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#10207 - El Shaddai the All-Sufficient One - Exodus 6 · Calvary Church with Ed Taylor Podcast

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  Welcome to the Study of God's Word with pastor and author Ed
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  Taylor recorded live at Calvary Church in Aurora, Co To learn
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  online at Calvary, Co dot Church or download our free Calvary
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  Church app. Now here's Pastor Ed to take us
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  into our study. Exodus chapter six.
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  I've entitled the Bible study El Shaddai the all sufficient one
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  as we learn of that name as God reveals himself to Moses.
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  Moses first encounter, as we saw last time with Pharaoh was not
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  very successful, at least not the way Moses had it planned
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  out. You need to get used to this in
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  your life, and I do as well, where what my plans might be.
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  And my measurements of success don't always match up with God's
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  measurements of success. So as we look at Moses last
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  time, it seemed as if everything he did made things worse, and
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  that could be concluding that it was a complete failure.
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  But while things did get worse, God was fully in control and
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  Moses was faithful. Instead of letting the children
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  of Israel go, Pharaoh made it more difficult for them and
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  increase their burdens. Not only that, as a result of
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  the ministry of Moses in chapter 5, the people turned on him and
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  got mad at him. They went so quickly from
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  worship, as we saw, to murmuring.
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  And Moses is faced with a choice When you're surrounded by this
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  worship to murmuring and there's just so much pressure around
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  you. Moses had a choice.
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  Should I join in too? This is not what I wanted
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  either. This isn't what I expected as he
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  examines things with his own limbs, not with the eyes of
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  faith, but with the eyes of pragmatism or the eyes of the
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  flesh. It would have been easy to say
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  hey, after things aren't working out the way I thought.
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  This is exactly what I thought. This is why I told God I didn't
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  want to serve, that I wasn't capable.
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  I don't want any part of this. It would have been easy for him
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  to cave into the pressure and find himself murmuring as well.
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  But notice in chapter 5 and verse 22 we learned this.
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  We spent a little bit of time on it last time.
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  After the people turned against him, it says in verse 22, Moses
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  returned to the Lord. Now he did have some hard things
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  to say. Remember he said, Lord, why have
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  you brought trouble on this people?
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  Why is it that you've sent me? We can read all kinds of emotion
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  into that, considering where he was.
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  But whatever he said, it's good that he went to the Lord.
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  And you can come to God with whatever's on your mind.
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  You could cast what all your cares upon him, because he cares
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  for you. You can come to him.
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  Just come to him. Just return to him.
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  In Psalm 61 and verse 3 David says you have been a shelter for
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  me and a strong tower from the enemy.
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  And how often I look my own life.
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  How often I would have saved myself from embarrassment, from
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  humiliation, or even from more discouragement if I would have
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  just gone to the Lord first, I end up there eventually, but if
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  I would have just gone back to the Lord first Moses was wise,
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  Notice in verse one. Now in chapter 6, then the Lord
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  said to Moses. Now you shall see what I will do
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  to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will
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  let them go, and with a strong hand he'll drive them out of his
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  land. Let me just pause there for a
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  second and repeat this for for all of us.
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  He comes back to the Lord. He returns the Lord.
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  He shares everything in his heart and hears God's answer to
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  him. You know what, Moses?
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  My word is going to come to pass.
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  He's going to let you go. I know it doesn't seem that way
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  right now. I know everything looks against
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  what you think, but his answer was, you're going to see what
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  I'm going to do. You're going to see it.
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  Moses. Just hang with me.
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  Just stay with me because you're going to see it.
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  I love this because in his discouragement, what does God
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  do? God encourages him, reminds him
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  as a promise. You're going to see it, Moses.
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  I I know. It's like the undertone.
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  I know it doesn't look like it now, but you're going to see
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  what I'm going to do to Pharaoh. I've already told you once, I'm
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  telling you again, you're going to see it.
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  Verse two God spoke to Moses and said, I am the Lord.
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  I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty
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  circle that word, that phrase God Almighty.
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  This is El Shaddai, and you'll notice it is in comparison or in
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  Compet, or in companionship to verse two.
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  I am Yahweh, Jehovah Now, he says.
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  I appear to Abraham, Isaac as El Shaddai, but by my name, Lord, I
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  wasn't known to them. I have also established my
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  covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan and the land
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  of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers from
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  discouragement is met with God's encouragement.
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  And that's what you and I need. We need the word of the Lord and
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  our discouragement. It's the reason why you're
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  reading your Bible every day, why you have a habit of
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  devotions, why you're in prayer every day.
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  Why? Because when you come to the
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  word of God, you're going to be encouraged.
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  You're going to be reminded of His faithfulness.
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  You're going to be reminded of how he has not allowed one of
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  his words to fail. You're going to be reminded that
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  he's brought you thus far. You're going to be reminded on
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  any page. You can flip to any page and
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  just be saying, oh Lord, you're so faithful, so faithful.
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  I mean here I just flipped. I just flipped open in my Bible,
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  Acts, chapter 10. Immediately he preached Christ
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  in the synagogues that he was the Son of God.
