Who Gives Speech to Mortals?

Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Exodus 4:10-17 NIV 

10 Moses said to the LORD, "Pardon your servant, Lord. I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. I am slow of speech and tongue." 11 The LORD said to him, "Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute? Who gives them sight or makes them blind? Is it not I, the LORD? 12 Now go; I will help you speak and will teach you what to say." 13 But Moses said, "Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else." 14 Then the LORD's anger burned against Moses and he said, "What about your brother, Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. 15 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. 16 He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him. 17 But take this staff in your hand so you can perform the signs with it."

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) After the Lord God had called Moses to deliver His people from oppression (bondage), what excuses did Moses make for why he could not serve the Lord? (v.10)
2) What were the Lord's responses to Moses? (v.11-12)
3) What did Moses tell the Lord to do and how did the Lord respond? (v.13-17)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
4) Has the Lord called you to do a seemingly impossible task? If so, briefly explain the Lord's call on your life and your reason(s) for not doing what He asks of you.

LIFE LESSONS
5) When the Lord God calls an individual believer  to serve His people, the call is not based upon our qualifications for the ministry, but upon His power to enable us to lead His people. 

Our Faithful High Priest

Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Hebrews 3:1-6 KJV

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses [was faithful] in all his house. 3 For this [man] was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house. 4 For every house is builded by some [man]; but he that built all things [is] God. 5 And Moses verily [was] faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

OBSERVATION QUESTIONS
1) How did the writer of Hebrews address the readers (fellow believers)? (v.1a)
2) Who did the writer of Hebrews tell the readers to take note of (consider)? (v.1b)
3) How did the writer of Hebrews describe our High Priest? (v.2-3)
4) What did he write about God? (v.4)
5) What was written about Moses? (v.5)
6) What did the writer tell us about our Lord Jesus? (v.6)

APPLICATION QUESTIONS
7) What ministry has the Lord appointed you to?
8) Why do you believe that the Lord chose you to fulfill that particular calling?

LIFE LESSONS
9) Every believer is called to the ministry of reconciliation, of restoring the lost to relationship with our Creator.
10) The calling and election of God is not based upon our goodness but upon His.