Moses, Moses — Phil Beach Jr.

And in order to work in us those things that are pleasing to him, he has to work out of us Those things that are not pleasing to us and he does that in various different ways and fashions. He works out of us a stubborn will by crossing it.

He works out of us a hard critical heart. By bringing into our life someone who we can very easily be critical over. He works out of us impatience by putting us in trials. Difficulties and every one of us.

The Sentence of Death and Reliance on God

As children of God if we are if the Lord Jesus lives on the inside must come to grips with a most important truth and it was touched on through the music the witness of the Holy Spirit By the things that were shared by Those who spoke and that is this I'm going to make a statement.

And then we're gonna go into the scriptures. Listen carefully, please. This is very very important for us to remember as a child of God you are under a Sentence of death. 2nd Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 9 a.

9 a. 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 9 a. But we had the sentence of death in Ourselves. Becoming a Christian is Is Partaking in the sentence of death that God has decreed upon Ourselves that we should not trust in ourselves but in God which raises the dead.

Moses as a Picture of Spiritual Transformation

Now, I would like to illustrate this profound truth by Gleaning from the life of Moses. Exodus chapter 2. God captures in the life of Moses a picture of The dealings that he is going to implement in the lives of those.

Whose hearts are set on pilgrimage? Whose hearts are set on? God's highest. Whose hearts are fixed on? Coming into as Paul desired. Being expressed by his own words that I might know him. That I might lay hold of all that he Laid hold of for me.

Paul had a heart of no compromise. He refused to settle young men for anything less than God's highest for his life and You and I ought not to settle for anything less than God's highest for your life.

Listen don't settle for less. Don't settle for less than God's highest. Don't buy into the lie that good is good enough because good is the enemy of better and Better is the enemy of best. Don't buy into the lie beloved.

Don't coast. Don't accept a plateau. Don't accept a good life. When you can have a better one in Christ and don't accept a better one when God is calling you to the best. If we are going to have this mindset if We're going to have this determination and this Zeal as Paul expressed We've got to come to grips with our destiny.

Our destiny as Christians born of God is to know him. By The process. By the processing of God in our life bringing ourselves to death. Exodus chapter 2. Don't settle for anything less than God's highest Intention each and every one of us ask ourself a question right now in your heart.

Don't verbalize it out loud. Ask yourself this question. Oh dear God. Have I? settled for something less Than your best now perhaps God immediately revealed it to you. But I suspect most likely That You have a waiting heart now before the Lord.

I Suspect that that question has not necessarily been fully answered. However, I do expect at the end of this message You will more able know God's answer because this message the Word of God will address that Question that you just asked yourself this morning.

God's Word is going to address it so let God speak to you and then let God answer that question in your life this morning. And there went a man of the house of Levi and took a wife a daughter of Levi and the woman conceived and bear a son and When she saw him that he was a goodly child She hid him three months.

Moses Born Under a Death Decree

Beloved listen carefully. We are reading an account of a man and a woman who conceived and bore a son. But they knew that there was a decree in the land that sons were under the sentence of death. Did you know that?

Did you know that at this time the king of Egypt was so afraid of the Israelites that he made a decree and said I Want all of the male childs that are born to be thrown into the water? But you can let the girls live.

May God open up the eyes of our heart and enable us to see that the very Conception of Moses was under the decree of a sentence of death. His destiny he was born under the sentence of death and here God Vividly Dramatically speaks to every single heart that has heard his voice and that has Apprehended and understood the nature of God's call that we too Have been born with the sentence of death hanging over our life.

And when she could no longer hide him she took him for an arc of bulrushes and Dobbed it with slime and with pitch and put the child therein and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. And his sister stood afar off to wit That would be done to him.

And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river and her maidens walked Along by the riverside and when she saw the ark among the flags She sent her maid to fetch it and when she had opened it She saw the child and behold the babe wept and she had compassion on him and said this is one of the Hebrews Children, this is one of the children that was destined to die.

