The Most CHALLENGING Season Christian Men Face (Like Bible Heroes) – (RE)quipping Men in Ten EP 1071

Hey, guys, I want to jump into the meat of this podcast.

I've been thinking a lot about obscurity and what does obscurity look like? You know, I didn't realize this at the time.

One of the things about obscurity is you don't know you're going through it at the time.

So I was radically called to ministry before I was serving the Lord.

When I got called to work with teenagers, I did that faithfully from 1985 until I gave my life to Christ three years later.

And I've been doing it all the way ever since.

And I did not stop.

working with teenagers till God called me to work with men.

So I went from 1985 to 2012.

So many, many years of working with teenagers.

But what I didn't realize was that was actually a season of obscurity for me.

That was a season that God used to form me, shape me, test me, try me, and make me the man and the minister that he's called me to be for you guys who are listening to this episode today.

So what does the Bible have to say about this? Well, let's look.

So in the Bible, we see Moses went through a season of obscurity.

He was raised in the Pharaoh's court until he was 40 years old.

I love the math with Moses.

It's so clean.

Until he was 40 years old, he escaped into the wilderness where for 40 years he lived in a season of obscurity.

He was in the wilderness tending sheep.

for 40 years.

And then at 80, God called him to deliver the Israelites out of the hand of Pharaoh.

And for 40 years, he led the people of Israel.

But everything happened in that 40 years of obscurity after he had received 40 years of training.

Then he went into the season of obscurity.

Let's But for 30 years, Jesus is virtually unheard of except a very small portion at the beginning of Luke.

Hey, guys, I want to jump into the meat of this podcast.

I've been thinking a lot about obscurity and what does obscurity look like? You know, I didn't realize this at the time.

One of the things about obscurity is you don't know you're going through it at the time.

So I was radically called to ministry before I was serving the Lord.

When I got called to work with teenagers, I did that faithfully from 1985 until I gave my life to Christ three years later.

And I've been doing it all the way ever since.

And I did not stop.

working with teenagers till God called me to work with men.

So I went from 1985 to 2012.

So many, many years of working with teenagers.

But what I didn't realize was that was actually a season of obscurity for me.

That was a season that God used to form me, shape me, test me, try me, and make me the man and the minister that he's called me to be for you guys who are listening to this episode today.

So what does the Bible have to say about this? Well, let's look.

So in the Bible, we see Moses went through a season of obscurity.

He was raised in the Pharaoh's court until he was 40 years old.

I love the math with Moses.

It's so clean.

Until he was 40 years old, he escaped into the wilderness where for 40 years he lived in a season of obscurity.

He was in the wilderness tending sheep.

for 40 years.

And then at 80, God called him to deliver the Israelites out of the hand of Pharaoh.

And for 40 years, he led the people of Israel.

But everything happened in that 40 years of obscurity after he had received 40 years of training.

Then he went into the season of obscurity.

Let's But for 30 years, Jesus is virtually unheard of except a very small portion at the beginning of Luke.