Key Thought: Those who trust God will face numerous trials. When one decided to follow God, many obstacles and new difficulties may appear, but God can bring solutions on His terms and in His time.
July 19, 2025

1. Have a volunteer read Exodus 5:5-23.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point is in this passage.
2. What was Pharaoh’s response to God’s demand, “Let my people go”? What is significant about his response?
3. Personal Application: If someone asked, “Do you know the Lord?”, how would you respond, and how would you say you know Him? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your relatives states, “What are some better ways you and others might be able to deal with local church leaders when disagreements arise?” How would you respond to your relative?

2. Have a volunteer read Exodus 5:22-6:8.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What is God’s response to Moses, and what theological truths are revealed here?
3. Personal Application: How can we take Exodus 6:7 given to corporate Israel to heart in our own lives personally? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your friends states, “Haven’t some Biblical leaders cried out in complaint to God, and with good reasons? Is it okay sometimes to pour out your soul and even complain about your situation? Why must it always be done in faith and trust?” How would you respond to your friend?

3. Have a volunteer read Exodus 6:9-13.

1. Ask class members to share a short thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. What happens next here, and what lessons can we take concerning times of disappointment and struggle in our lives?
3. Personal Application: Share a time when you followed God’s call, but things didn’t start well or go well. What lessons have you learned over time because of that experience? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: One of your neighbors states: “How has God intervened in your life when you prayed for His help… when you did not expect it? How can we believe in God’s goodness when bad things happen even to those who trust the Lord?” How would you respond to your neighbor?

4. Have a volunteer read Exodus 6:28-7:7.

1. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this text is.
2. How does God deal with Moses’ objection?
3. Personal Application: What excuses might we use to try to get out of what we know God wants us to do? Share your thoughts.
4. Case Study: Think of one person who needs to hear a message from this week’s lesson. Tell the class what you plan to do this week to share with them.

(“Truth that is not lived, that is not imparted, loses its life-giving power, its healing virtue. Its blessings can be retained only as it is shared.” Ministry of Healing, p. 148).

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Daily Lesson for Monday 14th of July 2025

Though Moses must have known, even from the beginning, that what the Lord had tasked him with was not going to be easy (hence his attempts to get out of it), he probably had no idea of what was coming.

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Even before going to Pharaoh, Moses and Aaron gathered the elders and people of Israel, told them God’s words, and showed them God’s signs, which resulted in Israel’s believing that the Lord would deliver them from their slavery. Thus, they worshiped the Lord (Exodus 4:29-31). Expectations surely were high: the Lord was going to deliver the Hebrew people from their bondage—finally!

Moses then went to the king of Egypt with God’s demands, and things became even worse for the Israelites. Their suffering increased, and their daily labor became more burdensome and demanding. They were accused of being lazy; they were treated more harshly; and their service became more difficult than it had already been.

Their leaders were not happy, and the confrontation between them and Moses and Aaron was ugly, and (as we will later see) it simply portended the kind of conflicts Moses would have with his own people for years to come.

It’s not that hard to see why they would have been upset with Moses (“ ‘Let the Lord look on you and judge,’ ” they said). They thought Moses was coming to free them from the Egyptians, not to make their lives under the Egyptians even harder.

Thus, besides dealing with the Egyptians, Moses and Aaron had to deal with their own people, as well.

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Daily Lesson for Sunday 13th of July 2025

Following God’s orders, Moses goes to Pharaoh to begin the process in which he, Moses, would “bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt” (Exodus 3:10, NKJV).

“Who is the Lord?” Pharaoh declares, not in any desire to know Him but, instead, as an act of defiance or even denial of this God, whom he admits that he does not know. “ ‘I do not know the Lord’ ” (NKJV), he says, almost as a boast.

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How many people throughout history have uttered the same thing? How tragic, because, as Jesus Himself said, “And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent” (John 17:3).

Egypt, with the pharaoh as king, is symbolic of a power that denies God’s presence and authority. It is an entity that stands in opposition to God, His Word, and His people.

Pharaoh’s next declaration that “I will not let Israel go” reveals even more this rebellion against the living God, further making Egypt a symbol, not only for the denial of God but for a system that fights against Him.

No wonder many saw this same attitude, millennia later, in the French Revolution (see also Isaiah 30:1-3 and Revelation 11:8). Pharaoh thought he was a god or the son of a god—a broad reference to a belief in one’s own supreme power, strength, and intelligence.

“Of all nations presented in Bible history, Egypt most boldly denied the existence of the living God and resisted His commands. No monarch ever ventured upon more open and highhanded rebellion against the authority of Heaven than did the king of Egypt. When the message was brought him by Moses, in the name of the Lord, Pharaoh proudly answered: ‘Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto His voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go,’ Exodus 5:2, A.R.V. This is atheism, and the nation represented by Egypt would give voice to a similar denial of the claims of the living God and would manifest a like spirit of unbelief and defiance.”—Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy, p. 269.

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Daily Lesson for Sabbath 12th of July 2025

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Read for This Week’s Study: Exodus 5:1-23, Revelation 11:8, Exodus 6:1-13, Psalms 73:23-26, 2 Corinthians 6:16, Exodus 6:28-30; Exodus 7:1-7.

Memory Text:

“Afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord God of Israel: “Let My people go, that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.” ’ And Pharaoh said, ‘Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go’ ” (Exodus 5:1-2, NKJV).

Many believers think that when one decides to follow God, he or she will experience only happiness, prosperity, and success. That’s not necessarily the case, however, as the Bible itself often shows. Sometimes many obstacles appear, as well as new difficulties. This can be very frustrating, and it prompts hard questions that don’t always have easy answers or, it seems, any answers at all.

Those who trust in God will face numerous trials. When we persevere, however, God brings solutions that come on His terms and in His time. His ways may conflict with our expectations for quick and instantaneous solutions, but we must learn to trust Him regardless.

Thus, the topic for this week: Moses and the command to lead God’s people out of Egypt—about as clear a call from God as anyone could have. Indeed, it included miracles, as well as God Himself speaking directly to Moses and letting him know exactly what He wanted Moses to do.

How much easier, then, could it have been for Moses, knowing that he had been called by God and even given a specific task?

It should have been simple then, right?

Read on.

*Study this week’s lesson to prepare for Sabbath, July 19.

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p>Our Sabbath School program has always been linked to the support of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission program. This video provides a little insight into this important work.

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