1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:03,800 If you will stand for the reading of God's word we're 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:08,200 continuing a series that we began last week from Exodus. 3 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,100 Exodus chapter two is where we are this morning. 4 00:00:11,800 --> 00:00:15,200 You can use the passage printed in your bulletin or also use 5 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:19,000 your own Bibles. Exodus chapter 2, 23 through 6 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:23,800 315. During those many days, the king 7 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,000 of Egypt died in the people of Israel. 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,600 Groaned, because of their slavery and cried out for help. 9 00:00:30,400 --> 00:00:35,800 Her cry for rescue from slavery. Came up to God, and God heard 10 00:00:35,800 --> 00:00:38,200 their groaning, and God remembered his Covenant, with 11 00:00:38,200 --> 00:00:41,600 Abraham, with Isaac. And with Jacob, God, saw the 12 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:46,000 people of Israel. And God knew now, Moses was 13 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:48,700 keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest 14 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:51,800 of Midian, and he has led his flock to the west side of the 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,800 Wilderness and came to Horeb the Mountain of God and the angel of 16 00:00:55,800 --> 00:00:58,300 the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst 17 00:00:58,300 --> 00:01:01,200 of a bush. He looked and behold the Bush 18 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,200 was burning yet, it was not consumed. 19 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:08,700 And Moses said, I will turn aside and see this great sight. 20 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,900 Why the bush is not burned. When the Lord saw that, he had 21 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:16,800 turned aside to see God Called to him out of the Bush, Moses 22 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:22,500 Moses and he said, here, I am and he said, do not come near 23 00:01:22,500 --> 00:01:25,700 take off your sandals, off your feet for the place on which you 24 00:01:25,708 --> 00:01:27,600 are standing. Is Holy Ground. 25 00:01:28,600 --> 00:01:31,800 And he said, I am the god of your father, the god of Abraham, 26 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,000 the god of Isaac, and the god of Jacob and Moses. 27 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,600 Hid his face for, he was afraid to look at God. 28 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:41,900 And then the Lord said I have surely seen the Affliction of my 29 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:45,000 people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their 30 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,300 taskmasters. I know there's sufferings and 31 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:51,300 I've come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians 32 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:55,300 and to bring them up out of that land to a good and Broad land, a 33 00:01:55,300 --> 00:01:58,200 land flowing with milk and honey to the place. 34 00:01:58,300 --> 00:02:01,200 Ice of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the amorites, the 35 00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:03,700 perizzites, the hivites, and the jebusites. 36 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,500 And Now Behold The Cry of people Israel has come to me. 37 00:02:08,100 --> 00:02:10,300 And I've also seen the oppression with which the 38 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:14,400 Egyptians oppress them come I will send you to Pharaoh that 39 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:18,100 you may bring my people, the children of Israel out of Egypt, 40 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,100 but Moses said to God, who am I? That I should go to pharaoh and 41 00:02:23,100 --> 00:02:25,300 bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. 42 00:02:25,900 --> 00:02:30,200 He said, but I will be with you And this shall be a sign for you 43 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,800 that I have sent you. When you have brought the people 44 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,600 out of Egypt, You Shall Serve God on this mountain. 45 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:41,600 Then Moses said to God if I come to the people of Israel and say 46 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,200 to them the god of your father's has sent me to you and they ask 47 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:46,900 me. What is his name? 48 00:02:47,500 --> 00:02:53,300 What shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I am who I am 49 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:56,400 and he said, say this to the people of Israel. 50 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:01,600 I am has sent me to you. You got also said to Moses say 51 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:04,200 this, to the people of Israel, the Lord, the god of your 52 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:08,100 father's, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and the god of 53 00:03:08,100 --> 00:03:12,900 Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and 54 00:03:12,900 --> 00:03:17,100 thus, I am able to be remembered throughout all generations. 55 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,600 This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God. 56 00:03:20,800 --> 00:03:26,700 May be seated. Thank you, Matt. 57 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,100 I asked Matt earlier, if he was read the text because my voice 58 00:03:33,100 --> 00:03:37,800 is getting weaker, I don't feel bad, but it sounds horrible. 59 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,800 I know it sounds horrible because after the service at 60 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:45,000 9:30, a handful of cough drops showed up in my hands from the 61 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,400 sweet members of our church. So I apologize for the way it 62 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:53,600 sounds. We are in the second week of a 63 00:03:53,608 --> 00:03:57,700 study on the life of Moses, Pastor Paul Global kick this off 64 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:00,700 last week with a remarkable. Sermon explaining really. 65 00:04:00,700 --> 00:04:02,300 Why are we? Why are we here? 66 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:05,000 And I want to Echo a couple things that I think are really 67 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,900 important. The Bible is about one God. 68 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:12,300 The only god father, Son and Holy Spirit. 69 00:04:13,100 --> 00:04:15,700 There's not an Old Testament. God, and in New Testament God, 70 00:04:16,700 --> 00:04:20,399 sometimes when we read these Old Testament narratives that are so 71 00:04:20,399 --> 00:04:23,000 powerful and beautiful, but sometimes we might have a 72 00:04:23,008 --> 00:04:25,800 difficult time connecting to us because we're looking at it 73 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:28,700 often in the wrong way, not even intentionally. 74 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:32,800 But here's what happens, we misunderstand Christianity, 75 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,600 sometimes for things that are good but not the Ultimate 76 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:38,400 Reality of it. For example, Christianity is a 77 00:04:38,407 --> 00:04:42,600 worldview but that's not the primary point of Christianity. 78 00:04:42,900 --> 00:04:45,900 Christianity is much more than a worldview because it's about a 79 00:04:45,900 --> 00:04:48,500 person. It's about a union that we have 80 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:51,600 with the Living. God Christ Jesus himself 81 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:54,700 studying in Old Testament book, like this is not a book on 82 00:04:54,700 --> 00:04:56,600 learning, how to become a better leader. 83 00:04:56,900 --> 00:05:00,100 Moses was a good leader and he Did many good things, he also 84 00:05:00,100 --> 00:05:01,900 did some bad things. There's lessons we can learn. 85 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:03,600 That's not what it's primarily about. 86 00:05:04,100 --> 00:05:08,100 It's not one more example of a better self help book that makes 87 00:05:08,100 --> 00:05:12,100 us just a more productive human being or a more fulfilled 88 00:05:12,100 --> 00:05:14,700 person. Certainly in Christ you will 89 00:05:14,700 --> 00:05:17,100 experience the Abundant Life but that's not. 90 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:19,700 My Christianity's primarily about just a self-help book 91 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:23,900 checking list. It is about the story of God's 92 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:28,800 Divine and perfect intervention in rescuing his people from 93 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:30,800 here. Her titty away from him. 94 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:36,400 And he'll it is a reality of God's saving, those who are his 95 00:05:36,400 --> 00:05:38,700 own. When we read a story like this, 96 00:05:38,700 --> 00:05:41,900 I'm here about the burning bush, whether you hear it in a sermon 97 00:05:41,900 --> 00:05:44,700 like this, or you're reading through the One Year Bible, or 98 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:47,200 you're just reading the book of Exodus, it's easy to hear that 99 00:05:47,200 --> 00:05:49,100 story and think of it as being marvelous. 100 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:52,800 But then, moving on, very quickly, friends, there is so 101 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,700 much here that we need to understand for the very life. 102 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:00,300 We are living today. When I was in seminary, we were 103 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:04,500 taught to prepare a sermon by asking a few basic questions and 104 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:06,900 then building around it. One of the first questions was 105 00:06:06,900 --> 00:06:13,600 this what do we have in common with those two or four or by 106 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,100 whom the passage was written? That requires the grace of the 107 00:06:17,100 --> 00:06:18,300 passage. Let me say it again. 108 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:23,700 What do we today? 2023 have in common with those 109 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:27,400 two or four by whom the passage was written. 110 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:29,800 That requires the grace of Passage. 111 00:06:30,300 --> 00:06:33,100 And so every time you hear a sermon from this Pulpit, we're 112 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:36,200 trying to understand the people that it was written to. 113 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,900 The people was written by what was their need for God's grace. 114 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:44,100 When we understand that, we can see the direct application as it 115 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:46,300 comes to us. And there's so much here. 116 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:50,400 One of the things you're going to see and this is different in 117 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:54,900 Christianity, is it? Christianity is a religion that 118 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:57,500 is centered on divine revelation. 119 00:06:57,700 --> 00:07:01,000 It's God. Feeling himself to us in 120 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:05,600 different ways so that we can see who he is, who we are and 121 00:07:05,600 --> 00:07:08,900 why we need him. This passage begins. 122 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:12,800 I had to start at the end of chapter 2 because when you want 123 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,900 to understand something about what we might have in common, 124 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,800 you see that there is a people that is suffering the people who 125 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,300 are groaning. Look with me, back at verse 23, 126 00:07:23,300 --> 00:07:26,300 of chapter 2. During those many days, the king 127 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:31,800 of Egypt died and the people of Grown because of their slavery 128 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,800 and they cried out for help their cry for rescue from 129 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:41,200 slavery, came up to God. Well, today it's doubtful, there 130 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,300 is a person in this congregation. 131 00:07:43,500 --> 00:07:47,100 Who knows what it is? Truly like, to be enslaved to 132 00:07:47,100 --> 00:07:50,300 have a Taskmaster or taskmasters. 133 00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:54,900 Not like they did, this was an evil oppression of the people of 134 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:58,900 God that had them doing. Incredible unthinkable. 135 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,300 All labor beyond what you and I have ever experienced or could 136 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:07,500 imagine but enslavement still exists, there are incredible, 137 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:11,100 pictures and realities of evil, all over the world. 138 00:08:11,100 --> 00:08:14,800 But the one that we all have in common just because we are human 139 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,600 beings, is that we are born in slavery to sin. 140 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:22,200 The ultimate oppression is that we were born in sin. 141 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,300 The Bible tells us all have sinned and fallen short of the 142 00:08:25,300 --> 00:08:28,500 glory of God. Paul says, in Ephesians 2 that 143 00:08:28,500 --> 00:08:31,400 we were Add in the trespasses and sins falling. 144 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,200 The course of this world. The power of the spirit of the 145 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,600 air that is now at work among the sons of Disobedience among 146 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:42,100 whom we all once belonged. So you and I and every child 147 00:08:42,100 --> 00:08:45,000 that's born is born enslaved to sin. 148 00:08:45,500 --> 00:08:48,400 So that's why Christianity is so powerful because this story, 149 00:08:48,500 --> 00:08:51,300 going all the way back, thousands and thousands of 150 00:08:51,300 --> 00:08:54,400 years. Even before Christ is telling us 151 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:59,300 how God is coming to rescue. His people not just the People 152 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:04,500 of Israel enslaved in Egypt but all of its people for all time, 153 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:07,300 what I want to do this morning is we look at this, very 154 00:09:07,300 --> 00:09:11,500 familiar narrative, is I want you to see what God is doing 155 00:09:11,800 --> 00:09:14,700 when someone his people cry out to him. 156 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:17,600 Think about what you're crying out to him for. 157 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:24,100 Now we have been in a season of deep groaning, we have been in a 158 00:09:24,100 --> 00:09:28,500 season where we have experienced death tragedy where we have 159 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:34,100 Trauma where we have witnessed disease Brokenness all sorts of 160 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:36,400 things. Every person in here, if they're 161 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:38,800 in touch at all with who they are. 162 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:43,100 In this Fallen world has been groaning about something and 163 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:47,300 these groans cause us to cry. At least they should but not 164 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:52,200 into a vacuum, but to the very same God, that Moses is about to 165 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,400 see in the burning bush, the very same God, Moses is about to 166 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,200 see and the burning bush. Shhhh. 167 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:02,200 So, the way I would like to unpack, these verses is this 168 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:05,500 way, I want us to see how God responds to Israel. 169 00:10:05,700 --> 00:10:10,300 Those rules Cry by first revealing who he is. 170 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,400 Secondly, how he reveals, what his plan is revealing, who he is 171 00:10:16,700 --> 00:10:19,900 revealing, his plan to rescue his people and then I want you 172 00:10:19,900 --> 00:10:24,300 to see the response that Moses has to what God has revealed and 173 00:10:24,300 --> 00:10:28,600 then God's response to Moses and how Moses responded. 174 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:33,100 Let's begin. God answers Israel's cry. 175 00:10:33,700 --> 00:10:39,000 And that answer began far away in the wilderness Moses was. 176 00:10:39,000 --> 00:10:43,500 Once The Prince of Egypt, he was the one who was set and the 177 00:10:43,500 --> 00:10:47,800 basket, who floated who was rescued, he had an incredible 178 00:10:47,800 --> 00:10:51,900 picture, rest life in the Palace of Egypt, the most powerful 179 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:54,800 Nation on the planet. At the time, he had an 180 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,600 unbelievable sense of responsibility and pleasure and 181 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:01,700 power but had a Great fall. This great fall has led him now 182 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:06,500 to a place where he is serving as a Shepherd. 183 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:10,900 His father-in-law he's been doing this now for 40 years. 184 00:11:10,900 --> 00:11:13,400 He's not a young man for 40 years. 185 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:16,500 He's been tending to the flocks of Jethro who's the midianite 186 00:11:16,500 --> 00:11:18,400 priest, who is his father-in-law? 187 00:11:18,900 --> 00:11:22,100 Now what I want you to see is that God is going to reveal who 188 00:11:22,100 --> 00:11:26,100 he is first, he's going to reveal who he is without using 189 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:28,800 words and then he's going to reveal who he is. 190 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:33,400 As he speaks, Moses is going about his day and I think it's 191 00:11:33,400 --> 00:11:36,800 remarkable that Moses got up that morning was tending to the 192 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:38,600 Sheep. Like he normally would was 193 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:42,500 leading them at says, to the West Side, Far Side far away and 194 00:11:42,508 --> 00:11:47,100 he had no idea that on this day, God was going to reveal himself 195 00:11:47,100 --> 00:11:51,200 to him first and a, theophany a theophany is a physical 196 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:55,200 manifestation of God, a visible manifestation of God. 197 00:11:55,600 --> 00:12:00,000 So as Moses is simply doing his work, He is about to have an 198 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:04,300 encounter that will change his life and the people of God's 199 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:08,100 life even our lives, but he is not expecting that. 200 00:12:08,300 --> 00:12:11,300 That's how God works. Some of you today came to this 201 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:15,100 place, maybe just simply wondering about Christianity, 202 00:12:15,100 --> 00:12:18,000 may be simply along with a parent or a friend. 203 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,400 A co-worker, a neighbor. Maybe you came by yourself. 204 00:12:21,800 --> 00:12:25,900 Maybe it's because God today wants to reveal to you, who he 205 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:28,800 is, who you are, and who you could be in him. 206 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,200 Moses is simply doing his job. When suddenly the text tells us 207 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:38,100 that there is this bush and this bush is on fire. 208 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:42,400 Look with me at verse 31 now. Moses was keeping the flock of 209 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:45,600 his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian and he let us 210 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,700 walk to the west side of the Wilderness and came to Horeb the 211 00:12:48,700 --> 00:12:51,300 Mountain of God. Now this mountain is also called 212 00:12:51,300 --> 00:12:53,600 Mount Sinai. This is the mountain that Moses 213 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,900 would climb up. God would descend he would 214 00:12:55,900 --> 00:13:01,000 receive the Ten Commandments. He received these that mountain 215 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:04,600 could be called Sinai or Horeb. It's the place of God. 216 00:13:04,900 --> 00:13:08,800 Then in verse 2 it says in the angel of the Lord appeared to 217 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:14,100 him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush he looked 218 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:19,000 and behold the Bush was burning yet, it was not consumed. 219 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:23,500 Now we're tempted because we've grown up seeing the story on a 220 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:27,300 flannel board are seeing a cartoon represented by 221 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:31,400 vegetables. We are Tempted to not really be 222 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,000 overwhelmed with what took place. 