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Welcome to the official podcast 
of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 

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where we are focused on 
glorifying God, spreading the 

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gospel, and making disciples of 
Jesus Christ right here in the 

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heart of Greenville, SC. 
Each week we bring you a life 

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changing word from our Senior 
Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long 

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Junior, or one of our anointed 
guest speakers. 

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We pray this message strengthens
your faith, deepens your 

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understanding, and empowers you 
to elevate in every area of your

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life. 
Let's join the service already 

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in progress. 
Amen. 

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Hallelujah to God. 
Exodus chapter 3. 

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Let's start at verse one. 
We've been reading the Bible all

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day by stop NOW. 
Verse one of Exodus chapter 3 

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reads as such. 
Now Moses kept the flock of 

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

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flock to the backside of the 
desert and came to the mountain 

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of God, even to Horeb. 
And the Angel of the Lord 

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appeared unto him in a flame of 
fire out of the midst of a Bush,

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And he looked, and behold, the 
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Bush was not consumed. 
Verse 3 reads. 

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And Moses said, I will now turn 
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by the Bush is not burnt. 4 And 
when the Lord saw that he turned

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aside to sea, God called unto 
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Bush, and said, Moses, Moses. 
And he said, Here am I. 

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Verse 5 And he said, Jaw not 
nigh, hit her, put off thy shoes

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from off thy feet, for the place
where on thou standest is holy 

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ground. 
Verse 6 Moreover, he said, I am 

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the God of thy father, the God 
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and the God of Jacob. 
And Moses hid his face, for he 

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was afraid to look upon God, the
word of God, for the people of 

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God, Thanks be unto God. 
I'm going to preach. 

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I'm going to preach from this 
thoughts. 

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Are you ready? 
Help me out. 

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Turn to neighbor. 
Say neighbor. 

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Don't look lean in. 
Don't look lean in. 

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Don't look lean in, don't look 
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I could be honest by dear 
brothers and sisters that as we 

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have found ourselves stumbling 
into Exodus chapter 3. 

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Come on here I love it. 
Come on, he going to help me for

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real. 
He he we got a constant praise. 

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He just running for everybody. 
He gonna run for me. 

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We found ourselves here in 
Exodus chapter 3 with a man, 

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Braylon, the man who is not a 
wide eyed baby floating down the

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Nile River. 
He's not a fiery young Prince 

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slaying Egyptians in a fit of 
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No, when we meet him here. 
This man, Mother Gordine, is an 

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older man at this point, Deacon 
Davis. 

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He's weary and has been humbled 
saying you know him. 

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His name, Sister Hauser, is 
Moses Moshi. 

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In Hebrew, it means drawn out. 
And isn't that the paradox of 

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his entire life? 
He's always being drawn out of 

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something, drawn out of the 
water, drawn, drawn, drawn. 

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Good to see Jesus being drawn 
out of Egypt, drawn out of 

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position, drawn out of pride. 
And yet here he is again, 

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finding himself always being 
drawn into something else, drawn

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into tension, drawn into 
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Moses is a man who is living in 
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Help me out, say 2 worlds. 
He's living in two worlds, but 

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belongs to neither one. 
He's too Hebrew for the palace, 

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and he's too Egyptian for the 
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He learned early how to survive 
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palace. 
He spoke the language of power, 

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but in his mother's Hut he 
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slave. 
He never fully fits into either 

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place. 
So he walked the tightrope 

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between both a Prince with a 
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a prince's education. 
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in Exodus chapter 3, he is 80 
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I'm going to say that one more 
time and let that settle in. 80,

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not 08, but 80, if I don't mind.
I guess I better help paint this

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a little bit more vividly for 
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That's about 960 and a third 
month of life he's had. 

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That's about 4174 and 286 weeks 
of life at this point. 

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That's about 29,220 days of 
life. 

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Or if you really feel being 
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701,280 hours of 42,076,800 
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Check this out at 80 years old, 
Mother Spurgeon. 

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He's been alive for 
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and Egypt thinking he was 
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And now 40 years in Midian 
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God was about to show him what 
he, God can do, but somebody who

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knows he's a nobody. 
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hidden. 
No miracles, no no angelic 

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visitors, no visions, no burning
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Just sheep and sand. 
Just the grind of a man who has 

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learned to settle. 
I'm going to say that again. 

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Just the grind of a man who has 
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Many brothers and sisters. 
How do you survive 40 years and 

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the gap between what was 
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I know that made me say too, 
when I was researching and 

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studying the texts because 
really, how do you keep walking 

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when your past feels wasted and 
your future feels gone? 

