1 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:08,830 The. Title of this. 2 00:00:08,830 --> 00:00:15,310 Morning's message is. God's promises are unstoppable. 3 00:00:17,390 --> 00:00:22,990 God's. Promises are unstoppable this 4 00:00:22,990 --> 00:00:24,310 book. Is amazing. 5 00:00:27,910 --> 00:00:33,360 The Book of Exodus. Is the story of redemption. 6 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:40,840 We will come to the Passover, the shedding of the blood of the 7 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:45,240 Lamb, the Angel of death, passing over every. 8 00:00:46,160 --> 00:00:48,360 House that has. The blood sprinkled on the. 9 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:54,520 Doorposts of the lentils. It's the book of Deliverance. 10 00:00:56,480 --> 00:00:59,680 After being. Slaves for 400 years. 11 00:01:03,160 --> 00:01:06,000 The children of Israel will be free, no longer slaves. 12 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,360 Can you imagine that? Kids growing up, all they've 13 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:14,920 known is to be a slave and then to not be a slave, to not be 14 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:20,240 owned, to be free. It's a picture of you and I. 15 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:24,000 Passover is a picture of the cross. 16 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:32,480 Slavery is a picture of. Sin the way we hate living the. 17 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:36,400 Power that Satan had over. Us, Jesus said. 18 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:41,400 I've come to set you free in Genesis chapter one it says in 19 00:01:41,400 --> 00:01:43,280 the beginning. God created. 20 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:48,040 The heavens and the earth. Genesis starts with creation. 21 00:01:49,440 --> 00:01:51,480 And closes. In chapter 50 with a. 22 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:57,840 Funeral The death of Joseph. Joseph type of deliverer. 23 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,120 And him being placed in a coffin but not. 24 00:02:04,120 --> 00:02:09,600 Buried. It's not going to be buried in 25 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,800 Egypt because God promised. It's going to be buried where 26 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,280 and promised land. Just think, Joseph said, yeah, 27 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,800 bury me. And you know when they did 28 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:22,840 leave, they carried. Joseph's coffin. 29 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,160 The promises are unstoppable. What's God? 30 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:36,400 Promised you unstoppable Joseph had faith beyond his death there 31 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,880 are. 300. To 350 years. 32 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,880 Between the end of Genesis, the beginning of. 33 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:49,560 Exodus Exodus itself covers a period of approximately 40 34 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:54,960 years. You and I today may. 2026. 35 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,680 By the way, it's the week that. Israel became a state again, 36 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:09,320 miraculously. 14th of May. Exodus is some 3000. 400 years 37 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:13,720 old. This book, which brings us to a 38 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:15,320 question and your. Kids got to ask us. 39 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:20,160 Why are we? Studying the book of Exodus. 40 00:03:21,800 --> 00:03:24,480 Such an old book. What's how does that? 41 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:29,320 Help me today. In addition, some might. 42 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:32,240 Ask aren't we New Testament? Believers, though, we need to 43 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:34,160 just. Stick in the New Testament. 44 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:37,240 Why even? Study the Old Testament. 45 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:43,880 Some people say the answer 1. Firstly, because it is God's 46 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,240 word. It's in the Bible. 47 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:50,400 And it is. Paul the Apostle, who reminds us 48 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:55,120 in Two Timothy. 3/16. All scripture. 49 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:58,360 What does all mean All. All scripture is. 50 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,200 Given by inspiration of God and is. 51 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:06,520 Profitable for teaching, for doctrine, for reproof. 52 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,320 To correct us. For correction for instruction 53 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:11,080 in. Righteousness. 54 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,880 How to live godly? That the man. 55 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:17,279 Of God, woman of God. May be complete mature. 56 00:04:19,160 --> 00:04:22,520 Thoroughly equipped for every good work, the good work that 57 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,040 God has laid out for us, prepared for us to live. 58 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,440 It's profitable for us. You and I will profit. 59 00:04:28,440 --> 00:04:30,000 By. Studying the book of Genesis, 60 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:34,960 Exodus in addition secondly. Paul wrote to the church at 61 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:38,280 Corinth. In Corinthians chapter 10, verse 62 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:40,160 6 now. These things. 63 00:04:40,520 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaking of, Exodus became our examples. 64 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:46,800 To the intent that we should not. 65 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:51,120 Last, lust after evil things as they also lusted. 66 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:54,600 That is, the children of Israel in their exodus wanted to go 67 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:57,000 back to. Egypt and do not become. 68 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,160 Idolaters they. Remember, they're going to make 69 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:02,880 a golden calf. Shortly, as were some of. 70 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:06,080 Them. Now all these things happened to 71 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:11,360 them as examples, and they were written for our admonition. 72 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:13,880 Paul's writing to the New Testament believers. 73 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,800 These were written for you and I to learn. 74 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:21,760 To be instructed by upon which? Upon whom? 75 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,640 The ends of the ages. Have come, that's what you and 76 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:27,040 I. In other words, what happened 77 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:28,960 then was written for us to learn from. 78 00:05:29,400 --> 00:05:34,920 To be guided by Jesus Christ is the story of Exodus. 79 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,200 It's not just the history book, it's his story. 80 00:05:39,800 --> 00:05:43,840 Jesus is the Passover. Jesus is the Deliverer. 81 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,040 Jesus is the bread, the manner that comes. 82 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:52,480 Down from heaven, Jesus is the. Fire and the cloud that will 83 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:57,000 lead them, Christ. Is the story of. 84 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:01,720 Genesis in Genesis chapter 3. 15 the Lord said. 85 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:06,680 After Adam and Eve sinned. I'll put enmity between you and 86 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:09,600 the woman between your. Seed and her seed. 87 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:12,480 He shall bruise your. Head and you shall. 88 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:18,680 Bruise his seal speaking to Satan the coming of the Messiah, 89 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:22,440 the saviour of the world, would come through the seed of the. 90 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:31,880 Woman, Mary, Mariah, Joseph and Mary she would bring forth. 91 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:36,800 A virgin bring forth. A son, the Messiah. 92 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:40,160 Said back in Genesis chapter. Three. 93 00:06:40,360 --> 00:06:45,320 That's where the story. His story begins and the. 94 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,200 Saviour of the world would come through the. 95 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:58,840 Family of Abraham Jewish Romans 4 Abraham is called the father. 96 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:01,480 Of our faith, Father of faith too. 97 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,680 So the Messiah would come through the Jewish people. 98 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,720 In Exodus 11 we read Now these are the names. 99 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,560 Of the children of Israel who came to Egypt each. 100 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:19,440 Man and his. Household his family came with. 101 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,920 Jacob, these are families of believers. 102 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,840 These are. Jewish families who worship the 103 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,240 Jewish. God, the God of Israel. 104 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,960 And they end Genesis chapter. 50. 105 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:37,520 They end up and we're told they arrive in. 106 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:44,480 Egypt first verse of Exodus. Now the word translated. 107 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:48,480 Now these are the names. The word now actually in the. 108 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:51,640 Hebrew is the word. And so Genesis doesn't. 109 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:56,640 Finish Exodus isn't like a. Whole complete new book. 110 00:07:56,720 --> 00:07:58,960 A whole new story. No, it's and. 111 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,320 So these are the people of Israel. 112 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:04,320 So Joseph died. I'm 10 years old. 113 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:07,640 Put in a coffin. And these are his family, and 114 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:12,000 these are the names of his family who arrived in Egypt. 115 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,800 It's the connection. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 116 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:18,840 Numbers. Deuteronomy, all written by 117 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:22,320 Moses, are actually one book. We've just divided. 118 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:27,480 Them it's just one book. Exodus is the. 119 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,080 Continuation of the story in Genesis of the Message. 120 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:37,240 Of the Saviour, his story, His story is our history. 121 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:41,039 And salvation that was. Told to Adam. 122 00:08:41,039 --> 00:08:43,240 Adam. From you is going to come the 123 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:48,280 Messiah. Seed of the woman Eve, then 124 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:49,760 Abraham was. Told. 125 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:52,800 Abraham through you, and he's got no children. 126 00:08:52,920 --> 00:08:57,480 Through you the seed. Will come the Messiah, then he. 127 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,760 Told Isaac, and he told Jacob, and he told Joseph. 128 00:09:02,960 --> 00:09:05,480 And these are the names. Of the children of Israel. 129 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,720 Now. The story of the Messiah is what 130 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,520 let's summarise it. Jesus is coming. 131 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:21,000 He came born in Bethlehem. Born of a virgin dies. 132 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:25,280 On Calvary as the sacrificial. Lamb of God. 133 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:30,280 Going back to Exodus. The Passover lamb. 134 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:35,760 Going back to Genesis. Seed of the woman he rose from 135 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:40,320 the dead, defeated death. Set the world US. 136 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,600 You and I free from. The slavery. 137 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:46,280 Of sin and the bondage of death, the. 138 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:49,160 Fear of death and. Then it says he will. 139 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,800 Return. We're living in a time. 140 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:52,360 Period. When? 141 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,680 Soon. Jesus will return rapture of the 142 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:58,560 Church. Seven year tribulation will 143 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:03,200 begin. Jesus will return second coming 144 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:06,920 at the end of that 1000 years reign. 145 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,400 Then there'll be a new heaven and a new earth. 146 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:10,840 The great white throne judgement. 147 00:10:14,280 --> 00:10:16,880 God is personal. With each of us. 148 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,600 Did you know that and I? Sense this morning something 149 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,480 unusual. I sense. 150 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:26,160 That we as a church. And you, the holy. 151 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:29,080 Spirit was moving through us. That you and I were really. 152 00:10:29,080 --> 00:10:31,600 Actually thanking God for. We hadn't. 153 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:36,120 We hadn't thanked. Him we're in our worship. 154 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,520 We were. We were worshipping him, but 155 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:42,040 we're really we were. Thanking him for so much we owe 156 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:44,520 him so. Much you know how How? 157 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,760 Wonderful it is to thank. Someone you know when you. 158 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,000 When you do something. And they and they say thank you, 159 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,440 you, you. Kind of. 160 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:54,320 Oh. And you go, someone says you're 161 00:10:54,320 --> 00:10:56,880 welcome, pray, go, pray, go in Italian. 162 00:10:58,280 --> 00:10:59,360 And we get. Caught by that? 163 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:02,120 Because no one says thank you when someone says thank you. 164 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,600 Go oh. That's that's all right. 165 00:11:04,520 --> 00:11:07,360 Well, today I think. You and I moved. 166 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:09,680 To a level by the Holy Spirit where we as a church. 167 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:14,560 We came as family individuals. And somehow God got hold of us. 168 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,960 Together and we thank God you know what? 169 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:23,600 It pleases Him because not many people thank God. 170 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:27,960 We ask him for everything we want him to do this. 171 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:33,720 We complain about stuff, but we really just thank him and it's 172 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:35,760 a. Good thing to do audibly. 173 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:41,440 Not just to think about it, to actually thank God these. 174 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,320 Are the names of the children of Israel. 175 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,320 Why have names? Because God is interested in. 176 00:11:48,320 --> 00:11:50,840 People he loves. It when you thank him. 177 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:53,280 He takes. Notice of you thanking him. 178 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:55,720 He thinks it's it's it's awesome. 179 00:11:56,640 --> 00:11:58,440 It says in John chapter 10 verse. 180 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:01,520 Three to him. The doorkeeper opens, and the 181 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:04,000 sheep hear his voice. And he calls his own. 182 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:08,240 Sheep by name. So here we given him a list of 183 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,360 names. Who are they then? 184 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:14,720 The names of the. People of Israel, just 70. 185 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:19,240 People were going to enter into. Israel, sons of Jacob. 186 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:22,040 Joseph is already there with his two sons. 187 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:25,400 And and God writes the names here. 188 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:26,680 Why do we need to know the names? 189 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:29,080 Because you see to God. Names are important. 190 00:12:29,080 --> 00:12:30,560 You know why they're important. Because it's you. 191 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:33,880 It's you, he says. I'll. 192 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:36,760 Write your name. Your name is written in the. 193 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,480 Book of Life, it's really important you think about that. 194 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:42,240 God Almighty. Creator of Heaven on Earth. 195 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:44,960 Actually knows your name, I mean you. 196 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:45,640 Can go to. Work. 197 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,200 You can work for some big. A government department or. 198 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,200 A group of people go. And we in the. 199 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,320 Police, we had a number. I had a number. 200 00:12:55,040 --> 00:13:00,240 Down the army you have a number. You see to God, you don't have a 201 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:05,840 number. You have a name because you're 202 00:13:05,840 --> 00:13:13,600 important because his Son died for you and you can put your 203 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:20,200 name at the end of that for God. So love Keith and he gave his 204 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:25,440 only begotten son and that's why in this book in. 205 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:29,720 Exodus it starts off. These are the names because the 206 00:13:29,720 --> 00:13:35,560 names are important to God. The rabbi's call. 207 00:13:35,560 --> 00:13:38,800 Exodus, the Book of Names. Exodus. 208 00:13:38,800 --> 00:13:41,200 What does it mean? Exodus means escape. 209 00:13:42,680 --> 00:13:46,760 It means way out. It's where we get our English. 210 00:13:46,760 --> 00:13:51,280 Word. Exit from it means departure. 211 00:13:52,240 --> 00:13:54,240 How? The Children of Israel exited. 212 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,720 From their 400. Years of bondage and slavery. 213 00:13:57,920 --> 00:13:59,960 How? They were delivered by a 214 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:04,520 deliverer. It's our story. 215 00:14:05,560 --> 00:14:08,240 The theme of Exodus is. Deliverance and redemption. 216 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:13,480 We will see the message. Of sacrifice Introduced 217 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:18,160 Sacrifice a Passover. Lamb, Chapter 12. 218 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:23,520 The Lamb would be slain. We will see the story in Exodus 219 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:25,440 of Ethics. What are ethics? 220 00:14:26,480 --> 00:14:29,200 The 10 commandments are the ethics. 221 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,280 How to relate? To God first four, the other 6 222 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:35,600 how to relate to. Fellow man tells you how to. 223 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:39,560 Live on which our judicial system Judas pure prudent 224 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:41,440 system. Is based upon the 10 225 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,080 commandments and be introduced. To a priesthood. 226 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:52,720 Aaron, Brother Moshe. Moses. 227 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,400 Those who will. Be given a task to stand between 228 00:14:57,400 --> 00:15:00,120 God and man and represent both represent man to. 229 00:15:00,120 --> 00:15:03,880 God and God to. Man, and who does that point to? 230 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:05,960 It points to in the book of Hebrews. 231 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,560 The great high Priest Jesus, who represents us. 232 00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:17,000 God became a man represents us. We see God and Jesus, and Jesus 233 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:22,440 represents us to God. And we'll see Moses. 