But I Am Not Enough, Part 2

Today on Summit life was Jenny Greer. Jesus's name literally in Hebrew is Joshua which means God, I am your salvation. That means that all that I need all that I lack.

All that I could never be of myself. He is the great I am for me and in the not enough. You were not enough. Most was not enough.

God is God enough for most of us, and for me and for you and that's the whole gospel anything and if I failed I could laugh it off and try the next thing.

But as we grow older security set in and we start to question ourselves should be smart enough to type, one, two people actually like me work really pretending today. Pastor Jenny explains that these types of insecurities aren't ultimately a reflection of ourselves. There reflection of our view of God. These biblical insights and more are included in Pastor Jay's current teaching series titled not got enough now, here's today's message called I am not. I am not blanket off and you figure out what goes about like this. Ask yourself what most often goes in that like for you.

I am not good-looking enough. I'm not athletic enough. I'm not young enough smart and funny and spiritual enough. Maybe you just got hired for a job and now you're not sure you can do it. What's worse is you're pretty sure nobody else thinks you can do it either, so you're sure that you're pretty sure that when you see other people you gather around the water cooler working or laughing about something you're almost positive that it's you that are laughing about. Or maybe you just embarked on some new phase in your life you just became a mom or maybe it's a new chapter in your career or maybe you're going into retirement and not sure if you've got what it takes to really succeed in this chapter made you feel like God is called you a ministry that you do still utterly incapable for I thought a lot of church planters a lot of her missionaries actually eliciting right now they say that's totally me.

I hate you I answer the call and when I got here and felt like I didn't know what to do.

I felt like I just felt overwhelmed by the possibilities and impossibilities see all of us at some point experience in security. See Exodus 3 opens up with Moses as a pretty insecure man. He started out like pretty security was a good-looking guy with a lot of confidence. He had a high-paying job.

He was Pharaoh's adopted son. But then in his early 20s or so.

He felt like God was calling him to do something, namely he thought God was leading him to deliver Israel out of Egypt. And so when he tried it.

Things went bad. The Jewish people mock him and rejected him. Pharaoh's adopted daddy disowned him and then he ended up telling a man will Moses flees into the desert where he ends up marrying a nomad girl and spends the next 40 years, tending the sheep of her father. Exodus chapter 3 verse one. That's what opens up this chapter.

Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law. You should read that and read in your Bible right life sale right there and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and he came to her web, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire but didn't burn up. So we turned aside to go see it. Moses thought a little over and see the strengths I why Bush does not burn up. And God called him from within the bush, Moses, Moses, Moses said here I am, do not come any closer. God said take off your sandals for the place for your standing. Moses is holy ground.

Then he said I am the God of your father the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. At this Moses hit his face because he was afraid to look at God. The Lord said, I've indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I've heard them crying out because of their slave drivers and I am concerned about their suffering. So I've come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians are now Moses go. I'm sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt, but Moses said the God who am I who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt. No hold on just a second. When did the conversation turn the Moses.

Up until that point in the conversation there in verse 11 we been talking about God and what God wanted to do but now Moses very subtly makes himself the point of the conversation. Commentators say that this reveals the deep insecurities that Moses was carrying around from his previous failures. Verse 12 God responded to Moses. Moses, I will be with you. This is really important. Notice how God deals with Moses insecurities you do it the way that we usually do in our day and age you didn't pull Moses on a talk show and reinforce them with positive thoughts are helping discover his inner tiger. See that's because this might just down. That's because confidence can come from a better assessment of your potential confidence comes from a clear view of God.

Some of you will approach God try to see how we can help you achieve your purposes, you've gotten it all wrong. We are supposed to approach God surrendering to his purposes, and that's where a real sense of confidence comes from. See that's what God is trying to very patiently show Moses he's going to say I've got a purpose and I want to use you in it. The any drives this point home by introducing the Moses name, verse 13 Moses said to God, suppose I go to the Israelites MSA than the God of your father sent me to you mastery what is his name what shall I tell them then God said to Moses, I am who I am.

All those places in your life Moses that you feel like you are not. I am Walt forwarding confidence knowing that what I have called you to. I will supply you for the Moses says what God I'm not good enough.

And God says I know I am God.

I'm not skilled enough.

I know I am God. I'm not confident enough I am to find your confidence in me told you that throughout Israel's history, God would re-invoke this.

I am name whenever Israel was in a time of great need and then what God would do is he attached to that name Jehovah our Yahweh, he would attach to it. What ever it was that Israel lacked in whatever he planned to supply for Israel in himself that that means Yahweh, Jehovah appears in your Old Testament 6519 times in your Bible in English it's written as LORD whenever you see LORD that's always signifying thinning Yahweh or Jehovah and I always attached to it. Whatever is relaxing. This is like the most beautiful truth of Scripture about the share is the truth in Scripture that's like the whole meal. This is the gospel that you come back to again and again and again because it satisfies your soul. God's use of the IM name throughout Scripture is the essence of the gospel.

So in Exodus, when the people of Israel are wounded and sick because of their sin.

God reveals himself to them as Jehovah. I am also which means healer, I'm your healer.

Leviticus when Moses lays out the law law that great description of how to walk uprightly before God and the people say what we say. How could you ever live up to all these things, God says Jehovah I am the tennis team. I am your sanctifier. In other words, on the God who will enable you to actually walk with me when Jeremiah was discouraged by Israel's persistent failures and how they refuse to walk faithfully before God, he looks at Kevin and he says God how we ever going to survive. How can you not just destroy us. God said to Jeremiah, don't be afraid because Jehovah I am to his kid knew your righteousness I'm going to become more righteous as I'm to be your righteousness when you have no righteousness in Ezekiel's day, when the people of Israel felt scared and alone and he felt deceived by their enemies all around, God said don't be afraid Jehovah. I am shall not the presence. I am the presence of God with you when David felt lost and confused with no friends left in the world. He called God. Psalm 23 Jehovah rock the Lord, my shepherd, Abraham, who faced an impossible circumstance with no singing way out. God declared to him, Jehovah, I am genre your provider into Isaiah who wasn't sure that he would survive another day, God declared to him, Jehovah saw that I owed I am God, nor defender. I am the God who will never stop fighting for you will see in the New Testament, Jesus is going to take this. I am name is given to because I am name, and in angry could echo Amy.

It's all he would've, without written your Greek New Testament and he's going to attach it to himself and he's not just claiming to be God. He is doing that, but he's also going to apply it to the areas of brokenness that we most experience showing how God will be the fullness in all these places that were empty.

For example, to those who hunger, Jesus says John 635. I am the bread of life to those who, thirsty, says John 738. I am the living water to those in darkness Jesus declares John 812. I am the light to those who need a fresh start. John 10 950 says I am the door to those who feel abandoned. John 1011 I am the good shepherd to those who feel lost on 14th.

Jesus declares I am away to those who feel confused, I and the truth to those who are afraid of death. I am the life. These are what Jesus wants to be to you to the unrighteous.

Jesus declares I am your righteous covering to the powerless. He says I am your defense to the empty he says I am your fullness into the dead. I am your resurrection to the defeated.

He says I am your everlasting hope that means to those of you who feel overlooked. If you've been cut from the team are passed over for promotion what God says is I am your way. I am the plan for you and I plan to use you in a significant way. My kingdom and I promise to give you a future and a hope in the make you a blessing. The Bible's message you see is not about your self actualization. The Bible is about God, it's about what God is for you and what God can accomplish through you. The gospel is not that given enough help you could become righteous enough to earn heaven the gospel was that Jesus came and was righteous enough in your place, and then died the death of you been condemned to die in your place so that he can literally become your righteousness. The Christian life in the same way, is not about moral self-improvement.

It's not about God giving you help to make you an awesome person.

It's about Christ working the power of a new life in you and through you. Paul says I'm crucified with Christ. Nevertheless I live not even I'm living more is Christ who lives in me. You see only one person in all of history was ever able to live the Christian life successfully and know he was so good at it.

We named it after the Christian life. The Christ life and now that Christ lives in you and you can do all things in Christ who strengthens you. Why is it that I can stand confidently before God. Why is it that I can say Coppola before God, because Jehovah did his kid knew Jesus is become my righteousness God made him who knew no sin to my sense of that I could become his righteousness in him.

