God’s Presence & Our Purpose – Exodus 3:1-10

Series: Led by Fire
Speaker: Tim Perkins
Date: May 29, 2022
Message Title: God’s Presence & Our Purpose – Exodus 3:1-10

(Acts 7:28-30 NIV) Do you want to kill me as you killed the Egyptian yesterday?’ When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.” After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.

D.L. Moody – “Moses spent forty years thinking he was somebody; forty years learning he was nobody; and forty years discovering what God can do with a nobody.”

(Exodus 3:1-10 ESV) Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6 And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. 7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

People who are led by fire know…

1. God redeems people and !

(Exodus 3:1 ESV) Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

People who are led by fire know…

2. reveals Himself to people!

(Exodus 3:2a ESV) And the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.

Alex Monty says, “When God wants to draw near to without destroying them, He sent the angel of the LORD!

(Exodus 24:9-11 NLT) Then Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel climbed up the mountain. 10 There they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there seemed to be a surface of brilliant blue lapis lazuli, as clear as the sky itself. 11 And though these nobles of Israel gazed upon God, he did not destroy them. In fact, they ate a covenant meal, eating and drinking in his presence!

 (Numbers 11:25 NLT) Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took some of the power of the Spirit (that’s the Holy Spirit) that was on him and put it on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied—but did not do so again.

(Exodus 3:2 ESV) And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 

(Exodus 3:3-4a ESV) And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see,

People who are led by fire …

3. for where God is working in their life.

(Exodus 3:3-4 ESV) And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”

People who are led by fire…

4. Have a healthy for God.

(Exodus 3:5 ESV) Then he said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”

(Exodus 3:14a NIV) God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”

(Exodus 3:6-8 ESV) And he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God. Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

People who are led by fire remember…

5. God sees, God hears, God knows, and God .

(Exodus 2:23-25 ESV) During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel and God knew.

(Exodus 3:7-8 ESV) Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

(Exodus 3:10 ESV) Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

(John 20:21 ESV) Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”

(Acts 17:6b ESV) These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also

• Know !
• Grow in !
• Show your !  
• Go change the !