1 00:00:00,480 --> 00:00:02,840 Before we, before we get into the scripture, I'll give you 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:06,200 the, the premise for that. So when I was, when I was 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:11,520 younger and I knew an old guy, I was like 24 and he was, he was 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,280 old. He's like almost 30. 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:18,120 He's old. And I, I had a wheeled which, 6 00:00:18,120 --> 00:00:22,400 you know, I had full drive trucks and mine was broken. 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:29,480 And so we got in, we got in his, he got a 67 Bronco with a full 8 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,480 roll cage and, and racing buckets. 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:34,200 And there's a point to all this and racing buckets. 10 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:41,080 And I was there when the, when the cage was put in and I 11 00:00:41,080 --> 00:00:46,120 trusted that cage. And so when I got in his truck 12 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:53,200 and I got in, I, I sat down in the racing bucket, I put my 5 13 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:56,560 point harness on and I held on, right? 14 00:00:57,000 --> 00:00:59,720 And I trusted. Now the difference between the 15 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:02,160 trust we're going to talk about today is what I trusted. 16 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:07,160 I didn't trust the driver as much as I trusted the cage I was 17 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,680 in. And as we're Wheeling and doing 18 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,480 crazy, stupid stuff, I knew if he made a mistake, we might 19 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,600 roll. But I'm going to be fine because 20 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,680 I am completely secure in my position. 21 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,640 Now the difference between the two kinds of trust here is that 22 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,720 we can completely trust the driver of what I'm going to talk 23 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:30,920 about. So this is Jesus. 24 00:01:32,360 --> 00:01:35,000 John 13 is Jesus washing the disciples feet. 25 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:39,680 And we're going to read down to down to verse 11 now before the 26 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,920 feast of Passover when Jesus knew that his hour had come, 27 00:01:43,320 --> 00:01:46,920 that he should depart from the from this world to the Father, 28 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:50,760 having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the 29 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:55,880 end. And supper being ended, the 30 00:01:55,880 --> 00:02:00,680 devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, 31 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:06,040 Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father 32 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:10,440 had given all things to into his hands, and that he had come from 33 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:14,880 God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside his 34 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,840 garments, took a towel and girded himself. 35 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,120 After that he poured water into a basin and began to wash the 36 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:27,720 disciples feet and to wipe them with his towel, with with which 37 00:02:27,720 --> 00:02:31,040 he was girded. Then he came to Simon Peter, and 38 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,680 Peter said to him, Lord, are you washing my feet? 39 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:38,120 And Jesus said to him, What I'm doing you do not understand now, 40 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,800 but you will now. You will know after this. 41 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:43,720 And Peter said to him, You shall never wash my feet. 42 00:02:44,440 --> 00:02:47,960 And Jesus answered him, If I do not wash your feet, you have no 43 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,280 part in me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, 44 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:54,200 not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 45 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,440 And Jesus said to him, He who is bathed needs only to wash his 46 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:02,640 feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all 47 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:06,360 of you for he knew who would betray him. 48 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,440 Therefore, therefore he said you are not all clean. 49 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:14,480 And Lord I do I just lift up this time and just just the 50 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:18,800 safeness in you, Lord and Lord, that you would just be in our 51 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:21,200 midst, Lord that you'd speak through me and that you just 52 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:23,600 guide this, this study. I pray all this in Jesus name. 53 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:30,480 So we will get into why that is applicable to Exodus 3 before 54 00:03:30,480 --> 00:03:33,560 the end of this. But we are in Exodus 3 and 55 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:37,160 chapter one verse or chapter 3 verse one says now Moses was 56 00:03:37,160 --> 00:03:41,560 tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of 57 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:45,320 Midian, and he laid the led the flock to the back of the desert 58 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,400 and came to hair of the mountain of God. 59 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:52,400 And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of 60 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:57,360 fire from the midst of a Bush. So we so he looked, and behold, 61 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,920 the Bush was burning with fire, but the Bush was not consumed. 62 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:10,320 Then Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this this site. 63 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:14,000 Why the Bush does not burn. So when the Lord saw that he 64 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,600 turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the 65 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:23,920 Bush and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here I am. 66 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:25,880 Then he said, do not draw near this place. 67 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:30,040 Take the sandals off your feet for the place where you stand is 68 00:04:30,040 --> 00:04:35,800 holy ground. And this is from last week. 69 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:39,520 This is a 40 year jump, though we we turn the page from chapter 70 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,800 2 to chapter 3 and we're we've moved forward 40 years in the 71 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,720 story and something we miss a lot, right? 72 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:52,240 We get that in Acts 730 is Stevens telling the Sanhedrin. 73 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:55,520 And when 40 years had passed, the Angel of the Lord appeared 74 00:04:55,520 --> 00:05:00,160 to him in a flame, a fire and a Bush in the wilderness, in the 75 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,760 wilderness of Mount Sinai. So for us it's a page turn. 76 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:08,600 But for Moses, 40 years is a lifetime. 77 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:11,960 You know, Moses entered the desert, entered the wilderness, 78 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:16,280 went and got married and has been with Jethro. 79 00:05:16,280 --> 00:05:18,120 And when he showed up, he was a Prince. 80 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:21,480 But he is now a shepherd. And, and he's a shepherd in his 81 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:25,880 own eyes, right? He, he's, if you think about 40 82 00:05:25,880 --> 00:05:31,840 years, right, I'm 54 years old and 40 years is a lot of my 83 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:34,880 life. It's not it. 84 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,320 I can't tell you if I remember what it was like to be 14. 85 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:43,560 So Moses, 40 years after, is at 80 years old. 86 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:48,720 He is a shepherd in his eyes, but in God's eyes he is ready 87 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:50,640 for the work he has been made for. 88 00:05:51,440 --> 00:05:57,160 And Moses is deep in the wilderness, alone with only his 89 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,360 sheep, and he ends up at the mountain of God. 90 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,640 And the Angel of the Lord appears to him. 91 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,240 And this Angel of the Lord, guys, this is the Lord in in in 92 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:11,800 scholar speak. It's a Christophany, which means 93 00:06:11,880 --> 00:06:15,320 a pre Incarnate moment where Jesus is here, right? 94 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,920 The word of God is speaking. But this is the Lord. 95 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:26,000 And I can prove that if you just watch how angels, angels react, 96 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,320 angels are not fans of anyone claiming they're God. 97 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:34,200 And they're, they're also not fans of being worshipped like 98 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,680 God. So when, when, when he says take 99 00:06:38,680 --> 00:06:42,960 off your sandals and draw near because you're on holy ground. 