Jesus is Real Radio with Daniel Fusco

When you think of Moses and God’s deliverance...it’s all about God taking His people out of Egypt...freedom from slavery. As a believer, God delivers you as well. He can liberate you from selfishness, anger, pride...all of those things that keep you from becoming the person that He created you to be. Today, Pastor Daniel will explore what it means for God to deliver us...not into perfection, but redemption.

Pastor Daniel joins Josh Brown in the studio to talk about his newly released book, Honestly. In this message they will be talking about the four points of the book.

When Moses assured the people that God would lead them out of Egypt, those that believed him might have pictured a quick resolution…with the people just walking out. But, God’s deliverance wasn’t a snap of the finger. As Pastor Daniel will teach today, we grow during the process, and He changes us to be the people He wants us to be…the image of Jesus.

If someone told you that you were diminishing who God is, you’d probably take offense…but it’s actually a very common thing to do. We want His love, but not His justice. As you’ll hear today, God is who He is…regardless of what we want. In this teaching, Moses is still battling Pharaoh for the freedom of God’s people…but Moses will find he’s failing in another area of his life.

Imagine what Moses accomplished during his lifetime. If you know anything about the man, you know that through a series of supernatural events, he led God’s people out of Egypt. That’s an intimidating testimony. But, it wasn’t Moses at all...it was God. Moses felt just as inadequate as we do when God calls us to something. Pastor Daniel will tell us how we can step out in faith.

The fear of our past, dragging all our previous transgressions around...that can really mess us up when God calls us to do something for Him. We’ll see that with Moses today, and Pastor Daniel will also share about his own fear and doubts when he was first called to the ministry. There’s a beautiful hope and assurance to be found, though, and it’s in the strength and faithfulness of God.

As people, we desire certainty. We want to know what the outcome is going to be before going through the process...and that can create a lot of uncertainty and fear. But, as Pastor Daniel assures us in today’s message, God is offering us faithfulness... a promise that He’ll be there for us through our feelings of inadequacy. When Moses wanted to bail, God showed Him in every way, ‘I’ll be with you.’

Moses thought he got away with murder. And haven’t you thought that before? That you’ve gotten away with something because nobody knew…but, it was still wrong. Today, Pastor Daniel takes us through Moses’ experience in the desert. He could have taken responsibility for his sin, but instead he fled. God spent forty years in the desert with Moses in order to humble him into someone he could use. As Christians, we have to consider who we are in regards to God…we’re nothing without Him.

We don’t often associate God’s blessing with hardship, but that’s exactly the combination we’ll hear about today, as Pastor Daniel teaches about the experience of the Hebrew people under the rule of Pharaoh. He works them to the bone, but yet the people thrive. You may have experienced this and not even realized it…because often we struggle to see the good when we’re in the midst of adversity. But God is there, and if you’re His child, He’s made a promise to care for you…even when it’s hard to see.

When a country attacks another, the country on the receiving end comes up with a proportional response. An attack for an attack, a bomb for a bomb. But, that’s not a Biblical response. As Christians, we’re asked to react disproportionately. Today, Pastor Daniel will explain what that means for us through the example of Joseph, who repays his brothers’ evil with kindness.