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Moses is caught in detention of 
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he carries palace memories but 
lives and desert realities. 

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Deacon Glenn, he's, he's the 
education. 

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He has the education Deacon 
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occupation of a shepherd, of a 
pastor, of a caretaker. 

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He is both overqualified, Sister
Chris, and underutilized. 

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He is both called and sidelined.
He is both drawn out and shut 

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in. 
And maybe that's where somebody 

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is sitting right now. 
Not in your Egypt anymore, but 

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not yet in your promise. 
Not who you used to be, but not 

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yet who you're going to be stuck
in detention. 

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Sister Davis of an unfinished 
testimony. 

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Woo Lord, I'm sorry, I thought 
the little preaching slip on me.

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But the backside of the desert 
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It's it's, it's the place of 
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It's the place of forgottenness,
the place no one celebrates, no 

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one visits, no one sees. 
It's the place, Dick and Davis, 

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where second guesses piled up 
with the sand and old dreams 

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start to dry out in the sun. 
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Here, yeah, I believe. 
I believe in the backside he 

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finds a place of life that 
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It's the quiet corner where 
unfulfilled dreams collect dust.

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It's the space where applause 
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your own second guesses. 
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where opportunities feel lost 
and, and even where the world 

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seems to have moved on without 
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Right. 
And yet it is here, in this 

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hidden geography, if I could say
it like that, in this place of 

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exile, obscurity and second 
chances, that the next chapter 

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of God's story featuring this 
life begins. 

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Yes. 
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sisters, if you don't mind, I 
think, I think we may have a 

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little gas. 
Join me in observing 3 movements

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in this text. 
You got your Bible open right? 

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Exodus chapter 3, verse #2 says,
And the Angel of the Lord 

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appeared unto him, and a flame 
of fire out of the midst of a 

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Bush, and he looked, and behold,
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the Bush was not consumed. 
Verse 3 just to make sure we add

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to this. 
And Moses said, I will now turn 

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aside and see this great sight. 
Why the Bush is not burned. 

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Many brothers and sisters. 
The first movement of this text 

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is the strange sights. 
Strange sights. 

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It's the desert. 
Hot, dry and quiet shrubs are 

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out there, and so that they can 
they can really catch heat, They

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can catch fire at any drop of a 
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But this time, under brothers 
and sisters, something different

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is happening. 
The Bush is burning, but it's 

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not burning up. 
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Because the fire won't quit. 
Lord, I think somebody need to 

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hear me. 
I think they need to hear me. 

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The Bush is burning, but it's 
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Moses looks that looks again. 
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It's not the clouds opening up 
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It's something lit right in 
front of him and your Bible, our

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scripture for today says in 
Exodus chapter 3, verse 2, it 

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says, behold, the Bush burned 
with fire and the Bush was not 

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consumed. 
This isn't a show up there sign.

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It's a sign for right here, in 
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Sometimes what's near you lights
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attention, and what should burn 
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That's really the tension of 
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The flame is real, but the 
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Sometimes the very thing you 
step over is the thing set on 

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fire for your future. 
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The little nudge to pray before 
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The quiet conviction to forgive 
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The the kids question that 
carried more God than your whole

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entire calendar. 
The open door that didn't look 

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like your dream but sounded like
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The reminder to call the person 
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You keep calling it nothing, 
pushing it off to later, saying 

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not yet, it's not the right 
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But may I suggest that might be 
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Because what feels like an 
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invitation. 
John Ziegler's zinger, Excuse 

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me, says great leaders are not 
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weakness, but rather by the 
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And my dear brothers and 
sisters, as we are perusing 

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through this sets of strange 
sights, I got to take you back 

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to verse #1 because verse #1 
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particular set of words for the 
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Did I get it right? 
This ain't the Lord, all right? 

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I've been, I've been working all
week. 

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I'm like verse #1 of Exodus 
chapter 3 says Now Moses kept 

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the flop. 
Now Moses kept the flop. 

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You might have missed it. 
You might have missed it. 

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Now Moses kept the flop. 
So in one hand he has a 

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shepherd's staff, ordinary wood 
in an out of the way place and 

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it's really revealing Moses 
clear strength. 

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You ready the staff that he used
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staff as guidance, the muscle of
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I promise you I'm going 
somewhere. 

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It represents protection, the 
staff being strong for everybody

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else. 
It represents provision, the art

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of making a way to pasture for 
the flock and providing water 

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for them. 
It also represents discipline, 

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firmness with tenderness, 
correction without crushing. 

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But then also the staff these 
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represents testimony. 
Help me out. 

