No More Excuses

Series: Led by Fire
Speaker: Tim Perkins
Date: June 5, 2022
Title: No More Excuses

(2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV) For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.

(Genesis 3:9-13 NLT) Then the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?” He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.” “Who told you that you were naked?” the Lord God asked. “Have you eaten from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat?” The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.” Then the Lord God asked the woman, “What have you done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied. “That’s why I ate it.”

 #1. Excuse: I don’t have all the

(Exodus 3:13-14 ESV) Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel,  has sent me to you.'” 

(1 Corinthians 2:4-5 NLT) My message and my preaching were very plain. Rather than using clever and persuasive speeches, I relied only on the power of the Holy Spirit.

#2 Excuse: What if they don’t me?

 (Exodus 4:1-4 ESV) Then Moses answered, “But behold, they will not me or to my voice, for they will say, ‘The Lord did not appear to you.'” The Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A staff.” And he said, “Throw it on the ground.” So he threw it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses ran from it. But the Lord said to Moses, “Put out your hand and catch it by the tail”—so he put out his hand and caught it, and it became a staff in his hand—

(Exodus 3:18-22 ESV) And they will listen to your voice

and you and the elders of Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and 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 let you go unless compelled by a mighty hand. So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all the wonders that I will do in it; after that he will let you go. And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians; and when you go, you shall not go empty, but each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.” 

#3 Excuse: I what it takes.

 (Exodus 4:10-12 ESV) But Moses said to the Lord, “Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.” Then the Lord said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now therefore , and I will be with your mouth  teach you what you shall speak.” 

#4 Excuse: Others are more

(Exodus 4:13-14 NIV) But he said, “Oh my Lord, please send someone else.” Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses… 

Big Idea: You never know what’s on the other side of !