Before we, before we get into the scripture, I'll give you
the, the premise for that. So when I was, when I was
younger and I knew an old guy, I was like 24 and he was, he was
old. He's like almost 30.
He's old. And I, I had a wheeled which,
you know, I had full drive trucks and mine was broken.
And so we got in, we got in his, he got a 67 Bronco with a full
roll cage and, and racing buckets.
And there's a point to all this and racing buckets.
And I was there when the, when the cage was put in and I
trusted that cage. And so when I got in his truck
and I got in, I, I sat down in the racing bucket, I put my 5
point harness on and I held on, right?
And I trusted. Now the difference between the
trust we're going to talk about today is what I trusted.
I didn't trust the driver as much as I trusted the cage I was
in. And as we're Wheeling and doing
crazy, stupid stuff, I knew if he made a mistake, we might
roll. But I'm going to be fine because
I am completely secure in my position.
Now the difference between the two kinds of trust here is that
we can completely trust the driver of what I'm going to talk
about. So this is Jesus.
John 13 is Jesus washing the disciples feet.
And we're going to read down to down to verse 11 now before the
feast of Passover when Jesus knew that his hour had come,
that he should depart from the from this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the
end. And supper being ended, the
devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father
had given all things to into his hands, and that he had come from
God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside his
garments, took a towel and girded himself.
After that he poured water into a basin and began to wash the
disciples feet and to wipe them with his towel, with with which
he was girded. Then he came to Simon Peter, and
Peter said to him, Lord, are you washing my feet?
And Jesus said to him, What I'm doing you do not understand now,
but you will now. You will know after this.
And Peter said to him, You shall never wash my feet.
And Jesus answered him, If I do not wash your feet, you have no
part in me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord,
not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
And Jesus said to him, He who is bathed needs only to wash his
feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all
of you for he knew who would betray him.
Therefore, therefore he said you are not all clean.
And Lord I do I just lift up this time and just just the
safeness in you, Lord and Lord, that you would just be in our
midst, Lord that you'd speak through me and that you just
guide this, this study. I pray all this in Jesus name.
So we will get into why that is applicable to Exodus 3 before
the end of this. But we are in Exodus 3 and
chapter one verse or chapter 3 verse one says now Moses was
tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of
Midian, and he laid the led the flock to the back of the desert
and came to hair of the mountain of God.
And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of
fire from the midst of a Bush. So we so he looked, and behold,
the Bush was burning with fire, but the Bush was not consumed.
Then Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this this site.
Why the Bush does not burn. So when the Lord saw that he
turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the
Bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am.
Then he said, do not draw near this place.
Take the sandals off your feet for the place where you stand is
holy ground. And this is from last week.
This is a 40 year jump, though we we turn the page from chapter
2 to chapter 3 and we're we've moved forward 40 years in the
story and something we miss a lot, right?
We get that in Acts 730 is Stevens telling the Sanhedrin.
And when 40 years had passed, the Angel of the Lord appeared
to him in a flame, a fire and a Bush in the wilderness, in the
wilderness of Mount Sinai. So for us it's a page turn.
But for Moses, 40 years is a lifetime.
You know, Moses entered the desert, entered the wilderness,
went and got married and has been with Jethro.
And when he showed up, he was a Prince.
But he is now a shepherd. And, and he's a shepherd in his
own eyes, right? He, he's, if you think about 40
years, right, I'm 54 years old and 40 years is a lot of my
life. It's not it.
I can't tell you if I remember what it was like to be 14.
So Moses, 40 years after, is at 80 years old.
He is a shepherd in his eyes, but in God's eyes he is ready
for the work he has been made for.
And Moses is deep in the wilderness, alone with only his
sheep, and he ends up at the mountain of God.
And the Angel of the Lord appears to him.
And this Angel of the Lord, guys, this is the Lord in in in
scholar speak. It's a Christophany, which means
a pre Incarnate moment where Jesus is here, right?
The word of God is speaking. But this is the Lord.
