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 Today we're reading from Exodus 2, 23 to 3, 15.

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 In terms of context, God's people are enslaved in Egypt.

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 All their baby boys have been thrown to the Nile,

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 and any hope in Moses has gone as he has fled to Midian after killing an Egyptian.

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 During those days, the king of Egypt died,

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 and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help.

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 Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God,

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 and God heard their groaning.

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 God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

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 God saw the people of Israel, and God knew.

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 Now Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro, the priest of Midian,

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 and he led his flock to the west side of the wilderness,

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 and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

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 And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire,

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 out in the midst of a bush.

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 He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it was not consumed.

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 And Moses said, I will turn aside to see this great sight.

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 Why? The bush is not burned.

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 When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see,

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 God called to him out of the bush,

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 Moses, Moses!

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 And he said, Here I am.

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 Then he said, Do not come near.

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 Take your sandals off your feet,

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 for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.

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 And he said, I am the God of your father,

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 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.

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 And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

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 Then the Lord said,

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 I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt,

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 and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters.

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 I know their sufferings,

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 and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians,

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 and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land,

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 a land flowing with milk and honey,

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 to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites,

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 the Amorites, the Pezizites,

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 the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

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 And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me,

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 and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppressed them.

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 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh,

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 that you may bring my people,

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 the children of Israel, out of Egypt.

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 But Moses said to God,

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 Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh

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 and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?

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 He said,

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 But I will be with you,

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 and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you.

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 When you have brought the people out of Egypt,

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 you shall serve God on this mountain.

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 Then Moses said to God,

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 If I come to the people of Israel and say to them,

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 The God of your fathers has sent me to you.

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 And then they ask me,

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 What is his name?

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 What shall I say to them?

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 God said to Moses,

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 I am who I am.

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 And he said,

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 Say this to the people of Israel.

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 I am has sent you.

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 God also said to Moses,

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 Say this to the people of Israel.

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 The Lord,

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 the God of your fathers,

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 the God of Abraham,

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 the God of Isaac,

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 and the God of Jacob

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 has sent me to you.

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 This is my name forever,

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 and thus I am to be remembered

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 throughout all generations.

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 Well, good morning, everyone.

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 Will you pray with me as we come to God's word?

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 Father,

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 I pray that you would capture each of our hearts,

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 that we would be invited by your word,

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 and believe that our deepest need is to know you,

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 the God who is there.

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 So I pray that you would be speaking through your word now.

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 I pray that whatever would distract us,

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 I pray that you would remove that,

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 and help us sit under your word this morning.

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 In Jesus' name.

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 Amen.

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 Well,

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 do you think of God as simply the ruler of all things,

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 or do you know him personally?

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 Do you know him by name?

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 Do you see salvation as kind of like a barcode ticket

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 in your Google wallet

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 that you just got in your pocket,

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 ready for when you've reached the pearly gates?

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 Or do you see yourself as saved from the power of sin

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 to enslave you,

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 to obey what sin tells you?

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 Do you see yourself as saved from the penalty of God's judgment?

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 Is the lamb's blood critical to your salvation?

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 Is the lamb's blood, that substitute's blood,

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 define your identity?

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 Do you struggle with why the Lord,

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 if you're one of his people,

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 why would the Lord lead you into what feels like a wilderness,

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 into really difficult trials?

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 Why would he do that?

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 Do you understand grace

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 as not having to fuss about obedience and disobedience?

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 Or do you have the opposite problem,

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 that you don't think you're worthy of grace until you obey?

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 Do you see salvation only in terms of from,

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 from slavery, from death?

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 Or do you see the goal of salvation?

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 Do you understand what salvation is for?

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 It's for a heavenly calling,

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 to be God's treasured possession,

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 to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.

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 Do you see the for of salvation,

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 the blazing glory of Yahweh,

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 making a way to dwell among his people?

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 As we come to the book of Exodus,

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 let's just consider a really big picture structure of the book

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 to consider some of the massive things

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 we're going to be dwelling in for the next two months.

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 The first part of the story, redemption, salvation.

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 What is it?

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 What does it mean?

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 Then we've got the law as a response to salvation,

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 and then we've got the goal of all this,

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 is God tabernacling with his people.

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 I know I've covered a lot of ground there,

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 and I apologise for just so many thoughts,

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 but Exodus is just huge.

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 It is huge.

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 And I hope you're excited.

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 I hope we have a sense of treading on holy ground

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 as we come to dwell in this book for two months.

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 We're going to be flying through Exodus

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 over these next nine weeks.

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 Can I just suggest, can I urge,

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 that why don't you use your personal devotions,

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 use family devotions,

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 let's just sit in this powerful book,

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 because I don't have time to cover all the details.

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 Well, I'm hoping that wet your appetite to some extent.

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 But as we get into the book,

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 there's a massive unsettling question as we open Exodus.

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 It's a question that we can feel keenly today

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 as we look at our own lives,

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 as we look at the state of the church,

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 not just our church,

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 but also more broadly the state of the church and the world.

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 And it's what has become of God's promises.

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 Where are you, God, if you promised all these things?

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 Earlier this year,

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 I think this is the Holy Spirit's planning,

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 not the elders,

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 but we finished at Genesis 15.

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 Maybe we should have finished Genesis,

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 but Genesis 15,

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 where the Lord makes an unconditional promise to Abraham.

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 If you remember that,

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 his promise arises from God's free decision.

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 Abraham doesn't merit it.

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 He's not bargaining with God to make it happen.

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 It's God himself walking between those torn animals.

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 Do you remember that picture?

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 Abraham doesn't walk through.

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 God alone walks through.

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 And he's saying,

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 I'm taking responsibility of my side of the covenant

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 and your side of the covenant, Abraham.

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 If you don't fulfill it or I don't fulfill it,

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 may I become like these animals.

