1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:03,200 It was the late. Aw, Tozer who said these words, 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:06,200 it is doubtful. Whether God can bless the man 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:11,200 greatly until he. First of all, hurts him deeply. 4 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:16,600 You see it to you again, it is doubtful whether or not God, can 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:23,700 bless the man greatly until he first of all hurts him deeply. 6 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:27,600 Why is that? Is that true? 7 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,299 Well. It is true. 8 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:38,500 Because Jesus is is all you need, but Jesus is never. 9 00:00:38,500 --> 00:00:40,700 All you need until Jesus is all you got. 10 00:00:42,300 --> 00:00:46,300 See, we got everything else. We have our income, we have our 11 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:48,400 family. We have our job. 12 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:52,400 We have our cars. We have our health, we have our 13 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:56,600 talent, we have her education, who needs Jesus. 14 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:01,200 We got everything else that we need, but the problem is, Jesus 15 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:07,800 is really all you need. Until you realize that, You are 16 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:13,200 far from walking. Intimately, with our Lord. 17 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:18,400 Man, by nature is autonomous. He's independent. 18 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:25,700 He's self-sufficient. He is in control, he is 19 00:01:25,700 --> 00:01:32,000 self-reliant, he wants to be in control of his world. 20 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:35,300 And so by Nature. He goes that direction. 21 00:01:36,500 --> 00:01:41,500 Only to realize that is not. That God is in charge of 22 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:44,900 everything. He needs the Lord, he needs to 23 00:01:44,900 --> 00:01:47,500 depend upon the Lord for everything. 24 00:01:48,900 --> 00:01:54,800 So God sets out. To erase your independence from 25 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,400 him. To establish your dependence 26 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:03,100 upon him. That's what God does when he 27 00:02:03,107 --> 00:02:09,100 takes you through the desert. He wants you totally dependent 28 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:13,600 upon him for everything. After all the Lord said in John 29 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:22,700 15, without me ye can do. Some things all things you can't 30 00:02:22,700 --> 00:02:25,600 do anything. Without the Lord. 31 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:31,800 We think we can. We think we can raise our 32 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:36,000 children without the Lord. We think we can have a good 33 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:40,800 marriage without the Lord. We think we can preach a sermon 34 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:43,700 without the Lord. We think we can do everything 35 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:47,000 that we do without the Lord. Because we're talented were 36 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,200 eloquent. We are gifted. 37 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:55,800 We are well educated. This is not true. 38 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,600 It might be true, your well-educated might be true, 39 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:06,800 you're talented and gifted, but you need the Lord in everything. 40 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:13,500 You see spiritual growth has is like a coin, right? 41 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:17,600 There's two sides to a coin. There's a human side and the 42 00:03:17,608 --> 00:03:21,700 Divine side. so when you look at spiritual growth, look at it 43 00:03:21,708 --> 00:03:26,000 from The Human Side, and it primarily deals with scripture, 44 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,000 right, we're to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord 45 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,400 and Savior, Jesus Christ, second Peter 3, verse number 18, The 46 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:37,800 Bible tells us in second Timothy chapter 3, that that God's word 47 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:42,700 is inspired right? And therefore because it is, it 48 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:46,600 is that one thing that is profitable for man to equip him 49 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:53,200 to do everything he needs to do. so from The Human Side in order 50 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,700 for us to grow spiritually, We need the scripture and the 51 00:03:57,700 --> 00:04:01,700 spirit of God uses the word of God in our lives. 52 00:04:01,700 --> 00:04:03,900 To grow us in our walk with the Lord. 53 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:08,100 But the flip side of the coin is the Divine side. 54 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:15,200 And from God's perspective, it's not the Scripture its suffering, 55 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:20,899 that's the Divine side. And he's in charge of the 56 00:04:20,899 --> 00:04:24,900 suffering. You're in charge for lack of a 57 00:04:24,907 --> 00:04:28,800 better, phrase of the scripture, and reading and studying and 58 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,000 memorizing, and applying that scripture to your life by the 59 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:39,400 Divine side. God uses suffering to perfect 60 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:43,600 the soul. Remember Psalm 119 verse number 61 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:51,300 67 before I was afflicted. I went astray. 62 00:04:52,900 --> 00:05:00,400 But now I keep your word. Before I was afflicted, I did 63 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:04,200 whatever I wanted to do. I did life my way. 64 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:08,700 But now, because I've been Afflicted. 