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  Then all who heard were amazed. Just the amazing work of God.
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  I'm just looking at that. If I share the word of God, it
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  will bring amazement. Just be faithful Moses, he says.
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  Be sure of this. Pharaoh will let them go.
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  Not only will he let them go, but he'll drive him out four
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  times. In this section, God reminds
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  Moses, I am the Lord. It's there in verse two.
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  It'll be there in verse 6, verse seven and verse 8.
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  He uses his covenant name, Jehovah 7 times and the Hebrew
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  word here in verse 3. Now he adds and reminds Moses
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  that he revealed himself as El Shaddai.
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  This is used six different times in Genesis, 30 times in Job, and
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  can be translated God the All Sufficient 1 or God the All
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  Powerful one. And I found one in interesting
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  Hebrew definition that you could also translate this Hebrew word,
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  God the Nourisher. I thought that was interesting.
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  That's worth a little bit of extra study, nourishing and
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  taking care of you. In Genesis 17, God revealed
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  himself to Abraham as El Shaddai.
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  But now he's in this progressive revelation revealing himself as
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  Yahweh. As we looked at the names of God
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  before, it's a whole new chapter in their history.
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  They'll be eyewitnesses of God in his delivering.
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  They'll know him. God says he's telling Moses
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  they're going to know me over the 3000 false gods.
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  They're going to know me personally.
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  They'll fulfill my covenant with them.
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  Notice verse 5. And I have also heard the
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  groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep
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  in bondage. And I have remembered my
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  covenant. Therefore say to the children of
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  Israel, I am the Lord. I will bring you out from under
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  the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their
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  bondage. I will redeem you with an
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  outstretched arm and with great judgments.
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  I will take you as my people, and I will be your God.
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  Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you
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  out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
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  And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to
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  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. I'll give it to you as a
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  heritage. I am the Lord.
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  So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel, but they
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  would not heed Moses because of the anguish of spirit and the
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  cruel bondage. Mark that verse 9 real quick
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  because some of you are right here.
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  Different reasons, same place. Anguish of spirit.
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  Under the cruel bondage of sin. Under the cruel bondage of
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  circumstance. Under the cruel bondage of a
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  difficult home or a difficult boss or a just a difficult life.
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  This is where they're at. But remember, we just read.
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  It would be easy to gloss over and focus just on this verse 9.
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  Just they won't listen. They're hard hearted, they're
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  hurting. It's worse than it's ever been.
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  But remember, remember what God said in verse five.
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  I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel.
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  God hears you. He hears you.
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  He hears you on your bed at night.
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  He hears you with your tears or some of you've cried so much
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  you've run out of tears. And there is such a thing.
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  He hears you when you feel alone and isolated.
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  He hears you when you're confused or it's foggy and it's
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  difficult. He hears you.
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  Your help is not in another man. Your help is in not in more
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  friendships. Your your hope is in not in any
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  of the things that you might cling to, as if you could see
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  something tangible in the midst of their anguage.
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  God says, I hear them right where they're at.
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  I meet them right there. They're going to see it.
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  Moses, you're going to see it, but they're going to see it.
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  And I love this. If you notice as we were reading
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  through, you couldn't help but listen and hear.
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  There are seven I wills that God tells him.
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  Seven I wills notice. If you want to mark them with
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  me, you want to come back to the text in verse 6.
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  The first one is I will bring, and next to that you could
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  write. God promises them salvation.
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  I will bring you out. The next one is I will rescue,
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  which God promises their liberation.
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  The next one is I will redeem, which God promises their
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  redemption. Verse 7.
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  The next one is I will take you as my people.
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  This is a beautiful one. This is the promise of adoption.
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  This this is a group of people in English with no hope.
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  They're upset with their deliverer.
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  They're upset with God that they're under the heavy hand of
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  the immediate difficulty. And what does God say to Moses?
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  Here's what's happening. This is what's up ahead.
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  They're going to be saved. They're going to be liberated.
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  They're going to be redeemed. And I'm going to adopt them as
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  my own kids. They're going to belong to me.
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  They already do, but they're going to experience it.
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  Notice the next one. It says, I will take you as my
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  people. The next one, I will be your
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  God. This is revelation.
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  They're going to have a new revelation of who God is and how
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  important he is. Notice the next one.
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  He says in verse eight, I will bring you into the land which I
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  swore to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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  I will bring you. That's direction I'm going to
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  deliver you. And then I'm going to take you
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  and put you exactly where I want you.
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  Which, by the way, is how the children of Israel ended up in
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  Egypt. God brought them there,
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  remember? He brought them there on
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  purpose. Put them out there in Goshen so
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  that they might multiply. And they are here, you can say
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  by the will of God generationally for this time in
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  this place. Not only that, notice at the end
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  of verse 8. The next I will is I will give
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  it to you as a heritage. This is provision case.
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  You missed them all. Salvation, Liberation,
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  redemption, adoption, revelation, direction,
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  provision. And one thing.
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  In a careful study, you'll notice that there isn't any
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  conditions to be met here. There's there's no if you.
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  If you do, then I will. You don't see if you before any
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  of these. I will.
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  I like that because this is all God working on behalf of men and
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  women, and I want you to remember this church.
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  It'll help you liberate you in your own worship life, in your
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  own life. Following Christ in our worship,
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  we worship what God has done in in our giving.
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  We give in response to what God has done in our gathering, why
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  we're here even now, why we're watching online or listening on
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  the radio somewhere, or listening to some podcast or
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  pull in some message from years ago.
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  Why? It's in response to all that God
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  has done, and the church seems, and perhaps a few believers
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  along the way seem to have it all backwards.
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  They have forgotten what God has done.
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  His faithfulness. Churches today emphasize so much
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  of what you must do for God. This is what you need to do.
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  Do this. Don't do that.
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  Here's the list. Here's the rituals.
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  This is why you worship. Let's bring God down.
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  And This is why you give. So you multiply and you forget
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  completely. It's what God has done in your
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  life. It's all in response.
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  So consider us for a second. You're having a hard time in
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  your worship life, let's just say in singing, because worship
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  encompasses our entire life. But let's just use singing as a
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  measurement. You go, well, I don't like to
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  sing. That may be true, but have you
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  ever considered that one of the reasons why you lack in your
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  worship life is because you really don't understand all that
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  God has done for you or you? You know, take this unto the
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  Lord in your in your prayer closet, but maybe you just don't
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  care. Maybe you're still a very
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  self-sufficient person and you consider everything that you
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  have and do is all you. And it's all your smarts and
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  it's all your work and it's all your effort and it's all you,
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  you, you. So you know there are no songs
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  written for I worship me God, You know, nobody's singing that
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  stuff. But maybe in your heart you are.
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  You know, there's that song. It's all about you, Lord.
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  Some of you sing that. It's all about me.
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  God, you know it's not. It's what he has done.
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  This is the essence of grace. This is what opens a channel of
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  your of God's agape love overwhelming you when you
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  remember. You know I don't want.
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  I'm not going to forgive him. Really.
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  Have you forgotten what God has forgiven you?
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  Perhaps. Well, you know I'm not going to
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  give. I have.
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  I have no care. You know it's their fault.
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  They're the ones. What?
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  That's why they Have you forgotten God's salvation in
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  your life? Have you forgotten you've been
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  liberated from that bondage of sin?
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  Have you forgotten? Is it?
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  How long has it been since you've lived a life free of sin?
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  And how you've gotten used to it now, because you've forgotten
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  what a bondage it was. You've forgotten how heavy and
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  all the consequences and all the you know, all the stuff that was
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  in your head like you've forgotten.
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  You've forgotten. Have you forgotten God revealing
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  himself to you like you remember some of you were saved in this
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  church, or in a church that you walked into as blind as blind
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  could be. Literally, you could not see the
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  goodness of God or understand God.
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  You even tried to read the Bible.
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  You couldn't understand it because you walked into a
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  building similar to this. You were an alien, an enemy of
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  God, and God opened your eyes. Have you forgotten that?
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  Remember when you cried out to God you were in jail?
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  Or you're facing some crime, or you're going through some
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  difficulty and you were there all by yourself?
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  God, if you Get Me Out of this, if you Get Me Out of this, I'll
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  dedicate my life to following you all.
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  And you did surrender your life to him.
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  But then you started taking your life back because you.
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  Why? You've forgotten the goodness of
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  God and all that he has done and all that he's continuing to do.
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  It's all grace. It doesn't just start in grace.
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  It doesn't just keep you going for a couple of days.
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  Starts in grace. You're kept by grace, and you're
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  going to get through the finish line by grace.
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  By his goodness, it's not a list.
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  Although lists might help you remember things, you're not
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  saved by keeping a list. You're not saved by all the acts
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  and works that you present. The emphasis in the Bible is
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  always what God has done. Always, not what we do.
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  Let me show you. Turn over to Ephesians.
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  I want to I want you to see this in Ephesians chapter one.
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  I love this. This is God calling some of you
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  back to your days where you remember what God has done, what
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  God has done you. Some of you know by now that my
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  pastor went home to be with the Lord a month and 1/2 or so ago,
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  and I was contacted to put together a little video, just a
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  couple few things to share at his memorial service.
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  And how can you know, Even as I'm thinking about it day after
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  day after day, just thinking about kind of my mind going back
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  to the days 8 years I spent there and when I walked into
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  that church and when I sat in the back and I didn't want
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  anybody to hug and all the things we kind of laugh about
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  now. But I walked into that church
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  lost as lost could be. And I can't help but remember
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  that I had tried to live my life.
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  God said, go ahead Ed. Do whatever you want.
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  Live your life. It's yours to live.
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  You can live and part for me and rebellion or you can live for me
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  whatever you want, like you do whatever you want.
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  And that's what I did. And it led me to a life of great
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  pain and anguish and difficulty and consequences and and you
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  name it, it was horrific. Being in bondage to sin.
