Moses and the Burning Bush | Exodus 3-4:12

Good morning, Watermark. How are we doing? Are we doing okay? Are we north of 30 degrees outside yet? You did your best. You waited as long as possible. I was like, "Man, I'd probably come to the 11:00 too. We might be just north of freezing at this point." Thanks for being here. Thanks for braving the elements and joining us here at church.

If we've not had the chance to meet, my name is Kylen Perry. I'm the director of The Porch here at Watermark Community Church. It's a real joy to get to spend some time with you today. If you're not familiar with what The Porch is, then let me be one of, I hope, many who would tell you what God is doing.

The Porch is a gathering of young adults, thousands and thousands of young adults here in the city of Dallas as well as across the nation, who are looking to see Jesus and surrender fully to life with him. If you're in the room, and you're a 20- or 30-something young adult, we would invite you to come join us this Tuesday, because The Porch is officially back.

We would love for you to be there at kickoff. We have some things planned that are going to be incredible. If you're not in your 20s or 30s, would you pray for us? Would you ask that God would go before us and make an incredible year as we center many, many different young adults under one name, the name that changes everything, the name of Jesus?

I am honored to be here. I love preaching to our church. Genuinely, I'm encouraged by what God is doing here at Watermark, particularly here in 2025 already as we've been journeying through our Year of the Word. I think God has something in store for us this morning. To set it up, I'd love to start with a story.

Several years ago, my wife and I were invited to a 1920s-themed murder mystery party. Has anybody in here been to a murder mystery party? Yes. I had never been to one, so I was skeptical, to say the least. I am not one who typically shows up for the costume party, yet these were dear friends of ours, so I was like, "You know what? Let's go for it. I've never been to one of these things. We'll give it a shot."

So, we showed up, and I was blown away by how into this people got. People didn't just dress the part; they acted the part. They even changed the way they sounded. It was like, "Reid, you don't sound like that, man. Where is your normal voice?" Instead, he has adopted the tone of a 20s mobster, or Rebecca is dressing like a 20s flapper girl. Everybody in the space is looking the part, because they have transformed their house into this murder mystery setting.

So, not one who plays to participate but plays to win, I was on board by this point. I was like, "Okay, fine. You know what? I'm going to play my part." I had received news of what my particular role was at this event. I was a police chief. Every single person who had registered for the murder mystery party had received a packet containing a variety of personal details you needed to familiarize yourself with so you could engage with the event as well as possible.

That packet included things like your personal history, your career struggles, who your friends were and family members might have been in the space, who your enemies and rivals were that you should be on the lookout for…things that happen in normal life. I had made sure to familiarize myself as well as possible with my identity. As a police chief, when the lights flickered and the murder went down and someone screamed out in the back, I decided, "You know what? This is my moment." So I started collecting the evidence and conducting interviews and tracking down the murderer.

Somewhere around halfway during the murder mystery party, the lights flash again, which signals to us there is new information every single person in the party needs to become familiar with. So, we all go and collect a new packet, and the goal is to familiarize yourself with the information therein. I take my packet and pull out the paper inside, and it reads four simple words: "You are the murderer." That wasn't my reaction at all. It was not a laughing matter. Instead, it changed everything for me in an instant.

I had gone from collaborating with my fellow partygoers and sharing information to spreading fake news and trying to misdirect as much as possible and convolute people's conclusions, because here's the thing: in light of this new reality, I had a new identity, and because of my new identity, if I was actually found out, then I was subject to a really great consequence. I could either be caught red-handed or I could get away with murder. I could either succeed in my murder or I could fail and be found out. My identity changed everything.

Now, why do I tell you that? First, to brag about the fact that I did, in fact, get away with murder. Secondly, to share this: it only takes a defining moment to change everything for you, to not only redefine your reality but reshape your sense of self. That's what happened to me, and that's what happens in life. As we walk with God, there will be things that come into our story that not only impact our understanding of the world but impact our understanding of who we are.

