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Exodus 6:9
Excerpted from: Unleavened Bread and Hope

Wow! Sentence after sentence of God nailing Himself down about what He is going to do! "I will do this, and I will do that, I will do this other thing, and I will do this thing too..." And, all these things will be done because He is God Almighty; because He is Yahweh, the Eternal One; and because He established His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and He remembered it. He is not going to fail. He is faithful.

Where was their hope, now? It had not been long since they were falling on their knees, bowing their heads and worshipping.

But now, after the tables seemed to have been turned, and the screws tightened down a bit more, they were turning their backs on Moses. They would not listen to him. "Yeah Moses. We got work to do. . ."

All this stirring and heartening revelation from God would not move them at all. They were so despondent that they would not even listen.

Now, this phrase, "anguish of spirit," is interesting. Maybe your margin has this note. It means "short spirited." What this suggests is that their hopes were dashed, not necessarily through the oppression from the Egyptians (though, obviously a part of it), but it was due to their own impatience. They had a very short spirit; they could keep their motivation going for only so long. Then, they would get impatient, and were back to being in the dumps, overwhelmed by their bondage.

You see, what they saw was God's promise as a little bitty speck on the horizon; and they saw their oppression by the Egyptians as this huge gorilla with a big mallet. What was more real to them was the gorilla with the big mallet, not the Promised Land—the itty bitty speck—in the distance. That wonderful possibility.

Exodus 6:9
Excerpted from: Grace, Unleavened Bread, and the Holy Spirit

They heard the gospel as it applied to them. They heard fantastic good news. It was good news to them until Pharaoh turned up the heat a bit. Then their joy turned to persecution and affliction. But I want you to note that all of these are steps, and God was beginning to put a difference between Israel and Egypt. A sanctification was taking place that was difficult for those God was working with to bear. This difference continued; and, in fact, it intensified during the plagues. But first let us consider what Israel's reaction was when they heard this "good news." It tells us here, in verse 9:

They were skeptical and cynical. Their present circumstance was too real and too powerful to allow them to have any hope. And so they did not agree to this wonderful news, because they did not believe it. Thankfully, God was both merciful and patient, and determined. And so we find that they did, finally, begin warily to accept Moses as a servant of God and accept the message, little by little, as the plagues began to fall upon Egypt and upon them. They began to see by those things that what he was saying was true. It could be relied upon. It would happen. And then a very significant thing took place:

Exodus 6:9
Excerpted from: Unleavened Bread and the Holy Spirit (2019)

The Israelites did not at first agree to this wonderful news. Why? Because they did not believe it. It does not mean they all did not believe at the same time. Like most of us, some believed with a fair amount of intensity and others with just a mild, but they did not all agree at once. Now thankfully God was both merciful and determined and nobody was going to stop Him.

Sermons
Unleavened Bread and the Holy Spirit (Part Two)
Mercy, Pilgrimage, and Providence
No One Else Matters (Part One)

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