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00:00The Great Now The Bible does not sweep our problems under
00:05the carpet as insignificant.
00:08Today's passage begins and ends by noting Moses' despondency and inadequacy, and it
00:13is to this the Lord gives his full attention.
00:16The remedy is effectively, look away from yourself and fill your eyes with me.
00:21There are two aspects to this.
00:23They had long known the name the Lord, but until now they did not know exactly what the
00:28name signified.
00:30The title God Almighty carried a wonderful truth as the context to the references shows.
00:35He is the God who is at his strongest when people are at their weakest.
00:40How could the childless Abram become a father?
00:43How would the solitary Jacob face an uncertain future?
00:47How would Joseph's brothers fare with the despotic, unpredictable ruler of Egypt?
00:53Indeed how would Joseph himself survive when under the cosh of Pharaoh?
00:57They all needed an all-powerful God.
01:00The way covenant links Exodus 6 verse 4 to 5 means that all the virtues of El Shaddai,
01:06the covenant God, are still available for crushed Israel and despondent Moses.
01:12But there is more.
01:13The Lord is specifically the God of deliverance and redemption.
01:18Exodus chapters 6 to 12 trace both these exercises.
01:21The power that shatters the power of the enemy, and the blood that brings them home safely
01:26to God.
01:28Redemption is one of the great words of the Bible.
01:31So what does it mean?
01:33The Hebrew word in question is goel, the next of kin whose right it is to take on himself
01:38whatever burden his nearest kinsman is carrying.
01:42Remember Boaz in the book of Ruth?
01:45He could not act to lift Naomi and Ruth out of poverty and Ruth out of childless widowhood
01:49unless he was the next of kin, but when the actual next of kin stepped back.
01:55This position devolved on Boaz who accepted it with alacrity.
01:59Yahweh is our divine next of kin, taking our burdens as if his own, paying our debt and
02:04bearing our sin.
02:06He is our goel.
02:08Reflection
02:09When the New Testament uses the title Lord of Jesus, it intends us to identify him with
02:14the Redeemer God the Old Testament reveals.