1 00:00:08,100 --> 00:00:09,780 Title of this. Morning's message. 2 00:00:09,780 --> 00:00:14,940 Is rescued by his love Rescued by his love. 3 00:00:15,900 --> 00:00:21,020 Exodus chapter 3. Let's read the. 1st 10 verses 4 00:00:21,020 --> 00:00:26,300 now. Now Moses was tending the. 5 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:28,540 Flock of Jethro, his father in law. 6 00:00:29,260 --> 00:00:33,060 The Priest Dominion. And he led the flock to the back 7 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:34,640 of the desert. Came to. 8 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:40,560 Horror, which is Sinai. The mountain of God and the 9 00:00:40,560 --> 00:00:41,440 Angel. Capital. 10 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:47,160 A of the Lord appeared. To him in a flame of fire from 11 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:51,280 the midst of a Bush, so. Moses looked, and behold, the 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,080 Bush was. Burning with fire. 13 00:00:55,040 --> 00:00:56,720 But the Bush was not. Consumed. 14 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,080 In other words, it was staying as it. 15 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:05,360 Was it wasn't breaking down? Because of the fire, then Moses 16 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,480 said. I will. 17 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,920 Now turn aside and. See this great sight? 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:11,760 Why the? Bush does not burn. 19 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:15,320 Says that to himself. So when the. 20 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:19,920 Lord saw that Moses turned. Aside to look God called. 21 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:21,960 To him from the. Midst of the Bush and said. 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,960 Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. 23 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:33,040 Then he said, do not draw near. This place take your sandals off 24 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:36,040 your feet for the. Place where you stand. 25 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:40,200 Is holy ground moreover. He said I am. 26 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,400 The God of your Father. The God of Abraham, the God of. 27 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:49,880 Isaac and the God of Jacob. He didn't say I was because. 28 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,200 Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are. Alive. 29 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,480 He's the living God. He didn't say I was the God. 30 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:58,240 I am. He's the living God. 31 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:02,000 And Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Are alive as well. 32 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:06,520 Moses hit his. Face why for he was. 33 00:02:06,520 --> 00:02:10,400 Afraid to look upon God and the Lord. 34 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:14,600 Said I've surely seen. The impression of my people who 35 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:19,120 are in Egypt. I've heard they cry because of 36 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,320 their taskmasters. For I know their. 37 00:02:22,320 --> 00:02:26,760 Sorrows. So I've come down to deliver 38 00:02:26,760 --> 00:02:28,040 them. Out of the. 39 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,400 Hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up. 40 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,840 Notice the language from the land. 41 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,120 To a good and large. Land to land flowing with milk 42 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,480 and honey. To the place of the. 43 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,120 Canaanites and then he mentions. The tribes verse. 9 Now 44 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,840 therefore behold the. Cry of the Children of Israel 45 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,520 has come to me. And I've also seen the 46 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:54,520 oppression with which the Egyptians. 47 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,360 Oppressed them, In other words, the cruelty. 48 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:03,600 Come now therefore and I will send. 49 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:09,040 You to pharaoh that. You may bring my people the 50 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:11,880 children of. Israel out of Egypt. 51 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,920 Moses spent the 1st 40 years of his life. 52 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:23,720 Growing up and being educated. In the elite Egyptian culture 53 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:29,240 and schools education, they had mathematics, algebra, geometry, 54 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:32,360 they studied embalming, they had dentistry. 55 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:36,080 There are a brilliant people, and Moses learned all. 56 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,880 This. But you know what happened? 57 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:46,000 He killed an Egyptian who was trying to kill a Hebrew, and the 58 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,400 word had got around and he. Took off because he. 59 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:53,840 Was then sentenced to death. Pharaoh said find him and kill 60 00:03:53,840 --> 00:03:57,360 him. So he fled Egypt for fear. 61 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:02,080 Of his life and then. Moses spent the next. 40. 62 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:08,599 Years serving his father in law, Jethro as a shepherd of his. 63 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,240 Flocks and Midian. Midian is. 64 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:14,000 Called the backside of the desert, it's. 65 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,960 Isolated. Nothing there. 66 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,959 So Moses. Is now 80 years old and as a 67 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:25,040 shepherd of a sheep. In the desert, imagine we know 68 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:26,800 what it's like when we drive in the Outlook. 69 00:04:26,800 --> 00:04:29,200 Of Australia when you go. Out there and it's. 70 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:35,600 Just using a few sheep. How many hours alone did Moses 71 00:04:36,280 --> 00:04:41,800 think meditate once? The Prince of Egypt in. 72 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,680 Pharaoh's Court. Raised up as the adopted. 73 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,840 Son of Pharaoh's daughter. But now how? 74 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:50,520 How? How? 75 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,400 Do you think his thoughts were? As he sat there and watched. 76 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,200 Over the sheep. Meditating on the things of God 77 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:02,360 and how he still prayed. For his people, because he. 78 00:05:02,360 --> 00:05:04,560 Identified with him. He tried to rescue. 79 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:08,640 Them but did it wrong. They were still under slavery. 80 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:13,280 They were still under the whip of brutal treatment. 81 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:20,320 Now Moses worked every day. You'll notes in those. 40 years 82 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,160 as a shepherd. There's no time off. 83 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:25,720 For a shepherd, you can't go well, I'm going to take two 84 00:05:25,720 --> 00:05:27,840 weeks off. Go on a holiday the. 85 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:32,440 Sheep have to be watched over. 24 hours a day. 86 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:35,720 Seven days a week, there's no there's no break. 87 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:45,120 The Bible teaches us that God calls people who are not idle. 88 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,240 Even notice. That God calls people. 89 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:51,560 Who are not idle. People who are busy already. 90 00:05:52,360 --> 00:05:55,080 In the things of the. Lord are always the. 91 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:57,600 Ones, if they get another job, they'll do that as well. 92 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:02,040 Gideon, remember, God spoke to him. 93 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,520 What was he doing? He was threshing grain. 94 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,040 In Judges chapter 6, he was busy. 95 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,560 Samuel and. Here's the thing I want you to 96 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:12,960 think about this. I really want you to concentrate 97 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,320 on. This though only a child. 98 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:20,720 Was busy serving in the temple. There's no age. 99 00:06:20,720 --> 00:06:22,280 Limit to when you can. Serve the Lord you. 100 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:28,040 Don't have to be. 181615 My my desire. 101 00:06:28,560 --> 00:06:31,480 Is to see. Children here serving the Lord 102 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,600 in ways other churches think, well, he's just a kid. 103 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,160 Why should he do that? Well, he's saved. 104 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,480 He loves God. Why shouldn't? 105 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,640 He or she do that. And so I want. 106 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:46,400 You to think. About that with our children. 107 00:06:46,400 --> 00:06:49,600 They're not just away now in a babysitting while you. 108 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,560 You we deal with. Church here. 109 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:59,040 No, Samuel was just a young. Child and he was already. 110 00:06:59,280 --> 00:07:02,760 Serving the Lord, God had already called him. 111 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:09,360 Into ministry. What about your children, David? 112 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:11,800 When he was. Called was what? 113 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:13,800 Doing what? He was looking. 