{Thank God for a Hearing ear & a receiving heart}
Exodus 2:11-15
Jeremiah 1:4-5
As we begin part 3 of this message we find Moses is a grown man. After being placed in a basket in set in the river by his sister at his mother’s command, Moses has now grown up and is living in Pharaoh’s house. He, as his name is translated was drawn or pulled out of the water by Pharaoh’s daughter.
Our story today begins with what seems to be the worst thing that could happen to Moses. Moses has killed a man! The bibles says that Moses saw one of the Egyptians beating one of the Hebrew slaves, and when he saw that there was no one looking he slew the Egyptians. As we read on into the story we see that even though Moses thought no one was looking someone saw everything that happens.
Let’s be transparent today Saints of God. Have you ever been doing something that you thought was on the sly or the down low and thought nobody knew and come to find out that everyone knew your business?
The Psalmist remembered something that I think the saints have forgotten.
[Psalms 139:11-12 KJV] If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. [12] Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Dr. Mathew Henry said, regarding this verse of scripture-
If God is omnipresent, he must needs be omniscient; but he is omnipresent; this supports the infinite and vastness of his being, from which follows the ubiquity of his presence; heaven and earth include the whole creation, and the Creator fills both (Jer_23:24); he not only knows both, and governs both, but he fills both.
Every part of the creation is under God’s intuition and influence. David here acknowledges this also with application and sees himself thus open before God. (David understood that)
1. No flight can remove us out of God’s presence: “Whither shall I go from thy Spirit, from thy presence, that is, from thy spiritual presence, from thyself, who art a Spirit?” God is a Spirit, and therefore it is folly to think that because we cannot see him he cannot see us:
Never allow the enemy to make you think that because you can’t see God that God doesn’t see what is going on with you!
So in the story of Moses God saw and knew what Moses was going to do even before it happen. God knew that Moses was going to kill the Egyptian an as a result he would have to flee the palace. Now remember, Moses may have been able to flee from Pharaoh, but as Mathew Henry said, he could not flee from God.
Moses killed the Egyptian out of anger! Dr Webster defines Anger as- a strong feeling of displeasure and usually of antagonism and an intense emotional state induced by displeasure
Even though it was wrong for Moses to kill anyone, it was the anger of the situation that revealed Moses’ anointing and assignment. Moses was angry at the way the Egyptian was treating the Hebrew slave. So angry that Moses literally lost it!
Every one of us in this room has an anointing and an assignment that God has placed in your life. And believe it or not, your anger will be the key to reveal what it is to you. I’m your pastor, I may know and see your giftings, but it will be your anger to reveal you assignment. What is it that you hate to see happen. What is that thing that you have prayed and ask God why this or that had to happen or be a certain way.
• The teacher has to hates ignorance.
• For a doctor to spend 12 years in school and another 8 to 10 years in college, it is not all about the money, he has to hate seeing people sick.
• A good lawyer has to hates injustice.
• A good preacher has to hate sin.
• A good pastor has to hate the thought of people dieing and missing eternity with God.
What you hate to the point of anger is a key to your anointing and your assignment. You are not a wondering generality. Every thing and everyone that God has created was created with the purpose of solving a problem.
• [Genesis 2:5] God had a problem!
[Genesis 2:5 KJV] … for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
• The answer to God’s problem.
[Genesis 1:26 KJV] And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Please don’t miss this, because if you do you will miss a very important fact about the nature of God! God didn’t have a problem until Genesis chapter 2 verses 5, but he had already solved His own problem in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26. He is the God that declares the end from the beginning.
• [Isaiah 53:6 KJV] God had another problem!
[Isaiah 53:6 KJV] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way;
• Just as in the example from before, the answer to God’s problem is found in the verse before the verse that states the problem. The problem was “we all like sheep have gone astray;” The answer-
[Isaiah 53:5 KJV] But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
God wanted man to be saved and the only solution was for God himself to be the savior of man, in the person of the Christos, the Christ, the anointed one.
Just as Christ was the solution for sin, we are created to solve a problem! When you find the problem that you are anointed to solve many of the things that you’re battling with want be a problem any more.
When you find the thing that you’re anointed by God to do
• Money want be an issue.
• Lack of Support want be an issue.
• Lack Vision want be an issue.
I don’t want to get to far ahead with the story of Moses, but when Moses answered the call that was on his life; God equipped him with everything that he needed to do what he was called to do.
The problem that we have is that some times God does not give us all the power, but he equips us by giving us people that are strong were we are weak. Moses couldn’t speak well, God have him Aaron. Moses had to die, so God have him a Joshua. He gave Ruth a Naomi, David and Jonathan. Jesus had to die, so he have him the disciples. He gave Paul Silas. But you will never work well with people if you think that it is all about you!
“Well, Pastor Wilson, that is great, but I just don’t know what I’m called to-do.”
• What is it that you have a passion for?
• What is it that makes angry?
• What is that you want to change?
I know this might sound crazy, but many of us in this room have misdirected anger.
Don’t get mad at the person that can afford to do things that you can’t or go places that you can’t go. The thing that you should be mad at is your financial situations and all the factors that are involved. Mad to the point that you find yourselves seeking God for direction on how to change it. Many of us don’t pray that way because the first thing God shows us is ourselves. God is not going to agree with you about how bad your Job is, how your husband should treat you, your money or anything else until you first allow him to first work on you.
God is not going to change anything in your life that you’re willing to tolerate!
• If you can put up with bad kids, your kids are going to be bad.
• If you can put up with living from pay check to pay check, then God is not going to give you more.
The more of God only comes when you go beyond doing what you can do for yourselves and move into what God has called you to do.
The assignment that God has given you:
• Your job your on can’t fund it.
• Calls for you to have your own home.
• Calls for you to own a nice car.
• Calls for you to choose your friends more carefully.
There is something that you can do, there is a problem that you can solve that no one else can solve the way you solve it. There was no one like Moses, there was no one like King David, and there was no one like Isaiah, Daniel or Nehemiah. I hope you don’t think that God was just talking to Jeremiah when he said, [Jeremiah 1:5 KJV] before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
But when someone begins to exhort us to go forth in the things of God what happens? We want to pull a Jeremiah.
Jeremiah 1:6-10 KJV Then said I, Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak: for I am a child.
What is Jeremiah doing? He is doing the same thing Moses did at the burning bush; he is in the presence of his Creator talking about his weakness. What is it about us as human that when ever we are faced with following the path that God has laid an what is best for us, we start a recitation and focusing on our weakness. If God can anoint a rooster for Peter’s conviction and conversion, is he not God enough too anoint and empower us that are made in his image and likeness.
[7] But the LORD said unto me, Say not, I am a child: for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee, and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak. [8] Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the LORD.
God know what he was Jeremiah would do next so he goes ahead address he next issue. If we are not talking about our weakness we are talking about our fears.
2 Timothy 1:7 KJV For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
The acrostic for Fear is:
F- False
E- Evidence
A- Appearing
R- Real
Fear is the Devils number one weapon! He doesn’t have to fight some people or even worry. All it takes is a little fear.
• Just enough fear that you don’t pray about it any more.
• Just enough fear that you stop thinking about trying it.
• Just enough fear that you want even talk about it.
I don’t even have to know what your “it” is. For some it is having your own business. For some you have lived so many different places and had to move so many times you don’t even pray about ownership any more. Why? Fear! But we don’t have to fear, because God has promise to deliver us.
[9] Then the LORD put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth. [10] See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Notice what God says, to root out, to pull down and to destroy. Your anger is the Clue to your anointing and your assignment.
From the Pastoral Deck of
Dr. Martin C. Wilson, Sr
