PROGRAMED TO SERVE GOD
Ex 2:11-25
DON’T DO STUPID
V:11-13. One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian 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 hitting your fellow Hebrew?\”
A. God has a job assignment for every believer.
1. 400 years before Moses was born, God promised
Abraham that his descendants would be enslaved,
but He would deliver them.
2. Moses was chosen for the task the moment the promise
was made.
B. Before the foundation of the world, God chose us
to the mission of building the body of Christ.
1. Each one of us has been gifted to serve God.
2. No one was chosen to be a spectator.
C. Moses was trained and educated by the Egyptians
because of his adopted mother.
1. Moses never forgot who he was.
2. He never used the privileges God gave him as an
excuse not to serve his Hebrew brothers.
D. When Moses saw an Egyptian mistreating his Hebrew
brother, He jumped in the middle of the fight and
killed him.
1. Moses was obviously trained to fight.
Impulsively, he got involved without asking questions.
2. Moses took off his Egyptian mentality and put on his
Hebrew heritage.
3. Instead of using his influence and training to reconcile
and bring peace to the situation, Moses became
confrontational and violent.
D. Moses knew he was wrong, and tried to hide his sin.
1. He buried the Egyptian he killed to hide evidence
of his actions.
2. Moses thought no one was looking and his sin
was covered.
3. You can’t fool God. What you do in the dark will come
to the light.
YOUR OWN PEOPLE MAY DISPISE YOU POSITION
V:14-16. The man said, \”Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?\” Then Moses was afraid and thought, \”What I did must have become known.\”
15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father\’s flock.
A. Moses impulsive behavior cost him his privileged position.
1. Impulsive behavior is destructive.
2. Impulsive behavior is emotion driven.
3. Impulsive behavior is unplanned and not well thought-out.
4. Impulsive behavior is irrational.
B. God used Moses impulsive behavior to move him to
The next step of his development.
1. He ran because he was afraid.
2. He ran because he didn’t have a relationship with God.
3. At 40 years old, Moses was not ready to be a leader.
4. Moses needed some cool down time.
5. Moses, without knowledge ran to the place where God
wanted him to be
6. God allowed Moses foolishness to get him moving to
the next stage of his development.
USE YOUR GIFTS TO SERVE OTHERS
V:17-19. Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, \”Why have you returned so early today?\”
19 They answered, \”An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.\”
A. Moses still in his Egyptian fighter mode, stepped in to help
the women that were being mistreated.
1. God arranged for Moses to be at the place and at the time
the daughters of the Midianite Priest were at the well to
draw water.
2. In addition, God arranged for the herdsmen to be at the
well mistreating the women so Moses could show
kindness to them.
3. Moses stood in defense of the women and drew water for
their flock first.
4. The women describes Moses as an Egyptian.
1. He looked like an Egyptian.
2. He walked like an Egyptian
3. He talked like an Egyptian
4. He fought like an Egyptian
5. He wore the clothes of an Egyptian.
5. Moses needed to get rid of some stuff to be used by God
a. Moses had been trained for 40 years to be an Egyptian.
b. He would need some training to get rid of Egypt.
c. He needed to get rid of his impulsive behavior.
d. He needed to learn to be humble
e. He needed to learn about God
f. He needed to learn to be shepherd.
SHOW YOUR GRADITUDE WHEN OTHER HELP YOU
V:20 \”And where is he?\” he asked his daughters. \”Why did you
leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.\”
A. When God has been good to you, return the favor.
1, The daughters of the Priest failed to tell their father that
they had been helped by a stranger.
2. You have to know your children.
a. They came back early after watering the flock.
b. Their Father, the Priest ask why.
3. He set the example for his daughters by inviting Moses
to eat with them.
B. Friendships develop when we show we care for others.
1. Moses act of kindness and bravery won the heart of
Midianite priest.
2. Moses accepted their invitation and a friendship
developed.
MOSES SECOND STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT
V:21-22. Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,b saying, \”I have become an alien in a foreign land.\”
A. The Midianites were what Moses needed.
1. The Midianite Priest needed a husband for
his daughters.
2. God puts us together to help each other.
B. Moses needed to learn to be a father.
1. He needed to learn to be a husband
2. He needed to learn to be responsible for others.
3. He needed to learn to be responsible to others,
GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES
V:23-25. During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
A. God keeps His promises in His own time
1. God developed a nation in slavery to be His people.
2. For 400 years, God forced his nation to stay together.
3. For 400 years, God force His people under oppression
to look to Him for deliverance.
B. For 400 years in slavery, God’s people never lack shelter.
1. For 400 years in slavery, God’s people never lack food
to eat.
2. For 400 years under slavery, God’s people never lack
clothes to ware.
3. We complain about the trouble in our lives without
giving God thanks for the blessing we have in the
mist of our troubles.
4. God never takes you to trouble without bringing
through and out of trouble.
5. It is through the trouble in our lives that we learn
to trust God.
6. God’s plan for us includes good and bad.
7. He makes all things work for our good.
THANK GOD FOR HIS DIVINE PLAN FOR US
Rev. M. Mitchell
Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church
5510 West Sam Houston Parkway North
Houston, Texas 77041
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