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Turn to your neighbors and 
neighbor testimony, testimony 

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and notice notice, notice for 
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If you go to Exodus chapter 4 
around about verse #2 the 

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question becomes since you 
keeping sheep, what's that in 

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your hand? 
Moses responds and says arrived 

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the ordinary thing becoming an 
instrument of extraordinary use.

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And here's the shout for us as 
we journey along that even in 

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obscurity, I want you to know 
that your ability is still seen.

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Oh Lord, that head, not Spirit, 
just went, Josh, that God often 

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brands your gifts in the 
backfield because before He 

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broadcasts your name in the 
spotlight, He needs you. 

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He needs you. 
He needs you to know what's in 

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your hand. 
Because what's in your hand may 

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look like a stick. 
But may I suggest that what's in

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the hand is really a strategy in
God's hand? 

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You may not realize that one 
small flame can change a whole 

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room. 
But that's why when we come 

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together, when we come together,
I'm so intentional about pushing

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you to praise the Lord. 
I'm intentional about pushing 

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you to hug your neighbor. 
I'm intentional about pushing 

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you to pray together over your 
offering and your tie. 

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Because a candle shifts the 
atmosphere, Huh. 

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Y'all must not like no candles. 
I thought. 

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I thought this is the candle 
crew. 

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I thought it's the crew. 
What's near gets lit to reveal 

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what's next. 
So you got to watch out the 

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sight. 
The sight, the sight of what 

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Moses observes pulls him into a 
shift notice. 

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Notice in the text that the Bush
gets his eyes but the turn gets 

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his ears. 
Moses said in Exodus chapter 3 

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verse three. 
He said, and I will now turn 

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aside and see this great sight. 
I think the NIV says strange 

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sight. 
Uh huh, why the Bush does not 

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burn. 
The text teaches us three steps 

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in one sentence. 
You ready? 

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I got a lot of notes for you to 
go back to YouTube and get later

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on. 
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direction and discernment. 
Oh God, I'm going to say it 

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again. 
Decision, He says. 

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I will now turn aside. 
This isn't maybe later, this is 

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now. 
Notice it's not curiosity, but 

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commitment, because when you 
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get hints. 
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you get instructions. 
God didn't speak when it burned.

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He spoke when he turned. 
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The second step is direction. 
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turned aside. 
Check this out and see this 

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great sight. 
He chooses focus, Sister 

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Shirley. 
He doesn't just notice, he 

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studies what's been lit. 
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attention lingers on what God 
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No, go to sleep on this part 
right here. 

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Because what you stare at, you 
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Thank you. 
I must say it again. 

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I said what you stare at, you 
start to understand and what you

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understand you can't obey. 
I can hear the words of my 

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pastor Bishop Borders now say 
you can't stand over what you 

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haven't stood under. 
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So the second, second step in 
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But notice the third step in 
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He says and Moses said, I will 
now turn aside one and see this 

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great sight too. 
Check this out why the Bush is 

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not burned. 
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Come here. 
Notice this is discernment. 

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Now he asks the deeper question,
Come here because, because we'll

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read the Bible so fast and miss 
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He says, why is it burning? 
He asked the question. 

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He asked the question, why is it
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But that's maturity. 
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source, I think I'm going to 
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we all together don't just shout
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faithfulness that sustains it. 
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Don't just talk about the fruit,
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so easy that we are attracted to
other people's fire that will 

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want to go and be warned by 
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what is it that keeps it from 
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I'm I'm reminded I'm reminded of
a real story of a gifted 

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musician. 
Deacon houses you're looking 

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sharp today who had been in a 
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and he played beautiful music. 
People had rushed by they they 

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would find themselves late for 
work, heads down, barely really 

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hearing it. 
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man played didn't ever fail. 
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focus of the people on the man's
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doesn't I better slow this one 
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This might be this one of those 
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Greatness doesn't always dress 
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Sometimes it waits to see who 
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I'll save one more time for you,
deke. 

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Greatness doesn't always dress 
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In the same way, God may not 
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cause you to slow down and look,
It is here. 

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It is here by the brothers and 
sisters that we find ourselves 

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quickly moving on from this 
strange sight, our first 

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movement to the second movement 
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sacred summons. 
It's in your Bible, Exodus 

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chapter 3 verse #4 it says, And 
when the Lord saw that he turned

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aside to see God called unto him
out of the midst of the Bush and

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said, Moses, Moses. 
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we got to get out of here. 
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that something happened in that 
desert that day that changed the

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course of history. 
Not when the Bush started 

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burning, Sister Chris, but when 
Moses turned Ed. 

