1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,120 Baby bottle ministry is actually really cool. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,400 So it's something for two reasons. 3 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,400 Pick one up, put your put your change in it, but it also put 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,840 something in your house that helps you remember to be praying 5 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:17,280 right that you're that it's, it's a it's a constant reminder 6 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:20,840 and and you can you can write checks and put them in those 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:23,960 bottles too. But anyway, doesn't just have to 8 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,600 be pocket change anyway there it's a, it's something that we 9 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,600 want to be involved in, right? We want to come alongside those 10 00:00:32,600 --> 00:00:36,080 that are in need and those that need to hear the truth of the 11 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:39,400 gospel and, and in, in actions, right? 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:45,160 That's a, in actions is what the pregnancy center comes alongside 13 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:49,120 people that really, really, truly need that love, that care 14 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:54,400 for. So we are going to be in Exodus 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:58,200 6 and if all goes right, we're going to get all the way to 16 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:00,320 Exodus 7 today. It's going to be great. 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,440 I guess one more thing, baptism as phase making it out. 18 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:09,880 So baptism guys, is just there. There isn't like a clearance the 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,920 pastor gives you, right? If you, if you know the Lord and 20 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:15,240 you've asked him into your heart, baptism is just telling 21 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:17,640 the world what you've already done on the inside, right? 22 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,160 So if that's you and you want to be baptized in two weeks, we'll 23 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:27,040 do that, right? So yeah, that'll be, that'll be 24 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,320 fun. I'm, I'm excited for it, but we 25 00:01:30,320 --> 00:01:31,840 are, we aren't going to be doing it outside. 26 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:35,600 We are going to have, we have the trop that's under the stage 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:40,240 that we'll set up, but it's a little cold still and muddy in 28 00:01:40,240 --> 00:01:42,320 Sand Creek. So we're not quite there yet. 29 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:45,600 But I'm hoping to have a baptism outside this summer sometime. 30 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:51,360 So Exodus 6, we'll just, we're just going to read the first 8 31 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:54,840 verses. Then the Lord, the Lord said to 32 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,960 Moses, now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. 33 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,880 For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong 34 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,720 hand he will drive them out of his land. 35 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,080 God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the Lord. 36 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:12,680 I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, 37 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,120 but my, but by my name, Lord, I was not known to them. 38 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:20,520 I have also established my covenant with them to give them 39 00:02:20,520 --> 00:02:25,040 the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they 40 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,520 were strangers. I have also heard the groaning 41 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,320 of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage. 42 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,360 I have remembered my covenant. Therefore, say to the children 43 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:40,400 of Israel, I am the Lord, I will bring you out from under the 44 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:42,880 burdens of the Egyptians. I will rescue you from their 45 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:47,000 bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and 46 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,360 with great judgments. I will take you as my people, 47 00:02:50,640 --> 00:02:53,480 and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am 48 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:57,280 the Lord your God, who brings you out from under the burdens 49 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,120 of the Egyptians, and I will bring you into the land which I 50 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:04,000 swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give give 51 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,320 it to you as a heritage. I am the Lord and Lord I just 52 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,600 lift. Lift up the study, Lord, lift up 53 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:16,640 just who you are and what you've done that you would speak to us 54 00:03:16,640 --> 00:03:18,520 today, Lord, that you'd speak through me, Lord, but you'd 55 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:23,680 speak to me as well, Lord, that you'd just be in fill this place 56 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,480 with your spirit that you'd be in our hearts. 57 00:03:26,480 --> 00:03:29,120 You'd be speaking to us. Lord, I pray this in Jesus name, 58 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,200 Amen. So way back when we started the 59 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:36,360 Exodus study, I talked about that this is God. 60 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,280 Really, this is where God shows up right in the Bible and and 61 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,080 introduces himself. It's not that he wasn't in 62 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:47,320 Genesis. He's he's in Genesis, but this 63 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:51,440 is him saying this is who I am, this is what I'm like, this is 64 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:54,680 this is how to worship me. This is this is him introducing 65 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,160 himself and and he's going to get into the plague soon. 66 00:03:57,160 --> 00:03:59,760 And it's really, it's really going to be him showing his 67 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:05,840 power over everything that that the other gods, little G gods 68 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,560 that people were worshipping mom attempted to do. 69 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,480 He would, he would go through each and every he's going to go 70 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,680 through each and every one of those and humble them and show 71 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:17,760 that he has power over all of that. 72 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,720 But this is these the the name of my study today is I am I 73 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,520 will, I have. And if you look at the that 74 00:04:25,520 --> 00:04:30,640 first 8 verses, that is what the Lord is telling Moses is this is 75 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:38,160 remember who I am. I they didn't know they didn't 76 00:04:38,160 --> 00:04:42,400 know me like you know me, right. He says that, but they but they 77 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:46,320 didn't know me by my name, Lord. And and that anytime you see in 78 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:52,360 the Bible Lord in all capital letters, that's the name Yahweh. 79 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,840 And Yahweh is one of those funny. 