1 00:00:07,670 --> 00:00:12,070 Open your Bibles to the book of Exodus as we continue through 2 00:00:12,070 --> 00:00:26,940 Exodus chapter 3, verse 11. Moses had seen the burning Bush. 3 00:00:29,540 --> 00:00:32,940 He's gone to check it out. God calls him. 4 00:00:33,020 --> 00:00:39,480 Moses answers, says here I am. God tells him what I want you to 5 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:46,360 do because of what God had seen, what he'd heard, what he knew 6 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,320 concerning the sorrows of his people in Egypt, who for 400 7 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:57,280 years now had been slaves. God had told Abraham this was 8 00:00:57,280 --> 00:01:00,880 going to occur. But also, God told Abraham that 9 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:06,720 he'd raised this nation, Egypt, for the purpose of building 70 10 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:12,040 people into two to three and a half million people now to 11 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:15,720 become a nation. And the time was now right for 12 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:22,240 both the people and also Canaan land was being prepared for 400 13 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:27,480 years to be the promised land where Moses would eventually 14 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,280 aim. He wouldn't get there himself, 15 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:35,800 sadly, until later on the Mount of Transfiguration. 16 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:39,680 He would lead the people to the edge of it. 17 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,280 And so we pick it up in this discussion. 18 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:48,040 It's just Moses and a burning Bush and God speaking to him. 19 00:01:49,240 --> 00:01:54,360 And Moses said to God, because the Lord said in verse 10, Come 20 00:01:54,360 --> 00:02:00,520 now, therefore I will send you no one else there but sheep to 21 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:06,680 Pharaoh, that you may bring my people, the children of Israel. 22 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:09,120 Notice the children of Israel, whose people they are God's 23 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:11,680 people out of Egypt. That's the plan. 24 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,400 We're going to see Moses now. He's going to argue with God. 25 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:23,080 He's going to give up five situations of why? 26 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:29,640 Ah, no, Billy Sunday, a great preacher. 27 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,680 He is a famous baseball player in America. 28 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:38,680 I remember reading about him and his salvation and then he's he's 29 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:41,960 great ministry. But sadly the ministry that fell 30 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:46,520 short in his own family's life had this saying. 31 00:02:47,800 --> 00:02:53,480 He said an excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a lie. 32 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,960 An excuse. I can't do this. 33 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,720 I'm just not, you're too busy or whatever is the skin of a reason 34 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:05,680 stuffed with a lie. So that's going to sit behind 35 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:10,600 these five things that Moses is going to argue with God about 36 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:16,120 why he should be the one to do what God has asked him to do. 37 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:25,840 So Moses said, Lord said, I certainly I will be with you and 38 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,520 this shall be assigned to you that I've sent you. 39 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:33,280 When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve 40 00:03:33,280 --> 00:03:35,600 God on this mountain. You're going to bring them to 41 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:39,560 this very place, Mount Horeb, Mount Sinai, same location. 42 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:46,600 Because Moses says verse 11, basically I can't do this. 43 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,800 I can't, I can't do this. How often does something come up 44 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,920 in your life? And people pray and, and we know 45 00:03:55,920 --> 00:03:59,880 what the Bible says about the matter, about our marriage, 46 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:03,320 about our relationship with our dad, with our mum, with a, with 47 00:04:03,320 --> 00:04:07,320 a, with a boss or a situation or an enemy or something. 48 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:13,680 And we know what the Bible says. And then we argue with the Lord 49 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:19,360 and we say I can't do this now God would never ask you to do 50 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:24,320 something that you can't do. We wouldn't ask our children to 51 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,200 do something. Go out there and you get one of 52 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:31,000 your grand grandchildren. He's say 3-4, five years ago. 53 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,440 There's here's the key. Jump in the car, go down the 54 00:04:33,440 --> 00:04:35,520 shop, buy the milk, come back with we will. 55 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:41,040 We never do that. And God never asked you to do 56 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:44,520 something me to do something, any of his children to do 57 00:04:44,520 --> 00:04:49,160 something that you are not able to do with him. 58 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:54,920 And that's where Moses, 40 years in the desert now is going to 59 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:56,880 argue with God and go, well, I can't, I can't. 60 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:02,080 There's no way I can't can't do this because the Bible says what 61 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:09,480 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me in my 62 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,920 weakness. He is made strong. 63 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,720 And this is this is not a popular gospel today. 