He was destined to die beloved. God only apprehends those who are destined to die. God only apprehends. God only gets a hold of those who have the sentence of death upon their lives as a Testimony to himself and to the world that if this vessel is going to be any use in the hand of God It is got to be because God got a hold of it.

God changed it. God Refashioned it. God put something into it that made it what it is. We need God not only does God deliver us out from the judgment that is upon us because of our sin. But once we are saved and once we've been forgiven and once we have known the grace of God The sentence of death remains upon us.

It is the sentence of death to ourselves to our selfishness to our own will our own way our own desires the Tenacity to do our own thing to use God For our own purposes. Well, let me tell you beloved we are called to be used for God's purposes.

Not to use God for our own purposes. We're living in an age when Christianity has taken hold of God and has said I'm going to use God and the word to accomplish my own ends every one of us must Receive a revelation from the Word of God.

That as Moses was born with a sentence of death upon him and That there was no hope for him. There was no hope for his survival. But then once he was delivered which we will see out from the sentence of death and he lived.

There was still no hope for him to accomplish God's will unless he More unless he continued to walk in the death to Moses. You see Moses his greatest enemy was not Pharaoh Nor the Egyptians that worked for Pharaoh, but Moses his greatest enemy was Moses himself and your greatest enemy and my greatest enemy is our own selves as David brought out.

We are vulnerable to that which is evil because it reflects what is in sinful flesh and so we read on in verses 6 through 9 that Moses was taken aside and Pharaoh's daughter said to her Hebrew woman That she may nurse him his mother and Pharaoh's daughter said to her verse 9 take this child away and nurse it for me and I will give the wages and the woman took the child and nursed it and the child grew and She brought him to Pharaoh's daughter and he became her son and she called his name Moses and She said because I drew him out of the water.

Moses the name of Moses means to draw out the water. Water in the Old Testament frequently refers as In Psalm 22 as in Psalm 91 and as in the account of the flood water frequently refers to judgment to death and It is Moses being drawn out of death that saves his life from the sentence of death That was upon every male child, but it's also It's also Moses being drawn out of himself.

Moses being delivered from himself from the death of his own self that Qualifies and enables him to become a vessel fit for the master's use and So Moses will bear the name Moses all the days of his life.

Because all of the days of his life Moses has got to learn to live by the principle of Only as I am drawn out of the judgment drawn out of death Drawn out of myself Drawn out of what I am in myself. Can I know and understand God and be used of God?

Moses will carry that name all the days of his life and May God enable you and I To understand that we bear the same name this morning. Spiritually God drew us out. And now he must continue the process of drawing us out Drawing us out Drawing us out.

Now we see Moses was drawn out of the of the water and it saved his life. But now we're going to see why Moses needed further Drawing out he needed further Deliverance. The sentence of death was still upon Moses though He was alive the death sentence was upon him and that is true with every Christian though you are alive in Christ and though God has made you to be a child of God through faith in his son.

You are alive, but yet The death sentence is upon you and I. We yet need to be delivered out from we need to be drawn out from under out from the death of ourselves and the works of ourselves and our own wisdom and our own way and our own Dependence and our own trust and the loftiness of our own thinking.

Spiritual Infancy and the Death of Self

Now watch Moses a very telling very telling as we make the transition from being Saved and yet alive to Being alive, but yet needing to die. I was dead, but I live but now that I live I must die. What a paradox what irony.

What glory. And it came to pass those days when Moses was grown. Now he might have been grown physically, but he was a mere infant spiritually. The reason why is because The second phase of his name to be drawn out of death Had not yet been fulfilled.

Many Christians have known the first phase. I was dead In sins and trespasses, but now I am alive. Yes. Amen. We are alive forevermore. We are forgiven sinners. We stand before God Holy and just why because we come in the merits of Christ not in our own selves.

But there's a second part that we must come to know and you have forgotten The word of exhortation that speaketh to you as unto sons despise not the Chastening of the Lord neither be weary when thou art corrected for whom the Lord loveth.