234 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:29,200 Moshe, Remember Moshi, Diane. The great soldier for Israel. 235 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,200 Moses. He's the 1st. 236 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:35,240 Prophet who will tell us later in Deuteronomy of. 237 00:15:35,640 --> 00:15:39,280 Jesus coming. Deuteronomy 1815 the. 238 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:41,880 Lord, your God will raise up for you a prophet like. 239 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:47,160 Me from your midst. From your brethren Him. 240 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:52,880 You shall hear Jesus, Exodus chapter. 241 00:15:52,880 --> 00:15:56,120 One is the story and. Introduction to a time of 242 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:01,080 persecution and of great oppression to the Jewish people. 243 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:02,720 Man, how long has that been going for? 244 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:06,440 It tells us the story as to why the Israelites. 245 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:11,160 Came to need a deliverer when Joseph arrived in. 246 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:12,960 Egypt as a slave, remember? He'd been. 247 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:17,440 Sold by his brothers, he was a slave and he arrived arrived in. 248 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,480 Egypt. He ends up prison. 249 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:26,600 It was the 17th dynasty of Egyptian rulers. 250 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:28,920 They weren't called Pharaohs as such then. 251 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:35,360 Who were actually not Egyptian. The 17th dynasty. 252 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,560 Of rules at the. Time that Joseph came into. 253 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:44,240 Egypt were a tribe of people. Known as the. 254 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,200 Hyksos people, they were shepherd. 255 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:48,000 Kings. They had. 256 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:51,280 They had. Overwhelmed Egypt. 257 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,080 And taken control and they. Ruled Egypt. 258 00:16:55,560 --> 00:17:00,440 They were Semites and they found favour with Joseph and his 259 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,960 people because. Also, they had a shepherding 260 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,640 background. Joseph. 261 00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:08,400 He dies Genesis 50. He's 100. 262 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,760 And 10 years old. And now? 263 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,000 The ruler, the government. The. 264 00:17:14,000 --> 00:17:16,400 King of Egypt has. Changed. 265 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,760 It's the 18th dynasty. And now the Egyptians are. 266 00:17:20,760 --> 00:17:24,599 Ruling their own nation. And they disliked the 267 00:17:24,599 --> 00:17:26,560 Israelites. Because they disliked any 268 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:31,000 foreigners as they've been. Previously ruled by foreigners, 269 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,280 they totally. Disregarded history, didn't want 270 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:36,280 anything. To do with what Joseph had done 271 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,720 and Joseph how he saved. Them because God gave him. 272 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:45,640 The dream remember of the. The seasons, the good. 273 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,760 Seasons and and the terrible. Seasons and Joseph made Egypt 274 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,040 the the the food Bank of the world. 275 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:56,320 As they stored up during the Great Famine. 276 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:01,120 Verse 6 Joseph died and all his. Brothers and all that 277 00:18:01,120 --> 00:18:04,160 generation, so that whole generation of people that 278 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:09,360 arrived at 70 dead. But the children of Israel. 279 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:13,120 Were were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and 280 00:18:13,120 --> 00:18:17,360 multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty, and the land was. 281 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:21,080 Filled with them now there. Arose a new king over. 282 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:26,280 Egypt who did not know Joseph, you know, this is a very 283 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:29,480 powerful verse for you and I today as to why. 284 00:18:29,480 --> 00:18:32,280 We here have. Taken so seriously. 285 00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:35,120 Calvary Chapel. To place so much. 286 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:38,360 Emphasis on teaching the children the word of God. 287 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:42,400 You know the children in Calvary kids are going through the book 288 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:43,960 of Romans. Imagine that. 289 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:46,680 What Sunday school What what junior kids get taught the book 290 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:49,240 of Romans. I was getting taught how to. 291 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:58,520 Colour in and play trains. On Friday night, the youth went. 292 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:04,000 Through Bible Prophecy covered the overview of all Bible 293 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:08,240 prophecy. You see, we take an emphasis. 294 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,920 That's why I refer. To it now as junior church, not 295 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:13,800 so much Sunday school because. We have the chairs. 296 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:16,480 Set out we have a. Pulpit there as well because we 297 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:19,920 want the kids to. Move smoothly from. 298 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,440 There into here and not. Going well, don't I get? 299 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,320 The colour anymore? Aren't I playing trains and just 300 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,920 running around the room anymore? No, you're learning. 301 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:30,960 The word of God, you're learning about Jesus Christ. 302 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:32,360 So when they move. From there. 303 00:19:32,360 --> 00:19:34,520 There's not this big seismic. Ship of God. 304 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:39,040 And what can I just run up and down the the classroom anymore 305 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:41,040 and just. Play with Plasticine. 306 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:42,280 And stuff. No, no, no. 307 00:19:42,920 --> 00:19:46,920 You're learning the Word of God and we're only we're, that's 308 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:49,800 only our part the. Rest of that is your. 309 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:53,040 Part at. Home to teach the Word of God to 310 00:19:53,040 --> 00:19:53,960 your. Children at home. 311 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:58,640 Seriously, this first teaches the. 312 00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:03,080 Danger of how quickly this is just one generation if we. 313 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:07,000 Neglect to teach the Bible to our youngest Saints the. 314 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:11,040 Time will come when it will be forgotten when I went to school. 315 00:20:11,280 --> 00:20:14,720 8000 years ago. Everyone in my. 316 00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,440 Class all the classes. From Grade 1 to grade. 317 00:20:17,440 --> 00:20:22,120 Seven knew who Jesus Christ. Was they didn't worship him. 318 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:25,920 But we all went to church. We all went off. 319 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,040 Into our groups and. Fridays we went to our. 320 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:30,760 Different churches. Scripture was in church in. 321 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,040 School now. You can go into a classroom 322 00:20:34,240 --> 00:20:35,120 mention. Jesus. 323 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:38,360 Christ and they think that's just a swear word they know 324 00:20:38,360 --> 00:20:42,240 nothing about. Jesus, that's our nation. 325 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,040 You know Coca Cola spends. A certain. 326 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:54,400 Percentage from the from. The sale of every bottle. 327 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,600 On advertising and they're asked what? 328 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:59,120 Do you do this? I mean, Coca Cola? 329 00:20:59,120 --> 00:21:00,680 Everyone knows about COCA. Cola. 330 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:05,160 It's simple because the moment we stop advertising, people 331 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:10,520 forget about it. How often have you seen? 332 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,600 Coca Cola rats they've been. On and on and. 333 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,720 On, they're just just. Because because we forget 334 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,200 Question why were the children of Israel? 335 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,680 Not. Just given Canaan as God 336 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:28,680 promised. He said he would. 337 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:30,280 Why? Why this whole? 338 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,920 Go to Egypt. Why don't they just go? 339 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,840 Take the 70 and head. Straight to Canaan. 340 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,680 Land. That's a good question. 341 00:21:37,960 --> 00:21:40,800 Why didn't God? Bypass Egypt and all that. 342 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,920 Was going to happen 400 years of slavery. 343 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,000 And let them just head. Straight into the promised land. 344 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,440 One, there's two reasons. God was going to. 345 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:52,680 Prepare his people. For the land. 346 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:59,480 As God is preparing you for heaven. 70 people. 347 00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:04,400 Arrived in Egypt 70 the others Joseph and his two. 348 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,320 Sons and their families and. Wives were. 349 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:12,240 Already there that 70 grew in a period of 300 and. 50 to 400. 