In the book of Exodus, God revealed to Moses His plan for this son of Hebrew slaves to lead His people out of Egypt. The story teaches us that God equips us for whatever He calls us to do, and He remains at the center through every difficulty, providing, directing, strengthening, and empowering us.
well the Bible is a god-centered book
with a god-centered message but God
centered people does that fit you I love
you of you certainly hope it fits all of
us God centered look whether God sent
his message for God’s ended people who
want to walk in the ways of God be
obedient to God experience the blessings
of God which is exactly what happens
when we trust him when we come to this
book of Exodus and we begin to see how
God works in people’s lives sometimes we
think well that’s what happened back
yonder now this book is up-to-date from
Genesis 1:1 all the way to the last
verse of the revelation it’s the issue
is that we see the lesson that we did we
see what God is saying to us because
there’s nothing outdated about the Bible
if you don’t see it as a god-centered
book whether God sends a message for God
sending people then what do you do with
it you put it on the shelf somewhere and
say that’s one of my copies of the Bible
but if you see it as a guide book as a
way of life lessons that apply to all of
us every single day of our life
then the Bible is a god-centered book
for you and there are only two ways to
live I caught him to the book and forget
the book and you understand what happens
when you see people living their life
with no relationship to God no
relationship to Christ and no interest
in the Word of God so I want you to turn
if you will to this sixth chapter of
Exodus and I just want to mention a
couple of things here before we get into
the middle of it all and they have been
to Pharaoh several times ask him to let
the Hebrews go and he said no each time
then the Lord said to Moses now you will
see what I will do
for under compulsion he will let them go
on the compulsion he will drive them out
of his land God spoke further to Moses
and said to him I am the Lord now over
and over again he says in this passage
of Scripture i am the lord i am the lord
i am the lord i am the lord and god
intends to make a statement about our
relationship to him our relationship to
our life and what’s the principle what
is it lesson from this passage what’s
God trying to say well God has a will
for each and every one of us and that
will is according to his best plan he
knows about your abilities your talents
your skills and whatever so what’s
happening here is that God’s people have
been in bondage all these years and God
has called Moses after he reached the
age of 80 to confront Pharaoh to let
them go and that’s what he doesn’t want
to let them go they’ve been in bondage
and they have been doing all the work so
when we think about this whole idea of
the will of God for our life and how he
works in our life and how things happen
that we think it just happened since our
the divine will of God and so when you
look at this passage I want us to see a
couple of things that I think apply to
all of us he says over and over and over
again I will I will I will and likewise
he says in this passage again and again
i am the lord i am the lord i am the
lord i am the lord would you agree that
god is the lord of your life well a few
of you now in the middle there but what
about the you but you since god as the
lord of your life that means he’s in
control you submit to his control
because you want the best for your life
and so here is this awesome servant of
god who grew up in egypt in the palace
of Pharaoh himself
banished on the other side of the
wilderness and now God has said to him
at the age of
I have your most important work to do so
this is what we get in trouble when we
can’t quite figure out how God wants us
to do something we hesitate doing it and
as a result what happens is we step out
of the will of God and God is not able
to accomplish what he wants to in our
life and I think about a lot of people
who’ve lived half their life and most of
the life or whatever it might be and I
still wondering what God was up to in
their life on their lawn the truth is he
has a purpose for every single one of us
and is in it’s a joy to find out what
the purpose is
sometimes it’s frightening it must have
been frightening to Moses to find out
you want me to go back and talk to
Pharaoh but letting the people know go
and God you know he’s not going to so it
looked like an impossible task but the
issue is this when he says four times i
am the lord i am the lord i am the lord
and i am the lord he was making a point
you don’t have to worry about it what
the responsibility is going to be and
what the consequences are going to be
all you have to remember is this he who
sent you is the lord the sovereign of
the universe so when you are not facing
with situations and circumstances we
think well god you couldn’t expect me to
do this and so well remember who’s
