As we listen to all the different testimonies of peoples backgrounds, challenges, & all the stuff that life can bring it makes us wonder how anything good could ever come out of those lives.
Then we discover the awesome revelation that it was because of a true change that takes place in them. 2 Corinthians 5:17
I want you to think about this as we go through this message today;
“There are 3 kinds of people in every church that is following God, attendee’s, faithful, and then the heart!”
It is vital that you know in what category God sees you in.
"Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up." — Andy Law /Creative Company
Show Movie Clip #11 Facing the Giants
Jesus said it like this; If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. Mark 8:35
When we are so blessed to see the truth of our need for a Savior & we ask Jesus to come into our life it is at that very moment that everything in our life & our values begins to change!
I. Look at Moses’ Life…
a. His life starts out with some pretty uncontrollable circumstances.
• Life threatened before he could walk.
• Grew up as a son of Pharaoh’s daughter. (Enemy of God)
• Life threatened again & on the run. (Trying to make own decisions with his life)
b. It seems to turn around.
• Gets married & starts a family.
• Living life as a Shepard among his people.
• There is still a longing inside him.
II. Moses meets God…
a. He is trying to get some answers to his life questions.
• If I don’t belong in the palace, then where do I belong?
• While tending the flock he meets up with change again.
Then the LORD told him,… Now go, for I am sending you to
Pharaoh. You must lead my people Israel out of Egypt.”
• Moses can’t see that this change is for his benefit?
But Moses protested to God, “Who am I to appear before
Pharaoh? Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt?”
• How many of us have been seeking some answers, but what we are getting is not leading me where I really had in mind to go?
“It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.” — Sören Kierkegaard
Remember Jesus said; If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. Mark 8:35
• What are you willing to do with your life?
• What are you committed to do with your life?
III. Moses gets Real…
a. God has done His part & kept His word.
• Signs & wonders in Egypt.
• Fire & Cloud to comfort.
• Fed all the people.
• Deliverance at the Red Sea.
b. People still ungrateful after all God has done.
• Their actions showed their true condition of the heart
When the people saw how long it was taking Moses to come back down the mountain, they gathered around Aaron. “Come on,” they said, “make us some gods who can lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.” Exodus 32:1
• How many in the church today are just like those that were in the desert with Moses? No commitment for the vision of God.
• What kind of miracle’s & provisions has God supplied to people but yet they are too busy to serve in their local body?
c. Moses said this is enough… you either are or you are not!
• It is always someone else’s fault or responsibility.
“Don’t get so upset, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know how evil these people are. They said to me, ‘Make us gods who will lead us. We don’t know what happened to this fellow Moses, who brought us here from the land of Egypt.’ So I told them, ‘Whoever has gold jewelry, take it off.’ When they brought it to me, I simply threw it into the fire—and out came this calf!” Exodus 32:22-24
• It is high time that the body of Christ to quit looking around at everyone else to see who isn’t doing their job & we start looking inward at ourselves!
• Why does it seem there is a shortage on the miraculous in our area? Because there is a shortage on committed men & women in our area!
• In our own church, Destiny, we struggle just to get people to commit to serve & worship 8 days out of the month. More real would be to say 28 hours a month. Think about it? There are 720 hours in a month.
So he stood at the entrance to the camp and shouted, “All of you who are on the LORD’s side, come here and join me.” And all the Levites gathered around him. Exodus 32:26
• As the music begins, I want to ask you a serious question. Who here will choose to be on the Lord’s side in the vision He has birthed for this church?
• Our leaders are called on to work hard to prepare themselves to have a fresh word from the Lord each week. They are there to help everyone win more to the Lord. They are there to walk with you through the challenges you will face in your life.
All they ask in return is that you show your commitment by being faithful to the vision that we are called to live.
• Everything we do at Destiny is not to try & dictate control over peoples’ lives but rather to bring everyone into the most powerful relationship with the Heavenly Father that is possible! But without fellowship & growth that will never be achieved!
• Those who are willing to make a fresh stand & commit to be faithful to what God has called us to do, I want you to do what Moses ask that day, come here and join me. Be honest because we expect to see you follow through.
