1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:07,200 We're going to pick up in Exodus 4 and we'll just read some of it 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,840 again, just kind of to remember where Moses is. 3 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:14,440 This is Moses just met with the Lord for the first time at the 4 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:20,280 burning Bush in chapter 3. And then he's kind of Lord's 5 00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:24,280 given him his marching orders and, and Moses a lot like us, 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:28,600 keeps raising his hand and and explaining why maybe, maybe we 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:33,160 could do a different way, but just read some of it here. 8 00:00:33,160 --> 00:00:36,960 And Moses said to the Lord, Oh my Lord, I'm not eloquent 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,280 neither neither before nor since you have spoken to your servant, 10 00:00:42,320 --> 00:00:45,000 but I am slow to speech in slow of tongue. 11 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:49,800 So the Lord said to him, who has made man's mouth or who makes a 12 00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:53,160 mute, the deaf, the seeing or the blind? 13 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,400 Have not I the Lord now therefore go, and I will be with 14 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,480 you and your mouth and teach you what you shall say. 15 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,480 And then Moses says, But he said, Oh my Lord, please sin by 16 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,200 the hand of whomever else you want may sin. 17 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,600 So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he 18 00:01:15,600 --> 00:01:19,000 said, He's not Aaron the Levite, your brother. 19 00:01:19,240 --> 00:01:24,360 I know that he can speak well. And look, he is also coming out 20 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:27,400 to meet you. When he sees you, he will be 21 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,240 glad in his heart. And so Lord, I just I lift up 22 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:32,720 this time. I lift up everybody here. 23 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,240 Lord, that you have something to say, Lord, and that you would 24 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:41,680 speak to us, Lord, that you would open our ears to hear one 25 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:43,840 that you'd fill us with your spirit, or that you'd speak 26 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,600 through me and also to me, Lord, that I would just get out of the 27 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:49,360 way. I pray all this in Jesus name, 28 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:54,560 Amen. So the my my title for the day 29 00:01:54,560 --> 00:02:01,000 is one way full surrender. And that first Moses starts off 30 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,760 with, Oh my Lord, I am not an eloquent neither neither before 31 00:02:05,760 --> 00:02:09,840 or since you have spoken in your to your servant, but I am slow 32 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:13,960 of speech and slow of tongue. So guys, this is a false 33 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,720 statement. And we know that because what 34 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,200 what he's saying is I am not elegant, but what it. 35 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:23,160 But that's actually a phrase in the Hebrew. 36 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,640 And it means I am not a man of words. 37 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:31,840 But if you look back in Acts, Stephen calls Moses out, right? 38 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,600 It says Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and 39 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:41,520 was mighty in words and deeds. So Moses, Moses knew how to 40 00:02:41,520 --> 00:02:45,680 speak. He he was, you know, 40 years 41 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,920 earlier, he was all that he thought he was. 42 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:52,040 He was ready. And then God sidelined him 43 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,840 because his pride had grown right? 44 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:00,320 And Moses was mighty in Word and deed in the world's eyes 40 45 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,480 years earlier. And Moses thought too much of 46 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:08,120 himself. But now 40 years later, he's 47 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,360 sitting in the Lord's telling him what he's going to do and 48 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:17,200 Lord and Moses is now thinking too much about himself, right. 49 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:23,240 And we, we get like this humiliate and it, and it's, I'm 50 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:27,680 going to be humble, right? It I'm going to be humble and I 51 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:30,360 don't want to say I'm better than I am or I, I, I want to 52 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,160 false humility, that kind of stuff. 53 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,920 Humility is not thinking less of ourselves. 54 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,840 It is thinking of ourselves less. 55 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:43,360 And when the Lord asks us to do something, our answer should be 56 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:48,760 every time, OK, Lord, yes, Lord, and it, and it should be that 57 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,880 before he asks. And guys, we serve a God. 58 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:54,320 We, we talk about this all the time. 59 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,560 We serve a God that is going to ask you to do stuff that you're 60 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:02,840 not able to do. That's his point is that you 61 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:05,880 don't have it in you to do what I'm asking you to do. 62 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,480 I'm going to do it through you. And people are going to look at 63 00:04:09,480 --> 00:04:14,640 that and go, well, look at that. You know, it's I, I think on 64 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:15,920 Wednesday I was talking about it. 65 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:21,040 Is that whole point of you know, you, I graduated high school 66 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:26,000 with AD average, not even a high D average, and I was going to 67 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,400 run a shovel the rest of my life. 68 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,480 That was my plan, right? My mom joked and said, if you 69 00:04:30,480 --> 00:04:32,080 don't do better in school, you're going to run a show. 70 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:33,360 You're going to dig ditches for a living. 71 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:37,080 Well, it made a pretty good living digging ditches, but I 72 00:04:37,080 --> 00:04:39,760 never in a million years thought I'd stand up front. 73 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:48,600 And anybody that knows me as, as I've grown would be amazed where 74 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,200 I started and where I am now. And and that isn't because I got 75 00:04:52,200 --> 00:04:55,000 smarter, right? God did more work. 76 00:04:55,720 --> 00:05:01,040 And so the Lord, the Lord here is pretty blunt and I like it 77 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:03,520 basically. So, so Moses says I'm not 78 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:07,000 eloquent and the Lord says, what do you have to do with it? 79 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:11,360 And that is verse 11. So the Lord said to him who has 80 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,920 made man's mouth or who makes the mute the depth, the seeing 81 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:20,040 or the blind have not I the Lord now therefore go and I will be 82 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,800 with your mouth and teach you what you should say. 83 00:05:23,520 --> 00:05:29,000 You know you you don't have like with Gideon or if you go through 84 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:33,440 the the things they did in the Old Testament and even in the 85 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:36,240 New Testament right. These weren't things that were 86 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:43,240 in their wheelhouse. I my my story of so she brought 87 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:44,720 up Elizabeth Elliott this morning. 88 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:49,760 Elizabeth Elliott's husband died on a beach by tribe. 89 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:55,400 I can't remember the name of the tribe in in South America and 90 00:05:55,960 --> 00:06:01,320 within within the year was it was the a year, year and a half 91 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:08,000 Elizabeth Elliott and her toddler lived in that village 92 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:12,400 with the people that had killed her husband and his friends. 93 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,760 That wasn't because Elizabeth Elizabeth Elliott was a good 94 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:22,280 person. That wasn't because in in that 95 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:24,400 that she looked at everything and said, you know what I should 96 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:29,520 go do I think I will take my toddler and into harm's way. 97 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,160 What I mean by what what that when you look at Elizabeth 98 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:35,720 Elliott and you listen to her speak or you read her books or 99 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,320 any of that, you will find that what she did was just the next 100 00:06:39,320 --> 00:06:40,960 thing the Lord was asking her to do. 101 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,320 Her answer was yes, Lord, not yes, this is going to be 102 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:48,400 comfortable. I mean the when you listen to 103 00:06:48,440 --> 00:06:51,560 her that year that the time she spent with that tribe 104 00:06:51,560 --> 00:06:56,000 translating they, they lived in they lived in huts without walls 105 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:01,640 and they, I mean, there was nothing about her time in that 106 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:09,120 village that was pleasant to her flesh, but she was being 107 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:13,520 obedient and the Lord met her and did amazing things, right. 