WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.839 Okay, I'm going to do the Bible reading today. 00:00:03.020 --> 00:00:06.620 It's not seven chapters, it's just going to be three passages from Exodus. 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:13.019 I'm going to start at the start of the ten plagues that are sent to force Pharaoh 00:00:13.019 --> 00:00:16.120 to let the Hebrew slaves worship Yahweh. 00:00:16.399 --> 00:00:19.280 So it's chapter 7, verse 8 to 18. 00:00:21.859 --> 00:00:24.160 Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:26.280 When Pharaoh says to you, 00:00:26.539 --> 00:00:28.320 Prove yourselves by working a miracle, 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.100 then you shall say to Aaron, 00:00:30.539 --> 00:00:33.119 Take your staff and cast it down before Pharaoh, 00:00:33.579 --> 00:00:34.920 that it may become a serpent. 00:00:35.619 --> 00:00:39.960 So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. 00:00:40.899 --> 00:00:44.079 Aaron cast down his staff before Pharaoh and his servants, 00:00:44.219 --> 00:00:45.320 and it became a serpent. 00:00:46.120 --> 00:00:49.400 Then Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the sorcerers, 00:00:49.560 --> 00:00:53.600 and they, the magicians of Egypt, also did the same by their secret arts. 00:00:54.219 --> 00:00:57.780 For each man cast down his staff, and they became serpents. 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:00.899 But Aaron's staff swallowed up their staffs. 00:01:01.439 --> 00:01:03.119 Still Pharaoh's heart was hardened, 00:01:03.500 --> 00:01:06.219 and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:09.540 Then the Lord said to Moses, 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.120 Pharaoh's heart is hardened. 00:01:11.659 --> 00:01:13.420 He refuses to let the people go. 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:17.460 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. 00:01:17.459 --> 00:01:20.640 Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, 00:01:20.640 --> 00:01:23.639 and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent. 00:01:24.379 --> 00:01:25.699 And you shall say to him, 00:01:26.219 --> 00:01:29.299 The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, 00:01:29.559 --> 00:01:32.659 Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. 00:01:32.659 --> 00:01:36.599 But so far you have not obeyed. 00:01:37.140 --> 00:01:38.140 Thus says the Lord, 00:01:38.619 --> 00:01:40.719 By this you shall know that I am the Lord. 00:01:41.120 --> 00:01:43.379 Behold, with the staff that is in my hand, 00:01:43.579 --> 00:01:46.379 I will strike the water that is in the Nile, 00:01:46.599 --> 00:01:48.420 and it shall turn into blood. 00:01:48.959 --> 00:01:50.719 The fish in the Nile shall die, 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:52.459 and the Nile will stink, 00:01:52.900 --> 00:01:56.439 and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile. 00:01:56.439 --> 00:02:02.439 The next passage is from chapter 8, verse 16 to 19, 00:02:02.659 --> 00:02:05.140 and it's the third plague of the Nats. 00:02:07.840 --> 00:02:09.379 Then the Lord said to Moses, 00:02:09.699 --> 00:02:10.379 Say to Aaron, 00:02:10.639 --> 00:02:13.460 Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.800 so that it may become gnats in the land of Egypt. 00:02:18.439 --> 00:02:19.280 And they did so. 00:02:20.199 --> 00:02:22.780 Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff 00:02:22.780 --> 00:02:24.400 and struck the dust of the earth. 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:27.340 And there were gnats on man and beast. 00:02:28.000 --> 00:02:31.340 All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt. 00:02:32.120 --> 00:02:35.840 The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, 00:02:35.960 --> 00:02:36.800 but they could not. 00:02:37.420 --> 00:02:39.340 So there were gnats on man and beast. 00:02:39.980 --> 00:02:41.460 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, 00:02:41.980 --> 00:02:43.240 This is the finger of God. 00:02:43.780 --> 00:02:45.219 But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, 00:02:45.420 --> 00:02:47.860 and he would not listen to them, as the Lord had said. 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.840 And the last passage is in chapter 10, verses 21 to 29. 00:02:53.840 --> 00:02:55.340 It's the ninth plague. 00:02:59.439 --> 00:03:00.960 Then the Lord said to Moses, 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:03.199 Stretch out your hand toward heaven, 00:03:03.400 --> 00:03:06.319 that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, 00:03:06.699 --> 00:03:08.000 a darkness to be felt. 00:03:08.599 --> 00:03:11.280 So Moses stretched out his hand towards heaven, 00:03:11.920 --> 00:03:15.659 and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:17.680 They did not see one another, 00:03:17.900 --> 00:03:20.920 nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. 00:03:20.919 --> 00:03:24.039 But all the people of Israel had light where they lived. 00:03:24.739 --> 00:03:26.939 Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, 00:03:27.419 --> 00:03:28.659 Go, serve the Lord. 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:30.799 Your little ones may also go with you. 00:03:31.319 --> 00:03:34.099 Only let your flocks and your herd remain behind. 00:03:34.779 --> 00:03:35.759 But Moses said, 00:03:36.199 --> 00:03:39.359 You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:42.279 that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. 00:03:42.280 --> 00:03:45.900 Our livestock also must go with us. 00:03:46.060 --> 00:03:47.740 Not a hoof shall be left behind. 00:03:48.460 --> 00:03:52.379 For we must take of them to serve the Lord our God. 00:03:52.699 --> 00:03:56.319 And we do not know with what we must serve the Lord until we arrive there. 