350 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:16,320 Years to. #2 to 3 million people. 351 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:20,160 That's a that's a big party, isn't it? 352 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:24,160 That's a big family. This is the family of Jacob. 353 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:30,080 Imagine all the Christmas cards he had to send out wouldn't be 5 354 00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:31,760 bucks and every one of those cards would be. 355 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,840 Secondly, God had to prepare Canaan, the promised Land. 356 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,840 For the people of. Israel in Genesis 1513. 357 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,560 Then the Lord said to Abraham, He told Abraham, this is what's 358 00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:47,200 happening. You can be. 359 00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:50,240 Sure that your. Descendants, in other words. 360 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:53,440 It's going to happen. Will be strangers in a foreign 361 00:22:53,440 --> 00:22:57,160 land. Where they will be oppressed. 362 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,000 This is what's going to happen. As slaves, so this is told way 363 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,480 back before even. Jacobs. 364 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,400 Walking around for 400. Years. 365 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,680 This is what's going to happen. But I will punish the nation 366 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:12,680 that enslaves. Them, and in the end, they. 367 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,720 Will come away with great. Wealth. 368 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:19,520 As for you, you'll die in peace, Abraham. 369 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:23,000 Be buried at a ripe old age after 4. 370 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,040 Generations your descendants will returning here to this 371 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:30,240 land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant. 372 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:35,840 Their destruction, that's the. Owners, occupants of Canaan land 373 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,120 at this time. You see God. 374 00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:42,080 Used Egypt as God. Used. 375 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:48,720 Babylon to be a tool. To prepare the people of Israel. 376 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,040 In the new King James it says for the. 377 00:23:52,040 --> 00:23:54,520 Iniquity of the. Amorites is not yet complete. 378 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:59,440 What does that mean? God will wait 4. 100 years until 379 00:23:59,640 --> 00:24:01,120 he. Judges the the. 380 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:03,160 Canaanites, those living in Canaan. 381 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,360 He gave them 400. Years what, what for to. 382 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:15,880 Repent to turn to Him. 400. Years is that you think? 383 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,280 That's. Pretty good grace. 384 00:24:18,240 --> 00:24:21,480 Is that long suffering? Because you know, you'll read 385 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,560 later on as the Joshua goes into canal and. 386 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,600 We've got these people, we've got to take them out. 387 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:32,280 Why they had to be? Taken out because. 388 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,600 After 400. Years, God says this, people are 389 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:43,560 so deprived, so evil, so wicked that they must be eradicated 390 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,920 completely, or else they will wickedly. 391 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,120 Poison and permeate. All. 392 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:53,000 Those who come in contact with them. 393 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,960 Can't have the children of Israel, people of God mixing. 394 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,640 Because the poison will come in. And so that's. 395 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:05,120 Why when they moved in? To Canaan land, the people had 396 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:08,560 to be taken out. When you're talking wicked, you 397 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,360 and I can't even comprehend the wickedness. 398 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,920 You need to research that yourself, so. 399 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:14,720 What? What does? 400 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,680 What does Pharaoh do? How does God work this? 401 00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,880 Persecution one comes into being 8 to 13. 402 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,640 Persecution. The first there's going to be 3. 403 00:25:23,920 --> 00:25:26,800 But the children of Israel were fruitful and increased 404 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:30,080 abundantly, multiplied and grew exceedingly mighty. 405 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:33,600 You know the land was. Filled with them, the people. 406 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:36,120 Grew in number, that is. The people of Israel because 407 00:25:36,120 --> 00:25:40,280 God's blessing was over. Them remember back in Genesis? 408 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,760 Be fruitful and multiply. Well, Israel. 409 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:50,000 Is is that is that people? And plus, they're in the land of 410 00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,320 Goshen. They're in peace. 411 00:25:52,320 --> 00:25:53,560 They're in. Like a. 412 00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,200 A green room of growth. These people can. 413 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:58,600 Grow. There's no no wars. 414 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:00,240 They got their. Fields. 415 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,200 They've been looked after. In the they're the best. 416 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,560 Country in the world. At that time, so they. 417 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:11,440 Begin to prosper, they grow. But it was predicated on God's 418 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:13,120 blessing. His promise to. 419 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:14,800 Abraham They didn't. They didn't. 420 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,280 Prosper because they were good at it. 421 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,520 They prosper because God. Bless them. 422 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:23,600 Genesis 12, verse 2. I will make you a great nation. 423 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,960 God said to Abraham. I will bless you and make your 424 00:26:26,960 --> 00:26:29,840 name great. You shall be a blessing. 425 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,520 Genesis 15 Five. Then he brought him outside. 426 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,800 Abraham Abraham, come outside. Hey, look at the look at the 427 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:41,800 night sky, look at the heaven. Count the stars if you're able 428 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,800 if you've ever been out in the. Desert and seen the stars. 429 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,320 At night, man, it's amazing. And he said to him, God. 430 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,880 Said to Abraham, so shall your descendants be. 431 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:56,320 And it says Abraham believed in the Lord. 432 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,600 This is where Abraham was saved, and he accounted it. 433 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:01,400 God accounted it to him. For. 434 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:03,480 Righteousness. Now think about. 435 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,560 This, he says, Abraham, you're going to have more descendants 436 00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:07,760 than all the. Stars in the sky. 437 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:09,640 Guess what? It's not. 438 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:14,600 Until Genesis 21 that Abraham even has one child. 439 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,920 Abraham says. Wow, really Lord? 440 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,160 Awesome. That's the faith of Abraham. 441 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,840 Isn't he? He doesn't even have a child and 442 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:35,560 he's an old dude. Now, 400 years later, from 70 443 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:38,800 people now 2 to 3 million. Verse 8. 444 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:40,480 Now there. Arose a new king over. 445 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:42,640 Egypt, who did not know? Joseph and he said to his 446 00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,160 people, Look, the children of the people of Israel. 447 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,840 Are more and mightier than we, you know. 448 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,520 Australia has forgotten. Its heritage, as did. 449 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,240 The Egyptians, they forgot Joseph. 450 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,240 All that he did saving them from starvation. 451 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:00,880 They'd be just like all the other crew. 452 00:28:01,120 --> 00:28:06,480 Except for Joseph in 1917. The title of Australia was 453 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,360 first. Used 1817 a hundred. 454 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:14,400 And 60. 1000 convicts were sent. Here in the 1st 80 years. 455 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:16,040 Of European. Settling. 456 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:19,480 We talk about slavery. This is what Australia is. 457 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:21,280 We were white. Slaves. 458 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:28,360 These convicts, if you read your history and those who arrive 459 00:28:28,360 --> 00:28:31,400 with them, took their priorities from the Bible. 460 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,600 Did you know that? Trusting in the God whom they 461 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:35,920 knew in. Jesus Christ. 462 00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:38,680 Believing that the way to build a nation. 