64 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,520 The real gospel is not popular today because we're too busy 65 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:27,480 administering band aids and soft talk and Oh yeah, I understand 66 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:29,480 that's you. You don't have to do this to 67 00:05:29,480 --> 00:05:33,000 situations when this is what the Bible says. 68 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:38,120 What are you going to do? You either a buy it, believe it. 69 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,200 Well, you don't. So that's the first one. 70 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,800 And secondly, why would God choose a failure? 71 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:53,200 God doesn't choose failures in the sense that yes, all the 72 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:57,000 people that he's chosen, Abraham, he lied about his wife 73 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:00,520 twice, you know, risk her life twice. 74 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:05,280 Then we read through David, we read through Peter. 75 00:06:06,280 --> 00:06:12,320 Coming to later, Thomas wouldn't believe God only has failures 76 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:17,240 because in this world there is none righteous, No, not one. 77 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:21,200 We are all who fall short of the glory of God. 78 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,440 So it's not like, oh, I'm a failure. 79 00:06:25,040 --> 00:06:29,680 We should actually say, yeah, you are, and yet so am I, but 80 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:33,640 that God chooses you because it's what God does, not what you 81 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:39,000 do. And so Moses argues. 82 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:41,040 So he said, I will certainly be with you. 83 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:43,720 God says I'll be with you. Isn't that what Jesus has said 84 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:45,880 to us? I'll never leave you nor forsake 85 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,080 you. Yeah, though I walk through the 86 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:54,680 valley of the shadow of death. What Christ our Lord is with us. 87 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:59,880 So he said I will certainly be with you and this shall be a 88 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,880 sign to you that I've sent you when you brought the people out 89 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:04,400 of Egypt. You shall serve God on this 90 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:08,400 mountain. You see, he was busy looking at 91 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:13,120 himself and that's always the problem when we when we eyeball 92 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:17,200 ourselves. One thing that we learn about in 93 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:20,280 in our walk with God and I'm not going to get anywhere near 94 00:07:20,560 --> 00:07:23,880 through this passage. I can understand now is we're 95 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:26,920 always thinking, we're always looking about ourselves. 96 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:28,280 Oh, poor me. This is me. 97 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,920 I'm me, Me, me, me. It's all about me. 98 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:34,200 He's talking about me. They're talking about me. 99 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:36,080 It's about me. What is in it for me? 100 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:38,120 How come this church doesn't do this for me? 101 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:40,840 It's not about you. It's about the Lord. 102 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:44,280 It's about the Lord. This is the Kingdom of God. 103 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:49,000 We're His servants and so instead of looking at ourselves 104 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:52,880 where we are when we get saved, we are to take our eyes off 105 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:57,400 ourselves and put our eyes. I love it through the Psalms. 106 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:00,160 I remember when I was first to believe it, how many times in 107 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,200 the Psalms it says He is the lifter up of our heads. 108 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:07,080 We were to always keep our eyes. Our eyes are on the Lord. 109 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:12,080 Jesus is walking on the water, the disciple scene, I think he's 110 00:08:12,080 --> 00:08:13,760 a ghost. And Peter says if you, if you're 111 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:16,880 the, if you, if you're, if you're Jesus, call me out. 112 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:21,080 Come on, Peters gets out. Amazing. 113 00:08:21,080 --> 00:08:23,560 He's the only one that does that and walks for a while on the 114 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:26,160 water and until he takes his eyes off the Lord. 115 00:08:26,160 --> 00:08:28,720 And you know the story. Jesus has to grave him and save 116 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,760 him. Instead of looking by faith to 117 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:37,240 the Lord, you and I have to look by faith to the Lord in your 118 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,919 situation. Then Moses said to God, indeed, 119 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:44,360 when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, the God 120 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,080 of your Father's has sent me to you. 121 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:48,160 And they say to me, well, what's his name? 122 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:50,360 Which God are you talking about? Moses? 123 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:57,400 And Moses is doing what we do. We worry about 85% of the stuff 124 00:08:57,520 --> 00:08:59,240 that's never going to happen to us. 125 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:03,240 Well, what if she says, what if he says, what if they, you know, 126 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:04,280 think I'm an idiot? What? 127 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,360 What if this happens? If I do this, it's never going 128 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:12,120 to happen. 