That's exactly what's going to happen today in the passage we're looking at. We're going to be in the book of Exodus, and we're going to see a defining moment, a climactic conversation between God and Moses that's going to change Moses' sense of self forever, namely, in three specific ways. It's going to change his sense of insignificance, his sense of insecurity, and his sense of inadequacy. That's where we're going. If you have a Bible, you can open it and turn with me to Exodus, chapter 3.

If you've been tracking with us the last couple of weeks, you know we have been in our Year of the Word series where we're trying to read the Bible, as a church, over the course of 2025. We've said the goal is not just to complete our reading by the end of the year; the goal is to connect with God as we do so. TA has done a masterful job in the last couple of weeks helping us understand the four primary movements in the Scripture, that there's creation, fall, redemption, and new creation.

Last week, he walked us through the book of Genesis where he helped us trace the redemptive plan of God from one man, a man by the name of Abraham. Of that one man, God brought about one family. As we turn the page into Exodus, we find that one family becomes one nation. God does fulfill his promise. He produces a family and makes them into a great nation, yet we know that family, that nation, is not living in the land of their fathers. They're living in the land of Egypt, because they are enslaved to Pharaoh.

You see, Pharaoh has fears for how fast the nation is growing, so much so that he not only enslaves the people, but he decrees the death of all firstborn sons in every Hebrew family for the sake of population control. He orders genocide. Now, spoiler alert. God is going to rescue the Hebrews out of Pharaoh's enslavement. He is going to liberate them to himself, and he is going to reside with them by the end of Exodus. Next week, TA is going to walk us through God's redemptive plan in the book of Exodus.

We've been using this analogy that if you're going to read the Bible, and you're going to assess every story within, then you need to treat it like a puzzle. How do you treat a puzzle? You don't just fixate on individual stories. Instead, you take every individual piece and pull them together to create the ultimate picture of a greater sum. You have to use the box top. Right? You have to be able to understand what the picture you're trying to build is.

Yet, while you're building the puzzle and inspecting the box top, you will have to take individual pieces and inspect them very closely to figure out where they fall in the grander scheme of the overall story. That's what we're going to do today. We're going to lift up one individual piece and inspect it very carefully, because here's the thing.

When you look at individual stories in the Bible, that's where you find your individual application. That's where God does the work of really shaping and changing your personal life. So, we're going to look at Exodus 3-4. We're going to see this conversation Moses has. We pick it up in verse 1. Read this with me.

"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. 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. And Moses said, 'I will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned.' 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.'"

As we open this story, we see that God is moving toward Moses. Moses is in the land of Midian. For reference, Midian is 500 to 600 miles away from the land of Egypt. It says God comes to Moses at Mount Horeb. The original language there for Horeb means desolate or barren. Moses is in a desolate or barren place. It says Moses is there, and he is shepherding, not his own flocks, but the flocks of his father-in-law.

Just to bring it all the way into the Dallas Metroplex, Moses has left the halls of Highland Park and journeyed into the wild and waste of West Texas where he is nowhere of significance with no one of significance, doing nothing of significance with his life. That's where we find Moses. That's where God finds Moses. Yet, we know God doesn't just come to catch up with Moses in the mundane of Midian. No, he's coming to Moses because he has a mission he wants to give to him, which is what we read if we jump down to verse 9. God says this.

"'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. Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.' But Moses said to God, 'Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?'"

You see, God has a mission for Moses. He wants to use Moses to liberate the lives of millions of people, to change the stories of generations for years to come, to set free all of his followers, yet, in the face of this world-changing, life-altering invitation, what is Moses' reaction? "Yes! Finally, God! I knew you would come at some point." Does he shout with jubilation? No. Does he begin to pack his bags, load up his camel, and ride his way to Egypt? No.

Does he hear the call of God, "Deliver my people," and say, "Yeah, that's about right. It makes sense you would come and ask me to do that, God"? No. That's not his reaction. Moses' reaction is nervousness. He's sweating. He's worrying. He's second-guessing if God even has the right guy, because Moses has a problem that many of us in this room may have. He is ensnared by insignificance.

