1 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:15,280 Happy Monday. I'm Pastor Matt back with the RC 2 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:20,040 Leftovers podcast with you all, Pastor Chris Speed treat. 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,400 Is also. Here today. 4 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,160 We're just we're, that's where we're starting. 5 00:00:26,760 --> 00:00:27,760 We're just. We're just. 6 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:31,120 You've done weeks two weeks in a row on Sundays that have like 7 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:35,680 new nickname for you. I came out all y'all were 8 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,400 hanging out after church last week long time. 9 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:40,480 It was fun. People were just couldn't get 10 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:41,960 you to leave the building weren't trying to get you to 11 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,600 leave the building, but people were hanging out fellowship and 12 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,520 conversing. I was solo dating it this 13 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,600 weekend. Emily was up at the women's 14 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:53,400 retreat at I point with the group of ladies that went up 15 00:00:53,400 --> 00:00:55,440 there. And so my kids are just all 16 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,720 y'all cared for my kids really well. 17 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:00,240 Sunday morning they were just kind of everywhere. 18 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:03,600 And I see them running out of your office with Rice Krispie 19 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:06,760 treats at, like, 11:00, 11/30, whatever. 20 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,960 And I asked them because sometimes, like, students just 21 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:12,680 go in there and just, like, pilfer your snacks. 22 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:14,080 Did Pastor Chris give these things? 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:15,360 Yeah, of course. He gave them to us. 24 00:01:15,440 --> 00:01:20,840 Oh, oh, did he now? And I think it was Derek that 25 00:01:20,840 --> 00:01:21,520 said. All right. 26 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:25,000 So yeah, Pastor Crispy treat. Pastor crispy treat. 27 00:01:25,120 --> 00:01:26,760 Right crispy treat. Yeah. 28 00:01:26,840 --> 00:01:32,040 OK, so here's the thing. I have become the resident, 29 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:35,920 like, you know, what's the word, what's the phrase Funko, fun 30 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:39,160 uncle. I have become the resident Funko 31 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,240 for a lot of the kids around this church. 32 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:45,840 If nothing else, simply because my maturity level is similar to 33 00:01:45,840 --> 00:01:51,600 theirs and I tend to give away a lot of food and sugary items. 34 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,200 I have snacks now. It did get, it did get to the 35 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,640 point where like I have to like lock up the snacks now because 36 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:02,720 like, God bless them, the kids, they're so comfortable with me 37 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,720 at this point that they're just like I do, that's my office as 38 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:08,240 much as it's Pastor Chris's. So like, I'll just go in there 39 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:10,720 and take what I want. So I have, I have started 40 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:13,000 locking them up. So kids are aware of that. 41 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,800 And so now that they know that they're not just super readily 42 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:20,160 available when I hand them out like I did yesterday to your 43 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:24,240 dear, sweet little children, there's some element of surprise 44 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,560 again. And that's kind of fun. 45 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:30,080 But but yeah, Chris Pastor crispy treats. 46 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,400 Yep, that's fine. I I can, I can live with that. 47 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:35,120 That that's that's. Better than theology, man. 48 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,960 I think, well I think it makes for a more fun visual if nothing 49 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:41,680 else, so that could that could be fun. 50 00:02:42,920 --> 00:02:44,680 All right, I'll get I'll get the AI going. 51 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:46,480 Get the AI going. By the way. 52 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,400 Why? Why do all, every version like 53 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:54,120 AI version of me looks like Steve Carell and I had a baby. 54 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,680 You know, the actor Steve Carell, right? 55 00:02:57,680 --> 00:03:00,840 Like like it's this weird combination of the two of us. 56 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:05,040 And that's that's what I feel like AI generates for me is like 57 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:09,320 me and Steve Carell I. Mean I I used like a picture of 58 00:03:09,320 --> 00:03:11,600 you that I thought I don't know fairly academic. 59 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:15,440 So I mean it's I don't I don't know it's how AI thinks you look 60 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:20,280 in like what's the what's the cartoonage man? 61 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:21,920 The people at the malls who just draw the. 62 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:23,800 Oh yeah, the caricatures. Caricature. 63 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:26,600 Yeah, AAI just thinks OK, your caricature. 64 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,000 I think Steve Carell is a character of me. 65 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:31,440 That's what I think. That's a hot take. 66 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:33,840 Yeah. Steve Carell, if you're out 67 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,840 there listening to this Iowa church's podcast, you, Sir, are 68 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,760 a caricature of me. Wow. 69 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,520 Just know that bolt. Feel that bolt. 70 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:44,880 There you go. All right, Steve. 71 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:47,520 Carell, we're off. We're off to a hot start as 72 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:53,680 usual on the Leftovers podcast. If you missed church yesterday, 73 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:55,960 encourage you to go back and listen to it. 74 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:59,440 We're making a big deal of the month of October here. 75 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:03,800 We're going to have a baptism event and your, if you haven't 76 00:04:03,800 --> 00:04:07,280 been baptized or want to have your kids baptized or whatever 77 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:11,160 it is, please reach out to us. And we're going to do as many 78 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:13,680 baptisms as we can. Got a couple families already 79 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:17,079 involved in that and we're, we're going to do that in the 80 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:21,240 month of October, October 19th is our budget meeting, which 81 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,760 sounds a little boring. That sounds very boring 82 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:28,080 actually, but we want you to know, we want you to be involved 83 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:32,720 in in the gifts you're giving. First off, we're we're grateful 84 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,440 or thankful for the gifts that you are giving to further the 85 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:37,800 Kingdom of God through the ministry at Emmaus Rd. 86 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:40,400 Church. But also we kind of want you to 87 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:43,040 own it. We want you to care and know how 88 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:47,400 our elder board, how, how we as as leaders and and shepherds 89 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,880 feel that God's calling us to to use these gifts. 90 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:52,880 What, what the vision and mission behind these gifts. 91 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:55,920 Yeah, some of them go to just keeping the lights on honestly 92 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:58,880 and, and having a place to gather and worship week in and 93 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:01,640 week out. But we also, we send a portion 94 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:05,000 of the budget out. We send that money on mission as 95 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:08,840 as kind of a tithe of our, of our budget as well. 96 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:11,640 And then yeah, the other, other various ministries and things 97 00:05:11,640 --> 00:05:14,760 that we fund and support and just, hey, it, it takes money to 98 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:17,760 do life and ministry and, and things. 99 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:19,880 So encourage you to come out that's just right after the 100 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:24,200 service on October 19th. Just stay and know and, and 101 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:26,520 learn and hear where these dollars are going towards. 102 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:30,400 And then October 26th, Vision Sunday, you've talked about us 103 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:32,880 having a, or we've talked about annual meeting. 104 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,560 We have one every year in October. 105 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,680 We're going to bring it to Sunday morning now and kind of 106 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:41,920 use this as a jumping off point of of where God has us moving 107 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:46,600 next in this next season, especially this next ministry 108 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:48,880 year. But what we feel called to next 109 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:51,400 as a church and want to invite you into that want you to be a 110 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:56,920 part of that, but an expectant excited, engaged part of that as 111 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,640 well. So be here October 26th worship 112 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:04,520 still at 9:30 and we'll have lunch afterwards. 113 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:06,800 We'll, we'll have a lunch and fellowship time together 114 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:10,160 afterwards in the in the gymnasium and it'll be great. 115 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,720 But we need to do it together. We need you. 116 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:15,040 We want you to do it together with us. 117 00:06:15,640 --> 00:06:16,680 Come on out and be a part of that. 118 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:22,040 Yeah, I mean, if if anybody can sell a budget meeting, I'm now 119 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:23,640 convinced it's you. Wow, OK. 120 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:25,000 So there you go. That is. 121 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,400 That is maybe the best compliment you'll hear today. 122 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,080 Good job Matt. Way to sell the budget meeting. 123 00:06:32,080 --> 00:06:35,880 You're killing it. I actually mean that with some 124 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,240 level of sincerity, because some levels are great. 125 00:06:38,280 --> 00:06:39,760 OK. Yeah, No, I think you're right, 126 00:06:39,760 --> 00:06:41,640 though. Like, man, we should, we should 127 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:46,360 want to know, you know, if if we're if we're giving to this 128 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:49,560 ministry, we should want to know specifically, you know, what 129 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:50,960 that looks like and where it's going. 