calling remember who’s telling him Emma
who’s talking to you that is Almighty
God and yet he was asking him to do
something that appeared impossible so I
want us to look at this in this light
whatever God calls you to do he assumes
full responsibility did you get that
what I say
he assumes full responsibility for
equipping you enabling you supplying you
with whatever’s necessary for you to do
what he called you to do and I think
many people miss out on God’s blessings
because they think we’ll look here’s
what you’re asking me to do forgetting
the fact he would never ask you to do
anything that he would not equip you to
do provide for you to do whatever that
might be and what he was asking of Moses
was impossible from all humans point of
view you mean God you’re asking me to go
back where I was thrown out of and
asking Pharaoh who’s the ruler of the
world as far as they were concerned to
do anything yes I am well think about
this be blessed with a very idea that
God would choose to have you do anything
there was if Almighty God the sovereign
of the universe decides to ask you to do
this of that or whatever it might be
be blessed the fact that he sees within
you the potential and with his command
or his charge or his responsibilities
requirement comes all that is necessary
to enable you to accomplish it no matter
what it is so remember we said this is a
god-centered book his message is god
centered everything about to god send it
so if that be true do you believe that
whatever God called you to do he’ll
enable you to do it well a few people
don’t hear it front there think about
this do you believe that God will enable
you to do whatever he requires you to do
then you should be open to whatever he
requires you there right so why are you
hesitating
and maybe God has said something to you
about your job about your marriage your
home whatever it might be your health
God is able to equip you enable you give
you whatever is necessary in order to
accomplish his will
his purpose for your life so he’s
committed himself to Moses I’m sending
you to do an impossible task and I’m
going with you i am the lord i am the
lord i am the lord i am the lord and
here’s what i will do and he promises
over and over and over again this is why
prayer is such an important part of our
life because when you not humble
ourselves before him and get quiet and
ask god to speak to how hard what is he
going to do he’s going to give us
direction for our life and with a
direction listen that direction may not
have to come but one time but but their
reassurance and the enlarging of our
confidence may come over and over and
over again because he knows that some
things he may require of us we just
don’t see how we can do it and i think
all of us would agree with with moses at
this point it here he is at a point in
his life that first of all he was
banished out of out of egypt and now god
is sending him back and he’s sending him
back to free a whole nation of about two
million people and he doesn’t have an
army he doesn’t have anything but the
Word of God and watch this carefully
that’s all you need to obey God is his
word when he watch this when he tells
you to do something with that command is
everything you will possibly need in
order to be obedient to God and
oftentimes people head in the right
direction one of the what God wants them
to do and because they can’t figure it
out they can there was injustice and all
add up they said well God you must be
talking to somebody else well naturally
naturally Moses probably thought that
but notice how God spoke to him he spoke
to him to a burning bush that he would
never forget he didn’t just whisper in
the dark in the burning bush he said I’m
sending you to do an impossible task but
I’m going with you and
with me will be your apparel because I’m
gonna exercise my power through you to
get it all done how many times said we
missed opportunities in life because we
were interpreting the opportunity in the
light of the way we see ourselves well I
could never do that
well that that would never work for me
that must be odd must be speaking to
somebody else no you say well at this
point my life God couldn’t do this and
so don’t underestimate what God can do
in your life listen it may be something
that no one else thinks is fantastic but
you know in your heart being who you’re
being where you came from being it your
past that what’s happening in your life
it’s an awesome thing so don’t compare
God’s command to you to God’s command to
someone else
because God and all his wisdom knows
exactly what you’re capable of doing and
be with his help with his strength with
his guidance with his power with his
support with his encouragement and when
you have that nothing is impossible that
is whatever God requires of us watch
this with the requirement comes
everything necessary to get it done
and this is why he said to him four
times i am the lord i am the lord i am
the lord i am the lord and this is why
he said to him in this passage
i’ll lay my hand on egypt bring out my
