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Well, during this season of 
Advent, we're working our way 

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through a series on the oh 
Auntie Fonz. 

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Seven ancient prayers that pray 
for the coming of Jesus using 

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titles, given to him by the Old 
Testament. 

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This morning, we're looking at 
Jesus as Lord, and so I invite 

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you to stand for a reading of 
God's word. 

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This morning, I'll be reading 
from to Old Testament. 

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Passages first from the prophet,
Isaiah, Isaiah chapter 11. 

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And then, from the book of 
Exodus, Isaiah 11. 

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Beginning in verse 3, Isaiah 
writes And as the light shall 

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be, in the fear of the Lord, You
shall not judge by what his 

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eyes, see, or decide disputes by
what his ears here. 

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But with righteousness, he shall
judge the poor and decide with 

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equity for the meek of the 
earth. 

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And he shall strike the Earth 
with the rod of his mouth. 

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And with the breath of his lips,
he shall kill the wicked 

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righteousness. 
Shall be the belt of his waist 

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and faithfulness the belt of his
loins. and now from the book of 

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Exodus chapter 3, Now Moses was 
keeping the Flop with his 

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father-in-law Jethro, the priest
of Midian and he led his flock 

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to the west side of the 
Wilderness and came to Horeb the

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Mountain of God and the angel of
the Lord appeared to him in a 

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flame of fire out of the midst 
of a bush. 

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He looked and behold the Bush 
was burning and it was not 

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consumed. 
And Moses said, I will turn 

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aside to see this great sight. 
Why the bush is not burned. 

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When the Lord saw that, he 
turned aside to see God Called 

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to him out of the bush. 
Shhhh Moses, Moses and he said, 

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here, I am then he said, do not 
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off your feet for the place on 
which you are standing is Holy 

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Ground. 
And he said, I am the god of 

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your father, the god of Abraham,
the god of Isaac, and the god of

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Jacob and Moses. 
Hid his face for, he was afraid 

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to look at God. 
Then the Lord said, I have 

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surely seen the Affliction of my
people who are in Egypt and I've

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heard there. 
Prior because of their 

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taskmasters, I know, their 
sufferings and I've come down to

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deliver them out of the hand of 
the Egyptians and to bring them 

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up out of that land to a good 
and Broad land, a land flowing 

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with milk and honey, to the 
place of the Canaanites, the 

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Hittites, the amorites, the 
perizzites, the hivites, and the

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jebusites. 
And Now, Behold The Cry of the 

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people of Israel has come to me.
And I have seen the oppression 

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with which the Egyptians oppress
them, come, I will send you. 

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You to Pharaoh that you may 
bring my people the children of 

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Israel out of Egypt, but Moses 
said to God, who am I? 

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That I should go to pharaoh and 
bring the children of Israel out

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of Egypt. 
He said, but I will be with you 

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and this shall be a sign for you
that I have sent you and you 

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have brought the people out of 
Egypt, you will serve God on 

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this mountain. 
Then Moses said to God if I come

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to the people of Israel and say 
to them the god of your father's

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has sent me to you and they ask 
me. 

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What is his name? 
What shall I tell them? 

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Them. 
God said to Moses, I am who I am

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and he said, say this to the 
people of Israel, I am has sent 

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me to you. 
This is the word of the Lord. 

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You may be seated. 
In the Book of Romans Apostle, 

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Paul writes that if you confess 
with your mouth, that Jesus is 

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Lord and believe in your heart, 
that God raised him from the 

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dead. 
You will be saved. 

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Let me read that to you again 
because it is the most important

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thing that we could hear this 
morning, And the Book of Romans,

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the Apostle Paul writes that if 
you confess with your mouth, 

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that Jesus is Lord, and believe 
in your heart that he rose Jesus

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from the dead. 
You will be saved. 

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From the earliest days of 
Christianity, one of the most 

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essential aspects of the 
Christian faith is the lordship 

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of Jesus. 
But what does it really mean to 

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confess that Jesus is Lord? 
What we're going to see this 

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morning is that the lordship of 
Jesus as more than just a title.

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And it's more than just simply 
his attribute. 

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But we're going to see is that 
the lordship of Jesus is his 

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name. 
It's the very name of God. 

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The second prayer of the oh 
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You can find it in your 
bulletin, it's there on the 

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inside cover, it's a prayer to 
the coming of the Lord. 

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Oh Lord and leader of the House 
of Israel, who appeared to Moses

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and the fire of the burning bush
and gave him the law on Sion. 

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I come and redeem us with an 
outstretched arm It's a 

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beautiful prayer. 
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Come O Lord comes from language 
used by the Old Testament. 

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In particular, we see this 
language alluded to by the 

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prophet Isaiah and Isaiah 11. 
I want you to look with me at 

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Isaiah 11, verse 4. 
And listen to who this Lord God 

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is and what the Messiah will be 
like, Isaiah 11 for with 

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righteousness. 
He will judge the poor and 

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decide with equity for the meek 
of the earth. 

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He will strike. 
Earth with the rod of his mouth 

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of the breath of his lips, he 
shall kill the wicked. 

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Now, listen to this. 
Verse 5 righteousness will be 

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the belt of his waist and 
faithfulness the belt of his 

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loins. 
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Lord is to say that he is 
righteous and he is faithful, he

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is mighty, and he is merciful. 
And the story behind this title,

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as best told by the story of The
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in this story. 
The story of the burning bush. 

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And God coming to a man named 
Moses to make a promise that he 

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would come down and redeem his 
peoples in that story that we 

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see that the same Lord who 
redeemed his people from Israel 

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is the same Lord Jesus Christ, 
who redeems us from our sins. 

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And so this morning as we look 
at this second oh antiphon 

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prayer for the coming of the 
Lord Jesus Christ. 

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I want you to see what it truly 
means to confess that Jesus. 

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The son of God is Lord. 
First thing I want you to know, 

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I want you to know that the Lord
Is Holy. 

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I want you to look with me at 
Exodus 3 verse 1. 

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We're told that Moses was 
keeping the flock of his 

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father-in-law Jethro, the priest
of Midian, and he led this flock

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to the west side of the 
Wilderness and came to Horeb, 

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that is Mount Sinai. 
Now, if you've grown up around a

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judeo, Christian culture are, 
you know who Charlton Heston is?

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You've probably heard of Moses. 
And we know Moses and his story.

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Gets picked up here in chapter 
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But we know the very very 
beginning of his story is that 

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he was a Hebrew and Israelite 
child, who was adopted into 

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Pharaoh's household and after he
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a fellow Hebrew, he fled to 
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And here we pick up his story, 
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verse 2. 
And the angel of the Lord 

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appeared to him in a flame of 
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and Moses looked and behold the 
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consumed. 
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imagine this in your mind. 
Here is Moses keeping watch over

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his flock. 
And out of nowhere, the angel of

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the Lord comes. 
Now already that was an amazing 

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sight. 
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burning bush. 
A bush that was on fire and yet 

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it wasn't burning up. 
It wasn't consumed. 

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This is one of the most iconic 
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The burning bush. a story that 
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not just by bought the Bible, 
but by popular culture An image,

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the burning bush that would have
been to become the symbol of the

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nation of Israel. 
A symbol of the fires of 

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Affliction that they have 
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history. 
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burning bush is not simply an 
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Israel as a nation. but the 
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of God himself, Coming down the 
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And yet not to consume his own 
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Book of Deuteronomy tells us 
that the Lord, our God is a 

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consuming fire, a jealous God, a
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and holy, And God had come and 
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But with his judgment he brought
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And we noticed that here and the
burning bush that God bring all 

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of his Holiness close to a man 
named Otis. 