114 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:17,920 After his dad's sheep, Jesse's. The flocks in one Samuel 3 115 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,720 Samuel went to check and. Oh well, he's all the sons. 116 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:24,040 You got any more? I was just one kid, but he's 117 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:25,920 Outlook. Bring him in, bring him in. 118 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:29,720 Elijah. When he was called, what was he? 119 00:07:29,720 --> 00:07:32,600 Doing he was ploughing a. Field with a team of oxen 120 00:07:33,320 --> 00:07:38,360 ploughing a field. What were the apostles doing in 121 00:07:38,360 --> 00:07:39,960 Capernaum? When? 122 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,640 Jesus called them they were fishing. 123 00:07:43,920 --> 00:07:46,480 And those that weren't fishing? Were mending their Nets. 124 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,920 Matthew, What was he doing? Matthew was busy. 125 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:59,800 Tax collecting God has nothing good to say about. 126 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:03,960 Laziness, and I like that. They had to work if someone. 127 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,080 'S lazy, you go. If I could find a Cliff to push 128 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,760 this bloke off. Wouldn't make any difference. 129 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,080 Getting paid under false pretences. 130 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:21,400 Proverbs. 2430 says this. I walked by the field. 131 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,800 Of a lazy person, the vineyard of one with no common sense. 132 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,920 Because laziness and no common sense go hand in hand. 133 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,000 I saw that it was. Overgrown with nettles. 134 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,440 It was covered with weeds. Its walls were broken down then, 135 00:08:35,440 --> 00:08:37,000 as I. Looked and thought about it. 136 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:39,400 I learned this. Lesson. 137 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:42,280 What was the lesson? A little extra sleep. 138 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:45,640 A little more slumber. A little folding of the hands. 139 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,320 To rest then. Poverty will pounce. 140 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:52,040 On you like a bandit. Scarcity will attack. 141 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:59,080 You like an armed robber? 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3, 142 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,640 verse 10, Paul wrote. For even when we were with. 143 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:06,480 You, we commended you this. If anyone will not work. 144 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:13,520 Neither shall they eat. For we hear that there are some 145 00:09:13,520 --> 00:09:17,680 who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working 146 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:21,560 at all. Bludges, but our busy bodies 147 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,080 now, those who are such. We command and. 148 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:29,440 Exhort through our Lord. Jesus is coming from God. 149 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:35,040 That they work. In quietness and eat their own 150 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:37,520 bread, no handouts. For blood just. 151 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,120 I want to. Raise this to you. 152 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,120 We have a facility here. Many things happen. 153 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,640 Here through the week on Fridays and Tuesdays, other days as 154 00:09:52,640 --> 00:09:55,120 well. If you're not, If you don't have 155 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:55,760 a. Job. 156 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:57,280 I want to give you an opportunity. 157 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:01,120 You can come here, there's lots of things to do. 158 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:06,960 You can clean, tidy, there's always paint. 159 00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:12,840 Touch up, prepare there's. Things that you can do here. 160 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:19,480 And minister to in a way. Until you find a job if you're 161 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:22,200 looking for work. God wants you to work. 162 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:27,080 Because for you to work. God says then you're leaked and 163 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:28,680 I. Want to just commend that? 164 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:30,960 To you. That there are. 165 00:10:30,960 --> 00:10:31,960 Opportunities. So what? 166 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:33,240 What? What is it that I could do? 167 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:34,440 Is there anything that you need done? 168 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:37,720 Here I'm I'm, I'm between. Jobs at the moment or I'm I'm 169 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:39,080 out I'm you know I'd. Like to help? 170 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,640 Or I'm not allowed to do this at the moment, but I'd love to come 171 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:42,440 down. And pitch in. 172 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,120 See any of the pastors. Opportunities exist here at 173 00:10:46,120 --> 00:10:49,720 Calvary. But Moses for 40 years and 174 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:54,880 received, as I said, the best available education known at the 175 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,640 time. But you know what? 176 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:03,160 It says here. None of this qualified Moses. 177 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,840 For his future. Path so many. 178 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,680 People talk to me about, well, I've got a. 179 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,000 Diploma in a. Theology or I've got this. 180 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,000 And you know. And as I'm talking. 181 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:15,640 To them, they don't even. Believe that the Bible is 182 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:18,280 literal. They don't. 183 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:20,720 They don't believe. In the word of God, but they 184 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:22,960 have. Scholastic Education. 185 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:28,640 Theological Education. But notice God trains in a very 186 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,560 different way. How did he train? 187 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:39,960 Moses had him be alone. In the desert watching sheep for 188 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,440 40 years. Think about that as an. 189 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:50,840 Education, Paul the Great Saul of Tarsus. 190 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,760 Studied on the Galileo. What did God do? 191 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:55,600 With him when he got. Saved Saul. 192 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:59,160 Now I'm going to call you Paul. I want to send you. 193 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:03,320 To Harvard. Princeton University of WA. 194 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,360 No. Want to send you to. 195 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:11,320 Arabia to the desert. The backside of the desert. 196 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:16,240 Again, for three years, he went. There you would say. 197 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:20,520 Three wasted years I go. No, you're going to go to school 198 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:25,880 three years, Elijah. Was sent to. 199 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:30,080 A place called Cherith. Where he met a widow and his 200 00:12:30,080 --> 00:12:32,080 son. How long was he there? 201 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:35,920 It said several. Months to maybe even a year, 202 00:12:36,560 --> 00:12:39,720 Elijah was there learning. The Apostle. 203 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:45,040 John spent three years with the Lord and then the Lord. 204 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:49,400 Sent him to the. Island of Patmos for one to 1 205 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,320 1/2 years learning. Jesus. 206 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:55,320 Himself. Think about his life. 207 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,240 How long was he in obscurity? Learning? 208 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:04,440 I'll tell you 30. Years as a Carpenter. 209 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:08,920 In Nazareth and now Nazareth. Is a Hick town it? 210 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:12,480 Still is we? Would call it a billigo town. 211 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:15,720 There's no way you wouldn't. Ride a bike in. 212 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:17,880 Nazareth because everywhere is up and everywhere is down. 213 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:19,960 It's a terrible place in that regard. 214 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:26,520 Jesus spent how long there? 30 years before his first. 215 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:28,800 Public appearance in the ministry. 216 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:31,560 Of three years. And then when Jesus was 217 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:36,360 ministering, how often did Jesus go? 218 00:13:36,520 --> 00:13:42,280 Into a place of solitude. And spend time away from the 219 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,800 gaze of men to be alone with the. 220 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:49,840 Father, you see, God trains. His workers, but not in. 221 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:53,080 The way of the world. Anyone who ventures? 222 00:13:53,080 --> 00:13:58,320 Forth to serve the Lord before he or she has sat. 223 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:03,040 Often alone with God. Is akin to putting. 