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 Unconditional promise.

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 He's promised Abraham to be a great nation.

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 And as we open the book,

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 chapter 1, verse 7,

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 we hear that the people of Israel were fruitful

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 and increased greatly.

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 They multiplied and grew exceedingly strong.

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 So that the land was filled.

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 It was swarming with them.

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 But they're hardly a nation.

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 They're slaves of the most powerful nation

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 in the world of that time.

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 The new king,

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 who's forgotten that Joseph saved Egypt

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 and Joseph made Egypt rich,

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 the new king is pathologically nervous

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 about all these Hebrew fighting men.

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 He could have made a treaty with them,

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 as was common in ancient times.

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 He could have made them a vassal state

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 that gave them protections,

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 but also they had obligations.

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 He could have done that, but no.

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 He has a government-sponsored policy of persecution.

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 He makes their work hard,

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 and he's hoping that weakens them.

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 They just keep multiplying.

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 It doesn't work.

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 And so he orders the midwives to kill all the boys.

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 You can let the girls live.

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 Kill the boys.

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 When that doesn't work,

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 he makes it legal and commanding Egyptian people

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 for infanticide to throw the boys into the Nile River.

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 I don't know if you want to pause and imagine that.

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 You probably don't.

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 We don't have enough vomit bags.

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 We're not on an airplane here.

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 This is a disgusting scenario, isn't it?

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 Where's your covenant promises, God?

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 Where's the land flowing with milk and honey?

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 They're powerless in a foreign land.

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 Where's the blessing?

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 Where's the thriving?

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 Where's the cursing of those who curse Abraham?

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 How is all the world going to be blessed

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 through these chosen people

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 if they themselves seem cursed?

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 Where's your promises?

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 Well, we're not told all the reasons,

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 but in Genesis 15,

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 when he's making that unconditional promise,

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 he does give his people a clear word.

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 Genesis 15, 13,

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 Know for certain that your offspring will be sojourners

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 in a land that is not theirs

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 and will be servants there

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 and they will be afflicted for 400 years.

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 But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve

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 and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

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 Now, I don't think Scripture actually answers like 400 years.

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 I'm not sure.

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 I've got thoughts.

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 You can talk to me later.

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 But I think the main thing here is there's a clear word.

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 Whatever chaos is going on,

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 400 years of pretty bad chaos

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 in the church,

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 in our lives,

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 it might seem out of control,

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 but the Lord is Lord of history.

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 He keeps his word.

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 He knows the beginning from the end.

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 There's an anchor there.

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 And I think as we open the book of Exodus,

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 we also see in the early chapters

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 God's hidden activity.

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 With Pharaoh's schemes of burdening the Egyptians,

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 what happens?

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 They keep multiplying.

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 We see God's hidden activity.

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 I think we see God's hidden activity with the midwives.

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 Most likely they're Hebrew midwives,

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 given their names.

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 In the face of the most powerful man on earth,

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 this is the guy who's ordered the killing of the boys,

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 they know that he could execute them on the spot.

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 They're giving an account for the fact

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 that they've disobeyed his orders.

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 And they've got the audacity to say,

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 because the Hebrew women are vigorous

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 and give birth before the midwife comes to them.

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 Okay?

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 And yet God protects them.

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 I think that's amazing that

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 they live.

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 He protects them.

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 More than that, we're told,

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 he blesses them with families.

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 It's likely that this Pharaoh in history is,

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 I don't know how to pronounce this,

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 but Pharaoh Thutmose III,

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 but Scripture never gives this Pharaoh a name.

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 But we have these Hebrew women,

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 we have their names.

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 They're honoured for all history.

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 We see his hidden activity

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 in blessing these faithful women.

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 And I suspect Exodus is setting up a divine principle

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 that we see throughout Scripture,

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 that God works his power and he works his plans

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 through what is weak in the eyes of the world.

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 I think we see this in the women and in Moses.

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 Pharaoh isn't afraid of the women.

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 Let the girls live.

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 He's afraid of the fighting men.

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 But in these early chapters,

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 the Lord seems to be working through the women

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 who had no social power at that time.

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 It's Moses' mother who hides Moses in the first place,

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 risking her own life,

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 then seems to scheme to,

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 what do we do?

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 Puts her in the place where Pharaoh's daughter comes along.

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 It's Pharaoh's daughter who gives permission

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 to be raised by a Hebrew nurse

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 who just happens to be his mother.

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 It's a lovely touch there.

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 And who knows what values and identity

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 she instilled, his mum instilled in him.

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 He's raising him.

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 God is working through what Pharaoh saw as weak

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 to bring down Pharaoh's courts.

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 We're later told that when the Lord gets the victory in the end,

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 it's going to be the women who ask their neighbours

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 for gold and silver and going to plunder the Egyptians.

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 It's not the fighting men.

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 And I think we see this principle

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 of the Lord working through

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 what the world counts as weak

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 in Moses as well.

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 He's given every Egyptian privilege

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 and education.

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 He's in the prime of manhood

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 in these early chapters,

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 coming up to 40 years old.

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 I've got to say that now

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 because I'm approaching 40.

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 He's in the prime of his life.

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 But how the Lord would use him

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 is not how Moses

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 or we would expect him

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 to use him.

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 You probably know the story well.

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 He sees his brother being wronged

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 and it's his strength,

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 Moses' strength,

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 to strike the Egyptian,

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 avenging

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 and delivering the oppressed.

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 Now the Hebrews could have kept this quiet.

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 They should have been

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 excited.

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 This guy who's grown up in the courts

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 is fighting on our behalf.

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 What's God going to do through him?

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 But it's his own people

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 who reject him.

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 And Pharaoh hears the rumours

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 and Moses has to run away.

