1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,720 This is City Post Church. We're about three things. 2 00:00:03,960 --> 00:00:08,160 Build equipped and send. All under the Lordship of Jesus 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:10,240 Christ. A small church plant in Fort 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,400 Worth, TX. Who decided to do things a 5 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:15,800 little differently? Adoramos Ayesu cristo. 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,920 I love City Post because of the people. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,960 It's where I belong. We truly preach the Word. 8 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,680 I love City Post because of the community we've been able to 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:26,680 build. To do ministry like Jesus. 10 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:28,720 For light to push back. Darkness. 11 00:00:30,040 --> 00:00:42,110 This is City Post podcast. All right, so after last week, 12 00:00:42,110 --> 00:00:45,390 Moses and Aaron, they are on. Their way to talk to. 13 00:00:45,390 --> 00:00:48,270 Pharaoh, and you know they. Had a little bit of. 14 00:00:48,590 --> 00:00:53,710 A conflict of belief and God met them there and today we're. 15 00:00:53,710 --> 00:00:56,750 Going to look at a passage and we're going to look at a text. 16 00:00:56,750 --> 00:01:00,670 That many people talk about and this is whole idea. 17 00:01:01,470 --> 00:01:04,040 Of. Pharaoh hardening his heart 18 00:01:05,160 --> 00:01:06,840 it's. Almost like God said. 19 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:08,520 I'm going to harden your. Heart Pharaoh so. 20 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:12,320 You're going to get mad because I hardened it and many people 21 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:15,880 read this text, and many. People take the text. 22 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:19,520 Out of context, So what? We're going to look at today is 23 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,560 as. Moses and Aaron step into the 24 00:01:21,560 --> 00:01:24,040 calling that God told them, and they're going. 25 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,000 To do exactly what God. Told them to do. 26 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,360 Pharaoh is going to meet them with a hardened heart. 27 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:32,560 And we're going to see. How? 28 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:35,680 That becomes and then what we could learn from that and then 29 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:37,560 we're going to talk about some frogs and all that. 30 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:40,600 Cool stuff. All right, so look at chapter. 7 31 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:44,880 verse one and we're just going to dive into this thing. 32 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:47,640 Let's read verses 1-2 and three, and then. 33 00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,040 We'll we'll we'll chat so. Verse one and chapter. 34 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,680 Seven, says the. Lord said to Moses, See, I have 35 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:55,200 made you. Like God. 36 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,200 To Pharaoh and your brother Aaron will be your prophet. 37 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,800 You are to say. Everything I command you and. 38 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:07,000 Your brother Aaron is to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites. 39 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:13,040 Go out of his country, but I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and 40 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:17,360 though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt, he will not 41 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,680 listen to you. Then I will lay my hand on 42 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:25,200 Egypt, and with mighty acts of judgment I will bring out my 43 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:26,640 divisions. My. 44 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:29,760 People. The Israelites, all right. 45 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,880 Let's go back to verse one. Verse 1 is a little bit 46 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:36,360 interesting when you look at the text because it's like man. 47 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:37,680 What is? What is God? 48 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:42,400 Saying here I'm going to make you Moses like God to Pharaoh. 49 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:47,040 So the Lord said to. Moses, I have made you like God. 50 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:50,720 To Pharaoh. So you got to remember, as we 51 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:54,960 tracked during this story, Pharaoh made. 52 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:58,120 A decision in. Exodus chapter 5, verse 2. 53 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,360 Pharaoh's decision was I'm not going to. 54 00:03:01,440 --> 00:03:04,320 Jack with your God. I'm not going to mess with him. 55 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,800 I don't believe in him. Exodus 52 says Who is the Lord, 56 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,760 that I should obey his voice to let Israel? 57 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:15,280 Go therefore God's like, OK, I'm not going to deal with you. 58 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:17,360 I'm going to send Moses to deal with you instead. 59 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,280 And I think this is a good lesson for us that I think 60 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:25,080 sometimes that when we reject the Lord and as God is trying to 61 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:28,760 call us and and get our attention and talk to us, he's 62 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:33,040 going to send other people in our path to convey a message. 63 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,960 For us. And that's what's happening, 64 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:41,200 Pharaoh made. A choice Pharaoh's like. 65 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:44,200 I'm not messing with this. God of Israel, so God's like, 66 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,320 OK. I'm going to send you Moses. 67 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:49,800 And he told Moses. This already he's like, you're 68 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,280 going to be like God to Pharaoh. And then Aaron is going to be. 69 00:03:53,280 --> 00:03:58,080 Like the prophet. So that's exactly what's. 70 00:03:58,080 --> 00:04:02,000 Happening now, but I will. Also say that this is. 71 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,880 Also another example of the. Richness of God's mercy. 72 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,880 Because we just. Spent all this these last. 73 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,880 Couple of weeks of. Of Moses wrestling with this 74 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,600 calling that. God placed on his life. 75 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:20,040 And God met Moses in that mess, and he explained everything to 76 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:23,920 Moses. Instead of chastising Moses, God 77 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:27,760 met with him and God explained it to him, and he's walking 78 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:29,960 Moses. Through which I. 79 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:33,560 Think is a great example. Of the God that we. 80 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:37,720 Serve. And his greatness and mercy now. 81 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,920 Verse 2. You're going to say everything I 82 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:47,480 command you so. What's the the key here is like? 83 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:50,880 Everything I say to you, Moses, you're going to tell Pharaoh and 84 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,240 your brother, I'm sorry, I'm you're going to tell Aaron and 85 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:56,640 Aaron. Is going to tell Pharaoh to let 86 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,960 the Israelites? Go out of this country, but God 87 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:02,920 gives them a condition. He's like, but I'm just going to 88 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,600 give you a. Heads up I will. 89 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:10,760 Harden Pharaoh's heart, and though I multiply my signs and 90 00:05:10,760 --> 00:05:15,160 wonders in Egypt, he will not listen. 91 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,440 To you. Now, this whole idea of 92 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:23,120 hardening Pharaoh's heart, I want us to be careful that we 93 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:28,280 think that God is is kind of turning Pharaoh against him, 94 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,280 when really. What we're seeing here is that 95 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,320 Pharaoh's desire. And this indication against. 