65 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:13,900 Now I keep your word. It will be great if we were 66 00:05:13,900 --> 00:05:16,500 committed to the scriptures and we were so committed to them 67 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:19,500 that every day we'd read them and memorize them and apply 68 00:05:19,500 --> 00:05:23,700 them, but we just don't. So God uses suffering. 69 00:05:23,700 --> 00:05:28,300 He uses Affliction, he uses distress, he uses for lack of a 70 00:05:28,300 --> 00:05:31,800 better phrase, the desert to drive us to his word. 71 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:37,900 Before I was afflicted, I went astray but now, now I keep your 72 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:40,900 word. What's next verse? 73 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:44,900 You are good and do us. Good. 74 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,900 Psalmist, only knew of the goodness of God after his 75 00:05:48,900 --> 00:05:52,500 affliction. Because then he was able to 76 00:05:52,500 --> 00:05:55,300 understand the word of God and then he was able to stand that 77 00:05:55,300 --> 00:06:00,000 God himself. It says, in verse number 71, it 78 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:04,100 is good for me that I was afflicted that I might learn 79 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:08,400 your statutes. It's almost makes it very clear 80 00:06:08,400 --> 00:06:11,100 that there's something about Affliction that teaches me the 81 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,900 statutes of God. That without the Affliction, I 82 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:20,500 would not learn the lessons. I need to learn God knows what 83 00:06:20,500 --> 00:06:25,200 you need the best. So on a date of your toes are 84 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,400 says that it is doubtful whether or not God can bless them and 85 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:33,100 greatly until he's first of all hurt him deeply he is so right 86 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:37,500 on. Every man, scripture. 87 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:44,900 Was hurt, significantly. That God might use him greatly. 88 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:49,800 Every man for lack of a better phrase was broken. 89 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:59,100 Their self will was shattered. Their independence from God. 90 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:04,300 Was broken to a point where they learn to be dependent upon God. 91 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:09,900 So God could use them mightily. For his glory. 92 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:16,000 And for his purpose, Years ago, many years ago. 93 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:19,400 I did a series maybe some of the of you remember it. 94 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,300 Tom, you might remember this. It was called invitation to 95 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:25,700 intimacy. You're not serious. 96 00:07:25,900 --> 00:07:29,900 A long, long time ago, at least 20 years ago, maybe 25 years 97 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:32,200 ago. I don't know, invitation to 98 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,300 intimacy. We wanted to invite people to 99 00:07:36,300 --> 00:07:40,900 walk in an intimate relationship with the Living God. 100 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:48,400 And so we told them, it begins with the Divine inheritance, you 101 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,900 want to walk into intimate with God, it begins with a Divine 102 00:07:53,100 --> 00:07:55,500 inheritance. Paul said, it this way, in 103 00:07:55,500 --> 00:07:58,600 Ephesians chapter 1 verse number 11, because we've been redeemed, 104 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:04,100 we have obtained, an inheritance having been predestined. 105 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:06,400 According to his purpose, who works all things. 106 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:10,500 After the counsel of his will to the end that we who were the 107 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:14,700 first to Hope in Christ. Would be to the praise of his 108 00:08:14,700 --> 00:08:17,800 glory. Paul says, we've been redeemed 109 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:22,000 because we have been predetermined to be partakers of 110 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:28,200 a Divine inheritance. Peter would say this way in 111 00:08:28,200 --> 00:08:34,100 First Peter, chapter 1 verse number 3, blessed, be the God 112 00:08:34,100 --> 00:08:36,500 and father of our Lord, Jesus Christ who according to his, 113 00:08:36,500 --> 00:08:39,900 great Mercy. Has caused us to be born again 114 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:44,000 to a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ 115 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:51,000 from the dead in order to obtain an inheritance which is 116 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:54,800 imperishable and undefiled, and will not fade away. 117 00:08:54,900 --> 00:09:02,500 Reserved in heaven for you. To walk in intimacy with God, it 118 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:05,400 begins with a Divine inheritance. 119 00:09:06,900 --> 00:09:11,000 But it's also number two, balanced by a disciplined 120 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:16,300 obedience. It's balanced by a disciplined 121 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:20,700 obedience because I had been redeemed. 122 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:26,000 I now have a responsibility to live in obedience to my God. 123 00:09:27,100 --> 00:09:31,800 And so there is this desire I have as Paul would say that 124 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:36,700 bodily exercise profits little but godliness is profitable for 125 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:39,300 all things. Therefore discipline, yourself 126 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:43,600 unto godliness. First of the four seven and 127 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:45,800 eight. First Corinthians 9, Paul was 128 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,700 his I beat my body into subjection. 129 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:53,800 I discipline myself, lest I be disqualified from the ministry. 