Summer Stories - Moses - Message Notes
God chooses the foolish things to overcome the world. I Corinthians 1:26-31, AMPC
No matter where you start in life, if you turn to the Lord, He can use you to do great things v. 28-29
Moses Went From Foolish to Mighty When He Turned to the Lord
- Acts 7:17-36 - Stephen teaches how God raised up Moses to be His Leader.
- verse 17 - God has a plan, a purpose and a time to bring deliverance and revival to His people.
- verses 19-21 - The devil has always attacked the family and babies. Moses was born into harsh times. His mother wouldn’t kill him but when she couldn’t provide for him she gave him up.
Exodus 2:1-5, 10
- verses 21-22 - Moses was raised up worldly, rich and given a great education. He had everything the world could offer but wasn’t satisfied.
- verse 23 - Moses had a void in his life. He went back to his roots. In his heart he wanted to identify with the people of God.
- verses 24-25 - Moses saw himself as a somebody and set himself to change things for his people who he now identified himself with.
- verses 25-27 - You can’t bring the world’s ways into the church. You don’t become God’s leader because of your success in the world. (Moses tried to identify with the people of God but didn’t know or identify with the God of the people.)
- verses 30-32 - Moses had to come to know God personally before he could be a blessing and leader to the people of God.
- verses 24-25, 35 - Moses was called from his mother’s womb to be God’s deliverer but he could only fulfill God’s Will after he met and received God personally.
Moses has a personal experience with God.
Exodus 3:2-6
- verse 4 - Moses had to respond to receive. God calls out to us all and like Moses we must respond and turn to Him to receive.
Exodus 3:10-11 - When we truly know God, our attitude goes from pride to humility.
- verse 12 - God became the source of his power, not his own works or achievements.
Joshua 1:2 - God gives Moses His highest compliment - “Moses My Servant.”
I Corinthians 1:26-31
26) For [simply] consider your own call, brethren; not many [of you were considered to be] wise according to human estimates and standards, not many influential and powerful, not many of high and noble birth.
27) [No] for God selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is foolish to put the wise to shame, and what the world calls weak to put the strong to shame.
28) And God also selected (deliberately chose) what in the world is lowborn and insignificant and branded and treated with contempt, even the things that are nothing, that He might depose and bring to nothing the things that are,
29) So that no mortal man should [have pretense for glorying and] boast in the presence of God.
30) But it is from Him that you have your life in Christ Jesus, Whom God made our Wisdom from God, [revealed to us a knowledge of the divine plan of salvation previously hidden, manifesting itself as] our Righteousness [thus making us upright and putting us in right standing with God], and our Consecration [making us pure and holy], and our Redemption [providing our ransom from eternal penalty for sin].
31) So then, as it is written, Let him who boasts and proudly rejoices and glories, boast and proudly rejoice and glory in the Lord.