And I can prove that if you just watch how angels, angels react,
angels are not fans of anyone claiming they're God.
And they're, they're also not fans of being worshipped like
God. So when, when, when he says take
off your sandals and draw near because you're on holy ground.
This is a, this is a, you know that I'm important that he, he's
the the flame is pointing to himself as being the important
thing. And an Angel would never do
that. Acts 1222 is a moment that a man
decided that he could, he could accept, he could accept God's
glory and, and accept that praise for himself.
And like I said, angels, they don't, they don't take that
well. Acts 12/22 And the people kept
shouting the voice of a God and not a man and immediately an
Angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give glory to
God and he was eaten by worms. This is Herod Agrippa who wasn't
wasn't he was not a good person all the way around.
But this was like the last straw.
But the, the historians will tell us that Herod Agrippa died,
died suddenly of a parasitical infestation, right?
Like roundworms or tapeworms, But it was not a, a good end.
And that is an Angel. And the just the, I don't know,
I, I can just see that happening at the Angel.
Shut up, right? It's I can, I don't know.
I, I have a picture of this Angel in my head and, and just
the, the feistiness of, oh, I'm done with him, right?
And, and because this Herod Agrippa was on the throne when
Jesus was crucified, so I'm not saying that the Angel didn't
have some God-given animosity towards Herod Agrippa, right?
I always remind everybody that while Jesus was being crucified,
there was an army of angels that were just waiting for him to
clear his throat, right? They were watching their their
God. They were watching the God of
the universe be be abused and defamed and beaten by dirt.
And I say that whenever you guys hear me say dirt, we it's we
were made from dust. And from an angel's point of
view, they were there when we were made, when Adam was made
from dust. And so we are just dirt and we
don't have, we don't have standing any more than they have
standing. And we'll get into that.
But they understand who they serve.
So God had built Moses. He built the tool he wanted.
Like we talked about last week, He was a Prince and as such
would have been trained in mind and body to lead and rule from
above. And now with the use of Jethro,
his father-in-law, and some sheep, God had trained him to
lead those who are weak to safety by standing against the
strong as God leads. And it doesn't share with us,
it's a page turn. It doesn't share with us what
those times in the desert look like.
But after 40 years, just like David, later on, we get to hear
about defending against lions and defending against bears,
right? This is Moses had been tending
his flock in the wilderness and he had plenty of time to be
alone with the Lord And when we look at the holy ground passage
the next time we have a moment like that and it is truly you
guys will hear about it over and over again.
But it is truly one of my favorite passages because it
really explains our position with what is our standing with
the Lord, What is our position? What kind of information do I
get to give the Lord? Joshua 513 says, and this is
talking about Joshua. And it came to pass when Joshua
was by Jericho that he lifted his eyes and looked and behold,
a man stood opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand.
And Joshua went to him and said, are you for us or for our
adversaries? This is a reasonable question,
right? And the, the guy with the sword
just says, so he said, no, this is kind of nerve wracking, but
the commander of the Lord's army, I have come.
And Joshua fell at his face, fell on his face to the earth
and worshipped and said to him, what does my Lord say to his
servant? Then the commander of the Lord's
army said to Joshua, take off your sandals for your for the
place where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.
So he submitted, right. And that submitted, right, that
is that get in and sit down, right.
When I, when I got in that Bronco and I got in and I sat
down, I, I was submitting. I mean, like I said, I'm talking
about the cage, but I was submitting to that vehicle.
I was submitting to, to the where we were going and what we
were going to do. And when they were commanded to
take off their sandals, right. And if you think about Moses's
sandals, he's a shepherd out in the wilderness.
However many miles and days he'd been out there to the back of
the desert, his, his sandals would have been covered with his
work. We'll just put it like that.
And then Joshua had the same sandals for over 40 years.
Their, their, their shoes didn't wear out.
And in that time, Joshua had been in many battles.
So there would have been, there would have been blood on his
shoes. There'd have been stains.