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  How many anybody amends bondage to sin?
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  You guys were, was it horrific? Yes.
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  Hello. Anybody.
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  It was horrific. Some of you guys did things and
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  some of you guys said things and some of you guys, we thought we
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  were just so lost and how can we not help but remember whatever
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  God uses to bring to your remembrance.
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  But how can we not help? How can we not but remember how
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  gracious God was to invade our lives?
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  It's a response to him. Notice in Ephesians chapter one.
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  In Ephesians chapter one. You know, I was in that church.
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  I learned how to read the Bible. I didn't.
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  I knew how to read, but I don't know how to read the Bible.
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  It was in that church I learned that I should memorize the
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  Bible. And so it reminded me the very
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  first verse I ever memorized was because my pastor told me I was
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  like so eager. So, so just whatever whatever
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  Pastor Jeff said, I did it. So I'm so glad that God brought
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  me to that church and not some whacked out church because then
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  I would be all whacked out and then I have to be UN whacked out
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  to get back, right? So God brought me to the right
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  place where the Bible was, where it needed to be.
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  And and he he just told us that hey, you should memorize this.
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  All right. How do you memorize?
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  I don't. I don't have any idea.
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  How do you memorize? Well, you write it down and you
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  keep repeating it so you don't proverbs.
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  Chapter 3, verses five and six. How would I not know?
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  How would pastor jab. Now how would how would anybody
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  know? That would be the verse that I
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  would need to go back to a million times in my walk with
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  the Lord. To trust in the Lord with all my
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  heart and lean not on my own understanding, no matter how
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  smart I get with the Bible. No matter how many notes are in
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  here, how many highlighted verses or whatever, I need a
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  trust in the Lord. I'm not going to lean on my
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  understanding because it may be a different application today.
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  I need to acknowledge him in all my ways and then he'll direct my
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  path. I'll know where to go as I look
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  to him and put Him first in my life.
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  As I surrender my life to the one who searched me out.
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  Sent people in my life, Knew what church I needed to be and
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  knew what family I needed to be a part of.
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  Knew what pastor was going to speak into my life.
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  He knew. It's his initiation.
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  He's the initiator. We're the responders.
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  And I think I asked you to open somewhere, right?
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  Ephesians, chapter one, verse three.
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  Look at this. This is Paul overflowing when
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  he's writing to the church in Ephesus.
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  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has
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  blessed us, marked this word with every spiritual blessing in
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  the heavenly places in Christ. Just as He chose us in Him
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  before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy
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  and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to
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  adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself according to what the
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  good pleasure of His will not Your will.
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  You and I, we are in our best place when our will is His will,
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  and we're walking in unity with Him.
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  Notice to the praise verse six of His of the glory of His grace
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  which He has made us accepted in the Beloved.
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  We've been blessed with every spiritual blessing.
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  Church. Don't let these guys and pulpits
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  that maybe you were in a church that taught like this, or you
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  have some TV evangelist that you follow, or some new gal or guy
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  on YouTube, or even on the radio in some of the stations around
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  town. All you hear is you should, you
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  should. You're not doing enough.
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  You've got to do this. If you do this, then you'll move
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  the hand of God. Look, God's hands already been
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  moved, bro. It's already happened.
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  You just need to follow his lead.
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  Make yourself a place where you're right in the middle of
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  his blessing. God's not going to use guilt to
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  move you, to manipulate you, to get something from you.
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  He's already giving you his all because he knows.
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  He knows that in the proper response of all that God has
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  done for you, we'll present ourselves living sacrifices
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  wholly and acceptable to him, which is our reasonable service.
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  He knows that the true emphasis of the gospel is what God has
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  done for us. God doesn't come and go.
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  OK. You, you, you you responded to
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  me. Yes.
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  You heard the message. Yes.
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  You heard traveling evangelists come.
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  Yes. OK, OK, Now you're ready to
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  follow me? Yes.
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  Circumcise yourself. No.
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  No, no, no, no. Because God doesn't say that.
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  That got settled in the early church, didn't it?
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  It got settled that God has already done the circumcision
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  for you, not of the physical outward, but of your heart.
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  He's cut through your hard heart and given you a heart of flesh,
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  some of you. It's a very dramatic change that
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  you share with me, where all of a sudden now you just have more
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  feelings than you've ever had in your life.
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  That wasn't who you were. That's who you are, because God
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  took out your heart of stone and replaced it with a heart of
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  flesh. Only the Lord can do that.
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  When you really grasp this, of how much God loves you, what God
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  has done in sending his Son for you, the sacrifice the Son has
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  made for you, that God has made a way in your life where there
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  is no way. When you really grasp that, not
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  out of guilt but out of grace, what are you going to hold back?
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  What are you going to hold back from God?
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  I notice Come back to Exodus. And that passage in Ephesians
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  sounds a lot like this section of Exodus as God is telling me,
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  you just and you you go tell them I'm going to take care of
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  them. You tell them I'm God.
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  I'm El Shaddai. I'm Yahweh.
