VICTORY: THE CALL

This Easter experience has led us to reflect on God’s victory more than ever before. Our new series, Victory, focuses on this reality in our lives. All through scripture, God’s victory appears when times get dire, and he continues to do so in our hearts Today. In Sunday’s message, we are encouraged by God’s call to partnership in our lives. He continues to grant us great purpose in this life as we live on his mission. Our difficulty is responding to that call. Often, we feel overwhelmed or unsure about God’s calling in our lives. As we look at Exodus 3:1-15, we see an unsure Moses who gets called on a life-changing journey. He had to say yes to the uncertainty and move forward in faith. And the results were spectacular! In the same way, God has great plans and inspires us to participate in them! Even in our uncertainty, he walks with us and guides us toward this great end. This is the love of God in action. Even though we are undeserving, he still wishes to have an abundant partnership with us! It is that very call that will inspire our lives toward greatness, reach hearts for God, and replenish our vision. In the sermon ” The Call,” we find motivation and encouragement to seek God’s unique call in our lives! We pray that through this message, you will experience the same abundant purpose that brought Moses through the waters of the Red Sea and the Israelites to the promised land!

Exodus 3:1-15: 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. ² 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. ³ So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” ⁴ 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.” ⁵ “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” ⁶ 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. ⁷ 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. ⁸ 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. ⁹ And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. ¹⁰ So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” ¹¹ But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” ¹² 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.” ¹³ 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?” ¹⁴ 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.’” ¹⁵ 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.'”