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Exodus chapter 7 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus Chapter 7. Let us pray.
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  Father, we thank you for today. Lord, we thank you for another
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  day to come and learn more about you.
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  Lord, we're thankful for breath life your word church.
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  We're thankful for the Holy Spirit.
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  We're thankful for salvation. We're thankful that you are
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  good. Lord, we are thankful for clean
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  drinking water and food. We're thankful God for
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  transportation. Lord, we're thankful for our
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  abilities for a job. We're thankful, God, that you
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  kept us warm through the night. We thank.
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  We're thankful for the love that we have for each other.
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  We're thankful for community. God, we're thankful that you are
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  a loving, graceful, good God who showers us with your presence.
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  Lord, we are asking today for fresh wind and fresh fire.
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  We are asking today You'll fan the flame on our hearts.
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  Let us burn for you, Father. Father, I pray you'll make us in
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  more into the likeness of your Son Jesus Christ.
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  Help us to have the mind of Christ.
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  Help us to have your heart. Father, fill us with the Holy
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  Spirit today. Lord, the only way that we can
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  come boldly into the throne room with praise and Thanksgiving,
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  God, is by the blood of the Lamb covers us.
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  We thank you, God, for your eternal words.
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  We thank you, Father, that you have given us the ability to
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  read and to reason and to thank God, to come and to muse,
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  Father, and to look upon you high and lift it up, Father.
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  Thank you, Lord, for saving our souls.
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  Thank you, God, for giving us eternity.
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  Thank you, Father, for forgiving all of our sins.
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  Sanctify us as we consecrate this temple, Father.
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  Make us Holy, Father, as you are holy, Help us to understand what
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  it is that you want us to know about your scripture to day.
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  Make it fresh and new to day. Father, not Blase.
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  God, I pray that we will not come haphazardly, half
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  heartedly, but God, we will be completely, 100 per cent engaged
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  in what it is that you're trying to say to us to day.
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  God, I pray that you'll help us to make it to the end.
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  Help us to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters in
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  Christ. Lord, help us not to grow weary
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  of doing good. We love you, Father.
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  We thank you, God, for everything that you've already
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  done, that you are doing and will do.
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  Lord, we get out of our own way. God, we come up under the yoke
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  of Jesus, heal our bodies and heal our minds.
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  Father, cure cancer, reverse diabetes.
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  Father, heal heart disease and Alzheimer's.
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  Lord, I pray help women to choose life today.
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  God, raise up righteous leaders unto yourself and bring the
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  prodigals home. We love you, king Jesus.
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  We praise and honor you King Jesus.
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  It's all about you King Jesus, I decrease as you increase Holy
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  Spirit fill us and wreck us today in Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious name. I pray men, let's start in verse
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  one. And the Lord said unto Moses,
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  See, I've made you a God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother
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  shall be your prophet. So God's playing into the
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  systems of the Egyptians. And here Pharaoh won't listen to
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  Moses. And so God has caused Moses to
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  become powerful in the sight of Pharaoh.
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  And now we see that Pharaoh is going to be fearful, because he
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  has made Moses seem and appear to be as God unto him.
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  To you shall speak all that I command you.
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  And Aaron's your brother, shall speak to Pharaoh, and he send
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  the children of Israel out of his land.
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  So many, many, many times we have seen here that God keeps
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  telling him that this is going to happen.
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  And that is what faith is, friends, when God tells us
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  something is going to happen, but every circumstance, every
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  situation, every feeling and emotion tells us differently.
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  We must believe God's word over what the world is screaming at
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  us, friends, and what are even our own mind and even our own
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  feelings and emotions are screaming at us as reality.
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  We believe God's word over it all three, and I will harden
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  Pharaoh's heart and multiply my signs and my wonders and the
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  land of Egypt. So we know that Pharaoh was
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  right for this hardening. He wanted to keep the Israelites
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  in bondage. He cared nothing for him.
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  He was vehemently set against them, friends, and you can see
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  here that his heart was hardened.
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  And we can debate on if God had hardened it or if Pharaoh
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  hardened his own heart, but it does not change the fact that
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  Pharaoh's heart was ripe for this hardening because of his
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  vehement hatred against the Israelites.