100 00:06:42,960 --> 00:06:47,360 This is a, this is a, you know that I'm important that he, he's 101 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:50,600 the the flame is pointing to himself as being the important 102 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,920 thing. And an Angel would never do 103 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:58,840 that. Acts 1222 is a moment that a man 104 00:06:58,840 --> 00:07:06,920 decided that he could, he could accept, he could accept God's 105 00:07:06,920 --> 00:07:10,440 glory and, and accept that praise for himself. 106 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:13,360 And like I said, angels, they don't, they don't take that 107 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:18,080 well. Acts 12/22 And the people kept 108 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:22,800 shouting the voice of a God and not a man and immediately an 109 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,640 Angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give glory to 110 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:31,200 God and he was eaten by worms. This is Herod Agrippa who wasn't 111 00:07:31,680 --> 00:07:35,080 wasn't he was not a good person all the way around. 112 00:07:35,080 --> 00:07:36,520 But this was like the last straw. 113 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:40,520 But the, the historians will tell us that Herod Agrippa died, 114 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:46,840 died suddenly of a parasitical infestation, right? 115 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:53,440 Like roundworms or tapeworms, But it was not a, a good end. 116 00:07:54,280 --> 00:08:01,680 And that is an Angel. And the just the, I don't know, 117 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:03,680 I, I can just see that happening at the Angel. 118 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:08,160 Shut up, right? It's I can, I don't know. 119 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:11,240 I, I have a picture of this Angel in my head and, and just 120 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:15,920 the, the feistiness of, oh, I'm done with him, right? 121 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:20,320 And, and because this Herod Agrippa was on the throne when 122 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:23,840 Jesus was crucified, so I'm not saying that the Angel didn't 123 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:31,840 have some God-given animosity towards Herod Agrippa, right? 124 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,679 I always remind everybody that while Jesus was being crucified, 125 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,320 there was an army of angels that were just waiting for him to 126 00:08:41,320 --> 00:08:44,680 clear his throat, right? They were watching their their 127 00:08:44,680 --> 00:08:47,040 God. They were watching the God of 128 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:59,600 the universe be be abused and defamed and beaten by dirt. 129 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,680 And I say that whenever you guys hear me say dirt, we it's we 130 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:06,760 were made from dust. And from an angel's point of 131 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:09,360 view, they were there when we were made, when Adam was made 132 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,360 from dust. And so we are just dirt and we 133 00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:17,280 don't have, we don't have standing any more than they have 134 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,920 standing. And we'll get into that. 135 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,520 But they understand who they serve. 136 00:09:27,210 --> 00:09:30,650 So God had built Moses. He built the tool he wanted. 137 00:09:32,610 --> 00:09:35,690 Like we talked about last week, He was a Prince and as such 138 00:09:35,690 --> 00:09:40,530 would have been trained in mind and body to lead and rule from 139 00:09:40,530 --> 00:09:44,130 above. And now with the use of Jethro, 140 00:09:44,130 --> 00:09:48,760 his father-in-law, and some sheep, God had trained him to 141 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:52,560 lead those who are weak to safety by standing against the 142 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:56,680 strong as God leads. And it doesn't share with us, 143 00:09:56,680 --> 00:09:58,920 it's a page turn. It doesn't share with us what 144 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:01,080 those times in the desert look like. 145 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:05,440 But after 40 years, just like David, later on, we get to hear 146 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,000 about defending against lions and defending against bears, 147 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,320 right? This is Moses had been tending 148 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:16,440 his flock in the wilderness and he had plenty of time to be 149 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:25,760 alone with the Lord And when we look at the holy ground passage 150 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,040 the next time we have a moment like that and it is truly you 151 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:31,720 guys will hear about it over and over again. 152 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:34,520 But it is truly one of my favorite passages because it 153 00:10:34,520 --> 00:10:38,840 really explains our position with what is our standing with 154 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:41,960 the Lord, What is our position? What kind of information do I 155 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:46,560 get to give the Lord? Joshua 513 says, and this is 156 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:50,360 talking about Joshua. And it came to pass when Joshua 157 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:53,800 was by Jericho that he lifted his eyes and looked and behold, 158 00:10:54,160 --> 00:10:57,600 a man stood opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand. 159 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:01,840 And Joshua went to him and said, are you for us or for our 160 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:04,040 adversaries? This is a reasonable question, 161 00:11:04,280 --> 00:11:09,520 right? And the, the guy with the sword 162 00:11:09,520 --> 00:11:14,680 just says, so he said, no, this is kind of nerve wracking, but 163 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:18,040 the commander of the Lord's army, I have come. 164 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:22,680 And Joshua fell at his face, fell on his face to the earth 165 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:27,680 and worshipped and said to him, what does my Lord say to his 166 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:29,320 servant? Then the commander of the Lord's 167 00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,320 army said to Joshua, take off your sandals for your for the 168 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,600 place where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so. 169 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:42,400 So he submitted, right. And that submitted, right, that 170 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:44,640 is that get in and sit down, right. 171 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,480 When I, when I got in that Bronco and I got in and I sat 172 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:53,480 down, I, I was submitting. I mean, like I said, I'm talking 173 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:57,560 about the cage, but I was submitting to that vehicle. 174 00:11:57,640 --> 00:12:01,520 I was submitting to, to the where we were going and what we 175 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:07,720 were going to do. And when they were commanded to 176 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:11,720 take off their sandals, right. And if you think about Moses's 177 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:15,400 sandals, he's a shepherd out in the wilderness. 178 00:12:15,800 --> 00:12:19,280 However many miles and days he'd been out there to the back of 179 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:23,640 the desert, his, his sandals would have been covered with his 180 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:25,280 work. We'll just put it like that. 181 00:12:27,160 --> 00:12:31,800 And then Joshua had the same sandals for over 40 years. 182 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,000 Their, their, their shoes didn't wear out. 183 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,360 And in that time, Joshua had been in many battles. 184 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:40,560 So there would have been, there would have been blood on his 185 00:12:40,560 --> 00:12:42,880 shoes. There'd have been stains. 186 00:12:42,880 --> 00:12:45,400 There's just been life, right? He'd lived in those shoes for 40 187 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:50,120 years and Moses and Joshua were, were unclean to step on the holy 188 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:54,360 ground. I don't imagine when they took 189 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,920 their, took their sandals off, their feet were much cleaner. 190 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,440 If you've ever, if you've ever been somewhere where everybody's 191 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:01,560 running around and just just sandals. 192 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:03,400 And in Uganda, there's a lot of that. 193 00:13:04,600 --> 00:13:05,960 Your feet aren't any cleaner, right? 