Introduction:
A. “What is that in your hand?”
B. Question the Lord asked Moses in Exodus 4:2
I. The Context Takes Us Back Four Centuries to the Time of Abraham (Gen. 12:1-3).
A. Abram heeds God’s call/Chooses wisely (Gen. 12:4; Heb. 11:8; Gen. 13:8-12, 14-16).
B. Abram rescues Lot/Believes the Lord/Makes a covenant (Gen. 14:11-12, 16; 15:4-10; 15:13-19).
C. Abram becomes Abraham/Receives circumcision/Promised son and descendants
(Gen. 16:2; 17:4, 6-11, 18; 18:14; 21:1; Ex. 1:7-8, 12; 2:5-10; Acts 7:23-24, 29; Ex. 3:11- 14; 4:1-5).
II. “What Is that in Your Hand?” – observations
A. Revealed is the power of the ordinary (2 Cor. 4:7; Acts 7:22; 2 Cor. 12:10; Ex. 4:30-31; 7:20; 8:6, 17; 9:23; 10:13; 14:16, 21; 17:6, 11).
B. Revealed is that we are part of a much larger picture (Eph. 2:10; Est. 4:14).
C. Revealed is the ineffectiveness of making excuses (Rom. 12:1; 2 Cor. 8:5)
Conclusion:
A. She did what she could (Mk. 14:3-9).
B. Some didn’t like it (Mk. 14:10; Gal. 4:16).
C. What is in your hand?
D. Well done, good and faithful servant?