1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:08,760 Lord, Amen, forgot how to work one of these things from this 2 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:12,480 morning to the night. I guess it's bound to happen. 3 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,600 Amen. This evening, man, whenever she 4 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:18,800 hit me hard, whenever she said it was already the end of 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:24,000 February, next Sunday just goes too fast. 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:29,440 Services sometimes go so fast. I'm just saying, I mean, I'm, 7 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:31,560 I'm sitting over there worshipping through songs and 8 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:35,000 it's like at this moment just go so fast. 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:38,560 I just like want to hit the pause button sometimes. 10 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:43,320 And on life, on service, what's going, you know, there's some 11 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,680 moments you want to hit the pause button on and there's 12 00:00:45,680 --> 00:00:48,320 other moments you want to Fast forward, right? 13 00:00:48,320 --> 00:00:50,640 And then somewhere so good you want to rewind and relive, 14 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,000 right. And there's some that I want to 15 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,360 record for playback later. Yeah. 16 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,880 And there's other ports of my life, like the old cassette tape 17 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:07,040 ways I want to erase. And there's other times that 18 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,440 feels like I'm playing the good parts and it gets all wrapped up 19 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,120 and I got to take it out, straighten it back out, see if I 20 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:16,040 can get it to sound like it did before it got all tangled. 21 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:21,120 I don't know what all that's about. 22 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:23,480 It's about a 90 minute tape, I guess. 23 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:26,280 I don't know. Hey man, stand with me tonight. 24 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,000 Good to see so many here. I'm glad we was able to have 25 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,400 church tonight. It was really bad the back and 26 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:34,800 forth what to do, but I got out and drove some and look like the 27 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:39,480 wind rather than freezing things over or dried stuff up and so 28 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:42,280 happy about that. Amen. 29 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,280 This evening going to be turning to Exodus chapter 5 and also 30 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:51,640 Exodus chapter #8, Exodus chapter #5 and Exodus chapter #8 31 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:56,360 Amen. And I apologize, I made a 32 00:01:56,360 --> 00:01:58,680 statement toward the end this morning about that. 33 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:02,800 Maybe your interest level was low and I'm sorry for judging 34 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,520 you about where your interest was. 35 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:09,320 Maybe you was hoping I'd win another hour and so I I'm sorry 36 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:14,120 for misjudging maybe where you were in everything tonight. 37 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:19,200 Exodus chapter #5 and verse one. Exodus chapter #8 and verse one. 38 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:22,200 Go hit all the verse ones. All right. 39 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:29,680 The Bible says. And afterward Moses and Aaron 40 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:35,520 went in and told Pharaoh. Thus saith the Lord God of the 41 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:39,160 Israel. These are words that are come to 42 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:42,040 us, getting ready to come, that we should know from the story. 43 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,360 Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the 44 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,320 wilderness. Exodus 8 and verse 1. 45 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:52,920 And I really could have filled my texts with a lot of these 46 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:56,320 verses, right? OK, Exodus 8 and verse one. 47 00:02:56,560 --> 00:03:01,640 And the Lord spake unto Moses, go into Pharaoh, saying to him, 48 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:08,200 Thus sayeth the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve 49 00:03:08,640 --> 00:03:12,000 me. I need the help of the Holy 50 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,080 Ghost. I do every time I stand here, 51 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:20,200 but for sure do tonight I'm going to just minister this set 52 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:29,160 free to worship. Set free to worship. 53 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:34,640 Sometimes we concentrate heavily on the aspect of them needing be 54 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:42,880 set free and we forget the purpose why they were and in 55 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,320 some regards not to fulfill The second part is to betray the 56 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:49,840 privilege that was extended to us in the first part. 57 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:57,240 So set free to worship. Ask God to help me with this 58 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:59,520 little thought tonight. All right, I got scrawled on old 59 00:03:59,520 --> 00:04:02,680 paper here too. Lord Jesus, we need you tonight. 60 00:04:03,920 --> 00:04:06,200 Pray, O God, that you have an anoint my mind. 61 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:09,680 You have an anoint my lips. God to be bread. 62 00:04:09,680 --> 00:04:13,560 Lord, for the feeding. I pray Jesus this evening, God 63 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:16,279 to lean upon you. God, I can't lean up on my own 64 00:04:16,279 --> 00:04:19,680 understanding. God, Lord, be the words, God to 65 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:24,160 flow over my lips and my tongue. I pray Jesus touches God where 66 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:26,960 we need to be touched, instruct us, God, where we need to be 67 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:28,400 instructed. Help us. 68 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,840 So Lord, today to invite you, Lord, into this space. 69 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:35,720 God, I pray, Lord, in this very moment, God, that we would be 70 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,760 led by the Spirit of God. Lord Jesus here in the next 71 00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:43,360 little while, and we'll praise you and honor you God, for what 72 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:45,600 you do and accomplish in this place. 73 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:49,840 In the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah in 74 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:54,120 the church, say Amen, Amen. You may be seated tonight in 75 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,800 Jesus name. I believe then this evening we 76 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:03,200 can all agree then that this verbiage that is used in chapter 77 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,360 5 and 8 and that we see continuously used in these 78 00:05:06,360 --> 00:05:11,720 chapters and others that we're so familiar with that that very 79 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,400 command, that very instruction that God had given to Moses of 80 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,440 how to approach this and what to do concerning this as playing 81 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:24,280 the part of the deliverer for the nation of Israel. 82 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:27,880 Civic instructions. They were quite simple though. 83 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:33,400 At the same time enter into the court of that high power of 84 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,760 Egypt, Stand before Pharaoh and make a proclamation. 85 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,840 Make a proclamation to him of let my people go so that they 86 00:05:40,840 --> 00:05:42,720 may. The Bible says it a few 87 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,200 different ways so that they can go into the wilderness and hold 88 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,480 a feast. Take a three day journey into 89 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,680 the wilderness and hold a feast into the Lord as chapter 8 says, 90 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,760 or as so that they could go and serve the Lord. 91 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,440 I think there's other ones that say so that they could go, let 92 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,000 my people go so they can take their journey into the 93 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,080 wilderness to sacrifice unto the Lord. 94 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,320 But Ness, it's in all of those things that we're talking about, 95 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:11,160 whether he's talking about so they can have a feast, or that 96 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:13,280 they can sacrifice, or that they can serve. 