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August Uh can you believe that we are here already We are heading towards the fall Uh my name is Dererick I'm our online online campus pastor here at Southeast And I wanted to make you aware of two things we have coming up this fall that we would love for you to be a part of Uh the first one is that that we have an online large group on Zoom with our senior pastor Kyle Idleman on August 20th at 7:30 p.m Would love for you you to show up meet some people online in the Zoom call but more importantly hear from our senior pastor Uh second thing for those of you that are in our online groups that maybe have been been connecting with this broadcast over the years or maybe just for the past few weeks We would love to invite you into into Louisville to our blank and maker campus where I'm standing right now uh for our SE online homecoming event the 9th through the 11th of October uh where it's a weekend long event where we get to hang out uh get to know one another continue to build our online community but we get to do it in person Um so we hope that you guys will will be a part of that We'll have free food We'll have opportunities to spend time with one another and to worship as an online family And so we hope that you will make it it priority October 9th to the 11th to be here for Se Online Homecoming y'all But for today we are going to continue continue our sermon series called The Unexpected Leader talking about the life of Moses So I'm going to kick it back inside where you're going to hear from Lucas Lucas and Tia Dere. Well hey SC online family Man what a great great day to be in church Uh my name

is Lucas Derez If we haven't met yet I get to serve as the Blanketaker campus pastor here Uh and And again it is a beautiful day but I have someone even more beautiful with me my wife Tia who's expecting by the way this baby girl coming. Welcome Tia Yeah Well SC online family we are so excited excited to be with you today Whether this is your first time joining us or maybe you've been with us a hundred times we want to get to know you We want to connect with you It's really simple to do that You can text the word connect to to 733733 so someone from our team can reach out to you this week We can help you um get plugged in find out more about the church what we have going going on Uh one of the things we would love to do is be able to pray with you And so um text that work connect this week and someone from our team will reach out to you. Yeah that's good You know another way to get connected is uh what we call groups And we just believe that life is done better together And so uh T and I have been been in so many groups I remember when we first moved here to Louisville we joined a group and those people are just like family And so we just want to encourage uh uh to join a group today Uh you can do that by texting groups to 733733 Uh we would would love for you to join a group as they kick off over the next few weeks.

Yeah absolutely Uh well another really exciting thing going on here at church is we have our full full force meal pack coming up Uh and what that is is we together as as one church are going to pack two million million with an M Um and and so the the really really sweet thing about that is anybody can join You know I know we have four-year-old twins They are going to be helping to pack meals Yeah absolutely Anyone can do this If you've never served before this is a great opportunity to jump in These meals are going to serve our local communities Um they're also going to serve serve international communities And so, we would love for you to be a part of that Invite a friend a neighbor a co-orker If you want more information about our Full Full Force meal pack you can text full force to 733733 for information and if you're ready to go go ahead and register for the event Um well sorry sorry another great thing we have today is that we aren't the only ones here for SC online Bryson is actually live with us in Franklin Bryson how is is your morning going guys It's great Welcome to the south It's a beautiful morning here in Middle Tennessee I know there's a ton going on at Southeast that we just just talked about. Lucas it's been fun collaborating with you on this unexpected leader series Last week we had a great kickoff and and I'm pumped to hear you this week. Yeah So week two we're excited because we're going to

be in Exodus chapter 2 but then kind of bleeding into Exodus Exodus uh chapter 3 And really kind of the big idea that we're going to be talking about is that often times when we talk about calling or what God God uh is is doing in your life and what he's leading you to to to impact I think that sometimes we can think of it in terms of like a burning bush moment like like we think of it as this suddenly moment But I think what we're going to to be encouraged by today as we look at the life of Moses is that uh what God does through Moses's life really starts more than extraordinary And so that's good news uh for you and I uh and so I'm excited to jump into the text today Bryson. Yeah Honestly and we explored this a little little bit last week too Just that idea of God working powerfully through the ordinary Like those are truths that so many of us need to be reminded of So I can't wait to to dive in. Yeah Well family it is going to be a great morning of worship Make sure you stick around after our service because Bryson is going to be back He's going to be live digging a little deeper into the sermon letting you know what's going on down in Franklin Um but for right now we are going to head into worship and so will Se Se church Come on Hey Hey I'm really grateful God God There was no way until you made one

