Right Thing — Wrong Way

Treacy WalshStudent Pastor, Lake Sawyer Church

ACTS 7:22-24

Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful in speech and action. When Moses was forty years old, he

decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. He saw one of them being mistreated by an

Egyptian, so he went to his defense …

HEBREWS 11:24-25

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s

daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the

fleeting pleasures of sin.

ACTS 7:24-25

He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his defense

and avenged him by killing the Egyptian. Moses thought that his own people would realize that God was using him to rescue

them, but they did not.

The right thing — the wrong way— is the wrong thing.

1. God’s Timing2. God’s Way

God’s Timing

EXODUS 2:14

The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing

me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did

must have become known.”

God’s Way

EXODUS 2:12

Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the

Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

1 CORINTHIANS 13:1-3

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy

gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all

mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but

have not love, I am nothing.

...If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not

love, I gain nothing.

Jesus is our deliverer