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  I'm Jehovah. Moses comes to him.
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  Verse 9. Me.
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  They're not listening to him because of the anguish of Spirit
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  and cruel bondage, you know, oppression, discouragement, this
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  anguish of spirit, this lack of peace.
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  It has a way of causing you not to hear the word of God.
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  It has a way of taking you away from hearing His voice.
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  And the way out is by faith. Do you know you can have
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  discouragement and faith at the same time?
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  Where you open God's word and you trust God's word by faith
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  until the fog passes, until the anguish of Spirit passes, until
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  you find yourself in a place where you're hearing God,
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  trusting him, responding to his love once again.
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  This is it. You're not responding to your
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  emotion, you're responding to the love of God.
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  Remember in Second Corinthians in chapter 5, verse 14, it says
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  for the love of Christ compels us because we judge thus that if
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  one died for all, then I'll die. Paul says it's the love of God
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  that moves us, that compels us. And as you see this coming back
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  to Moses, you see this new covenant insight is this is the
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  God of that changes. You know he's the same
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  yesterday, today and forever. Notice in verse 6 there's the
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  grace of God. There we are.
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  I'm going to, I'm the Lord. And I'm going to bring you out
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  of the burdens. I'm going to rescue you.
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  I'm going to redeem you. I'm going to redeem you with an
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  outstretched arm with with great judgments.
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  We see grace there. I'm going to bring you off from
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  your burdens. We see love there.
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  I'm going to redeem you. We see in verse 7 relationship,
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  I'm going to take you as my people.
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  God says we see his commitment. In verse eight he says I'm going
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  to bring you into the land. I'm not going to meet you just
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  in Egypt, but I'm going to be with you and I'm going to
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  fulfill this in your life. You will make it into the place
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  I have prepared for you. And what is that to us today?
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  Because some of you doubt whether you're going to make it
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  to heaven or not. That's a real doubt.
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  Among the body of Christ, there are people that doubt their
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  salvation. There are people that doubt
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  whether they're really saved or not.
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  And let me just share a few things.
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  First of all, if that's a real concern for you, repent and
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  receive the Lord Jesus Christ. That's a real concern.
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  I don't want to give you a false sense of salvation.
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  If you're really not sure, you can be sure today.
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  Admit that you have sinned against God, Receive the free
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  gift of salvation, the washing of your sins, the cleansing of
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  your life, and the newness going forward.
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  That's a real deal. We'll give you a chance to do
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  that in a moment. But for those of you that have
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  been around the church for a while, been around Christianity
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  for a while, you kind of go a little bit and you make some
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  progress and then you fall back and you're not sure.
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  Listen, you can be sure of your salvation.
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  You can be sure of your salvation because it is what
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  Jesus has done for you. And Peter would even say, and he
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  knows this because he failed greatly.
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  Remember what Peter said in his letter, that you and I, we are
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  what kept by the power of God, We are kept by Him.
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  He saved us, He keeps us. And so those of you that are
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  worried about whether you're going to make it to heaven or
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  not, in Christ, God promised you, you're going to make it.
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  Well, then I guess if I got the promise, I can go.
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  I can go live like a Sinner. That doesn't sound like a safe
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  person. That sounds like an unsaved
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  person. So I'm going to make it to
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  heaven. I can do whatever I want.
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  You have a people that are in Christ, whatever they want is
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  what God wants. That's what it looks like.
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  It's not your own deal. When you're living, like the way
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  you want to live, that sounds like you, and you don't save
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  anybody. There's no assurance of heaven
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  for the self life. There's no assurance of heaven
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  for the selfish life, only the surrendered life abiding in
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  Christ, experiencing the power of God.
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  You might have your doubts, but God has given you His word.
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  Even as, as we see in verse 9, anguish of spirits so rough and
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  so hard. Do you know God is going to send
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  Pharaoh a message 10 times? Very dramatically, he's going to
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  deal with the heart of Pharaoh. He's going to deal with the
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  false worship of Pharaoh. He's going to deal with the
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  pride of Pharaoh. And the thing that we learn with
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  Pharaoh as we study through is that he didn't have to get it 10
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  times. And I wonder how many today or
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  listening to me. And you're like you I'm telling
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  you you don't have to go the hard way church.
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  You don't have to. God has opened your eyes.
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  You can surrender turn in today. Well notice again in verse 10
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  the Lord spoke to Moses saying go in and speak to Pharaoh king
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  of Egypt, that he must let the children of Israel go out of his
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  land. And Moses spoke before the Lord,
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  saying, the children of Israel not heeded me.
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  How then shall Pharaoh heed me? For I am of uncircumcised lips.
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  Uh. Oh, don't go there again, Moses.
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  Don't do it. Don't do it.
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  We already remember the leprous arm.
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  Remember the the staff. Like, what are you doing?
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  But you know this is real. This is real stuff, Moses, a
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  real man. You've done this before.
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  I've done this before. But oh, MO, don't go.
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  No, no, no. Verse 13.
