Can A Person Have An Encounter With The Living God Series?

You may not agree with me but I believe that we don’t have much time left until the triumph sounds and the church is rapture. I happened to mentioned this to another Christian and they said do you really believe that Jesus is going to come back. You all know my answer. As I talked to the Christian I realized what the Lord and Paul meant about finding people of faith. If we continue to ignore the Lord Jesus we may find the consequence to be greater than we are willing to pay. I find Moses next excuse as almost a slap in the face of the Lord.

Moses second excuses is NO ONE KNOW YOU NAME.

EXODUS 3:13. Then Moses said to God, "Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you.' Now they may say to me, what is His name? What shall I say to them?

I find this question of Moses very interesting. I believe that Moses felt that just because all the gods of Egypt had a name that the Living God needed to have a name. The thing is that the name of the Lord was so sacred the Jewish priest would even say it. They would use letters to let people know that they were speaking about God. I know from experience what Moses is saying. We may have been there when we were talking to someone and we got to thinking about the fact that people just may not believe us. I remember one situation where I knew that the Lord wanted me to tell Randy that we were gathering every morning to prayer for revival. I remember telling him some lame excuse instead of the truth. All I was really doing was attempting to find an out instead of obeying the Lord. On the last day of the prayer time I remember Randy again asking only this time he asked what a more direct question and this time I gave to him the answer that the Lord wanted him to have.

God second answer to Moses excuse is I AM WHO I AM.

How does God tell a created being how to describe the Lord to people? The Lord could have said that he is the One who made the earth and all the stars; that he is the one who is holding everything together. The Lord could have said I am the one who created you or that the Lord is the one who direct the path of mankind. When you think about it what better words could be used to actually describe the Living Lord? This could also be translated I AM THAT I AM. Someone put it this way; it isn’t the name of God that is important it is who God is that is important. The thing is that God is all we need. He is the Source of grace, mercy, love, holiness, strength and protection.

Moses third excuse is WHO WILL BELIEVE ME?

EXODUS 4:1. Moses answered, "What if the elders of Israel won't believe me? What if they won't listen to me? Suppose they say, 'The Lord didn't appear to you.' Then what should I do?

I have had many times when someone came to me and said that they had a message for me from the Lord. I just stood there and listen. They asked me what I though. I said I would have to wait and see. There have been times when someone actually did have a message for me from the Lord but they didn’t know it. I have learned to test what people say to me by the scripture and I also wait and see if the message will be authenticated by the Holy Spirit. When the Lord ask us to witness to some one and we don’t; usually the reason why we don’t is because of fear that the people we are to witness to just won’t believe us. Something we pass the buck or like Moses we come up with excuses that kind of make us feel good about not doing what the Lord asks. The same is true when things don’t go the way we planned. We blame someone else. It doesn’t surprise me that this is one of the reasons why the Church is ineffective. We like to blame our personal ineffectiveness in sharing Christ at the feet of the people we are suppose to share Christ with because that relieves us of any personal responsibility. As one church told me we didn’t want to do it that is why we hired you as the pastor.