97 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:16,920 All of that falls underneath the umbrella really of worship. 98 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,200 It's even in Matthew chapter #4 whenever we see that the Lord is 99 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,600 spending his time in the wilderness and the different 100 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:28,640 temptations come to him from the adversary, and he's telling the 101 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:32,320 Lord, you know, fall down and worship me, that he recants with 102 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:35,000 the word of the Lord and says, without thou shalt not, you 103 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,160 know, they should worship anything else except God and 104 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:40,760 him. Only shalt thou serve. 105 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:44,080 And it really equates that to serve the Lord is to worship the 106 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:46,120 Lord. There's a parallel Amen that 107 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:48,960 takes place there. And so this was the repeated 108 00:06:48,960 --> 00:06:54,240 command over and over again in the Scripture before Pharaoh, 109 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,640 before even the children of Israel, that they would be let 110 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:01,360 go so that they might serve, or that they might sacrifice so 111 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:05,240 that they might carry on a festival unto the Lord and 112 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,760 worship. It's important, I think then to 113 00:07:07,760 --> 00:07:11,720 understand this, that the primary reason for their 114 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:16,000 deliverance, according to the Lord, was so that they would 115 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,880 worship it. This was not the primary reason, 116 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,880 and maybe sometimes we get clouded in the story, but his 117 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,560 primary reason was not let my people go so that they can 118 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:31,040 escape the hardship of Egypt, that that wasn't the plea. 119 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:34,320 It wasn't let my people go so they don't have to worry about 120 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:37,880 the rigors of the taskmasters or the making of the brick without 121 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:41,080 straw or all of that. No, the Lord made it very plain. 122 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:43,720 Let them go. My primary reason for their 123 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,400 deliverance is then that they will be free to worship me. 124 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:51,800 Amen to worship me. And so since that is the case, 125 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,440 since that is the equation, freedom then for worship. 126 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:59,960 We got to understand then if we get our escape, even as they did 127 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:04,600 from the, the, the thumb, if you will, of the Egyptian ruler and 128 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,680 the Pharaoh and the slavery that they had succumbed to. 129 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:11,680 To have that freedom then and to get to the mount of God, to have 130 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:15,720 that freedom and get away from what they had known for years 131 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,440 and generations had known them for years. 132 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:23,440 To do that and then not worship the Lord and not surrender 133 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,840 sacrifice to God and not surrender service to God. 134 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,440 In reality tonight folks, is just another form of bond. 135 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,679 To have the freedom to do it and not to do it is another form of 136 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,039 bondage. Because I've set you free for 137 00:08:40,039 --> 00:08:42,840 the purpose of worship. I've set you free for the 138 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,960 purpose of honoring me with sacrifice and stuff. 139 00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:49,760 But if, with if, if I've made you a Stewart being of that 140 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,040 freedom and you don't use that freedom for which I have 141 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,040 purposed it for, you have another a different set of 142 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,200 bondage really that's in your life. 143 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:03,760 Because now it's not that you can't do it because who is over 144 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:05,840 you is not allowing you to do it. 145 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,280 It's now it's not like you can't do it because Pharaoh says you 146 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:11,840 can't go. But now you're not doing it 147 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:14,120 because you're not allowing yourself to do it. 148 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:15,680 See that? That's a different form of 149 00:09:15,680 --> 00:09:17,840 bondage. It's one thing for something to 150 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,640 be in your life that's going to prohibit you from do something, 151 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:23,040 and it's another thing for you not to do it. 152 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:28,080 I understand what I'm saying. It's one thing that that that my 153 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,360 life is so clouded maybe with sin and other things that I'm in 154 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,680 the House of God and so I can't render no worship to him. 155 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:38,040 But it's another thing for me to make a conscious choice to have 156 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:43,840 now the freedom in that aspect and just not do it, Amen. 157 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,080 It's colored differently. And so the purpose of our 158 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:50,080 freedom then, even for the children of Israel then, was for 159 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:54,240 the call to true worship. So, so, so salvation, when I 160 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:58,760 think of this being saved, Amen, from bondage, salvation, it is 161 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,920 not just something that I escaped from, but it's also 162 00:10:02,920 --> 00:10:06,800 something that I enter into. You remember even the verbiage 163 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:10,520 of the Old Testament Scripture, it says that he brought them out 164 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,120 to bring them in. That's the word in the 165 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,000 Scripture. He brought them out to bring 166 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:17,560 them in. And so thank God for salvation. 167 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:21,120 Thank God for what I've been saved from, but I'm also 168 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:25,600 entering into now the second part of the plan, and that is to 169 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,400 worship and honor and magnify God. 170 00:10:28,640 --> 00:10:32,560 And so whenever Israel left a man and their feet were going 171 00:10:32,560 --> 00:10:36,440 out of the Egyptian territory, they were not just leaving 172 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,800 Egypt, but they were headed to the Mount of God. 173 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:42,520 They were headed to the mount of God where they were going to 174 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:45,960 receive the law God, where they were going to formulate a 175 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:49,400 covenant with God, a binding covenant with God. 176 00:10:49,560 --> 00:10:52,920 They were being led to a covenant and they were being led 177 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:57,040 a man to worship. And I thank God for that because 178 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,840 I, I'm not just being saved in my earthly life here. 179 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:04,280 I'm not just being saved from sin, Brother Reese, although 180 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:07,480 that is true, I'm thankful I've been saved from sin. 181 00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:09,440 The Bible speaks of Jesus Christ. 