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  And he only saw them as a number.
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  He only saw them as free work workers.
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  And that is the problem that we see here.
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  And God's going to have His way. And you can never do anything
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  against what God has already orchestrated and what God has
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  already set in motion. You will only wear yourself out
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  fighting against the God of the universe.
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  And that is my story, friends. When you try to do life on your
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  own apart from God, it only leads to frustration.
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  For but Pharaoh shall not he hearken unto you, that I may lay
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  my hand upon Egypt and bring forth my armies and my people,
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  the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great
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  judgments. So God already knew what was
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  going to happen. He's the alpha and the Omega.
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  God's not just in the here and the now.
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  He's before us and he's ahead of us.
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  God, God knows everything and this God of ours that we
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  worship, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, friends, it is
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  beyond our comprehension to try and understand the fact that he
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  lives outside of time. And that is the thing that we
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  struggle with the very most out of everything when it comes to
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  relating to God. We are so completely finite in
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  our thinking, our soda can sized mind cannot even begin to
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  comprehend a God that transcends time and space.
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  And he already knew that Pharaoh would not let him go.
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  And he was going to do these signs and wonders in the land.
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  Five in all. And the Egyptians shall know
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  that I am the Lord, when I stretched forth my hand upon
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  Egypt and bring out the children of Israel from among them.
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  Six. And Moses and Aaron did US.
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  The Lord commanded them, and so did they.
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  That is our call, friends. When God speaks, we obey.
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  It's that simple. Delayed obedience is
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  disobedience. 7 And Moses was 80 years old, and Aaron was 83
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  years old when they spoke to Pharaoh. 8 And the Lord spoke
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  unto Moses and Aaron, saying, None.
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  And Pharaoh shall, when Pharaoh shall speak to you, saying, Show
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  a miracle for you, then you shall say to Aaron, Take your
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  rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.
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  10 And Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so as
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  the Lord commanded. And Aaron cast down his rod
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  before Pharaoh and before his servants, and it became a
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  serpent. So you would think that would be
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  enough for Pharaoh to say, OK, OK, OK, I'm beat.
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  I give up, tap out, y'all go into the wilderness.
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  But let's see how it goes. 11 And Pharaoh also called the wise
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  men and the sorcerers. Now the magicians of Egypt, they
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  also did in the like manner with their enchantments.
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  So we're going to see here the limited amount of power that God
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  allows into the occult. It is not at war with God.
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  God in his unlimited power allows it, friends.
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  And you might struggle with this side of God because God is good.
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  But here's the thing that you need to understand.
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  God could have created us to worship Him 100% outside of our
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  own free will, but He did not. He gave us the free will and He
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  allows this limited amount of power within the occult and it
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  leads many away. And you're going to find that
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  backed up many times in Scripture.
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  And that might be a new thought for you, friend, because you're
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  following after this God who is playing cat and mouse with evil.
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  And we're going to try to figure out which one wins, but I'll
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  spoil it for you. God wins in the end, and he
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  allows all the things that are happening.
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  He doesn't cause them, but he allows them, friends.
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  And that's a hard concept for most.
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  And you need to understand that the limited amount of power
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  within the occult is for a purpose.
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  And we learn in the New Testament that God gives them
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  over to a reprobate mind. And we find that in Genesis
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  chapter. We find that in Romans chapter
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  1. And then again, you're going to
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  find in Thessalonians where it says that God gives them over to
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  a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie because
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  they delighted themselves in evil and refused to love the
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  truth. That is the reality, friends.
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  There are many passages throughout Scripture that point
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  to God allowing these things. It's not that He causes them,
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  but He allows them because He is all powerful and He literally
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  could reverse every disease in the world today.
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  He could feed every single person today.
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  He could reverse mental illness today, friends, be no
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  homelessness, could be no poverty, there could be 0 food
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  scarcity. There could be no wars, friends,
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  no violence, an entire world worshipping him all at once and
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  everybody doing exactly what God wanted them to.
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  And he could do it in a moment's notice.