130 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:53,560 And I think those are good things to know and good things 131 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,760 to be a part of. So thanks for doing that. 132 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:57,320 You bet, man. Glad. 133 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:59,240 Glad. God gave me the words of the 134 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:01,200 moment. Yeah, there you go. 135 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:04,320 So, yeah, other than that, we had just, we, and we said it 136 00:07:04,320 --> 00:07:07,840 last week, we know the the House of God is packed out on Sundays 137 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:12,680 just where changes are coming and we're not quite ready to 138 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,360 talk about them yet. And so close, so close to what 139 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:17,000 those plans are and how we're going to do it. 140 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:23,200 But for the time being, while we are still at 1930 gathering, if 141 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:25,360 you're comfortable sitting out in the atrium and taking in the 142 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,280 service out there, more than welcome to use that as an 143 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,720 overflow. We know the sanctuary is very 144 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,960 full for the next few weeks. That's just kind of the path we 145 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:39,280 have to go down as, as we accommodate and plan volunteers 146 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:41,560 to make Sunday services happen too. 147 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:43,240 We've got a lot of people serving on Sundays. 148 00:07:43,240 --> 00:07:46,680 And in order to in order to expand and grow that and and 149 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,000 grow to more times, we just got to make sure we have people in 150 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:51,040 place to care for the people that are coming because there's 151 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:54,040 also a lot of new people coming. If you haven't noticed, if you 152 00:07:54,040 --> 00:07:56,800 haven't been here in the month of September, there's new 153 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:59,640 families coming, people are coming back to church. 154 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:02,720 The revival that you maybe see on social media or in other 155 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:06,320 places is happening here too. We, we have an influx of people 156 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,400 that are searching out God and searching out Jesus and, and 157 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,360 coming back to church. And we want to react and also 158 00:08:13,760 --> 00:08:17,200 act on, on the momentum that God's bringing back to church 159 00:08:17,200 --> 00:08:20,280 here in the season. So yeah. 160 00:08:20,960 --> 00:08:24,480 He's busy, he's doing things. And because he's doing things, 161 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,680 we get to do things with him in his mission. 162 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:31,400 And a number of you already do that stuff with us too. 163 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:36,559 And so if you're somebody who volunteers for any of the, any 164 00:08:36,559 --> 00:08:40,559 of the ERC, you know things, gosh, I'm losing my words. 165 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:45,000 If you are a volunteer at all at ERC, thank you for doing what 166 00:08:45,000 --> 00:08:49,200 you do because we cannot do ministry the way we do without 167 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:51,720 you. And so we are just so thankful 168 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,120 to partner with you and we're excited for what God's going to 169 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,280 continue to do and then through ERC. 170 00:08:57,440 --> 00:08:59,480 Yep, all parts of one body we need. 171 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:01,640 We need it all. And it's cool to see how that's 172 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:06,280 coming together in our church community, our Ask me anything 173 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:10,160 questions sort of icebreaker. As we get into the show today, 174 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,920 we'll talk about we're going to talk about Exodus 14 and the 175 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:15,680 message and some of the extra stuff in the crossing of the Red 176 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:19,520 Sea. But before we get there, ask me 177 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:22,800 anything this week is can a person truly just confess their 178 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:27,720 sins to the Lord, turn away from that behavior and be forgiven? 179 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:32,720 I. Mean yes, short answer. 180 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:39,320 Short answer is yes and yes it it is that simple. 181 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:42,560 It's the repentance is supposed to be that simple. 182 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:49,120 Leave, leave this life behind. Romans 10/9 and 10 does simply 183 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:52,400 state Paul tells the church if you confess with your mouth that 184 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,680 Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him 185 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,720 from the dead, you will be saved first. 186 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,880 John 19 if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and 187 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:04,040 we'll forgive our sins and purify us from all 188 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:07,400 unrighteousness At the heart of this question. 189 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:11,680 I think there's still a lingering yeah, but what do I 190 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,040 do? Can a person truly just confess 191 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,200 their sins to the Lord and turn away from that behavior and be 192 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,000 forgiven. The the only part I guess that 193 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:22,720 there is still to to do quote UN quote. 194 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:24,800 I'm making the air quotes that you can't see because this is 195 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,440 still just an audio only podcast. 196 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,480 But the only to do, I guess, would be that ongoing like 197 00:10:31,800 --> 00:10:36,120 turning from that behavior, not going back to that sin thing 198 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:38,120 kind of that we that we talked about yesterday. 199 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:41,080 Now we can get into the theological workings of 200 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,520 sanctification of the power of the Holy Spirit in changing that 201 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:48,880 life and making a new creation. And there's there's that there 202 00:10:48,880 --> 00:10:51,280 too. But as far as the doing, not 203 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:54,800 falling to temptation, not going back to that habit, I think 204 00:10:54,800 --> 00:11:01,400 that's really the only like ongoing action that that we even 205 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:05,480 have in there because, and I only say that because yes, it is 206 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:06,840 that simple. There's not something that you 207 00:11:06,840 --> 00:11:10,200 bring to God confessing your sin, asking for forgiveness. 208 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,240 And he's not going to come back and be like, but OK, go take 209 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:18,640 care of XYZ and then come back for your scoop of forgiveness. 210 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,520 Sorry, I don't know why. I just like jumped into like 211 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,480 cafeteria line with that metaphor. 212 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:31,760 But right, so it's already done. What I'm saying is it's already 213 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:33,360 done. The forgiveness is there, the 214 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:34,960 righteousness in Christ is there. 215 00:11:34,960 --> 00:11:37,320 He he he died on the cross. He rose from the grave. 216 00:11:37,320 --> 00:11:40,200 All of that is done. It's just you, prodigal son, 217 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:43,480 prodigal daughter, running back to the blessing that's already 218 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:47,600 prepared for you, right? I think one of the reasons why 219 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:50,960 this question even gets asked and, and I don't know who asked 220 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,440 it and I don't I don't know kind of what the harp was behind it, 221 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,440 I guess, but I would if I could venture a guess. 222 00:11:56,440 --> 00:12:02,240 The harp behind this is we are told, either subtly or overtly 223 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,640 our entire lives that if it sounds too good to be true, it. 224 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,960 Probably is. Yeah, yeah. 225 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,240 I mean, I, I grew up my my mom gave me that phrase because her 226 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,280 dad gave her that phrase. And, you know, it's just kind of 227 00:12:14,280 --> 00:12:17,160 like a be on your guard thing because like, you know, these 228 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:21,120 crafty salesman and, you know, these snake oil salesman who are 229 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:22,840 trying to get you involved in something. 230 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:25,000 Like it sounds way too good to be true. 231 00:12:25,000 --> 00:12:27,760 Like, you know, and sometimes like I, I think I've said it 232 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,640 from stage, like I'm not a salesman. 233 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,480 Like I'm not trying to get you in on a timeshare. 234 00:12:32,760 --> 00:12:37,320 Like this thing that sounds too good to be true is in fact still 235 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:40,280 true, right. So when we first, yeah, when we 236 00:12:40,280 --> 00:12:43,520 read first John 1, you know, 8 through 10 or whatever. 237 00:12:44,240 --> 00:12:47,120 And it just says, hey, confess your sins, believe, you know, 238 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:49,840 repent all these things and you're, you're forgiven. 239 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:52,320 Like you're like, yeah, but what else? 240 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:54,880 Where's, where's the, yeah, where's the catch? 241 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:56,440 Where's the fine print? Where's all the things? 242 00:12:56,720 --> 00:12:59,800 And it's like, no, man like you, you clearly don't understand. 243 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,640 There is no catch. There is no fine print. 244 00:13:01,880 --> 00:13:06,880 Like God loves you that much. And more specifically, Jesus's 245 00:13:06,880 --> 00:13:10,800 sacrifice, his taking on. And and I think part of this 246 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,040 question comes from the fact that we don't fully grasp the 247 00:13:14,040 --> 00:13:17,360 gravity of Jesus dying on the cross. 248 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,160 OK, so we hear the story and we're like, Yep, he was whipped, 249 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,400 he was beaten, he was mocked, he was bruised, he was all this 250 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:25,000 kind of stuff. And he eventually died, gave us 251 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:28,240 up his spirit. I think we can still ask this 252 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:31,880 question sometimes because we don't understand the gravity of 253 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:36,800 God turning his back on his Son and saying, you know what? 254 00:13:37,280 --> 00:13:42,840 Every sin ever is on your shoulders like you are going to 255 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,920 you are going to experience the fires of hell in a way that 256 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:49,960 nobody else ever will. So the more we can wrap our 257 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:54,840 heads around that, I think the easier it is to, you know, feel 258 00:13:54,840 --> 00:13:56,760 like, yes, it is just confession. 259 00:13:56,760 --> 00:14:00,200 It is just turning away from my sin because Jesus did all of 260 00:14:00,200 --> 00:14:03,400 that. And so if we can understand the 261 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:07,600 gravity of the moment of the cross, then this question, it 262 00:14:07,720 --> 00:14:09,800 probably isn't a question anymore. 263 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:12,520 And that's not a knock on whoever asked it because there 264 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:16,360 are certainly times where I know in my faith walk, I have not 265 00:14:16,360 --> 00:14:18,520 taken the cross seriously enough because you hear it all the 266 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:19,880 time. You're like, oh, just died for 267 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:20,880 my sins. You died for my sins. 268 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:22,840 OK, great. But what does that really mean? 269 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:28,320 Well, that really means that, like, God forsook his own son. 270 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:35,160 He looked at his son and said, it's all on you and I, I'm not 271 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,880 going to protect you. And that for as a as a dad, 272 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,960 that's crazy to me. Yeah, like. 273 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:44,040 You talked about that last week, too in the sermon, too. 274 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:45,800 Yeah, the Abraham Isaac scenario. 