出埃及記講道系列

出埃及記講道系列

Overcoming Insignificance

Pastor Timothy Chan

Chinese Grace Bible Church

Sunday, November 18, 2012

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

1 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

2 Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?”“A staff,” he replied.

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

3 The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.”Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it.

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

4 Then the Lord said to him, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail.” So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

5 “This,” said the Lord, “is so 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.”

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

6 Then the Lord said, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was leprous, like snow.

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

7 “Now put it back into your cloak,” he said. So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his flesh.

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

8 Then the Lord said, “If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first miraculous sign, they may believe the second.

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

9 But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground.”

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

10 Moses said to the Lord, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.”

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

13 But Moses said, “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.”

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

14 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you.

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do.

16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.

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Exodus 4:1-17 (NIV 1984)

17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform miraculous signs with it.”

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Introduction: What Is The Danger Of The Modern Times?

The danger of ________drifting

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Introduction: What Is The Danger Of The Modern Times?

The danger of ________ A toxic mix:

Loss of __________Loss of __________Loss of __________

drifting

identity

vision

hope

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Introduction: What Is The Danger Of The Modern Times?

The danger of ________ A toxic mix:

Loss of __________Loss of __________Loss of __________

The result of drifting is ______________

drifting

identityvision

hope

insignificance

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Introduction: What Is The Danger Of The Modern Times?

The Upright Principle:To overcome drifting is to overcome _______________ ________________personal insignificance

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Galatians 2:20 (NIV 1984)

20 I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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James 4:13-15 (NIV 1984)

13 Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”

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James 4:13-15 (NIV 1984)

14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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James 4:13-15 (NIV 1984)

15 Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”

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Matthew 10:29-31 (NIV 1984)

29 Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father.

30 And even the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

31 So don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.

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I. Man’s Question: No one will believe me!God’s Answer: He has given us ________ to _________ His callsigns validate

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Exodus 4:1 (NIV 1984)

1 Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?”

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I. Man’s Question: No one will believe me!God’s Answer: He has given us ________ to _________ His callA. A Rod to a SnakeB. A Hand of LeprosyC. A River With Blood

signs validate

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II. Man’s Question: I am not eloquent!God’s Answer: His power does not rest on ______ __________our failures

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Exodus 4:10-11 (NIV 1984)

10 Moses said to the Lord, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.”

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Exodus 4:10-11 (NIV 1984)

11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the Lord?

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Acts 7:22 (NIV 1984)

22 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action.

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Luke 10:18-20 (NIV 1984)

18 He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.

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Luke 10:18-20 (NIV 1984)

19 I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.

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Luke 10:18-20 (NIV 1984)

20 However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

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II. Man’s Question: I am not eloquent!God’s Answer: His power does not rest on ______ __________A. Self Conscious vs. Glory ConsciousB. Wounded Memory vs. Promised

Victory

our failures

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III. Man’s Excuse: Send someone else!God’s Answer: _______ cannot be a factor in mission

Fear

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Exodus 4:13-14 (NIV 1984)

13 But Moses said, “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.”

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Exodus 4:13-14 (NIV 1984)

14 Then the Lord’s anger burned against Moses and he said, “What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and his heart will be glad when he sees you.

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

23 On their release, Peter and John went back to their own people and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

24 When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

24 When they heard this, they raised their voices together in prayer to God. “Sovereign Lord,” they said, “you made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and everything in them.

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

25 You spoke by the Holy Spirit through the mouth of your servant, our father David:“‘Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

26 The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together

against the Lord and against his Anointed

One.’

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

27 Indeed Herod and Pontius Pilate met together with the Gentiles and the people of Israel in this city to conspire against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed.

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

28 They did what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen.

29 Now, Lord, consider their threats and enable your servants to speak your word with great boldness.

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

30 Stretch out your hand to heal and perform miraculous signs and wonders through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”

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Acts 4:23-31 (NIV 1984)

31 After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.

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Romans 9:17 (NIV 1984)

17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”

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III. Man’s Excuse: Send someone else!God’s Answer: _______ cannot be a factor in missionA. Stop _____________

Fear

Apologizing

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III. Man’s Excuse: Send someone else!God’s Answer: _______ cannot be a factor in missionA. Stop _____________B. God Said: I Am _________ You!

Fear

Apologizing

Sending

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Luke 10:1-4 (NIV 1984)

1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.

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Luke 10:1-4 (NIV 1984)

2 He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.

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Luke 10:1-4 (NIV 1984)

3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.

4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.

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III. Man’s Excuse: Send someone else!God’s Answer: _______ cannot be a factor in missionA. Stop _____________B. God Said: I Am _________ You!C. God Assures Us: I Send You A ______________

Fear

Apologizing

Sending

Companion

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John 14:26 (NIV 1984)

26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

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The Ultimate Challenge:

“You can always count on ministry to do at least one thing: provoke

__________ _____________”-Darren Patrick

radical insecurity

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A True Story of Summer: