Truckee Lutheran Presbyterian Church

Sermon Text: Exodus 3:1-15
Sermon Title: “The Deliverer”
Sermon Notes: Moses was reared in pharaoh’s household, but fled to Midian after he murdered a Egyptian for beating a Hebrew slave. In the desert, Moses raises sheep, gets married, and starts a family. But, God still has a purpose for Moses - a purpose that includes his returning to the scene of his crime. While we blithely recite the creed, the world hungers for leaders who will tear away the foundations of poverty, racism, ignorance, war, sexual exploitation, slavery, and oppression. This is why God came down to Moses, calling him to lead, to deliver a people sitting in darkness, a people shackled in chains, a people harassed and oppressed. Make no mistake about it. Moses’ calling was not to labor out of the public eye, addressing only his parishioners’ spiritual needs as if their spiritual needs were something other than for the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to observe, hear, and “know their sufferings” - and get them out! There was not available to Moses this convenient bifurcation of spiritual truths from political realities.

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