463 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,200 Was to serve God. And live for eternity the. 464 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,320 First public church service took. 465 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,560 Place in Australia on Sunday. At. 10 AM. 466 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:57,840 February the 3rd. 1788 under a great big tree by the Sydney 467 00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:00,360 Harbour. You see, you and I, we've 468 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,000 forgotten our heritage as a nation. 469 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:06,280 Verse 10. Pharaoh says come let. 470 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:11,120 Us deal shrewdly with these the Jews, lest they multiply. 471 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:12,920 And it happened. In the event. 472 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,520 Of war, that they also. Join our enemies and fight. 473 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,440 Against us, and so go. Up out of the land. 474 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,200 Therefore they set taskmasters over them. 475 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,720 To afflict them with their. Burdens they built for Pharaoh. 476 00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:33,160 This is the Jews. Supply cities, whole cities 477 00:29:33,400 --> 00:29:38,000 Python. Ramses verse 12, but the. 478 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,040 More they afflicted them, the more. 479 00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:45,520 They multiplied and grew. And they were in dread of the 480 00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,200 children of Israel. So the Egyptians made the. 481 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,280 Children of Israel serve with rigour. 482 00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,040 That word rigour means cruelty. Severity. 483 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,680 And they made their lives. Bitter with hard. 484 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:05,800 Bondage in mortar, in brick. There is archaeological evidence 485 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,240 that you can see where they built all the. 486 00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,160 Bricks in Egypt? With bricks. 487 00:30:10,160 --> 00:30:13,560 With straw. And then later on there's a. 488 00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:16,880 Section where they began to. Build the bricks without straw. 489 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:19,440 To make it even harder. For them to make the bricks. 490 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:22,760 In mortar and brick, and in all manner of. 491 00:30:22,760 --> 00:30:26,280 Service in the field, all their service in which they made them 492 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:29,880 serve was with rigour, was with cruelty. 493 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,160 Severity. We have a. 494 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,800 Jewish problem. Ever heard those words before? 495 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:39,640 Jewish problem in Israel. In Egypt in World War. 496 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:44,440 Two, Hitler saw what he called. The Jewish problem in Europe 497 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,000 hated them. He saw the Jewish people. 498 00:30:48,320 --> 00:30:51,280 Who were? Very good at business, acquiring 499 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,640 wealth and. Prominence and Hitler 500 00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:56,160 introduced. What was called the Final 501 00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,680 Solution? It was Pharaoh who introduced it 502 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,200 before Hitler. Did you know that? 503 00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:07,680 But that is just. From the human perspective, the. 504 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,480 Persecution of the Jewish people. 505 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:12,480 There is a. Far greater view of this. 506 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:14,400 Situation. That you need to be. 507 00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:16,920 Aware of as we're seeing. In our world. 508 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,440 Today, which we'll get to. Behind the scenes of the 509 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:25,640 Egyptian court rules, God is allowing them to do this. 510 00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:28,360 He didn't 'cause it. He didn't make it. 511 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,960 But he is. Allowing the Egyptians to. 512 00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:35,920 Rule and to enslave. Who were once just dwellers. 513 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,240 In Egypt now to be slaves. And workers and treated with 514 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,400 cruelty. God is. 515 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:42,200 Allowing this? Why is he allowing? 516 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,480 This because. God is pulling the strings. 517 00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:49,400 It's time to make things. To happen, the end of the 400 518 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,200 years is coming. And so he allows. 519 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,360 The persecution for his purpose, He didn't 'cause it. 520 00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:01,280 God is stirring up Pharaoh. Pharaoh says we got a problem 521 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,280 because God wants these. People out of Egypt and into the 522 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:05,960 promised. Land. 523 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,840 It's time to move. Romans 917. 524 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,040 Paul writes for the scripture says to the Pharaoh. 525 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:16,080 For this very purpose. I have raised you up. 526 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:18,520 That I may show you my. Power in you. 527 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,280 And that my name may be. Declared and all the earth. 528 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,200 The only reason there is an Egypt. 529 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,760 It's because of. Israel, did you see that? 530 00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:32,520 God raised up. Egypt just for this time, Yes, 531 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:36,440 we're to pray for our. Politicians, but remember. 532 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,240 And I think I'm so. Thankful they are just pieces. 533 00:32:40,320 --> 00:32:44,680 On God's chess board pieces on God's chess board. 534 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,440 You know where you get. Your information on. 535 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:49,560 What's happening in the world? Get it from the word of God, not 536 00:32:49,560 --> 00:32:52,000 from. Politicians or from the media? 537 00:32:52,680 --> 00:32:55,920 In Daniel chapter 4, Nebuchadnezzar has a dream. 538 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:57,960 He sees this great tree. And he? 539 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:00,120 Goes through this dream and sees this great tree. 540 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:03,680 Growing and. It's cut down and. 541 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,760 He says to Daniel. Daniel, what's this dream about? 542 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,600 He tells Daniel the dream, He says Nebuchadnezz, you're you're 543 00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:14,160 the tree. You're the man unless you 544 00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:16,080 change. Unless you acknowledge. 545 00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,840 God. That he has given you this 546 00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:19,440 Kingdom, this. Power. 547 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,560 And then in Daniel chapter. 4. We read that one day. 548 00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,080 Nebuchadnezzar is out in the palace. 549 00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:26,840 He. Says look at this Babylon. 550 00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:28,400 Woo Hoo. Hanging. 551 00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,960 Gardens we have the the. River flows from the city, the 552 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,920 great walls. I have built this and. 553 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:39,640 At that moment, it says, while the word was still in the King's 554 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:43,520 mouth, Daniel 431, a voice fell from heaven. 555 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:46,440 King Nebuchadnezzar. To you it has spoken. 556 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,720 The Kingdom has. Departed from you, you see, God 557 00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:51,840 raises up. Kingdoms. 558 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,560 And he pulls them down. God is moving his pieces today, 559 00:33:56,800 --> 00:33:58,400 just as He. Did in Egypt and in. 560 00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:02,360 Babylon and he's moving the pieces in our Australian 561 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,520 political world and I can't. Understand what God is doing, 562 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:11,600 but God knows what he's doing. But Israel? 563 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,440 Prospered the more, Pharaoh thought. 564 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:18,920 That hard work poverty would gradually reduce the Israelite 565 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:23,000 numbers. The workers, the Hebrew slaves, 566 00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,360 were sent N 1st. Fly in fly outs. 567 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:30,159 To they had to walk there they were sent. 568 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:33,679 North, away from their families. To the cities of. 569 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,040 Python And Ramses, they sent them away from their families. 570 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,040 You know what? There's a reason for this. 571 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,239 Husbands away. From their wives, fathers away. 572 00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,320 From their families, mothers away from their children to. 573 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,760 Cut down time together, limiting time for the Jewish. 574 00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,920 People to conceive children and to nurture them. 575 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,440 To raise them. Also, they're agricultural. 