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:59.620 But the Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart, 00:03:59.840 --> 00:04:01.099 and he would not let them go. 00:04:01.939 --> 00:04:03.240 Then Pharaoh said to him, 00:04:03.659 --> 00:04:04.560 Get away from me. 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:06.800 Take care never to see my face again. 00:04:07.219 --> 00:04:09.659 For on the day you see my face, you shall die. 00:04:10.379 --> 00:04:11.120 Moses said, 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.039 As you say, I will not see your face again. 00:04:18.300 --> 00:04:19.339 Well, good morning, everyone. 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:23.659 Will you please pray as we come to God's word. 00:04:29.180 --> 00:04:30.399 Lord, you are holy. 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:33.879 You are set apart above all things. 00:04:33.879 --> 00:04:37.620 And my prayer is that as we sit in your word, 00:04:37.740 --> 00:04:45.659 you would convince each of our hearts to be holy in our hearts and in our minds, 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:50.800 to be above everything else, in everything else. 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:54.480 So, Lord, we pray that you would speak through your word. 00:04:55.019 --> 00:04:57.279 We desperately need your word again. 00:04:57.800 --> 00:04:58.719 In Jesus' name. 00:04:58.860 --> 00:04:59.100 Amen. 00:04:59.100 --> 00:04:59.220 Amen. 00:05:01.140 --> 00:05:05.680 Well, the plagues in Egypt, they're riveting, aren't they? 00:05:06.220 --> 00:05:08.520 It's a riveting moment in history. 00:05:10.560 --> 00:05:12.060 But is it just history? 00:05:12.060 --> 00:05:17.300 Like, why should you and I sit up and listen today? 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:27.519 I think we should sit up and listen because it helps us understand what Jesus says in John 8, 00:05:27.860 --> 00:05:34.540 that everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. 00:05:34.540 --> 00:05:48.000 It helps us start to see and picture and understand that the human nature is enslaved to a power that rules over us. 00:05:49.660 --> 00:05:54.980 I think we often talk about sin as if, like, we're going to eat that 11th piece of chocolate 00:05:54.980 --> 00:05:59.800 and we still think, we still tell ourselves that we're in control. 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.460 We kind of think of sin like that. 00:06:01.459 --> 00:06:07.839 It is a choice, but it's also described in Scripture more like an alcoholic. 00:06:09.739 --> 00:06:13.039 That next drink isn't a choice. 00:06:13.299 --> 00:06:16.159 It's a power over your life. 00:06:17.339 --> 00:06:24.759 It's not one aspect of an alcoholic's life that it's not impacting from morning till night, 00:06:25.060 --> 00:06:27.979 every relationship, your job, everything. 00:06:28.500 --> 00:06:30.299 It's doing damage all through. 00:06:31.459 --> 00:06:33.979 It's more like that. 00:06:36.479 --> 00:06:43.000 When that lustful desire at that image is so overwhelming, 00:06:43.659 --> 00:06:48.699 when that untrue comment about you is demanding vindication, 00:06:49.599 --> 00:06:53.519 when that hurtful word or action against you is just, 00:06:54.620 --> 00:06:55.899 you just want to get vengeance, 00:06:55.899 --> 00:07:06.959 when you envy your neighbor's house and car and spouse and children and I won't be happy unless I have that, 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:10.399 and it controls you, that desire. 00:07:11.179 --> 00:07:19.699 When the idea that your value is tied up in you being a competent parent or competent at your job or at school or at sport 00:07:19.699 --> 00:07:22.639 so that it consumes your life and your thinking, 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:27.560 it feels like you don't have a choice. 00:07:27.779 --> 00:07:32.120 You have to do this to be satisfied. 00:07:32.939 --> 00:07:35.019 It feels brutally strong. 00:07:36.620 --> 00:07:41.439 Sin feels like you must obey me if you want to be satisfied. 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:49.259 We are captives. 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:53.860 Or we were captives if you're a believer. 00:07:53.860 --> 00:07:57.020 So we need redemption. 00:07:58.460 --> 00:08:01.900 Yes, we need forgiveness of sins we choose to do, 00:08:02.020 --> 00:08:04.620 but the Bible talks a lot about redemption. 00:08:06.020 --> 00:08:08.699 And this is what this part of the Bible is helping us understand. 00:08:09.740 --> 00:08:12.300 Redemption in ancient times, it was a very common word. 00:08:12.580 --> 00:08:15.560 It's about slaves or about prisoners of war. 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:20.420 In either case, you belong to a master. 00:08:21.720 --> 00:08:28.160 And redemption is paying a price, often a high price, to purchase out of captivity. 00:08:29.180 --> 00:08:31.579 That slave to purchase them. 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:33.600 They're mine now. 00:08:34.559 --> 00:08:39.340 That prisoner of war to free you from captivity by paying a price. 00:08:42.159 --> 00:08:44.480 And that's what we're seeing in the plagues. 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.359 God redeeming his people. 00:08:48.259 --> 00:08:56.139 And it helps us understand what Jesus has done for us in redeeming us from captivity to sin. 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:00.619 As Yahweh says to Pharaoh, 00:09:00.859 --> 00:09:03.579 let my people go. 00:09:04.799 --> 00:09:06.679 That they may serve me. 00:09:06.799 --> 00:09:08.539 They don't belong to you. 00:09:09.099 --> 00:09:09.939 They're mine. 00:09:09.939 --> 00:09:10.000 They're mine. 