1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:02,640 The subject of today's study, but it was something, it's kind 2 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:04,920 of where my heart is when I, when I go to people's 3 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:06,440 businesses. I mean, if you're going to ask a 4 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:09,200 friend for a favour, you know, that's different. 5 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,760 But if you're going to go to their place of business and 6 00:00:13,160 --> 00:00:15,360 support them, you know, be willing to support them because 7 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,760 they're good at their job and they're going to do good for you 8 00:00:20,040 --> 00:00:21,400 because they're going to do it for the Lord. 9 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:25,000 That's the goal, right? So today we're going to be in 10 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,440 Exodus 5, but we're going to start with the last verse of 11 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:33,720 Exodus 4. And it's so the people believed. 12 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:37,440 And when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of 13 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,920 Israel and that he looked on their affliction, then they 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:42,880 bowed their heads and worshipped. 15 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,520 And Lord, I just lift up this time. 16 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:53,480 I lift up just just you and and thank you to give us this time 17 00:00:53,480 --> 00:00:58,280 that we get to just spend with you and Lord that you you care 18 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:03,960 enough to to look down and see us Lord, but that you are so you 19 00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:09,000 are also so worthy to be seen or that you you're so big and so 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:14,120 mighty and Lord that you were able to do more than we could 21 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,160 ever ask or think. And I pray all this in Jesus 22 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,920 name, Amen. So Israel, the name of my the 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:26,280 name of my study and it's really it's going to make sense. 24 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:34,680 But feeling is a victim and or, or feeling victim or surrender 25 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:39,640 surrendered victor, which is Israel you will see through 26 00:01:40,000 --> 00:01:44,960 through Exodus. Israel is all about how they 27 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:51,600 feel today, right? And they, they have a hard time 28 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:58,480 understanding who God is and why this is happening kind of thing. 29 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:03,680 But anyway, we'll go first one of X of chapter 5 says after 30 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:06,800 afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh. 31 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:11,360 Thus says the Lord God of Israel, let my people go that 32 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:14,320 they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness. 33 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:18,040 So we're just going to go through this real quick because 34 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:23,120 it's kind of a funny story. But Moses here gives credit, 35 00:02:23,320 --> 00:02:26,200 right? This is the most when you when 36 00:02:26,200 --> 00:02:28,440 you look at Moses, sorry, when you look at Moses, you got to 37 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,760 give him some credit. This is the most powerful man in 38 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,240 the known world and Moses is going to go in and demand. 39 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:41,360 So Moses automatically knows who he's speaking for, right? 40 00:02:41,680 --> 00:02:47,040 Moses, however he thinks this is going to go, Moses doesn't think 41 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:49,680 he's walking in and getting it done right? 42 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:57,000 This this is literally stating this command, this demand is 43 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,400 this is the kind of thing that could get you killed, right? 44 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,920 This is Moses walking in has to, I mean, just the fact that he 45 00:03:03,920 --> 00:03:08,600 did it means he was trusting the Lord because this year or more 46 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,040 to the point of even trusting, he was submitted to what the 47 00:03:12,040 --> 00:03:14,880 Lord wanted him to do. He was surrendered, which is, 48 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,280 you know, the if he dies, he dies kind of thing because he's 49 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:22,800 just going to follow the Lord. And then verse 2, it's Pharaoh 50 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:27,680 said, who is the Lord that I should obey Bay the obey his 51 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:32,360 voice to let Israel go. I do not know the Lord, nor will 52 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:36,000 I let Israel go. And this is I mean, as much as 53 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:37,880 we're going to pick on the Pharaoh through this whole 54 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,800 thing, this is not this is really not unreasonable, right? 55 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:49,200 This is Moses, who he probably knew of Moses and he may have 56 00:03:49,200 --> 00:03:51,720 known him when he was younger, but this is 40 years later. 57 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:55,000 And Moses is like, who is this Lord you were talking about? 58 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,240 Who who are you talking about? My slaves have a Lord. 59 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:07,240 And then Moses here, you know, after after Pharaoh asked that 60 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,720 Moses starts, you know, he started in with gusto. 61 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:18,279 The Lord said, let my people go. Verse three, he goes to I think 62 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:23,680 we do this right, blame God and not not in a bad way, but in a, 63 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:26,960 in a please, please do this so God doesn't doesn't get mad at 64 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:32,320 us, which is so they said the God of the Hebrews has met with 65 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,880 us. Please let us go three days 66 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:38,520 journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, 67 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:42,360 lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword. 68 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,400 So Pharaoh, please do this so God doesn't get mad at us. 69 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:52,360 And you know, please let us go and this the Pharaoh then 70 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:55,720 chapter verse 4 and and reason we're going through this quick 71 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:59,160 is there is a whole application thing that we'll get into. 72 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:03,200 But I just wanted to step through these verses as they 73 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:06,360 went because it's kind of a funny story when you, if you can 74 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:10,440 picture be in there, you know, Pharaoh this pretty flat footed 75 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:14,800 for the as far as when Moses comes in, Pharaoh has no idea 76 00:05:14,800 --> 00:05:18,240 this is coming and then this back and forth, right. 77 00:05:18,240 --> 00:05:22,240 And this is verse 4. It's the king of Egypt said to 78 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:25,520 them, Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their 79 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:29,240 work get back to your labor. And the Pharaoh said, look, the 80 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:33,000 people of the land are many now and you make them rest from 81 00:05:33,000 --> 00:05:34,840 their labor. Like what are you doing? 82 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:42,160 And so the first one is, is Pharaoh's kind of shocked by the 83 00:05:42,160 --> 00:05:44,720 conversation now. Now Pharaoh kind of gets his 84 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,240 wits about me. Like who are who are you? 85 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:49,560 What are you doing? Why are you talking to me about 86 00:05:49,560 --> 00:05:54,880 my slaves? And they have a God. 87 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,880 I'm their God, I'm their master, I'm their Lord. 88 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:01,600 And they need to remember who's in charge. 