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Callie, can you tell me where your name is? Page 39. Page 39. How beautiful heaven must be. Page 39. On the verse. We read of a place that's called heaven. It's made for the pure and the free. These truths see God's word he hath given. How beautiful heaven must be. How beautiful heaven must be. Sweet home of the happy and free. Fair haven of breast for the weary. How beautiful heaven must be. 232. 232. On the verse. Tell me the story of Jesus right on my heart every word. Tell me the story most precious sweetness that ever was full. Tell how the angels in chorus sang as they welcomed his birth. Glory to God in the highest. He sent good tidings to earth. Tell me the story of Jesus right on my heart every word. Tell me the story most precious sweetness that ever was full. Last one, Brother Ramon. 41. Sweet bind by page 41. Now on the verse. There's a land that is fairer than any. And by faith we can see it upon. For the father waits over the way. To prepare us a dwelling place. In the sweet by and by. We shall meet on the beautiful shore. In the sweet by and by. We shall meet on the beautiful shore. At this time we'll have our announcement. We need a bulletin. I think we might have a couple more left. Too late not reprobates. Is someone expecting me to cry today or something? On our front cover we have a verse of the week. It says lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through in steel. Verse 19 our inside left page there. We have our service time Sunday morning 10 30 a.m. Sunday evening 3 30 p.m. and we're in Exodus chapter 3 tonight and let's see Thursday will be in 1 Peter chapter 5 we'll finish the book of 1 Peter and we had so many today. Did anybody have salvation by any chance? Yeah it was rough. It was all uphill. It's like that you know how these people say well I had to walk both ways uphill and it's in the snow. It was cold outside. So I'm glad I brought my wool socks because that was just smart. Anyway it was cold at the doors and it was cold outside so but you know God rewards you for your faithfulness amen. And let's see our prayers report. You can see the baptisms and all the stats there the last week's attendance and our upcoming events Tuesday we have a home school field trip. Well Monday it's Julian's birthday okay and then November 8th is the home school field trip and that is at 10 o'clock and it's at Pioneer Farms in Eatonville. So it is two hours and 15 minutes away so time yourself accordingly on that. There's two one and a half hour tours and you'll need to bring a sack lunch or I think they have like things you can buy there but there's an after lunch there's an hour and a half tour after that. So then November 9th which is this Wednesday there's a men's leadership class I'll be at 7 p.m. please men be prepared to preach a short sermon. And November 20th I'll be preaching in Spokane. November 22nd is the midweek service change to a Tuesday and we're having a pie social that day so that is the week of Thanksgiving. November 27th is the kids Christmas choir beginning practices. So the Sunday after Thanksgiving is when we're going to start doing the practice for that. So I'll give you about a month to for the kids to have their act together and be preparing to sing us some songs on Christmas day. And let's see December 10th is the cookie exchange at the Bender Residence please bring three dozen of your best cookies. And I think it's 1130 a.m. is that correct? And they'll be celebrating her birthday that day too. No I'm just kidding. I just wanted to make her blush. Anyway let's see. December 25th December 25th is pick on juju day. No that's Christmas day. That's Christmas day and that is an altered schedule we're going to have a 10 a.m. service we're also going to have a prime rib dinner so we'll probably have to have a deal for side dishes and things like that but of course the church is going to provide the meat so and then I'll probably need people to help cook. Is there anybody that wants to help cook the roast this year? God bless you I see that hand. God has special rewards in heaven for you and you and you and you anybody else? Who? Okay well I'm not going to remember all of you anyway but you all know who you are and you need to sign up to cook the roast. We'll have two different sign ups. One to cook the roast and one for bringing sides. If you're cooking a roast I don't expect you to bring a side but if you're not then I'm just going to get you anyway. So you know dessert or side dishes so obviously you know you need to be watching those cooking videos where it like says what goes with certain things. What goes with prime rib pretty much anything but you know we'll definitely need some side dishes so anyway that'll be a great day in God's house and I just want to remind you of the Romans Road app it's an app that was developed with our church in mind and it has like a step by step presentation for people that are learning how to do soul winning so that's an app that you should if you definitely and you can learn stuff from it or just refresh yourself with it. There's the King James Bible is on there there's also preaching from our church there's preaching from other churches all of our friends and some other stuff on there but it's a really great app I recommend highly recommend you download it and start using it and then of course we have I would announce this morning the King James Conference that we're going to be having here at this church. Someone kind of mentioned to me are you going to rent a building? Well I don't know that for sure I kind of want to get together with the guys and see what they thought about maybe just cutting some holes in that back wall there and definitely getting some more chairs we'll definitely need more chairs but we can rent chairs or whatever I'm not sure how many people are going to want to come to an event like that but we can only seat 140 in the auditorium right here so we'll definitely need to do some adjusting with the seating so I'm sure people are going to want to come because it's going to be May 25th through 28th and we're going to have some really great preachers here to preach for us. Pastor Jonathan Shelley will be here on Thursday night Pastor Steven Anderson will be here on Friday night and then Pastor Mendez will be here Saturday morning to preach for us Pastor Jones will be here Sunday morning and then we're going to have a Q&A every night or after every service with each pastor and we'll probably do some fun things and Brother Steven said that he was going to do a calligraphy slash what do you call that? Offhand flourishing okay this is something I'm not familiar with but I saw the pictures of how he does things. So anyway he's donating his services to do that. Most people are going to want to probably just have like old English things written on their back or something. King James only no I'm just kidding. But he's going to brush up on you get that tat on the back King James only. Just kidding just save your emails save your stupid YouTube comments. I'm kidding. So anyway but Brother Steven he did offer to do some calligraphy stuff and I thought it would be cool to like maybe ask for your favorite Bible verse or something. He kind of was like I don't know about that but I still have the ones he did for me a couple years ago so one was Aaron Love Sherry and then the other one was just Thompson so anyway got those hanging in my fridge so that'll be cool. The conference is going to be cool we're going to probably do some stuff. I'll probably give out some King James Bibles maybe we'll have some trivia or something like that. We'll definitely have Soul Winning of course. So anyway it's going to be a great conference I'm looking forward to it and I appreciate all my pastor friends for stepping up and helping and kind of part of the conference is I want it to be like because I can't invite every pastor that I'm friends with here for the conference so what I'm hoping is that that weekend each church that's like of our same stripe or whatever would preach a sermon on the King James so we could get every church you know that you know anybody that can't be here would preach a sermon on Sunday at least one sermon in support of the conference and so maybe we could just make like this huge DVD set that has all these different types of preaching so I was hoping to get like lots of different subject matter because the King James is a big subject matter and just the Bible in general you know obviously there's Spanish Bibles that are good and King James is the only one that's good so you know if there's four in Bibles that are good I would like to see some preaching about that and I don't know I'm really excited about it and I'm definitely excited about the King James Bible always so I think it will be a good conference but anyway all the rest of this stuff I kind of already went over this morning I don't see any visitors so I'm going to skip through all the rest of this stuff we sing, do we need to sing Happy Birthday to Jolene again? 