96 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:40,600 Israel, what God is doing is that God is allowing Pharaoh to 97 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,840 accept that. Inclination in the. 98 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:46,560 Hatred that he has toward. Israel, God is giving. 99 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:52,800 Pharaoh over to what he. Wants And because God gives him 100 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:56,720 over to what he wants, Pharaoh's heart continues. 101 00:05:56,720 --> 00:05:59,920 To get hardened. Now I. 102 00:05:59,920 --> 00:06:02,440 Think one of the best examples I've heard of this if you think 103 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:03,720 about. A cement truck. 104 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,600 So anybody here in construction knows that when you have a 105 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:09,840 cement truck. The trucks show. 106 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:12,840 Up on the job. And as the truck drives to the 107 00:06:12,840 --> 00:06:17,080 job, it is. Mixing the cement Now what 108 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:20,800 happens if there's no movement on the truck? 109 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,800 What happens if they throw all the cement in the truck and then 110 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:26,200 it drives an? Hour without the water. 111 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:27,720 And the movement and the. Mixture. 112 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:32,120 The cement gets hard. And listen, it's the same thing 113 00:06:32,600 --> 00:06:35,840 whenever there's no movement in our life, when there's no 114 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:39,320 relationship in our life with God, our hearts begin to get 115 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:43,600 hardened toward Him. There's no movement, there's no 116 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,400 freshness. There's no. 117 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:49,640 Water of Life. And as you're going through. 118 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:53,880 Life your heart. Begins to harden for the things 119 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:55,920 of God. Your heart begins to harden. 120 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:00,560 For the people of God. And your heart begins to harden 121 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,320 for the ways of God. And what God does is that 122 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:06,480 whenever you start looking at things in that. 123 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,840 Light God does what you. Want and he says go. 124 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,920 Ahead and have it. And we see that out of Romans 125 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:17,600 chapter 1, verses 24 through 28, the Bible says that when people. 126 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,760 Started to follow the. Creation instead of the creator 127 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:23,480 God gave them. Over to their evil ways. 128 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,960 And says go for it. And the reason why he does this 129 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:31,200 is because he knows that everything that you're chasing 130 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:35,720 that's not him is going to end in emptiness and disaster. 131 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:38,480 You're going to get to. A place in life. 132 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,720 Where you're going to hit. Rock bottom and you're going to 133 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:45,720 have to look up and you're going to need a savior and The thing 134 00:07:45,720 --> 00:07:46,600 is our. God is so. 135 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:51,120 Loving and kind that when that happens there, when that happens 136 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,920 to you, he's going to offer. You a way out. 137 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,520 So her pharaoh is. Hardened now he has accepted 138 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:03,240 this is what he wants. He has refused to this humble 139 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,320 request that Moses has made. He does not want anything of it. 140 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:09,320 He's like, OK, fine, have it. It's going to be your. 141 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:12,960 Choosing Now here's what's even. Crazier God is like, listen, his 142 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,040 heart is going to be hardened. He's not going. 143 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:16,840 To do what you say. And. 144 00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:20,720 Here's what's even Wilder Moses. I'm going to do all these signs 145 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,880 and wonders that means I'm going to give him. 146 00:08:23,160 --> 00:08:27,000 Opportunity after opportunity after opportunity. 147 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:33,039 To obey and come to me. And after every miracle and 148 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:37,559 after every opportunity, for some reason, he's going. 149 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,039 To refuse. He's not going to listen to you. 150 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:47,880 Then I will lay my hand on Egypt, and with mighty acts of 151 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:49,320 judgment. I will. 152 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,320 Bring out my divisions, my people to Israel. 153 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:55,360 Verse 4. When I read verse 4. 154 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,000 Go and put verse 4. Up when I read. 155 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,240 Verse four I was like, man, that's. 156 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,080 That's kind of a a, a strange verse. 157 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:03,440 The way it reads. And really with verse. 158 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,120 Four. In the scripture this is. 159 00:09:05,120 --> 00:09:08,040 Called a double designation. Right. 160 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:10,040 So he's he's, he's. Giving Israel a double 161 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:13,800 designation here, so he calls. Israel, he's like. 162 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:17,080 I'm going to, I'm going to get out my truck, my, my divisions 163 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,800 and then my people, the visions, Israel. 164 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,680 Was set up. Kind of like as a military camp 165 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:26,880 to fight the Canaanites. So Israel is. 166 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,600 Set up in 12 tribes, 12 divisions purposely and God is 167 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:34,280 like, I'm going to pull out my divisions. 168 00:09:34,280 --> 00:09:37,160 I'm going to pull out. The people of Israel, but. 169 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,960 Then the second term is what we call a possessive pronoun. 170 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:44,640 The possessive pronoun is. Because Pharaoh. 171 00:09:44,640 --> 00:09:47,520 Right now thinks the Israelites belong to him. 172 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:51,120 Pharaoh's like, no, I own the Hebrews. 173 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,200 They're my slaves. They work for me. 174 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,880 Those are mine. And God is like, no, I'm not 175 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,080 going to just pull out my tribes. 176 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,200 I'm going to pull out my people, not. 177 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:09,120 Pharaoh's people, but. My people, God is making. 178 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,280 A. Statement here and what I want 179 00:10:12,280 --> 00:10:14,280 to look at before we jump into verse. 6. 180 00:10:14,520 --> 00:10:19,040 I think that there's some things that we can learn from Pharaoh's 181 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:24,760 heart and heart now. The older I've become, the more 182 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,480 I. Realize that I rather. 183 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:31,320 Learn from people's terrible. Decisions and mistakes than me 184 00:10:31,320 --> 00:10:35,080 experiencing them myself. Now I know there's some of us in 185 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:36,200 here. Let's just be honest with my 186 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:40,560 have a friend where you're like, hey man, I don't think you 187 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:43,880 should eat that. And what's the excuse? 188 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:47,600 Well, I'm the kind of. Guy that has to. 189 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:52,040 Experience it for myself 'cause I'm hard headed. 