182 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,320 He came to save them from their sins, and I'm grateful for that. 183 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,720 I waved my hand, thank you, Jesus, but I'm not just been 184 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,280 saved from sin. I've been saved for God. 185 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:23,600 Amen. Someone say Amen. 186 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,040 The Bible says in first Peter 2 and verse #9 it's the words that 187 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,240 we adore and love. He said that ye are a chosen 188 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:37,520 generation and a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a 189 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,400 peculiar people. In the Old Testament he called 190 00:11:40,400 --> 00:11:43,840 his people his treasure. Look, why, what? 191 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:46,760 What is this chosenness? What is this royalty, this 192 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,920 holiness, this set apartness, this peculiarity that God has 193 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:52,520 placed? He said that you should shoot 194 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,280 forth the praises of the one that has brought you out of 195 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:58,560 darkness into this marvelous light. 196 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,920 In other words, I chose you so that you might do something in 197 00:12:01,920 --> 00:12:04,440 return. I've, I've made you royalty for 198 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:06,120 something. I've put you in that place, in 199 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:10,000 that position, Amen, To operate in something else near a set of 200 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,320 part nation, for the purpose that you would shoot off the 201 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:18,080 praises of the one that has brought you out of darkness into 202 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,200 His marvelous light. We all, through praise and 203 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,080 worship, have a testimony, Amen, about the free freedom that God 204 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:28,360 has extended to us. And I don't want to miss Amen, 205 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,560 exercising that to testify about my freedom, Amen. 206 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:38,520 To testify about what He's done for me, because deliverance in 207 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:44,160 my life really demands then a devotion from my life, Amen. 208 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,920 Our deliverance should lead to worship. 209 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,200 Have you ever been thankful when someone helped you in a jam or 210 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,160 out of a jam? You're just kind of over 211 00:12:54,160 --> 00:12:57,960 yourself with gratitude. Amen about what took place for 212 00:12:57,960 --> 00:12:59,600 you. It's almost like, and I'm 213 00:12:59,600 --> 00:13:02,120 thinking about the even the prison system today and think 214 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:05,360 people that we have ran into, it's almost like if a prisoner 215 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,440 is being set free sentence up, maybe even if it's along those 216 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,440 lines, they're set free. They're set back into society, 217 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:15,200 which is always a very fearful thing for any prisoner. 218 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:17,240 You talk to them. If it's like I got three more 219 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,680 weeks before I get out of here, it's the most scariest time of 220 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,640 their life because they've spent all of their time in a different 221 00:13:22,640 --> 00:13:24,560 atmosphere, different surroundings, so on and so 222 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:26,680 forth. And they get set back out into 223 00:13:26,680 --> 00:13:28,600 the world. They're set free, but they're 224 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:31,920 set free with no direction. That's right. 225 00:13:31,960 --> 00:13:34,440 They're set free with no direction. 226 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:36,360 Amen. In other words, they don't know 227 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:40,760 what to do with their freedom. They don't know what to do with 228 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:42,560 their freedom. And here's the fact of the 229 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:46,000 matter. If they don't get a plan as far 230 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,040 as a purpose of what to do with their freedom, you know what 231 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:51,440 happens? Many times they find themselves 232 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:54,520 back in the slammer again. They find themselves back in 233 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:58,320 bondage again because they didn't have a purpose for their 234 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,080 freedom. Can I tell you tonight? 235 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,200 He said. I have, I'm, I want my people to 236 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,240 be let go, but I got a purpose for it. 237 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,560 They're let go so they might worship. 238 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:11,040 It is a horrible thing to have been set free by the power of 239 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:14,280 God and not understand what your purpose is after he sets you 240 00:14:14,280 --> 00:14:16,280 free. But if you don't have a go, if 241 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,240 you don't have a target, if you don't have a purpose of what God 242 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:22,400 has for you, you might find yourself enslaved again. 243 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:29,960 Hey man, many Christians have been set free, but they've never 244 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:32,240 truly entered into that place of worship. 245 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:39,480 Free, but still yet to a certain degree incarcerated because they 246 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,400 don't know what to do with their freedom. 247 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:45,800 Folks where we are, we are implored over and over again 248 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,640 various things that we can do after we've been born again of 249 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,200 the water and the Spirit. Several things that we can 250 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:55,280 involve ourself in adoration that we can give to God, Amen. 251 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:59,000 The fact of the matter is this Egypt through the journey of the 252 00:14:59,000 --> 00:15:03,360 years that the children of Israel were enslaved by her had 253 00:15:03,360 --> 00:15:08,200 influence in many regards had influence could have influence 254 00:15:08,440 --> 00:15:13,200 on Israel's worship many times as we see them live their life 255 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:17,440 out in Egypt. It wasn't a, a being coerced or 256 00:15:17,440 --> 00:15:20,840 being forced, Amen to do something like like serve their 257 00:15:20,840 --> 00:15:23,880 false gods or their salt. They're, they're false idols, 258 00:15:24,120 --> 00:15:27,600 but many times through means of persuasion, it's according 259 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:30,680 there, there were other kingdoms that rose and fell that would 260 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,960 take people in and actually force them. 261 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,680 I I think a good example of that would be in Daniel chapter #3 262 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,200 whenever we had Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego taken from 263 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:44,280 their land into a foreign country as captives. 264 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:48,480 And when the music sounds, you will bow down or else type of 265 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:53,000 scenario forced, if you will. Amen to bow to a golden image or 266 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,840 a idol. There's there's also, you know, 267 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:58,160 given to Daniel in in this space of time. 268 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,880 If you pray to any other except, you know, King Darius or any 269 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,840 other God, then you're going to meet the consequences. 270 00:16:04,840 --> 00:16:07,080 So there's a forcing if you will. 271 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,720 But many times it's not a forcing the the the captive or 272 00:16:11,720 --> 00:16:15,440 forcing the bound to serve idols or other gods. 273 00:16:15,600 --> 00:16:18,360 Many times it happens by persuasion. 