85% of what we worry about is never, ever, ever and 129 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,560 does not happen. Or what if they say this? 130 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:23,200 You're not even there yet. Moses, what shall I say? 131 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:28,440 And God says to Moses, this is who I am. 132 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:33,880 Tell him I am who I am. It's called the Tetragrammaton 133 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,480 YHWH, just the consonants without the vowels. 134 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:42,280 The vowels were added in later where we get Jehovah or Yahweh. 135 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,040 But really no one knows how to pronounce this. 136 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:52,400 It's I am I am and I remember writing to a guy in Israel who 137 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:56,120 was a surfer and I somehow began to write to this guy was a 138 00:09:56,120 --> 00:09:58,720 surfer has a surf going in Israel and whenever he would 139 00:09:58,720 --> 00:10:04,440 write back, he would talk about God, but he would put put G-D. 140 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:10,120 He would never and a devout Jew never says because they say no 141 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,920 one can say the name of God. I we don't know how to say it. 142 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:18,320 You know, no one knows how to say Yahweh really we is that the 143 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:20,920 way you say it? No one knows Jehovah Jehovah. 144 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:26,920 We've added the the vows to it to make it say Jehovah, but no 145 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:28,720 one knows. But so here's here's what it 146 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:32,480 says and I put it in the the daily devotion today. 147 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:39,360 I am, I am and what are all the Iams in in the gospel of John, 148 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:41,800 there are 7 Iams. I'm the bread of life. 149 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:45,760 I'm the lion of the world. I am the Good Shepherd on the 150 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:49,000 door. What about Jehovah, Jehovah 151 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:51,840 Jireh, my provider, Jehovah Shalom. 152 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:59,320 I'm your peace God saying to Moses, I am whatever needs you 153 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:02,920 need I am. I am. 154 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:08,240 And it means literally to be and to become. 155 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:11,960 So whatever God needs you. And there are times when I need 156 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,400 him to be my comforter. There are times when he he, he 157 00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:21,040 will be my protector. There are times he's always 158 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,320 going to be my father. There are times he's going to be 159 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,240 my peace. There are times he will provide. 160 00:11:28,200 --> 00:11:29,640 There are times he'll be my strength. 161 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:33,720 And so that's what God says the most. 162 00:11:35,040 --> 00:11:40,720 Tell him I am. They'll know because this term 163 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:48,720 was known by the patriarchs. The God of your Father's has 164 00:11:48,720 --> 00:11:52,080 sent me, They'll know. And they say to me, What is his 165 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:53,400 name? What shall I say? 166 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:59,120 Jehovah I am, I am Yahweh. God said to Moses, I am who I 167 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:01,400 am. And he said, Thus you shall say 168 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:07,400 to the children of Israel, I am a sent me to you. 169 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:13,000 Second complaint, I don't, I don't know enough God to be able 170 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,320 to go. What do they say? 171 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:18,080 Which God has sent you? Because Egypt was full of gods. 172 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:22,280 There are false gods everywhere. Egypt had tonnes of them. 173 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,680 Moses is saying behind this, I don't know enough. 174 00:12:28,800 --> 00:12:36,320 I don't know who you are Lord. Verse 13 verse 15 God says I am 175 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:41,360 everything. Tell them I am I am whatever 176 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:45,160 they need. Tell them he has sent me. 177 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:50,600 I remember when I was praying about begun going into the 178 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:57,920 ministry and I had this massive fear and my massive fear 179 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,400 seriously I pray I can't go to the ministry. 180 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:05,280 And I always feared being a young pastor preaching and 181 00:13:05,640 --> 00:13:10,640 preaching and some elderly and this is 1 nightmare elderly 182 00:13:10,640 --> 00:13:13,720 general to come with half glasses. 183 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:19,440 Been reading the Bible for 5000 years, knows the Greek and the 184 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,400 Hebrew, and they would wander out to me after I preached a 185 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:26,360 message and they go tell me something. 186 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:32,520 Can you explain to me in Ezekiel 38 or 47 the meaning of the 187 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:36,280 Greek, the Hebrew and the Greek, what that actually mean? 188 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:39,560 Is God saying this and what is he really saying about that? 189 00:13:41,720 --> 00:13:46,600 Don't know. And I remember one night how 190 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:49,360 long I were living in Dunsborough and I drove up with 191 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,600 Daryl. We went to a conference, All 192 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:55,160 right, Remember the Lord calling, calling me to go into 193 00:13:55,160 --> 00:13:57,120 the ministry. No audible voice. 