190 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:57,360 You're like, OK all. Of us have been there, we've all 191 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,120 done those things. Bro. 192 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,320 Don't date her man. This is bad news. 193 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,480 That's going to be different this time. 194 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,760 Two weeks later. Don't save her. 195 00:11:07,760 --> 00:11:09,120 She don't want to be. Saved, right? 196 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,560 I'll be like, that's the I. Was like I warned you. 197 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:13,520 J. Cole coming up. 198 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:19,680 Right, I get you were told. And many of us kind of go. 199 00:11:19,680 --> 00:11:23,000 Through that and really like. My heart as a pastor, I think 200 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,440 that there's some things that we could learn that when you have 201 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,680 someone. That you look at through 202 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:31,840 history, who has. Hardened their hearts toward 203 00:11:31,840 --> 00:11:34,160 God, who has leaned on their own. 204 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:39,000 Pride instead of saying yes to the Lord Jesus Christ or yes to 205 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:43,240 the Lord Yahweh, we see we see a pattern here with. 206 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:46,240 So let's what can we learn from Pharaoh SO3 quick things and 207 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,920 it'll be on the screen. Number one, it doesn't get 208 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:52,720 better. I know some of us are like, man, 209 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:54,600 Ricky, it's hard right now in life. 210 00:11:55,480 --> 00:11:57,720 But if I just keep. Doing what I'm doing and if I 211 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,480 just line up my ducks in a row and everything is cool at the 212 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:03,280 same time of ignoring God, listen. 213 00:12:04,520 --> 00:12:07,720 Pharaoh started. His heart got hardened. 214 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:10,080 He wanted nothing to do. With God and we're. 215 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,760 Going to see even after. The first couple of plagues. 216 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,640 He's like, Nah, I'm, I'm, I'm good. 217 00:12:14,640 --> 00:12:17,200 My magicians could do it. And listen, it's going to get 218 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:21,640 worse and worse and worse and worse and worse. 219 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:23,680 So. Pharaoh has to bow. 220 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:25,400 His knee and say OK. Forget it. 221 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:29,680 Like just take it just. Y'all just leave and listen. 222 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:33,000 That's a lesson for us. Because if we're not following 223 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,160 the Lord, if you're turning on. Jesus things. 224 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:39,880 Are not going to get. Better for you it's. 225 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,760 Actually going to get worse. Because the Bible. 226 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,720 Says that the enemy. Comes to steal, kill and 227 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,680 destroy, but then Jesus says I've. 228 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:51,440 Come to give you life. Anything in sin is going to lead 229 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,600 you. To a place of. 230 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:58,360 Destruction and death and it's. Disguised in something that 231 00:12:58,360 --> 00:12:58,960 feels. Good. 232 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:01,600 And it's real nice and I've seen. 233 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:05,280 People who have. Turned away from the Lord and 234 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:07,760 has lived. Life in years and years and they 235 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:09,640 get to a place. In life and they're like. 236 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:11,080 Yeah. Man, I'm still rocking. 237 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:13,480 It's awesome. But then you look back and it's 238 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:14,920 like. A trail of dead bodies. 239 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:20,160 Broken marriages. Bad relationships, death, all 240 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,280 these terrific like things that are. 241 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:24,040 Not working well for them. Why? 242 00:13:24,040 --> 00:13:27,360 Because when you choose. Not to follow Jesus. 243 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:30,920 You're choosing not to follow. Not to take in life. 244 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:33,400 And forgiveness and grace and mercy. 245 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,680 And you're going to. Spend your whole entire life. 246 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,560 Searching and nothing is going to suffice. 247 00:13:40,240 --> 00:13:44,600 Pharaoh started and listened. It don't get better. 248 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:48,800 It didn't get better for Pharaoh, it got worse #2. 249 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,120 What can we learn from Pharaoh when you choose to harden your 250 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:53,960 heart? It impacts. 251 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:58,200 Those closest to you. You know what's funny about 252 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,160 Pharaoh and all his pride and all his selfishness? 253 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:05,320 He didn't really think about the impact that was. 254 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:07,960 Happening on the. People of Egypt and what we're 255 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:11,800 about to look at is as God. Is working to free. 256 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:16,480 The Israelites in the Hebrews, the people of Egypt, are equally 257 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:20,280 suffering. They're taking on what? 258 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:27,280 Pharaoh's Pride is producing. Look at Jonah when Jonah 259 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:28,640 refused. To follow the. 260 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:32,000 Lord, he got on a boat and what happened? 261 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,320 Everybody on that boat. We're like we're all about to 262 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:36,920 die. And Jonah's like it's probably 263 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:38,840 my fault. Throw me off, throw me off. 264 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:42,720 Listen when you choose not to. Follow the Lord. 265 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:47,480 It doesn't just impact you, it impacts all of those around you. 266 00:14:48,440 --> 00:14:52,840 It impacts your families, your. Kids, there's this ripple effect 267 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:57,320 that happens all because you. Chose not to. 268 00:14:57,320 --> 00:14:59,920 Say yes to Christ. And not to follow him in the. 269 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:01,920 Heart. In your heart there's. 270 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:07,080 Some consequences that happen. And then lastly #3 what can we 271 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,800 learn from Pharaoh? God is going to smash your 272 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:13,640 idols. God is the idol smasher. 273 00:15:15,280 --> 00:15:18,760 Man, I remember when. I love UFC when? 274 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:21,040 Conor McGregor was going to fight Khalif. 275 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:25,520 It's like the highest selling pay-per-view that ever happened. 276 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:29,720 2 undefeated fighters went at it and I remember that press 277 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:31,760 conference. Conor McGregor is hyping 278 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:35,360 everybody up and everybody's yelling at Khalif and Khalif 279 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,520 gets on the mic and he says this famous line. 280 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:39,320 He's like tomorrow night I'm going to. 281 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,320 Smash your boy. And that's all he kept 282 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,240 repeating, I'm going to smash your boy. 283 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:50,600 And whenever, whenever we come to God with other things, God is 284 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,480 like, I'm going to smash your idols. 