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Was Matty and Jack Bennington 
come forward to read our text 

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for us. 
Let's stand they'll be reading 

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from Exodus chapter three 
thirteen and fourteen through 

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4:20 thank you. 
Exodus chapter 3 verses 13 

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through 14 and Chapter 4, verses
1 through 20. 

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Then Moses said to God. 
If I come to the people of 

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Israel and say to them the god 
of your father's has sent me to 

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you and they ask me. 
What is his name? 

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What shall I say to them? 
God said to Moses, I am who I am

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and he said, say this to the 
people of Israel. 

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I am has sent me to you. 
Then Moses answered, but behold.

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They will not believe me or 
listen to my voice for they will

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say, the Lord did not appear to 
you, the Lord said to him. 

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What is that in your hand? 
He said a staff and he said, 

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throw it on the ground. 
So he threw it on the ground and

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it became a serpent and Moses 
ran from it. 

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But the Lord said to Moses put 
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the tail. 
So he put out his hand and 

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caught it and it became a staff 
in his hand that they may 

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believe that the Lord the god of
their fathers. 

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Others, the god of Abraham, the 
god of Isaac, and the god of 

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Jacob has appeared to you. 
Again, the Lord said to him, put

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your hand inside your cloak and 
he put it inside his cloak. 

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And when he took it out, behold 
his land, his hand was leprous 

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like snow. 
Then God said, put your hand 

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back inside your cloak. 
So he put his hand back inside 

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his cloak, and when he took it 
out, behold it was restored like

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the rest of his flesh. 
If they will, not believe you 

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God said, or listen to the first
sign. 

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They may believe the latter 
sign. 

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If they will, not believe even 
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your voice, you shall take some 
water from the Nile and pour it 

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on the dry ground and the water 
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Nile will become Blood on the 
dry ground. 

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But the Lord said to, but Moses 
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am not eloquent either in the 
past, or since you have spoken 

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to your servant, but I am slow 
of speech and of tongue, then 

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the Lord said to him who has 
made man's mouth. 

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Who makes him mute, or deaf or 
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Is it? 
Not I the Lord now, therefore go

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and I will be with your mouth 
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speak, but he said, O My Lord 
please. 

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Send someone else then the anger
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Is and he said is there not 
Aaron your brother the levite. 

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I know that he can speak well be
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He's coming out to meet you and 
when he sees you who would be 

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glad in his heart, you shall 
speak to him and put the words 

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in his mouth. 
And I will be with your mouth 

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and with his mouth and we'll 
teach you both what to do. 

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He shall speak for you to the 
people and he shall be your 

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mouth and you shall be as God to
him and taking your hand this 

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staff with which you shall do 
the signs. 

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Moses went back to Jethro. 
His father-in-law law and said 

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to him, please let me go back to
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whether they are still alive. 
And Jethro said to Moses, go in 

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peace and the Lord said to Moses
in Midian, go back to Egypt for 

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all the men who were seeking 
your life are dead. 

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So Moses took his wife and his 
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donkey. 
And went back to the land of 

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Egypt and Moses took the staff 
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This is the word of the Lord, 
please be seated. 

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We're going to spend time in 
this passage this morning as 

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well as next week. 
I asked our staff if they would 

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provide some of our new members 
to read this morning and I 

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didn't have any part in the 
selection, but the woman who 

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just read is my daughter Maddie 
who was 4 years old when she 

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came to this church, Four years 
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You helped to raise her. 
And our help raising her. 

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She's helping raise other 
Covenant Children's Church. 

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Her husband Jack this is 
Seminary Student at Dallas 

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Theological Seminary. 
He felt no pressure from me to 

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join our church, but there were 
many, many more than five 

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questions that I asked him a 
little over a couple of years 

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ago. 
Okay. 

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It's 10:22. 
You're wondering. 

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How long will we be here? 
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we're going to move this text in
the next week because I don't 

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want you to miss it. 
Not a person in here hasn't wish

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that God would give them a sign.
Not a person. 

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At some level in some way. 
You said, If Only God would but 

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I don't believe you. 
I don't believe you would 

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believe it. 
Even if the sign was as great as

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a burning bush because Moses had
to sign God in the theophany I 

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believe Christ himself and that 
Burning Bush was not enough for 

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Moses to say, okay I'll go four 
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God told him to go but there was
a louder voice. and you know, 

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that voice It was his own voice.
Even as the Bush was on fire. 

