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The Long Journey to Discovering Who You Really Are | Exodus 2
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Paul D. Anderson
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Who are you—really?
It’s one of the hardest questions to answer. For Moses, it took eighty years. For many of us, it still hangs unresolved.
In Exodus 2, we follow Moses’ journey from prince to murderer to nobody in the wilderness. Along the way, we see how God uses the long, slow work of identity formation—and how the question “Who am I?” echoes through Scripture until it finds its answer in Jesus.
Who are you? The soul-mirror
Words & melodies: identity as a soundtrack
Train your ears; Exodus 2 set-up
Genesis in a thumbnail: “It was good” → hiding
Two family lines: the serpent vs. the woman
Enter the serpent-king (cobra on his brow)
A baby in an ark: new-creation echoes
Women 4, Pharaoh 0 (God’s holy irony)
“Moses”: son of ______?
Prince vs. slave: the split-screen life
Forty and conflicted—“Who are you, Moses?”
Murder, rejection, and exile
Midian: becoming a nobody
The well meet-cute; an Egyptian rescuer
Gershom: “Alien in a foreign land”
80 years of waiting—God heard, remembered, saw, knew
The melody changes: Les Mis (“Who Am I” → “One Day More”)
Matthew’s echo: Jesus, the new & better Moses
When you stand naked before your Lord…