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It’s amazing what fear can do.
2. If you’ve ever taken a ride on the “fear train” then you know it’s a ride that can take you to some very scary places.
3. How can we break free from fear?
4. During our study, we will discover how the LORD can help us break free from fear by looking at what He did for Moses in Exodus 6:28-7:7.

Exodus 6:28-7:7

Context
1. In Exodus 3, we’re told that after 400 years in Egypt, in fulfillment of His promise to Abraham in Genesis 15, God revealed that He was going to deliver Israel from slavery.
2. From a burning bush on Mount Sinai, God commissioned Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt.
3. But sensing some hesitation, God attempted to reassure Moses by giving him promises and signs which would confirm that God had commissioned Moses.
a. Promise: God would deliver Israel from slavery in Egypt and bring them “to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey” (3:8).
b. Promise: God would be with Moses (3:12).
c. Promise: After Moses brought Israel out of Egypt, they would “worship God” at Mount Sinai (3:12).
d. Promise: Israel would “pay heed” to what Moses said (3:18).
e. Promise: God would strike Egypt with miraculous judgments and Pharaoh would eventually let Israel go (3:20).
f. Promise: Israel “would plunder the Egyptians” as they left Egypt (3:22).
g. Sign: Moses’ staff turned into a serpent (4:2-5).
h. Sign: Affliction and cleansing of leprosy (4:6-7).
i. Sign: Water from Nile River turned to blood (4:8-9).
4. In addition to these six promises and three signs, in Exodus 3:14, God also revealed His personal name to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM” (“Yahweh” is translated as “LORD” in our English Bibles).
5. According to Exodus 6:2-3, when God revealed His personal name, Yahweh, to Moses on Mount Sinai, God had revealed something about Himself to Moses which had not been revealed to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
6. In essence, God was proclaiming that He, the great “I AM,” “Yahweh,” could and would provide all that Moses and Israel needed.
a. The name “Yahweh,” “I AM,” reveals that God is self-existent, eternal, infinite, never changing, all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere present.
b. The name “Yahweh” also reveals that God is the promise-making, promise-keeping God of Israel.
c. That should have been the end of the story. . . Yahweh would be with Moses when he spoke to Israel and confronted Pharaoh.

Transition – But was it good enough for Moses?
• The answer is a resounding “No.”
• Notice how the LORD broke Moses free from fear. . .

I. The LORD Confronts Your Fears (28-30)

A. The LORD knows your secret fears (28-29)
1. God repeatedly told Moses to confront Pharaoh. Why?
a. Because God wanted to deliver Israel and had chosen Moses to do so.
b. But before God could use Moses, Moses needed to learn how to walk by faith and not by sight.

APPL – One way the LORD confronts our fears is through a crisis.

2. God put His finger on the issue that created fear in Moses.
3. So, God took Moses out of his comfort zone to strengthen him by stretching him.

APPL – This is something that good parents will do with their children, a parent will stretch their child in order to strengthen their child.

ILLUS – Fetching a can of tomato soup

APPL – God knows our secret fears and He wants to set us free from them, all of them.

2 Timothy 1:7, For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. (NKJV)

B. Confess your fears to the LORD (30)
1. Once again, Moses used the same old excuse.
a. “Unskilled in speech.”
b. Pharaoh would not listen.
c. So, send someone else.
2. But the Book of Acts paints a different picture regarding Moses’ speaking ability.

Acts 7:22, And Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and he was a man of power in words and deeds.

3. While it’s true that Moses was making excuses, I believe it’s also true that it’s how he felt.

APPL – When your heart is overwhelmed by fear, the best thing you can do is to confess your fears to the LORD because. . .
• He cares for you.

1 Peter 5:7, casting all your anxiety upon Him, because He cares for you.

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