He looks at his surroundings, evaluates his circumstances, considers the background where he grew up, and arrives at this conclusion: "God, you've got the wrong guy. Who am I to free these people? I'm a nobody from nowhere. I was kicked out of my home, I was hated by my family, I was rejected by my peers, and now I live on the back side of nowhere doing nothing of significance. I have no influence to speak of. I'm useless, God. Who are you to come to me and ask me to do this? That's a great plan. That's a big purpose, but you have the wrong person." Just look at the way God responds to him. Verse 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.' 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?' 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."' God also said to Moses, 'Say this to the people of Israel: "The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you." This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations.'"

God doesn't respond to Moses' sense of insignificance by boosting his confidence, by hyping him up, by stroking his ego. He doesn't even look at Moses and decide to draft a performance improvement plan. "You know what, man? You're right. You are a little bit behind the curve, but you know what? I think we can do a few things. We can put you on a PIP, and we'll get you in tip-top shape. That way, you can accomplish the task I've set before you." That's not his response.

Moses looks at God, and he's like, "Who am I?" and God's response is, "Who are you? Who am I? I Am That I Am. This has nothing to do with you. It has everything to do with me." Which brings us to our first point: true significance is not found in who you are; it's found in who God is. If you want a right view of yourself, you need a right view of him. You need to know who he is. Thankfully, God is going to tell us who he is exactly. He gives us three things to help us understand who he is specifically.

1. He is with us. That's what he says to Moses in verse 12. For us, no matter what leaves us feeling insignificant…where you come from, what you look like, your family of origin, the personality you have, those things you second-guess about yourself, the struggles you face, whatever it is that leaves you riddled in insignificance… God looks at those things and says, "That may leave you feeling insignificant, yet I am with you, and thus you should feel significant."

Isaiah 41:10 says, "…fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand." Psalm 23:4: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me." Zephaniah 3:17: "The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing."

You see, the presence of one who is significant dignifies that which is insignificant. Several years ago, in 2015, I read an article about an auction that was conducted for a bag of air that was collected at a Kanye West concert. We laugh because we think it's ridiculous, yet that bag of air sold for a whopping $60,000. Church, if the presence of Kanye West can make something as dumb as a bag of air significant, how much more can the presence of God in your life make you significant? I guarantee you your life will be worth far more than $60,000. It will be priceless, because he's with you.

2. He gives us his name. He says, "I Am Who I Am." Now, there's an entire sermon locked up in that singular statement, but just to put that idea as plainly as possible, God is simply saying he is. He's not the God of any one thing. He's not the God of harvest or the God of rivers or the God of love or the God of war. He's the God of everything. He's not constrained to any singular category in life. He is the God who reigns over everything in life.

He is self-existent. Before anything was, God already is. He is self-sufficient. He doesn't need anything from anybody. And he is self-directed. Meaning, nobody tells him what to do. No one sits on the throne of God's life. God is the one who sits on the throne of all life. He has supreme authority.

He is eternally constant, totally independent, and supremely dominant. That's who God is. He is transcendent over all things, yet, though God has always been, he chooses today to be with you. Though he needs no one at all, he wants to be with you. Though no one tells God what to do, God chooses to be with you. That's what his name means.

3. He tells him his promise. He says, "I'm the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I'm the same God who made promises in times past who will keep those promises in the days ahead as we move into our future." Why does any of this matter? Because when you combine a God who's present with a God who's powerful with a God who persists, you get a God who is so significant that everything he says about himself changes everything you see about yourself. That's what you get. That's why his name matters. That's why his presence matters. That's why his promises matter.

Church, if you're here, and you don't like what you see in the mirror when you wake up in the morning, then it's time to stop telling God about who you are and start telling yourself about who God is. Now listen. Insignificance is not something we would typically associate with the city of Dallas, Texas. This is a city that prides itself on seeking after significance, doing great things, making major difference, yet here's the thing. When we seek significance, do we not do so because we've self-identified some area of insignificance in our own life? Yes.

