1 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,520 Happy Monday, Pastor Matt with you here on the ERC Leftovers 2 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,360 Podcast. Pastor Chris is here too. 3 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:22,280 And you know what? I wasn't sure you were going to 4 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:24,240 say my name. Weird, but you did. 5 00:00:24,240 --> 00:00:25,000 I usually do. I. 6 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:30,280 Usually do maybe try not to on Sunday mornings but like. 7 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,720 I mean, you could. And then the people who listen 8 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:36,760 to this podcast would be like, oh, so that's how he does that. 9 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:38,920 All right. The people who only listen and 10 00:00:38,920 --> 00:00:41,400 like, never see you just think that you're just like this 11 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:45,000 little gremlin based on how I how I say we ask your Koreans. 12 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:46,560 Yeah, that's how I say your name. 13 00:00:47,480 --> 00:00:49,840 OK, that's fair. We're back. 14 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,920 We're back. That feels like we're back. 15 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,520 You know, starting it off like that feels like we're back. 16 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:59,720 So back past couple episodes have been prerecorded Ask Me 17 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:04,360 Anything episodes. We usually have a reaction and 18 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,600 continuing conversation of the Sunday morning message at ERC 19 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,680 and Manus Rd. Church here in DeWitt, Iowa. 20 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:15,920 Thanks for being a part of our community, listening in, sharing 21 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,040 this with those that you think need to hear it, inviting one 22 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:24,400 more into this conversation and sharing Jesus with them. 2 So 23 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:26,760 that's usually how we do. The past couple weeks have been 24 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:32,320 ask me anything, anything from theology things to food things 25 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:35,880 to whatever Disney Princess things I think we answered. 26 00:01:35,880 --> 00:01:39,440 And yeah, it's been great. Thanks for participating. 27 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:42,520 And we're we have a bunt. We still have a pile leftover of 28 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,200 questions and we're going to continue to take those one at a 29 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:48,720 time as we have time. We'll definitely do some other 30 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:51,280 Ask ME Anything episodes as well. 31 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,560 So it's been fun. There's about 50 of you 32 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,560 regularly listening to this podcast, and even if there are 33 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,600 only a handful of you, would be well worth our time. 34 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:04,200 But to know that there's several dozen of you out there listening 35 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,720 to the sermon on Sunday morning, then also coming back for more. 36 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:08,440 Yeah, of course we're going to keep doing it. 37 00:02:08,479 --> 00:02:11,280 Yeah, thanks for doing that. Because you know, if you're, if 38 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,400 you're in a church, for example, where people come in on a Sunday 39 00:02:14,400 --> 00:02:17,000 and they're like, oh cool, check the Christian box for the week. 40 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,160 Now I'm moving on. No, it's we, we want to build a 41 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:24,680 faith community that wants to be in God's Word and wants to be 42 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,920 thinking through theology and faith seven days a week, not 43 00:02:28,920 --> 00:02:32,720 just, you know, once a week. So yeah, thanks for tuning in. 44 00:02:32,720 --> 00:02:34,640 Thanks for being a part of this community. 45 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:38,520 We are excited to continue to dive into God's Word together 46 00:02:38,520 --> 00:02:40,880 with you through any number of means. 47 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:45,400 Yeah, and we had, we were gone last week. 48 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:46,640 Part of the reason we had to prerecord. 49 00:02:46,640 --> 00:02:49,320 We were at the Church Leaders Summit, a conference in 50 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:52,360 Jacksonville, FL. And that was of course, you 51 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,680 always get that like last day of camp High, like that conference 52 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:57,360 high. And I think if if you've gone to 53 00:02:57,400 --> 00:02:59,800 a church conference, you're gone to a church camp, like or even, 54 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,120 gosh, even if you've gone to a conference for your job or, or 55 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:05,440 something that you're passionate about, like you know what that 56 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:09,840 feels like you come back just kind of kind of fired up, feels 57 00:03:09,840 --> 00:03:11,840 a little different this time. I think. 58 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,920 I think there's going to be a lasting fervor here. 59 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:19,440 At least I have like my, I don't know, I feel like I have this 60 00:03:19,440 --> 00:03:22,480 Unicorn horde and I coming out of my forehead that it sounds 61 00:03:22,480 --> 00:03:25,640 really feels really weird, but it's just like it's really loud, 62 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:30,400 like right in the middle of my head as it relates to spiritual 63 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:32,800 things and that I don't know that sounds weird and crazy and 64 00:03:32,800 --> 00:03:36,880 hard to explain, but I'm pretty fired up and pretty excited for 65 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,040 the work that God already has laid out for us here at ERC. 66 00:03:41,040 --> 00:03:43,560 That's really all we're trying to do see where God's working 67 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:48,800 and and join him in that, but the road ahead is becoming a lot 68 00:03:48,800 --> 00:03:54,200 clearer, I think, and excited to chase that down with with all 69 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,760 you to to love like Jesus in and out of that. 70 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,600 We sang a song yesterday. That's who I praise the the 71 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:03,480 closing lines want to love like Jesus and live like there's no 72 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:05,760 more precious time to waste. We're here. 73 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,000 That's, that's what we're doing and we'd love for you all to 74 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,280 come along with us 'cause we need you. 75 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,280 We, it's not just, it's not just us, it's it's a body of 76 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:15,560 believers and it's going to be cool. 77 00:04:16,640 --> 00:04:19,959 I'm I'm so pumped, you know, to see some clarity coming out. 78 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:22,000 Yeah, like you said, I think sometimes you go to those 79 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,960 conferences and there's like this short term motivational 80 00:04:25,960 --> 00:04:30,800 speaker almost level excitement. But yeah, being there with you 81 00:04:30,880 --> 00:04:34,280 and Kristen and just getting clarity on some things and like 82 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:38,520 coming back and being able to say, hey, you know what, we we 83 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,080 know this is where we're going as a church because 84 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,840 theologically we are set on the word of God as our only source 85 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,880 of teaching. So then how do we best 86 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:50,880 communicate that? How do we best get people 87 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:54,120 involved in that? And so having some clarifying 88 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:57,360 terms and some ideas around that is fantastic. 89 00:04:57,480 --> 00:04:59,160 Yep. And Kristen was so funny. 90 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:00,520 She's not on the podcast this week. 91 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:02,520 She joined us for the AMA episodes. 92 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,400 But on one of the AMA episodes, we talked to her about like what 93 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:09,560 her job abbreviation would be as director of operations. 94 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,320 And she always kind of joked over the summer like, oh man, 95 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:14,720 that that sounds made-up. Like my job sounds made-up. 96 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,040 Well, she went to this conference and she met other 97 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,600 church leaders that are also their church's director of 98 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:21,480 operations. And she just came back like I, I 99 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:24,120 have a real job. It's Pinocchio. 100 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:28,440 I'm a real boy. That's as high as my voice gets, 101 00:05:28,440 --> 00:05:30,200 by the way. I'm a real boy you. 102 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,320 May not have the British accent. I feel like you've got the 103 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:36,360 Pinocchio accent pretty good. I'm not sure there's like broad 104 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,720 application for that other than that one line. 105 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:40,920 Yeah, I don't. I guess I would have to go back 106 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,880 and rewatch Pinocchio to see if there's other like sound bites I 107 00:05:43,880 --> 00:05:46,880 can just start doing in that voice just for fun also. 108 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,040 Just that Pinocchio voice is also the gingerbread cookie from 109 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:52,800 Shrek though, correct? Yeah, OK. 110 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:55,840 Say say gum drop button. Gum drop button. 111 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:03,120 Gum drop button. We are off the rails on Monday. 112 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,480 If we weren't back before, we're certainly back now. 113 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,920 Oh my goodness. Off the rails well. 114 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:10,440 What did you what did you do this weekend? 115 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:12,920 Why did I feel like I've been nonstop for like 10 days? 116 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,880 You didn't preach this weekend and maybe got to catch your 117 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,920 breath. So a little bit, no, it was 118 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:19,800 great. You know, one of the things that 119 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,480 of course, you know, we, we talked about, you know, 4 FS, 120 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,480 right? Faith, family fitness, AK, 121 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:29,200 taking care of your body and finances, right? 