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God’s Plan Ex. 3:1-4:18
What Moses Saw 1-3
What Moses Heard 4-10
What Moses Said 11-4:18
Moses’ Response to Call of God
• Highly Skeptical – Very Reluctant
• Full of Doubt & Insecurity
• Unwillingness to Accept
Moses Resists God and Files a Five-Fold Protest Exodus 3:10-4:17
1. Who am I? 3:11 - Unsure of himself/feels inferior
2. What’s your name or who are you? 3:13 – Unsure about God/feels ignorant
3. What if they don’t listen to me? 4:1 – Unsure about Israelites/Feels insecure - intimidated 4. I’m not a good speaker 4:10 –
Unsure about his skills / feels inadequate
5. Find someone else / I am not
your guy 4:13 – Unsure about the task. Feels inexperienced.
Moses Resists God and Files a Five-Fold Protest Exodus 3:10-4:17
1. Who am I? 3:11 - Unsure of himself/feels inferior
2. What’s your name or who are you? 3:13 – Unsure about God/feels ignorant
Exodus 3:13 (NIV)
13 Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?”
What is Your Name? 3:13
• What kind of God are you?
• What does your name mean
or imply?
• What is your character like?
Meaning of Yahweh
Eternal
Uncreated
Unchanging
Self Sufficient / Independent
Desires Relationship
Summary of Exodus 3:15-22
The eternal God knows the end
from the beginning, so He is able
to tell Moses exactly what will
happen when he returns to Egypt.
3. What if they don’t listen to me? 4:1 – Unsure about Israelites/Feels insecure - intimidated 4. I’m not a good speaker 4:10 –
Unsure about his skills / feels inadequate
Ex. 4:2 Give God What You Have
Moses - Rod
David - Sling
Peter Andrew - Fish Net
Feed 5000 Boy - Lunch Fish & Chips
3 Divine Miracles 4:1-9
Staff Snake Satan
Hand Leprosy Sin
Water Blood Redemption
3. What if they don’t listen to me? 4:1 – Unsure about Israelites/Feels insecure - intimidated 4. I’m not a good speaker 4:10 –
Unsure about his skills / feels inadequate
Luke 6:46 (NIV)
46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?
Ex. 4:11
Fascinating Statement
Fear of Failure
• To fail is to be fully human
• To fail doesn’t mean you are a failure
• No one is a failure until they stop trying.