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BEACH RETREAT | "Go and Make Disciples" | Speaker Keegan Lowry | September 20, 2026 · Wesley at FSU & TSC

• 1:00
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, now.
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: I need like five people.
• 1:05
  SPEAKER_00: What are our favorite things that has happened in this retreat?
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Seals.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, yes.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, okay, I like it.
• 1:26
  SPEAKER_00: Smaller.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Brian's moving yes.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: Any two more.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, Tip.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: Worship last night was banger.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: Worship last night was banger indeed, yes.
• 1:37
  SPEAKER_00: One more.
• 1:39
  unknown: Yes.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: Volleyball on the beach.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: Volleyball on the beach.
• 1:41
  SPEAKER_00: Brian joined.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: It was fire.
• 1:43
  SPEAKER_00: It was indeed fire.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 1:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
• 1:49
  SPEAKER_00: For this weekend, that we get to recenter, that we get to focus more on you.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: We get to build intentional relationships where the whole point is learning to grow closer together in hopes that we can grow closer to you as well.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you that we know that we're seen by you and we're we're claimed by you.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: And today that we are not just claimed and seen, but we you are with us as we go out and do your work.
• 2:14
  SPEAKER_00: So I just thank you for all the joy that you brought us in your son's name.
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.
• 2:19
  SPEAKER_00: So I the the word calling, the first thing that came to mind, I think this is our generation.
• 2:25
  SPEAKER_00: We don't like phone calls.
• 2:27
  SPEAKER_00: Like, am I the only one?
• 2:29
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone else?
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's a lot less people than I was expecting.
• 2:33
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, that's crazy.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: Like in high school, I would not pick up my phone so much that my dad literally had an app that he could ring my phone and it would make an alarm that only he could turn off.
• 2:45
  SPEAKER_00: And I'll tell you, it was funny.
• 2:47
  SPEAKER_00: It was funny the first time until like at soccer practice, I would hear my bag from across the field, and I'd I just have to act like it wasn't me.
• 2:54
  SPEAKER_00: The same thing happened in school.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: Like, yeah, I know.
• 2:58
  SPEAKER_00: It was embarrassing.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: I'd be I was in A Push, and that's like a serious class.
• 3:03
  SPEAKER_00: And my my dad just rings the phone.
• 3:06
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, he knows I'm in school.
• 3:08
  SPEAKER_00: Like I thought he was just messing with me.
• 3:11
  SPEAKER_00: But I think there's something about that that I find really interesting.
• 3:15
  SPEAKER_00: For me, it's like a hesitation when I get a phone call.
• 3:17
  SPEAKER_00: It's like, do I answer this?
• 3:19
  SPEAKER_00: Do I want to?
• 3:21
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of times I don't.
• 3:23
  SPEAKER_00: But a lot of times I do as well.
• 3:25
  SPEAKER_00: There's been lots of times that's paid off.
• 3:27
  SPEAKER_00: Um, so today we're gonna talk about Moses and Moses' uh hesitation, but then the fact that God is with him through it.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: So we'll read um Exodus chapter 3, verses 1 through 12.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: Moses was taking care of his flock for his father-in-law Jethro, the Midian priest.
• 3:46
  SPEAKER_00: He led his flock out to the edge of the desert, and he came to God's mound called Hereb.
• 3:51
  SPEAKER_00: The Lord's messenger appeared to him in a flame of fire in the middle of a bush that didn't burn up.
• 3:55
  SPEAKER_00: Then Moses said to himself, Let me check out this amazing site and find out why this bush isn't burning.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: I would do that too.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: When the Lord saw that he was coming to look, God called to him out of the bush and said, Moses, Moses, Moses said, I'm here.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord said, Don't come any closer.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Take off your sandals because you're standing on holy ground.
• 4:13
  SPEAKER_00: He continued, I'm the God of your father, Abraham's God, Isaac's God, and Jacob's God.
• 4:18
  SPEAKER_00: Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_00: Then the Lord said, I've clearly seen my people oppressed in Egypt.
• 4:25
  SPEAKER_00: I've heard their cry of injustice because of their slave masters.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: I know about their pain.
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_00: I've come down to rescue them from the Egyptians in order to take them out of their land and bring them to a good and broad land, a land that's full of milk and honey, a place where the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebazites all live.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_00: Now the Israelites, cries of injustice have reached me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've seen just how much the Egyptians have oppressed them.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: So get going.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: I'm sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: But Moses said to God, Who am I?
