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.