576 00:34:59,440 --> 00:35:00,960 People, they didn't go down. The shop and. 577 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:02,720 Get their food. They had to grow their own and 578 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:06,080 to look after themselves. The agricultural food, 579 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,400 sustenance would suffer. You can't be a. 580 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,480 Farmer, You can't be a shepherd and a brickmaker. 581 00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:17,520 A. Slave at the same time can't do 582 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:21,080 both. Hopefully that would starve 583 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:26,560 those with ill health because of the rig of the cruelty of the 584 00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:31,320 slavery they would just by. Natural attrition be wiped out 585 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,760 and so many would die. That was the plan. 586 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:40,800 Paris is a good plan, but. The oppression policy 587 00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:46,560 persecution failed the more. The persecution, the greater the 588 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:50,240 population growth. Now how does this happen? 589 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:54,400 There's only one. Answer apart from the eyes of 590 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:57,600 faith, God's promises, God's power. 591 00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,360 There is no other explanation. For how this could happen. 592 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:06,000 To an oppressed slave. Driven, persecuted people and 593 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:10,680 they flourished. God turned the. 594 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:14,000 Egyptian persecution policy against them, verse 12. 595 00:36:14,240 --> 00:36:16,280 But the more they afflicted. Them the. 596 00:36:16,280 --> 00:36:19,360 More, they multiplied and grew. That's staggering. 597 00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:25,240 You see, persecution always brings real growth to the Church 598 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:29,320 of Jesus. Christ, China, Russia, 599 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,360 underground churches. Proliferate. 600 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:34,760 Grow. The Church is strong. 601 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:37,800 Anywhere. Where the church is persecuted. 602 00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:45,760 Persecution always separates the chaff from the wheat in Russia. 603 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,280 A group of believers were gathered together quietly. 604 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,600 In a home. Scared because it was against. 605 00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:56,080 The law to gather, to proclaim the gospel. 606 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,360 Two soldiers burst. In in uniform guns. 607 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:04,840 They said who here? Is a Christian and who's? 608 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,400 Not if you're not a Christian. You can leave. 609 00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,800 You get the choice to leave those who are Christians. 610 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:15,360 You stay and people bailed. I'm. 611 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,840 Not a Christian anymore. Took off, closed the doors and 612 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:21,800 the two Russian. Soldiers put their guns down, he 613 00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,600 says. Now that they're gone, tell us, 614 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:33,700 how do we know Jesus Christ? It separates the chalk from the 615 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,420 wheat. Those not truly born again. 616 00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:39,660 Followers of Christ bail. No other people other than 617 00:37:39,660 --> 00:37:44,480 Israel has suffered as much. As they have. 400. 618 00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,480 Years of slavery, 2 deportations. 619 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,000 Babylon. Rome 2. 620 00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,320 Total destructions, 2000 years of dispersion and the Holocaust 621 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,400 6. Million murdered by the Nazis. 622 00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:03,280 Satan has targeted God's people. From the book of Genesis. 623 00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,560 First attempt when Satan knew deliverance would come through a 624 00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,480 promised child. What does he do? 625 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,680 He gets. Cain to kill Abel. 626 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:14,760 Maybe able's the problem? Wipe him out. 627 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:20,240 That's it. Satan then corrupts the whole 628 00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:22,360 world. So that it says that. 629 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:25,800 Every man's imagination was continually evil, but. 630 00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,480 There was. Noah and his three sons. 631 00:38:28,720 --> 00:38:33,480 Misses Noah and their wives, but Noah one of the. 8 survived. 632 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:35,840 God must judge the world. The flood. 633 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:37,760 Comes man, that was nearly the end. 634 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:41,120 Later in Bethlehem. The. 635 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,720 Messiah is to come born. Through the line of David. 636 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:46,800 Satan. Will kill all. 637 00:38:46,800 --> 00:38:49,440 The Jewish children born in Bethlehem. 638 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:53,160 The persecution of the Jewish people. 639 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,040 Is and if anyone you. Speak to says. 640 00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,280 Well, the Israelis. Let them know. 641 00:38:58,320 --> 00:38:59,200 Guess. Guess what? 642 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,240 Hold on a minute. I said this at the. 643 00:39:02,240 --> 00:39:05,360 Football club one time. The reason? 644 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:07,520 The Jews. Are persecuted is it's satanic. 645 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:11,560 That's the reason. It's not racist. 646 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,000 It's not this tribe against another tribe. 647 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:19,600 It's satanic when we see people. Protesting. 648 00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,360 Guess what? Satan is driving those protests. 649 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:27,560 The spirit of that protest? From the river to the. 650 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:29,200 Sea it's. Annihilation. 651 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,440 Who would do? That what other? 652 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:34,360 People say let's annihilate everyone that's in Indonesia, 653 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:37,040 You wouldn't get away. With it are they? 654 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:42,000 Doing it on our streets and our nation and around the world. 655 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,680 Because Satan is on the. Case. 656 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:49,840 He wants Israel eliminated. Why? 657 00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:53,720 Because if God's plan. Of redemption depended upon a 658 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:57,640 nation, and it does. And the continuance of that 659 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,080 nation and it does. If you could destroy that 660 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,920 nation, then it will. Thwart God's. 661 00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:09,880 Plan of salvation. Only Israel is that nation. 662 00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:14,400 This is. Where in the future? 663 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,840 Days we will see the Church of Australia. 664 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:20,920 Truly grow when we are. Persecuted as well. 665 00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:25,720 Church Growth. Here will come when it. 666 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:27,760 Becomes. Tough to be a Christian. 667 00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,760 So, Pharaoh, it hasn't worked. Persecution #2. 668 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:38,320 Population control let's. Bring that in verse 15, then the 669 00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:40,840 king of Egypt. Spoke to the Hebrew midwives. 670 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,480 Of. Whom the name of 1? 671 00:40:42,480 --> 00:40:45,400 Was Shipra and the name? Of the other. 672 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:49,360 Poor and he said, when you. Do the duties of midwife for the 673 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:51,760 Hebrew women. And see see. 674 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,640 Them on their birth stools if it is a son. 675 00:40:54,640 --> 00:40:57,880 Then you shall kill him. But if it is a daughter, then 676 00:40:58,200 --> 00:41:02,360 she shall. Live when you see. 677 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:05,560 Whether at the birth of the child, whether it's a. 678 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,640 Male or a female? You make the decision. 679 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:13,920 It's a command by. Pharaoh, the Direct. 680 00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:17,800 Killing of Israelite male infants. 681 00:41:18,240 --> 00:41:20,080 Guess what? God would. 682 00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,240 Remember this and bring it. Back on the Egyptians when? 683 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:31,320 Passover, Passover. Why kill males only? 684 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,640 Would that not deplete the slave workforce? 685 00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,320 Kill the males, because it's only males. 686 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:40,000 Who go to war? That's what they're worried 687 00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:42,840 about. Verse 17 but. 688 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,600 We see this word. Often in chapter 1, but. 689 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:49,320 The midwives. Feared God and did not. 690 00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:51,520 Do as the king of Egypt commanded them. 691 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:54,680 But save the male. Children alive. 