"The Remembering, Rescuing God" (Exodus 2:23-3:15)

Welcome to the Reformed University Fellowship at UNCW Podcast! Each week, we will post the messages from our RUF Large Group meetings at UNCW. This semester, we are looking at the big storyline of redemption that is laid out for us in the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation. In this week's message from Exodus 2 & 3, we learn how our covenant relationship with God relates to the forces outside us that enslave and overwhelm us. In the story of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob in Genesis, the question is "can God’s promises be fulfilled despite his people’s weakness, doubt, sin and disobedience?" In the Exodus story, the question is "can God’s promises come true even if all the powers of the world are stacked against them?" In this passage, we see that our LORD is sovereign over the darkness outside, as well as the darkness inside his covenant people. “The word rendered LORD (all capitals) in most modern-day English translations consists of four Hebrew consonants, YHWH (יְהוָה). It is God's covenant name, reserved for the people who are in close relationship with him. … God is self-sufficient and find identity in nothing greater than himself and in nothing outside himself. He reveals himself when he wishes and as he wishes. He does not say. 'I am whoever you want me to be’ or ‘Who I am does not matter.’ This God is not our wingman.”- Chris Watkin  “Let us go. It will become the refrain of the next sixteen chapters of Exodus. Seven times, Moses will bring the words of God to Pharaoh: "Let my people go that they may serve me, that they may make a feast to me in the wilderness.”… A feast in the wilderness. An act of worship. Something heretofore out of the question. Bitter servitude to Pharaoh had made blessed service to God an impossibility for Israel. How could they serve both God and Pharaoh? Obedient worship to the King of heaven cannot be offered by those enslaved in the kingdom of Pharaoh. Let us go.” — Jen Wilkin