When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.When Yahweh saw that he came over to see, God called to him out of the middle of the bush, and said, “Moses! Moses!” He said, “Here I am.”And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.And when Jehovah saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.
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… And here is what the scripture says. Join me in the Midian desert in Exodus chapter three, verse four. When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, to check it out, to investigate, to do this covert and overt operation, God called to him from within the bush, Moses, Moses. God uses the ordinary to speak in extraordinary ways. Oftentimes, God uses common ground and makes it holy ground. It's because of the presence of God. So God's just using this. So what kind of situation is God using in your life right now to speak to you? It's going to be something common. more often than not. Sometimes it's spectacular. But what is God using? Maybe you're going through a high point in your life. Maybe life is kind of like, eh, ho-hum. Maybe you're somebody. Maybe you've figured out you're kind of a nobody where you are. I promise you, God, if we're sensitive, if we listen to his call, God is calling you and me through the normal. …
… Then Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn. So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. Then he said, Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground. Moreover, 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 upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites. …
Taking Miracles Seriously. Rabbi Michael Zedek. First, of course, thank you for that introduction, and as well, thank you for the opportunity to be here, although in effect I'm there, even though at the moment I'm here. To plunge in, I love stories, so here's a story that for me is memorable. It's based on the golden age of situation comedies in TV. of us are old enough to remember Mr. Ed. And while I don't do many impressions, here's my impression of Mr. Ed when he introduces himself to Wilbur. And as we would note, Wilbur is properly nonplussed, because it's not in our experience for horses to talk, let alone have the best lines in situation comedies. But interestingly, the Hebrew Bible has an exact parallel equivalent. Bilaam or Balaam and his talking donkey, or to be more accurate in terms of the Hebrew, his jackass, he has a conversation. As though it were a perfectly reasonable, everyday, commonplace thing to talk with a donkey. Perhaps the real point being, who is the jerk here, in fact. But more substantially, more critically, in the Hebrew Bible, every time what you or I would call a miracle occurs, no one draws the obvious or what we would call the correct lesson, which just may very well be the lesson at heart. So with that as background, let's plunge in. …
… Moses had to have a look at this phenomenon. When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush and said, Moses! Moses! Not unconcerned, but yet unafraid, Moses replied, Here am I. At this moment, the young Hebrew with the Egyptian upbringing became the man of destiny. God spoke to him. Draw off the shoes from your feet, for the place whereon you stand is holy ground. I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses was afraid. Fear is not always a sign of weakness. It takes its place among the manly virtues when it is fear of God, of what he is and what he can do. The Lord God told Moses what he was going to do. I have seen the affliction of my people while in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptian 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. …
I believe there are many of us, maybe not all of us, who would find ourselves in a moment like that. And so today I want to continue that from Exodus chapter 3, verses 1 through 11. and all the bible school students already know who we're talking about today somebody say moses moses we grew up singing a song in church called pharaoh pharaoh oh baby let my people go and then if you really got into it you would go uh yeah yeah yeah yeah it was to the tune of louie louie i don't want to get a copyright strike on youtube so i won't sing it but we would do that Pharaoh, Pharaoh, oh baby, let my people go. And then everybody would go, uh. And a quick story, one time I was 17 years old, just getting started in ministry. And I was leading that for the youth. And one of the parents was really uptight and she walked in and she saw how I had all the kids going, uh. And she said, don't do that again. That's not a holy, that's not a holy gesture. …
… while the bush is not burned up. When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, here I am. Out of a situation unlike anything he'd ever experienced before, God got his attention. He had never seen anything like that. Something so unusual, he had to stop and ask. Then God spoke to him. What you and I must do is to learn to live and, listen, look for the presence of God in every circumstance of life. Now, listen to me. You hear people who are looking for demons behind every bush. Forget it. A child of God walking in the Spirit is to look for the handiwork, the footprint, and the handprint of Almighty God in every single situation of life. If God is sovereign and you and I are His kept children, there's no such thing as an accident in the life of the child of God.
… So, Moses said, I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight while the bush is not burned up. When the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. Out of a situation unlike anything he'd ever experienced before, God got his attention. He had never seen anything like that. Something so unusual. He had to stop and ask. Then God spoke to him. What you and I must do is to learn to live and listen, look for the presence of God in every circumstance of life. Now, listen to me. You hear people who are looking for demons behind every bush. Forget it. A child of God walking in the Spirit is to look for the handiwork, the footprint, and the handprint of Almighty God in every single situation of life. If God is sovereign and you and I are his kept children, there's no such thing as an accident in the life of the child of God. …