There's just been life, right? He'd lived in those shoes for 40
years and Moses and Joshua were, were unclean to step on the holy
ground. I don't imagine when they took
their, took their sandals off, their feet were much cleaner.
If you've ever, if you've ever been somewhere where everybody's
running around and just just sandals.
And in Uganda, there's a lot of that.
Your feet aren't any cleaner, right?
You're in the same dirt, in the same dust.
But the act of removing their sandals was, was submission to
the one asking, right? It was it was that, it was that
accepting that that they needed to do something and they were
willing to do what I whatever they were asked, which is at
that point they were getting in right.
And God is looking for our heart and our actions to come from our
heart. It's because he sees them both
together. If, if, if Joshua would have had
a rebellious heart at that point and said, I'll take my shoes
off, but I ain't getting down on my face, there probably would
have been a problem. And since the commander of the
Lord's army had his sword drawn, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be
reading about Joshua. But it's that that attitude,
right? And he sees our faith and our
works together. And that's something that, you
know, I talked about the get TOS and all that.
But James 218 says, but some someone will say you have faith
and I have works. Show me your faith without your
works and I will show you my faith by my works.
And if you paraphrase that into modern English, it's work
without faith is dead. But if you have faith, you will
do work, right? You if you're if you have faith,
there are things that are going to go on in your life through
that faith, right? Moses and Joshua obeyed God and
he spoke to them. Their hearts and minds were
turned towards him. God will have meetings with us
throughout our lives, right, If our hearts are turned towards
and not emotional, not big movements of not big movements,
not not I feel not I'm God will speak to us and and he will
speak to us in that that still small voice, but he will never
ever take us away from the truth, right?
He will never tell. I mean a good example of one of
those just well, I, I God's God's telling me that I need to
to marry my secretary and divorce my wife and believe it
or not, there are there are people around the world that
come to come to pastors and come to friends with those kind of
God's telling me to break his law and I believe he's really
telling me to do that. He'll never do that never right.
It's anything God's asking you to do is going to be with it.
It may not say do it in the Bible, but it won't say don't do
it. That makes sense.
And Paul, Paul in Galatians 18 really like puts the nail in
that coffin as far as who we're supposed to listen to and and
it's the truth, right? That's what we're that's what
we're aimed at. It's why God wrote it down South
Galatians 18. But if we or an Angel from
heaven preach any other gospel to you, then then what we preach
to you, let him be accursed, as we have said before.
So now we say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to
you, then what we have received, let him be accursed.
For I do not persuade men or God.
For do I now persuade men or God, or do I seek to please men?
For if I please men, I would not be a bond servant of Christ,
right? And it's it's the idea of
keeping the main thing the main thing right that we're we are
serving him. And Paul's, Paul's focus here is
submission to Christ, submission to what God has has said, what
God has shared and not with an experience.
So here, here are a couple more moments where I can say angels
and angels just have such a good understanding of who God is
because they see him, right? They, they're, they're in his
presence and they don't. It doesn't take faith for an
Angel, an Angel is there we the reason that we have a deep
relationship with the Lord is because of our faith with him.
Faith that he is there and he is, he is living right?
But an Angel knows. So this is how an Angel responds
to John. Revelation 19 nine.
Then he said to me, Right, Blessed are those who are called
to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
And he said, And he said to me, these are the true sayings of
God. And I fell at his feet to
worship him. But he said to me, See that you
don't do that. I am your fellow servant and of
your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus worship God.
For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
And then John hears him. But then go on to verse 22 or
chapter 22 verse 8. Now I John saw and heard these
things. And when I heard, I saw I fell
down to worship before the feet of the Angel who showed me these
things. And then he said to me, see that
you do not do that for I am your fellow servant and of your
brethren, the prophets and of those who keep the words of this
book worship God. So how important is it that we
worship God and not not not a building, not a congregation,
not a person that and pick the thing that we we can get our
eyes focused on. We're to worship the Lord and
angels know his glory and they don't they don't want to take
any of it right? They I mean, you see it where
wherever you see angels in in the word in the Bible, you just
get to see them pointing to him and saying how awesome is our
God? And that is our response.
