Philadelphia Baptist Church

10/7/007 Sun. p.m.

The Person God Chooses … And Uses

Exodus 4:10–17

I. Introduction

A. Moses Called to Deliver Enslaved, Hurting People

1. He was God’s man of the hour

2. All Christians have a similar call

B. Needed: Millions to Be Used Like Moses

1. What kind of a man was Moses?

2. Can God use you and me?

II. Body

A. In Speaking, He Was Weak (Ex. 4:10)

1. “O my Lord, I am not eloquent”

2. “I am slow of speech”

3. He seems unlikely to be chosen

a. He must convince His people of his call

b. He must confront Pharaoh with his claim

c. But he was God’s choice for the job

4. God has often empowered those not eloquent

a. Jonathan Edwards read his sermons

b. His preaching brought great revival

5. God has chosen the weak (1 Cor. 1:26–31)

B. In Manner, He Was Meek (v. 13)

1. He didn’t feel qualified

2. Wanted to defer to someone more able

3. The meekest of all men (Num. 12:3)

4. Definition of meek: patient, gentle disposition

5. Meekness is the opposite of prideful

6. Jesus said: “I am meek and lowly in heart” (Matt. 11:29)

7. The meek shall inherit the earth (Matt. 5:5)

C. He Wasn’t One the World Would Seek (vv. 16–17)

1. Moses seemed so unqualified

a. Not the take-charge kind

b. Not the leader we might expect

2. God would have to compensate for his inadequacies

a. “I will be with thy mouth” (v. 16)

b. “Take this rod in thine hand” (v. 17)

3. God uses whom He chooses

4. Peter and John, though ignorant and unlearned, were called (Acts 4:13)

5. D. L. Moody with his lack of education

6. Billy Sunday, a professional ballplayer, and his style of preaching

7. Moses who had failed before

III. Conclusion

A. God Can Use You and Me

B. We Can Serve God as We Are

C. Weak and Meek Ones Can Reach Hurting People for Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

It All Started With a Sunday School Teacher

1. A Sunday School teacher, a Mr. Kimball, in 1858 led a Boston shoe clerk to give his life to Christ.

2. The clerk, Dwight L. Moody, became an evangelist. In England in 1879 he awakened evangelistic zeal in the heart of Frederick B. Meyer, pastor of a small church.

3. F. B. Meyer, preaching to an American college campus, brought to Christ a student named J. Wilbur Chapman.

4. Chapman, engaged in YMCA work employed a former baseball player, Billy Sunday, to do evangelistic work.

5. Billy Sunday held a revival in Charlotte, N. C. A group of local men were so enthusiastic afterward that they planned another evangelistic campaign, bringing Mordecai Hamm to town to preach.

6. During Hamm’s revival, a young man named Billy Graham heard the Gospel and yielded his life to Christ.

It may be that you are one of the tens of thousands who has been led to Christ through the ministry of Graham. Who are your converts? Are you discipling them in Sunday School? Only eternity will reveal the tremendous impact of that one Sunday School Teacher who invested his life in the lives of others.

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