194 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:02,000 But this is this massive desire. The Bible says in Timothy that 195 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,360 God places this desire in your heart because you wouldn't do it 196 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:06,800 for anything or any other reason. 197 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:11,000 And so I remember going forward and praying at the end of the 198 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,640 service. And as I knelt down, I remember 199 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,920 no audible voice, but the impression of God speaking to 200 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:26,600 me, going What you need to know. When you need to know, I'll tell 201 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:30,640 you. You see, it wasn't about me. 202 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:38,960 God doesn't call you to do something that he's not going to 203 00:14:38,960 --> 00:14:41,040 enable you think about when you get married. 204 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,240 You don't know how to be a husband, how to be a wife. 205 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:46,440 You haven't got a clue. You haven't been to school. 206 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:48,160 That's how I'm going to be a husband. 207 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,680 And then when you have a child, you don't know how to be a 208 00:14:50,680 --> 00:14:52,800 father, A mother. Oh, well, we got this. 209 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,320 Yeah. Which end goes around. 210 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:56,960 Which end? It goes in, you know, You put 211 00:14:56,960 --> 00:14:58,560 them in the car, you don't know, bring them home. 212 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:00,520 And now what? There's no doctors and nurses 213 00:15:00,520 --> 00:15:01,080 around. We. 214 00:15:02,360 --> 00:15:05,400 What do we do now? That was just me. 215 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,880 Helen was doing everything. I was just worried about what to 216 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:09,280 do. I had no idea. 217 00:15:11,760 --> 00:15:18,400 It's not about what you know, it's knowing who God is. 218 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,360 So we read on. I am a sin you. 219 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,480 Moreover, God said to Moses, thus you shall shall say to the 220 00:15:28,480 --> 00:15:30,720 children of Israel, the Lord God of your father's, the God of 221 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:33,960 Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has sent me to you. 222 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:37,560 This is my name forever. You see, God's the same 223 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:39,600 yesterday, today, and forever. He doesn't change. 224 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:45,560 I am, I am, Jesus said he is that I am. 225 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:51,320 I am in the New Testament. This is my memorial to do all 226 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,120 generations go and gather the elders of Israel together. 227 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,520 Say to them, the Lord God of your Father's, the God of 228 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:01,160 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob appeared to me saying, I've 229 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,840 surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt. 230 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:06,680 And I've said, I'll bring you out of the affliction of Egypt 231 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:10,600 to the land of the Canaanites, the Hidites, and all the others 232 00:16:10,600 --> 00:16:12,680 there to a land flowing of milk and honey. 233 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:16,720 Then they will heed your voice. And you shall come, you and the 234 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:18,560 elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt. 235 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,120 You shall say to him, the Lord God of the Hebrews has met with 236 00:16:22,120 --> 00:16:24,200 us. And now please let us go three 237 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,800 days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the 238 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:31,200 Lord our God. Notice now what he says to 239 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:32,320 Moses. But this is what's going to 240 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,520 happen, Moses. But I'm sure that the king of 241 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,040 Egypt won't. He won't let you go. 242 00:16:37,640 --> 00:16:41,280 Oh, he's kind of, we want, we want it to pan out. 243 00:16:41,640 --> 00:16:45,320 Remember he said to young Jeremiah called God's called 244 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:49,960 young Jeremiah to be a prophet. He's just maybe 15-17 years of 245 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:51,640 age. There's Jeremiah. 246 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:53,680 I want you to go and stand in front of the people as they come 247 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:55,160 to the temple. And when they come, I want you 248 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:59,160 to say you're thieving, you're idolaters. 249 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,200 When you say all this stuff, they won't accept a word that 250 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:06,040 you say. They'll hate you and don't be 251 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,880 scared of their faces. He literally said that to 252 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:12,640 Jeremiah and I always think of Jeremiah. 