224 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,200 A ship out to the ocean to sail off into the. 225 00:14:06,200 --> 00:14:10,160 Seas, the open seas. Without a proper ballast. 226 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:14,840 Or a deep ocean keel. Because in the first real. 227 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,160 Storm. That ship without a deep keel, 228 00:14:18,440 --> 00:14:23,040 without ballast, will be capsized by the 1st ferocious 229 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:26,480 waves they face. We used to say in the police 230 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,480 these this term. They've got to face their. 231 00:14:29,480 --> 00:14:34,360 First angry man and we had some people. 232 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:35,320 Go out. And they were. 233 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:39,040 Fantastic at the Academy and. Elite at this and their. 234 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,600 Knowledge of the law. And they faced their first angry 235 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:43,400 man. And they went. 236 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:47,280 I can't. Do this and they quit because 237 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:49,680 you see, when you're police, it's not everyone's nice to see 238 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:51,800 you. Welcome coming to the AS lovely 239 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:54,760 to see you. Angry, angry, angry people and. 240 00:14:56,720 --> 00:14:59,040 You've got to be calm, maintain and do your job. 241 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:06,000 You see if. You've been with the. 242 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:08,760 Lord trained and set off and in his presence on. 243 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:16,600 My office wall is Exodus 3311. Favourite verse in the Bible? 244 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:21,080 Moses was in the Tabernacle. And he left the Tabernacle. 245 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,160 But it said Joshua. The son of Nun remained. 246 00:15:25,240 --> 00:15:30,000 He stayed, didn't leave. Joshua was in school. 247 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,280 He was sitting with the Lord. There's nothing. 248 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,040 Better, no greater. Education than you can have. 249 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:38,920 Is to sit alone with God with your Bible open? 250 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:45,040 Your heart tuned and your ears tuned, but when you've trained? 251 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:49,240 And you've sat with the Lord. And you go into the open. 252 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,560 Seas. The storms. 253 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:55,000 And the waves will hit. You but you see the ship will 254 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,840 always turn upright. No matter. 255 00:15:56,840 --> 00:16:01,160 What, like a yacht? The keel just brings it straight 256 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,520 back. Because it sits below the water, 257 00:16:04,680 --> 00:16:08,920 this ballast. This keel is known as. 258 00:16:08,920 --> 00:16:13,520 The call of God because it's. Often in the storm, the only 259 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:19,040 thing that you have, the mast can be shattered all the. 260 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:23,520 The ropes broken, but if the. Keel is there, you still have 261 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:30,680 the ship upright. So Moses was doing what? 262 00:16:31,560 --> 00:16:33,440 Tending the flock. What was he doing? 263 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,560 He was working. He was. 264 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:40,320 There. Near the mountain of Horeb. 265 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:42,400 The mountain of God or. Sinai. 266 00:16:43,120 --> 00:16:45,440 And he looks and he sees this Bush burning. 267 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:49,320 But the Bush. I mean, he's seen bushes burning 268 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:51,840 in the in the. Desert before he's had lightning 269 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:53,800 strike. But the thing about this. 270 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,440 Bush is as. As it burned the Bush. 271 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,560 Wasn't being consumed. It wasn't just just. 272 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,080 Falling apart, it wasn't providing the energy. 273 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,920 The wood is the energy. For the fire. 274 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:12,359 The energy was from God. 40. Years of desert. 275 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,280 Silence. Moses is alone. 276 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:17,760 And finally, it's broken. By a burning. 277 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:23,280 Bush Moses is now ready. 80 years it's been. 278 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:27,640 How often have you complained and said to God? 279 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,720 I've been playing, praying for. Weeks for this, for months for 280 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:34,720 this. You see, he has. 281 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:40,240 Completely changed. Moses had become a man of God. 282 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,920 You know why? Because he knows he's nothing. 283 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,640 He's surrendered. He's done. 284 00:17:50,240 --> 00:17:52,160 I had that in my life. Had. 285 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,120 To come to a. Place where I was, Absolutely. 286 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:59,800 Done the Bible. Says in Proverbs chapter 3, 287 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:05,840 Trust in the Lord with all. Of your heart. 288 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:09,120 And then it says this. And here's where. 289 00:18:09,120 --> 00:18:11,720 You and I get caught out, Lean not. 290 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:15,280 Oh, I think lean not unto your own understanding. 291 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:18,720 Because you don't know what to do. 292 00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:22,120 I don't know what to do. Remember how long we had? 293 00:18:22,360 --> 00:18:25,280 Four children they'd be. Fighting in A room. 294 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,160 Go in there and everyone. Said it was his, it was her, it 295 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,360 was him. So we'd lined the four of them 296 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:34,680 up. Someone was guilty and. 297 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:36,360 The other three were going hey, come here. 298 00:18:36,480 --> 00:18:38,880 Boy, how come us? But we didn't know who. 299 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,760 Who? Who was the instigator or? 300 00:18:42,320 --> 00:18:48,120 The one. So we shared it trust. 301 00:18:48,120 --> 00:18:49,400 In the Lord with all. Your. 302 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:55,520 Heart lean not on your own understanding now in. 303 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,080 All your ways. Acknowledge him. 304 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:03,960 That means for everything that you plan where we're going to 305 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,120 send our kids to school. Do I take this job? 306 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:10,920 Do I? What do I? 307 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:11,760 What do we do? We. 308 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:18,720 Buy this car do we wait in all your ways acknowledge him and 309 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,840 what and he that's. Let God be God. 310 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:25,120 In your life, stop. Trying to be God. 311 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,040 I've tried that. It's very hard trying to be God. 312 00:19:31,400 --> 00:19:37,120 And it says and he. Shall direct your ways your 313 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:39,840 paths. And it says just to finish. 314 00:19:39,840 --> 00:19:42,280 Off. Do not be wise. 315 00:19:42,680 --> 00:19:45,000 In your own eyes. I know what to do. 316 00:19:45,280 --> 00:19:49,400 No you don't. My God does. 317 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,040 It was a normal. Day like any other. 318 00:19:52,040 --> 00:19:55,360 Day for the shepherd Moses. He had no premonition or today 319 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:57,040 I'm going to. Speak to the Lord you're. 320 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,960 Going to see a burning Bush, something special. 321 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:01,720 I sense it in my Wheaties as I'm eating it, watching. 322 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,960 The sheep. No special signs that something 323 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,600 was coming. You see, God speaks to ordinary 324 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,640 people on ordinary days. Do you know the rapture is going 325 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:16,400 to occur on an ordinary day? The rapture, The removal. 326 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,480 Of the the Church called out by God. 327 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,760 Is going to happen on. An ordinary day. 328 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,120 The 80 year old shepherd's attention, however, is. 329 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:31,000 Caught by. Seeing this ordinary thorn Bush 330 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:36,000 on fire, Moses. Looked and it says he spoke to 331 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,800 himself. And you do, because you know 332 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:39,440 what? She can't talk back. 333 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,840 There's no one around him and he says, oh, now turn aside and. 334 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,640 See this great sight? Why does not the Bush burn down? 335 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,320 This Bush just kept. Burning and burning, yet not. 336 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:58,240 Being consumed, you see. Things in our lives don't just 337 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,960 happen, man. I've learnt that our lives are 338 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,840 not random. You know when you go a different 339 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:07,720 way to work, you just I'll turn down the street. 