285 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:57,440 He's going to crush them. There is nothing that will stand 286 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:01,240 against our God, and God will not share His glory with 287 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,520 anything. Else and Pharaoh is going. 288 00:16:04,520 --> 00:16:10,720 To learn this the hard. Way God will destroy our idols. 289 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,360 And Speaking of idols, let's. Talk a little bit. 290 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:19,280 About what happens next, because now God. 291 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,200 Is going to start implementing his plan. 292 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,400 It is fight time. It is go time. 293 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:29,560 So look at verse. 6 Moses and Aaron. 294 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:31,880 Just did as the Lord. Commanded them. 295 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:34,320 Moses was 80. Years old. 296 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:37,960 Aaron was 83. When they spoke to Pharaoh, 297 00:16:38,400 --> 00:16:40,800 you're never too old. To get involved, I'm just. 298 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:46,080 Saying the Lord said. To Moses and Aaron when? 299 00:16:46,080 --> 00:16:49,960 Pharaoh says to you. Perform a miracle, then say to 300 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,760 Aaron. Take your staff, throw it. 301 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:53,760 Down before. Pharaoh, and it will. 302 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:57,440 Become a snake. So Moses and Aaron went to 303 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:00,600 Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. 304 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,000 Aaron threw his staff down on the floor in front of Pharaoh 305 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,000 and his officials. And guess what? 306 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:12,400 It became a snake. Pharaoh then summoned wise men 307 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,079 and. Sorcerers and the. 308 00:17:14,079 --> 00:17:19,319 Egypt and the Egyptian magicians also, they did the same thing. 309 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,920 With their secret arts. Each one threw down his staff 310 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:25,839 and it became a snake. But Aaron's? 311 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:30,800 Staff swallowed up their Staffs, but yet Pharaoh's heart. 312 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:34,880 Became hard and. He would not listen to them. 313 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:40,160 Just as he had said. So think about this. 314 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:43,320 And we, I know we talked about. The staff what that? 315 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:48,160 Symbolizes but in the Hebrew. The word staff is actually the 316 00:17:48,160 --> 00:17:50,080 same word that they use as tribe. 317 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:54,120 And how God is? Saying put the staff down and it 318 00:17:54,120 --> 00:17:56,120 became a snake, but then it says. 319 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:58,280 That the sorcerers. And the magicians they. 320 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:03,000 Used secret arts. Which means almost like a 321 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:05,840 trickery. Like like, like. 322 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:10,920 I won't say like. Black magic or witchcraft, but 323 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:12,880 it was almost like the sleight of hand it was. 324 00:18:13,080 --> 00:18:16,760 It was something trickery. And listen what was not. 325 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:18,760 Impressive. Was that their Staffs? 326 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:24,160 Became snakes as well. What really kind of pushed back 327 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:27,920 was when Aaron's. Staff ate the other snakes. 328 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:32,120 You see, everything was all good when the snake started coming. 329 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:36,400 Everybody's like that's. Cute, but because it was. 330 00:18:36,600 --> 00:18:40,920 Secret art and this snake started to eat those snakes. 331 00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,840 It was like, hold on a second, that ain't supposed to happen. 332 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:48,160 There's something going on here. Wait a second. 333 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:51,280 And what? We're going to get at Is that 334 00:18:51,280 --> 00:18:52,960 God? Is going to use plagues. 335 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:55,120 Now. When you read about the. 336 00:18:55,120 --> 00:18:57,080 Plagues you're like. That's kind of strange. 337 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,920 What are these? Plagues about blood and frogs. 338 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:01,680 And. All these like what is. 339 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:04,400 Happening here so. Go ahead and put the. 340 00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:09,160 Slide up about the plagues. What God is going to do here is. 341 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:11,320 God is going to go. After every. 342 00:19:11,320 --> 00:19:16,400 Single one of the Egyptian gods. That they worship every plague 343 00:19:17,080 --> 00:19:22,000 is to address a God. That the Egyptians worship it's 344 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:23,400 not to make the. Their life. 345 00:19:23,400 --> 00:19:25,800 Harder, you know, whenever. We see these. 346 00:19:25,800 --> 00:19:29,080 Stories and whenever we watch Prince of Egypt, we see it and 347 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:32,160 we don't really. Understand but what God is. 348 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:37,440 Doing is that God is showing them and God is giving them a 349 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:40,040 way out in verse 5. I'll read this, so just keep the 350 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:45,320 slide up, it says. And the Egyptians will know that 351 00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:49,000 I am God, I am the Lord, when I stretch out my hand against 352 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:51,720 Egypt and bring the. Israelites out of it. 353 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,120 What God? Is going to say is. 354 00:19:54,120 --> 00:19:57,000 Listen, I'm not only going to free my people, but I'm going to 355 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:00,760 give the Egyptians an opportunity to become free as 356 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:03,600 well. You see, the plan was. 357 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:07,120 Always to free the Hebrews. It was never to destroy the 358 00:20:07,160 --> 00:20:10,000 Egyptians. So what God is? 359 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:12,880 Doing is that God is. Showing his. 360 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,480 Prominence. He's showing who Yahweh. 361 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:17,480 Is in the way. That he has to. 362 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:20,200 Show his prominence. Is he's going to start? 363 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,960 Taking out all the other. Gods. 364 00:20:21,960 --> 00:20:23,760 Little G. And that's the same thing he 365 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,440 does in our lives, isn't it? You know why? 366 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,880 Because he will. Smash your boy, he will. 367 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,840 Destroy your idols. So what I want to? 368 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,760 Do is is I'm just. Going to summarize, there's a. 369 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,360 Lot of chapters here. So I want us. 370 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:41,640 Just to walk through. I got the Cliff notes version. 371 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:45,480 So after the the staff gets thrown. 372 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:48,520 Down and becomes snakes then and remember we. 373 00:20:48,520 --> 00:20:50,800 Talked about this last week. God, God told Moses. 374 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:52,480 What to do? Right. 375 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,840 Then he goes to the Nile River and. 376 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,200 He takes his staff and. He touches the Nile and it turns 377 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,640 to blood now. If you were to. 378 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,120 Tell the Egyptians hey, the Nile River is going to become. 379 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:07,520 Blood, you know. What they wouldn't really. 380 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:12,680 Freak out, there's a God called a psoriasis. 