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I'm going to save one more time 
for you, Sister Shirley. 

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I don't want you to get lost on 
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I said something happened in 
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changed the course of history. 
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burning, but when Moses turned, 
Ed. 

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It wasn't the fire that 
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It was the turn. 
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he would go see, but in verse 
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And there is always a gap 
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do. 
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backed up his curiosity that God
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Because God doesn't respond to 
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holy interruptions. 
A lot of us say I'll turn 

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someday, but but God's waiting 
to see if your turn today. 

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This was the first time in 
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silence is broken by someone's 
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their mouth. 
Come here. 

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I, I said it and it went over 
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I said this is the first time in
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silence is broken by someone 
movement and not their mouth 

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because when he saw action match
curiosity, then direction had 

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met destiny and don't miss this.
The verse says the Lord saw that

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phrase is a new it's in Genesis 
chapter 6 verse five that the 

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Lord saw the wickedness of man 
was great and it was even in 

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Genesis chapter 21 and 17. 
He saw the tears of Haggai in 

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Genesis chapter 29 and 31. 
He saw Leah was unloved. 

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He even saw the affliction of 
his people in Exodus chapter 2 

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verse 25. 
But this time God saw a man 

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turning. 
God, y'all don't know when to 

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shout? 
I said. 

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This time God saw a man turning.
I think I better get ahead and 

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just push this a little bit 
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That I can hear the words later 
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Scriptures that God will heal a 
land, but only if the people 

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will turn from the wickedness. 
That the same God who sees pain 

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also sees pursuits. 
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beneath revelation because we 
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We keep waiting for God to 
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Yeah, but God is waiting for us 
to turn. 

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And I've got to let you know, 
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I still got away. 
That God called unto him out of 

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the midst of the Bush and said, 
Moses, Moses, you read it too 

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fast, you missed it. 
It says And God called unto him 

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out of the mist within of the 
Bush and said, most shy, most 

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shy. 
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deep. 
He didn't call him shepherd. 

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No, no, he didn't call him 
murderer. 

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Knew he didn't even call him 
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he called him Moses because 
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That's his identity, that's his 
intimacy and and even that's his

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authority. 
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knows your name even when you've
forgotten your calling. 

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Lord, I feel it. 
I better ride a little bit that 

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God even does something strange.
He double calls him Deacon 

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Glenn. 
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He doesn't just St. 
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Moses, Moses and Hebrew called 
culture. 

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Calling a name twice meant 
urgency. 

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It meant intimacy. 
It even meant some type of 

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divine establishment of some 
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It means what's being said and 
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earth and established in heaven.
Come here, think about it. 

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It's the same team Lord who 
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Abraham, Abraham. 
He shifted him from sacrifice to

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substitution. 
It's the same God that called 

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Jacob, Jacob, Jacob and shifted 
him from being a running man to 

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a man full of revelation. 
It's the same God that called 

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Samuel the little boy and 
shifted him from silence to 

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speaking. 
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And you even know it's the same 
one that called Simon, Simon and

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shifted him from being sifting 
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And I got to let you know that 
when God called, calls your name

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twice, it means he's about to 
change your story without 

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changing your name. 
Yeah, and here's where the 

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tension lies. 
That some of us have only heard 

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our past shouted at us because 
the enemy keeps yelling failure,

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keeps yelling addict, keeps 
yelling divorce, keeps yelling 

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broke, keeps yelling unworthy. 
When the Lord speaks, he calls 

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you by name. 
The enemy calls you by your 

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past, but the Lord calls you by 
your purpose. 

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Notice that God didn't say hey 
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He said Moses, Moses. 
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of survival. 
It survived genocide. 

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That name survived rejection. 
That name survived identity 

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crisis. 
That name survive 40 years of 

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obscurity. 
But when God calls your name, it

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means all that is part of the 
testimony is not the termination

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of your destiny. 
And I'm so glad that when God 

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called Moses, Moses shows us 
what to do next. 

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The Bible says that Moses 
responds to God and he says he 

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says here am I that phrase right
there, here am I isn't just 

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presence, it's posture. 
Come here, I'm trying to preach 

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to you that phrase right there, 
it's availability. 

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That phrase right there it's 
surrenderance. 

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And then Hebrew, that phrase 
hinay means here I am Lord, I'm 

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ready. 
I've got to let you know that 

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here I, I am doesn't mean I have
it all together. 

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It means I trust the one who 
does. 

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It's the same answer Abraham 
gave. 

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It's the same reply Jacob gave. 
It's the same posture Samuel had

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and it's the same spirit Isaiah 
carried. 

