May 29, 2022

(Exodus 2:11-15 NIV) One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. Looking this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?” The man said, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “What I did must have become known.” When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian,

The Four Questions Wisdom Asks

1. _______? – The question of ____________.
2._______? – The question of ____________.
3._______? – The question of ____________.
4._______? – The question of ____________.

 

Getting Ahead of God

✔️ We focus on the __________ rather than the ___________________.

✔️ We follow our _____________ rather than ________________________.

✔️We act on ______________ rather than __________________________.

(Acts 7:23-25 NASB) When [Moses] was approaching the age of forty, it entered his mind to visit his brethren, the sons of Israel. And when he saw one of them being treated unjustly, he defended him and took vengeance for the oppressed by striking down the Egyptian. And he supposed that his brethren understood that God was granting them deliverance through him, but they did not understand.

 

What Level Are You in Step with God?

1. Ask God ______________.

(Exodus 33:12-13 NIV) Moses said to the Lord, “You have been telling me, ‘Lead these people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me…If you are pleased with me, teach me your ways so I may know you and continue to find favor with you.

(Matthew 7:7 NIV) Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

 

2. Look to the _____________________.

(Psalm 119:98 NIV) Your commands are always with me and make me wiser than my enemies.

✔️ Examine ____________, not __________.

✔️ Study the _____________________.

 

3. Seek _____________________.

(Exodus 18:24 NIV) Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he said.

(Proverbs 12:15 NIV) The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.

 

4. ________________ the Lord.

(Exodus 14:14 NIV) The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.

(Exodus 33:15 ISV) Then Moses told the Lord, “If your presence does not go with us, don’t bring us up from here.

 

5. ____________ the Lord.

(Deuteronomy 30:15-16 NIV) See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction. For I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the Lord your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.

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