Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people from the Egyptians, when they dealt arrogantly with them.
Moses, you may remember him? He led his people (the Hebrew people) under God's care out of slavery in Egypt. His father-in-law was a priest-chief of a wilderness tribe in the Sinai peninsula named Jethro. So Jethro was not a Hebrew person, he was not a worshiper of the Lord, the one God who made heaven and earth. He worshiped many gods presumably.
But after the exodus event, after God did the basic thing that God (frees people) Moses came to see his father-in-law. He stopped by for a family visit during the 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. And his father-in-law was impressed. So Jethro gives his testimony of faith - the Lord is greater than all gods, because he delivered the people. God is great because God gives freedom. God is to be trusted because God frees slaves. God has given you freedom. God is great!
In Christ,
Pastor Seth
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