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And Isaiah chapter 6, You know 
that one when he says woe is me 

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for I'm a man of unclean lips 
and I dwell amongst our unclean 

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people. 
This wasn't ability, it was 

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availability. 
I think I better get on out of 

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here now before we rush past 
this here, can I ask you a 

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question today? 
19 brothers and sisters, when 

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was the last time you gave the 
Lord a fresh yes? 

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When was the last time you gave 
God a here I am not a recycled 

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yes from your youth, not a 
broken yes. 

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How do your fear but a fresh 
surrender The ass God's next 

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move in your life doesn't depend
on your resources, but it 

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depends on your response. 
And I got to let everybody on 

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the side of my voice know that 
it's not. 

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It's not tied to your money. 
It's not tied to your credit, 

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but God is asking for your 
commitment. 

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He's not calling for your 
resume, but he's calling for 

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your response. 
Because God doesn't need your 

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ability. 
He's drawn to your availability.

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I got to get on out of here for 
real. 

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So now Moses has turned and God 
has called and a holy yes is 

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hanging in the atmosphere. 
But before Moses can run off 

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shouting, God tells him 
something that would stop 

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everybody who really understood 
in the chat. 

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Deacon house him. 
Your Bible says that the Lord 

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tells him in verse #5 Davis. 
And he said, Draw not nigh unto 

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me, put off thy shoes, from off 
thy feet, for thy place where on

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thy stand. 
This is holy ground. 

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Moreover, he said, I'm the God, 
I'm thy father. 

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Yeah, the God of Abraham, the 
God of Isaac. 

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Yeah, and the God of Jacob. 
And Moses hid his face, for he 

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was afraid to look upon God. 
My name, brothers and sisters, 

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I'm going to get out of here for
real. 

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Now. 
If you push, I go even faster. 

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But if not, I might sit for a 
second because the last movement

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of the tags is they got to 
surrender. 

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They got to surrender the 
sandals. 

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You got to look at the text 
here. 

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He tells unto them, He says try 
not night there my new brothers 

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and sisters. 
The fire invited him, but the 

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voice corrected him. 
And the tension of the text is 

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God says come close but not too 
quick because access without 

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reverence is arrogance. 
That's why we got to praise Him 

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with intentionality. 
That's why we got to praise Him,

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not out of obligation, but we 
got to praise Him because we 

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Revere him, we respect him, we 
honor Him, and we make sure he 

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knows that we're thankful for 
him because God will bless the 

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steps we take and pride only the
ones we take and all. 

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And this is the part of our walk
where yes Sir, where direction 

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meets discipline. 
But God says, slow down, take 

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your time. 
You can't just run upon this 

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glory, His calling Moses in, but
he's teaching him to come 

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correct, because the same God 
who calls your name will check 

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your approach. 
And so he tells him, yes, Sir, 

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put off the shoes from off thy 
feet. 

452
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,520
Now they get to the core of 
this. 

453
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,360
God doesn't ask Moses to lay 
down his title. 

454
00:36:27,120 --> 00:36:31,760
Neither does he ask him to lay 
down his testimony. 

455
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:39,040
He doesn't even talk about talk 
about his trauma, but the Lord 

456
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:44,840
says, take off your shoes. 
Why would he ask this question? 

457
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:47,720
Why would he give him this 
command? 

458
00:36:48,240 --> 00:36:53,040
But Deacon Davis, I'm glad 
you're wondering because shoes 

459
00:36:53,680 --> 00:36:57,560
carry residue and they check 
dust. 

460
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:00,720
Yes, Lord, from the places 
you've been. 

461
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,800
And so the Lord said unto him, 
no, not here. 

462
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:12,320
No, not now, because you can't 
bring the wilderness residue 

463
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:17,960
into a worship moment to Moses's
sandals had walked through 

464
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:23,720
Egypt's palace, Moses's sandals 
had been through Midian's 

465
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:29,520
pasture, and Moses's sandals had
been on the backside of the 

466
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:32,680
desert, and they seemed to 
survive. 

467
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,640
Come here. 
Survive his failures. 

468
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,680
Survive. 
Survive his fears. 

469
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:44,480
Come here, survive. 
Survive his fight. 

470
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:53,480
But God, I said God, God says, 
take that off here. 

471
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:58,120
Yeah, take it off here. 
Because what carried you through

472
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,680
the pain can't cover you in 
purpose. 

473
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:10,040
You see, sandals represent what 
we use to protect ourselves from

474
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,720
the rough places. 
But when you're in the presence 

475
00:38:13,720 --> 00:38:17,160
of God, the protection becomes a
problem. 

