1 00:00:04,720 --> 00:00:08,360 This is ERC Sundays, the messages at Emmaus Rd. 2 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:12,280 Church in DeWitt, Iowa. ERC is a Church of people 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:15,320 striving to grow in Jesus and make him known to others through 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,560 our faith, words and actions. Find out more about our church 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:23,360 at emmausrdonline.org. Here's this week's message. 6 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:27,720 There's a lot in here and I've talked about a lot of other 7 00:00:27,720 --> 00:00:30,680 things already. We are going to move quickly but 8 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:37,440 prudently through the word of God here this morning to this 9 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:44,280 point in the narrative. Moses, who was brought into 10 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:49,640 Pharaoh's palace, born a Hebrew, raised as an Egyptian, killed an 11 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:56,320 Egyptian, goes out and wanders in the wilderness about 40 years 12 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:01,000 old, when he when he's kind of exiled, meets the Midianites, 13 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,280 meets, meets a shepherder farmer, marries, marries his 14 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:10,120 daughter, has a child. The setting of chapter 3 here is 15 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:14,480 about 40 years. After that, Moses is 80 years 16 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:18,600 old, keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the 17 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,920 priest of Midian. He led his flock to the West 18 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:25,680 side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God, 19 00:01:26,680 --> 00:01:28,920 and the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of 20 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:33,720 fire out of the midst of a Bush. He looked and behold, the Bush 21 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,240 was burning, yet it was not consumed. 22 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,400 Moses said, I will turn aside to see this great site. 23 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:48,200 Why the Bush is not burned. I want to stop here. 24 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:50,400 We're not going to read the whole passage this morning. 25 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:51,800 Sometimes we do that this morning. 26 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,800 We're going to kind of go verse by verse, line by line. 27 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:56,280 I will turn aside to see this great site. 28 00:01:56,360 --> 00:02:02,440 Why the Bush is not burned. They lived in such a climate, 29 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,160 such a place that this was. It wasn't crazy to see. 30 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:10,080 Brush on fire. It got hot enough, things could 31 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:14,880 just spontaneously combust. What caught his attention was 32 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:18,560 that the Bush was sustaining itself. 33 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:29,560 Let me ask you, what are some things that money can't buy? 34 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,720 First answer is time. That was the answer I was 35 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:36,520 looking for. So you, the rest of you, if you 36 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:39,360 have other answers, sorry, I got the answer I was looking for. 37 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:43,600 We're going to move on. Thank you, Matt. 38 00:02:45,800 --> 00:02:50,560 Time. What is the currency of time? 39 00:02:54,720 --> 00:03:03,160 How do we spend time? We pay attention. 40 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:13,680 We pay attention just like we would pay dollars or how we 41 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:21,360 would pay a debt. Moses walking by this burning 42 00:03:21,360 --> 00:03:25,040 Bush that in and of itself a Bush on fire was not enough to 43 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,560 grab his attention. What grabbed his attention was 44 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:34,480 that the Bush wasn't consumed. And when the Lord verse 4, when 45 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:40,520 the Lord saw that, he turned aside to see God called out to 46 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:48,080 him out of the Bush church. What are you paying attention 47 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:56,800 to? It took Moses paying attention 48 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:01,560 for this site. It was only when the Lord saw 49 00:04:01,560 --> 00:04:05,960 that he turned aside. When Moses investigated and 50 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,360 said, hey, there's something working here. 51 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:20,959 He'd been in the wilderness for 40 years, not amongst the Hebrew 52 00:04:20,959 --> 00:04:23,840 people of God against I guess probably a Pagan people. 53 00:04:23,840 --> 00:04:27,840 They certainly weren't the people of Israel, the the people 54 00:04:27,840 --> 00:04:31,760 of the Hebrew God. He hadn't been paying attention 55 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:37,880 to God for 40 years, but in this moment when he did, when he 56 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:44,040 turned aside, when he paid attention, God called and he 57 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:51,000 said Moses, Moses, Moses responded, here I am God. 58 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:55,040 Then he said, do not come near, take off, take your sandals off 59 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:59,640 your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy 60 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,080 ground. Two parts. 61 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,640 Moses had to pay attention. First he had to be looking. 