130 00:09:54,300 --> 00:09:59,400 Paul knew about discipline. So he would reiterate it over 131 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,100 and over again in his Epistles about discipline, your life unto 132 00:10:03,100 --> 00:10:06,400 godliness. So that which begins with the 133 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:10,600 Divine inheritance, is now balanced with a disciplined 134 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:14,900 obedience. And that which is balanced with 135 00:10:14,900 --> 00:10:21,200 a disciplined obedience. Is beautified in a daily 136 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:28,200 silence. It's beautified in a daily 137 00:10:28,700 --> 00:10:35,500 silence, be still and know that I am God. 138 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:45,700 Isaiah 30 says this in silence. And in trust, shall be your 139 00:10:45,700 --> 00:10:49,000 strength. How many times did the psalmist? 140 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:54,200 Say, I wait silently for the Lord. 141 00:10:56,100 --> 00:11:01,300 Silence is such a major part of walking and intimacy with our 142 00:11:01,300 --> 00:11:04,100 God, it's like a marriage, right? 143 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:12,200 When is the marriage beautified? It's not beautified amidst, the 144 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:16,900 hubbub of activity with family and friends, and all kinds of 145 00:11:16,900 --> 00:11:19,900 social activities. No, it's beautified in the 146 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:25,400 silence, Mom and Dad husband, and wife together in silence 147 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:27,900 cultivating. The relationship, when there are 148 00:11:27,900 --> 00:11:31,700 no distractions around you, it's just you and your wife, are you, 149 00:11:31,700 --> 00:11:36,000 and your husband? So that which begins with the 150 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:39,300 Divine inheritance is balanced with a discipline. 151 00:11:39,300 --> 00:11:42,500 Nope. The ants and as beautified in a 152 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:52,300 daily silence. but, That intimacy is always battled with 153 00:11:52,300 --> 00:11:59,400 a diabolical vengeance. Satan does not want you to walk 154 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:04,300 intimately with the Lord. So he is going to attack attack 155 00:12:04,300 --> 00:12:09,000 attack all the time. He goes about like a roaring 156 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,500 lion seeking whom he may devour, right? 157 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:15,700 And so we need to resist him steadfast in the faith. 158 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,200 We need to Shield ourselves with the armor of God, so because 159 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:22,900 he's going to attack us, we must arm ourselves with the armor of 160 00:12:22,900 --> 00:12:29,200 God if he's in 6 10 to 18 realizing that Satan does all he 161 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,500 can. To keep us from walking. 162 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:38,300 Intimately, with the Living God. The invitation to intimacy. 163 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:43,600 It is a invitation that's extended to man. 164 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:48,500 To walk with our Lord. It begins with the Divine 165 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:52,500 inheritance, it's balanced with a disciplined obedience. 166 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:57,500 It's beautified in a daily silence its battle with a 167 00:12:57,508 --> 00:13:04,600 diabolical vengeance. Ah, but it blossoms in a desert 168 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:08,600 experience. That's where blossoms. 169 00:13:09,700 --> 00:13:15,800 In a desert experience. Listen to the words of Peter. 170 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:19,800 As he concludes his first epistle. 171 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:28,100 Writing to Jews who had experience the ultimate desert. 172 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:33,900 All kinds of distressed and affliction, all kinds of 173 00:13:33,900 --> 00:13:40,400 persecution and hardship Nero had had given all of his efforts 174 00:13:40,400 --> 00:13:45,100 to persecute the Christians and they were being killed and 175 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:54,200 destroyed on a daily basis. and so, Peter in his epistle, And we 176 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:59,000 did a series on Peter and we entitled it, hope for those who 177 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:02,300 hurt. Because there was no one hurting 178 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:05,500 more than the Jews that were scattered abroad. 179 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:09,000 Then these Jews were, and they needed hope, and Peter gives 180 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,900 them hope. In the end. 181 00:14:13,300 --> 00:14:18,400 First 10 for p25 says these words after you have suffered 182 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:22,400 for a while. In other words, your suffering 183 00:14:22,400 --> 00:14:26,900 is inevitable. It's going to happen. and after 184 00:14:26,900 --> 00:14:35,100 you've suffered for, A little while, the God of all Grace. 185 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:40,900 The personal Ministry of our God is to extend Grace, to all those 186 00:14:40,900 --> 00:14:44,800 who suffer. So the God of all Grace is going 187 00:14:44,800 --> 00:14:50,600 to do something that will cause your life to Blossom as it's 188 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:57,700 never bloomed before. By saying this. the God of all 189 00:14:57,700 --> 00:15:01,100 Grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will 190 00:15:01,100 --> 00:15:11,500 himself, perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you So 191 00:15:11,500 --> 00:15:15,200 after you've suffered for a little while, God is going to 192 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,700 perfect you, he's going to supply all that you need. 193 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:21,300 There's something lacking in the word. 194 00:15:21,300 --> 00:15:24,800 Perfect is a word used in two different ways of scripture, The 195 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:29,400 Mending of Nets, right? Or the many together of broken 196 00:15:29,400 --> 00:15:33,400 bones, putting them back together again, putting Nets 197 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:38,600 back together again after you suffered for a little while. 