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Advent HOPE Sabbath School

Callie Williams

But, Lord...

I have, I don't know about you, but I've had a blessed Sabbath today.

So thanks for being so nice and fun to hang out with.

So this evening, the title of the message is, But Lord, and it is a response to God.

We're actually going to spend most of our time looking at the life of Moses, so please have your Bibles ready because we're gonna spend lots of time there.

But before we do, please bow your heads with me 1 more time.

Father in heaven, thank you for the blessed day of your Sabbath.

Thank you for Nice weather, thank you for nice fellowship, and thank you for your precious word with so many promises and lives that we can learn from.

Father, again, we have not come to hear words of some person, but we have come to hear from you.

Lord, you still know our lives just as well as you did this morning, just as well as you've always have.

Father, you know what we need to hear from you.

And so I pray that in a way we don't even understand, your Holy Spirit would tailor make this message to each and every heart, that people would leave this place saying, surely God was in this place and I knew it not.

If you go with me in your Bibles, please, to Exodus chapter 3.

Now the story of Moses starts out where there is a decree in the land that all these male children must be killed.

Now Moses's mother didn't like this law and so she decided to hide Moses away and he ends up being found by a princess and he gets being raised by his mother it's a great time but then he ends up coming back into Pharaoh's kingdom, being raised there as a prince.

He ends up killing an Egyptian, he runs away for his life, and then he's in the middle of nowhere.

If you read chapters 1 and 2 and 3, you can get there.

But we pick it up actually in chapter, or sorry, in chapter 3.

So if you'll turn with me and your Bibles there to Exodus chapter 3.

It says this, Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, And he led the flock to the back of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush.

So he looked and behold, the bush was burning and fire with fire, but the bush was not consumed.

Then Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight.

Valid question, I'd probably wanna figure it out myself.

Verse 4, so when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called him from the midst of the bush and said, Moses, Moses.

Now God starts talking to Moses from this burning bush and he identifies himself, take off your shoes, this is holy ground.

Then he starts talking about something else in verse 7.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and I've heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

Now therefore, Behold the cry of the children of Israel had come to me and I've also seen the oppression with which these little brethren are present.

You're in holy land now, you're in holy, take off your shoes, I am here to tell you something.

So you know how your brethren have been suffering?

I've noticed, I've paid attention to this.

This cry has come up to me, and I'm gonna do something about it.

I've been waiting for you to do something really great about this.

Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that, who?

The 2 people still talking with me, thank you, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

So I have this plan, I've heard the oppression, I have heard the cries of my people, and so my solution to that is Moses, the guy who ran away from Egypt, I want you to deliver my people.

Today we're going to look at the different excuses that Moses gives to God as to why Moses can't serve him.

And we're gonna look at how God responds to that.

Now we know what Moses eventually did, right?

There's some really cool plagues involved.

There's some, there's Red Sea partying, really great stuff in store.

But Before we even get to that, Moses didn't just say, cool God, I'm super excited to do that, let's do that.

They actually had a long conversation, and that's what we're gonna look at today.

So go to those 2 verses, chapter 3, verses 10 and 11.

I promise I'll try not to read as long text anymore, Stay with me.

Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

That I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Which betrays this idea that he thinks that I have to be a somebody to be used by God.

Often our excuses reveal something we believe.

Then there has to be someone that actually could be worthy enough to follow God, worthy enough to do this, but Moses is like, I'm not that person.

Verse 12, so he said, I will certainly be with you, and this shall be a sign to you that I have sent you.

When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.

God's answer isn't, what are you talking about, Moses?

You went to like the best Egyptian schools.

Also you like part of the Hebrews, so like they'll accept you.

God's answer has nothing to do with Moses.

He just says, I will certainly be with you.

I'll give you a sign that I sent you after you do what I said.

I will give you a sign after you obey me.

The reason you'll know that I sent you, you'll worship me on this mountain afterwards.

Now sometimes you want signs up front, right?

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