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 All his position and power and strength

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 in the prime of life,

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 it vanishes in a moment.

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 He's a fugitive

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 in a foreign land.

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 And I think the picture we have of him,

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 he's a shadow

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 of the man he was.

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 He's a failure.

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 He's rejected.

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 He's afraid.

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 He settles.

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 He names his child

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 after being a foreigner.

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 He just settles

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 in his lot.

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 And he gets old.

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 He's 80.

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 He's 80 now.

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 He's powerless

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 before Pharaoh.

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 So what's become

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 a God's covenant promise as well?

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 Whatever the chaos,

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 he gives a clear word

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 that he is Lord of history.

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 We shouldn't doubt the fact

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 that he's always at work.

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 It might be very hidden.

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 And he loves,

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 I take great comfort in this,

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 he loves to use

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 what is weak

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 in the eyes of the world

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 to work his power

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 and his plan.

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 His foolishness

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 is wiser than man's wisdom

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 and his weakness

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 is stronger than man's strength.

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 We might not like

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 God's pace of things,

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 but we shouldn't doubt

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 that he keeps his promises.

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 Well, I wonder what

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 in your life is,

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 or in the church

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 or in the world,

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 what's making you

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 ask that question?

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 What's become

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 of your promises, God?

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 Perhaps it's something

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 you've used to pray for

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 and you've just lost confidence

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 to pray anymore.

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 Perhaps it's a person

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 who you put confidence in

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 and they ever let you down

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 or the situation

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 just seems a lost cause.

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 I want to be clear

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 what I'm not saying.

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 I'm not saying

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 we should go looking

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 for God's hidden activity.

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 I think we can read

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 God's providence.

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 If we try and do that,

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 we can,

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 in precise ways,

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 we can get it terribly wrong.

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 I'm not saying

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 from the early chapters

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 of Exodus

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 that that's a blueprint

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 for us to be looking

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 for hints

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 of God's hidden work.

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 I think there's plenty

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 that we can see

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 and be thankful for.

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 An example

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 of misreading

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 God's providence

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 is that there's

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 a tragic example

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 with a great giant

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 of a man

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 in church history,

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 George Whitefield.

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 If you've heard his name,

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 he was used by God

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 in the Great Awakening.

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 He had a boy

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 and he named him

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 John after John the Baptist

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 because he had

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 this strong impression

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 that John would be

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 a great preacher

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 like him

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 of this beautiful gospel,

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 publicly baptising him

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 and telling people

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 about this word

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 from God

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 that he's had

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 and his boy dies

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 in infancy.

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 What's become

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 of God's promises?

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 What George Whitefield

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 later convinced

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 he needed,

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 what you and I need

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 and what Israel needed

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 is to go deeper

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 in knowing Yahweh,

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 who he has revealed

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 himself to be.

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 Don't go looking

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 for the hidden messages.

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 look at who he has

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 revealed himself

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 to be

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 at the burning bush

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 because whatever doubts

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 we have,

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 they are decisively resolved

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 in the book of Exodus.

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 He's not hidden anymore.

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 He's in your face,

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 resolving any doubts

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 we've got.

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 We need to know Yahweh.

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 So,

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 if you're in your Bibles,

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 we'll be saying

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 in chapter 3.

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 When people talk

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 about God,

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 I think God is like this.

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 I think he's

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 a forgiving,

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 tolerant,

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 compassionate

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 God,

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 or I think God

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 is like that,

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 or I think he's

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 stern,

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 I think he calls it

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 whatever you think.

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 People talk like that,

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 but we give the weather

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 more respect

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 than that.

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 Like,

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 I can wish

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 that it's going to be

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 22 degrees

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 and sunny,

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 maybe a few clouds

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 the rest of the week.

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 I can wish

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 that overnight

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 it's cold enough,

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 the heat isn't

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 keeping me awake

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 at night.

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 I can wish

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 that all I want.

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 Who cares?

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 The weather's there.

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 I've got to deal with it.

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 God is there.

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 Let's give him

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 at least the respect

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 of we give weather.

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 The God

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 who's really there

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 is speaking

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 and he uses fire

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 to help Moses

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 and to help us

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 understand

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 who he is,

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 his name.

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 Now fire,

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 we've all been close

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 to a fire

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 that's going out.

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 Why is it going out?

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 I'm stating the obvious here.

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 Because the fuel's burnt up

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 that it's depending on.

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 Or I was reading about

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 a product

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 you can use in housing

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 to defend yourself

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 against bushfires

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 that's made out of straw.

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 Straw.

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 That would just burn up, right?

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 No, because it's compressed

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 and there's no oxygen.

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 So the fire just goes out

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 once you remove the flame.

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 The point is obvious.

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 Fire is dependent

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 on fuel and oxygen

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 and ignition.

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 If you don't have those,

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 there's no fire.

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 Not this fire.

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 The bush isn't burning.

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 It's self-sufficient.

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 Listen.

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 Verse 14.

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 God said to Moses,

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 I am

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 who I am.

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 This isn't his name yet

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 but his name is built

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 on these words.

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 It's Hebrew.

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 The verb is just to be

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 so it's very difficult

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 to translate.

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 How do you translate that?

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 It's probably along the lines of this.

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 It's being itself has sent you.

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 Tell Israel that.

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 Being.

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 I am who I am.

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 Moses, you're dealing with absolute just being here.

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 Now, here's a few things I think this means,

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 and I doubt it fully captures it.

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 I am never had a beginning.

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 He can't go out of being.

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 He's utterly independent.

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 All other beings, including the breath I'm using now,

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 is totally dependent on I am.

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 If he's not dependent, he's utterly free.

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 He doesn't need anything outside of him.

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 There's no constraints on him.

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 I am is constant in his character.

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 He's not becoming.

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 He's not developing.

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 He's not progressing.