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Okay alright well let's sing another song and then we'll receive the offering alright let's open up to page 302 we're going to sing Sweet Will of God page 302 page 302 Sweet Will of God sing it on the first burn will at last hath yielded I would be thine in thine alone in this the prayer my lips are bringing Lord let in me thy will be done sweet will of God still fold me closer till I am wholly lost in me sweet will of God still fold me closer till I am wholly lost in me I'm tired of sin but sore and weary the darksome path hath dreary grown but now a light has risen to cheer me I find in thee my star my son sweet will of God still fold me closer till I am wholly lost in me sweet will of God still fold me closer till I am wholly lost in me thy precious will o conquering savior doth now embrace and compass me all discourse hush my peace a river my soul a prison bird set free sweet will of God still fold me closer till I am wholly sweet will of God still fold me closer till I am wholly lost in me shut in with thee O Lord forever my wayward be no more to roam what power from me my soul can sever the center of God's will my home sweet will of God still fold me closer till I am wholly lost in me still fold me closer till I am wholly lost in me Amen. Great singing. Brother Stephen, can you bless the offering for us? Lord God, thank you so much for bringing us back to your house, Lord. I pray that you would bless this offering and bless both the gift and the giver. It's just going to be great. Amen. Amen. Amen. Turn in your Bibles, if you would, to Exodus chapter 3, the second book in the Bible. Exodus 3. The Bible reads, Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush, and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, why the bush is not burnt. And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses, and he said, Here am I. And he said, Draw not nigh hither, put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. Moreover, he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he is afraid to look upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of My people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows, and have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey, and to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. Now, therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is, Come unto Me. And I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them. Come now, therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt. And Moses said unto God, Who am I that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt? And he said, Certainly I will be with thee, and this shall be a token unto thee that I have sent thee. When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God upon this mountain. And Moses said unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers has sent me unto you, and they shall say to me, What is his name? What shall I say unto them? And God said unto Moses, I am that I am. And he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I am, hath sent me unto you. And God said, Moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial unto all generations. Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto Me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt. And I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt unto the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hibites, and the Jebusites, unto a land flowing with milk and honey. And they shall hearken to thy voice, and thou shalt come, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye shall say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath met with us, and now let us go, we beseech thee, three days journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. And I am sure that the king of Egypt will not let you go, no, not by a mighty hand. And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders, which I will do in the midst thereof, and after that he will let you go. And I will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and it shall come to pass, that when ye go, ye shall not go empty. But every woman shall borrow of her neighbor, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment, and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters, and ye shall spoil the Egyptians. Brother Alex, would you pray for us? Amen, well it's been a few weeks since we've been in Exodus, so I started preaching a new series, and I just go away from it. So we had Pastor Menes here, and all that stuff. So if you'll remember, basically Moses has just left Egypt in the last chapter, and so now we're basically going 40 years into the future about. So Moses didn't lead the children of Israel out until he was 80 years old. So he went into the desert, remember he was 40 years old, and so we're fast forwarding time here. And verse number one, the Bible says, Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. So this is, I'm going to preach just four verses tonight, but of course you know there's going to be a lot more Bible than that in the sermon. So of course you know that, so it's just kind of a given. But this is a great chapter in the Bible, and I definitely want to cover a lot of the topics, and so the title of the sermon tonight is The Burning Bush Experience. The Burning Bush Experience. So you see that Moses is here 40 years later keeping the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law. So remember he helped feed the flock, and Jethro ended up giving his daughter to Moses, to wife, and he was the priest of Midian, and he led the flock, Moses did, to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. So the first thing I want to point out to you is, and this might not seem very important to you, but you know everything in the Bible is important. So number one, this evening I want to show you that Mount Horeb is actually Mount Sinai in the Bible. So Mount Horeb is actually Mount Sinai, so that way if you understand this then you won't be confused when it differentiates between the two names of the mountain. But Mount Horeb is where Moses is at. He took the flock to this location here, and a lot of times you'll see it called Mount Sinai, but it actually is also called Mount Horeb. Look at 1 Kings 19 verse 8, and I'm just going to quickly go through these, but I want to show you, there is a little bit of controversy about this and I don't understand why, it's pretty cut and dry to me, but 1 Corinthians excuse me, 1 Kings 19 verse 8 says, And he arose and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights, unto Horeb the mount of God. What's it say in Exodus 3, 1 where we're just at, that he came to the mountain of God, even Horeb. So this is talking about Elijah, and Elijah when he was running from Jezebel actually went to Mount Horeb, so it doesn't call it Mount Sinai either, so people could probably get confused by that, but it's the same mountain that Moses got the Ten Commandments from, right? Look at Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 2, Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 2. Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 2, the Bible says, The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. Where did he make the covenant at? Mount Horeb, but it's also called Mount Sinai isn't it? So 2 Chronicles chapter 5 verse 10, 2 Chronicles chapter 5 verse 10, if you didn't even get to Deuteronomy yet, you can just listen to, there's several verses I just want to go through really quickly. 