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And even as he responded, God 
himself to Moses question, what 

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am I supposed to say to them? 
If they ask who sent me and he 

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says, tell them, I am Tell them,
I am. 

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Since you do, you know what I am
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It is the ultimate statement of 
self-existence self-sufficiency 

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omnipresence omnipotence, 
all-knowing omniscient. 

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It's God standing right now, 
ever-present unchangeable. 

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Completely sufficient in himself
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And to accomplish his plan of 
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But Moses, who saw the burning 
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reluctant? 
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I'll go into this more next week
was because there was something 

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louder and it has to do with his
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ears. 
He had not planned on anything 

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spectacular happening that day. 
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it's so like God to interrupt 
what is normal in an ordinary to

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make himself known and he does 
and it's through this theophany 

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this visible expression of the 
Living God. 

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God. 
He tells Moses said, he has a 

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heart to rescue his people and 
he's going to use, Moses his 

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servant. 
Moses sees and hears the burning

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bush, but there's something 
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And what is louder is where his 
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He may have still been looking 
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Where his eyes had really gone 
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The audience to whom God would 
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first be the Elders of Israel. 
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Look with begin at verse 1, 
chapter for Moses answered, but 

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behold they and they is the 
Israelite Elders. 

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They will not believe me, or 
listen to my voice. 

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Moses is having an imaginary 
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burning bush, that's real. 
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is that the people who are the 
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believe me and he has a right to
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time he was with them, they said
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over us. 
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conversation taking place, and 
he can't imagine that the people

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of Israel, the elders would 
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And so what he does is he has 
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this eyes are focused on the 
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very word that God had spoken 
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vert to verse 18, the Lord said 
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Moses is calling God a liar. 
It's not that clear but that's 

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what he's saying. 
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reason is because the audience 
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God's. 
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reluctance is centered on 
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went to himself. 
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He says, in verse 10, Moses said
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eloquent either in the past or 
since you've spoken to your 

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servant but I am slow of speech 
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Well, if you ever felt 
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move away from the audience for 
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Now to look at himself and he 
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he's not able, he's not eloquent
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A mouthpiece. 
I can't speak that way. 

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This is important. 
You can miss this Moses. 

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His disbelief is seen and how he
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making it verse 10. 
You've got to look but Moses 

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said to the Lord, you noticed 
that by the way, babies do that,

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get over it. 
All right, you do it too. 

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It's just not as loud. 
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notice in verse 10. 
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The word Lord is capitalized. 
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capital r capital D, it's 
Yahweh. 

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It's the name that God revealed 
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Oh my Lord. 
He doesn't use the name that God

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had given him. 
God is small in Moses mine, even

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though he's in a burning bush, 
the only time in history, he's 

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seen the sign. 
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His eyes and his ears and the 
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inability is loud. 
You ever feel that way? 

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Do you ever feel like if I just 
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would be able to answer any 
possible question? 

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That my friend, my note, my 
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somebody on a plane might ask 
me, we have everything we need. 

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Because our focus is not up on 
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ability and that's what God 
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So I want to do a quick summary 
of what Moses now experiences is

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God deals with his reluctance. 
I want you to see that God 

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doesn't really focus on Moses, 
he focuses on himself, but what 

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he does is he does things. 
With ordinary means go back up 

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into the text verse 2. 
Chapter 4, Moses is complaining,

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he's scared. 
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What is that in your hand? 
He said a staff. 

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Now, what does the staff? 
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something that he picked up or 
maybe was made that he would use

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as a Shepherd, but it's dead. 
Would God take something 

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ordinary that is in his hands. 
And he tells Moses to do you do 

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what children are going to love 
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He says to him, throw it on the 
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And when Moses takes this 
dead-stick, the staff that he is

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used as a shepherd and throws it
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And it turns into a real snake 
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snake and is it suddenly begins 
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This thing that Moses has held 
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as a Shepherd he runs from it. 
The very stick that is in his 

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hand. 
He's now running from because 

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it's a snake. 
The snake. 

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The serpent was the big sign and
the big emblem of the people of 

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Egypt. 
It was on everything everything 

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that had to do with power and 
now that serpent is moving along

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so the God who turned that dead 
wood and to a living snake says 

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to Moses in verse 4, put out 
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towel. 
By the way, this is being spoken

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from a burning bush. 
Don't forget. 

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So he puts out his hand and he 
caught it. 

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Can you imagine It's a really 
cool in the Hebrew language When

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God Says, pick it up its strong 
language. 