108 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,960 And that's, that's the God we serve. 109 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:20,840 But in order to do that, in order to be that you have to 110 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:25,040 understand how big he is and that he is able right? 111 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,320 It's it's not Lord, I don't have it in me and and his answer 112 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,520 whenever I say that is always I know. 113 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:37,160 And you got to know that as he's as he's kind of as he goes 114 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:42,440 through this part of chapter 4, he scolds, he scolds Moses, he 115 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:47,080 he rebukes him, he corrects him. And Moses is going to become a 116 00:07:47,080 --> 00:07:50,160 man that God calls a friend, right? 117 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:54,800 And in Exodus 3311, it says so the Lord spoke to Moses face to 118 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:57,320 face as a man speaks to his friend. 119 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:07,120 And we are always growing and Moses here this I looked at this 120 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,960 whole chapter and you kind of condense it. 121 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:13,280 This really is a is a testimony of Moses, right? 122 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,640 Where he because by the end of chapter 4, guys, there'll be 123 00:08:16,640 --> 00:08:21,320 moments where where Moses questions the Lord but not 124 00:08:21,320 --> 00:08:28,520 questions him in a not so Lord or I'm not doing that Lord, but 125 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:31,480 a why or how is this going to work? 126 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,559 You know, that kind of he has those, those, those questions, 127 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:39,600 but he, this is, this is where his life where the light switch 128 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:43,200 flips. It's Hudson Taylor called it an 129 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,640 exchanged life, right. By the end of this chapter, 130 00:08:46,640 --> 00:08:51,760 Moses is just on board, right? I've, I said it a while back. 131 00:08:51,760 --> 00:08:55,160 It's, you know, Moses got in, he sat down and he held on and and 132 00:08:55,560 --> 00:08:57,560 from here on out, he's just going to go. 133 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:02,480 And it's fun to watch. But to get there, he had to walk 134 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,680 through all the things he had to remember who was speaking. 135 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:12,960 You know, the God that that is was and will be not not a not 136 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:19,720 not a created thing, something that created everything and and 137 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,480 to know Moses. Moses was created for the 138 00:09:22,480 --> 00:09:26,840 purpose that God has him for right that he that he's going to 139 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:32,440 be used in in in Psalm 13913. It says for you were formed for 140 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:35,960 you formed my inward parts. You covered me in my mother's 141 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,400 womb and I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully 142 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,720 made, made marvelous are your works and that my soul knows 143 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:49,200 very and that my soul knows very well and that by the end of 144 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:51,160 this. That's where Noah or Moses is. 145 00:09:51,160 --> 00:09:59,680 He is just OK Lord, and if we, if we believe the first verse of 146 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:04,000 Genesis, which is in the beginning God created, then I 147 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:07,080 can believe he can do any of the stuff he asked me to do, right. 148 00:10:08,680 --> 00:10:14,760 So when God clearly says go, my answer is yes. 149 00:10:15,640 --> 00:10:21,200 When, when I know what he wants me to do, I do it without, 150 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,480 without hesitation, without reserve. 151 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:28,000 And and that's where you want to be. 152 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:30,280 You know, if you think of Noah when he built the ark. 153 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:36,520 So the Lord comes down and asked Noah to build a boat. 154 00:10:37,240 --> 00:10:39,640 He doesn't ask him to build a boat on the water. 155 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:43,400 He asked him to build a boat on the ground. 156 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:45,880 And it's not a little boat. We were talking about it 157 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:49,080 yesterday. It's like from from the bridge, 158 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:54,400 from bridge to bridge, 900 feet long and it's 450 feet wide, 159 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,000 right? It it's a boat. 160 00:10:56,480 --> 00:11:01,120 And what did Noah say? Yes, Lord, that was it was he 161 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,280 built the boat. It was 120 years until it 162 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:06,880 rained. But his, his answer was because 163 00:11:06,880 --> 00:11:09,960 he knew who he was talking to and he just said, yes, Lord, 164 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:15,040 another point of automatic obedience that it definitely 165 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:18,960 hits a bit closer to home. And it's Abraham and his 166 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:26,040 household, right? In Genesis 1710, it says, this 167 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,280 is my covenant, which you shall keep between me and you and your 168 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:32,560 descendants after you. Every male child among you will 169 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:36,320 be or shall be circumcised and you shall circumcise in the 170 00:11:36,320 --> 00:11:39,560 flesh of your foreskin and it shall be a sign of the covenant 171 00:11:39,560 --> 00:11:42,920 between me and you. And then if you go to Genesis 172 00:11:42,920 --> 00:11:48,520 1723, it says so Abraham took Ishmael, his son, all who were 173 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:51,560 born in his house, all who were brought with it, bought with his 174 00:11:51,560 --> 00:11:55,240 money every male among the men of Abraham's house, and 175 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:59,280 circumcised the flesh of their foreskin that very same day, as 176 00:11:59,280 --> 00:12:09,000 God had said to him, OK, so in just funny, Can you imagine that 177 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:11,040 conversation when he got done talking to the Lord? 178 00:12:12,200 --> 00:12:21,400 So in Genesis 14, Abraham went out to rescue Lot and he had 318 179 00:12:21,560 --> 00:12:25,520 trained men. So train many as 318. 180 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:28,160 Then you've got their, their their children, right? 181 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:32,440 And you have slaves that stayed behind, say 500 people get 182 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:35,400 circumcised. How does that conversation go 183 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,080 when you walk back into camp and say, so guys, I was meeting with 184 00:12:38,080 --> 00:12:40,280 the Lord and here's what we're going to do. 185 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:47,520 But but it doesn't say that this was it doesn't give you that 186 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:50,600 Abraham went, Lord, I, how am I going to talk to these? 187 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:55,360 It doesn't say that the men had anything to say about it. 188 00:12:56,280 --> 00:13:02,240 They just OK, yes, Lord, it was, it was automatic obedience and 189 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:06,960 it was obedience in the sense it was, it was dying to their self, 190 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:07,560 right? It was. 191 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:13,400 So for Abraham, it was knowing who God was and knowing the God 192 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,400 he served and for all of his men, some of them may have that 193 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:21,800 relationship with God, but they all looked at Abraham and 194 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:27,960 trusted he heard from the Lord. And that is, that's a big ask, 195 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,400 right? And then you have you have us 196 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:37,720 and you have Moses. And verse 13 it says, but he 197 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:42,120 said, oh Lord, please send me by by the hand of or sin by the 198 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:44,160 hand of whomever else you want to send. 199 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:46,920 Lord, don't make me do this. I don't want to do this. 200 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:50,840 And I don't know if you guys been there. 201 00:13:51,480 --> 00:13:54,880 Have you had those? I in Uganda, we had a long 202 00:13:54,880 --> 00:13:57,360 conversation with a bunch of different people over the years 203 00:13:57,360 --> 00:13:59,920 that we've talked about. And I said, it's really for me, 204 00:13:59,920 --> 00:14:04,000 it's pretty easy a lot of times to know whether or not the Lord 205 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:06,760 wants me to speak up in a particular situation. 206 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:11,160 Because when I really, really, really want to say something, I 207 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:14,440 should probably be quiet. And when I really, really, 208 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,960 really don't want to say something, Lord, this is going 209 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,120 to be awkward. I don't want to have this. 210 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:25,560 I should probably start talking because our flesh wants both 211 00:14:25,560 --> 00:14:29,160 sides, right? I want to voice my opinion when? 212 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:30,560 When I want. I'm you. 213 00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,520 You. You've upset me and I want to 214 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,840 tell you what I think of you. That's my flesh. 215 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,840 You're, you are. I am being called by the Lord to 216 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,440 say something that's going to affect your eternity. 217 00:14:46,600 --> 00:14:48,280 My flesh doesn't want anything to do with that. 218 00:14:49,840 --> 00:14:51,640 So which one am I supposed to say yes to? 219 00:14:51,800 --> 00:14:53,160 Right? I'm supposed to say yes to the 220 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:56,800 one I don't want to say because, you know, I, I go back to you 221 00:14:56,800 --> 00:14:59,560 guys have all heard the story of me having to apologize. 222 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:06,440 And after I had dug the hole, that meant I was going to have 223 00:15:06,440 --> 00:15:08,160 to apologize and me arguing with the Lord. 224 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,880 And I'm not going to do that. Lord, I'm you know that isn't 225 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:15,160 going to work, but do you understand in those moments when 226 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:18,720 you just say yes, Lord, when it especially when it's something 227 00:15:18,720 --> 00:15:22,480 you don't want to do, the joyous thing about those moments that 228 00:15:22,480 --> 00:15:25,920 day that I had to apologize to him and I, you guys, you'll hear 229 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:29,680 the story again down the road. But the day I had to apologize 230 00:15:29,680 --> 00:15:35,120 to the guy in that moment, in that moment when I apologize 231 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,000 because it wasn't I'm a sorry, but you're a jerk. 232 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:44,280 It had to be an apology that was, that was I'm sorry, not I'm 233 00:15:44,280 --> 00:15:46,840 sorry, but no excuses, just I'm sorry. 234 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:49,600 I acted like a jerk in that moment. 235 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,880 You know what? It was exactly where God wanted 236 00:15:51,880 --> 00:15:55,440 me to be doing exactly what God wanted me to do because I didn't 237 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:58,160 want any part of it, but I knew he did and I was doing it. 238 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:02,160 And so I probably knowing me at that time in my life, I probably 239 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:04,560 5 minutes later screwed up and I was no longer where God wanted 240 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:06,080 me to be doing what God wanted me to do. 241 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:11,400 But for that moment, right? So being obedient, especially 242 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,920 when it goes against what we want to do is a great place to 243 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:20,360 be because it tells you you are walking where God wants you to 244 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:32,160 walk and get into this is this is be careful what you ask for 245 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:35,720 right? Verse 14 So the anger and this 246 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,240 is after Moses whines and sends somebody else and Lord says so 247 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:42,920 the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses and he 248 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:46,000 said is not Aaron the Levite your brother. 249 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:50,600 I know that he can speak well and look, he is also coming out 250 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,320 to meet you. When he sees you, he will be 251 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:56,560 glad in his heart. Now you shall speak to him and 252 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,880 put the words of words in his mouth. 253 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,839 I will be with your mouth, and with his mouth I will teach you 254 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:09,000 what you shall do. So he shall be a be your 255 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:13,720 spokesman to the people, and he himself shall be as a mouth for 256 00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,359 you. You shall be to him as God, and 257 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:21,520 you shall take this rod in your hand with which you shall do the 258 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,839 signs. So Moses's punishment is getting 259 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:32,760 what he wanted, right? Aaron is given and if you if as 260 00:17:32,760 --> 00:17:36,320 we go through Exodus, you're going to find out that Aaron may 261 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:41,000 not have been the gift that Moses would have wanted right 262 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:44,400 you I'm sure you I'm sure that you guys know the story is 263 00:17:44,720 --> 00:17:47,200 Aaron's. Aaron's name means exalted 264 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:50,640 mountain of strength or light bringer and I would tell you 265 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:55,080 that Aaron is like the anti version of his name. 266 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:57,120 That doesn't mean Aaron's a Sinner that's going to burn in 267 00:17:57,120 --> 00:18:02,680 hell forever but he just was not strength to Moses most of the 268 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:08,400 time he was difficult and he caused issues right? 269 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:16,040 Moses is on the mountain talking to God after there's a moment 270 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:21,920 where the leadership of Israel and Aaron with Moses have dinner 271 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:27,840 with God and then God tells them that Moses is going to go to the 272 00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:31,480 mountain for go up on the mountain and Moses gone 40 days. 273 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,240 And in that 40 days they all panic and say we don't know what 274 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:36,840 happened to Moses and Aaron makes him a calf. 275 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:40,680 You guys know the story, right? And when questioned about it, 276 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:42,400 you know what happened? I threw the gold in and a calf 277 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:47,280 came out like so we we've established he's a liar. 278 00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:55,440 But in in Moses's life, there were this, this is one of those 279 00:18:55,440 --> 00:19:04,280 guys that Aaron, Aaron looked at Moses like we a lot of times 280 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,520 look at all kinds of stuff. We can look at churches, 281 00:19:08,520 --> 00:19:12,560 denominations, traditions, people, leadership because he 282 00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:17,520 says you will be as God to him. And I, I was like, what does 283 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,720 that mean? Lord, this is God speaking and 284 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:25,720 God's telling Moses you will be like he, you will be like God to 285 00:19:25,720 --> 00:19:26,920 him. What does that mean? 286 00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:32,040 And so digging into that, that is Aaron. 287 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:39,360 Aaron had a relationship with Moses and recognized that Moses 288 00:19:39,880 --> 00:19:43,640 spoke to God face to face and you we as we go through Exodus, 289 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,120 you will see all kinds of moments in this right? 290 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:52,880 But there was another guy that God did give Moses and and he 291 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:57,000 was quiet and Moses didn't know this was coming. 292 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:02,120 But if you go back to that, Exodus 33 verse 11 says so. 293 00:20:02,120 --> 00:20:05,560 The so the Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to 294 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:09,360 his friend. And he would return to camp, but 295 00:20:09,360 --> 00:20:13,400 the servant Joshua, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, 296 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:17,080 a young man, did not depart from the Tabernacle. 297 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:23,560 OK, so Aaron and the leadership did not want literally told 298 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:28,560 Moses, God scares us. You talk to him and you tell us 299 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:33,600 what he has to say. And Joshua understood that Moses 300 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:41,240 spoke to God or God spoke to Moses, but God can speak. 301 00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:46,160 And Joshua's life, if you is just that, right? 302 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:50,720 He is a he is a man that that truly ends up being the the one 303 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:55,120 that takes over for Moses when Moses passes away. 304 00:20:55,400 --> 00:21:02,560 But Joshua's eyes were fixed on the Lord, not on not on any of 305 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:07,120 the I got on here. Jesus is the only thing every 306 00:21:07,240 --> 00:21:12,680 everything else will fail us if we are focused on it, right? 307 00:21:12,920 --> 00:21:16,360 We are to focus on Jesus if it's our or if it's the organization, 308 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:21,400 the denomination, the, the traditions, the leaders, the 309 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:26,120 church. The only thing that that this is 310 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:29,800 about is growing in our relationship with Jesus. 311 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,840 Now as a body, we can grow in our relationship with each other 312 00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:35,600 and we're the body of Christ. And and that's true, But if at 313 00:21:35,600 --> 00:21:39,760 any point you put this ahead of your personal relationship with 314 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:43,760 Jesus, you're missing it, right? It is. 315 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:45,720 It is about that personal relationship. 316 00:21:45,720 --> 00:21:48,960 And that is the the gift God gave Moses. 317 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:53,360 And Aaron is a man that would just follow Moses, but he had no 318 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:57,160 depth, right? He had no, he had no 319 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,320 understanding a lot of times on who God was. 320 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:05,800 He did understand that Moses understood and I will just do 321 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:12,360 what Moses says. But his and, and you can watch 322 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:17,080 all of Israel follow Moses exactly like that, that he spoke 323 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,840 for God, but they didn't understand very often that God 324 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:25,840 was the one doing the speaking. And that's for us guys. 325 00:22:25,840 --> 00:22:28,560 And that's, you know, all kinds of different churches over the 326 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:32,720 years, different leadership, different, different big 327 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:37,640 evangelist, all of them, right. The good ones would say it's 328 00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:39,480 just Jesus. Do not look at me. 329 00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:42,040 If I am on a pedestal, knock me off the pedestal. 330 00:22:42,440 --> 00:22:45,960 I'm not on a pedestal. But if, if they, if you have 331 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:49,040 somebody on a pedestal, knock them off the pedestal because 332 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,440 the only the, The thing is, it's between you and him, right? 333 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,160 That's when I got saved. That was Pastor Steve. 334 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:59,040 That was the, the thing that amazed me was that he was 335 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:02,320 standing up front. And Steve is very, very mellow, 336 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:07,840 more college, college, college professor type as far as he's 337 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,720 not animated. He doesn't talk with his hands. 338 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,600 He's very, and he's, he's going through revelation and he's just 339 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,200 saying what it says. And I'm like, that is what that 340 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,480 says and that is what that says. Because guys, at the end of the 341 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:25,880 day, the thing that changes your life is not what I say, but what 342 00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:28,720 God says, right? So what you should be doing is 343 00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,400 digging into the word and making sure that I'm not saying 344 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:35,240 something wrong, but also digging into the word so that 345 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,760 you know what he's saying, right? 346 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,160 Because they're the words that change your life. 347 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:43,000 I might have AI might have an illustration or something that 348 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:45,440 points you to the word, but that's what you need to be 349 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,240 looking at. Not not, hey, I had this, this 350 00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:54,280 guy had a neat illustration. You need to be looking at the 351 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:58,320 word, right? And that is Moses. 352 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,000 And that's the joy about all this is Moses gets there right? 353 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:04,840 And he gets there quicker than the rest of us. 354 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,600 But it did take him 40 years of stillness before he was ready to 355 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:18,280 get there quickly. So Exodus 418 says So Moses went 356 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,440 and returned to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, 357 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,120 Please let me go and return to my brother's house, brethren's 358 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:29,160 house, who are in Egypt, and see whether they are still alive. 359 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:31,680 And Jethro said to Moses, Go in peace. 360 00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:38,040 Now the Lord said to Moses and Midian, go, return to Egypt, for 361 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,600 all the men who sought your life are dead. 362 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,640 Then Moses took his wife and his sons and set on the set them on 363 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,280 the donkey. And he returned to the land of 364 00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:48,960 Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in 365 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:55,280 his hand. And I love this because it's 366 00:24:56,000 --> 00:25:05,920 Moses just says, yes, Lord. Oh, and so it's all done, right. 367 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,040 He's he's on his way. He's just going to do the next 368 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,000 thing. Lessons learned. 369 00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,160 I don't have to. I'm in motion except for that 370 00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:22,600 one thing. And Exodus 24 through 20 or 424 371 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:26,320 through 26 says, and it came to pass on the way at the 372 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,280 encampment that the Lord met him and sought to kill him. 373 00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:31,560 That's a took a turn for the worse. 374 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:36,080 Then Zephora took a sharp stone and cut the foreskin of her son 375 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,240 and cast it at Moses feet and said, surely you are a husband 376 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,440 of blood to me. So we let him go. 377 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:47,000 Then she said, You are our, you are a husband of blood because 378 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:52,160 of the circumcision. So Moses is headed off for the 379 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,320 Lord. He he is doing what the Lord 380 00:25:54,320 --> 00:26:00,880 wants him to do, but half obedience is full rebellion and 381 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,440 the Scripture, the Scripture here, that's what it tells us, 382 00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,600 right, That those those two verses, 3 verses, that's it. 383 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:08,240 There, there isn't a lot of commentary on this. 384 00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,840 There isn't somewhere else I can look that says, Hey, what was 385 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,920 going on here? But I'm going to I'm going to 386 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:19,200 give you some a possibility. How's that God told Abraham the 387 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:24,160 covenant and so Moses, because his his parents were were God 388 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:28,320 fearing and knew who the Lord was, he would have been 389 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,400 circumcised. It only says the one son. 390 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:33,600 You know, it doesn't say sons, it says sons. 391 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,960 So you got to imagine that the oldest son was circumcised. 392 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,720 And I would imagine when the oldest son was circumcised, the 393 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:45,080 four went, what did you just do? No, that's not so Then the 394 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,600 second son comes around and Zaphora's like you want to do 395 00:26:48,600 --> 00:26:50,960 what to my baby? No, we're not doing that. 396 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,000 And so Moses is I'll talk to God. 397 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:58,200 It'll be all right. You know, I don't have to do 398 00:26:58,280 --> 00:27:00,000 everything. We'll just, you know, some of 399 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,320 it. And as you can tell, when the 400 00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:09,160 the Lord sought to kill him, that wasn't going to be OK, 401 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:14,160 right? It Moses going into this needed 402 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,080 to have all the walls built, not he didn't need to have breaches, 403 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:19,920 right? We've talked about that, that if 404 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,560 there is sin in the camp and Joshua goes through that in in 405 00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:27,040 the book of Joshua, when they go to AI, there was sin in the camp 406 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,200 and men died. This is one of those moments 407 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:32,760 that God's like you've sinned in the camp, you are not being 408 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:38,160 obedient. And now this had longer lasting 409 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,960 effects. I believe when you look at it is 410 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:46,160 that it did. He was obedient at this point 411 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:52,240 and she, Zephora did the circumcision. 412 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,800 Moses was alive, but we don't hear about Sephora again until 413 00:27:56,800 --> 00:28:01,960 chapter 18. And I believe at this point she 414 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:04,480 went home. She took her kids and went home. 415 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,720 It doesn't say that, but you don't hear about her at all. 416 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,680 And when you do hear about her in in chapter 18, it's Jethro 417 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:18,520 bringing her to Moses. So there was there was more 418 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,880 here, right? This is that that trying to make 419 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:27,080 his wife happy, trying to make someone else happy in 420 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,920 disobedience breaks relationships. 