Exiting Egypt Chapter 6 P2

Exiting Egypt

“God’s Great Encouragement”

By Dennis Lee: Chapter 6 P2

2. God Assures His Deliverance

And God spoke to Moses and said to him: "I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name Lord I was not known to them (Ex. 6:2-3 NKJV)

The basic meaning for the name Lord, or the name Jehovah or Yahweh is that of Savior, Redeemer, and Deliver. This is a very special revelation at just the right time.

The patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob had all experienced God as God Almighty (El Shaddai), but not as Jehovah. Yes, they had known God as Jehovah, known that He was the great Redeemer and Deliverer, but they had never witnessed the deliverance of God’s people. They had known of the great promises, but they had never experienced the fulfillment of these promises.

The name Jehovah or Yahweh is used some 162 times in Genesis. People addressed God as Jehovah at least 34 of these times. Even Abraham addressed God as Jehovah Jireh when he was to offer up his son, Isaac, and God came through with a ram instead. And as we saw a couple of weeks back how at the very beginning of human history how the descendants of Seth called upon the name of Jehovah.

But now, Moses and Israel were to see first hand the very meaning of God’s name, Jehovah, Yahweh, being fulfilled. They were to see the Lord redeem and deliver His people in the great Exodus from Egypt.

So important was this name to Moses and Israel that the Lord used in four times in given this great encouragement to Moses.

As I look at this, sometimes I think, as we all think, that we’re in the driver’s seat. We think that we are in control of the situation, or think that we ought to be.

But God says here, by giving to us this great name, that He’s the one that is in control. He says, “I am the Lord, I am in control. I’m the one who’s guiding all these things to the conclusion I have already promised.”

But many times we try to take this position away from

God, and so, like Moses, we too need to be reminded again of just who does the delivering, and He does that by reminding us of just who He is, the Lord, the Great Deliverer, the Great Redeemer, The Great Savior.