122 00:06:29,200 --> 00:06:31,640 So being responsible with the resources that God has given 123 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,000 you. Well, you know, when I got back, 124 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,800 one of the things that I wanted to do well is spend time with my 125 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:39,280 wife. You know, my daughter, she's 21, 126 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:41,680 she's in the military. She's off doing what she does. 127 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,840 And my son is a senior. He's run around doing what he 128 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:46,880 does. So it's like, man, my, you know, 129 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:48,920 I, I want to spend time with my wife. 130 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,520 And so we did that. And it wasn't as cool as I hoped 131 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,760 it would be. But, and, and I say that only 132 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:58,840 because, like, I think we like the idea was to go someplace 133 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:02,440 kind of nice and kind of fun, like actually go out, out to 134 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:06,920 dinner. Well, no, no, no, no, no, no. 135 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:09,920 My family was a drag. No, not at all. 136 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:13,080 Really. I was like, this is not the 137 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:15,720 place to air this. We would have had to edit that 138 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:18,640 out if that was where I was going, but it's not. 139 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,440 So no editing necessary. But the. 140 00:07:21,480 --> 00:07:24,760 The thing is, so we have a dog and it's like, Oh my gosh. 141 00:07:24,760 --> 00:07:28,440 I left the house early enough and I don't think we really had 142 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:30,440 anybody right away to get there and let her out. 143 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:32,560 And it's like she's squeezing her legs. 144 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:34,800 We got to get home. So we need a quicker dinner. 145 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:38,840 So we ended up at one of my favorite fast places, which is 146 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:41,480 Chick-fil-A. Yeah, yeah. 147 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:45,320 You know, and I I, you know, there's a song out there, but. 148 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,880 But I doing the chick in the Lord's way unless it's a Sunday, 149 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,160 right? So I talked to Matt about this 150 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:56,840 and he has it queued up. There is a Chick-fil-A song that 151 00:07:56,840 --> 00:07:58,600 came out like 7 years ago. I've. 152 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,200 Never heard this before and it's ridiculous. 153 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,640 It's ridiculous, but it's so worth your time. 154 00:08:03,640 --> 00:08:06,840 So if you're a Chick-fil-A fan, please give this a listen. 155 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,440 If you're not a Chick-fil-A fan, maybe you will be after the 156 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:11,360 song. Yeah, we've done this before 157 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:14,080 with the John Chris clip. We'll we'll do a little pastor's 158 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:16,880 reacts to the the Chick-fil-A rap here. 159 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,280 So yeah, buckle up. Here we go. 160 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:30,240 My name is Jared. How can I help you today? 161 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:33,799 Welcome to heaven. Yeah, I mean Chick-fil-A. 162 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,840 Roll up to your table, smiling like a fool. 163 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:39,840 Fool. Sorry if I'm awkward. 164 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:41,520 I was home schooled. Hey. 165 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:43,159 Hey. You don't have to bow your head. 166 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:45,200 Nah, you don't have to pray for your food. 167 00:08:45,600 --> 00:08:48,520 Had a Bible study in the back. We already pray for you. 168 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:52,800 It is my pleasure to serve you. It is my pleasure to serve you. 169 00:08:53,080 --> 00:08:54,480 We're serving the chicken the Lord's way. 170 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:56,960 Unless it's a sundae. My pleasure to serve you. 171 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:00,080 It is my pleasure to serve you. It is my pleasure to serve you. 172 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:01,920 We're serving the chicken the Lord's way. 173 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:03,720 Unless it's a sundae My pleasure to serve you. 174 00:09:04,280 --> 00:09:07,320 Would you like perfectly crafted and drafted Polynesian sauce 175 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,360 sauce? Dipping and dabbing using your 176 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:11,240 napkin. You know they extra soft. 177 00:09:11,680 --> 00:09:14,840 Keep an eye out for the refill. Fill it up till it spill. 178 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:20,320 Splash, splash, splash, splash. Would you like coca iced tea? 179 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:22,120 You know the lemons, fresh squeeze. 180 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,280 You know whatever you need, just ask. 181 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:27,800 Because I can do all things. It is my pleasure to serve you. 182 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,760 Hey, it is my pleasure to serve you. 183 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,480 Hey, we're serving the chicken the Lord's way. 184 00:09:31,480 --> 00:09:33,440 Unless it's a sundae. My pleasure to serve you. 185 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,960 It is my pleasure to serve you. Hey, it is my pleasure to serve 186 00:09:36,960 --> 00:09:38,360 you. Hey, we're serving the chicken 187 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:39,720 the Lord's way. Unless it's a sundae. 188 00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:56,640 My pleasure to serve you. It is my pleasure to serve you. 189 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:00,920 There's there's so many things. So I know he's attaching it to a 190 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,760 different phrase, but serving the serving the chicken in the 191 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:08,320 Lords way, unless it's a Sunday, it's my pleasure to serve you. 192 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,000 It almost sounds like it's not his pleasure to serve you on 193 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:13,280 Sundays. Like even whether they open or 194 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,280 not, it's not, it's not not on Sundays. 195 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:16,400 It's. Not not on Sundays. 196 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:17,840 Hey man, everybody needs a Sabbath. 197 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,600 Right. Yeah, but oh so many other 198 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:23,240 things. The I'm awkward. 199 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:27,160 The I feel like the homeschool joke is like way dated in it. 200 00:10:27,200 --> 00:10:29,840 Maybe, yeah. Awkward because I'm homeschooled 201 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:33,240 I was homeschooled for like 6 years and we we have other we 202 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:35,040 have others at at the church that are homeschooled. 203 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:36,400 I just, I don't know, I feel like. 204 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:38,720 Did you take that line personally? 205 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:43,160 A little bit because I, I don't know if maybe maybe y'all talk 206 00:10:43,160 --> 00:10:45,520 about me around my back and maybe I am awkward because I'm 207 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:47,520 homeschooled but like, I don't know. 208 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:51,120 I feel like I, I get it. I get where that stigma came 209 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,280 from, but I don't. You'll never know for sure the. 210 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:57,680 Home school kids I know nowadays I feel like aren't awkward, no 211 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:00,560 that that used to be a thing. That just isn't true. 212 00:11:00,880 --> 00:11:04,680 It's true, but I mean like the perfectly crafted Polynesian 213 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:05,840 sauce. They're right. 214 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:07,560 That stuff is fantastic. There's. 215 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,320 A YouTube video like we just played the audio obviously, but 216 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:15,200 there's an actual video that is is fine and appropriate, but for 217 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,000 him to like. He's like dabbing. 218 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,200 Yeah, as as. It's awesome. 219 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:22,960 Like, I, yeah, when I heard that song, I was like, you know, I 220 00:11:22,960 --> 00:11:24,840 already, I already like this chicken. 221 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:27,760 And now I'm convinced it is in fact, the Lord's chicken. 222 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:30,600 'Cause this guy, he's legit, his name tag at the end says like 223 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,360 social media leader, like he's, he's like the exec in charge of 224 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,160 social media outreach for Chick-fil-A, right? 225 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:38,800 Good for him for thinking outside of the box. 226 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:39,920 Yeah, I thought it was pretty good. 227 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:41,400 I like that. We already, we already prayed 228 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:43,040 for you pre blessed. Like. 229 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,760 Pre blessed. That's some pre blessed chicken 230 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,280 right there. Start welcoming people into the 231 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:50,760 church. That way we already prayed for 232 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:53,280 you. Pre blessed, pre blessed, that's 233 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:55,760 pretty good. And that would actually be true. 234 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,320 Like we pray for you guys all the time. 235 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:02,760 So pre blessed all. Right, on that note and maybe so 236 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,560 many more things to unpack that we're just, we're just going to 237 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:07,920 leave that check it out. It's like a minute and a half 238 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:11,160 long on YouTube. It's good for a laugh. 239 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,280 But one of the Ask Me Anything questions that we haven't yet 240 00:12:15,320 --> 00:12:18,840 addressed and we've said the phrase in in sermons and on 241 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:20,920 Sunday mornings before. I brought up the song we sang, 242 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:25,960 but it was a question we got. What does love like Jesus really 243 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:27,960 mean? That's the question. 244 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,040 What does love like Jesus really mean? 245 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:35,760 Well, let me take at least the first part of this question, 246 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:37,680 which is going to sound less fun. 247 00:12:37,880 --> 00:12:40,200 And maybe Matt, you can jump in on the second part, which is 248 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:42,400 going to make you sound like a way nicer guy. 249 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:47,480 OK, so part of loving like Jesus is certainly telling the truth. 250 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:54,080 Now, when we get to any given gospel text, Jesus makes it 251 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,920 pretty clear. He lays out the standards with 252 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,680 which God wants us to live our lives. 253 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,440 And so he always does that with relationship in mind, with 254 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,480 growing you in mind, not beating you down. 255 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,200 So you're like, oh man, I, I'm, I, I stink at life, you know, 256 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:15,560 but he is going to tell you the truth what God's standard is. 257 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,080 And so even even thinking about like, OK, so for example, let's 258 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,960 go to the, I think the story is affectionately referred to as 259 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,760 the widow's mite, right? So you got all these, you know, 260 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:31,360 all these really religious people throwing in all this 261 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:34,000 money and the, and the crazy thing about that story is 262 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,240 they're literally they're, they're using copper and metal 263 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,400 coins and they're banging it off this thing. 264 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,800 So that way it's really loud. Sounds like a. 265 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:44,600 Lot. Sounds like a lot and she comes 266 00:13:44,600 --> 00:13:49,840 up and she drops her one not loud thing and so Jesus goes on 267 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:55,400 to speak the truth about, you know, her giving is greater than 268 00:13:55,680 --> 00:13:57,720 theirs. Now that's a law statement 269 00:13:57,720 --> 00:14:01,000 That's like you did this wrong. Your heart's in the wrong place. 270 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:05,120 Therefore it doesn't matter that you gave ample amounts more like 271 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,520 that's not what God wants right. So like that's that's a law 272 00:14:08,520 --> 00:14:11,240 truth statement, but he's doing that in love. 273 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,160 So that's, I would say that's like at least the first half of 274 00:14:15,160 --> 00:14:20,240 answering that question is like loving like Jesus absolutely has 275 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:23,720 to involve God's truth. Yeah, absolutely. 276 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:28,880 And even the truth hurts, like most of the time we feel guilt 277 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:32,960 or even like a tug to repentance, it's because the 278 00:14:32,960 --> 00:14:35,440 truth called us out. And that's usually how that 279 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,000 goes. I as it relates to that part, 280 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,640 the harder part of the question, I guess I usually think of the 281 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,600 loving like Jesus and giving truth. 282 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,440 You've maybe heard me bring it before because it's just where 283 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,000 my mind gravitates. But Matthew 19, it's in Mark and 284 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:52,120 Luke as well. But the story of Jesus and the 285 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:57,160 rich young ruler, he, he comes up to Jesus and asks him. 286 00:14:57,560 --> 00:14:59,360 He even refers to him. Good teacher. 287 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:02,160 Like it's I like, I like what you're given. 288 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:04,680 I agree with what you're saying at the law and the prophets I'm 289 00:15:04,680 --> 00:15:06,800 familiar with. I've kept all these things since 290 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,000 I was a boy, but what must I do to inherit eternal life? 291 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:14,920 And again, rich young ruler, this dude's probably dressed 292 00:15:14,920 --> 00:15:16,960 pretty dapper. He, he looks the part. 293 00:15:18,040 --> 00:15:22,040 And Jesus told him all of this. You have one thing you lack. 294 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:24,640 Sell your possessions. Everything you have, give it to 295 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:28,720 the poor and follow me. And the man went away sad for he 296 00:15:28,720 --> 00:15:33,000 had great wealth. Jesus, at no point we don't, we 297 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,360 don't know for sure that the story just kind of ends there. 298 00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:40,680 Jesus gave him a hard truth, a truth he didn't want to hear and 299 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:42,600 a truth that he wasn't ready to act on. 300 00:15:43,640 --> 00:15:48,400 And Jesus didn't chase him down and be like, Oh, no, no, I, I 301 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,720 was just kidding. You can, you can keep your stuff 302 00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:53,000 and still follow me. Like he didn't, he didn't 303 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:56,760 watered down. He, he didn't he, he did love, 304 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:02,160 not conditionally, but not, not, not not in any. 305 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,400 If you do this, you will have my love sort of way, but in a if 306 00:16:05,400 --> 00:16:09,200 you love me, this is how you do it, then this is how you. 307 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:13,040 So that's that's love like Jesus in that in that hard truth sort 308 00:16:13,040 --> 00:16:16,280 of way that there is there is right and wrong and there is a a 309 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:19,200 construct for it. Beyond that. 310 00:16:20,400 --> 00:16:26,760 It's that it's that praying for those who who curse you, bless 311 00:16:26,760 --> 00:16:32,680 those who are your enemies. Learn to desire to pray, to love 312 00:16:32,680 --> 00:16:38,800 those that aren't like you or or maybe don't like you in in some 313 00:16:38,800 --> 00:16:42,480 ways that that turn the other cheek mentality almost to that 314 00:16:42,480 --> 00:16:46,160 you love like Jesus in the sense that you love anyone, not 315 00:16:46,160 --> 00:16:51,240 necessarily like making allowance for sin. 316 00:16:51,240 --> 00:16:53,880 Not in that. Again, that's Jesus with the 317 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:55,160 rich young ruler. That's not what he did. 318 00:16:55,280 --> 00:16:56,680 He did. He didn't love him. 319 00:16:56,680 --> 00:17:00,880 He loved him enough to call him out on his sin to call you. 320 00:17:01,040 --> 00:17:03,120 You've done all this. You're so close. 321 00:17:03,120 --> 00:17:05,760 You're lacking one thing. I'm going to tell you right what 322 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:09,520 it is right to your face because because you asked and he didn't 323 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:13,040 water it down. That's that's loving like Jesus. 324 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,599 There's that unconditional aspect of it, but not 325 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,160 compromising truth. Ephesians 4 says speaking the 326 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,319 truth in love. Can't have one without the 327 00:17:21,319 --> 00:17:22,400 other. We've talked about that. 328 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:26,319 Because truth without love is hate, I mean. 329 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,040 It's gonna. Sound hateful yeah, not sorry I 330 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:33,960 spoke too absolutely there. It's it's not hate. 331 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,720 It sounds hateful though right. You you said that better yeah. 332 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,640 So that's and I even saw man I can't I can't the maybe y'all 333 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,440 you got to let me know if you're getting sick of the current 334 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:47,960 event stuff. But Keegan Clark, a pastor kind 335 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:52,200 of some of you post reels about him and he's a kind of he's a 336 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:55,360 very excitable young preacher usually has like a backwards hat 337 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:56,800 and a baggy and a baggy shirt on. 338 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:02,360 But he's he's a truth spitter and he had a reaction this past 339 00:18:02,360 --> 00:18:06,320 week that was in this love like Jesus vein just seeing all the 340 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,840 reaction to the events of last week and and US versus them and 341 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,400 this side versus that side. And he just said, I don't want 342 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,800 to address any of that. For those of you, for those of 343 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:23,520 you that are Christians, the, the way we, the way we're called 344 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:28,600 to react in this time is to pray for those we disagree with, to 345 00:18:28,680 --> 00:18:33,280 pray for those who hate us to, to pray for those that maybe we 346 00:18:33,280 --> 00:18:37,800 would think or call or or feel our evil. 347 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:41,960 That's the Jesus way. That that's the love like Jesus. 348 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:45,520 That's, that's the, and, and then those who are maybe against 349 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:47,920 Christianity wouldn't do that. It it would be a, it would be a 350 00:18:47,920 --> 00:18:50,640 call to arms, a call to war, a call to violence like that sort 351 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:52,560 of thing. That's not how Jesus loved. 352 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:56,680 That's he bless those who persecute you, pray for your 353 00:18:56,680 --> 00:18:58,320 enemies. That's that's. 354 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:59,960 Love like Jesus. Father, forgive them. 355 00:18:59,960 --> 00:19:01,520 They don't know what they're doing. 356 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:03,760 Yeah. The other, the other thing about 357 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:07,240 loving like Jesus, I think that's, again, just share a 358 00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,880 story. Well, what about a story of a 359 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:17,240 prostitute who is at his feet weeping on him and then drying 360 00:19:17,240 --> 00:19:22,120 the tears with her hair and the really good religious guy across 361 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:24,400 the table in his heart, and Jesus knows it. 362 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:28,720 He's like, there's no way, no way that woman would be touching 363 00:19:28,720 --> 00:19:31,600 him if he knew who she was. Oh, Jesus knew exactly who she 364 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,600 was. And he ended up telling a story 365 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:38,000 in her favor, in her favor. So I mean, the other way that we 366 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,800 love like Jesus is we look at the oppressed, we look at the 367 00:19:40,800 --> 00:19:44,960 downtrodden, We look at those who maybe whatever part of 368 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:48,240 society or culture that you think is best, they don't fit 369 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:50,520 in. And it's looking at them and 370 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:53,520 saying, you know what, I'm going to love you through this, you 371 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,440 know, and, and I'm going to, I'm going to be, I'm going to be on 372 00:19:56,440 --> 00:19:58,840 your side. Because that's what we see over 373 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:00,640 and over again in the Old Testament throughout the 374 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:03,640 prophets is it's one of the major themes of the prophets 375 00:20:03,640 --> 00:20:06,520 speaking. And it always comes down to, 376 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:08,640 yeah, but you have you cared for the widows? 377 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,800 Have you cared for the oppressed? 378 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,240 Have you done this? You've neglected these things. 379 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,840 You have not loved your neighbor the way that I have wanted you 380 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:18,080 to love them. And so, I mean, yeah, even 381 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,280 representing and standing up for those people who can sometimes 382 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,080 not stand up for themselves, that's also a part of loving 383 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:27,480 like Jesus, you know? Yep, absolutely. 384 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:30,600 So I think we covered a lot of it. 385 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,880 I don't I don't want to say all of it maybe, but I think we I 386 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:36,120 think we got the concept John, if you have more questions about 387 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:38,600 loving like Jesus, probably going to hear that phrase a lot 388 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:41,600 honestly, because that's what we're called do it's. 389 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,280 Not easy. It's not easy. 390 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:45,040 It is not easy. There's going to be some tense 391 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:48,240 moments if if you're praying for your enemies, if you're speaking 392 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:51,880 the truth, if you're loving those who cannot stand up for 393 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:55,720 themselves, You know what? You're you're maybe you have 394 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,120 some religious friends who are like, why are you hanging out 395 00:20:58,120 --> 00:20:59,480 with them? Why are you talking to them? 396 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,480 And then on the other side, you know, it's going to be like, why 397 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,800 are you so hard? You know, and that's, and that's 398 00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,320 the Jesus way. You can't, you can't put them 399 00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:12,320 too far one way or the other. He's going to he's going to push 400 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:16,040 hard on those who need it with the law and he's going to love 401 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:19,360 way bigger than people expect for the people who don't look 402 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:22,000 like they deserve it in both ways. 403 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:25,400 He's loving them well, and that's not an easy tightrope to 404 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:26,640 walk. Right. 405 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:28,800 And it's not something that we necessarily do. 406 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:32,160 That's, and the way we, we can't truly love them like Jesus, 407 00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:35,960 because I think we, we, we feel that tension at times or somehow 408 00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:38,480 we're being like taken advantage of. 409 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,640 I, I don't know, maybe that's not exactly how it goes, but it, 410 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,800 it almost seems like that's what, that's what grace is, 411 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:45,800 right? Like you're giving. 412 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,480 You're giving someone something they don't deserve. 413 00:21:48,920 --> 00:21:51,160 And. And that's our sinful selves 414 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,600 feeling like somehow we're the loser in that scenario by like 415 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,280 doling out, it's something that that someone doesn't deserve. 416 00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:04,400 But Jesus, Jesus wasn't a loser. He, he, he gave, he gave it all 417 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,840 and he was, he was the victor. So. 7 * 70 yeah, over and over 418 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:12,440 again, yeah. So yeah, that's love like Jesus 419 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:17,480 we are in Exodus chapter 3. I preached on verses one through 420 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,760 15 yesterday the the burning Bush passage in the in the 421 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,520 narrative in the story of Moses here we're two weeks into the 422 00:22:25,520 --> 00:22:30,400 our deliverer series and life groups this time around 2 of 12 423 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:31,960 weeks. So it's going to bring us right 424 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,480 up till advent. There are study guides still 425 00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:37,640 available at church if. You have there's a handful, 426 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,920 there's not a lot. But you have the you have the 427 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:44,880 digital copy no matter what, like we can still study guides 428 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:47,640 are $15 and and you have the digital copy that we could get 429 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,920 that as well, even if we run out of physical copies. 430 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,800 So if you still need one of those, either for life groups 431 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,440 for the life group that you're in and we can still find your 432 00:22:56,440 --> 00:22:58,680 life group if you're not plugged in to one. 433 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:01,360 Or if you just wanted to follow along with the sermons in your 434 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:04,920 own personal study that's available to contact me or Chris 435 00:23:04,920 --> 00:23:07,400 or or Kristen and we can get you hooked up with that. 436 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:12,360 But I preached, did you have what? 437 00:23:12,360 --> 00:23:13,800 We'll walk through the text here too. 438 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,240 But like anything that that jumped out at you or you feel 439 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,640 like I I left out or said weird or. 440 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:23,920 Actually, I, I got to give you some credit because I don't 441 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:25,600 think I put this in our study guide. 442 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:30,040 You clarified something that I think is if, if, if you're 443 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,560 paying attention to the text, you might have a question about 444 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,360 it and that is the Angel of the Lord. 445 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:39,440 And then wait, went, wait, so is he talking to an Angel or is he 446 00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,120 talking to God? Or is it both or what's 447 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,320 happening there? I actually. 448 00:23:43,320 --> 00:23:45,560 So if you haven't heard that, please go back and listen to the 449 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,680 sermon because I thought you covered that really well. 450 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:49,640 And I don't think I covered that in the study guide. 451 00:23:50,520 --> 00:23:53,360 But yeah, I think that's an important thing to pick up on 452 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:57,360 too, is that God sends a messenger sometimes to get our 453 00:23:57,360 --> 00:24:00,840 attention, right, the way that Moses attention was clearly 454 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:03,640 gotten. And then and then God's going to 455 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:06,600 speak and then we really need to listen. 456 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:10,640 The other thing that I thought you addressed well was like, why 457 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:12,280 wait? Why did you have to take off the 458 00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,360 sandals? What are we doing? 459 00:24:13,360 --> 00:24:14,960 What does that mean? You know? 460 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,760 And so you know, you addressing that as like, no, I'm, I'm 461 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:19,480 taking off the thing that's dirty. 462 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,160 And I and I couldn't help but think like, if you're walking 463 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:27,040 around 3000 years ago, there's no dog, you pick up poop bags. 464 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,840 No man, you're you're walking. Through everything. 465 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,880 You're walking through everything in your in your 466 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,960 sandals. If not, your feet are nasty. 467 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,040 And so, yeah, take those things off. 468 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:38,920 You're you're in a holy space right now. 469 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:40,400 Yeah, I thought that was cool too. 470 00:24:40,720 --> 00:24:42,320 Cool. Well, well, thanks. 471 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,680 Yeah, I enjoyed the study this week. 472 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,880 There were a couple of those language things that I just I 473 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,840 don't, I don't always you dive into the original languages and 474 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,240 some of the nuances that are more than I usually do with this 475 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:55,320 week. I thought there were a couple 476 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:58,640 clarification things that were important to bring out. 477 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,800 Sure. Yeah, I think one of the things 478 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:04,280 that we can definitely jump into is the name I am. 479 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,760 OK. So, you know, if you if you jump 480 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,360 into the original language, can I get a, you know, what's a good 481 00:25:11,360 --> 00:25:15,200 definition of that? Because I am is just really for 482 00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:18,680 us as modern day English speaker, that's just a strange 483 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:20,600 thing to call yourself. What does that really mean? 484 00:25:20,920 --> 00:25:25,600 So for sure we know that I am from a definition standpoint 485 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:31,120 really means I am creation, I am existence. 486 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:35,320 So when God gives you his name or gives Moses his name, what he 487 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:39,040 is saying just below the surface and the original hearers would 488 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:40,400 have understood this out of the gate. 489 00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:44,680 But what he's saying is I am everything that sustains 490 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:47,800 everything. There is nothing without me. 491 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:52,480 So, you know, when we when we do here I am, then we have to 492 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,960 hopefully pretty quickly acknowledge, oh, he's saying I 493 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:59,280 am existence itself. That's what he's indicating. 494 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:03,800 I am everything. Nothing exists outside of me. 495 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:07,960 That's impossible, you know, And so that's kind of an important 496 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:10,160 thing to think about in terms of the name. 497 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,840 And the other thing that we can note just in your Bibles. 498 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,760 And I think I did put this in the study is when you see Lord 499 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:22,160 in all capital letters, it's a replacement of God's holy I am 500 00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:26,520 name because Jewish people heard that name, received that name, 501 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,520 and then said we don't ever want to accidentally misuse that 502 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,280 name. So then it is replaced with the 503 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:36,000 Lord, all capital letters. And so then when you see Lord 504 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,320 with just a capital L, we're talking more generically Lord. 505 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,440 And then when you see it with no capitals, we're talking like a 506 00:26:44,440 --> 00:26:47,080 human Lord, like, oh, I'm the Lord of this castle. 507 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,920 And that's an all lowercase. So that's how you kind of work 508 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:51,520 through those things when you're reading your Bible. 509 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:55,000 Right. And then I I went a little 510 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,240 further than that and we did, we hadn't talked about this 511 00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:03,920 beforehand, but again that that same uppercase Lord again 512 00:27:03,920 --> 00:27:08,480 applied to Jesus by his disciples in in the New 513 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:13,920 Testament. So my my mind like, you know, 514 00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:17,880 when I had that moment in in study really of this, this is 515 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,040 and we have this Trinitarian God that yeah, that can be 516 00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:26,120 confusing, but that breaks down kind of the compartmentalization 517 00:27:26,120 --> 00:27:29,400 because going into the week and I brought this up at our life 518 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,240 group too. Like if you just hear the name 519 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,120 Yahweh, which of the three of the Trinity do you think of? 520 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,120 God the Father. Is the Father like look, it's 521 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,120 absolutely father is like the default setting for who Yahweh 522 00:27:41,120 --> 00:27:45,880 is, but but it's all of like it's all three of them. 523 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,160 None of them are separate from that. 524 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:53,760 I am who I am even even at the beginning, Father creator was 525 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:55,320 there at the beginning. The word was hovering. 526 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,160 The word was there at the beginning and the spirit was 527 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:01,040 hovering over the waters like all of it. 528 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,240 I all three are. I am. 529 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,240 And that was the other part of the just like state of being. 530 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:13,840 Obviously that's England. I am not an English major or I 531 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:15,960 really don't even understand most of the like technical 532 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,600 aspects of that. Like if you tell me what like a 533 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,880 present infinitive is like, I don't, I don't. 534 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:22,960 Know, but you busted that out pretty quick. 535 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:24,800 That's pretty good. Is that a thing? 536 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,080 Like I felt like I just jammed 2 grammatical words together. 537 00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:30,240 OK. I don't know what it is either, 538 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:32,320 so it just sounded cool to be honest. 539 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:34,320 A present infinitive. That's real thing. 540 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:38,360 For a living and publicly admitting these things, OK 541 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,880 great. But that state of being, I am 542 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,120 who I am. You're right, it sounds really 543 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:45,400 simplistic, but it also has to be true. 544 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:51,600 If he was and has always been like that, then he just is. 545 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:56,800 If he ever wasn't, he isn't. I am right like. 546 00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,040 I hear what you're saying. Yeah, great. 547 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,720 But, well, and you know, The thing is, going back to what you 548 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,280 were just saying about Jesus is also I am. 549 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,720 He makes that painfully clear. And in fact, it's one of the 550 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:12,200 moments where there is an attempt at his life before 551 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:16,760 Abraham was I M And then they pick up stones 'cause they're 552 00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:23,000 like, you just called yourself the holy perfect name of God. 553 00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:25,640 You cannot do that. Like, he's running around 554 00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:28,080 saying, you know, talking about forgiving sins and all this kind 555 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,960 of stuff and doing miracles. And they don't love that. 556 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:35,040 But it's when he says I am, that they're like, all right, you 557 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,520 need to die now. So he clearly identifies himself 558 00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,000 as the great I am. I am existence. 559 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,960 Yeah. So he is that as well. 560 00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:49,640 Yep, and just as we, as we dig into the Christology of, of the 561 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:54,040 Bible, this was, I don't want to say preparatory because Jesus 562 00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:58,480 wasn't the the sacrifice. There was no sacrifice of Jesus 563 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:01,440 in the story of, of Moses, obviously, but we kind of get a 564 00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:05,840 foreshadowing of him as, as the deliverer coming, coming down. 565 00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,200 I am the one who delivers my people and in this moment it's 566 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:16,040 it's by my power 2000 years, 1800 years ish late later after 567 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,320 after Moses, when I'm actually down then it is by my blood, it 568 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,480 is by my body that I might my people's deliverer so. 569 00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:25,880 Well, and when we look at we Christians, we need to read the 570 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,880 Bible with the right overall narrative in mind. 571 00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:33,880 So as Jesus says, you know, he explains to everybody from Moses 572 00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:37,680 and the prophets and the Psalms, it's all about me, OK, Well, 573 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:42,640 when God says I'm coming down to deliver you, OK, this delivery 574 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,240 in the story of Exodus, that is almost like, well, it's the Old 575 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,120 Testament, It's the old covenant, It's the old promise. 576 00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:52,880 Here's the agreement that I've got with you right now, But 577 00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:54,680 there's a better covenant coming. 578 00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,480 And that is predicted all throughout the Old Testament. 579 00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:03,480 And so then when Jesus comes in bodily form down to deliver us, 580 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,240 it's not a momentary thing, it's a forever thing. 581 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:08,680 And he got real personal, real fast. 582 00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:15,600 And so, yeah, even chapter 3, it is predictive of Jesus walking 583 00:31:15,600 --> 00:31:17,760 on earth. Because I'm coming down to 584 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,560 deliver you. I'm going to make it personal 585 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:21,640 and I'm going to get it done once and for all. 586 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,400 So very cool. I love how this does in fact 587 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,520 foreshadow Jesus coming down to deliver. 588 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,880 Yep, and I said it in the sermon yesterday. 589 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,520 I talked about that parallelism and the and the Christology and 590 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,200 how we're looking for Jesus in every passage. 591 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,800 I don't I don't say that as find. 592 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:47,040 That's not like a Where's Waldo? Is Jesus wearing a red and white 593 00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,360 striped shirt right? No, no, no. 594 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:55,520 And I also don't say it in the spirit of you need to figure out 595 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,320 a way to jam Jesus. I do think the whole of the 596 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:05,680 Bible does point to Jesus, but is he in every 15 verse cluster 597 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:11,320 of the Bible like explicitly the not the way that he is here. 598 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,360 No, I don't I don't I'm not saying that and you and you 599 00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:18,280 don't need to figure out where he is in each little 15 verse 600 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,520 cluster in that, but it does it points to it. 601 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:25,200 It screams who he is the character of God. 602 00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,000 And again, we're not, we're not going to can't compartmentalize 603 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,760 really the the character of the Father is the character of the 604 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:34,440 son is the character of the Holy Spirit. 605 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,240 Like they are each all the things they have. 606 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:43,200 They have separate roles and they have separate ways they are 607 00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:45,680 revealed and act and work together. 608 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:51,680 But at their core, there's nothing, there's nothing that 609 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,560 really compartmentalizes them that way. 610 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,960 It's not as if Yahweh is only reserved for. 611 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,320 Correct. So beautiful. 612 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:05,160 That's a great way to say that as we look at the burning Bush, 613 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,560 you know, one of the cool things and and I thought you spoke of 614 00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,920 that well, yesterday too. One of the cool things that, you 615 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,480 know, I think you and I talked about this a little bit and not 616 00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,680 everything can come out in the sermon, which is why we're 617 00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:18,800 talking about it here. But one of the things that I 618 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:20,880 think that you and I were talking about with the burning 619 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,680 Bush and just, you know, bringing that forward into like 620 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:29,040 an applicable sense for us is sometimes man, in order for God 621 00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,960 to get our attention, our lives, we need to see something that no 622 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:38,080 longer makes sense. So, you know, Moses, he's 623 00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:42,760 hanging out as you described in the Bush, just keeps burning and 624 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:45,600 we don't even know how long it burned for before Moses like, 625 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,440 all right, this doesn't make any sense. 626 00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,000 I got I got to go check this thing out. 627 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,440 Well, same thing with our lives sometimes. 628 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,000 Like we are going to hit some sort of wall, whether that's 629 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:56,480 emotionally, financially, whatever. 630 00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:58,720 And we're going to look at our lives and say, man, this isn't 631 00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:00,240 working. It doesn't make sense. 