80 00:04:56,240 --> 00:05:00,840 So Hebrew go quick lesson on that. 81 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,520 Hebrew doesn't when they when they write Hebrew out, they 82 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:07,680 don't put vowels in. So they just write the 83 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:14,680 consonants. So Yahweh is YHWH and how 84 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:21,680 scholars have come up with it is they're, they're it's Yahweh is 85 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,960 how they, so we say Yahweh, right? 86 00:05:24,360 --> 00:05:33,520 But there's no, there is no like that's how we say it, but that's 87 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,840 doesn't mean that's how it's said was said back then. 88 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:39,920 And the Jewish people took such reverence in it that they 89 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:42,960 wouldn't say it, right? They wrote it, but they wouldn't 90 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:45,320 say the word. So I mean, it's one of those 91 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:52,960 it's it's the purpose of that is God saying I am who I am. 92 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:56,440 I am, I am, I have been and I will be. 93 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:58,840 He's bigger than everybody else, right? 94 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:05,880 So when he says by but by my name Yahweh, I was not known to 95 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:07,400 them. It's not that they didn't that 96 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:12,160 that that Jacob or Abraham or Adam hadn't heard the name. 97 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:18,160 It's that they didn't understand who he was and what he was 98 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:21,920 capable of. And that is what he is going to 99 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:24,960 do, right? And we're going to get into, 100 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,040 we're going to do what he, what God does here with Moses. 101 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,320 As he goes through that, he gives him a quick history lesson 102 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:33,880 right of this is this is what I've said. 103 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,400 I, I got covenants, I've promised things. 104 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:42,840 I've, I've talked to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and I'm going to 105 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:46,880 do what I said I'm going to do. But this all starts because 106 00:06:46,880 --> 00:06:51,640 Moses, of course, is, is concerned and he's concerned 107 00:06:51,640 --> 00:06:53,320 probably for a good reason, right? 108 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:57,080 He went to Pharaoh, he said what God told him to say. 109 00:06:57,080 --> 00:06:59,120 And now nothing. This, this doesn't seem to be 110 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:00,800 working like you said it was going to work. 111 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:06,600 You know, Moses or Pharaoh's response to Moses when he went 112 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:10,440 was and Pharaoh said, who is the Lord, that I should obey his 113 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,320 voice to let Israel go. I do not know the Lord, nor will 114 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:19,880 I let Israel go. So, and picture Pharaoh's pretty 115 00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:22,840 flat footed here, right? I mean, he doesn't, he doesn't 116 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,320 know who this Yahweh is and and he shouldn't know who this 117 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:31,600 Yahweh is as far as from from a worldly standard. 118 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:35,120 This is God showing up and introducing himself. 119 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,120 That doesn't mean that that as believers or as non believers 120 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:46,920 that we have an excuse to say, well, I didn't know because we 121 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,320 all know, right? That's the we at the end of the 122 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:55,360 day in this story, Pharaoh's going to going to play dumb and 123 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:59,400 and I don't know. But guys, we, we were all been 124 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:04,400 given the same, the, the same world to look at, to know that 125 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:10,160 it is bigger and you know, creation declares his glory and 126 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:14,080 the sun God and the tree God and the river God. 127 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:18,920 And that that doesn't, that doesn't, that doesn't work. 128 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:26,400 And God's going to go through and just decimate Egypt's God 129 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:31,000 structure. But the purpose for it. 130 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:33,280 And we're going to, we're going to go back through Genesis 131 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:36,679 really quick. And when I say really quick by 132 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:41,520 the end of the study and just God introducing himself, right 133 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:43,840 and the different places that he did it. 134 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,960 So right, right at the beginning, Genesis 1, So God 135 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,160 created man in his own image, in his image, in the image of God, 136 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:54,720 He created him male and female, He created them. 137 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:58,560 Then God bless them and God said to them, be fruitful and 138 00:08:58,560 --> 00:09:01,160 multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. 139 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,560 Then if you skip down to verse 31, it says then God saw 140 00:09:04,560 --> 00:09:07,560 everything that he made and indeed it was very good. 141 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:10,160 So the evening in the morning were the 6th day. 142 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:16,840 So that is so God, God showed up and gave man a simple gave him 143 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:21,760 the gave him the ability to be fruitful and multiply and subdue 144 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:23,880 the earth, gave him a job to do right. 145 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:27,480 And, and he gives him, he gives him dominion over, you know, the 146 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,160 birds of the air and, and every living thing through that. 147 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,080 But when he was done on the 6th day, everything was good. 148 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:40,440 And God explains to Adam, you know, you have a purpose and a 149 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:47,080 direction. And then the fall, right, which 150 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:51,640 we start off with Genesis 36. So when the woman saw that the 151 00:09:51,640 --> 00:09:56,080 tree was good for for food and that it was pleasant to the eye 152 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:58,520 and the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took the 153 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,360 fruit and ate it. She also gave it to her husband 154 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:08,200 with her and he ate it. So God's word, which Adam didn't 155 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:11,680 trust in, said this in Genesis 216. 