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Qustodio
Leadership -
Do we have any idol worshippers in the house today?
Any idolaters?
none?
no takers?
Well, I have to say that I wouldn’t have put myself in that category either.
But since none of us raised our hands, we all are given a very stark warning in v12 of .
v 12 Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.
The falling here is falling into sin…into idolatry.
We know we struggle, and fall into temptations,
What will it take to feel victorious in your life?
But do you ever wonder why you’re not getting real victory in your life?
why you keep failing in temptations
The reason is, we likely have some idols of the heart.
For us to encounter trials and temptations and to emerge victorious, requires us to surrender those idols to Christ.
For you to encounter trials and temptations and to emerge victorious?
What will it take for you to claim the power of the Lord and conquer the sin in your life?
Here’s what it’s going to take: a humble trust in the leading of God.
The context of our talk today comes from the book of Exodus, where God dramatically and miraculously rescues his people out of slavery in Egypt.
STORY
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Immediately after God’s final act of rescue, the people have seen the great power of the Lord, so the people fear God in great awe, and they believed in the Lord and his servant Moses.
And they sing this song to the Lord.
I will sing to the Lord,
for he has triumphed gloriously,
The horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.
The Lord is my strength and song, and he has become my savior;
He is my God, and I will prepare him a house;
He is my father’s God, I will exalt him.
Who is like thee, O Lord of all the gods?
Who is like thee, glorious in holiness?
In thy mercy thous has led forth the people thou hast saved;
In thy strength thou hast guided them to thy holy dwelling.
Unfortunately, these people who are singing this song are the same people we will read about in ,
and *spoiler alert* they all die before they get to the promised land.
The reason was that they were all idolaters who refused to humble themselves trust the leading of God.
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Every time we pray the Lord’s prayer, we ask God to lead us somewhere.
In that statement we are declaring our humility to God’s leading.
His guiding sovereignty over our lives.
Today we’re going to be talking about following the leading of God.
Humble leaders will trust the Word of the Lord
3 points
Moses
We don’t always choose the path that God calls us to
It may not always be glamorous
It always requires humility
Pharaoh
God will always accomplish his will even when we try to stand in his way
People of Israel
God will punish those who refuse to worship him
God will be faithful in spite of our faithlessness
God will never give us more than we can handle??
The statement removes something very important from one half of the equation.
Our ability > the temptation
GOD + our ability > the temptation
Temptation?
SIN - separation from God, from his plan, his purpose, his presence.
The promise is that God will always be faithful to you IN the trial, the temptation, and will provide a way of escape from sin (which separates you from God).
He promises that there is never a time or situation the he allows into your life that is designed to put distance between you and God.
All the spiritual or moral choices we make are either driving us closer to God or further away from Him.
There will never be a time in your life where your only option is to be separated from God.
flee idolatry
idolatry is putting anything in a place of higher reverence and honor than God in your life.
valuing something other than God MORE than you value God.
Problem: It is easier to fall into idolatry than we realize and many of us live a life filled with idolatry.
It is easy teenager to worship what your friends think about you.
To worship your emotions and your own sense of wellbeing that everyone in your family exists to make you happy.
It is easy parents, to worship your children, or your grandchildren, and their future that you neglect the things of God and encourage them to pursue every.
It is so easy men, to worship your career or your toys, and the almighty-dollar, and to fill our life up with stuff that we have no time to lead our family in worship, or to pray with our wives, or to do something for God.
Where does your idolatry come easy?
Flee Idolatry
we don’t have time to go over it, but Paul’s answer to fleeing idolatry is to run to the table of Christ.
To run to corporate worship where we participate with eachother and Christ in something greater than our job or our sports team or our kids achievements.
What we will cover today his…Humble people trust God
Because God is God, he will push (punish) the proud, and lead the humble.
He promises that there is never a time or situation the he allows into your life that is designed to put distance between you and God.
All the spiritual or moral choices we make are either driving us closer to God or further away from Him.
First we look at the life of Moses
Story of Exodus through him appearing to Pharaoh
The task God assigns to us
1.
Is not something we get to choose,
Sometimes we think the task is too great.
that we are unqualified for it.
how many have children/grandchildren?
How many feel fully qualified for that responsibility to raise these children in the love and commandments of God? (nurture and admonition)
teens?
The task God assigns to us
2. May not be glamorous.
-my situation dirty diaper, yours may be carting children around.
or just taking care of your house and hanging out with friends.
God calls us to mundane faithfulness
The task God assigns to us
3. Always requires humility
Moses initially argued with God about the task of leading the people of Egypt...
Thinking he couldn’t possibly do what God was telling him to do.
This wasn’t humility.
It was pride, that he knew better than God.
tells us that Moses was the most humble man who ever lived.
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