We seek significance, but here's the thing: you will not find significance in what you do; you will find significance in what Christ has done. You will not find significance in what you accomplish; you will find significance in what Christ has accomplished. You're not going to find significance in the kind of family you raise; you're going to find significance in the kind of family God has made. You're not going to find significance in the house you built; you're going to find significance in the fact that Jesus has gone to prepare a house for you. This is where your significance is found. It's found with him.

Moses isn't wracked by insignificance alone. He also is struggling with insecurity, which is what we see in chapter 4, verse 1. You can jump with me there. "Then Moses answered, 'But behold, they will not believe me or listen to my voice, for they will say, "The Lord did not appear to you."'" Why is Moses so insecure to think that no one will believe that God sent him? Because by this point, he has ruined his reputation, and he thinks there is no coming back from it.

We didn't read it, but in Exodus, chapter 2, Moses already tried his hand at this whole deliverance thing. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, so he jumped into action. He intervened. He beat up the Egyptian, killed that man, buried him in the sand, yet did a bad enough job at hiding the evidence that eventually he was found out. He was exposed for the crime, and he ascended to the top of Egypt's "most wanted" list.

So Moses is on the lam. He's outrunning the Egyptian authorities, and he has fled all the way into Midian, because at this point, he knows, "Man, I'm not the deliverer my people desire; I'm actually a murderer who my people despise." That's why this whole proposal from God is so hard for him to stomach. He not only feels like a nobody who lives out in the middle of nowhere. He actually used to be a somebody who blew it in front of everybody.

It's kind of like when I made the switch into ministry. I felt like I was taking this massive risk. I had worked in industry for a long time, so making the move into ministry was pretty daunting, especially given the fact that I thought I wanted to teach. You see, I knew I had some communication gifts. I knew I loved to read and teach God's Word.

Yet, at some level, you don't really figure out how good you are at this thing until you hard launch and go for it and stand in front of rooms and just start to talk out loud to a bunch of people you don't know and hope they like it. That's kind of the way this thing goes. I had hit a spot where I was like, "This is what I'm supposed to do with my life," and I had received a great opportunity, so I went for it.

What was great was I actually got my first shot at teaching from a stage, at being on a platform and speaking to a people. So, the moment arrives. We're in this massive room with a lot of people. This is everything I've dreamt of. The worship concludes, the drums wash out, the lights slowly come up, and the crowd cheers. I make my way to the center of the platform and turn, and as I face the crowd… I froze. My moment had arrived, but I had not.

Rather than standing on a platform and proving to a bunch of people that I was a voice worthy of speaking, I proved I actually didn't know how to speak at all. That's what had happened in this moment. You see, my moment had come, just like Moses' moment. He wanted to be a deliverer, yet he blew his chance. He failed. He knows it. Everyone knows it. That's why he's so insecure. He didn't just make some questionable decisions that led to a bad reputation; he made an irreversible decision that ruined his reputation forever.

Like many of us, he is so preoccupied with the past that he's stuck there. He can't move on. The truth is some of us can relate. Some of you look back, and you know the things you did, the places you went, the decisions you made, the hurt you caused, those words you spoke, the guilt you feel or the regrets you carry. You know the things you've done, and you think, "There's no opportunity God could give that I'd ever be secure enough to step into."

You've disqualified yourself from any opportunity, because you don't believe there's a possibility that God would actually want to use you. If that's you, then learn from Moses. People may find you unworthy until God gives them something worth believing in. That's why God gives Moses three different signs in verses 2-9 here. He does it to boost his believability, not just so people believe, "Man, Moses, you really did change," but so people believe, "Man, God really did change you, Moses." That's what he's doing.

God doesn't want there to be any mistake. The world will look at you and medicate your self-help through a variety of different means and methods. God is like, "No, the only means and method you need to grow is me. I'm the one who gives the growth. I'm the one who makes the difference. So you come to me, and that will be the case."