340 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:10,200 Where you go? You know who's guiding you in 341 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:11,880 that? Regard the Lord. 342 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:14,600 There's something I don't know when we get to heaven, your 343 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,920 your, your guardian angels going to say thank God you're dead 344 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,200 looking after you, man. You just go all over the place 345 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,000 and I've been running and protecting and stopping this and 346 00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:27,600 I'm so glad you're here. I can put. 347 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:34,160 My feet up, finally. Our lives are not random. 348 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:40,240 God is constantly seeking you. Note with me in verse. 349 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,320 Four, it says at that. Same moment Moses turned aside. 350 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:48,640 It was at that moment because moment Moses turned aside. 351 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:51,080 That God. Spoke to Moses, if Moses. 352 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:55,040 Said Benny Bush and just carried on. 353 00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,280 Guess what? No discussion. 354 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:00,680 That's it. No discussion. 355 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:02,600 Nothing's going to happen from there. 356 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:08,880 The bushes burn in our lives. Cars crash. 357 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:14,520 They're written off. Lives are taken and what do so 358 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,960 many people do at such critical. Times in their lives. 359 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:22,560 It's just a coincidence, you know, it's just a coincidence. 360 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:26,320 A Bush burning unusually and most people would not trouble 361 00:22:26,320 --> 00:22:27,080 themselves. With it. 362 00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,080 Yeah, it's just, I mean, bushes burn all the time. 363 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:37,200 A voice speaking to you. Moses, Moses. 364 00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:39,560 But you're too busy. To notice. 365 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:42,880 You're too busy to pay. Attention. 366 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:47,280 I bother. When God has been placing. 367 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,800 Something in your heart, over and over and over. 368 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,920 God says what is going to take place. 369 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,800 To Moses, you see, here's. The here's the deal, people say. 370 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,560 Wish God would speak to me. Guess what? 371 00:23:04,760 --> 00:23:08,640 He's speaking to you all. The time the problem is we're 372 00:23:08,640 --> 00:23:12,080 not listening. He is speaking to you. 373 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:15,560 All the time, much more than you. 374 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:22,280 Think, but if you're not in his word, then you've you're 375 00:23:23,360 --> 00:23:25,520 virtually. Got your hand over his mouth. 376 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:29,120 And so God wish you'd. Speak to me and that's what you 377 00:23:29,120 --> 00:23:30,680 do, because you're not in His word. 378 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,800 So often. God is trying to get. 379 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,600 Your attention for you to. Find out what this event that 380 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:40,480 moment. This thing that's just. 381 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:44,000 Happened in your life at that moment What it might mean for 382 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:48,640 you? You see, there is a purpose. 383 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,720 In our sorrows, God allows. Pain. 384 00:23:53,720 --> 00:23:57,080 He doesn't 'cause it. He allows pain to come our. 385 00:23:57,080 --> 00:24:02,000 Way he allows storms. To hit us, there's a. 386 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:07,440 Purpose in our sorrows, sometimes your Son or your. 387 00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:11,320 Daughter goes astray. What do you do? 388 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,000 Do you seek the ways of the world to fix it? 389 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:16,160 A God? What God's? 390 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:21,480 Wanting is you to be driven to your knees, to the position 391 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:25,360 where you become the most powerful for you to. 392 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:27,680 Pray and intercede. For your son and in your 393 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:31,400 daughter to be consumed in prayer. 394 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,600 For them at this time. He's using two things. 395 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:38,640 He's allowing this to happen. But he's also creating. 396 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:44,000 This and allowing this to happen so that you will see where he 397 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:47,040 wants your attention, your focus. 398 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:52,080 There's a purpose in our sorrows. 399 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,480 Moses answered the Lord verse. Four in the Hebrew, literally, 400 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:57,920 it's. I'm here. 401 00:24:57,920 --> 00:24:58,600 It's me. It's. 402 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:04,520 Pretty funny, isn't it? Moses is now nobody. 403 00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:07,000 After 40. Years in the desert. 404 00:25:07,280 --> 00:25:10,160 And this is just what God wanted to hear from Moses. 405 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:14,400 That's what I want to hear. Today this is what God still. 406 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,600 Desires to hear from you when he speaks and. 407 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:22,280 Isaiah 6 verse 8. Isaiah. 408 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:26,280 Tells of the time. That king Uzziah died. 409 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:28,280 Also I heard the voice of the Lord. 410 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,360 Remember, he had a vision of the throne of God. 411 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,880 Isaiah says I heard the voice of the Lord. 412 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:34,600 I saw the. Temple of God. 413 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:37,040 And a voice came from the temple. 414 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:40,360 That said, who shall I send? Who will go for us? 415 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:43,520 It's interesting. The voice of the Lord. 416 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,040 That came out from the Throne said. 417 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:47,920 Who will go for us? Didn't say who will go for me 418 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,800 then I said. Here am I, Isaiah said. 419 00:25:53,920 --> 00:26:00,600 Send me this. For so when the Lord saw that, 420 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,720 he turned aside to. Look, God called to him. 421 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:06,720 Notice. It was only when Moses turned 422 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,680 got he's got his attention, I'm going to check this out that 423 00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:15,400 that's when God spoke to him. Moses, Moses, he said. 424 00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,640 Here I am, he said. Don't draw near, don't come any. 425 00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,600 Closer, take your sandals. Off your feet, the place. 426 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:29,080 Where you stand is holy ground. Moses, Moses. 427 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,920 Moshe, Moshe. This is Semitic culture. 428 00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,720 He repeats his name. Why? 429 00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:39,440 Because in Semitic culture. The repetition of calling 1's 430 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,200 name. As God said to. 431 00:26:41,200 --> 00:26:45,720 Moses was this in that. Culture calling someone's name 432 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:49,280 by repeating their name twice was seen as a way of. 433 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:52,880 Expressing endearment, affection. 434 00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:59,440 Moses. Moses, holy ground. 435 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,000 Think about this. He's in the desert. 436 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,960 The word holy. Means. 437 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:13,600 Set apart, Holy, set apart. It means separated and here. 438 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:17,440 God is saying to Moses. I want you to separate. 439 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:23,400 Yourself from your past, from your immediate responsibilities, 440 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,520 and give me your full attention. Now listen. 441 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,960 So he's telling him to take his sandals. 442 00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,200 Off It's not the Bush. That's holy. 443 00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:39,480 It's the ground. Notice but. 444 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:41,440 Why the removal of the? Sandals. 445 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,240 I mean, think about it. Dirty old sandals. 446 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,920 These are shepherd's sandals. There's a lot of sheep when 447 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,960 you're on a shepherd. 'S sandal a lot of sweat. 