156 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,560 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying of every tree of the 157 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:19,320 garden you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of 158 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:21,040 good and evil, you shall not eat. 159 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,400 For in that day you eat it, you shall die. 160 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:30,600 You shall surely die. So even though God, or even 161 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:34,600 though Adam walked with God, he didn't understand him, right? 162 00:10:34,600 --> 00:10:42,600 He he was he, he had a point where he decided that it was it 163 00:10:42,600 --> 00:10:47,080 was better to walk with the creation than to follow the 164 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:50,520 Lord. And I'd say that we do that a 165 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:54,280 lot, right. We, we, we follow our eyes and 166 00:10:54,280 --> 00:11:02,200 not the Lord. Genesis 38 is the culmination of 167 00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:06,760 it all and it's and they and they heard the sound of the Lord 168 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:09,440 God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. 169 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:12,680 And Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of 170 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:18,720 the Lord sorry of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 171 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,120 Then the then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, 172 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,880 where are you? So he said, I heard your voice 173 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:28,560 in the garden and I was afraid I was naked and I hid myself. 174 00:11:29,480 --> 00:11:33,480 The whole point of all of the story, all of his story is to 175 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:37,120 get us back to this moment, to get us back to the moment where 176 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:40,320 God walks with us in the cool of the day, right? 177 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,000 That that is his desire. That is what he's looking for. 178 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:48,160 He's looking to love on his children just like a good 179 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,880 father, right? No matter how you know, you look 180 00:11:50,880 --> 00:11:56,600 at the prodigal son, the father wasn't looking for the son to go 181 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:03,000 be a slave and work with work in the work, work with the other 182 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,040 servants. He wanted his son back. 183 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:08,120 That's what God wants. He wants his sons and daughters 184 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,760 back, right? He wants, he wants us to follow 185 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:12,960 him. And then, then you the next 186 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:16,080 interaction that God has with somebody is Cain. 187 00:12:16,560 --> 00:12:22,160 And this is a lot like a a moment where God talks to to his 188 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:26,040 creation like like a parent would talk to a toddler or a 189 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:34,920 teenager says it's a verse. Sorry, Genesis 46 says so the 190 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:38,360 Lord Lord said to Cain, why are you angry? 191 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,520 Why is your countenance falling? If you do well, will it not be 192 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:47,600 acceptable if you do, if you do not do well, sin lies at the 193 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:51,400 door and its desire is for you, but you should rule over it. 194 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:55,240 And this is this is God reasoning with Cain, right? 195 00:12:55,560 --> 00:12:58,880 He can see what's coming and he's like, just don't do it, 196 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:01,720 right. This is just follow me. 197 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:05,240 Just do it, you know, follow what I'm saying. 198 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:13,200 Do what I say, not because not because we don't do what God 199 00:13:13,200 --> 00:13:19,360 says, because it's an order. We do what I God says because it 200 00:13:19,360 --> 00:13:23,840 is good and Cain, and that's really what God's telling him 201 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:27,880 is, is if you do well, will it not be accepted? 202 00:13:28,760 --> 00:13:32,840 It is good to do well. But verse 8 Now Cain talked with 203 00:13:32,840 --> 00:13:35,720 Abel his brother, and it came to pass when they were in the field 204 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:38,600 that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and killed him. 205 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:41,920 And the Lord said to Cain, where is your brother? 206 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,440 And he said, I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper? 207 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:48,880 And he said, what have you done? The voice of your brother's 208 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,520 blood cries out to me from the ground. 209 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:59,680 And this is when we decide to do our own thing, we we are 210 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:05,680 automatically opposite the Lord and and this is just these 211 00:14:05,680 --> 00:14:09,120 little moments that God is. So you got to remember all these 212 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:12,240 little stories that I'm reading. This is these are stories Moses 213 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,280 would know right They were whether they were written, 214 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,640 whether they were written down or they were they were oral 215 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:20,160 traditions. Moses would know these stories 216 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:23,720 and he would these are things God is is bringing up and just 217 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:26,840 know who I am put it all together. 218 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,160 But in all of this you have Cain. 219 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:34,240 The next interaction you have with anybody is, is really a 220 00:14:34,240 --> 00:14:39,920 picture of there is hope and it's actually a guy that is 221 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:43,640 phase one of phase favourites and it's a man who walked with 222 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,680 God, not self right. And his name's Enoch. 223 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,880 And I'm sure you guys all know the it's it's really when the 224 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:54,920 first time you read the read Genesis and you get to all the 225 00:14:54,920 --> 00:14:57,360 begats. It's the it's the thing that 226 00:14:57,360 --> 00:15:01,000 sticks out a lot because it's a lot of genealogy that so and so 227 00:15:01,000 --> 00:15:03,000 begot So and so we got so and so we got so and so. 228 00:15:03,240 --> 00:15:06,400 And then you get to this one guy and it says after he begat 229 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,480 Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had sons and 230 00:15:10,520 --> 00:15:12,800 daughters. So all the days of Enoch were 231 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:18,320 365 years And Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took 232 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,920 him. And you know, when you're first 233 00:15:20,920 --> 00:15:23,000 a believer and you're reading Genesis because you're going to 234 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,960 start at the beginning of the book and you get to that. 235 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,120 What does that mean? Took what? 236 00:15:28,120 --> 00:15:31,520 What is that? So he walked with God and God 237 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:35,040 took him. Well, if you go to Second Kings, 238 00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:41,120 there's a kind of a what that might look like, and it's Second 239 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:46,680 Kings 211 Then it happened as they continued on and talked, 240 00:15:46,760 --> 00:15:51,800 that suddenly a chariot of fire appeared with horses of fire and 241 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:55,320 separated the two of them. And the Elijah went up by a 242 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:59,400 whirlwind into heaven. And this is this is Elijah was 243 00:15:59,400 --> 00:16:05,520 was a prophet and just did right in the side of the Lord and 244 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,680 walked with God and God took him. 245 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,560 The the cool thing about Elijah and Enoch is they were no 246 00:16:13,560 --> 00:16:17,120 different than us. They they weren't, they weren't 247 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,480 supernatural beings. They were just, they had a 248 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:24,680 nature just like we do. It's and James 5/17 it says 249 00:16:24,680 --> 00:16:27,000 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours. 250 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:34,320 And and so that is something we can do is walk with God, right? 251 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:41,120 That's as in Ecclesiastes is where one of the places I get 252 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:44,600 it, but it says all are from dust and I'll go to dust. 253 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:47,680 We're all dirt, right? We all have the same nature. 254 00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:50,440 We are. We we were made by God, but we 255 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:58,600 were made by God to follow him, to serve him, but not because we 256 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,280 have anything to offer that game, right? 257 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,400 He is he is the one that's important in that in that 258 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:07,560 relationship. He is the one that's important, 259 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:10,680 right? He is the the purpose that that 260 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:18,960 relationship even exists. As you as you go through the 261 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:22,599 word, as you go through the Bible, you got to remember that 262 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,400 this is all a family. That's when I back when I said 263 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,520 it's not we don't get to, we don't get to have an excuse. 264 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:32,440 You know, it's what about the pygmy and pygmies in Africa. 265 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:34,680 They haven't heard, haven't heard about Jesus. 266 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:40,360 Why are they responsible? Because everybody is responsible 267 00:17:40,760 --> 00:17:45,720 because God has God has spoken to each of us, right? 268 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:51,720 And and it's that denial of him that is the problem in in Adam's 269 00:17:51,720 --> 00:17:54,840 day, in Noah's day, this was a family. 270 00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:57,320 It was a big family, but it was a family. 271 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,600 It is, you know, Adam, Adam and Eve had sons and daughters and 272 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:04,200 they had sons and daughters and they had sons and daughters and 273 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:06,680 so on and so on. You know, they lived for 274 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:10,760 hundreds and hundreds of years. So they, they populated the 275 00:18:10,760 --> 00:18:14,640 earth quickly. If you you can do a a math 276 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,280 figuring on it and it is an immense amount of people in a 277 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:23,200 very short amount of time. If they just had a regular 278 00:18:23,360 --> 00:18:27,720 regular level of growth. I showed in in 400 year in 400 279 00:18:27,720 --> 00:18:32,880 years the Israelites would have been 2 million people and they 280 00:18:32,880 --> 00:18:37,760 didn't live as long as the pre flood people did. 281 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:43,400 So there would have been a lot of people when God gets to 282 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:48,760 Genesis 6 and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have 283 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,240 created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, 284 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:55,600 creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have 285 00:18:55,600 --> 00:18:59,080 made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes 286 00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:02,560 of the Lord. So Noah found favor. 287 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,680 God looked down and saw Noah as a man who heard the law of his 288 00:19:06,680 --> 00:19:10,680 heart and listened to it. Noah wasn't saved by works, 289 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,880 right? Noah Noah truly was the first 290 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:19,280 guy that it show. I mean Enoch, but the this is 291 00:19:19,280 --> 00:19:23,160 the story about Noah and it's really the guy that that did the 292 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:25,000 thing right. He got in, he sat down and he 293 00:19:25,000 --> 00:19:29,680 held on and and literally by the end of the the flood, that's 294 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,280 literally what he did, right? He he got in the he got in the 295 00:19:32,280 --> 00:19:34,800 boat. He the door closed, he sat down 296 00:19:34,800 --> 00:19:39,800 and he held on for the ride. But Noah wasn't. 297 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:43,960 Noah wasn't the star of that show, right? 298 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:48,120 God was. And God, God did, right? 299 00:19:49,120 --> 00:19:51,280 I will, I am. I have he. 300 00:19:51,320 --> 00:20:04,840 He is always working and. So that finally brings us to 301 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,480 Abraham and Abraham. Before he was named Abraham, he 302 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,320 was called Abram. So this is before God changed 303 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:15,760 his name. In Genesis 12 it says now the 304 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:20,240 Lord had had said to Abram, get out of your country from your 305 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,280 family and from your father's house to a land that I will show 306 00:20:23,280 --> 00:20:25,440 you. I will make you a great nation, 307 00:20:25,920 --> 00:20:28,160 I will bless you, make your name great. 308 00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:31,520 You shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless 309 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:34,200 you. I will curse those, curse him 310 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:38,000 who curses you, and you, all the families of the earth shall be 311 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,440 blessed. And then we get to the covenant 312 00:20:41,440 --> 00:20:43,920 that God's talking about in Genesis 15. 313 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:47,520 And it's then he brought him out. 314 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,200 And this is God talking to Abraham. 315 00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,720 Then he brought him outside and said, Look now towards the 316 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:55,080 heaven, and count the stars, if you were able to number them. 317 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:58,360 And he said to him, so shall your descendants be. 318 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,560 And he believed in the Lord, and he accounted it to him for 319 00:21:01,560 --> 00:21:04,600 righteousness. Then he said to him, I am the 320 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:10,240 Lord who brought you out of the earth, Chaldeans, to give you 321 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:14,480 this land to inherit. And he said, Lord God, how shall 322 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:19,240 I know that I will inherit it? So he said to him, Bring me a 323 00:21:19,520 --> 00:21:21,920 three-year old heifer, a three-year old female goat, a 324 00:21:21,920 --> 00:21:24,840 three-year old ram, a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. 325 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,440 Then he brought all these to him and cut them in two down the 326 00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:31,920 middle, and placed each piece opposite the other. 327 00:21:32,080 --> 00:21:35,080 But he did not cut the bird birds in two. 328 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:40,200 And then when the vultures came down on the carcass, Abram drove 329 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,400 them away. Now when the sun was going down, 330 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,360 a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold the horror, and a 331 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,560 great darkness fell upon him. Then he said to Abram, Now 332 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,640 certainly, sorry, no, certainly that your descendants will be 333 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:58,680 strangers in a land that is not theirs and will serve them, and 334 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,760 they will afflict them for hundreds of years, 400 years. 335 00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:06,800 And also the nation whom they serve, I will judge after, 336 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:09,880 afterwards they shall come out with a great, with great 337 00:22:09,880 --> 00:22:13,080 possessions. Now As for you, you shall go to 338 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,040 your father's in peace. You shall be buried at a good 339 00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:19,480 old age, but in the 4th generation they shall return 340 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:21,360 here. For the iniquity of the Amorites 341 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,760 is not yet complete. And it came to pass when the sun 342 00:22:24,760 --> 00:22:28,840 went down and it was dark that behold, there appeared a smoke 343 00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:32,640 smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between the two 344 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,520 pieces. And if I was to break that down, 345 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,920 that's, that is that is a full study of a whole lot going on. 346 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:45,320 But this is remembering, this is what God is remembering. 347 00:22:45,760 --> 00:22:49,920 This is when he's talking to Moses and he's saying, I'm 348 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:53,000 remembering my covenant. This is what he's talking about. 349 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:57,600 And a covenant in the Old Testament covenant is, is like a 350 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,880 contract, but way more serious. It is, it is unbreakable. 351 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:05,440 It will get you killed because the idea of splitting the 352 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:11,120 animals and and passing between them is what if, if I do not 353 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:17,560 fulfil my part of this, then let let be done to me what has been 354 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:22,560 done to these animals, right. So it is, it is serious, but the 355 00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:27,920 the trick, the the trick to this covenant is Abraham didn't make 356 00:23:27,920 --> 00:23:29,480 it. God did. 357 00:23:30,360 --> 00:23:34,720 Abraham didn't walk with God between the between the animals. 358 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:39,360 Abraham sat on the side and and God walked between them. 359 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:44,160 And so this covenant is unrevocable, right? 360 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,560 It's, it is God said it will happen and there is not this is, 361 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,240 this is a grace covenant. This is, it's going to happen 362 00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:58,440 because God said not because Abraham did right and then the 363 00:23:58,440 --> 00:24:01,120 net. And then of course, just to 364 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:04,560 point out that Abraham is dirt just like the rest of us. 365 00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:10,800 Abraham left that covenant that God put him to sleep and walked 366 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,400 down the middle of it and said this is going to happen. 367 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:16,160 And Abraham walked out of that meeting and went, well, I got to 368 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,920 go have a baby, I got to go do something. 369 00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:23,880 So he, he or Sarah gave him his servant, her servant girl. 370 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:30,920 And they made Ishmael, which has been a has been a thorn in 371 00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:34,880 Israel's side ever since, because Ishmael is where Islam 372 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:40,280 comes from. And just our flesh is always so 373 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:44,800 helpful. But that goes on. 374 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:52,480 And then Isaac, right in Genesis 1719, it says then God said no 375 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:56,480 about using Ishmael. Sarah, your wife shall bear you 376 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,880 a son and you shall call his name Isaac. 377 00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:02,200 I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting 378 00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,880 covenant with his descendants after him. 379 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:11,120 And this is so these are so these are the, the moments that 380 00:25:11,120 --> 00:25:16,800 we get to see God showing these guys what His plan is, but 381 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,400 they're they're hearing him, but they're not understanding who he 382 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:20,600 is. Jacob. 383 00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:26,000 Jacob probably has the the moment of a vision, but he's 384 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:31,080 Jacob and God before in Jacob's life has done many things and 385 00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:34,680 after this he does many things. But this moment is a moment that 386 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,080 they write songs about. It's Jacob's ladder, but it's 387 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:44,600 Genesis 2813 to 14 says and behold, the Lord stood above it 388 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,960 and said, I am the Lord, and that I am the Lord is Yahweh, 389 00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:53,400 God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. 390 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,320 The land on which you lie I will give give to you and your 391 00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,600 descendants also. Your descendants shall be the 392 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:02,520 dust of the earth. You shall spread abroad to the 393 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,000 West and to the east and to the north and to the South, and in 394 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,960 you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be 395 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,760 blessed. So in those in those covenants, 396 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:17,720 in those promises that he's giving guys, Jesus is there. 397 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,920 Those are. This is where this is where the 398 00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:30,040 Messiah is going to come from. And Israel as a whole spends 399 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:35,920 their entire existence trying to work that into existence. 400 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:43,400 And we as Christians, well, I shouldn't even say that we as 401 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,000 dirt before I'm a believer, after I'm a believer spend a 402 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:53,000 whole lot of my time working for God and he's just not 403 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,760 interested. He is he is interested in me 404 00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:01,640 following him, but he's the important part of that, right? 405 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:07,080 They didn't they, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, none of them knew 406 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:12,000 who the I am of the I am who I am was. 407 00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:15,320 They didn't get it. They every time he spoke to 408 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:22,960 them, they went to work and Joseph would be, would be the 409 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:27,400 Jacob's favorite son and he had dreams. 410 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:32,320 And so we had visions kind of like, kind of like how Moses got 411 00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:34,440 a, a direct revelation from the Lord. 412 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,480 Joseph got dreams and they sustained him. 413 00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,320 I would imagine that that through the darkness in in 414 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,840 Egypt, when he was there, they sustained him. 415 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:48,000 But in Genesis 39, that the important part in Joseph's life 416 00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:54,360 are these moments of Genesis 39, two, says the Lord, the Lord was 417 00:27:54,360 --> 00:27:59,000 with Joseph and he was success. He was a successful man, and he 418 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,720 was in the House of his master, the Egyptian. 419 00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:06,720 And the master saw the Lord was with him, and the Lord made all 420 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,720 he did prosper in his hands. But the Lord and then it goes on 421 00:28:10,720 --> 00:28:15,480 and farther down and says, but the Lord was with Joseph and 422 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,240 showed mercy, showed him mercy, and he gave him favor in the 423 00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,160 sight of the keeper of the prison. 424 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:26,520 So Joseph's life, it wasn't that Joseph was with God, it was that 425 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:31,880 God was with Joseph, right. And that is that is does that's 426 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:36,520 what we get a brag on. There's a a song that I Matthew 427 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:41,920 West's song today that I was listening to before I and it 428 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:46,960 says, where's it at? I wrote it down somewhere. 429 00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,400 I will, I will find it at some point, but it really is that he, 430 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:58,360 he's what's important, right? He and I, I say that not because 431 00:28:58,400 --> 00:29:01,200 we aren't important. We are, we are the apple of his 432 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,600 eye, right? We are important enough that he 433 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:07,920 sent his son down to die on a cross for us to to pay for our 434 00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,120 sins so that he have a relationship with us. 435 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:15,640 But he's, he's the reason for all of it. 436 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,760 And we go on here. This is Moses had this this 437 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:23,720 history lesson. And then Moses in verse 9. 438 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,200 So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel. 439 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:30,480 So Moses goes back to the children of Israel and says, and 440 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:34,240 they did not heed heed Moses because of the anguish of the 441 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:39,440 spirit of the cruel bondage. And verse 10 and the Lord spoke 442 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,280 to Moses saying, go and tell Pharaoh, the king of king of 443 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,560 Egypt to let the children of Israel go out of his land. 444 00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:50,440 And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying, the children of Israel 445 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:53,600 have not heeded me. How then shall the Pharaoh heed 446 00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,440 me? I am of uncircumcised lips. 447 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:01,080 I'm not able in myself. I I can't do this now. 448 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:04,280 This isn't Moses, this isn't Moses walking away. 449 00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:10,200 This is Moses acting like us right Is I can't and and and I 450 00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:12,800 know there's a song that out there that said, and I never 451 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:17,920 said you could right, because if you look at what if you look at 452 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:22,200 that first part, there isn't there isn't anything in here 453 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:26,560 about Moses doing anything. There is a whole lot of I 454 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:32,280 statements the Lord uses that is I will I am I appeared I have 455 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:37,280 right not you will get to work. Go do this right. 456 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,760 This is this is God declaring what he's going to do. 457 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:49,560 But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a command 458 00:30:49,560 --> 00:30:53,880 for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh to bring them the 459 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,600 children of Israel out of the land. 460 00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:01,920 So Moses says I can't do this and God doesn't even I, I read 461 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,760 that and I just think of me with my, my kids growing up and they 462 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:09,960 used to like, especially if mom wasn't home and I had a chore 463 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,760 list and I'd tell them what we were going to do and one of them 464 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:17,120 would go, well, that isn't my job, you know, or I did that 465 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,280 last week and she's supposed to do it and I would, I would know 466 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,080 it. They, they know the line and 467 00:31:22,080 --> 00:31:24,120 they both hate it. They both used it on their own 468 00:31:24,120 --> 00:31:29,640 kids now, But did I stutter, which is I, I'm not repeating 469 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,480 you. You're doing the dishes or 470 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,760 you're mowing the lawn. You know, whatever I said you, 471 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:39,640 you can argue and and throw a fit and do all the things, but I 472 00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:42,480 didn't stutter. I'm sure you heard me and I'm 473 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,120 sure that's what you're going to do, right? 474 00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:47,120 And that's really where Moses, Moses and God is here. 475 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:51,520 God doesn't back up and go well, let me, let me, let me assure 476 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:52,960 you, this is what I want you to do now. 477 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:59,280 He just go tell, go talk to Pharaoh like I told you and he, 478 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:01,640 he had given him clear direction, right? 