LHS Soccer Banquet 2021 (4 R's for ?)

Alex Smith Story

2005 1st round draft pick

Multiple winning seasons

replaced in both San Fran and Kansas City

Goes to Washington does well

2018 Breaks Leg

17 surgeries, Infections with Flesh eating Bacteria

Happy to be alive and able to walk.

October 2020 comes back onto the field when the 1st and 2nd string get hurt.

November starts for first time in 2 years

What happens to us, when adversity hits?

Moses had faced a ton of adversity.

Background:

Moses:

Supposed to have been killed at birth.

The Pharoah was afraid of the Hebrews because there were so many. So he wanted the boys killed at birth.

Hidden for three months from society

Mother left Him in a basket by the Nile, Hoping a woman would find him and care for him. This was his only chance!

Remember where you came from

Exodus 2:9–10 CSB

9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him. 10 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.”

Exodus 2:11–15 CSB

11 Years later, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their forced labor. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his people. 12 Looking all around and seeing no one, he struck the Egyptian dead and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your neighbor?” 14 “Who made you a commander and judge over us?” the man replied. “Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses became afraid and thought, “What I did is certainly known.” 15 When Pharaoh heard about this, he tried to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian, and sat down by a well.

Moses had messed up, and it would have been easy for him to go and Live in median forever

Resist what’s easy

He had found a home, a wife, and had children.

It would have been completely acceptable to most for him to stay in this bubble. he even

He even

Exodus 4:1 CSB

1 Moses answered, “What if they won’t believe me and will not obey me but say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

Exodus 4:10 CSB

10 But Moses replied to the Lord, “Please, Lord, I have never been eloquent—either in the past or recently or since you have been speaking to your servant—because my mouth and my tongue are sluggish.”

Run toward what’s hard

The Burning Bush Context

God had created Moses for moments like this!

Exodus 3:9–11 CSB

9 So because the Israelites’ cry for help has come to me, and I have also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them, 10 therefore, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

Always remember that the Lord is where our strength comes from! Not ourselves

Remain Humble in the Lord

Exodus 3:11–12 CSB

11 But Moses asked God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” 12 He answered, “I will certainly be with you, and this will be the sign to you that I am the one who sent you: when you bring the people out of Egypt, you will all worship God at this mountain.”

Exodus 18:10–11 CSB

10 “Blessed be the Lord,” Jethro exclaimed, “who rescued you from the power of Egypt and from the power of Pharaoh. He has rescued the people from under the power of Egypt! 11 Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods, because he did wonders when the Egyptians acted arrogantly against Israel.”