448 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:55,560 Sand. And if he takes his? 449 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:57,760 Sandals off, Doesn't he still have dirty? 450 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,240 Feet. Absolutely. 451 00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:05,080 He's in the desert. After all, God wanted. 452 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:08,800 Moses to see. That he wanted nothing between 453 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:15,560 Moses and himself. His shoes off and Moses discards 454 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:20,200 his sandals. His feet would now proclaim good 455 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:24,160 news of redemption and deliverance. 456 00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:30,200 Paul writes how beautiful are the feet of those who preach the 457 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,760 gospel of grace. Jesus washed feet. 458 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,200 Didn't he you? Going to serve me sandals. 459 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:38,920 Off. Let me wash. 460 00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,600 I'm washing your feet, he said. No, Jesus said, unless I wash 461 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,960 your feet. You ain't part of us. 462 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,320 How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel. 463 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:57,600 Of peace who bring glad tidings. Of good news, Nothing between 464 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:00,640 Moses and himself. The priests when they served in 465 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:03,160 the temple, guess what? No shoes. 466 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,000 No shoes. In and around. 467 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:10,080 No shoes, Moses. Hit his face as God speaks he's 468 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,840 he's scared. And tells him that he is the 469 00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,760 God. Of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 470 00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:22,160 I'm the God of men. Moses, you know your ancestors, 471 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,960 Men who have failed. Moses. 472 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,720 But with me each one accomplished the extraordinary. 473 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,920 Abraham, Isaac. And Jacob, you see God. 474 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:42,240 In the burning. Bush the Bible. 475 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:47,440 Tells us in Deuteronomy. 424 and Hebrews 12. 29 That God is what 476 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:52,760 a consuming fire. And fire in the Bible is often. 477 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:56,080 Representative of judgement. But this is not judgement. 478 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:58,960 God is a consuming fire. So what's what's? 479 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,800 Going on here, God is the consuming. 480 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,560 Fire to those who reject. Him and continue on in sin. 481 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:12,480 But to us. He's not to consume. 482 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,080 Us but to consume. All. 483 00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:22,040 The dross all in US. And about us that is contrary to 484 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:29,600 His Holiness is to be burned up refined verse 7 and the Lord 485 00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:34,360 said I have seen the oppression of the people. 486 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,640 I've heard they cry. I know. 487 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,520 Their Sorrows, verse 8. I've. 488 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,600 Come down to deliver them out of the hand. 489 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:44,800 Of the Egyptians. And to bring them up, look at 490 00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:48,560 the language there. Verse 9 now. 491 00:30:48,560 --> 00:30:50,840 Therefore, behold the cry of the. 492 00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:53,520 Egyptian of the Children of. Israel has come to me. 493 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:56,720 And also. Have also seen their oppression. 494 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,360 He says I want to send you to Pharaoh. 495 00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,920 I want them out of Egypt. I want them. 496 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,800 Out of slavery, you're. Going to be the one I'm going to 497 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,120 send. This is an amazing. 498 00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:12,040 Verse as I was. Preparing this I. 499 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,520 Stopped as I got to this verse because it's loaded. 500 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,480 And it struck me. Because this verse not only. 501 00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaks directly and contextually, first and 502 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,440 specifically to the. Deliverance of the Children of. 503 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,760 Israel to be set free. From. 504 00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:35,000 Slavery in Egypt, but here you and I are here. 505 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:36,720 All. Scripture is given by 506 00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:40,640 inspiration of God. You and I are also in this 507 00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:41,680 verse. How's that? 508 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,760 Because here it speaks to each of us. 509 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,400 What? Christ, our Deliverer has done. 510 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:51,560 For every one of us. We see. 511 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:56,840 Here the absolute, free, unconditional grace of the God 512 00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,760 of Abraham, who alone. Carried out the work of. 513 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,560 Israel's and our salvation. How firstly, he did. 514 00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,560 This to fulfil his promises. To Abraham. 515 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:15,520 Genesis, 1513. Back then God said to Abraham 516 00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,880 before his name was. Even chained to Abraham? 517 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,560 No, certainly this is what's going to happen. 518 00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:24,680 I guarantee, Abraham, that your descendants will be strangers in 519 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,640 a land. That is not theirs will. 520 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,280 Serve them, they'll afflict them for 400 years. 521 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:34,880 He tells them all this before Abraham's even had a child, and 522 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,040 also the nation whom they serve. I'll judge. 523 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,840 I'll judge the. Egyptians afterward, when all my 524 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,520 people come. Out they shall. 525 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,720 Come out with great possessions, they're going to leave loaded, 526 00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,920 they're going to get 400. Years of salary opened. 527 00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:57,360 The God of Israel did not come down verse 8 to see if. 528 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:02,000 The subjects of his. Promise Abraham's seed. 529 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,320 Were in. Such a condition to merit. 530 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,560 His salvation? No. 531 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,720 These were God's chosen people. Here's the news and the. 532 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,720 Church, A lot of churches. Are doing a lot of damage at the 533 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,360 moment they. Still are God's chosen people. 534 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,320 They'll always be God's chosen people. 535 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:26,640 Romans chapter 910 and. 11 read them. 536 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:32,280 God's promise, His covenant promise to Abraham didn't stop. 537 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:36,000 God say, Oh yeah, no. They're no longer my covenant 538 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,560 people. As people coming up with. 539 00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:41,080 All this stuff on the Internet and places around that, you 540 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:42,960 know, no. No, there there's this. 541 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,840 Replacement the churches replaces. 542 00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:50,600 No, we have not. And there's a lot of. 543 00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,080 Christians now go yeah, poo poo and. 544 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,520 They're not the Israelis. Of the of the Bible. 545 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:02,520 Well, who are they? Then don't fall for that God's 546 00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,160 covenant with Israel, thou be his chosen people, and once the. 547 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:07,640 Church has raptured. And. 548 00:34:08,199 --> 00:34:11,760 See Israel kick off again. Where they left off the 70th 549 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:18,000 year of Daniel's prophecy. Here's the deal. 550 00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,600 The God of. Israel did not come down. 551 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:28,280 Verse 8 to see if they needed. Some saving or merited? 552 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,920 Merited his salvation. No these. 553 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,000 Were God's chosen people. God had chosen. 554 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,440 Later on in Deuteronomy. Chapter 7 Verse 7 looking back 555 00:34:37,679 --> 00:34:39,560 the Lord. Did not set his love. 556 00:34:39,639 --> 00:34:44,199 On you nor choose you because you are more than number than 557 00:34:44,199 --> 00:34:46,639 any other people. For you were the least. 