274 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:23,200 Many times that happens by persuasion that if an individual 275 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:27,120 would worship a, a a false God or the God of the country in 276 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:30,640 which they were enslaved in, then sometimes they could get 277 00:16:30,720 --> 00:16:35,200 some perks and social and economic advantages if they did 278 00:16:35,200 --> 00:16:38,160 do such. And so or, or you even see that 279 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:41,200 there's the, the reprogramming, if you will, that tries to 280 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:43,880 happen of an individual in a captive land. 281 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:47,000 It's, it's Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who that was not their 282 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,960 original names, their parent give and God included names that 283 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:55,040 there's the changing of the name and being educated by the system 284 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,440 in which they were in and all these different types of things, 285 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:02,120 their culture and the influence of the culture around them that 286 00:17:02,120 --> 00:17:05,240 could get into their life and integrated into their life. 287 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:07,920 And as a matter of fact, from my understanding, many of these 288 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,319 people that had others captive, they wouldn't force them. 289 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:15,839 They just wanted them to accept whatever their gods were as a 290 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:18,880 part of their, their portfolio of gods. 291 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:21,480 In other words, their, their main mindset is this. 292 00:17:21,599 --> 00:17:25,960 You can still worship your God and our gods. 293 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,600 You, you can still be honorable to your Lord and all of our 294 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,400 other Lords. You can just adopt all of these 295 00:17:32,400 --> 00:17:36,400 along with yours, if you will, diluting and watering down. 296 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:38,720 Amen. Who they were and what they 297 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,440 were. And so when we talk about Israel 298 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:45,920 and we talk about Egypt, we're talking about really a strategy 299 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,480 of assimilation, a strategy of trying to water down and 300 00:17:50,480 --> 00:17:53,320 infiltrate. Yes, there was the oppression. 301 00:17:53,520 --> 00:17:56,360 Yes, there was all of the hard things that were happening to 302 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:58,200 them. But when we read in Exodus 303 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,280 chapter #1 the Bible says that the more that Egypt afflicted 304 00:18:02,280 --> 00:18:04,840 them, the more the children of Israel grew. 305 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,200 And so that wasn't working. The affliction wasn't working. 306 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,600 They were rising above the fray of the affliction and the 307 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:15,280 oppression that was coming up on them, all of those type of 308 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,880 influences. But Egypt said there there's 309 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:21,480 only one way if we we can't afflict them to bow or afflict 310 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:25,040 them, to bend or afflict them to compromise, maybe we can 311 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:28,160 persuade them. Maybe we can persuade them. 312 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:30,320 They have their worldview. Here's Egypt. 313 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:34,280 They have their worldview of all these polytheistic, these other 314 00:18:34,280 --> 00:18:36,400 gods. They have idolatry. 315 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,480 They they have human deification. 316 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,720 Pharaoh himself, what's considered a dog. 317 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:45,040 And Pharaoh never came right out and told the children Israel, 318 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:48,760 you never hear from Pharaoh him telling them don't worship 319 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,560 y'all. You never hear him say stop 320 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,800 worshipping God. That never comes from his lips. 321 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,440 But he sucked he in a subtle way. 322 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,160 He tried to discourage their worship because whenever Moses 323 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,960 showed up as the deliverer in Exodus 5 and he was telling the 324 00:19:04,960 --> 00:19:09,440 children of Israel what God is asking what God was going to do, 325 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:14,080 and they stopped just for that moment to listen Amen to Moses 326 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:17,960 about his his his agenda and God's plan. 327 00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:21,560 But Bible says the Pharaoh became a little bit irate. 328 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:25,320 He said because you made these people stop to listen to what 329 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,560 you had to say. And it was after that that he 330 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:33,120 increased their workload to what make it impossible for them to 331 00:19:33,120 --> 00:19:35,920 get away to worship. Amen folks. 332 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:40,520 It is the same tactics that our adversary does for us today. 333 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,240 You might not here, do not worship, but the adversary will 334 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:49,040 try to keep people busy and distracted and exhausted with 335 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,960 everything else except God. He'll wear you after your work. 336 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,720 He'll wear you after your extracurricular activities. 337 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,640 He'll make you busy, occupy your time. 338 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:02,880 It's all a ploy and a plea to divert you from worship. 339 00:20:03,040 --> 00:20:06,600 But you've been set free for the purpose of what you're doing 340 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:09,280 right here tonight. You've been set free for the 341 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,040 purpose of showing up where you are tonight. 342 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:19,000 Someone say Amen. He seeks to persuade. 343 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:23,240 Often times the persecution doesn't work. 344 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:28,400 He's noticed that persuasion all time works better even than 345 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:33,000 persecution. I won't stop them from serving 346 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:36,920 the Lord. I'll just dilute their service 347 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:42,800 to me to God by if I can get them to mix their their 348 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:47,600 influences of God mixed in with worldly influences. 349 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:55,520 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just just if Israel can be 350 00:20:55,520 --> 00:21:01,400 absorbed, I can get Israel just absorbed by the Egyptian value 351 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:12,080 system in that if they even ever get free from Egypt, they will 352 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:16,440 have had a taste of the value system of Egypt. 353 00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:21,920 Someone say man. And then the values and the 354 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:26,040 priorities and the ideologies, if you will, of Egypt, if we can 355 00:21:26,040 --> 00:21:31,240 just slip it in somehow, just imperceptible slip it in maybe 356 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:35,120 where they don't even recognize it, maybe they'll remember it 357 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:38,280 even after they are set free. And folks, we know the story to 358 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,360 be true that after Israel even had their freedom, they're 359 00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:45,720 talking at different times Have we been brought into this 360 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:47,520 wilderness to die in this wilderness? 361 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:50,520 Did we not have the batter back in Egypt? 362 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,400 They get the man and they get disgusted with it. 363 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:56,480 They have the quail and they're disgusted with it and they're 364 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:59,160 saying, oh, if we could just have the the leeks and the 365 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,760 onions and the melons of Egypt, you know what that was? 366 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,480 That was all the ploy of Egypt from the beginning. 367 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:07,640 We're not going to tell you stop worshipping. 368 00:22:07,840 --> 00:22:11,640 But if we can slip in the ideologies, if we can slip in, 369 00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:15,760 if you will, the priorities and the values of Egypt, you can 370 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:19,000 even be set free and you'll still have a taste of that in 371 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:24,360 your mouth and alone, I guarantee you. 372 00:22:24,360 --> 00:22:28,880 One thing God has not set us free to desire the very thing 373 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,640 that used to have this bound. That seems to be a quandary that 374 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,560 seems to be a contradiction. Why in the world would you 375 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:38,080 desire the thing that held you captive? 376 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,440 Why would you desire the thing that held you fast under labor? 