89 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:07,600 So then MO then the Pharaoh says in verse 6, and this is this is 90 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:13,160 the part that a lot of times we don't like is when when God 91 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,200 stirs up our life, right? So the same day Pharaoh 92 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,720 commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers 93 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,920 saying, you shall no longer give the people straw to make brick 94 00:06:23,280 --> 00:06:25,600 as before. Let them go and gather straw for 95 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,840 themselves, and you shall lay on them a quota of bricks, which 96 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:34,440 they may or they made before you shall not reduce it for their 97 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:38,400 for they are idle. Therefore they cry out, saying, 98 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:40,840 Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 99 00:06:41,400 --> 00:06:45,680 Let more work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it, 100 00:06:45,960 --> 00:06:48,520 and let them not regard false words. 101 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,440 The taskmasters of the people and their officers went out and 102 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:56,000 spoke to the people, saying, Thus says Pharaoh, I will give 103 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:00,080 you straw, I will not give you straw, Go get yourself straw 104 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,640 where you can find it. Yet none of your work will be 105 00:07:02,640 --> 00:07:04,360 reduced. So the people were scattered 106 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:08,160 abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather straw instead 107 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:10,720 of stubble or stubble instead of straw. 108 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:14,920 And the taskmasters forced them to hurry, saying, Fulfill your 109 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,720 work, your daily quota, as when there was straw. 110 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,560 Also the officers of the children of Israel whom 111 00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:26,160 Pharaoh's taskmaster had sent over them were beaten and were 112 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:30,680 asked why have you not fulfilled your task in making bricks both 113 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:36,280 yesterday and today as before? So the disruption of the status 114 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,760 quo was complete, right? Suddenly, suddenly the children 115 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:49,680 of Israel got got the idea of what what was going to happen, 116 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:53,080 right? This is, and, and a lot of times 117 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:56,240 in our lives, that is what happens. 118 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:02,680 You know, I, I want Jesus to come in and fix things and well, 119 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:05,000 he's going to, he's going to fix things and it's going to disrupt 120 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,280 my life. I mean, I can remember when I 121 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:15,160 first got saved, you know, I, I worked in construction and there 122 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:17,760 were, you know, jokes that I wasn't going to tell. 123 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:19,760 There were words that weren't going to come out of my mouth. 124 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:24,280 There were, there were stands I was going to have to make and 125 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:30,000 that wasn't going to be easy. The my flesh was going to want 126 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:34,159 to do what it'd only done and be comfortable. 127 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:38,159 And the Lord was going to make it awkward. 128 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:41,760 He was going to make it difficult because that's, that's 129 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,640 who he is. And I, I think you guys have all 130 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:48,600 heard Jesus takes me as I am and that that's how he takes us. 131 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:50,320 Exactly. I mean, he took Israel exactly 132 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:54,200 as they are, but he loves me too much to lead me that way, right? 133 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:59,000 So with Israel in this, he accepted them as they were. 134 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,960 He looked down, he saw their affliction and now he's going to 135 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:07,240 come and he's going to fix it. But like most things, we, 136 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:10,600 they're, they're looking outward and the Lord's going to fix 137 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:14,880 their hearts, right? And and he's going to work on 138 00:09:14,880 --> 00:09:17,280 the world. But it's, it's definitely not a 139 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:24,280 easy, you know, the our flesh doesn't die easy is basically it 140 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:27,560 the end of chapter 4. God was praised and worshipped 141 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:31,200 because he saw them and was going to help. 142 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,400 And and that's we get excited, right? 143 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,440 Our feelings can get all welled up in a worship service or in a 144 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:46,200 somebody, somebody can come up and give a great message, you 145 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,600 know, other than me, somebody that gives great messages and 146 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:54,640 you can get excited. But to remember that when when 147 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,640 you get home and it's you and God, right, there's a there's a 148 00:09:57,640 --> 00:10:00,760 you and him thing that that he's going to work on this right. 149 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:10,960 He always knows what needs to change and the this is the 150 00:10:10,960 --> 00:10:15,200 Israel part and and kind of where we're at is thinking. 151 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:21,360 I know what I need is kind of a crazy thought since what I 152 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,840 thought is what got me into the mess, right, Israel. 153 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:29,600 Israel wanted to continue on the status quo they had and be 154 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:32,920 saved. Well, that's never going to work 155 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:36,600 because that's what got him into the mess in the 1st place right 156 00:10:36,600 --> 00:10:37,840 there. There's got to be some 157 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:43,440 disruption. And the, the leadership here 158 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:46,040 suddenly was, was not comfortable. 159 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,680 They, they suddenly they were getting beaten. 160 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:52,680 I mean, you got to figure picture our Congress, right? 161 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:56,240 This is tell, tell our Congress they have to balance the budget 162 00:10:56,240 --> 00:11:00,520 and they they're like, oh, oh, well, you know, they come up 163 00:11:00,520 --> 00:11:03,160 with all the reasons. Well, if the ballot, the budget 164 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:04,760 wasn't balanced, they didn't get paid. 165 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,360 Suddenly, I'm betting the that might change the way they 166 00:11:08,360 --> 00:11:12,200 balance the budget, right? Or if they had to pay out of 167 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:17,040 their pockets any money that wasn't covered, right? 168 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:20,120 It wasn't only that they didn't get paid, is that it cost them. 169 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:22,400 You know, these guys were getting beaten because they 170 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:29,880 weren't getting the quota. And and what we say and what 171 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:34,000 they say, what they said was Lord help. 172 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:38,040 And what God says is I am, trust me. 173 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:48,880 And Israel felt like victims. And this is Israel going through 174 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,040 the the Old Testament, through judges and on biz. 175 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:59,120 Israel plays the victim. They when I say that they play 176 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:07,440 the it's, it's all happening to me and it's happening to me and 177 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,280 I had nothing to do with it. And Lord, you need to fix it. 178 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:16,080 And that's what Israel comes to Moses with in verse 15. 179 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:18,080 Then the officers of the children of Israel came and 180 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:19,800 cried or sorry. They came to Pharaoh first 181 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,080 Israel and came and cried out to Pharaoh saying we are. 182 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:26,440 Why are you dealing with your servants? 