558 00:34:46,639 --> 00:34:50,040 Of all peoples, but because the Lord loves you. 559 00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,199 And because he would keep the oath. 560 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,560 Which he swore to your. Father's the covenant. 561 00:34:54,679 --> 00:34:57,080 And he's still going to keep it. The Lord has brought you. 562 00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:00,280 Out with a mighty hand redeem you from the House of. 563 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,480 Bondage from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. 564 00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,840 God's love for you as it is for Israel. 565 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,600 Is not because we were something special, Paul says. 566 00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:12,880 We're the base. We're the low. 567 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:17,000 Ones aren't we? God didn't. 568 00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:18,080 Choose. Israel because they are 569 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,880 fantastic. He chose Israel. 570 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:23,600 Simply, and He chose you. Simply and here's. 571 00:35:23,680 --> 00:35:26,520 Where we cannot understand it. Because he loves you. 572 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,720 I can't comprehend we want a reason. 573 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,040 Well, there's got to be. No, God chose you. 574 00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:37,320 Because he loves you. That's what we don't we. 575 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:39,280 It's funny how we don't accept love. 576 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:41,640 We've got. Well, there's a reason. 577 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:46,360 What's going on here? God loves you not because you 578 00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,400 have something awesome to offer Him. 579 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:52,880 Quite the opposite, in fact. He loves us. 580 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:59,400 Just because he loves us his. Love for you and I, and for 581 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,000 Israel. Is not based. 582 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,120 On how good I'm doing. Or he's a good little boy. 583 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,320 Or how much you're doing. Or how? 584 00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,600 Poorly. I'm very poor kid. 585 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,360 Let's help this kid out. Or how much we have to. 586 00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:15,720 Offer him man. Get this. 587 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:17,280 I. Hear People's. 588 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:21,600 They'd make a great. Christian, this person, people 589 00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,480 often. Say to me they would be a good. 590 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:26,920 Christian because. They can do this, this and that. 591 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:32,360 They'd be great for church. No, God's not. 592 00:36:32,360 --> 00:36:37,040 Looking for the celebrities the world is. 593 00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:43,800 God's looking for someone who says I'm I'm not very good, I 594 00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:47,520 can't do much perfect because in you. 595 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:51,680 I'll get all the glory. And it's going to be miraculous, 596 00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,840 Paul knew. All that he had to. 597 00:36:55,840 --> 00:37:03,120 Offer him religion training. Pharisee of the Pharisees of the 598 00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:05,080 tribe. Of Benjamin and he said, But you 599 00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,800 know what? I have to offer God rubbish, 600 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:15,920 filthy rags, God loves us and here's. 601 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,280 The other thing that you can't comprehend, it's unconditional. 602 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:25,960 It's not conditional, it's unconditional. 603 00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:30,200 God's love for you is unconditional once you grasp 604 00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:32,800 this. Grace. 605 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,680 What is grace? Unmerited favour getting what 606 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:36,640 you don't. Deserve. 607 00:37:37,240 --> 00:37:40,160 You will go through the day, your day expecting the. 608 00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:43,880 Lord to bless you to. Shower you with His grace, not 609 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:46,760 because of who we are, what we've done, but simply and 610 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,000 solely. Because of who he is. 611 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,120 And that's why we worship Him. Because we don't deserve 612 00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,640 anything. Paul tells us in Romans chapter. 613 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:58,160 5 verse six you see? At just the right. 614 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:02,440 Time when we were still. Powerless Christ died. 615 00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:07,080 For the ungodly, our deliverer. Very rarely will anyone die for 616 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,120 a righteous. Person though for a good. 617 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,360 Person. Someone might possibly dare to 618 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,640 die, but God demonstrates His own love for us. 619 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:21,040 For you in this. While we were still sinners, 620 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:22,560 Christ died. For. 621 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:27,960 Us back to our text. Verse 8 God says. 622 00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,240 To Moses. So I have come down. 623 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:33,120 To deliver. Them out of the hand of the 624 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:37,040 Egyptians, and to bring them up. From the land to a. 625 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,120 Good and large. Land, A land flowing with milk 626 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:42,000 and honey. Who came down for us? 627 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:44,880 Who came down for you? We celebrate. 628 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,080 It each year, don't we? Birth of a child of. 629 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:49,880 Bethlehem. Why did he come? 630 00:38:51,080 --> 00:38:54,240 Philippians chapter 2 who? Being in the very nature. 631 00:38:54,240 --> 00:38:55,800 God. Jesus. 632 00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:00,480 Did not consider equality. With God something to be used to 633 00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:05,600 his own advantage. Rather, he made himself nothing. 634 00:39:05,640 --> 00:39:08,760 He came down by taking the very nature. 635 00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,840 Of a servant being made in the in human likeness. 636 00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:18,480 Being found in appearance as a man, God came down. 637 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:22,920 He humbled. Himself, by becoming obedient to 638 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,000 death, he became a man. And then he allowed. 639 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,720 Crucifixion, even death on a cross. 640 00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:36,360 Hebrews, chapter 2, verse 9. But we do see. 641 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,440 Jesus, who was made lower. He came down than the angels. 642 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,080 For a little while. Now crowned with glory and 643 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,080 honour. Because he suffered death so 644 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,080 that by the grace. Of God, he might taste death for 645 00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:50,440 everyone. It says. 646 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:56,080 Here in Exodus I have. Surely seen one the oppression 647 00:39:56,080 --> 00:39:59,480 of my people who are in Egypt. And have two heard their? 648 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,120 Cry because of their taskmasters. 649 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,560 And three, I know their. Sorrows. 650 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,560 The cries of the nation of Israel reach. 651 00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,800 The ears of the Lord. And he knew their affliction. 652 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:15,280 You know, Every Wednesday when we gather to pray, you know. 653 00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:19,000 We cry out to God. And do you know he hears? 654 00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:23,560 The cries of his people still. When we gather on a Wednesday, 655 00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,880 what we're here for. We're here to cry out to God. 656 00:40:27,480 --> 00:40:29,320 Heal those. People in our fellowship. 657 00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:34,040 Help the situation touch. This man bring salvation. 658 00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,880 To the situation. Israel's oppressed. 659 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,320 State their sorrows, their tears, their sighs. 660 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:44,000 Their heavy bondage was. Displayed and known all about. 661 00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,000 By God. Their hearts. 662 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,200 Turned toward heaven. Finally, it was time for them to 663 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:49,800 be. Delivered. 664 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:51,520 They knew they. Called out to God. 665 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:52,680 God. Help us. 666 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:55,400 That's the only time. You can get saved when you 667 00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,280 recognise you need. Saving. 