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  Then the Lord spoke to Moses, and Aaron gave them a command
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  for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to
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  bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
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  Which is so cool to me because we're reading this as Moses
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  falls back a little bit into the weakness of his fear, the
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  weakness of his flesh at the resistance, the pressure of the
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  people, everything. Like, he's dealing with this.
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  Like, I don't want to do this. I'm like, I don't, Don't I
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  already tell you this, God, I told you I didn't want to do
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  this. Like, he's there.
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  But he's in the right place wrestling with this, right?
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  He's not running away like Elijah into a cave.
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  He's there. I mean, for Elijah that cave.
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  God had to get his attention, give him a still small voice.
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  At least Moses with the Lord right now, at least he's getting
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  his direction from the Lord. But I love this with Moses.
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  The I wills that he gave him for the people were for him too.
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  They actually were first for him.
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  Then he got to deliver them. So they were for him.
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  You know, when you're reading the Bible, you Bible teachers,
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  pastors, leaders. When you're in the Bible, you
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  know you're in the Bible for you too.
• 31:30
  Parents. It's like, I've just got this,
• 31:32
  Got to disciple my kids. It's true.
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  Got to help you disciple your kids.
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  But you're in the Bible for you. You're not in the Bible for your
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  wife or your husband or your kids or your boss.
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  You're in the word of God for you.
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  First His word comes to you first.
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  Then it comes through you. It comes through us.
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  It's amazing how we think of so many others in the middle of a
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  Bible study. You know that if you see what I
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  see up here, you see the little jabs, you see the little
• 32:04
  laughter, you see the little whispering.
• 32:06
  And it's. I almost wanted to go stop it.
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  It's for you. Put your elbows away.
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  And you know, if you guys really want to be crafty, bring a
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  mirror and just put it up next to you.
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  Says that's for you. No, it's for you.
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  And then ultimately, if you're with somebody, you could say
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  it's for us. The word of God is for us.
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  It's for you. It's for me.
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  It's for us. You know that as God gives you
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  something for someone else and you're faithful and reaching out
• 32:34
  to them, you're faithful and texting them, emailing and
• 32:36
  calling them. Do you know the Lord gave it to
• 32:38
  you first, Gave it to you. So if you do reach out to like
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  10 people in a day, just 10 quick text messages, which is
• 32:46
  nothing. It's nothing.
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  It's nothing. Some of you text hundreds of
• 32:50
  times a day back and forth, then social media hundreds of times a
• 32:55
  day. It's nothing, 10 reaching out to
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  people 10 times nothing. That means you would receive 10
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  words from the Lord first as you're praying for somebody.
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  It's like Lord, This got Dave Gordon on my heart.
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  You know, I just, Lord, bless him and encourage him.
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  And and then all of a sudden, boom, remember what God says.
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  Remember what you were reading this morning.
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  Yes. And you go back, You go, ah, I'm
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  going to send it to him. And as you're sending it to him,
• 33:19
  you can hear the Holy Spirit. Good.
• 33:20
  Good job, daughter. Good job, son.
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  And what was that verse again? And now you're in dialogue with
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  God. Well, you know, Lord, I was just
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  reading there in Acts and I was talking about sharing the word
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  and and the amazement of your word and and you know, God, I
• 33:37
  haven't really been amazed at your word lately.
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  And and you know what? Would you just bring amazement
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  back? And all of a sudden now you
• 33:43
  blessed day, but you were the one that were blessed because
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  God used his word in you. So you come back to God.
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  I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this.
• 33:51
  And it's like, do you remember what you were reading this
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  morning? Yes, Lord.
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  It's so good. I love this.
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  Jot it down. This is a great verse.
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  Joshua chapter 3, verse nine. It says Joshua told the children
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  of Israel, Listen. Come here and hear the words of
• 34:09
  the Lord your God. It's like the Lord inviting you
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  when you wake up in the morning. Come here and listen to me, son.
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  Listen to me. And you know, when you hear the
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  word of God, you know what the next part of it is?
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  Obedience. The more you hear, the more you
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  obey. Just simplify it.
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  Just simplify it. You might want to look up a
• 34:31
  Greek word. Obey it first.
• 34:34
  I wonder what this word is. Obey it first.
• 34:37
  Obey it in the English before you look it up.
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  It's like that's what it says. It says right there.
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  Hear me. All right.
• 34:45
  What was that in the Greek? No, don't worry about the Greek.
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  Hear the word of the Lord. Trust in the Lord.
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  Yeah, but I wonder what that word means.
• 34:53
  All right. Before you even know what the
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  word means, do it. Trust him.
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  Step out in faith on him. Hold him to his word.
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  Don't talk yourself out of obedience.
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  Obey quickly. The longer you wait, the more
• 35:15
  you'll be tempted not to obey. It's like, oh, that wasn't from
• 35:18
  the Lord. No, I was just, you know, I was
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  what I was eating or I was just. I was in anguish of spirits.
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  That's just my emotion. Yeah, but the Lord spoke to you.
