Responding to God's Call

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Responding to God's Call
I. Those Avoiding God's Call

• Moses, Exo. 3-417

• Jonah, Jonah 1-4

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Responding to God's Call
II. Those Heeding God's Call

• Jesus

God had an eternal plan in Christ Jesus, Eph.
311
He willingly enacted the plan of His Father,
humbling Himself, leading to His exaltation,
Phil. 25-11
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Responding to God's Call
II. Those Heeding God's Call

• Jesus

Even when He appealed to His Father in
Gethsemane, He completely submitted to His
Father's will, Matt. 2639
He completely fulfilled the will of His Father,
John 1930
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Responding to God's Call
II. Those Heeding God's Call

• Paul

Paul, beforehand, had persecuted
the church.
Did Paul, like Moses before him,
provide excuses? No!
Paul became a great apostle and
witness for Christ
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Responding to God's Call
III. Application

• Moses came up with all kinds of excuses for
  avoiding God's call

• What he forgot

That God would be with him
Israel was not to be delivered from Egypt and
brought into Canaan because of how great Moses
was.
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Responding to God's Call
III. Application

• What about us?

• Our tasks

Live righteously, shun the world and its evils, 1
John 215-17
Preach the Gospel, Matt. 2818-20
Doing good, James 417
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Responding to God's Call
III. Application

• Jonah avoided God's call out of spite

Jonah recognized that God's intent for him to
preach was to spur Nineveh to repentance
He avoided the task set out for him, and
maintained anger regarding the task's conclusion,
because of his personal hatred for Assyria
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Responding to God's Call
III. Application

• What about us?

The message of the Gospel is for all men
We are not to pre-judge, assuming that the
message will not be heard
We just need to preach it!