198 00:15:38,600 --> 00:15:40,900 God is going to put you back together. 199 00:15:41,100 --> 00:15:44,900 Again he's going to let you go through difficulties in the 200 00:15:44,900 --> 00:15:48,700 hardships and and and tie the Nets together. 201 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:54,100 Mend the broken bones, put them back together so that you can be 202 00:15:54,100 --> 00:16:03,100 one. and then, he's going to Confirm, you other words. 203 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:07,800 It's a phrase that's used in ancient literature to speak of 204 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:13,300 making one solid as Granite immovable. 205 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,600 You'll emerge tougher than you've ever been before stronger 206 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:21,800 than you've ever been before after you've suffered for a 207 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,400 while. He'll perfect. 208 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:29,300 You he will confirm you. He will strengthen you. 209 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:32,000 He will fill you with his strength. 210 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:37,300 God wants to fill you with his strength but we're so busy 211 00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:41,300 trying to exude Our Own Strength that we had no time to rely upon 212 00:16:41,300 --> 00:16:43,400 God to fill us with his strength. 213 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,800 We want to show everybody how strong we are. 214 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:53,000 Instead of God infusion us with his strength. but after you've 215 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:56,600 been broken, After you've been desolate. 216 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:04,000 After you're on your own, with no one to hold on to accept the 217 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,700 Lord, will fill you with his strength. 218 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:13,700 And then he'll establish you. He'll settle you, he'll lay a 219 00:17:13,700 --> 00:17:17,599 foundation. The foundation is laid and 220 00:17:17,599 --> 00:17:23,700 established to the point where it's in unshakable and 221 00:17:23,700 --> 00:17:27,700 immovable. But happens after you've 222 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:31,400 suffered for a little while. There's some of you might be 223 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:33,100 here today and say, well, you know, I've gone through 224 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:35,300 suffering and I've gone through persecution and I've gone 225 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:38,300 through hardship and I've gone through distress, whether it be 226 00:17:38,300 --> 00:17:41,200 emotional relational financial and all those kind of things. 227 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:43,900 But no, that's happened to me. I'm not confirmed, I'm not 228 00:17:43,900 --> 00:17:45,900 perfected. I'm not strengthened, I don't 229 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:48,200 see anything being supplied in my life. 230 00:17:49,500 --> 00:17:50,800 Well, there's an answer for that. 231 00:17:52,100 --> 00:17:54,000 He tells you up in verse number 5. 232 00:17:55,600 --> 00:18:00,700 God is opposed to the proud. But he gives Grace. 233 00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:07,800 To the humble. God of all Grace will do this. 234 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:14,500 But he opposes the proud. But it is give Grace. 235 00:18:15,900 --> 00:18:21,700 To the humble. so, in the process of your desert 236 00:18:21,700 --> 00:18:26,600 experience, Instead of relinquishing yourself and 237 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:30,300 relinquishing your pride and relinquishing all that. 238 00:18:30,300 --> 00:18:33,600 You think you are to the Lord and throwing yourself on his 239 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:37,700 grace and his Mercy, you are still kicking and screaming and 240 00:18:37,700 --> 00:18:41,100 fighting and becoming bitter because of your situation and 241 00:18:41,100 --> 00:18:44,100 your circumstance and you don't understand why and you get so 242 00:18:44,100 --> 00:18:49,100 upset and you get so frustrated. Because your pride. 243 00:18:50,300 --> 00:18:52,400 So God does not bestow his grace. 244 00:18:53,900 --> 00:18:56,600 On the prideful, but only on the humble. 245 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,700 A need to humble yourself before the true and living God. 246 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:09,300 All that plays itself out in the life of Moses. 247 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:16,300 It's all right there. and you know, as you go through Hebrews 248 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:23,200 11, I could spend years on each character taking you back to 249 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:27,500 Genesis and exodus explaining all these people to you, taking 250 00:19:27,500 --> 00:19:31,500 you back to Joshua and judges and letting you see the 251 00:19:31,500 --> 00:19:38,100 character of these people develop before you we could do 252 00:19:38,100 --> 00:19:40,900 that. But that would take us forever 253 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:42,100 to get through Hebrews. Right? 254 00:19:43,500 --> 00:19:44,900 And we're not Jewish people Jewish. 255 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:47,100 People would know the historical background of all those 256 00:19:47,100 --> 00:19:48,800 characters inside and out, right? 257 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,900 Even know them. We don't But every once in a 258 00:19:53,908 --> 00:19:57,100 while, we take a brief moment to help you fill in the blanks. 259 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:01,400 She can begin to understand what it means to walk by faith and 260 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:04,700 not by sight. To believe. 261 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:06,200 Absolutely. What God has said. 262 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:08,600 And behave accordingly to all that. 263 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:13,800 God has said, And Moses and Abraham are written about more 264 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:19,500 than anybody else in Hebrews 11. And we know that that Moses 265 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:23,900 would prefer the imperishable. We know that he would perceive 266 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:28,200 the invisible because it says that he endured as seeing him 267 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,100 who is unseen. He was 11. 