Miriam: The Leading Lady of the Exodus

We have been doing a series on Sunday night basically called “Unlikely Heroes,” looking at biblical personalities who are used in a mighty way by God unexpectedly. We started out with Enoch early in the book of Genesis, a man who walked with God right into heaven. The man who was a preacher of righteousness as the model, if you will, for Noah, who became the preacher of righteousness for 120 years warning about the coming judgment of God. And then we looked at the life of Joseph, another very unlikely hero because he was sold into slavery and expected to be disintegrating or dissembled into the life of Egypt and lost forever--but God had other plans. All of these biographies, and a few more than I'll be able to cover, are going to come out in a book at the end of the summer called Twelve Unlikely Heroes, and you'll want to read them when that book arrives.

Tonight I want you to turn to the opening of the book of Exodus, and these are always very challenging to me. I like to dig down deep in one place, but in order to cover some of these biographical accounts, we have to kind of run fast through greater portions of Scripture. So I'm going to encourage you to stay with us and keep up to speed as we move along in the story of Miriam--Miriam, the leading lady of the Exodus.

You might say, “Well why would you even include her in a list of heroes, unlikely or not? And the answer to that comes from the words of Micah the prophet. Micah the prophet, speaking for God in Micah, chapter 6 and verse 4 said, “For I brought you up from the land of Egypt...

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