What if the season you’re in right now is preparing you for something you can’t see yet?

In this message from SWAT: Spiritual Warfare and Tactics, Pastor Dan continues through Acts 7 as Stephen recounts the story of Moses.

Moses was born an Israelite but raised inside Pharaoh’s household. While the rest of his people lived in slavery, Moses was educated in the wisdom of Egypt and grew up around the leadership of the most powerful nation of his time.

It may have looked like an unusual detour, but God was preparing Moses for what He had already prepared for Moses.

Then Moses tried to step into that calling.

He saw an Israelite being mistreated, intervened, and killed the Egyptian oppressor. His desire to rescue was connected to what God would eventually use him to do—but Moses tried to accomplish a righteous purpose in a sinful way.

And then the people rejected him.

But their rejection did not cancel God’s purpose for Moses.

Neither did Moses’ failure, because failure followed by repentance does not put someone beyond the grace or purpose of God.

Stephen is also making a much larger argument. Israel rejected Joseph. Israel rejected Moses. And now the religious leaders standing before Stephen had rejected Jesus—the ultimate Rescuer and Deliverer that both Joseph and Moses pointed toward.

Moses eventually ran away from the calling, but God did not abandon him.

People’s rejection cannot cancel God’s purpose. Your failure does not have to cancel it either. God is still working.