Deliverers: Learning to See Further, Like Moses

Introduction

You look at your life and there are situations where everything seems dead. A buried dream, a broken family, a door that will not open. This message, preached under the title "Deliverers," starts from a simple conviction: the Spirit who raised Lazarus and who sent Moses before Pharaoh lives in you. Even imperfect, even tired, even hesitant, you are called to be a deliverer. Not because you are strong, but because the one who lives in you is. The preacher invites you to lift your head, to see what is invisible, and to believe that God can raise up what you have already placed in the tomb.

Outline of the Message

1. God Calls You to Be a Deliverer

• The preacher asks the question right from the opening: "In what way can you be a deliverer for those who have not yet met Christ?"
• Christ on the cross did not only conquer death. He conquered sin, sickness, lies, and accusation. And this Spirit who lives in you brings freedom first in your own life, then in the lives of others.
• "Even if you are not perfect, even if you still make mistakes, the Lord uses you as a deliverer." It is not perfection that qualifies you, it is the presence of the Spirit in you.

2. John 11: Jesus Is the Resurrection and the Life

• Lazarus, a friend of Jesus, falls sick and dies. Martha and Mary were waiting for Jesus, and he delays. "Is the Lord running late? Is he too busy?" These misunderstandings are often ours as well.
• By the time Jesus arrives, Lazarus is already in the tomb. Humanly speaking, there is nothing left to do. The preacher insists: this is exactly where you will discover who Jesus Christ is.
• Martha rushes to meet him, Mary is overwhelmed with emotion. Martha shifts Jesus' word to "the resurrection at the last day" (John 11:24). She pushes to later what Jesus wanted to do now.
• "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies" (John 11:25-26). Even before the miracle, Jesus reveals himself.
• What matters most is not your agenda. It is that God's plan be fulfilled. And God can raise up dreams, projects, situations you thought were buried for good.

3. Psalm 31: The Solution Is His Presence

• The preacher shares that he used to cry out to God for miracles. Reading Psalm 31, he sees David in terrible distress for more than twenty verses (attacks, enemies, sadness, injustice), to the point of doubting whether God had heard his prayer.
• At the end of the psalm, David's frame of mind changes: "Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in Yahweh" (Psalm 31:24). Why? Because in God's presence, the Holy Spirit confirmed to him that his prayer had been heard.
• "We expect solutions from God, miracles. And the solution is to spend time in the Lord's presence." The miracles will come, but God wants to strengthen you first.

4. Colossians 1: All Divine Power Dwells in Christ

• "For God was pleased that in him all the fullness should dwell, and through him to reconcile all things to himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross" (Colossians 1:19-20).
• If you feel weak, crushed, know this: all divine power dwells in Christ. He puts things back in order, not the way we tidy a closet, but by reconciling the universe to himself.
• The preacher recalls a word he received a few weeks earlier from Revelation: "The Lord opens before you a door that no one can shut." When Jesus plants himself in a place, no demon can stand.

5. Hebrews 11: Moses Looked Further Ahead

• "By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents... By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter" (Hebrews 11:23-24).
• Moses gave up position, gold, and the comfort of Egypt to be "mistreated with God's people." He "considered the reproach of Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt, for he looked to the reward" (Hebrews 11:26).
• "By faith, he left Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible" (Hebrews 11:27). The spirit of a deliverer leads you to see what is not yet visible.
• Moses believed himself weak. He stammered, he had killed a man, he fled to the desert as his father-in-law's shepherd. But the Lord reveals himself in the burning bush, in the staff, in his hand turned leprous, and stirs up from the depths of his heart the call of a deliverer.