268 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,000 We know that he would forsake their treasures and Riches of 269 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:37,100 Egypt that he might hinder her Affliction with the people of 270 00:20:37,100 --> 00:20:40,400 God. So you prefer the imperishable, 271 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,600 he perceived the invisible, and we know through the book of 272 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:46,200 Exodus that he he performed the impossible. 273 00:20:48,300 --> 00:20:52,000 But the only way he could perform the impossible was that 274 00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:55,100 he had to pass through the invaluable. 275 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,300 And that was on the backside of the desert in Midian. now, the 276 00:21:02,300 --> 00:21:07,100 writer of Hebrews doesn't tell us about that, but the book of 277 00:21:07,100 --> 00:21:13,700 Exodus does In the Jewish audience would know about Moses 278 00:21:13,700 --> 00:21:16,800 because they knew that Moses was Israel's greatest leader. 279 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,300 But what made Moses Israel's greatest leader? 280 00:21:23,800 --> 00:21:27,500 Because you see Moses in and of himself could not convince the 281 00:21:27,500 --> 00:21:29,300 Hebrew people that he was their deliverer. 282 00:21:30,300 --> 00:21:34,400 Although he tried always so desperately, tried he killed an 283 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,400 Egyptian, we saw in Exodus chapter 2 because in Egyptian 284 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,900 head had mistreated one of his one of his Hebrew people. 285 00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:47,000 So he killed them to show his power, his strength, his 286 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:51,500 athleticism, that people will sit back and say, whoa, man, the 287 00:21:51,500 --> 00:21:54,500 man is strong. Look at that guy, maybe he will 288 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:57,200 be our deliver. No didn't respond. 289 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,600 And then the very next day, there were two Brethren to 290 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:00,800 Hebrew people. Who are arguing? 291 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,000 He broke up the fight so he can show them that. 292 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,800 He was a peacemaker. But they said, what are you 293 00:22:04,808 --> 00:22:07,700 gonna do? Kill one of us to, they weren't 294 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:09,500 ready to accept him as their leader. 295 00:22:10,700 --> 00:22:12,800 But he was doing all he can to prove to them. 296 00:22:12,800 --> 00:22:14,200 Hey I'm your guy man. Look at me. 297 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,100 I can do these kind of things. Follow me but nobody wanted to 298 00:22:17,108 --> 00:22:21,700 follow. Although he was. 299 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:28,000 Well educated, and he was a very educated, man. 300 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:30,600 Very intelligent man. Very wise man. 301 00:22:31,500 --> 00:22:39,500 Moses was Acts tells us that he was mighty and deeds in mighty 302 00:22:39,500 --> 00:22:42,500 words. He could speak. 303 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,900 He was able to perform great acts of wonder. 304 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,500 Great guy. Magnificent man. 305 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:00,000 You see him very self-confident. You see him very independent. 306 00:23:01,600 --> 00:23:08,400 You seem very self-reliant. You see him in control, right? 307 00:23:08,500 --> 00:23:11,500 All the things that we would say well this guy can lead this 308 00:23:11,500 --> 00:23:14,000 guy's a man. This guy's a man's man. 309 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:16,300 This is the guy we need to have lead us. 310 00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:22,500 But nobody was following. So, by faith. 311 00:23:23,700 --> 00:23:25,400 That is he believed what God Said. 312 00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:34,400 He fled to Midian. He fled to Midian. interesting 313 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,400 that in the book of Exodus, It says he's words. 314 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:47,200 Verse 16, Exodus ship to another priest of Midian had seven 315 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:52,700 daughters and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to 316 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:56,700 water their fathers flock. Then the shepherd's came and 317 00:23:56,700 --> 00:24:00,700 drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered 318 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:06,300 their flock. Wow, imagine the scene Seven 319 00:24:06,300 --> 00:24:15,200 women, because, He only had seven daughters and they went to 320 00:24:15,300 --> 00:24:19,900 to draw water for the Sheep, but other Shepherd's came and moved 321 00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:23,500 them out a way out of the way in Moses sees that. 322 00:24:23,500 --> 00:24:26,400 So what does Moses do? He does what? 323 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:31,500 He's been educated to do, he does what he's been trained to 324 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:36,800 do, he warns them off, he defends the women, and we would 325 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,600 applaud that and rightly. So, he did the right thing. 326 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:44,200 But, even in that, he was showing that he didn't need God. 327 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,400 He just needed to do what he could do himself. 328 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:48,700 And so he moved them all away and the women like me. 329 00:24:48,708 --> 00:24:52,300 Who, look at this guy, man. Look at Moses muscles. 330 00:24:53,100 --> 00:24:55,700 Take a whole bunch other Dad. Look at this. 331 00:24:56,100 --> 00:24:58,800 When they came to her Elder, father, he said, why have you 332 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,300 come back so soon? They said, in Egyptian delivered 333 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:04,000 us from the hand of the Shepherds and what is more? 334 00:25:04,100 --> 00:25:06,700 He even drew the water for us and one of the flock. 