That's what we're supposed to do at all times, right?
And so angels completely understand how completely silly
it is to attempt to have pride about anything that's going on
in our lives. And I had A at a my, my favorite
dog was the dog named Buddy. He was a border collie blue
heeler mix. And Buddy was awesome.
He he was about as human as you can get growing up with him.
But he had a really bad problem of because he's not a big dog.
I mean, he's a medium sized dog, but he really thought he was the
biggest dog in the room at any time.
And there was a time we were playing fetch with a young bull
mastiff and I'm throwing the ball and Buddy was really fast.
So he'd go out and come back before the bull mastiff even got
halfway there. So then I started throwing the
ball, but I'd I'd hold Buddy and I'd make him stay until the bull
mastiff could get to the ball and then I'd send Buddy.
Well, they, they met at the ball at 1 moment and Buddy is just
all over this poor puppy, right? I mean, puppies like 2 to three
times his size and kind of like going what are you doing?
As Buddy is although, and I get him pulled apart and everything
and then we go. And this was kind of part of the
course when everybody was around other dogs.
He thought he was the big dog in the room.
Then I took him camping and I was with friends and they had a
Great Dane, Great Dane named Jake.
And by the end of that weekend, without getting into a whole lot
of stuff, by the end of that weekend, Buddy didn't drink
water unless Jake said. Buddy didn't eat food unless
Jake said. Buddy didn't move unless Jake
said. And after that, I mean, after
that, Buddy was the best dog in all environments.
Other dogs didn't matter to him. Other dogs being aggressive
toward didn't matter to him. Because Buddy, I wanted to say
what he what he used to tell him is I used to think I'm the big
dog. I met the big dog.
You're not him either, right? And that should be our attitude,
right? In all things, right is I met
the big dog and I'm not him and neither are you, right?
And that's we need to have that that heart of just serving the
Lord and understanding that I can do nothing outside of what
he wants me to do. And that that brings us to that
John 13 passage of Jesus washing feet.
And 11 of the men who got their feet cleaned were clean.
They got in, they got in, they sat down.
One had his feet cleaned and was still unclean.
He stood outside. He he looked at the cage, he he
examined the Bronco, but he didn't get in.
Submission to Jesus as our Lord is the key to all of it.
Peter submitted because his heart was already given to Jesus
his Lord, right? He was willing to follow him
wherever he went. Judas thought Jesus was a
teacher or even even a good leader, but he wasn't his Lord.
Judas wasn't submitted to him. So Moses and Joshua taking off
their sandals or or the apostles having their feet washed was
just a sign of what it had already gone on had already
happened in their heart. Jesus was already the apostles
Lord, It doesn't tell us, like I said about the the training
Moses God in the desert, but there was training there.
And you you can just see that in the fruit of the next the next
40 years of his life that he was he had been prepared for this
right. It wasn't a he didn't get to
that burning Bush and go, well, maybe I'll take my shoes off,
maybe I won't. He as we go through it, you'll
see he's, he is, his heart is submitted.
It's questioning, but it's submitted.
And the 11 disciples got to have their feet washed, right?
They got to have their feet washed.
They had faith and, and that that gave them the ability to to
have they, they knew who Jesus was and because of that, they
trusted him, right, because having a rabbi wash your feet as
much as it's a story we read in the Bible, that is an awkward
thing, Peter. Peter points it out right.
You aren't going to wash my feet, Lord.
And and then the Lord explains to him that you'll have no part
in me. Well, OK, I I need you to wash
my whole body. It's like a little extreme Peter
little, I mean, but that but that's that's Peter all through
the Bible, right Is Peter is a lot like David.
He was just after God and and did he mess up a lot?
Absolutely. Do we mess up?
Absolutely, but it's about our our heart.