183 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:30,560 Thus with your servants, there is no straw given to your 184 00:12:30,560 --> 00:12:33,680 servants. And they say to us, make bricks. 185 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:39,160 And indeed your servants are beaten, but the fault is your 186 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,080 own people. They aren't giving a straw, 187 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:45,360 right? So they go to the world and ask 188 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,120 for, for relief, right? They don't go to God, They go to 189 00:12:48,120 --> 00:12:55,880 the world and they want, they want God to rescue, but they, 190 00:12:55,920 --> 00:12:58,520 they, they don't want to be in trouble in the world at the same 191 00:12:58,520 --> 00:13:03,840 time. So remember my, my line, God 192 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:07,080 wants all the blame. And so therefore he wants you to 193 00:13:07,080 --> 00:13:12,120 trust in Him completely, and he is willing to take you to a 194 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,480 place where all you have is him so that you have to trust Him, 195 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,760 right? And that but that The thing is 196 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:25,360 when you get there, that's where true rest is is true rest is 197 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:28,560 found in complete surrender to Him. 198 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,440 And Pharaoh, of course, here is is angry. 199 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,600 But I would tell you that Pharaoh is probably kind of 200 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:41,280 vindictively angry, more of a more of just a funny because 201 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:48,040 they come, they come whining. And Pharaoh, Pharaoh probably is 202 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:52,640 mad, but at the same time kind of chuckling on the inside 203 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:54,440 because this is, you know, I got them back. 204 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:55,840 I got them back where they need to be. 205 00:13:56,520 --> 00:14:00,240 Verse 17 it says, But he said you were idle, idle. 206 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,240 Therefore you say, let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. 207 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:08,160 Therefore go now and work, for no straw shall be given you, yet 208 00:14:08,160 --> 00:14:10,040 you shall deliver the quota of bricks. 209 00:14:10,040 --> 00:14:13,520 And the officers of the children of Israel saw that there was 210 00:14:14,200 --> 00:14:17,320 they were in trouble. After it was said, You shall not 211 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,040 reduce any bricks from your daily quota. 212 00:14:20,520 --> 00:14:23,720 So Pharaoh's just got him right back where he wants them, right 213 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:26,720 back under his thumb. They understand I'm in charge. 214 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,560 This this whole thing with the Lord's going to go away because 215 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:33,920 that I'm just, they're just silly slaves. 216 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,520 And they started out with excitement. 217 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:43,720 They started out with excitement that God saw them and he, he was 218 00:14:43,720 --> 00:14:48,520 going to help them. And they were, they were 219 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:50,600 excited. Moses and Aaron had heard from 220 00:14:50,600 --> 00:14:58,120 the Lord, but suddenly this was their problem. 221 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:03,800 The, the leaders, they had a problem and they, they didn't 222 00:15:03,800 --> 00:15:09,600 understand who God was or who God is in, in, in our terms, 223 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,320 right? And so then they come to Moses 224 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:15,120 and Aaron because that's who spoke to them. 225 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,160 And they say then as they came out from Pharaoh, they met Moses 226 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:21,000 and Aaron who stood there to meet them. 227 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,480 And they said to them, let the Lord look on you and judge, 228 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:27,920 because you have made us abhorrent in the sight of 229 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:31,800 Pharaoh, in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in 230 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:36,320 their hands to kill us. And over and over again Israel 231 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:41,240 will accuse Moses of taking him out into the wilderness to 232 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:42,880 starve taking him out of the wilderness. 233 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:47,440 So they all kinds of things right because they continually 234 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:55,440 think that Moses is in charge and they they don't recognize 235 00:15:55,720 --> 00:16:01,000 who God is and they don't recognize how big he is. 236 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:06,320 It's what I've got in my notes is God save me from this evil 237 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,840 world instead of God save me a Sinner. 238 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:16,400 Israel doesn't recognize that they are in need. 239 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:24,560 They are in need personally for a savior, not not the the evil. 240 00:16:24,600 --> 00:16:28,680 The evil world is doing bad things to me and I need you to 241 00:16:28,680 --> 00:16:35,360 protect me from the evil world. It's I'm, I have fallen short, 242 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:42,320 right? I I need God and Moses and Aaron 243 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,880 here. Moses returned to the Lord and 244 00:16:44,880 --> 00:16:47,720 said, Lord, why have you brought trouble on these people? 245 00:16:47,720 --> 00:16:53,600 Why is it you have sent me for since I came to Pharaoh to speak 246 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,400 in your name, he is none evil to the people, neither have you 247 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:01,320 delivered your people at all. And I said last week, Moses, 248 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:03,680 Moses had got in and sat down, right? 249 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:06,160 So he was bought into what the Lord wanted to do. 250 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:11,560 And this isn't Moses trying to get out. 251 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:14,319 This is Moses asking the questions, right? 252 00:17:14,319 --> 00:17:19,119 Trying to get some clarity on what's going on and and why is 253 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:24,480 it going on And this is it. So I haven't heard this is, this 254 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:28,319 is a question and, and it's a whiny question because I, I 255 00:17:28,319 --> 00:17:31,520 think we, we whine quite a bit. If you go through the book of 256 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:33,600 Job, you'll find Job never curses. 257 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,040 God doesn't rebel against him, but he whines quite a bit. 258 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:40,200 So whining is something that God's people do. 259 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:45,320 Not saying it's not sinful, it's we, we need to trust him, but 260 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,600 it's, this is not a voice of rebellion. 261 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:52,600 Israel has a voice of rebellion that they don't want what God's 262 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:54,320 offering. They want to go back to the way 263 00:17:54,320 --> 00:18:08,120 it was and if you think about what Moses's understanding of 264 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:15,960 who God is, Moses understood how big God was and what God was 265 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,320 asking him to do. When you, when you look back at 266 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:22,640 the first thing he did, you can imagine the faith it took and 267 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:28,360 the, the, the stepping out of himself it took to walk into the 268 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:34,720 the most powerful man in the world and saying, the Lord says, 269 00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:39,120 let my people go. That is not something Moses did 270 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:42,000 in his flesh. It's not something Moses did 271 00:18:42,000 --> 00:18:46,280 going, this is going to go well. But it was something Moses did 272 00:18:46,280 --> 00:18:53,160 because he trusted God and he trusted God because God had told 273 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,880 him what was going to go on. He gave him an outline right 274 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:01,400 back in back in chapter 4, verse 23, it says, so I say to you, 275 00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,720 and this is God talking to Pharaoh or what God's going to 276 00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:07,440 say to Pharaoh. So I say to you, let my son go 277 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:10,800 that he may serve me. But if you refuse to let him go, 278 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:13,880 indeed I will kill your son, your first born. 279 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:21,280 Moses knows God wins and Moses doesn't know how God wins. 280 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:25,320 He but he knows God wins. Now doesn't mean that there 281 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,680 aren't questions, right? There's always always that that 282 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:31,200 questioning hard. It's trying to get that wine out 283 00:19:31,200 --> 00:19:34,920 of our voice of, you know, Mary. When you think of Mary and 284 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:39,680 Gabriel coming to her, she had questions, but they were they 285 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:42,080 were questions on how are you going to do this? 286 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:44,680 Not not you're not able to do this. 287 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:50,480 And and really that's Moses here is is why are we doing it this 288 00:19:50,480 --> 00:19:58,920 way? And it's something that as we go 289 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:05,640 through our Christian walk, do we understand how big the God we 290 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:09,680 serve is? Have we had that moment with him 291 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:18,000 that we have like surrendered my understanding for his his 292 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:19,240 ability? Right. 293 00:20:19,240 --> 00:20:20,440 I don't know how he's going to do it. 294 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,040 I mean, that's, you know, building a water line across 295 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,400 Africa. Probably hundreds of times I've 296 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:27,600 been asked how are you going to do that? 297 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:31,480 I have no idea, right. And that was doesn't mean that I 298 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,640 didn't do the next thing every time it was open, right. 299 00:20:33,640 --> 00:20:36,160 I, I just kept moving forward on whatever the next thing God put 300 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:39,480 in front of me. But it wasn't that I knew I or 301 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:43,520 to this day that I know how we build a living water line across 302 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:45,240 Africa. I know he said that's what we're 303 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:46,680 going to do. So it's going to happen. 304 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:53,680 And, and so anywhere that I have opportunities from, from this 305 00:20:53,680 --> 00:21:00,560 position to help in Uganda, in Africa, I do right. 306 00:21:00,760 --> 00:21:04,000 I, I pray for those people. I, I send encouraging messages 307 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:07,800 to them. I do what I can do from here as 308 00:21:07,800 --> 00:21:13,920 those opportunities line up, but I don't, I don't ever question 309 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,040 whether or not God's going to do it because he said he would. 310 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:22,400 And and that's, that is the God we serve. 311 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,840 He is big enough to do what he says he's going to do. 312 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:38,840 And Israel never shouldn't say never haven't in most of their 313 00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:43,840 history really recognized they, they understand he's holy, but 314 00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,440 they never recognized that they're not the victim. 315 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,960 They're the victor. You're not the victim. 316 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:53,200 You're the victor if you were in Christ. 317 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,400 And the reason you're the victor is because he already won. 318 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,320 And that doesn't mean there isn't a battle, right? 319 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,920 It just means that he is who he says he is. 320 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:10,600 And something Moses understood who God was. 321 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:14,480 And if you look at the two different ways that Moses met 322 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:20,760 God and the Israelites met God, Moses met God in a fire, right? 323 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:26,360 And that's he met him in a fire. Isaiah met him in the temple. 324 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:32,840 Job met him in a cloud, right? And it's Isaiah when he met him, 325 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,360 said, woe is me, for I am undone because I'm a man of unclean 326 00:22:37,360 --> 00:22:40,720 lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. 327 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:46,840 Job, when he met him said, behold, I am vile, what shall I 328 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,000 answer you? I lay my hand over my mouth. 329 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:56,120 Peter when he met Jesus and recognized his position, he said 330 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,840 when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus's knees and 331 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:03,360 saying, depart from me for I am a sinful man, O Lord. 332 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:10,400 And Ezekiel, you ever read the vision in in Ezekiel one, it 333 00:23:10,400 --> 00:23:15,480 says, I like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy 334 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:17,680 day. So was the appearance of the 335 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,920 brightness all around it. It was the appearance of the 336 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:24,440 likeness of the glory of the Lord. 337 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,880 So when I saw it, I fell on my face and heard the voice of one 338 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:33,840 speaking. John met Jesus in revelation in 339 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:39,000 his glorified body and said, I fell at his feet as dead. 340 00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:43,680 And Jesus said, don't be afraid. I am the 1st and the last, which 341 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:51,560 is Paul met him. When Paul, when Saul met him 342 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:58,160 trembling and astonished, said, Lord, what do you want me to do? 343 00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:02,720 And Joshua, when he met the commander of the Lord's army, 344 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,240 fell on his face to the earth and worship. 345 00:24:06,920 --> 00:24:16,480 These guys met God and when they met him, they understood how big 346 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:21,720 he was and how small they were and how much they needed what he 347 00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:27,560 had. And it's Israel accepted God on 348 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,960 their team. He was their champion. 349 00:24:31,520 --> 00:24:35,440 He wasn't their Lord. He he was going to be part of 350 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,720 their team. They weren't, they weren't in 351 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:40,800 his story. They were. 352 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:44,920 He was just part of their story. And if and if he didn't do what 353 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,240 they wanted him to do, they were going another way, right? 354 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:54,000 They had No Fear of the Lord, right? 355 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:58,120 Next, Proverbs 910 says the fear of the Lord is beginning of 356 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:08,340 wisdom. They didn't understand He is God 357 00:25:08,380 --> 00:25:12,880 and is worthy. They were the children of 358 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,240 Israel. They were God's children and 359 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,240 they deserved help. Guys, we don't deserve anything 360 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:26,920 except death. He, he came and died to give, 361 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:36,160 right? And we, we deserve death and he 362 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:41,200 loved us enough to come. And my, one of my favorite 363 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,720 quotes in the Narnia books is from Beaver. 