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 He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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 His character is stable.

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 I think it means I am is the absolute standard of truth

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 and goodness and beauty.

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 If he is ultimate reality,

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 he is the ultimate standard of what is beautiful

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 and what is good and what is true.

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 All this means that he is more worthy of our interests

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 and our attention and our admiration and our enjoyment

00:26:11.700 --> 00:26:15.319
 than all other beings and realities put together.

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 I don't know how you feel about this kind of God.

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 You can't control this kind of God.

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 It's a bit humbling, isn't it?

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 Whatever ego I've got,

00:26:38.860 --> 00:26:42.720
 there it goes, in the face of this God.

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 Everything is a gift from this kind of God.

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 It's also incredibly liberating

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 because it means I'm not the one holding my life together.

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 I'm not the one holding this church together.

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 I'm not the one holding the world together.

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 I'm not keeping it spinning.

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 It's really liberating as well.

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 Apparently, Martin Luther wrote to his worrying, anxious friend

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 in a letter to Philip Melanchthon,

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 let Philip cease to rule the world

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 because I am.

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 I am runs the world.

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 What does Pharaoh look like in comparison to him?

00:27:33.480 --> 00:27:34.519
 All his authority.

00:27:36.180 --> 00:27:37.839
 Well, good luck, Pharaoh.

00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:42.679
 If I am comes down to intervene.

00:27:48.439 --> 00:27:50.639
 I think Israel's afflictions

00:27:50.639 --> 00:27:52.939
 and their utter helplessness

00:27:52.939 --> 00:27:53.959
 and their dashed hopes

00:27:53.959 --> 00:27:57.980
 resonates with a lot of people's testimony

00:27:57.980 --> 00:27:59.899
 of meeting the true God.

00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:03.339
 It's often when we're at the end of our resources,

00:28:03.599 --> 00:28:04.759
 it's at the end of ourselves,

00:28:04.959 --> 00:28:06.819
 it's at the end of our confidence in people

00:28:06.819 --> 00:28:08.759
 or society or government.

00:28:08.759 --> 00:28:14.039
 That's when we meet the real God.

00:28:18.179 --> 00:28:22.740
 And the God who is real and personal

00:28:22.740 --> 00:28:24.439
 reveals himself to us.

00:28:26.859 --> 00:28:28.359
 He's personal.

00:28:28.359 --> 00:28:39.000
 We hear that the people are not just groaning

00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:39.879
 under their affliction.

00:28:40.179 --> 00:28:42.039
 A new Pharaoh comes into play.

00:28:42.719 --> 00:28:45.500
 Maybe they hoped the regime of slavery would end

00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:48.359
 with a new Pharaoh, but it keeps going.

00:28:48.559 --> 00:28:51.339
 And so they're moaning and groaning

00:28:51.339 --> 00:28:53.599
 under the affliction.

00:28:53.899 --> 00:28:55.219
 And that's just natural, isn't it?

00:28:55.220 --> 00:28:57.360
 But at the end of chapter 2,

00:28:57.799 --> 00:29:00.700
 they do something more than just groan,

00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:02.059
 which all people do that.

00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:03.519
 They pray.

00:29:04.259 --> 00:29:05.200
 They cry out.

00:29:06.279 --> 00:29:07.299
 They look upward.

00:29:09.539 --> 00:29:13.120
 Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God

00:29:13.120 --> 00:29:14.640
 and God heard their groaning.

00:29:15.160 --> 00:29:17.440
 God remembered his covenant with Abraham,

00:29:17.660 --> 00:29:18.819
 with Isaac and with Jacob.

00:29:18.819 --> 00:29:22.279
 God saw the people of Israel and God knew.

00:29:24.799 --> 00:29:25.899
 He's personal.

00:29:26.179 --> 00:29:28.879
 He knew.

00:29:29.700 --> 00:29:31.259
 It's a funny way of talking, isn't it?

00:29:32.519 --> 00:29:34.619
 I think that's saying much more than he knew

00:29:34.619 --> 00:29:35.899
 the facts of the situation.

00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:40.299
 Because in Genesis, Old Testament,

00:29:40.599 --> 00:29:42.899
 often knowing is intimate involvement.

00:29:43.139 --> 00:29:45.159
 Like Adam knew his wife, Eve.

00:29:45.980 --> 00:29:47.360
 So I'm not saying it's sexual here.

00:29:47.900 --> 00:29:49.700
 Much more than physical intimacy.

00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:54.000
 The Lord is intimately involved.

00:29:55.380 --> 00:29:57.380
 He comes down and gets involved.

00:29:58.340 --> 00:29:59.140
 He sees.

00:29:59.300 --> 00:30:00.060
 He hears.

00:30:00.059 --> 00:30:06.679
 And him remembering his covenant

00:30:06.679 --> 00:30:09.299
 is not saying anything about his forgetfulness.

00:30:10.139 --> 00:30:13.539
 It's like we saw with Noah in the flood.

00:30:13.659 --> 00:30:14.700
 At the height of the flood,

00:30:14.819 --> 00:30:17.379
 we hear that God remembered his covenant

00:30:17.379 --> 00:30:20.240
 and that's when God acts to take the flood away.

00:30:20.720 --> 00:30:24.539
 God remembering his covenant means time to act.

00:30:24.539 --> 00:30:28.299
 What prompts God to act?

00:30:31.399 --> 00:30:32.659
 It's the prayers.

00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:36.059
 It's the prayers of his people.

00:30:37.500 --> 00:30:40.200
 I have no idea how that works.

00:30:41.259 --> 00:30:42.980
 God has given a clear word.

00:30:44.379 --> 00:30:46.639
 But the time of fulfillment of that promise

00:30:46.639 --> 00:30:51.059
 is responding to God's people praying.

00:30:51.059 --> 00:30:55.859
 I wish I believed that more.

