Sermon by Clayton Nel 3 July 2016

1. Exodus 4:1-5
1Moses answered, “What if they do not
believe me or listen to me and say,
‘The LORD did not appear to you’?”

2. Exodus 4:1-5
2Then the LORD said to him, “What is
that in your hand?”
“A staff,” he replied.

3. Exodus 4:1-5
3The LORD said, “Throw it on the
ground.”
Moses threw it on the ground and it
became a snake, and he ran from it.

4. Exodus 4:1-5
4Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out
your hand and take it by the tail.” So
Moses reached out and took hold of the
snake and it turned back into a staff in
his hand.

5. Exodus 4:1-5
5“This,” said the LORD, “is so that they
may believe that the LORD, the God of
their fathers—the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has
appeared to you.”

6. Exodus 4:4
4Then the LORD said to him, “Reach out
your hand and take it by the tail.” So
Moses reached out and took hold of the
snake and it turned back into a staff in
his hand.

9. Avoid These Common
Mistakes

10. What If?
What if they?
Late night scenarios
Right thing,Wrong way

11. You’ll never handle your
Future until you face
your Past

12. Walk out in the
Opposite Spirit

13. Take up your
Authority

14. Exodus 4:17
17”But take this staff in your hand so you
can perform the signs with it.”

15. Exodus 4:20
20So Moses took his wife and sons, put
them on a donkey and started back to
Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his
hand.

16. Exodus 7:15
15Go to Pharaoh in the morning as he
goes out to the river. Confront him on
the bank of the Nile, and take in your
hand the staff that was changed into a
snake.

17. Exodus 14:16
16Raise your staff and stretch out your
hand over the sea to divide the water so
that the Israelites can go through the sea
on dry ground.

18. Exodus 17:5
5The LORD answered Moses, “Go out in
front of the people.Take with you some
of the elders of Israel and take in your
hand the staff with which you struck the
Nile, and go.”