62 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:14,760 He had to be seeking God where he was to be found and then he 63 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:18,280 had to humble himself. He had to. 64 00:05:18,360 --> 00:05:22,640 He had to bring that out. He had to kick off that which 65 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:29,040 was unclean. He had to turn from these wore 66 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:32,160 sandals everywhere through every sort of territory. 67 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:35,640 We didn't have 30 pairs of shoes like Pastor Chris does. 68 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,520 Like it's the same pair everywhere. 69 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,320 Do not come near. Take your sandals off your feet, 70 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,520 for the place on which you are standing is holy ground. 71 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,720 Two parts. Moses paid attention and shed 72 00:05:57,720 --> 00:05:59,760 what was unclean. He he humbled. 73 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:05,040 He turned away from the dirtiness and filth that he 74 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,760 carried with him all the time to approach God. 75 00:06:11,080 --> 00:06:14,600 And then he said, the Bush said, God said, I am the God of your 76 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:17,040 father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of 77 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:20,000 Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he 78 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:23,480 was afraid to look at God. So he remembers, He remembers, 79 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:29,160 oh, that God, that you're like that God the God. 80 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:36,160 Then the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my 81 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,440 people who are in Egypt, and I've heard their cry because of 82 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:43,800 their taskmasters. I know their sufferings. 83 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:52,520 This is how the living God, the true God, introduces himself to 84 00:06:52,520 --> 00:07:01,600 Moses, comes down to his level and says, I have surely seen 85 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,920 this in the Hebrew. It's actually a repeated word. 86 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:10,160 It's seen, seen sounds strange, but it's it's the same. 87 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:15,640 It's the same idea of when Adam in Genesis, when he knew his 88 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,640 wife. I see you. 89 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:22,320 I know you deeply, intimately, truly. 90 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,720 I know the affliction. I have seen, seen the affliction 91 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:33,600 of my people who are in Egypt. I know how they're suffering. 92 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:37,160 I've heard their cry. I know their sufferings. 93 00:07:38,160 --> 00:07:41,280 This is the same God that meets you here today. 94 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,600 I know it's an extra touchy week and and events happen and and 95 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:51,120 and highlight things. God knows. 96 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:55,080 I promise you, He knows how you feel. 97 00:07:55,080 --> 00:08:00,120 This week he met Moses after wandering 40 years and told him 98 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:04,000 he knows how he feels. Surely He can meet us here 99 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:08,680 today. I know their sufferings, verse 100 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:14,480 8, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of 101 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:17,400 these sufferings, out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring 102 00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:20,720 them up out of the land to a good land and a broad land. 103 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:22,520 Look at the two fold promise here. 104 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,040 He is not only coming down to remove punishment and 105 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:35,480 affliction, He is taking off the bad and replacing it with good, 106 00:08:36,440 --> 00:08:41,039 with abundance, with blessing 'cause it's one. 107 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,440 It's one thing to be clean. That actually worked out pretty 108 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,680 well. You, you, you took, you kinda 109 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:53,320 took The Dirty away. But did you give me something 110 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:56,600 good I'd like best would probably be a clean microphone 111 00:08:56,640 --> 00:09:00,680 and I might need to go like face wash and shower like that. 112 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:03,600 That would be clean, right? We kind of took away the bad. 113 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:06,520 We didn't replace it with blessing. 114 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:10,280 We didn't replace it with clean. That's what our God does. 115 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:16,040 He not only removes our sin, replaces it with the 116 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:20,040 righteousness of Christ so that we can approach the throne of 117 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:25,720 his grace in heaven. Land of milk and Honey has all 118 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,680 these people, the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites. 119 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:29,280 It's good. We should know those things. 120 00:09:29,280 --> 00:09:30,800 It's it's helpful to know that they were there. 