There are three signs he gives. He decides to turn his staff into a snake. What's that about? "Weird trick, God. What are you trying to communicate here?" He wants Moses to know, "Hey, I have the power that you believe Pharaoh has." Pharaoh's headdress looked like a cobra. God is like, "Pharaoh doesn't have the power; I have the power."

What's the whole deal with leprosy? "Stick your hand in. Pull it out. Stick it back in. Pull it back out." God is proving, "I'm the one who has the power over life and death." What about turning the water of the Nile into blood? What's that about? God is proving, "Hey, that singular source which provides for the entire nation of Egypt… No, no, no. I am the single source that provides for all nations in this world." That's what God is trying to communicate.

He wants Moses to know, "Yeah, man, you have the power to make a mess of your past, but I have the power to make something meaningful of your future. That's who I am." That's what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:28. "God has chosen what is insignificant and despised in the world—what is viewed as nothing—to bring to nothing what is viewed as something, so that no one may boast in his presence."

You see, God is the difference-maker. As we read through Exodus, we're going to see he is the sea-splitter. He's the bread-giver. He's the miracle-maker. He's the grace-giver. That's who God is all throughout the story of Exodus and all throughout the Bible. No one is too far gone for God to use. No one is too unworthy for God to redeem.

Here's the great thing: we don't need three signs to prove the fact that we're not too far gone. You don't need three signs; you need one sign, and that sign is the fact that Jesus Christ did, in fact, seek you out when you were most insecure to bring to you an everlasting security that you could not give to yourself.

You feel useless? Tell that to Jesus. You feel worthless? Tell that to the cross. He looks at you and says, "No, I do see value in your life, and I do have purpose for you." Jesus wasn't preoccupied with your past, Watermark; he was crucified for it, that he might set your past aside and, instead, replace it with so bright a future. That's what Jesus has come to give you. But what do we do when we know that?

Some of us are here and are like, "Dude, listen. I get it, man. I've been going to church for a long time. I know I'm forgiven of the things I've done in my past. It's not my past I'm concerned about; it's my future. I have dreams I really want to attain, yet I don't see in myself the ability to get there." Well, you have a lot in common with Moses, because Moses is not just wracked with insignificance, he's not just wracked with insecurity; he is also wrestling with inadequacy, which is where we finish. It says in verses 10-12:

"But Moses said to the Lord, 'Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since you have spoken to your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue.' Then the Lord said to him, 'Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.'"

Moses sees all God wants to do in his life, and not once, not twice, but actually five times, he pushes back. Five times, he looks at God and tries to flake out. He's like that friend who just won't commit to dinner plans on Friday night. He's coming up with every excuse in the book. What he forgets is laughable, because the reality is he's not just coming up with excuses. He forgets he is talking to God. "Why are you pushing back? Why are you resisting? It won't go well for you. God has never lost before, and he won't start with you."

He forgets the fact that he is saying everything he's saying…just picture it…to a burning bush that is on fire yet not consumed. Hello! That's not normal. That's a supernatural spectacle. That's an unfathomable phenomenon. You're looking at something that is not of this world. You're speaking to a God who controls and orders all of creation, and you want to bring to him, "You know, God, I just don't have the skill for this thing. I just don't know that I have the tools in my bag."

It's interesting. We find ourselves in this spot when we think too much of our problems and too little of God's power that we punt on his plans and settle for something, like Moses, sheepherding on the back side of nowhere instead. We look at ourselves, and all we see is, "Man, I'm not smart enough to start that nonprofit. I know the good it would do, but I'm not smart enough to do it." Or we realize, "Man, I'm not eloquent enough to share the gospel. It's important to get out there, but I'm not eloquent enough for that."

Or "I'm not strong enough to forgive that person. I know I'm supposed to forgive my enemies, but I don't have the strength to actually do that." Or "Man, I'm not bold enough to really engage my family with the love of Jesus, even though they don't know anything of this love." Or "Man, I'm not influential enough to actually evangelize my entire department at work."