253 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:14,640 That's one ministry I would never ever want. 254 00:17:15,119 --> 00:17:18,440 Jeremiah was told to go to a people who were going to just 255 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:22,280 tell him drop dead Jeremiah, we don't want you no matter what. 256 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,440 He was never going to have Oh, it's Jeremiah that was just 257 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:26,440 going to tell him. Get lost. 258 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:35,320 We don't want to hear from you. And here the Lord tells Moses he 259 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:40,160 ain't going to let you go, no, not even by a mighty hand. 260 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:43,640 So I'll stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my 261 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:45,520 wonders, which I'll do in its myths. 262 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:48,280 And after that he'll let you go. But this is what's going to 263 00:17:48,280 --> 00:17:50,040 happen. You see, God knows what's going 264 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:53,240 to happen. He, he's not going to be, oh, 265 00:17:53,480 --> 00:17:56,440 what? You went there and you said I am 266 00:17:56,440 --> 00:17:58,120 sent you. And he, he said what? 267 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:03,200 He said he's not letting you go. Oh well, doesn't he know I got 268 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:06,880 the promised land all prepared to be 400 years and God knows he 269 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:10,040 knows. And this what makes my heart so 270 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:16,240 confident and peace in this day in which we live right now with 271 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:20,800 all the crazies that are running the governments world powers. 272 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,800 You are Putin. We got, you know, Starmer, we 273 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:29,840 got people all over the world just doing funky things to this 274 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,280 nation with GG Ping's going to do that. 275 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,680 And and we kind of go, oh, well, what's going to happen? 276 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:41,120 Not a problem, not a problem. God raises them up. 277 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,480 God pulls them down. God's doing his plan. 278 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,520 And how fitting in that plan is this. 279 00:18:48,640 --> 00:18:55,160 He's taking us out. Not to worry and I'll give this 280 00:18:55,160 --> 00:18:57,040 people favour on the side of the Egyptians. 281 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:00,200 And it shall be when you go, thou shall not go empty handed. 282 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:03,720 He even foretells that when you leave, you're going to leave 283 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:08,240 loaded. You can't even right at this 284 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,200 moment. They're slaves and things are 285 00:19:11,200 --> 00:19:14,720 about to get worse before they get better slaves. 286 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,560 When you leave, you're going to leave with, with wealth. 287 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,480 But every woman shall ask of a neighbour, namely of who dwells 288 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,920 near a house, articles of silver, articles of gold and 289 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:27,920 clothing. You shall put them on your sons 290 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,960 and on your daughters. So she shall plunder the 291 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:33,480 Egyptians. How is that going to happen, 292 00:19:34,360 --> 00:19:39,080 man? Chapter 4 And Moses and said, 293 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,760 Oh, hang on, but wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. 294 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:46,200 Suppose they won't believe me or listen to my voice. 295 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:51,160 Suppose again, he's worrying about something that hasn't 296 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:53,640 happened. Suppose they say the Lord has 297 00:19:53,640 --> 00:19:56,640 not appeared to you. So the Lord said to him, what's 298 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,840 that in your hand? I'm afraid. 299 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,080 And here's his next reason. I'm I'm scared. 300 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,400 What's the opposite of faith Fear. 301 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:13,880 I'm I'm afraid of doing this. What if what if they don't 302 00:20:13,880 --> 00:20:16,040 believe me? The elders there and everyone 303 00:20:16,040 --> 00:20:18,360 else and. You see, the Bible says in the 304 00:20:18,360 --> 00:20:20,680 book of Proverbs what the fear of man is. 305 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:23,640 What a snare. You know, we're more worried 306 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:27,280 about what someone will think about our Christianity, whether 307 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:30,280 we go and tell them we are concerned about whether they're 308 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,160 going to go to heaven or hell. We're more concerned about us 309 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,560 being rejected and oh, we don't want to upset the applecart. 310 00:20:38,520 --> 00:20:43,840 We want to stay friends with them then, then, then waiting on 311 00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,440 the Lord and praying for them and and just really trying to 312 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:52,360 win them to Christ. I'm scared. 313 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:56,200 What if they don't believe me? The fear of man is a snare. 314 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,360 So God says, well, what's that you got in your hand there? 315 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:04,600 Is it a rod now it's a shepherd has two what? 316 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:11,280 He has a staff, a long one helping to walk, and a rod. 317 00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:15,240 Not a fishing rod. A rod is like a club. 318 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,200 The club is what for? It's for beating off wolves and 319 00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:22,760 beasts that we're trying to attack the sheep. 320 00:21:23,520 --> 00:21:25,720 Thy rod on thy staff. What do they do? 321 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,360 They comfort me. Rod on thy staff. 