632 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:04,480 And so at the point where things are no longer making sense and 633 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:08,320 man, all of a sudden we're going to turn, we're going to start 634 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,400 looking a different direction. And God, man, just like it all 635 00:34:12,400 --> 00:34:15,040 comes back. We talked about the necessity of 636 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,880 storms, right? OK, so God's going to get our 637 00:34:17,880 --> 00:34:21,199 attention when things aren't working, when it's unusual, when 638 00:34:21,199 --> 00:34:23,760 it doesn't seem to be going the way that we think it should go. 639 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:27,199 Same thing here, right? So I, I love that. 640 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,920 And I think that's just another thing that needs to point us 641 00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:33,520 back to God when things seem weird out of sorts. 642 00:34:34,280 --> 00:34:38,120 He's asking for our attention. Yeah, he's, he's breaking up the 643 00:34:38,199 --> 00:34:41,440 other things that we're we're paying attention 2. 644 00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:46,120 You the paying attention thing that was that was pretty slick. 645 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,520 I'm going to give you that man. That was pretty. 646 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:51,000 Slick I I wish I I had a little regret. 647 00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:53,480 I feel like I didn't milk that for I. 648 00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:55,880 I mean, you could have ran with that the entire time. 649 00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:58,720 I could have squeezed the the fruit a little bit more there 650 00:34:58,720 --> 00:35:02,320 from that, but I think I hope the point came out well. 651 00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:05,200 And I, I feel like that's also, I feel like that's also a song 652 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,560 lyrics somewhere that the, the currency of time is attention 653 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:12,520 somewhere in there. So look for that to come. 654 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:15,040 Keep working on that because I was like, oh, that's slick. 655 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:16,200 Thank you. Yeah. 656 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,000 I don't remember where I had heard that from someone else. 657 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:24,240 It was not an original thought, but it it captured my captured 658 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,080 my imagination. And I know that stuck with 659 00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:29,480 several of you already, that the currency of time is attention. 660 00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:32,120 So what are we paying attention to? 661 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:36,320 But even thinking about the Bush and I, I, I also didn't 662 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,280 articulate this very well. I just said like the Bush 663 00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,600 spontaneously combusted. That just sounds crazy. 664 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,760 But but that isn't. I think you or I, if we, even if 665 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:49,720 we, if we're walking a dog or, or even tending sheep, I'm not a 666 00:35:49,720 --> 00:35:52,280 farmer or a shepherd or, or anything close to that. 667 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:53,960 And none of you mistake me for that at all. 668 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:56,120 But I don't, I don't give you that impression. 669 00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,440 So maybe, maybe I shouldn't be surprised. 670 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,840 But if I was shepherding sheep and something was on fire, I 671 00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,720 think my reaction would be like, we got we got to do something. 672 00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,160 The fire itself caused no reaction for that. 673 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,320 That's why I kind of said it was just like commonplace that it 674 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:15,560 there was just, Nope, just a Bush burn. 675 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,320 And what caught his attention was, oh, the Bush is still 676 00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:22,400 burning it. It should have, it shouldn't be 677 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,480 a Bush anymore. Like it it's burned long enough 678 00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:28,120 that the Bush should be gone. I need I need to go check that 679 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:29,960 out. So I don't know, to me, it's 680 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,680 like that would have caught my attention enough was was that 681 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,480 this thing is on fire. But that didn't that that wasn't 682 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,680 the weird thing for him. It was that it kept going. 683 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:43,200 And also to what you were saying about I am and, and I think you 684 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,240 brought this out in the study guide for sure. 685 00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,000 The Bush was so the fire was self-sustaining and, and like 686 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:54,120 that is God's, that's the essence of God, right? 687 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,040 That that he is. So even in that we see like 688 00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,880 physical aspect, we see, we see that played out in God in, in 689 00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,920 the perpetuity of the fire of the Bush. 690 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:08,560 Also a little ironic that we would, we would say that our God 691 00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,720 is an all consuming fire. And you did bring this out, but 692 00:37:10,720 --> 00:37:14,320 and and yet didn't consume the Bush like didn't, didn't do that 693 00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:18,600 because he's not consuming. Himself, that's right, he can't 694 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,480 because he, he is alpha and Omega. 695 00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:23,600 He is forever. He doesn't have a beginning, he 696 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:27,040 doesn't have an end, therefore he cannot be consumed. 697 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:30,720 Now on the other side of that coin is where grace comes in, 698 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:33,520 because the upside down Kingdom of God. 699 00:37:33,840 --> 00:37:36,080 What did God do to his Son to save us? 700 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:37,960 He consumed him. Yep. 701 00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:42,560 Yeah, so all these crazy good, I'm like. 702 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,360 Isn't it great? Like you study God's word and 703 00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,280 you're like, Oh my gosh, he had all this figured out. 704 00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:51,040 He's so smart, right? As if we're surprised that he's 705 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:53,080 so smart. As if we're surprised because, 706 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,040 yes, as if we're surprised. A lot of time we are surprised 707 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,280 that he's so smart. And, and towards the end of this 708 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:03,640 passage, Moses kind of gets into that too, because he, he has 709 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:08,240 opposition. He explains, he explains his 710 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:10,000 plan and I brought this out yesterday. 711 00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:13,560 He gets down to Moses's level and he says, I, I get it. 712 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:19,480 I understand the oppression. I understand the injustice. 713 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,920 I've, I've felt it. And that might seem weird 714 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,520 because to this point, we don't, we don't, we don't have a whole 715 00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:31,120 lot the, the wrongdoing against God to this point is the sin of 716 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,680 people, right? Fast forward to Jesus and, and 717 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,560 yes, the parallels are absolutely clear that the father 718 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:40,880 now felt this. The Father turned his face away 719 00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,440 and Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice. 720 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,960 And OK, so that, yes, he lost his dearly beloved and, and 721 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,600 feels the oppression. But Moses's response to this is 722 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:57,920 like, I don't know if you know me, but I'm like not I'm not the 723 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:00,280 guy you're looking for. I don't. 724 00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,920 I don't think you. I don't think I am who you think 725 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,000 I am. Yeah, verse 11. 726 00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,480 But Moses said to God, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and 727 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:10,800 bring the children of Israel out of Egypt, right. 728 00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:13,360 Yeah, Who am I? Like, really? 729 00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:16,200 Yeah, Yeah. I mean, don't we feel that way 730 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,480 though? Because quite honestly, even in 731 00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:22,160 the role I'm in, you know, right now at Emmaus Rd. 732 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,200 Church, there are absolutely moments, there are sometimes 733 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:31,680 even full days where I'm like, Lord, what really like I there 734 00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,720 are there aren't there better people for this job than me? 735 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,280 I am so broken. I am so sinful. 736 00:39:38,280 --> 00:39:41,360 I am so messed up in myself. And I'm not saying that 737 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,040 generically, I mean that stuff like I mean that like and it and 738 00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,760 and I have thought, who am I like, and I think we all get 739 00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:51,640 that way from time to time in any given calling, especially if 740 00:39:51,640 --> 00:39:55,680 that, especially as it as it relates to God. 741 00:39:56,000 --> 00:40:00,640 Who am I to lead a small group? Who am I to, you know, hang out 742 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:02,160 with these kids and tell them about Jesus? 743 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,280 Who am I to go to my Co worker and tell them the truth and 744 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:05,920 love? Who am I? 745 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,360 You know, we do this stuff all the time because the devil gets 746 00:40:09,360 --> 00:40:11,960 right at us. He gets right at us and makes us 747 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,840 feel small. Even though God said you're a 748 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,360 son, you're a daughter, you're my ambassador, you are my hands 749 00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,040 and feet. And I need you to be working. 750 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:22,760 I'm going to be with you in that process, but I need you to. 751 00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,800 I need you to stay vigilant. And that's really, I mean, the 752 00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,960 last thing you said is, is the first thing that God says, who 753 00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:31,160 are you? I will certainly be with you. 754 00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:33,440 Who are you? You're you're the one I'm going 755 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:36,880 with. So saddle up like that's, that's 756 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:40,640 that's what makes you qualified. I'm the one I'm going to be with 757 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,440 you. So you're so you're the one 758 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:47,760 that's going and, and as if Moses could bring this is, this 759 00:40:47,760 --> 00:40:51,000 is what's so funny to me. He doesn't even, he doesn't 760 00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:55,440 question his belief that God can do this. 761 00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:58,160 Like at no point in this passage, he's like, are you 762 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:02,560 like, Are you sure that you can like get these people out? 763 00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,760 Have you thought about we got, we got across the sea and 764 00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:07,840 there's like millions of them. So we got to bring a lot of 765 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,480 food. And like he doesn't, he doesn't 766 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:14,000 get into the none of that causes disbelief in Moses. 