Pastor Dick Bernal – What’s in Your Hand?

ZChurch message for July 16, 2022 (full service at https://youtu.be/rkExbdXuoPA)

More than three decades after founding Jubilee Christian Center, Pastor Dick Bernal continues pastoring, writing, and serving as a missionary to the nations. He’s also fulfilling his greatest mandate – to mentor the next generation of pastors, leaders, and business executives. Pastor Dick is our Pastor’s Pastor, and he’s an advisor to ZChurch.

Pastor Dick and Pastor Larry have been close friends for forty years, traveling together, preaching at conferences and on TV together, and even writing books together. Check out this book, “The Real You — Unlocking Your Spiritual DNA” (https://www.christianbook.com/real-yo…) Donate to Pastor Bernal’s ministry at https://jubileelegacyinternational.org ___________________

Exodus 3:1-11 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn. 4 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, (*the Lord saw that he was interested*) God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.” 5 Then He said, “Do not draw hear this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.” (*sandals are man -made. God is saying, I don’t want anything to come between you and me that is man-made…i.e. man-made religion*) 6 Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father–the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God. 7 And the Lord said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and Hivites and the Jebusites. 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

Exodus 4:1-4 Then Moses answered and said, “But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, ‘The Lord has not appeared to you.’ ” 2 So the Lord said to him, “What is that in your hand?” He said, “A rod.” 3 And He said, “Cast it on the ground.” So he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from it. 4 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Reach out your hand and take it by the tail” (and he reached out his hand and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand) 5 “that they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”

Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.