In the middle of the 20th century the fireside chat became a popular event: dignitaries who sit down before a fireplace, and there, in a more or less person-to-person manner, address the listeners. The intention, of course, is that each hearer will feel it is a personal message on an important mater. By radio Roosevelt had his fireside chats. Jimmy Carter did the same thing, only by television. Billy Graham used ot do them during his Christmas specials. But the fireside chat of our text is not an easy, comfortable, warm conversation. It is a mighty confrontation of God with Moses that will forever change the destiny of the man and the Hebrew nation!

Moses, in the training school of God, has come a long way already. He was set afloat, by his mother, on a waterbed on the Nile. He was found …