223 00:13:34,900 --> 00:13:41,300 This friends, this theophany actually happened on a place of 224 00:13:41,300 --> 00:13:46,500 Earth that God himself created. Moses was doing his job tending 225 00:13:46,500 --> 00:13:49,900 to the flocks when he saw something on fire, he'd seen 226 00:13:49,900 --> 00:13:53,800 things on fire before actually, it's not that uncommon for 227 00:13:53,900 --> 00:13:56,900 bushes and that climate to catch fire. 228 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:05,700 But We have no other evidence that a bush burned. 229 00:14:05,700 --> 00:14:11,700 Like this without consuming itself in history, this bush was 230 00:14:11,700 --> 00:14:15,100 on fire fire, captures your attention. 231 00:14:15,300 --> 00:14:18,200 There's power in fire in the Bible. 232 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,800 Fire can mean many things will impact that over the weeks to 233 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:23,300 come. But in this case when Moses saw 234 00:14:23,300 --> 00:14:25,500 it, there was something different. 235 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:29,300 This bush was not being consumed. 236 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:35,400 Aimed before God speaks a word. He is, revealing his glory, he 237 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,500 is revealing that, which is marvelous and magnificent and 238 00:14:39,500 --> 00:14:42,500 Moses sees it. What Moses doesn't understand 239 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:46,200 yet is that God in his sovereignty, in the history of 240 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:50,400 redemption was drawing him to himself to this very place on 241 00:14:50,408 --> 00:14:53,400 this particular patch of Earth where he was then from that 242 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:56,600 burning bush. That was not consuming himself 243 00:14:56,800 --> 00:15:01,100 was going to speak. So it says again Verse 2 and the 244 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:04,500 angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of 245 00:15:04,500 --> 00:15:07,400 the midst of a bush. He looked and behold the Bush 246 00:15:07,400 --> 00:15:10,200 was burning yet, it was not consumed. 247 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:12,300 So what does this reveal to us about God? 248 00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:16,300 Christianity is a religion in which God is revealing himself. 249 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:19,400 It reveals first that God is omnipotent. 250 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:25,200 He is all-powerful Gods power cannot be measured, your power 251 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:28,600 can be measured the engines, we create have power that can be 252 00:15:28,600 --> 00:15:31,100 measured. Storms can be measured 253 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:36,800 categories, level 5, whatever it might be, we can measure power. 254 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:39,500 God's power can never be measured. 255 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:45,100 It's immeasurable his power is Manifest over and in creation. 256 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:50,500 This is a bush that God himself created God himself is now in 257 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:54,500 this Burning Bush, he is a powerful. 258 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,300 It also tells us that God is self-existent know. 259 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:03,500 Else is self-existent everyone else and everything else had to 260 00:16:03,500 --> 00:16:07,600 come from something but not God, God is self-existent. 261 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:12,700 It's also a sign that he is self-sufficient as this fire 262 00:16:12,700 --> 00:16:16,300 continues to burn and doesn't consume the leaves of the 263 00:16:16,308 --> 00:16:18,700 branches. It just continues to burn. 264 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,600 It's unlike anything Moses has ever seen children. 265 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,700 Look at me, have you ever been? No campfire. 266 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:28,200 So what happens in the campfire you continue to add logs to the 267 00:16:28,208 --> 00:16:32,900 fire because the fire consumes the fuel which is the wood that 268 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:35,700 is burning. So your father or your mother or 269 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:38,900 a counselor puts more wood to make the fire continue to go 270 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:44,600 This fire didn't need that because God is self-sufficient. 271 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:48,000 He doesn't run out of fuel. He doesn't grow weary. 272 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:50,900 He doesn't grow tired. His glory doesn't diminish. 273 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:55,400 God is self-sufficient. It's powerful that. 274 00:16:55,400 --> 00:16:59,900 In this case, God described as a light, even later by Moses as a 275 00:16:59,900 --> 00:17:03,600 consuming fire in the book of Deuteronomy, it draws people 276 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:06,800 towards it yet. It's powerful and dangerous as 277 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:08,599 well. One of the thing that's 278 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:12,099 important to note. Is that while Moses is drawn to 279 00:17:12,099 --> 00:17:15,099 this fire to this bush that is burning? 280 00:17:15,099 --> 00:17:18,000 But not being burned up, it's a picture. 281 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,700 It's a picture of something that would actually continue to run 282 00:17:21,700 --> 00:17:23,599 through the history of the church. 283 00:17:23,599 --> 00:17:25,500 This Burning Bush and here's what it is. 284 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,800 While Moses sees this astonishing Revelation he is not 285 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,100 yet heard why it's there. He's about to and what God is 286 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:37,400 going to tell him is that the people of Israel. 287 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:39,600 His people are in the fiery, furnace. 288 00:17:39,700 --> 00:17:44,700 Furnace, his people are in the Flames of suffering. 289 00:17:44,900 --> 00:17:50,300 His people are feeling these trials by fire, but they're not 290 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:54,300 consumed. Just like the church. 291 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:57,200 We sing A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. 292 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:00,900 This world with Devils filled will threaten to undo us. 293 00:18:01,100 --> 00:18:04,200 We grown right now because sometimes it feels like what 294 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:08,100 we've been seeing isn't true. That the victory really isn't 295 00:18:08,100 --> 00:18:10,600 ours because so much around us is broken. 296 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,800 That's why we remember the word of God, we're Christ himself 297 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:20,900 suffered and while the Victor thinking it was his Satan 298 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:24,200 himself, it wasn't. Christ was the Victor. 299 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,900 He goes on to tell us that the Gates of Hell. 300 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,700 The fiery Gates of Hell, the fiery Gates of Hell will not 301 00:18:31,700 --> 00:18:35,300 Prevail against his church? No matter what we go through, 302 00:18:35,300 --> 00:18:37,200 whatever, fiery trials, you experienced. 303 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,300 Personally, are we experience corporately? 304 00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:46,800 We will be fine. We will be ultimately secure and 305 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:49,800 Christ. It's a powerful image of this 306 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,200 fire. That doesn't consume Moses sees 307 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,800 it he turns towards it. Look will be not verse 4 of 308 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:00,500 chapter 3. When the Lord saw that, he 309 00:19:00,500 --> 00:19:04,800 turned his side to see God Called to him out of the Bush 310 00:19:05,100 --> 00:19:07,300 Moses Moses and he said here, I am. 311 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:09,400 Now this is a very important sentence. 312 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:13,600 Here's why look back with me at verse 2 and the angel of the 313 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:17,300 Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a 314 00:19:17,300 --> 00:19:20,800 bush, the Hebrew word here for Angel. 315 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,100 Simply means messenger in Angels were commissioned by God created 316 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:30,400 by God commissioned by God, to bring words of Revelation. 317 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:36,400 But this phrase, the angel of the Lord is unique especially as 318 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:41,100 its Company by verse 4. When the Lord saw that he turned 319 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,900 aside to see that is Moses turned aside to see the bush. 320 00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:50,200 God called him out of the Bush. This is not a created angel. 321 00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:53,300 This is not just an angel that have been created by God to 322 00:19:53,300 --> 00:19:58,400 deliver this message. This is God himself, this is the 323 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:01,600 theophany, and in our tradition we believe that it's actually a 324 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,400 pre-incarnate picture of Jesus himself. 325 00:20:05,700 --> 00:20:10,700 The Redeemer the ultimate I am. So from the bush it says God 326 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:14,300 Called to him. So we've seen what God revealed 327 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:17,600 before he ever spoke a word. Now let's see what God reveals 328 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,500 about himself and his plan. As he speaks. 329 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:28,900 So what's the first thing he says, He speaks to words the 330 00:20:28,900 --> 00:20:35,400 same word verse, for Moses. Moses, what does this teach us? 331 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:41,900 God knows his people's names. He knows the people he's going 332 00:20:41,900 --> 00:20:44,300 to use. He knows the names of the 333 00:20:44,300 --> 00:20:46,100 people. He's going to save. 334 00:20:46,300 --> 00:20:51,200 He knows the people's names of all the nation of Israel. he 335 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:58,700 knows your name Bill, he knows your name Roy, he knows your 336 00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:04,500 name Katherine, he knows your name Maddie, he knows our names 337 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:10,800 and God is the only one who can call us to himself and while you 338 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:14,400 might not realize it behind the scenes, even on a day like this 339 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:18,800 in Moses life, God knew because he ordained it that he would 340 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:22,600 meet Moses that that day on that patch of ground. 341 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:26,600 In the fiery Bush. That's not being consumed. 342 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:33,400 He says, first Moses Moses, it's personal and it's emphatic. 343 00:21:34,100 --> 00:21:39,300 He wants his attention, Moses. Then, speaks notice how well he 344 00:21:39,300 --> 00:21:42,100 starts out. This is in my Title Here. 345 00:21:42,100 --> 00:21:46,500 I Am. Don't lose this. 346 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:53,300 Moses is talking to a bush. And it's on fire. 347 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,100 And it's not being consumed and it's real. 348 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:03,600 And what our children need most from us is to believe that, and 349 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:05,400 that it's not just a simple picture. 350 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:09,000 Something we color in a coloring book, that's fine to do, but 351 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,700 they need to see that. You believe it, that the same 352 00:22:12,700 --> 00:22:17,500 God that appeared to Moses in that burning bush is the same 353 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:21,300 God that you are praying to. When you say, thank you for the 354 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:23,300 food that you've provided for us. 355 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,200 It's awesome. Moses Moses here I am. 356 00:22:29,700 --> 00:22:31,600 What's the next thing? God says, look with me at verse 357 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:33,100 5. What does it reveal? 358 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,000 Then he said to Moses do not come near. 359 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,500 Take your sandals, off your feet for the place on which you are 360 00:22:41,500 --> 00:22:46,500 standing is Holy Ground. This is the first time and the 361 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:48,400 whole Bible the word holy is used. 362 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,900 That's awesome. And God is speaking about his 363 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:57,300 Holiness from the burning bush. And the reason he's saying it is 364 00:22:57,300 --> 00:23:00,500 Holy is not because there's something special about that 365 00:23:00,500 --> 00:23:05,300 particular part of Earth that he the one in the burning bush. 366 00:23:05,300 --> 00:23:07,300 I believe Christ himself created. 367 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,600 It's because his presence is there and what God is doing 368 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:15,400 right now is showing incredible Grace to Moses. 369 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:21,400 Well, God is revealing, as he shines through this hot fire in 370 00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:26,900 this bush is that he's real that he's holy and that he's 371 00:23:26,900 --> 00:23:31,400 approachable, but he's approachable on his terms and 372 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,900 until Moses knows who he is and knows how he wants him to 373 00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:39,200 approach him for the sake of Moses, as life. 374 00:23:39,300 --> 00:23:45,800 And Grace, God says to him, stop do not come one step. 375 00:23:45,900 --> 00:23:51,100 Closer, we have to approach this. 376 00:23:51,100 --> 00:23:55,600 Holy God, in his terms on his terms. 377 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,100 He's kind and protective here warning. 378 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:05,100 Moses you must stop. Do not take another step. 379 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:10,300 He then says, take your sandals, off your feet, that was a sign 380 00:24:10,300 --> 00:24:14,800 of something, being sacred and type of Honor for the place on 381 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,900 which you are standing, is Holy Ground. 382 00:24:18,700 --> 00:24:21,900 And now, what else does God reveal to him about? 383 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:23,100 Who he is? Verse 6. 384 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:26,900 He said I am the god of your father, the god of Abraham, the 385 00:24:26,900 --> 00:24:29,000 god of Isaac and the god of Jacob. 386 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,300 Why was that important? What are you saying to Moses? 387 00:24:33,300 --> 00:24:40,200 As you know who I am. I am not a new God. 388 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:46,000 I am the same God who was the god of your father, Abraham of 389 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:50,600 Isaac, the god of Jacob. When Moses hears these words 390 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,500 verse 6 says he hid his face for. 391 00:24:53,500 --> 00:24:57,000 He was afraid to look at God. And if you think you wouldn't 392 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,700 have been, if you think God in all of his radiant, holiness. 393 00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:07,900 This is just a friend who would love to sit down across from you 394 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:10,700 in a coffee house? Sipping a latte which by the 395 00:25:10,700 --> 00:25:12,000 way, there's nothing wrong with that. 396 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:15,600 I meet with God many times and those kind of places, but that's 397 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:20,100 not everything about God. God is that intimate, but 398 00:25:20,100 --> 00:25:24,200 friends if I actually was doing that and suddenly there was the 399 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:29,100 physical presence of the real. God descending I would fall flat 400 00:25:29,100 --> 00:25:31,700 on my face and so would everyone in there? 401 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:37,900 He's holy, he's set apart. He's awesome. 402 00:25:38,700 --> 00:25:42,700 Moses hides his face. God reveals who he is. 403 00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:48,100 I'm the same God, Abraham. I'm the same God of Isaac on the 404 00:25:48,100 --> 00:25:52,700 same God of Jacob, he repeats that and will throughout the 405 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:56,000 Bible. Then he says, in verse 7. 406 00:25:57,100 --> 00:26:00,900 What is so amazing. And the difference between 407 00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:04,400 religions in this world and Christianity verse 7? 408 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,300 Then the Lord said I have surely seen the Affliction of my people 409 00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:13,200 who are in Egypt, I have heard their cry because of their 410 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:18,200 taskmasters. I know there's sufferings God is 411 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:23,000 now revealing his heart for his people going back up to the end 412 00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:29,600 of Exodus to Verse 24, it says in God heard their groaning and 413 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,700 God remembered his Covenant, with Abraham in with Isaac. 414 00:26:32,700 --> 00:26:38,000 And with Jacob, God saw the people of Israel and God new 415 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:41,900 friends, this same. God that speaking from this 416 00:26:41,900 --> 00:26:45,700 Burning Bush, to Moses, who heard the cries of the people of 417 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:48,400 Israel. One by one corporately. 418 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:54,300 He hears your cries. He knows how you're suffering 419 00:26:54,700 --> 00:26:56,400 and he knows how you will suffer. 420 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:58,700 And when you suffer cry out to him. 421 00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:00,900 So, we have these days of prayer. 422 00:27:00,900 --> 00:27:04,900 Like next Sunday, we need to cry to the Lord because he hears our 423 00:27:04,900 --> 00:27:07,400 prayers. The heart of God doesn't just 424 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:10,300 show up in the gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, 425 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,800 it's seen here. And even earlier God says, to 426 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,900 Moses and verse 7. I have surely seen the 427 00:27:17,900 --> 00:27:21,600 Affliction of my people revealing to us, that he is a 428 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,400 tender-hearted compassionate God. 429 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:31,100 So then he moves Too revealing no longer who he is, even before 430 00:27:31,100 --> 00:27:34,700 uses words. But then with words, he now 431 00:27:34,700 --> 00:27:37,400 Reveals His plan look with me at verse 7. 432 00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:41,000 Again, the Lord said I have surely seen the Affliction of my 433 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,400 people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their 434 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,400 taskmasters. I know there's sufferings now, 435 00:27:47,408 --> 00:27:51,400 here's the plan and I have come down, that's benevolent and 436 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,700 itself. I have come down to deliver them 437 00:27:55,000 --> 00:27:57,000 out of the hand of the Egyptians. 438 00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,500 Yes. And to bring them up out of that 439 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:04,700 land to be good and Broad land, a land flowing with milk and 440 00:28:04,700 --> 00:28:07,100 honey, to the place of the Canaanites. 441 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:10,100 The Hittites, the amorites, the perizzites, the hivites, and the 442 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:13,700 jebusites. This land is massive, and this 443 00:28:13,700 --> 00:28:17,500 land is fruitful and imagine if you have been enslaved and 444 00:28:17,500 --> 00:28:23,100 you've given birth to children that are now enslaved, Oppressed 445 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:27,700 by these taskmasters. What would it sound like to hear 446 00:28:27,700 --> 00:28:30,300 that? You are about to be set free, 447 00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:36,000 not set free to go, wherever but to be led to a place that is 448 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,400 beyond what you can even imagine, which is actually true 449 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:46,600 for us to one day. God tells Moses his plan and 450 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:50,600 then he gets specific. And this is where Moses begins 451 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:51,900 to freeze. Freak out. 452 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:56,200 Verse 9. And Now Behold The Cry Of The 453 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,700 People Israel has come to me. And I've also seen the 454 00:28:58,700 --> 00:29:00,800 oppression which the Egyptians oppress them. 455 00:29:01,300 --> 00:29:07,300 Come first 10, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my 456 00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:11,500 people, the children of Israel out of Egypt. 457 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:17,100 Now I want to read that again. And what I want you to imagine. 458 00:29:18,100 --> 00:29:21,700 Is that which is true. A man who just got up that 459 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:25,300 morning to do the same job. He had been doing for 40 years 460 00:29:25,700 --> 00:29:35,500 is speaking with someone inside this fiery Bush who happens to 461 00:29:35,500 --> 00:29:40,600 be God. God says, I've heard my peoples 462 00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,000 cries. He says in, this is important to 463 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:47,100 and hearing their cries. I've remembered my Covenant. 464 00:29:47,100 --> 00:29:50,300 I remembered my promises. He's made a covenant with us 465 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:54,300 too. So Moses, that's my plan. 466 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:56,000 And here's how I'm going to do it. 467 00:29:56,500 --> 00:29:59,800 I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the 468 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:04,500 children of Israel out of Egypt. Moses. 469 00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:09,300 Who first heard the Lord say, Moses, Moses. 470 00:30:09,300 --> 00:30:14,700 And he said here, I am now says in verse 11, who am I? 471 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,400 The second part of my title? Here. 472 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,000 I am. Who Am I? 473 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,800 Who am I? That I should go to pharaoh and 474 00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:32,500 bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. before you Judge 475 00:30:32,500 --> 00:30:36,600 Moses. Think about what God was asking 476 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,400 him to do. He was there for two years 477 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:44,000 before as The Prince of Egypt, he fled 40 years. 478 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:48,400 He's been a shepherd. Now, as he hears the Lord say, 479 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:52,600 I'm going to use you. To do what I've been doing to 480 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,300 you. Just as I've been revealing to 481 00:30:56,300 --> 00:31:00,500 you who I am and my plan to redeem and to deliver my people, 482 00:31:00,700 --> 00:31:04,400 I'm going to use you to reveal the news that I'm going through 483 00:31:04,400 --> 00:31:07,300 you to deliver the people. So imagine what Moses is 484 00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:09,400 thinking, how is this going to work? 485 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,900 I'm going to go to the Elders of Israel and then to Pharaoh 486 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:17,000 himself and say I was doing my job. 487 00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,600 I took the flocks out to the West Side. 488 00:31:22,500 --> 00:31:24,600 I saw burning bush. I've seen them before, but this 489 00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:27,000 one was different. It didn't burn up. 490 00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,000 You've never seen anything like it. 491 00:31:30,100 --> 00:31:32,200 I know. And I hadn't either, and I know 492 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,100 that's amazing. But even more mins get started 493 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:36,500 talking to me. And then I realized, is it 494 00:31:36,500 --> 00:31:40,500 talked to me? It was God. 495 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:45,600 And so I've come back after 40 years to tell you that I'm going 496 00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:51,200 to lead you out from the oppression of this Egyptian 497 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,700 rule. And I'm going to take the same 498 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:56,600 message to Pharaoh so that this can begin to happen. 499 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:03,700 Is there any Wonder? Moses said, who am I? 500 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,000 He shouldn't have. He should have seen enough to 501 00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,600 say, here I am. If you can show up in the 502 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,500 burning bush and not make it burn and talk to me and tell me 503 00:32:14,508 --> 00:32:17,800 what you can do, I'm in I get it what would be more powerful? 504 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:20,700 But that's not what he did. The conversation ended up being 505 00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:25,500 longer and in this long conversation we find ourselves. 506 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,900 Because God in his own way, seeks to use his people to 507 00:32:30,900 --> 00:32:36,900 deliver this news of rescue. Moses says, who am I I know it's 508 00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:40,500 a question you at times, ask it certainly is one that I asked 509 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:43,400 but as he asked the question, who am I? 510 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,500 That I should go to Pharaoh began verse 11 and bring the 511 00:32:46,500 --> 00:32:52,000 children of Israel out of Egypt. Notice how God responds Many 512 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,000 books have been written about how great a leader Moses was, or 513 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,800 how poorly he was because he was both. 514 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:02,100 But what you can't miss is that God doesn't focus on Moses. 515 00:33:02,700 --> 00:33:05,000 God doesn't focus on Moses ability. 516 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,300 He doesn't focus on Moses. His gifts. 517 00:33:07,900 --> 00:33:13,900 He focuses on himself when Moses his response to this holy God 518 00:33:13,900 --> 00:33:18,800 who has revealed himself to him is, who am I God reveals more of 519 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:24,200 who he is first. Of God said, but I will be with 520 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:28,600 you and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you. 521 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,700 When you have brought the people out of Egypt. 522 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,900 Do you hear that Sovereign power? 523 00:33:34,300 --> 00:33:38,000 When you have brought the people out of Egypt? 524 00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,100 Not, when you might bring the people out of Egypt, not, it's 525 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,500 possible. It won't work out as I've 526 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:45,300 planned God. Speaking in the past tense and 527 00:33:45,300 --> 00:33:50,300 the future, when you bring the people out You Shall Serve God 528 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:52,500 on this mountain that. Is worshipped by the way. 529 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:58,300 So then, Moses responds once more Moses said to God verse 13, 530 00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,300 if I come to the people of Israel. 531 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:04,900 Well, that's a problem. The one who began. 532 00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:08,600 So, well, here I am. This is now seeing, who am I? 533 00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,199 And then after God says, I will be leading you and it will 534 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:16,900 happen. Moses says if I go or another 535 00:34:16,900 --> 00:34:18,199 translation. Suppose. 536 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:23,500 I go to Egypt. The people of Israel and I say 537 00:34:23,500 --> 00:34:26,900 to them the god of your father's has sent me to you and they ask 538 00:34:26,900 --> 00:34:28,500 me. What is his name? 539 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:33,900 What shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I am who I 540 00:34:33,900 --> 00:34:37,199 am. And he said, say this to the 541 00:34:37,199 --> 00:34:41,100 people of Israel, I am has sent me to you. 542 00:34:43,000 --> 00:34:46,600 I have more to say, but I'm going to stop here. 543 00:34:48,300 --> 00:34:51,300 I want to invite you over the next couple weeks. 544 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:52,600 We're going to pick this up at two weeks. 545 00:34:53,800 --> 00:35:01,200 I want to invite you to ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate that 546 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:07,400 statement in your heart mind read, think study. 547 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:16,100 What did God mean when he said, I am who I am. 548 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:22,100 Tell them. I am. 549 00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:29,200 Has sent me to you. The reason this matters. 550 00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,300 Is because thousands of years later. 551 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:39,300 The ultimate I am is going to walk the earth after being born 552 00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:47,600 to a virgin This is our story burning bushes in virgins with 553 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,900 child's. Not just a child. 554 00:35:52,000 --> 00:36:00,400 The God, man. This man. seven times in the 555 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:07,000 Gospel of John, is going to say I am I am the bread of life. 556 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:13,100 I am the light of the world. I am the door. 557 00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:18,300 I am the Good Shepherd. Moses was a shepherd. 558 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,000 But this Good Shepherd is going to lay down his life for the 559 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,900 Sheep. You're one of the Sheep. 560 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,600 I am the Good Shepherd. I am the resurrection and the 561 00:36:29,607 --> 00:36:33,400 life. I am the way, the truth and the 562 00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,700 life. I am the Vine. 563 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:41,200 Seven times Jesus says, I am and once more. 564 00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:47,500 In John 8:58 before the religious leaders. 565 00:36:48,900 --> 00:36:53,000 Who could not tolerate the things that Jesus was doing and 566 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,700 saying what he was revealing about himself, what he was 567 00:36:57,700 --> 00:37:02,100 revealing about his father. And John 8:58. 568 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:08,500 Jesus says, this truly truly, that's emphatic, just like 569 00:37:08,500 --> 00:37:19,400 Moses, Moses truly, truly, I say to you before Abraham, was I am, 570 00:37:21,100 --> 00:37:25,100 Huh. That I am. 571 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:34,200 That is a person. That person gave his life. 572 00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:37,200 So that all who would trust in him? 573 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:44,600 Could live in Freedom Forever delivered. 574 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:51,100 From the oppression of Satan and Hell forever that we all 575 00:37:51,100 --> 00:37:57,200 deserve. What happened in Exodus 2 and 3 576 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:02,800 and on matters for what's happening in this place on April 577 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:09,700 23rd 2023. I am says so. 578 00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,500 This. Holy God, set apart. 579 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:23,400 This consuming fire that has promised us that the Gates of 580 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,700 Hell. The fiery Gates will not Prevail 581 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,600 against his church. Cry out to him. 582 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:34,600 And he will remember his Covenant. 583 00:38:35,900 --> 00:38:42,200 And he will deliver you. Holy Father, holy son, Holy 584 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:47,000 Spirit. Something we could never make 585 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,300 up. But it's also something we could 586 00:38:50,300 --> 00:38:55,100 never believe if it wasn't for you calling us by name. 587 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,000 If today, Lord there are those in this midst. 588 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,500 Are those who might be listening online If the day is the day of 589 00:39:03,500 --> 00:39:07,600 their salvation, would you enable them to hear you calling 590 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,600 them to yourself? Would they like Moses, say here 591 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:16,500 I am and surrender to you. Friend. 592 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:19,400 If that's you simply pray, that you are a sinner in need of a 593 00:39:19,408 --> 00:39:24,900 savior and asked Christ to rescue you and then talk to me 594 00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:28,500 or one of the other pastors or someone you came with to know 595 00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:33,600 what that means because it means everything Father for us who 596 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:39,800 have known you for some time. Let us as we have our own needs. 597 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,300 Our own. Sufferings our own groanings, 598 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:48,800 remember who you are that you are the one who remembers your 599 00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:54,100 Covenant promises to us. You hear our cries and you will 600 00:39:54,100 --> 00:39:58,600 Deliver Us. Oh holy God we give you praise 601 00:39:58,900 --> 00:40:01,100 in Jesus name. Amen. 602 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:02,200 Dan.