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God Reveals Himself and His Plan - Exodus 3 & 4 — 9/12/2025 10:00 AM
Today's speaker is Dr. Jeremy Kimble, Professor of Systematic and Applied Theology at Cedarville University. Dr. Kimble teaches from Exodus 3 and 4 that God is, and we must bow in worship and submit to His call.
Notes
In Exodus 3–4, God reveals Himself to Moses and shares who He is. In response, we are to bow in worship and submit to God’s call.
The Encounter with God
God reveals Himself to Moses through the burning bush, but mainly through words. Today, He reveals Himself to us through the words of the Bible. We encounter Him through Scripture.
Moses responds with fear and reverence. We shouldn’t have an unhealthy fear of God if we’re in a relationship with Him. However, we also must recognize that we can be far too flippant in our treatment of God. We should model the words of Psalm 2:11, which says, “Rejoice with trembling.” Do you rejoice at His grace and tremble at His holiness?
We have no good thing apart from God. Let us pray, asking Him to be our true longing and the satisfaction of our hearts, so that we will love Him above everything else! If we seek Him first, we will never be disappointed.
The Plan of God
God sees, hears, and knows the sufferings of the Israelites, and He decides to respond by freeing His people. This is all good for Moses, until he realizes God has purposed to use him to lead the way. He then protests desperately with all the excuses he can think of.
In response, God supplies His identity and His presence. He tells Moses, “Here is who I am, and I will be with you.” Has the identity and the presence of someone ever reassured you? We can live without fear because our self-existent, unchanging, all-sovereign God is with us.
We all have a task: to be a disciple that makes disciples. So many billions do not know Jesus. We need to slow down, confess our numbness to this truth, and ask God to break our hearts anew over the lostness of the nations.
Just like Moses, we sometimes feel the weight of inadequacy. We need to recognize that we are inadequate. On our own, we will never be able to do the task God gives us. But our gracious God supplies us with what we need and promises to be with us!
What are your excuses? What doubts hold you back? God doesn’t need you to be famous; He needs you to be faithful. He needs an army of loyal, anonymous Christians to carry out the task He has assigned to us.
The Proclamation of God’s Identity and Plan
After encountering God and worshipping, Moses proclaims who God is and what He is going to do. After we see and savor God, we also must tell others about Him. We should be people who can’t stop talking about what we love!
Any work for God and any proclamation of God must emerge from worship of God. When we make Him known, we are living a life that counts. May we be a bold, joy-filled army of faithful and unknown people who do all for the glory of God!