Aaron

Big Idea: Do your job

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Intro

Here’s something that I’ve noticed in society and in our culture, although not just our culture but culture overall.

We celebrate the A-Team.

Football: QB gets praised, not the back up. Even though the back up is who is on the sidelines with the OC looking at defenses and helping with play calls. Or the one who is pushing him at practice to get better each day.

Baseball: Pitcher. Everyone notices who the SP for a team is, the Ace right? But few people know about the coaching staff that work with him day in and day out.

Great Actor: Denzel Washington — Trained under Bob Stone. Ever heard of him? No? Didn’t think so. Washington attributes his success to this guy who put in all this workto develop him and then help him with different acting techniques for the different roles that he would play in life.

My point is we love the A-Team guys. We love the people are starting and there front and center of the attention. Truth is those A-Team guys wouldn’t b there without the B-Team.

Who watched the A-Team growing up? Or the 2010 movie? “I love it when a plan comes together.”

A-Team gets all the attention but there would be no A-Team if there wasn’t a B-Team pushing them, supporting them or doing the things they weren’t good at.

This series is going to look at the Bible B-Team. Not the starters, you already know their name and likely know their story. These are the people aren’t the main characters but without them the main characters wouldn’t have gotten to where they are in the story we read about.

WE:

Some of you in the room are B-Team people, not a bad thing, that’s the way you’ve been gifted. Now if you find yourself as someone who is sometimes on the outside, or you’re just never the guy or the gal. You that person, but you’re just never them.

Not the starter but the backup. Then today is for you.

Scripture

First one I want to look at is Aaron. Turn with me in your Bibles to Exodus 17:8.

Bible Trivia, who told the Pharoah to “let me people go?”

Exodus 7:2 NIV

2 You are to say everything I command you, and your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go out of his country.

Aaron is Moses older brother - 3 years.

Aaron has served as the mouth piece for Moses through most of the Exodus.

Crossing of the Red Sea.

God sends manna.

People are without water and Moses strikes the rock with his staff as instructed by God.

but then...

Exodus 17:8–13 NIV

8 The Amalekites came and attacked the Israelites at Rephidim. 9 Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some of our men and go out to fight the Amalekites. Tomorrow I will stand on top of the hill with the staff of God in my hands.” 10 So Joshua fought the Amalekites as Moses had ordered, and Moses, Aaron and Hur went to the top of the hill. 11 As long as Moses held up his hands, the Israelites were winning, but whenever he lowered his hands, the Amalekites were winning. 12 When Moses’ hands grew tired, they took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Aaron and Hur held his hands up—one on one side, one on the other—so that his hands remained steady till sunset. 13 So Joshua overcame the Amalekite army with the sword.

Yet no one celebrates Aaron. Moses could not this in his own power… let me say this way.

Application

Moses couldn’t do it alone.

He needed Aaron.

He needed a helper, he needed a side-kick, he needed a partner, he needed his brother.

I want to take a second and speak to two kinds of people in this room.

A-Team

You think you can do it alone. You can’t.

Moses couldn’t and he met with God face-to-face.

That’s why community and relationships are so important. It’s why I tell you all the time, you need to get into a group and on a team.

B-Team

You don’t think you have anything to offer.

You do.

The problem is you see things as if you’re “support the A-Team. What you see as supporting, God sees as essential.

Here’s the deal some of you sitting in this room will be B-Team people, and that is ok. Don’t listen to the lies of society that say if you’re not in the lead seat you’re nothing, b/c that’s simply not true.

Society says it’s just a supporting role and unimportant but that’s not true.

Aaron was an irreplaceable part of the plan, if you remember Moses wouldn’t have even got to where he was without Aaron. “I can’t speak, send someone else.”

B/c you’re role is just as important as the one in the spot light.

Every A-team needs a B-team.

B/c Each are gifted differently.

Paul talks about it in his letter to the Corinthian Church, he compares the followers of Jesus (God’s people) to different parts of the body. Each having their own distinct and equally valuable role.

Don’t compare your calling.

Some are gifted to be in the lead role and spotlight and others are called to behind the scenes — both are essential to God’s work. Here’s what this looks like in everyday life.

Coaching football story — Do your job.

Let me be your football coach for just a minute. — Do your Job.

God gave you a role, and a set of strengths. Do that thing. Play your game, do your job. Don’t try to be someone else, instead lean into what you’re good at and surround yourself with people who are good at things that you’re not.

Looks something like this...

Leveraging your admin skills to help your manager get more done for the business. Brandon, they suck and they need to just get better at these things. What if you’re gifted in them and you’re the Aaron?

Leveraging your communication skills to help your leader prepare their keynote speech and make the entire department better.

Supporting the leader by developing numbers on the budget b/c you know they can’t do that well. Why? B/c you’re gifted in that, you have the skill.

God makes these people that are just helpers, in fact, the NT calls it the gift of Helps. If you have that gift you should embrace it b/c you’re a huge part of God’s plan.

Your calling, and gifting is different and it’s celebrated here in this church b/c without the Aarons we wouldn’t be here today, I wouldn’t be here today.

If you’re an A-Team guy, leader, then you need to find your B-Team. You need them. You cannot accomplish the plan God has laid for you without them.

That’s why I say all the time, get in a group and get on a team.

Get in a community of people b/c if we’re honest we all have moments in life when we need an Aaron to hold our hands up, to lend us their strength. That is where the power of the church really comes into play. So if you’ve been here for a while and haven’t gotten connected you should change that today. I challenge you to change it today. After service I will be down front here, ready to help you get connected.

So here’s your takeaway: Do your job.

Inspiration — what would happen if...

how much happier would you be?

how much more impact could you have?

Maybe you’ve never heard of this God before >>> invitation.

Communion

Extras

Give the backstory to Moses. and backstory to Aaron.

Aaron is 3 years older than Moses so when this order came down...

Exodus 1:22 NIV

22 Then Pharaoh gave this order to all his people: “Every Hebrew boy that is born you must throw into the Nile, but let every girl live.”

Aaron was older and not subject to the law.

Moses gets placed in the Nile, picked up by Pharoah’s daughter and then cared for in the same family. So Aaron grows up with his younger brother.

Moses attacks Egyptian. Ever watched your youngest sibling do some out of pocket stuff? Like straight up unhinged? Ever tried to tell them not to? Good luck right?

40 years pass, Moses out in the wilderness raising sheep and Aaron in the city.

Eventually God show’s himself to Moses and tells him that it’s time for the Hebrews to be let go. Moses provides all the excuses, in fact he provides five, and honestly they are still the same five we God every time he calls us to something. I am going to do a series on the five excuses at some point, but this isn’t it.

Brandon what are they? You should go look them up. I am not telling you, get into your Bible.

After about 3 excuses God gets angry with Moses because Moses says, look I can’t talk to be people. I’ve tried it all, imagining them in their underwear, pretended they weren’t there, I practice, I’ve tried manuscripting, the whole bit and I just cannot public speak.

Exodus 4:14–17 NIV

14 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. 15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it.”

Aaron was equipped where Moses wasn’t.

They meet up, and go to the Hebrews and then to Pharoah.

Many people inaccurately think that it’s Moses who says to let me people, but from chapter 4-7 it’s all Aaron. Using his skill and gifting for the purposes of God, b/c God has equipped him for this role.