Exodus 6:6–9 “Therefore, say to the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians. I will free you from being slaves to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.  I will take you as my own people, and I will be your God. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who brought you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians.  And I will bring you to the land I swore with uplifted hand to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.’ ” Moses reported this to the Israelites, but they did not listen to him because of their discouragement and cruel bondage.

Moses was given a tough assignment. Sure, He had God appear to him, yet he tried to talk his way out of being God’s spokesman to Pharoah and the Children of Israel.

Exodus 3:10-11 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

God’s people wouldn’t listen to Moses. Pharoah wouldn’t either. It took Ten Plagues before he let God’s people go, and even then he still chased after them, bringing destruction on himself and his armies.

Moses was able to lead God’s people only because the one who identified Himself to Moses and “I AM” was with him. As God’s representative, Moses was unparalleled. God delivered his people from their slavery in Egypt using Moses. But the Exodus was God’s doing, not that of Moses. Moses was a “type,” a prophecy of the one to come who would lead God’s people to an even greater deliverance.

As powerful a servant as Moses was, as mightily as he was used by God, he was not God. Jesus was. God Himself come down to earth. He would accomplish the greater deliverance, freeing us from our slavery to sin and death, by living a sinless life that He would offer as the sacrifice for the sins of the world.

Hebrews 3:3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

Calvary was God’s doing. The empty tomb was God’s doing. To God be the glory.