668 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,720 It's hard to save. Someone when they don't know 669 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:04,640 they need saving. You see, that was. 670 00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,400 Your, your life and mine. Before. 671 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:10,040 When we were without Christ, we were. 672 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:11,640 Lost. I know I was. 673 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,200 We were. Ashamed. 674 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,440 I was ashamed of. The person I was. 675 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:17,920 We were guilty. We knew we were guilty. 676 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,760 We were struggling, weren't we? We were living. 677 00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,280 Without hope, you could attend parties, you could be the the 678 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:25,720 popular. Person, but you were the. 679 00:41:25,720 --> 00:41:28,280 Loneliest soul on the planet, weren't you? 680 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:34,560 I know God knew. Recent report done on Australia 681 00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:39,000 says this it indicates. A significant crisis of hope. 682 00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,200 In Australia with only 19. Percent of the population 683 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,760 feeling hopeful. About the future of the world. 684 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:51,320 It's interesting. Come on, about a month. 685 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,440 Ago the prayers of the. Youth on a Friday night as we 686 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,280 went around the room. Just the guys. 687 00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:01,560 And how many of them, four if not 5, prayed? 688 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,520 For the future of our world, they. 689 00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:06,560 Were concerned about it themselves. 690 00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:13,400 I was staggered by that, fearful of the world this pervasive. 691 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:15,520 Sense of hopelessness in Australia. 692 00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:17,880 Is particularly acute, as I said. 693 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:20,360 Among the young, younger generations. 694 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,000 Who are? Grappling with systematic, 695 00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,200 systemic, sorry economic and social challenges. 696 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:32,520 That means 81. Percent of Australians have no. 697 00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:41,880 Hope for a future? Matthew Chapter 9 verse 36 it 698 00:42:41,880 --> 00:42:44,720 says when. Jesus saw the crowds. 699 00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,720 Coming to him, he had compassion for them. 700 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:52,000 It says he's got. He felt it here because they 701 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:55,680 were harassed, helpless. Sheep what? 702 00:42:56,240 --> 00:42:58,320 Without a shepherd. That's how you and I. 703 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:04,000 Were we were without hope. And that's why he came down. 704 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,280 God knows us, He has known us. Before the world was formed. 705 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:17,680 And he knows us intimately. Psalm 139 says you have. 706 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,920 Searched me Lord. You know me, you see. 707 00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:27,560 It says Psalm 56 eight that God. Places every. 708 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:33,960 Tear that we shed in his bottle. God counts his people's size. 709 00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:36,320 He puts them out, tears into his. 710 00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:38,360 Bottle. He says so. 711 00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:39,840 I have come down to. Deliver. 712 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:44,120 Them out of the hand of the Egyptians to bring them up, it 713 00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:45,640 says in. Luke, 1910. 714 00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,560 From the son. Of man came to seek. 715 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,520 And to save the lost. It's you and me. 716 00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:52,760 God would bring his. People up out of Egypt. 717 00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,080 And he had a place prepared for them to go. 718 00:43:55,360 --> 00:44:00,000 Well, do you and I have a place? Prepared for us to go, Jesus 719 00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:01,920 told his disciples. Let not your. 720 00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:05,120 Heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also 721 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,680 in me. In my father's house, In many 722 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:11,160 mansions, If we're not. So I would have told you, I 723 00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:14,600 Jesus goes to prepare a place for you, not the Canaanites. 724 00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:18,840 Jesus says I go to prepare a place for you, a place prepared. 725 00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:24,760 For when we will be taken. Up 1 Thessalonians. 4. 17 then 726 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:26,440 we who are. Alive and remain shall. 727 00:44:26,440 --> 00:44:28,240 Be caught up together. With them in the. 728 00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:30,200 Clouds to meet the Lord. In the air. 729 00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:32,720 He says so. I've come down to deliver them 730 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:34,320 out of the hand of the Egyptians. 731 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,360 Jesus Christ also came to deliver us from the. 732 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:42,160 Slavery of sin of Satan. And the fear of death you. 733 00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:46,680 Used to do things before. Christ. 734 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,560 And you hated doing them. Then after you did them, you're 735 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,720 ashamed of what you did, ashamed of the way you. 736 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:57,720 Behaved ashamed of the actions. The things that you said. 737 00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,520 The things that you said to your dad. 738 00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:02,360 To your mum when you got angry when you you said things that. 739 00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:03,920 You wish. Oh, I finally got to take. 740 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:11,440 Them back. You see, Jesus came to break the 741 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,800 bondage of sin, it says in one John. 38 The reason? 742 00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:17,800 The Son of God. Appeared was to destroy the 743 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,480 works of the devil. And he's hold over us in 744 00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,400 Colossians chapter one, verse 13. 745 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:27,960 For he has rescued. Us from the Dominion of. 746 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:30,080 Darkness. It's where we used. 747 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:35,640 To live and brought us into the Kingdom of the Son he loves. 748 00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:42,960 In whom we have now. Redemption and the forgiveness 749 00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:45,840 of sins you. See our greatest. 750 00:45:45,840 --> 00:45:53,800 Problem is not politicians. Our greatest problem is sin. 751 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:58,360 We sin this thing that drives us. 752 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:00,360 Why did I say that? How can I say that? 753 00:46:01,560 --> 00:46:02,800 What? How can I get so? 754 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:07,800 Angry, Paul says in me, that is, in my flesh. 755 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:14,200 Dwells no good. Thing the greatest problem is 756 00:46:14,200 --> 00:46:16,760 sin. A problem that can't. 757 00:46:16,760 --> 00:46:19,360 Be solved by a philosopher? Let's talk about it. 758 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,600 Talking about it doesn't make any difference. 759 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:25,560 I still have it a. Religious teacher. 760 00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:28,160 Religion doesn't do anything for me. 761 00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:38,880 No sinners need a saviour. Deliver someone to rescue. 762 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,160 Us, we were out. Surfing one time quite a few 763 00:46:42,160 --> 00:46:48,200 years back and there's this kid on a board and he's. 764 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,200 Out going out, further and further. 765 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,320 Just sitting facing the ocean. And we're sitting. 766 00:46:53,320 --> 00:46:56,200 A fairway out the back. Waiting for a bigger. 767 00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,640 Waves and this kids further out and I'm thinking. 768 00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:00,520 Something, something's right here. 769 00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:05,120 And he's so I paddled. Over to this kid. 770 00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:09,440 Eventually, because it was just not right, I said what's going 771 00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:14,760 on mate? He says I'm scared, he's scared 772 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:18,040 and he was just gripping his board. 