00:30:58.879 --> 00:31:00.819
 And we see it again and again through Scripture.

00:31:01.579 --> 00:31:03.299
 In the exile, Daniel prays

00:31:03.299 --> 00:31:05.500
 and they return from exile.

00:31:06.460 --> 00:31:08.139
 At the time of the birth of the Christ,

00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:08.919
 who's praying?

00:31:10.519 --> 00:31:11.919
 Simeon and Anna at the temple.

00:31:15.419 --> 00:31:17.099
 Whatever we think of God's pace

00:31:17.099 --> 00:31:18.980
 in acting and fulfilling his promise,

00:31:19.159 --> 00:31:20.039
 prayer is effectual.

00:31:20.039 --> 00:31:21.940
 The Egyptians wouldn't have seen it straight away.

00:31:24.019 --> 00:31:25.079
 But it's effectual.

00:31:27.000 --> 00:31:28.039
 Yahweh knows.

00:31:28.159 --> 00:31:28.740
 He sees.

00:31:28.859 --> 00:31:29.519
 He hears.

00:31:29.700 --> 00:31:30.200
 He remembers.

00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:32.859
 He's personal.

00:31:37.980 --> 00:31:39.519
 He remembers his covenant.

00:31:41.399 --> 00:31:42.159
 Verse 15.

00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:45.420
 Being itself sent you.

00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:46.859
 Tell them that, Moses.

00:31:46.859 --> 00:31:47.859
 Verse 15.

00:31:49.439 --> 00:31:51.279
 There's more to my name.

00:31:52.919 --> 00:31:54.139
 God also said to Moses,

00:31:54.279 --> 00:31:55.899
 Say this to the people of Israel.

00:31:56.519 --> 00:31:56.959
 Yahweh.

00:31:57.919 --> 00:31:59.240
 The God of your fathers.

00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:00.079
 The God of Abraham.

00:32:00.279 --> 00:32:00.959
 The God of Isaac.

00:32:01.099 --> 00:32:01.819
 And the God of Jacob.

00:32:01.979 --> 00:32:03.199
 Has sent me to you.

00:32:03.299 --> 00:32:04.679
 This is my name forever.

00:32:05.839 --> 00:32:07.019
 And thus I am to be remembered

00:32:07.019 --> 00:32:08.679
 throughout all generations.

00:32:08.680 --> 00:32:16.220
 Just in case you haven't heard this before,

00:32:16.460 --> 00:32:18.240
 capital L-O-R-D

00:32:18.240 --> 00:32:20.299
 is always the personal name of God

00:32:20.299 --> 00:32:21.440
 when you're reading the Old Testament.

00:32:21.820 --> 00:32:24.120
 It's over 6,800 times.

00:32:24.840 --> 00:32:26.560
 He wants to be known by name.

00:32:26.559 --> 00:32:31.619
 When we sing hallelujah,

00:32:32.579 --> 00:32:39.059
 we're not just going praise some divine title.

00:32:39.299 --> 00:32:40.460
 We're praising his name.

00:32:41.460 --> 00:32:42.039
 Yahweh.

00:32:42.480 --> 00:32:42.919
 Hallelujah.

00:32:43.759 --> 00:32:44.940
 We're praising his name.

00:32:47.019 --> 00:32:49.799
 I don't usually call Emma wife.

00:32:51.099 --> 00:32:52.799
 Unless I'm trying to be playful.

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:56.099
 I call her by a name.

00:32:57.659 --> 00:32:59.319
 He wants to be known by name.

00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:03.700
 And he's a covenant-keeping God.

00:33:06.259 --> 00:33:08.180
 His name represents all he is.

00:33:08.740 --> 00:33:12.180
 And at the heart of who he is,

00:33:12.259 --> 00:33:13.519
 inseparable to who he is,

00:33:13.639 --> 00:33:16.039
 is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

00:33:17.079 --> 00:33:19.440
 He always acts on his covenant promises.

00:33:20.680 --> 00:33:21.919
 I think another way of saying it is,

00:33:21.920 --> 00:33:25.600
 I work with the most unpromising material

00:33:25.600 --> 00:33:28.180
 to bring about my promises.

00:33:28.380 --> 00:33:30.259
 Abraham, who is a coward.

00:33:32.500 --> 00:33:34.539
 Now he changes, God changes him.

00:33:35.300 --> 00:33:36.320
 But he's also a coward.

00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:39.340
 Dysfunctional Isaac.

00:33:39.660 --> 00:33:41.180
 He's a dysfunctional father.

00:33:42.820 --> 00:33:45.279
 You've got Jacob, who's a schemer and a con man.

00:33:45.380 --> 00:33:48.100
 Now these guys all change through God's grace.

00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.200
 But now, and we're going to see this more next week,

00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:54.940
 we've got failure feeling,

00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:57.480
 rejected, doubting Moses.

00:33:58.279 --> 00:34:01.160
 I work to keep my promises

00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:03.720
 through pretty ordinary material.

00:34:04.980 --> 00:34:06.420
 He keeps his covenant.

00:34:12.659 --> 00:34:15.980
 We don't see this in these verses,

00:34:16.159 --> 00:34:17.559
 but I want to mention it now,

00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:20.340
 given it's the start of our time in Exodus.

00:34:23.019 --> 00:34:24.820
 We should understand his name

00:34:24.820 --> 00:34:26.820
 as tied with the whole book of Exodus.

00:34:29.019 --> 00:34:30.739
 That he is Redeemer.

00:34:32.199 --> 00:34:36.480
 That he is the covenant Lord.

00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:41.679
 That he provides the blood of the lamb.

00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:43.159
 When we get to the Passover lamb,

00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:45.539
 his name is all through that passage.