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It's graphically new language. 
It means grab it. 

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When it tells us what Moses did,
it's very weak language. 

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It means that he just kind of 
snatched it. 

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But he did. 
He was obedient. 

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The voices in Moses's head. 
His own about his limits and the

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audience are louder. 
So then the Lord says this in 

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verse 6, put your hand inside 
your cloak. 

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And he put his hand inside his 
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hold his hand was leprous like 
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Well, here's the point. 
The God Who is Sovereign over 

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the stick, is also Sovereign 
over the hand. 

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That holds the stick, and Moses 
puts his hand inside the cloak 

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and it really does become 
leprosy. 

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We know the end of the story, so
we're not shocked by that. 

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Moses for that moment, had 
leprosy the incurable disease, 

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the contagious disease. 
The one that we know was rampant

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in Egypt would have, which would
have people placed and leper, 

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colonies Moses has it and then 
the Lord says, stick it back in 

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your cloak. 
And when he does he's healed, He

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gives them a third sign. 
The third sign is this? 

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He says, in verse 9, if they 
will not believe even these two 

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signs or listen to your voice, 
you shall take some water from 

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the Nile and pour it on the dry 
ground and the water that you 

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shall take from the Nile, which 
means life to the Egyptians, by 

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the way, will become Blood on 
the dry ground. 

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And this very miracle that Moses
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plague. 
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Isn't it all? 
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Verse 13. 
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case ORD. 
Please send someone else, the 

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Lord is angry and he's a right 
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living in the reality of a god. 
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speaking from a burning bush, 
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and we're just like him. 
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had them ride on a donkey and 
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and Moses took the staff of God 
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That staff had just been a 
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had leprosy and he was obedient.
What a sign. 

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The staff became a sign for the 
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An incredible sign. 
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Sea. 
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were ushered in. 
He would use it to strike. 

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A rock and water would flow what
a sign. 

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But friends, in Jesus Christ, we
have a greater sign. 

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A sign that is much greater than
the staff. 

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Because there was a much greater
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A prophet who was not reluctant 
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Is Moses, who understood? 
What was happening in cried out 

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to the Lord. 
Lord, if you are willing, take 

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this cup from me yet. 
Not my will be done but yours be

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done. 
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sobered by that but not 
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And Christ himself would be 
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And his own hand would be nailed
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our sins would be shed and 
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And the cross is our sign and 
that sign is so much greater 

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than the burning bush. 
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Greater Than the staff. 
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see the cross, what we see is 
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tense, did for us. 
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It's because he's not on the 
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tomb. 
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This is the fifth Sunday of 
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And we celebrate that every 
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A God has called us just as he 
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The 84 new members are going to 
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Islands, I don't have access to,
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Recreation you go with the sign 
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to let the radiance of Christ 
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Why are you able to admit evil 
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It's because of the cross. 
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friends, we must confess when 
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audience can be scary, it wasn't
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that Moses was to speak. 
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no matter how powerful they are 
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they speak louder. 
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his word. 
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And we missed the blessings. 
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own perceived lack of giftedness
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revealed himself in the burning 
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man. 
Jesus Christ. 

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Incarnate When our inability is 
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he is. 
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We will like Moses resist. 
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he's angry the grace of God. 
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That's what the sign of the 
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a year. 
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It is I am power for on that 
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bread of life. 
I am the light of the world. 

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I am the door. 
I am the Good Shepherd. 

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I am the resurrection and the 
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I am the way, the truth, and the
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I am the vine. 
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The one who said truly, truly, I
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Was I am. 
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spirit that I am power goes with
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He is called us. 
To go. 

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It's the power of the cross. 
And the resurrection alive alive

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alive in us. 
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patience. 
Of your people. 

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And the hunger of your people, 
The Thirst of your people for 

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giving us that and enabling us 
to hear what we could never hear

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and see what. 
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We all Lord at times asked for a
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given it to us. 
You are the sign. 

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Holy Spirit, illuminate Christ, 
his death, his resurrection, his

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Reign and his promise return. 
Let us father bring you glory 

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now with the way we lift our 
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and what you have accomplished. 
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Amen. 
Please stand and sing with full 

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voice. 
Holy Spirit, illuminate Christ, 

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his death, his resurrection, his
Reign and his promise return. 

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Let us father bring you glory 
now with the way we lift our 

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voices and singing of the power 
and what you have accomplished. 

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We pray in Jesus name. 
Amen. 

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Please stand and sing with full 
voice.