6. Psalm 78: The Exodus, the Wilderness, the Promised Land

• "He led his own people out like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock. He led them safely, so that they weren't afraid, but the sea overwhelmed their enemies" (Psalm 78:52-53).
• Between Egypt and the promised land lies about two weeks of walking, yet the people spent forty years there. The problem was not their knees, it was in their hearts.
• The wilderness is not a punishment, it is a necessity. God provides for it there: the manna, the quail, the rock from which water flowed, a picture of Christ. The wilderness marks the boundary between slavery and inheritance.
• "He brought them to the border of his sanctuary, to this mountain, which his right hand had taken. He also drove out the nations before them, allotted them for an inheritance by line" (Psalm 78:54-55). God does not hand you empty promises: he gives you ground with clearly marked boundaries.

7. 2 Kings 4: The Widow, the Oil, and Freedom from Debt

• A widow of one of the sons of the prophets cries out to Elisha: her husband is dead, and a creditor is coming to take her two sons as slaves for the debt.
• Elisha asks her: "What do you have in the house?" She has only a little oil. He sends her to borrow empty vessels from her neighbors, shut the door on herself and her sons, and pour (2 Kings 4:1-7).
• The oil multiplies for as long as there are vessels. In the end, Elisha tells her: "Go, sell the oil, pay your debt, and live you and your sons on the rest."
• This woman goes from a debt-ridden widow to a woman of business. Faced with injustice, she ran to seek the prophet's word, she obeyed, she stood up. In the Lord's presence, you receive the revelation of what to do.

Key Takeaways

• You are called to be a deliverer, not because you are perfect, but because the Spirit of the risen Christ lives in you.
• Jesus reveals himself before he performs the miracle: he is the resurrection and the life, even when the situation is already in the tomb.
• Before the miracle, seek his presence. That is where God confirms to you that he has heard your prayer and strengthens you to hold on.
• All divine power dwells in Christ. When he opens a door, no one can shut it.
• Like Moses, the spirit of a deliverer leads you to see further ahead, to see the invisible, to refuse the comfort of slavery in order to walk toward the promise.

Personal Application

1. What situation in your life today looks like Lazarus' tomb, a dream, a relationship, a project where you have already written "finished"? What would happen if you believed that Jesus is still the resurrection and the life over that exact situation?
2. Where are you at with your presence before the Lord? Do you seek the miracle first, or his face first? What can you change this week in your time with him?
3. Like Moses at Pharaoh's court, what "comfort of Egypt" is God asking you to refuse today in order to walk toward his calling?
4. What "sacred boundary" does God seem to be marking out in your life right now: what wilderness are you crossing, and what does he want to deposit there before the promised land?
5. Like the widow in 2 Kings 4, what is the "little oil" that God can multiply in you if you bring it, if you obey, if you open your vessels?

Scriptures Cited

• John 11 (WEB)
• Psalm 31 (WEB)
• Colossians 1:19-20 (WEB)
• Hebrews 11:22-27 (WEB)
• Psalm 78:52-55 (WEB)
• 2 Kings 4:1-7 (WEB)
• Revelation 3:8 (WEB)

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the preacher mean by "being a deliverer"?

He is not talking about a religious role or a ministry reserved for a few. Being a deliverer means letting the Spirit of Christ, who won the victory at the cross, act through you so that others can be set free from lies, accusation, and spiritual death. It begins with your own freedom, then extends to your family, the people around you, those who do not yet know Christ. Moses is the model: a weak, hesitant man who answered the call and was used to bring an entire people out of slavery.

Why does he stress "the presence of God" so much before the miracle?

Because God is not first and foremost a dispenser of solutions. The preacher sees this in David's example in Psalm 31: after twenty verses of distress, what changes is not the situation, it is that David spent time in God's presence and the Holy Spirit confirmed to him that his prayer had been heard. The miracle may come later. In the meantime, you need strength to hold on, and that strength is received in his presence, not in urgency.

Where was this sermon preached?

The message was shared at an evangelical church in Marseille (Momentum), during a Sunday service, with an extended time of worship, prayer, and the laying on of hands at the end. The preacher refers several times to "our pastor" and references the church's pastoral school. The video was published on YouTube on March 29, 2026 under the title "DELIVERERS."