335 00:25:07,200 --> 00:25:08,800 Wow, dad, you should have been there. 336 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:13,100 This guy was incredible. He went in and took a staffing. 337 00:25:13,100 --> 00:25:16,700 Well, what about that map? Move them all the way and then 338 00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:21,300 he filled the trauma often. Why did sheep? 339 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:30,400 So the father says, as any good father would too, he said well 340 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:35,700 where is he then? Where is he then why is it that 341 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:40,300 you have left The Man Behind invite and to have something to 342 00:25:40,300 --> 00:25:43,400 eat? Go get the guy, ask him if he 343 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,500 wants to stay forever, just go get them. 344 00:25:51,100 --> 00:25:53,200 Moses was willing to dwell with the man. 345 00:25:54,500 --> 00:25:57,800 And he gave his daughter zipporah to Moses that she gave 346 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,400 birth to a son. He named him gershom and he said 347 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:06,400 I had been a Sojourner in a foreign land. 348 00:26:09,300 --> 00:26:17,300 Next scene is. 40 years later. At Mount, Horeb Mount Sinai. 349 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:23,000 Would God would appear to Moses in the burning bush. 350 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:32,200 So you have a man, Moses. Hoofer the better part of 80 351 00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:36,100 years. Saw himself as the man. 352 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,000 But had to come to a place to realize. 353 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:47,000 They needed God. She never read about Moses and 354 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,600 prayer. Never read about Moses, walking 355 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,700 and intimacy with God Walking with God, the cool of the day 356 00:26:55,700 --> 00:26:59,600 and fellowshipping with his God, you never see those things in 357 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:04,500 Moses, his life. Description doesn't record those 358 00:27:04,500 --> 00:27:06,600 things. We know by faith, we knew what 359 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,800 God Said, and God have to speak to him and move him. 360 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:12,400 And so he knew that, but we never saw Moses of the men of 361 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:15,200 prayer and prayer is that one element that shows us our 362 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,000 dependence upon God, right? Show me how long you pray and 363 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:20,600 I'll show you how dependent you are up on. 364 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,400 God, show me how little you pray. 365 00:27:23,500 --> 00:27:26,100 And I'll show you how much you depend upon your own education, 366 00:27:26,100 --> 00:27:29,800 your own skill, your own Financial, well, being your own 367 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,100 person Hood. So simple as that. 368 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:40,000 So, here's Moses. Never really spent time in 369 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:46,500 prayer. He was one who was never. 370 00:27:47,900 --> 00:27:54,400 Said of one who sought after God or waited on God. 371 00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,900 He used human logic human wisdom. 372 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,500 And Riley, so he was gifted that way. 373 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:08,100 He used the fact that he was an educated man who knew what to do 374 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:13,000 all those things. But none of that qualified him 375 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,800 to be God's man. The qualified him to be 376 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,500 pharaohs, man. That qualified him to lead in 377 00:28:20,500 --> 00:28:25,800 Egypt. But in qualifying, the lead in 378 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:29,600 God's Kingdom. Because God has a different set 379 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:36,300 of Standards than the world does. and so, while he Had been 380 00:28:36,300 --> 00:28:42,600 to the school of, man. By faith, God led him to Midian 381 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:48,800 a dry desert Place. Modern-day Saudi Arabia because 382 00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:54,000 although he was educated in the school of man, He now had to be 383 00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:00,700 educated in the school of God. In the school of God, there's 384 00:29:00,700 --> 00:29:05,200 only one professor. It's God himself. 385 00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:13,100 And the classroom is not air conditioned or done remotely so 386 00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:15,000 you can sit at home on your bed and do the schooling. 387 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,000 No, the classroom is the backside of a desert? 388 00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:26,900 When you graduate. You graduate with a PhD in the 389 00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:31,600 ways of God. That was Moses. 