2 Chronicles chapter 5 verse 10 says, There was nothing in the ark save the two tables which Moses put therein at Horeb when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt. So all these places are saying Horeb aren't they? But we also know in this book, in Exodus it talks it mainly calls it Mount Sinai too. Well I mean it calls it both, but look at Exodus 31 verse 18. Exodus 31 verse 18. So the place where Moses fasted was in Horeb, the place where God made the covenant with the children of Israel was Horeb, the place where the two tables and everything was put in the ark was at Horeb. Exodus 31 verse 18 it says, And he gave unto Moses when he had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone written with the finger of God. So you see how it calls it the same exact place but I mean it calls it Mount Sinai here but it also called it Mount Horeb. Alright? Psalm 106 verse 19 now I'm just beating the horse to death but I'm going to continue to beat it for a few minutes here. Psalm 106 verse 19 says they made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image. Exodus 34 verse 2 I'll have you turn, yeah just turn to Exodus 34 verse 2 and it says, And be ready in the morning and come up in the morning unto Mount Sinai and present thyself there to me in the top of the mount. Exodus 34 verse 29 same chapter there it says, It came to pass when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mount that Moses wist not, that the skin of his face shone while he talked with them. So again you might be like, well why does this matter? What is the point? Well facts matter, don't they? Things in the Bible matter, truth matters, knowing the Bible matters, doesn't it? Understanding facts about the Bible matters and it helps you understand the rest of scripture. So if you never realized that that Horeb and Mount Sinai were the same thing, well now you know that they're the same right? So those verses should help you shore those things up. Number 2 tonight, Moses was pastoring before he became a pastor. Moses was pastoring before he became a pastor. Let's look at verse number 1 again in our text it says Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro's father, the priest of Midian he led the flock, so he kept the flock and who did he keep it for? His father-in-law and then he led the flock at the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God even unto Horeb. So what is Moses' job? He's a pastor. He's pastoring sheep. I preached a whole sermon about this on Thursday night but about kind of what the responsibilities of a shepherd are but Moses, you know basically this was his job for 40 years so do you think he was pretty good at his job by this time? If you do something for 40 years you're going to be pretty good at it. And so he was actually doing something, he was being prepared to do something well before he actually took on the role of pastoring millions of people at the same time. So I mean it seems like God had to teach Moses for a long time all the intricacies of doing these things and taking care of sheep is not an easy job. Keeping the sheep is not an easy job that kind of work is called cowboy work as we would kind of call it you know people, any kind of cattle or animals that you're herding or trying to feed and take care of is a hard job. It's not an easy job. That's what Jacob's job was and it says that he lost sleep, he didn't get sleep, he was freezing at night, you know his wages were changed a bunch of times. It's not exactly an easy job you know and when they were sick or when they died or some animal killed one of his animals he had to take it had to come out of his pocket or whatever. But God seems to have a style of training people to be qualified beforehand. This is something I've noticed a lot of different times while reading through the Bible 40 years have passed. So that is time. It takes time to become a pastor. You don't just get saved and then the next thing you know a week later you're called to be the pastor. It doesn't work like that. God doesn't work like that in church in the New Testament. He didn't work like that in the Old Testament. Time has to pass. The Bible says you can't be a novice. As a pastor you just cannot be a novice. That means you have to know the Bible, you have to know what you're doing. It's not, you know people just think that being a pastor is an easy job but it's not an easy job. It's actually a really hard job. You're on the clock pretty much 24-7 and this kind of training with animals relates to what he was going to do later on with human beings. So God is putting him through this training process unbeknownst to Moses. But remember Moses he like broke free from Egypt. He didn't want to be, you know he'd rather suffer with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. He forsook Egypt didn't he? And he was trying to lead them at the point where he killed that Egyptian, buried him in the sand but then the people rejected him didn't they? They didn't really want Moses. But see it would have been too soon for Moses to take on that task. God knows what he's doing and he prepares people. So the first thing it takes to be a pastor is to have some time. You know you've got to have time doing similar type activities in order to get yourself to the point where you're able to do something like that. Because why does the Bible say that you can't be a novice? Well you can't be a novice because if you don't know the Bible and someone comes to you with a Bible question or comes to you for counsel about something or you're up trying to teach the Bible and you obviously don't know what you're talking about, people aren't going to follow somebody like that. People are not going to learn from somebody like that. So there is a preparation process for those types of things. So you know and then there's a protection that you have to learn. He had to learn to protect those sheep and to feed them to find the pastures for them to go into these green pastures and to care for them, you know clean their hooves, fleece their wool, all that kind of stuff. And you know so once he gets the experience, what happens? God calls him in the burning bush, right? And so Moses has this great experience that happens, this burning bush experience, but if you think about how Moses is like Christ, there's a lot of ways where Moses is like Christ in the book of Exodus. We'll see a lot of those things. But think about this, so Moses was 40 years old when he went to do his pasturing. He had to go do the pasturing experience and then he came back after 40 years of experience and then was able to lead the children of Israel out. Different situation, different time stamps, but think about this, Jesus was 30 years old when he began his public ministry. So didn't Jesus still have to have experience? I mean he was the son of God, he was God manifest in the flesh, he could read people's minds, he had all this power, but really the power from the Holy Spirit happened to him when he got baptized by John, right? And he was filled with the Holy Spirit without measure and then that's when he began his main public ministry, but don't you think Jesus had to learn the Bible first? Don't you think Jesus, I mean as a kid, you know, he grew in stature, he grew in knowledge, you know, but we don't really know what happened in those years where Jesus, you know, between his 12th birthday or when he was 12 years old until the time when he was 30, there's nothing written about it. Now of course these weird heretics will say, well, you know, he floated over to help, you know, train the Dalai Lama or something in these Eastern religions and, you know, the book of Thomas and, you know, there's all these things that happen, we're missing stuff out of our Bible, we're not missing anything out of the Bible, you know, we're not missing what Moses did for 40 years, he probably, you know, learned how to be a husband, learned how to be a father, learned how to, you know, train all these sheep and have them, you know, he fed them, he took care of them and he led them away into the place where they needed to go, he learned the experience and Jesus also learned experience when he, and then when he was 30 years old, he starts his public ministry. So turn to 1 Kings 19 verse 21, 1 Kings 19 verse 21, I want to show you some different scriptures where God has obviously been training someone and then he calls them in these certain situations. So 1 Kings 19, 21 says, This is talking about Elisha. So Elijah comes down from Horeb, he tells him to go ordain, basically, Elisha to be the next prophet after him and to ordain basically the king, so God asks him to do these things and then so he comes upon Elisha and he's doing what? He's doing, you know, I must have cut off the