He corrects and every son who he receives he chastens and Scourges now that is not a word spoken to sinners who need to be saved that is a word spoken to saints who need to further undergo the Processes of death and dying to self that they might come into a fuller participation in the life of Christ.

Hallelujah to the work of God. Hallelujah to the work of the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah to the man Moses who showed us the way that God will work in our life. Now he was grown he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens and He spied an Egyptian smiting in Hebrew one of his brethren now.

This is a very important thing to notice verse 12 and he looked this way and that way and When he saw that there was no man. Moses Had grown physically. Had got a sense of destiny. He had got a feel that This was not right.

He was listen. He was awakening to his call. He was awakening to his God-ordained destiny he was he looked and he saw the burdens of the people and he became alone, but His vision was misplaced as Mert listen as Moses was approaching in Spiritual infancy the threshold of his ministry his eyes were on people.

He looked this way. And he looked that way why. Because he was looking to see what man? was doing. A Tell-tale sign of spiritual infancy when our eyes are yet concerned about people and what they might or might not think or whether they see me or Not how they perceive me a tell-tale sign.

That we are yet in need of the second phase of fulfilling our spiritual name Moses and he looked this way and that way and When he saw there was no man beloved. You or I will never be prepared to fulfill our destiny as children of God.

Possessing the treasure of heaven in these earthen vessels. Called to go forth into this world as bright shining lights we will never fulfill that destiny as long as we approach the threshold of this ministry because Moses was standing at the threshold of the very ministry that God called him to do.

He was going to be used of God to bring Israel out of Egypt. But at the threshold of the ministry, he was still looking at people. Where are your eyes? Today, where is your gaze? Now we know the story the next day an Egyptian came verse 13 and said to him that did the wrong.

Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow. And he said who made thee a prince and judge over us. Intendest thou to kill me. Thou kill us. The Egyptian and Moses feared the inevitable snare that will come upon.

Deliverance from the Fear of Man

The soul that has not learned to look to God is that you will fear. You will fear. You will be consumed by fear. The fear of man is a snare to the soul. The Bible says fear God. Not man. Jesus said don't fear those who are able to kill the body, but not the soul.

But rather fear God who was able both to destroy body and soul in hell. Misplaced fear is a sign of spiritual infancy. Misplaced fear is a sign that we have not yet seen the Lord in the full Capacity that we must see if we are to fulfill our destiny.

So do we think it's strange that God? Continue the processes and the dealings in our life. Do we think it's strange? It is God's mercy That moves him. To continue these dealings in our life lest we be destroyed.

Now he went into the desert of Midian and there he met Jethro. And during this time of the wilderness Moses had two sons. The first son was Gershom verse 22. It is very significant that Moses had two sons in this wilderness journey or rather let us call this Midian the desert of Midian.

Experience phase two of Moses. Phase one of Moses being true to his name his name meaning of divine principle being drawn out of the water of judgment. Phase one occurred when he was put into the into the river and He was snatched out and though he was destined to die by the decree of Pharaoh.

He lived because of the decree of God. But now phase two of his name. Now that he lived by the decree of God. He was destined by the decree of God to die. It's like God. Can't you make your mind up? I thought you ordained that I walk in life.

I thought you ordained that I'd be delivered from judgment. And now your decree the God who decreed life the God who delivered me out is now decreeing death. God what's wrong? During this phase two. He has two children.

Gershom, Eleazar, and Dependence on God

Gershom. Gershom a foreigner who was banished in exile a Foreigner who was banished in exile and his second son. Who knows the name of his second son? Ellie. Ellie Azar. And You know what the name of the second son means that's found in Exodus chapter 18 verse 4.

God Is my helper is my strength? God is the source of power working in me. So phase two. When God decrees the sentence of death upon us is intended to work in us the experiential realization that number one though we live because of Jesus Christ and Though we have been delivered from death because of Christ and though we stand justified Before a holy God through the blood of Jesus Christ yet.

We are destined to perceive ourselves to be foreigners and Strangers in a foreign land we are exiled we are caught in this world of sin. We are encompassed about by a body of death, and there is no good thing that dwells in me.

