Sojourner In a Foreign Land

[0:00] that's good if you have a bible please turn it to Exodus chapter 2 if not worry not it will be read out it will be up in the screen that's fine it's been said that you it's been said that you cannot understand the Old Testament without Jesus and you cannot understand Jesus without the Old Testament and what a wonderful thing it is that we're able to spend time in these words ancient words ever true we are taking up from Exodus 2 verse 11 and we were grateful for

[1:05] David leading us in chapter 1 and Alan leading us at the start of Exodus 2 last week but Exodus 2 from 11 to the end of the chapter one day when Moses had grown up he went out to his people and looked on their burdens and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew one of his people he looked this way and that and seeing no one he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand when he went out the next day behold two Hebrews were struggling together and he said to the man in the wrong why do you strike your companion he answered who made you a prince and a judge over us do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian then Moses was afraid and thought surely the thing is known when Pharaoh heard of it he sought to kill Moses but Moses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of Midian and he sat down by a well now the priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock the shepherds came and drove them away but Moses stood up and saved them and watered their flocks when they came home to their father he said how is it that you have come home so soon today they said an Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and even drew water for us and watered the flock he said to his daughters then where is he why have you left the man call him that he may eat bread and Moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave Moses his daughter Zaborah she gave birth to a son called his name

[3:07] Gershom for he said I have been a sojourner in a foreign land during those many days the king of Egypt died and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God and God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham with Isaac and with Jacob God saw the people of Israel and God knew this is the word of God Amen there was a man who lived by a river you might have heard of this one day he heard a radio report of a storm forecast the river was in danger of bursting its banks and flooding the town so this broadcast said all the residents should prepare to evacuate before the storm hits but the man said to himself

[4:10] I'm religious God loves me God will save me sure enough the storm hit the river burst its banks and began to flood the town and there happened to be a man in a rowboat trying to help people stranded and he saw the man in his house and he shouted hey you in there the water is rising fast let me take you to safety but the man refused saying I'm a religious man God loves me God will save me the waters rose to the point that the man had to go out onto his roof soon afterwards a helicopter came hovering overhead the guy with a megaphone shouted you down there the town is flooding I will drop down a ladder and you can climb to safety but the man waved shouted back that he was religious that God loved him God would save him and the man drowned the man drowned and he appeared before God he asked why God didn't save him and God replied

[5:17] I sent you a radio warning I sent you a boat and I sent you a helicopter what more do you need? what more do you need? Exodus the whole of Exodus is a story about rescue a story we are probably all familiar with and it's the defining moment in the history of God's revelation and redemption and revealing who God is and what he is doing it's a defining moment in the Old Testament yet as much as it reveals to us things about God it reveals a lot about humanity we need rescued but do we see it?

[5:59] do we even want it? and are we ready? to be rescued I was grateful that two weeks ago David in chapter 1 took us through that we saw how things sped up and just in one chapter you know just in a few sentences we fast forwarded 400 years 400 years passed by since Joseph and his family first went to Egypt and then last week and in that account in that account we saw the faith of some midwives 400 years passed by since Joseph in chapter 1 we see the faith of midwives the faith of some Hebrew midwives and then last week Alan took us through chapter 2 at the start and we saw the faith of a family of Moses' parents and his family it's like when we celebrate at Christmas the birth of Jesus all the excitement and the coming of the Messiah the coming of the one but he still needs to grow up doesn't he?

[7:12] there's still more waiting think after 400 years and you get the excitement of baby Moses but what's he going to do as a baby? there's got to be more waiting it'll be decades before he really gets to work and this is where we are this morning we've passed by 400 years and see the faith of midwives then we see the faith of a family and the faith of his parents but we need to pass by another 40 years where it picks up this morning is 40 years later from last week imagine Alan gave the sermon last week and we had to wait 40 years to hear chapter 2 that's what it was like when they were living it this excitement about Moses imagine being his parents you know yes now we need to wait now we need to wait 40 years and so maybe maybe folks are asking themselves how was Moses different?

[8:11] why him? why was he taken in by Pharaoh's daughter and not other people? why did he grow up in the palace when his own people grew up as slaves?