All we see is, "I'm not smart enough. I'm not talented enough. I'm not impressive enough. I'm not influential enough. I'm not enough." That's all we see. Yet, God looks at you and says something I never would have guessed. He says, "I know that. Who do you think made you that way? You can't speak? I know!" You think, move, talk, and look exactly like God wants you to. He doesn't want some other version of you. He wants to use the you that you are.

That does not mean he will not grow you in time and make you like Christ. He absolutely will, but he doesn't need you to get to some future version of yourself before he can use you right now. He's not going to anoint some other version of you but you. So, here's the thing. If you're enough for God, then, church, you're enough as is. Yet, for so many of us, being enough for God isn't enough for us. We want to be more. We want to be better. We want to be smarter. We want to be funnier. We want to be stronger. We want to be wealthier. We want to be more.

We're not enough for ourselves, so we're not enough for anyone. The reason I know that is that's my story. That's my testimony. As far back as I can remember and more frequently than I'd like to count, I have fallen just shy of sufficient for the things I've wanted to do in my life, whether it wasn't being popular enough in grade school or athletic enough in high school or influential enough in college or smart enough in the corporate world or talented enough when I got into ministry.

I realized I was falling prey to this self-declaration in my own individual pronouncement that "I'm not enough." Here's the thing. As I grew older and processed my past and prayed through my history, what I realized was, "Truthfully, what matters more to me is not what people feel for me but how I feel about myself, and truly, what I feel about myself (and what maybe some of you feel here today) is hate."

For a long time, I didn't like the way God made me. I didn't like my hardwiring. I didn't like my personality. I wasn't winsome enough or funny enough. I wasn't wise enough. I had dreamed great dreams, but in myself, I only saw insufficiency to achieve them. I wasn't enough. I wasn't enough to achieve my goals, make a difference, impress my role models, or keep up with my peers. I, and maybe some of you, found myself where Moses finds himself by the end of this passage: with no more excuses to hide behind but merely the cold, hard truth to reckon with that I wasn't enough on my own.

God looks at that, and to it he says, "I know that, but I will be enough for you." You see, the liberation from hate of oneself is the love of God himself. That's where it comes. To all of your insignificance, God declares, "I'm significant enough for you…so significant, in fact, that I will leave the halls of heaven, my throne above it all, and I will descend in the form of my Son to reach you who are unworthy."

To your insecurity, he looks at you and says, "I know you're insecure. I came to give you security. That which left you so insecure, the sin which so easily entangled, enslaved you, just as it has enslaved these people… I'm the greater Moses. I'm the ultimate Deliverer. I'm the one who can secure you out of your sin and seat you with me in heavenly places."

To your inadequacy, your inability to measure up, to get where you want, to make the difference you dream of, he's looking at you and saying, "Yeah, you can't do it on your own power, but when you place your faith in me, I not only take your sins away, I not only give to you a new family; I also bestow upon you my Spirit. It's no longer your adequacy within which you're operating; it's mine. It's my strength that carries you forward."

This is what God has come to give to his people. He has come to give us Jesus, to rectify any sense of self-hate with all of God's love. So, if you're here, and you want to see yourself rightly, the way you do that is you don't look inward before you look upward, because when you see him for who he is, I promise and he promises you will see yourself for who you truly are. Let me pray for us.

God, we love you. I'm thankful for this Word and the fact that it takes an imperfect man's message like my own and speaks even still, that, God, in a room like this, the good we are given is not because of what I come to bring or we, as a staff, seek to offer but because of what you, God, want to give. You're the giver of every good and perfect gift, and the good news is you can look at a room so broad, so diversified as this, and you can meet us right where we are.

You can individualize your truth to our story. We can lift up the individual piece of the puzzle and find within it application for ourselves as we contextualize it in the greater scheme of what you're building altogether: redemption for all time. We love you, God. I pray that you would rescue us from ourselves. Some of us need that today.

Some of us need to be rescued from our sense of insignificance. We need to be rescued from our own insecurity. We need to be rescued out of our inadequacy, and what we need is to be rescued back into the rescuer. We need to be reminded that Jesus is the answer. We love you, and we pray that you would work within us now. It's in Christ's name, amen.