275 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:47,360 How could you? How could you? 276 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,640 How could you do it? So you know, all of that to say, 277 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:55,240 understanding the gravity of what Jesus actually endured on 278 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,640 the cross, Then all of a sudden this the the answer, which is 279 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,200 simple and easy, makes a lot of sense. 280 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:05,120 And I think the other part kind of looming in this question is 281 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:12,160 the the inherent hypocrisy maybe here that because I think we 282 00:15:12,160 --> 00:15:18,960 also understand the the intensity with which we first 283 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,880 entered into the fit. Like when it when it makes 284 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,880 sense, When, when, when, when you realize when your salvation 285 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:30,600 is real and your faith is young and and vibrant. 286 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,240 But then still sin still like has we, we live in this already 287 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:39,080 not yet sort of sort of tension, right? 288 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:42,080 We're we're sins still present and we are still actively on 289 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:45,640 guard against sin. I think that's also part of the 290 00:15:45,720 --> 00:15:49,160 part of the question here. Confess and turn away from that 291 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:51,600 behavior and be forgiven because it doesn't feel that simple, 292 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,200 because there's still the tension of temptation. 293 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:59,360 There's there's still is sin that we're wrestling through and 294 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,400 and possibly even like we talked about yesterday, like be 295 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:06,280 literally being chased down by and and trying to drag us back 296 00:16:06,280 --> 00:16:09,680 into that old life. So the short answer is yes, it 297 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:13,040 can be this simple and should be this simple. 298 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:17,960 We're still imperfect even in how we act out our faith and 299 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,320 Paul exhausted to act to work out your faith with fear and 300 00:16:21,320 --> 00:16:24,480 trembling, right. I think that's where we fall 301 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:27,200 short too much. We still we get an air of 302 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,720 confidence back that like that we that we figured it out. 303 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:36,480 We don't often dwell long enough in that state of I am nothing, 304 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:40,360 I, I I contribute nothing to myself. 305 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:45,240 We think ourselves very good Christians sometimes like too, 306 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,320 too good of good, like, yeah, I've got this, I've got this 307 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:53,520 figured out. And then sin is lurking to to 308 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:56,640 pounce in those moments. So I think that I think that's 309 00:16:56,640 --> 00:16:59,040 part of the question, like is it really that simple? 310 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:00,440 Because we don't always see that lived out. 311 00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:03,400 We still, we still see struggle and that's kind of what I talked 312 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,240 about yesterday too, of like, OK, yeah. 313 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:09,079 The affliction of, of depression or, or, or mental illness, the 314 00:17:09,079 --> 00:17:13,640 affliction of whatever UN unplanned financial burdens or, 315 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:16,560 or health complications or, or things like that. 316 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:21,240 Like when it comes down to it, those are all products of sin 317 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:27,240 and they're all things designed to beat down and discourage you 318 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:29,040 trusting in a good and great God. 319 00:17:31,320 --> 00:17:35,200 So, and it's not, it's not punishment from God. 320 00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,680 Like, yes, we're, we're refined through fire and, and, and 321 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:43,040 transgressions. What, what is the word I'm 322 00:17:43,040 --> 00:17:45,360 thinking of in James? It's not transgressions. 323 00:17:47,000 --> 00:17:48,760 Trials. That's a simpler word than 324 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,520 trials are meant for the, the endurance and persevering of our 325 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:55,640 faith, right? God's not just up there like 326 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,160 throwing lava bombs, just to like make sure we're on our toes 327 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,320 necessarily. But there are those moments of 328 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,240 what I said yesterday when in crisis where you run to where 329 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:11,320 your Christ is. Do you run back to him, or do 330 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:13,320 you figure out how to get out of it yourself? 331 00:18:15,560 --> 00:18:17,880 Amen, man. I, I just, I'm, I'm just 332 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,400 listening. And yeah, I mean, absolutely. 333 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,200 So. I concur, Sir, I concur. 334 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,120 Pastor Chris Petri concur, concurs. 335 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:34,160 All right, so All in all, yes, it it can and should be that 336 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:39,640 simple act it out there. There's ongoing picking up your 337 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:45,200 cross daily sort of work to be done to actually live that out 338 00:18:45,200 --> 00:18:48,880 in reality, to turn daily from that behavior and walk in 339 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:52,520 forgiveness and freedom daily. That takes a good measure of 340 00:18:52,520 --> 00:18:55,080 intentionality and it and it takes a good measure of 341 00:18:55,080 --> 00:18:58,280 humility, dying to yourself daily to pursue the things of 342 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:00,920 God. So yeah, it should be that 343 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,160 simple, but it's also kind of complicated because we got to, 344 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:07,760 we got to walk in faith with it. Right, and Martin Luther going 345 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:13,920 back to our good friend he, he would put it this way, he would 346 00:19:14,240 --> 00:19:18,800 tell people and remind people the old self which is nailed to 347 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:24,120 the cross with Christ, it slips on down that cross every single 348 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:26,920 day. It needs to be re nailed back to 349 00:19:26,920 --> 00:19:29,320 the cross. So, yeah, I mean, the old self 350 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,080 is always lurking, always saying, you know what would be 351 00:19:32,080 --> 00:19:34,720 better for you? Satan is always around the 352 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:38,480 corner looking to sift us, you might say. 353 00:19:39,040 --> 00:19:42,760 And so yeah, there's there's always that tension there, but 354 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:45,120 there should be no tension. There should just be absolute 355 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:50,440 assurance that when we bring our confession to God, he it's 356 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,360 always a yes and it's always a for. 357 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,880 It's always forgiveness there. Jesus Christ has done the work. 358 00:19:57,200 --> 00:19:59,840 It's always a yes. It's always yes, I love you, 359 00:19:59,840 --> 00:20:02,480 yes, I forgive you. Every single time we confess 360 00:20:02,920 --> 00:20:05,160 there, there is no air of change. 361 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,080 There's no shadow of change to that whatsoever. 362 00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:11,840 Because if there was any shadow of change to that answer, then 363 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:14,320 Jesus Christ would somehow not be enough. 364 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:16,600 And that's not true, right? Yep. 365 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:18,400 Well said. Well said. 366 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:25,840 All right, we are jumping back into Exodus 14. 367 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,720 I covered about 25 verses yesterday. 368 00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:36,080 Verse 5 to through 3031 I think. It's a big text. 369 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:39,400 It was a lot, but I wanted, I wanted the whole picture of the 370 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:41,040 narrative of this crossing the Red Sea. 371 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:44,960 There's a lot that we didn't get to and probably a lot of 372 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,840 different ways you could have, you could have landed with this. 373 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,800 So I left some of the things out, but let's just kind of work 374 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:56,960 through where we went, starting with God hardening Pharaoh's 375 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,360 heart and and kind of ending up with the people of Israel 376 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:03,920 landing on the the final concluding thought of that the 377 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:07,640 people feared the Lord and believed and and that and that 378 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,320 sort of that right, righteous, holy fear of God is what is what 379 00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:17,720 fuels belief. So verse five, we'll pick it up 380 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,960 there in chapter 14. Now it was told the king of 381 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,720 Egypt that the people had fled, and the heart of Pharaoh and his 382 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,240 servants was turned against the people. 383 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,160 And they said, why have we done this, that we have let Israel go 384 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,800 from serving us. So he made ready his Chariots 385 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,960 and took his people with him, took 600 choice Chariots and all 386 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,560 the Chariots of Egypt with captains over every one of them. 387 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:38,800 And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and 388 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:40,280 he pursued the children of Israel. 389 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,040 It was brought up at my life group yesterday. 390 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:45,000 Like what's the what's the timeline? 391 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,360 We get kind of the 40 years of most leaving Egypt, walking in 392 00:21:48,360 --> 00:21:53,720 the wilderness, coming back. You can from what I can discern 393 00:21:53,720 --> 00:21:56,880 and decipher from the scholarly sources that I have and look and 394 00:21:56,880 --> 00:21:59,120 looked into this all happens pretty quick. 395 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:02,760 The journey from Midian to Egypt, somewhere in the 396 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:06,200 neighbor, a few 100 miles, some somewhere between the three 500 397 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:09,320 mile range, depending on where exactly he was when he we don't 398 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,400 know if he went, where was he with the sheep? 399 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:12,720 Did he have to go back home and then come back? 400 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,720 And so like we don't have all the specifics of that, but took 401 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:19,240 him a few weeks probably to get back from Midian to Egypt. 402 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:24,880 But once he was there, like the plagues kind of happen unfold. 403 00:22:25,080 --> 00:22:28,400 And the only time period that we get like after the final plague 404 00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:33,200 of the first born being killed, that's as much as the timeline 405 00:22:33,200 --> 00:22:36,040 that we get that like once Pharaoh heard that the people 406 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,760 had fled, how long do we really think that took? 407 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,360 Like this isn't a matter of weeks. 