Ex 7:2, You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. 
	We now come to a vital reality as those who love and want to honor and to obey the Lord. We have very strict instructions given to Moses and to Aaron in their dealings with Pharaoh as representing God and His interests and His heart after His people. God left no room for misinterpretation or misunderstanding how He wanted Moses to speak to Pharaoh exactly that which God gave to be spoken.
	The groundwork for this was laid back in Chapter 4 of Exodus as Moses was having his dealings with God in terms of his lack of ability to speak fluently before the people and before God. The many commentators have attributed this lack of confidence in his speaking ability to a variety of possibilities concerning Moses. Some think that he might have been slow of speech in the sense of not quick to respond to questions and to situations. Others feel that it was more a sense of not being fluent in the Hebrew language. He had been raised in the household of Pharaoh, and therefore might not be fluent in the idiomatic phraseology required to communicate with the people of God. Others feel that Moses was rather shy and afraid of the public arena and would not have the boldness to proclaim, with authority, that which the Lord would have declared. Others feel that maybe he suffered from a speech impediment of some sort. 
There are all types of possibilities and explanations, but the reality is that God knew exactly who to choose and how to deal with him in order to accomplish His great rescue plan for the Children of Israel. In that certainty, we have the record of Ex 4:15 in which God set aside Moses’ argument through the appointment of Aaron as the speaker. Ex 4:15, And you are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth; and I, even I, will be with your mouth and his mouth, and I will teach you what you are to do. 
God made the provision for Moses to be heard through his brother, Aaron’s apparently strong and publically powerful voice. God would instruct Moses and Moses would instruct Aaron and Aaron would declare exactly all that the Lord wanted to be said. It would be that God would teach them what to say and how to say it and they were to be very careful to voice it as so commanded as the very word of God. 
There was no room for sugar coating or humanizing or couching it in softer terminology or phraseology. What God wanted to be voiced needed to be declared in His precise terminology and with the vocal sovereignty as from the very mouth of God to those to whom God gave instruction for His deliverance.
We read this again in Ex 6:28+29, as we consider back to the fact of what we have just spent the last few weeks detailing. This was the Word of Yahweh, the I Am, the Lord God Almighty through His chosen prophets for the sake of all that God was doing in the working power of His Omnipotence and His Omnipresence and His Omniscience. 
Ex 6:28+29, Now it came about on the day when the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, that the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, "I am the Lord; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I speak to you." Moses and Aaron were impelled to so honor God by the exact deliverance of His Word in their obedience and their submission and their homage and their reverent fear before the Almighty and Sovereign Lord God. 
When considering the options of disobeying God or infuriating Pharaoh, there truly was no alternative for them. Moses and Aaron knew the extent of the wrath of man, and they realized that God was far more powerful and far more to be honored than any earthly ruler. They might lose their lives at the whim of Pharaoh, but all of eternity is in the hands of God Almighty! Accordingly, they would not chance that loss through anything less than the full and bold pronouncement of what God told them to speak forth.   
	While Moses and Aaron risked the wrath of Pharaoh, they did not hesitate to make known what God told them to say every single time they were so commanded. They went to Pharaoh with boldness and with confidence in the Lord to fully declare what God’s heart was concerning His people. Over and over again they repeated the command to let God’s people go! They did this even as God made very evident that He would harden Pharaoh’s heart and that Pharaoh would not accede to the authority of the Lord. Despite this, Moses and Aaron did not fail to give voice to all that God told them to speak.
	This obedient service was, as well, evident as Moses lead the people of God in the wilderness for those 40 years. He did not hesitate to tell the people exactly what God wanted when He wanted it. As we read in Deut 4:1+2, Moses gave very clear and specific instructions as from the very mouth of God to the Israelites. He set before them precisely what needed to be done to honor The Lord. Deut 4:1+2, "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, in order that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you. You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. 
	As those who have been chosen by God, we have the same urgency and the same requirement placed upon us in the manner in which we declare the Word of God in our circle of influence. We may be a pastor over a flock, charged with the delivery of the Word of God on a regular basis. We may be a teacher of the Word to the men, or the women, or the youth, or the children. We may be a husband charged with the responsibility for teaching the Word within our family unit. We may be a mother who reads to and encourages her children with the truths of the Bible and how God wants us to act and to count on Him in the every manner of our lives. 
Sometimes it is as we are asked questions by friends and neighbors and associates who are seeking after some clarity for the reason that their lives are seemingly falling apart. Or, it may be in those times when we are challenged as to our beliefs and our way of dealing with tragedy and strife and hard times. 
	Maybe the Lord puts His Word into our mouths for the sake of encouraging a person who is facing his or her mortality, or the loss of a loved one, or cancer, or divorce, or some other life shattering event. Possibly we are given the severity of telling someone exactly what will happen to them if they continue on the treacherous path they are pursuing. At other times, it may be a word of comfort and grace and joy at the working Hand of God being so evident in a person’s life. 