Why is it that when I look at life. I'm not afraid that I'm going to be alone or abandoned is because Jesus is my Jehovah Shama God my presence.

Why is it that I can face my trials with confidence. It is because Jesus is my Jehovah gyri. He is the God who always provides for me.

Why is it that I can have hope that this body that is falling apart and just sold it feels plagued by all kinds of doubts and troubles and temptations is one day going to be with him in glory. It is because Jesus is Jehovah Roth that he is God, my healer, how do I know that I might be successful in the next chapter of my life. It's not because I'm awesome. Not because I learned a bunch of stuff is because Jesus is Jehovah McKenna scheme. He is God, my sanctifier you see Jesus's name literally in Hebrew is yes you, which means God, I am your salvation. He became my salvation. And that means that all that I need all that I lacked all that I could never be in myself. He is the great I am for me and in the I'm not enough.

You were not enough, Moses was not enough. God's got enough for most us and for me and for you and that's the whole gospel.

You see, I realize that you're carrying around all kinds of deficiencies and worries and insecurities feelings of inadequacy of your own. Maybe it's because you're a new parent. Maybe you feel that way as a husband as a worker is a student trying to live the Christian life.

Whatever Scripture says you ready for some discouraging news ready. It's Christmas is you know the half of it. You're so weak. You can even guarantee you'll be around tomorrow. You're so small, empathetic that it is a sin.

James chapter 4 is literally a sin for you to promise anybody anything about tomorrow because you don't even know that you wake up tomorrow and will have the power to make it happen days as you like a wisp of smoke or James filing a blade of grass. The slightest shift in wind direction. The slightest change in temperature and you're gonna in the scope of the University says you're so small and insignificant and pitiful. You don't amount as to a grain of sand on the ocean floor. You're so powerless to Jesus and apart from him. You literally couldn't do anything good you're so wicked that he had to die to save you.

You're so evil that the book of Romans tells you that there's literally nothing good dwells in your flask and if there is anything good in your flesh, it's only because God is working in you, but the will and to do of his good pleasure. None at this point you like will thanks thank you for making me feel small. I am not trying to make you feel small. I'm telling you that you are small okay is a big difference in their Sumatra make you feel anything you realize something you are small because only when you see that you indeed are not. Are you ready to lean into the great I am one of our pastors wrote a poem about this one that I thought was worth sharing with you. We call the phone enough like this enough were so simple, so captivating, so full of promise, yet so full of deceit, beckoning me toward a paradise that ever eludes me a beautiful garden fruits are always fresh, but always out of reach. Because I am not enough, not smart enough not strong enough, not caring enough or good enough or successful enough or beautiful enough not enough to meet the simple challenges of today. Not enough for the weighty troubles of tomorrow.

Not enough to feel at peace right now. Not enough, not merely enough to offer anything of worth to an infinitely worthy God. I am not but he already knows and he says to me I am I'm not smart enough or strong enough or carrying a good or sufficient us of success for beautiful or God enough and not got enough to satisfy the endless demands of the deceptive word enough and I was never meant to be. But these lips of mine are bold enough to cry for help.

These hands of mine we can empty already enough to be filled this heart of mine deceived and deceiving is still desperate enough to yearn for paradise, only one God is God enough to give us that green and garden paradise. The God of everything Jesus to be the God of this, nothing heart he takes me as his own.

This is enough. This is enough. I am not. He already knows and he says to me I am suing you realize that God has declared his great I am name over you in the midst of your insecurities. I told you that should make you read and understand the third commandment in a new light. You shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. This was always taught to be growing up as don't use God's name is password both.

Oh my God or Jesus Christ or the like. The answer you shouldn't do that right that's included in this commandment, but that doesn't does not that the fullness of this commandment not specifically it's not a command about how to use God's name. It's a command about how to take God's name, and I described to you like this in times past, there was a beautiful girl who had the attention of all the guys whose name was Veronica Marie peters, and on the greatest day of her earthly life she traded in on the creator's name, she became a career now on that day when she took my name, she became part of me.

She became one with me. All that was mine became worse. Was it that much of when the greater the offer, but nonetheless is what happened was in the same way when you became a Christian, you literally took the name of God, to yourself, you took the name on him and that means that all that he is you now possess. The apostle Peter would go so far to say that we have become partakers of the divine nature.