479 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,560 Moses understood what he needed to do. 480 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:11,040 Now, now we get into verse 14 through 25 is a genealogy and 481 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:16,120 the genealogy is really more of a pedigree of I'm not going to 482 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,200 read the whole thing because you guys don't want me to hear me 483 00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:23,320 mangle those names. But it's, it's Reuben and Simeon 484 00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:30,160 and then Levi and Levi is the, is where Aaron and Moses come 485 00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,400 from. And, and that is really his name 486 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,080 means to join, attach or cling. And that is exactly what Moses 487 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:39,120 and Aaron are going to need to do for the next 40 years, right? 488 00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:43,280 They're going to need to, to be joined to God, to be attached to 489 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:48,400 him, to cling to him. One of my, you guys get tired of 490 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,400 hearing about the suck thing, but that is really my advice to 491 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,160 anybody going through hard times. 492 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,560 Cling to his feet, cling to his feet. 493 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,160 That is he. He is what's important. 494 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,760 And I say that because no matter what else is going on in our 495 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:09,480 life, if we have that, we have stability. 496 00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,600 If we have him, we have stability. 497 00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:14,400 The world can be falling down around us. 498 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:19,560 But if we are, if we cling to and attach to him, he gives us 499 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:21,080 what we need to get through the day. 500 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,160 And and this is 26 through 30 is is more of this. 501 00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,720 This is these are the the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord 502 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,560 said bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt 503 00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,680 according to the armies. These are the ones who spoke to 504 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:40,720 Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel 505 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:43,080 from Egypt. These are the same Moses and 506 00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,560 Aaron. And it came to pass on the day 507 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:48,960 the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt that the Lord's 508 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,880 spoke to Moses saying, I am the Lord, speak to Pharaoh king of 509 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:57,160 Egypt, that I say to you, But Moses said, Lord, behold, I am, 510 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,560 I am of uncircumcised lips. And how, how shall the Pharaoh 511 00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:07,240 heed me? And God answers Moses this time 512 00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:13,199 and says, the peace that's important to the plan in you. 513 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,800 It's me, right, That when God asks us to do something, guys, 514 00:34:19,199 --> 00:34:22,440 we're not I, I, I've said it 16 times probably during the step, 515 00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:24,239 we're not the important piece, right? 516 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,159 I am not the important piece to Bridges Sandpoint. 517 00:34:28,159 --> 00:34:31,920 Me standing up here. I'm not, I am not the reason 518 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,400 Bridges Sandpoint is here, right? 519 00:34:33,639 --> 00:34:38,159 God is and his body is, right? It's we are not, we are not the 520 00:34:38,159 --> 00:34:43,080 important piece. We are, we are that important to 521 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:44,600 him. So it's not that we're 522 00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:49,800 insignificant, it's that he does the work with through US, right? 523 00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:54,920 Exodus 7 verses one and two, It says so the Lord said to Moses, 524 00:34:54,920 --> 00:35:00,440 see, I have made you as God to Pharaoh and Aaron, your brother 525 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:03,280 shall be your prophet. You shall speak all that I 526 00:35:03,280 --> 00:35:07,880 command you and Aaron, your brother shall tell Pharaoh to 527 00:35:07,880 --> 00:35:09,840 send the children of Israel out of the land. 528 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:16,240 So through all of this, I'm I'm, I can't Lord, he says, see, I 529 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:20,200 have made you right. You know, back in, back in 530 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:25,320 chapter, I think chapter 4, Moses was complaining about not 531 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,680 being able to speak and he said who makes who makes mouth? 532 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:34,760 Who makes ears right? If God asks you to do it, you're 533 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,560 not the important piece, right? What, what is important is your, 534 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:45,080 is your submission and your your surrender to his will to let him 535 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,440 do it, to follow him where he tells you to go. 536 00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,200 And, and you know, it's something I just put in here is 537 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:54,440 if God speaking to you, is he driving you to go? 538 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,440 Is he is he asking you to take a stand or make a statement? 539 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,440 Is it is it yourself that is unsure? 540 00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:10,280 So the God of all creation says he is able to do beyond all we 541 00:36:10,280 --> 00:36:17,960 can ask or think, right. And if we believe that and Paul, 542 00:36:18,200 --> 00:36:23,480 Paul in Ephesians gets to talking about God's grace and 543 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:31,320 and how how awesome his grace is to be able to he is able right. 544 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,320 It isn't guys. I can't stress enough. 545 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:36,360 It is not about going to work right? 546 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:40,280 I do not. I didn't come to sand point and 547 00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,360 hey, I'm now a pastor and I'm going to go to work building a 548 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,040 church, right? You know what I go to work 549 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:49,080 doing? I go to work spending time with 550 00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,000 him. And, and if I'm not, if I'm not 551 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:57,040 spending time with him, if I'm not resting in him, guys, if I 552 00:36:57,040 --> 00:37:02,560 am not letting him do the work, this is a waste of everybody's 553 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:07,200 time. And, and the only way that it 554 00:37:07,200 --> 00:37:09,360 would, that it would be any good is if he's doing it. 555 00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:16,680 And Ephesians 3 at the end, Paul says this. 556 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:20,360 For this reason I bow my knee to the Father of our Lord Jesus 557 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:26,600 Christ, Whom from who? From whom the whole family in 558 00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:30,800 heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you according to 559 00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,880 the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with the might 560 00:37:35,800 --> 00:37:40,160 through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in, 561 00:37:40,240 --> 00:37:43,720 in your heart through faith. That you, being rooted and 562 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:48,560 grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the Saints. 