767 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:16,640 He's just like, I believe you can do that. 768 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:19,680 I just don't believe that I can like that. 769 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:24,040 You want to work through me and and God, it's not about you. 770 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,920 It's it's it's who I am. And you know what I'm with you. 771 00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:33,120 I chose you, I sent you and even even you Pastor Chris now in in 772 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,760 that and I I feel the same tensions that you do, but guess 773 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,640 what? God chose you to be here. 774 00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:43,360 You might feel unqualified, but because you're the one that God 775 00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:45,040 chose, you're the one that God sent. 776 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,400 You're the one that God goes along with to care for this 777 00:41:47,400 --> 00:41:50,320 people at this time. You are the right one. 778 00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:54,440 You are you are the 1 here and now that God is going to use. 779 00:41:54,600 --> 00:41:56,000 Yep, and we need to, you know what? 780 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:58,240 Thank you for that. We need to speak that truth over 781 00:41:58,240 --> 00:42:01,960 our lives over and over again, especially when the devil starts 782 00:42:01,960 --> 00:42:04,960 to get a foothold on our hearts and on our minds. 783 00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:07,320 Man, we need to speak that gospel truth right over 784 00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:09,240 ourselves that yeah, you're right. 785 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,280 Well, and, and I love it. I've heard it this way. 786 00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,960 You know, when the devil tells you all the things and all the 787 00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:17,640 reasons why you're the worst, just agree with him and say, 788 00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:21,760 yeah, but I've got a, I've got Jesus so you can say all those 789 00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:22,920 things. And I'm not even going to argue 790 00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,560 with you about those things. I am all those things, but I've 791 00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,520 got Jesus, so you can go take a hike. 792 00:42:28,080 --> 00:42:30,880 Yeah, and that's, and that's really what we see in this in 793 00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,360 this picture too. God, God's believing in Moses 794 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,440 more than Moses himself isn't like, like I said, Moses isn't 795 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:38,680 even questioning God. He's not even questioning the I 796 00:42:39,280 --> 00:42:42,600 don't really think you can do what you what you say you do. 797 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:44,280 It's it's more of the self doubt in me. 798 00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:47,800 And this is in the, this is in the Christian meme Hall of Fame 799 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:49,600 already. So maybe then maybe you've heard 800 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,120 it 1000 times. But like when God, when God 801 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:55,840 plays a calling on your life or plays a plan on your life, he's 802 00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,360 already factored in your stupidity, right? 803 00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:02,640 Like you can't and, and later the next, the next chapter is 804 00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:06,040 the well, I'm not a Moses says I'm not an eloquent, eloquent 805 00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,560 speaker as I pronounce eloquent nice. 806 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,280 And and he starts to make like more specific objections against 807 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,280 why he shouldn't be the one to do it. 808 00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,680 And then God makes a way. He calls, he calls Aaron and he 809 00:43:19,680 --> 00:43:23,840 and he tells his brother Aaron, Hey, Moses is coming back. 810 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,520 I've I've shown him all these things. 811 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:29,200 I need you to go out to the wilderness and and meet him. 812 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:31,080 And and this is how this is going to work. 813 00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:34,920 And you have to be this advocate, this, this emissary 814 00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,680 basically as as an advocate because you're in, you've been 815 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:41,320 in with the Israelites for the past 80 years and I need you to 816 00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,320 advocate for him to them. And, and this is my plan and how 817 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,320 it's going to play out. So God already has all the, the 818 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:52,560 i's dotted and the T's crossed. Moses had to get over himself. 819 00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:56,960 And we, we so often have to have to get over ourselves and 820 00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:01,120 realize that, yeah, God's aware of who he's working with. 821 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:05,360 There's nothing you could bring to him and be like, but, but did 822 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:07,560 you know this? Did you know this thing that 823 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:11,520 would, like disqualify me from from being who you want me to 824 00:44:11,520 --> 00:44:13,360 be? Yeah, he does. 825 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:17,360 He he already factored that in. You know, and the, the one of 826 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,520 the things that would be a little bit harder or not, it's, 827 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,560 it's, it's less obvious to draw out, but as you talked about, it 828 00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:26,040 makes sense. You're never alone. 829 00:44:26,560 --> 00:44:29,400 If God calls you into mission, you're never alone. 830 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,160 And let me name why. First and foremost, if it is his 831 00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:36,440 mission, he goes with you unequivocally. 832 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:39,000 And that enough is enough, of course. 833 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,240 But think about how Jesus sends out those who are going to 834 00:44:42,240 --> 00:44:45,520 preach the Kingdom of God. He sends them out two by two. 835 00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:50,720 And you know, so we we look at how God wants to use us and how 836 00:44:50,720 --> 00:44:54,560 he wants us to get involved in his mission to bring the gospel 837 00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,520 to people's lives. Rarely is that a solo act. 838 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,480 If God's the one who's saying, hey, I got this for you. 839 00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:06,160 Now, sure, there are pastors out there who are solo pastors at a 840 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,280 small church, but are they doing the work alone? 841 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,960 Absolutely not. You have people in that church 842 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:15,720 who love the Lord, who if you're the leader that God wants you to 843 00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:18,240 be, you're not going to be doing this by yourself. 844 00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,560 You're you're God is asking you to lead those people so that 845 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,400 they can lead others, right? It's the same thing that we do 846 00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:29,880 here. We couldn't do a 10th of what we 847 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:35,640 do without the huge swath of volunteers who see the mission 848 00:45:35,640 --> 00:45:39,040 of God as their own community. And they can even see that 849 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,720 mission by holding a door open or by serving coffee or by 850 00:45:42,720 --> 00:45:45,920 hanging out with teenagers or by doing praise music. 851 00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:50,720 Like in all of these ways, like we are not alone, you know, and 852 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:52,800 they are not alone. So God is calling us into 853 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:56,160 mission with others and of course most importantly, with 854 00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,880 Himself. And and the last kind of thing I 855 00:45:59,920 --> 00:46:03,320 leave you with in that on this on this line of thought, it's 856 00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,360 something that Joby Martin was a lead pastor of the conference we 857 00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:09,960 went to last week Church of the 1122 He's got a built for more 858 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,840 podcast. We're digging into his book for 859 00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,040 men's ministry. I think I. 860 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:17,280 Can't remember the title right? Three or four weeks from now, 861 00:46:17,280 --> 00:46:20,280 we're going to get that started. Yeah, so, but one of the things 862 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:23,240 I've heard him say before on on Reels and podcast, but he said 863 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:25,040 it this past week, past week too. 864 00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,440 If it's not good, God's not done. 865 00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:33,800 He works all things together for the good of those who love him. 866 00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:36,600 So if it's not good, he's not done. 867 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:40,920 If it, if it's within his will and you're called to this and 868 00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:42,920 it's but it's not, it's not finished. 869 00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,560 It's not good because even I brought up Adam and Eve 870 00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:52,000 yesterday too, and man was alone and, and God saw that it was not 871 00:46:52,000 --> 00:46:53,640 good, right? That that's the first time in 872 00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,680 the creation. Everything else was, was good, 873 00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,840 was done. It was not good that man was 874 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:02,320 alone, so he made so he made a helper, he made a he made a 875 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,560 companion so that he wouldn't be alone. 876 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,800 And that into your point that you're that you're not alone. 877 00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:11,640 It wasn't good, but God wasn't done, and he made it good by by 878 00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:13,520 making man not alone. Awesome. 879 00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:17,960 Yeah, Well, and how does God identify himself here? 880 00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,040 How does he get Moses to wrap his head around the fact that, 881 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:25,120 yeah, he is forever. He always has been, always will 882 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,440 be. Well, he names the patriarchs. 883 00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:31,000 Yeah, he names them. He says I am the God of your 884 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:32,760 father's, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. 