March 6-7, 2016

LOOKING BACK
Moses: The Ultimate Journey

Grown Up?
Exodus 2:11-15
Do we ever? Grow up I mean. Its hard, but it is good. Pauls example and exhortation is telling.

When I was child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reasoned like a child; when I
became a man, I did away with childish things. 1 Corinthians 13:11 To the Ephesians he wrote,
We are no longer to be children, butwe are to grow up in all aspects. Ephesians 4:14-15
Moses turns 40 and realizes that it is time to think about growing up. How about you?
Thinking It Through (agree/disagree consider/contemplate)

Maturity begins when were content to feel we are right about something, without feeling the
necessity to prove someone else wrong.
~Sydney Harris

Life is to most of us a continuous process of getting used to things we hadnt expected.

~Unknown
My life is one long obstacle course, with me being the chief obstacle.
~Jack Paar
What lies beneath the surface really matters.
~Ruth Barton
Working it Out
1. What kind of actions, feelings, or habits are happening in your life that might
reveal where some of your growing edges might be?

2. Moses sat down by a well. 2:15 Consider sitting down somewhere with no
distractions for 15-30 minutes, and just reflect on what is going on below the
surface of your life. Start a fresh dialogue with God about growing up.

LOOKING AHEAD
Moses: The Ultimate Journey

Grown Up?
Exodus 2:11-15
It is only two days in the life of Moses, but they are two days that he would spend
the next 40 years dealing within his heart and with God. Slow down. Its complicated,
as are all matters of the human heart. The text says it happened when he grew up.
2:11. But had he really?
1. According to Hebrews 11:24-26, what has been happening inside of Moses as he has gotten
older?

2. How does he act out on this impulse in Exodus 2:11-12? What do you think he was trying
to do?

3. How does v. 13 begin and what does it tell us about what Moses did after killing the
Egyptian the day of? How do you think he slept that night in Pharaohs palace?

4. What might he have expected the next day when he returned to the scene of the crime?

What actually happened? (2:13)

5. Where does Moses find himself after all this? 2:15ff