381 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,360 And the God, a psoriasis is the God of the Nile. 382 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:19,520 And the God of the Nile is the God that brings life. 383 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,960 And listen, if you study the Nile, once a year the Nile 384 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:26,880 overflows and it floods all the farmland. 385 00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:31,720 Now remember Egypt is a desert nation, so whenever those floods 386 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:34,360 come, because it flows from north to South. 387 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,920 It it takes up that like red dirt, that red. 388 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:43,280 Clay So when it floods all the farm grounds, there's almost 389 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:47,400 like a red tint to it and what the Egyptians believe is that 390 00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,720 the God of. Rices is is. 391 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:52,200 Taking good care of them. He is. 392 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:55,800 He's making sure that the people of Egypt are great. 393 00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,920 Also Us Rises is the God liturgy. 394 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:02,640 Of resurrection and afterlife. Now here's the problem. 395 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,640 When the Nile turns to blood, everything dies. 396 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:11,080 The Bible. Says that all the fish. 397 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,120 Die. The Bible says that the the Nile 398 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:17,960 just stinks it smells so bad. Like Trinity. 399 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:22,000 I'm Shogun on the Dallas side. Not Fort Worth, Not Dallas, 400 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,240 right? That's just wrong. 401 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:31,520 All right, So what happened? To Australia, I thought. 402 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,440 I thought he was the. God of afterlife and 403 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:37,040 resurrection. But yet when the river. 404 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,120 Turned to blood. Everything died. 405 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:42,080 And there's death. All the fish are dead, all the 406 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,800 sea life are dead. It. 407 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:45,080 Stinks. Everywhere. 408 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,280 And think of how hard this is. There's blood everywhere. 409 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,960 There's blood like I. Can't wash my clothes now 410 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,400 because there's little blood in there. 411 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:53,880 I can't I. Have no drinking water. 412 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,280 How do we bathe? So what? 413 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:58,880 The Bible continues to say so. Think. 414 00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:01,320 About like this is days without. Water in Egypt. 415 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,360 So what the Bible says is that they had to dig holes. 416 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:10,160 On the. Side like almost like. 417 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:14,400 Digging a well in. Order to get water so that water 418 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,120 that they're. Digging. 419 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:18,360 For is is like this murky water that they're probably. 420 00:23:18,360 --> 00:23:22,320 Having to boil in. Order for them to survive. 421 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:27,200 So now the Nile is. Full of. 422 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,400 Blood. And you know what? 423 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:34,200 Pharaoh says too bad, let's go back to work. 424 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:36,800 His heart was hard. He saw that. 425 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:39,840 And he still didn't believe. So. 426 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:42,640 Let's go on to the next plague #2 is. 427 00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:45,600 The frogs hit. What's up with that? 428 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:49,160 Now when I think of fighting somebody, I don't think of 429 00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:53,880 frogs. So there's a God in Egypt called 430 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:58,280 Hecht. So the Bible says that frogs. 431 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,440 Swarm the land entering homes. And what's interesting is. 432 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,760 There's a, There's a. Detail in scripture in. 433 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,440 Chapter 8 that says that the frogs were. 434 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,720 Even in the. Beds of the Egyptians. 435 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:13,520 Why is that an important detail? Hecht. 436 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:18,240 Is the God of fertility. So what the Egyptians believed? 437 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,000 Is that Hecht? Is what? 438 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,520 Allows the women and families to bear children and to. 439 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:27,800 Grow their families. Actually, it gets even crazier. 440 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,240 That if you. Kill a frog in Egypt. 441 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:32,520 It's illegal. It's like. 442 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,680 If you kill a cow in India, it's illegal. 443 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,440 So there's frogs. Everywhere you can't kill them. 444 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:42,520 It says that there were. Even frogs in the oven. 445 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:45,040 So how are they going to eat now? 446 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,160 I can't kill the frogs in my. Food in my refrigerator, in my 447 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:50,600 oven. Frogs are everywhere. 448 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,520 They're in the beds. If I kill a frog, they're 449 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:53,760 sacred. That could be the death. 450 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:57,200 Penalty. So now there's no water, there's 451 00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:58,840 no food. I can't cook nothing because 452 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,200 they're in the ovens. So there's no food, there's no 453 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:03,480 water. Like like what's? 454 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,040 Going on And then the frogs end up dying. 455 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,960 So what the heck? 'S going on, then the Bible. 456 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,200 Says that they had to. Take all the frogs and and they 457 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:15,480 had to put. Them in piles. 458 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:17,760 So think about this. You have a Nile. 459 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:20,000 That killed all the fish. And the stench. 460 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:21,840 That that created. Now you have. 461 00:25:22,080 --> 00:25:24,760 Heaps and. Piles of dead frogs everywhere. 462 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:29,680 How does that smell? I mean, the place is becoming a 463 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:32,920 disaster. Quickly and Moses. 464 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:36,240 Says Pharaoh. Let our people go worship our 465 00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,000 God. And Pharaoh's hard. 466 00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:45,520 Hardens doesn't go well, then the next one is lice or gnats. 467 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:47,600 And here's the problem. What? 468 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:53,160 What what the Egyptians believe? Is that when things would cover? 469 00:25:53,320 --> 00:25:55,760 I don't know in. Spanish called memes when 470 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,040 things. Are covered in gnats or. 471 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:58,920 If people. Had gnats or if people. 472 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,880 Had lice that. Means that they were considered 473 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,680 unclean and that they were not. Allowed to go to the. 474 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,080 Egyptian temples and. Worship the 42 other gods. 475 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,640 So what God does is that God. Covers the whole entire place. 476 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:17,800 It says that it's like dust. Turned into gnats or lice. 477 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,960 So because of all of this that takes place. 