322 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:35,560 So it's a rod, he said. It's a rod, He said, throw it on 323 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:36,840 the ground. Oh, OK. 324 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:39,960 Throws the rod on the ground. Throws on the ground and and it 325 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,680 turns into a snake. Now living out in the Bush 40 326 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:45,960 years looking up sheep. He's seen a lot of snakes. 327 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:51,160 This is this is a real snake. It's turned into a a real snake. 328 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,880 And Moses took off from it, as would you and I. 329 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,040 I'm not going in. I hate snakes. 330 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:02,160 And over our back fence we have snakeville secret harbours 331 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:07,400 snakes everywhere. And so it turns into the snake. 332 00:22:07,760 --> 00:22:10,560 Moses runs away from it. Then the Lord said to Moses, 333 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:13,520 reach out your hand and take it by the reach out my hand and 334 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,960 take it by the tail. You're kidding me. 335 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,600 Imagine seeing a big Jew guy and God says go and grab all of 336 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:23,400 that. I'm not grabbing that. 337 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:28,360 Moses does. He grabs it by the tail and as 338 00:22:28,360 --> 00:22:31,760 he reached as notice and he reached out his hand and caught 339 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:34,400 it and it instantly went back to the rod. 340 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:42,360 Wow. That they may believe that the 341 00:22:42,360 --> 00:22:44,720 Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of 342 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,080 Isaac, the God of Jacob has appeared to you. 343 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,440 It's back to the right. Furthermore, the Lord said to 344 00:22:51,440 --> 00:22:54,360 him, now put your hand in your bosom inside your, your, your 345 00:22:54,360 --> 00:22:56,720 garment. So he does the old Napoleon 346 00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,360 thing, puts his hand in here. Later on. 347 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:01,520 Miriam's going to do that, isn't she? 348 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:07,120 When she challenges Moses, put your hand in your bosom, puts it 349 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:12,240 in, pulls it out. It's it's it's leprosy. 350 00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,760 Oh, yeah, Yeah. Well, you freaked him out. 351 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:23,680 His hands all stinky, smelly. It's it's a piece of leprosy, 352 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:26,960 incurable. And he said, now put your hand 353 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,160 back in. Put his hand, his bosom again. 354 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:32,480 Drew it out. Now it's back. 355 00:23:32,480 --> 00:23:36,720 Good as you, and then it will be if they do not believe you nor 356 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,720 heed the message of the first sign, that they believe the 357 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:43,080 messages of the latter sign. There shall be if they do not 358 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,200 believe in these two signs or listen to your voice. 359 00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,840 Then you shall take water from the river, the Nile, pour it on 360 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,680 the dry land. The water which you take from 361 00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:54,640 the river, it'll become blood. This was going to happen. 362 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:02,160 You see, Moses misses the message of God's name, God's 363 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:08,640 miracles and he and and he still then says to the Lord, verse 10, 364 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:16,160 Oh my Lord, I am not eloquent. Next, I can't speak not good. 365 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:21,080 Now some commentary say that he had a stutter. 366 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,000 Others said that he he was slow in speech. 367 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:30,080 And here's the freaky thing because you know how how many 368 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,120 times I've been meant so I can never pray publicly. 369 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:36,080 I'll never do this. Actually, you know when you do, 370 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,320 when that person does, their prayers are the best because 371 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,240 they're not the hour long prayer that tells us a story. 372 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:47,160 Their prayers from the heart. They get to the point I can't 373 00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:51,440 speak. It's another excuse because in 374 00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:55,440 Acts Chapter 7 verse 22, as Stephen is giving his one and 375 00:24:55,440 --> 00:25:06,080 only sermon, Stephen says of Moses, he was mighty in words. 376 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,760 He'd been to the best school around. 377 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:17,000 This guy could speak and deeds. He was very well spoken back in 378 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,480 Egypt when he was the Prince of Egypt. 379 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,520 In the courts of Egypt, he had no problems. 380 00:25:22,920 --> 00:25:26,760 When he went out and spoke to the guy who was the Egyptian who 381 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:29,480 was beaten down the the Hebrew, he said, hey, what are you 382 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:31,600 doing? No, no, no problems there. 383 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:34,560 Or when the two Hebrews were lying into one another saying 384 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,000 why do you two brothers, why are you fighting one another? 