Learning From the Leadership of Moses

INTRO: How good of an example for us today is Moses. Preacher, can we be the leader Moses was. What are we lacking that he had. Do we worry more about what the Pharoahs, Dothans, Korahs, Aarons, and so forth are saying?????? Are too busy being what we are that we are not the leader God wants us to be? Can we be the Man of God that God needs from us????

  1. Deficiencies of Moses

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    1. Great excuse maker: Ex. 3:11; 4:1,10,13
      1. Unimportant – "Who am I?"
      2. Doubted people would hear him
      3. Not eloquent – slow of speech and slow of tongue
      4. In need of someone better to help him (Aaron)
    1. Only Human (by his actions)

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      1. Unable to last – Ex. 18:13-23 Jethro advises
      2. Lost his temper , and broke the Stone Tables – Ex. 32:19
      3. Became discouraged under a heavy burden – Nu. 11:10-15
If God gave each of the solders a QUARTER POUNDER = 75 tons
      1. In pride he smote the rock – disobeyed God - Nu. 20:7-13
  1. Potential for greatness in Moses

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    1. Chosen of God
    2. Protected by God
    3. Readied by God (good education)
    4. Called by God (burning bush)
    5. Helped by God

  2. Actual greatness of Moses shows – He Loved His Flock

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    1. He was strong for God
      1. He wanted to be with God’s people –
      2. He knew God (face to face) – Deut. 34:10
      3. He was able to lead and encourage others to excel – Aaron and Hur - the Amalekites
      4. He passed on God’s greatness - Joshua 34:9


      23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months of his parents, because they saw he was a proper child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment.
      24 By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
      25 Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
      26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the reward.
      27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.
      28 Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.
      29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned.
       

    2. He was soft for His flock

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      1. He hurt when they hurt ( didn’t rejoice in their mistakes)
      2. He stood against sin and opposition (Korah, Dathan, and Abiram) Nu. 16
      1. He stood up for them – even to God
      2. He offered himself in their stead - Ex. 32.32


        3. Exo 32:32  Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.
         

      3. He Loved his "FLOCK"
1 Cor. 13:1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

Gary Marcum - East 38th Street Free Will Baptist 071798 Conference