Exodus 17-18 The Deliverance of God

Review: Exodus 1 – a continuation of Genesis Exodus 2 – God saving Moses Exodus 3-4 – God calling Moses Exodus 5-6 – confronting Pharaoh Exodus 7-8 – first 4 plagues Exodus 9-10 – 6 more plagues Exodus 11-13 – final plague & feasts Exodus 14-15 – crossing the Red Sea Exodus 16 – complaints & Manna

Exodus 17:1-16

Moses; chosen by God Exodus 17:2-3 (ESV) Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, “Give us water to drink.” And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?” 3 But the people thirsted there for water, and the people grumbled against Moses and said, “Why did you bring us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”

Leadership: Exodus 17:2 (ESV) And Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me?” Exodus 17:4 (ESV) So Moses cried to the LORD, “What shall I do with this people? They are almost ready to stone me.”

Leadership: Exodus 17:8 (ESV) Then Amalek came and fought with Israel at Rephidim. Exodus 17:9 (ESV) So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose for us men, and go out and fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”

Leadership: Exodus 17:10 (ESV) So Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought with Amalek, 2 Timothy 2:2 (ESV) and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.

Leadership: Exodus 17:11 (ESV) Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed.

Jethro/Ruel Exodus 18:5 (ESV) Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was encamped at the mountain of God.

Jethro/Ruel Exodus 18:13-17 (ESV) The next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning till evening. 14 When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, and all the people stand around you from morning till evening?” 15 And Moses said to his father-in-law, “Because the people come to me to inquire of God; 16 when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another, and I make them know the statutes of God and his laws.” 17 Moses’ father-in-law said to him, “What you are doing is not good.

Jethro/Ruel Exodus 18:18-19 (ESV) You and the people with you will certainly wear yourselves out, for the thing is too heavy for you. You are not able to do it alone. 19 Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God,

Jethro/Ruel Exodus 18:21-22 (ESV) Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens. 22 And let them judge the people at all times. Every great matter they shall bring to you, but any small matter they shall decide themselves. So it will be easier for you, and they will bear the burden with you.

Working together Ephesians 4:11-16 (ESV) And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.