563 00:37:48,720 --> 00:37:51,400 What is that? What is the width and the length 564 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:56,400 and the depth and the height to to know the love of Christ, 565 00:37:56,400 --> 00:38:00,720 which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the 566 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:04,480 fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do 567 00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:08,160 exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think according to the 568 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:12,920 power that works in us. To Him be glory in the church by 569 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,520 Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. 570 00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:21,680 Amen. That's who we serve and that's 571 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:24,880 what He expects from us. What He expects is not for me to 572 00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,560 go to work. He expects for me to spend time 573 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,280 with Him. He expects for me to to dwell 574 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,920 with Him and and that that is our purpose, right? 575 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:42,360 Our purpose is to, to accept what he's done in his ability to 576 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,560 do it. You know, it's I put I kind of I 577 00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,040 took a bunch of the verses out of the beginning of the chapter 578 00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:54,400 and put in here that Jesus says this right to all my weaknesses, 579 00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,400 to all the things that I say Yabba Lord, Yabba Lord, Yabba 580 00:38:57,400 --> 00:39:00,120 Lord. It's like Jesus says I will do 581 00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,080 it. I am the Lord. 582 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:06,240 I appeared, I have established, I have heard, I have remembered, 583 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,040 I am the Lord. I will bring you out of bondage, 584 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,000 I will rescue you, I will redeem you. 585 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,920 I will take you as my people. I will be your God. 586 00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,360 I am the Lord. I will give you above and 587 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:27,560 beyond, I am the Lord. So the the whole point of my 588 00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:30,640 study through Exodus and you guys are are going to get sick 589 00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:37,480 of hearing it, but I hope it sticks because it's it's really 590 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,520 what he tell what he is continually telling me. 591 00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,920 You know, I I have here. You could surrender, submit and 592 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:51,200 abide and in and in our in our simple language that's get in, 593 00:39:51,200 --> 00:39:55,720 sit down and hold on. But that holding on guys, that's 594 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,760 it's hanging out with him, right? 595 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,160 And that hanging out with him, that's where the surrender and 596 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:12,120 the submit are is nothing I am doing is why I'm a Christian, 597 00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:17,240 that I spend time with Jesus and I I get to know him more and 598 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:20,480 more and that he, he fills me more and more. 599 00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:26,160 And through that there is as I follow him, there is work that 600 00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:32,040 gets done. But I don't go to work and then 601 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,000 get to know him, right? He, there is nothing in these 602 00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,680 statements. The only, the only thing that 603 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:43,800 somebody else does in Genesis or in Exodus 6 is for with a strong 604 00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:48,560 hand, he will let them go and he will drive them out. 605 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,160 I don't want to be he, because you know who that is. 606 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,160 That would be the enemy, right? That'd be Pharaoh. 607 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,920 I don't want to be that guy. I want to, I want to be the one 608 00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:01,520 that that dwells on the my God already done it. 609 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:05,880 My, my God is the I am. I will and I have. 610 00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,840 He is. All I have to offer is time with 611 00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:14,200 him. And in that time, there's going 612 00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,000 to be there's going to be opportunities to pour into 613 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,640 people's lives through what he's already done in mine. 614 00:41:20,720 --> 00:41:27,880 So yeah, it's good stuff. I, I, he is, we're next week or 615 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,600 sorry, not next week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks from now, we're going to 616 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,120 get into the plagues and it's going to be awesome because he 617 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,680 gets to show up. And I mean, the plagues are 618 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:39,600 another one of those places guys that that just prove the point. 619 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:45,640 Moses had nothing to do with it. Moses's staff wasn't wasn't in 620 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:49,360 charge. Moses wasn't in Moses doesn't do 621 00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:52,280 any of them. God does, right? 622 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:54,680 And that's what God's asking us, right? 623 00:41:55,080 --> 00:41:56,640 Well, he isn't asking us to do any of it. 624 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,720 He's asking us to trust him and go where he tells us to go. 625 00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:01,560 And he's going to do amazing things. 626 00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:06,760 So, Lord, I just lift up this time and thank you. 627 00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:09,440 Thank you for this body of believers. 628 00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:14,120 Lord, thank you for this building and all that you've 629 00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,280 already done here, Lord. And I thank you in advance for 630 00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:18,600 all that you're going to do Lord. 631 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:28,600 I thank you for just your faithful people that want to 632 00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,440 follow you wherever you take them Lord, and that you would 633 00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:35,320 speak to us, guide and direct us Lord, and you'd be with us here 634 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:36,960 today in Jesus name, Amen.