478 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,960 Now none of you guys, nobody here is worthy enough to go to 479 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,960 the temples and worship. Your gods. 480 00:26:29,120 --> 00:26:31,440 What happened? Why are the gods not allowing 481 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,640 us? To go worship them because 482 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,680 they're dead. They're not alive, they're not 483 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:40,720 real. So one by one, God is knocking 484 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,240 them off. Listen, Austria, like the one 485 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:45,560 that you thought brought life? No dead. 486 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,760 Heck, the one that you thought. Brought this fertility that 487 00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:50,560 brings. Life no pile. 488 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,640 Dead. You can't. 489 00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:54,320 You want to go worship? Nope, they're not going to. 490 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,080 Let you, because they're dead. Too Next one are flies. 491 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:00,320 Now it's. Flies. 492 00:27:01,040 --> 00:27:03,520 Oh, it's getting better. Now, when we think of. 493 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,160 Flies we think of like. Like mosquito flies? 494 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:08,760 But no, this is Egypt. These flies were actually 495 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:13,040 larger, larger bugs, right? There's, there's, there's. 496 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,600 Something called a scarab beetle, and this is kind of what 497 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:20,480 they're talking about. There's a God little G called 498 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,000 Key now. This little this little G God 499 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,680 had the head of A A. Scarab beetle and what the. 500 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,000 Scarab beetles would do is that they would. 501 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:32,760 Be like dung bugs. So they would take little 502 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:33,760 pieces. Of dung. 503 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:34,640 And they would. Roll. 504 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,000 They would push. Them and they would roll them 505 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,480 and then they would. Use it as food. 506 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,400 So think about you have. All these flies, all these 507 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,720 Skyrim. Beetles everywhere and what the 508 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,000 Egyptians? Believe is that this this little 509 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:49,720 G God chi would. Take the take the sun like a 510 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,960 dung ball and then it would move the sun daily and that's how 511 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,960 days and seasons would function. So what God is saying? 512 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:03,280 Is no, it's dead too, because it's covered everything. 513 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:08,000 And it is killing everything. So it's not bringing life, it's 514 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,240 not helping you. Produce life. 515 00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:16,160 It's actually taking life then after the flies. 516 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:21,720 In the swarms of insects, then. We have this livestock disease. 517 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:28,000 All Egyptian livestock. Is dead, but the Bible says that 518 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:31,120 all of the Hebrew livestock stayed alive. 519 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:33,520 So with a lot of these. Plagues. 520 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:37,560 They're impacting Egypt and the Egyptians and a. 521 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:39,600 Lot of the plagues. Are not impacting the. 522 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:45,160 Hebrews and the Israelites. God is now separating them both 523 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,480 and he's like, look at my people, I'm watching them in. 524 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:53,000 Pharaohs Hard. Continues to harden and continue 525 00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,880 to make him work regardless of what's happening now. 526 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,880 Why is it? Important that all the livestock 527 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:03,040 is dead because of a disease. Because Egyptians had 42. 528 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,800 Little G. Gods, a majority of those. 529 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,320 Gods had the features of livestock. 530 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,600 And God is saying Nope, all of. Those are dead as well. 531 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,000 Then the next. Plague. 532 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,560 It boils. Those are difficult. 533 00:29:21,560 --> 00:29:22,320 They're. Painful. 534 00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:24,320 Imagine trying to walk with a bunch of boils. 535 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,520 On your feet, so now. All the. 536 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:30,520 Egyptians are inflicted with boils, and the livestock that's 537 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:32,720 leftover are inflicted with boils. 538 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,200 Now this God is. Called. 539 00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,080 ISIS. Now ISIS is falling because I 540 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,720 can't walk, I can't do business. I'm all like in pain. 541 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,800 And now, at this moment in time, in the text, people are 542 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,200 starting. To turn on Pharaoh. 543 00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:52,560 And his counsel? They're starting to beg him 544 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,920 please, like, let them go. And Pharaoh's heart. 545 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,120 Continues to harden. Next we have hail. 546 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,600 Because he refuses. There's an intense hailstorm. 547 00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:05,760 It says hail and. Fire, which is hail and like a 548 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:06,720 lot of. Lightning. 549 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,840 Now think about the. Climate of Egypt, you really 550 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,120 don't see a lot of rain and hail storms out there. 551 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:13,560 Hail. You need a cold. 552 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,240 Front to come in. So this is something people have 553 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:19,400 never seen before. There's a mixture of hail and 554 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:22,040 lightning and it's destroying all the crops and all the. 555 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,120 Trees and the gods of and the God of Horus. 556 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:29,400 Where are you? You're powerless to stop this. 557 00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:32,600 You're supposed to be the gods of weather. 558 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,640 And the sky and agriculture and you're doing absolutely nothing 559 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,040 to save us in. Egypt because they're. 560 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:43,160 Dead and the next day. God. 561 00:30:43,160 --> 00:30:47,080 Sends locusts, swarms and devours all the remaining 562 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:51,840 vegetation. So the God of set and rises 563 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:56,440 where they at? And listen, at this point, Egypt 564 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,120 is crippled. Egypt is done for. 565 00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,920 I don't know if Egypt got anything left and all of. 566 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:04,800 This is because. Of one man's pride. 567 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,520 One man's pride, but you know the. 568 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,240 Two gods that are left are the two biggest. 569 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:17,880 Gods in Egypt and the the next one. 570 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:21,880 That God goes after is RA in Egypt. 