other verse here, I'm sorry, let me turn there in the book myself. So 1 Kings 19, sorry about this, 1 Kings 19, look at verse 20 actually. It says in verse 20, oh, I got, what am I doing here? Yeah, yeah, verse 19, I'm sorry, okay. So basically Elisha was, he said pass, let Elisha be the next prophet or whatever, so he finds him, throws his mantle on him, but what's he doing when he gets there? He's already working hard, isn't he? He's already plowing a field, so he's doing what? Farm work, isn't he? And so how does that translate? Well, you plow the fallow ground, you plow to prepare to make seeds and to water those things, but not only is he just planting things, he's actually working with these beasts. It says he found plowing with the 12 yoke of oxen before him and he with the 12. And Elisha passed him by and cast his mantle upon him. So the call of God came to Elisha, but what was Elisha already doing? He was already doing something that was preparing him for the ministry he was going to be in. And you know what his job was? To pour water on the hands of Elijah. So, you know, he started off slow, okay? But, you know, Elisha, when Elijah went up in the whirlwind with the chariots of fire, he said that he wanted a double portion of what Elijah was able to do, which, you know, Elijah was a great prophet of God and you know, basically, God granted that request and so in the end, Elisha did double the miracles that Elijah did. But, you know, God doesn't just call people to do great things if they're just like sitting around eating potato chips off their chest and watching sermons online or whatever. He's not going to call someone to be a pastor that's not already doing some kind of work. He's not going to call, you know, you to do great things for him if you're just lazy and not doing the work. So God is looking for people that are already, you know, on the job training and they don't even realize it. So, also so, well, okay, I got a problem here, Houston. So this happened to me this morning, but I can't have this page missing. Alright, where's my phone? My phone over there? I need my phone. Is my phone sitting over there somewhere? No? Well, that's his problem. Okay, well, so basically, I was wondering like why my notes were cut off, but it's because there's a page that didn't print in my sermon. If someone could find my phone, that would be awesome. Maybe it's on the refrigerator in there. Well, this is embarrassing. What else can we talk about? Did I bring it up here or something? It's just not in my arms reach. Is it in my office on the desk? Anyway, so the point is, is that, you know, when God is calling oh, here's, never mind, never mind, here's what happened. Alright, page three is in front of page two, so God's preparing you to be a pastor. He expects you to have your notes in order. That's the problem. Okay, sorry about that. So, anyway, I was wondering why I was in that scripture. I was like, I know that I put verse 19 in there. Why would I not put verse 19 in there? So, basically, so just cut out the last few minutes that I just was really looking stupid about how God prepares you to be a pastor, and then I totally failed. Okay, on-the-job training is what helps you get the experience you need. So, I want to give you an object lesson real quick. So, and forgive me, I'm a Gen-Xer and a lot of things revert to movie quotes and things like that, and I watched a lot of movies when I was younger and retained that stuff, but I'm not, like, trying to get you to watch a movie or anything like that, but I do want to use a movie as an object lesson. And that movie is The Karate Kid, okay? So, I'm not talking about the one with Jaden Smith, the little queer. I'm talking about Daniel LaRusso, okay? The Italian, you know, from Rosita or whatever. But anyway, so The Karate Kid, he's being bullied, and, you know, he starts, he wants to learn karate so he can defend himself against the bullies, and he finds this Japanese guy named Mr. Miyagi, and Mr. Miyagi is like a World War II veteran, okay, if you've never seen the movie. But anyway, I'm sure most people have seen the movie that are like my age, or around my age. But anyway, how does Mr. Miyagi train him? He does like some unorthodox ways of training Daniel to learn karate. What's he do? Well, the first thing he, you know, I don't know if it's the first thing, but one of the things he does is he says sand the deck, alright? So, what's he have to do? He has to get with paper and he has to, you know, do this on the deck all day long and sand this deck and prepare it to be painted, right? So, you know, he's getting, Mr. Miyagi's getting some free labor to fix up his house, Daniel's learning karate, but he doesn't realize that he's learning karate yet. So then he's like paint, you know, paint the fence, and he paints the fence up and down, right? And then he has to paint this fence, and it's like all these big, huge, you know, maintenance projects that he's doing and brand new construction. So then, so I mean free labor is pretty good, right? So he's getting all this free labor and then he has to paint that. The last thing he has to do is paint the house and he goes like side to side, but the other thing he has to do is he has to wax his cars and he has like all these old classic cars, right? Anybody know what I'm talking about? Okay. So he's wax on, wax off. He has to learn how to wax the car, wax on, wax off. So, you know, Daniel gets tired and his arms hurting or whatever and he is like I'm done with this. You're supposed to be teaching me karate and you didn't teach me anything. And then he stands in front of him and he says show me, you know, paint the fence or whatever. And he's like paint the fence, right? And then he says show me, you know, sand the deck. And he gets on his knees and he's like get up and do it that way. So, and he like has him go through all the moves that he learned to, and he doesn't realize their moves yet. He thinks it's work and he's like show me wax on, wax off. He's like wax on, wax off. And then like he's like throwing punches and like he's like blocking them like this and like this and he's like you know he's like he's blocking, you know, kicks and punches. And then like at the end he just like throws this barrage of punches and kicks up. He's like right? And so what did he learn? Well he learned it through the occupations that Mr. Miyagi was teaching him that he now knew how to block things in karate. So he was learning the defense part of karate through an unorthodox way which was you know through, you know, fixing up his house and all his cars and stuff like that. So, but that's the same way God prepares us or prepares a pastor like how he prepared Moses. How did he prepare him? Well, you know, he's like feed the sheep. You know, or you know lead the sheep in and out. In, out. You know he's just like, he's like doing all these things for 40 years or whatever. But you know all these other I'm going to show you some other people in the Bible that had this similar kind of training but you know people don't just automatically become pastor. People don't just automatically become preachers. People don't automatically become soul winners. There takes training to do those things and sometimes when we, you know, in our life we'll come across situations where God has trained us how to do something and in the Old Testament for sure God used the training of keeping animals and farming to prepare men to become leaders. So, you know, and God seems to call a lot of Old Testament prophets this way and kings and preachers. So you know when you're a shepherd your job is to keep the sheep safe, to feed them, to watch over them, keep them healthy, to shear them, etc. Who, who, what kind of guys did that? Well how about Abraham? Wasn't he a cowboy? What about Isaac? Didn't he keep flocks? What about Jacob? Yes, I already mentioned him. Joseph he did that until he was sold into slavery by his own brothers but then he still became a great leader in Egypt didn't he? And because he was keeping, he was learning to follow others even though he was forced to do it in most cases but through that following he himself became a great leader and he basically saved the whole world through his, you know, through the transactions that he did by storing a fifth of the grain, storing a fifth of the food so that when the dearth came he was able to sell to all the nations that came to him for sustenance. So God uses these