Moses, I Can Be A Leader Part 3 of 10

Text - Exodus 3:11-4:10

Introduction

Since this morning is our theme day, today we are going to continue with our series on how to become a “Can Do Christian.” So this morning we’re going to look at the life of Moses and learn how to lead.

Here in our text Moses doesn’t display a typical “Can Do” kind of Christian attitude. In fact it is better characterized as a “Can’t Do” kind of attitude. But God was helping him to learn how to lead.

If you want to be a leader you must be a learner. That doesn’t mean that we know it all or understand it all but that we have a desire to learn.

In order to set the context of this message I’d like you to look at Exodus 3:7-10

Exodus 3:7-10 The LORD said, "I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey--the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt." (NIV)

God was going to deliver Israel from Egyptian bondage and was going to use Moses to do it.

Like Moses, we often times make up excuses for not doing the things that God has told us to do. We make excuses because that’s our human nature to be that way.

There was a man who was an avid golfer who promised his wife he would be home at 4:00 pm. He was late and his wife waited and waited for him to come home. Finally he arrived back home at 8:00 pm. His wife was very upset with him and said, “Why didn’t you come home at 4:00 pm when you said you would?” The man then gave her this excuse. He said, “You know Fred my golf partner? Well today he dropped dead on the eighth green.” “Oh, that’s awful.” the wife replied. “It sure was,” replied the husband, because for the rest of the game it was hit the ball and drag Fred, hit the ball and drag Fred.”

A pastor was speaking to a man in his church about missing Sunday services and said, “I was told you went to the ball game instead of coming to church this morning.” That’s a lie,” said the man, “and here’s the fish to prove it!”
Someone once said that an excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie.

For every excuse we use, God has an answer. For every excuse Moses gave to God, God gave Moses a solution and taught him how he could deliver Israel and lead them out of Egyptian bondage.

As we examine our text I’d like us to learn four keys to being a leader from the four excuses Moses gave to God and the answers God gave to Moses.