	We each, do not necessarily know when or where or how God may tell us to deliver His Word of Life and instruction, but He will and we must be ready to obey Him and speak His word exactly as instructed. While we may feel like Moses, with his abject failure as a speaker, we still must know, as did Moses that God will make a way for His Word to be delivered through some mighty manner as we honor Him and obey Him. 
Circumstances are never an obstacle to the Lord. He never will give us His Word and then let it die on the vine so to speak. We see this in Num 11:23. And the Lord said to Moses, "Is the Lord's power limited? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not." 
	As well consider the promise of Isa 55:10+11, "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth, And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater; So shall My word be which goes forth from My mouth; It shall not return to Me empty, Without accomplishing what I desire, And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. 
	All that God desires to be accomplished will be done through those whom He so chooses. We will receive all the boldness and the power and the sensitivity and the ability that is necessary to deliver the Word given to us as will please God. As He is all-powerful and all-knowing, so will He manifest His heart in and unto us and through us unto others as we honor Him in our humble submission and obedience.
	There are several aspects to this that we want to consider as both encouragement and as caution in the manner in which we handle the Word of God. The first is that we are to give forth what the Lord opens to us on the basis that it is His word and we dare not shirk from declaring it. 
	In 1 Kings 22:12, we see that Micaiah was faithful to that which was from the Lord. He was advised by others to speak only what the king wanted to hear, however this was his response. But Micaiah said, "As the Lord lives, what the Lord says to me, that I will speak." He was not willing to say anything other than what God gave him to say. He would not compromise the Word of God for any ruler or anything, and that should be our heart. As we receive from God so do we declare His Word only!
	Jeremiah was encouraged by the Lord in the following manner as recorded in Jer 1:7, But the Lord said to me, "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' Because everywhere I send you, you shall go, And all that I command you, you shall speak. God warned him to not let the fact that he was a youth interfere with the delivery of that which God had given him to speak. Later in the chapter in verse 17 we read the following, "Now, gird up your loins, and arise, and speak to them all which I command you. Do not be dismayed before them, lest I dismay you before them. 
No matter what our age or our position or our circumstance, when God tells us to make known His Word, we are to do so in complete service unto Him. We do not lord anything over anyone else. We do not add our ideas or our concepts. We do not set aside the things which we feel might cause discomfort or dismay. We speak the Word from our heart of trust in God to open it in life through His Holy Spirit in accordance to all which will bring about His Glory in those who hear it. 
	In line with this, the Prophet Ezekiel was instructed that he should very closely pay attention and hear what God was telling Him. Ezek 3:10, Moreover, He said to me, "Son of man, take into your heart all My words which I shall speak to you, and listen closely. 
It is not enough, when we are dealing with the Word of God to just assume that we have heard it. We need to prayerfully consider each thing that we deliver and to be discerning in the manner in which we have received it. This requires prayerful hearing and searching out the scriptures in order to make absolutely certain that what we give forth is, in fact, the Word of God. It will always, always, always be in perfect line with the Bible and will be verified by the Holy Spirit within us. His Word will never contradict itself, and it will always lead to a deeper understanding of the very heart of God. 
	We see this evidenced in what we call the Great Commission, as Christ was teaching His disciples and us what the course of our walk on this earth truly entails. Matt 28:19+20, "Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." 
When we are truly making known the Word of God, it will work to the end that a living relationship with Jesus Christ is established within the hearts of those who hear. His Word will accomplish all that for which God sends it forth! There will be a heart response to God that will cause life to flourish and abound through the working of the Holy Spirit!
	That is why the Apostle Paul was so insistent that he had spoken all that God gave him to speak forth to those to whom he was sent, as we read in Acts 20:27, "For I did not shrink from declaring to you the whole purpose of God. He knew the urgency and the consequence of his failure to fully voice everything that God had given to him to speak to those gentile believers. As a result, he did not want to cause them any lack because of his failure to bring forth the full measure of the Word as so given to him by God.
	Then, in Rev 22:18+19, we have a further warning that we are not to add to the Word given to us anything of our own plan or purpose. As we speak forth in the name of God, declaring His Word Alone, that is all that we are to say or to claim as worthy of our preaching, our counseling, our teaching, or our encouragement unto others. Rev 22:18+19, I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues which are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are written in this book. 
	This is a most severe charge that we must be very careful to heed in our every time of telling anyone that what we have for them comes from God. Never think that we can just willy nilly speak forth anything with the label of God’s Word upon it and not have the ultimate responsibility upon our head for what is delivered! Only when God tells us to speak are we to open our mouths and to deliver it as his Word. Remember, His Word will always bring life everlasting into focus as it will always proclaim the living Lord Jesus Christ! So be it!
You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. Amen.

	This morning’s benediction is Ps 138:4+5. All the kings of the earth will give thanks to Thee, O Lord, When they have heard the words of Thy mouth. And they will sing of the ways of the Lord. For great is the glory of the Lord. Amen.