385 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:45,120 He say it's an excuse. It's an excuse, I can't speak, 386 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,080 I'm not good. It's just another excuse. 387 00:25:48,920 --> 00:25:55,200 Now notice this slow of speech, slow of tongue. 388 00:25:56,800 --> 00:26:00,160 So the Lord said to him, who made man's mouth? 389 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,360 It really gets like God's kind of like who? 390 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:08,960 Who made your mouth? You notice this because this is 391 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:11,920 one of the most difficult passages for me. 392 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:17,240 And he says God goes on and say, who makes the mute, the deaf, 393 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:23,240 the seeing or the blind? Have not I the Lord now, 394 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,320 therefore go and I'll be with your mouth and teach you what 395 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:30,280 you say when you read this. You go, oh, hang on a minute. 396 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:33,640 Someone's going to ask. Oh so so God when people have 397 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,200 problems, this is God's brought this. 398 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,920 Well, couple things. One, we live in a fallen world 399 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:47,880 and sin has entered this world and sin is just rampant, but God 400 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,840 is over this. And here's the thing. 401 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:56,000 What you and I often do is we fall for the for the three card 402 00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,960 trick of going, oh Gee, God, that's a bit unfair about what 403 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,880 you're doing. And we're missing the whole, 404 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,520 we're missing the forest for the trees. 405 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,280 Because what's going to happen is God is going to create a new 406 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:11,720 heaven on earth. When everyone goes to be with 407 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,640 the Lord, there's not going to be any slurred speech. 408 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,120 Fanny Crosby will have eyes that she can see. 409 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:23,320 She won't be blind anymore. No pain, no sorrow. 410 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:28,440 And what you and I need to look at is our trust in God, no 411 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:31,760 matter what difficulties we face. 412 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:34,840 That's where the rubber meets the road. 413 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:41,840 It was Job, remember who on day? What first day Satan comes on 414 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,120 attacks and God allowed it. He loses all his kids. 415 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:49,800 I think he had 10 kids gone and and he had prayed every day and 416 00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:51,360 sacrificed every day for these kids. 417 00:27:51,360 --> 00:27:55,080 And then the next minute the whole family's wiped out and Job 418 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,760 didn't go right. That's the end of me having a 419 00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:04,800 relationship with you, Lord. What did Job say? 420 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,040 You see, this is where we either stay at a certain level without 421 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:12,920 Christianity. Oh, I know I believe in 422 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,120 salvation, but there are some things that when I get to 423 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:19,520 heaven, I'm going to have it out with him because I don't what he 424 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:23,120 did and how what we went through and how I suffered and I'm not, 425 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:24,920 I'm not, I'm going to talk to him. 426 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:34,600 No, you're not because Job said the Lord gives, the Lord takes 427 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:40,880 away and he rises above it. He says blessed be the name of 428 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:46,000 the Lord. You see, there's so many people 429 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:52,080 that live the Christianity in, in kind of levels that go so 430 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,480 far. But oh man, what I had to go 431 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,880 through as a kid, what what's happened in this and what's 432 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:02,800 happened in that and they get ticked off with God and I'm 433 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:06,640 gone. Who are you don't even say 434 00:29:06,640 --> 00:29:09,000 anything about God in any way, shape or form. 435 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,880 But God says to Moses, Moses, I made the mouths you can speak, 436 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,200 you can speak. So the anger of the Lord was 437 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:29,520 kindled against Moses. Notice because in verse 13 he 438 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,720 says Lord, not me, get somebody else. 439 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,760 You somebody else. Now, this is not humility. 440 00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,640 Yes, Moses will become the meekest man on the earth, but 441 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,240 right at this moment, he's proud. 