377 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:44,120 It's all a ploy. That's good. 378 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:52,080 How in the world does it happen with a flip of a coin? 379 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,440 It doesn't happen by persecution. 380 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,440 It happens through subtle persuasion. 381 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:04,440 Yeah, it happens in our lives. It happens in the life of 382 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:11,920 Christianity, church life. Slowly but surely, people start 383 00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,080 prioritizing entertainment over devotion. 384 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:25,920 Slowly but surely they'll they'll prioritize worldly 385 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:36,040 success over spiritual depth, comfort over consecration. 386 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,440 This is not comfortable sometimes to be consecrated. 387 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:43,280 Sacrifice isn't always appealing. 388 00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:46,920 We're all about comfort. I just don't feel comfortable 389 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:54,760 doing that. We are. 390 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,840 We're living today. Today, man, we are all big about 391 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:04,200 not feeling uncomfortable or not, not not coming and standing 392 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:07,560 and meeting a challenge because that requires something 393 00:24:10,520 --> 00:24:13,120 sometimes rather friend, that we're like the old proverbial, 394 00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:16,200 the proverbial frog in the frying pan, right? 395 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,880 They're just turning the temperature up a little bit and 396 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:20,920 the frog's just there, you know, everything's cool, man. 397 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,080 I'm jamming, I'm a frog in a pan, everything's fine. 398 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,560 Turn the temperature up just a snap bit more. 399 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:27,080 Everything's good. Before you know what he's 400 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,920 boiling and he don't even realize it, because by small 401 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:32,920 increments did he get to the boiling point. 402 00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,240 And I don't want to somehow become detached in this 403 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,560 generation that from generation to generation, the Dow's just 404 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,240 been turned up a little bit more. 405 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:49,480 And I'm getting used to what it feels like with that until I'm 406 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:52,880 boiling and maybe just the next generation in my life. 407 00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:54,720 Amen. And everything that I've lived 408 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:55,680 for. Amen. 409 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:58,800 As if you will, on the rocks and about ready to be thrown 410 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,440 overboard because I've allowed overtime from one generation to 411 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:05,240 another generation. We used not to do that, but now 412 00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,520 we do. And it's OK. 413 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,800 And then we used to do that, but now we we don't. 414 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:11,560 Now this is OK. And we just allow through little 415 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:14,520 increments and through dilution and if you will, through 416 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,520 assimilation, those things to move through. 417 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,920 And before it's all said and done, I'm a free person sitting 418 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,440 on the Pew. But I've lost my worship, I've 419 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:25,480 lost my consecration, I've lost my devotion. 420 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,440 That's another form of bondage. That right there. 421 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:37,920 Amen. I plead with you today, and I 422 00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:41,320 think we are at a place sometimes in America, churches 423 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:47,920 that we have bound people on pews, Amen. 424 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,680 Because they've allowed things of Egypt to creep in. 425 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,440 They've allowed that taste to whet their appetite, and they're 426 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,280 satisfied with attending, but not with worshipping, not with 427 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:04,640 sacrificing, not with consecrating, but just mark my 428 00:26:04,640 --> 00:26:07,800 name off as present whenever you're doing the chart that I 429 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,600 can say that I was there. And we're there in body, but 430 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,160 we're gone in mind. We're there in body, but we're 431 00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:16,000 gone in devotion. We're there in ponded, but but 432 00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:19,560 we're gone, if you will, as far as touching the hem of His 433 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,800 garment, making contact with the holies of holies. 434 00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:32,480 We've been set free for worship. The golden calf. 435 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:40,680 Please note, they leave Egypt, they get their freedom. 436 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:45,960 We're at the Mount of God where this covenant's going to be 437 00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:50,680 made, where the sacrifice and worship's going to take place. 438 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,680 And Moses goes up into the mount. 439 00:26:55,560 --> 00:27:00,160 He's there hearing from God, the 10 commandments are being given 440 00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:02,760 to him. He's going to come down with a 441 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,720 word for the people. But while that's taking place on 442 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:12,280 the mount, at the base of the mount, these people's getting 443 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:16,200 this hair rained idea. He's been up there for a long 444 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:17,720 time. We don't know what's happened to 445 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:22,200 this Moses. And he said they basically are 446 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,720 telling Aaron, saying, Aaron, we need us. 447 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:31,160 A God says you break off, break off the earrings and the gold 448 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,560 and stuff that you have on you. There's some we got to 449 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:35,720 understand about those things that they were breaking off of 450 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,680 them. That gold and that silver, Those 451 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,120 were the things that they had spoiled from the Egyptian. 452 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,920 And many times those things that they that the these Egyptians 453 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:49,560 wore, they were little demigods and Demi idols themselves that 454 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,160 they had. And they took those. 455 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,280 You read the scripture, they took those and they put them 456 00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:55,640 upon themselves. And now Aaron says, you bring me 457 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,480 all of those, Bring me all of your little demigods and I'll 458 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:05,640 make you a big God. I'm always overwhelmed by here, 459 00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,800 whenever he explains it, that he threw in those medals and out 460 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,560 came this calf like Abracadabra, the rabbit out of the hat. 461 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:15,520 I just kind of threw it in and he want, you know, that came 462 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,440 out. And it's just like there was no 463 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,440 fashioning to it or nothing like that, no laying a tool upon it. 464 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,120 But this is what he said then to the people in Exodus 32 and 4. 465 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,960 The people said they're all together and these are your 466 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:35,640 gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. 467 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:46,560 That calf was not a random calf. Now, folks, it's made from the 468 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,440 goat. It's made from that which came 469 00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:51,400 from Egypt. It's not, it's not random. 