I'm On Fire - Part 2
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My desire is stir up and activate the gifts and talents that God has put inside of you!
Paul told Timothy to “fan the flame”
We do not walk in fear!
We walk in Power / Love / Wisdom
Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
#1 Connect the dots
Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman. The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months. When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank.
And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him. Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”
Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?” And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the girl went and called the child’s mother. And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”
Moses grows up...
One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
He kills an Egyptian man
He flees from Pharaoh because of this action
But while he is on the run.
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
Fast forward 80 years
The angel of the Lord appears to Moses in a flame of fire\
#2 God Knows
Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings,
and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.
#3 Why Me?
Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”
The God of creation
The God who is all powerful and mighty
The God who is all knowing
Hasn’t chosen Moses to represent Him as a deliverer.
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”
3 Powerful words…
Who AM I
It’s powerful when we have a dialogue with God...
God: I will send you
Moses: Who Am I
God sees Moses as His workmanship
God sees Moses with gifts, talents and abilities
God sees Moses as His representative
But Moses asked God a question....
Who Am I....
Our insecurities
Our inabilities
Our inadequacies
Our Inefficiencies
Will cause us to question God!
2 interesting ways to look at verse 11
#1 Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?
Pharaoh sits a table… God is sending me to the same table
God is sending me as a representative to be a voice of change
Who me?
#2 Who am I that I should go to bring the children of Isreal out of Egypt?
Coming out of Egypt is going to take leadership and strategy
"When the leader lacks confidence, the followers lack commitment." John C. Maxwell
How can I lead effectively?
Do I have the right strategy?
Do I have the right system?
I’m so glad God talks back to us.....
He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
Moses asked a very valid question…
And Moses was right!
Doing it on my own
Through my own strength or ability
Will cause me to feel inadequate or not capable to fulfill the assignment..
God said “But”
Moses I know how you feel!
Jason I know how you feel!
I understand why you are questioning me…
But Moses you are missing the key ingredient
“I will be with you”
It’s one thing to go to sit at the table with Pharoah by yourself but it’s another thing to sit at the table with God!
Who am I? I’m powerless
Who am I with Him? I’m powerful
Old Hymn:
Without Him, I could do nothing
Without Him, I'd surely fail
Without Him, I would be drifting
Like a ship without a sail