host my people the sons of israel from
the land of egypt but listen he said by
great judgement this is and so he didn’t
tell him a lot but he says my great
judgment i’m gonna do it so you and i
don’t have to figure out how god is
gonna do whatever he wants to do in our
life obey god and leave all the
consequences to him so the question is
this do I believe God can handle all the
consequences yes or no if I hesitate to
obey Him here’s what it says I don’t
trust him I don’t believe him I don’t
think he can handle it
no we trust him if Moses
had waited until God had showed him all
the details he would never have left the
mountaintop but he says here’s what I’m
gonna do
trust me and he trusted him so when I
think about this passage of Scripture
and think about what he faced and think
about the impossibility of it it was
possible only because one man was
willing to trust God so wonder what
would happen in your life if you on this
literally said today Lord I don’t know
how much time I have left but for the
rest of it I’m gonna give it all to you
I don’t understand what you’ll do with
me I don’t want to send how you’ll do it
I don’t understand with whom you’d have
me to do it but look the rest of my life
belongs to you forgive me for waiting
this long to get it but the rest of it
belongs to you I don’t want to know Lord
what could you do in my life at this
point and one of the first things the
devil is gonna say to you is Oh you’re
dreaming
no what does God want to do in your life
now watch this you may be 80 and what
God wants to do in your life maybe
through somebody else who’s 20 whom God
will use to do an awesome work in the
lives of many other people but he
started with you don’t underestimate
what God is willing to do in your life
because you can’t you can’t figure that
out and when I read these passages and
read what what he says I’m gonna lay my
hand on Egypt and bring out my host my
people the sons of mister from land of
Egypt by great judgments then the only
thing he told him how he was gonna die
great judgments that is I’m going to
judge Egypt he would never have figured
out how he was going to do that when God
wants to accomplish something he finds
somebody or some people through him he
wants to do it
and the question is this are you living
available for God to choose you to do
something that’s maybe you never even
thought about before don’t underestimate
what God can do in your life can you
imagine first of all let’s take let’s
take who Moses is born in the slavery
placed in a basket placed in the river
and miraculous ends up in Pharaoh’s
household educated with the very best in
40 years tossed out of the country other
side of the desert there was what a
mixed-up messed up life that looked like
God’s hand was in it all the way he was
taking a Hebrew from among the Hebrews
into a pagan land and doing horth
educating him listen educating him not
to serve in Egypt but educating him to
do what to spend 40 years in the desert
recognizing that it was God who put him
there it was God who kept him there and
God kept it there long enough that they
had no hope of anything until God
arrived on the scene watch this never
too late to listen to God it may be too
it may be too late for some things but
it’s never too late to listen to God
what is it that kept Moses feet on the
ground and his heart toward God that is
i am the lord i am the lord i am the
lord i am the lord i’ll take you for my
people i’ll be your god i’ll bring you
out i’ll give you a possession what’s
God saying this is why as we start this
message off and that’s simply this the
Word of God is a god-centered book with
a God sent a message for God centered
people this is the book and this book
should not be on your shelf but on your
table or in front of you whatever it
might be what is God saying to you you
say well now I don’t know that applies
them yes it does
watch this do you think that God has
kept all this together for all these
years
and did not apply to you which part of
it doesn’t ply to you well you say well
what about that part about Daniel being
in the lion’s den that doesn’t apply to
me well they’d better apply to you for
the simple reason there are lots of
Dean’s besides lions dens amen and
therefore if you’re walking in the will
of God living in the will of God nothing
can touch you anymore then can touch
Daniel all of this this isn’t just
history this is life lived out in the
peril of gods so that you and I have
with example after example after example
of God’s grace and love and mercy and
goodness forgiveness and cleansing and
eternal life that’s what this book is
all about so if you don’t read the Bible
you just cheating yourself and that’s
why God who knew Moses perfectly said to
him I will I will I will I will
11 times this is why he said to him i am
the lord i am the lord i am the lord i
am the lord four times what do you think
god says it so many times because he
knows their minds are so full of so many
other things that he wants to remind us
