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Welcome to A Year in the Bible with daily grace. This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ in All of Scripture. Each week we will dive deeply into two passages of Scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
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Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire Biblical story, but the center of it.
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Hi, and welcome back to the Year in the Bible podcast. My name is Beth and I'm here again with my co host, Alexa.
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Hey, everyone. Today we're going to go a little deeper into Exodus 3, 13, 15. So as we start, Beth, could you share with us about the context of this passage and where it fits in the story of Scripture?
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Yeah. Well, the story of Exodus is one of the most formative stories in the overarching story of Scripture. It begins with the people of Israel living in Egypt after they went there to assemble, escape the famine that we read about last week. So we saw that Jacob took his entire family to Egypt and they escaped the famine and they ended up staying there. And they grew from about 70 people to become essentially an entire nation while they were living in Egypt. But the pharaoh there was a new pharaoh who took came into power and he actually was very threatened by the size and the growth of the people of Israel. And so he actually enslaved them and oppressed them with hard labor. He tried to prevent their population growth. It was just a messy, messy story. And Israel was in distress and they cried out to God to deliver them and save them. And we read in Exodus 2 that God heard their cries and that he was determined to deliver them. And so that's kind of where we get to where we are now with Moses encountering God. And Moses is the one that God had chosen to use to deliver the people from Egypt. And so he's told Moses that Moses is going to go and lead the people out of slavery. So Moses, at this point in the story, in Exodus 3, has just been told of God's plan to deliver the people of Israel. But Moses is asking God who he should explain to the Israelites is the authority behind the words that Moses is speaking. So, yeah, so what Moses is doing is just trying to get an understanding of the authority by which he is speaking so that he can tell the Israelites who it is that is delivering them. I feel like this is one of.
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The stories in Scripture that most of Us as believers know, like we might even remember learning about, you know, Moses and the burning bush in Sunday school as a kid. But even if it's a familiar story, it really does have so much to teach us about God's faithfulness and power and the ways in which he uses people. Which actually leads me to my next question. What does this passage teach us about God's character?
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Yeah, this passage in particular teaches us a lot about who God is. We talked briefly yesterday about his self existence, the fact that he is the source of all life and was not created like everything else. So I figured we could unpack that a little bit more today and kind of see how that plays into the rest of God's character that we read in this passage. So one of the important things to note is that this is actually the first time in scripture that God gives His name. And his name, as we talked about yesterday, was the phrase I am that I am, which really hearkens back to the creation story in Genesis. It tells us, like we've already mentioned, that this is the same God who created all things, created everything out of nothing. He turned a formless void into an orderly and beautiful world with natural laws, with the means of reproduction. He yeah, took something that was chaos and created beauty and order and life out of it. So then. Yeah, and that ties really, really closely into God's attribute of eternality. So we know that God is self existent, but he's also eternal. And so not only was he never created, but he's been in existence forever and will continue to be in existence forever as well. So as scripture says, he always has been and he will always be. We see this displayed in his name, but also in his description of Himself as the God of Israel's ancestors. He's saying that he's not only the God of Israel in the present at the time he's talking, but he's the God of all of Israel's ancestors past. And so just pointing to his eternality, that he's always been in existence. But then he also says that he's going to be remembered. That name that he gave to Moses is going to be remembered in every generation following. And so he's pointing to his eternality in the future as well. So, yeah, so what we learned about God is that not only is he the source of all being and all life, but that he has existed throughout all eternity and that he will continue to exist forever.
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I love that. And I hope for those listening that diving a little bit more into the context of this passage, and God's character is helpful to you as you meditate on this week's Old Testament passage. Well, thanks so much for joining us today, and we hope you join us tomorrow as we discuss the New Testament passage from John 8:57:59. Bye friends. Thank you for listening to today's episode of A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Be sure to check out our show notes for some helpful links and resources related to today's episode, and make sure you're following aalygrace Podcast and hedaily Grace Co on Instagram for more Bible study resources and encouragement. We're looking forward to studying God's Word with you again tomorrow. Bye friends.