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: Who am I to go to Pharaoh and to bring the Israelites out of Egypt?
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: God said, I'll be with you, and this will show you that I'm the one who sent you.
• 5:07
  SPEAKER_00: After you bring the people out of Egypt, you will come back here and worship me on this mountain.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: Man, who am I?
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: I think that's something.
• 5:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's something a lot of us have probably felt.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like the imposter syndrome, who am I that I should do this?
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: If we look closely though, Moses doesn't just stop there.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: If in into Exodus 4, he he he goes five times.
• 5:31
  SPEAKER_00: The guy's like, do this.
• 5:32
  SPEAKER_00: He's like, nah, bro, no.
• 5:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's five times.
• 5:36
  SPEAKER_00: The first one is who am I?
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh?
• 5:39
  SPEAKER_00: The second one, whom shall I say sent me?
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_00: Third, what if they don't believe me?
• 5:46
  SPEAKER_00: Fourth, I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.
• 5:50
  SPEAKER_00: And lastly, just please send someone else.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_00: Not me.
• 5:56
  SPEAKER_00: Send someone else.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: If you know a lot about Moses, which I thought I did, but I was wrong.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: Um like when I was in Sunday school, it's like it really was God Jesus Moses.
• 6:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like that was the way that I just pictured it.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: And I've reread like Exodus a few times, but I think that part is just like so ingrained in my brain that when I read this, and like the first part of Moses' story is he kills someone, I was like, whoa, that's crazy.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: Like it it shows the continuation that we see later.
• 6:26
  SPEAKER_00: But here it's it's it's hesitation.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: It's saying, no, no, that's not that's not for me.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's not me.
• 6:35
  SPEAKER_00: And so I want to break down what these hesitations mean because I I think what's happening isn't necessarily very relevant, but but what he's saying in the meaning is it's very relevant today.
• 6:47
  SPEAKER_00: The first question he it's identity.
• 6:49
  SPEAKER_00: Who am I that I'm worthy, or who am I that I should be able to do that?
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: And especially knowing that man, Moses murdered someone, and that's that's the person God uses.
• 7:01
  SPEAKER_00: The second one, he needs credibility, he needs something to point to because he's not enough, and he he knows that.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: Third, what if they don't believe me?
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: That sounds a lot, a lot like fear of rejection.
• 7:16
  SPEAKER_00: Sounds like I don't want to be rejected.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_00: They're they're not gonna believe me.
• 7:19
  SPEAKER_00: They don't want to listen to me.
• 7:21
  SPEAKER_00: This one's I'm slow of speech and slow of talking.
• 7:26
  SPEAKER_00: That's not just something that like a general statement.
• 7:29
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's that's pretty personal.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like it, that's an inadequacy that Moses knows that he has.
• 7:52
  SPEAKER_00: So, for some of you that know me, um, I grew up in a church.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: My dad was a church planner um of the Nazarene church.
• 8:00
  SPEAKER_00: And so when I was two months old, my family moved to Fort Worth, Texas, to plant a church called Catalyst.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's really great.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_00: But when you the one thing about church planning that I think is different than just like ministerial work, the whole family's involved.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: Like, there's no there's no time for daycare.
• 8:19
  SPEAKER_00: Your dad's preaching, my mom was in the worship band.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that was where I lived.
• 8:23
  SPEAKER_00: If I could tell you, like ages one through eight, I was either at soccer, my house, which I I don't even remember my house.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: I remember that I had this really cool dog and a green door.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I remember about the house.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's it.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then I remember the church.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I remember the church more than I remember my house.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: And so the the church just felt like home.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: It always did.
• 8:44
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was the place I it literally I remember it more than my house.
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_00: And so then we moved, we moved here, uh, Newbury, Florida, just outside of Gainesville.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it's okay.
• 8:56
  SPEAKER_00: Go to Holmes, yes.
• 8:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and my dad, yeah, church planning is hard.
• 9:02
  SPEAKER_00: So he kind of wanted to get out of ministry.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_00: It it was just so much work, uh, and he didn't feel like it was right for him anymore.
• 9:09
  SPEAKER_00: But the problem is when that's all you've done, it's really hard to get out.
• 9:13
  SPEAKER_00: And so so he goes, um, he's trying to be a PE teacher, and eventually he lands on this children's uh children's pastor job at Grace and I Methodist in uh Jonesville, Florida.
