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“GOD’s CALL FOR SENIOR ADULTS”
Exodus 3: 1 – 10
INTRODUCTION:
A - How old are you?
“Age is a quality of mind:
If you have left your dream behind,
If hope is cold,
If you no longer look ahead,
If your ambition fires are dead -- Then you are old.
But if from life you take the best,
and if in life you keep the jest,
If love you hold;
No matter how the years go by,
No matter how the birthdays fly,
you are not old.”
B – God is calling you to golden years.
1- Age has never been a factor in God’s use of His people.
a. God called Abraham to fulfill the call upon his life at the age of 75.
(Genesis 12:1-4)
b.
Enoch continued to walk with God and point others to God in His senior years.
(Genesis 5:22-25)
c.
God gave the most glorious view of the Lord Jesus and the prophesies of the end – time to John.
When he was past 90 yrs. of age (Revelation 1:10-11)
2- Senior Adults can be a great force for God in our church and community.
The question:
Will you answer His call to fulfill your Senior years?
T. S.: Notice three lessons from the call of Moses.
I - ORDINARY DOES NOT MEAN UNUSABLE (Exodus 3:1-4)
A - Moses was an ordinary man.
1- At one time, he had been in a significant position.
(Exodus 2:10)
2- Now, he was an ordinary shepherd, tending His Father-in-law’s sheep on the back side of the Midian Desert.
(Exodus 3:1)
a.
A seemingly insignificant man in a seemingly insignificant place.
b.
Moses had spent time (40 years) in God’s Seminary!
B- God has always used ordinary people.
1- It is important to note that Moses was a man who had made mistakes.
a.
He had done things that got him in trouble with the most powerful person and nation on earth!
b.
He had to run for his life, leaving all that was familiar to him.
c.
It was this flawed, ordinary man that God chose to use for a major task.
* The apostles were ordinary men
a.
Many were uneducated –such as Peter, James, and John – But they were used of God to impact the world.
C- If you are an ordinary person, God wants You!
(1 Corinthians 1:27)
1- He can use you to change things!!!
II- AGE IS INSIGNIFICANT TO OUR AGELESS GOD (Exodus 7:7)
A- Moses offered many excuses, but age was not one of them.
1 – He was better than 80 yrs.
old when God called him to lead Israel.
2- Spent the next 40 years leading Israel out of bondage and through the wilderness.
(Deuteronomy 31:1-3)
3- It is important to note that God’s call entailed that Moses be in an intimate, growing relationship with Himself to accomplish this task.
(Hebrews 11:24-27)
B -Some of the greatest work, has been done by people in their senior years.
* Murphy Causey, a Natchitoches man, was called by God to preach and start a church (Little Sparrow Mission) at 80 years of age.
He also went to preach in the crusade of the Americas in the Yucatan in 1995.
More Yucatecans were saved under his preaching than any other single preacher on the trip.
C - God can use you in a greater way now, than ever before.
1 - Experience is on your side.
2 - You can inspire others.
3- God has much for you to do:
Be a prayer Warrior
Witness and lead others to Jesus
Go on mission for Jesus short term or long term.
Serve actively in specific ministries of the church.
Sometimes, the call of God is even more specific (Like Bro.
Causey)
III - GOD’S POWER IS THE ONLY SUFFICIENCY YOU NEED
A- The task God assigned to Moses was not dependent upon Moses’ abilities.
1- Moses was quick to point out his own deficiencies:
personal insufficiency (Exodus 3:10)
Insufficient knowledge of God (Exodus 3:13)
Insufficient persuasive abilities (Exodus 4:1)
Insufficient ability to speak (Exodus 4:10)
Anyone else would be better than me (Exodus 4:13)
B -Moses needed only the Power of God to fulfill His task.
1- God supplied the answers to all of Moses’ insufficiencies.
a.
The key to all was the presence and power of the Living God! (Exodus 3:12a; Exodus 3:14)
2 - God performed miracles through Moses that enabled the Israelites to go free.
The staff-to-snake miracle
The Blood to water Miracle.
The 10 Plagues
Sustaining Miracles in the wilderness
C - With God as your strength there is nothing you can’t accomplish for Him!
(Phil.4:13)
1- All you need to do is surrender to his call and follow his leadership.
(Proverbs 3:5-6)
(Matthew 28:18-20)
CONCLUSION:
A - Beating One’s record.
1 - Edward Steichen – Photographing Sculpture in Garden of Museum of Modern Art in New York -- Statue of Balzac, by Rodin.
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