{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Out of Egypt - Getting Egypt Out of Moses","description":"Out of Egypt: Getting Egypt Out of Moses - Pastor Donnell T. Wyche - a2cc.org. Watch our livestream Sundays @ 11:00am - vimeo.com\/annarborcommunitychurch  Summary:  This Sunday we come to Moses. Not the baby in the basket and not the man at the burning bush, but the man in between, who sees something and does not know what to do with what he has seen. Exodus 2:11-25 is built on one verb, to see. Moses watches his people at their hard labor, sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, looks this way and that, and kills the man. Pharaoh spent a generation teaching Egypt not to see the Hebrews as human, and Moses sees through it. The question the passage asks is not whether Moses sees. It is what he does with what he has seen. What he does is answer injustice with the tools of the house he was raised in: violence, done in secret, by someone with power, after checking who was watching. His own people are the first to say so: "Who made you ruler and judge over us?" Nobody sent him, and seeing an injustice is not the same as being sent. Then Moses is afraid, the same word the midwives used, pointed in the opposite direction. He runs to Midian, defends seven daughters at a well without looking over his shoulder, and names his son Gershom, "a foreigner in a foreign land." Moses is the first person in this book to get out of Egypt, and look at what he carries out with him: the fist, the secret, the fear. Getting out of Egypt is one thing. Getting Egypt out of Moses is going to take a long time, and it happens first to the man who will lead everyone else out. The chapter ends with a king dying and nothing changing, because Pharaoh is a system, and then God becomes the subject of four verbs: God heard, God remembered, God saw, God knew. When Stephen retells the story in Acts 7, he says that this same Moses they rejected is the one God sent. God never prosecutes Moses. God calls him. The sermon then turns to us, in a country where nobody can say anymore that they did not see, and names two Egypts: the Moses who meets injustice with the empire's own rage, and the Moses who flees to a well where the groaning cannot reach him. Name your Egypt. Trust the God who heard, remembered, saw, and knew, and who sends the very people who ran. And take another step toward becoming the people God is forming. ","author_name":"Ann Arbor Community Church Sermon Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/a2communitychurch.org","html":"