Exodus 2:23 - 3:15 (ESV)

2:23 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. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew. 3:1 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.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 12 He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.” 13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.

Intro: When did you last struggle or suffer?

THE LORD HEARS, SEES & KNOWS
Why does it matter that God sees our trials and suffering?

RESCUE VS. ADVICE
Why is it necessary that deliverance comes from the outside?

I AM … WITH YOU & BEYOND
What is God’s pattern for our redemption?

YOU CAN PRAY WITH US …
1 - Worship the LORD, the Great I AM, for His holiness and sufficiency. Praise Him, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, for His surpassing power and sufficiency as the self-existing God who saves sinners that trust in Him.

2 - How have you lived trying to avoid ever being needy, trusting in your own sufficiency? Confess your pride and unbelief to Jesus, asking Him to forgive you and to persuade you of His power and love.

3 - Give thanks to Jesus for the wonder of His Grace to absorb the burning fire of His Father’s holiness against your sin! Thank Him that He is the Great I AM who became human to save people like us!

4 - Who do you know that tries to live in a self-sufficient way? Pray for them, asking the Lord to make plain to them their vulnerability – and His power to save them if they would repent.

5 - Ask the Holy Spirit to help you repent of residual self-trust. Pray that He would help you grow more secure in His sufficiency as the Great I AM who saves, Who is with you and uses you to reach others.