408 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,440 If it took more than like a day, that would be kind of weird 409 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:47,480 that. Well, yeah, and, and I mean, you 410 00:22:47,480 --> 00:22:49,280 just go back to the Passover meal. 411 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:52,360 God preps them ahead of time and says, you're going to eat this 412 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:53,840 meal with your sandals on your belt, right? 413 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:57,320 Boom, boom, boom. You're when when the whales 414 00:22:57,320 --> 00:23:01,120 start coming from the city because all these parents have 415 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:05,520 lost their children, Yep, you're going to want to get out real 416 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:08,040 quick because it's it's going to get nasty in there. 417 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,400 And so I mean, like, yeah, we we have to assume a pretty quick 418 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:15,760 turn around on this now as far as how long does it take Pharaoh 419 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,600 to actually like, huh, I just lost my free workforce. 420 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:25,000 I'm what do I do? I'm sad more than sad that my 421 00:23:25,240 --> 00:23:29,760 first born son is gone and the entire, you know, community 422 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,240 feels all of that because most of them are experiencing that. 423 00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:39,240 But I'm also pretty angry. I'm pretty angry that I lost my 424 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,600 like cash cow. I'm pretty angry because I lost 425 00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,160 my son and I lost my workforce. Like I'm going to lose both in 426 00:23:46,160 --> 00:23:48,560 the same day. Like I think there's some level 427 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:53,840 of level of pride involved here. Like, OK, OK, this God, you may 428 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,680 have taken my son, but I'm going to take your people back and 429 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:59,040 it's going to hurt and I'm going to, I'm going to make get worse 430 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,680 than it's ever been because how dare you do this to me. 431 00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:05,680 I am Pharaoh, I am great. You can't do this to me. 432 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,840 So I assume that there's and I'm I'm, I'm projecting a little bit 433 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,200 here. That's not in the text, but it 434 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:15,400 makes sense in my head when you're like, hey, man, like he's 435 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,880 hurt. He's he's upset, he's angry, his 436 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,120 pride has just been set on fire, all of these things. 437 00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,840 So yeah, I'm assuming we're not talking about a real long time 438 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,920 frame here, but for sure they got a decent head start. 439 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:31,000 Yeah, Yep. And so the the Egyptians 440 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:34,840 probably had scouts or centuries or whatever kind of keeping tabs 441 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:38,640 on where they were wandering in the in the relative wilderness 442 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,400 and in the land near them. But to your point about the, the 443 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,880 level of pride, I think you're right. 444 00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:46,760 It's not in the text, but absolutely like we're coming off 445 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:50,320 of these great demonstrations of God's power in the plagues, even 446 00:24:50,320 --> 00:24:52,880 in the, the severity of taking the first born and all of a 447 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,720 sudden Pharaoh's high on his horse again, like, Ah, no, I've 448 00:24:56,720 --> 00:25:00,440 seen all this, but like, I can still take down this God. 449 00:25:00,520 --> 00:25:05,080 I, I, I can still win this. And that more parallels there to 450 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,960 again, how, how Satan pursues us and and chases us down. 451 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,040 He's, he's fighting a battle of futility, right? 452 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:15,400 Like if you, if you truly believe that, I mean the songs 453 00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,600 we sing or the battle belongs to you, God or, or you've already 454 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:22,160 won. Like if we truly believe cross 455 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:26,000 happened, the grave is empty and and it's already it's finished 456 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,440 and it is done. That means Satan is fighting a 457 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,440 battle of futility, which is what Pharaoh is attesting to 458 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,040 here. That's that's what he's entering 459 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:37,440 into a battle that is already lost. 460 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,480 And of course, at the end of the chapter, we see the battle lost. 461 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,640 But so I think you're right. It's, it's that pride thing. 462 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,920 And there and there are parallels even there between 463 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,600 Pharaoh and Satan chasing down the people of God, Satan chasing 464 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,200 down us as as the people of God still. 465 00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:00,200 Well, and sometimes you know it, and I'm sure we could all say 466 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,960 this, like sometimes bad things happen, whether it's our fault 467 00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:07,520 or somebody else's fault or just basic circumstances, bad things 468 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:11,200 happen. And we think that you know what, 469 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,320 it really can't get much worse. And so we're like, whatever, it 470 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:16,640 can't get worse, I'm just going to go whatever. 471 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,800 Like it's already as bad as it's going to get. 472 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,160 What, what can you do to me now? And I'm sure Pharaoh and maybe 473 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,200 even those in the army who had a son who died overnight, they're 474 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,080 like, you know what? You already took the most 475 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,000 important thing out of my life. What are you going to do to me 476 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,160 now? Like, again, I'm, I'm injecting 477 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:38,080 some narrative in into this. But like, as just a human, like, 478 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:42,000 yeah, you, you take my child and you take my workforce and you 479 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,520 take all these things. It's like, what else are you 480 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:47,440 going to do to me, man? Like you've, you've already hit 481 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,840 me over the head, like you can't make this worse. 482 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:52,200 I cannot imagine a way that you can make this worse. 483 00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:55,320 But you know what I can do? I can drag your people back by 484 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,760 their hair and I can make their lives a living hell. 485 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,640 And so like, I'm just again, some injection there. 486 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,520 But like, that's the attitude that I would have if I were him. 487 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:14,400 The a little little word vocabulary sort of thing here as 488 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:18,720 we as we are relating Scripture to Scripture in this little 489 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,240 cluster of five through 9, Pharaoh pursued the children of 490 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,240 Israel. The children of Israel went out 491 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:28,000 with boldness. This this word that we heard so 492 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,040 often in Acts that they preach the gospel with great boldness. 493 00:27:32,360 --> 00:27:36,120 Still here, still apparent. It an essential element 494 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:40,800 characteristic attribute of those following God right Those 495 00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,920 called his children and the idea behind this this Hebrew word for 496 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:50,880 boldness run yad, which I guess we get with boldness from that 497 00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:54,000 includes the idea of rebellion against authority. 498 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,120 Now this is this is the good kind of rebellion against 499 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:58,240 authority because it's authority. 500 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,640 Yes, we're, we're subject to earthly rulers and those that 501 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:05,320 God put in place, but when those rulers are in defiance of God's 502 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,440 will, right then, then we are actually called to rebel and to 503 00:28:09,440 --> 00:28:13,280 stand up for God's precepts and and God's ways, right. 504 00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,960 So this is the good side of a rebellious nature. 505 00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,960 However, sometimes if if you're familiar with the Old Testament 506 00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,120 at all that same rebellious nature, Israel was sometimes 507 00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,960 rebelling against God and rebelling wrongly. 508 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,000 But that that's I I was struck by how that same idea here kind 509 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,680 of the the the people of Israel, God's people breaking free as we 510 00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:36,680 had just talked through Acts and the and the boldness necessary 511 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,560 in the early church too. Scripture, like what you said 512 00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:43,240 before, God stays the same. The the attributes of his people 513 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:45,800 are also similar in both those facets. 514 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,560 So. So fun, fun thing we are just 515 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:50,600 we've been. If you've never been to the 516 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:52,960 Sunday morning Bible study that starts at 8:00 AM, by the way, 517 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:54,800 I'm going to give a. Quick, I usually have. 518 00:28:55,360 --> 00:28:58,440 A you're a little bit busy, but let me give a quick plug for 519 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,120 that because we'd go basically verse by verse through the Bible 520 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:05,640 and right now we're in Daniel chapter 3 and you were talking 521 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,400 about boldness in the face of Daniel chapter 3. 522 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:11,520 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, they're like, you know what 523 00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,280 throw us in the fire. Go ahead because our God is able 524 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,080 to save us from the fire and even if he doesn't, you know 525 00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,560 what that's all right too, because we're going to go from 526 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:23,000 life to life. So good luck bud. 527 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:27,880 And you know, if if you haven't read the book of Daniel and you 528 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,240 don't know how that turns out, I don't want to spoil it for you, 529 00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:33,200 but maybe come to Bible study next Sunday and we'll talk about 530 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,320 it. Spoiler alert, God wins. 531 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:40,320 Well, that. It's one of the stickers on my 532 00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:42,000 laptop. I found that it's the green. 