1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:02,680 And we're going to be back in Exodus one. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:05,800 I've made it. I made it to verse 5 last week. 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:12,560 I am going to all goes right, I'll get through verse 22 today. 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:18,040 Our our fun title today is what will it take? 5 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:22,800 And we're going to start back in verse 5. 6 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,280 We're just going to read through it real quick. 7 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:28,680 All those who were descendants of Jacob were 70 persons, for 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,080 Joseph was in Egypt already. And Joseph died all his brothers 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,960 and all that generation. But the children of Israel were 10 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,120 fruitful and increased abundantly, multiplied and grew 11 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:42,720 exceedingly mighty, and the land was filled with them. 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:46,760 Now there arose a new king over Egypt who did not know Joseph, 13 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,400 and he said to his people, Look, the people of the children of 14 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,360 Israel are more, mighty, more and mightier than we come. 15 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:59,040 Let us deal shrewdly with them. Let us, lest they multiply. 16 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,440 And it happened in the event of war, that they also join our 17 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:07,000 enemies and fight against us, and so go up out of the land. 18 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:11,960 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with 19 00:01:11,960 --> 00:01:14,080 their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh, 20 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,120 supply cities, Python And Ramses. 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,200 But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied 22 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,720 and grew, and they were in dread of the children of Israel. 23 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:26,760 So the Egyptians made the children of Israel serve with 24 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,800 rigor, and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage in 25 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,560 mortar and brick, in all manner of service in the field. 26 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,560 All their services in which they made them serve was with rigor. 27 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,640 Then the king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the 28 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:49,040 name of name of 1 was Chiffon and the name of the other was 29 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,200 Puah. And he said, When do you, when 30 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:57,480 you do your duties of midwife for the Hebrew women and see 31 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,800 them on the birth stools? If it is a son, then you shall 32 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:03,560 kill him, but if it is a daughter then you shall then, 33 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:07,360 then she shall live. But the midwives feared God and 34 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:12,080 did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but he saved the 35 00:02:12,080 --> 00:02:15,280 male children alive. So the king of Egypt called for 36 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,520 the midwives and said to them, Why have you done this thing and 37 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:22,120 saved the male children alive? And the midwives said to 38 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:25,920 Pharaoh, because the Hebrew women are not like Egyptian 39 00:02:25,920 --> 00:02:28,840 women, for they are lively and give birth before the midwives 40 00:02:28,840 --> 00:02:32,240 come to them. Therefore God dealt with, dealt 41 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:35,960 well with the midwives, and the people multiplied and grew very 42 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,200 mighty. And so it was because the 43 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:43,400 midwives feared God that he provided for for them or 44 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:47,360 provided households for them. So Pharaoh commanded his people, 45 00:02:47,360 --> 00:02:51,560 saying, every son who was born you shall cast into the river, 46 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:54,400 and every daughter shall be saved alive. 47 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,880 So Lord, I just lift up this time, Lord, and I just lift up 48 00:02:56,960 --> 00:03:01,280 everybody here and just thank you for what you do in our 49 00:03:01,280 --> 00:03:01,840 lives. Lord. 50 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:04,840 Thank you that you don't forget about us, Lord, that you are 51 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:10,000 more faithful than we are, Lord that you're always working, and 52 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,440 Lord that you'd be here in this room walking amongst us. 53 00:03:12,640 --> 00:03:15,640 Speak into our hearts. I pray all this is Jesus name. 54 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:23,680 So in Genesis 37 it says, then the eyes of both of them were 55 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:27,240 open and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig 56 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,600 leaves together and made themselves coverings and they 57 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:33,560 heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the 58 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,160 cool of the day. And Adam and his wife hid 59 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,160 themselves from the present of the Lord among the trees of the 60 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:41,080 garden. And then the Lord God called to 61 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:43,160 Adam and said to him, where are you? 62 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:47,400 Because that's what he wanted, right? 63 00:03:47,400 --> 00:03:52,160 He wanted to walk with him. Now God at no point didn't know 64 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,600 where Adam was, but was calling Adam. 65 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:59,440 But then in Genesis 524 it says an Enoch walked with God and he 66 00:03:59,440 --> 00:04:04,480 was not for God took him. And Genesis 6 says 69 says this 67 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,800 is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in 68 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,320 his generations and Noah walked with God. 69 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:16,120 Micah 68 tells us this right? He has shown you, O man, what is 70 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:20,360 good and what does the Lord require you but to do justly to 71 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,120 love mercy and walk humbly with your God. 72 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:29,240 So when we when we think about that walk with God, what does 73 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:32,480 that look like And what what does God truly expect of us, 74 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:37,880 right? And verse 5, we talked about it 75 00:04:37,880 --> 00:04:42,400 last week is Joseph, all the descendants came to the land. 76 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:50,840 There were 70 people and Joseph was already there. 77 00:04:51,280 --> 00:04:59,320 And Joseph had had spent his time in Egypt understanding who 78 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:02,840 God was right. And if you look at Joe, if you 79 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:10,480 read, if you read the, the saga of Jacob and the growth of his 80 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,600 family and Joseph going into the land, I mean, it's quite, it's 81 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:18,000 quite a story and it's, it's worth, it's worth reading 82 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,600 through it. But you look at Joseph and what 83 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:25,520 you see in Joseph is he had an understanding of who his God 84 00:05:25,520 --> 00:05:28,040 was. He had an understanding that 85 00:05:28,280 --> 00:05:34,800 that God was with him and that because of that, that 86 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:38,760 understanding there was a there was a a fear of disappointing 87 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,320 God right a respect. And you see that in Genesis 39 88 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:46,960 nine it says there is there is no one greater in the house than 89 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:51,960 I nor has he kept back anything from me but you because you are 90 00:05:51,960 --> 00:05:54,680 his wife. How then can I do this great 91 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,480 wickedness and sin against God. And this is, this is Joseph 92 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:05,280 speaking to his master's wife. And he doesn't say that my 93 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:08,040 master has done all these things and how could I sin against my 94 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,960 master? He says, how could I sin against 95 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,840 God, right? So Joseph understood that that 96 00:06:14,840 --> 00:06:21,800 God was living and, and that his responsibility was to, to honor 97 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:27,320 that right, to honor the Lord. Joseph didn't fear his master, 98 00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:29,400 he didn't fear his master's wife. 99 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:34,880 He feared God, right? And Joseph understood that God 100 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:37,640 was in charge. And that's something that you 101 00:06:37,640 --> 00:06:40,240 see again. So Joseph, Joseph ends up in 102 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:42,160 jail. He's in prison. 