364 00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,840 And I can't remember which one of the kids sees Aslan for the 365 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:51,680 first time. It was probably the youngest one 366 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,920 and sees Aslan for the first time. 367 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,160 And he's a big lion and he's walking towards them and, and 368 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:02,520 looks at Beaver and goes, boy, is he safe. 369 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,640 And Beaver says no, but he's good. 370 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,720 That's the God we serve. Is he safe? 371 00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:15,320 No, but he's good. He is. 372 00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:22,440 He is the maker of everything, the builder of all, and he is 373 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,920 good. And when we, when we come to 374 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:32,160 him, it's just kind of disrupt our lives because our lives are 375 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:37,920 built on, on this earth. And we think that there's stuff 376 00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:42,840 here that is, that is worthy of our, our praise and, and honor 377 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:45,800 and, and joy and where happiness comes from. 378 00:26:46,400 --> 00:26:53,400 And it's just not. And so Moses here was 100% 379 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,200 obeying God and got the back of his head slapped by the Pharaoh, 380 00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,360 right. And Peter gives us some insight 381 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:06,160 about how our walk here on earth is going to go in first. 382 00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:10,120 Peter 1-6. This is the game plan God has 383 00:27:10,120 --> 00:27:13,200 for us. In this you greatly rejoice, 384 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:16,440 though now for a little while, if need be, you have been 385 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:20,720 grieved by various trials, that the genuineness of your faith, 386 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,600 being much more precious than gold that perishes, though it is 387 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:30,240 tested by fire, may be found to praise and honor and glory at 388 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:34,120 the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom having not seen you love, 389 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:38,480 though now you do not see him, yet believing, you rejoice with 390 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:44,320 joy inexpressible, full of glory, receiving the end of your 391 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:46,720 face, the salvation of your souls. 392 00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:53,880 And that we will have trials. It's not if it's will, it's 393 00:27:53,880 --> 00:28:06,760 when. The Lord cares what's going on 394 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:17,640 and wants to help, right? And, and is 100% able to do it. 395 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,480 But that takes growth for us, right? 396 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,960 We, we talked, I think on don't remember it was last week or 397 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,920 Wednesday, talked about Stony ground like Wednesday I talked 398 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,920 about Stony ground and Stony ground. 399 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,520 Mark 416. These likewise are the ones sewn 400 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,520 on Stony ground. When they hear the word, 401 00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,680 immediately they received it with gladness, and they have no 402 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:50,120 root in themselves and so endure only for a time afterwards, when 403 00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,840 tribulations or persecutions arise for the word's sake, 404 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,800 immediately they stumble. So did that not sound like what 405 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,800 Israel did right? They, they were excited. 406 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,120 They heard it. They, they, they heard what 407 00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:07,200 Moses said and they were excited because they were going to be 408 00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,680 saved, but they had no root in it. 409 00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:15,680 There was they, they wanted, they wanted to have all the 410 00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:20,440 fruit with none of the none of the growth that that's required. 411 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:27,120 I, one of the pastors down down the Tri-City said, and I imagine 412 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,840 he got it from somebody because it's, is that fruit is not grown 413 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,960 on the mountaintop. It's grown in the valley, right? 414 00:29:36,360 --> 00:29:39,600 And as believers, we don't go from mountaintop to mountaintop 415 00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,240 to mountaintop. We go mountaintop into valleys 416 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,560 to mountaintop, right? Which we have those great. 417 00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,240 We're going to go to the ministry conference. 418 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:53,960 And I, I guarantee that when you just dedicate a weekend to the 419 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,800 Lord, you're going to hear from him and you're going to, you're 420 00:29:57,800 --> 00:29:59,960 going to have some highs that are just wonderful. 421 00:29:59,960 --> 00:30:03,800 And then you're going to come back and Monday mornings going 422 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,880 to happen and you're going to be at work and all those highs you 423 00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:12,520 were feeling over the weekend, suddenly reality strikes and 424 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:16,480 you're back in a valley, right? And the key there is to remember 425 00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:22,800 that God is in both places and is using both of them for his 426 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:28,240 glory to get you where he wants you to be and to never be in 427 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:35,240 that position of not trusting him right in in Hebrews 11/1 428 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,480 says now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the 429 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:44,480 evidence of things not seen. If I know who God is and I 430 00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:48,840 recognize how big he is and in the beginning God created and on 431 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:53,160 the third day Jesus rose again. I'm pretty sure he's got my work 432 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:57,160 life figured out and, and whatever's got whatever or my, 433 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:03,120 my home life, my family life, whatever The thing is, God has 434 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:08,760 that in his control. And there's, I don't have the 435 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:15,800 verse, but it's when I die, I'm going to be with Jesus. 436 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,520 So the only thing that somebody, the the worst thing somebody 437 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:21,640 could do to me is kill me. And what is that going to do but 438 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:26,160 send me to Jesus? Everything that goes on in this 439 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,640 world, in this time is a blip of my future. 440 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,400 I live for eternity. I don't live for tomorrow. 441 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:40,040 I don't live. I live in such a way that I can 442 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,080 trust that he's got it under control. 443 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,920 And that means there's suck that happens out there, guys that 444 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,040 that real hurt happens. And it really sucks. 445 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,400 These these leaders truly got beat. 446 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,600 Joshua makes a mistake. They're sin in the camp and 36 447 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:57,120 men truly die and left their families as widows and orphans, 448 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,320 right? Real bad things happen. 449 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:09,280 If we trust God, we know that those things happen and the most 450 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:14,160 people that can get saved are going to get saved through all 451 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,760 of the junk. If there was a better way, 452 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,680 that's the way it would happen. You know, Joe, when you go 453 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,960 through Job, all of those things, if there was a better 454 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,800 way, that's the way it would happen. 455 00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:31,680 We have to trust the Lord's plan and a lot of times that's laying 456 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:38,080 down everybody around us, right? It is Luke 1426 and believe it 457 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:43,960 or not this is became one of my favorite verses as I was going 458 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:49,960 through 2020. If anyone comes to me and does 459 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,520 not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and 460 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:58,200 sisters, yes, and even his own life also, He cannot be my 461 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:00,640 disciple. And whoever does not bear his 462 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:04,080 cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 463 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,000 And everybody's like, wow, you can't hate people. 464 00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:15,080 You have to, you have to understand that Jesus, it's 465 00:33:15,160 --> 00:33:21,360 pretty simple. He wants 100%, not not 92%, not 466 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,200 99.9%. He wants 100%. 467 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:29,320 And that isn't because he's selfish. 468 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:34,240 That's because he knows if you have anything between you and 469 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:39,720 him, it's poisonous to you. It is it. 470 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:44,520 It will poison your spirit because it's something the enemy 471 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,080 can use against you. If you have anything that is a 472 00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,000 Yeah, but it is outside of Christ, right? 473 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,800 It is the moment you think that this thing will make me happy 474 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,720 instead of I am already full of joy, full of peace because I'm 475 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,160 in Christ now. God, God gives us great things. 476 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,440 He gives. I mean, I have a wonderful wife. 477 00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:10,120 She's not in here so I can talk about her. 478 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:16,040 I have a wonderful wife who loves me and he's a she's a gift 479 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,840 from him. He wants to give us good things. 480 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:23,120 But if at any point I put my hands around her and I say she's 481 00:34:23,120 --> 00:34:29,800 mine guiding me, you're going to have a problem, right, because 482 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:34,000 he's going to say you got to keep your hand open, right? 483 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:37,360 You got to keep your hand open with your relationships in your 484 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:41,560 life, their your vehicles in your life, your your job, 485 00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:43,280 everything. It's like Lord, whatever you 486 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:47,040 want to do with it, right, Uganda, right. 487 00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:52,480 So here, here's a so my plan, because I always have plans, my 488 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:58,400 plan nuclear nuclear supervisor spend three to six months in 489 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:03,600 Uganda work outages, have a fifth wheel, go to work. 490 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:10,160 My plan is working and then go be a pastor in Sandpoint. 491 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:18,560 If if my hand wasn't open about Uganda, I'd, I'd have said said 492 00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,400 this is this is what I do, Lord, I, I'm a missionary in Uganda. 493 00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,640 This is this is mine. This is what I do. 494 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:33,040 But my job is really simple. Not my will, but your will be 495 00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,280 done, Lord. And and that is truly it. 496 00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:40,680 If I, if I exchange my my wants and desires for his wants and 497 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:44,920 desires, guys, there is nothing better on this earth than what 498 00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:50,360 he wants from me. I mean, if it, if I were, if I 499 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,800 had decided I was going to do Uganda, my work life would be 500 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:58,480 miserable right now and Uganda would be falling apart because 501 00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,920 there's no way if I step out of his will that I get to do all 502 00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:05,240 the things that he wants me to do because I'm not doing what he 503 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:09,680 wants me to do. So even in ministry, if you 504 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:19,440 decide that you're just going to be about your work, then you're 505 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:23,120 just a slave to the world because you're trying to make 506 00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:27,800 yourself happy in the world system instead of resting and 507 00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:32,280 trusting in his plan. And, and it's been his plan 508 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:34,200 since before the foundations of the Earth, right? 509 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,960 It isn't. None of this is a shock to him, 510 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,720 but it you know John 316 which gets beat up, but the the 511 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:45,600 problem with John 316 and it's not the verse, it's our 512 00:36:45,600 --> 00:36:50,360 understanding of it is very often we we settle like Israel 513 00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:53,040 in John 316 for God so loved the world. 514 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,120 I am so excited praise and worship he gave his only 515 00:36:57,120 --> 00:37:00,320 begotten son That is so awesome praise and worship that whoever 516 00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:03,320 believes in him should not perish but have everlasting 517 00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:05,120 life. I am a victim and I need Jesus 518 00:37:05,720 --> 00:37:09,120 to come and save me. That that the problem with that 519 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:13,360 is there's this who that whomever believes in him that 520 00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:17,240 not that is not I believe that Jesus because before I was a 521 00:37:17,240 --> 00:37:20,000 believer, I believed I had went through the whole thing and 522 00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,720 figured out how I could sleep at night and I believed that Jesus 523 00:37:22,720 --> 00:37:24,840 was a real man and he really walked on the earth. 524 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,400 I believed that he was crucified. 525 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:30,880 I believe that I believed I even believed he was born of a 526 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,720 virgin. Right, that fine, I'll believe 527 00:37:32,720 --> 00:37:35,120 that. And I believed he rose on the 528 00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:39,520 third day. I believe that, and so I'm good. 529 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,000 So I am now. I am now saved and I'm good. 530 00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:47,720 Except I didn't believe in him, right? 531 00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:53,640 And that believe word is to trust in him, to rely upon him, 532 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:59,440 to place all confidence in him, to entrust myself to him, to 533 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:02,760 lean all of my weight of my life on him. 534 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:06,200 That's believe. That's what that word mean. 535 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:11,120 And if we're not doing that, then we're acting like Israel. 536 00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,320 We're just victims. I need, I need to get out of 537 00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:18,000 jail free card because I'm a good person and the world is 538 00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:21,600 evil. I'm not a good person. 539 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,520 The world is evil, but I'm not a good person. 540 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:30,800 I'm in the world. I need a Savior that is able to 541 00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:35,800 do what He says, and I believe Jesus is that He is. 542 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:41,920 He is above and beyond right. Hebrews 11611 six through 8 543 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:43,240 says. But without faith it is 544 00:38:43,240 --> 00:38:47,560 impossible to please him, for he who comes to God must believe 545 00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:51,200 that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently 546 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:58,160 seek Him by faith. Noah, being divinely warned of 547 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:03,800 things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for 548 00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:09,800 the saving of his household, by which he commanded, commended 549 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,160 the world, and became heir of righteousness, which is in 550 00:39:14,160 --> 00:39:17,520 accord to faith. By faith Abraham obeyed when he 551 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,840 was called to go out to the place which he was would receive 552 00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:25,160 as an inheritance, and he went out, not knowing where he was 553 00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,400 going. So Noah and Abraham did things 554 00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,080 not because they understood what God was asking. 555 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:37,800 They understood who God was in the in the in the human mind, 556 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,680 right is they understood God was big enough to do what he said 557 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,560 right. They Noah understood that God 558 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:50,160 said build a boat on the land. It has never you got to remember 559 00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,960 that in Noah's eight day it had never rained. 560 00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:56,480 The dew came up from the from the ground and watered the 561 00:39:56,480 --> 00:40:01,480 fields. So Noah had no explanation on. 562 00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,600 Why or how this boat was going to be used. 563 00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:13,840 Abraham got called to go to a a place he had never been because 564 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,400 God said that isn't trusting that the world has a plan that's 565 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:20,440 trusting that God's big enough to use the plan that he's got 566 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:24,320 for me. And if and if we've given our 567 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:29,440 life to Christ, this is the cost to trust him right? 568 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:36,400 And that is my when that that full surrender is full faith and 569 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,680 full belief He is able to do what he says. 570 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,280 And that my job as a believer is to do everything as unto the 571 00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:47,720 Lord and not to men, which is get my eyes off the world and 572 00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:52,120 just do what he tells me to do. And that takes prayer and that 573 00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,840 takes time. But that trust is when we look 574 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:59,520 at Romans 828 and you will over the years, you will hear me beat 575 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:02,200 that verse up because it is so misquoted so often. 576 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:08,240 But what Israel's missing is they don't understand Roman 828, 577 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:14,280 which is God does uses all things together for the good of 578 00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:18,360 those who love him, right? That does not mean that God uses 579 00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:23,160 everything for my good. He uses everything for the good 580 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:28,760 and the good is as many souls into heaven as can get there. 581 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:35,000 And my life surrender to him is saying, Lord, use my life for 582 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:38,320 that process. I am willingly surrendering that 583 00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,680 to you. And The thing is, when that 584 00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,240 happens, when I'm in Christ and I am made new, I'm able to do 585 00:41:47,240 --> 00:41:52,160 that. Second Corinthians 517 is all I 586 00:41:52,160 --> 00:42:00,960 just, I hate it when I do that. Gosh, it's like one of my life 587 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:03,280 verses and I just space it because I'm standing up here 588 00:42:15,340 --> 00:42:19,380 and you get a new Bible and all the pages are in the wrong 589 00:42:19,380 --> 00:42:24,300 place. It's the it's the Bible. 590 00:42:24,300 --> 00:42:30,800 It isn't me. So 2nd Corinthians 517 says 591 00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:38,560 therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 592 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:41,640 Old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become 593 00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:45,600 new and that all things have become new guys is when I give 594 00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:49,680 my life to Jesus. He doesn't take he doesn't take 595 00:42:49,680 --> 00:42:52,800 Nick and go, man, there's a lot of good pieces here. 596 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:54,480 We can make something out of this. 597 00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,560 No, they're nothing good there. All things become new. 598 00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,520 The old passes away. And and that's what I'm trusting 599 00:43:05,520 --> 00:43:13,280 in is that he is able to use this broken, useless person and 600 00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:15,560 do amazing things in the Kingdom. 601 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:21,120 You know, you guys hear it all the time, but we're in his 602 00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:29,600 story, right? The beginning of this was Moses 603 00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:33,400 in God's words. Moses trusted God's words, 604 00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:36,520 right? And then Moses shared God word, 605 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,480 God's words. Thus says the Lord God of 606 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:44,560 Israel, let my people go and and Moses didn't know how that was 607 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:49,000 going to happen. He he just trusted God, said it 608 00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,600 and told him to repeat it. Do we do that right? 609 00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:55,920 And how important is God's word in our life? 610 00:43:56,640 --> 00:43:59,960 And God's word obviously is like I say, it's twofold. 611 00:43:59,960 --> 00:44:04,960 It is what is it is what is here written down in the Bible? 612 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:08,560 And it's also that still small voice that's speaking to you 613 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,800 that obviously won't go against the words of the other 614 00:44:12,560 --> 00:44:16,480 Scriptures, but it also will will take you right and say, go 615 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,200 talk to that person. Go do these things right. 616 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,280 John 11 says in the beginning was the Word and the word was 617 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:27,840 with God and the word was God that's Speaking of Jesus. 618 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:32,720 But then Revelation 1913, he would clothe in a robe dipped in 619 00:44:32,720 --> 00:44:35,520 blood and his name is called the word of God. 620 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:39,480 So do you trust that God has a plan for you? 621 00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,360 Do you trust that he can speak to you? 622 00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,960 And when He speaks to you, do you trust and go and do? 623 00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:49,640 Do you obey, right? And that's when you get back to 624 00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:51,480 that believe. Do you believe the Word? 625 00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:56,440 Do you trust His word? Do you rely upon His word? 626 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,120 Do you believe confidently in His word? 627 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:01,440 Do you entrust yourself to His Word? 628 00:45:07,030 --> 00:45:09,430 Just like Moses said, let my people go. 629 00:45:09,430 --> 00:45:14,790 Jesus is saying that each of us. He is saying, let go of this 630 00:45:14,790 --> 00:45:17,150 world and trust me. I won. 631 00:45:18,350 --> 00:45:23,920 Write that surrender if we surrender to Jesus, we have one 632 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:30,000 if, if we just feel like a victim who who needs somebody to 633 00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:33,920 save them. We are we're we're missing it 634 00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:36,760 because we we think that he's coming to defend us from the 635 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:41,040 world and he's actually using us to conquer the world because 636 00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:42,600 that's what he's going to do with Israel, right? 