194 00:13:05,960 --> 00:13:07,840 You're in the same dirt, in the same dust. 195 00:13:10,400 --> 00:13:16,080 But the act of removing their sandals was, was submission to 196 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,160 the one asking, right? It was it was that, it was that 197 00:13:20,480 --> 00:13:24,080 accepting that that they needed to do something and they were 198 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:27,000 willing to do what I whatever they were asked, which is at 199 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:28,960 that point they were getting in right. 200 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:35,040 And God is looking for our heart and our actions to come from our 201 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:41,440 heart. It's because he sees them both 202 00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:44,760 together. If, if, if Joshua would have had 203 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,600 a rebellious heart at that point and said, I'll take my shoes 204 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,280 off, but I ain't getting down on my face, there probably would 205 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:54,200 have been a problem. And since the commander of the 206 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:56,360 Lord's army had his sword drawn, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't be 207 00:13:56,360 --> 00:14:02,400 reading about Joshua. But it's that that attitude, 208 00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,160 right? And he sees our faith and our 209 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,200 works together. And that's something that, you 210 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:09,920 know, I talked about the get TOS and all that. 211 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:15,520 But James 218 says, but some someone will say you have faith 212 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:17,800 and I have works. Show me your faith without your 213 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:21,080 works and I will show you my faith by my works. 214 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:26,280 And if you paraphrase that into modern English, it's work 215 00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:30,440 without faith is dead. But if you have faith, you will 216 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:35,000 do work, right? You if you're if you have faith, 217 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:37,960 there are things that are going to go on in your life through 218 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,640 that faith, right? Moses and Joshua obeyed God and 219 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:44,720 he spoke to them. Their hearts and minds were 220 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:51,160 turned towards him. God will have meetings with us 221 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,840 throughout our lives, right, If our hearts are turned towards 222 00:14:55,640 --> 00:15:00,360 and not emotional, not big movements of not big movements, 223 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:05,880 not not I feel not I'm God will speak to us and and he will 224 00:15:05,880 --> 00:15:09,960 speak to us in that that still small voice, but he will never 225 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,800 ever take us away from the truth, right? 226 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,040 He will never tell. I mean a good example of one of 227 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:22,560 those just well, I, I God's God's telling me that I need to 228 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:28,200 to marry my secretary and divorce my wife and believe it 229 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:32,920 or not, there are there are people around the world that 230 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:37,000 come to come to pastors and come to friends with those kind of 231 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:43,800 God's telling me to break his law and I believe he's really 232 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,200 telling me to do that. He'll never do that never right. 233 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,040 It's anything God's asking you to do is going to be with it. 234 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:55,000 It may not say do it in the Bible, but it won't say don't do 235 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:56,000 it. That makes sense. 236 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,960 And Paul, Paul in Galatians 18 really like puts the nail in 237 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:07,120 that coffin as far as who we're supposed to listen to and and 238 00:16:07,120 --> 00:16:09,200 it's the truth, right? That's what we're that's what 239 00:16:09,200 --> 00:16:13,320 we're aimed at. It's why God wrote it down South 240 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:17,760 Galatians 18. But if we or an Angel from 241 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:22,200 heaven preach any other gospel to you, then then what we preach 242 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:26,000 to you, let him be accursed, as we have said before. 243 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:30,000 So now we say again, if anyone preaches any other gospel to 244 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:33,320 you, then what we have received, let him be accursed. 245 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:36,640 For I do not persuade men or God. 246 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,880 For do I now persuade men or God, or do I seek to please men? 247 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,000 For if I please men, I would not be a bond servant of Christ, 248 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:47,560 right? And it's it's the idea of 249 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:52,320 keeping the main thing the main thing right that we're we are 250 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:57,840 serving him. And Paul's, Paul's focus here is 251 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:04,359 submission to Christ, submission to what God has has said, what 252 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:06,880 God has shared and not with an experience. 253 00:17:08,640 --> 00:17:12,640 So here, here are a couple more moments where I can say angels 254 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:19,599 and angels just have such a good understanding of who God is 255 00:17:20,319 --> 00:17:23,640 because they see him, right? They, they're, they're in his 256 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,400 presence and they don't. It doesn't take faith for an 257 00:17:27,400 --> 00:17:33,480 Angel, an Angel is there we the reason that we have a deep 258 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:36,240 relationship with the Lord is because of our faith with him. 259 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:40,800 Faith that he is there and he is, he is living right? 260 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,560 But an Angel knows. So this is how an Angel responds 261 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:50,320 to John. Revelation 19 nine. 262 00:17:50,440 --> 00:17:55,280 Then he said to me, Right, Blessed are those who are called 263 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:56,960 to the marriage supper of the Lamb. 264 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,280 And he said, And he said to me, these are the true sayings of 265 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:03,160 God. And I fell at his feet to 266 00:18:03,160 --> 00:18:05,840 worship him. But he said to me, See that you 267 00:18:05,840 --> 00:18:11,440 don't do that. I am your fellow servant and of 268 00:18:11,440 --> 00:18:15,600 your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus worship God. 269 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,160 For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 270 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:24,680 And then John hears him. But then go on to verse 22 or 271 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:28,200 chapter 22 verse 8. Now I John saw and heard these 272 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,280 things. And when I heard, I saw I fell 273 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:34,560 down to worship before the feet of the Angel who showed me these 274 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:36,840 things. And then he said to me, see that 275 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:42,600 you do not do that for I am your fellow servant and of your 276 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:46,160 brethren, the prophets and of those who keep the words of this 277 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:51,000 book worship God. So how important is it that we 278 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:56,240 worship God and not not not a building, not a congregation, 279 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:01,280 not a person that and pick the thing that we we can get our 280 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:08,680 eyes focused on. We're to worship the Lord and 281 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:15,240 angels know his glory and they don't they don't want to take 282 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:18,000 any of it right? They I mean, you see it where 283 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:23,120 wherever you see angels in in the word in the Bible, you just 284 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:26,080 get to see them pointing to him and saying how awesome is our 285 00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:29,000 God? And that is our response. 286 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:32,640 That's what we're supposed to do at all times, right? 287 00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:41,000 And so angels completely understand how completely silly 288 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:48,960 it is to attempt to have pride about anything that's going on 289 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:55,440 in our lives. And I had A at a my, my favorite 290 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,400 dog was the dog named Buddy. He was a border collie blue 291 00:19:58,400 --> 00:20:00,320 heeler mix. And Buddy was awesome. 292 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:05,800 He he was about as human as you can get growing up with him. 293 00:20:06,840 --> 00:20:10,440 But he had a really bad problem of because he's not a big dog. 294 00:20:10,440 --> 00:20:13,680 I mean, he's a medium sized dog, but he really thought he was the 295 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:15,400 biggest dog in the room at any time. 296 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,640 And there was a time we were playing fetch with a young bull 297 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:24,640 mastiff and I'm throwing the ball and Buddy was really fast. 298 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,360 So he'd go out and come back before the bull mastiff even got 299 00:20:27,360 --> 00:20:30,200 halfway there. So then I started throwing the 300 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:33,840 ball, but I'd I'd hold Buddy and I'd make him stay until the bull 301 00:20:33,840 --> 00:20:35,640 mastiff could get to the ball and then I'd send Buddy. 302 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:41,120 Well, they, they met at the ball at 1 moment and Buddy is just 303 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:45,760 all over this poor puppy, right? I mean, puppies like 2 to three 304 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,480 times his size and kind of like going what are you doing? 305 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,160 As Buddy is although, and I get him pulled apart and everything 306 00:20:53,160 --> 00:20:58,040 and then we go. And this was kind of part of the 307 00:20:58,040 --> 00:20:59,760 course when everybody was around other dogs. 308 00:20:59,760 --> 00:21:01,680 He thought he was the big dog in the room. 309 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,440 Then I took him camping and I was with friends and they had a 310 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,320 Great Dane, Great Dane named Jake. 311 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,760 And by the end of that weekend, without getting into a whole lot 312 00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:16,320 of stuff, by the end of that weekend, Buddy didn't drink 313 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,160 water unless Jake said. Buddy didn't eat food unless 314 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,720 Jake said. Buddy didn't move unless Jake 315 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:26,240 said. And after that, I mean, after 316 00:21:26,240 --> 00:21:30,960 that, Buddy was the best dog in all environments. 317 00:21:31,240 --> 00:21:34,400 Other dogs didn't matter to him. Other dogs being aggressive 318 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,960 toward didn't matter to him. Because Buddy, I wanted to say 319 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:40,600 what he what he used to tell him is I used to think I'm the big 320 00:21:40,600 --> 00:21:42,200 dog. I met the big dog. 321 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:47,440 You're not him either, right? And that should be our attitude, 322 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:51,240 right? In all things, right is I met 323 00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,240 the big dog and I'm not him and neither are you, right? 324 00:21:54,600 --> 00:22:05,600 And that's we need to have that that heart of just serving the 325 00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:10,000 Lord and understanding that I can do nothing outside of what 326 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:14,120 he wants me to do. And that that brings us to that 327 00:22:14,120 --> 00:22:18,000 John 13 passage of Jesus washing feet. 328 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:25,080 And 11 of the men who got their feet cleaned were clean. 329 00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:31,040 They got in, they got in, they sat down. 330 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,680 One had his feet cleaned and was still unclean. 331 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:41,440 He stood outside. He he looked at the cage, he he 332 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,320 examined the Bronco, but he didn't get in. 333 00:22:47,360 --> 00:22:51,360 Submission to Jesus as our Lord is the key to all of it. 334 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:55,440 Peter submitted because his heart was already given to Jesus 335 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:59,360 his Lord, right? He was willing to follow him 336 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:03,160 wherever he went. Judas thought Jesus was a 337 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:08,200 teacher or even even a good leader, but he wasn't his Lord. 338 00:23:09,120 --> 00:23:15,640 Judas wasn't submitted to him. So Moses and Joshua taking off 339 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:21,000 their sandals or or the apostles having their feet washed was 340 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:25,080 just a sign of what it had already gone on had already 341 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:29,240 happened in their heart. Jesus was already the apostles 342 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,760 Lord, It doesn't tell us, like I said about the the training 343 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:37,640 Moses God in the desert, but there was training there. 344 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:42,560 And you you can just see that in the fruit of the next the next 345 00:23:42,560 --> 00:23:48,240 40 years of his life that he was he had been prepared for this 346 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:49,960 right. It wasn't a he didn't get to 347 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,320 that burning Bush and go, well, maybe I'll take my shoes off, 348 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,720 maybe I won't. He as we go through it, you'll 349 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:00,760 see he's, he is, his heart is submitted. 350 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:03,200 It's questioning, but it's submitted. 351 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:15,630 And the 11 disciples got to have their feet washed, right? 352 00:24:15,670 --> 00:24:17,270 They got to have their feet washed. 353 00:24:17,630 --> 00:24:22,110 They had faith and, and that that gave them the ability to to 354 00:24:22,110 --> 00:24:26,230 have they, they knew who Jesus was and because of that, they 355 00:24:26,230 --> 00:24:30,160 trusted him, right, because having a rabbi wash your feet as 356 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:35,320 much as it's a story we read in the Bible, that is an awkward 357 00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:37,920 thing, Peter. Peter points it out right. 358 00:24:37,920 --> 00:24:39,400 You aren't going to wash my feet, Lord. 359 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,120 And and then the Lord explains to him that you'll have no part 360 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:44,640 in me. Well, OK, I I need you to wash 361 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,480 my whole body. It's like a little extreme Peter 362 00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:50,560 little, I mean, but that but that's that's Peter all through 363 00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,880 the Bible, right Is Peter is a lot like David. 364 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:57,760 He was just after God and and did he mess up a lot? 365 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,960 Absolutely. Do we mess up? 366 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:06,320 Absolutely, but it's about our our heart. 367 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:11,880 Judas on the other hand, Judas had to get his feet washed to 368 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:16,280 fit in. Jesus was just rules to follow, 369 00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,160 right? He was a teacher that was there 370 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:23,360 to to direct, but he wasn't his Lord. 371 00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:28,480 And I love this story guys, because it answers so many 372 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:33,560 questions about Jesus and who he is and what he's willing to do. 373 00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:38,080 Because Jesus knew who Judas was. 374 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:41,720 He knew what he was going to do and he still washed his feet. 375 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:47,960 He still gave him the offer. And Jesus and Judas up until the 376 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:52,720 end could have said, Lord, save me. 377 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:54,960 I've, I've made a horrible mistake. 378 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:03,680 And the door was open. Judas could have got in until it 379 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:08,480 closes, right? And and The thing is, is, is 380 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:11,400 with that closing, and I don't want to get in deep into this, 381 00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:15,920 but with that closing, we don't know when that happens. 382 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,520 Is you can be you can go to church every day or every, every 383 00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,160 time the church buildings open. And if you haven't got serious 384 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:26,680 with the Lord, there's a point where, where the door is going 385 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:31,600 to close, but not because Jesus closed it, because you did and 386 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,120 you don't want him anymore. And you don't know when that's 387 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:36,760 going to happen, right? You need to be, you need to be 388 00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,760 about his business and serious about what he's asking us to do. 389 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,400 And, and Judas just never got there. 390 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,640 He was there the whole time with the other apostles. 391 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:52,720 He heard all the same things. He just never got in. 392 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,880 And, and I'd say at this time, this is this is the passage 393 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:04,680 where Jesus just reaches over and closes the door and not 394 00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:16,120 Jesus didn't do that, Judas did. So God always wants repentance, 395 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,840 always. He write, he wrote a whole book 396 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:24,720 in the Bible about repentance, which is Jonah, Rahab, 397 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,520 everybody. You'll read that. 398 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,240 We're going to get into that. But Moses's command was to kill 399 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:35,440 everybody in Canaan. Rahab would have been one of the 400 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:42,080 everybody. And Rahab feared God and 401 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:45,080 submitted to him and she was saved. 402 00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,240 Saul. Saul was out killing the church. 403 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,760 Jesus knocked him off his horse and Paul got in right. 404 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:58,280 And that's, that is the God we serve. 405 00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,280 He is not looking for a reason to judge you. 406 00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,320 He is looking for a reason for you to get in the truck. 407 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:10,720 He is looking for a reason to for you to submit, for you to 408 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:12,240 repent. That's it. 409 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:16,640 He, I mean to the point when I say that he is not looking to 410 00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:18,120 judge us. He will. 411 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,400 It's coming, but He isn't looking for it. 412 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:26,520 He sent his son to die in a cross so that we don't have to 413 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,880 so that we have that, that we are clean. 414 00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:32,720 When we submit to him, we are clean. 415 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,840 And this is this is Peter and the other apostles, some of 416 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,840 their training they got before they were they before their feet 417 00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:44,640 were washed. But where Jesus says if your 418 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:48,040 whole body is washed, then you just need to wash your feet. 419 00:28:48,040 --> 00:28:50,360 You just need to submit to the next step. 420 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,880 John 666, which is a great number for this line. 421 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,520 From that time many of his disciples went back and walked 422 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:02,440 with him no more. Doesn't that fit? 423 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:08,400 Number of man? Verse 67 Then Jesus said to the 424 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:12,760 12 Do you also want to go away? But Simon Peter answered him, 425 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:18,440 Lord, to whom shall we go? You are the Christ. 426 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:24,240 Sorry Lord, whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal 427 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,360 life also. We have come to believe and to 428 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,160 know you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. 429 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,680 So they were completely willing to just get in, right? 430 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,320 Jesus was their Lord, and well before He washed their feet, 431 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:43,600 their heart had been submitted to Him. 432 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:56,200 Right now, that all makes sense. Wondered how I got there. 433 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:01,880 I missed the whole page. You know, that's awesome. 434 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,120 OK, we're going to back up a little bit because this is 435 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,720 important. I was wondering where where that 436 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:13,360 was. That's what happens when my 437 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:20,960 stapler's broken. But anyway, so back to angels 438 00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:26,080 and why they don't like touching God's glory and how important it 439 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:28,080 is that they don't touch God's glory. 440 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:33,480 Revelation 12/7. This is a time an Angel touched 441 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:38,760 God's glory or attempted to and a war broke out in heaven and 442 00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:42,560 Michael and his archangels or Michael and his angels fought 443 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:46,000 with the dragon and the dragon and his angels fought, but they 444 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,080 did not prevail, nor was there a place found for them in heaven 445 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,200 any longer. So the great dragon was cast out 446 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:57,120 and the serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives 447 00:30:57,120 --> 00:31:01,280 the whole world, he was cast to the earth and his angels were 448 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,960 cast out with him. So angels have better memories 449 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:12,080 than us, right? Because, because we, I can, we 450 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:17,280 look at the fruit of, of a little self worship and false 451 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:20,400 humility. We, we watch that all over 452 00:31:20,520 --> 00:31:24,200 televangelism or just in general, and we can see the 453 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,920 damage, but they can see it. They can see the end of the 454 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,400 damage, right? And they remember what that was 455 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:36,080 in in Isaiah. It goes on and says, how you are 456 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,840 fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, how you are 457 00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:43,280 cut down to the ground, you who weaken the nations. 458 00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:47,000 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven. 459 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:50,600 I will exalt my throne above the star of God, stars of God. 460 00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:55,840 I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest 461 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,440 side of the north. I will ascend above the heights 462 00:31:58,440 --> 00:32:01,520 of the cloud. I will be like the Most High 463 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,920 yet. You shall be brought down to 464 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:07,040 Shiloh, to the lowest depths of the pit. 465 00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,480 Angels get what's on the line right. 466 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:15,680 They they understand that when you attempt to go after God's 467 00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:19,560 glory, it ends badly. And they've seen the end. 468 00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:24,600 Not outside of time. Some of these angels are in the 469 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,200 pit today because of choices they've made. 470 00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,920 Others are still wandering around wreaking havoc. 471 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:36,760 But they are not. They are not up there with the 472 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,360 glory. They've been cast down. 473 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:49,360 The day he attempted to take worship from God, they watched 474 00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:54,640 as as God cast down the first. I mean the that was a judgement 475 00:32:54,640 --> 00:33:00,440 that they got to watch. And how do we avoid that 476 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:06,920 judgement, right? What is the is we get in right? 477 00:33:06,920 --> 00:33:10,200 I don't drive the truck right. And believe it or not, the old 478 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:12,440 guy, he's old. He wouldn't let me drive the 479 00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:18,160 truck right. It's weird, but we get in, hold 480 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,360 down, hold on, get in and hold on. 481 00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:27,760 Which is we submit and abide. And that is John 15 five. 482 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,960 I am the vine, you are the branches. 483 00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:34,240 He who abides in me and I and him bear much fruit, but without 484 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:41,520 me you can do nothing. So if I'm not in the truck, I am 485 00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,120 not going anywhere. You know, I, I think I've used 486 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:51,400 the the line in the past of, you know, I can study a plane. 487 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:52,840 I know everything there is about flying. 488 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,240 I know everything there is about flying. 489 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,800 I don't. But I could, I could even go and 490 00:33:57,800 --> 00:34:00,680 see a plane and I could crawl all over it. 491 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,480 I could hang on to the outside of it. 492 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:08,679 But unless I get in the plane, I ain't making it very far, right? 493 00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:13,880 I mean, I can be on the plane and when it takes off and hits 494 00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,880 200 plus miles an hour, I'm pretty sure I fell off before 495 00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:20,440 that. So it's, it's important for us 496 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:27,400 to be in Christ, not, not around Christ, not not near Christ, but 497 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,600 in Christ. And the the reason that's such a 498 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,239 big thing is and that go that gets back to the works part of 499 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,000 this game. The action of work helps us to 500 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:44,000 understand his his truth more. You know, we get to read and 501 00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:46,960 pray and fellowship, and those are works. 502 00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:50,120 Those are that's work, right, Reading your Bible and and 503 00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,239 praying and and being a fellowship and witnessing. 504 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:57,640 I call them the get TOS. We get to do those things, but 505 00:34:57,640 --> 00:34:59,920 it really depends on where we're at when we're doing them, 506 00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:05,520 because if we're if we're at that, we know him and we want to 507 00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:14,640 know him more than when we read. He speaks, Prairie answers 508 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,600 fellowship, he builds and witnesses witnessing he uses. 509 00:35:20,720 --> 00:35:26,600 But if we come to each one of those as self help, you know, I 510 00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,680 kind of put in here, you know, that the attitude America get 511 00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,240 her done. I'm just going to I'm going to 512 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,760 read my Bible, I'm going to I'm going to pray. 513 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,840 I got, I got my little, got my little list of things here and 514 00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,920 I'm going to, I'll be in church every time the doors are open 515 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,920 and I will tell people about Jesus, but I don't have a 516 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,760 relationship with him. I'm just doing it because I, 517 00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:52,360 it's a requirement. Guys, that's bondage and it 518 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:56,000 leads to despair. And think of how Peter and Judas 519 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:01,920 ended up, right? Jesus washed his disciples feet 520 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:09,800 and one of them got joy and one of them got despair and it was 521 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:17,840 how the position of their heart. Now we're going to move back, 522 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:23,200 back to Exodus and Moses. And I'm sure he had many, many 523 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:28,640 moments in the dark, wild back lands to learn to learn to to do 524 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:33,200 this to till he learned to trust God and to rely on him. 525 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:39,280 And and now he gets to meet him right and gets to meet him as 526 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,720 Moses will become called. He won't be a man that talks to 527 00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:48,520 God face to face. And and The thing is, is that 528 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:53,720 the training he got, he's going to need because God is about to 529 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,520 do the thing that we all ask him for on a regular basis. 530 00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,520 I'm sure everybody in this room has has after they've given 531 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,920 their life to the Lord said Lord, just tell me what to do 532 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:08,040 and I'll do it. And God does that and Moses acts 533 00:37:08,040 --> 00:37:13,560 probably exactly like we do, but it's this is a get in, get in, 534 00:37:13,720 --> 00:37:18,360 hold on or sit down and hold on a moment for Moses. 535 00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,040 Verse 6. Moreover, he said, I am the God 536 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,600 of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the 537 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,920 God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face, for he 538 00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,720 was afraid to look upon God. And the Lord said, I have surely 539 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:37,000 seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt and have heard 540 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,440 their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their 541 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,560 sorrows. So I have come down to deliver 542 00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:48,000 them out of the hands of the Egyptians, and to bring them up 543 00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:54,360 from the land, and to do good, and to a good and large land, a 544 00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:57,360 land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the 545 00:37:57,360 --> 00:38:00,560 Canaanites, Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the 546 00:38:00,560 --> 00:38:02,800 Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 547 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,400 Now, therefore, behold the cry of the children of Israel come 548 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,120 to me. And I have also seen the 549 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,400 oppression which the Egyptians oppressed them. 550 00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:15,000 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you 551 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,840 may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of 552 00:38:17,840 --> 00:38:21,600 Egypt. But Moses said to God, who am I 553 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,760 that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the children 554 00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,760 of Egypt, the children of Israel out of Egypt. 555 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,040 A little different, little different position that Moses 556 00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:34,720 had in chapter 2 where he's where he's he's going to bring 557 00:38:34,720 --> 00:38:38,480 his people out, right. You got to imagine after 40 558 00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,840 years, his response had to be like, so Lord, you have the 559 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,240 right number. Do you know, do you know who 560 00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:49,880 you're talking to? Because I'm and this a Mistyle, 561 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:54,720 but Moses, Moses like us and this is this is something I 562 00:38:54,720 --> 00:38:58,280 think you guys all understand is we we get orders from the Lord 563 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,840 and then we start coming up with the yeah, butts of why we can't 564 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:03,960 do it. You have it, Lord give it. 565 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,480 And the Lord very often, like a good father or a good coach, 566 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:15,800 doesn't respond. He just moves forward and Ian 567 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:18,280 Thomas quote that I just heard this week. 568 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,920 I've probably heard it before, but it was kind of fun because I 569 00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:26,280 I heard it in a study this week and it says you can't. 570 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:31,120 God never said you could. He will and God always said he 571 00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:35,080 would. And and that is the God we 572 00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:39,080 serve, right? God is very clear on his plan 573 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,640 and who will be doing the work. Moses is going to be used to 574 00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,880 speak, but God will certainly be with him doing the work. 575 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,600 And that's verse 12. So he said, I will certainly be 576 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:53,240 with you and this shall be a sign to you that I hate that I 577 00:39:53,240 --> 00:39:56,800 have sent you when you have brought the people out of Egypt, 578 00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,120 you shall serve God on this mountain. 579 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,200 Now I have to. This is one of those moments 580 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:05,760 that I have to think, Lord, thanks for the sign. 581 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,680 The sign is going to be that I that I brought 2 million stiff 582 00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:18,440 necked people out of the land of Egypt with an evil Pharaoh and 583 00:40:19,160 --> 00:40:21,600 we're going to serve you here. So that's the sign. 584 00:40:21,720 --> 00:40:23,240 Can I get some signs between now and then? 585 00:40:23,240 --> 00:40:26,120 Because there seems like there's some pieces missing, right? 586 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:30,360 There's there's some stuff that I I would like to know besides 587 00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:38,480 that, but Moses was submitted. He was he was in he was 588 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:42,560 questioning, but he was in, you know, and that that's not unlike 589 00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,800 me and a Bronco. I'm holding on, but I mean, I'd 590 00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:49,960 like to know where we're going and verse 13. 591 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,600 Then Moses said to God, indeed, when and this is this is him 592 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,160 submitted when I come to the children of Israel and say to 593 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:02,440 them, the God of your father's has sent me to you and I say and 594 00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:04,400 they say to me, what is his name? 595 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:08,600 What shall I say to them? So Lord, I'm willing to speak, 596 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:13,560 but I'm going to need I got I got some questions and I'm going 597 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:18,360 to need some help and God is willing willing, right he is, he 598 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:24,640 is not he is not looking for us to do anything in our power. 599 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:31,360 And when you, as we go through the word and you go front cover 600 00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,720 to cover, God on purpose takes us to points in our lives, takes 601 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,480 takes the judges to points in their lives that it can't be 602 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:42,560 them. It has to be him. 603 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:47,480 And that's that's really as as Moses goes, you're going to 604 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,760 you're going to watch. And it's a lot of fun to just 605 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:55,520 watch him grow in this that God says and Moses does and doesn't 606 00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,320 ask a lot of questions. He just all right, I guess we're 607 00:41:57,320 --> 00:41:58,800 going to go tell them. We're going to go tell the 608 00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,520 Pharaoh off again. I think he told me he was going 609 00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:01,720 to kill me the next time he saw me. 610 00:42:01,720 --> 00:42:05,160 But God said go. So I'm going to go. 611 00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:11,840 And this is a recurring thing is trusting the Lord when he says 612 00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:17,880 go, go. And verse 14 And God said to 613 00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:22,520 Moses, I am who I am. And he said, Thus you shall say 614 00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:26,560 to the children of Israel, I am has sent sent me to you. 615 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,400 Moreover, God said to Moses, thus you shall say to the 616 00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:34,920 children of Israel, the Lord God of your father's, the God of 617 00:42:34,920 --> 00:42:38,360 Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has sent me to you. 618 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:43,160 This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all 619 00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:46,360 generations. Go and gather the elders of 620 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:50,640 Israel together and say to them, the Lord God, and that's Yahweh 621 00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:55,720 of your father's, and the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob 622 00:42:55,720 --> 00:42:59,440 appeared to me, saying, I have surely visited you and seen what 623 00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:03,800 is done to you in Egypt. And I have said I will bring you 624 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,280 up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the 625 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:10,280 Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the parasites, the 626 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:13,480 Hivites, the Jebusites, to a land flowing with milk and 627 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:19,480 honey. So this is that question for 628 00:43:19,480 --> 00:43:20,960 Moses. Who do I serve? 629 00:43:21,720 --> 00:43:25,920 This God tells me I am, that I am the one. 630 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,040 God is not saying I'm big. He's saying them all. 631 00:43:31,120 --> 00:43:35,480 He's saying I was before, after I am it. 632 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,680 There aren't other gods that that is I am, that I am the 633 00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,120 Yahweh, that all of that is saying. 634 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,840 There are other things people worship, but there is only one 635 00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:59,680 God and I'm it. And so we're going to get back 636 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:05,240 to angels and their the fact that they don't, they don't put 637 00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:10,360 up with people accepting God's worship. 638 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:16,520 They don't accept it. So there's only one God, but 639 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,040 then I'm also going to tell you guys, there's there's the 640 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,360 father, the Son and the Holy Spirit and their one God. 641 00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:26,840 So there's going to be people out there that that say things 642 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:28,600 like Jesus never claimed to be God. 643 00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:34,880 And so we're going to go through a few yes, he did verses right. 644 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:40,480 John 856 says Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, 645 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:45,200 and he saw it and was glad. Then the Jews said to him, You 646 00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,480 are not yet 50 years old, and you have seen Abraham. 647 00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:52,040 Jesus said to him, most assuredly I say to you, before 648 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:56,280 Abraham was, I am. And then they took up stones to 649 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,400 throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the 650 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:04,160 temple, going through the midst of them, and so passing by. 651 00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:09,400 So just to be clear, stoning is a lynch mob with big rocks to 652 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,680 throw at your head. They were not impressed with 653 00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:15,400 what Jesus just said. They weren't confused about His 654 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:19,160 claim. Jesus just called himself not 655 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:26,560 only the Son of God, but God. And he, he goes on in Mark 14 656 00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:33,440 verse 62, and this is him talking to the high priest I am. 657 00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:36,960 And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of 658 00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,160 power and coming with the clouds of heaven. 659 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,160 Then the high priest tore his close and said, what further 660 00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:48,360 need do we have of witnesses? And sitting on sitting down next 661 00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:53,920 to God is is a claim of deity, of being God. 662 00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,360 And so once again the high priest tore his close and was 663 00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,160 sending him to be crucified because he had claimed to be 664 00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:08,680 God. John 635 Jesus said to them, I 665 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:12,240 am the bread of life. He who comes to me shall never 666 00:46:12,240 --> 00:46:15,000 hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst. 667 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:22,320 So if Jesus isn't God, Jesus is a heretic, right? 668 00:46:23,920 --> 00:46:29,360 And then John 1125, Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection 669 00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,320 and the life. He who believes in me, though he 670 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,840 may die, he shall live. And this is the point right 671 00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:37,720 here. Jesus proved all of these 672 00:46:37,720 --> 00:46:40,280 statements to be true when he rose again on the third day and 673 00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,200 we're coming up to Easter and it's going to be awesome, right? 674 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:49,640 But that's, that is the God we serve is, is he is bigger than 675 00:46:49,640 --> 00:46:54,120 we can imagine. And he is more, we are more able 676 00:46:54,120 --> 00:47:02,040 to trust him than anything. We know the, the world, the 677 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:09,040 culture will tell you that heaven and they'll, they'll do 678 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,920 videos and, and TV shows about heaven being ghosty. 679 00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:17,280 And there's clouds floating around and people, people kind 680 00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,720 of in and out of in about in and out of phase where you can see 681 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:23,240 him. Guys, heaven is solid. 682 00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:29,480 We're ghosty, right? This is this what we're what we 683 00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,920 are is the beginning of reality, right? 684 00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:39,080 We heaven is real. We are not. 685 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,320 We are. We are just the precursor. 686 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:52,760 So be, be about his business, but understand that it's his 687 00:47:52,760 --> 00:48:01,360 business, right, That the importance for us to submit to 688 00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:06,360 his will and and to abide, which is that I mean, just that 689 00:48:06,360 --> 00:48:11,200 picture of abiding of, you know, when I got in the truck, I, I 690 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:14,320 put on the I put on the five point harness. 691 00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:19,280 And if you're, if you've ever been in a like an old Bronco or 692 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:24,840 any car with a roll cage, what you don't do is put your hand 693 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:29,320 outside the vehicle or hang on to the roll cage because 694 00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:32,920 everything flexes. So if you put your hand and 695 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:38,360 there's this much space between the roll cage and the body, that 696 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,560 space gets smaller. And if your hands there, your 697 00:48:41,560 --> 00:48:45,480 hand gets smaller. So you hold on, you, you hold on 698 00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:47,880 right here. And there's practice in that 699 00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:52,080 because as a, as, as somebody that's used to walking around, 700 00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:54,400 you're used to kind of holding on to things out here. 701 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,120 And this is just trust, right? It's just trust. 702 00:48:58,120 --> 00:49:01,040 You just hold on right here and look out the window. 703 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:07,760 And that's what God's asking us to do, right, is to follow him. 704 00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:17,400 He he finishes chapter 3 with the final information Moses is 705 00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:22,200 going to get verse 18. Then they will head, heed your 706 00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:26,240 voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the 707 00:49:26,240 --> 00:49:29,120 king of Egypt. You shall say to him, the Lord 708 00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:33,680 God of the Hebrews has met with us and now please let us go 709 00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:37,040 three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice 710 00:49:37,040 --> 00:49:40,760 to the Lord our God. But I am sure that the king of 711 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:44,600 Egypt will not let you go. No, not even by a mighty hand. 712 00:49:45,520 --> 00:49:49,400 So I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with all my 713 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,640 wonders, which I will do in the midst. 714 00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,520 And after that he will let you go. 715 00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:58,520 And I will give the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. 716 00:49:58,720 --> 00:50:02,520 And it shall be when you go that you shall not go empty handed. 717 00:50:03,080 --> 00:50:08,000 But every woman shall ask her neighbor, namely of her, of her 718 00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:11,040 who dwells near her house, articles of silver, articles of 719 00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:14,680 gold, clothing, and you shall put them on your sons and your 720 00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,000 daughters. So you shall plunder the 721 00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:21,160 Egyptians. So God just gave Moses the 722 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:22,960 beginning and the end of the mission. 723 00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:30,680 Go tell Pharaoh, he will see he there's going to be a fight and 724 00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:36,000 he will set you free and you will plunder Egypt when you 725 00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,600 leave. There are some other steps 726 00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:43,160 between now and then, but Moses is going to work on the next 727 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:47,280 step, right? That he he's just going to go 728 00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:55,880 and and he's going to trust that God has this right in our life. 729 00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:02,080 The Spirit is looking for submitted hearts to do amazing 730 00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:06,480 things. The world is full of lost and 731 00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:12,240 dying slaves to sin that need the life saving grace of the 732 00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:15,800 only one that can give it, the I am who I am. 733 00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:24,040 Some of God's names in the Old Testament are mighty One, God, 734 00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:27,640 Almighty God, most high, everlasting God, Lord and 735 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:32,120 Master. The Lord who heals the Lord is 736 00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,120 peace. The Lord is my shepherd, the 737 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,560 Lord of our righteousness. The Lord the Lord is there. 738 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,600 Jesus is called the bread of life, the light of the world, 739 00:51:43,320 --> 00:51:47,320 the door, the Good Shepherd, the resurrection and the life, the 740 00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:50,640 way, the truth and the life, and the true vine. 741 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,360 Do we trust Him? Do we trust? 742 00:51:54,360 --> 00:52:01,800 That's who we serve. Moses will lean in and he will 743 00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:05,800 rely on and hold fast to his story. 744 00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:12,160 The author is writing a story in my life, in your life about this 745 00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:16,120 world. When are we willing to submit to 746 00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,560 him? Are we willing to submit our 747 00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:22,400 hearts to wherever He asks us to go and whatever He asks us to 748 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,440 do? Or are we willing to get in, sit 749 00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:30,840 down, and hold on? And Lord, I just pray today that 750 00:52:32,240 --> 00:52:36,280 you would be in our midst, Lord, that you would, he would be 751 00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,440 speaking to us with that still small voice, Lord, that you'd be 752 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:41,320 guided and directed us. Lord, that there if there's 753 00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,360 anything between us, if there's any, any cleansing that needs to 754 00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:45,680 be done, Lord, that we'd be willing. 755 00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,800 And Lord, we know you are able, Lord, that you would touch that. 756 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,680 Oh, Lord, nice. Thank you for today. 757 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:55,840 And I thank you for everybody here in Jesus name, Amen.