Nelson's Annual Preacher's Sourcebook, Volume 3 by O. S. Hawkins

Author:O. S. Hawkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

All material by Adrian Rogers @ 2013 Rogers Family Trust. Reproduced by permission from The Adrian Rogers Sermon LIbrary, www.adrianrogerslibrary.com.

GOD’S REMEDY FOR WORN-OUT PREACHERS

Sermon Date: August 9, 1982

Exodus 18:13–26

Dr. Adrian Rogers

Outline

Introduction

I. The Limits That Must Be Sensed

A. The Limit of Time

1. He Was Neglecting His Family

2. He Was Neglecting His Quiet Time

B. The Limit of Physical Strength

C. The Limit of Emotional Strength

II. The Loads That Must Be Shared

A. The Size of the Task

B. The Sharing of the Task

III. The Lives That Might Be Saved

A. Moses’ Ministry Would Be Saved

B. The Lives of Many Others Would Be Saved

Conclusion

Introduction

I want you tonight to turn to Exodus 18. And the title of my message is a long one: “God’s Remedy for Worn-Out Preachers.” That’s really what I’m going to be preaching about tonight, but it’s going to apply to you. And I’m trying to preach a message that will really touch about three areas. I hope that you’re going to learn something that will keep you from being a worn-out person, whether you’re a preacher, a pastor, or whatever you might be, but also that you’ll keep from wearing me out, and we’ll find what God’s plan is for us to get His work done here.

So I want to begin reading here in Exodus 18:13: “And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening. And when Moses’ father in law saw all that he did to the people, he said, What is this thing that thou doest to the people?”—notice he doesn’t say, “what you do for them,” but “what you do to them”—“why sittest thou thyself alone, and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even? And Moses said unto his father in law, Because the people come unto me to enquire of God: when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and His laws. And Moses’ father in law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good. Thou wilt surely wear away . . .”—now you see where I got my topic, “How Not to Wear Out the Preacher”—“Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone. Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God: and thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do. Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers

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