Sermon | Inadequacy and Grace | Lent | 3.12.23

About this sermon

Dave Drury - Exodus 3:10-4:17. We all experience those moments of regret, embarrassment, and self-doubt. Even the most brash among us, when they are alone and honest with themselves, can admit they don't feel they measure up. The call of Moses in Exodus 3-4 is a key moment defining what grace means in scripture. Moses felt inadequate in many of the ways we feel inadequate, he felt inadequate confidence, inadequate faith, inadequate credibility, inadequate skill, and in the end he had inadequate will. How did God respond to this? The story of Moses' call makes it clear that the cure to the crippling effects of inadequacy is not denying you are inadequate, it is embracing inadequacy. That's the beauty of grace. Only those who know they are inadequate find grace. The core of your repentance, your confession, your very salvation is a dawning realization that you are not enough. You don't measure up. All have sinned and fallen short. So as a believer in God your aim is not to deny your inadequacy, nor beat yourself up over shortcomings--it is to admit you are inadequate in all things, apart from Christ. Grace means inadequacy is not a problem, it in fact unlocks the cure, the secret weapon of every believer's trust. When we are weak, he is strong. This is a core message of all of scripture as grace of God overcomes inadequacy.

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• Grace