GYC 2025: Seeing the Invisible

Thomas Mayhew

Joshua Ahn

Stephen Lee

Andrew Park

Allison Toktogulova

Kelsey Unruh

Junior Vertus

Anna Wood

Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

ECOM Sabbath School

So this morning, we are going to study the Bible a little bit together.

So GYC, it started not as this big movement of thousands of people, but it actually started as several young people coming together with a desire to get into the Word of God more and to study it as friends with the deep desire to know more of God and to know more about His Word.

And so of course we as the leadership team, this is something that we love to do not just as the leadership team of GYC but we do it as friends.

Right, yesterday I told you a little bit about some of the things that we like, and as we are sharing about those things, we also love to get into the word of God together, and we would love to invite you to do that with us this morning.

And so, just wanna make a quick note and a caveat before.

We do have some wonderful pastors up here.

I am a humble high school teacher, and I don't have a PhD in the Bible or theology or the chemical composition of manna in the book of Exodus or anything like that.

But I do believe that the Holy Spirit can still teach me.

And I believe the Holy Spirit can teach all of us.

And I believe that as we are studying together, we can see the invisible in what we are studying this morning.

And so, you've had a little bit of a preview of what we're gonna study.

You've seen it actually behind us right here.

And we are going to look specifically this morning at the story of the burning bush.

And so we're gonna be looking at Exodus chapter 3.

So I invite you to turn with me in your Bibles or flip there in your phones to Exodus chapter 3.

And as you turn there I'm going to give a little bit of a rundown of Exodus chapter 1 and 2.

I'm sure most of you already kind of have an idea of what happens but there's this guy his name is Moses but before Moses there are these people called the children of Israel and the children of Israel historically were the people of God and they are in captivity in the land of Egypt And so there's this promise that was made a long time ago that God would surely visit his people and raise up a deliverer and Moses parents know this and so does some other people and at this point in time the Pharaoh is trying to slim down the population of the Hebrews and so Moses parents in faith decide to hide Moses in the basket.

Moses has an adventure through the water and eventually lands at the doorstep of the Pharaoh's daughter who adopts him.

And eventually we see this progression of Moses becoming a leader within the land of Egypt.

And so he thinks in his mind, I'm going to now deliver my people from the land of Egypt.

He goes and he makes an action, kill somebody to protect somebody else, And that action is not, essentially it doesn't turn out the way that he wants it to turn out.

And so now he's on the run, Pharaoh's mad at him, the other people are mad at him, and he finds himself in Midian, and that's where we find ourselves in chapter 3.

So that was a quick spark notes version, a rundown of chapters 1 and 2.

I encourage you to read it for yourself if you want some more context from it as well.

But we are now gonna start reading in chapter 3, and we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna read 1 verse at a time starting in chapter 1.

The executive committee doesn't know where I'm gonna stop them, So we're just gonna read until we reach a point and I will let you guys know when.

So we'll start with Andrew over here, starting in verse 1, and we'll just read 1 verse at a time.

Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, And he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.

And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire, out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

Then Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush doesn't burn.

So when the Lord saw that, he turned aside to look.

God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses.

I was so excited that I forgot that we need to pray before we read the Bible.

I was too excited to get into the Bible, but we need to invite the Holy Spirit.

Heavenly Father God, we thank you so much for giving us this time that we can read your word.

Lord, we want you to be here in this moment.

And so, Father, as we read your word and as we read the pages here, may it not just be pages and words in a book, but Lord, may it be the living word of God that has power to change lives and does not come back to you void.

May it bear much fruit in our lives and in our hearts.

And Father, may the soil of our hearts be prepared to receive the seed of your word.

Please teach us about Moses, teach us about the burning bush, teach us about what all these things that are seemingly confusing mean.

And Father, may it not be me teaching, or us teaching, or us sharing just our own thoughts but Lord may it be you speaking through us and to us and teaching us through your Holy Spirit please be with here be with us here help us to fill your presence we praise thank you so much We pray all these things in Jesus name.

Then he said, do not draw near this place.

Take off your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.

Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Now therefore behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me.

And I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppressed them.

Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

I know they don't really look excited, but trust me, we're all super excited.

And we're going to stop there and look at the first 10 verses together.

And, you know, I have a bunch of questions, but you know what, is it okay guys if I just leave it open?

Can I just like ask you guys, what do you guys see in the first 10 verses?

The first thing that jumps out to me is that this is happening on Mount Horeb, which later in the Bible we see with Elijah and also Mount Sinai.

The mount, which is Mount Horeb, which is Mount Sinai, and that mountain actually comes back a little bit later.

So I do have a point that I saw, but I can't get ahead of myself.

I'm the 1 who set the thing, so I gotta stay within 10%.

So thank you for bringing that up, Kelsey.

I guess a point that I can bring up is this great call that Moses is getting.

And I guess what this speaks for me, and I think for any young person here, is the calling that God has for your life.

It may not come after a worship service per se.

It may not even come in the midst of a Bible study.

It may come in the midst of you just doing simple, ordinary things in life.

And I can go so much further, but for now I'll just throw that in there as discussion.

I was going to say, I know that you have so many other things that you could say with that, and I just want to kind of play off of that a little bit.

You know, it's not only that he wasn't in like a very, you know, well he was in a holy place but it's not necessarily that he was in a temple.

In fact, Moses thought that he was supposed to be the deliverer and when he was in Egypt or should I say the University of Egypt and a graduate from there and in the best position that he could be in.

I mean, when you're thinking to deliver a people, I would rather take a top graduate than a guy who is tending sheep in the middle of nowhere, you know?

And so I think that's so encouraging to me too, where in this sense, Moses thinks that he's ready, but obviously he was not at that time.

And Moses comes, or God comes and visits him when he is tending sheep, when he is seemingly in a very normal, kind of unprepared position.

And we'll see a little bit more of how this plays out as we continue reading as well.

I love that, Josh, because when people look at us and in these positions, they only see the position and the title, and they say that, oh, wow, they're up there on the stage and doing all these things.

But I remember back in the day of my first GYC at Baltimore, I was just sitting in 1 of these seats and looking up.

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