692 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:57,520 Amazing, but the. Midwives. 693 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:01,080 Hebrew midwives fear God. They obeyed. 694 00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:08,920 God over Pharaoh, Peter and John were called in, Remember. 695 00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,280 Stop preaching Jesus. We'll belt you and we'll put you 696 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:16,480 in prison, probably kill you, whether you think it's right for 697 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,560 us to obey you or not. And this is the first case we 698 00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:23,760 see where it's. Civil disobedience is the right 699 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,480 thing to do. We're told to obey the. 700 00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,520 Laws of the Land in the Book of Romans. 701 00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,960 As long as those laws. Don't go against. 702 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:31,760 God's law. This law is higher. 703 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,480 So the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said to them. 704 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:39,680 Why have you done this? Thing and save the male. 705 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:40,600 Children. Alive. 706 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,880 Now they're in trouble. You get in trouble when you obey 707 00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,440 God it. Comes with the 2. 708 00:42:49,720 --> 00:42:50,520 Don't. Don't you? 709 00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:51,720 Know, oh, I don't know what's going. 710 00:42:51,720 --> 00:42:53,480 On I'm Just a Christian. And I seem to think. 711 00:42:53,800 --> 00:42:56,800 You're going to get it. It's what happens. 712 00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,960 Remember, where, where, where the where the thorn in the flesh 713 00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,640 of the world. Here at the moment verse. 19 and 714 00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,040 the what now? Before they kick to Pharaoh. 715 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:10,720 Remember, many years have passed. 716 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,520 Since the King's. Decree to kill all Hebrew. 717 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,440 Born Infants. The king summons them to. 718 00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,840 Appear before him personally. Wow, he wants answers. 719 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,360 Prior to their. Execution verse 19 and the 720 00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:26,680 midwives said to. Pharaoh. 721 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,200 Well, because the Hebrew. Women are not. 722 00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:32,160 Like the Egyptian women? For they are lively and give 723 00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:34,800 birth before the. Midwives come to them. 724 00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:39,480 Therefore, God dealt with the midwives because of their 725 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:42,200 obedience. And the people multiplied and 726 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,200 grew very mighty. Notice they're continuing to 727 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:46,560 grow no matter what. Happens. 728 00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,840 And so it was because the midwives feared God, because the 729 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:53,440 midwives feared God that he provided. 730 00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:56,600 Households for them in other. Words. 731 00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,160 Midwives. Were normally women couldn't 732 00:43:59,160 --> 00:43:59,720 have. Children. 733 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:02,000 And what happened? That's it. 734 00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,920 Because what you've done, you're going to have kids. 735 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,480 And they had. Kids, the blessing of children 736 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:12,680 came. So the midwives had. 737 00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:16,680 Years to prepare their response. They knew what was coming. 738 00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,960 Now. Was what they said a? 739 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,520 Lie. I don't think so. 740 00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,440 Because there was a very real cultural difference that 741 00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:30,320 existed. Between the Israelite and 742 00:44:30,320 --> 00:44:35,840 Egyptian women and birthing. The Hebrew women had a family 743 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:38,800 style of birthing. In other words, they were very 744 00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:42,880 much involved personally, Egyptian. 745 00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,000 Women took on a minimal. Role in birthing. 746 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,600 It was like they just said. Midwives do everything, I'm just 747 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:54,280 help. The midwives did everything in 748 00:44:54,280 --> 00:44:56,920 the delivery of Egyptian. Infants. 749 00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:00,040 That's how the culture. Was but. 750 00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:05,080 Israeli women played an active role in the delivery of their 751 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:08,560 own children. And the midwives just were on 752 00:45:08,560 --> 00:45:16,560 hand only played a minimal role. In other words, the the 753 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,320 midwives. What they did also is. 754 00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:22,400 That they took time in. Getting to the births 755 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:24,920 deliberately. Hello. 756 00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,560 Yeah, and. I know they don't have phones 757 00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:30,640 and they don't have coffee shops, but midwives? 758 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:34,720 Yeah, but Charles coming, right, we'll be leaving. 759 00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:36,560 In now we. Just got another cappuccino 760 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,160 coming. We'll be there in a bit. 761 00:45:41,080 --> 00:45:44,080 Took their time to get there. Went lying. 762 00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:48,720 We're on our way. Just got to stop off and get 763 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:52,120 some new shoes. From a donkey. 764 00:45:54,200 --> 00:45:57,120 Get to it. We're there, we're nearly there, 765 00:45:57,120 --> 00:46:00,840 we're getting here. And they said don't. 766 00:46:00,840 --> 00:46:03,360 Call us before the. Baby actually comes. 767 00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,560 Don't call us before the baby, actually. 768 00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:12,800 Comes and so the midwives received a blessing from God. 769 00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:16,520 For their courageous obedience. Midwives did not. 770 00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,600 Normally, as I said, have their own children. 771 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:21,240 What does it? Mean to fear God that these 772 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:23,480 midwives did. They feared God instead of 773 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:27,120 Pharaoh. To fear God means this it is. 774 00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:30,520 Believing in God. And therefore fearing the 775 00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:34,720 consequences of not pleasing him. 776 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:41,080 You know, I grew up in a home when my dad I feared my dad I 777 00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:42,520 wanted. To do the right thing because. 778 00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:44,800 I didn't want to have. The fear of not pleasing. 779 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:48,840 Him, but with. God, it's it's that's similar 780 00:46:48,840 --> 00:46:52,160 but but there's more to. It I don't want to not please 781 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:54,840 God because I love him and he cares for us. 782 00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:59,520 I worship him. And so the midwife said no, we 783 00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:04,320 want to please you, Lord. Persecution #3 last one. 784 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,200 Pharaoh calls. In a national action against. 785 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,760 The Jews. OK, we'll get this sorted. 786 00:47:11,760 --> 00:47:13,880 Verse 22. So Pharaoh. 787 00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,160 Commanded Notice he's been doing a lot of commands all. 788 00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:22,000 His people saying this. Every son who was born. 789 00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,880 That's Jewish. You shall cast. 790 00:47:24,880 --> 00:47:29,080 Into the river and every. Daughter you shall save alive. 791 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,480 All Egyptians were to Join Now in the killing. 792 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:40,680 Of all Israelite newborn boys genocide, why throw? 793 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,440 Them into the Nile. I mean. 794 00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,600 Ever thought about that? Why not just put them to death, 795 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:48,280 however? Why? 796 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,880 Why throw them into the Nile? What does that come into it? 797 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:54,440 Why not just kill them by other means one? 798 00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:00,040 It was a. Convenient and considered clean. 799 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:07,360 Perceived way to kill infants. All of Egypt, by the way, also 800 00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,600 lived. On the banks of the Nile. 2 It 801 00:48:11,600 --> 00:48:13,920 shifted some of the. Blame. 802 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:19,680 Because of the way the. Pantheistic Egyptians viewed. 803 00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:25,160 The Nile as a God. Therefore I throw a child. 804 00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:27,520 Into the Nile, if the Nile was to. 805 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,040 Receive the child. In other words, the child. 