These questions are a guideline for your personal or small group study based on Sunday's sermon passage. Feel free to study and meditate on the passage more deeply. ​​

1. Pastor Randy said that when our understanding of God grows small, our problems grow large. What does it look like for you, practically, when you've let your view of God shrink during a hard season?

2. We heard that God repeated "I am the LORD" throughout this chapter as a reminder that His promises are anchored in His character, not in our circumstances. Where do you tend to anchor your hope instead, and how can you make changes to shift that anchor back to who God is?

3. Pastor Randy walked through the seven "I will" promises in verses 6 through 8 and pointed out that every verb belongs to God, not to Israel. Why does it matter for our own faith that redemption rests entirely on what God does rather than on what we do?

4. We were told that the people could not even hear Moses' message because of their anguish and bondage, that their pain had narrowed their capacity to receive hope. Has there been a time when your own suffering made it hard to take in something true that God or others were trying to tell you?

5. Pastor Randy said God measures obedience by faithfulness, not by results, and that Moses was told to go back to Pharaoh even though the first attempt had failed. What is something God has asked you to keep doing even when you haven't seen the results you hoped for?

6. We heard that the genealogy in this chapter, with all its imperfect names like Korah, exists to remind us that God's calling rests on His sufficiency rather than on ours. Who in your life needs to hear that their past doesn't disqualify them from what God wants to do through them?

7. Pastor Randy noted that the seven "I will" promises in verses 6 through 8 belong entirely to God, with Israel doing nothing to earn them. As a group, look up Romans 8:28-30 and Ephesians 1:3-14, and discuss what these passages add to our understanding of God's "I will" toward us in Christ. What's the hardest part of truly resting in promises you had no part in earning?