15 Exodus 18:1-27 - God Develops His People

Sermons from Seven Mile Road Church in Waltham

In this sermon, Pastor Clint walks through Exodus 18 - a passage that shows how God works in the ordinary stuff of life to develop his people. Here we see Moses and Israel arrive at “the mountain of God” (v. 5). Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, returns Moses’ family to him. He also hears about “all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake” (v. 8). Jethro responds by acknowledging God: “Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods” (v. 11). Here Jethro echoes God’s stated purpose for the plagues and the exodus: that all would know that “I am the LORD” (6:7; 7:5). Moses also follows Jethro’s lesson in organizational leadership by establishing seventy elders to help him rule as a judge over Israel.