kind of methods, these on the job training type methods to call great men to do great things. So also when you're a farmer what do you do? Well you plow, you plant, you water, you dung things, you protect them from the elements, you protect them from bugs, you reap, you pluck up, you thresh, you divide wheat from the chaff. There's all these different processes that are in farming. People just think that growing things is an easy thing but there is a science to it. There is ways to do it and ways to not do it. You know, when are you supposed to plant? Certain times of the year certain flowers grow, certain types of fruits and vegetables grow. There's a season for everything isn't there? But God uses people that did farm work and those things apply in our daily lives as Christians but also in soul winning and preaching. You know obviously Jesus uses a lot of farming examples in his parables. He uses a lot of keeping sheep. He talks about sheep quite a bit. Turn to Judges chapter 6 and I'm just going to show you a few great men of God that God used and when he came upon them just like when I was out of order with Elisha but there's other men. So look at Judges chapter 6 verse number 11. So Judges 6 verse number 11 you know and this guy Gideon who I'm about to talk about he was just like the poorest. His father wasn't a great man in his tribe and there was nothing really super special about him except for the fact that God saw something special in him. So you can rise from mediocre beginnings from being poor or whatever to being a great person in God's kingdom. So you don't have to be born into royalty. You don't have to be a king. You don't have to be a pastor to do great things for God. You can do great things for God just as a regular Christian. But you know when he called men to lead charges and to go against these great nations he would call someone that I think could do the job. And when he called them they were doing the job. Look at verse 11 it says and there came an angel of the Lord and sat under an oak which was an oprah and that pertained unto Joash, the Ebies, right? and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress. What is threshing wheat? Well threshing wheat is separating the wheat from the chaff so that you can get the stuff that you can make bread or whatever tortillas or whatever else you're trying to make with it. But what is he doing when he finds it? When the angel of the Lord finds him what it says, so he did it to hide from the Midianites, verse 12 and the angel of the Lord appeared unto him and said unto him, the Lord is with thee thou mighty man of valor. So he didn't go and try to pick someone that's not doing anything. See Gideon, he's hiding what he's doing but he's still working hard. Couldn't he have had the excuse well if the Philistines see me doing this, they're going to take my sustenance, they're going to I'm going to be in trouble for this, they're going to steal my stuff. It doesn't say that he came upon anybody else, nobody else is doing this. He's hiding but he's still working for the Lord even though he's hiding and he's doing something what farmers would do. He's taking the wheat and threshing it. And so I already showed you 1 Kings 19 but let's look at Amos 7, verse 14. Amos 7, verse 14 and Amos 7, 14, he's both, he's a farmer and he's like a person, like a pastor that would lead animals. Look what it says in verse 14. Then answered Amos and said to Amaziah, I was no prophet, neither was I a prophet's son, but I was an herdman and a gatherer of sycamore fruit. So not only was he a herdman but he was also, you know, he picked fruit. That's what he did. And both of those jobs are hard jobs. It says in verse 15, and the Lord took me as I followed the flock and the Lord said unto me, Go prophesy unto my people Israel. So God picked him, why? Because he was already hard working. He was already doing the job. Look at, God is not going to call you to be a pastor or some other full time worker if you're not a hard worker. He's just not going to call you. He's not going to do it. All the examples you see are people that are at least willing to answer the call and not just drag their feet. In the New Testament we see kind of a switch where it goes to fishermen. So he just, he gets these abundance of fishermen to work for him. And you know what, being a fisherman is a hard job also. I know that some of you have done leisurely fishing maybe. Has anybody done commercial fishing before? Anybody? Have you seen it done? Have you seen like in Alaska where they go on these big ships and then they like, yeah, they grab all these fish and do a big giant net and then they have to sort through them and clean them and they're working 20 hour days and it's hard. I'm sure that they weren't doing all that. But, and they weren't in Alaska, they were in a nice place, but it was a little warm. But I'm sure there's challenges to being a fisherman there too. But let's turn to Matthew chapter 4 verse 18 and we'll see where kind of God jumps from using or calling these people that are farmers and herdsmen and he starts calling these fishermen. Why? Because in the New Testament the focus is going and reaching the lost, isn't it? That's the main focus. That's the first works. That's the first thing that we're supposed to do is go out and preach the gospel. And so why not call fishermen? Because when you're going soloing it's a lot like fishing. Right? So verse 18, Matthew 4 says And Jesus walking by the sea of Galilee saw two brethren, Simon and called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea and they were fishers. So the first, these first two guys Peter and Andrew, casting a net in the sea and he saith unto them Follow me and I'll make you fishers of men. And so that's something they can relate to, right? They're fishing fish and now Jesus said if you follow me I'm going to make you fishers of men. You're going to get people saved. Verse 20 And they straightaway left their nets and followed him and going on from thence he saw other two brethren, so two other sets of brothers James the son of Zebedee and John his brother in a ship with Zebedee their father mending their nets and he called them. And they immediately left the ship and their father and followed him. So you have four of the twelve disciples are fishermen. So God is calling these hardworking trades to be his preachers, to be his emissaries to a lost and dying world and obviously, you know, God uses regular jobs too. You know, I think just the fact that if you're a man and you're working, you know, God likes that. And if you're working hard, God appreciates that. And if you're just like a lazy loaf that doesn't want to do anything, then he's going to have a hard time using you because you already won't work doing the other things, so why is he expecting you're going to work hard doing something else for him? So, and if that's you and you're just not really that hard of a worker, well just get better. Do better. You know, God always calls us to do better and greater things. You know, there's a lot of things that we can overcome in life. You know, being lazy is something that you can overcome in life, isn't it? You just learn a work ethic. You know, learn that work ethic and just put it in your mind, put it in your heart, you know, to do, you know, to be diligent in your work. You know, to labor and do the hardest work that you can do and try to learn your job the best you can. But God does use regular men. Let's turn to 1 Chronicles 21 verse 18. I just want to show you an example of someone that God used who wasn't necessarily an ordained minister, he wasn't a king or anything like that. Obviously I think that he ended up working for David in some capacity but, you know, David probably saw what God saw in this man and, you know, obviously God blessed this man. 1 Chronicles 21 verse 18 says, And when he spake in the name of the Lord, and Ornan turned back and saw the angel and his four sons with him hid themselves, now Ornan was, what was he doing? Threshing wheat. He's working. So isn't it strange how you just see all these different things where these men are already doing the work, they're already working hard and then God just comes and shows himself and reveals himself to them. Ornan was threshing wheat and David came to Ornan. Ornan looked and saw David and went out of the threshing floor and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground. And