Judas on the other hand, Judas had to get his feet washed to
fit in. Jesus was just rules to follow,
right? He was a teacher that was there
to to direct, but he wasn't his Lord.
And I love this story guys, because it answers so many
questions about Jesus and who he is and what he's willing to do.
Because Jesus knew who Judas was.
He knew what he was going to do and he still washed his feet.
He still gave him the offer. And Jesus and Judas up until the
end could have said, Lord, save me.
I've, I've made a horrible mistake.
And the door was open. Judas could have got in until it
closes, right? And and The thing is, is, is
with that closing, and I don't want to get in deep into this,
but with that closing, we don't know when that happens.
Is you can be you can go to church every day or every, every
time the church buildings open. And if you haven't got serious
with the Lord, there's a point where, where the door is going
to close, but not because Jesus closed it, because you did and
you don't want him anymore. And you don't know when that's
going to happen, right? You need to be, you need to be
about his business and serious about what he's asking us to do.
And, and Judas just never got there.
He was there the whole time with the other apostles.
He heard all the same things. He just never got in.
And, and I'd say at this time, this is this is the passage
where Jesus just reaches over and closes the door and not
Jesus didn't do that, Judas did. So God always wants repentance,
always. He write, he wrote a whole book
in the Bible about repentance, which is Jonah, Rahab,
everybody. You'll read that.
We're going to get into that. But Moses's command was to kill
everybody in Canaan. Rahab would have been one of the
everybody. And Rahab feared God and
submitted to him and she was saved.
Saul. Saul was out killing the church.
Jesus knocked him off his horse and Paul got in right.
And that's, that is the God we serve.
He is not looking for a reason to judge you.
He is looking for a reason for you to get in the truck.
He is looking for a reason to for you to submit, for you to
repent. That's it.
He, I mean to the point when I say that he is not looking to
judge us. He will.
It's coming, but He isn't looking for it.
He sent his son to die in a cross so that we don't have to
so that we have that, that we are clean.
When we submit to him, we are clean.
And this is this is Peter and the other apostles, some of
their training they got before they were they before their feet
were washed. But where Jesus says if your
whole body is washed, then you just need to wash your feet.
You just need to submit to the next step.
John 666, which is a great number for this line.
From that time many of his disciples went back and walked
with him no more. Doesn't that fit?
Number of man? Verse 67 Then Jesus said to the
12 Do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter answered him,
Lord, to whom shall we go? You are the Christ.
Sorry Lord, whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal
life also. We have come to believe and to
know you are the Christ, the Son of the living God.
So they were completely willing to just get in, right?
Jesus was their Lord, and well before He washed their feet,
their heart had been submitted to Him.
Right now, that all makes sense. Wondered how I got there.
I missed the whole page. You know, that's awesome.
OK, we're going to back up a little bit because this is
important. I was wondering where where that
was. That's what happens when my
stapler's broken. But anyway, so back to angels
and why they don't like touching God's glory and how important it
is that they don't touch God's glory.
Revelation 12/7. This is a time an Angel touched
God's glory or attempted to and a war broke out in heaven and
Michael and his archangels or Michael and his angels fought
with the dragon and the dragon and his angels fought, but they
did not prevail, nor was there a place found for them in heaven
any longer. So the great dragon was cast out
and the serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives
the whole world, he was cast to the earth and his angels were
cast out with him. So angels have better memories
than us, right? Because, because we, I can, we
look at the fruit of, of a little self worship and false
humility. We, we watch that all over
televangelism or just in general, and we can see the
damage, but they can see it. They can see the end of the
damage, right? And they remember what that was
in in Isaiah. It goes on and says, how you are
fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how you are
cut down to the ground, you who weaken the nations.
For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven.
I will exalt my throne above the star of God, stars of God.
I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest
side of the north. I will ascend above the heights
of the cloud. I will be like the Most High
yet. You shall be brought down to
Shiloh, to the lowest depths of the pit.
Angels get what's on the line right.
They they understand that when you attempt to go after God's
glory, it ends badly. And they've seen the end.
Not outside of time. Some of these angels are in the
pit today because of choices they've made.
Others are still wandering around wreaking havoc.
But they are not. They are not up there with the
glory. They've been cast down.
The day he attempted to take worship from God, they watched
as as God cast down the first. I mean the that was a judgement
that they got to watch. And how do we avoid that
judgement, right? What is the is we get in right?
I don't drive the truck right. And believe it or not, the old
guy, he's old. He wouldn't let me drive the
truck right. It's weird, but we get in, hold
down, hold on, get in and hold on.
Which is we submit and abide. And that is John 15 five.
I am the vine, you are the branches.
He who abides in me and I and him bear much fruit, but without
me you can do nothing. So if I'm not in the truck, I am
not going anywhere. You know, I, I think I've used
the the line in the past of, you know, I can study a plane.
I know everything there is about flying.
I don't. But I could, I could even go and
see a plane and I could crawl all over it.
I could hang on to the outside of it.
But unless I get in the plane, I ain't making it very far, right?
I mean, I can be on the plane and when it takes off and hits
200 plus miles an hour, I'm pretty sure I fell off before
that. So it's, it's important for us
to be in Christ, not, not around Christ, not not near Christ, but
in Christ. And the the reason that's such a
big thing is and that go that gets back to the works part of
this game. The action of work helps us to
understand his his truth more. You know, we get to read and
pray and fellowship, and those are works.
Those are that's work, right, Reading your Bible and and
praying and and being a fellowship and witnessing.
I call them the get TOS. We get to do those things, but
it really depends on where we're at when we're doing them,
because if we're if we're at that, we know him and we want to
know him more than when we read. He speaks, Prairie answers
fellowship, he builds and witnesses witnessing he uses.
But if we come to each one of those as self help, you know, I
kind of put in here, you know, that the attitude America get
her done. I'm just going to I'm going to
read my Bible, I'm going to I'm going to pray.
I got, I got my little, got my little list of things here and
I'm going to, I'll be in church every time the doors are open
and I will tell people about Jesus, but I don't have a
relationship with him. I'm just doing it because I,
it's a requirement. Guys, that's bondage and it
leads to despair. And think of how Peter and Judas
ended up, right? Jesus washed his disciples feet
and one of them got joy and one of them got despair and it was
how the position of their heart. Now we're going to move back,
back to Exodus and Moses. And I'm sure he had many, many
moments in the dark, wild back lands to learn to learn to to do
this to till he learned to trust God and to rely on him.
And and now he gets to meet him right and gets to meet him as
Moses will become called. He won't be a man that talks to
God face to face. And and The thing is, is that
the training he got, he's going to need because God is about to
do the thing that we all ask him for on a regular basis.
I'm sure everybody in this room has has after they've given
their life to the Lord said Lord, just tell me what to do
and I'll do it. And God does that and Moses acts
probably exactly like we do, but it's this is a get in, get in,
hold on or sit down and hold on a moment for Moses.
Verse 6. Moreover, he said, I am the God
of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the
God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he
was afraid to look upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely
seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt and have heard
their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their
sorrows. So I have come down to deliver
them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them up
from the land, and to do good, and to a good and large land, a
land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the
Canaanites, Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
Now, therefore, behold the cry of the children of Israel come
to me. And I have also seen the
oppression which the Egyptians oppressed them.
Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you
may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of
Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I
that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children
of Egypt, the children of Israel out of Egypt.
A little different, little different position that Moses
had in chapter 2 where he's where he's he's going to bring
his people out, right. You got to imagine after 40
years, his response had to be like, so Lord, you have the
right number. Do you know, do you know who
you're talking to? Because I'm and this a Mistyle,
but Moses, Moses like us and this is this is something I
think you guys all understand is we we get orders from the Lord
and then we start coming up with the yeah, butts of why we can't
do it. You have it, Lord give it.
And the Lord very often, like a good father or a good coach,
doesn't respond. He just moves forward and Ian
Thomas quote that I just heard this week.
I've probably heard it before, but it was kind of fun because I
I heard it in a study this week and it says you can't.
God never said you could. He will and God always said he
would. And and that is the God we
serve, right? God is very clear on his plan
and who will be doing the work. Moses is going to be used to
speak, but God will certainly be with him doing the work.
And that's verse 12. So he said, I will certainly be
with you and this shall be a sign to you that I hate that I
have sent you when you have brought the people out of Egypt,
you shall serve God on this mountain.
Now I have to. This is one of those moments
that I have to think, Lord, thanks for the sign.
The sign is going to be that I that I brought 2 million stiff
necked people out of the land of Egypt with an evil Pharaoh and
we're going to serve you here. So that's the sign.
Can I get some signs between now and then?
Because there seems like there's some pieces missing, right?
There's there's some stuff that I I would like to know besides
that, but Moses was submitted. He was he was in he was
questioning, but he was in, you know, and that that's not unlike
me and a Bronco. I'm holding on, but I mean, I'd
like to know where we're going and verse 13.
Then Moses said to God, indeed, when and this is this is him
submitted when I come to the children of Israel and say to
them, the God of your father's has sent me to you and I say and
they say to me, what is his name?
What shall I say to them? So Lord, I'm willing to speak,
but I'm going to need I got I got some questions and I'm going
to need some help and God is willing willing, right he is, he
is not he is not looking for us to do anything in our power.
And when you, as we go through the word and you go front cover
to cover, God on purpose takes us to points in our lives, takes
takes the judges to points in their lives that it can't be
them. It has to be him.
And that's that's really as as Moses goes, you're going to
you're going to watch. And it's a lot of fun to just
watch him grow in this that God says and Moses does and doesn't
ask a lot of questions. He just all right, I guess we're
going to go tell them. We're going to go tell the
Pharaoh off again. I think he told me he was going
to kill me the next time he saw me.
But God said go. So I'm going to go.
And this is a recurring thing is trusting the Lord when he says
go, go. And verse 14 And God said to
Moses, I am who I am. And he said, Thus you shall say
to the children of Israel, I am has sent sent me to you.
Moreover, God said to Moses, thus you shall say to the
children of Israel, the Lord God of your father's, the God of
Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has sent me to you.
This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all
generations. Go and gather the elders of
Israel together and say to them, the Lord God, and that's Yahweh
of your father's, and the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob
appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you and seen what
is done to you in Egypt. And I have said I will bring you
up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the
Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the parasites, the
Hivites, the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and
honey. So this is that question for
Moses. Who do I serve?
This God tells me I am, that I am the one.
God is not saying I'm big. He's saying them all.
He's saying I was before, after I am it.
There aren't other gods that that is I am, that I am the
Yahweh, that all of that is saying.
There are other things people worship, but there is only one
God and I'm it. And so we're going to get back
to angels and their the fact that they don't, they don't put
up with people accepting God's worship.
They don't accept it. So there's only one God, but
then I'm also going to tell you guys, there's there's the
father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and their one God.
So there's going to be people out there that that say things
like Jesus never claimed to be God.
And so we're going to go through a few yes, he did verses right.
John 856 says Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day,
and he saw it and was glad. Then the Jews said to him, You
are not yet 50 years old, and you have seen Abraham.
Jesus said to him, most assuredly I say to you, before
Abraham was, I am. And then they took up stones to
throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the
temple, going through the midst of them, and so passing by.
So just to be clear, stoning is a lynch mob with big rocks to
throw at your head. They were not impressed with
what Jesus just said. They weren't confused about His
claim. Jesus just called himself not
only the Son of God, but God. And he, he goes on in Mark 14
verse 62, and this is him talking to the high priest I am.
And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of
power and coming with the clouds of heaven.
Then the high priest tore his close and said, what further
need do we have of witnesses? And sitting on sitting down next
to God is is a claim of deity, of being God.