Romans chapter 7. Precedes Romans chapter 8. Romans chapter 8 is the marvelous truth that Christ has set me free from sin. But to get there you have to go through seven and going through seven. It's like phase two where you've got to come to grips with the fact that the sentence of death is upon you.

Paul said in Romans 7. For I know that there dwells no good thing in me that is in my flesh. Have you come to see that? Have you really come to see that there is no good thing that dwells in your flesh?

Have you come to see that you are? Exiled into a strange land your true citizenship is heaven. Your true life is Christ. Your true father is heavenly father and you are in a world that is perverted and you are Compassed about with a body of death that Paul said is full of corruption.

Have you come to where you're learning to distrust? Every visage and every iota of That which springs out of your own competence and out of that experience. Was Moses's second son birth born Eleazar. God is a helper.

God is my helper. God is the source of my strength. God is the source of my power. God is my life. My eyes are upon God. My hope is in God. My life is rooted in God though everything be removed round about me.

My focus is upon God. I wake up in the morning and I don't think about myself or my plans or my lofty ideas or my Dreams or my hopes of what I want to accomplish. I don't think about my schedule and what I have to get done today.

I wake up and I say God you are my strength today. I look to you Lord if you don't sustain me if you don't Strengthen me if you don't empower me. I'm gonna fail today. There's the heart that is learning the lesson That Moses learned in the Midianite desert.

There is the heart. We wake up and sigh. Oh Lord, thank you. Oh God help me. We're not quick to arise and go about our day. We're quick to arise and fall before God. Who alone? Can make my way successful.

Who alone can prosper? The plans in my heart. Where are we at? Now remember the question that we asked. Oh God. Am I settling in any area of my life for something less than your best? Now very quickly for a few more moments.

Testing, the Wilderness, and the Call of God

Moses Born to die. But God saved him alive. Beings being nurtured by his very mother and yet God decreed That he was delivered from death to life, but now God decreed death now We see a man having come through 40 years.

40 is the number of testing in the Bible. It indicates a time of proving. Jesus went on a fast for 40 days and 40 nights. Moses was in the wilderness for 40 years. Israel wandered in the wilderness. Now here's a man Who has come to know the desert of Midian?

He has come to know his impotence. His incapability. He realizes he's a sojourner. There's nothing on earth. That's clean. There's nothing in himself apart from God. That's clean that he can hold on to and trust in.

And now watch this watch chapter 3 verse 1. Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law the priest of the Midian and he led the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God even to Orem when you undergo by the sovereign hand of God face to of Your spiritual name Moses and God starts drawing you out and bringing the sentence of death upon you.

It will lead you to the mount of God. It will lead you to where God is. It will lead you to an encounter with God where God will reveal his glory to you. He'll reveal his power to you. He'll reveal his majesty to you.

Not before and the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of the bush and he looked and Behold the bush burned with fire. The bush was not consumed beloved. Listen carefully Exodus chapter 2 where was Moses looking?

When he approached his ministry in spiritual infancy. Where was he looking? He was looking back and forth his eyes were on men. He was wondering who was seeing him. What would they think? He was earthly.

He was earthly minded called of God. Rescued from the waters of judgment. Feeling destiny rise up in his heart. Feeling this is not right. There needs to be God to do something. But he was looking at men.

Turning Aside to See God

Now, where's Moses looking when he saw the bush. Did he look around to see who was looking? Did he look around and Moses said verse 3. I will now turn aside and see what. This great sight beloved. Moses was now looking at the right place.

Was looking to God before. He wanted to know who was looking. He wanted to know who was seeing him. He wanted to know but now Verse 4 and when the Lord saw. That he turned aside to see. Oh My god help us this morning.

God is looking to see. Listen what you're looking at. What are you looking at? God's not interested in what you're doing or what you're saying or what kind of call you think you have on your life or who?

You think you are or where you've come from or where you're going or whatever. God is looking at what are you looking at? When God saw that he turned aside to see. Now see. God saw in Exodus 2 verse number 12 Moses was looking back and forth at men, but now God sees Moses looking at the bush.

