I HAVE HEARD – WEEK 4
When God Sends the Unqualified – Part 1
May 11, 2025
EXODUS 6:28-7:7 – On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.” 30 But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”
7 And the Lord said to Moses, “See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land. 3 But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, 4 Pharaoh will not listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my hosts, my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment. 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them.” 6 Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
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- Moses’s lips
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MOSES’S LIPS
EXODUS 6:28-7:7 – On the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, 29 the Lord said to Moses, “I am the Lord; tell Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you.” 30 But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips. How will Pharaoh listen to me?”
EXODUS 4:11-12 – Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.”
EXODUS 7:1-2 – …“See, I have made you like God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 2 You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people of Israel go out of his land.
“In Egyptian royal ideology, the pharaoh was considered to be a divine being. So by calling Moses God, Yahweh is beating Pharaoh at his own game.”
Peter Enns
EXODUS 7:1 – …and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet.
EXODUS 4:15-16 – “You shall speak to him [Aaron] and put the words in his mouth… 16 He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him.”
2 CORINTHIANS 5:20 – Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us.
“Every believer in Christ holds an office in the Church – the office of witnessing for Christ, and it is the highest, most honorable, most useful office in the world.”
Marcus Brownson
EXODUS 7:6-7 – Moses and Aaron did so; they did just as the Lord commanded them. 7 Now Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
PSALM 90:10 – The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty…
“Moses spent forty years in Pharaoh’s court thinking he was somebody, forty years in the desert learning he was nobody, and forty years showing what God can do with a somebody who found out he was a nobody.”
D.L. Moody