that he’s still God and that he still
does what he promised to do and that he
still the God of the Old Testament and
the New Testament he’s the same God who
led one man one man who is a shepherd to
free two million people to serve God one
man don’t underestimate what God wants
to do in your life and don’t you listen
don’t try to compare yourself with
somebody else in the mind of God you
don’t know what’s gonna happen in that
person’s life
who’s gonna influence somebody else’s
life he’s gonna be influenced in
somebody else’s life in a way that you
and I could never say
out and when I read this over and over
though it comes to me that in these few
verses he says I will do the Pharaoh I
will bring him out
I will deliver I will redeem him I will
take you I will be healed I will bring
gift make art I’ll do all of those
things what do you think God said that
so many times to him because he knew
that Moses would have a lot of reasons
to doubt him I was an enemy and you’re
sending me back
I’m a shepherd Messiah what a mixed ups
crowd that is besides that they probably
take my life if I went back think of all
the all the justifiable reasons Moses
had to say I can’t do that that’d be
suicide I’d make a fool of myself they
will never accept me I’m proud I’m an
enemy I couldn’t do that don’t
underestimate what God will do in your
life because what you do is your
limiting God what you’re doing is you’re
doubting God but he said to him i am the
lord i am the lord i am the lord i am
the lord it must have been real ready
and in moses mine night after night
after night i am the lord i am the lord
i am the lord i am the lord don’t
underestimate what God can do in your
life it may be that you may have a
conversation with somebody who would
change their life whom God will use to
change many other people’s lives you say
but um if forget the butts of the IFS
just say Lord Here I am whatever you are
doing my life Lord Here I am I’m gonna
trust you God maybe having trusted you
many years around me the rest of my life
I’m gonna trust you I just want to see
what you can do in my life
god you don’t ever have to worry about
God failing he will use you beyond your
expression if you will trust him and
Moses is a perfect example of it Who am
I Lord and God showed him who are you
God will show you you can have one or
two responses you can walk out of here
thinking well that was that was just a
sermon that was about Moses no it’s
about you and about me it’s about us
it’s about it’s about all of us who name
the name of Jesus as our Savior and
watch this here’s the reason it’s so
important you don’t know what God is
going to do through your life today that
you won’t ever see a generation from now
you may be living for today and God sees
that but he also sees the influence the
testimony you’re witness somebody else’s
life the important thing is this are you
living to the fullest your life each day
so that whatever God has in mind he’ll
be able to say to you well done thou
good and faithful servant if I was
sitting at there where you were an hour
not a Christian is a question I think I
think well now if that’s really the
truth what should I do
I’ll answer that question surrender your
life to the Lord Jesus Christ and say
okay God here’s what’s left here’s
what’s left Lord I give myself to you
and whatever you choose to do the answer
is yes maybe you already saved and
you’re sitting here this morning and
you’ve got your life pretty well planned
out or you think you have or you about
tell you that when you think you’re
gonna die how long you gonna live and
all those things
why don’t you forget all about that and
for the next 30 seconds think this God
Here I am
this is all I have to offer this morning
but I’m giving you myself so that the
rest of my life
demonstrate what you can do to man or
woman my age my capacities demonstrate
what you can do through me the rest of
my life
here I am in Jesus name Amen father we
love and praise you and bless you for
your forgiveness and cleansing forgive
us father for our doubts our fears
forgive us for trying to program our
life better than you programmed it
forgive us for although for thinking
that some things you can’t do in our
life but limiting your possibilities for
limiting your will in that life Father
forgive us for comparing ourselves with
other people what they can or cannot do
or what we think we can or cannot do
thank you for being this awesome
indescribable invincible God who can do
anything everything in all things and
who’s waiting for us the yield ourselves
totally completely and absolutely to You
Lord God may each one of us afresh in a
new this morning say yes yes yes yes God
do whatever you have yes is answer yes
yes yes and then watch you work and know
in our hearts you make no mistakes you
provide all of our needs you enable us
to do whatever you requires to do and
you will reward us for our obedience we
just say thank you thank you thank you
for patience love kindness and
generosity in Jesus name Amen
you