And so once again the high priest tore his close and was
sending him to be crucified because he had claimed to be
God. John 635 Jesus said to them, I
am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never
hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.
So if Jesus isn't God, Jesus is a heretic, right?
And then John 1125, Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection
and the life. He who believes in me, though he
may die, he shall live. And this is the point right
here. Jesus proved all of these
statements to be true when he rose again on the third day and
we're coming up to Easter and it's going to be awesome, right?
But that's, that is the God we serve is, is he is bigger than
we can imagine. And he is more, we are more able
to trust him than anything. We know the, the world, the
culture will tell you that heaven and they'll, they'll do
videos and, and TV shows about heaven being ghosty.
And there's clouds floating around and people, people kind
of in and out of in about in and out of phase where you can see
him. Guys, heaven is solid.
We're ghosty, right? This is this what we're what we
are is the beginning of reality, right?
We heaven is real. We are not.
We are. We are just the precursor.
So be, be about his business, but understand that it's his
business, right, That the importance for us to submit to
his will and and to abide, which is that I mean, just that
picture of abiding of, you know, when I got in the truck, I, I
put on the I put on the five point harness.
And if you're, if you've ever been in a like an old Bronco or
any car with a roll cage, what you don't do is put your hand
outside the vehicle or hang on to the roll cage because
everything flexes. So if you put your hand and
there's this much space between the roll cage and the body, that
space gets smaller. And if your hands there, your
hand gets smaller. So you hold on, you, you hold on
right here. And there's practice in that
because as a, as, as somebody that's used to walking around,
you're used to kind of holding on to things out here.
And this is just trust, right? It's just trust.
You just hold on right here and look out the window.
And that's what God's asking us to do, right, is to follow him.
He he finishes chapter 3 with the final information Moses is
going to get verse 18. Then they will head, heed your
voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the
king of Egypt. You shall say to him, the Lord
God of the Hebrews has met with us and now please let us go
three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice
to the Lord our God. But I am sure that the king of
Egypt will not let you go. No, not even by a mighty hand.
So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my
wonders, which I will do in the midst.
And after that he will let you go.
And I will give the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.
And it shall be when you go that you shall not go empty handed.
But every woman shall ask her neighbor, namely of her, of her
who dwells near her house, articles of silver, articles of
gold, clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and your
daughters. So you shall plunder the
Egyptians. So God just gave Moses the
beginning and the end of the mission.
Go tell Pharaoh, he will see he there's going to be a fight and
he will set you free and you will plunder Egypt when you
leave. There are some other steps
between now and then, but Moses is going to work on the next
step, right? That he he's just going to go
and and he's going to trust that God has this right in our life.
The Spirit is looking for submitted hearts to do amazing
things. The world is full of lost and
dying slaves to sin that need the life saving grace of the
only one that can give it, the I am who I am.
Some of God's names in the Old Testament are mighty One, God,
Almighty God, most high, everlasting God, Lord and
Master. The Lord who heals the Lord is
peace. The Lord is my shepherd, the
Lord of our righteousness. The Lord the Lord is there.
Jesus is called the bread of life, the light of the world,
the door, the Good Shepherd, the resurrection and the life, the
way, the truth and the life, and the true vine.
Do we trust Him? Do we trust?
That's who we serve. Moses will lean in and he will
rely on and hold fast to his story.
The author is writing a story in my life, in your life about this
world. When are we willing to submit to
him? Are we willing to submit our
hearts to wherever He asks us to go and whatever He asks us to
do? Or are we willing to get in, sit
down, and hold on? And Lord, I just pray today that
you would be in our midst, Lord, that you would, he would be
speaking to us with that still small voice, Lord, that you'd be
guided and directed us. Lord, that there if there's
anything between us, if there's any, any cleansing that needs to
be done, Lord, that we'd be willing.
And Lord, we know you are able, Lord, that you would touch that.
Oh, Lord, nice. Thank you for today.
And I thank you for everybody here in Jesus name, Amen.