Message Notes for February 23, 2020
Fit to Serve (Week 02)
John Swadley
Part of Fit to Serve—Message Notes
February 23, 2020

Fit to Serve (Week 02) - Chosen

9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” 11But Moses said to God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” 12And 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.” 13Moses 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?” 14God 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.’” (Exodus 3:9-14)

1. God

us to serve. Exodus 3:9-10)

When the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” (Exodus 3:4)

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10)

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. (Exodus 3:7)

God says, 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… (Exodus 3:8)

In his kindness God called you to his eternal glory by means of Jesus Christ… (1 Peter 5:10, NLT)

But you are a chosen people… (1 Peter 2:9)

2. God

us to serve. (Exodus 4:10-13)

Moses said to the LORD, “O Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue.” (Exodus 4:10)

“…I am slow of speech and tongue.” (Exodus 4:10)

The LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is it not I, the LORD?” (Exodus 4:11)

“Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say.” (Exodus 4:12)

But Moses said, “O Lord, please send someone else to do it.” (Exodus 4:13)

I can do everything through Christ who gives me strength. (Philippians 4:13)

…our competence comes from God. (2 Corinthians 3:5)

3. God is

when we serve. (Exodus 3:11-14)

“I am the Way…” (John 14:6)

His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness… (2 Peter 1:3)

Main point: It is in

your life away that the greatest life is found.