and grace upon grace Hallelujah Even though I I don't deserve it you did it And even though I couldn't earn it you give it Come on you sing Who am I that you keep me on your mind I'm just grateful for you God I'm just grateful for you See all my life You've been right here by my side I'm just grateful for you God I'm just grateful for for you Be holy holy I give you glory for only you Even though I don't deserve it you did Yes you did Even though I couldn't ear it you You give it am I You keep me on your your mind Just grateful for you I'm just grateful for you you my life You be right here by my

my side I'm just grateful See who am am I Who am I now You keep me on your mind. I'm just just grateful for you. I'm really grateful Yeah Oh my life you been right right here Really grateful for you Grateful for you every every hour you never left my side Oh let her eyes eyes I'm I'm lifting both of my hands cuz you gave me chance after chance Come on If that's true you sing and and I'm giving all cuz you gave me chance after sing sing You You gave me chance after I'll give you

all You give me Who am I Who am am you just keep me on your mind. I'm really really grateful I'm really grateful my life life Who am I Who am I me on your mind every day every my life life Come on testify survive and I and I'm here to testify. I'm really grateful grateful all right if they say I'm I'm my mind God I'm just grateful for you God I'm just grateful for you you As God God will break

that we can build our lives on you What to to do Come on let's sing Christ is my firm foundation The rock on on which I stand when everything around me is shaking I've I've never been more glad that I put my faith in Jesus cuz he's She's never let me down He's faithful through generations So So why would he fail now He won't We serve a mighty God and he won't won't fail Amen I've still got joy in in chaos We've got peace I've got peace that makes no no sense So I won't be going under Oh I'm I'm not hel by my own strength cuz I built my life on Jesus the cornerstone and he's never let me down He's faithful in every season So So why would he fail Now we

declare he won't He's never failed He never will And he won't won't He won't fail We see you Christ is my firm firm foundation He's the rock on which I stand when everything everything around me is shen He's mine I've never been more gl that I put my faith in Jesus my savior He's never let me down He straight for the generation So So why would he fail now he won't I believe he's going to and he won't won't fail He won't fail No he won't won't fail You won't won't won't I'm a living witness of his victory Little mirales all around showing us us

faithfulness Thank you Jesus Jesus came Thank Thank you God came when you my house was built on you and only Only you Lord save you going to make you you my house house going to make it I'm going to make it We're standing strong on Jesus going to make it through through cuz my house is built on you Christ is my f foundation foundation the rock I stand when everything everything around me is I've never been

more glad I I put my faith in Jesus Only Jesus Jesus Jesus So I I will I believe he's going to win He's victorious We sing sing God is faithful He won't No he He won't Hallelujah Lift up a shot shot shot We love love you A thousand generations generations falling down in worship to sing the song of ages to the land All have gone before us All will believe believe sing the song of ages to the come on declare his name The highest Your name name is

the highest highest above all thrones and many all powers your name stands above and the angels cry cry You say you were lifted highy highy you're holy forever forever If you've been forgiven if you by sing the song forever to the lamb And if you walk in freedom and if you bear his name he sing the song forever to the lamb Come on church We'll sing the song forever and and amen Shout it in the angels cry cry all creation Christ Christ

holy you are lifting highy You're holy forever forever he people sing sing to the king of kings You will always be your Holy for sing your name Your name is the the highest Your name is the greatest Your name stands above above them all You lift him up and say above all th th th Your Your name is the highest Your name is the greatest Your name stands above above and dominion all powers and position your name stand above the the

angels cry our creation Christ youy You are lifted high You're You're Your people sing to the king You're You're You will always be be Holy Holy you will always be Holy Come on give him praise. Well hey my name is Lucas If we haven't met yet I have the the privilege to serve as the Blankaker campus pastor Uh we are continuing in a series uh where we're looking at an unexpected leader scripture named named Moses Last week we talked about how God often develops our faith through seasons of of waiting through