121 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:32,680 We're not going to spend time on it. 122 00:09:32,680 --> 00:09:36,080 Today we have a podcast. Pastor Chris and I release a 123 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,960 Monday podcast where we talk about the extra things that we 124 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,080 didn't talk about on the sermon. Maybe we'll talk about the 125 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:49,400 Hizzites tomorrow. So verse 9 Now behold, the cry 126 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,520 of the people of Israel has come to me. 127 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:57,080 God hears you even when it doesn't seem like it, even when 128 00:09:57,080 --> 00:10:00,160 He doesn't answer in the way that you think He should. 129 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,160 His promise is the cry of my people has come to me. 130 00:10:05,520 --> 00:10:08,240 I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians 131 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:12,040 oppressed them also. He knows injustice. 132 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:15,800 He establishes the bounds of justice and injustice. 133 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:19,680 He knows it's unfair. He knows oppression. 134 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,880 He's not ignoring it. He's working through it in ways 135 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,320 that we just can't see in our finite minds. 136 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,040 Then he says to Moses, verse 10, come, I will send you to Pharaoh 137 00:10:34,640 --> 00:10:38,080 that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of 138 00:10:38,080 --> 00:10:42,440 Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I 139 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,800 that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out 140 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:51,520 of Egypt? Also a very real question for us 141 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:56,720 today. Moses had been wandering, had 142 00:10:56,720 --> 00:11:01,560 been sojourning, had been listlessly, aimlessly, 143 00:11:01,560 --> 00:11:06,040 purposelessly walking for the past 40 years. 144 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:09,240 To some degree, in that moment he he may have felt the 145 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:13,280 conviction of look at all this wasted time. 146 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,080 Had I known this 40 years I could have, I could have done 147 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,080 this 40 years ago. What could I have done over the 148 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:22,760 past 40 years if I had known this? 149 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:29,320 That's not what we're supposed to focus on in this past. 150 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:39,000 What God's focusing on is you're here, I'm here now, and I'm 151 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,440 sending you. From this day forward, I'm 152 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:45,560 sending you. Who are you? 153 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:49,360 You're the one I came to and the one I sent. 154 00:11:50,680 --> 00:11:54,360 That's who you are, that wanderer for the past 40 years. 155 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:55,840 That's not the person I'm sending. 156 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:03,680 I'm sending the one I chose. God said he said verse 12. 157 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,000 But I will be with you and this shall be the sign for you that I 158 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:10,880 have sent you. He says it again. 159 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:14,240 It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter what you've 160 00:12:14,240 --> 00:12:18,200 done, how you've ignored me for the past 40 years. 161 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:22,280 Who you are, you're a guy who's got God alongside him. 162 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,200 I will be with you and this is your sign. 163 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:28,000 I sent you. I'm here with you and I sent 164 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:31,000 you. That makes you the guy that 165 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:34,080 makes you the girl for this thing that I'm calling you to 166 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:41,200 sending you to got alongside you and sent when you have brought 167 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:50,520 not if it's important when you have brought the people out of 168 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,080 Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain. 169 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:58,280 The beginning, if you remember it was called Mount Horeb, the 170 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:02,560 mountain of God. Later we'll get to it in our in 171 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:05,520 our Exodus series. This same place is also called 172 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:10,240 Mount Sinai, which if you're familiar, Charlton has to. 173 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:17,120 That's where the 10 commandments came down on this mountain is 174 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:24,600 the beginning of the promise of how to be faithful to this God 175 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,120 that has chosen you and rescued you out of Egypt. 176 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,320 When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve 177 00:13:33,320 --> 00:13:36,600 God on this mountain. I'm going to gift you with my 178 00:13:36,600 --> 00:13:38,080 word. I'm going to gift you with my 179 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,760 law, with my truth, and this is how you live a life in pursuit 180 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:44,520 of me. I'm going to bring you right 181 00:13:44,520 --> 00:13:49,120 back to this point. And that sounds like it's a 182 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,440 circle and you're going to end up right back where you started, 183 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:56,200 but it will just be the beginning. 