TITLE: Moved into Motion

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TITLE Moved into Motion

• TEXT Exodus 211-25
• THEME The believer is moved to action when he
  sees the world as God does.

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Thats all that I can stands, and I cant
stands no more
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Thats all that I can stands, and I cant
stands no more

• There is a point of justifiable intolerance that
  stirs us into action and moves us to try to
  correct the evil that we are witnessing before
  our eyes. This point in time, this moment of
  urgency is described by Bill Hybels as Holy
  Discontentment.

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Exodus 211-25

• 11 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. 12 Glancing this
  way and that and seeing no one, he killed the
  Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

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Exodus 211-25

• 13 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?"

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Exodus 211-25

•  14 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."

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Exodus 211-25

•  15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill
  Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to
  live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16
  Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and
  they came to draw water and fill the troughs to
  water their father's flock.

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Exodus 211-25

• 17 Some shepherds came along and drove them
  away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue
  and watered their flock.
• 18 When the girls returned to Reuel their
  father, he asked them, "Why have you returned so
  early today?"

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Exodus 211-25

•  19 They answered, "An Egyptian rescued us from
  the shepherds. He even drew water for us and
  watered the flock."
•  20 "And where is he?" he asked his daughters.
  "Why did you leave him? Invite him to have
  something to eat."

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Exodus 211-25

•  21 Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave
  his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 22
  Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him
  Gershom, saying, "I have become an alien in a
  foreign land."

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Exodus 211-25

•  23 During that long period, the king of Egypt
  died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and
  cried out, and their cry for help because of
  their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their
  groaning and he remembered his covenant with
  Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God
  looked on the Israelites and was concerned about
  them

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What drives a person to engage in a cause that
urgency needs changing?
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I. They identify with the people in need.

• One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out
  to where his own people were and watched them at
  their hard labor. (v. 11).

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Lloyd Billingsly, Fanaticism Religions Rebel
Son

• He writes about people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao
  Tse Tung and the Khmer Rouge.

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Lloyd Billingsly, Fanaticism Religions Rebel
Son

• He writes about people like Hitler, Stalin, Mao
  Tse Tung and the Khmer Rouge.
• He asks the question, How could these people
  justify the mass murder of millions of their own
  people?

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Lloyd Billingsly, Fanaticism Religions Rebel
Son

• The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who
  sees himself as acting on behalf of some
  super-personal force the Race, the Party,
  History, the Proletariat, the Poor, and so on.
  These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely
  do anything in their service.

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Three Outlooks on Evil

• Dehumanizing People leads to killing and
  oppression

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Three Outlooks on Evil

• Dehumanizing People leads to killing and
  oppression
• Detachment from People leads to indifference and
  inaction,

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Three Outlooks on Evil

• Dehumanizing People leads to killing and
  oppression
• Detachment from People leads to indifference and
  inaction,
• Identifying with People leads to compassion and
  concern.

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Atheist Christian Hitchens

• A supporter of Leon Trotsky who was the
  intellectual force behind the atheistic Bolshevik
  Revolution and the leader of the Red Army that
  took over Russia in 1917. His atheist agenda
  became the catalyst for killing of millions of
  the attempt to eradicate any vestiges of religion
  from the Soviet Union.

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Atheist Christian Hitchens

• His book cites as one of the reasons for the evil
  of Christianity is that it is responsible for
  killing many people through the crusades, the
  Inquisition, the Witch Trials, etc. While we
  cannot support these actions that killed around
  2,000 to 3,000 people they pale in comparison the
  10 of millions killed by atheists regimes under
  Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.

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What drives a person to engage in a cause that
urgency needs changing?
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II. They see the plight of the people in need.

• He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of
  his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and
  seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him
  in the sand.

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Exodus 2

• 23 During that long period, the king of Egypt
  died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and
  cried out, and their cry for help because of
  their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their
  groaning and he remembered his covenant with
  Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God
  looked on the Israelites and was concerned about
  them

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Exodus 3

• 1 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro
  his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he
  led the flock to the far side of the desert and
  came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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Exodus 3

• 2 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him
  in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw
  that though the bush was on fire it did not burn
  up. 3 So Moses thought, "I will go over and see
  this strange sightwhy the bush does not burn up."

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Exodus 3

•  4 When the LORD saw that he had gone over to
  look, God called to him from within the bush,
  "Moses! Moses!"       And Moses said, "Here I
  am."
•  5 "Do not come any closer," God said. "Take off
  your sandals, for the place where you are
  standing is holy ground."

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Exodus 3

• 6 Then he said, "I am the God of your father, the
  God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of
  Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he
  was afraid to look at God. 7 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.

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Exodus 3

• 8 So 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 honeythe home of the
  Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites,
  Hivites and Jebusites.

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Exodus 3

• 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached
  me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are
  oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you
  to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out
  of Egypt."

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What drives a person to engage in a cause that
urgency needs changing?
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III. They sense the urgency of helping the people
in need.

• Would you be one who walked by?

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III. They sense the urgency of helping the people
in need.

• How many people in our churches have never felt
  the urgency to share Christ with someone is
  hopelessly lost without Christ and certain of
  eternal destruction because of fear of
  embarrassment or indifference.

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III. They sense the urgency of helping the people
in need.

• How many people in our churches have never felt
  the urgency to share Christ with someone is
  hopelessly lost without Christ and certain of
  eternal destruction because of fear of
  embarrassment or indifference.

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What drives a person to engage in a cause that
urgently needs changing?
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IV. They act on behalf of those in need.
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Exodus 2

• 15 When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill
  Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to
  live in Midian, where he sat down by a well. 16
  Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and
  they came to draw water and fill the troughs to
  water their father's flock. 17 Some shepherds
  came along and drove them away, but Moses got up
  and came to their rescue and watered their flock.

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Exodus 2

• Popeye moments demand a response- they demand
  that we do something. Our sense of urgency and
  sense of injustice cannot be satisfied until we
  act

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APPLY TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCE

• We must guard against dehumanizing people.

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APPLY TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCE

• We must guard against dehumanizing people.
• If we see things as God sees them we cant help
  but have a Popeye moment. A time where we say,
  Thats all I can stands, and I cant stands no
  more.

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APPLY TO SPECIFIC AUDIENCE

• We must guard against dehumanizing people.
• If we see things as God sees them we cant help
  but have a Popeye moment. A time where we say,
  Thats all I can stands, and I cant stands no
  more.
• We must open our eyes to what is going on around.

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Thats all I can stands, and I cant stands no
more.