seasons of testing and trust And this week we're going to continue discovering how God God uses unexpected leaders to do extraordinary things in his kingdom You know a number of years ago I went on a camping camping trip at one of the campsites There was this tree where someone had carved the face of Moses into it I think we've got a picture of it here Uh the carving was etched into this giant red cedar so that the face looked like it was reflecting fire which was pretty cool Uh the owner's campsite wanted it to feel feel like a burning bush moment They're referring of course to the part of Moses's story in Exodus chapter 3 where we're going to be reading today today where God shows up in this undeniable way God speaks speaks to Moses out of a bush that's on fire but it never burns up And he ends up calling him into his life's purpose And so the owners of this property wanted this this campsite to be that kind of a place a place where you could get away where you could seek the Lord and maybe find uh some clarity about your your purpose and calling So I went there hoping for that exact experience I was at a point point in my life where I really needed direction And honestly I I was kind of hoping I know this sounds weird I was hoping that Jesus would come down sit cross-legged next to me and he'd lay out the next 10 years of my life And as you can probably guess that is not what happened I prayed I read my Bible I journaled I ate some ramen noodles And I fell asleep I

mean it was pretty anticlimactic for a place with Moses's face carved into a tree But as as ridiculous as my story sounds I really do think that that's the expectation a lot of us carry I think for many of us we're waiting for this burning bush bush moment We're hoping for an unmistakable sign a a dramatic experience where God shows up where he speaks audibly and makes makes everything crystal clear I don't know about you but that's just not how it's worked for me You know we tend to think calling begins begins with a singular moment a revelation like a a burning bush experience But I think what we're going to see today today is that Moses's calling didn't begin in chapter 3 at the burning bush No it actually began much earlier It began in in chap 2 2 in circumstances that looked a lot more ordinary than miraculous If you have your Bible I'd love for you to turn to Exodus chapter 2 We can pick up in verse 11 I'll read for us It says this "One day when Moses had grown up uh he went out to his people and he looked on their burdens And And so what we see here already uh is that Moses is growing up now And if we back up just for a moment we know from earlier in the chapter that Moses was born born Hebrew He was placed in a basket and pulled from the river by Pharaoh's daughter Uh she hired a nurse nurse to care for him who later out was actually his mother And once he was weaned she brought him into

Pharaoh's house and she raised him as as her own And so Moses grows up uh likely holding two different identities Uh he he knows he's a Hebrew He likely has memories of his family Uh maybe even some understanding of who his people are But he's also being raised inside the most most powerful household in the world And somewhere in the middle of all that Moses starts realizing that he just has this this burden for his people Now before we read any further I want you to notice something One of of the ways that God often reveals our calling is through what I like to call a holy burden The best way I know how to describe this is that it's it's it's something that you just can't shake It keeps coming back to your mind It keeps grabbing your attention Like no matter how how hard you try to move on it keeps pulling you back in And that's exactly what starts happening to Moses He goes out to his people He sees their their burden and he can't look away You know I think one of the best ways that we can identify what God may be calling us to to is by paying attention to what we can't look away from And so let me ask you this this question What breaks your heart What frustrates you What makes you sad in a way that feels deeper than just an an opinion Because often the burden that you can't look away from is is the very thing God is trying to direct you

toward Uh David Wilkerson was a young young pastor from rural Pennsylvania In 19 he saw a magazine article about seven teenagers on trial for murder in New York York City Something about their faces got a hold of him And so he drove drove to New York City Uh he walked into a courtroom and he pleaded with the judge to speak with the teens who were being sentenced David made such a scene scene that the judge had him removed You know most people would probably take the hint and and move on but David couldn't shake it And so he kept showing back up He started walking the streets of New York at night He was meeting gang members and addicts and teenagers who were throwing their lives away And one night night standing on those streets and only words he could describe David just broke down and he began to weep over the