[8:22] how was God going to use this situation? and when? when God? how long? well as much as his mom and dad would have been glad their son didn't die he was given more than they ever had I wonder what it was like to be waiting just waiting maybe it was like you think about Mary quiet contemplation maybe her faith her quiet faith would have been misunderstood by many she was someone who knew things and believed things about Jesus that no one else did everyone else struggled with Mary just waiting patiently knowing something about this baby about this boy something's going to happen I wonder what it would have been like we don't know what those years were like remember the other Wednesday Robert asked what would it have been like to be living in those times?

[9:24] we don't know what it would have been like we only know that it is at 40 years old that Moses is able to properly see his people again a question I had was is this the first time in 40 years is this the first time he's actually seen his people and maybe it is I mean we know what it's like to have a royal family we know what it's like for someone to be in the royal family they can't just do whatever they like they have all the riches at their disposal but they can't do whatever they like they've got a schedule you know these people these Hebrews were living somewhere separate from where Moses was living and Moses as a prince of Egypt would have had expectations and responsibilities there's accounts in Josephus and others about conquests that Moses led as a military Egyptian prince great expectations and so perhaps it wasn't until 40 years old that he was able to go out and there's actually something that we'll press on in a wee bit that he might have been doing something against Egypt by going out there you know so finally the moment comes he went out even that little phrase doesn't tell us the whole story does it that he went out to his people when Moses had grown up he went out to his people it's just a little line but Stephen in Acts chapter 7 says this it came into his heart to visit his people something's happening something's stirring inside him

[11:15] Hebrews 11 it's fantastic see when the New Testament gives you a sermon on the Old Testament it's great you can just copy it Hebrews 11 says that his visit and his actions were basically an act of defiance against the crown what he was doing by going and visiting them was against his duties as a prince of Egypt and the actions that he took was an act of defiance against the crown and Hebrews 11 says that he did it by faith he knew what he was doing so perhaps he had to defy his duties to go out there in the first place nevertheless he went out and he looked on their burdens and he saw how the Egyptians were treating the Hebrews he looked one way and the other and seeing no one he struck down an Egyptian and hid him in the sand it's a desert this is like out in Las Vegas how many bodies are buried in the sand but Moses the Hebrew in this text when it talks about him looking on their burdens is that he saw with emotion he looked with emotion he was stirred he was moved to compassion at what was going on and certainly at this point oh boy he made a conscious decision to choose sides this is a choosing of sides he doesn't get caught it's not just like he gets caught and then chooses a side he is choosing sides by doing this and this is what the writer of Hebrews means when Hebrews 11 says this this is what Hebrews 11 says of this very chapter by faith when Moses was grown up refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter that's what he's doing here he's refusing that title choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin his actions in going out and doing this is him choosing to now step to the side of his people and away from being an Egyptian prince chose to be mistreated with the people of God than enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin which would have been very available to him as a prince of Egypt he considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasure of Egypt for he was looking to the reward

[13:42] Moses has this idea that there's something greater than Egypt out there there's some promise hanging in the air that God gave long a goal that is of greater worth than anything that the palace can give him and this is all bound up in this decision Moses takes to visit the people and act against this Egyptian there's a succession of steps to forsake Egypt isn't that true when we come to faith there's a succession of steps to forsake the old life the pleasures of sin the things that we once treasured we're taking steps to forsake them because there's greater wealth in Christ and so these actions are an example of faith in God Moses at this point is demonstrating a great faith in God in act 7 Stephen even goes as far as saying that Moses supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand but they did not understand see Moses had such a strong sense and God's promise and his purpose that God was going to use him to rescue his people but it all seems to fizzle out before it even gets started now it's interesting

[15:11] I don't know if you come to that conclusion by looking at Exodus 2 but act 7 in Hebrews 11 certainly see it that way and this is something that I struggled with there's a number of interesting things in this passage that help us there's so many interesting threads but which threads should we pull on well firstly in this passage there's a thing about what a person sees the thing about seeing and it starts this passage starts with Moses seeing something and it ends with God seeing something and in between there's various people and various moments where what you see and what you do with that matters and so I think this is one of the main points of the passage what you see and what you do with that matters and secondly there's a number of words in this passage and events that foreshadow what is to come so let me highlight some of them striking down Egypt when Moses strikes down an Egyptian there's a striking down of Egypt that is foreshadowed here who made

[16:16] Moses a ruler and judge well they're going to find that out leaving Egypt Moses leaving Egypt and staying in Midian that's going to happen to Israel sitting down by a well watering the father's flock saving them delivering them drawing out water watering the flock and then Moses even in his own wedding after all this entering into a covenant relationship this is what's going to happen for Israel crying out groaning this is all foreshadowing what's in Moses journey is foreshadowing Israel's journey and it's doing a lot more than that I'm sure there's more but hopefully you can connect some of the dots and see how this foreshadows the experience of Israel during and after the exodus and we'll get a chance on Wednesday night to explore that further if you'd like to come out where we dig deeper into the passage from

[17:20] Sunday ask questions and such but for today the main thing we'll be focused on is this getting ready for rescue getting ready for the rescue and so as I said one of the things that I've been wrestling with is the way that Moses went about this I don't know if that comes in your mind how Moses went about this the fact that it won't be yet another 40 years before the rescue comes it's one of the big difficulties I had in getting to grips with this what's going on in this passage it could seem like when Moses strikes down the Egyptian he makes a mistake in his method and it costs the nation another 40 years of waiting it could seem like that certainly we know that Moses delivers the law and it's wrong to kill to take vengeance into your own hands vengeance is the Lord's but then you get to the New

[18:21] Testament and Stephen in Acts and Hebrews seems to paint Moses in a rather positive picture it's not a problem for the New Testament what Moses did here so what's going on why the 40 year delay it doesn't the passage itself doesn't directly comment on whether Moses was right or wrong to do that and nor does it comment on why it was another 40 years they had to wait and so this might lead you to think a certain way about it but then when you read Acts 7 and Hebrews 11 it might lead you to think another way about it it's very hard and then when you read all the commentaries and you listen to others on this a lot of people draw out the aspects of Moses failure and his leadership and his rescue Moses failed had to learn leadership his motive was right but his method was wrong even in his attempt to rescue his people it ends in fearful flight he couldn't even go up against Pharaoh yet at the end of the passage

[19:28] Pharaoh just dies Moses is far away so clearly Moses himself cannot rescue them Moses inability to rescue them is clear in this passage he fails morally he fails miserably and so a lot of people focus on Moses having to be taken into the wilderness for 40 years for further preparation and training you know imagine after a year of me being here you folks and everyone else and John and folks were like yeah do you know what you need another 40 years in seminary you're not ready who's ready you know who is ready who's ready for rescue I think in this passage one of the things is who is ready for rescue now all these things about Moses is undoubtedly true I mean are any of us perfect no but the problem is again Acts in

[20:29] Hebrews paints an entirely different portrait of Moses an entirely different portrait Moses is the good guy this is a good thing it's not a problem to Acts in Hebrews that Moses did this they don't say anything about Moses failure they say stuff about his faith so what do we need to learn here is this extra 40 years because Moses isn't ready well there's one detail that we're missing in all of this and if you already know what it is you've beat me to it because it took me a while to realize this because it's an easy story to try and draw a line between the main character and ourselves we do this all the time in the Bible don't we we draw a line from the characters to ourselves sometimes we miss the point that that's not what we're supposed to do it's like David and Goliath it's like you can fight your giant no David points to Christ not us Moses points to Christ not us the line goes to

[21:32] Christ and so if this book is first written to Israel and not us then where do Israel see themselves in the story not Moses but the Israelites so look at what the Israelites do in this story and that's maybe where you see is the application think about this if you're the one first reading this book Israel was just about to enter the land or has just entered the land Moses has written down the Torah and this is delivered to Israel what is the point of chapter 2 of Exodus what would be missing if this was not here is the application for Israel simply that Moses failed and had to go through another 40 years of training now while there would be truth in that I think one of the big things actually is not that Moses wasn't ready for the rescue but Israel was not ready for the rescue think about this does Israel have to endure another 40 years of slavery just because their leader isn't ready yet is God that cruel that he'll make them wait just because of this one guy it's certainly not the way

