Exodus 3

v1-6: When “we draw near to God,” we should “be deeply affected [by] the infinite distance there is between us and God” that it would cause us to respond with “reverence,” and with “faith and obedience.”

v7-10: If God has rescued us “from a spiritual Egypt,” he will surely bring us “by his grace to a heavenly Canaan.”

v11-15: The name that God would now be known by “shows what he is in himself.” He is self-existent, that is, “he has being from himself, and has no dependence on any other.” He is also “eternal and unchangeable and always the same, yesterday, today, and forever. He will be what he will be and what he is,” including being “faithful and true to all his promises.”

v16-22: Moses “must repeat to [Israel] what God had said to him as a faithful ambassador.” Pastors are to do the same, passing on what they “receive from the Lord” and keeping back “nothing that is profitable.”

Exodus 4

v1-9: Moses remembered how the Israelites had rejected him before, “and was afraid it would happen again.” It is often the case that “present discouragements are… the result of former disappointments.”

v10-17: “God is pleased sometimes to choose those people as his messengers who have fewest natural advantages of skill, that his grace in them may appear all the more glorious.” He also “distributes his gifts variously among his children, that we may see that we need one another, and each may contribute something to the good of the body.”

v18-23: We should not be surprised when “the strongest arguments and reasonings” do not persuade people to believe God’s Word.

v24-31: If God’s people “neglect their duty, they should expect to hear of it in their consciences, and perhaps feel it in adverse circumstances.” When it becomes clear to us that there is something “wrong in our lives, we must do all we can to put things right promptly,” including returning “to the duties we have neglected.”