This Week's Sunday School Lesson, "Programed To Serve", Exodus 2:11-25, 9/15/2019

    

PROGRAMED TO SERVE GOD

Ex 2:11-25

DON’T DO STUPID

V:11-13. One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 13 The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"

A. God has a job assignment for every believer.

1. 400 years before Moses was born, God promised

        Abraham that his descendants would be enslaved,

        but He would deliver them.

2. Moses was chosen for the task the moment the promise

    was made.

B. Before the foundation of the world, God chose us

    to the mission of building the body of Christ.

 1. Each one of us has been gifted to serve God.

 2. No one was chosen to be a spectator.

C. Moses was trained and educated by the Egyptians

    because of his adopted mother.

   1. Moses never forgot who he was.

   2. He never used the privileges God gave him as an

      excuse not to serve his Hebrew brothers.  

D. When Moses saw an Egyptian mistreating his Hebrew

brother, He jumped in the middle of the fight and

killed him.

1.   Moses was obviously trained to fight.

Impulsively, he got involved without asking questions.

  2. Moses took off his Egyptian mentality and put on his

      Hebrew heritage.

  3. Instead of using his influence and training to reconcile

      and bring peace to the situation, Moses became

      confrontational and violent.

D. Moses knew he was wrong, and tried to hide his sin.

    1. He buried the Egyptian he killed to hide evidence

        of his actions.

    2. Moses thought no one was looking and his sin

        was covered.

    3. You can’t fool God. What you do in the dark will come

        to the light.

YOUR OWN PEOPLE MAY DISPISE YOU POSITION

V:14-16.  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."

15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16 Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father's flock.

A. Moses impulsive behavior cost him his privileged position.

   1. Impulsive behavior is destructive.

   2. Impulsive behavior is emotion driven.

   3. Impulsive behavior is unplanned and not well thought-out.

   4. Impulsive behavior is irrational.

B. God used Moses impulsive behavior to move him to

    The next step of his development.

1.   He ran because he was afraid.

2.   He ran because he didn’t have a relationship with God.

3.   At 40 years old, Moses was not ready to be a leader.

4.   Moses needed some cool down time.

5.   Moses, without knowledge ran to the place where God

wanted him to be

6.   God allowed Moses foolishness to get him moving to

the next stage of his development.

USE YOUR GIFTS TO SERVE OTHERS

V:17-19. Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

18 When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so early today?"

19 They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock."

A. Moses still in his Egyptian fighter mode, stepped in to help

    the women that were being mistreated.

   1. God arranged for Moses to be at the place and at the time

       the daughters of the Midianite Priest were at the well to

       draw water.

   2. In addition, God arranged for the herdsmen to be at the

      well mistreating the women so Moses could show

      kindness to them.

   3. Moses stood in defense of the women and drew water for

       their flock first.

4. The women describes Moses as an Egyptian.

    1. He looked like an Egyptian.

    2. He walked like an Egyptian

    3. He talked like an Egyptian

    4. He fought like an Egyptian

    5. He wore the clothes of an Egyptian.

5. Moses needed to get rid of some stuff to be used by God

    a. Moses had been trained for 40 years to be an Egyptian.

    b. He would need some training to get rid of Egypt.

    c. He needed to get rid of his impulsive behavior.

    d. He needed to learn to be humble

    e. He needed to learn about God

    f. He needed to learn to be shepherd.

SHOW YOUR GRATITUDE WHEN OTHER HELP YOU

V:20 "And where is he?" he asked his daughters. "Why did you   

  leave him? Invite him to have something to eat."

A. When God has been good to you, return the favor.

    1, The daughters of the Priest failed to tell their father that

        they had been helped by a stranger.

    2. You have to know your children.

        a. They came back early after watering the flock.

        b. Their Father, the Priest ask why.

   3. He set the example for his daughters by inviting Moses

       to eat with them.

B. Friendships develop when we show we care for others.

    1. Moses act of kindness and bravery won the heart of

        Midianite priest.

    2. Moses accepted their invitation and a friendship

       developed.

MOSES SECOND STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT

V:21-22. Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22 Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom,b saying, "I have become an alien in a foreign land."

A. The Midianites were what Moses needed.

     1. The Midianite Priest needed a husband for

         his daughters.

     2. God puts us together to help each other.

B. Moses needed to learn to be a father.

   1. He needed to learn to be a husband

   2. He needed to learn to be responsible for others.

   3. He needed to learn to be responsible to others,

GOD KEEPS HIS PROMISES

V:23-25. During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.

A. God keeps His promises in His own time

    1. God developed a nation in slavery to be His people.

    2. For 400 years, God forced his nation to stay together.

    3. For 400 years, God force His people under oppression

        to look to Him for deliverance.

B. For 400 years in slavery, God’s people never lack shelter.

    1. For 400 years in slavery, God’s people never lack food

        to eat.

    2. For 400 years under slavery, God’s people never lack 

        clothes to ware.

    3. We complain about the trouble in our lives without

         giving God thanks for the blessing we have in the

         mist of our troubles.

    4. God never takes you to trouble without bringing

         through and out of trouble.

    5. It is through the trouble in our lives that we learn

        to trust God.

    6. God’s plan for us includes good and bad.

    7. He makes all things work for our good.

THANK GOD FOR HIS DIVINE PLAN FOR US

Rev. M. Mitchell

Asst Pastor Of Greater Macedonia Baptist Church

5510 West Sam Houston Parkway North

Houston, Texas 77041

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