470 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:54,280 It's directly, if you will, link to Egypt's. 471 00:28:54,280 --> 00:29:03,720 One of Egypt's idols was a bull, was a calf, a God of fertility 472 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:08,880 and a God of strength. And they're saying, here's the 473 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:13,680 God that they're supposed to be making devotion and sacrifice 474 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,360 and festival. Huh. 475 00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,120 What did Aaron even say to them? He said tomorrow we're going to 476 00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:24,000 have a feast. Exodus 3227 said tomorrow we're 477 00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,840 going to have a festival. We're going to have a feast. 478 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,280 But the object of their affection was not the reason for 479 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,800 their deliverance from Egypt. Are you hearing me? 480 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,960 Moses says they're going to go 3 days for a feast to serve and 481 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,520 worship Aaron, saying that tomorrow we're going to have a 482 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,360 feast while Moses ain't here yet. 483 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,840 But what the object of their affection is is not the object 484 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,920 that God said their affection should be and the purpose for 485 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,400 what it should have been whenever they got their freedom 486 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,880 from Egypt. What do you say? 487 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,760 I don't want to get in the place in my relationship with God that 488 00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:02,400 I'm bowing down to the very thing He freed me from, that I'm 489 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,560 worshiping the very thing He freed me from, that in the 490 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:10,440 sectors of my heart and life I'm holding to and I'm coddling the 491 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,440 very thing He freed me from. That's not the reason why He 492 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:18,680 freed me to have freedom to worship what I was bound by. 493 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:22,840 He freed me to worship the One who delivered me. 494 00:30:32,120 --> 00:30:36,240 They're physically free, but they're spiritually bound. 495 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:46,360 Their first instinct when Moses is delayed coming down, help me, 496 00:30:46,360 --> 00:30:50,760 Brother Reese. Their first instinct was then 497 00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,200 just to revert back to what they once were. 498 00:30:58,810 --> 00:31:02,810 When I thought he was a little long, when there was a little 499 00:31:02,810 --> 00:31:10,960 delay, the first thing, let's just go back to what we used to 500 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:15,760 succumb to. Listen, people, there's going to 501 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,160 be talk about delays. There's going to be some real 502 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:19,880 times in your spiritual experience. 503 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:21,920 There's going to be delays, if you will. 504 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:26,600 There's going to be delays. There's going to be some 505 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,240 waiting. But if your first turn to 506 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:34,040 instinct always in those times is just revert back because that 507 00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,920 was better, that was more feasible, then we're just going 508 00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:39,400 to trip up all over our feet and we're going to be held in this 509 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,240 cycle of being delivered, being let go for worship, being 510 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:45,160 delivered, let go for worship. Because there's going to be 511 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:51,720 delays in life. But how we handle the delays, I 512 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,760 wonder, Brother Alex Mason, what have happened instead of getting 513 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,280 the jewelry and the rings in the fire and that calf brought out. 514 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,680 If on the Morrow that they went on and held a feast, but they 515 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:04,600 didn't hold it for some golden bull. 516 00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,400 They didn't hold it for some golden calf and dance around 517 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,800 that and have all of this illicit things going on around 518 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,280 that. I wonder instead if they bowed 519 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,200 down their heads, if they bowed down their postures and they 520 00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:22,520 gained worship and adoration and glory to the God that was 521 00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:26,880 meeting with Moses on the mouth, that in their waiting they would 522 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,680 worship that in their waiting, they would honor that in their 523 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:41,000 waiting. I wonder how do you handle the 524 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:44,760 delays? How do you handle the delays in 525 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,920 your life? And this was this whole golden 526 00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:54,240 calf scenario was a very devastating sin for the children 527 00:32:54,240 --> 00:33:00,920 of Israel because in essence, they were crediting their 528 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:08,480 deliverance to an idol instead of worshipping the God who 529 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,080 rescued them. They were worshipping what Egypt 530 00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:18,000 had valued, what their captors had valued. 531 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:24,480 They they were exchanging the invisible power of the Almighty 532 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:31,800 God for something more tangible. I can see that I can touch that 533 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:35,720 we get in our mind that only the tangible things can be seen in 534 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:40,200 touch. Bible says I have not seen here, 535 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,800 have not heard neither. It's entered the heart of man, 536 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,000 the things that God has prepared for us, but He's revealed things 537 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:49,560 to us by the Spirit. What's that mean? 538 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,560 When I get into the Spirit, I can touch things, hear things, 539 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:57,880 and handle things that may be invisible and untouchable in the 540 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,120 physical realm. But whenever I enter the realm 541 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,920 where it is, it becomes clear. It becomes something I can 542 00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:06,640 handle and I can feel and I can experience. 543 00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,719 Amen in the moment. Amen. 544 00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:10,880 And so they traded all these things. 545 00:34:11,159 --> 00:34:14,280 Sometimes we struggle. I know it's so sometimes people 546 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,320 struggle in their faith with the unseen God. 547 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,800 Amen. And because he's seen, and 548 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,360 because he's not just like a friend, Amen, that's going to 549 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,400 show up in person at your house and eat a meal with you or go 550 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,600 somewhere with you, Amen, that's literally there and you can 551 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,320 touch. As a result of him being unseen, 552 00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,600 then sometimes we displace our trust, Amen, and our faith in 553 00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:39,560 things that are seen in other people or in status or in money 554 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:43,840 or in all these things. But those things, Amen, did not 555 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,440 redeem you. Those things did not set you 556 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,000 free. Those things things are not 557 00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:55,760 worthy of your worship. So they redefined worship on 558 00:34:55,760 --> 00:35:00,000 their terms. God gave them clear instruction 559 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:05,440 about what it should be, but they wanted a version that they 560 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:12,400 would be familiar with that would be convenient for them. 561 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:22,720 We might not be marching around voting calf per SE today, but we 562 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:30,400 still have our calves already mentioned. 