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Feb 15, 2015

Why Not?

Why Not?

Passage: Exodus 4:4-13

Preacher: Steve Allen

Category: Evangelism, Mission

Keywords: evangelism, mission, moses, love, jesus

Summary:

Why not live radically for Jesus? Why not love Jesus so much that all other loves are so much less that when compared are like 'hate?'

Detail:

Why Not?

Steve Allen--February 15, 2015

 

Message:  Why Not?

 

Video:  Louie Giglio

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRiIWL04po8

 

Guiding Question?  Why Not?  Why should we not fully follow            Jesus?

 

Video:  David Platt

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZByA0bFoNU

 

Where is your place in God's Story?

            God has been writing a story throughout history and we            are part of that story.  What part are you playing:

 

            "You are a little pencil in the hand of a loving God writing        a love story to the world"-Mother Teresa

 

What is the Lord asking of you?

            (take time to write responses)

 

Exodus 3:

            Summary: Burning Bush, God is sending Moses

 

Exodus 4:

            4 Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.’” 2 The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” 3 And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. 4 But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand— 5 “that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

 

Again, the Lord said to him, “Put your hand inside your cloak.”[a] And he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was leprous[b] like snow. 7 Then God said, “Put your hand back inside your cloak.” So he put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, behold, it was restored like the rest of his flesh. 8 “If they will not believe you,” God said, “or listen to the first sign, they may believe the latter sign. 9 If they will not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, you shall take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground, and the water that you shall take from the Nile will become blood on the dry ground.”

 

10 But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” 11 Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.” 13 But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”

 

What is the Lord asking of you?

 

Story of my daughter Grace speaking at Haidian Church

 

What are your "buts"?

 

In order to answer your 'buts' we need to remember who God is

 

GENESIS 18:14

  • Nothing is too hard for the Lord.

 

EXODUS 33:14

  • “I will go with you, and I will give you rest”

 

LEVITICUS  26:12

  • “I will walk among you and be your God”

 

NUMBERS 14:17

  • The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love

 

DEUTERONOMY 3:22

  • “Do not be afraid of them; the Lord your God himself will fight for you”

 

JOSHUA 1:9

  • “Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go”

 

JUDGES 13:18

God’s name and ways are beyond understanding

 

RUTH 4:14

  • “Praise be to the Lord, who this day has not left you without a kinsman-redeemer”

 

1st SAMUEL 2:9

  • The Lord will guard the feet of his saints, (2:9).

 

2nd SAMUEL 10:12

  • “The Lord will do what is good in his sight” (10:12).

 

1st KINGS 8:23

  • “You who keep your covenant of love with your servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way”

 

2nd KINGS 13:23

  • “But the Lord was gracious to them and had compassion for them”

 

1st CHRONICLES 16:34

  • “He is good; his love endures forever”

 

2nd CHRONICLES 15:7

  • “do not give up, for your work will be rewarded”

 

EZRA 9:8

  • “God has not deserted us in our bondage.”

 

 

NEHEMIAH  9:8

  • “You have kept your promise because you are righteous”

 

ESTHER 8:16

  • God will provide, “happiness and joy, gladness and honor”

 

JOB 42:2

  • “I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted”

 

PSALMS 5:12

  • “You bless the righteous; you surround them with your favor as with a shield”

 

PROVERBS 18:10

  • “The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe”

 

ECCLESIASTES 3:11

  • “He has made everything beautiful in its time.”

 

SONG OF SONGS 2:4

  • “His banner over me is love”

 

ISAIAH  41:10

  • “I will uphold you with my righteous right hand”

 

JEREMIAH 29:11

  • “‘I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. ”

 

LAMENTATIONS 3:23

  • “For his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness”

 

EZEKIEL 36:28

  • “You will be my people, and I will be your God”

 

DANIEL 2:22

  • “He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him” (2:20-22).

 

HOSEA 11:9

  • “I am God, and not man—the Holy One among you” (11:9).

 

JOEL 2:28

  • “I will pour out my Spirit on all people.

 

AMOS 4:13

  • “He who forms the mountains, creates the wind, and reveals his thoughts to man

 

OBADIAH 1:15

  • “The day of the Lord is near for all nations.

 

JONAH 4:2

  • “I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God

 

MICAH 6:8

  • “He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God”

 

NAHUM 1:7

  • “The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him”

 

HABAKKUK 3:19

  • “He enables me to go on the heights” (3:19).

 

ZEPHANIAH 3:17

  • “He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing”

 

HAGGAI 2:5

  • "And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear” (2:5).

 

ZECHARIAH 1:11

  • “‘My name will be great among the nation

 

MALACHI 1:1

  • "I have loved you, says the Lord"

 

Who is God?

 

Video:  My King

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzqTFNfeDnE