1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,760 We're going to be in Exodus chapter 2. 2 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:07,200 We're going to start in verse 11 and we're going to see how far 3 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,600 we get believe. We're going to get through verse 4 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:11,480 22 today, but we'll see how that goes. 5 00:00:13,200 --> 00:00:15,960 So starting in verse 11. Now it came to pass in those 6 00:00:15,960 --> 00:00:19,560 days when Moses was grown, that he went out to the brethren and 7 00:00:19,560 --> 00:00:22,560 looked at their burdens, and he saw the Egyptian, saw an 8 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,560 Egyptian beating a Hebrew one of his brethren. 9 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:30,280 So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one, he 10 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:32,960 killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. 11 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:38,680 And when he went out the second day, behold, 2 Hebrew men were 12 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:42,640 fighting. And he said to to the one who 13 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,600 was, who did the wrong, Why are you striking your companion? 14 00:00:48,160 --> 00:00:51,280 Then he said, Who made you Prince and judge over us? 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,960 Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? 16 00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,640 So Moses feared and said, surely this thing is known. 17 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:01,200 When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill Moses. 18 00:01:01,960 --> 00:01:06,520 But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of 19 00:01:06,520 --> 00:01:10,160 Midian. And he sat down by a well. 20 00:01:10,160 --> 00:01:12,680 So Lord, I just lift up this time and I lift up everybody 21 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:16,400 here, Lord. And that you would just help us 22 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,640 to choose you, Lord, and to choose your way in our life. 23 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:23,600 And that we would just lose sight of ourselves, Lord. 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:26,320 And that goes for me as well, that I would lose sight of of 25 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:33,680 myself, Lord, And that I, I would just be here letting you 26 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,360 speak, Lord. And Lord, that you would have 27 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:39,000 something to share with all of us here, Lord, that you'd be in 28 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:41,760 in this place. Fill us with your spirit guide 29 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:44,000 and direct us and proud of this in Jesus name, Amen. 30 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:51,640 So last week I talked about kind of the genealogy of the Pharaohs 31 00:01:51,640 --> 00:01:58,080 and how did, how did a Princess end up being Moses's adopted 32 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:03,400 mother? And the history in that in that 33 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:10,240 time is they there is nothing that says Moses was here. 34 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,160 So when I say this, this is this is one of the theories on how it 35 00:02:14,160 --> 00:02:17,880 happened. But to me, when I look at it, it 36 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:23,080 really fits the fits the narrative on how Moses would end 37 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:27,480 up in the in the cat in the palace and be raised there. 38 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,960 And so the princess's father was that most the 1st and he was the 39 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:37,440 Black Hat in chapter 1. Like I talked about that wanted 40 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,560 to kill all the sons and then Hatmos married Thatmos the 41 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:48,840 second and and he was Thatmos the first son, but from another 42 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,680 wife. So it was her stepbrother. 43 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:56,840 And they did that back then where they they intermarried in 44 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:01,560 the royal line to keep the line pure as as weird as that is to 45 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,720 us today. But then in that hatmost was 46 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:10,880 still the more royal of the two because she was from the royal 47 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:13,720 queen, like I talked about. So she was the royal lion. 48 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:17,800 So she was the Regent. She was she really was the the 49 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,120 pharaoh when there wasn't a pharaoh kind of thing. 50 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:25,080 So that most the second didn't step into the pharaoh role role. 51 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:32,360 She was but that most the second son that most the third he would 52 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,680 take the throne, but he was too young to rule. 53 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:40,440 So for his entire younger years, she was the Regent. 54 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:46,240 So she would have been in charge of of the palace at that time. 55 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:50,320 And that's the time while she was raising Moses. 56 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:56,040 So that brings us up to this moment and brings us to the time 57 00:03:56,040 --> 00:03:58,600 when when Moses is probably Moses. 58 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:00,840 His life was was upside down, right? 59 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:06,920 He was 40 years old and suddenly whether whether his whether his 60 00:04:06,920 --> 00:04:12,320 mom had passed away or that most the third had just gotten old 61 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:18,120 enough to take power. He was he was not a fan of his 62 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:22,120 that most the second. I tried to figure out what he 63 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:26,280 would be to her because he was in multiple marriages. 64 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,240 The whole the whole lineage turns weird, right, multiple 65 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:35,400 marriages. So he was her husband's second 66 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:39,400 wife or third wife's son. So like her stepson, but not 67 00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:44,920 really they didn't get along to the point that when she died and 68 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:50,000 he took over all he did and and there is records of this is try 69 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:54,240 to erase her from history. So there are there is places 70 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:59,800 where there are gaps in the where Chisel actually knocked 71 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,440 her name off of stuff where they can track it and go. 72 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:05,960 So she should be here. And it was cleared from the 73 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,000 record. And so that's what Moses is 74 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:14,240 living in right now. And so Moses had been in the in 75 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,760 the palace for 40 years. It tells us in Acts that when he 76 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,280 was 40 years old, it came into his heart to visit the brethren 77 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:23,840 of the children of his brethren, the children of Israel. 78 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:30,560 And his eyes were opened, right? And, and they were opened, I 79 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,640 think a lot like our eyes a lot of times, are opened to 80 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:39,560 privilege and his time in the palace and just what he had 81 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:43,000 compared to his brethren. And what I like to call that is 82 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:48,760 rich guilt. And that it's what we do with 83 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,840 that, right? And the the title in my study 84 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:59,760 today, the as I always say, my corny title is shortcut or easy 85 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:05,120 way you choose. And you'll find that very, very 86 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:12,800 often we we are shortcut takers doesn't go doesn't go well for 87 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,160 us, but we try. So rich guilt, just to cover 88 00:06:17,160 --> 00:06:19,680 that real quick, I'm going to pick up my mom because she's 89 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,720 passed away and she'll forgive me when I get up there. 90 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:28,840 So my mom wanted everybody to go to heaven with all of her heart. 91 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:30,600 She just wanted everybody to go to heaven. 92 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:34,520 And she really believed with without a shadow of a doubt that 93 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:38,640 if if everybody had been raised in the house she was raised in 94 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:43,360 and given the things she was given, then their life would be 95 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,360 as good as her life. And guys, that's untrue. 96 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,360 And what I mean by that is, is that that puts a guilt on her 97 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:54,160 because she was, she was given these things, but there were 98 00:06:54,160 --> 00:06:56,280 choices she made. I, I told her, I said, so mom, 99 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,400 as you're looking at your life now, do you remember that you 100 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:02,760 were also a single mom that that worked three jobs? 101 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:06,400 And how did you, how did you end up where you are now? 102 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,280 Is that you worked for it, You know, and, and I'm going to 103 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:15,280 touch one of those buttons when you look at welfare and this is 104 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:18,280 me and my mom's conversation. So take it for what it is. 105 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:23,720 She, she really was she, she really thought welfare was a, a 106 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,520 good thing And the problem with welfare, and I told her this all 107 00:07:27,520 --> 00:07:29,480 the time, mom, I partied with these people. 108 00:07:30,520 --> 00:07:34,680 I, I, I was one of these people. I partied, I played they're not, 109 00:07:34,920 --> 00:07:38,360 they're there are people on welfare that need welfare, 110 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:41,960 right? That that they they apply it and 111 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,440 it's used and and it gets them to the other side. 112 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:47,960 But then there's the whole group I was partying with that we're 113 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,680 just trying to figure out new and improved ways to get more 114 00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,400 welfare so they could drink and party and do drugs more. 115 00:07:53,720 --> 00:07:55,920 Right. And and that's, that is the the 116 00:07:55,920 --> 00:07:57,960 majority of the people I knew that were on welfare. 117 00:07:57,960 --> 00:08:00,360 That doesn't mean everybody on welfare is doing drugs. 118 00:08:00,840 --> 00:08:04,440 That just means mom, just because you're, if you're giving 119 00:08:04,440 --> 00:08:08,240 free things out, trust me, everybody that is getting the 120 00:08:08,240 --> 00:08:13,240 free things is not using them like you would right. 121 00:08:14,520 --> 00:08:16,800 So that's that's a flavor of rich guilt. 122 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:22,600 But for Moses, Moses, Moses took it to an extreme, right. 123 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:28,040 Moses, he was guilty because he goes out and sees his brethren 124 00:08:28,040 --> 00:08:30,320 and and what's going on. So what does he do? 125 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:36,320 He kills a guy. And the, the thing with how it 126 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:41,000 happens is when you look at it, when you look at verses 11 127 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,880 through 15 and you just go through how much of it was 128 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:49,640 focused on Moses, It's Moses. He went his brethren, he saw his 129 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,280 brethren, he looked, he saw he killed, right? 130 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:58,760 It was Moses was there and, and involved in this and was, was 131 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:01,520 going to do the thing to fix the stuff. 132 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,760 But in doing the thing that was going to fix the stuff, he 133 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,280 completely knew he was in the wrong. 134 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:12,960 And how how do we know that? Because it says he looked to the 135 00:09:12,960 --> 00:09:16,560 left and to the right. We forgot to look up right? 136 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:22,000 And you, you don't get to I talked about that. 137 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,280 We don't get to lie and manipulate our way into God's 138 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:31,160 plan, right? Luke, Luke 817 It says for 139 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,840 nothing is secret that will not be revealed nor anything hidden 140 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,640 that will not be known and come to light. 141 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:43,360 So that's the fun thing about serving Jesus, right? 142 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,320 The fun thing about serving Jesus is I just get to do it his 143 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:49,320 way. And it's his problem to figure 144 00:09:49,320 --> 00:09:52,200 out how that's going to work. You know, it's when I'm in 145 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,800 Uganda and we talk about bribing, you know, bribes and 146 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,680 that stuff and guys, well, how you going to get anything done 147 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,200 if you're not willing to bribe? Well, not my problem, right? 148 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,920 It's Jesus's problem and it's stuff like that. 149 00:10:03,920 --> 00:10:08,880 But this is one of those moments where we're Moses and we do 150 00:10:08,880 --> 00:10:11,000 this. And guys, I I'm sure that you 151 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:16,480 are as guilty of this as any as I am of killing people with our 152 00:10:16,480 --> 00:10:20,440 words, right? Or just having that thing to 153 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:24,160 say, barking at someone right and and winning that argument. 154 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:32,600 When I got into excavation, I did AI lived a blessed life for 155 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:36,600 probably four or five years. I because I just showed up, I, I 156 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:42,120 was a new believer and showed up and lived Colossians 323 because 157 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,640 I didn't know any better, right? I just, and when I say that is 158 00:10:45,640 --> 00:10:49,760 I, I found that verse, I don't remember if if who taught on it 159 00:10:49,760 --> 00:10:53,200 or if I was just reading it. And it Colossians 323 is, you 160 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,080 know, do everything as unto the Lord and not to men. 161 00:10:55,720 --> 00:10:59,800 And so I just applied that to my life and life was good. 162 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,520 And I mean work was easy, right, Because I didn't, I just showed 163 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:06,240 up and did my best. Doesn't mean my best was good 164 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,480 enough. Sometimes I, I was, I struggled. 165 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,200 I didn't know what I was doing, but I was doing my best And, and 166 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:14,960 God honored that. And in that, in that time, I, in 167 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:18,200 that four to five years, I became, I went from not knowing 168 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,800 anything and I mean nothing about what I was doing for a 169 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:25,400 living to running cruise and, and having a truck and being a 170 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:28,880 boss. But there was a guy at work that 171 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:35,840 just drove me nuts. And is his name what we're going 172 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:38,760 to say? His name was Kevin, Not because 173 00:11:38,760 --> 00:11:42,040 it was, but so that I'm not calling him out. 174 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:45,800 But he drove me nuts. And he, he lied. 175 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,080 I mean, everything was from his perspective. 176 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:52,000 And he lied and twisted truth and did all kinds of stuff. 177 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:57,400 And my boss thought he was God's gift to excavation. 178 00:11:57,400 --> 00:12:04,080 And I was determined to show the world that he was not. 179 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:07,920 So one day I went to work with that attitude. 180 00:12:08,480 --> 00:12:10,680 And what I did that day was I did not lie. 181 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:13,840 I did not cheat, I did not steal, but I made him look 182 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:18,280 stupid all day long. And how I did that was just by 183 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:21,720 making him figure things out that I would normally figure out 184 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:26,480 for him. And, and we were at on that job 185 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:30,040 site, we were peers, right? I was top, I was top hand. 186 00:12:30,040 --> 00:12:32,280 He was the pipe player. I didn't know what he was doing, 187 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,440 but he could fake it because I would do most of the work for 188 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:38,440 him. So this day I just let him look 189 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:40,520 stupid all day. Like he couldn't figure out the 190 00:12:40,520 --> 00:12:41,840 math. He couldn't figure out, you 191 00:12:41,840 --> 00:12:47,440 know, he and I made that look. I mean, my point was to make him 192 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:51,640 look stupid. And I was very successful. 193 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:56,200 Like I, I thought my day, my, I was happier the longer the day 194 00:12:56,200 --> 00:12:59,000 went on. He was getting redder and madder 195 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:05,440 and more frustrated and, and then I got my car and he's a 196 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:10,080 bigger guy and he got I got my car and he opened my passenger 197 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,680 door and he is going to drag me out by my neck and just beat me 198 00:13:13,680 --> 00:13:15,520 in the street, right? He's mad. 199 00:13:15,760 --> 00:13:20,080 I mean, he's, he's mad and I'm just as happy as the day is long 200 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:23,360 because this is the exact, this was my plan, right? 201 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,920 My plan was to get him that mad and make him look that stupid. 202 00:13:28,040 --> 00:13:32,120 And I just I said something to the extent of what are we in 203 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:34,640 kindergarten and drove off right. 204 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:41,480 And yeah, I lived happily ever after or I made it to the stop 205 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:43,800 sign when God said so you're going to apologize to him 206 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:45,880 tomorrow? No, I'm not. 207 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:48,280 That's not going to happen. That's I don't know. 208 00:13:48,440 --> 00:13:54,480 I don't know. No, that's so you guys can 209 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:59,640 imagine how that how, how my night went, right, because I was 210 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:04,640 either going to apologize or me and the Lord weren't good and 211 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:09,000 that wasn't going to work. And I'd love to say that, you 212 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,720 know, by the time I got home, I had figured it out or after 213 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:15,120 dinner, I figured it out or before I went to bed, I figured 214 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:16,840 it out. No, I was, I was up till two 215 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,600 3:00 in the morning arguing with the Lord about why I didn't have 216 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:25,120 to apologize. And so I had to go to work and 217 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:26,800 apologize. And there there's a whole story 218 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:31,680 with that. But the point is what I, what I 219 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:35,800 wanted to do now, now, years later, he, that guy got saved, 220 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:40,680 right? And, and he came up and he 221 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:46,440 didn't say that me apologizing to him was the thing that got 222 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,800 him saved. He does remember I did it and it 223 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:53,000 was a moment that that made him go. 224 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,520 That's weird, right? But it was a it was a thing 225 00:14:56,520 --> 00:14:58,560 because the thing with an apology like that, guys, if you 226 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:03,480 didn't know, when God tells you to apologize, what he does not 227 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:09,360 tell you to do is say I'm sorry, but you're an idiot, or I'm 228 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:12,800 sorry, but you know, you've just made me mad over there. 229 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:16,360 No, you don't get any of that. You get, I'm sorry. 230 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,760 I was wrong. I shouldn't have acted like 231 00:15:18,760 --> 00:15:20,560 that. That's what you don't get. 232 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:22,400 But you're an idiot. You don't get to say that. 233 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:25,440 I tried. That was I, I went through the 234 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:31,040 apology a lot and God kept like changing my apology back to no. 235 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:35,600 And the point with that, And that is the shortcut versus the 236 00:15:35,600 --> 00:15:40,120 easy way, right? The shortcut is God had a work 237 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,400 to do in his life. He had a work to do in my life. 238 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:46,560 And my shortcut there was that I wanted to do what I wanted to 239 00:15:46,560 --> 00:15:47,760 do. I wanted to make him look 240 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:53,200 stupid, right? And then I had some training, 241 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,960 which is what God will do when you're on the shortcut. 242 00:15:56,520 --> 00:16:02,000 He will, he will train you and you can, you can watch this. 243 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,200 I mean, Abraham and Sarah, they try to shortcut with Hagar. 244 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:10,760 That training is still going on today because that's Islam, 245 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:15,840 right? Hagar is, is where the religion 246 00:16:15,840 --> 00:16:20,120 of Islam came from is through Ishmael, which is her son. 247 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:25,240 But that was Abraham and Sarah trying to take a shortcut to get 248 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,000 to where God wanted him to go, even though that is not what God 249 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:32,040 told him to do. Jacob stealing Esau's blessing, 250 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:38,080 well that cost him 20 plus years in another country, multiple 251 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:42,760 wives and and concubines and he never got to see his mom again 252 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:48,200 from the reported record. But a great example of the 253 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:52,360 difference between a shortcut and the easy way. 254 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:56,960 Which is God's way right and that is in first Samuel David's 255 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:03,800 men want to kill Saul and David stood still submitted to God's 256 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:08,680 plan right and if you you read first Samuel verse 20 or chapter 257 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,200 26 verse 9. It's it's just a great picture 258 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:15,920 of this. It says, But David said to 259 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:22,599 Absalom abashes, do not destroy him, for who can stretch out his 260 00:17:22,599 --> 00:17:25,240 hand against the Lord's anointed and be guiltless? 261 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:29,720 David said, Furthermore, as the Lord lives, the Lord shall 262 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,800 strike him, or his day shall come to die, or she shall go out 263 00:17:33,800 --> 00:17:38,320 to battle and perish. David understood whose problems 264 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,480 Saul was right. Saul was not David's problem. 265 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,000 David's problem was walking with the Lord. 266 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:50,880 That was that was what David was called to do. 267 00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:57,160 When we push past God with an I'll do it attitude like Moses 268 00:17:57,160 --> 00:18:02,680 did, we are trusting we are, we are, we are not trusting him, 269 00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:09,600 but our shortcut, right? And David's example really shows 270 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:16,320 us how God, God will use our submission to his will, right? 271 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:24,960 He will use us use the the time we are willing to spend with him 272 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:30,560 to get us where he wants us to go. 273 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:33,720 David was not at any point. And if you can go through the 274 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,720 whole story, there was never a point that David was anti Saul. 275 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:46,800 He was pro God's plan, Moses, if you look at this, Moses is anti 276 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:50,560 Egypt. He wasn't he wasn't pro God's 277 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:52,880 plan. He was just anti Egyptian, 278 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:57,520 right? He was he was working for self 279 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:05,800 and, and in Colossians 323 through 25, it says the whole 280 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,160 thing about that which is and whatever you do, do it hardly as 281 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:13,120 unto the Lord and not to men, knowing that from God you will 282 00:19:13,120 --> 00:19:16,360 receive the reward of the inheritance, for you serve the 283 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:20,680 Lord Jesus Christ. But he who does wrong will be 284 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:24,560 repaid for what he has done. And there is no partiality, 285 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:28,120 right? Moses here is going to take a 286 00:19:28,120 --> 00:19:31,200 lap, right? And, and as we go through 287 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,400 Exodus, you will find that the Israelites take a lot of laps, 288 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:42,080 right? The, The funny thing with this 289 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:52,120 is, is that Moses, in doing this, he had when Moses got to 290 00:19:52,120 --> 00:19:57,080 the, the moment he had a power and the moment he decided to 291 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:01,960 kill an Egyptian and hide the body, he lost all of that power. 292 00:20:03,440 --> 00:20:08,520 He was he was the the adopted son of. 293 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:16,880 Of the ex Regent and and as such would have been somebody 294 00:20:16,880 --> 00:20:21,800 respected right up until he killed an Egyptian and and not 295 00:20:21,800 --> 00:20:25,200 kill he murdered one unjustly. Right now there was a lot of 296 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,720 stuff he could have done to that Egyptian right. 297 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:33,040 He probably had the power to stop the Egyptian from doing 298 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,480 whatever it is he was doing. It was the killing. 299 00:20:36,480 --> 00:20:42,520 That was where Moses went wrong. I mean, how did Moses get get it 300 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:45,240 into his head that he was going to save the Hebrews, right. 301 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:50,360 And and that can come from like I said last week, that when 302 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:52,880 Aaron and Moses meet in their 80s, they seem like they know 303 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:57,240 each other more than A5 and AN-85 and an 8 year old would 304 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,040 have known each other. So there's a good possibility 305 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:03,720 that Moses had had been around Aaron or around his biological 306 00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:09,080 parents in his in his years. He could have had a dream like 307 00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:10,920 Joseph. You know, it could have been a 308 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,040 word from the Lord. We don't know, it doesn't say. 309 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:21,560 But what he did was he attempted to seize that instead of letting 310 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,280 God's plan, God's plan, take its course. 311 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:28,720 And if you look at the difference over from Genesis 312 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:35,520 through Joseph, Joseph was willing to let God work and 313 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:38,120 that, and that's truly the easy way. 314 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:44,880 And when you, when we look at David, David didn't ever attempt 315 00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:53,080 to seize power, right? He he just allowed, allowed the 316 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,880 Lord to work. And was that, was that a smooth 317 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:03,360 short plan for David? No, it was 15 to 20 years of 318 00:22:03,360 --> 00:22:05,560 waiting for God's promise, right? 319 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,680 Because God was, God promised David that he was king. 320 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:14,680 He anointed him as king. And then it was 1520 years 321 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:19,840 before that happened. And Jesus says, take my yoke 322 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:24,280 upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, 323 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:26,360 and you will find rest for your souls. 324 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:28,720 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 325 00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:37,360 Doesn't say short, right? It's God's plan is complete. 326 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:42,440 Now, in the time that 15 or 20 years, David did many things in 327 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:47,280 obedience, protecting Israel. So it wasn't that he just sat 328 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:54,160 down and did nothing, but he didn't attempt to seize God's 329 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:59,520 promise and the blessing in that, that he didn't go for the 330 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:03,280 short way. David had a unified Kingdom, not 331 00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:09,120 a civil war. Had he, had he killed Saul like 332 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:16,720 exactly like Moses in this, the killing of Saul would have, 333 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:21,360 would have shrank David's power in the eyes of the people, 334 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,440 because that would have been David like in a coup. 335 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:28,800 So then there would have been people on this side and people 336 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,560 on that side. But as you watch David all 337 00:23:31,560 --> 00:23:35,960 through Samuel, all through the story, when you watch him, that 338 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:40,800 man after God's own heart, that man after the yoke of the Lord 339 00:23:40,800 --> 00:23:47,800 he serves is a continuous just He wants the best for the 340 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:51,840 Kingdom. And Saul may not be the king 341 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:56,080 that needs to be, so he'll protect the people, right? 342 00:23:56,360 --> 00:24:01,680 But he wasn't going to step out and ruin the Kingdom so that he 343 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:10,000 could be in that position. So in the New Testament, a 344 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,320 picture of this that we I can identify with, and I imagine 345 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,360 many of many here can identify with, it is in the garden. 346 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,560 And Jesus is a rest, right? There was a shortcut and there 347 00:24:22,560 --> 00:24:26,960 was an easy way, and Peter had the idea of fighting a spiritual 348 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:33,560 battle with physical power and it Matthew 2651 is the end of 349 00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:36,840 the end of the little stretch. And it says, suddenly one of 350 00:24:36,840 --> 00:24:39,640 those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew 351 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,080 his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off 352 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:46,120 his ear. But Jesus said to him, put your 353 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:50,600 sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by 354 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,720 it. Or do you think that I cannot 355 00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:56,240 now pray to my Father, and he will provide me with more than 356 00:24:56,240 --> 00:25:00,400 12 legions of angels? The Gospel of John points out 357 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,040 that the guy with the sword is Peter. 358 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,320 But The thing is the that isn't the shortcut, and that isn't the 359 00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:13,720 easy way, right? That that is that is fruit from 360 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:20,200 a shortcut Peter took just before this Peter's spiritual 361 00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:27,360 tank was empty for this battle because when given the chance to 362 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:30,440 do some of the get TOS that I talked about right, we talked 363 00:25:30,440 --> 00:25:33,280 about the get TOS and and why they're get TOS. 364 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:37,920 He had a chance to spend time and pray and be still with 365 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,880 Jesus. And instead Peter slept. 366 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:46,680 Peter was supposed to have been doing was waiting on the Lord 367 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:51,440 with Jesus. And that's because Jesus knew 368 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:56,880 what was coming right. And Jesus, like a great coach 369 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:01,160 took his guys that we're going to be in this this coming 370 00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,720 battle. And and he took them to to get 371 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,560 them ready, right. And he had just shared with him 372 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,280 about washing feet and they needed to be willing to serve 373 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:13,480 and and to spend time for others. 374 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:21,920 And in verse 20 or chapter 26, verse 30, 7, it's them going to 375 00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:26,720 the garden. And it says and he Jesus took 376 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:31,000 with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and he began to be 377 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:35,400 sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then he said to them, my soul is 378 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,080 exceedingly sorrowful even to death. 379 00:26:38,360 --> 00:26:44,000 Stay here, watch and pray. Then he Jesus, went a little 380 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:48,240 farther and fell on his faith and face and prayed, saying, O 381 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,200 Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me. 382 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,080 Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. 383 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,000 Then he Jesus came to the disciples and found them 384 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,680 sleeping, and said, Peter, what could you not? 385 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,280 Could you not watch with me one hour? 386 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,360 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. 387 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,720 The Spirit is indeed willing, but the flesh is weak. 388 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:16,400 Again a second time he went away praying, saying, Oh my father, 389 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:21,560 if this cup cannot pass away from me unless I drink it, your 390 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,600 will be done. And he Jesus came back and found 391 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,760 them, Peter, James and John asleep again, for their eyes 392 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,760 were heavy. So he left them and went away 393 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:34,920 and prayed 1/3 time, saying the same words. 394 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:38,560 Then he came to his disciples and said to them, Are you still 395 00:27:38,560 --> 00:27:42,160 sleeping and resting? Behold, our hours at hand and 396 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,720 the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sin. 397 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:53,840 So this was an opportunity that Jesus gave his his guys to be 398 00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,960 ready for the battle. They, they had an opportunity 399 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:02,280 to, to spend time with the Lord and, and be prepared. 400 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:09,280 But Peter took the shortcut to rest and it'll cost him, right? 401 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:15,720 It'll cost him days of no rest. You think about the next three 402 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:23,920 days in Peter's life and you, you got a picture that there was 403 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,080 a point where Peter thought he was, he was feeling pretty good, 404 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,720 right? I mean, he just, he just did he 405 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,680 fighting for the Lord. He did some stuff, told his 406 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:36,240 sword out and he's swinging it and he cut his servant's ear 407 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:44,400 off, not a soldiers ear. And Jesus wasn't impressed 408 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:46,920 because that wasn't what Peter was there to do. 409 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,040 Peter wanted them ready for the next three day or Jesus wanted 410 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:54,680 his guys ready for the next three days. 411 00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:00,960 And he knew they were going into a dark time and gave them 412 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:06,000 opportunity to be ready for it. And they took a shortcut. 413 00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,800 And if you guys, if you guys don't know, if you've ever 414 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,200 decided that you're going to go home and pray, you know, you 415 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,160 read a book or you, you had a Bible study or something and 416 00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,800 you're going to go home and read, read your Bible and pray 417 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,920 for four hours. Have you ever been that tired? 418 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,320 Suddenly you're the most, you're, you're as tired as 419 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,200 you've ever been. You know, you're, you're reading 420 00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,680 your, you're reading your Bible at noon and you're falling 421 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:34,040 asleep, right? Because your flesh wants nothing 422 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:39,320 to do with it, right? And so, so that that time of, of 423 00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:43,480 doing this, of, of saying, Lord, I want to spend time with you. 424 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,760 And Lord, give me, give me your heart, give me your, your plan, 425 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:52,360 your, your ability, right? We don't, I don't have what it 426 00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:56,200 takes to get to do the get to. And you know, and we'll get into 427 00:29:56,200 --> 00:30:00,040 what those are again in a little while, but I don't have in 428 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,120 myself. I'm not, I'm not strong enough. 429 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:05,160 You know what? I'm no different than Peter and 430 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:08,200 John in this case. You got to imagine just, you 431 00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,280 know, they just ate a meal. They walked out to the garden. 432 00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:14,600 It's quiet. It's it's mellow there. 433 00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,000 I'm just tired. I'm just going to go sleep for a 434 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,560 little while, right? And and that is US very often, 435 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,200 very often to prepare for the battle. 436 00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,320 It's we don't notice we don't notice the battles coming when 437 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:40,080 we're comfortable, when we're 6, when we're in success hard 438 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:42,160 times. It's easier sometimes that I 439 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:46,480 mean, very often it's easier. My my lying about embrace the 440 00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,960 suck. It's easier to embrace the suck 441 00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:56,280 when life sucks then to embrace the suck of, of watching and 442 00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,480 praying. And I know that, you know, 443 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:00,320 we're, we're Christians and we're all going to sit here and 444 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,560 go. I just, I just love to sit and 445 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,800 prayer is hard. Not not the, you know, saying 446 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:12,440 grace or, or standing in, but spending time with the Lord and, 447 00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:16,800 and really having those moments with him of Lord. 448 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:22,800 I need you to tell me what's between me and you. 449 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:27,760 I, I need, I need real guidance. You know this. 450 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,040 Getting quiet and alone and waiting and watching and 451 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:33,720 listening for Him is against our flesh. 452 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,440 Our flesh does not like it because when we do it, we are 453 00:31:37,440 --> 00:31:42,680 surrendering ourselves to Him. And our flesh likes the throne 454 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:47,840 it's sitting on. And when life is going easy, 455 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:52,760 like a Prince in a palace, we get lazy, right? 456 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:59,520 And I would say that when we're lazy like that, it means that 457 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,880 when the time comes, we won't be ready. 458 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,960 Moses had the time to seek the Lord and his plan, if he had 459 00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:09,480 rested in him. You know, he's 40 years old. 460 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,320 He had been taught in all the things of Egypt, but he had time 461 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:18,320 as a, as a Prince to have spent time with the Lord, right? 462 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:23,200 He, he had that time, just like his biological parents had time 463 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,800 that they had, they had spent with the Lord and knew what his 464 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,760 will was for their life. Moses had that time. 465 00:32:28,760 --> 00:32:32,280 And when, when push came to shove, he wasn't ready. 466 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:37,480 He would have, if he had spent that time, he would have been 467 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:40,000 ready to say, not my will, but yours be done. 468 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,800 And he wasn't ready, like Peter wasn't ready. 469 00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:55,200 And that, that embrace the suck I talk about is, is a lot of 470 00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,080 times it's our flesh that thinks it sucks, right? 471 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:08,640 It's I'm, I'm doing a class online right now and and I was 472 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,200 sharing with Bob yesterday one of the this is not a brag thing. 473 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:16,560 We'll see if I can even do it, but one of the things that is 474 00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,640 going to be required in the class is to read through the 475 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,600 Bible in 12 weeks. So I'm going to be reading a 476 00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:26,920 lot, right? And I'm not a reader, so it's 477 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,280 going to be a lot of like face like, so I'm never going to see 478 00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:36,400 you, but that I had the opportunity to do that right in 479 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,880 the in. I'm a pastor here and I don't 480 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,960 have a 40 hour hour a week job that I go to right now. 481 00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:48,320 So I'm here, I have that opportunity and I should be at 482 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,240 my flesh is is dreading that idea right. 483 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:57,120 But my spirit is getting excited for of and the idea of reading 484 00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,960 through the Bible that quickly is that you get the you you get 485 00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,080 kind of a full picture in your head right as you're going 486 00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,720 through it, that you, you, you have the whole thing together 487 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:11,320 where you can see it all is the idea of the class. 488 00:34:13,040 --> 00:34:16,400 But something about our flesh that it doesn't like. 489 00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:24,159 Is that what we are to be is John the Baptist who said I must 490 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:28,679 increase and he must increase or hema, I must decrease and he 491 00:34:28,679 --> 00:34:31,800 must increase. I just reversed that because 492 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:33,880 it's he must increase and I must decrease. 493 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,400 But anyway, and God will lead us to that. 494 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:42,000 But the one that's fighting is half of me doesn't want that. 495 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,760 Half of me wants to be in charge. 496 00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:50,159 Micah 68 says he has shown you, oh man, what is good and what 497 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:53,520 does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy and 498 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,960 to walk humbly with your God. You can't do that. 499 00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:04,680 I can't do that. Jesus can do that and his way 500 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:08,400 right. It's I always tell people that 501 00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,080 Jesus is a free gift that will cost me everything. 502 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:15,840 I am right because it's it's complete surrender to him. 503 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:24,080 And that's what Moses didn't understand right now going on to 504 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,040 verse 13, Moses is feeling pretty good on the second day. 505 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,960 You know, he'd sit, stand back. Lord, I have this now he's going 506 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:35,040 to go out and, and I'm sure like Peter that he was feeling 507 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:38,560 pretty, pretty good about what he had done and that they would 508 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:43,280 now understand that he was there to help and, and who he was. 509 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:50,160 They weren't impressed because like I said, in doing that, he 510 00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:53,280 had given up all his power. You know, if you think about the 511 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,360 same thing with Peter in the in the garden. 512 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,600 So if you guys have read the story of the garden, they, all 513 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,920 the guards showed up to arrest or arrest Jesus and they said 514 00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:05,120 we're looking for Jesus and Nazareth. 515 00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:07,120 And he said I am he and they all fell down. 516 00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,000 So it was very clear who was in charge. 517 00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:14,480 And then they stood up again, and I imagine they were much 518 00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:17,200 quieter about. So who? 519 00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,400 I'm him, and you can take me. But you got to let them go. 520 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:24,640 And then out jumps Peter with a sword and cuts off an ear. 521 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:29,680 You're missing it, Peter. You've slipped. 522 00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,600 But in that moment, Peter had given up. 523 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:34,920 Like Peter wasn't in power, right? 524 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:36,160 What? His sword. 525 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,200 He's one sword against everybody. 526 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,680 Jesus had already proven his power, right? 527 00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:46,640 Well, Moses had lost all that power that he had because he was 528 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,840 the Prince. He was a Prince of Egypt, 529 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:51,760 adopted or not, that's who he was. 530 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:55,240 And his shortcut stripped him of that. 531 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:58,160 And the Hebrews understood that, right? 532 00:36:58,160 --> 00:36:59,400 Because he's no better than them. 533 00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,000 He has to, he gets to kill an Egyptian, but he has to hide the 534 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:05,560 body. So he's, he doesn't have any 535 00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:11,920 power, right? And so they, they come and he 536 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,440 comes to him and they're like, who are you? 537 00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,440 And why should we listen to you? And you? 538 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:21,640 Are you going to kill me like you killed the Egyptian? 539 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:27,000 And he suddenly figures out how powerless he is. 540 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:33,400 And in this part of it, Moses is not a humble man. 541 00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:38,760 But if you if you get into deeper into Exodus and Numbers, 542 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,360 it talks about Moses after after he spends his time in the 543 00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:47,680 wilderness. It says in in Numbers 12/3. 544 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,760 It says now the man Moses was very humble more than all men 545 00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:53,040 who were on the face of the earth. 546 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,480 And this is this is a moment Moses is being attacked by his 547 00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:03,680 older brother and sister. And The thing is, when you read 548 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,240 the story, he doesn't say a word, but the Lord hears. 549 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:14,440 And when the Lord hears, the Lord says, Aaron, Miriam, you 550 00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:16,280 want to come here for a minute, Let's talk. 551 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:18,800 And it doesn't go well for them, right? 552 00:38:20,240 --> 00:38:23,920 Do we trust God like that? Because Moses doesn't defend 553 00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,680 himself? He actually he actually, of 554 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,280 course, because he's Moses, he ends up actually praying for his 555 00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:36,920 brother and his sister because they were in pride and that The 556 00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:44,560 thing is, guys, have you reached when until we reach the end of 557 00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:50,720 us, we're not ready for the easy way right until until we we get 558 00:38:50,720 --> 00:38:53,800 to that point. We think that we should be on 559 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:55,960 the attack. We should take a shortcut. 560 00:38:56,480 --> 00:39:00,880 I can get there if I just if I just go this way, you know, it's 561 00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:06,480 it's the and I pick on us tremendously over the years. 562 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:11,040 But as Americans and probably the Western world, but as 563 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,440 Americans, we are incredibly good at the. 564 00:39:14,440 --> 00:39:17,400 Yeah, but excuse. Yeah, but you don't understand. 565 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,080 But yeah. But I, I was, I was, I had a 566 00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:20,840 hard life. Yeah. 567 00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:21,440 But this. Yeah. 568 00:39:21,440 --> 00:39:28,760 But that God says yeah, but this, I wrote it down and it's 569 00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:32,480 true. And The thing is, is that his 570 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:37,080 way when we follow it and we listen to it, it says hard 571 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,160 things, guys, I won't. I mean, if we get through exodus 572 00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,640 year, we're going to get the stuff that guys, that's what it 573 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:46,560 says. But it is the best way. 574 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,760 You know, it's it's the easiest thing with that. 575 00:39:49,760 --> 00:39:55,960 You know, it is that is that not bribing people in Uganda? 576 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,080 It is it is an out loud thing in Uganda that you just bribe 577 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,680 people. It's not a. 578 00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:08,240 America, when I say bribe, you think dishonest and in Uganda it 579 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:10,520 is not dishonest to bribe people. 580 00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:14,560 It's doing business. I have to actually take you into 581 00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:19,840 the word of God and show you where God says bribery is bad. 582 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:25,720 Not not specifically bribery because that's just their 583 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,520 culture right there. Yeah, but is you just bribe 584 00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:29,840 people, that's how you get things done. 585 00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:35,160 And we have lots of things in America that we just do because 586 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,480 it's, I don't know, it's just just the way we do things. 587 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:48,960 And God, the thing that is, is joyous for me though, guys, is 588 00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,400 no matter where you're at, no matter where on the shortcut, 589 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:57,680 whether you've chose the shortcut or the easy way, God 590 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,320 will get us where we're going, right? 591 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:04,240 He's he's always faithful to finish the work he started. 592 00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:11,680 Psalm 138 verse 7 says, though I walk in the midst of trouble, 593 00:41:11,680 --> 00:41:14,640 you will revive me. You will stretch out your hand 594 00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,560 against the wrath of my enemies and your right hand will save 595 00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,720 me. The Lord will will the Lord will 596 00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:28,480 perfect that which concerns me perfect. 597 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:33,480 Sorry, it's like that's wrong. The Lord will perfect that which 598 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:36,280 concerns me. Your mercy, O Lord, endures 599 00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:38,240 forever. Do not forsake the works of your 600 00:41:38,240 --> 00:41:40,640 hands. And all of that to say is you 601 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:45,080 can trust him. You can trust him to just do it 602 00:41:45,080 --> 00:41:50,160 for him to be on the easy path. Isaiah wrote 700 years after 603 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:54,520 Moses. Behold in in chapter 25 it says, 604 00:41:54,520 --> 00:41:58,320 and it will be said in that day, Behold, this is our God. 605 00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:01,520 We have waited for him he will save us. 606 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,320 This is the Lord we have waited for him. 607 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,920 We will be glad and rejoice in his salvation and guys that is 608 00:42:09,920 --> 00:42:17,320 the easy way is is to trust that he is bigger than my problems. 609 00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:21,600 I, I doing doing trips Uganda and the attacks come and I, I 610 00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:25,640 used to tell everybody and I, I say it to this day, even here is 611 00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:31,520 God's answer is bigger than Satan's question always God is 612 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,960 bigger. It isn't a it is not a it is not 613 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:37,480 a battle between good and evil, right? 614 00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:43,680 God is God wins period. His way is the right way period. 615 00:42:56,700 --> 00:43:04,560 Now when I talk about the the get to's, it's, it is being 616 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:07,720 still with God, which is just on purpose time with the Lord, 617 00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:09,800 right? It's slowing down. 618 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,360 It's it's quiet time to read the word. 619 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,240 It's fellowship, it's witnessing to other people. 620 00:43:15,240 --> 00:43:18,560 It's fasting, memorizing, meditating on his word, on his 621 00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:20,800 word. But those are things we, we 622 00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:25,600 especially as as Americans in the Western world, we have time 623 00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:28,040 to do that. We are able. 624 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:36,360 Ray Lewis, not a guy I'm rooting for as far as character, but he 625 00:43:36,360 --> 00:43:40,560 had a great line. It's wins and losses come a dime 626 00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:43,640 a dozen, but effort, nobody can judge effort. 627 00:43:44,040 --> 00:43:47,320 Effort is between you and you. And what I would tell you is 628 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:51,360 that effort is between you and you and Jesus, right? 629 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:57,200 That is all you can put in when it says, when it says, do 630 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:01,120 everything as unto the Lord and not to men you know. 631 00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:04,400 Who knows if I'm doing everything as unto the Lord me 632 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,800 and Jesus. I know if I'm faking it. 633 00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:10,400 I know if I'm trying to take a shortcut and so does He. 634 00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,120 I can look like I'm doing all the right things. 635 00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,920 I can say all the right things. I can attempt to kill all the 636 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:20,080 right Egyptians, and God knows where I'm at and what I'm doing. 637 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:29,680 So walking with Jesus doesn't mean that I get there faster 638 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,720 than other people. It doesn't mean that my Rd. is 639 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:36,880 smoother than other people. It means that my way is sure. 640 00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:42,000 And because of that, it is the easier way because I have that 641 00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:46,720 hope when I get to say not as I will, but as you will, right? 642 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:52,000 And this is Moses. Moses at the end is not where he 643 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:57,240 wants to be, but he, he runs off right because he's in front of 644 00:44:57,240 --> 00:44:59,560 God. And suddenly his shortcut is as 645 00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,480 far from being in charge of that palace or rescuing his people as 646 00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:07,120 he can get. So like so many people in the 647 00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:11,000 Old Testament, which I love the end of verse 15, Moses ends up 648 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:17,000 at a well. And if you live Moses is, is no 649 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,240 different than Jacob or Abraham's servant. 650 00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,560 You find him at a well, which must have been the best place to 651 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,840 meet girls because that seems like all that ever happens at a 652 00:45:25,840 --> 00:45:29,840 well, right. And and it talks about the 653 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:35,120 priest of Midian and the very beginning of verse 16 says now 654 00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:37,920 the priest of Midian. And so who is this guy? 655 00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:44,320 And you'll find this guy is, is somebody in, in all, of all of 656 00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:49,920 the books of the law, the only, the only person that Moses that 657 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:54,800 you would call a mentor, somebody that Moses listened to, 658 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:59,680 somebody that, that Moses got wisdom from was the priest of 659 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:04,240 Midian, his father-in-law. And, and so who was this guy 660 00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:09,720 that so Jethro or or Raul, he's he's called different things. 661 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:12,640 Like we have different names as well. 662 00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,520 They could call me Adams, they can call me pastor. 663 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:19,960 They can call me Nick. And so he's called different 664 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:25,240 things, but the priest of Midian is a Midianite, and they would 665 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:27,880 have been sons of Abraham's son Midian. 666 00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:34,120 And somebody that Abraham had had with concubines after Sarah 667 00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:39,320 had died and he was sent Midian, was sent east by Abraham. 668 00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:43,760 But The thing is, is that Midian would have had this same 669 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:51,640 knowledge of God as Isaac had. And and with that, that doesn't 670 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:56,080 mean that he was in a he was in this perfect position. 671 00:46:56,080 --> 00:47:01,440 But if you get to verse 18 or chapter 18 of Exodus, Jethro 672 00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:05,880 before the law is given sacrifices to Yahweh. 673 00:47:07,440 --> 00:47:13,400 And it says chapter 18, verse 10, it says and Jethro said, 674 00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:18,240 blessed be the Lord who has delivered you out of the hand of 675 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:22,160 the Egyptian Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh, and who 676 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,400 has delivered the people from under the hand of Egyptians. 677 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,560 And now I know that the Lord is greater than all the gods. 678 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:33,400 For the very thing in which they behaved poorly, he was above 679 00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,520 them. Then Jethro, Moses's 680 00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:39,240 father-in-law took a burnt offering and and other 681 00:47:39,240 --> 00:47:43,000 sacrifices to offer to God. And Aaron came with all the 682 00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:46,200 elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses and his 683 00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,520 father-in-law. So the law was given in chapter 684 00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:52,520 19. So this is before that. 685 00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:57,680 This is, this doesn't mean that Jethro Star, that the priest of 686 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:03,200 Midian served God perfectly. But what it does point out is 687 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:11,000 that that everybody across the world is accountable for their 688 00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,880 knowledge of God. Job knew who God was. 689 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:18,080 That's way before Israel Noah, something I, I just picked out 690 00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,880 the other day. Noah knew all the clean animals 691 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,040 because he was supposed to take extra clean animals. 692 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,280 God doesn't tell him what the clean animals are in that 693 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:31,480 moment. God has been talking to dirt 694 00:48:32,120 --> 00:48:34,960 since the day he made us. And if you don't know that joke, 695 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:37,600 I, I, I say we're all we were made out of dirt. 696 00:48:37,720 --> 00:48:42,840 So God has been talking to us and if they were willing to hear 697 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,200 and obey, right and that that that's that. 698 00:48:45,320 --> 00:48:47,720 What about those people that haven't heard? 699 00:48:50,640 --> 00:48:55,040 We are all descendants of Adam who was we're all descendants of 700 00:48:55,040 --> 00:49:00,520 Noah. The truth has been given right? 701 00:49:01,240 --> 00:49:05,520 It is what you do with it. And Jethro, I would imagine, 702 00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:11,080 watched, watched Moses in the what went on in Egypt and what 703 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:15,280 he heard about when they came in and his understanding of how big 704 00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:21,400 this God, his, his father had told him about was right or his 705 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,040 his father's father's father had told him about. 706 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:30,640 And so I'm not saying that that the priest of Midian was serving 707 00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:35,280 Yahweh, but he definitely had an idea of who this God was. 708 00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:41,600 This takes us to Moses at the well and here we get a little 709 00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,680 get a little Jason Bourne action, right, because he 710 00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:48,720 there's seven daughters guessing they were beautiful. 711 00:49:49,840 --> 00:49:55,360 He marries one of them later on. But the other shepherds would 712 00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,200 drive the daughters away. Well, then Moses came and helped 713 00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:02,240 them. So one guy, Moses helped the 714 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:05,200 girls basically drive off the other shepherds. 715 00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:12,480 So what it doesn't say is Moses killed any shepherds, right? 716 00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,360 He wasn't he wasn't killing shepherds. 717 00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:20,080 He was he was helping women right of people. 718 00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:24,080 The idea there is he was helping those weaker than him and he was 719 00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:29,240 trained in all the all the things in Egypt. 720 00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:32,480 So he would have known how to fight in in he was trading words 721 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:36,360 and deeds. And but this kind of goes 722 00:50:36,360 --> 00:50:39,600 against what I what I've been talking about and and to 723 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:44,640 clarify, it doesn't mean that being with God that you are 724 00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,920 stagnant and not not out about his business. 725 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,560 He doesn't have to tell you every moment of your day. 726 00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:57,120 There are things that are just yeah, that's serving the Lord 727 00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:05,480 Job 2912 through 17. And this really is like I said, 728 00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:10,360 this is all the guys here. You should have Job 29. 729 00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,560 The whole chapter should be in your back pocket. 730 00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,880 Like I would tell all the ladies here that Proverbs 31 should be 731 00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,000 in your back pocket, that you should just know what those 732 00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:25,880 qualifications are. This is our job as as believers, 733 00:51:25,880 --> 00:51:28,440 as men, This is what we're supposed to be doing. 734 00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:32,480 Because I delivered the poor who cried out, the fatherless, and 735 00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:36,320 the ones who had no helper. The blessed, the blessing of the 736 00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:40,000 perishing man came upon me, and I caused the widow's heart to 737 00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:43,160 sing for joy. I put on righteousness and 738 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,560 clothed, and it clothed me. My justice was like a robe and a 739 00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:49,640 turban. I was eyes to the blind, I was 740 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,240 feet to the lame. I was a father to the poor. 741 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:56,040 I searched out the case that I did not know, and I broke the 742 00:51:56,040 --> 00:51:59,880 fangs of the wicked and plucked the victim from his teeth. 743 00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,800 But how do we know to do what God? 744 00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:10,000 That these are God things? How do we know that we know what 745 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:14,200 God's will is? And we know that God's will has 746 00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:20,440 us delivering the poor we have that we should be delivering the 747 00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:24,000 fatherless right? That we should be taking care of 748 00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:27,640 the widows. That we should be eyes to the 749 00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:33,640 blind and feet to the lame, a father to the poor and the part 750 00:52:33,640 --> 00:52:37,280 with breaking fangs to save the victims. 751 00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:39,680 This isn't cutting off heads and killing people. 752 00:52:41,280 --> 00:52:46,160 This is getting the victims out of the out of the clutches of 753 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,520 the wicked. And that's all stuff we are 754 00:52:48,520 --> 00:52:51,800 called to do as believers, right? 755 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,640 This is. And the thing with these things 756 00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:59,280 is they are not shortcuts. Your flesh doesn't want a darn 757 00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:05,120 thing to do with one of those. Your flesh actively doesn't that 758 00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,040 that is all hard for your flesh to do. 759 00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,000 Now swinging a sword and killing the killing the wicked. 760 00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:12,880 Absolutely. I want sign me up. 761 00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:19,200 Take care of the poor, take care of the widows, save the victim. 762 00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:25,160 Stand in right places. And that's hard, right? 763 00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:32,520 And but that is that is the easy way, right? 764 00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:35,680 That is the doing everything as unto the Lord and not to men. 765 00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:43,040 Now back to the story. The priest of Midian said in 766 00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:46,680 verse 20, So he said to his daughters, and where where is 767 00:53:46,680 --> 00:53:49,360 he? Who is where is he? 768 00:53:49,360 --> 00:53:52,360 And and that the question there is they're like, why he's asking 769 00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:54,120 them why they got back early. And they said, well, there's 770 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:55,560 Egyptians showed up and helped us. 771 00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:59,800 And he's like, did you not notice there's seven of you and 772 00:53:59,920 --> 00:54:05,600 you left the bachelor at the well, No, it's but he but like a 773 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:10,400 culture of this would be the same culture that Uganda has. 774 00:54:10,720 --> 00:54:12,960 It's there. There's a stranger that helped 775 00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:14,760 you. And why did you not invite him 776 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:19,680 back for dinner? And in that obviously more to 777 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:23,400 the story, but Moses was content to live with the man and he gave 778 00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:28,200 Zephora his daughter to Moses and she bore him a son and he 779 00:54:28,200 --> 00:54:33,120 called his name Gresham before he said, I have been a stranger 780 00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:36,560 in a foreign land. And Moses lived happily ever 781 00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:44,160 after. Well, so his shortcut leading to 782 00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:48,480 the easy way was to take a lap. It was a 40 year lap, right? 783 00:54:48,480 --> 00:54:51,680 The the chapter, chapter 3, we'll get into it. 784 00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:58,120 It'll be a page turn, but it's 40 years of Moses's life and the 785 00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:03,160 training God did with Moses is is not explained right. 786 00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:09,080 It's a page turn, but from a Prince to a shepherd, the level 787 00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:12,320 of dependence he would have been taught on that really long 788 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:20,000 shortcut, Moses, his whole life would be in God's hands right as 789 00:55:20,000 --> 00:55:21,560 a shepherd. This is one of those that you 790 00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,360 never really think about as a shepherd. 791 00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:29,240 He would spend weeks or even months alone in the wilderness, 792 00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,640 right? Not, not with a bunch of Cowboys 793 00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:34,680 on horses, just him and the sheep. 794 00:55:35,960 --> 00:55:39,720 And tell me there wasn't time for him to get to know his Lord. 795 00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,000 The palace may have been an easier place to do it as far As 796 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:48,280 for your just comfort, but this was a place that he was going to 797 00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:50,720 get to know the Lord. And he was going to get to know 798 00:55:50,720 --> 00:55:54,720 the Lord by relying on him, finding water, protecting the 799 00:55:54,720 --> 00:55:59,360 flock from predators. You know, sleeping outdoors and, 800 00:55:59,360 --> 00:56:03,040 and sleeping outdoors in the wilderness is, can be, can be a 801 00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:05,680 scary thing, right? Especially for a Prince. 802 00:56:07,600 --> 00:56:09,560 You know, he had to endure the heat in the cold. 803 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:13,240 And like David, he, I'm sure he had to fight off lions and 804 00:56:13,240 --> 00:56:18,160 wolves and thieves. And this was all opportunities 805 00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:24,880 for Moses to learn the easy way of just relying on the Lord. 806 00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:35,680 God will take whatever, whatever He needs to do to train you, He 807 00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:40,760 will take you as far as you as He needs to go to get us where 808 00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:45,120 He needs us to be. And that's my embrace the suck 809 00:56:45,120 --> 00:56:51,720 Turner verse which is James 1/2. My brethren counted all joy when 810 00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:55,200 you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your 811 00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:59,080 faith produces patience, but lest the patients have it's 812 00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:06,640 perfect work that you may be perfected and complete, lacking 813 00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:12,280 nothing. When we embrace the easy way our 814 00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:17,160 flesh takes it as suck, but it is the way that's going to get 815 00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:24,200 us where we want to go, right? Christ will get us there. 816 00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:29,000 The question is, how much training do we want, right? 817 00:57:29,880 --> 00:57:36,360 And I, I think of God has been using free will to work out his 818 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:41,760 plan from the beginning, right? Don't don't think that we're 819 00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:44,160 making choices that haven't been made from the beginning. 820 00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:47,280 Adam and Eve had a choice. They could get knowledge from a 821 00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:53,440 tree, the knowledge of good and evil, or they could do it the 822 00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:59,360 easy way and get it from the guy who wrote it down, right? 823 00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:01,600 Get it from the author of Knowledge. 824 00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:06,560 What did they pick? We very often are just like our 825 00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:11,320 ancestors and we pick the shortcut and we take laps, but 826 00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,480 don't think that because we're on a lap that God isn't working. 827 00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:18,040 And then he doesn't have a plan for your life, for my life. 828 00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,000 But what he wants, his relationship, what he wants, his 829 00:58:22,000 --> 00:58:25,240 time with you, with me, that's what he wants. 830 00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:29,600 That is the easy way. So choose, do you want the 831 00:58:29,600 --> 00:58:33,240 shortcut or the easy way? And Lord, I just, I lift up this 832 00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:37,960 time and everybody here. And Lord that you would just 833 00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:42,960 help us to see the easy way and the the joy of that, Lord, 834 00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:46,160 however long it takes to get us there, Lord, that we would just 835 00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:49,040 rest in you or when you would guide and direct us. 836 00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:52,840 Amen.