563 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:35,320 We still have some of our calves, our comforts, our self 564 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:40,440 validation, social validation. We got our calves. 565 00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,640 So the essence of it as a fact is this. 566 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,800 We know worship is a part of the created, created longing inside 567 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,120 of man. Every man, whether they're in 568 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,560 this church, outside this church, whoever they may be from 569 00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:58,920 the White House, praise God to the poor, how it doesn't matter, 570 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,040 whoever they may be, humanity worships. 571 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:04,800 The question is not do you worship? 572 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:06,240 The question is, what do you worship? 573 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:11,200 That's right, that's right, that's right. 574 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,000 The Scotland cap became such a lasting reference point for them 575 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,480 that as you read forward in Scripture, it's always the point 576 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,520 of reference that the nation and leadership would always point 577 00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:23,040 back to. You can read in Deuteronomy 9, 578 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,680 and I'm keeping eye here on your time in Deuteronomy 9. 579 00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:30,400 Moses even begins to remind them Deuteronomy is the book of 580 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,320 remembrance. He's recalling some things that 581 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:34,280 have already had. You read Deuteronomy and you 582 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,600 read it Deja Vu. It seems like I read this before 583 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,320 you go back and just make sure I did. 584 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:39,400 I read that right. Oh yeah. 585 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:41,520 It's again, This is the book of remembrance. 586 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,080 This is what he's doing. He's recalling and reminds him 587 00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:47,280 how, how quickly, right? Because the three days journey, 588 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,040 if you will, not the amount of God and they're already turning 589 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:53,560 back away from God. How quickly this took place. 590 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,640 And it's then you read in the book of Nehemiah chapter #9 591 00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:59,840 again, when Nehemiah is there standing with the people and 592 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,480 they're confessing the sins of the people that he even recalls 593 00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,480 again, he recalls and Israel recalls that the Taf incident as 594 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:11,560 a major failure of their people on their part. 595 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:15,760 When you read the Psalmist and Psalms 106, the Bible even 596 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:20,280 states it in so many words that they change their glory into the 597 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,280 similitude of an ox that eats grass. 598 00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:28,000 That's a reference back to the golden altar, that golden ox, 599 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,280 that golden calf in Genesis chapter 32, even Stephen in 600 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:36,520 Acts, in the New Testament, acts #7 Stephen is rebuking, He's 601 00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:39,880 speaking to Israel, Amen, for their continual rejection of 602 00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:44,000 God, and he links their continual rejection of God with 603 00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,200 a reference point. It all started. 604 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,920 He's like back at the base of the Mount when you should have 605 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:55,360 worshipped God, but instead you worshipped the very things that 606 00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:59,080 your captors had worshipped to make a mistake. 607 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:04,560 If you don't think it's a vice to get freedom and then not to 608 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:07,200 follow through with the purpose that you got your freedom for, 609 00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:11,080 then look whenever the tribes of Israel were split between the 610 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:15,080 north and the South and remember how the king at that time in 611 00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,440 First Kings 12 was king of Jeroboam and you'll remember 612 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,600 what he did. You remember he set up a golden 613 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:28,840 calf in the north and he set up a golden calf in the South of 614 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,520 that district of the land. And his words to them were the 615 00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,640 same words that the people and Aaron had in their day. 616 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,160 He said to them concerning these, these two calves. 617 00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:44,000 Here are your gods, O Israel. And you know what, for the 618 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:48,640 Reese, those that were in that Kingdom would go pay homage and 619 00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:52,440 sacrifice to those gods. Listen to me. 620 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:57,280 Because it was more convenient for them to travel there than it 621 00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,480 was for them to travel to Jerusalem. 622 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,600 Let me say it was more comfortable. 623 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:08,840 It was more convenient. It was more within their space. 624 00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:13,440 It didn't require as much to visit one of those, the golden 625 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:16,640 calves that he had set up. And so they entered in the area 626 00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:20,440 of idolatry again, and it becomes a cycle for them. 627 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:31,120 We need to honor the Lord with that which has been given to us 628 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:36,960 through our freedom by the Lord. One thing I've learned in my 629 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:42,880 Christian experience that if I'm not intentional about worship, 630 00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:50,560 I'll drift into a cultural worship situation rather than a 631 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:55,600 true worship situation. What I'm saying, it's almost 632 00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,280 like a vacuum brother. And I'm not talking about that 633 00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,360 type of vacuum brother. He's a vacuum, brother Zach. 634 00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:08,800 That the void must be filled. It's, it's sucking, it's pulling 635 00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:10,960 in. And it's either going to be 636 00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,320 pulled in, it's either going to be pulling in that which is 637 00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:20,200 true, that leaves no more room for anything else, or it's going 638 00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:25,640 to pull in all these other little things, cultural things. 639 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:27,440 Amen. And we're going to pull it into 640 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:32,120 our life of worship, true worship. 641 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:39,560 Everybody say true worship. True worship requires not a 642 00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:43,240 isolation from the world, but a separation from the world. 643 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,600 He told him in Romans. Be not conformed to this world, 644 00:40:52,640 --> 00:41:00,960 but be ye transformed. For the trout. 645 00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:06,880 Worship is just not a moment of a song in the worship service. 646 00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:13,840 Worships not the clicking of the heel as I round the corner in a 647 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,160 run. Worships not some boisters. 648 00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:21,520 Oh Hallelujah. Praise God, thou mighty 649 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,080 magnificent. Only one. 650 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:33,840 No worship. Worship is a lifestyle that 651 00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:40,280 refuses to conform to its culture, that acknowledges him 652 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,480 when there's all these other things that's vying for your 653 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:47,560 attention, that's wanting to be acknowledged. 