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  Obey it, then sort it out later. You'll be blessed that you did
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  well in the section. You're wondering, how are we
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  going to finish this in time, the next section from verses 14
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  all the way through? Let's see, probably verse 27 ish
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  is a genealogy. You know, as we come through our
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  studies in the Old Testament, you're going to come across a
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  lot of genealogies. You can see in verse 14, there's
• 35:53
  Reuben, verse 15, there's Simeon.
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  In verse 16, there's Levi. This is the family tree of Moses
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  and Aaron. It's presented as proof that
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  they were truly God's servants, chosen by grace and grace alone.
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  Genealogies are essential. Some are like these validating
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  genealogies for the leadership there.
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  But the genealogies that are most important are the ones that
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  point to the validity of Messiah, of Messiah.
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  They're important to the Jewish people as they kept track of
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  families and of land allotments and of the priesthood, and how
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  God affirmed the reality of generationally handing down the
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  word of God. God shows off his people by
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  mentioning them by name. And this one.
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  This genealogy, I believe, is a reminder that God had divinely
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  prepared Moses and Aaron for this work, from Jacob to Reuben,
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  to Simeon to Levi to Moses and Aaron.
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  And in verse 28 it says it came to pass on the day when the Lord
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  spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, that the Lord spoke to
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  Moses, saying, I am the Lord speak to Pharaoh, king of Egypt,
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  all that I say to you. But Moses said before the Lord,
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  Behold, I am uncircumcised lips. And how shall Pharaoh heed me?
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  Well, this is a reminder that there are weaknesses of your
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  flesh that follow you. You get victory, and then it
• 37:26
  shows up again. You get victory and it shows up
• 37:30
  again. This is a man of God used
• 37:31
  greatly victory, and it shows up again.
• 37:35
  Even though with the weakness of his flesh, Moses does do what
• 37:43
  God told him to do. It's no excuse because you
• 37:47
  wrestle with the flesh or a weakness of your flesh.
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  You know who am I? Who am I?
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  I'm like, you're the one that God's speaking to personally.
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  That's who you are. You're the one that have us
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  understanding. You're the one that God has just
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  given you all these promises. You're the one that has already
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  done once, even though it didn't turn out the way you thought it
• 38:04
  would turn out. That's not that wasn't God's
• 38:06
  point. God's point was for you to hear
• 38:08
  him and obey him. You leave the results to him.
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  If it's all grace, then you leave the results to him.
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  You let him sort it out. You measure it as a great
• 38:18
  success that's under the Lord. You measure it as a great
• 38:21
  failure. It's under the Lord because it's
• 38:23
  not just your output that matters, it's what God is doing
• 38:27
  in you through the process, especially you guys that have
• 38:32
  leadership responsibilities. We get so caught up on what the
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  outcome is, and the outcome, you know, matters for sure.
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  Absolutely. There's a measurement of fruit
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  and we can sort that out later, but it's not the primary
• 38:44
  measurement. The primary measurement is how
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  God has used the situation to make you more look Christ like
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  and make me more Christ like. Make me more dependent, make me
• 38:55
  more pliable. The more pliable I am, the more
• 39:00
  I hear the Lord, the more reliable I become in His hands.
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  So Moses is dealing with it, but just get ahead.
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  Verse one of Chapter 7. And the Lord said to Moses, oh,
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  never mind Moses, I know you can't do it.
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  I'll go find somebody else. It's no big deal.
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  Go ahead and quit. Don't worry about it.
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  Yours. I mean, obviously it's not.
• 39:21
  That's like people's inside voice sometimes.
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  And that's not what he says. I made you as God to Pharaoh.
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  You shall speak verse two. It's like God says, you're going
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  to do it, man. You're going to do it.
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  I'm doing this work in you and you're going to do it.
• 39:37
  Your brother's going to do it and I'm going to.
• 39:39
  He just lays it all out. So read ahead.
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  We'll be our next study. Lord, thank you for the
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  privilege of serving you and all that you want to accomplish in
• 39:45
  US. Moses is that that picture.
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  Lord, that revelation of the weakness of our humanity met
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  with the strength of your divinity.
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  Where that in this interesting world in which we live, where
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  divinity meets humanity. All for your glory, Lord, Just
• 40:06
  like we're celebrating this weekend, the revelation of God
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  and human flesh sacrificing his life for us, so Lord, we're
• 40:21
  desiring for you to help. Our inadequacies, reminding us
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  of Your grace like things have been so complicated and so many
• 40:31
  different layers added to a simple walk with you for some
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  Lord. Just bring them back to the
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  first time they they heard the word of God.
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  Bring them back to the first time they walked into a church.
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  Bring them back to the first time you revealed yourself to
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  them. Bring them back to the first
• 40:49
  time they failed and you got them back up.
• 40:53
  Bring them back to the first time they faced anguish of
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  spirit and you got them through. It's to that very church.