The glory at God. God called him out of the midst of the bush. You want to hear God call you? He'll call you when your eyes are fixed on him. When you are looking to him. Now you might have a sense of call.

But that's not God calling you. You might have a sense of destiny. You might know God. I know My heart is broken over this or that whatever it is. But don't mistaken. Awakening to your destiny to God calling you because there is a difference and too many people are equating are waking up to destiny to the call and they run and Great great great tragedy occurs.

We see it everywhere in Christianity today. We need a little introduction to God before we run and here's the introduction as we close. Listen carefully. God didn't give Moses a plan. God didn't give Moses a plan.

God didn't give him a plan on how to fulfill his ministry. God didn't give him a plan on how he was going to get people to follow him. God didn't give him a plan. God doesn't give his men plans. God gives his men a revelation of himself.

The Double Call: “Moses, Moses”

Listen and God saw that he turned aside. God called to him out of the midst of the bush and said Moses. Moses. No, he couldn't notice. He called his name twice. Twice to reaffirm the fullness of his work in Moses his life.

Phase one and phase two. Only when God calls your name twice. Are you ready? Only when God Calls it twice. Only when you have a two-fold witness of God's work in your life. Not only can you say I was blind, but now I see I was dead in sin.

But now I'm forgiven, but you must be able to say and now that I'm forgiven. I've been devastated. I've been brought down. I am nothing who had God have to say and he said here am I? And he said draw not nigh here.

Slow down son. Slow down. You know who you're dealing with. Slow down. You're nothing. Slow down. You don't got the plan. You're not the man. Slow down. Slow down. I don't want to hear your voice answer son, but Moses could hear.

Couldn't hear that before. It's got to be Moses. Moses before we hear God speak that to us. Huh, is that right David. Moses. Moses? Draw not nigh hither. Put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

Moreover he said I am the God of thy father. Little introduction to God. Notice God's not talking about anyone, but himself. And he tells the man to shush. Get your shoes off son. You don't have any business talking now.

The limelight's on me. God says I'm the bush. I'm the. I'm the bird. I'm the glory. You just be still now. I want to talk. I am the God of thy father and the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

And Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God. There it is. Before he was afraid what man would do to him now he feared God. I Was afraid to look upon God before I was worried about what man thought.

But now I stand in the presence of God and I fear God. You see the result of phase two. See what God does in us in the backside of the Midian desert. And the Lord said I have surely seen the affliction of my who asked Moses.

Did Moses see it. Was Moses privy on what was going on? God's the only one that really knows God saw it. And listen to what God says in verse 8 the most important verse in this whole discourse. Who delivered Israel out of Egypt.

Moses not. So I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of the land unto a good land and a large unto a land for him with milk and honey and perspective to the man who has been stripped and who now fears God.

Who has now been silenced in the presence of God. Who has been told to take his shoes off because it's holy ground who has been shown that God's got the plan. God's got the words. God's got what it takes and Now he's hiding his face and if we would read on we would see That when God brought his man to this place God made himself available To accomplish God's end not the man's end to accomplish God's purpose not the man's purpose and We know the rest of the story.

God did a great work and His people praised him. Moses. Moses in closing. I want to reask the question That I asked earlier. Oh Lord God, is there any area in my heart where I am settling for something less than your best?

Trusting God’s Transformative Work

And now in light of God's Word. In light of God's truth. Perhaps we can hear a bit more of God speaking to us. Perhaps God is saying yes. Yes, there is a danger of settling for something less but fear not.

Because I your God Will see to it. That you will not. You will not succeed. But I Will see to it as you seek me with all your heart. To bring you out of phase one into phase two and there pronounce The sentence of death and work it in you.

Preparing you for that revelation of my glory father. We thank you for your word We thank you for The Holy Spirit we commit this word into your hands. Please father Minister to us. We by faith commit ourselves into your hands.

Take us on this journey Lord and work this in us. I pray for Jesus glory.