Cross City Church - North
We all experience setbacks and disappointments in life. Sometimes those setbacks become entire seasons of life. Businesses fail, relationships falter, discouragement and doubts set in, and circumstances overwhelm us. Join us in our new series "God's Not Done With You," as we highlight the use of nine amazing "comeback stories" from the Bible to show God's continued provision for everything needed to get through challenging setbacks.
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What if your past defined you?
A defining moment is a point at which the essential nature or character of a person, group, etc., is revealed or identified.
“When the past defines you by your choices made then – it robs you of your future and what God has for you now or next.”
1. Rough starts don't have to end rough.
Exodus 1:22...
Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, “Every son that is born to the Hebrews you shall cast into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.”
Exodus 2:15...
When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian. And he sat down by a well.
“Running from your past always leaves you looking over your shoulder to see if it’s still there chasing you. If it’s anger and bitterness – it will find you.”
James 1:19-21...
19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
2. If God's not done - RUIN can turn to RESCUE.
Exodus 2:23-25...
23 During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. 24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. 25 God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.
“People often pay a high price for what they have said and done in angry moments.”
"New seasons of life begin with new encounters with God.”
3. Your RESCUE begins with REMEMBERING.
- Be reminded of who HE is.
Exodus 3:1-6...
1 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed. 3 And Moses said, “I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.” 4 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then He said, “Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.” 6 And He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
Exodus 3:7-12...
7 Then the Lord said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, 8 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 9 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 12 He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.
In this moment, Moses was...
- ALONE.
- LISTENING.
- READY.
- HUMBLE.
“An absence of pride places him in the best possible position to clearly hear and obey God – as a humble man. Moses has no solutions on his own. He has no plans to pursue. God is looking for just that kind of person...Humility looks good on all of us. It especially looks good to God, who never fails to pour out His grace to us when we need Him the most.”
4. RESCUED people, RESCUE people.
Exodus 3:13-14...
13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I Am Who I Am!” And He said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I Am has sent me to you.’”