476
00:38:17,160 --> 00:38:19,880
Reeling. 
And he doesn't want your guarded

477
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,920
heart. 
No, He wants shall bare soul, 

478
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:28,080
because worship us. 
Lord begins when your defense, 

479
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,280
your defense comes down and 
ends. 

480
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:39,600
And so suddenly the Bible says 
that he says unto him, for the 

481
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:45,080
place, the place we're on, we're
on that stand. 

482
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:49,560
This is holy ground. 
Let me deal with this real 

483
00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:52,040
quick. 
It wasn't a church. 

484
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:56,840
No, it wasn't a temple. 
No, it wasn't a tent. 

485
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:02,240
No, it was dirt, sand, and 
rocks. 

486
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,000
So what made it holy? 
Boiling. 

487
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:12,240
Not the location, but the 
presence made it holy. 

488
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:17,120
Because holiness is not about 
the ground. 

489
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,960
It's about who's standing in it 
with you. 

490
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:26,640
The same desert place became 
sacred because the presence of 

491
00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,800
the Lord stood in the midst of 
it. 

492
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:36,360
And when Moses obeyed, when he 
stood still, when he took off 

493
00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:42,200
but separated him, that's when 
God spoke again. 

494
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,880
I think I bore you long enough. 
Go back and get the word of the 

495
00:39:46,880 --> 00:39:51,640
Lord if you want it. 
But I need you to know, Deacon 

496
00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:58,120
Davis, that it's here the Lord 
reintroduces himself. 

497
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:07,280
And he says, Moses, I am the God
of your Father. 

498
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:17,520
I am the God of Abraham, of 
Isaac and Jacob, not the God God

499
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:27,680
in your past, not the God God of
Egypt, not the God of Pharaoh, 

500
00:40:28,240 --> 00:40:36,440
but the God of your lineage. 
And he's saying I've been with 

501
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:42,320
you all this time. 
I've been in your bloodline and 

502
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:45,920
I've been walking with the old 
people. 

503
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:52,840
I didn't just show up here, but 
I've been there the whole time. 

504
00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:59,240
Even when you lost sight of me 
as a youngster. 

505
00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:06,520
Yeah, God is saying I stay in 
your story. 

506
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:15,360
I stay when you try to run off. 
I when you try to abandon 

507
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:22,400
purpose and Moses, Moses hid his
face, not because he was 

508
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,520
ashamed, but because he wasn't 
all. 

509
00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:30,280
And this is what happens when 
the fire is in front of you. 

510
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:34,560
It reveals the God that's been 
within you. 

511
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:40,800
I got to get out of here now. 
But whatever you do, Saints, I 

512
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:46,440
need you to remember the Take 
your shoes off when you come up 

513
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:50,800
in here next week. 
Take your shoes off when you 

514
00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:55,600
come to practice. 
Yeah, take your shoes off after 

515
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:59,360
we cut this live stream off. 
I never thought he's leaving out

516
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:04,080
of here. 
Take your shoes off because this

517
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:11,120
is holy ground and no matter 
what it looks like on the 

518
00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:16,080
outside, you got to know he'll 
push me a little hard of your 

519
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,400
mind. 
Got this? 

520
00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:27,680
Here's where the Lord dwell, and
whatever you do, don't just look

521
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:35,160
lean into it. 
Don't just look lean into it. 

522
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:44,240
Don't just look lean into it. 
Lean into this place 'cause when

523
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:52,320
you drop drop your sandals, God 
going to drop His strategy. 

524
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:59,280
When you find yourself removing 
the hidden places of your heart,

525
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:05,960
God would uncover your purpose 
for this season. 

526
00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:10,160
I've got to go, John. 
You better come a little higher 

527
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:15,200
now because I need the Saints to
know that God's not done. 

528
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:21,280
He's not done with you. 
And no matter what you may be 

529
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:28,320
going through, get on out of it.
Don't just look, but leaning to 

530
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:31,760
it. 
I feel like giving the song the 

531
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:37,160
songwriter's head. 
Lean with it, rock with it. 

532
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:45,120
Lean with it and rock with it. 
God saying you've been stuck too

533
00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:49,400
long. 
God saying you've been here too 

534
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:54,840
long. 
God said he's not done. 

535
00:43:55,480 --> 00:44:03,120
Whatever you do, lean into it 
because God not done but to you.

536
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:11,200
God not finish with you. 
God has more for you. 

537
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:16,080
So don't get stuck gazing at the
fire. 

538
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:24,240
Come home, shop in the fire, 
shop in the fire, shop in the 

539
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:29,520
fire, shop in the fire, shop in 
the fire. 