571 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,880 RA is the God of. The Sun it is the. 572 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,160 One God that all the. Other little gods report to. 573 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:35,600 And what does God bring Darkness, not just over, when he 574 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:37,480 does darkness for three. Days. 575 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,600 Where's Rod? Where's the God of the? 576 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,800 Sun. It says that it was so dark that 577 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:46,520 it's like. Everything stopped moving. 578 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:49,640 Listen even your big time God Rod. 579 00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,800 Didn't show up to help. You, you know. 580 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:58,240 The last God that God little G had to attack Pharaoh. 581 00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:05,440 You see what Egyptian culture? Believed was that Pharaoh was 582 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:10,240 God as well that Pharaoh was half. 583 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:14,440 Man, half God and that. People would worship. 584 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,080 Pharaoh and that the gods. Would look at. 585 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,680 Pharaoh and be. Pleased with Pharaoh, So what 586 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,320 does God do? Now at this. 587 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,880 Point in time. After raw, after all the. 588 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,400 Darkness. Pharaoh sends Moses and Aaron. 589 00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:32,840 Away. And he says if I. 590 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,600 See y'all. One more time. 591 00:32:35,640 --> 00:32:38,840 If I see you guys. Again, I'm going to kill. 592 00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:43,280 Y'all like I'm done with. You even there's a. 593 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:45,760 Sorry, I have my. Verse here. 594 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:51,240 Yeah, so. Exodus chapter 10, verse 7. 595 00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:55,560 This is kind of where we're at. Pharaoh's official said to. 596 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,680 Him How long will this man be a snare to? 597 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,400 Us, let the people go. So that they may worship. 598 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,000 Their the Lord, their God. Do you do? 599 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,720 You not yet realize that? Egypt is ruined. 600 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:13,840 They're like, enough is enough, Pharaoh. 601 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:19,880 We got nothing left and. Pharaoh calls a man and says, if 602 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,160 you come, if I see you again, I'm killing you both. 603 00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:27,000 And in Pharaoh, Moses and Aaron walked out. 604 00:33:27,280 --> 00:33:35,320 Now the last plague God sends the Angel of darkness. 605 00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,480 And what this? Plague is is that. 606 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:45,000 Every Egyptian first born child and animal leading. 607 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:52,280 To the exodus is going. To die every single child. 608 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:59,840 But God sends a plan called the Passover, which we're going to 609 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:04,360 look at in a few weeks. Like I said, everything is 610 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,239 showing this. It's pointing to the Messiah and 611 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,560 God is going through these. Plagues and he's taking out. 612 00:34:12,040 --> 00:34:17,480 Every single God. And when Pharaoh loses his son, 613 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,120 there's nothing that anybody can do to bring him back because. 614 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:26,239 Time and time again. God has shown that all your 615 00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,800 gods. That you pray to are worthless. 616 00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:30,360 They're all dead, they're meaningless. 617 00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:35,920 I'm the only one true God. And he got to a place now where 618 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,199 Pharaoh finally said. Take all your people just. 619 00:34:39,199 --> 00:34:41,199 Get out. Just get out. 620 00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:51,120 You know, I started thinking, but my testimony as I was going 621 00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:55,280 through this and I feel like many of our testimonies. 622 00:34:55,280 --> 00:35:00,080 Is that is US? Following God and God 623 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,440 eliminating. All of the little. 624 00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:05,120 G Gods in our life, one at a time. 625 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,280 Oh, you thought like popularity? Is going to make you happy. 626 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:13,280 Boom, you smashed it. He thought like, like, whatever 627 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:15,200 it is. It's going to bring you joy and 628 00:35:15,200 --> 00:35:17,000 life. Boom, he smashed this. 629 00:35:17,240 --> 00:35:19,880 And listen, this is the same thing with our story. 630 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:25,720 He continues to do this. Where he goes after the gods. 631 00:35:25,720 --> 00:35:27,640 And the things that we. Try to. 632 00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:32,800 Bring up in our lives and God says no, I am the only true God 633 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:38,640 and I'm going to eliminate it because everything that you are 634 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:45,040 chasing will never satisfy your life and listen he. 635 00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,600 Loves the. Egyptians enough to say, come 636 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,600 on, I'm the one true God. I want you to know who I am as 637 00:35:51,600 --> 00:35:54,760 well. Pharaoh Stubborn. 638 00:35:56,400 --> 00:35:59,720 Now here's what's. Wild all of these plagues. 639 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:05,040 God gave them in order. For the people to be free, but 640 00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:09,880 there's a plague. That God didn't give, but God 641 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:11,720 also. Had to step in so that way all. 642 00:36:11,720 --> 00:36:15,600 People can be free and Jesus. Took the greatest plague of. 643 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,080 All and it's called sin. Sin came into this. 644 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:23,840 World. And Jesus stepped sin and says, 645 00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:28,840 no, I'm going to take it no more plagues so that way we don't 646 00:36:28,840 --> 00:36:34,280 have to suffer anymore. I'm just going to wrap this up 647 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:38,280 this way when. God comes after our idols. 648 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,160 It could be painful. First John chapter 5 verse. 21 649 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:43,840 John tells. Us dear. 650 00:36:43,840 --> 00:36:46,400 Children, keep yourself from idols. 651 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,600 Man. I had an interesting week. 652 00:36:51,800 --> 00:37:00,160 I ended up having another Abscess in my great area and I 653 00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:01,920 thought it was. Just a sore like I just thought 654 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,200 it was a. Callus or something. 655 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:06,760 No, I wasn't. And it was so painful, like just 656 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:08,960 to even move. I was sitting around and finally 657 00:37:09,240 --> 00:37:10,000 Rachel. 'S like we got to. 658 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:13,040 Just go get that thing like taken care of because I'm 659 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,760 getting fevers and if you guys saw me on 1st Wednesday I was 660 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:21,120 sweating bullets for no reason and I was just fighting this 661 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:23,160 sickness. So I went to the. 662 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:26,040 Doctor and this whole. Time like Lord what? 663 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:27,800 What's going on? Like this is crazy. 664 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:30,920 And I remember like just lying on the. 665 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:32,440 Bed and the. Doctor and the Doctor. 