• 9:27
  SPEAKER_00: So it's that's where I met Matt, by the way.
• 9:29
  SPEAKER_00: Also, um, it's this it was a pretty big church, and my dad worked his way up to being the associate pastor, um, which he was there for a few years, and at the end, um there was a disaffiliation in my dad.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: He kind of got pushed out in a really weird way.
• 9:46
  SPEAKER_00: It was it was the fact that he was not United Methodist ordained, he was Nazarene ordained, they didn't have any power over the situation either.
• 9:54
  SPEAKER_00: So so to me, the church said it always felt like home, the church that that continuation from Catalyst to Grace, it felt seamless.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: Like I was at home again.
• 10:06
  SPEAKER_00: And then in like two days, I had no home.
• 10:10
  SPEAKER_00: Like we left, we kind of got pushed out, it was it was a little bit shady.
• 10:13
  SPEAKER_00: But so in that time, it got political.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: So in that time, I learned like, man, that's crazy how quickly that can just change.
• 10:26
  SPEAKER_00: And it scared me.
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_00: It scared me still to this day, like how quickly things can just turn around, and suddenly it's it's kind of like you don't belong somewhere that you you loved and you lived.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: And that I think I started to feel a calling a few years back, a calling into helping other people.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_00: I always loved religion.
• 10:47
  SPEAKER_00: So loving Christianity and then feeling a calling, it felt very natural to be like, oh, I could be a pastor.
• 10:55
  SPEAKER_00: But then I was like, no, like there's no way that I'm gonna fall into the same trap that my dad.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
• 11:02
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy, man.
• 11:03
  SPEAKER_00: So I ended up uh, if you knew last year, does anyone know what my major was last year when I came in?
• 11:10
  SPEAKER_00: This is a civil engineering.
• 11:14
  SPEAKER_00: Civil engineering.
• 11:15
  SPEAKER_00: I was a civil engineering major.
• 11:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know something crazy?
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: I hate math.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: Like, math is like fine, but I'm not a fan.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: And so I I've been like fighting this like calling.
• 11:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so I thought, I think at first I read Moses and I was like, bro, this guy's lame.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like, bro, he's lame.
• 11:35
  SPEAKER_00: And then I was like, oh, wait.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, I connect a little bit too deeply to Moses.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: Like, like, one, I felt a lot of of who am I that God would use me after this happened to me.
• 11:47
  SPEAKER_00: Who who am I that that would happen?
• 11:51
  SPEAKER_00: Who should I say sent me?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: I don't have any authority.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'm young.
• 11:54
  SPEAKER_00: I there's no authority.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: Man, they probably won't believe me.
• 11:59
  SPEAKER_00: They pr they're probably just gonna think I'm a crazy person that has no idea what the sometimes true.
• 12:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but the fourth one, I'm slow as speech.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: This one is so interesting to me.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: I have so many inadequacies.
• 12:10
  SPEAKER_00: I know them.
• 12:11
  SPEAKER_00: I know them.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: Man, but it's not about me.
• 12:17
  SPEAKER_00: That's that's the part that I think Moses eventually learns.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's not about him.
• 12:21
  SPEAKER_00: There's no you know what happens?
• 12:23
  SPEAKER_00: God says, I'm with you.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: I will be with you as you do this uncomfortable thing.
• 12:30
  SPEAKER_00: I think a lot of times, presence, like God's presence, it feels like comfortability.
• 12:35
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's what we picture it as.
• 12:38
  SPEAKER_00: I I think that's incomplete, right?
• 12:41
  SPEAKER_00: I think that presence presence doesn't mean that we're comfortable.
• 12:46
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I think it means we're uncomfortable a lot of the time.
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: When Moses goes on with all those objections and those hesitations, God says, Who whom shall I he shows signs, the rod, he throws the rod down, turns into a snake.
• 13:01
  SPEAKER_00: That's crazy, picks it back up, it's a rod again.
• 13:03
  SPEAKER_00: Wow.
• 13:04
  SPEAKER_00: And with the fourth one, he's he gives him Aaron.
• 13:07
  SPEAKER_00: He equips, he equips, but he equips after the call.
• 13:11
  SPEAKER_00: So the the call happens, the bush, and then we see we see Moses get Aaron, who's going to be a spokesperson, and then we see all these signs.
• 13:23
  SPEAKER_00: That tells me that the presence isn't instead of equipping.
• 13:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's not.
