June 5, 2022
(Exodus 3:1-15 NIV) Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight–why the bush does not burn up.” When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!” And Moses said, “Here I am.” “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord, said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey–the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” And God said, “I will be with you. And this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain.” 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?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: “I AM has sent me to you.’” God also said to Moses, ‘Say to the Israelites, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers–the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob–has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation.
1. God _____________ the ______________.
(Exodus 3:4 NIV) When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
(Jeremiah 29:13 NIV) You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
2. God ________________ the _______________ with His ______________.
(Exodus 3:5 NIV) “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
(Exodus 33:14-15 NIV) The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then Moses said to him, “If your Presence does not go with us, do not send us up from here.”
3. God ________________ to _______________ _______________.
(Exodus 3:9 NIV) And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
(John 16:24 NIV) Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.
(James 4:2b-3 NIV) …You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4. God __________________ His _________________.
(Exodus 3:10 NIV) So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.
(2 Timothy 1:7 NIV) For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.
(Acts 1:8 NIV) But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
5. God _________________ your _________________.
(Exodus 3:9 NIV) And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
• Your _________________, ________________, and _______________ never _____________ your calling.
(Exodus 4:1-5 NIV) Moses answered, ‘What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you’?” Then the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied. The Lord said, “Throw it on the ground.” Moses threw it on the ground and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 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. “This,” said the Lord, “is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob–has appeared to you.”
• Say _____________ to God.
(Jonah 3:3a NIV) Jonah obeyed the word of the Lord and went to Nineveh…
Remember: As you follow the Lord, also follow ____________ _________________!