Literally his nature is confused without Paul would say we become inheritors of all the divine promises all the promises of God are yes in Christ Jesus, because even though you didn't deserve the promises Jesus deserve the mall and now he's become one with you. So guess what you get when you get him you get all the promises of God and what that means is that when I say no to God when I falter encourage because I think the God I am not blank enough, and I am taking his name in vain because even though it is true that I am not enough. He is enough and I become one with him and he is now these things in me and through me.

So when I say God I can't be a good parent. He says I know I can use that I can't make it.

He says I can you say I am so doubtful and he responds, but I am so faithful you say to God, I'm so dysfunctional. He's as yet but I am so complete, you say I am so deficient, he says, but I am so sufficient. You say I'm so simple and he says that I am so grateful you say I'm at the end of my rope and he says yeah I got another one and it's as long as eternity and so when the pharaohs in our lives say to us who you think you are. We respond now with Moses on a link on anything. See, I knew the great I am when the haters in our own hearts whisperer, you are not, we shout back, you are right, but it doesn't matter who I am. It matters who he is because I am one and him so my challenge to you this week here at the end of our series is to name your insecurity to write it out to actually say write it down. Do this later.

Think I am not blank enough and put whatever goes in that category. Most for you and no one want to do is right underneath that I want to write some, but I also want to say yet in Christ. I am and want you to put it, not blank, the sufficiency of Christ character. Whatever Jesus is. I am not blank enough, but in Christ.

I am fully supplied. I am sufficient I am righteous I am more than a conqueror. I am and overcome or I am all that Jesus was because he is in me, and now he does these things through me feeling inadequate is a prerequisite to being used by God. Whenever you see God call somebody throughout Scripture is almost always the same that we see with the apostle Paul, the apostle Paul was just I'm he was a destroyed hot mess and in the book of acts when God called him what God said to mow it to Paul when he called him was fairly simple to what he says to Moses X 2660 oh rise up and stand on your feet flat in your face. I prepared you for this purpose, to make you a minister and a witness of the things which you seen the things which I will yet reveal to you. Here's the question, who is the actor in that verse react real is the one that is doing the stuff is up. All is Paul beginning to realize his self actualization.

No, Jesus is the actor. He's getting caught up in God's global purposes, I've got a plan. I want to use you for when you discover this when you have a sense of confidence. You never discovered Argie be all and most powerful men in history. Powerful men and histories made the biggest change was amending William Wilberforce's efforts historian say in some way single-handedly brought the slave trade in Europe to an end, but historians tell us he was one of them is physically unimpressive men you would ever imagine. He had severe scoliosis. So much so that he was a hunchback you never see this in the pictures because they always assume at an angle you can't tell, but he was severely hunchback one. The history books that I was looking at referred to him as an elfish misshapen little figure the kids at his school when he grew up his high school constantly mocked in the Gautama shrimp they would put them on the table because he couldn't defend himself, and they would make fun of them. Sometime after college, William Wilberforce discover who God was.

Discover the purposes of God, and he took his is little deformed life if you will, and he put himself on the God's runway and he felt heavens when that is back at you literally change the world. What he discovered in that moment was not his inner potential in the self-actualizing and tap into his inner tiger. What he discovered in that moment was the purposes of God and that God can use very weak and broken instruments to do incredible things.

Some of you are, where he is.

You are like Paul, you're morally flat on your face what God says to you in either situation is rise up and stand on your feet. Stop looking at your limitations and look instead at the power and the faithfulness of the Christ who is calling you.

That's where confidence comes from God. Like a said throughout this series over and over and over and over again all our spiritual view of God that is the arms everlasting. Stop trying to think on the margins of your life and read your language around his agenda. You're listening to Senate life with pastor Jeannie Greer. You don't know where to go or where to turn to begin surrendering to God's purposes or maybe things are okay, that still you wonder if there's more to life than what you have right now as we head into the holidays. Pastor Jeannie has a new resource to share with you. So Jeannie were all familiar with the events and that first Christmas manger scene shepherds watching the sheep Angels and wisemen right yeah sure.

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