Moses
Teachers
Lesson Summary
This Bible study focused on the life of Moses, emphasizing how his faith and God’s guidance shaped his journey from a Hebrew infant in Egypt to a leader of God’s people. The teacher highlighted Moses’s early life, including his hidden birth and adoption by Pharaoh’s daughter, which set the stage for his later role. A pivotal moment in the lesson was Moses’s murder of an Egyptian overseer, described in Exodus 2:12, which led him to flee to the desert. The class also explored Moses’s fear and hesitation when God called him at the burning bush (Exodus 3:2), demonstrating his humanity and God’s persistence in using him despite his flaws. The central message was that God’s plan transcends human limitations, as Moses’s eventual obedience led to the liberation of Israel. The teacher stressed that Moses’s story reveals how faith grows through trials and divine intervention, encouraging listeners to trust God even in fear and uncertainty.
Key Scriptures
Looking this way and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hit him in the sand.
And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. And he looked, and behold, the bush was burning, but the bush was not consumed.