184 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:06,040 Then Moses still, this still sounds questionable. 185 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:08,840 God, I got, I got, I got some things that maybe you haven't 186 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:10,960 considered yet. Have you thought about this? 187 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:14,480 Moses said to God, if I come to the people of Israel and say to 188 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:18,520 them, the God of your Father's has sent me to you and they 189 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:24,840 asked me, what is his name? What shall I say to them? 190 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:30,760 He's again kind of asking this unqualified question, but I, I, 191 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,080 I haven't walked with you for this long. 192 00:14:33,080 --> 00:14:35,920 I'm going back to a people that have been following you for this 193 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,320 long that they're going to want some verification here. 194 00:14:40,640 --> 00:14:43,520 What do I call you? What do I say to them? 195 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,680 Then God said to Moses, I am who I am. 196 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:59,440 This is the word Yahweh. He said, say this to the people 197 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:03,480 of Israel. I am has sent you Yahweh. 198 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:07,480 Now this is an interesting phrase because it in the Hebrew 199 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:11,360 it's actually it's actually more of the third person. 200 00:15:11,360 --> 00:15:15,160 When God says it, he's saying I am. 201 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:20,840 When we say it, it's it's actually he is. 202 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:27,640 When God says it's, it is, he is, but he's talking about 203 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,000 himself in the third person. It's I am. 204 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:34,960 We're not saying I am, we're saying you are. 205 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:44,240 He is the I am. Yahweh has sent me to you. 206 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:51,680 I am who I am. He is who he is. 207 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:58,360 God also said to Moses, say this to the people of Israel. 208 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,120 The Lord, the God of your father is the God of Abraham, the God 209 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:03,960 of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. All their patriarchs. 210 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:05,680 They would know those guys for sure. 211 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:08,960 Heard about them, heard stories about them. 212 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:15,640 They're the reason we're here. This is my name forever, and 213 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:20,920 thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 214 00:16:27,290 --> 00:16:31,970 At a Maestro church, we believe, and we believe it's rightly so, 215 00:16:32,490 --> 00:16:35,410 that the whole of the Bible points to Jesus Christ. 216 00:16:36,770 --> 00:16:39,130 It is about Jesus Christ. He is, as I said at the 217 00:16:39,130 --> 00:16:42,130 beginning, the author and perfector of our faith. 218 00:16:45,250 --> 00:16:47,850 We just read 15 verses in the name of Jesus wasn't in there. 219 00:16:57,520 --> 00:17:05,280 This is my name forever and thus I am to be remembered throughout 220 00:17:05,319 --> 00:17:14,839 all generations. This Angel of the Lord back in 221 00:17:14,839 --> 00:17:20,160 verse 2. Whenever you see Angel in the 222 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:25,160 Bible, I want you to think Messenger. 223 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,800 I don't want you to think feathery wings and shiny body 224 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,440 and glowing Halo. You can, that's fine. 225 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:42,120 But more importantly, Messenger, one who brings the word of God, 226 00:17:42,240 --> 00:17:53,250 the authority of God. In this story it's different 227 00:17:53,250 --> 00:17:59,280 though, because the Angel, O Lord, appeared to him in the 228 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,520 flame in the verse. Can you guys go back to the 229 00:18:01,520 --> 00:18:02,920 verse 3? I don't want to click all the 230 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,080 way back there. Go back to the one that has 231 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,040 verse 2 and verse 3 on it. So I want I want you all to see 232 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:10,920 this. Yep, right there. 233 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:13,520 Great. The Angel of the Lord appeared 234 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:15,520 to him in the flame of fire out of the midst of the Bush. 235 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:17,760 He's not paying attention yet right. 236 00:18:19,320 --> 00:18:21,800 He looked and behold the Bush was burning. 237 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,000 Yes, it yet it was not consumed at this point. 238 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:29,120 It's the messenger of the Lord. It's it's hey over here just for 239 00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:34,560 a SEC, pay attention when he turned aside when he paid 240 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:40,240 attention, verse 4, it's not the Angel anymore. 241 00:18:41,360 --> 00:18:46,200 It's the Lord God's here now. It's not his messenger. 242 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:49,960 God's on the scene. God's come down. 243 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:55,280 The Lord saw that, He turned aside to see, and God, not the 244 00:18:55,280 --> 00:18:59,680 messenger of God. God called to him out of the 245 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:09,610 Bush and he said, here I am, I am the God of your Father. 246 00:19:10,610 --> 00:19:15,610 I have surely seen the affliction and I have come down 247 00:19:15,610 --> 00:19:20,050 to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians. 248 00:19:25,700 --> 00:19:29,180 Which part of the Trinity, Father, Son, Holy Spirit came 249 00:19:29,180 --> 00:19:35,440 down to deliver? There's Jesus. 