666 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,480 Begins to tell me what he's had what he's going to do he's like 667 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,400 man I'm going to I'm going to have to inject this in there 668 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:41,640 he's going to burn and then he. Uses words that. 669 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,440 You don't want to. Associate with that area. 670 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:46,200 You know what I'm saying? Like needle burn? 671 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,400 Cut bleeding like let's. And I'm sitting here like. 672 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:55,600 Oh Lord. And then he begins and he's 673 00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:56,360 like, now, Ricky. Is. 674 00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,280 Going to hurt a little bit. And I'm here like, you know, 675 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,320 like I'm trying. To think like happy thoughts. 676 00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,800 I'm thinking about like me and Rach and Dr. Like I'm just like 677 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,240 Lord. This is going to this is going 678 00:38:07,240 --> 00:38:12,720 to be painful. And he started the whole process 679 00:38:12,720 --> 00:38:16,120 and yes, it hurt a little bit. But you know what's wild? 680 00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,720 Is when when the the. Pressure was released. 681 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:22,800 Half my body felt like a. Like a coldness, like a. 682 00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:24,240 Relief. And it it just. 683 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:27,040 Felt like just this like. Oh, man, it just felt wonderful. 684 00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,200 And I remember he just kept telling me he's like, you know, 685 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,760 it's, it's going to be painful, but it it's going to feel 686 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,680 better. The other day I was, I was 687 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,680 praying here. I just felt the Lord mention 688 00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,440 something to me. He said Ricky, you know, like 689 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,200 pain is. Not always in the hurt. 690 00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:50,600 There's going to be pain in your healing as well. 691 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,720 And when God removes idols in our lives? 692 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:57,720 Let's just. Be real man, it's painful 693 00:38:57,720 --> 00:39:00,280 sometimes. Like the things that. 694 00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:02,960 We've always thought. In our lives, like the things 695 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,880 that I've always believed, the things that. 696 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:06,920 I always thought would. Bring me joy, the. 697 00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:09,800 Relationships, I always thought. Everything that. 698 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,720 I always thought I had. And God. 699 00:39:11,720 --> 00:39:14,800 Destroys it Listen, it doesn't feel good. 700 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,720 It hurts there's. Pain behind it. 701 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:25,400 But there's. Healing in the pain and I think 702 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,640 sometimes we have to acknowledge that when things hurt, it's not 703 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:32,760 always bad. Sometimes when things. 704 00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,760 Hurt. It's good because. 705 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,600 When that pain goes away, the healing process takes place and 706 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,680 man, you just feel like a new person again. 707 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,640 Man, I felt relief immediately after that. 708 00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:49,960 And listen when God removes. Our idols. 709 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:55,760 It could be extremely painful. Jesus tells us in Matthew 624 710 00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:59,000 you cannot serve 2 masters. You got to pick. 711 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:06,200 Jesus always talked about idols. But also this is the beauty of 712 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:07,240 this. All don't don't miss. 713 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:08,920 This like Ricky, but if it hurt, what? 714 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:12,280 What does Jesus say in Luke 19 he's hanging out with? 715 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,160 IKEA and everybody's looking. At Jesus, like man, you're 716 00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,520 hanging out. These these bad people. 717 00:40:17,560 --> 00:40:19,400 You're the Son of God you're not supposed to hang out with. 718 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,000 Tax collectors and cheats and what are you doing and what does 719 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:26,000 Jesus say for it is. Not the healthy who need the. 720 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:30,080 Doctors, it is the sick. Where I came to seek and to 721 00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,520 save. That which was lost. 722 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:36,160 Listen to purpose Why. God destroys our idols is. 723 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,440 Because he wants what's. Best for you and he loves. 724 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:39,840 You, but I'm not going to lie to you. 725 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,440 It's going to be painful sometimes, but there's. 726 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:44,040 Healing in the. Pain. 727 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,880 It's going to hurt, but once the pains decide. 728 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,880 Like. You feel so much better. 729 00:40:48,880 --> 00:40:52,160 Sometimes God needs to RIP. Some things out of our lives so 730 00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:55,960 that way we can be better because we. 731 00:40:55,960 --> 00:40:57,880 Sometimes don't know what we have. 732 00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:02,440 Until the great. Surgeon fixes it. 733 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:05,560 I want to encourage. You today. 734 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:07,080 I know today. Was a little bit different. 735 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,880 It's the only way I can get. Through like 4 chapters. 736 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:17,880 In 140 minutes, don't. Let today go by with the 737 00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,920 realization. That I'm still serving other 738 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:21,960 little gods. There's things in my life. 739 00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,160 That I find more. Important than God and listen 740 00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:25,520 God is. Going to destroy it. 741 00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:28,080 And I think some of us in here, like Ricky, I'm there. 742 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,160 God is destroying my world right now and I'm in pain. 743 00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:33,960 But listen, there's healing in the pain. 744 00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:36,520 You don't have to be in pain alone. 745 00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:38,560 God's going to meet you in that. Pain. 746 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:40,640 And listen, you're going. To feel way better. 747 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:44,440 So as we finishing this last song, I want to encourage you 748 00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:45,960 guys. If you're on this side of the 749 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,560 room, there's going to be some brothers here that we want to 750 00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:50,200 pray with you. If you're on this side, if you 751 00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:52,680 want to come over here, that's. Cool too, the altar is also 752 00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:53,640 open. If you just want to. 753 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,560 Pray by yourself or if you want to pray with a. 754 00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:58,480 Friend, but if you need somebody to pray with, you don't have to 755 00:41:58,480 --> 00:42:00,160 go through. Pain by yourself, God is. 756 00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:04,200 Healing you right now, and sometimes it hurts and I think 757 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,840 we need to be vulnerable and say, Lord, I'm in, I'm hurting 758 00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:08,720 right now. But also understand that God 759 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:12,080 loves you and he's doing it. To heal you, to give. 760 00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,680 You life forgiveness of sin. You can experience pure joy. 761 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:18,640 We pray for us. So Jesus, thank you.