885 00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:36,440 I am the same God who brought them through all of the stories 886 00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:39,240 that you've ever heard. And of course, Moses, no doubt 887 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:43,800 he has been told these moments in history his entire life. 888 00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,040 Again, he knew his parents. He knew his siblings. 889 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:48,760 Like he was well aware of who he was, what his culture is. 890 00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:53,840 And so when God tells him I am the father of your Father's, 891 00:47:54,600 --> 00:47:56,880 Moses knows exactly what he's talking about. 892 00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,960 And that gives him good reason for pause. 893 00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:00,480 Yeah. Oh, that God. 894 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,840 The Oh yeah, the God. The God, not the not the God or 895 00:48:04,840 --> 00:48:07,320 gods that the Egyptians told me to worship. 896 00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,520 The sun God and the this God and this God. 897 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:13,960 No, like capital GI am God. That's who I'm dealing with, 898 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,760 yeah. And it's amazing, I think, 899 00:48:18,600 --> 00:48:22,040 because I brought up how it, it seems like Moses could have felt 900 00:48:22,040 --> 00:48:26,360 like those 40 years were wasted. What like, and, and it was 901 00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:28,720 brought up to me this past week and I felt a little guilt from 902 00:48:28,720 --> 00:48:31,160 it to some someone, someone brought up to me. 903 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:36,160 Man, if I, if I knew what I knew now or if I thought about my 904 00:48:36,160 --> 00:48:38,880 faith, the way that I think about it now, if I just, if I 905 00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:41,640 just knew this six years ago, how, how different would my life 906 00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:44,440 be? And that's, that's an easy place 907 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,160 to get into and beat yourself up about and, and feel like this 908 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:49,640 could have been different. That's only it's only human like 909 00:48:50,200 --> 00:48:52,640 question, question our past and what it would be like if I did 910 00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:55,280 this differently. But you're here now, you know 911 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,680 it, you know it now, now and now it's time. 912 00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:01,960 That wasn't a period of of waste. 913 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,400 That was a period of waiting. That was a period of of readying 914 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:09,880 you for where you're at the understanding you have today. 915 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:17,840 So Moses in that to, to understand how, how quickly it 916 00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,680 comes back to him because he hasn't again, he's been raised 917 00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,360 by the Egyptians. And yeah, he had some, maybe 918 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:27,920 some spiritual awareness, definitely academic awareness 919 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:30,160 of, of the history and and who God was. 920 00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:33,080 But the Midianites, they weren't, he was 40 years in 921 00:49:33,080 --> 00:49:37,680 Egypt, 40 years in Midian. They weren't like encouraging 922 00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:40,640 him or start starting the the church in Midian that that 923 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:45,080 wasn't that wasn't how he wasn't like pre Paul in here and in 924 00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:47,280 Midian, but that wasn't happening. 925 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:53,400 And yet all it takes is God speaking truth and the and light 926 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:58,000 bulb goes on and all it all comes flooding back to him. 927 00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:05,400 Oh, that, that the, the, the fervor of of the youth of my 928 00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:08,520 faith, right like that. It all comes flooding back to 929 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:12,280 even even at 40 years of whatever waste or waiting or or 930 00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:13,920 inactivity, whatever you want to see. 931 00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,360 All it took was him running back, coming back to God paying 932 00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,880 attention. The spirit got it got his 933 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:21,880 attention. The messenger got his attention. 934 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:25,920 He looked God spoke and he and he responded. 935 00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:29,760 It all came back in that instant and and that struck me this week 936 00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,200 that whatever 40 years didn't matter. 937 00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,400 That one moment undid those 40 years, and now he's now he's 938 00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:38,000 back on the job. And even thinking about those 40 939 00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:41,280 years, if you have some personal things where you're like, man, 940 00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:45,080 I, I feel like I, as I come into a mature faith, I, I can look 941 00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,960 back and say, yeah, I, gosh, I feel like I wasted this part or 942 00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:49,880 I missed the gift somewhere along the way. 943 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:51,840 No, you didn't. No, you didn't. 944 00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:55,520 Because guess what? God knows that Moses is going to 945 00:50:55,520 --> 00:51:00,080 be the leader of a rebellious people, and so how is he 946 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:04,640 silently training Moses to be patient and to love in the midst 947 00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:07,880 of just people doing stupid things? 948 00:51:08,240 --> 00:51:12,040 Well, any, any anybody I've ever listened to who knows a lot more 949 00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:16,720 about sheep will tell you. Yeah, they wander and they, they 950 00:51:16,720 --> 00:51:19,760 tend not to, you know, they're not thinking big about their 951 00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:22,400 decisions. Sheep just kind of go, I feel 952 00:51:22,400 --> 00:51:23,680 like going left. So they go left. 953 00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:27,680 And so Moses as the leader of the people is going to have to 954 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:30,800 like, catch all of the strays. He's going to have to catch 955 00:51:30,800 --> 00:51:33,120 their wandering hearts over and over again. 956 00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,320 And so, man, do you think God is training Moses to be patient and 957 00:51:37,320 --> 00:51:39,360 loving by working with sheep for 40 years? 958 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:41,480 You're darn right he is. Because guess what? 959 00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:46,120 He's about to multiply that flock by about 1000, and it's 960 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:48,560 going to take some big love and some big patience to work with 961 00:51:48,560 --> 00:51:52,280 these people, so he definitely not wasted time. 962 00:51:52,280 --> 00:51:54,200 No, it was. It was definitely a period of 963 00:51:54,200 --> 00:51:57,880 readying and and waiting in ways that Moses didn't even realize 964 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:00,360 at the time. Afterwards, could look back on 965 00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,760 and and see the fruitfulness of that time for. 966 00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:06,520 Sure. So yeah, ask yourself if, if, if 967 00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:08,920 you can think back and say, man, I wasn't really walking with the 968 00:52:08,920 --> 00:52:11,400 Lord. And I wish I had that time back. 969 00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:13,240 I wish I knew better back then. Yeah. 970 00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:16,600 But because you didn't know better, God was training you and 971 00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:19,960 pushing you and giving you some lessons that you can apply now. 972 00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:23,120 Nothing goes to waste in God's economy. 973 00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,400 There's nothing wasted in his in his economy. 974 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,160 So look back at some of those things that maybe initially you 975 00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:34,480 regretted or whatever and say, OK, let me ask the question, how 976 00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,840 is God using that now? Because guess what? 977 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:39,680 He is. Nothing goes to waste. 978 00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:43,640 That's good. I I'm ready to leave it right 979 00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:47,120 there, man. I don't I don't think we have 980 00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:51,080 anything else to add little shorter this week, but I think 981 00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,720 there's still a lot of goodness in there in following up the 982 00:52:54,720 --> 00:52:57,640 conversation on on the message from this week and we've got 983 00:52:57,640 --> 00:53:00,880 lots more Moses ahead. I'm so excited. 984 00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:03,680 I, I really am, man. I am so pumped about this 985 00:53:03,680 --> 00:53:05,040 series. I love it. 986 00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:08,440 I love hanging out with Moses and the Israelites and I just 987 00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:12,360 think they reflect so much of their rebellion and, and all 988 00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:13,960 those kinds of things. And then God's goodness and 989 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,200 steadfast love, it so reflects us. 990 00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:20,880 We're just really not that much different. 991 00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:27,160 Heads up if you are a pre preparer, if you'd like to be 992 00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:31,280 prepared or just know what we're preaching on the next few weeks. 993 00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:34,680 We're jumping. We're taking quite a jump in the 994 00:53:34,840 --> 00:53:37,600 narrative next week and week 3. We're actually going all the way 995 00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:41,960 up to chapter 12, getting through all the Moses going back 996 00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,720 to Egypt and all, and all the plagues and his interaction with 997 00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,520 with Pharaoh and the people of Israel and those things. 998 00:53:47,520 --> 00:53:50,640 So we're going to be all the way into chapter 12 come next 999 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:52,640 Sunday. So if you want to catch up and 1000 00:53:52,640 --> 00:53:56,240 read 4 through 11, four through 12, even if you want to get into 1001 00:53:56,240 --> 00:53:58,640 that, we're not going to read all that on Sunday. 1002 00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,680 If you want to catch up on the narrative and do that in your 1003 00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:02,680 own study. Just wanted to give you a heads 1004 00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,240 up with that. We'll make sure we're we're 1005 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:08,360 there come Sunday morning like we're we're going to make sure 1006 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,160 that that you you catch the in between moments. 1007 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:14,240 But we just do that in pretty quickly, right? 1008 00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,480 You know, we've got ways. Yeah, we've got ways. 1009 00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,120 Awesome, thanks for hanging with us, Church. 1010 00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:20,040 Have a blessed week.