What you turn to Exodus chapter 4 and I have actually a very similar theme that Bill had this morning.

This Exodus chapter 4 verse 1 is a story of Moses interacting with God and God has just told Moses that he's going to go before Pharaoh and he's going to tell Pharaoh to let his people go.

And I know you know that story because you've read it in the book or you've seen the movie.

And so Moses is not very confident.

I love there's a few things that lots of things I really love about Moses. He is one of my heroes in the Bible.

I love the fact that when Moses thinks he's ready, remember that he's living in Pharaoh's house. Do you remember this story?

He's living in Pharaoh's house. He's been put in a basket. He's been floated down the Nile River. The princess daughter rescues him. He grows up in Pharaoh's house, becomes a prince.

And then he sees his brothers being mistreated. Remember the whole story? And so he has it in his heart. There's something in his heart from his youth to see his people go free, to see the Israelites go free.

And so he tries to rescue his brother and from the Egyptian he ends up killing the Egyptian and then his brothers get an argument and he tries to break up the argument.

And his brothers have no idea what he's doing. He doesn't fit in with Pharaoh. He doesn't really fit in with his brothers. Nobody actually, he doesn't want to be included in Pharaoh's entourage.

But he's also not received by his brothers. And they're like, who made you a ruler between us? Who made you an arbitrator between us?

And he's misunderstood and he runs out into the wilderness and he stays out there for 40 years.

And the first thing I think that's important here is that sometimes when you think you're ready and you have all this confidence, God says, no, no, you're not ready.

And I think there is, this is, I'm not exactly sure how to articulate this exactly, but I'll try to put it into words, what I think that we all know.

There are times when confidence is coming from faith in God and there are times when confidence is coming from your own sense of your strength.

Paul said in Philippians, we are the true circumstances who put no confidence in the flesh but glory and Christ Jesus.

And I think that when our confidence is in, is rooted in ourself, and I'm talking about self will selfish ambition.

I'm not talking about, okay, let me just finish this self will selfish ambition. I'm well educated. It's all about my ability to perform this duty.

I think, and we say, well, I am well prepared for this duty. I think God says, no, you're not, you're not ready.

And then later on Moses is in the wilderness for 40 years, he's told me, we don't know what's happening in the wilderness.

Really, we have this in county. We see Moses again when he encounters this bush. The bush is talking him. He's talking back to the bush.

And the bush says, I've seen the impression of my, it's not George either.

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