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Now, I want you to notice what 
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tells us that the angel of the 
Lord appeared Now, that word 

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that phrase is really a title 
and in the Hebrew, it's best 

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translated. 
As the angel of the Lord, not a 

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angel of the Lord. 
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see this title used often 
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When we see the very presence of
God himself, In fact, the angel 

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of the Lord could be translated 
literally as the messenger of 

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the Lord and for centuries, 
Christians have wondered whether

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or not this was an angel or 
perhaps this was a christophany 

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and other words, a a 
pre-incarnate appearance of 

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Jesus now whether or not that's 
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What we do know for certain is 
this this was no mere Angel 

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because of what happens. 
Next, look with me at verse 4. 

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When the Lord saw that he turned
aside to see God Called to him 

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out of the bush. 
Not the angel of the Lord 

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anymore but we're told it was 
God himself. 

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God is the one who called to 
Moses out of the Bush and he 

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says, Moses Moses and Moses 
answers back. 

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Here are mine. 
Now, the word that we see here 

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in verse 44, God is the word. 
Lord. 

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Do you see it? 
And if you see this word Lord 

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and you hear this word, Lord 
used for God, throughout the Old

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Testament. 
There are many people who hear 

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that word and think of that word
and immediately, what they 

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imagine God to be as cold and 
archaic. 

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He's the Lord Are perhaps other 
people you hear that and you 

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think of his attributes, his 
kingship his authority as 

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Majesty, his sovereignty. 
But again, what I want you to 

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see this morning is that the 
word Lord is so much more than 

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his attributes. 
It's a name. 

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And if you're looking in your 
Bible or you're looking at your 

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bullets, and I want you to 
notice something about that 

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word. 
Do you see that? 

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It's an all capital letters. 
Lord, if you ever noticed that 

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before you've ever wondered, why
is Lord printed in all caps in 

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my Bible? 
Why do we see it that way over 

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and over and over again in the 
Old Testament? 

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Well, the reason is any time 
that you see the word Lord and 

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all caps, it's there in the 
place of the name, yah Yahweh. 

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It's the Covenant name of God. 
But you see, for the people of 

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Israel. 
They believed that his name was 

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too holy to say out loud and so 
instead they used a different 

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Hebrew word in its place. 
It's the word Adonai. 

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It means Lord. 
And so every time you see the 

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Lord in all caps, you're not 
just reading at description 

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about God. 
But what you are reading is a 

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placeholder. 
Given and reverence for the 

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Holiness of God. 
To say that God is Lord, is to 

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say that he is. 
Holy he is completely other. 

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He is righteous and he is just 
and he is majestic. and we see 

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that here, And what happens next
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That wasn't enough for Moses to 
see the bush burning and yet not

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consumed, and they then hear 
God's voice. 

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Call out to him from out of the 
bush. 

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Then God says this verse 5 do 
not come near. 

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Take your sandals, off your feet
for the place on which you are 

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standing. 
Is Holy Ground. 

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It was a common display of 
reverence to take the shoes off 

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of your feet when you enter into
a holy place. 

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The Lord is telling Moses this 
place. 

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Now, this area around the 
burning bush, I have claimed, it

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is like my temple, it is, Holy 
Ground. bow down and show 

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reverence and take the sandals 
off your feet and he goes on and

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says, I am the god of your 
father, the god of Abraham, the 

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god of Isaac, the god of Jacob, 
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We're told that Moses hid his 
face and was afraid to look at 

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God. 
Now again I want you to imagine 

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everything that Moses just seen 
a burning bush on fire and yet 

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not consumed. 
But what is Moses afraid of? 

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He's not afraid of this site. 
He's not afraid of the burning 

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bush know, he's afraid of the 
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Why Because the Lord Is Holy. 
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Holiness of the Lord, it should 
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For the Bible tells us that the 
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beginning of wisdom. 
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reverence and awe of his 
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the burning bush that God in his
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Came down. 
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his Holiness, came with fire. 
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God in his Holiness came down, 
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story of the Bible. 
God came to Abraham. 