421 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:36,640 And so doing what the Lord says, when the Lord says it is your 422 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:43,560 best plan, he, he sees the whole picture. 423 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,640 I see, I see what's hard to hear, right? 424 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,240 I, I can look at if I got to say something to Faye that she 425 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,320 doesn't want to hear. But the Lord's telling me, this 426 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,320 is the way we need to go. This is what we need to do. 427 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:59,040 And I kicked the can down the road, guys, sooner or later I'm 428 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,160 going to say that to Faye, whether I say it today or I 429 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:04,320 kicked the can and I got to say it in six weeks. 430 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:07,640 And it's probably worse when I say it in six weeks, whatever 431 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:13,080 that you know, if it's being, being obedient now is important. 432 00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,000 John 1421, which is one of my life verses. 433 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:18,720 I beat you guys up with He who has my commandments and keeps 434 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:20,720 them. It is he who loves me and he who 435 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,720 loves me will be loved by my Father and I will love him and 436 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:28,120 manifest myself to him. How you grow is through 437 00:29:28,120 --> 00:29:31,400 obedience. And it's obedience to the word, 438 00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:36,280 but it's also it's it's never against the word, but it's also 439 00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,960 that the Lord's going to ask you to do things and he's going to 440 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:43,760 he's going to convict you of stuff and he's going to say you 441 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:50,840 need to do this. See, we're putting a water line 442 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,880 in on my construction stories. And this is one of those that, 443 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,760 you know, lay awake at night going, Lord, is there a way we 444 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,640 cannot do it this way. Is there, is there any way we're 445 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,320 putting in a water line to 12 inch water line? 446 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:11,240 I, I have my, my crew was, was new, but they were experienced 447 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,200 enough. I, I gave them all the tools 448 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:18,680 they needed and all the time they needed to put the water 449 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,720 line in right. I gave them, they had elevation 450 00:30:20,720 --> 00:30:21,800 hubs. They had everything they needed 451 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,720 to do it right. And so I wasn't worried about it 452 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,520 because they, they knew what they were doing. 453 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:32,280 And they get the water line in. We have thrust blocks ploured. 454 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,200 I got a crew doing services and my main line crew is putting in 455 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,760 fire hydrants. Well, fire hydrants and I'm 456 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,520 going to tell you more than you really need to know, but fire 457 00:30:40,520 --> 00:30:43,520 hydrants come off the main line level. 458 00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:50,920 And so however deep the main line is, is how, how much pipe 459 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:52,840 you have on the built fire hydrant. 460 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:58,160 And they come to me and they go, we need shorter fire hydrants. 461 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:04,360 And I'm like, no, you don't. And we go, I, I go and, and I 462 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,840 think they've just made a, a math error. 463 00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:10,720 So I go and take some shots and it's like 4:30 in the afternoon 464 00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:12,720 and we're, we're leaving at 5:00. 465 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:18,960 And I take some, some grade shots and I do some math And I'm 466 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,280 pretty sure I know what the problem is, but I'm not not 467 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,200 confident. And so I let I have them all go 468 00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:28,600 home and I don't sleep that night because I'm pretty sure I 469 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:29,960 know what's going to have to happen. 470 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,640 And I show up at 5 O clock in the morning. 471 00:31:33,640 --> 00:31:35,320 I set everything back up, nobody's there. 472 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,800 And I shoot and I, I, I shoot where they've been putting in 473 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,120 services. I, I take shots on the elevation 474 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,760 of the actual pipe. I have a 12 inch pipe that's 475 00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,520 supposed to have 3 1/2 feet of cover and it has 2 feet of cover 476 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:49,880 on it, which means what that means is is that I have a 12 477 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,160 inch pipe that's supposed to flow water that's going to be 2 478 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,360 foot underground instead of almost 4 feet underground. 479 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:58,640 As you can imagine that isn't OK. 480 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,360 The the problem and the reason this was it wasn't that I had to 481 00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,680 tell him to dig it up. It was that I had to explain to 482 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:08,120 my boss. It wasn't even that I had to 483 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,440 explain to my boss that we needed to fix it and that we had 484 00:32:11,440 --> 00:32:14,440 done it wrong. It was that it was all bought 485 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,560 off. The only person that knew it was 486 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,560 wrong was me. The inspector had bought it off 487 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:24,600 as it was, the thrust blocks were poured, the services were 488 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:28,960 in and the only one, I mean, I could have buried it and it's 489 00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:35,280 done except over the, over my decades work in the construction 490 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:37,920 field, I knew what would happen if I did that. 491 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,800 And what would happen is I'm coming back to dig it up. 492 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:47,000 Whether I dig it up today and we waste a whole day or I wait, I 493 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:51,240 wait a week, a month, whatever, Sooner or later God's going to 494 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:54,360 beat me up to the point that I have to do what he said I have 495 00:32:54,360 --> 00:32:57,760 to do. So that's what we did that 496 00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:01,160 Friday was they had to dig up a water line and the inspector 497 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,640 showed up on Monday. They weren't there and they're 498 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,760 like, why are we like, well, we were low or we were, we were 499 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,880 high and he was amazed that I had that we had repaired. 500 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,360 I'm like, guys, I wasn't my my standard line to everybody is 501 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:15,640 that I don't work for my boss. I work for God. 502 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:22,200 But in in that case, when I told my crew is guys, there's a line 503 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,080 that says it's good enough. It's good enough for my house, 504 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,360 you know, looks good for my house kind of thing. 505 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:31,280 Guys that bury everything I do. If that's my standard, I should 506 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:35,800 quit, right? My standard is to do it right 507 00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,000 and, and to follow what the Lord has to say. 508 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,680 And if and if we're not doing that, trust me, guys, if you 509 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:43,880 have a relationship with the Lord and you were trying to cut 510 00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:47,880 corners, he is going to make you straighten them out, right? 511 00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,600 He is going to he's going to confront you. 512 00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:54,760 And and I imagine, I mean, it doesn't say how old Moses's sons 513 00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,200 are. It doesn't say it doesn't give 514 00:33:57,200 --> 00:33:59,320 you much in the way of information there. 515 00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,400 But that was probably an ongoing. 516 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,159 This wasn't his son wasn't born right before they left, right? 517 00:34:08,960 --> 00:34:13,199 He was well past eight days old and it had been an ongoing 518 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:14,840 thing. Hence when the Lord confronted 519 00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:20,199 him said you're going to do this or you're going to die. 520 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,719 So have you ever had that? And it's not condemnation, it's 521 00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:26,080 conviction. Have you ever had that 522 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,320 conviction on your life that that you have a choice. 523 00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:32,719 You can, you can do what the Lord says or you can walk away. 524 00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,960 Those are your choices. And not because God's giving 525 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:39,400 them to you, but because those are your choices. 526 00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,520 You, you can. This is what this is what is 527 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:50,440 required for you to be at peace. And so you can run away or you 528 00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,159 can do this thing. And, and I've had, I'd love to 529 00:34:53,159 --> 00:34:56,080 say I learned all my lessons, you know, one and done kind of 530 00:34:56,080 --> 00:34:58,080 thing. But I've had numerous times in 531 00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:01,960 my life where where me and the Lord reached that point, whether 532 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,560 it was chewing or having to confess something at work or 533 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:09,280 whatever that thing is that the Lord says you need to do this. 534 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,600 And I came up with excuses on why I didn't need to do that. 535 00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,000 No, it's all right. I don't need to do that. 536 00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,360 No, Lord, I'm good and he just keeps coming back to it. 537 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,760 And that's all we're talking about until I do it so that that 538 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:24,400 first time obedience, the quick right, the yes, Lord, this is 539 00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,480 going to hurt, but it's not going to hurt as bad as if I 540 00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:33,000 wait. And it's that idea that in First 541 00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,160 Corinthians 118, it's it's about that we are in a process, right? 542 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:40,280 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are 543 00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:44,560 perishing, but to us who are being saved, that being saved, 544 00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:50,440 it is, it is the power of God. And that is we are we're in a 545 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,520 process. I mean, I'm saved, but I just 546 00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:56,160 keep getting more saved as I get more obedient, right? 547 00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,800 Each of that that he continues to manifest himself to me more 548 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:04,080 and more. And Luke 923 then he said to 549 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,400 them all, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny 550 00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,600 himself and take up his cross daily and follow me forever 551 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:12,600 desires to save his life will lose it. 552 00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:16,120 But whoever loses his life for my sake will save it. 553 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:21,160 And that is God's going to ask us to do things that our flesh 554 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,840 wants nothing to do with. And and I say that that that's 555 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:29,120 our our our selfishness, right. I guess flesh is kind of a 556 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:34,560 Christian word or whatever that our self, our selfishness 557 00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:38,040 doesn't want to do things that that are awkward, doesn't want 558 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,760 to do things that are, are difficult, right? 559 00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:43,680 I just want to fit in. I just want to go along and 560 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:48,480 God's going to ask you to stand in those places, right, And dig 561 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:52,240 up those water lines, whatever that that thing in your life is. 562 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,480 But he's going to be transforming us in the process. 563 00:36:57,480 --> 00:37:01,000 And you watch this in Moses's life, that he will be 564 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:06,480 transformed into somebody that is not, that is just obedient. 565 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:11,280 He starts as a guy that that is excited and wants to kill, kill 566 00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:14,960 Egyptians for the Lord, even if the Lord isn't asking. 567 00:37:15,240 --> 00:37:20,000 And by the end of it, he is. He is just standing wherever the 568 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:25,600 Lord wants him to stand. And this is done by remembering 569 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:32,680 at all times who who we serve and that it's not about MO, it's 570 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,520 not like Aaron and Moses, it's like Joshua and the Lord. 571 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:39,360 It's that we are supposed to be in the word being washed by it, 572 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,160 which which being Tran, that being transformed is being 573 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,320 washed by the word. And in we we know the verse 574 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:48,360 because it's it's about husbands and wives. 575 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:52,400 But it's Ephesians 525 and 26. It's his husband's love your 576 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,440 wife just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for 577 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:00,200 her that he might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of 578 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,800 the word. Now we read that and we say 579 00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,800 husbands, you need to make sure you're you're pouring into your 580 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:08,280 wives with the word. But but let's go back to what it 581 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,320 says. We're husbands love your wives 582 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:15,160 just as Christ. So Christ loves the church and 583 00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:19,080 is wants us to be washed in the word is washing us in his word, 584 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:24,000 which is both his written word and speaking to us right though 585 00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:28,040 those that still small voice that says I mean in the the 586 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:29,920 water line and dig up the water line. 587 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,840 But it's all kinds of little moments in your life. 588 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,920 Apologize to that guy. You know go talk to that person, 589 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,480 whatever that thing is right having that having that inward 590 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:45,160 position. You know I mean when when going 591 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:49,440 doing St. witnessing this is well, Lord, I just don't speak 592 00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:50,920 good. I don't know the verses well, I 593 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:55,480 think, I think the Lord directly confronts Moses on that. 594 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,440 Who made your mouth, right? He'll give you the words to 595 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,840 speak. If, if, if the Lord asked you to 596 00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,120 go speak to somebody, He's got something to say to them. 597 00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:07,360 You, you just need to be obedient. 598 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:12,480 And guys, if you're in sin, if you have secret sin, if you got 599 00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,600 things that the Lord's telling you about, know that the Lord 600 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,680 loves you too much to leave you there and your sin will find you 601 00:39:19,720 --> 00:39:21,800 out, right? That that he isn't. 602 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:25,440 I mean, like like that the Zephora and the children. 603 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,800 I mean, Moses knew the right thing to do. 604 00:39:29,240 --> 00:39:31,520 And I like I said, I don't know how long it went on that he 605 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,600 wasn't doing it, but then it found him out and there were 606 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,680 penalties, right? Like I said, he, it doesn't say 607 00:39:39,680 --> 00:39:42,960 that Sabora was gone at that moment, but it doesn't talk 608 00:39:42,960 --> 00:39:47,560 about her anymore. And so there was there was 609 00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:51,480 consequences on earth for delayed obedience. 610 00:39:55,480 --> 00:40:00,720 And Hebrews 12/6 says for whom the Lord loves, he chastens and 611 00:40:00,720 --> 00:40:02,680 scourges every son who receives him. 612 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:07,600 Which means, guys, I am a work in progress and the Lord is 613 00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,840 going to rebuke and correct me on a regular basis, right? 614 00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,960 There isn't a point this side of heaven that I go. 615 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:18,080 I've arrived. I am a sinless, perfected being. 616 00:40:18,240 --> 00:40:21,440 And if you don't if, if anybody believes that I've got Faye up 617 00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:22,920 here, you can talk to her after service. 618 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:29,200 She'll explain all the things. I'm definitely not that, right? 619 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:39,480 It's all about the moment we hear clearly God's direction and 620 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:45,360 go the other way. Our growth stops when we clearly 621 00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:48,800 hear God's direction. Our answer is yes, Lord. 622 00:40:50,000 --> 00:40:55,120 And the fun thing, guys, I say that it sounds, it's an amazing 623 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,960 moment when you say yes, Lord, and you're doing what he wants 624 00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,960 you to do where he wants you to do it because he gives you the 625 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:02,280 power to do what he's asking you to do. 626 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,960 And that is the God we serve, right? 627 00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:11,200 It's it. That's something Aaron missed is 628 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:14,440 the living God, that he had the power to do it. 629 00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:21,480 Exodus 44 starting in verse 27 to the end it says and the Lord 630 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,160 said to Aaron, go into the wilderness to meet Moses. 631 00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:28,480 So he went and met him on the mountain of God and kissed him. 632 00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:33,520 So Moses told Aaron all the words the Lord who had sent him 633 00:41:33,760 --> 00:41:36,680 and all the signs which he had commanded him. 634 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:40,840 Then Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders 635 00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,680 of the children of Israel, and Aaron spoke all the words which 636 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,480 the Lord had spoken to Moses. Then he did the signs in the 637 00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:51,320 sight of the people. So the people believed, and when 638 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,720 they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel 639 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,920 and that He had looked on their affliction, they bowed their 640 00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:05,160 heads and worshipped. And I would love to tell you 641 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:13,520 that from that moment forward, Israel just said, Yes, Lord, but 642 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:18,240 they act like us. And that's that's one of when I 643 00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:20,200 first got saved. That was one of my I went to a 644 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,360 Bible study and we were going through the book of Judges. 645 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,360 And I'm kind of mocking the Israelites. 646 00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:25,920 Like, man, they are not very bright. 647 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:28,520 I just keep doing the same thing over and over again. 648 00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:32,440 And one of my good friends now, but a elder at the time looks at 649 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:37,440 me and goes remind you anybody, you know, like, oh, oh, yeah. 650 00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:41,360 That's yeah. And Israel is just fickle, 651 00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:45,240 right? They were they were all in until 652 00:42:45,240 --> 00:42:49,040 there was struggle and they over and over again they are all in. 653 00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:51,440 We are following you are God. It is great. 654 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:55,080 Did you see it's raining? I don't like it when it rains, 655 00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:58,960 right? And that's literally they are as 656 00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:04,320 fickle as you get right. But Jesus in in Mark talks about 657 00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:12,800 this kind of belief, right? And Jesus all through, all 658 00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:17,760 through his Gospels says, if anyone has ears to hear, let him 659 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,760 hear, which is just listen up, hear me, listen to what I'm 660 00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:26,440 saying. Mark 43 And this is the the 661 00:43:26,440 --> 00:43:29,800 parable of the sower. And he I'm going to read the 662 00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:32,000 read what he says. And then he explains it, but 663 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:37,120 says, Listen, Behold, the sower went out to sow, and it happened 664 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,200 as he sowed, that some seed fell on the wayside, and the birds of 665 00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:44,640 the air came and devoured it. Some fell on Stony ground, where 666 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:47,600 it did not have much earth. Immediately it sprang up, 667 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:51,400 because it had no depth of earth, but when the sun was up 668 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,440 it was scorched, and because it had no root it withered away. 669 00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,320 And some seed fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and 670 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,760 choked it out, and it yielded no crop, but other seeds fell on 671 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:07,240 good ground and yielded A crop that sprang up and increased and 672 00:44:07,240 --> 00:44:10,880 produced some 30, some 60, and some hundredfold. 673 00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:14,440 And the disciples asked something that I that I'm sure 674 00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,480 we all ask, what does that mean? And so Jesus then goes through 675 00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:21,400 it in verse 14, and it says the sower sows the Word. 676 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,480 And these are the ones by the wayside where the Word is sown. 677 00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:30,120 When they hear. When they hear, Satan comes 678 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:33,200 immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their 679 00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:36,760 ears. These likewise are the ones sewn 680 00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:40,880 on Stony ground who, when they hear the word, immediately 681 00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,640 receive it with gladness. And they have no root in 682 00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,800 themselves, and so endure only for a time. 683 00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,960 Afterwards, when tribulation and persecution arise for the word's 684 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:54,520 sake, immediately they stumble. Now these are those. 685 00:44:54,920 --> 00:45:01,120 These are the ones among, Did I just use thorns? 686 00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:03,720 No storms. They are the ones who hear the 687 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:07,400 word and care for the world, care for this world and the 688 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,680 deceitfulness of riches and their desires for other things. 689 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:15,600 Enter in, enter in, choke the Word, and it becomes unfruitful. 690 00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:19,240 But these are the ones sown on good ground. 691 00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,640 Those who hear the word, accept it and bear fruit. 692 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:25,640 Some 30, some 60, and some hundredfold. 693 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,720 And if we look back at this, this time with Moses, right, 694 00:45:29,720 --> 00:45:36,280 these first 4 chapters, it is, he's speaking to the Lord, 695 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,800 right? He starts off, he hears from 696 00:45:40,800 --> 00:45:43,120 people what he's supposed to, you know, he's going to, he's 697 00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:47,000 going to rescue, rescue the Israelites and he tries to do it 698 00:45:47,000 --> 00:45:49,800 in his own strength. And he lost his position, right? 699 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:53,040 He killed an Egyptian, has to run off. 700 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:58,600 God has to humble him. And for us guys, if there's 701 00:45:58,640 --> 00:46:01,440 anything in our lives, right, if you're, if you're not a believer 702 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:05,240 and even if you are a believer, if there's anything in your life 703 00:46:05,240 --> 00:46:07,840 that before you can come to the Lord, you think you need to 704 00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,880 clean it up. You are, you were you were in 705 00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,400 that position where Moses was at, where you, you are, you were 706 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,400 letting Satan steal something before God's even had the 707 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:20,240 opportunity to give it to you because you're trying to, you're 708 00:46:20,240 --> 00:46:22,960 trying to clean yourself up before you come to the Lord. 709 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,800 And my, my example of how that can go really wrong in, in 710 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:35,520 Uganda, a Ugandan pastor will teach that you cannot drink 711 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:40,320 alcohol and be a Christian now teaches not to get drunk. 712 00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:43,960 It teaches all kinds of things. But there's a, there's a tension 713 00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:45,840 there. And a Ugandan pastor will teach 714 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,360 you are not allowed to drink ever. 715 00:46:49,200 --> 00:46:55,280 And everybody knows it. So if I am a, if I'm a 20 some 716 00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:02,480 year old kid and I've, I'm a drunk and I, I drink and they, 717 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:04,040 they, they, it's the drunkest company. 718 00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:07,200 It's the drunkest country per capita. 719 00:47:07,200 --> 00:47:09,400 They drink the most alcohol of any country in the world. 720 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,040 So they drink a lot. But if I'm a 20 year old kid and 721 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,560 I've been drinking alcohol since I was 15 years old and I have 722 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:21,440 tried to quit numerous times, I'm not going to church because 723 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,200 I can't, because I drink and I can't quit. 724 00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:30,560 If, if you're, if the teaching is that you have to not drink 725 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:34,160 alcohol to be a Christian. No, no, you have to love Jesus 726 00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:38,600 and Jesus takes alcohol away, right? 727 00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:43,280 That that is when you, when you, if you get the cart before the 728 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:49,600 horse, you're slamming the door on people or people are slamming 729 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,720 the door on themselves, right? When you, when you come into a 730 00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:55,480 church and you, you hear a convicting message and you're 731 00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,800 going to raise your hand, but you're like, well, I got to, I'm 732 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:01,560 living with my girlfriend. No, you get right with Jesus, 733 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,600 he'll take care of the rest of it, right? 734 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:09,240 And and that's, that's where Moses thought he had something 735 00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:12,720 that he brought to the table. Then when you get the Stony 736 00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:16,800 ground, this is back in chapter, the beginning of chapter 4 where 737 00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:20,480 Moses was supposing. So Lord, have you thought of 738 00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,440 this? You know, have you, have you 739 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:30,840 thought of the the, I mean, I'm excited, but there's a lot of 740 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:33,440 there's a lot that you haven't really put in the in the story. 741 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:37,440 And I wondered if you thought about it and that's, you know, 742 00:48:37,480 --> 00:48:40,760 you got saved and then you went home. 743 00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:45,520 And, you know, I'm Greg Laurie. I don't know if you guys know 744 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:50,280 who he is, but Greg Laurie is a evangelist. 745 00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:54,200 Calvary Chapel and Harvest, Harvest Foot. 746 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:58,240 Is it Harvest Valley? It's not Harvest Valley anyway. 747 00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:03,480 California Church. And he does, I mean, evangelist, 748 00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:06,840 awesome. But when he got saved, he was 749 00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:08,400 scared to death of his friends finding out. 750 00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,280 So like he went over to his, he went over to his friend's house 751 00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:14,600 and had a Bible because he just gotten saved. 752 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:17,040 And he was all excited and he got to the front door and he put 753 00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:19,640 the Bible in the Bush because he didn't want to take it in the 754 00:49:19,640 --> 00:49:20,720 house because it was embarrassing. 755 00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:25,640 OK, He had to grow up from that because that was Stony ground, 756 00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,760 right? He was letting the world tell 757 00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,040 him and that there's a whole story that he has with that. 758 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:34,440 Obviously you can see the fruit in his life that he, he decided 759 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:36,960 that Jesus was worth looking a little stupid for. 760 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:44,760 And then Moses fell among thorns when he worried about what his 761 00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:48,640 wife had to say. And, and I'm using his wife, but 762 00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,880 it's anybody, right? That's your, your, it's that he 763 00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:56,160 was willing to be disobedient to what the Lord was telling him to 764 00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:59,720 do because he was worried about what the world had to say about 765 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:04,240 it, you know, but then there's good ground. 766 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,560 And where did, where did Moses end up? 767 00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:11,960 Moses ended up bringing God's people out 2 million fold, 768 00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,000 right? 2 million people came out of 769 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,960 Egypt. So his seed definitely was, was 770 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:22,600 fruitful. But victory for us comes when we 771 00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,960 apply his blood to our lives. It isn't enough to know all the 772 00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:27,920 things. That's when I got saved. 773 00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,640 When I walked into a Calvary Chapel the very first time I 774 00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:33,480 walked in and I would have told you I was saved. 775 00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:38,920 I believe Jesus, Jesus lived. He was a real person who really 776 00:50:38,920 --> 00:50:42,280 lived. I believe Jesus died on a cross. 777 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:44,320 He's a real person that really died on a cross. 778 00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,080 I even believe Jesus rose again for the third day, believed it 779 00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:49,840 all. And if I had to believe those 780 00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:54,280 things so that I could go to heaven, I believe me, they're 781 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:55,640 done. Stamped it. 782 00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:01,520 The problem with that kind of belief is Satan believes all 783 00:51:01,520 --> 00:51:05,600 that stuff. I didn't believe he was my Lord. 784 00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:10,200 I didn't say yes, Lord, and it wasn't until I got to that point 785 00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:15,560 that I just that I said yes, Lord, which is not cleaning 786 00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,760 myself up, not worried about what the world says, but saying, 787 00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:25,760 Lord, this is where I'm at. I'm broken and useless in your 788 00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:32,040 Kingdom and the only thing that I have to offer is my surrender 789 00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:35,520 to you, right? And that's, that's the one way. 790 00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:40,800 The one way is by faith, the faith that God is who he says he 791 00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:42,920 is, surrendering your life to him. 792 00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:56,640 And that is that's it, right? The question is, is Moses is all 793 00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:57,680 in. And like I said at the 794 00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,760 beginning, at this point, from this point forward, we're going 795 00:52:00,760 --> 00:52:04,120 to see Moses. He got in, he sat down and he 796 00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:08,640 held on or even to the even to a more drastic, he got in, he sat 797 00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,720 down, he shut up and he held on. Because Moses doesn't have any 798 00:52:12,720 --> 00:52:15,800 more complaints he goes through. He's going to go talk to the 799 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,000 Pharaoh, a guy that can just have his head cut off because 800 00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,200 he's having a bad day and he's going to say some very blunt, 801 00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:29,040 direct things to the point up to and past your first born son is 802 00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:33,400 going to die. And when he says that when we're 803 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:37,320 in that Pharaoh had just got done telling him, the next time 804 00:52:37,320 --> 00:52:38,360 I see you, I'm going to kill you. 805 00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:41,800 And the next thing Moses says to him is your first born son's 806 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:46,400 going to die, right? Moses gets in, sits down and 807 00:52:46,400 --> 00:52:48,080 holds on to what God tells him to do. 808 00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,760 How about us? Is that where we're at, right. 809 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:55,000 We're supposed to get in, sit down and follow him wherever 810 00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:58,600 we're supposed to go. And guys, it's worth it's not a 811 00:52:58,600 --> 00:53:00,720 hard it. That's the fun part. 812 00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:10,360 It's not the the getting in and the sitting down that's telling 813 00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:15,520 our flesh to sit down and shut up The the holding on dude, it's 814 00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:16,680 joy. It's a kick. 815 00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:21,560 I mean, there is nothing I would rather do than be where God 816 00:53:21,560 --> 00:53:23,880 wants me doing what God wants me to do. 817 00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:29,120 And so, yeah, is that good? You have a good week. 818 00:53:31,400 --> 00:53:35,080 So Lord, I just I thank you for that, Lord, I thank you that 819 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:38,960 you, you just want to use us. And Lord, you want to use us in 820 00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:43,360 a way that shows who you are. And Lord, in doing that, Lord, 821 00:53:43,360 --> 00:53:45,880 you want to stretch us, you want to grow us, you want to 822 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:48,520 transform us. And Lord, you gave us all the 823 00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:53,880 tools in your son, Lord, that, that you would just give us 824 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:57,200 that, that heart that just wants to follow after you. 825 00:53:57,200 --> 00:53:59,760 Lord, that we would just exchange all of our knowledge 826 00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:02,360 and our information and our thought process here on this 827 00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,440 earth. Lord, for yes Lord, whatever you 828 00:54:05,440 --> 00:54:07,120 want to do, however you want to do it. 829 00:54:07,720 --> 00:54:09,680 And I pray all this in Jesus name, Amen.