The School of Faith Learning to Know the LORD - The God Who is Sufficient

  The God Who Is Sufficient  (Exodus 6:10-7:7)

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10 Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 

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 11 “Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land.” 

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 12 But Moses spoke before the LORD, saying, “Behold, the sons of Israel have not listened to me; how then will Pharaoh listen to me, for I am unskilled in speech?” 

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 13 Then the LORD spoke to Moses and to Aaron, and gave them a charge to the sons of Israel and to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt. 

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 14 These are the heads of their fathers’ households. The sons of Reuben, Israel’s firstborn: Hanoch and Pallu, Hezron and Carmi; these are the families of Reuben. 

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 15 The sons of Simeon: Jemuel and Jamin and Ohad and Jachin and Zohar and Shaul the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon. 

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 16 These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years. 

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 17 The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families. 

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 18 The sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel; and the length of Kohath’s life was one hundred and thirty-three years. 

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 19 The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi. These are the families of the Levites according to their generations. 

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 20 Amram married his father’s sister Jochebed, and she bore him Aaron and Moses; and the length of Amram’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years. 

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 21 The sons of Izhar: Korah and Nepheg and Zichri. 

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 22 The sons of Uzziel: Mishael and Elzaphan and Sithri. 

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 23 Aaron married Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab, the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar. 

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 24 The sons of Korah: Assir and Elkanah and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. 

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 25 Aaron’s son Eleazar married one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ households of the Levites according to their families. 

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 26 It was the same Aaron and Moses to whom the LORD said, “Bring out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.” 

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 27 They were the ones who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt about bringing out the sons of Israel from Egypt; it was the same Moses and Aaron. 

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 28 Now it came about on the day when the LORD spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,

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1 Then the LORD said to Moses, “See, I make you as God to Pharaoh, and your brother Aaron shall be your prophet. 

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 2 “You shall speak all that I command you, and your brother Aaron shall speak to Pharaoh that he let the sons of Israel go out of his land. 

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 3 “But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart that I may multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt. 

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 4 “When Pharaoh does not listen to you, then I will lay My hand on Egypt and bring out My hosts, My people the sons of Israel, from the land of Egypt by great judgments. 

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 5 “The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out the sons of Israel from their midst.” 

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 6 So Moses and Aaron did it; as the LORD commanded them, thus they did. 

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 7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.

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           Introduction

  What gives us the courage to obey God 

  when we don’t know how things will turn out?

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* ++God never told Moses to change Pharaoh’s heart.

* ++God never told Moses to convince Israel.

* ++God never told Moses that success depended on his ability to communicate.

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  What if you obeyed God faithfully… and the results still weren’t what you wanted?

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 1.  WHEN THE RESULTS AREN’T WHAT 

    YOU EXPECTED(v. 10-13)

 “Now the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, ‘Go, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the sons of Israel go out of his land”

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* ++God gave Moses a simple assignment: Go and speak.

* ++Moses measured his faithfulness by the results.

* ++Moses focused on his inadequacy (“I am unskilled in speech”).

* ++God was teaching Moses to have confidence in Him, not in himself.

* ++The first question is not “Will they listen?” but “Will you listen to Me?”

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2. WHEN YOU CAN ONLY SEE THE MOMENT

   (v. 14–27)

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* ++Discouragement shrinks our world to one moment.

* ++God pulls the camera back and shows generations.

* ++God’s faithfulness is older than Moses’ failure (and yours).

* ++Ordinary people still have a place in God’s purposes.

* ++You were never asked to see the whole plan only to be faithful in your part.

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3. WHEN YOU DON’T THINK YOU’RE ENOUGH 

  (Exodus 6:28–7:5)

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* ++God says, “Look at who I AM.” Moses says, “Look at what I am.”

* ++Moses was measuring God’s ability by his own ability.

* ++God told Moses beforehand that Pharaoh would not listen.

* ++The outcome belongs to God, not to us.

* ++We do what God has given us to do and trust Him with what only He can do.

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4. WHEN FAITH SAYS, “I’LL GO” (Exodus 7:6–7)

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* ++Moses and Aaron simply did what the LORD commanded.

* ++Obedience is what faith eventually looks like.

* ++If we believe God is wise, good, sovereign, and sufficient, we can obey.

* ++You’re never too old (or too young) to obey God.

* ++Faith stops saying “But…” and says “I’ll go.”

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         Closing

 “Lord, I don’t know how this is going to turn out. But I know who You are. So I’ll go.”