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God came to Moses god came to 
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God came to the prophets and God
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This is what we celebrate and it
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the son that God has come to us.
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and in faithfulness to bring 
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second thing I want you to know.
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our savior. 
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look with me. 
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have surely seen the Affliction 
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have heard their cry because of 
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I know, their sufferings, I want
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if any of you are suffering of 
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you to hear these words. 
God knows our sufferings, he 

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heard the sufferings of his 
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years for Generations. 
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enslaved in Egypt, they were 
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dictator, Exodus 113, you don't 
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This is how Exodus begins. 
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enslaved in Egypt, And the Lord 
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came to a man named Moses to 
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Exodus 3 verse 8, this is what 
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to Moses for his people. 
I have come down to deliver them

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out of the hand of the Egyptians
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land, to a good and Broad land, 
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honey, and throughout the Bible.
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Exodus becomes these story that 
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redemption. 
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Israel were enslaved to Egypt 
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And I, we are enslaved to sin. 
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named Moses to redeem. 
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God sent a true and greater 
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Jesus. 
To set us free. 

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We're told that Jesus said to 
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he said if you abide in my word 
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you will know the truth and the 
truth will set you free and they

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answered him. 
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have. 
We've never been enslaved to 

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anyone? 
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become free. 
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slavery of the people of Israel 
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Maybe you're Wondering the same 
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inner one here and go out the 
other because you've heard them 

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before or if you're really 
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morning you're wondering just 
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How can we be slaves? 
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America, we know nothing but 
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That's what we are built around.
How could you say that we are 

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If you don't recognize. 
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Then you have no need to be set 
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be set free, you have no need 
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And this is how Jesus responded.
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to you everyone who practices 
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Is a slave to sin. 
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us. 
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think sin is freedom. 
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Freedom for what he would tell 
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choose our own way. 
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is a way that seems right to a 
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reminded of is that sin actually
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experientially. 
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How often? 
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and we sin, how often it is that
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that. 
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Because we are enslaved to sin. 
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can free themselves. 
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Exodus. 
Again Moses comes to God. 

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Exodus 3 verse 11. 
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That I should go to pharaoh and 
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That's a great question. 
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He recognizes that there is no 
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Just like there's no one who can
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of sin God's response in. 
Verse 12 is I will be with you 

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and this will be a sign for you 
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brought you the people out of 
Egypt and you shall serve God on

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this mountain. 
It's a promise. 

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That God will redeem his people.
He will free them from slavery. 

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And brothers and sisters. 
I want you to hear that same 

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promise this morning. 
That once again, God has heard 

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the cries of our sufferings. 
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Advent. 
That and knowing our sufferings,

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he sent his son Jesus, to Bear 
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cross to die in our place and to
rise again, to give us victory 

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over sin so that we could be 
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And the same way that slavery. 
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really just sin. the way of 
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Like, it's slavery. 
The Apostle Paul says, that's 

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exactly right. 
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servant of Jesus rather than a 
servant of sin. 

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In verse 12 of Exodus 3, we see 
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out of Egypt, God says, this is 
the sign that you will serve God

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on this mountain. 
Christopher Walken as a 

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professor and Scholar of modern 
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expert, and post-modernism. 
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this is really the story of not,
just of the Bible, but the story

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that any person in our 
postmodern age would be able to 

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get behind because it's a story 
about Freedom. 

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It's what our age wants the 
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that story makes sense to our 
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You Shall Serve God on this 
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That for our culture says, whoa,
wait a minute. 

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I want to be free, but I don't 
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Advent. teaches us, once again, 
that the King has come down to 

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us, And we haven't been invited 
by grace and mercy to Bow the 

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knee and to find Freedom and 
submitting to the lordship of 

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Jesus. 
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before we sing, I want you to 
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God. 
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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 will I say to them? 
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is that for 400 years, the 
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and a polytheistic culture. 
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is a pretty basic and 
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He's asking, which God are you? 
We've heard about all of these 

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Egyptian gods for 400 years and 
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which one of these Gods sent you
Moses? 

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What am I supposed to tell them?
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Verse 14. 
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I am who I am. 
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Israel. 
I am has sent me to you. 