00:34:46.579 --> 00:34:49.800
 That his purpose is to dwell with his people

00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:50.519
 in the tabernacle.

00:34:51.420 --> 00:34:54.840
 His name is tied to the events of Exodus.

00:34:56.119 --> 00:34:57.539
 And his ultimate goal

00:34:57.539 --> 00:35:00.219
 is that the whole world will know

00:35:00.219 --> 00:35:02.219
 that God is Yahweh.

00:35:02.219 --> 00:35:06.399
 We hear this when he's speaking about Pharaoh 9.16.

00:35:06.539 --> 00:35:08.559
 For this purpose I raised you up, Pharaoh,

00:35:09.039 --> 00:35:11.319
 to show you my power

00:35:11.319 --> 00:35:12.579
 so that my name

00:35:12.579 --> 00:35:15.579
 may be proclaimed in all the earth.

00:35:17.259 --> 00:35:18.379
 In chapter 14, verse 4,

00:35:18.459 --> 00:35:20.159
 I will get glory over Pharaoh

00:35:20.159 --> 00:35:21.279
 and all his hosts

00:35:21.279 --> 00:35:23.859
 and the Egyptians shall know

00:35:23.859 --> 00:35:26.219
 I am Yahweh.

00:35:26.219 --> 00:35:30.739
 That's the purpose of this book.

00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:32.019
 It's the purpose of history.

00:35:32.219 --> 00:35:33.319
 It's the purpose of the universe.

00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:34.939
 It's the purpose of your life.

00:35:35.539 --> 00:35:36.699
 Whether you know it or not.

00:35:37.319 --> 00:35:38.719
 Is that the world would know

00:35:38.719 --> 00:35:40.819
 that I would know

00:35:40.819 --> 00:35:43.339
 that God is Yahweh.

00:35:45.539 --> 00:35:46.739
 The God of the Exodus.

00:35:46.739 --> 00:35:54.639
 The final thing I want to draw our attention to

00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:55.619
 in this passage is

00:35:55.619 --> 00:35:59.279
 in verses 4 to 6.

00:36:00.679 --> 00:36:02.659
 His goal is personal encounter

00:36:02.659 --> 00:36:05.919
 and yet he's unapproachably holy.

00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:12.519
 Yahweh attracts Moses' attention

00:36:12.519 --> 00:36:14.519
 with the fire

00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:17.380
 and calls him, Moses.

00:36:18.579 --> 00:36:19.539
 He calls him.

00:36:19.699 --> 00:36:20.780
 He wants encounter.

00:36:21.619 --> 00:36:22.719
 But then Moses comes

00:36:22.719 --> 00:36:22.980
 and he goes,

00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.440
 whoa, don't come near.

00:36:28.820 --> 00:36:30.880
 And Moses hides his face

00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:33.000
 afraid of God.

00:36:33.639 --> 00:36:34.860
 We're going to see it again

00:36:34.860 --> 00:36:36.019
 when we get to Mount Sinai.

00:36:36.139 --> 00:36:37.300
 God comes down

00:36:37.300 --> 00:36:39.420
 and the people hear his voice

00:36:39.420 --> 00:36:41.539
 and they're terrified.

00:36:41.539 --> 00:36:43.199
 They can't come near.

00:36:45.139 --> 00:36:46.159
 We're going to see it

00:36:46.159 --> 00:36:47.500
 when Moses asks

00:36:47.500 --> 00:36:48.820
 to see God's glory

00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:49.659
 in chapter 34

00:36:49.659 --> 00:36:50.320
 and God says,

00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:50.960
 I can't.

00:36:51.019 --> 00:36:51.739
 I'll kill you.

00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:54.820
 I can't show you all I am.

00:36:56.159 --> 00:36:57.559
 He wants personal encounter

00:36:57.559 --> 00:36:58.079
 and yet,

00:36:58.900 --> 00:36:59.559
 like fire

00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:00.500
 is life-giving,

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:02.920
 it destroys.

00:37:08.920 --> 00:37:10.320
 The big question

00:37:10.320 --> 00:37:11.519
 isn't why isn't

00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:12.600
 the bush consumed?

00:37:13.160 --> 00:37:14.039
 The big question

00:37:14.039 --> 00:37:15.220
 is why isn't

00:37:15.220 --> 00:37:16.539
 Moses consumed

00:37:16.539 --> 00:37:18.820
 if we understand

00:37:18.820 --> 00:37:19.420
 his holiness?

00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:23.240
 We see a tension here

00:37:23.240 --> 00:37:24.220
 that we're created

00:37:24.220 --> 00:37:25.340
 to know this God.

00:37:25.940 --> 00:37:27.160
 We're made to know him.

00:37:28.039 --> 00:37:29.519
 Remember the Garden of Eden.

00:37:29.660 --> 00:37:30.500
 We're made to

00:37:30.500 --> 00:37:31.600
 not be afraid

00:37:31.600 --> 00:37:32.240
 of this God

00:37:32.240 --> 00:37:34.100
 and yet,

00:37:34.180 --> 00:37:35.200
 because we've turned away,

00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:36.700
 his presence is traumatic.

00:37:36.699 --> 00:37:38.639
 It's fatal.

00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:42.379
 As one person put it,

00:37:42.419 --> 00:37:43.480
 the human condition is

00:37:43.480 --> 00:37:45.239
 we can't live with God

00:37:45.239 --> 00:37:46.799
 and we can't live without him.

00:37:50.039 --> 00:37:51.759
 But Yahweh will make a way.

00:37:53.279 --> 00:37:54.339
 We don't make a way.

00:37:54.460 --> 00:37:55.359
 He makes a way.

00:37:56.059 --> 00:37:57.179
 The book is going to end

00:37:57.179 --> 00:37:59.299
 in the tabernacle,

00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:00.980
 his glory dwelling,

00:38:01.460 --> 00:38:02.319
 coming and filling.