533 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:43,880 It's the green one. Oh, yeah, I see. 534 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,320 OK, Yeah. If you haven't stopped at the. 535 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,920 I put stickers on my laptop case because I I like it and I think 536 00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,800 they're fun, but Kristen has a basket in fun Little God 537 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,680 stickers at the connection center next time you're at 538 00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:55,840 church if you haven't checked those out. 539 00:29:56,320 --> 00:29:58,640 Yeah, spoiler God wins. So God. 540 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:02,720 Wins, it's true. Anyway, moving on verses 10 541 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:06,080 through 12, here Pharaoh's mustering up the the Chariots 542 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,560 and the soldiers, when Pharaoh drew near, the children of 543 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,080 Israel lifted their eyes and behold, the Egyptians marched 544 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:14,440 after them. So they were very afraid, and 545 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:16,880 the children of Israel cried out to the Lord. 546 00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:20,400 Then they said to Moses, and they make this objection to 547 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,680 Moses, is it because there were no graves in Egypt that you've 548 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,040 taken us away to die in the wilderness? 549 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,440 I love, I love the response. So. 550 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:31,120 So they're, they're protesting against God. 551 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:35,160 They accuse Moses like, hey man, we told you so. 552 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:41,320 Moses empowered by God, speaking his truth, says do not be 553 00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:44,960 afraid. Stand firm and see the salvation 554 00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:48,960 of the Lord, which he will accomplish to you today. 555 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:56,960 This the the the tone in this in the Hebrew phrase here in the 556 00:30:56,960 --> 00:30:58,840 response from Moses. And then the next few verses, 557 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:03,840 the response from God is, is that they're the children of 558 00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:05,160 Israel. And I'm going to say the 559 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:06,800 children of Israel, because that's what they're being in 560 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,280 this moment. They they are being whiny, non 561 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:14,200 understanding children. It's kind of those moments of 562 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,680 like, I don't want to explain myself. 563 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,960 Just do it like that, that that's almost the response. 564 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:25,000 And and there's and there's a be quiet, sit down and watch me 565 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,440 work like that. That's you're, you're not 566 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,040 bringing up anything that's. Helpful. 567 00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:34,080 You're, you're just complaining. You're not acting in faith. 568 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:36,520 Sit down. Get out of the way. 569 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,840 Let me fix this right? Yeah, I you know what? 570 00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:44,720 This, this whole scenario, these several verses right here 571 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:50,240 towards the beginning of this chapter, I, I can't help but 572 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:54,520 kind of like smile and giggle when I read them because but, 573 00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,200 but I don't, I don't know that I, I can't say I would have been 574 00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:58,840 any different if I were in their shoes. 575 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,160 Because yeah, sure, you saw these 10 plagues RIP their way 576 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,080 through Egypt. But then again, there's the very 577 00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:10,200 reality that like you got an army and hundreds of Chariots, 578 00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,680 like, you know, not far away from you, close enough that you 579 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:16,480 can see them on the horizon. And that has to be one of the 580 00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,560 scariest things you have ever seen in your life because they 581 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,280 are absolutely out for blood. They are not. 582 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,560 I mean, if they leave you alive, it's only to drag you back to 583 00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:28,640 Egypt and make your life worse than it was before. 584 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,720 Like what good can possibly come out of this? 585 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,360 And so you know what, I again, to the extent that like, we 586 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,880 don't want to put God to the test, but like, I feel like we 587 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,040 end up doing that a lot because we're like, I know you did that 588 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,040 and I know you did that and I know you did that, but this 589 00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:46,600 feels worse. This feels bigger. 590 00:32:46,600 --> 00:32:48,960 Are, are, are you still capable? Are you still able? 591 00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:51,320 Do you see, do you still see me? Do you still care? 592 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:55,280 You know, and so I, I absolutely believe that they've got to be 593 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:59,360 feeling some of that right now. But Moses's response and God's 594 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,480 response is, it's, it's the stuff that should like give 595 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,080 goosebumps. Like it's just awesome the way 596 00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:11,440 they respond and it leaves no room for for doubt. 597 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:12,920 It just leaves no room for doubt. 598 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:16,240 Which is the next kind of interesting part that I have 599 00:33:16,240 --> 00:33:18,920 here, verse 15. The Lord asked Moses, why do you 600 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,120 cry to me? Tell the children of Israel to 601 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,760 go forward. There's, there's this kind of 602 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,240 unseen dynamic here. Like, yes, we, we, we want to be 603 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,880 a praying people. We, we believe in the power of 604 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:35,000 prayer. But part of this question, why 605 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:38,720 do you cry to me? God's asked why, why are you 606 00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,280 pausing? Why, why are you waiting and 607 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:44,240 asking for guidance? I've shown it. 608 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,680 It's it's time to move now. Now is not the time for like 609 00:33:47,680 --> 00:33:50,680 quiet reflection and prayer. It's time for action. 610 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,320 I've, I've given you a directive. 611 00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:56,480 We have a there's a, there's a thought from Charles Spurgeon. 612 00:33:56,600 --> 00:34:00,040 There's a time for praying, but there's also a time for holy 613 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,880 activity. Prayer is adapted for almost 614 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,840 every season, yet not prayer alone. 615 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,920 For there comes every now and then a time when even prayer 616 00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:11,480 must take a secondary place. We're still called to to do, 617 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:13,560 right? And if and if the Israelis had 618 00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:18,199 just sat around praying, waiting for God to move, they would have 619 00:34:18,199 --> 00:34:21,840 been trampled right like that, like he needed them to move 620 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,679 themselves across the sea. I I made a way. 621 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:27,719 But you can't just sit here being like God. 622 00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,600 We're praying for a way. No, that's the way. 623 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:32,320 Go right. There's there's a level of 624 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,520 participation that comes with God's movement, right? 625 00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,920 So you know, and, and the modern church is no different. 626 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:42,120 If we are praying for God's will to be done and for his Kingdom 627 00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,320 to grow through more people coming into this church or that 628 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,920 church and just coming into faith, man, if we just pray all 629 00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:53,920 day and all night and we never go and engage our city, I 630 00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:58,960 wonder, you know, and again, like salvation isn't 99.999% God 631 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:03,160 and .0001 US. No, it's 100% him, 0% us. 632 00:35:03,720 --> 00:35:07,640 But God is calling us to be active a part of what he's 633 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,080 doing. And so this is God essentially 634 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,840 saying, I want you to be active. I want you to walk forward in 635 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,360 confidence because look what I'm doing. 636 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:18,000 But I, I need you to participate. 637 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:21,240 I need you to get off your get off your butts, you know, get on 638 00:35:21,240 --> 00:35:23,560 your feet and get moving. You know, I'm going to do 639 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,080 something. I told you I'm going to do it. 640 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:29,080 I didn't bring you out here to kill you because then all of 641 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,680 that, all of the glory which is coming to me, which I have all 642 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:36,280 the judgement that I've exercised on Pharaoh and his God 643 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,080 so-called all that's for not if I don't make sure that you make 644 00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:42,320 it out of this alive. Of course you're going to make 645 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:43,880 it. But like I need you to move. 646 00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:45,440 Right. And in some ways, this is 647 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,160 another biblical answer to the question that we kind of started 648 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,240 with. Is it that simple to just 649 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:53,600 confess sinned and and come to God for forgiveness and, and, 650 00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:58,040 and living a life of repentance? Yeah, but you got to walk in the 651 00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:01,600 light of that repentance. Like, like you do need to live 652 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,080 out your workout, your faith with fear and trembling. 653 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:08,160 Live a life that's worthy of the gospel of, of Jesus Christ for a 654 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:11,280 couple New New Testament references and passages. 655 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,560 They're like, yeah, there's the I've I've delivered you from 656 00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,120 Egypt. I've I've made a way now walk in 657 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,880 the way of my salvation, right? Yeah. 658 00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,160 So then we get to he commands Moses, lift up your rod and 659 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,960 stretch out your hand. We see we've got this big 660 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:30,040 obvious picture. Of course, this is the tool that 661 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,240 Moses was using shepherding sheep in the wilderness. 662 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:35,400 It's it's the same staff that he was using. 663 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,400 The God executed the the plagues and and powers through and it's 664 00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,360 and it's here again. And it's so appropriate. 665 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,680 It's so powerful that it's it's this staff, it's this shepherd's 666 00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,200 rod. Moses as an earthly leader, but 667 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,560 God also as as the Good Shepherd, as as the great 668 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,360 shepherd, still leading his people through this just common 669 00:36:54,360 --> 00:36:56,320 device. Shepherd's hook, get it? 670 00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,920 Getting them back in line, making them away with this 671 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,200 thing. We see it over and over again in 672 00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:05,480 Exodus and just, yeah, I didn't bring that out so much 673 00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,040 yesterday, but just something to highlight. 674 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:11,360 It's it's just cool, the consistency in that imagery. 675 00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:14,760 Well, and The thing is, again, put yourself there as if you 676 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,240 were actually there. And there have been a number of 677 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:20,240 movies and TV shows and all these other kind of things that 678 00:37:20,240 --> 00:37:23,560 have shown that moment. And The thing is, it almost 679 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:26,720 becomes like a little cliche, like if you Google, you know, 680 00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:29,960 Moses and the Red Sea and you're going to see this image probably 681 00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:33,600 for of, you know, this Moses figure from behind and the rods 682 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:34,920 in the air and the hands in the air. 683 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,760 And you know, like, again, sometimes we can almost, I don't 684 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,760 know if you'd say we can become overexposed to those kind of 685 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:45,280 images and it just looks very fantastic and it just looks like 686 00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,840 a fairy tale. But no, like, put yourself there 687 00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:52,120 'cause this is a part of human history. 688 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,440 And if you have one of the study guides, by the way, I am 689 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,240 referencing in that guide, like there is good scientific 690 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:04,720 evidence in archaeological evidence to prove that this 691 00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:07,760 event happened in real time with real humans. 692 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,440 And so if you have one of those study guides, you can you can 693 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:14,640 check that out and you can even do some of this research on your 694 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:15,880 own. And I encourage that kind of 695 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,480 behavior because hey, man, ask the question, get the answer. 696 00:38:19,760 --> 00:38:24,200 So I just think like always repositioning ourselves and 697 00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:27,600 especially in these kind of big miracle level moments, like 698 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:31,320 reposition yourself to make sure that you're not hearing this as 699 00:38:31,320 --> 00:38:34,880 like a fairy tale, but you're hearing that is this as part of 700 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:39,160 human history and part of God's story as to how he is saving his 701 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,520 people. Yeah, yeah. 702 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:47,920 And how he is saving his people is is is also a testimony to who 703 00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,160 he is both for the people, it's support for the people, but also 704 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,960 to his enemies. It he he says here, then the 705 00:38:54,960 --> 00:38:59,480 Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord Pharaoh back in chapter 706 00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,760 5. What when when Moses comes back 707 00:39:01,760 --> 00:39:06,120 to him asks him who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to 708 00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:13,120 let Israel go 10 chapters later here here we are in this answer 709 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,200 God is not only reaffirming his support and faith for his 710 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:18,080 people. What we talked about. 711 00:39:18,080 --> 00:39:23,080 Maybe I feel like justice is something that we in our sinful 712 00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:25,360 selves a little bit. We want to see justice for our 713 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:29,560 enemies, for for those that would stand against the Lord and 714 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:36,600 and God's glorified in this. He he is by his might glorified 715 00:39:36,600 --> 00:39:39,840 in defeating, in defeating his enemies and setting his people 716 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,440 free, his enemies, knowing his power, his might, that he is the 717 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:51,680 Lord, is, is righteous justice. You know it goes well it knowing 718 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:55,640 Jesus making him known well. How does God make himself known? 719 00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:56,960 Well, he wants. He wins. 720 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,080 All I do is. Win, win, win, win, no matter 721 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:03,280 what. It's like that ridiculous thing. 722 00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,360 What's the name of the game I win? 723 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:05,760 I win. I win. 724 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:07,000 That's the name of the game I win. 725 00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,680 But that makes total sense when you think about this is the 726 00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:13,280 creator of the heavens and the earth, and he sustains 727 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,560 everything and literally nothing exists without him and his will 728 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:19,160 and his love and his power. So yeah, he wins. 729 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,720 But I do think it's important to to recognize that one of the 730 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:26,560 ways that God is going to prove himself, you know, it is the 731 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:29,440 power and the grandeur of miracles like this. 732 00:40:29,880 --> 00:40:34,480 But simultaneously, it's also the humility of becoming a man. 733 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,520 It is the humility of allowing himself to be killed. 734 00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:42,360 It is the humility of allowing himself to just take on all of 735 00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:47,120 our sins. You know, so God is sometimes we 736 00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,040 want to put God in a box or we say, well, it's this or this or 737 00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,120 it's this. No, like God is both and he is 738 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,280 both all powerful and he also exercises perfect humility 739 00:40:56,360 --> 00:41:00,680 simultaneously. And so let's not put him in one 740 00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,680 box or the other. Again, when I think we've talked 741 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,960 about the fact that sometimes we see the Old Testament is God is 742 00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:08,520 big and powerful and judgmental and he's angry and blah, blah. 743 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:11,200 And then comes along hippie Jesus and he loves everybody and 744 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:16,880 everything is great, you know, and, but he, gosh, I don't like 745 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,160 either of those things. But if you're going to say 746 00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,760 anything about those things, he's both and you know, he is 747 00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,160 hippie Jesus who loves everybody and he is also all powerful 748 00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,400 judgmental God who will judge the right, you know, the 749 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,720 righteous and, and separate the goats from the lamb and all that 750 00:41:31,720 --> 00:41:32,480 kind of stuff. So. 751 00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:40,080 A big sort of kind of semantics thing, but but also powerful in 752 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,160 how God works and moves was in. I skipped over it yesterday, but 753 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:47,600 in verses 19 and 20, the the pillar of cloud and the pillar 754 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,200 of smoke that that sort of guided them through the 755 00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,600 wilderness, a fire by night and and smoke by day. 756 00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,280 It was asked, it was brought up at our life group. 757 00:41:58,280 --> 00:41:59,880 What again, what's, what's the timeline? 758 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:01,680 What's the sequence here? How do you have you have 759 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:05,280 hundreds of thousands, possibly millions of Israelites at at 760 00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:10,520 this point. It takes a long time to walk and 761 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,200 and this was a few miles across the Red Sea that they would have 762 00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:15,760 been doing. Obviously the Egyptians have 763 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:19,120 already caught up to them to the point where they can see them 764 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,880 after they've been wandering for various number of days. 765 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,920 So how in the world did they like actually get away? 766 00:42:27,960 --> 00:42:31,120 Well, verses 19 and 20, the Angel of God who went before the 767 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:33,640 camp of Israel moved and went behind them and the pillar of 768 00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,800 cloud went from before them and stood behind them. 769 00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,840 So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of 770 00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:40,960 Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness 771 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,080 to the one and it gave a light by night to the other so that 772 00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,640 the one did not come near the other all that night. 773 00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:49,520 So we get a couple of things here. 774 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,120 There's, there's kind of this, this fog, this cloud on, on the 775 00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,280 Egyptian side, right? And then, and then the fire is 776 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,720 on the other side of that lightning the way for the 777 00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,320 Israelites. But both of these, so that the 778 00:43:01,320 --> 00:43:03,840 Israelites, unlike the fireside and the Egyptians are on the 779 00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:05,960 cloud side, right? Egyptians can't see what's going 780 00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:07,080 on. It's dark. 781 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:12,400 It's dark the way is lit for the Israelites to go though and and 782 00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:14,240 we don't get like the total period of time. 783 00:43:14,240 --> 00:43:16,720 We just know that they're crossing the sea at night and 784 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:20,960 this is kind of the barrier buffer, a stalling kind of of 785 00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,320 the Egyptian army as God parts the Red Sea and as the Egyptian 786 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,280 or as the Israelites walk across it. 787 00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,800 Again, our our best guesstimates would be a few miles that 788 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,680 they're actually walking across the seabed and again, hundreds 789 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:39,560 of thousands, million upper upper, maybe 2 million people. 790 00:43:39,720 --> 00:43:42,040 Yeah, somewhere in that ballpark, because we, we had 791 00:43:42,040 --> 00:43:46,800 600,000 men. And so, I mean, if every man. 792 00:43:47,440 --> 00:43:49,320 Yeah. So I mean, we're we're yeah, 793 00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,280 we're probably right in that 2 million person ballpark. 794 00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,280 And if you're walking across the sea at night and all, you're 795 00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,400 being led by not all, but you're being led by God. 796 00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,400 Fire God. No, it's just a fire God. 797 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,400 No big deal. Just floating around like I 798 00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:03,360 know. Yeah. 799 00:44:04,160 --> 00:44:05,520 Dang it. That was theology. 800 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:11,680 Man, I think so. Many personas. 801 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,680 Anyway, so many, but yeah, if you're being LED that way with, 802 00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:20,040 you know, upwards of 2 million people, like it's going to, it's 803 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,320 going to be a bit. And it's not just you. 804 00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:23,920 You've, you're carrying all your stuff. 805 00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:27,480 Like if you had to move out of your house in a hurry and you've 806 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,280 got three or four, well, they don't have duffel bags, but you 807 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,360 know, you've got several duffel bags, luggage, all that kind of 808 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:33,000 stuff. Whatever. 809 00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:34,880 Yeah. You're not moving quick. 810 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,400 And there's children with you, and there's babies and there's, 811 00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:38,640 you know, you know, all these kinds of things. 812 00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:40,760 And so is this is not a quick movement. 813 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,160 And therefore those people needed God to show up in a very 814 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,800 real way. And he does, through the cloud, 815 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:50,080 through the fire, through the pillar, you know, all these ways 816 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:55,080 he is showing up and he is doing something ridiculous, something 817 00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:59,800 not possible to keep his people safe and ultimately save them. 818 00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:05,320 God is doing extraordinary things that we cannot like, OK, 819 00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,920 yeah, there's there's a scientific method that they have 820 00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:11,000 used to prove that a wind from this direction going this fast 821 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:13,960 could part that sea. OK, that's, again, that's kind 822 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,240 of in the study guide. But what you can't, what you 823 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:20,520 can't prove through science is this pillar of fire that kept 824 00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,880 them separate. Like, how are you going to do 825 00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:24,280 that? That is God alone. 826 00:45:24,800 --> 00:45:27,720 The same way that we can't set a Bush on fire and be like, all 827 00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:31,200 right, Bush, you better last like forever. 828 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,120 We can't replicate who God is. He just is who he is. 829 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,000 He is the great I am. He is the to be. 830 00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:39,200 He's all these things. And so, yeah, those are the 831 00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:42,080 things that we can't replicate, but they're the things that give 832 00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,800 us detail in the story, that show us that God will go to any 833 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,240 length to save his people. And we get a little more detail. 834 00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:51,240 I didn't I didn't reference this yesterday, but that's why we do 835 00:45:51,240 --> 00:45:52,920 this podcast. You got to know all the extra 836 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,920 things. Psalm 77 actually gives us a 837 00:45:55,920 --> 00:45:59,040 little more description of this event. 838 00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:04,440 Psalm 7716 through 20 The waters saw you, oh God, the waters saw 839 00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:07,520 you, and they were afraid. The depths also tremble. 840 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,280 The clouds poured out water. The skies sent out a sound. 841 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:15,480 Your Your arrows also flashed about lightning, the arrows of 842 00:46:15,480 --> 00:46:17,880 God. The voice of your Thunder was in 843 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:20,320 the whirlwind. The lightnings lit up the world. 844 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,640 The earth trembled and shook. And your way was in the sea, 845 00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:26,720 your path in the great waters. And your footsteps were not 846 00:46:26,720 --> 00:46:28,800 known. You led your people like a flock 847 00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:32,800 by the hand of Moses and Aaron. So we get some more of just kind 848 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:38,320 of the, the imagery, the trembling, the IT wasn't, it 849 00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:40,520 wasn't just, it wasn't like creation. 850 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:44,080 It wasn't like God spoken like it was just there, there. 851 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:48,680 There was like natural. Yeah, supernatural process here. 852 00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:50,440 It was. It was like a natural disaster 853 00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:54,160 almost that that was the the wind of God making away in the 854 00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:55,840 waters. And of course it was stormy and 855 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:58,920 tempesty and and and all these things. 856 00:46:59,360 --> 00:47:04,360 But at the midst of it is, is still that sense of sit down, be 857 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,440 still and watch me work, right? And, and that, and that's the 858 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:10,120 calm in the middle. That's that's the path through 859 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,440 it, right? Yeah, I love that you just said 860 00:47:13,440 --> 00:47:15,480 that because actually that drags us. 861 00:47:15,480 --> 00:47:17,840 We were talking about this before the podcast, but it drags 862 00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,760 us back to something that I thought I was, I was personally 863 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,800 entertained by, which if you go back to 14, the Lord will fight 864 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:26,800 for you and you only have to be silent. 865 00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,840 Shut up and watch me work. Like, this is going to be great. 866 00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:32,600 You're going to see some crazy stuff, man. 867 00:47:32,600 --> 00:47:35,520 But I need you to shut your mouth and just like, watch me do 868 00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:39,200 what I'm about to do. And I'm it's maybe I'm glad. 869 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,680 See, that probably would have came out yesterday if I was up 870 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,560 on stage. I'm really, I loved your sermon 871 00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:47,200 yesterday. So just in general, but like, 872 00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:51,040 I'm part of me was glad I wasn't up there 'cause I would have 873 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:53,560 been like, yeah, God tells you, shut up. 874 00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,480 Watch, I'm going to do something really awesome. 875 00:47:55,720 --> 00:47:58,560 Like, no, it's probably not what our people wanted to hear, but. 876 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,120 It's now they're hearing it on the podcast. 877 00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:02,000 Yeah, it's where it's where my brain goes. 878 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:03,920 God's just like, come on, man, I got this. 879 00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:08,640 So anyway, but yeah, the pillar, the pillars and, and actually 880 00:48:08,640 --> 00:48:13,000 the, and that Psalm you just highlighted God's footprint as 881 00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:15,360 like a literal footprint doesn't show up. 882 00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,720 That's interesting because guess what he is going to do later on 883 00:48:19,720 --> 00:48:22,160 in history when he saves his people once and for all, his 884 00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:23,840 footprints will be all over the earth. 885 00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:28,640 And so like, again, we see this, this thing that God is all 886 00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:33,120 powerful and he's willing and able to save his people by any 887 00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:36,440 means, even ridiculous miraculous means of pillars of 888 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:38,920 fire. And he's also willing to just 889 00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,680 like, walk in our shoes. He's both. 890 00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:45,200 And that's incredible to me. And there's not another religion 891 00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:48,760 on the planet that would even attempt to make a claim like 892 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:51,560 that, that God is all powerful but also willing to walk with 893 00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:54,040 us. So, and this is this is a 894 00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:56,440 curveball that I should have caught you up on before now, but 895 00:48:56,440 --> 00:48:58,920 I I didn't use this. There were so many things I left 896 00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,960 out of the sermon yesterday and not in the moment, just things, 897 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,280 things that I decided not to go on to. 898 00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:09,880 But there's a, there's a poem I can't, I think of the writer 899 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:11,720 right now, but it's called Footprints in the sand. 900 00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:15,640 And, and I, I almost brought that out. 901 00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,720 The, the gist of it, you can look up the poem, but the gist 902 00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:23,720 of it is the, the writer looking back on their life and as, as a 903 00:49:23,880 --> 00:49:25,040 picture of footprints in the sand. 904 00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:27,000 There's basically footprints in the sand that are a picture of 905 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,040 their life. And they look back to stress to 906 00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:33,000 see that in the hardest times, though, God had promised to walk 907 00:49:33,000 --> 00:49:34,360 with them. So for a lot of their life, 908 00:49:34,360 --> 00:49:36,880 there's two sets of footprints. But in the hardest times that 909 00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,440 they look back at, there's only one set of footprints in the 910 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:40,800 sand. God, where were you in the 911 00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:43,400 hardest moments? And the response from God is in 912 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:45,800 those hardest moments, I was carrying you. 913 00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,600 It's his set of footprints in in the sand. 914 00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,720 Yeah. So I didn't share that 915 00:49:51,720 --> 00:49:55,120 yesterday, but that's also in that Psalm. 916 00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:59,000 His his footsteps are are the way like that. 917 00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:02,760 That's what's in Psalm 77 there and him, him carrying his people 918 00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:04,360 through this adversity. So. 919 00:50:05,200 --> 00:50:08,280 It's funny you brought that up. I didn't grow up in a Christian 920 00:50:08,280 --> 00:50:11,200 home, but I've been aware of that poem since I was a child. 921 00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,400 Yeah. I don't know if I don't know 922 00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:14,680 why. I've just always known that one. 923 00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:16,520 Yeah. So it's great. 924 00:50:16,840 --> 00:50:20,320 That's why we have this space to bring up all the all the extra 925 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:25,840 things and thoughts. So, yeah, verses 23 and and 926 00:50:25,840 --> 00:50:29,680 onward, as we kind of close out the chapter here, really, really 927 00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:35,120 interesting as again, this life, this enemy is chasing down the 928 00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:37,760 people of God. The Lord looked down upon the 929 00:50:37,760 --> 00:50:40,800 army of Egyptians through the pillar of fire and cloud, and he 930 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:43,320 troubled the army of the Egyptians. 931 00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,080 He took off their chariot wheels so that they drove them with 932 00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:50,160 difficulty. And in it's in this moment, the 933 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:54,240 Egyptians said, let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord 934 00:50:54,240 --> 00:50:57,880 fights for them against the Egyptians as he said they would 935 00:50:57,880 --> 00:51:00,960 know that I am God. And it's in this moment that 936 00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:05,240 they realize it's hopeless. We we cannot win this. 937 00:51:05,240 --> 00:51:08,080 God is real and he's on the other team. 938 00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:11,440 So we don't stand a chance. What is that? 939 00:51:11,440 --> 00:51:16,040 I mean, what that is simultaneously, I think like a 940 00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:20,000 really awesome moment for them because they're meeting God in 941 00:51:20,000 --> 00:51:22,640 such a way that they are no longer denying him. 942 00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,000 So it's almost they're, they're saying, you know what, forget 943 00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:27,360 this. It's almost an act of 944 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:30,040 repentance. And so you would see the 945 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:33,160 Egyptians here saying, you know what, enough's enough, God wins. 946 00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:37,160 Let me literally turn away from his people and run the opposite 947 00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:39,400 direction because this is not going to work out for me. 948 00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:44,760 So you see this seeming not not necessarily faith, not love, not 949 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:49,200 belief, but you see repentance happening and you know, when 950 00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:53,720 people repent, at least for the larger biblical narrative is and 951 00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,120 that comes back to the question we talked about when, when 952 00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,120 people confess and repent, God Forgives. 953 00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:02,640 Yet in this one particular case, when people are like, you know 954 00:52:02,640 --> 00:52:06,880 what, I'm literally going to turn around and run away, it 955 00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,880 still doesn't work out for. Him Nope hardened hearts and on 956 00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:14,160 the there there will be a day that it's that it's too late to 957 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:18,240 to come to that realization. Philippians 2 though at the name 958 00:52:18,240 --> 00:52:21,080 of Jesus every knee will bow in heaven on earth and under the 959 00:52:21,080 --> 00:52:23,760 earth and every tongue confess that Jesus is Lord to the glory 960 00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,080 of God the Father. Even even those on the wrong 961 00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:31,080 side, even those in unbelief are gonna know. 962 00:52:31,240 --> 00:52:34,400 They're gonna know who God is on on that last day. 963 00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:38,320 That's again kind of the picture with the the Egyptians are are 964 00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:39,880 hopeless. They're in a state of rebellion. 965 00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,600 God hardened their hearts because they chose the things 966 00:52:43,600 --> 00:52:48,360 that were not of Him. Yep, and that's a big topic that 967 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,760 I think we'd spent, you know, a good amount of time on during 968 00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:53,920 our revelation series. But there, there is a there is a 969 00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:56,200 time. And This is why, like, you know, 970 00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:01,480 it's, it's not like just a, a, an emotional plea, like no, like 971 00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,920 when the Bible says, if God's Spirit is moving within you 972 00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:09,120 today, go to him today. Don't turn your back on him. 973 00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:12,320 Don't say maybe tomorrow, maybe next week, maybe next year, when 974 00:53:12,320 --> 00:53:14,800 like my life is in a different place, I'll, I'll, I'll start 975 00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:17,520 coming back to God. Like, no, if God's straining 976 00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:21,240 your heart today, you come to him today because we just, 977 00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,000 again, I'm not trying to be dark, but like, we have no 978 00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:26,840 guarantees. There are no guarantees. 979 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:30,280 And so, man, as God moves, move with him. 980 00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:32,960 Because if you're not moving with him, I suspect you might be 981 00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,960 moving against him, and that's never going to work. 982 00:53:34,960 --> 00:53:36,880 Out no, that's not going to be good. 983 00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:42,480 No would you were in the final verses here and I definitely 984 00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:45,200 touched on these in the message yesterday. 985 00:53:45,200 --> 00:53:47,960 So you can go back and watch that on the live stream or even 986 00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:51,960 tune into this podcast feed to we post just the just the sermon 987 00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:56,080 part from yesterday too. But kind of three great 988 00:53:56,680 --> 00:54:00,800 takeaways. I think in in deliverance, the 989 00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:04,040 salvation that that the Lord saved Israel that day out of the 990 00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,440 hand of Israel. So what happens out of out of 991 00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:08,520 that the Israel saw the Egyptians dead. 992 00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,960 And I, I challenged yesterday kind of in the message that you 993 00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,800 can replace Egypt or Egyptians with with sin or fear. 994 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:18,000 So I, I say to you, Christian, one walking, one walking with 995 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:22,800 Christ, one walking with God. Look back on if if you are 996 00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:24,640 changed, if you are a new creation. 997 00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,400 We have this imagery here of people of God seeing their sin, 998 00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:32,840 their fear dead on the seashore. God has, God has defeated it. 999 00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:36,040 What do they do out of that? They saw the great work that the 1000 00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:38,080 Lord had done and they feared the Lord. 1001 00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,120 They believed the Lord and the one that He sent. 1002 00:54:41,920 --> 00:54:45,640 So in that moment, yes, the Israelites knew who God was. 1003 00:54:45,640 --> 00:54:49,760 They believed truly who He was and they believed in Moses 1004 00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,160 because there were obviously 20 verses ago, there were still 1005 00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,520 some of them. Moses, what are you doing should 1006 00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,920 have left us to die in Egypt. That would have been better. 1007 00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:02,360 That tune has changed and it also points ahead to Jesus, 1008 00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:04,480 which we have. We have the same parallels, 1009 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:08,160 right, of of the people who did not believe who, who questioned 1010 00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:13,040 him to the very end of of who he was and who the one was who sent 1011 00:55:13,040 --> 00:55:16,320 him and he and he ends up in this same place. 1012 00:55:16,320 --> 00:55:19,120 The ones who truly follow Him believe God, know God, and 1013 00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:22,680 believe in Him. Yeah, you'll often, well, if you 1014 00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:26,480 dig into some stuff like you'll hear Moses is a quote UN quote 1015 00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:31,360 type of Christ the same way Adam is a type or some of these other 1016 00:55:31,880 --> 00:55:34,920 huge biblical heroes. They're all a type. 1017 00:55:34,920 --> 00:55:38,120 They're not the real thing, but they are a foreshadowing of like 1018 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:41,720 God's one and true son who's going to come and really finish 1019 00:55:41,720 --> 00:55:46,720 the work. But Moses as a type is awfully, 1020 00:55:46,720 --> 00:55:49,440 awfully impressive. And he's not sinless. 1021 00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:52,120 And we're going to see that come out in some very real ways. 1022 00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:56,440 And we've already seen that. But the other funny thing, and I 1023 00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:01,360 don't mean to like squash the party here, but like the 1024 00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:04,040 Israelites, we're going to, we're going to be on this roller 1025 00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:07,520 coaster with them for a few more weeks of like, hey, God did this 1026 00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:09,440 really cool thing. And then they're like, yeah, 1027 00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:11,440 but. We have better ideas. 1028 00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:15,240 We have better ideas. Hey Aaron, we've we've got all 1029 00:56:15,240 --> 00:56:16,680 this gold. You want to throw it in fire and 1030 00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:19,600 see what happens. That's a preview of stuff 1031 00:56:19,600 --> 00:56:23,400 coming. But yeah, so just so just know 1032 00:56:23,400 --> 00:56:26,440 that like if there is any part of you that has been 1033 00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:30,560 experiencing, you might say like a spiritual revival, even within 1034 00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,720 yourself, just know that like if something falls off or if you 1035 00:56:34,720 --> 00:56:39,720 fall back into a sin habit and you know, we don't want those 1036 00:56:39,720 --> 00:56:42,960 things, but those things are they're, they're going to come 1037 00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:45,640 up because we live in a sinful, broken world and we ourselves, 1038 00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:49,360 until we are with the Lord, are still in the flesh. 1039 00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:54,240 And so just know that like when those things come up, God's not 1040 00:56:54,240 --> 00:56:56,840 mad at you, God's not disappointed with you. 1041 00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:01,480 He knew this was coming. Confess your sins, be free again 1042 00:57:01,840 --> 00:57:05,960 and get back on the path. You know, God's not surprised by 1043 00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,520 these things. So just just, and, and again, 1044 00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,880 the Israelites are going to be awesome examples of that like, 1045 00:57:13,560 --> 00:57:17,440 you know, in the coming weeks, but also next week we get to 1046 00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,640 like we get to like party a little bit with the Israelites. 1047 00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:24,080 They're going to sing this great song and it's it's just a lot of 1048 00:57:24,080 --> 00:57:26,480 fun. Yeah, no, that's a good word, 1049 00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:27,520 man. We're going to leave it there 1050 00:57:27,520 --> 00:57:30,040 for this week. It's been fun working through 1051 00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:33,120 Exodus with you and even just kind of the continuation. 1052 00:57:33,120 --> 00:57:35,560 We were in the early church in Acts and now we're seeing the 1053 00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,640 early people of God and, and the parallels there. 1054 00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:42,800 And even I, I hope it's a comfort, not that you, not that 1055 00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:45,840 you want to live in your backtracking or, or, or kind of 1056 00:57:45,840 --> 00:57:49,440 doubts. And, but I mean, God literally 1057 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:52,680 parted the Red Sea and made a way for these people to escape 1058 00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,560 out of slavery. And they still struggled and 1059 00:57:55,560 --> 00:58:00,400 they still had setbacks in in their faith and belief in God. 1060 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,400 So doesn't make you a bad Christian does not make you 1061 00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:06,440 hopeless. There's that what we are. 1062 00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:10,200 We do need to constantly daily return to God and fix our eyes 1063 00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:12,320 on on his ways and the things of him. 1064 00:58:12,320 --> 00:58:13,800 And that's that's what we're here to do. 1065 00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,320 That's what we're here to help you do in the hope of reaching 1066 00:58:17,320 --> 00:58:18,800 one more. So I hope you're in prayer about 1067 00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,720 that this week too. Who who your one more is that 1068 00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:24,960 you can bring to church and and come to know Jesus, get involved 1069 00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,560 in our in our life groups in the way that we're stocking 1070 00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:31,640 community here at ERC and just really grateful for all of you, 1071 00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:33,920 all of you all who are a part of it. 1072 00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:35,680 So God bless, have a great week.