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Moses Pt 2 Series
Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Mar 10, 2024 (message contributor)
Summary: Overcoming fear and allowing our faith to supersede fear opens the door to see the finger of God at work around us. Growing our faith will enable us to see the glory of God in a godless society!
Sermon: Moses’ part 2
Thesis part 1: Moses saw the invisible God and it empowered him to persevere through anything and He heard God say, “What is in your hand?” He looked at the staff in his hand and God used that staff to deliver the people of Israel from slavery and bondage! God used that staff to do miracles and even to part the Red Sea!
Thesis part 2: Overcoming fear and allowing our faith to supersede fear opens the door to see the finger of God at work around us. Growing our faith will enable us to see the glory of God in a godless society!
Introduction:
Today we will look at Moses again. The man God chose to deliver the people of Israel out of Egypt - yes out of cruel bondage, slavery, and the horrible edict of killing all male boys at birth by throwing them in the Nile River!
Moses’ life has taught us:
1. When you see the invisible God, it will enable you to persevere through anything!
2. God can use what is in your hand to do miracles and lead people out of bondage!
3. We need to grow our faith to usurp fear.
4. When we mature in our faith, we will see the finger of God at work around us and even through us.
5. Faith also opens up the door to see the glory of God face to face!
6. When you meet with God you will always want God’s presence to go with you!
Moses would become the man of the hour, after an initial failure in Egypt (killing the Egyptian) and become an example of what God can do with a person who matures in his faith and spends time with God in His presence. Whenever I think about Moses, I immediately picture the movie “The 10 Commandments.” Starring Charleton Heston as Moses! I picture the scene of Moses on the mountain getting the 10 Commandments from God and him coming off the mountain glowing from being in the presence of God.
It gives me goose bumps!
23By faith Moses’ parents hid him for three months after he was born, because they saw he was no ordinary child, and they were not afraid of the king’s edict. 24By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh’s daughter. 25He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. 26He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward. 27By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the king’s anger; he persevered because he saw him who is invisible. 28By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, so that the destroyer of the firstborn would not touch the firstborn of Israel.29By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to do so, they were drowned.
Moses is highlighted in the Old Testament and in the New Testament as a hero of the faith! He is one of the who’s who of the Bible!
One phrase I noticed in Hebrews 11: 27 was “He persevered because he saw him who is invisible!” Did you catch that phrase?
Question? - Have you seen Him who is invisible? Have you had a divine revelation of Jesus? Have you seen Him? Have you heard His voice? If you have then you have the ability to persevere through anything!
Summary Moses part 1
Have you seen the invisible God like Moses did? I think this is a valid question to ask people! To ask you today?
Here is the lesson from this one sentence statement - If you have seen Him who is invisible you will have the ability to persevere through anything!
? If you have seen the invisible God, you will still see God in leadership difficulties and in the pain of leadership!
? If you have seen the invisible God, you will be able to fail forward through your mistakes in life!
? If you have seen the invisible God, you will push through the desert wanderings!
? If you have seen the invisible God, you will see God in a burning bush – hear His voice and listen to His direction for your life!
? If you have seen the invisible God, you will be able to stand before secular rulers with faith and not fear and speak with authority!
? If you have seen the invisible God, you will be able to do miracles with what God has placed in your hands!
• It could be a shepherd Staff! (Like Moses)
