Exodus 3:16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt,

Observation without analysis is pointless.

The first observation is not where the bible uses the word observe. It happened earlier.

Exodus 3:3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.”

Why is that point within the observation that analysis is sought.

Who else observed this burning bush? The bible does not indicate that anyone except Moses saw this phenomenon. His encounter led him to God.

It changed Moses. He is a shepherd of goats that became a shepherd of Israel.

He is instructed to gather the elders of Israel because those elders believed in the God that would send them a deliverer. It was pointless to tell anyone else.

His observation matched their hope.

Psalm 39:7 And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

Hope was all they had for over 400 years.

What do we hope for? How long has it been?

1 John 1:8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

When I say feed from sin I mean its power over us and its penalty if we are in Christ.

As long as we live in this mortal shell we will not be free from its presence.

Romans 6:11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.

Consideration is a mind set. We have to choose to live by the spirit rather than by the flesh.

Romans 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

Being free from the power of sin allows us to resist temptation. It is a choice we have to make.