442 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,000 He's full of himself. He said, I don't want to. 443 00:29:48,120 --> 00:29:51,120 Basically he's saying, oh, someone else better than me. 444 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,360 Now what you're saying is I don't want to do this. 445 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:57,920 What he's doing is, is actually disobeying God. 446 00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:02,000 I'm not going to do this. Get somebody else. 447 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:09,520 No, God's chosen you, Moses. I don't want to do this. 448 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:15,160 Someone else, maybe. You see, he's not being humble 449 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,280 right here. And This is why the Lord gets 450 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,440 angry. He's being totally disobedient 451 00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:27,760 because what it's saying to God is like God, you can't do any of 452 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:29,680 this. And I don't want to do any of it 453 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:36,440 either. So the anger of the Lord was 454 00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:38,880 kindled against Moses and he said it's not Aaron. 455 00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:40,400 Believe what? Your brother. 456 00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,160 I know that he can speak. Well, look, he's also coming out 457 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,120 to meet you. When he sees you, be glad in his 458 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:48,440 heart. Now you shall speak to him. 459 00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:50,440 I'll tell you, and then you'll tell him. 460 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,240 Put the words in his mouth and I'll be with your mouth and with 461 00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:55,720 his mouth and I'll teach you what you should do. 462 00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,320 So he shall be your spokespers, spokesman to the people, and he 463 00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:02,120 himself shall be as a mouth for you and you shall be to him as 464 00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:04,000 God. You shall take this rod in your 465 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,800 hands with which you do the signs. 466 00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,800 And here's the problem. Oh, hang on. 467 00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,560 So Moses went and returned to Jethro, his father in law, and 468 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,800 said to him, please let me go, return to my brethren. 469 00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:16,760 He doesn't tell him God sent me. He's just, I just want to go 470 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:19,000 back to Egypt, see if any of my relatives are alive. 471 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,920 And here's the problem. Aaron was going to be a problem 472 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:29,120 because later Aaron instead of helping Moses, he was going to 473 00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,880 side with Miriam and also and challenge Moses. 474 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:36,400 And also when Moses is up on the hill mountain getting the 10 475 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:40,160 commandments, Aaron's going to go, oh, Moses. 476 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:41,520 I don't know what was going to happen. 477 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,200 Then people just came to me and next minute I out popped, I made 478 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:46,320 this, I don't know how it happened. 479 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,920 This, this calf and they worshipped and well, I had 480 00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:56,520 nothing to do with it. Wasn't God's plan for Moses to 481 00:31:56,520 --> 00:32:02,280 do this, but he did. Jethro says go on peace and 482 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:05,840 we'll stop there. Actually, yeah, I will, because 483 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:16,080 I'll go too long excuses my excuse when God calls you to do 484 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:21,560 something, I can't do this Lord. You can't say no, Lord. 485 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,400 He can't be your Lord. And you say no, He's no longer 486 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,680 your Lord. If you say no, Lord, it's no 487 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:31,160 longer because I can do all things through Christ that 488 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,240 strengthens me. I don't know enough. 489 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:37,000 God will give you what you need. During the time that the 490 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,960 persecution that the disciples were going to face, Jesus said 491 00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,840 don't plan, don't prepare the Holy Spirit. 492 00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:46,320 I'll give you the words. I'm afraid. 493 00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:50,080 I'm afraid the fear of man is a snare. 494 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,520 The only person, the only one, if I could say person in that 495 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:58,280 term that we need to be fearful of is fearful of disobeying and 496 00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:03,240 letting down our God. I can't speak, I'm not good. 497 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,920 That's just an excuse. We can do things when we want 498 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:12,160 to. And the last one, I just don't 499 00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:13,560 want to do this. Get somebody else. 500 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,120 No, God doesn't want somebody else. 501 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:19,200 God has you breathing and living right at this moment in your 502 00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:23,480 work situation, in your home situation, because he wants you 503 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:29,720 to do what he's called you to do you, nobody else. 504 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:35,920 An excuse is the skin of a reason stuffed with a life. 505 00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:45,200 Father, help us now to learn, to learn that you are the great I 506 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:53,080 am that you will never ask us. Send us to do something that you 507 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:57,200 won't enable us and give us the power and the wonder to do. 508 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:01,400 Let this be in our hearts tonight we pray in Jesus name, 509 00:34:01,960 --> 00:34:06,000 Amen and Amen just to know you.