[22:47] Acts 7 in Hebrews 11 portrays the account and so here there's three clues first clue verse 13 two Hebrews struggling together you know it seems like the big problem is Egypt against the Hebrews but Moses goes out the second day it's Hebrews versus Hebrews and Moses is like wait you play that Egypt's your enemy not one another the Hebrews are fighting with one another it's like some of the oppression that you see in America you know the race wars and stuff like that and the fact is well we don't really need to oppress them much if they oppress themselves it's fine just let them at it you know we'll supply them with guns and they'll kill themselves we don't need to do it that's what's happening in Israel the Hebrews are fighting one another and Moses is like are you blind and so one day Moses is striking down an Egyptian the next day a Hebrew is striking down a

[23:50] Hebrew it's like who's the negative one it's not Moses the second clue verse 14 Moses tries to reconcile them and they reject him and this is a picture of what they think of Moses and his rescue attempt they don't want him we don't want you Moses we don't want you and we don't want your rescue forget it in fact talking about seeing if seeing is a thing in this the only thing that they see is Moses as some other oppressor meddling in their business they're completely blind to what Moses is doing Stephen says that Moses supposed that they would see that God was giving them salvation by his hand but they did not understand they didn't want it they didn't see it didn't even see their need for it the third clue verse 23 a long time after see the language of verse 23 during those many days what are the many days he's talking about it's when

[24:59] Moses is in Midian when Moses and Midian 40 years passed by that's what he's talking about many days during those many days during those many days the king of Egypt died and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and they cried out for help this is the first time that it mentions that Israel have cried out for help do you notice that prior to this doesn't look like they're crying out for help you have the faith of midwives you have the faith of Moses family but as a whole the nation isn't crying out and so the faith of Moses himself is drawn out in Acts 7 Hebrews 11 and other than that the people of Israel haven't yet turned to God and it's only at the end of the passage that we'll see it's another 40 years later when Moses is 80 years old that the people start to cry out to God and so piecing all this together one of the big themes of our passage is that the people of Israel were not ready for rescue and it begs the question of any of us do you want to be saved is this not what

[26:11] Jesus said sometimes do you want to be healed why would he ask something like that do you even want to be saved do you even see your need for salvation do you want to be taken away from the comforts and pleasures of your sin do you want to forsake that lifestyle for something better can you even see it it's like the story from earlier of the man in the flood waiting for God to rescue him yet refusing anything that God would do to enact that rescue it just doesn't see it and so even if there is a sense that Moses methods weren't right it seemed like the people weren't ready either maybe the timing wasn't right for Moses although he had a sense and made a choice to forsake Egypt he hadn't yet received divine instruction God hadn't told him directly to deliver them but perhaps the timing wasn't right for Israel because they hadn't yet began to cry out for God to rescue them in the first place and so why is there a glimmer of rescue in Exodus 2 but then 40 years have to pass by before it really happens here's a question is God slow to fulfill his promises no 2nd Peter 3 says that any such delay isn't God being slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness it's actually his patience he's not being slow he's being patient so if he's not being slow but he's being patient then who is being slow oh slow to understand slow of heart you hard hearted stubborn people we are the ones that are slow slow to get it slow to see it

[28:08] God isn't slow the only time it mentions God being slow is in his anger but God is patient wanting none to perish but all to reach repentance waiting for Israel to get to the point of crying out for salvation lest any should perish if it happens too soon is God slow to rescue absolutely not and so what would have happened if Israel responded well to Moses defending them and identifying with them we don't know we don't know but what we do see is that there's a pattern they reject God's salvation through Moses they reject his first coming and they have to wait 40 years think about this it could have happened and so when they go into the wilderness does anybody know how long it would have taken to go from

[29:09] Egypt to the promised land 11 days and yet if they have to wait 40 years there's this pattern this pattern of having to learn this pattern of God being patient God is the one having to wait 40 years not the people we have to learn what it is to be free we have to learn what it is to be repentant and so Moses would be later known as the greatest prophet of the Old Testament yet he himself said a prophet like him is coming and to him they would listen which implies they weren't listening to Moses and so this delay I think isn't just down to what Moses did or even how he did it but it's down to the stubbornness and hard heartedness of Israel and failing to see this they don't see what God is providing just like the man on the roof in the flood and so our passage goes like this Moses saw Israel failed to see

