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One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating.
Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him,
“Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have
peace.
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Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.
John 16:33
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
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and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
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The second is this: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ There is no
commandment greater than these.”
Mark 12: 28 - 31
Bert’s most used excuses
• I don’t have time

• They don’t need me

• I am busy

• I don’t know what to do

• I am not ready
Moses’ excuses
But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh
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and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

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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.”

Exodus 3:11-12
Moses’ excuses
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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?”
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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.’”

Exodus 3:13-14
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And they will listen to your voice, and you and the elders of
Israel shall go to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘The LORD, the
God of the Hebrews, has met with us; and now, please let us go a
three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to
the LORD our God.’
Exodus 3:18

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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.’
Exodus 4:1
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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.”

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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? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and
teach you what you shall speak.”
Exodus 4:10-12
Moses’ excuses
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But he said, “Oh, my Lord, please send someone else.”

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Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and he
said, “Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he
can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he
sees you, he will be glad in his heart.
Exodus 4:13-14
God doesn’t call the equipped,
He equips the called.

We have our part to play

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For the body does not consist of one member but of many.
If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the
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body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
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And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to
the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body.
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If the whole body were an eye, where would be the sense of hearing? If
the whole body were an ear, where would be the sense of smell?
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But as it is, God arranged the members in the body, each one of them, as
he chose.
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If all were a single member, where would the body be?
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As it is, there are many parts, yet one body.
1 Corinthians 12: 14-20
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As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards
of God's varied grace:
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whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as
one who serves by the strength that God supplies—in order that in
everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory
and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4:10-11
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