806 00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:31,960 Drowns. Well, it's the. 807 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:33,320 Nile. It's the God of the. 808 00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:38,160 Nile, not me. I'm just, you know, placing 809 00:48:38,240 --> 00:48:40,760 there. At least to some degree. 810 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:45,240 Represents the gods, Niles. Judgement rather than he or. 811 00:48:45,240 --> 00:48:46,600 She who? Cast. 812 00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:51,680 The infant into the waters. There was an irony that. 813 00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:55,200 God would bring up to. This as well, which God would 814 00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:58,880 wash back over the Egyptians after Pharaoh gave this. 815 00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:03,840 Command the children of Israel being LED out by Moshe. 816 00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:08,480 Moses, and they come. To the Red Sea can't pass. 817 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,160 In this picture there, you know the story. 818 00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,560 We'll get to it yet. Moses prays in the ocean. 819 00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:21,920 Divides the children of Israel. Go pass and check in Pharaoh's 820 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:29,360 army, his whole army, all his young men, young boys that had 821 00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:33,560 grown up in that time to be men. Soldiers in Pharaoh's. 822 00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:42,240 Army, God drown them. Exodus 15 for Pharaoh's Chariots 823 00:49:42,240 --> 00:49:45,920 and his army. He God has cast. 824 00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:51,360 Them into the sea Notice. His chosen captains are also 825 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,160 drowned. In the Red Sea. 826 00:49:54,360 --> 00:49:59,320 So as we wrap. This up Exodus one what have we 827 00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:05,800 learnt 1. God's power has seen. 828 00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:12,080 In the wonderful. Increase of Israel, but Israel? 829 00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:17,720 Prospered and grew. In spite of all that, Egypt 830 00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:19,120 through them. How? 831 00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,080 Often in your life. Maybe your kids come up from 832 00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:22,400 school and. Say these are tough. 833 00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:26,080 Or you come up from work, say to you what man the boss is. 834 00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,800 Hard on me. He rides me and rails me and man 835 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,560 it's just on. Guess what? 836 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:39,360 God's power. Is there available? 837 00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:44,320 View for you to grow and increase during that time of 838 00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,960 persecution in. Spite of all that, Egypt. 839 00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:54,040 Threw at you secondly. God's purpose as seen in the 840 00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,280 beautiful preservation of Israel. 841 00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:58,800 We fear we people. Fear. 842 00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,880 Well, what's going to happen with the war in Iran? 843 00:51:01,440 --> 00:51:04,400 You know, prices are, you know, again, mortgages go up. 844 00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:05,600 Are we going to be able to survive? 845 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,760 I mean. Can I give it the? 846 00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,640 Church to what's going to. Happen and here's where this. 847 00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:14,960 Whole site just just spews out all this stuff. 848 00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:21,240 And here's what the Bible. Tells us to do seek ye. 1st The 849 00:51:21,240 --> 00:51:27,040 Kingdom of God and his righteousness and he'll. 850 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:30,640 Look, after all, the best. Rest, Jesus said. 851 00:51:30,720 --> 00:51:32,280 Look at the. Flowers in the field. 852 00:51:33,680 --> 00:51:36,720 God looks after them. Look at the birds of the air. 853 00:51:38,000 --> 00:51:39,840 I've never heard I was. Looking at and there. 854 00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,160 Was a pink and grey. Glass, I Unchained the chains 855 00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:43,920 here early this morning, looking up. 856 00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:45,640 I was talking to him. He wasn't talking back. 857 00:51:49,280 --> 00:51:52,480 I didn't say. Hey man, what's happening with 858 00:51:52,480 --> 00:51:53,920 Iran? There's no like what's what's 859 00:51:53,920 --> 00:51:55,360 going to happen with all the birds seed? 860 00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:56,880 We're not going to get bird seed. 861 00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,920 All the boys come down from the Bush and we're there when we're 862 00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:01,920 struggling. We've got no diesel in the. 863 00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:09,280 Bush the birds. Birds of the air Jesus says you 864 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:17,120 are a much more worth than the birds of the air, hey? 865 00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,040 God will. Keep you. 866 00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,520 That's his job. Man, that's the greatest news. 867 00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:30,760 When I became a dad, hell and I announced we're having a child. 868 00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:32,960 Now I'm a husband. And a father now. 869 00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:37,960 Oh my goodness. God, it's God's job. 870 00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,600 To keep you, and he does. Thirdly. 871 00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,560 God's plan as seen. In the permission. 872 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:52,920 Of severe discipline to Israel. God allows you to go. 873 00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:57,760 Through stuff, you got stuff to go through this week, next week. 874 00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:02,120 Next month, next year. But he will. 875 00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:07,000 He he, he doesn't 'cause it, but he allows it. 876 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,920 For His purpose in your life, how much praying would you do if 877 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,200 you didn't have difficult times? How? 878 00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:19,720 Serious. Would you be about? 879 00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:23,600 Praying for your husband if he if things were just really 880 00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:31,240 smooth at the moment, praying for your wife got. 881 00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:35,880 Allowed it. Forcefully, nothing will be 882 00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,120 allowed to prevent the. Accomplishment of God's will. 883 00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:42,880 The war in Iran. You know the Bible says. 884 00:53:43,240 --> 00:53:46,920 I said to the kids on Friday night, Ezekiel 3839 that there 885 00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:51,040 will be a future war to come. Not yet future war. 886 00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:54,960 And and that it will. Be a time that Israel will be. 887 00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,600 Living at peace so. There's a war on the moment, but 888 00:53:58,600 --> 00:53:59,320 there's going. To be a time of. 889 00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:02,720 Peace so God knows exactly. What he's doing. 890 00:54:06,880 --> 00:54:09,320 Fifthly, his purpose is unchangeable. 891 00:54:10,720 --> 00:54:12,200 The Lord will perfect that which. 892 00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:16,880 Concerns his own. Lastly, discipline. 893 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,120 You and I, we need. It develops character while 894 00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:23,960 Grace upholds US. Paul said. 895 00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,480 Oh man, this. Thorn in the flesh, man. 896 00:54:26,960 --> 00:54:28,320 What? Take it off me. 897 00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:34,440 Discipline. My grace is sufficient. 898 00:54:35,480 --> 00:54:40,800 My grace is sufficient. In Isaiah 43 two, I'll finish on 899 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:45,200 this verse, Isaiah says. When you pass through the 900 00:54:45,200 --> 00:54:46,520 waters. So you're going to go through 901 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:47,920 the waters. Listen to that. 902 00:54:49,160 --> 00:54:50,880 What? I'll be with you. 903 00:54:52,720 --> 00:54:54,000 Don't say. I'll stop you going through the 904 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:57,000 waters. And through the rivers. 905 00:54:57,000 --> 00:54:58,520 They shall. Not overflow. 906 00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,400 You think I'm going down? No, God's going. 907 00:55:00,400 --> 00:55:05,840 To keep your head above water. When you walk through the fire, 908 00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:09,600 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, when you and I walk through a 909 00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:13,400 fire, he's not going to prevent us going into the fire. 910 00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:17,280 He says you shall not be burned, and they weren't. 911 00:55:17,680 --> 00:55:23,200 It wasn't even a hint of smoke on them, nor shall the flame 912 00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:26,920 scorch you. You see nothing. 913 00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,120 Nothing. No one. 914 00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:38,800 Can stop the promises of God. We will make it through. 915 00:55:39,200 --> 00:55:42,200 Let. Not your heart, be troubled. 916 00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,440 You believe in God. Believe. 917 00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:48,320 Also in me, in my father's house, are many mansions. 918 00:55:48,720 --> 00:55:52,480 I go. To prepare a place for you that 919 00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:56,440 where I am there you may. Be also I can't. 920 00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:01,720 Wait, but until then, I have work to do. 921 00:56:01,800 --> 00:56:04,600 I've got bricks to make, bricks to like. 922 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:19,320 Just to know you my sweet friend, my friend.