540
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:36,200
Might be 80. 
Jump in the fire because gods 

541
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:42,400
not done with you, Gods not 
through with you. 

542
00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,160
If you want to die there's 
plenty of saying. 

543
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:58,880
But sure, in the fire gods send 
the revival, gods sending 

544
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:04,240
another glory gods sending 
another wave. 

545
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:11,960
But whatever you do, don't get 
stuck looking and gazing that. 

546
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:17,280
Remember after Jesus how to send
it to heaven? 

547
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:24,040
He sent some angels back down to
ask them a question. 

548
00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:34,880
Why stand here gazing? 
He who has risen from the dead 

549
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:40,400
is a lie. 
That a lie power, it's going to 

550
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:44,920
heal your body. 
That a lie power it's going to 

551
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:49,560
save your marriage. 
That a lie power it's going to 

552
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:52,920
save your family. 
Get up from here. 

553
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:57,480
Jump in the fire. 
Jump in the fire. 

554
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,440
Shopping the fire. 
I got to stop shopping the fire.

555
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,200
Shopping the fire. 
He don't want your ability 

556
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:11,720
Shopping the fire. 
He wants your availability. 

557
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:17,400
Shopping the fire. 
I'm at my time. 

558
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,080
Hallelujah. 
Where's mine? 

559
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:26,240
Don't look lean. 
Lean. 

560
00:46:26,240 --> 00:46:28,560
Yes, Sir. 
Hallelujah. 

561
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:33,040
You keep reading. 
God tells him about his family. 

562
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:37,320
He tells them I'm the God of 
your forefathers. 

563
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:43,080
But then he starts to deal with 
Moses in a very real way. 

564
00:46:44,320 --> 00:46:51,200
He says you came here for a fire
that attracted your senses. 

565
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:56,600
I'm trying to recalibrate you 
because I'm not done with you, 

566
00:46:57,640 --> 00:46:59,840
he says. 
I've heard the cries of my 

567
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:05,160
people and I've known the whole 
time that you've been hiding. 

568
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,080
I know the whole time you didn't
think you were the 1. 

569
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,600
You have discounted your own 
self. 

570
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,240
But he essentially tells Moses, 
I'm coming to get you off the 

571
00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:22,840
clearance rack. 
I'm buying you back to let you 

572
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,240
know they're still fit in your 
garment. 

573
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:35,680
They're still you send you. 
Moses says tell it OK, I said it

574
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:42,200
says yes, Lord, we we got to cut
out all the extras. 

575
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,280
It's either yes, Lord, or no at 
all. 

576
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,720
We could sit up and meet, have 
private meet and solve it all. 

577
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:53,280
We did all day long and then the
day is, will we do the will of 

578
00:47:53,280 --> 00:48:00,120
the Lord or will we wallow in 40
years of obscurity, thinking and

579
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:03,160
rehearsing what was and what 
could have been and what did 

580
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,920
happen, what what maybe didn't 
happen or maybe it should have 

581
00:48:05,920 --> 00:48:13,280
happened this way. 
He's a murderer on the run at 80

582
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:18,360
years old and God says you're 
Moses. 

583
00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:23,000
That's all I really came to tell
you today in person online. 

584
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:28,920
You are not what you have done. 
You are not what you are 

585
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:34,000
currently doing. 
You are the name God gave you. 

586
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,840
That's why I take so much time 
and baby dedications going 

587
00:48:37,840 --> 00:48:40,000
through the name, giving you all
these prophetic words. 

588
00:48:42,880 --> 00:48:44,760
Yes, yes, because you are your 
name. 

589
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:49,880
I can hear them, the old writer 
who says long there's breath in 

590
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:53,000
my body. 
I've still got hope, still got 

591
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:58,920
purpose. 
Today's the day for you to give 

592
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:00,800
God another yes, praise the 
Lord. 

593
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,080
I don't want you to come to an 
altar. 

594
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,880
I want you to right there at 
your seat. 

595
00:49:10,480 --> 00:49:15,560
I want you to close your eyes, 
bow your head, and I'm not going

596
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:19,680
to pray out loud and I'm going 
to give us a few moments for you

597
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:26,560
to create your own space. 
We love and join corporate fire 

598
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:32,640
gatherings, but when we go home,
we complain about the coldness 

599
00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:37,960
of our homes because there's no 
fire within. 

600
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:44,800
Today God wants to relight the 
pilot, but He's only going to 

601
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:47,640
relight it when you avail 
yourself to Him. 

602
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:51,040
Hallelujah. 
I'm just your mailman today. 