• 13:29
  SPEAKER_00: But rather that that it's the source of it, right?
• 13:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like the presence is what equips us.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's not that Moses was suddenly not slow, like God never even argued that.
• 13:43
  SPEAKER_00: He never was like, No, you're wrong.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: He just proved that he could he could fix it.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: That was God's work.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't, it doesn't matter what you do, Moses.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: You're being used by God.
• 13:55
  SPEAKER_00: And so it produces what the moment Moses wasn't, he really was not qualified, if we think about it, but none of us are.
• 14:02
  SPEAKER_00: He wasn't equipped when he was called.
• 14:05
  SPEAKER_00: Really, the only thing he'd done was murder someone.
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: That's I mean, and he ran away and then he came back.
• 14:13
  SPEAKER_00: The presence was what supplied what he needed.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: That's all it was.
• 14:18
  SPEAKER_00: So this connects this connects to Jesus.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I think Jesus does it right, right?
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm a big I'm a big fan of the gospels because I think we can learn a lot about how we can try to act um closer to Jesus.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: So we're gonna be in Luke.
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  SPEAKER_00: Luke chapter 22.
• 14:41
  SPEAKER_00: There we go.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_00: So this is the story of Gus 7.
• 14:45
  SPEAKER_00: Um it starts.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: He withdrew from yeah, where do we start?
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: 39.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 14:53
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus left and made his way to the Mount of Olives.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: As he was, as was his custom, and the disciples followed him.
• 14:58
  SPEAKER_00: When he arrived, he said to them, Pray that you won't give in to temptation.
• 15:01
  SPEAKER_00: He withdrew from them about a stone's throat, knelt down, and prayed.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Father, if it's your will, take this cup of stir suffering away from me.
• 15:11
  SPEAKER_00: However, not my will, but your will be done.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: Then a heavenly angel appeared to him and strengthened him.
• 15:18
  SPEAKER_00: He wasn't in angu he was in anguish and prayed even more earnestly.
• 15:23
  SPEAKER_00: His sweat became like drops of blood.
• 15:25
  unknown: Blood.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: His sweat became like drops of blood.
• 15:32
  SPEAKER_00: But Jesus hesitates, right?
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: He he said, not if there's any way, please don't let this happen.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: They hesitate for different reasons, yes.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: Moses Moses hesitates because he is unqualified.
• 15:48
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus is certainly not unqualified.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus hesitates because he knows what's ahead.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: He knows what's gonna happen, and he knows the pain that he's going to be.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: He knows all this stuff, and he can see the cost, and he he's asking, he's asking if he can get out of it.
• 16:05
  SPEAKER_00: If if possible, let the cup pass.
• 16:10
  SPEAKER_00: But notice where's the presence?
• 16:12
  SPEAKER_00: The angel that comes and strengthens him.
• 16:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's not like he nothing happens.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: No, the angel comes.
• 16:19
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't take away, that doesn't take away from the fact that he's gonna still die on the cross and rose.
• 16:25
  SPEAKER_00: That doesn't change that.
• 16:28
  SPEAKER_00: But presence isn't showing up to take away the hard things in our life, it's just giving us the ability to get through them with God's help.
• 16:37
  SPEAKER_00: But this is important.
• 16:38
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus hesitates.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_00: So if his hesitation, it's not, it's not evidence that you're failing or you're not faithful enough, or I don't know, you just don't read your Bible.
• 16:48
  SPEAKER_00: That's not what it's about.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: The problem isn't with the hesit the hesitation at all.
• 16:54
  SPEAKER_00: Moses gets grace upon grace for his hesitation until he says, someone else.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: It's not me.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: God gets a little bit frustrated with it's not him.
• 17:02
  SPEAKER_00: The flat refusal, it shows that he wasn't gonna wrestle with it.
• 17:06
  SPEAKER_00: The wrestling, wrestling with a call is not the same as refusing.
• 17:11
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think, I mean, man.
• 17:15
  SPEAKER_00: And so now calling.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_00: A lot of times, I hear calling used as it's just for pastors.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: Like, that's a big word for I'm gonna go preach.
• 17:28
  SPEAKER_00: Like, it's not a big that big of a word, but it's a little bit bigger word than preach.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: And so it carries a lot of baggage.
• 17:35
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I don't hear many people that are like going into to be a doctor saying that like this is my calling.
• 17:41
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I necessarily hear that.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_00: Man, I don't think it's something you're always gonna feel certain about.