David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this threshing floor that I may build an altar there unto the Lord. Thou shalt grant it me for the full price that the plague may be stayed from the people. And Ornan said unto David, Take it to thee and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Lo, I give thee the oxen also for the burnt offerings and the threshing instruments for the wood and the wheat for the meat offering. I give it all. So what was Ornan's, what was his manner? Well, he's working hard. He sees that there's a need. David's asking him to make his sacrifice but also to sell the things for the sacrifice. So David's like, he basically says to him, I'm not gonna make a sacrifice without paying for it. But I just want you to see Ornan's attitude. So David's his king and he's a Jebusite by the way. He's not an Israelite. He's a Jebusite. And he says, Take it to thee. He's got what? A giving attitude. And he says, Let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. He also is willing to follow that leadership in whatever he sees fit to do. And it says, Lo, I give. So he has a very giving attitude. He's willing to give all of his stuff away for nothing. He says even at the end here, I give it all. And so God will use just regular people that want to do great things for him but you know, obviously, you know, he's gonna, he wants to pick and use people that are already doing the work. They're already you know, working hard and love the Lord. So you know, obviously, modern day, if you want to apply this to people that would like become pastors or leaders in some way or just leaders within the church. You don't even have to be a pastor to be a leader. There's a lot of leadership availabilities in our church. And there's a lot of men here that like to lead and do things and they do a great job. You know, they preach when I need them to. They, you know, bring stuff in that I need them to. They do the offerings. They count. They take all the money to the bank. They do all kinds of things. But then we also have a lot of ladies that are doing a lot of things here too. You know, cleaning up and helping out and just, we have a working church and God wants to use people that want to work. And so, you know, you're like, well maybe, you know, maybe it's not such a classy thing that I'm doing or maybe it's not, you know, it's a menial task or something. Who cares? You know, because God is going to reward you for the great things that you're doing even if it does seem like a menial task. Because every task needs to be done, doesn't it? And if someone's not doing it, then the work's not going to get done. So God needs us all to do something pitch in and work. But modern day leadership jobs would be, you know, like, I don't know, there was other people that got put into leadership that were not necessarily in these categories that I mentioned. Like Matthew was a tax collector. You know, that doesn't translate super good. But you know, maybe he was good at collecting ties after that. I don't know. But Paul was a Pharisee. So he, you know, if someone's book smart, they're still a hard worker. They're just working hard in whatever you know, book smart thing that they're doing. But he was also very zealous in his physical labor too. You know, he was a tent maker. I'm sure that wasn't an easy job. And he learned that trade probably before he became the Apostle Paul. Right? And so you know, obviously God's willing to use anything that you do, but you know, the key point is that he's going to use people that work hard. Okay? So, and here's the other thing is that you must be a good follower before you can become a good leader. You must be a good follower before you can become a good leader. Look at Luke chapter 16. Luke chapter 16, verse number 10. Luke chapter 16, verse number 10. So you've got to be a good follower before you can be a great leader. You've got to be faithful in the small things and God will bless you with the big things. He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. So this is Jesus talking here, right? So is what I've said in agreeance with what Jesus says? Yeah, because he's looking for people that are willing to just be faithful in the smallest matters and then he's going to use them in the big matters because if they can be faithful in the smallest matters, then they can be faithful in the biggest matters. But if you're unjust in much, you're going to or unjust in little, you're going to be unjust in much. So you can't say, well, if I just got the opportunity, I'd do a lot better. No. If you already weren't doing it when it was a menial task, how's he going to, how are you going to expect him to do something greater when he can't be faithful in the smallest things? Look at verse 11, if therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches? And, you know, mammon is just like things, stuff, you know, money. And it says if you can't be faithful in that, who's going to commit to the true, to your trust the true riches? What are the true riches? Things that are eternal. Souls, you know, great works for God that last forever. You know, leading the kingdom of God in some way, shape, or form. Or just being a faithful member in church that God blesses because you're doing a lot of great things in the local church for God. Look at verse 12, it says, if you have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who can give you that which is your own? No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he'll hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. So here's another lesson for people that want to serve God. If you're like having this fight, you know, because we have a fight between our soul and our flesh, you know, your soul, I mean, the new man against the old man, the new man is always fighting against the old man. But you can also have these types of fights with, you know, the things in this world. The things in this world, like, would represent like worldly things, but like, some people just think, well I've got to make all this money and then I can serve God. That's not the right way to look at it. If you, you know, if God's going to give you the things that you need, he's going to provide for you what you need to get through in this life, and really, I mean, getting rich should not be a motivation for a Christian. I'm not saying if you are rich that that's wrong. I'm just saying that that shouldn't be your motivation as a Christian. You can't serve both things. You're either going to have to serve God or serve money. Serve God or serve your things. You know, you cannot serve God and mammon at the same time. Now obviously there's balances to everything. You have to live. I mean, it's not cheap to live in this area. I know that for sure. And, you know, it's really tough because we preach that, you know, ladies should stay home and take care of the house and that men should go out and work. So that puts an extra amount of pressure on the men because you're having to work more because, I mean, if you want to get what the median household income is, what were you saying it was? $73,000 for the median income in this area in Vancouver is the median income. But that's what two people and one person, I think, was it men? It's $35 per person. $35 per person. So I guess there is equal pay. So anyway, that's another sermon. But think about that. But can a household live off of that much? Well, little is much when God is in it. You know, and you're like, well, I don't understand how I can afford to do this, you know, tithe and do all the things you know, do all this extra stuff. You're asking me to drive two and a half hours to, you know, Eatonville for, you know, how can I afford this? The gas prices are $5 a gallon. Look, God is going to take care of us. You know, the world out there could be going through a dearth. The world out there could be going through all these problems, but you know what? God's still going to take care of us, you know. But if you get off track and you're just like, well, I got to do something different. Well, you're just allowing the world to worry you and the things and the riches of this world will choke you and you'll become unfruitful. So, you know, we can't serve both things. We either have to serve God or we have to serve mammon. And mammon, again, is things, money, all these other extra things. But, you know, God is going to reward us one day and, you know, it's hard for us because we can't see