390 00:29:34,100 --> 00:29:38,100 He would graduate with the PHD in in the ways of God. 391 00:29:40,300 --> 00:29:44,300 When you come to Exodus chapter 3, you can already see a 392 00:29:44,300 --> 00:29:47,700 difference in Moses. It says, in chapter 3 verse 393 00:29:47,700 --> 00:29:51,900 number 11, Moses said to God, who am I? 394 00:29:51,900 --> 00:29:55,300 That I should go to pharaoh and that I should bring the sons of 395 00:29:55,300 --> 00:29:57,000 Israel out of Egypt. Who am I? 396 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,600 Well, 40 years earlier he was trying to convince him that he 397 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,600 was the god. And then in verse number 1 of 398 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,700 chapter 4, Moses said, what if they will not believe me or 399 00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:11,400 listen to to what I say for? They may say the Lord has not 400 00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,400 appeared to you. You can't reason with these 401 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,400 Jewish people, you can't sit down with them and have a 402 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,500 conversation with them. I tried that it doesn't work 403 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,600 verse 10 of chapter 4. Then Moses said to the Lord, 404 00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,200 please Lord, I have never been eloquent neither recently, nor 405 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,100 in time past nor since you have spoken to your servant for I am 406 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:35,900 slow of speech and slow. Of ton, we're 40 years earlier. 407 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,900 He was very verbose, he would speak all kinds of things 408 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:43,600 because he was eloquent and words, he would try to reason 409 00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:47,700 with everybody, talk them into following him, but now, 40 years 410 00:30:47,700 --> 00:30:53,500 later, Can't speak so much. I'm slow of speech. 411 00:30:54,500 --> 00:30:57,700 What can I say? What do I say? 412 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:05,300 How do I say it? Different kind of, man. and 413 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:13,600 then, In Exodus chapter 14. When they have been released. 414 00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:19,000 From Egyptian bondage, listen to the words of Moses to show you 415 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:23,900 the difference of how this man is at the age of 80. 416 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:33,500 That he was at the age of 40. Verse 10 of chapter 14 and 417 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:37,800 Pharaoh Drew near the sons of Israel looked and behold the 418 00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,200 Egyptians were marching after them and they became very 419 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:44,200 frightened. So the sons of Israel, cried out 420 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,000 to the Lord, then they said to Moses, is it? 421 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:50,500 Because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us 422 00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:53,800 away to die in the wilderness. Why have you dealt with us, in 423 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:57,300 this way, bringing us out of Egypt is this? 424 00:31:57,300 --> 00:32:00,900 Not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt saying leave. 425 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,900 Us alone that we may serve the Egyptians for it would have been 426 00:32:05,900 --> 00:32:10,600 better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the 427 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,900 wilderness. Hmm, so what do you do? 428 00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:21,900 Moses said to the people did not fear stand by, and see the 429 00:32:21,900 --> 00:32:26,100 salvation of the Lord, which he will accomplish for you today 430 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,500 for the Egyptians. Whom you have seen today, you 431 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:33,700 will never see them again forever. 432 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:42,100 The Lord will fight for you while you keep Silence, the 433 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:45,700 Great. Moses learned. 434 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:53,100 Psalm 103 thousands. First number 7, mark it down. 435 00:32:54,700 --> 00:33:03,800 He made known his ways to Moses. His acts to the children of 436 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:10,200 Israel. He made known his ways to Moses 437 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:15,700 his acts to the children of Israel. 438 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:23,000 Moses knew the ways of God. But the children of Israel did 439 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:28,400 not know the ways of God. They could see the acts of God. 440 00:33:30,100 --> 00:33:33,000 They could watch God from a distance. 441 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:37,400 But they did not know the ways of God. 442 00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,900 That's why the psalmist would say these words. 443 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:48,800 Or put it this way. Exodus 33 Moses said this. 444 00:33:50,300 --> 00:33:55,000 I pray you Lord. If I have found favor in your 445 00:33:55,000 --> 00:34:04,600 sight let me know your ways that I may know you. 446 00:34:06,700 --> 00:34:10,000 You don't know God, unless, you know the ways of God. 447 00:34:11,500 --> 00:34:13,500 And so Moses is cry. Was Lord. 448 00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:16,800 Show me your ways. Teach me your ways. 449 00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:21,100 So you go to the Psalms. And it says, in in Psalm 25 450 00:34:21,100 --> 00:34:24,199 verse, number four, make me know your ways O. 451 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:29,500 Lord, teach me your paths, Lead Me In Your Truth and teach me 452 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,199 for you are the god of my salvation for you. 453 00:34:32,199 --> 00:34:36,699 I wait all the day but it's all dependent upon the ways of God. 454 00:34:37,900 --> 00:34:41,199 And then it says in verse number nine, he leaves the humble and 455 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:47,199 Justice. He teaches the humble his way, 456 00:34:48,500 --> 00:34:52,900 he doesn't teach the Arrogant as way he teaches the humble his 457 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:56,100 way. Doesn't the Book of Numbers. 458 00:34:56,100 --> 00:35:01,100 Tell us that Moses was the meekest man on the face of the 459 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:06,500 Earth. He made known his ways to Moses. 460 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:14,500 But the children of Israel. Could only watch the acts of God 461 00:35:15,300 --> 00:35:19,400 from a distance. And then, it says over in Psalm 462 00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:24,400 27. Teach me your way O Lord and 463 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:30,300 Lead Me in a smooth or level path because of my foes again, 464 00:35:30,300 --> 00:35:34,100 the song was Christ, Lord, teach me your ways, Psalm 86. 