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Who Am I? Exodus 3

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.” 4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”And Moses said, “Here I am.” 5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father,[a] the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. 7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?” Exodus 3:1-11

Don’t Judge a Book by It’s Cover We are made in the image of God 1 Thess 5:23 “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Our whole world is obsessed with appearance. 69 percent of magazine-reading elementary school girls say that the pictures they see influence their concept of the ideal body shape, and 47 percent of them also say the pictures make then want to lose weight. Meanwhile, 42 percent of girls in first through third grade want to be thinner -- these are girls barely out of toddlerhood It’s not just girls. Boys are dealing with these issues too as they are concerned about not being muscular enough. 90% of teenaged boys exercised with the goal of bulking up

Jesus Illustrates this Principle In Luke 16 there is a beggar and a rich man who both die. The beggar is carried away to Heaven. Notice that his body was in the grave, but he was in heaven. Why? Because Lazarus was a spirit, not a body. What about the rich man? He ended up in hell. So his body was in the grave, but he was still alive and in hell. John 4:24 “God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and in Truth.”

What’s the Point? We can’t depend on our physical bodies for a proper self image. What will count is what we do for God, how we use our gifts We also shouldn’t depend on our emotions to determine our self worth. follow Christ (Matthew 4:19) receive Christ (John 1:12); believe in or trust Christ (John 3:16) stay joined to Christ (John 15:5); know Christ (John 17:3); love Christ (Ephesians 6:24); obey Christ (Hebrews 5:9); glory in or take pride in Christ (Philippians 3:3). have Christ (1 John 5:12).

What’s the Point? Because of this relationship: You are loved by the Father- I Cor 6:20 “You were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your Spirit, which are God’s.” You are declared innocent- The word used here is dikaioo which means ‘to render innocent.’ That means you are made innocent as if you’d never sinned. You are clean. Heb 9:14 says “purge your conscience from dead works, to serve the living God.” God is not against you! Your relationship with God is completely restored. You are clothed with the Righteousness of Christ- You are made new- 2 Cor 5:17 “Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, and all things have become new.” What happened to the old you? It was nailed to the cross with Christ. But rather than repair the old you, God He created a new you.

Theodore Geisel