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Sunday Study.
THE CALL OF MOSES.

THE CALL OF MOSES.
The text of the International Sunday
School lesson for Dec. / will be found
in Exodus iii, LIP. The lesson topic is
Gods Call to Service The golden
text is Certainly 1 Will be with you.
The time is 1881 B. c., and the scene
is indian.
Moses called himself to the task of
delivering the Israelites before God call
ed him The tendency of one brought
up in the palace, as he was, and having
so much power at his back, would be
towards self-sufficiency and ambition.
When he slew the Egyptian who had
been beating an Israelite, "he supposed
that his brethren understood how that
God by his hand was giving them de-
liverance' (Acts, 7:25). He needed to
learn his dependence upon God before
he could become the leader Of his peo-
pie. So God sent him into the wilder
ness for forty years. Moses was now
years in Egypt and forty years with
Jethro as shepherd. His shepherd life
reminds us of Abel and Jacob, David
and other shepherds of the Bible.
To get the full history Of the event,
the I'd, Sd and 18th chapters of Exodus
should be studied.
The tendency of Moses life would be
to make him forget his race, but he
remembered them and was loyal to them
Stephen suggested (Acts, Z, 25) that he
interfered to help the oppressed Hebrew
in the hope that the Hebrews would rise
against the Egyptians under his lead
ership
The Midianites wandered over the Sinai
peninsula and Northern Arabia Moses
life among them gave him familiarity
with the region through which Israel was
to travel. Zipporah does not appear
much in history but passages like 4:24-2e;
1927 indicate that she was not very
congenial with her husband. The time
of Moses call is set by 2:29 at about
the date of the accession Of the Pharaoh
from whom Israel finally escaped. This
Pharaoh Is believed to have been Mer-
enptah who began to reign about B. c.
1926. The appearance in the bush is to
be thought of as supernatural, though
the attempt has been made to explain II
by reference to various natural appear
ances. The revelation of Gods holiness
and separateness was the starting point
of Moses work. The second point of
the revelation was the historic relation
OF God and His people, and the recogni-
t1on OF the covenant with the patriarchs.
Moses sense of the greatness of the
task, his long absence from the court.
his ignorance of the people, all moved
MN to feel that the undertaking was
too great. Yet he was as well fitted for
the work as a man could be-
Come now, therefore, and I will send
thee unto Pharaoh that thou mayest
bring forth My people," God had lust
said that He would do it, and now He
says Moses will do it, for He will do if
In and through Moses, and this is the
lesson we are slow to learn-that ..it is
God who worketh in us, both to will and
to do OF His good pleasure" (Phil. ii. 10.
Heb, xiii, Ply. He worketh all things
according to the counsel of His own
will (Eph., l.. IL, and faith just allows
God to work and Quietly abides with
Him for His pleasure What an honor
Is conferred upon US when He selects
any one of us to work through The
lesson teaches:
l. There is no act of injustice which
escapes the eye Of the all-seeing. lust
plying God N'''
q God delays his interpostion unit,
that time when it will accomplish the
greatest good. nc
T. God has call for EVERYONE. Re-
not reluctant, but glad to accept it. re.
Jo1cing in the honor.