[30:09] God saw do you see and so with respect to Israel by the time it comes to Jesus how much more should they have saw this is why this is why Stephen talks about Moses in the first place in Acts 7 because he's saying you always do this you always fail to see the rescuer that God is bringing you always do this Hebrews 11 it was by faith that Moses did this bit and so what should you do you should have faith how much more should they have seen when Jesus came you see Moses was God's man he was we need to see that from this chapter Moses was God's man but he was just a man Jesus was God's son both man and God but let us never suppose that we have a greater ability to see even post

[31:15] Christ we who do believe even us Christians we are wild branches grafted in what a wonderful thing Paul says that the rejection of Israel led to God's salvation to us non-Jews Paul says if their rejection led to our salvation how much more will their inclusion lead to their full inclusion what a glorious thing Israel's waiting at this current time it's like that 40 years how much more you see this is Stephen's point putting aside whether or not it was wrong for Moses to strike down the Egyptian when Moses first came his first coming look how Moses mirrors Christ at his first coming Exodus chapter 2 he was rejected by his own people is that not

[32:17] John chapter 1 the light of the world came into the light the true light came into the world he was coming to his own people but his own people did not receive him this is Exodus chapter 2 Moses first coming he is rejected by his own people and so does that ring any bells at his first coming they didn't understand they didn't want him they didn't see their need for salvation how has Israel rejected their rescue Jesus at his first coming as they did with Moses and Stephen in Acts 7 listen to this he draws on that question that the Israelite asks in rejection who made you prince who made you a prince and a judge over us and Stephen picks up in that in Acts 7 35 and he's making a parallel between Moses and these statements about

[33:18] Jesus because if you remember our series in Acts which was a long time ago Acts chapter 2 is nearly years ago this is how see please go into Acts 7 after this because the wording that Stephen uses he says this Moses this Moses whom you rejected saying who made you prince and a ruler ruler and a judge this Moses who you rejected there's only a few chapters before in Acts chapter 2 where Peter said this Jesus who you crucified who made Moses a prince and a judge Acts chapter 2 this Jesus who you crucified God has made both Lord and Christ exact mirroring of this the same thing is happening with Israel same thing Moses and Jesus he's the prophet like Moses prophet to come the greater one which means there's a greater exodus but people fail to see and so

[34:20] I think this passage actually reveals a lot not only about the deliverer but about the people who the deliverer is sent to and if they'll receive him and if there's a delay it's never because God is slow to fulfill his promise it's rather that he is patient perhaps there is repentance still needed perhaps God is waiting until people cry out to him perhaps God is better at waiting than we are and perhaps it's us that needs to learn patience and learn how to cry out if you ever feel like you're waiting for God perhaps he's waiting for you to learn how to cry out I certainly know that's true of my own experience because at the end of chapter two we get a very strong sense that God sees God knows God sees your suffering God cares about what the people are going through he cares more than anyone he does he is aware of it all so aware of it that he provided a way before the people even cried out see

[35:29] Moses first came to them before they cried out has God not sent a deliverer for us long before we knew we needed them before any of us cried out God knows and sees God is well ahead of us in respect to what we need he knows your needs he is way ahead of you and what you need but make no mistake when you get to the point of crying out he will respond he will we'll see in chapter three how God will respond when you actually do cry out God hears God sees God remembers his promise and God knows and so it's easy to criticise Moses in this account it's easy to criticise him for not going about it the right way or going about it the wrong way or whatever especially because we look at the story knowing the whole picture but at least Moses is doing something you see in many ways it seems like humans and humanity just resists help have you ever experienced that in many ways we just resist help we just don't want help we want to do it ourselves we either want to do it ourselves or we just want pity

[36:45] I've been there many times myself I don't want you to help because then I would have nothing to moan about or no thanks for your help I'll do it myself or whenever you try to do something nice for someone they pay you and you're like that's not why I was doing it we just resist help us humans are just stubborn people aren't we see we're no different from the Israelites we are human just like them later the people would groan like I mean get this and see if you can identify with this later the people of Israel would groan about what they had given up in leaving slavery I mean how ridiculous is that so focused on the comforts that they didn't have now in the wilderness oh remember the cucumbers in Egypt I mean they must have had great cucumbers remember the soup remember this remember that so focused on the comforts and pleasures that they didn't have that they couldn't see the glorious riches they did have with