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:17.599 This section of scripture helps us understand, 00:09:17.739 --> 00:09:18.379 if you're a Christian, 00:09:19.519 --> 00:09:20.899 you're not your own. 00:09:21.159 --> 00:09:22.639 You don't belong to sin anymore. 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:26.679 You were bought at a price to know the Lord. 00:09:27.339 --> 00:09:29.259 And that is freedom. 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:33.199 That is life, to know the Lord. 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:41.700 Okay, so obviously the Israelites needed to be delivered from slavery. 00:09:41.900 --> 00:09:43.200 But why plagues? 00:09:45.280 --> 00:09:48.160 I don't know if you're asking that question. 00:09:48.540 --> 00:09:53.160 The Lord surely could have saved his people from slavery any number of ways he wanted to. 00:09:53.480 --> 00:09:58.220 He could have called his people to war and just given them the victory in battle. 00:09:58.220 --> 00:10:03.259 He could have turned Pharaoh's heart to release them like he did for Cyrus, 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:08.259 the ruler of the Persian Empire later on in history. 00:10:08.920 --> 00:10:11.139 He could have gone straight to the Passover. 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:13.600 He could have done it any number of ways. 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:14.680 Why the plagues? 00:10:14.679 --> 00:10:21.639 Well, it's a very unique moment in history, isn't it? 00:10:22.419 --> 00:10:24.839 Even Hollywood is happy to make a movie about this. 00:10:26.719 --> 00:10:32.599 They are sign upon sign upon sign that Yahweh is doing the redeeming. 00:10:32.679 --> 00:10:36.099 We saw last week this is not happening because of Moses, is it? 00:10:37.659 --> 00:10:40.219 Moses has no social standing. 00:10:42.120 --> 00:10:44.620 He's insecure from his past failures. 00:10:45.299 --> 00:10:52.319 He's deeply aware of his disobedience and he's just unsure of how God could possibly use an unclean instrument like him. 00:10:52.739 --> 00:10:54.099 This is not about Moses. 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:59.959 He's holding a weak piece of wood, a shepherd's staff in his hand. 00:10:59.959 --> 00:11:06.319 But in that weakness, as he stretches out his hand for the plagues, 00:11:07.419 --> 00:11:12.179 the Lord shows his mighty hand, his outstretched arm. 00:11:12.179 --> 00:11:18.879 The plagues show us that it's Yahweh delivering his people. 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:23.959 Israel are watching on, not lifting a finger. 00:11:24.500 --> 00:11:26.199 It's Yahweh delivering his people. 00:11:26.200 --> 00:11:36.560 I think part of the reason is to convince our hearts and to convince Israel, God did it. 00:11:37.259 --> 00:11:38.140 God saved you. 00:11:38.139 --> 00:11:44.399 And there's a repeated phrase throughout this section. 00:11:45.199 --> 00:11:47.779 I've put the verse references in your outline. 00:11:48.840 --> 00:11:50.019 You can look at them later. 00:11:50.019 --> 00:11:52.079 But there's this repeated phrase. 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.220 The plagues are signs pointing to truth that we need to know. 00:11:58.480 --> 00:12:00.120 That you may know. 00:12:01.699 --> 00:12:04.419 Egyptians, that you may know. 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:06.779 Pharaoh, that you may know. 00:12:06.860 --> 00:12:08.379 Israel, that you may know. 00:12:08.620 --> 00:12:10.699 Us today, that you may know. 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:13.259 I am Yahweh. 00:12:13.259 --> 00:12:15.139 Obviously, I'm not talking about me. 00:12:16.299 --> 00:12:19.240 The Lord's saying, I am Yahweh. 00:12:20.919 --> 00:12:25.419 The plagues are so that his name is proclaimed in all the earth. 00:12:25.500 --> 00:12:26.860 Here we are talking about them today. 00:12:31.759 --> 00:12:35.460 In the plagues, we see four things we get to know about Yahweh. 00:12:36.220 --> 00:12:38.899 The earth is Yahweh's. 00:12:40.019 --> 00:12:40.980 The whole earth. 00:12:40.980 --> 00:12:45.100 There is no one else like Yahweh. 00:12:46.920 --> 00:12:50.180 Yahweh is present to protect his people. 00:12:51.899 --> 00:12:54.560 And life is in Yahweh's hands. 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:57.899 So let's go through these. 00:13:00.840 --> 00:13:06.279 Well, the plagues are really natural, aren't they? 00:13:06.279 --> 00:13:14.399 Some people speculate about just very natural causes going on here. 00:13:14.740 --> 00:13:20.139 If the Nile was turned to blood, then it's an ecological disaster. 00:13:20.379 --> 00:13:27.059 It could have brought out the frogs and the frogs die and gnats come and flies swarm and so on and so on. 00:13:27.159 --> 00:13:28.159 It's really natural. 00:13:28.159 --> 00:13:38.879 If God just wanted to demonstrate that he is the power above any heavenly power that people think exists, 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:44.980 he could have done something just really spectacular and instant. 00:13:44.980 --> 00:13:47.100 I'm just going to make something up. 00:13:47.100 --> 00:13:53.120 Like, just blind all the Egyptians except for Pharaoh and look at Pharaoh and go, 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:53.899 you're next, buddy. 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:55.340 You let him go. 00:13:56.159 --> 00:13:57.200 He could have done that. 00:13:57.779 --> 00:14:01.039 But it's just this plague, natural plague upon plague. 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:10.879 I think what we're meant to see here is that Genesis 1 and 2, the Lord is undoing creation. 00:14:12.500 --> 00:14:22.159 The livestock, the plants, the land, the waters, the sky, blotting out the sun and the moon. 00:14:22.879 --> 00:14:26.019 It's this undoing, unraveling of creation. 00:14:26.019 --> 00:14:32.819 Disobedience to Yahweh breaks down the created order. 00:14:37.439 --> 00:14:42.819 I think this should challenge our view of miracles, how we think about miracles. 00:14:43.500 --> 00:14:51.139 I think we can talk about miracles as if God is absent and then he suddenly comes into his world to do something special. 00:14:51.139 --> 00:14:56.779 These plagues tell us miracles are very different to that. 00:14:58.080 --> 00:15:01.460 Yahweh has constantly got his hand in everything. 00:15:03.480 --> 00:15:06.399 Miracles just show he just turns up the notch. 00:15:06.580 --> 00:15:08.919 He just goes, it's just this unusual activity. 00:15:14.139 --> 00:15:15.519 Chapter 9, verse 29, 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:25.740 I think the plagues are very natural to show he's the creator. 00:15:31.819 --> 00:15:33.879 As we read the miracles of Jesus, 00:15:35.600 --> 00:15:39.139 his signs are anti-plagues. 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:42.579 They aren't breaking creation down, 00:15:42.579 --> 00:15:44.659 he's putting creation back together. 00:15:45.519 --> 00:15:48.740 People weren't made to be blind. 00:15:50.480 --> 00:15:52.600 Not the original desire. 00:15:53.600 --> 00:15:56.240 To have incurable diseases like leprosy. 00:15:56.939 --> 00:15:58.840 Their bodies to decay in a tomb. 00:15:59.019 --> 00:16:00.799 He's putting creation back together. 00:16:05.919 --> 00:16:11.360 So that you and I may know that the earth belongs to Jesus. 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:16.560 So the earth is Yahweh's. 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:21.240 And the plagues show us, secondly, that there is no one else, 00:16:21.779 --> 00:16:24.480 no one else like Yahweh. 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.100 Before this section, 00:16:31.519 --> 00:16:35.440 Pharaoh objects in this first confrontation in chapter 5, verse 2, 00:16:35.440 --> 00:16:36.160 who is Yahweh, 00:16:36.160 --> 00:16:37.940 that I should obey him. 00:16:39.640 --> 00:16:40.820 He's not an atheist. 00:16:41.320 --> 00:16:43.340 He's a pluralist, like we are today. 00:16:43.480 --> 00:16:45.260 Well, I'm hoping you're not, 00:16:45.400 --> 00:16:48.300 but like our culture is today. 00:16:51.280 --> 00:16:53.100 You have your view of spirituality. 00:16:54.380 --> 00:16:55.540 I have my view. 00:16:55.539 --> 00:16:58.259 We've got our gods. 00:16:58.519 --> 00:16:59.199 Look at your god. 00:17:00.120 --> 00:17:00.980 You're slaves. 00:17:01.379 --> 00:17:02.159 Look at our gods. 00:17:03.379 --> 00:17:04.379 We're your masters. 00:17:04.819 --> 00:17:07.359 Like, why should I listen to your god? 00:17:07.899 --> 00:17:10.220 Why should I listen to your view of spiritual reality? 00:17:10.220 --> 00:17:17.519 So before the plagues begin, 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:24.140 we've got this preliminary sign of the staffs turning into a snake. 00:17:24.140 --> 00:17:28.039 I think Yahweh is using Pharaoh's own worldview, 00:17:28.200 --> 00:17:29.539 his own view of reality, 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:33.500 to give him a warning before any damage comes. 00:17:34.819 --> 00:17:39.460 The magicians, now that's not doing card tricks. 00:17:39.460 --> 00:17:40.500 They're magicians. 00:17:41.240 --> 00:17:42.299 They're wise men. 00:17:43.140 --> 00:17:44.920 They're ones who have knowledge. 00:17:45.500 --> 00:17:49.240 They're sorcerers who practice secret arts. 00:17:49.400 --> 00:17:52.039 These are the representatives of the gods of Egypt, 00:17:52.259 --> 00:17:55.100 and they seem in this initial encounter 00:17:55.100 --> 00:17:57.940 with the staffs turning into snakes to be more powerful. 00:17:59.299 --> 00:18:02.440 They too can turn their staffs into snakes, 00:18:02.579 --> 00:18:04.460 and the word for their snakes in the Hebrew 00:18:04.460 --> 00:18:07.559 apparently emphasizes their fearsomeness, 00:18:07.740 --> 00:18:08.579 and it's not just one. 00:18:08.579 --> 00:18:09.480 There's multiple. 00:18:09.919 --> 00:18:12.559 You've got this one mediocre snake 00:18:12.559 --> 00:18:16.460 and this fearsome multiple snakes. 00:18:16.740 --> 00:18:21.319 I wonder if it's just representing the worldviews. 00:18:21.779 --> 00:18:22.579 You've got Yahweh. 00:18:24.359 --> 00:18:26.059 We've got our gods. 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:33.019 But Aaron's staff swallows up all their staffs. 00:18:33.019 --> 00:18:41.259 It's a very generous, patient sign to give, 00:18:42.299 --> 00:18:44.980 to work within Pharaoh's own worldview. 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:53.920 And the structure of the nine plagues, 00:18:54.059 --> 00:18:56.440 there's three sets of three. 00:18:56.680 --> 00:18:59.099 We're going to go through these three sets. 00:18:59.299 --> 00:19:03.880 In the first three, we've got the Nile turned to blood, 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:06.039 the frogs and the gnats. 00:19:06.039 --> 00:19:12.039 Egypt worshipped the Nile River as a source of their life, 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:14.779 and Pharaoh's sorcerers can replicate. 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:16.339 Who knows how? 00:19:16.759 --> 00:19:19.359 They can replicate the water turning into blood. 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:23.279 They can replicate summoning the frogs. 00:19:23.279 --> 00:19:28.079 But even as early as the third plague of the gnats, 00:19:28.899 --> 00:19:29.879 the magicians, 00:19:31.180 --> 00:19:35.799 this must have gone against every fibre of their being. 00:19:36.539 --> 00:19:39.039 They're the representatives of Egypt's gods, 00:19:39.180 --> 00:19:42.440 and they tell Pharaoh something he doesn't want to hear. 00:19:43.220 --> 00:19:44.740 This is the finger of God. 00:19:44.740 --> 00:19:48.680 We can't do this. 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:53.380 This should be the end of the conflict. 00:19:57.160 --> 00:19:59.440 It's so, chapter 8, verse 10, 00:19:59.500 --> 00:20:03.880 that you may know that there is no one like Yahweh, our God. 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:06.380 There's no one like him. 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:09.819 But Pharaoh's heart is hardened, 00:20:10.039 --> 00:20:11.680 and wouldn't even listen to his own people. 00:20:14.740 --> 00:20:18.200 As we read the miracles of Jesus, 00:20:19.180 --> 00:20:20.440 there's things in there that, 00:20:20.700 --> 00:20:21.620 I don't know if you struggle, 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:25.259 I struggle to almost believe. 00:20:25.960 --> 00:20:28.720 It's like driving out demons. 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:34.039 It's healing incurable diseases. 00:20:35.880 --> 00:20:38.460 But it's so that we may know 00:20:38.460 --> 00:20:41.200 that it's the finger of God. 00:20:41.960 --> 00:20:44.640 There's no one else like Jesus. 00:20:45.299 --> 00:20:47.500 That's why I'm not a Muslim. 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:50.500 There's no one else like Jesus. 00:20:53.759 --> 00:20:55.880 He is so unique. 00:20:58.019 --> 00:21:02.240 He is not one idea of spiritual reality 00:21:02.240 --> 00:21:05.579 that can sit beside other views of spiritual reality. 00:21:05.579 --> 00:21:09.539 There's no one like him. 00:21:09.539 --> 00:21:16.079 So in the plagues, we see the earth is Yahweh's. 00:21:16.460 --> 00:21:19.259 We see in this first set of three plagues, 00:21:19.379 --> 00:21:20.940 there is no one else like Yahweh. 00:21:20.940 --> 00:21:24.400 In the second set of three, 00:21:25.400 --> 00:21:29.320 we see that Yahweh is present to protect his people. 00:21:29.860 --> 00:21:30.940 We've got the flyers, 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:34.720 which the hands think is the worst plague. 00:21:35.480 --> 00:21:37.220 We've got the livestock dying, 00:21:37.759 --> 00:21:39.779 and the boils on their skin. 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:43.940 And the emphasis here is that Yahweh distinguishes 00:21:43.940 --> 00:21:46.259 his people from the Egyptians. 00:21:47.440 --> 00:21:48.759 Chapter 8, verse 22. 00:21:48.960 --> 00:21:51.320 On that day, I will set apart the land of Goshen, 00:21:51.880 --> 00:21:53.000 where my people dwell, 00:21:53.600 --> 00:21:55.799 so that no swarms of flies shall be there, 00:21:56.700 --> 00:22:00.360 that you may know that I am Yahweh in the midst of the earth. 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:05.419 Pharaohs, Egyptians' livestock die. 00:22:05.579 --> 00:22:06.819 He sends delegates, 00:22:07.339 --> 00:22:13.119 and they find out not a single animal is sick in Goshen. 00:22:15.459 --> 00:22:17.179 And the boils on the skin, 00:22:18.779 --> 00:22:20.699 not only can the magicians not replicate it, 00:22:21.099 --> 00:22:22.240 they're taken out of action. 00:22:22.879 --> 00:22:24.279 They're incapacitated. 00:22:24.399 --> 00:22:25.199 They can't stand. 00:22:26.539 --> 00:22:28.319 Yahweh is so present, 00:22:28.319 --> 00:22:29.740 he can protect his people. 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:34.799 while afflicting those who oppose him and his people. 00:22:37.240 --> 00:22:39.619 Egypt is not Pharaoh's land. 00:22:39.919 --> 00:22:40.899 Yahweh is present. 00:22:46.919 --> 00:22:51.259 One of the purposes we're told for these signs, 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:53.740 Moses is told in chapter 10, verse 2, 00:22:54.240 --> 00:22:57.539 that you may tell in the hearing of your son and your grandson 00:22:57.539 --> 00:22:59.619 how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians, 00:22:59.619 --> 00:23:02.059 and what signs I have done among them, 00:23:02.399 --> 00:23:05.239 that they may know that I am Yahweh. 00:23:09.179 --> 00:23:10.699 I just wonder how they felt. 00:23:11.659 --> 00:23:12.939 The text doesn't say, 00:23:13.179 --> 00:23:16.939 but I wonder how Israel felt just watching on, 00:23:17.319 --> 00:23:19.119 protected, even from flies. 00:23:20.879 --> 00:23:21.359 Protected. 00:23:21.799 --> 00:23:23.979 Watching Yahweh fight for them. 00:23:23.980 --> 00:23:26.759 It must have been scary. 00:23:26.759 --> 00:23:26.779 It must have been scary. 00:23:28.779 --> 00:23:32.819 What a God is our God. 00:23:33.120 --> 00:23:34.759 But it must have been... 00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:37.779 I don't know. 00:23:37.860 --> 00:23:38.720 I don't know how to describe it. 00:23:39.079 --> 00:23:39.980 You can help me later. 00:23:40.140 --> 00:23:41.140 It must have been thrilling. 00:23:42.980 --> 00:23:44.740 That he was fighting for his people. 00:23:45.140 --> 00:23:47.220 That he was calling them my people, 00:23:47.220 --> 00:23:48.799 and he was demonstrating that. 00:23:49.620 --> 00:23:50.440 Protecting them. 00:23:52.120 --> 00:23:54.960 Using all his power to bring you to himself. 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:56.680 To purchase you. 00:23:56.779 --> 00:23:57.700 To redeem you. 00:23:58.039 --> 00:24:01.480 To bring you to the one you rightfully belong to. 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:09.799 I was encouraged afresh this week. 00:24:11.640 --> 00:24:13.299 Just with the simple thought, 00:24:13.299 --> 00:24:15.120 I have no idea why, 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.700 but this God wants me. 00:24:20.079 --> 00:24:20.680 Wow. 00:24:22.660 --> 00:24:24.839 And fights to have me. 00:24:24.839 --> 00:24:33.480 He is present. 00:24:33.740 --> 00:24:34.879 Protecting his people. 00:24:35.079 --> 00:24:35.980 Purchasing his people. 00:24:37.659 --> 00:24:40.379 I think it's more so today, right? 00:24:40.419 --> 00:24:41.740 We can look at the cross. 00:24:41.980 --> 00:24:44.220 It's only those who look at the cross, 00:24:44.939 --> 00:24:47.619 see God, the Father's redeeming love, 00:24:48.299 --> 00:24:52.019 who can look cancer and tragedy and pain in the eye 00:24:52.019 --> 00:24:58.680 and say all things work together for good. 00:25:01.079 --> 00:25:02.220 That's incredible. 00:25:03.420 --> 00:25:07.539 Incredible faith that Yahweh is present to protect us. 00:25:10.319 --> 00:25:13.480 So the plagues, they should convince our hearts 00:25:13.480 --> 00:25:16.519 that the earth is Yahweh's, his creator, 00:25:16.660 --> 00:25:18.339 that there is no one else like him, 00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:22.639 that he's present to protect his people. 00:25:22.740 --> 00:25:24.779 He can protect our faith through anything 00:25:24.779 --> 00:25:29.059 to make sure we get home to glory. 00:25:30.279 --> 00:25:33.659 And finally, we see that life is in Yahweh's hands. 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:35.399 It's not in Pharaoh's hands. 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:38.899 Israel feared Pharaoh for their lives, 00:25:39.899 --> 00:25:42.279 but their life was in Yahweh's hands. 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:51.279 Pharaoh and the Egyptians needed to know 00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:53.420 their very lives are a gift for him. 00:25:53.879 --> 00:25:55.480 So here we've got the third set of plagues. 00:25:55.559 --> 00:26:00.180 We've got the hail, the locusts, and the darkness. 00:26:01.819 --> 00:26:05.019 These plagues seem to be attacking the very lives 00:26:05.019 --> 00:26:05.619 of the Egyptians. 00:26:06.319 --> 00:26:08.639 He says, I could have sent a pestilence through. 00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:10.039 He could have just wiped them out. 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:13.200 He's trying to convince them, warn them. 00:26:13.960 --> 00:26:15.799 Your life is in my hands. 00:26:17.399 --> 00:26:20.159 The hail killing any living thing in the field. 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:22.879 Locusts eating their food to live on. 00:26:25.420 --> 00:26:29.139 And Egypt's chief deity was apparently Amon-Ra, 00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:32.379 the personification of the sun and the moon 00:26:32.379 --> 00:26:34.859 who brings light and therefore life. 00:26:35.519 --> 00:26:38.359 And Yahweh blots them out. 00:26:38.359 --> 00:26:40.859 Don't look to Amon-Ra. 00:26:44.119 --> 00:26:47.059 Now, I have no idea what chapter 10 verse 21 means. 00:26:47.159 --> 00:26:49.019 It was a darkness to be felt. 00:26:53.819 --> 00:26:55.579 They were cut off relationally. 00:26:55.679 --> 00:26:56.959 They couldn't talk to each other. 00:26:57.599 --> 00:26:58.859 They couldn't see each other. 00:26:59.899 --> 00:27:03.000 They were unable to move from their place for three days. 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:04.880 It was a darkness. 00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:07.259 Maybe that could be felt in their soul. 00:27:08.059 --> 00:27:11.839 I think it must have been felt like being buried alive. 00:27:12.779 --> 00:27:15.460 It was this, I think it's a foretaste of death. 00:27:22.539 --> 00:27:24.579 Yahweh is pulling his punches. 00:27:25.140 --> 00:27:26.920 He could have sent a pestilence. 00:27:26.920 --> 00:27:29.259 He's giving them a foretaste. 00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.200 Before the Passover comes, he tells the Egyptians, 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:35.279 hail is coming. 00:27:35.400 --> 00:27:36.400 He gives them opportunity. 00:27:36.560 --> 00:27:40.940 And those who feared the word of the Lord brought all their people 00:27:40.940 --> 00:27:41.900 out from the field. 00:27:42.740 --> 00:27:45.820 He gives them opportunity to be saved. 00:27:45.819 --> 00:27:56.919 When Jesus was on the cross, the sun and moon were blotted out again. 00:28:00.919 --> 00:28:05.220 The Lord of all the earth, no one else like him, 00:28:06.279 --> 00:28:08.159 to protect and redeem his people, 00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:16.040 he took the place of God's judgment that we deserved. 00:28:16.360 --> 00:28:17.680 He takes the darkness. 00:28:19.120 --> 00:28:22.640 And then he rises three days later so that you and I may know 00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.660 light and life are in Jesus' hands. 00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:44.000 Well, I wonder how do you feel about how very God-centered God seems to be? 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:46.720 That you may know me. 00:28:49.300 --> 00:28:50.720 I wonder how you feel about that. 00:28:50.720 --> 00:29:00.480 The captivity in Egypt helps us understand our need for redemption 00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:02.100 from captivity to sin. 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:07.220 And I think we see a picture of a greater captivity, 00:29:08.360 --> 00:29:10.620 this captivity to sin in Pharaoh. 00:29:13.420 --> 00:29:15.519 He hardens his heart. 00:29:15.519 --> 00:29:21.799 The heart, it's the place, the seat of your desires and your choices. 00:29:23.099 --> 00:29:24.519 He hardens his heart. 00:29:24.759 --> 00:29:27.920 Or it also says Yahweh hardened his heart. 00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:36.579 Whatever that means, that Yahweh hardened his heart, 00:29:36.700 --> 00:29:41.940 he's not violating Pharaoh's desires and decision. 00:29:42.539 --> 00:29:45.180 It's not like he's putting something in Pharaoh's heart 00:29:45.180 --> 00:29:46.360 that wasn't there before. 00:29:46.980 --> 00:29:48.519 I think it's more like Romans 1. 00:29:49.240 --> 00:29:50.400 God's judgment is coming. 00:29:50.500 --> 00:29:51.340 And how do we see that? 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:54.480 He hands us over to what we want. 00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:57.039 We see it at the end of the plagues. 00:29:57.259 --> 00:29:59.140 Pharaoh says to Moses, enough's enough. 00:29:59.500 --> 00:30:00.519 Don't see me again. 00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:03.500 And Moses says, okay. 00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:05.259 He hands us over. 00:30:08.360 --> 00:30:12.180 Yahweh handing Pharaoh over to his own desires 00:30:12.180 --> 00:30:15.799 desires that are fixated on self. 00:30:17.740 --> 00:30:21.299 I want to spend a moment looking at Pharaoh 00:30:21.299 --> 00:30:24.019 to see what a hard heart looks like. 00:30:28.420 --> 00:30:32.880 A hard heart is seen in willful disobedience to Yahweh, 00:30:32.980 --> 00:30:35.220 not listening to what he says. 00:30:35.220 --> 00:30:39.799 It's seen in chapter 7, verse 23. 00:30:40.900 --> 00:30:45.460 He strikes his God of the Nile and it says he did not even 00:30:45.460 --> 00:30:46.839 take this to heart. 00:30:47.019 --> 00:30:50.279 He didn't think about what these signs were pointing to. 00:30:53.480 --> 00:30:57.339 In chapter 9, 17 and 10, 3, it describes the hard heart 00:30:57.339 --> 00:31:01.579 as he's exalting himself as if he is in control. 00:31:01.579 --> 00:31:04.879 He's not humbling himself before the true God. 00:31:05.599 --> 00:31:09.139 In chapter 9, verse 30, it's not fearing that Yahweh 00:31:09.139 --> 00:31:11.259 has the power to judge. 00:31:14.539 --> 00:31:19.579 A hard heart, he's so set on his ways that he doesn't listen 00:31:19.579 --> 00:31:21.539 to the wise advice of his own people. 00:31:21.859 --> 00:31:24.299 His magician saying this is the finger of God. 00:31:24.299 --> 00:31:31.220 Even his court officials saying, don't you see Egypt is ruined? 00:31:34.279 --> 00:31:35.639 He's already made up his mind. 00:31:35.940 --> 00:31:38.899 He doesn't want to listen to the people, his own people even. 00:31:40.940 --> 00:31:45.940 I think we see hardness of heart in his temporary acts of repentance. 00:31:45.940 --> 00:31:56.640 When he's externally forced rather than internally convicted. 00:31:58.559 --> 00:32:03.080 I think it's like, well, Court Peters is the strongest person in here. 00:32:03.120 --> 00:32:08.220 It's like Court Peters in a wrestling match, in a headlock, 00:32:08.220 --> 00:32:12.220 and Yahweh's saying, tap out, humble yourself. 00:32:13.500 --> 00:32:15.740 And as soon as he taps out each plague, 00:32:17.980 --> 00:32:20.900 his desire goes straight back to self. 00:32:21.839 --> 00:32:24.140 It's not internal, it's just external. 00:32:27.019 --> 00:32:31.640 His true desire is self and to disobey the Lord. 00:32:33.600 --> 00:32:36.319 He keeps talking as if he's in control. 00:32:36.319 --> 00:32:39.779 Moses, okay, you can sacrifice it within the land. 00:32:40.799 --> 00:32:42.579 Okay, only the men can go. 00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:45.200 All right, just leave your livestock. 00:32:46.799 --> 00:32:48.000 He hasn't got it yet. 00:32:50.019 --> 00:32:51.960 Yahweh is in control. 00:32:52.179 --> 00:32:52.759 He's not. 00:33:01.539 --> 00:33:03.939 I think today in our modern age, 00:33:03.940 --> 00:33:10.340 there's this insidious lie in our culture, I think. 00:33:10.980 --> 00:33:13.400 With all that technology can do, 00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:19.519 it treats the earth as raw ingredients, 00:33:19.620 --> 00:33:23.320 as if we can manipulate it according to our own desires, 00:33:23.380 --> 00:33:24.960 as if the earth is man's. 00:33:27.320 --> 00:33:30.320 But the plagues overrule that and say, 00:33:30.319 --> 00:33:33.419 no, no, whatever technology can do, 00:33:33.759 --> 00:33:34.919 the earth is not ours. 00:33:37.679 --> 00:33:38.679 It's the Lord's. 00:33:40.399 --> 00:33:41.819 The earth is the Lord's. 00:33:43.039 --> 00:33:44.439 There's no one else like him. 00:33:46.259 --> 00:33:48.299 He redeems and protects his people. 00:33:48.899 --> 00:33:50.220 Our lives are in his hands. 00:33:50.220 --> 00:33:54.980 In Pharaoh, we see a greater captivity to the power of sin. 00:33:55.100 --> 00:33:57.779 It's exalting self, man, 00:33:58.220 --> 00:34:00.620 exalting self at the centre of your world, 00:34:01.180 --> 00:34:05.360 and it puts you on a collision course with I am. 00:34:06.519 --> 00:34:09.980 He's at the centre of all things. 00:34:09.980 --> 00:34:20.480 A hard heart doesn't want to know the Lord. 00:34:24.980 --> 00:34:26.760 So I just want to finish with 00:34:26.760 --> 00:34:33.460 a call for us as his people and an encouragement. 00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:38.740 So brothers and sisters, 00:34:38.740 --> 00:34:41.960 as we share our lives together in this church family 00:34:41.960 --> 00:34:44.179 and we hold each other accountable, 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:48.720 when we're urging one another to press on, 00:34:48.880 --> 00:34:49.679 know the Lord, 00:34:51.220 --> 00:34:53.440 we're not playing games. 00:34:54.619 --> 00:34:56.059 It's not optional. 00:34:56.059 --> 00:35:03.360 Even these Israelites who saw these wonders, 00:35:04.320 --> 00:35:05.380 we later read, 00:35:06.119 --> 00:35:07.480 harden their heart. 