those things. We have to look through our eyes of faith of the things that God has in store for us but much greater things than we have here. You know, people chase the almighty dollar, the American dream, the picket fence with the four bedroom house and the two and a half dogs and the two and a half kids. It might be one and a half kids now or whatever it is. But, you know, instead of living the American dream, why don't you try to live the kingdom dream, which is, you know, storing up things in heaven for later on and obviously you still have the, God's still going to bless you in all the other stuff you do but you just got to put him first. That's the difference. And, like, it doesn't work out mathematically for us, does it? It's hard to fathom all these things but, you know, God will do it for you. That's the thing. So, if you're willing to serve him, he's going to provide for you. Right? So turn to Jeremiah chapter 12 verse 5. Jeremiah chapter 12 verse 5. So I talked about how, you know, Jesus isn't going to commit these great things to you if you can't be faithful in the little things that he gives you to do. But, in Jeremiah chapter 12 verse 5, there's a great scripture here and it kind of poses these couple questions here. It says, if thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, how canst thou contend with horses? How are you going to be able to beat a horse in a race if you can't even beat the other people that are human beings next to you? So if you aspire to, what's it saying? So, like, if you aspire to do these great things for God and you can't even do the littlest things, you can't beat the people that are next to you that are human beings and you're trying to, you know, contending against a horse is a hard job, isn't it? Anybody ever raced a horse before? Human beings can beat horses over long distances but you still have to train to do that. And I'm sure it's not easy, but it also says that if in the land of peace where in thou trustedest they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan? Like, when the hard times hit, when the floods come of life, if you can't do it when it's easy, you're not going to be able to do it when it's hard. And you know what? There's hard times coming and are you going to be able to get through them? Are you going to be able to you know, if you're not doing the work now, when it's hard to go soul winning I mean, yeah, it's hard to go in the rain. It's hard to go in the cold. I get that. But I'm talking about when they're saying, you can't do this anymore. You can't go soul winning. You can't meet in the building. You can't, whatever it is that they're going to try to throw at us, you can't preach this. You can't preach that. You know, times are going to get harder. Right now it's easy to do, so if you feel like you're going to do great things in the tribulation or whatever if it comes in our time, then how are you going to do great things in the tribulation if you're not even doing the little things right now? We're going to do great exploits, brother, in the tribulation. It's like, do you go soul winning now? No, but you know, I'm going to do it. No, you're not. You're going to fold like a cheap chair. You're going to go hide in some cave. You're going to take your MREs and your machine guns and go hide in a cave or something, and guess what? They're going to find you. And they're probably going to send a drone to kill you. I mean, you're not going to be able to escape. The only way we're going to be able to escape the things is if we're doing what God said to do. And maybe the drones won't find you. Maybe the military people won't find you. Or maybe you just have, you know, you have great boldness because you had it before and then you're not going to be so afraid to have boldness when you have to have it because it's your life is on the line. So, you know, to be good leaders, you have to first become a good follower. To do great things, great things, great works for God, you're going to have to do little works for God first. Does that make sense? Joshua was just the minister of Moses. And then what happened to Joshua? He became a man worth following. He became a great man of God. And the children of Israel followed him to the day he died. They didn't do that with Moses, did they? But that's just, you know, and obviously Moses was a great leader himself. I'm not trying to take anything away from him, obviously, but, you know, he learned from Moses and probably learned maybe some of the things. Because Moses had a hot temper and that's what got him in trouble a lot. You know, striking the rock when he was supposed to, you know, talk to it. You know, breaking the Ten Commandments and, you know, making people eat powdered gold and whatever else. He'd get mad and he would cloud up and rain on people. But Elisha was a minister to Elijah. He washed his hands. That's how he started out and then he did double the miracles. See, they were faithful in the little things. Just ministering to these men of God and then God used them to do great things afterwards because they were already faithful in the little things first. Gehazi, bad example of a follower. You know, he told them to do one thing and he's like, I'm going to get some talents of silver and some talents of gold and all these different changes of clothes because he was tempted because he wanted the worldly things. And so he became a leper until his death and he was not, you know, a faithful servant like he was supposed to be. Last thing here, let's go back to our text in Exodus chapter 3 verse 2. I know it went on for a long time there. But last thing is when God called Moses answered. See, the title of the sermon is The Burning Bush Experience. So, what was your burning bush experience? Did you have a burning, I mean obviously not a literal burning bush experience. I'm talking about the time when God set you on fire. The sermon that you heard that changed something in your life so much that you said, you know what, I'm done going to these weak churches or I'm going to change this about myself. You know, something changed in Moses that day and changed him into the man that he became. He had already trained up to do all those things and he was already ready to go and even though he was a little bit hesitant he still did answer the call of God, didn't he? Look at verse 2 it says, And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. And he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed. That'd be a strange thing to see. And Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt. So, it's on fire but it's not consuming. The leaves are not, you know, going up in flames. What happens when a bush catches on fire, all the leaves dry out and burn up and everything burns to a crisp, right? But that's not what's happening here. So, the picture of the burning bush reminds me of a lot in the book of Acts when the Holy Spirit of God was poured out upon the people at Pentecost and the cloven tongues were upon their heads, right? The cloven tongues and so that was a symbol of the Holy Spirit of God resting upon those men and those men went out and preached and got a bunch of people saved and they, you know, spoke with other tongues and whatnot and that was, you know, Jesus said that he was going to pour the Holy Spirit upon everybody after, you know, he went up to heaven and then the day of Pentecost, the Holy Spirit would empower them to do great miracles and great things for God. So, Moses sees something, he sees you know, obviously the cloven tongues were upon their head but they didn't burn up. So, God, you know, basically, you know, the Bible says that God's a consuming fire. So, he is going to consume those that need to be consumed. You know, hell is stoked by the breath of God but, you know, he's also going to put people on fire and they won't be consumed. So, that's a picture of the Holy Spirit firing you up, getting you fired up and being filled with the Holy Spirit. So, yet, so, Moses is seeing this bush and it's like a picture of the Holy Spirit, you know, something being on fire and not being consumed and that's what God wants us to be, right? Turn to Romans chapter 12 verse number 1 and, you know, I'm going to the well here again. I think I've preached this verse quite a few times recently but it's a great verse. It's something that God expects from us and Moses, was Moses truly a man on fire after this burning bush experience? Didn't he go