00:38:02.320 --> 00:38:03.620
 At the centre

00:38:03.620 --> 00:38:05.080
 of his people's camp

00:38:05.080 --> 00:38:06.440
 is the tabernacle

00:38:06.440 --> 00:38:07.160
 and God

00:38:07.160 --> 00:38:08.220
 makes a way.

00:38:13.600 --> 00:38:15.160
 He wants to be known

00:38:15.160 --> 00:38:16.620
 and yet he's

00:38:16.620 --> 00:38:17.700
 unapproachably holy

00:38:17.700 --> 00:38:19.019
 but he'll make a way.

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:24.340
 Well,

00:38:24.460 --> 00:38:25.539
 after 400 years

00:38:25.539 --> 00:38:26.179
 of slavery,

00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:28.559
 whatever Israel's

00:38:28.559 --> 00:38:29.820
 groans and doubts,

00:38:31.559 --> 00:38:32.559
 what's become

00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:33.340
 of God's promises,

00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:35.420
 they were

00:38:35.420 --> 00:38:38.739
 thrillingly put to rest

00:38:38.739 --> 00:38:39.400
 at Exodus.

00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:44.340
 Yahweh decisively

00:38:44.340 --> 00:38:45.559
 makes himself known.

00:38:45.559 --> 00:38:49.079
 He saves them

00:38:49.079 --> 00:38:49.559
 from Egypt

00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:50.420
 and he brings them

00:38:50.420 --> 00:38:51.340
 to himself.

00:38:54.139 --> 00:38:55.099
 But we're also

00:38:55.099 --> 00:38:55.559
 going to see

00:38:55.559 --> 00:38:56.299
 something else

00:38:56.299 --> 00:38:58.320
 in Exodus

00:38:58.320 --> 00:38:59.320
 that Israel

00:38:59.320 --> 00:39:01.239
 had a deeper

00:39:01.239 --> 00:39:02.000
 enslavement,

00:39:02.360 --> 00:39:03.360
 worse than Pharaoh.

00:39:05.779 --> 00:39:06.840
 Yahweh intimately

00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:07.900
 knew his people.

00:39:08.039 --> 00:39:08.679
 He remembers

00:39:08.679 --> 00:39:09.279
 his promise

00:39:09.279 --> 00:39:10.400
 but his people

00:39:10.400 --> 00:39:11.539
 keep turning away.

00:39:11.659 --> 00:39:12.159
 They don't want

00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:13.259
 to intimately know him.

00:39:13.820 --> 00:39:14.779
 They don't

00:39:14.780 --> 00:39:16.060
 remember his promises,

00:39:16.260 --> 00:39:17.140
 his clear word.

00:39:18.780 --> 00:39:19.519
 It's that

00:39:19.519 --> 00:39:20.320
 enslavement

00:39:20.320 --> 00:39:21.060
 of the heart

00:39:21.060 --> 00:39:23.600
 that keeps

00:39:23.600 --> 00:39:24.200
 turning

00:39:24.200 --> 00:39:25.160
 from the God

00:39:25.160 --> 00:39:25.800
 who is there

00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:26.880
 and wants to be known

00:39:26.880 --> 00:39:27.820
 and has done

00:39:27.820 --> 00:39:28.960
 everything for us

00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:29.660
 to be known.

00:39:33.300 --> 00:39:34.000
 I wonder

00:39:34.000 --> 00:39:34.380
 if you can

00:39:34.380 --> 00:39:35.180
 resonate with that.

00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:39.700
 We need

00:39:39.700 --> 00:39:40.500
 a greater Exodus.

00:39:40.780 --> 00:39:42.500
 Exodus 2.0.

00:39:44.780 --> 00:39:47.560
 When we're

00:39:47.560 --> 00:39:48.320
 asking the question

00:39:48.320 --> 00:39:49.400
 what's become

00:39:49.400 --> 00:39:50.260
 of God's promises

00:39:50.260 --> 00:39:52.360
 we come

00:39:52.360 --> 00:39:53.760
 to a man

00:39:53.760 --> 00:39:54.500
 named Jesus

00:39:54.500 --> 00:39:55.080
 who says

00:39:55.080 --> 00:39:56.060
 in John 8.58

00:39:56.060 --> 00:39:56.600
 truly,

00:39:56.740 --> 00:39:56.920
 truly,

00:39:57.040 --> 00:39:57.820
 I say to you

00:39:57.820 --> 00:40:00.880
 before Abraham

00:40:00.880 --> 00:40:03.880
 I am.

00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:09.920
 We should read

00:40:09.920 --> 00:40:10.420
 the gospel

00:40:10.420 --> 00:40:11.220
 why Jesus

00:40:11.220 --> 00:40:11.680
 came

00:40:11.680 --> 00:40:12.720
 as

00:40:12.720 --> 00:40:14.420
 the second

00:40:14.420 --> 00:40:15.019
 Exodus.

00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:20.519
 A greater

00:40:20.519 --> 00:40:21.180
 revelation

00:40:21.180 --> 00:40:22.280
 of Yahweh

00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:24.599
 absolute

00:40:24.599 --> 00:40:25.200
 being

00:40:25.200 --> 00:40:26.800
 who

00:40:26.800 --> 00:40:27.780
 knows us,

00:40:27.860 --> 00:40:28.320
 who hears

00:40:28.320 --> 00:40:28.960
 our prayers,

00:40:29.200 --> 00:40:30.119
 who always

00:40:30.119 --> 00:40:30.920
 acts according

00:40:30.920 --> 00:40:31.539
 to his covenant

00:40:31.539 --> 00:40:32.019
 promises

00:40:32.019 --> 00:40:33.960
 so that the

00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:34.579
 whole world

00:40:34.579 --> 00:40:35.039
 will know

00:40:35.039 --> 00:40:35.360
 him.

