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Has fear ever held you back?
2. I’ve found that fear often leads to excuses… “I can’t do this because __________!”
3. If you’ve made excuses in the past because of fear or you’re making excuses now because you are afraid, you’re not alone.
4. Our study in Exodus 4:1-17 will provide practical principles so that we may stand by faith and be done with making excuses.

Exodus 4:1-17

Context

1. In Exodus 3, we’re told that after 400 years in Egypt, God, in accordance with His promise to Abraham in Genesis 15, revealed that He was going to deliver Israel from slavery.
2. From a burning bush on Mt. Sinai, the LORD commissioned Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt.
3. Sensing some resistance, God tried to reassure Moses by promising to be with him.
4. God also revealed His sufficiency to meet the needs of Moses and Israel when He declared His name, “I am who I am”.
a. God is self-existent, eternal, all powerful, all knowing, and everywhere present!
b. He is the promise-making, promise-keeping God!

Transition – Was that good enough for Moses? Look at his response in Exodus 4:1…

I. Make Faith the Foundation of Your Life (1-9)

A. “What ifs” are quicksand (1)
1. Moses was rejected 40 years earlier (2:11-15)
a. He killed an Egyptian soldier who was beating a Hebrew slave.
b. By doing so, Moses thought Israel would recognize that he was their deliverer.
c. But they rejected his leadership because they were not ready to leave Egypt and Moses was not ready to lead God’s way.
2. At this point Moses was a broken man, humiliated after 40 years of tending his father-in-law’s sheep.
a. I’m sure he was blessed to hear that God was going to deliver Israel.
b. But he didn’t want to step out and obey God’s calling because he was fearful of failure and rejection!

APPL – Though life may break us down and we feel humbled by past failures and rejection, we’re not useless! Through the breaking, God is bringing us to a place where faith is the foundation of our lives. God isn’t done with us yet!

Isaiah 42:3, A bruised reed He will not break, and a dimly burning wick He will not extinguish.

ILLUS – Though sent into exile as a teenager, the prophet Daniel made faith the foundation of his life and did not use the injustice done to him as an excuse.

Daniel 1:8, But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s choice food or with the wine which he drank.

3. But fear deafened the ears of Moses so that he was unable to hear God’s promises.

Exodus 3:18-21, And they will pay heed to what you say; and you with the elders of Israel will come to the king of Egypt, and you will say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, please, let us go a three days’ journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’ But I know that the king of Egypt will not permit you to go, except under compulsion. So I will stretch out My hand, and strike Egypt with all My miracles which I shall do in the midst of it; and after that he will let you go. And I will grant this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and it shall be that when you go, you will not go empty-handed.

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