654 00:41:47,720 --> 00:41:52,000 It's turning face and saying I see you, but I'm not going to 655 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:58,240 acknowledge someone say man, true worship. 656 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:02,200 Everybody say true worship requires sacrifice. 657 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:07,440 Jesus when he met the lady at the well and he told her, she 658 00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,880 says, well our fathers have worshiped in this mountain. 659 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,920 They had this conversation about worship until he spoke there and 660 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,960 said, he said, well, the Father, he said, is seeking true 661 00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:24,640 worshippers who worship in spirit and in truth. 662 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:29,000 We like the spiritual side of worship, but sometimes we buck 663 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:30,680 against the truth side of worship. 664 00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:35,960 But worship, to be a balanced coin, absolutely involves both 665 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,160 spirit and truth because, again, worship requires sacrifice. 666 00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,040 It's not about convenience. It's about commitment. 667 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,200 True worship, true worship. The test of true worship, then, 668 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:53,840 is this. When we left Egypt, did we leave 669 00:42:53,840 --> 00:43:05,160 Egypt? When we left Egypt, did we leave 670 00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:11,720 Egypt? Am I totally devoted to what he 671 00:43:11,720 --> 00:43:17,760 set me free for or I'm toddling some of the ideals of what I was 672 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,720 incarcerated by? You'll stand with me tonight. 673 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:24,720 What are you saying? The night, pastor? 674 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:26,160 I'm saying this. You've been set free for 675 00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:28,640 worship, so don't waste your deliverance. 676 00:43:31,440 --> 00:43:37,000 Come on, don't waste your deliverance again. 677 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:43,560 God sets you free from sin so that he would free you for 678 00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:52,000 himself. Red McGee, are you saying, and 679 00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,400 it's almost possible, at least for the Egyptians or the 680 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,560 children of Israel that they were delivered in the physical 681 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,480 sense but still enslaved in the spiritual sense. 682 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:03,920 Absolutely. So maybe reflection is 683 00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,920 important, this point of the road tonight and I need to start 684 00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:11,360 questioning myself this what do I esteem most of my life? 685 00:44:14,960 --> 00:44:20,880 Have I left Egypt behind? Is it in the rearview mirror or 686 00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:25,880 am I entertaining the appetites of Egypt and my spirit? 687 00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,960 Am I holding on with some things that I'd rather not let go? 688 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:39,800 What's taking place? I want to find myself in the 689 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:45,520 year 2025. I want to worship the God who 690 00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:53,320 delivered me because that's what He delivered me more more so 691 00:44:55,040 --> 00:45:03,400 than worship the culture that he delivered me from because I've 692 00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:10,400 been set free to worship. I'm not God and it's good that 693 00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:14,000 none of us are. There's some days it's really 694 00:45:14,000 --> 00:45:16,600 good. I'm not God according to what 695 00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:20,920 mood I'm in. Let's start stacking up bodies. 696 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:28,440 I just start stacking them up. I never know. 697 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,560 There's no way for me to totally understand the mind of God. 698 00:45:32,560 --> 00:45:34,920 His ways are higher in my ways. His thoughts are higher in my 699 00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:36,800 thoughts. But sometimes, Brother Fred, I 700 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:45,680 do think what I wonder what God is thinking about when He set 701 00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:51,680 his people, has set his people free and they bowed down to the 702 00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:53,360 very thing he said, the free throne. 703 00:45:55,200 --> 00:46:04,890 I mean, I wonder what's really going through his mind. 704 00:46:07,650 --> 00:46:12,770 Would we even prioritize things over him that we were once so 705 00:46:12,770 --> 00:46:15,370 engrossed in and he called us out of, but now we allow it to 706 00:46:15,490 --> 00:46:18,650 seep back in and we've assimilated. 707 00:46:18,810 --> 00:46:26,640 I can have my Jesus and all this to I just wonder sometimes God, 708 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:31,760 what's going through your mind? And he's probably thinking I'm 709 00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,920 not God. Do you take these words? 710 00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:39,120 He's probably thinking what's it going to take to convince them? 711 00:46:44,270 --> 00:46:48,630 There's no test masker over their back now, but they're 712 00:46:48,630 --> 00:46:55,240 saying let's go back. I gave them manna from heaven 713 00:46:56,000 --> 00:47:05,430 and they're saying I'd like to have an onion quell from the 714 00:47:05,430 --> 00:47:08,190 throne of God. Oh, a leek really Taint would be 715 00:47:08,190 --> 00:47:10,310 great right now. Little garlic. 716 00:47:10,510 --> 00:47:12,830 This is in your Bible. The leeks, the onions, the 717 00:47:12,830 --> 00:47:14,190 garlic. Oh, I'd really like to have 718 00:47:14,190 --> 00:47:17,110 something like that right now. Food from heaven. 719 00:47:18,910 --> 00:47:20,470 And he was consistent to deliver. 720 00:47:23,590 --> 00:47:25,470 How? How do we confuse those things? 721 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:30,000 Getting freedom and losing our purpose? 722 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:36,240 Would we get freedom and don't have no direction of what we're 723 00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:37,600 to do with what we've been given? 724 00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:39,960 I'm telling you what to do with it. 725 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:45,120 We need to worship Him. We need to be at all struck by 726 00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:49,680 who He is, by what He's done, what He's accomplished, and what 727 00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:54,520 He will accomplish in a life that stays devoted, stays God 728 00:47:54,520 --> 00:48:00,240 honoring, stays God separated, stay God, acknowledging you've 729 00:48:00,240 --> 00:48:08,560 been set free to worship. So let my people go so that they 730 00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,480 can serve me. These altars are open tonight if 731 00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,880 anybody would just like to practice some of that homage of 732 00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:20,600 worship to your King tonight. If you've been set free, you've 733 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,760 been delivered from the clutches, as we said this 734 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,520 morning, of trespasses and sins. Perhaps you would like to 735 00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:31,720 reciprocate tonight with gratitude and Thanksgiving of of 736 00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:37,320 worship. Hold loosely what used to hold 737 00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,800 you tightly. Hear me, Hold loosely what used 738 00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,480 to incarcerate and hold you tightly. 739 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:48,240 No, what you need to hold on to is that unchanging hand of God, 740 00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:54,520 the one who delivered you and set you free, and saw that you 741 00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,520 know what? They were not a people. 742 00:48:56,520 --> 00:48:58,920 But I'll make them a people, I'll make them mine. 743 00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,880 I'll call them chosen, I'll call them royal, I'll call them 744 00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,680 peculiar, I'll call them holy. I'll call them so that they 745 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:10,680 might shoot forth the praises. But the one that brought him out 746 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:18,160 of tartness, It too this marvelous light set free for who 747 00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:30,800 come. Find your purpose to your 748 00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:35,000 freedom tonight. Find your purpose to your 749 00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:41,560 freedom tonight. Holy God.