603
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:58,480
I know it's 133. 
I'm over the time I purposely 

604
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:02,560
wanted to take the time to give 
you this word because I keep 

605
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,720
wanting to go back to Matthew 
chapter 27. 

606
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:09,280
But I keep getting pulled away 
from finishing the series 

607
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:16,040
because I hear the Lord almost 
like, like a a strong cry that 

608
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:21,160
he wants us to come back to him.
No pretext, no, no extra, no 

609
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,520
frill stuff, none of that fake 
stuff. 

610
00:50:25,240 --> 00:50:28,960
Let's come back to him. 
Let's renew ourselves with him, 

611
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:36,720
Davis said. 
Lord created me a clean heart. 

612
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:41,760
Yes, yes. 
And manure within me. 

613
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:52,780
All right, spirit. 
Every posture we stand and sit 

614
00:50:52,780 --> 00:51:00,580
in has meaning. 
It tells Moses to take his shoes

615
00:51:00,580 --> 00:51:03,500
off. 
Take your shoes off. 

616
00:51:05,260 --> 00:51:07,380
John's going to play for just a 
few seconds. 

617
00:51:07,380 --> 00:51:09,660
Literally. 
Why don't you create an altar 

618
00:51:09,660 --> 00:51:37,480
right there? 
Listen. 

619
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:47,200
Listen. 
Thank you for never leaving us, 

620
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:50,960
Father. 
Thank you for always being 

621
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:56,760
there, even in the moments when 
we were unsure if we were there.

622
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,680
Father, there's still moments 
when there feel like there are 

623
00:52:00,680 --> 00:52:03,760
more question than answers in 
life. 

624
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:11,560
So, Lord, just as Moses was 
drawn to that Bush, we are drawn

625
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:19,600
to your presence right now, my 
Father, we simply say yes. 

626
00:52:23,600 --> 00:52:30,240
Heart still aching, but yes, 
still unsure about some things 

627
00:52:30,240 --> 00:52:36,600
in life, but yes, yes, that you 
can have the fragile parts of 

628
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:40,800
me. 
Yes, that you can have this old 

629
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,160
feeble body. 
Lord, I still got a determined 

630
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,880
heart to go all the way with 
you. 

631
00:52:49,840 --> 00:53:00,280
So Lord, send the fire. 
Send the fire that caused the 

632
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:05,720
church to be ignited in Acts 2. 
Send the fire. 

633
00:53:05,720 --> 00:53:13,560
Send it that calls a valley of 
dry dead bones to become a great

634
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:19,120
army Lord. 
Send the fire that protected 

635
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:24,040
Hebrew boys and a furnace. 
Well, they didn't even come out 

636
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:31,320
smelling like smoke. 
Send the fire that burns up all 

637
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:35,880
things that are not like you, 
knowing that this is the 

638
00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:42,400
refiner's fire, that you are 
purifying us, and that which is 

639
00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:46,040
not like you. 
Lord, scrape it away. 

640
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:53,080
Lord, remove it away. 
Lord, take the desire away. 

641
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,640
Lord, take the appetite of it 
away. 

642
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,600
Lord, take the connections of it
away. 

643
00:54:03,240 --> 00:54:08,560
So Lord, when we leave this 
place, we leave this place like 

644
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:16,360
Moses left that Bush a new man. 
We leave this place a new woman,

645
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:23,040
a new boy, a New Girl, a new 
church totally committed to you 

646
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:28,240
in Jesus name, Amen. 
You may not know Jesus in free 

647
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:30,920
partner he's sending, but you 
pray this short prayer after me 

648
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:35,760
say Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, come
into my heart save me. 

649
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:42,520
I want to be saved. 
Lord Jesus, thank you for dying 

650
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:49,120
on the cross for me. 
Lord Jesus, thank you for rising

651
00:54:49,120 --> 00:54:55,720
out of the grave for me. 
Lord Jesus, thank you for soon 

652
00:54:55,720 --> 00:55:01,520
coming again for me in Jesus 
name, Amen. 

653
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,720
Thank you for tuning in to the 
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654
00:55:05,720 --> 00:55:09,000
Podcast. 
We pray today's message planted 

655
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:11,520
something in your spirit and 
gave you the strength to keep 

656
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:15,000
growing here at the Rock Hill 
Baptist Church 2. 

657
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:18,520
We're a growing church, and 
growth starts with one step. 

658
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:21,800
If you're ready to go deeper, 
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659
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:28,360
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660
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,800
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661
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,240
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662
00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:39,360
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663
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:43,000
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664
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:46,400
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Until next time, walk in 

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00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:49,800
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