Preaching Outline for Exodus 6:28-7:13

Facing the Hard Hearted
Exodus 6:28-7:13

I. Lingering Comprehension (6:28-30)

Acts 7:22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.

Stephen’s words indicate Moses did not have a speech impediment. He was powerful in the language of the Egyptians. However, since he was not raised with Hebrews, he was not skilled in his native tongue, the language of the children of Israel. Probably, he spoke with an uncharacteristic accent for a Hebrew. So, he was not comfortable speaking the language in which God wanted him to communicate.

D. L. Moody- A story from the Chicago Times-Herald described a meeting he held in the Chicago Auditorium:

The attendance averaged 12,000 each day. He talked without a note—save the Bible. He did not repeat. There was never a minute when he was eloquent. He would not have been logical if he could be. Moody does not care a cent for grammar…Once he tried to tell the names of the men who ran for the presidency the last fall and failed. There was not a single, solitary reason which could be applied to any other man why women should leave the Breakfast table in order to get a chance at a seat. Men would not have endured so many faults in any man but Moody.

Moody will not admit it, but there is no other man in this country who could have filled the Auditorium as he filled it eight times. He held 48,000 men and women in the hollow of his hand, and they wept or smiled as he willed…He is Moody—only Moody, rough, honest, sincere, flat, without frill, old-fashioned, consistently simple and grandly in earnest (D.L. Moody, by William R. Moody, 519-520.).

God can use anyone who is submitted to His will.

II. Lasting Command (7:1-5)

Psalm 105:23-25 Israel also came into Egypt, And Jacob dwelt in the land of Ham. 24 He increased His people greatly, And made them stronger than their enemies. 25 He turned their heart to hate His people, To deal craftily with His servants.

III. Lifelong Calling (6-9)

7 And Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three years old when they spoke to Pharaoh (verse 7).

There is no expiration date on your usefulness to God.

IV. Lively Confrontation (10-13)

And Pharaoh’s heart grew hard, and he did not heed them, as the LORD had said (verse 13).

Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.

When you face the hard hearted remember...

1. If God calls, God provides.
2. God doesn’t need a defense attorney.
3. God is sovereign. He reigns over all.
4. God is in control.