I am is my response to the Lord.
God's identity is 'I will be with you.'
How?
Pray in Jesus name and obey God's commands, then God will be with us.
The Lord called Moses, he said,"Here I am"
God said to Moses, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground." Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob."
The Lord have see the misery of his people. He come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
God said, "I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you."
God said to Moses, "I AM WHO I AM."
God knows that the king of Egypt will not let them go unless a mighty hand compels him. So God will stretch out his hand and strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that God will perform among them. After that, he will let them go. And Moses and Israelite will not go empty-hand.
Moses is actually at Sinai the very place where he will later receive the law, when God calls to him.
Born a Hebrew, brought up an Egyptian, Moses is facing his own crisis of identity, made worse by his people's rejection.
As he wanders the desert, he is halted by the sight of a blazing bush. Is it real? Is it a vision? He turns aside - and God meets him with an astounding commission: 'Be my messenger to Pharaoh: lead my people to freedom.' But the emissary is most reluctant. He raises one objection after another, ad each is countered by God.
Why?
Who am I? This is Moses' dilemma(困境). It goes deeper than 'I am not up to the job.'(我不勝任工作) And God's response is not 'you are uniquely qualified' - not 'you are' anything - but 'I am'. What gives us identity, what give Moses authority, is God's identity, his presence, 'I will be with you.'
How am I to explain to people who you are? Moses cannot go back simply with a subjective experience. God describes himself more clearly; 'I am' is the living God, from whom all existence derives. And God connects himself to what the people already know; he is no stranger to his people. He is the God of Abraham and the rest, whose stories they know.
The LORD: The capital letters used in most English Bibles indicate the 'personal name' of God in Hebrew 'YHWH', probably pronounced 'Yahweh', traditionally read as 'Jehovah'.
Here I am is my response to the Lord.
God's identity is 'I will be with you.'
How?
Pray in Jesus name and obey God's commands, then God will be with us.
Sunday, May 1, 2016
I have become a foreigner in a foreign land
Exodux 2:1-23
Moses,saying, “I drew him out of the water."
When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.
Why?
Moses wanted to make righteousness by his strength. It is not the right way to make it.
Moses became foreigner in a foreign land, God used the wildness to transfer Moses to his servent. Get rid of his flesh strength, subdued to the Lord.
All of the Jesus followers are foreigners of this land.
How?
This land is not my home, my home is on the heaven.
Moses,saying, “I drew him out of the water."
When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.
Why?
Moses wanted to make righteousness by his strength. It is not the right way to make it.
Moses became foreigner in a foreign land, God used the wildness to transfer Moses to his servent. Get rid of his flesh strength, subdued to the Lord.
All of the Jesus followers are foreigners of this land.
How?
This land is not my home, my home is on the heaven.
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