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  Even Jesus in Ephesus you had to tell them, remember from where
• 41:05
  you have fallen, repent and repeat and go back and do the
• 41:11
  1st works. And it was because they left
• 41:15
  their first love and Lord fill our hearts again and afresh with
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  love. That isn't dependent upon
• 41:22
  people's opinions, It isn't dependent upon our outcome or
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  our measurements of success. It's just because of your grace
• 41:33
  and your goodness. And if you're here today and you
• 41:37
  need to surrender your life to Jesus, I want to give you that
• 41:40
  chance. I mentioned it earlier.
• 41:44
  You know, the reality is, is that although we might admit
• 41:47
  that we've made mistakes, we've done something far greater than
• 41:50
  just make a few mistakes. The Bible says that we have all
• 41:54
  sinned against a holy and a righteous God.
• 41:58
  So in our mistakes we have actually the Bible would call
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  that sin, but it's more than just a little thing with our
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  mouth or you know, a little trip up like to live separate from
• 42:09
  God is very serious. We've offended God through our
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  actions. We have lived a life as enemies
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  of God. You you see in the video that we
• 42:19
  watched today where a whole nation lives in enmity against
• 42:23
  God because they have believed a lie and we don't need to be in
• 42:27
  Thailand. So many believe a lie today, but
• 42:31
  God is revealing. He's opening your eyes to the
• 42:33
  truth. And here's the truth that God so
• 42:36
  loved you that he sent His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ to
• 42:39
  die for you. So that if you believe in him,
• 42:44
  you wouldn't perish but have everlasting life.
• 42:50
  You wouldn't perish, spend eternity separate from God.
• 42:55
  The language that's very familiar to you is that apart
• 42:57
  from Christ, hell awaits you. I know it's easy.
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  Like I believe in heaven. Everybody believes in heaven.
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  What was real as heaven is how is equally real.
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  And it's our hearts. Even one of the brothers praying
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  in our group. You'd hear it in his voice, just
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  so desirous, so hopeful for the people in Thailand to not die
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  apart from Christ. Well, here we are right now.
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  And God's heart, that same heart is for you.
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  So if you're here today, you'd say, I'd I need to follow
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  Christ. I I want the forgiveness of my
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  sins. Would you just stand to your
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  feet? I want to pray with you.
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  And as you respond publicly, someone will come up alongside
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  of you, just kind of lay a hand on you, encourage you that
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  you're not alone. It's such a momentous day where
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  you would come to the place where you realize God's love for
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  you. Remember those things I
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  mentioned? They're all available in Jesus.
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  Salvation, liberation. I think of that to be liberated,
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  redemption, adoption. That God wants you, that's
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  amazing. He wants to show himself to you.
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  Revelation, He wants to give you direction for your life.
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  He wants to show you beyond. He says I'm going to give it to
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  you. That's provision.
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  He wants to help you. This is God's nature.
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  You meet God. You get this purpose.
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  Direction. Anyone here?
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  Salvation. Maybe you're out on the online
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  somewhere on the radio. It's amazing how God uses
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  technology. You're not forgotten.
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  Maybe downstairs you're not forgotten that God would bring
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  about a place where you understand his love for you.
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  You don't even know. Like that's the thing.
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  You don't even know yet, the definition of love.
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  From God's perspective, you just got this substitute thing in the
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  world which isn't a good substitute, this unconditional,
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  fully committed. Check this out.
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  A love like he will never leave or forsake you.
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  It takes time to believe it, actually.
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  Those of you that have been wounded, beat up, abused, taken
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  advantage of by others, even by yourself.
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  The love of God transcends all that.
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  And you can just ask God to forgive you of your sins.
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  You can ask that now. You can ask God to enter into
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  your life to become in control. You say I give you my life.
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  God, I confess you. I believe you lived and died.
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  And like we're going to celebrate.
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  I believe you rose again from the dead.
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  That's a pretty monumental claim, isn't it?
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  Just say, well, you know, I rose from the dead.
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  No. He was seen by hundreds and
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  thousands of people. The Bible says at one time the
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  resurrected Jesus Christ was seen by over 500 people at one
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  time. It's validated.
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  And even though we haven't seen the risen Christ ourselves, like
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  with our physical eyes, we know the risen Christ.
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  Here in this room, another few 100 people, we have seen Jesus
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  Christ, the risen Lord enter into a relationship with us.
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  So Father, I know that you're working and and drawing and
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  wooing and convicting. And so we just we pray for our
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  friends right now and our family members pray for our neighbors,
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  our Co workers. We pray for those that we met in
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  the market and at Target and Walmart, those that were in line
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  at Target, at Starbucks or we. There's so many things in this
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  world that is caused us to forget about people.
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  So just remind us people is all that matters.
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  Give us wisdom and sensitivity that as a church God we would be
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  all about it. The word and people compassion
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  and love, grace and mercy. First to the people closest to
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  us and then to the stranger. Lord, bless your church tonight
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  as we head out Jesus name. Amen.
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  We pray that you've been encouraged by this Bible study
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  delivered live from the sanctuary of Calvary Church for
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  prayer. Call us at 87730 Grace.
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  That's 877-304-7223. To listen to this message in its
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  entirety or to join us for our live stream services, visit us
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  online at Calvary, Co dot Church or download our free Calvary
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