1. MOSES: LEAD
Lessons from Moses

2. Leading is like being a captain of a mutinous ship, without a compass in stormy shark infested waters.
With a leak.

3. Impulsive leader.
Lessons from Moses

4. Exodus 2:12
After looking in all directions to make sure no one was watching, Moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand.

5. Ex 4:29 Then Moses and Aaron returned to Egypt and called all the elders of Israel together…

6. "There is nothing so OFFENSIVE to God or so DANGEROUS to the human soul as PRIDE and SELF-SUFFICIENCY. Of all sins it is the most hopeless, the most INCURABLE."
COL 154

7. “Little boy."

8. 2. Forgotten leader.
Lessons from Moses

9. Exodus 3:1 One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up.

10. Don’t let circumstances
determine effort.

11. What you don’t deal with will be your undoing.

12. They made Moses angry, and he spoke foolishly.
Exodus 16:20
But some of them didn’t listen and kept some of it until morning. But by then it was full of maggots and had a terrible smell. Moses was very angry with them.
Leviticus 10:16
Moses then asked them what had happened to the goat of the sin offering. When he discovered it had been burned up, he became very angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons.
Numbers 11:10
Moses heard all the families standing in the doorways of their tents whining, and the Lord became extremely angry. Moses was also very aggravated.
Numbers 16:15
Then Moses became very angry and said to the Lord, “Do not accept their grain offerings! I have not taken so much as a donkey from them, and I have never hurt a single one of them.”
Numbers 16:22
But Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground. “O God,” they pleaded, “you are the God who gives breath to all creatures. Must you be angry with all the people when only one man sins?”
Psalm 106:33
They made Moses angry, and he spoke foolishly.

13. Numbers 20: 10 Then he and Aaron summoned the people to come and gather at the rock. “Listen, you rebels!” he shouted. “Must we bring you water from this rock?”

14. A skillful leader recognizes: Patterns.
Atrophy.

15. 3. The Visionary leader.
Lessons from Moses

16. Exodus 3:10
So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”

17. Capacity to move forward regardless.
Bigger than you.
Intense criticism.
Capacity to move forward regardless.

18. 4. Empowering Leader.
Lessons from Moses

19. It’s too much:
Slow down.
Burn out.
Empower.

20. What you are doing is not good.
FILW

21. 100’s 70 12 3 1

22. 5. Triumphant leader.
Lessons from Moses

23. Deuteronomy 34:7
Moses was 120 years old when he died, yet his eyesight was clear, and he was as strong as ever.

24. Accomplish your mission. Leave something for the next leader.

25. I am ready.

26. I am willing.