250 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:44,800 Jesus is here in this scene. He is the one who comes. 251 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:48,000 He's Emmanuel. He is God with us. 252 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:55,720 And because he was fully man and fully God, what is his name? 253 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:05,320 His name doesn't change. He bears the name of God because 254 00:20:05,320 --> 00:20:11,560 he is God. Jesus is the true deliverer. 255 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:14,640 We're talking and studying about Moses, our deliverer. 256 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:18,880 And yes, God chose him, sent him, equipped him. 257 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:27,760 But what we're really seeing played out in this passage, it's 258 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:35,520 a foreshadowing of Jesus already coming, coming down to deliver, 259 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,640 seeing and bearing our hurts, our affliction, the injustice, 260 00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:48,080 the oppression. Who responds? 261 00:20:48,560 --> 00:21:00,560 Jesus is on the scene just as he would be, just as He is for us 262 00:21:00,720 --> 00:21:12,940 today. God will work and move in and 263 00:21:12,940 --> 00:21:16,060 through each and every one of you who are faithful to Him. 264 00:21:17,060 --> 00:21:26,540 I know that, I believe that. I do also want to highlight that 265 00:21:26,540 --> 00:21:33,040 in the example of Jesus, and this isn't this isn't a 266 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:34,800 discount. I'm I'm only talking about half 267 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:37,080 of the room right now, which is which is going to be dangerous. 268 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:46,560 Not dangerous, but maybe weird men, I'm talking to you and this 269 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:51,240 is ladies love you too. Like like Kristen said, you're 270 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:52,160 great. We think you're great. 271 00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:55,640 You said that about the guys. I it's only fair. 272 00:21:55,640 --> 00:22:04,560 I say that about the girls, men. When God was faced with the 273 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:13,360 prospect of delivering his people, he came to a man and he 274 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:15,560 said you're the one who's going to set my people free. 275 00:22:19,120 --> 00:22:23,960 Nothing against you, ladies. It's how God designed it to work 276 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:29,280 that men lead. Even when Adam was alone back in 277 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:34,040 Genesis, he was lonely. That was not good. 278 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,960 God saw that it was not good. He brought a helper. 279 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:47,440 He made woman and brought a helper to help Adam lead, to 280 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:55,040 help him deliver. But men, the first call comes to 281 00:22:55,040 --> 00:23:07,480 you in your life, in your faith, in your family, in your health. 282 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,640 At some point we're going to, we're going to beat this. 283 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,800 We're going to say this so much, you're going to get sick of it. 284 00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:23,720 We're going to be the church that gives a lot of FS faith, 285 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:31,440 family fitness, your health and finances. 286 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,080 All of those are resources for the Kingdom of God. 287 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:42,960 But man, it starts with you. You cannot have a have a healthy 288 00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:45,600 marriage if you yourself are not healthy in your faith and right 289 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:49,040 with God. You cannot be healthy parents if 290 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:54,880 your marriage is not healthy. You yourself need to be 291 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:59,800 physically healthy. And the finances, the resources 292 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,720 in this world, yeah, God doesn't need them, but they certainly 293 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:11,840 help to carry out the mission. If we are going to be a church 294 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:17,360 that is faithful, that is going to respond and answer, I don't 295 00:24:17,360 --> 00:24:19,000 care where you've been for the past 40 years. 296 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,200 I care that you're here now and I'm choosing you and I'm sending 297 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,600 you. I believe with all my heart that 298 00:24:26,600 --> 00:24:30,200 that's what we're called to those, those four FS. 299 00:24:35,430 --> 00:24:41,550 But man, it starts with you. I want you to hold me 300 00:24:41,550 --> 00:24:43,670 accountable to that. And I'm going to hold you 301 00:24:43,670 --> 00:24:49,880 accountable to that because I care too much about the time we 302 00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:54,080 may have wasted. God doesn't care. 303 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:56,320 I care about that. God doesn't care. 304 00:24:56,320 --> 00:25:02,560 He's ready for us to move here and now, but I'm ready to live 305 00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,040 like there's no more time to waste. 306 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:15,960 We're sent and God goes with us and he is the great I am. 307 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:25,760 So we can go. Thanks for listening to ERC 308 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:28,240 Sundays. To support the work God is doing 309 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,840 an Emmaus Rd. church, visit emmausrdonline.org/giving.