00:40:35.360 --> 00:40:37.920
 to know

00:40:37.920 --> 00:40:39.500
 Yahweh

00:40:39.500 --> 00:40:40.340
 in Jesus

00:40:40.340 --> 00:40:43.220
 is

00:40:43.220 --> 00:40:44.220
 thrilling

00:40:44.220 --> 00:40:45.120
 or it should

00:40:45.120 --> 00:40:45.599
 be thrilling.

00:40:46.800 --> 00:40:47.599
 It should

00:40:47.599 --> 00:40:48.180
 fill us

00:40:48.180 --> 00:40:48.760
 with hope

00:40:48.760 --> 00:40:50.539
 and it

00:40:50.539 --> 00:40:51.099
 should call

00:40:51.099 --> 00:40:51.820
 us to a

00:40:51.820 --> 00:40:52.380
 heavenly

00:40:52.380 --> 00:40:52.960
 calling

00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:53.500
 to make

00:40:53.500 --> 00:40:53.980
 him known.

00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:55.460
 So whatever,

00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:56.280
 can I just

00:40:56.280 --> 00:40:57.340
 end by saying

00:40:57.340 --> 00:40:57.880
 whatever

00:40:57.880 --> 00:40:59.519
 is causing

00:40:59.519 --> 00:41:00.240
 us to doubt

00:41:00.240 --> 00:41:01.160
 God's promises,

00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:01.299
 promises,

00:41:02.199 --> 00:41:05.259
 the main

00:41:05.259 --> 00:41:05.619
 thing we

00:41:05.619 --> 00:41:06.219
 need is to

00:41:06.219 --> 00:41:06.440
 know

00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:06.920
 Yahweh

00:41:06.920 --> 00:41:08.940
 and to

00:41:08.940 --> 00:41:09.319
 know our

00:41:09.319 --> 00:41:10.440
 calling to

00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:10.859
 make him

00:41:10.859 --> 00:41:11.539
 known in

00:41:11.539 --> 00:41:12.199
 the situation

00:41:12.199 --> 00:41:12.739
 you're in.

00:41:15.339 --> 00:41:16.119
 Will you pray

00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:16.379
 with me?

00:41:16.559 --> 00:41:16.879
 Let's pray.

00:41:25.379 --> 00:41:25.859
 Father,

00:41:26.019 --> 00:41:26.379
 as we

00:41:26.379 --> 00:41:29.079
 walk through

00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:29.819
 Exodus,

00:41:29.820 --> 00:41:31.019
 these next

00:41:31.019 --> 00:41:31.620
 few months,

00:41:31.820 --> 00:41:32.420
 I pray

00:41:32.420 --> 00:41:32.800
 that you

00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:33.180
 would give

00:41:33.180 --> 00:41:35.260
 us deeper

00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:36.360
 insight into

00:41:36.360 --> 00:41:36.800
 who you

00:41:36.800 --> 00:41:37.360
 are and

00:41:37.360 --> 00:41:38.320
 your great

00:41:38.320 --> 00:41:39.160
 acts of

00:41:39.160 --> 00:41:39.720
 salvation.

00:41:40.620 --> 00:41:41.220
 I pray

00:41:41.220 --> 00:41:41.640
 that it

00:41:41.640 --> 00:41:42.220
 might help

00:41:42.220 --> 00:41:43.580
 us grasp

00:41:43.580 --> 00:41:44.340
 more deeply

00:41:44.340 --> 00:41:45.780
 who Jesus

00:41:45.780 --> 00:41:47.280
 is and

00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:48.019
 all you've

00:41:48.019 --> 00:41:48.960
 done and

00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:49.519
 the great

00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:50.840
 riches of

00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:51.780
 the inheritance

00:41:51.780 --> 00:41:53.720
 you've bought

00:41:53.720 --> 00:41:54.380
 for us through

00:41:54.380 --> 00:41:55.300
 Jesus and the

00:41:55.300 --> 00:41:56.200
 great calling

00:41:56.200 --> 00:41:56.860
 to be your

00:41:56.860 --> 00:41:58.280
 people and

00:41:58.280 --> 00:41:58.800
 to make you

00:41:58.800 --> 00:41:59.360
 known in

00:41:59.360 --> 00:41:59.599
 whatever

00:41:59.599 --> 00:42:00.240
 situation

00:42:00.240 --> 00:42:00.660
 we're in.

00:42:00.820 --> 00:42:00.960
 Lord,

00:42:02.200 --> 00:42:02.880
 please do

00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:03.340
 this for

00:42:03.340 --> 00:42:03.660
 us.

00:42:04.380 --> 00:42:04.820
 In Jesus'

00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:05.160
 name.

00:42:05.360 --> 00:42:05.579
 Amen.

00:42:05.579 --> 00:42:05.660
 Amen.

00:42:05.660 --> 00:42:05.720
 Amen.

00:42:05.720 --> 00:42:05.760
 Amen.

00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:05.820
 Amen.

00:42:05.820 --> 00:42:05.840
 Amen.

00:42:05.840 --> 00:42:05.860
 Amen.

00:42:05.860 --> 00:42:05.940
 Amen.

00:42:05.940 --> 00:42:06.260
 Amen.

00:42:06.260 --> 00:42:07.820
 Amen.

00:42:07.820 --> 00:42:07.840
 Amen.

00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:07.900
 Amen.

00:42:07.900 --> 00:42:07.980
 Amen.

00:42:07.980 --> 00:42:08.000
 Amen.

00:42:08.000 --> 00:42:08.019
 Amen.

00:42:08.019 --> 00:42:08.340
 Amen.

00:42:08.340 --> 00:42:08.400
 Amen.

00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:08.460
 Amen.