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EXODUS 3:1-4

I. THE CALL OF MOSES.
        A. As Paul separated from other's womb.
                1. Divine deliverance as child.
                2. introduced into the Pharaoh's household.
                3. Schooled in  Egyptian court.
        B. At age of 40, a scholar, statesman, qualified.
                1. Conscious of God's destiny and call for him.
                        a. Visited his brethren.
                        b. He acted on basis of what he knew.
                                1. "He supposed his brethren understood not."
                2. Ex. 2,  "He looked this way and that way and when he saw there was
                           no man."
                        a. He didn't look up!  Man conscious, not God conscious.
                        b. He had committed himself to a task and not to God!
                                1. He is the head of the body.
                                2. Man is not indispensable but God is.
                        c. Uneasy feeling about challenges made to people to commit life to
                           missions or ministry.
                                1. Need to commit our lives to Christ.
                3. We see such desire for activity and business.
                        a. What if our hands were always trying to demonstrate to us their
                           business. In the morning reveal plans for day then show
                           enthusiasm by vigorous display of uncontrolled activity.
                        b. What the head demands of the members of the body is restful
                           availability.
                                        1. Man challenges to go, to do this, do that.
                                        2. God said, "Be still and know."
        C. Wrong timing - Moses say Egyptian assaulting. If every time ripe for call is now!
                1. In a moment he became a murderer instead of a missionary.
                2. "When he went out next day.."
                        a. His deed was known, he could not bury even one Egyptian
                           successfully when he tackled the job.
                        b. When God took over the task He buried the whole army
                           successfully in the Red Sea. That's how good God is at His
                           business.

II. MOSES' TRAINING IN GOD'S SCHOOL.
        A. Here in desert of Midean to learn relationship not scholarship.
                1. Ability not as important as availability.
        B. Then one day a bush burned and was not consumed.
                1. One day I burned like that bush, fire only lasted 24 hours. I was left
                   in ashes.
                2. Too many today sitting on sidelines burned out.
        C. Moses began (Abraham, Jacob, David, Elijah. by being a failure, this is where
           he qualified.
                1. Physique - ambition - scholarship - riches cannot qualify you for that
                   for which you were created. You were created for God Himself.
        D. When Moses turned aside to see bush God called him by name.
                1. See that scraggly bush over there? It would have done - that
                   beautifully well shaped.
                2. Any old bush would do if God is in the bush. It is not the bush that
                   sustains the flame, but God in the bush.

He does not give us strength - He is our strength.
He does give us victory - He is our victory.
All that He is, I am, for it is Christ in me the hope of glory!