• 17:48
  SPEAKER_00: I think it's gonna be something that that there's a tug here and there that this is what you're really supposed to be doing.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: And so here is my favorite way of saying what a calling is or describing what a calling is.
• 18:01
  SPEAKER_00: A calling, I had to write it down.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want messed up, is where your gifts and your passions meet the needs of the world around you in a way that lets you serve others.
• 18:09
  SPEAKER_00: I think I think that's what it's it's not the resume, it's not the interview, it's not, it's not this position, it's it's not man, it's where can you help others with the gifts that God's given you.
• 18:23
  SPEAKER_00: Moses was not qualified.
• 18:27
  SPEAKER_00: That is for sure.
• 18:29
  SPEAKER_00: But he was equipped because he was called.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_00: Libby said it yesterday in our small group.
• 18:34
  SPEAKER_00: She God doesn't call the equipped, he equips the called.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Bars.
• 18:40
  SPEAKER_00: That's straight bars.
• 18:42
  SPEAKER_00: Bars, bro.
• 18:43
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 18:44
  SPEAKER_00: But the relationship and the call are gonna come first.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_00: Your relationship with God and the call come first, and then the equipping follows.
• 18:50
  SPEAKER_00: So if it's scary, the the equipping is still gonna follow, even when it doesn't feel like it.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_00: Looking back, I was always equipped.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: I've always I've had hard times, but man, I was always equipped by God to get through them.
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_00: But that order matters.
• 19:10
  SPEAKER_00: The order of being called first and then equipped, because if you're waiting to feel qualified before you're called, you're not.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_00: That's not how it works.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_00: You don't, you don't suddenly turn 25, and that's when you can do something.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_00: That's not how that works.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it just isn't.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: So you I think you've got it backwards.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_00: So now I want us I want us to think about our objections.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: Just take a second.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_00: What what are those hesitations?
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Um they might look like Moses, one of the five.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: They might be something totally different.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we all live different lives, we don't know.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: It could be really anything.
• 19:50
  SPEAKER_00: Fear, anxiety, doubts, question, anything.
• 19:54
  SPEAKER_00: Just think about this.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_00: I'll tell you something.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: God doesn't God doesn't care, bro.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna equip that.
• 20:12
  SPEAKER_00: Whatever your objection is, he's going to equip it.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's not a question.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's like even Moses saying, I can't speak.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Aaron.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Here's Aaron, here's your brother who's able to speak and we'll we'll do that work for you.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_00: That's what it's about.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_00: God did not wait until Moses stopped objecting.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 20:31
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I think it was a long time.
• 20:33
  SPEAKER_00: Like he kept objecting.
• 20:35
  unknown: Man.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_00: We do too.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_00: That's the part.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_00: The hesitations don't disqualify us from the call, though.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't get us out of it.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't mean that we're not called.
• 20:43
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, it's not always gonna be burning bush.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's not gonna be this insane, crazy moment where God is speaking to you through foliage and uh I don't really know.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's not, I think sometimes it's much more simple.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's just answering the phone call.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: I think there's there's times that the mundane is what God uses.
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_00: And if we always just think that it's the big moments, then we miss out on what God is trying to give us to know.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: So if your worry is that you're not enough, I I need you to know.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: I need you to know that you might not be enough, but that doesn't matter to God.
• 21:22
  SPEAKER_00: You might not be, but God's going to equip that, that that fear, and he's gonna use you in ways you couldn't imagine.
• 21:32
  SPEAKER_00: So that that same presence that strengthened Moses, that that kept equipping Moses, that that strengthened Jesus in the garden, it's it's working in us and through us and for us today.
• 21:46
  SPEAKER_00: So just go.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: Just just go.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: Knowing that God is always with you.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: Let's pray.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you for your presence in our lives.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you for the people that you put in our lives to show, to show your love, to show your guidance, and to show that you love us.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you that we know that Moses, who is unqualified, you used him to take the Israelites out of Egypt to part the Red Sea.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: You use the unqualified because you equip them.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you that we can know undoubtedly that you'll equip us too.
• 22:30
  SPEAKER_00: I thank you for all of the joy you've brought us this weekend, and I pray that we can we can use the stuff that we learn to go and make disciples.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: I pray that we remember that we're seen, claimed, and that you're with us.
• 22:44
  SPEAKER_00: No matter where we go, what our calling is, what we do.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: All God's people said.
• 22:49
  SPEAKER_00: Amen.