773 00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:20,840 But you see, no one would save him. 774 00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,520 Lifesavers were on the beach. They didn't know he needed 775 00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:29,360 saving. You see you and I. 776 00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:32,720 We were scared. But you know what we didn't 777 00:47:32,720 --> 00:47:33,000 know? What? 778 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:36,720 To do we. Didn't know where to turn. 779 00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,080 No one understood the problem. That we had. 780 00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,560 Eight things I'm going to give. You as we close, Jesus delivered 781 00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:51,080 us. It means rescued us from danger, 782 00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,120 for we could not. Deliver ourselves from the 783 00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:56,240 guilt. And penalty of sin. 784 00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:57,760 How do you? Get rid of guilt. 785 00:47:58,920 --> 00:48:00,200 Yeah, OK. I forgive you. 786 00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:02,200 But I I still. Did it? 787 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,280 I'm ashamed. God removes that, He said. 788 00:48:06,280 --> 00:48:08,000 No. I make you a new person. 789 00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:14,480 I take the shame that you have. And I place it on my son Jesus. 790 00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:16,920 Could and he did deliver us for we. 791 00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:20,640 Each were in danger of. Spending eternity separated 792 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:22,880 from. God, the Bible calls that hell. 793 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,720 Secondly, Jesus little bit. Us from the power and authority 794 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:29,000 of Satan. Ephesians. 795 00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,360 Chapter 2 says. We were once the children of the 796 00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:35,720 devil. I can say no now. 797 00:48:37,360 --> 00:48:40,240 You, you have the power to say. No, I'm not going to do that 798 00:48:40,240 --> 00:48:42,000 now. I'm not going to watch. 799 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:47,000 That I'm not going to read that. I'm not going to say that you 800 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:48,480 now. Have the power of the holy. 801 00:48:48,480 --> 00:48:55,000 Spirit in you to go no. He gave us thirdly. 802 00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:56,680 An exodus? What's an exodus? 803 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:02,960 An exit God translated us. Jesus did not release us from. 804 00:49:02,960 --> 00:49:06,040 Bondage to go. OK, you're saved now. 805 00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:12,360 Good luck to wander aimlessly. No, He moved us from the Kingdom 806 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,200 of darkness. Into the Kingdom of Light. 807 00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:17,720 And he has made us. Victors over Satan. 808 00:49:17,720 --> 00:49:20,240 'S Kingdom of Darkness. When we. 809 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:22,120 Wrestle against the principalities of. 810 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,440 Darkness and Satan. The Bible. 811 00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,240 Says if we submit to. God. 812 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:28,360 You know what we can do? We can. 813 00:49:28,360 --> 00:49:31,040 Resist the devil. And you know what? 814 00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:34,160 We do the third thing. Submit yourself to God. 815 00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:38,640 Resist the devil, it says. He will flee from us. 816 00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:45,200 It's. Changed God delivered Israel. 817 00:49:45,600 --> 00:49:49,280 From the bondage of Egypt and he took them into the promised 818 00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,920 land. Fourthly, Jesus redeemed us. 819 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:57,720 It means to release a. Prisoner from the payment of a 820 00:49:57,720 --> 00:50:01,840 ransom. Jesus met the holy demands. 821 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,080 Of God's law and Calvary. What was that? 822 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:11,960 The wages of sin is death. Jesus died in. 823 00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:14,480 My place. That's why the tribulation 824 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:17,080 period has nothing. To do with the church we've 825 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,280 passed. From the judgement of God. 826 00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:23,480 My judgement, your judgement fell upon Christ. 827 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:32,240 And it killed him. But now you and I have been set 828 00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:33,720 free. The resurrection. 829 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:40,680 We rise with him, and he has lastly forgiven. 830 00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,120 US. You see redemption and 831 00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:45,520 forgiveness go together. There's nothing like being 832 00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,440 forgiven. I love it when Helen forgives 833 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:50,320 me. You know what? 834 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,840 Forgiveness. Means it means to send away or 835 00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:58,240 to cancel a debt. It means we can never be 836 00:50:58,240 --> 00:51:02,160 enslaved again. That's why salvation is 837 00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,720 wonderful. I can't go back understand and 838 00:51:05,720 --> 00:51:07,160 why is it once? I've always saved. 839 00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:11,880 If you say through Jesus Christ, it is definite because it's all 840 00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:12,800 what he's. Done. 841 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:15,960 And that ain't changing. What he did on the cross. 842 00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:20,080 Can't be undone. We deserve none of. 843 00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:23,880 This it's called Grace we. Didn't earn any of this. 844 00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:28,320 The children of Israel had only to shed the. 845 00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,280 Blood of the lamb. To be delivered. 846 00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:34,160 But for you? For me. 847 00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:40,000 Jesus had to shed his blood. He had to die. 848 00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:46,160 It was his blood, innocent. Blood that dripped down his arm 849 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:50,320 and from his wounds, from the impaling of the cross. 850 00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,680 It was his blood that delivered us. 851 00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:59,040 That's why our. Deliverance is once and for all, 852 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:10,840 and Jesus said it is finished. Your old life finished guilt. 853 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:20,280 Finished the debt pay. Father, into your hands I 854 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:25,400 commend my spirit. I've come to do and I've done 855 00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,240 it. That's. 856 00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:28,600 Why he's? Going to call us. 857 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,440 Up, out. To be with him. 858 00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:43,000 So this morning God has he, caught your attention as he did 859 00:52:43,000 --> 00:52:47,480 with Moses. But not with a burning. 860 00:52:47,480 --> 00:52:54,400 Bush by the Holy Spirit. Upon your heart He. 861 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,280 The same spirit who spoke. From that Bush, as he's spoken 862 00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,680 to you today and today he calls you. 863 00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:05,480 He called Moses, Moses, Moses. Is God calling your name twice 864 00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:07,640 today? Is he calling you? 865 00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:12,800 I don't care how old you are. You've been alone in the 866 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:17,680 wilderness, unbeknown. To God, sorry, unbeknown to. 867 00:53:17,680 --> 00:53:20,240 You. But God has been training you. 868 00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:22,960 You've been in the world. You've gone through so much. 869 00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:30,000 He's been preparing you. You know, there's nothing better 870 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:32,880 than having someone come to a youth group, an older person, 871 00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:35,640 and having kids who you see they're in. 872 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,080 Trials and troubles. And you go. 873 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:47,120 I've been down that path. God got me through, you see. 874 00:53:48,120 --> 00:53:51,560 It's only someone that's walked. That. 875 00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:55,240 Road and surrendered and now. It's filled with Christ. 876 00:53:55,240 --> 00:53:57,480 Who can? Who can communicate? 877 00:53:57,480 --> 00:54:01,480 To that boy or to that girl. The true sense of the love of 878 00:54:01,480 --> 00:54:08,120 God. It's time for you to remove your 879 00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:12,600 sandals. Your connection with the old 880 00:54:12,600 --> 00:54:15,720 life can't. Live 2 worlds can't serve. 2 881 00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:21,960 masters and he will tell you your mission and each one of you 882 00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,760 have a mission. It's far beyond what you ever 883 00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,480 thought. You have a mission because we're 884 00:54:29,480 --> 00:54:33,040 in the business. Of serving the God. 885 00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:37,080 Of Israel. We're in the mission of serving 886 00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,240 someone. Who delivers people from? 887 00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:47,920 Eternal damnation, our feet are. Prepared with the good news. 888 00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:48,960 Of. The Gospel. 889 00:54:51,200 --> 00:55:04,080 Just to know you, you must be his friend, my friend.