637 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,000 He's going to Israel is literally going to lay waste to 638 00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,840 Egypt. He, they're going to plunder 639 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:50,720 them, right? They're going to take all their 640 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:54,720 valuables and it's all going to be because God did it, right? 641 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:59,720 But it's when Israel and Moses as they, as they go through this 642 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:03,520 process, guys, I'm not saying, I mean, Israel's going to fail 643 00:46:03,520 --> 00:46:05,160 over and over and over and over again. 644 00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,360 Do you know anybody like that, right? 645 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:11,560 So, but there are little glimpses of moments when they 646 00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:15,360 get it, Moses gets it. Do you get it? 647 00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:19,640 Do I get it? He's bigger than we can imagine. 648 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:23,480 And he is able to use all the stuff in all the stuff on our 649 00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,880 level, all the stuff at the city level, all the stuff at the 650 00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:29,920 state level, all the stuff at the national level, all the 651 00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:31,280 stuff at the international level. 652 00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:36,680 He is able to use all of it for his will, for his glory. 653 00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,040 And and it will. That does not mean at any point 654 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:45,920 that life goes along smooth and level, which I would tell you 655 00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:48,880 Israel's life definitely does not go along smooth and level, 656 00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,560 but God will use it all for his glory. 657 00:46:54,240 --> 00:46:56,400 That good stuff. That's good stuff, right? 658 00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:03,400 I I, I really enjoy the idea of getting serious with him right 659 00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:11,080 of being that exchange life of just if guys, if you read your 660 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:17,240 word, if you're in your Bible, reading the word and you just 661 00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:26,360 listen and follow the rest that you receive is you don't get it 662 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:33,040 in the world that my when life sucks, like I've said, 663 00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:36,200 Colossians 323. I just work for the Lord, which 664 00:47:36,240 --> 00:47:40,880 means I just need to do my best. It doesn't mean my best is good 665 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:45,600 enough. You know, it's I need to die to 666 00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:49,400 myself. You know, Galatians 220, which 667 00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:52,200 is this life. I I mean, it's, I've been 668 00:47:52,200 --> 00:47:55,920 crucified, but the end is this life I now live in in the flesh. 669 00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,320 I live by faith, right, which means I don't have it in me to 670 00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:04,720 do everything as unto the Lord. I have to live by faith in him 671 00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:09,720 and what he already did. And then when I do that, he, 672 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:14,280 when, when I live for him, he manifests himself to me, which 673 00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:18,240 is John 1421. You know, when I, when I follow 674 00:48:18,240 --> 00:48:21,920 his commandments, he manifests himself. 675 00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:25,480 He grows. The more I follow, the bigger he 676 00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:29,080 gets, the, the clearer I see him. 677 00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:37,000 We're we're going to do communion and it's a time, guys, 678 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,800 that that's that question to ask yourself. 679 00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:46,440 Say, Lord, is there anything I have that I got my hand around? 680 00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:50,760 Is there anything that I think you can't do that I'm that I'm 681 00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,720 trying to do that. I'm going to the world to try 682 00:48:52,720 --> 00:48:58,200 and fix it instead of coming to you, Lord, am I, am I listening? 683 00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:04,760 Am I willing to just say yes, Lord, am I willing to walk into 684 00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:06,480 the Pharaoh and say, let my people go? 685 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:12,400 And I mean, guys, give Moses and Aaron credit for that moment. 686 00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:17,760 That moment is the is the declaration, right? 687 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:25,320 It's the IT is the declaration that there that Moses is well, 688 00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:31,480 here we go, right? This is this is an UN, this 689 00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:33,640 wasn't irrevocable moment, right? 690 00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:37,160 I, I can't remember in nuclear, there is a thing like that where 691 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:41,120 it's a critical step is something that can't be backed 692 00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:44,560 up from. Well, you going in and demanding 693 00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:48,360 to the Pharaoh is something that can't be backed up from because 694 00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:53,600 and when I say that, what I mean is Moses declared the Lord said 695 00:49:54,120 --> 00:49:58,840 let my people go, which means Moses is making a stand that his 696 00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:02,080 God is big enough to force the Pharaoh to let him go. 697 00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:07,560 You know, if Moses walks away and and and Israel doesn't end 698 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:12,480 up free, then God failed and Pharaoh's bigger. 699 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,640 But we know how that the end of the book is and trust me when I 700 00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:23,680 tell you Pharaoh is not bigger, but this is Jesus, right? 701 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:32,400 And when he instituted the Lord's Supper, says the Lord 702 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,320 Jesus, on the same night in which he would was portrayed, 703 00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,800 took bread. And when he had given thanks, he 704 00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:43,200 broke it and said, take, eat. This is my body which is broken 705 00:50:43,920 --> 00:50:46,640 for you. Do this in remembrance of me. 706 00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:50,920 In the same manner he also took the cup after supper, saying, 707 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,840 This cup is the new covenant in my blood. 708 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:57,400 Do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. 709 00:50:59,400 --> 00:51:05,640 So guys, as we do this, like I talked about it on Easter, He 710 00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:10,320 said this, and then he rose again on the third day and 711 00:51:10,320 --> 00:51:17,280 proved that it was true, that His blood does wash us clean. 712 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:22,920 He paid for our sins, but He didn't pay for our sins. 713 00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:28,800 So we had a box of them. He paid for you and me and threw 714 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,400 our sins away. And when we're we're going to 715 00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:38,280 sing a song and just spend some time with him, freshly 716 00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:42,560 remembering what he's done in your life, freshly remembering 717 00:51:43,480 --> 00:51:47,560 how far you've come in that relationship with him. 718 00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,400 And if you don't have that relationship, it's a simple 719 00:51:51,400 --> 00:51:58,880 request. Lord, I need you to save me a 720 00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,720 Sinner. It's that it's that easy. 721 00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:07,760 It's not a it's a heart thing. Moses got it. 722 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:10,320 Ezekiel got it. Isaiah got it. 723 00:52:12,000 --> 00:52:15,680 It's not a you don't need to be saved from an evil world. 724 00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:21,760 You need to see saved from yourself and then he will use 725 00:52:21,760 --> 00:52:24,880 you in an evil world to change lives. 726 00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:28,200 And Lord, I just thank you for that. 727 00:52:28,200 --> 00:52:33,520 Lord, I thank you that you cared enough and that you still care 728 00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:40,040 and that you're big enough. Just be with us now and just 729 00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,480 lift our voices up to you. Jesus name Amen.