[37:49] God man have you ever been there I have had they given up comfort and pleasure Moses had given up more what had they given up that Moses hadn't given up more you see Moses left the palace left the pleasure and the glory of the palace to suffer with his people does that ring any bells do you see how that parallels with Jesus you see Moses was God's man but it wouldn't happen in the way that they would expect it wouldn't come by military might actually when Moses was 40 years old he was renowned Josephus talks about this conquest against Ethiopia and Moses was absolutely renowned he was a fighter it says in Acts 7 that he was mighty in words and deeds and this matters because later on

[38:50] Moses will say I can't speak when he was 40 years old maybe you'll appreciate this when he was 40 years old he felt like he could do everything yet when he was 80 years old he's like maybe not and I think we all you know and maybe most of you in here have got there ahead of me I think young people like me need to learn that Moses had learned power and might in the palace but he needed to learn humility in the wilderness didn't he you see Moses was God's man but it would happen not in the way they expect it wouldn't happen by Moses coming down and striking the Egyptians it wouldn't happen by Moses might wouldn't happen because Moses was anything great it would happen because Moses God was great it would be by the hand of God not by the hand of Moses Moses was God's man but it wouldn't happen in the timing they expected yeah they need to wait another 40 years

[39:55] God's patience he's not out and so God waits for Israel to cry out and boy does he respond Moses was God's man but the people rejected him and all of this points to Jesus you see Moses he was God's man but he was just a man he wasn't perfect he made mistakes he had to learn patience you see he had passion but he had to learn patience he had wisdom and might but he had to learn humility Moses was God's man but God is the hero of Exodus not Moses Yahweh is the hero Moses saw and gave up the palace God saw and gave up his son Moses saw and struck down an Egyptian God saw and would strike down

[40:55] Egypt it was by the hand of Moses that the Midianite shepherds were driven out but it was by the hand of Yahweh that Israel the shepherd nation was brought out Moses remembered his people God remembered his promise Moses heard of Pharaoh's threat and he ran God heard the people's cry and came down Moses was God's man but he was just a man he points to Jesus Jesus is bringing about a greater exodus you see Moses is God's man but Jesus is God's son Moses was just a man Jesus is the God man he came long before we knew we needed a rescuer but do we like the comfort and pleasure too much that we don't want to follow him that we don't want to go out with him or do we see that there is far more treasure in

[42:00] Christ than the fleeting pleasures of sin and so cry out and I don't know when the last time you were around a baby but let me tell you this when Jesus talks about having the faith of a child we need to learn to have the faith of a child because babies know how to cry out my son when he's hungry for a snack knows how to ask but us when we grow up we want to do everything by ourselves by our own might by our strength lean not on your own understanding yeah God is waiting for us in so many ways but he hears he sees he remembers his promises and he knows when we cry out to him boy will he come to our rescue he has already done it in Christ he is doing it in

[43:01] Christ and he will do it in Christ and so we ought to have faith amen let me pray and then we're going to sing a final song in some form or fashion and we're going to enjoy some time together oh God our God our heavenly Father long before we even considered you you sent your son for us you are our creator you have made us you have formed us from our mother's womb you know every one of our days you know what we need even if we need to wait you give us mercy in the waiting you give us manna for every single day and not a bit more for tomorrow you know what we need God and long before we ever saw it you knew that we needed rescue and you sent us your son

[44:07] Jesus and God we thank you that you have opened our eyes to see that we pray for those who don't yet see that we pray that they would know God that you would ready their hearts to see Christ and surrender to him because we know there is nothing that we can do to rescue ourselves nothing man can do but yet it was you God through your son who would rescue us and so we thank you God thank you for all that you have done we thank you for the example of these things in the past and how they point us to something greater far more glorious in Christ and so may we learn what it is to wait may we learn what it is to cry out and may we learn what it is to see a greater treasure in Christ than ever and by that to have faith that never wavers because you are a faithful

[45:12] God and you will do what you said you will do God we give you praise in Jesus name Amen