all the way back to Egypt into a place where he was an outlaw basically for murdering somebody and burying them in the sand? You know, he's going back there like, you know, what am I going to do? What should I say? You know, he doesn't even know what he's going to say. And God tells him what to say and what to do and what the power he's going to give him and, you know, he'll explain it more in the next chapter but we've got one more sermon out of this chapter but anyway, the burning bush experience is basically, in my mind, the moment that God sets you on fire to serve him. And my question would be, have you had that experience? Have you had that experience or has your fire been quenched? Because, you know, I can think back in times where God really fired me up but like if you don't, if you don't, you know, go with that and continue in that being on fire, then your fire will get lower. What happens when you set a fire at first? It's blazing and everything and eventually it kind of goes out but you've got to put more wood, you've got to put more fuel on it to make that fire go. Look at Romans 12 where it had to turn, it said, I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice. What kind of sacrifice? A living sacrifice. You know, where you're on fire for God but you're not consumed by that fire. Holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. And so God expects you to do these things, he wants you to be a living sacrifice for him. Holy, set apart, acceptable unto God. You know, a sacrifice that he's pleased with, right? And so it says, be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you may prove that, excuse me, prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So God's okay with us proving things, he's, you know, but he wants us to renew our mind with what, the Bible? You know, we can't just keep living our life day after day on that initial fuel. See, don't we need fuel every day? Don't we have to eat every day to live pretty much? I mean, obviously you can go three weeks or whatever without food and you can still live. But we definitely, if you're going to be doing some kind of strenuous activity, you know, I wouldn't suggest, you know, fasting before doing a marathon. You're going to need some fuel because you're going to burn a lot of calories. So we need to consume fuel in order to continue to go, right? And so we need to also consume the bread of the Word of God to sustain us every single day of our lives and, you know, if we let that run dry or we're not eating, you know, God's Word every day, it's going to be hard to transform your mind when everything else going into it is wicked. Right? So we need to prove what is good. We need to prove what's acceptable and the perfect will of God. Turn back to our Exodus chapter 3 verse 4 where it says, And when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses, and what did he say? Here am I. So Moses heard the call of God, he looked to see what was going on with this bush, and then God called him. But see, this day was a long time coming with Moses. Moses didn't know it. Moses was just like, I'm just leading the sheep out to the edge of the wilderness by this mountain like I always do. But something special happened to them that day. And God said, you know what, today's the day. Moses is ready, I'm going to call out to him, and, you know, hopefully he answers. Right? Matthew 22 verse 14 is the last verse I'll have you turn to and we'll be done. Matthew 22 verse 14. See, you say, well, you know, Moses didn't really have a choice. Yeah he did. We're not Calvinists here. Everybody has a choice. God calls every single person in this room to be saved. He calls every single person in this room to serve him in some way, shape, or form. You might not be the pastor, but you might just be a soul winner. You know, you might just be, you know, someone that just wants to do great works for God no matter what the job is. But God is going to call you. And you might, it might not be a burning bush that you see, but maybe it's just a burning, red-hot sermon that you hear. Maybe it's just something in the Bible that you didn't see before and you're like, hey, I've got to obey this. I've got to follow what this is saying. Hey, I understand this now. You might not have the burning bush, so to speak, experience like Moses did, but what is the answer to the question when God calls you for something? Obviously, to be saved, it's easy. You just believe on Christ. But, like, when he wants you to work for him, you know, what's your answer going to be? Is it going to be, here am I, or pick somebody else? Or, I don't have time for that right now. I've got to make money. I've got to do this. I've got to do that. I just can't do it right now. No, you can do it right now, and you should do it when you're called into that action. And I'm not saying that God's going to audibly talk to you from the sky. That's not going to happen. You know how he's going to talk to you through this book right here. He's going to say something to you through the Word of God, but if you're starving yourself of fuel, how can you be on fire if you don't even have the fuel for the fire? If you're saved today, read your Bible, and God's going to show you wondrous things out of his law, and he's going to teach you how to live your life. He's going to teach you what he wants you to do. There's only so many things that God wants us doing, and the number one thing is to get out there and win some souls. But, man, it could be for you to be a pastor. It could be for you to be a preacher someday. Or for somebody that hasn't actually gone soul winning or still is not giving the gospel. Hey, why don't you push yourself to get the gospel out to people. So, what did I have you turn to? Matthew 22 verse 14. Look what it says. For many are called but few are chosen. Many are called but few are chosen. And I would say this, that God has called everybody in this room to do something, but have you answered the call? Now, obviously, salvation is a different story, but if God calls you for salvation, you know, he's calling everybody for salvation. But what about to serve him? What about to serve him in some capacity? He's going to call you, but will you answer the call like Moses said, here am I? Like Samuel said, speak Lord, for thy servant heareth. You know, whatever it is, these men were already doing something great or already working hard and God just blessed them for what they were already doing. So, my burning bush experience might be different than your burning bush experience, but what was yours? Have you had it yet? What is God calling you to do? Let's pray. Lord, we thank you so much for the scriptures. We thank you so much for Exodus chapter 3. What a great passage of scripture, Lord. I pray you'd help us all to, Lord, live our lives as a living sacrifice for you, Lord. I pray that you would like, Lord, just catch us on fire. And Lord, that we wouldn't be consumed, but that we'd be consumed in another way, consumed with serving you and loving you and doing what you say. And I pray that you just bless this church and bless us as we go our separate ways. Protect us on the road. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. The last song, page 15 in her green hymn books. Page 15, lead me to Calvary. Page 15, lead me to Calvary. Sing it out loud on the first. King of my life, I crown thee now. Thine shall the glory be. Lest I forget thy thorn, crown, brown. Lead me to Calvary. Lest I forget Gethsemane. Lest I forget thine ache. Lest I forget thy love for me. Lead me to Calvary. Show me the tomb where thou was slain. Tenderly morn and wept. Angels and robes of white array. Guarded thee whilst thou slept. Lest I forget Gethsemane. Lest I forget thine agony. Lest I forget thy love for me. Lead me to Calvary on the third. Lead me like Mary through the gloom. Come with a gift to thee. Show to me now the empty tomb. Lead me to Calvary. Lest I forget Gethsemane. Lest I forget thine agony. Lest I forget thy love for me. Lead me to Calvary on the last. May I be willing, Lord, to bear daily my cross for thee. Even thy cup of grief to share. Thou hast borne all for me. Lest I forget Gethsemane. Lest I forget thine agony. Lest I forget thy love for me. Lead me to Calvary. Amen. Great singing this evening. Thank you for attending our services today. I'd like to see you next week, next Sunday. Until next time, you want to end us with a word of prayer. Amen.