103 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:44,160 He does all this stuff and he gets called out. 104 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:45,800 If you guys don't know the story, he gets called out of 105 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:48,040 prison by the Pharaoh. And so now he's going to meet 106 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,520 the most powerful man in the country he's in. 107 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,760 And Joseph doesn't fear him either, right? 108 00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:01,360 It says verse 41 or sorry, chapter 41, verse 15 of Genesis, 109 00:07:01,360 --> 00:07:04,640 it says, and Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream and 110 00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:08,080 there is no one who can interpret it, but I've heard 111 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,080 it's said of you that you can understand to interpret it. 112 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,760 So Joseph answered Pharaoh and what he didn't answer him, and 113 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,640 I'll tell you what he said, but what he didn't say is, oh, 114 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,040 honorable Pharaoh, I can do all these things for you. 115 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:27,360 That's not what he said. What he said is it is not in me. 116 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,040 God will give Pharaoh an answer, right? 117 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,040 He understood where his power came from. 118 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:37,320 He understood that that he had nothing to offer, right? 119 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,320 He had nothing to offer except God, right? 120 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:49,000 He had, and Joseph didn't have a terror kind of fear of the Lord. 121 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,240 He had a respect. He respected the power that the 122 00:07:53,240 --> 00:07:55,360 Lord had shown in his own life, right? 123 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:00,000 He understood that the wisdom and knowledge came from God, 124 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,080 right, that it wasn't that Joseph suddenly became smart. 125 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:08,120 He understood that anything he was going to tell the Pharaoh of 126 00:08:08,120 --> 00:08:12,560 any value was going to be from the Lord, the living God that he 127 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:15,600 had relied on his entire time in Egypt. 128 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:18,600 And and you can watch Joseph's life. 129 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:21,360 You go back and read it. This is it doesn't talk about 130 00:08:21,360 --> 00:08:24,360 Joseph's conversations with the Lord, but you can see the 131 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:29,360 moments in his life that that Joseph just knew God was there, 132 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:35,039 that he was faithful. Now you can also look at 133 00:08:35,039 --> 00:08:41,159 Joseph's brothers and his brothers did not understand. 134 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:46,960 And Joseph is 1 of 12, right? And and maybe Benjamin 135 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,360 understood. You don't get to hear anything 136 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:53,000 about Benjamin, but at least 10 of Joseph's brothers definitely 137 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:56,040 didn't get this. They did not understand that God 138 00:08:56,560 --> 00:08:59,880 is God and he's living right. I say it all the time. 139 00:08:59,880 --> 00:09:01,360 I don't want to act like a Christian. 140 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:05,400 I want to be one, right? I, I, it's, it's about that 141 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:06,960 conversation with the Lord, right? 142 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:08,640 It's not about doing all the right things. 143 00:09:08,640 --> 00:09:11,480 It's about spending time with him and doing what he wants me 144 00:09:11,480 --> 00:09:16,880 to do. And Genesis 50 verse 15 to 20, 145 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:21,640 this is Joseph's brothers after Jacob dies. 146 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:24,440 And it says when Joseph's brother saw that their father 147 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,920 was dead, they said, perhaps Joseph will hate us, and they 148 00:09:28,920 --> 00:09:32,240 actually repay us for all the evil which we did to him. 149 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:35,480 So they sent messengers to Joseph, saying, Before your, 150 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,080 before your father died, he commanded, saying, Thus you 151 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,520 shall say to Joseph, I beg you, please forgive the trespasses of 152 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:45,880 your brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you. 153 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:50,160 Now please forgive the trespasses of the servants of, 154 00:09:50,680 --> 00:09:54,880 of the God, of your father. And Joseph wept when they spoke 155 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,640 to him. Then his brothers also went and 156 00:09:58,640 --> 00:10:03,560 fell before his face. And they said, Behold, we are 157 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:05,920 your servants. And Joseph said to them, Do not 158 00:10:05,920 --> 00:10:09,080 be afraid. I'm in in the play. 159 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,240 Am I in the place of God? But As for you, you meant evil 160 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,200 against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring, bring it 161 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,720 about as it is today to save many people alive. 162 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,040 So they were serving the God of their father. 163 00:10:26,320 --> 00:10:29,800 They weren't serving God. They were keeping their dad 164 00:10:29,800 --> 00:10:33,840 happy, right? Can you, can you think of any, 165 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:42,360 any organization over the centuries any worse than the 166 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:49,400 than the church has been at just we're going to I'm going to have 167 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,000 these traditions. I'm going to do the I'm going to 168 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,400 check these boxes. And now, now, because I did 169 00:10:53,400 --> 00:10:59,200 this, we're better. And that's Israel over and over 170 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:02,960 and over again. Will will fall into that trap of 171 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:08,200 I am doing X and I deserve Y and God and what you what you what 172 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:16,080 you do is serve God and have that relationship and you watch 173 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:19,160 Joseph's life and that's what he did and that's that's what he's 174 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:21,080 explaining to them. Guys, you're missing it. 175 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:26,200 I'm this is not a this is not a, a box to be checked, a work to 176 00:11:26,200 --> 00:11:28,360 be done. This is time to be spent. 177 00:11:29,160 --> 00:11:37,640 And and then we talked about it last week that their moral 178 00:11:37,640 --> 00:11:42,200 center wasn't God. They had walked with their dad, 179 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,840 right? They had, they had walked with 180 00:11:44,840 --> 00:11:46,400 Israel. That's that, you know, and 181 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:49,840 Joseph has to respect what what Jacob, he has to respect his 182 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,200 father. His father said this and 183 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:57,440 Joseph's like, no guys, I have to respect God. 184 00:11:57,520 --> 00:12:00,080 How could I do? How could I do anything against 185 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,600 what he wants me to do? And that's where we need to be 186 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:05,560 right? Joseph understood that the the 187 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:09,920 beginning of wisdom, right, which is Proverbs 910. 188 00:12:10,200 --> 00:12:13,120 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, right? 189 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,040 And the knowledge of the Holy one is understanding. 190 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:28,480 And that fear, guys, is I, my, it breaks down when, when I try 191 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:33,720 to explain it from a, from a human standpoint of what do you 192 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,960 respect anybody? Do you have fear of anybody like 193 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:42,200 that? When I got married in 1998, I 194 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:44,320 had a plan. I was getting married, we were 195 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:46,920 going on a honeymoon. As soon as the marriage was 196 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,560 over, we were going to jump in the truck and we were out of 197 00:12:49,560 --> 00:12:52,400 there. And that was the plan. 198 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:56,640 It was the plan from day one that was the plan. 199 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:00,400 And then we had the wedding and or we're we're prepping for the 200 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:05,440 wedding, pictures are being taken and the there is the we 201 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:08,560 had 300 people there and we're in my mom's front yard. 202 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:14,040 And my grandpa doesn't even say it to me. 203 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:20,480 He said it to, I can't even remember who came and told me 204 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:22,280 when I said, yeah, we're not staying. 205 00:13:22,280 --> 00:13:25,760 And they said, well, Grandpa D says that you, you're staying 206 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:30,440 for the reception. And I didn't, I didn't bow up. 207 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:33,080 I didn't do anything. I just went, we're staying for 208 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,680 the reception. Not because Grandpa D would have 209 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:42,560 been angry, right, but because that's what he wanted me to do. 210 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:47,000 And I and you don't ever get to meet him. 211 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:54,240 Well, he might get to meet him, obviously, but he he was a man 212 00:13:54,240 --> 00:14:01,160 in my life that could, with a word change my direction, right? 213 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,480 I graduated high school because of the conversation I had with 214 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:07,760 him and not because he said you will graduate high school. 215 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,680 That probably would have worked, but he was smarter than that, 216 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,280 right? He had a had a conversation with 217 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:16,960 me that had nothing to do with high school, had nothing to do 218 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,120 with whether or not Nick was going to graduate high school. 219 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:21,520 He had a conversation about starting and finishing things 220 00:14:21,800 --> 00:14:24,640 and guys he hired and why he hired him. 221 00:14:25,000 --> 00:14:28,920 And all of that to be said is that I had a fear for my 222 00:14:28,920 --> 00:14:31,400 grandfather. I had a fear and respect for 223 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:33,640 him, but not because I thought he was going to beat me. 224 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:40,880 Not because I was in terror, but because I feared to disappoint 225 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:44,240 him. And I don't know if I could 226 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,120 right. That's the and the thing about 227 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:55,640 our fear with with the Lord, it's that it's that idea that 228 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,040 I'm sure you guys have all seen a meme or whatever. 229 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:01,800 It's it's there's two kinds of fear when you talk about fearing 230 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:07,160 somebody or or thinking about their power is I hope my dad 231 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:14,880 doesn't find out versus my dad will know what to do there. 232 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,960 There was never time that that I thought that I I was sharing 233 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:22,400 with Uncle Pat last week or the week before that. 234 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:28,280 My mom was a single mom and we lived in the tri-cities. 235 00:15:28,280 --> 00:15:30,960 She worked two and three jobs pretty regularly. 236 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:38,720 And I knew we were going to be OK because I knew that less than 237 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:45,000 an hour and a half away was my grandparents and my uncles and I 238 00:15:45,000 --> 00:15:47,360 knew they wouldn't let us die, right. 239 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,640 I, I had faith in that. Now I wasn't a believer, but I 240 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:57,880 understood that connection. And God will spend the entire 241 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:07,120 book of Exodus explaining to Israel that he's that God, that 242 00:16:07,400 --> 00:16:14,160 that he just wants to walk with him and something he talks to us 243 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,680 about Romans 724 and we've all heard this. 244 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:21,080 I'm sure, O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from 245 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,960 this body of death, Thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord, 246 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:31,280 so that when so then with the mind, I'm with the mind. 247 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,360 I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of 248 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,120 sin. Do we understand that that The 249 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:43,920 thing is with the fear of God, it I'm I can fear God or I can 250 00:16:43,920 --> 00:16:46,880 accept that he already knows everything and loves me anyway. 251 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,280 Do you get that that you're already undone, that there isn't 252 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,080 anything hidden in our lives that he doesn't already know, 253 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,280 that he hasn't already already paid the price for and is 254 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:03,680 willing to forgive us for? But it's that it's that 255 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:05,800 question. Are we willing to walk with him? 256 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:14,119 I do imagine that Joseph, as he went through his life and got to 257 00:17:14,119 --> 00:17:23,960 the end of his life, that he that he was like Joshua, like 258 00:17:23,960 --> 00:17:26,040 Moses. If you if you read Deuteronomy, 259 00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,200 you'll get to hear Moses say this over and over again in 260 00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,960 different words, but Joshua really finite pointed it out 261 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,400 after dealing with Israel for for the decades that Joshua, 262 00:17:38,440 --> 00:17:43,920 Joshua had dealt with them and watched them, he ends his life. 263 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:47,320 His last words to him is in Joshua 2415. 264 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:51,160 And it says, and if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, 265 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:55,400 choose for your yourself this day whom you will serve, whether 266 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:59,200 the gods which were your father, that which your father served, 267 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,320 that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the 268 00:18:02,320 --> 00:18:04,640 Amorites in whose land you dwell. 269 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,280 But As for me, in my house, we will serve the Lord. 270 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,840 And I can imagine that that's Joshua or Joseph's, Joseph's 271 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:17,800 conversation with his brother. Do you guys, will you walk with 272 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,160 him? Will you just understand who he 273 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,720 is and how much he cares for you? 274 00:18:25,560 --> 00:18:28,120 I mean, it doesn't record. That's his last statement, but 275 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:35,480 you can, you can watch Israel over the over the next, over the 276 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:41,240 centuries. And they're like us, They don't 277 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:44,480 learn that lesson. When we look at when we look at 278 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:47,320 Egypt and we're as we're going through the book of Exodus, 279 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,800 Egypt is that picture of the world now. 280 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:52,920 It is a real place that really existed. 281 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:56,240 And and we're going to go through Exodus, Exodus and it is 282 00:18:56,240 --> 00:19:00,720 a history lesson in what happened, but it's also it's got 283 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:05,960 it's got a pliable pictures to us that Exodus is that picture 284 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:08,240 of the world. And and God takes us out of the 285 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,800 world, right? And you'll watch Israel 286 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:14,520 longingly look back at the world. 287 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,320 And as a Christian, do you do that right? 288 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:25,680 Our flesh does that and and walking with God, guys, walking 289 00:19:25,680 --> 00:19:29,600 with God is something that is very painful for your flesh and 290 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:34,440 it was supposed to be that way. Galatians 220, which is one of 291 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:35,960 those verses you guys get to hear a lot. 292 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:37,480 It's I've been crucified with Christ. 293 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:40,480 It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me and this 294 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:41,880 life. I now live in the flesh. 295 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:45,120 I live by faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave 296 00:19:45,120 --> 00:19:48,840 himself for me. And that's a daily thing, right? 297 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:51,440 My flesh doesn't get to win the conversation. 298 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,400 We talked about ice cream last week or a week before and just 299 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:59,360 the, the funny there. But when you say yes to your 300 00:19:59,360 --> 00:20:03,920 when you, when you cave to your flesh, you're you're, you're 301 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:08,480 accepting it has power over you. And, and what Paul repeats over 302 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:11,160 and over again is that your flesh needs to die. 303 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:17,720 And what Joshua or what Joseph is continually sharing with his 304 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:24,840 brothers is guys. He just wants us and, and when 305 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:33,080 you watch his as as he went through the process of bringing 306 00:20:33,080 --> 00:20:36,640 them into Egypt and and reconciling with them, he 307 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:40,240 continued to point at the Lord as the reason that they were 308 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,920 where they were. And they wouldn't take that, 309 00:20:43,920 --> 00:20:48,320 that they were a, they are a stiff necked people. 310 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:50,480 But I think we are stiff necked people. 311 00:20:51,360 --> 00:20:55,800 I think we, we want, we want to do it in a way that makes sense 312 00:20:55,800 --> 00:20:58,520 to us. And I will tell you that the 313 00:20:58,520 --> 00:21:03,120 Lord doesn't need my buy in for his plan. 314 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,160 I need my buy in. I need to walk with him. 315 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:13,280 I need to turn right. His plan is moving forward and 316 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:18,120 ha, verse 7 of Exodus says, but the children of Israel were 317 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:21,080 fruitful and increased abundantly multiplied and grew 318 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,720 exceedingly mighty and the land was filled with them. 319 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,320 And I love this just because this is this is being written 320 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:33,720 down in such a way to to to express in redundancy. 321 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,280 They were fruitful, increased abundantly multiplied, grew 322 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:40,280 exceedingly mighty and filled the land. 323 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:44,360 So let's just be clear, they grew, right? 324 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,840 This wasn't a little thing. So when they leave Egypt, so 325 00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:54,560 7070 people came into us. A lot of debate back and forth. 326 00:21:54,920 --> 00:21:58,840 Between 70 and 200 people came into the land. 70 is what it 327 00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:02,360 says, but that's just counting men and there's a whole process. 328 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:07,120 But regardless, walking out of the land was just over 600,000 329 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:10,240 men 400 years later. And so then when you, when you 330 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:12,880 extrapolate that to the ladies and the children, that's 331 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,680 2,000,000 plus people walked out 400 years later. 332 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:21,480 And it's always funny when the I, I, I, I pick on fuzzy 333 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:25,920 thinkers because it's fun, because they, they look at that 334 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,560 and go back, you couldn't do that. 335 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:29,600 I mean, that's, that's ridiculous population growth 336 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,240 that can't be done. So that's 3.25% a year. 337 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:39,640 And that here's the, here's the fun number with that in Uganda 338 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:49,280 between 2010 and 2015, they grew at 2 point, 3.25% a year. 339 00:22:49,920 --> 00:22:56,400 And that's six children per woman, right? 340 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:03,400 And that was and, and that was a time so 2010 to 2015, the war 341 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:09,040 ended in 2009 in the north. And basically it was a time of 342 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:14,400 just, they were suddenly free and alive. 343 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:21,280 They, they, the Uganda is probably a lot like Goshen in 344 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,920 the sense of it. If you throw seeds on the ground 345 00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:29,400 in Uganda, they grow. It is a, a very fruitful place. 346 00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:35,520 And they, they, it was, you know, we, we started going in 347 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:39,680 2010 and there are children everywhere. 348 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,280 It's how JB ended up with a, how he ended up with a school was 349 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,360 there were so many children that he's like, well, I'll just start 350 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,480 a nursery school so we can take care of them. 351 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:50,400 And he jokes and said, and if I'd have known it was going to 352 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,840 turn into a school, I probably would have never started because 353 00:23:54,040 --> 00:24:00,000 it's a lot of work. But, but it was, if you would 354 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:05,120 have asked those people in 2008 and 2009, they wouldn't have 355 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:07,400 expected to have the children they had. 356 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,560 They wouldn't have expected the the population explosion that 357 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:14,320 they had. And the reason they had it was 358 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:18,120 because everything was in line, right? 359 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:24,280 And Pharaoh had set Israel up to grow and God planned it that 360 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:32,120 way, right In Genesis 47, it says that 47 six, it says the 361 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:34,920 land of Egypt is before you. And this is the Pharaoh talking. 362 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:39,400 Have your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land. 363 00:24:39,400 --> 00:24:41,160 Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. 364 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,720 And if you know any confident among them, then make them chief 365 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:51,960 herdsman over my livestock. So God set them in Goshen. 366 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,000 And this, this wasn't an accident. 367 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,960 This wasn't like, well, since this is happening, then I'll do 368 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,360 this. God told Israel in chapter 46, 369 00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:06,560 he told Jacob so, so he said, I am God, the God of your father. 370 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,400 Do not fear to go down to Egypt for I will make you a great 371 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,600 nation there. So the cool thing with, with 372 00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,760 the, the whole story of Exodus is you, you literally have a 373 00:25:17,760 --> 00:25:22,320 family that entered a country and then was isolated in that 374 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,760 country and they turned into a nation. 375 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:34,160 And it is it's not by they were completely separated from if 376 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:40,360 they'd have stayed in Canaan. Canaan was a completely Pagan 377 00:25:40,360 --> 00:25:43,040 society. Egypt had many, many gods, but 378 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:48,000 they were they, they didn't like shepherds. 379 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,840 So they were, they, they were like dirty and unclean. 380 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,280 So they kept them away from them. 381 00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:59,160 So they didn't intermingle and because of that you end up with 382 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:04,480 this growth that is isolated to those tribes. 383 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:13,720 So when when we look at God in our life, do we believe that God 384 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:17,920 is big enough to be trusted with everything right? 385 00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:24,240 That this isn't for 400 years Israel abided in God's plan. 386 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,320 Now do I do I think they knew what God's plan was? 387 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:32,560 No, but they stayed still. They they stayed in Egypt. 388 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:35,920 They didn't go back to they didn't go back to Canaan. 389 00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,800 Now I would imagine that there was a reason to stay in Egypt 390 00:26:39,800 --> 00:26:43,800 because Goshen was a wonderful place when they got there. 391 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:51,960 And when I look at my life and I and I would imagine if you're a 392 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,800 believer here today and you look at your life, so I didn't get 393 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:58,080 saved till I was 30. And at 30 years old, I can look 394 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:02,640 back on my life and I can tell you that God protected me, God 395 00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,360 chastened me. God had a plan for my life. 396 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:12,680 And and I say that not because at any time before I was 30 397 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:14,880 years old that I was serving him at all. 398 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:18,560 In that time I had had prayers that went something like if you 399 00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:22,760 Get Me Out of this Lord, right, like I'm sure we've all had now. 400 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,320 I had no idea who I was praying to. 401 00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:26,320 I just was in a lot of trouble and I didn't want to be. 402 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:32,280 But there are times in my life that I I can look back on and I 403 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:36,360 can see me just that that God has a hedge around me and I have 404 00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:39,480 a machete and I am really trying to get through this hedge 405 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,880 because I want to go do what I want to do. 406 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:49,440 And God finally goes OK and let's me just crash and burn in 407 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:52,920 a horrible fashion, but keeps me alive. 408 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:57,440 And I'd like to say that I learned that at the first time 409 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,640 or the second time or even the third time. 410 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,560 But I'm, I'm not the smartest tool in the drawer, right? 411 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:07,240 But he was building the tool that he needed for the work that 412 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:09,000 he was going to have done, right? 413 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:14,040 And he's going to do this with Israel. 414 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:17,000 He's going to, he's going to work with them. 415 00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,200 They don't know it. And I would tell you, just from 416 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:25,120 from watching, watching them through Genesis and through, 417 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:28,480 through their last words to their brother, they have no clue 418 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:34,360 who God actually is. You know, they get circumcised 419 00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:39,880 and they might do some things, but they have no idea who God 420 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:46,760 is. And God is, you know, Romans, 421 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:50,280 Romans 8, we all know it. God works all things together 422 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,120 for good. And that brought that verse gets 423 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,840 just abused for things it doesn't mean. 424 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:04,880 It means that God knows what needs to be done to get the most 425 00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,720 names written in the book of life that can be written in the 426 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,920 book of life, period. That's what that verse means. 427 00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:16,440 He's willing to use everything under the sun up into the 428 00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,960 Holocaust. Do we remember that 16 million 429 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:29,080 Jews and millions of people died and that is something that was 430 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:35,040 allowed because in in that the most people end up with God in 431 00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:37,400 the end. It's the best plan. 432 00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:43,400 Do we believe that you know, it's it's when our friends in 433 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:47,480 the tri-cities whose son died it at 16 years old and a head on 434 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,640 that he he tried to pass a truck when he shouldn't have. 435 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:57,520 And and I can talk about it like this because Joe talks about it 436 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:00,840 like this is we know where Jacob's at. 437 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:05,120 He's he's with the Lord. That doesn't mean that it was 438 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:12,680 easy for his family, but hundreds of lives were changed 439 00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:19,080 by, by Jacob's death because it wasn't smooth sailing, right? 440 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,600 Joe Joe. And someday he'll come up and 441 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,960 teach. And I don't want to steal 442 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,240 anything he's going to say, but he will, he will share that if, 443 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,200 if life just went on like you got up and and everything was 444 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:36,360 sunshine and rainbows, no one would get saved because nothing 445 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:43,160 would disrupt their life. And so in Israel's case, and I 446 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,120 have a note here says enter the Black Hat. 447 00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:47,760 You know, the the bad guy has shown up. 448 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,320 And verse 8. Now there arose a new king over 449 00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:55,360 Egypt who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, look, 450 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,480 the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier 451 00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,400 than we come. Let us deal shrewdly with them 452 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,560 less they multiply and it happened in the event of war 453 00:31:05,560 --> 00:31:08,600 that they also join our enemies and fight against us and so go 454 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:14,120 up out of the land. And it doesn't give a time frame 455 00:31:14,120 --> 00:31:15,720 for this. I know that they're in the land 456 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,200 for 400 years, but it doesn't say when this happened, right? 457 00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,920 It doesn't I mean, this could be two generations in, it could be 458 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:28,200 6 generations in or three. It doesn't say, right? 459 00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:34,440 We just know that it was long enough that they didn't remember 460 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,240 why, why these people were here. They did understand. 461 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:43,360 He did understand though, that those people are what ran his 462 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,440 country because he he doesn't just say they may raise up a 463 00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:48,880 rise up against us and and take over. 464 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,520 They may rise up against us and leave and we couldn't withstand 465 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,800 that. So he does understand that there 466 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:00,920 is, there is something there and this is a standard cycle that 467 00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:04,800 the, that that goes on in culture, in governments, 468 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,720 basically the human race. We have a, we have a memory that 469 00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:13,320 is almost as good as our ability to tell the future, right? 470 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:17,840 We, we rewrite things and, and we were talking about it last 471 00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:20,080 week, just the things that have been forgotten. 472 00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:29,600 And the king saw a resource that was very powerful and then he 473 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:37,440 feared that he didn't have the power over them, right. 474 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:40,040 He had this workforce, but he wasn't in control of it. 475 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:43,920 Does anybody ever watch The Bug's Life? 476 00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:48,720 It's old cartoon, but it's what the grasshopper who's running 477 00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:54,120 the ants, he's in charge. And the ants are little, The 478 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,680 grasshoppers are big. And one of the one of the 479 00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:02,680 grasshoppers is, is being mouthy to the bad grasshopper and is 480 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,480 like, what's the big deal? There are a bunch of ants. 481 00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:07,480 And he says those ants outnumber us 100 to 1. 482 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:11,560 And if they ever figure that out, there goes our way of life. 483 00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:17,720 And that's really the, I would say the king has looked down and 484 00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,080 he went. So Egypt, Egypt's workers are 485 00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:21,960 shepherds. They're they're farmers. 486 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:27,360 They're brick layers helped us build this Kingdom, but they're 487 00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,960 not Egyptian. And and he didn't know the 488 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,480 history. He didn't know where they came 489 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:39,280 from. It's the bean counters of the 490 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:42,480 world get like this. They, they forget, you know, 491 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,800 that's I, I, I pick on our government very often a city 492 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,520 government, the state government, but city governments 493 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:55,000 very often and I deal with doing, doing subdivisions and 494 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:02,360 just infrastructure stuff. You talk to city, city managers 495 00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:06,400 and board members, they get to thinking that they are in charge 496 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,800 of people and guys, they are not in charge. 497 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:16,159 Look at their look at the, look at the documents of each city 498 00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:18,760 and they are representing people in the city. 499 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,280 They're just representatives, right? 500 00:34:21,000 --> 00:34:26,920 And the Washington State Board of Education is my favorite 501 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,639 example of this is this is this instead of the, instead of the 502 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:34,679 king going to Israel, the Israelites and having a 503 00:34:34,679 --> 00:34:36,880 conversation, figuring out who they were. 504 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:40,000 And, and you know, and hey, you guys have been blessing us and 505 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:42,960 we're just kind of instead of that, what he decides to do is 506 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,800 squeeze them. The Washington State Board of 507 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:52,960 Education through COVID, they they had they had some had some 508 00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:59,880 bad press because suddenly Washington schools were on video 509 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,760 doing Zoom calls in every household in Washington state. 510 00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:10,560 And to say that went badly for them because suddenly parents 511 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:14,080 that didn't know we're at home listening to what their kids are 512 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,280 being taught. And so like many of the schools, 513 00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,680 but Calvary Chapel, Tri-cities, the the first open enrollment 514 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:27,000 looked like, looked like, like a Star Wars opening. 515 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,120 There were, there was, we were blocking the road with cars 516 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,600 parked at trying to get in to get their kids into school. 517 00:35:33,200 --> 00:35:37,800 And we had every everybody showing up Christian, non 518 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,400 Christian, everybody wanted, they just did not want their kid 519 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,120 in a, in a school in, in the public school. 520 00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:45,840 And that was for all the schools in the area. 521 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:51,440 And so the Washington State Board of Education said, so 522 00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,160 we're going to change the way we do school. 523 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:56,480 No, that didn't. What they said, what they tried 524 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:01,520 to do was say, well, now we're going to force all the private 525 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,880 schools to teach what we teach and we're going to mandate it. 526 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,880 And they went through a whole process and the phone call, I 527 00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:12,240 mean that I sat and listened to their whole thing. 528 00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:16,480 And that day, those guy if, if those it would have been a live 529 00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,760 meeting, they'd have probably been lynched because the level, 530 00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:23,720 I mean, basically every person that got on there said the same 531 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:25,640 thing. If you do this, we will 532 00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:29,880 homeschool our kids. And the reason that Washington 533 00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,920 state wanted it was because what was happening is people were 534 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,920 pulling their kids out of school and they weren't getting federal 535 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:40,480 money because there weren't kids in those seats. 536 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,720 And so they wanted, they want, they, they, they, they're going 537 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:48,920 to take their stuff instead of fixing, right? 538 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:52,200 And this is the king, right? Instead of, instead of having 539 00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:58,120 that conversation and figuring out how can I, how can I, how 540 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:02,680 can I make them part of Egypt to not not incorporate them into 541 00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,120 our culture, but how can I make, how can I make it to where 542 00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,280 they're not a separate thing? No, I'm just going to squeeze 543 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,760 them. And like I said, the Black Hat 544 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:19,280 quality overreach, verse 11 to 14 says therefore they set 545 00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:24,000 taskmax taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. 546 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,520 And they built for Pharaoh, supply cities, fish on the 547 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:30,600 Ramseys for the more they afflicted, the more they 548 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:36,480 multiplied and grew. And there were, there were dread 549 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,520 of the children of Israel. So the Egyptians made the 550 00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:43,080 children of Israel serve with rigor, and they made their lives 551 00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:46,560 bitter with hard bondage in mortar and brick, in all manner 552 00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,680 of service in the field. All service which they made them 553 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:54,560 serve was with rigor. And that just means hardship, 554 00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:58,040 right? So hundreds of years the Hebrews 555 00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:02,120 had worked in Egypt as shepherds and their general labor force 556 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:07,040 building and caring for the Egypt, the Egyptian nation and 557 00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,440 Egypt reaped God's blessing right there. 558 00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,160 This was a time of growth in Egypt. 559 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,880 There was, you know, there these supply cities that are being 560 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:17,720 built. These were these were to fend 561 00:38:17,720 --> 00:38:21,880 off, to defend off attacks because they would basically put 562 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:26,160 their armament, protect their armament, but put them in far 563 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,400 enough out that they were actually able to to get those 564 00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,520 resources at their border cities. 565 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:40,120 And Israel is being put in this pressure cooker, right? 566 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:45,360 And when that happens, the question is, and, and you can go 567 00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:48,920 go through the book of judges, go through, go through Joshua, 568 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:55,080 the book of Judges Samuel, first and second Samuel, you'll just 569 00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:59,400 watch Israel do this over and over again until they turn, they 570 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,200 get put in a pressure cooker cooker. 571 00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:06,240 And what they attempt to do is just grunt it out because in 572 00:39:06,240 --> 00:39:08,200 chapter 1, there ain't going to point, there ain't going to 573 00:39:08,200 --> 00:39:12,320 become a point where they turn. They're just going to keep 574 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:18,560 working at it. But in Acts 1, Christians, 575 00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,040 Christians that love the Lord, they get struck and they don't 576 00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,720 fight right now. Saul was consenting to his 577 00:39:27,720 --> 00:39:30,600 death. And this is Saul who turns into 578 00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,000 Paul, but consenting to Stephen's death. 579 00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:38,160 At that time a great persecution arose against the church, which 580 00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,240 was at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered throughout the 581 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:44,760 region of Judea, Samaria, except the apostles. 582 00:39:45,840 --> 00:39:48,680 Then skipping to verse 4. Therefore those who were 583 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:51,600 scattered went everywhere preaching the word. 584 00:39:52,680 --> 00:39:59,320 So God will stir up the nest. He will he will create the 585 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:02,400 issues. I you know that my, my common, 586 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,120 my, my common line, which is embrace the suck, right? 587 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:13,640 God let sparks fly and and we went through James and you know, 588 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,760 count it all joy when we fall into various trials. 589 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,040 But the goal there is is God wants to disrupt our lives. 590 00:40:20,040 --> 00:40:24,920 He wants to disrupt us in such a way that we are out telling 591 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,440 people what he has done in my life. 592 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:32,680 Right, and Israel is a stubborn group. 593 00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,720 I mean they get called stiff necked by Moses numerous times 594 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:47,900 and as as believers or as non believers. 595 00:40:47,900 --> 00:40:54,620 If you're in here, how much, how much service with rigor do you 596 00:40:54,620 --> 00:40:57,380 have in you before you'll turn to the Lord? 597 00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:03,240 How many problems do we blame God for that are truly our 598 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:07,640 problems? You know, I, I, I, there's lots 599 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,440 of different ones, you know, people that drink too much or 600 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,320 people that smoke cigarettes or people, people. 601 00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:16,720 And I say cigarettes, not it's, you know, I got cancer. 602 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:20,400 Why did I get cancer? That would be reaping what you 603 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:23,680 sow, right? But one that came to mind. 604 00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,200 And I don't think I won't, you know, I won't use her name and 605 00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:31,880 hopefully she doesn't figure out who I'm talking about. 606 00:41:31,880 --> 00:41:39,000 But a friend of mine, daughter, she's she's walking with the 607 00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:45,960 Lord again and she's got, she's got two kids and one and both of 608 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:51,360 them are with different dads. And life is hard. 609 00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:56,640 It's it's hard. And she gave her life back to 610 00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:01,160 the Lord and she one of those kids that just truly had a great 611 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:02,720 relationship with her when she was younger. 612 00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:08,840 And then she she went out in the world and did a bunch of stuff 613 00:42:08,840 --> 00:42:13,360 that was bad choices. And you know, we'll have 614 00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:17,720 conversations. And I just said, well, you're 615 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:20,240 still paying consequences, right? 616 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:22,320 Thank God when when I gave my life to the Lord. 617 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:24,800 I would love to tell you when I gave my life to the Lord, the 618 00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:29,960 slate was wiped clean and it was from God's point of view. 619 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:36,240 But in the world I still had a bunch of stupid that I had made 620 00:42:36,240 --> 00:42:39,320 decisions and I had to I had to fess up to him. 621 00:42:40,040 --> 00:42:48,320 I had I had bad thinking, right? And Israel hunkers down and 622 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,240 sticks to their bad thinking over and over again. 623 00:42:51,240 --> 00:42:53,520 And then they blame God when things go wrong. 624 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:58,280 I mean, and does that sound like anybody you know, right, We ever 625 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,040 get in that, right? Well, one of my favorites is in 626 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:04,240 Ezekiel 1829. And this is this gets said, 627 00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,880 right? Yet the House of Israel says the 628 00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:12,520 way of the Lord is not fair. Oh, House of Israel is not my 629 00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,720 way, which is, which are my ways which are fair and yours ways 630 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:20,440 which are not fair, right? And that's guys, when you come 631 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:23,200 to the Lord, you don't come to the Lord and say, do it my way. 632 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,840 Why isn't this working? We come to the Lord and say, 633 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,400 Lord, I suck. You have a plan. 634 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:34,680 Let me follow your plan. And and his plan is, is hard. 635 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:36,520 You're going to have to suddenly be honest. 636 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:41,400 You're going to have to suddenly accept, accept that you are not 637 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:44,160 the smartest person in the room. You're going to have to be 638 00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:48,040 humble, right? You're going to have to, you're 639 00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:51,000 going to have to love mercy and do justly. 640 00:43:51,240 --> 00:43:54,880 And guys, we don't love mercy. We love mercy for me, I don't 641 00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:58,480 love mercy for the guy tailgating me, right. 642 00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:02,680 I, I, I love justice for other people. 643 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:05,120 You know what? I got pulled over when I was 644 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,360 driving home from, this was 10 years ago. 645 00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:11,800 I was driving home from up here, taking my brother back to Dayton 646 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,880 and this really foggy night and I'm on a back Rd. and somewhere 647 00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:18,400 on that back Rd. And I have driven that 648 00:44:18,400 --> 00:44:21,640 particular back Rd. hundreds of times when I was younger. 649 00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:28,000 And I used to drive everywhere between 80 and 90 miles an hour. 650 00:44:28,000 --> 00:44:30,920 It was just that I didn't have a lower speed. 651 00:44:30,920 --> 00:44:33,440 There was either I was either on the brake or on the gas. 652 00:44:33,440 --> 00:44:38,160 There wasn't A and I got my wife and my, my two daughters and my 653 00:44:38,160 --> 00:44:43,480 brother in the car and we're driving and I got pulled over. 654 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:45,640 I was doing, I was doing 60 miles an hour. 655 00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,200 I thought I was on a 55 mile an hour Rd. and somewhere in the 656 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:53,040 fog I had missed a sign that that had dropped it to 50. 657 00:44:53,880 --> 00:44:57,760 And I got pulled over and the officer is not impressed that 658 00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,320 I'm speeding and da da da da. And my brother's in the back 659 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,520 seat and he's he's going to be all mouthy because it's foggy. 660 00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:09,400 But I'm like James, I may not deserve this ticket, but trust 661 00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,680 me when I tell you I deserve a ticket. 662 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,120 Do we believe that right? I didn't deserve that one, 663 00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:17,800 right? That one? 664 00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:19,440 I could, I could have explained my way out of it. 665 00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,000 Did I deserve on that particular Rd. 666 00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:25,080 Did I deserve to be in jail? Yes, I did. 667 00:45:25,720 --> 00:45:28,240 So this wasn't God giving me justice because justice is 668 00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:30,800 sending me to jail because I had broke the law. 669 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:35,240 I just hadn't been caught. And that's when we give our 670 00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:37,280 lives to the Lord. Do you accept that? 671 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:42,520 That, that my I don't. Lord, please don't give me what 672 00:45:42,520 --> 00:45:49,400 I deserve, right? Because what I deserve is is 673 00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,840 death and dismemberment. And he has protected me from 674 00:45:52,840 --> 00:45:56,920 that. And so whatever my life is today 675 00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:03,840 is fair. That's that's up and to the 676 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:11,720 point that my, my friends whose son died up and to that point, 677 00:46:11,720 --> 00:46:16,040 right? It's fair God does not say that 678 00:46:16,040 --> 00:46:18,880 life will be sunshine and rainbows when he says is he will 679 00:46:18,880 --> 00:46:23,240 walk with us through it. He watches us, He takes care of 680 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:27,960 us, right? And now that that isn't to say 681 00:46:27,960 --> 00:46:29,800 there aren't random acts of suck right? 682 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:36,200 We that does happen. But most of the time guys, I can 683 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,480 trace the suck in my life back to choices I made. 684 00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:48,280 And what I know is God is God is true and he is good. 685 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:54,800 So because of that, I can trust him and I can trust that I can 686 00:46:54,800 --> 00:46:59,640 walk with him. And what we also know is that 687 00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:02,360 that I don't, I didn't bring anything to the equation. 688 00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,320 I didn't, I didn't bring well, I'm, I'm, I'm a 50%. 689 00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:09,520 I got 50% of it. Lord, I need you to add the 690 00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:13,400 other 50, man, I'm only 20%. I need you to add 80. 691 00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,280 Well, I'm pretty good. I'm about 90%. 692 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:19,280 I need 10%. No, we all suck. 693 00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:27,560 Ecclesiastes 720 and we all know Romans 2323, but this one says 694 00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:30,280 it as well. For there is not a just man on 695 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,880 earth who does good and does not sin. 696 00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:36,120 The one it isn't, it isn't a gamble. 697 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:38,760 It isn't a hey, Lord said, well, there might be somebody out 698 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:40,680 there. No guys, I can guarantee 699 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:46,320 everybody in this room center, every single one of us question 700 00:47:46,320 --> 00:47:51,520 is, are we forgiven? And how we how we become 701 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:58,800 forgiven is really simple. Is we cry for help and we turn 702 00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:03,200 and we walk with him in Christ. Is that it? 703 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,680 And that is something that as we go through Exodus, Oh my 704 00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:10,200 goodness, they are, they're painful because they are like 705 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:16,240 watching me in my life, right? They, they, they make decisions 706 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:22,200 that are selfish and self-centered and self seeking. 707 00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,520 And God is just there waiting for them to go. 708 00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:32,440 So are you, are you coming? I'm still here. 709 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:38,760 That's our life with him. Are you coming right and and 710 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:41,360 that's what he wants. He wants those he wants that 711 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,800 time with us that that cool of the of the day. 712 00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:55,280 When you get back-to-back to Egypt, verse 15, the king of 713 00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:59,760 Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of 1 714 00:48:59,760 --> 00:49:02,600 was Sapphira and the other name was Para. 715 00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,640 And he said when you do the duties of a midwife for the 716 00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:10,960 Hebrew women and see them on the birth tools, if it is a son, 717 00:49:11,280 --> 00:49:14,520 then you shall kill him, but if it's a daughter, then she shall 718 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,680 live. But the midwives feared God. 719 00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:23,240 And then you move down and we've read it all and it says 720 00:49:23,240 --> 00:49:28,280 therefore God dealt with the midwives and people multiplied 721 00:49:28,280 --> 00:49:31,440 and grew very mighty. And so it was because the 722 00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,920 midwives feared God that he provided households for them. 723 00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:42,040 Now the the the king had zero fear of the Lord right? 724 00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:46,560 And and I would blame that partially on Israel's lack of 725 00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:53,520 living out loud for him, right is and that's for us. 726 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:59,840 Do we, do we share with people the the reason for the hope? 727 00:49:59,840 --> 00:50:04,240 That's when that is right. And because I'm going to the 728 00:50:04,240 --> 00:50:07,400 Pharaoh through our the king and then the Pharaoh is going to get 729 00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:09,840 what we're going to get. We're going to get him in this. 730 00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:16,680 But did he know? Did he know Now the midwives, 731 00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:21,520 they found a loophole, right? He said, he said do this when 732 00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:25,080 they give birth. So maybe they walked slow right 733 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:26,520 now. They already gave birth. 734 00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,880 Sorry, I we weren't there and this wasn't just two ladies, 735 00:50:29,880 --> 00:50:32,800 because we're talking we're talking thousands upon thousands 736 00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:36,920 of birds and they wouldn't have been at all them. 737 00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,760 So these were probably the leaders of that of the midwives. 738 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:46,960 But the the point I want to point out is God bless them for 739 00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:51,160 their fear of him, right? He didn't bless them and that 740 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,520 you'll you'll hear different things between people. 741 00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:58,720 That is that he blessed them because they, you know, well, 742 00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:02,080 it's OK to lie because God bless the midwives. 743 00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:04,720 You know, they lied, they lied for a good reason. 744 00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:08,480 And he didn't him bless him for the lie. 745 00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:13,880 He blessed him for the fear and that fear once again, wasn't a a 746 00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,680 horror. It was a respect for for him, 747 00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:20,840 right? Romans 120 and this is because I 748 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,720 don't know if they were if they were Israelites, I don't know if 749 00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:27,520 they were Egyptians. What I do know is they feared 750 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:31,760 God. And Romans 120 says for the 751 00:51:31,760 --> 00:51:35,480 since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes are 752 00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:39,320 clearly seen being understood by the things that are made and 753 00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:42,720 even His eternal power and Godhead so that they were 754 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:47,440 without excuse. So know that when you're talking 755 00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:50,640 to people, and I don't care if you're talking to Richard 756 00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:57,360 Dawkins, you know God exists. Everything's a smokescreen. 757 00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:03,160 Come into those conversations with people with that attitude 758 00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:09,280 that what people want. What I wanted as a as a 25 year 759 00:52:09,280 --> 00:52:13,640 old was I wanted an explanation in my head that let me sleep at 760 00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:18,320 night. I wanted an excuse that allowed 761 00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:28,920 me to not walk with God. And that's what everybody wants. 762 00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:33,600 And and they may get it in science, they might get it in in 763 00:52:33,600 --> 00:52:38,200 another religion, but what they need is Jesus. 764 00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:43,360 And what we have is Jesus. And the reason for that is 765 00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,600 because he is a living God who walks with us, right? 766 00:52:55,680 --> 00:53:00,320 So we get back to the Pharaoh and this is this is over the 767 00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:05,560 over the centuries and decades, we have watched this in ancient 768 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:12,880 times and in modern times that when the secret's out, right, 769 00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,600 that that Pharaoh wants to kill the kids. 770 00:53:16,320 --> 00:53:19,080 So then he just pulls back the veil, right? 771 00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:22,960 And verse 22 says, so Pharaoh commanded all his people saying 772 00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,800 every son who's born you shall cast into the river and every 773 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:30,880 daughter you shall save alive. So it's just kill them all, kill 774 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,880 the boys, just just throw them into the river. 775 00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:45,280 So you got to ask yourself, when, when the culture or just 776 00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:49,240 bad choices attack us with all the suck, what do we do? 777 00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,200 Do we buckle down? Do we do we buckle down and just 778 00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,320 absorb it? One of the stupidest things I've 779 00:53:56,320 --> 00:54:02,040 ever said in my life is I, I can fight a fight like AI fight like 780 00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,760 the third monkey on a ramp on the on the ramp of the ark and 781 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:08,720 it's brought in to rain, right? I'm a fighter. 782 00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:12,400 And like I've explained numerous times, the moment you put your 783 00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:17,800 hands up to fight the enemy, you have already lost because he's 784 00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:20,320 he's a middle school bully and you're a three-year old. 785 00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:25,400 He he wins that fight. Now what he doesn't win is when 786 00:54:25,400 --> 00:54:32,120 you say God, I can't you have to God steps in, flicks the middle 787 00:54:32,120 --> 00:54:38,120 school bully who runs away. And that's our job, right, is to 788 00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:42,520 walk with him and be with him and be in Christ. 789 00:54:46,960 --> 00:54:51,760 And think of Peter in this like when our life is hard, when 790 00:54:51,760 --> 00:54:56,560 things are going badly, what did Peter do when he stepped out of 791 00:54:56,560 --> 00:54:57,800 the boat? Because when he stepped out of 792 00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:02,520 the boat, he was, he was in that place that we all want to be 793 00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:05,760 exactly where God wants us to be, doing exactly what God wants 794 00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,520 us to do. He is he is out of the boat 795 00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:13,120 standing on water. And what did he say when he 796 00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:15,600 started to sink? Because he got he got worried. 797 00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,960 He said, Lord, save me. Now that was probably as quick a 798 00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:20,360 prayer as he could come up with, right? 799 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:23,680 Because he was going to drown. And what did the Lord do? 800 00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,680 He didn't have a conversation with him. 801 00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:30,120 He didn't say he didn't say, well, I mean, do you really need 802 00:55:30,120 --> 00:55:32,520 me? No, he was there instantly 803 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:35,760 pulled him up out of the water into the boat, right. 804 00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:42,280 He was his desire for us is to walk with us. 805 00:55:43,720 --> 00:55:47,000 Our desire should be to walk with him and Israel as we go 806 00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:50,640 through this guy's they will they will struggle with that, 807 00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:56,920 but it's God picked them as that people because they were a whole 808 00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,960 people that act just like his Children Act today. 809 00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:06,640 And So what would it take? Do you have things in your life 810 00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,880 that are that need to be said Lord save me, but I can't you 811 00:56:10,880 --> 00:56:15,040 have to because all he wants to do is walk with you. 812 00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,280 He wants that relationship. He wants that one-on-one time. 813 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,120 So Lord, I just lift up everybody here and I lift up 814 00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:24,440 this time. And I just thank you, Lord, that 815 00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:26,640 you're here with us. I thank you that you walk with 816 00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,840 us every day. Lord, Lord that. 817 00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:33,320 But if there's anything going on that we need to, to just give to 818 00:56:33,320 --> 00:56:36,640 you, Lord, that we would turn and give it to you or that we 819 00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,640 would just want that that time with you that we would just 820 00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:46,920 spend spend our our week, but that we would just be in 821 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:50,680 fellowship with you and enjoying what you do for us. 822 00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:53,560 Lord, I pray all this in Jesus name, Amen.