465 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:38,600 So many 6 verse, number 11, teach me your way O Lord I will 466 00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:43,100 walk in your truth unite My Heart To Fear your name and I 467 00:35:43,100 --> 00:35:46,400 will give thanks to You O Lord my God with all my heart and 468 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,900 will glorify your name forever. Who was the guy that glorifies 469 00:35:50,900 --> 00:35:52,800 it? The name of God forever. 470 00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:55,400 He's the guy who give thanks to God in his heart. 471 00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:58,400 Who's the guy who gives thanks to God in his heart, the guy 472 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,400 whose heart has United to fear the lord. 473 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,200 And who is the guy whose heart is United to fear? 474 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,300 The lord? It's the guy who says, Lord 475 00:36:05,300 --> 00:36:10,100 teach me your ways. I want to know, you're with my 476 00:36:10,100 --> 00:36:14,000 ways are irrelevant. My family's waves are 477 00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,200 irrelevant. Lord, your ways are relevant 478 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,300 your ways. Your ways are the only thing 479 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:25,600 that makes a difference. Teach me. 480 00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,600 Your ways. Psalm 95. 481 00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:37,400 Listen to this. God says for 40 years, I 482 00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:42,300 loathed. That Generation The Generation 483 00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:47,300 that came out of Egypt. I load them and said they are a 484 00:36:47,300 --> 00:36:51,500 people who are in their heart. Why do they are in the heart? 485 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:52,200 Here it is. Ready. 486 00:36:52,500 --> 00:37:00,700 And they do not know my ways. Therefore, I sworn my anger, 487 00:37:01,300 --> 00:37:06,600 truly, they shall not enter my rest. 488 00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:14,700 Wow, how about you? You know, the ways of God. 489 00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:21,000 What did Jesus say? I am. 490 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,900 The way. And the truth. 491 00:37:26,900 --> 00:37:31,100 I am the life but he says, I am. The way. 492 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,900 I'm the only way. In other words, it's my way or 493 00:37:36,900 --> 00:37:41,200 the hell way, there is no other way on the way. 494 00:37:42,700 --> 00:37:45,400 And you got to cry for me to know the way. 495 00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:51,300 Like Moses did. And God brought Moses to a place 496 00:37:51,300 --> 00:37:54,900 in his life where he would depend upon God for everything. 497 00:37:56,300 --> 00:37:58,900 No longer was he self-reliant no longer was. 498 00:37:58,900 --> 00:38:02,100 He self-confident? All of us confidence was in God. 499 00:38:02,100 --> 00:38:04,500 All of us dependence was upon God. 500 00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,300 No longer. Was he an independent thinker? 501 00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:10,000 No longer. Was he an arrogant individual 502 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:11,900 knows all about Lord? What do I do now? 503 00:38:11,900 --> 00:38:14,200 Lord, teach me your ways. Lord, if your present does not 504 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:17,200 go with us, we are not leaving from this place because we need 505 00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,200 you, we're not going anywhere unless you go before us. 506 00:38:19,900 --> 00:38:25,000 Lord, we need you. So, when the psalmist says, he 507 00:38:25,000 --> 00:38:29,500 may notice ways to Moses. But his acts to the children of 508 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:33,400 Israel. Moses would walk. 509 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:40,100 In intimacy with his God. Because he the path through 510 00:38:40,100 --> 00:38:45,700 that, which is invaluable. Because it is doubtful. 511 00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:49,400 Whether God can bless the man greatly. 512 00:38:50,500 --> 00:38:54,000 Until he is. First of all hurt him deeply. 513 00:38:55,100 --> 00:38:58,100 Let me pray with you. Father, we thank you for this 514 00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:02,400 day. We thank you for the time as 515 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,900 brief as it is that we could spend a new word. 516 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:09,300 But we are grateful for the reminder. 517 00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:15,300 The man, Moses. Who learned the ways of God? 518 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,900 May we be those kind of people Lord. 519 00:39:21,900 --> 00:39:23,600 You have said that you are the way. 520 00:39:25,100 --> 00:39:27,200 You are the only way there is no other way. 521 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,700 You are that way. And father we want to know your 522 00:39:32,700 --> 00:39:36,100 ways. We want to know you. 523 00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:39,500 We don't want to air in our hearts. 524 00:39:40,700 --> 00:39:43,600 We don't want you to loathe this generation. 525 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,000 We want you to love this generation. 526 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,200 So, we're asking. That you would do a mighty work 527 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,300 in all of our lives. Draw us closer to you, Lord. 528 00:39:57,500 --> 00:40:02,500 Stop at nothing. To make us the people you want 529 00:40:02,500 --> 00:40:06,200 us to be. That we might totally Rely Upon 530 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:12,900 Our God for everything. Erase our independence from you. 531 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:17,500 Establish our dependence upon you. 532 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:22,600 And we will give you glory. until you come again, as you 533 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,200 most surely will in Jesus name, amen.