00:35:12.059 --> 00:35:17.380 I love a sermon title by John Piper. 00:35:17.639 --> 00:35:18.860 I'm not sure if I've listened to it. 00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:20.019 The sermon title says it all. 00:35:20.619 --> 00:35:25.820 Our eternal security is a community project. 00:35:26.059 --> 00:35:30.639 And he says that based on Hebrews 3. 00:35:32.519 --> 00:35:34.179 Exhort one another every day, 00:35:34.699 --> 00:35:37.199 as long as it is called today, 00:35:37.299 --> 00:35:38.679 that none of you may be hardened 00:35:38.679 --> 00:35:41.699 by the deceitfulness of sin. 00:35:43.139 --> 00:35:45.019 For we have come to share in Christ, 00:35:45.139 --> 00:35:48.460 if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end. 00:35:49.380 --> 00:35:50.360 As it is said, 00:35:50.799 --> 00:35:52.820 today if you hear his voice, 00:35:52.820 --> 00:35:57.539 do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. 00:35:57.740 --> 00:35:58.559 I need you 00:35:58.559 --> 00:36:01.740 to keep pressing into my life. 00:36:03.120 --> 00:36:05.680 Stop putting self at the centre, David. 00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:07.860 Press on to know the Lord. 00:36:11.620 --> 00:36:12.840 We need each other. 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:20.920 And Jesus sets us free from self 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:26.340 to delight in knowing the Lord, 00:36:26.460 --> 00:36:29.079 to delight in serving the Lord 00:36:29.079 --> 00:36:30.280 and call it freedom, 00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:32.539 call it life. 00:36:32.539 --> 00:36:33.099 He sets us free. 00:36:33.099 --> 00:36:35.119 He sets us free. 00:36:36.539 --> 00:36:39.259 But he doesn't do it by external force. 00:36:42.699 --> 00:36:46.079 When we look at the judgments that he took on the cross, 00:36:48.059 --> 00:36:51.519 we look at him and it changes us internally. 00:36:51.739 --> 00:36:53.079 It softens our hearts. 00:36:53.079 --> 00:36:58.380 We look and we see the Lord fighting for us. 00:37:01.619 --> 00:37:03.539 I'm going to use a Tim Kellerism. 00:37:05.639 --> 00:37:06.920 We look at the cross 00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:09.659 and it softens us internally. 00:37:10.659 --> 00:37:11.579 And he says this, 00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:15.000 we are more sinful and flawed in ourselves 00:37:15.000 --> 00:37:16.539 than we ever dared believe. 00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:18.340 Yet, 00:37:18.900 --> 00:37:20.300 at the very same time, 00:37:20.380 --> 00:37:23.039 we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ 00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:24.159 than we ever dared hope. 00:37:29.019 --> 00:37:31.139 If the Son sets you free 00:37:31.139 --> 00:37:33.300 from a hardened heart, 00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:35.440 we will be free indeed 00:37:35.440 --> 00:37:37.880 to delight in knowing the Lord. 00:37:40.340 --> 00:37:41.380 Will you pray with me? 00:37:41.519 --> 00:37:41.860 Let's pray. 00:37:46.539 --> 00:37:51.019 Father, 00:37:51.139 --> 00:37:53.239 we thank you for, 00:37:54.820 --> 00:37:55.840 we praise you 00:37:55.840 --> 00:37:57.500 as God of all the earth. 00:37:58.199 --> 00:37:59.559 And we praise you 00:37:59.559 --> 00:37:59.860 that 00:37:59.860 --> 00:38:02.380 even in our 00:38:02.380 --> 00:38:04.239 hardness of heart, 00:38:04.820 --> 00:38:06.719 you move towards us 00:38:06.719 --> 00:38:08.039 and you want us. 00:38:08.559 --> 00:38:10.360 And you fight for us 00:38:10.360 --> 00:38:12.800 to give us a new heart 00:38:12.800 --> 00:38:15.380 to come into the knowledge of you. 00:38:15.380 --> 00:38:16.720 We thank you for that grace. 00:38:17.460 --> 00:38:18.920 May we not boast in ourselves 00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:20.820 if we have experienced that. 00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:23.140 May we give all the credit 00:38:23.140 --> 00:38:23.980 to where it's due. 00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:26.000 And I pray for anyone 00:38:26.000 --> 00:38:28.380 who is still wrestling 00:38:28.380 --> 00:38:30.320 with knowing the Lord. 00:38:30.980 --> 00:38:32.280 I pray that you might 00:38:32.280 --> 00:38:34.119 continue to pursue them. 00:38:35.240 --> 00:38:35.640 Father, 00:38:35.740 --> 00:38:37.539 I pray for us as a community 00:38:37.539 --> 00:38:39.460 that you would help us 00:38:39.460 --> 00:38:42.519 to delight in the fact 00:38:42.519 --> 00:38:44.980 that you are God. 00:38:45.440 --> 00:38:46.119 Help us believe 00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:47.559 that you are present amongst us. 00:38:48.280 --> 00:38:49.539 Help us to know our call 00:38:49.539 --> 00:38:51.639 to keep urging one another 00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:54.039 to meet together 00:38:54.039 --> 00:38:57.199 and to know you more and more. 00:38:58.659 --> 00:38:59.880 In Jesus' name I pray. 00:39:00.119 --> 00:39:00.460 Amen. 00:39:00.460 --> 00:39:00.539 Amen. 00:39:00.539 --> 00:39:00.960 Amen. 00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:01.019 Amen. 00:39:01.019 --> 00:39:01.079 Amen. 00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:01.139 Amen. 00:39:01.139 --> 00:39:01.280 Amen. 00:39:01.280 --> 00:39:01.460 Amen. 00:39:01.460 --> 00:39:01.579 Amen. 00:39:01.579 --> 00:39:02.559 Amen. 00:39:02.559 --> 00:39:02.579 Amen. 00:39:02.579 --> 00:39:02.639 Amen. 00:39:02.639 --> 00:39:04.579 Amen. 00:39:04.579 --> 00:39:04.639 Amen. 00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:04.699 Amen. 00:39:04.699 --> 00:39:04.759 Amen. 00:39:04.759 --> 00:39:04.780 Amen.