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44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will…

EXODUS - "The Great Sight". Recorded Sunday 04/09/2022 at 6:30pm. This evening we continue our series on Exodus looking at Exodos 2:21-3:6 and what it is like to experience the presence of God.

Jesus does the same thing with every person who puts their faith in him and chooses to trust him with their life. First Jesus calls them to follow him, and then he sends them out on mission. We articulate this as a church family by saying we are sent to love people and invite them to follow Jesus with us. In Exodus 3 we see Jesus call Moses to follow him (from a burning bush), then send him to Pharaoh to rescue the people of Israel, and finally Jesus promises to go with him as Moses obeys.

Has God ever called you to do something you didn't want to do? Maybe you didn't feel adequately? Maybe you felt that someone else could do a better job? You beg God to choose someone else but He doesn't. He has chosen you! At some point, we need to have the courage to answer God's call. Today, we unpack Moses' call to leadership and the excuses he tried to give God. Then we'll parallel Moses' call to save Israel, with Jesus' call to save humanity.

Has God ever called you to do something you didn't want to do? Maybe you didn't feel adequately? Maybe you felt that someone else could do a better job? You beg God to choose someone else but He doesn't. He has chosen you! At some point, we need to have the courage to answer God's call. Today, we unpack Moses' call to leadership and the excuses he tried to give God. Then we'll parallel Moses' call to save Israel, with Jesus' call to save humanity.

Pastor shares three reasons why Moses can stand confidently in God's calling at the burning bush, and it has nothing to do with Moses. In 3:12-22 we read of God telling Moses that He IS, He WAS, and He Will...from the names I AM and YHWH. We too can learn how to confidently stand for the Lord in these trying days of 2021, because God IS...God WAS...amd God Will be.

Israel's cry for deliverance arose out of the affliction imposed upon them.

The Holiness of God

We just heard a lot from the beginning of the Exodus story but it’s hard not to focus in on the part about Moses and his encounter with God through the burning bush. This is after all, the moment that God answers not just Moses’ question, but also Jacob’s question. If you recall from last week, Jacob…

Como Deus nos conhece pelo nome e nos ama como somos Dinâmica "Nome e Adjetivo" Cada participante deve dizer o seu nome e um adjetivo que comece com a mesma letra do seu nome. Por exemplo, "Meu nome é Pedro e eu sou Paciente". Para reforçar essa mensagem, faça uma dinâmica em que cada adolescente escolhe…

Our God Is A Consuming Fire Text: Hebrews 12:15-29 (KJV) I. Our God is a consuming fire. 15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; 2 Peter 1:10 (KJV) 10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble…

Stephen continues the defense of the Gospel at his trial before the Sanhedrin. We will see today how Stephen uses the call of Moses at the burning bush.

Yahweh reveals Himself to Moses at the burning bush and calls him.

Curiosity Moses’ first response to the burning bush was curiosity. As he led the flock, beyond the wilderness, he came to mount Horeb and there he saw the burning bush. Exodus 3:3 (NRSV) 3 Then Moses said, “I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.” Curiosity…

Moses' life seemed settled, but God had other plans. Just because it seems like we aren't on the right path doesn't mean we aren't. We need to return to the burning presence of the Lord for new direction.

Moses' life seemed settled, but God had other plans. Just because it seems like we aren't on the right path doesn't mean we aren't. We need to return to the burning presence of the Lord for new direction.

Through the story of Saul's Conversion to Paul, we see how Ananias had to have faith that God would protect him when he went to Saul. Moses, had to have that same faith when God told him to pick up his staff that had been turned into a snake. Saul's faith was in Jerusalem, but when he became Paul his faith was in Heaven. It became a prophetic faith. Faith puts out the fire of unseen terror. Faith plants seeds!

Moses' life seemed settled, but God had other plans. Just because it seems like we aren't on the right path doesn't mean we aren't. We need to return to the burning presence of the Lord for new direction.

Introduction Excuses excuses. When we don’t want to do whatever we’ve been asked to do, we make excuses - it’s part of our DNA, I think - we think of a logical, reasonable excuse for not doing what we have been asked to do. Or perhaps it’s not even when we don’t WANT to do whatever it is - sometimes…

Moses' life seemed settled, but God had other plans. Just because it seems like we aren't on the right path doesn't mean we aren't. We need to return to the burning presence of the Lord for new direction.

Exodus 4 and the story of Moses being called by God to be used in front of the most powerful person on earth during that time. Fear was all over the place with the opportunity/assignment. We can’t pretend that we would be anything different than Moses was during this experience. Regardless of the fact that he was conversing with the God of the universe and that alone has psychological implications of terror, but what he was calling him to may have felt even more terrifying. It’s one thing to fall into the hands of an angry God you cannot see, it’s quite another to fall into the terror filled hands of a person whom you have seen kill and destroy and wreck havic on people you’ve known. Moses here is caught in the tensions of conflict. Should he willingly trust in God whom he’s just recently become re-acquainted with? Or should he crater in fear of the ruler who he used to call brother? It seemed so much easier to just get lost in the wilderness than to have to deal with the tensions of God’s story. When God’s story becomes your problem, you have great opportunity in front of you. God was literally making this problem of the people’s deliverance to be Moses' problem. We immediately see the tensions of Moses “What if” problem. While we focused on this same question last week from a positive perspective, this week we will be confronting that from a negative line. Moses was constantly asking the What If questions from a stand point of negative outcome. What if they don’t believe. What if they don’t understand ;What if I can’t explain it clearly What if im embarrassed What if I just can’t come through with it We have to learn to depend on the Lord for guidance and goodness rather than what we have. We are champions of this tension today. I hear it 1000’s times per month, but I don’t hear it in terms of being presented with an opportunity but just rejecting ideas. I don’t want to teach in kids Point, because i I don’t want to help youth with anything because i You see we’ve crossed from being presented with opportunity to engage to just being totally indifferent to it and thinking that it’s God’s problem to resolve. When God’s story becomes your problem, you have great opportunity in front of you! The reason why some of you don’t love what you’re doing with the work of the Lord is because you’ve yet to fully immerse yourself in it. You're still there holding on to your excuses thinking that God will eventually bypass you and go bother someone else.

Exodus 2:23-3:12 introduces us to 4 attributes of God so that we will be better acquainted with the God we worship.

3 Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the…