Metaphors Matter: Echoes in Exodus
November 10, 2024 / Fellowship Bible ChurchMetaphors Matter: Echoes in Exodus
“now these things occurred as examples for us…”
1 Corinthians 10:6
1. God fulfills His plan using desert experiences—“.”
Metaphor: “back of the desert”
“Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.”
Exodus 3:1 NKJV
“The LORD is close to the broken-hearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
Psalm 34:18
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness… That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12:9,10
2. God seeks and finds you in the
Metaphor: a desert “bush”
“And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush.”
Exodus 3:2,4 NKJV
“Come near to God and He will come near to you.”
James 4:8
3. God .
Metaphor: “fire”
“Our God is a consuming fire.”
Hebrews 12:29 NIV
“And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ ”
Exodus 3:14 NKJV
“Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.”
Exodus 3:5
“I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves and be holy, because I am holy.”
Leviticus 11:44
— fire refines
“But who can endure the day of His coming? Who can stand when he appears? For he will be like a refiner’s fire….”
Malachi 3:2
The God above Pharaoh and all Egyptian gods. Above the “prince of this world.”
“I am the LORD; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.”
Isaiah 42:8
“God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see.”
1 Timothy 6:15,16
4. God you to join Him on mission.
Metaphor: Pharaoh and the freeing the Israelites
“Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
Exodus 3:10
“Then say to him (Pharaoh) ‘Thus says the LORD: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.”
Exodus 8:20
“We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.”
2 Corinthians 5:20 NIV
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