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In other words, I am the one 
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I am the one that all of these 
lesser gods have pretended to 

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be. 
I am the god behind everything 

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that you assume about the world 
and about culture and about 

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life. 
And about goodness, I am And you

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and I Live. 
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polytheistic culture, not a 
culture that boughs down to 

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Egyptian gods, but a culture 
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sex, and power and Prestige, and
what people think of us and 

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where we live, and our ZIP code,
and the list goes on and on and 

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on. 
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I am. 
I am the one true God. 

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Later, the Gospel of John, tells
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A story about people coming to 
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And as these Jews came to Jesus,
they said, are you greater than 

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our Father, Abraham? 
In other words, who you think 

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you are teaching and Performing,
Miracles, and doing all of these

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things, you really think you're 
greater that. 

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All those who have gone before 
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Even our Father, Abraham and 
Jesus responds this way. 

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He said, truly truly, I say to 
you before. 

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Abraham was I am. 
What was Jesus saying? 

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Jesus was saying, I am greater 
than Abraham. 

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And greater than Moses and 
greater than all the profits. 

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I am the Lord. 
I am the Fulfillment of the 

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burning bush. 
The majesty and Holiness of God,

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come down to earth. 
I am the great deliverer of the 

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one who's come to save his 
people from the slavery of sin. 

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The Passover Lamb Jesus is 
saying I am the Fulfillment of 

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the law. 
The bread of life, I Am The Rock

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from which the water flowed. 
I Am The Great. 

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I Am, I am the Lord and this is 
why John tells us the people 

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picked up stones to throw them 
at him. 

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Because they heard exactly what 
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So what does it mean? 
To confess that Jesus is the 

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Lord. 
What does that mean for us? 

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Two thousand years later. 
After his first Advent to 

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confess, that Jesus is the Lord.
It is to say that he is. 

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The one true God. 
And a culture that is beckoning 

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for us to worship. 
So many other things, This is 

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why Mere Christianity c.s. 
Lewis said that you cannot say 

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that Jesus was just a wise man 
or a moral teacher because of 

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what he says, right here in the 
Gospel of John. 

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His claims don't allow us to 
make that assumption either. 

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He's a liar or he's a lunatic or
he is Lord. 

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So once again, I ask you this 
Advent, what do you really 

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believe? 
What do you really believe about

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the person of Jesus? 
Apostle Paul says that if you 

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confess with your mouth, that he
is Lord and believe in your 

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heart that God raised him from 
the dead, you will be saved. 

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And what does it mean to confess
that Jesus is Lord? 

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To confess that Jesus is Lord, 
is to confess that he is. 

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Holy He is mighty and he is all 
powerful. 

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And yet he has come near to us 
to confess. 

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That Jesus is Lord, is to 
confess that he is the savior. 

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The one who's come to redeem us 
from our sins. 

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And to confess that Jesus is 
Lord, is to confess that he is 

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the one true God. 
There are over 5,000 religions 

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in the world today. 
And Christianity is the only 

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one. that says that the one true
God has not asked that we go to 

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him because we never can But the
one true God has come to us. 

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His name is Jesus. 
He is the king of kings and he 

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is the Lord. 
Let's pray. 

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Father in heaven. 
May we see? 

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Your lordship. 
Maybe see that you father, Son 

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and Holy Spirit, are the Lord. 
That you are God of the Covenant

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of promises that you have kept 
and that every promise has found

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their yes and amen in Jesus 
yours son. 

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And so he pray, Holy Spirit. 
What did you and Abel us now to 

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confess with our mouths that you
Jesus our lord and believe in 

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our hearts. 
That you Jesus rose from the 

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dead. 
To conquer our sins. 

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It is in that power that we now 
pray that you would come to us 

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once again. 
That you would light up our 

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hearts and that you would come. 
One day to make all things new. 

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We ask now that you would do 
this, do this not only in the 

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season of Advent, but all the 
days of her life in Jesus name, 

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we pray, amen.