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  But it gives him the most amount of glory whenever we choose him
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  in the hardest and the darkest times, when people turn towards
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  Him in the desperation that is what God is after.
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  Or people who will trust him and obey Him and love Him, even when
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  all their circumstances point against him. 12 For they cast
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  down every man his rod, and they became serpents.
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  But Aaron's rods swallowed up their rods.
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  So Aaron's serpents swallowed up all of the magician's serpents.
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  Because God is more powerful than any of the darkness that's
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  out there. All of the limited enchantments,
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  all of the limited witchcraft and the occult and the New Age.
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  Any kind of power and any kind of stones that we put into it,
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  friends, all of the disgustingness that's out there,
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  God swallows it all up, friends, and he's willing to forgive you
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  if you'll turn away from all of the despicable, disgusting
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  wickedness and turn towards him. 13 And he hardened Pharaoh's
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  heart that he did not listen to them, as the Lord had said.
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  So he already told them what would happen, that Pharaoh would
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  not listen to them for this one miracle. 14 And the Lord said to
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  Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened.
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  He refuses to let the people go. 15 Get you to Pharaoh in the
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  morning, lo, he goes out to the water.
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  You shall stand by the river's brink against he come, and the
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  rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your
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  hand. 16 and you shall say it to him.
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  The Lord God of the Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let my
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  people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.
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  And behold, you would not here. So here God is telling Moses to
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  go stand on the river's bank. When whenever Pharaoh comes
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  down, and he is to take his staff in his hand, and to turn
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  the water into blood, 17 Thus says the Lord, in this you shall
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  know that I am the Lord. Behold, I will strike with the
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  rod that is in my hand upon the waters which are in the river,
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  and they shall be turned to blood. 18 And the fish that is
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  in the river shall die, and the river shall stink, and the
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  Egyptians shall loathe to drink the water of the river.
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  So here they worship this river. They thought that this river was
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  a lowercase G God. God was going to prove to them
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  that all of their false gods that they had relegated to all
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  of the natural world around them, and they were worshipping
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  creation rather than the Creator.
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  And God was going to completely upend all of their idols that
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  they had built up. And he was going to do it
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  systematically. And here we see that he's going
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  down to the river, and he's going to strike it with his rod.
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  And the river was going to become loathsome and stink, and
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  the fish were going to die, and everything was going to be
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  turned into blood. 19 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say to
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  Aaron, take your rods, stretch out your hand upon the waters of
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  Egypt, upon their streams, upon the rivers, upon the ponds, upon
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  the pools of water, that they may become blood, and that there
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  may be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, both in vessels
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  of wood and in vessels of stone. So here even all the potable
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  drinkable water would be turned into blood in the land of Egypt.
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  And you're going to see so much of this in the Book of
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  Revelation. These plagues, friends, are
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  mirrored and modeled as the same God yesterday as he is in
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  tomorrow. 20 And Moses and Aaron did so, and as the Lord
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  commanded, and he lifted up the rod and struck the waters that
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  were in the river, and the sight of Pharaoh in the sight of his
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  servants, and all the waters that were in the river were
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  turned to blood. 21 And the fish that were in the river died, and
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  the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink of the
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  water of the river. And there was blood throughout
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  all the land of Egypt. What a horrible sight, friends,
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  to see all of the water turned into blood.
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  And you would think at this moment Pharaoh would give up and
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  say, go and get out of my land, let's see what happens. 22 And
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  the magicians of Egypt did so with their enchantments, and
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  Pharaoh's heart was hardened. Neither did he listen to them as
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  the Lord had said. So here we see all of these
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  magicians going in and saying, don't fear the God of the
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  Hebrews. We can do the same thing. 23 And
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  Pharaoh turned and went to his house.
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  Neither did he set his heart to this also, so he cared nothing
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  about it. His heart was hardened, and he
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  just walked away from the mess. 24 And all the Egyptians dug
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  around about the river for water to drink, for they could not
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  drink of the water of the river. So they're scratching the
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  surface trying to find clean drinking water.
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  We'll end on 25 And seven days were fulfilled after that.
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  The Lord had struck the river, so we see a week later before
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  God allowed the water to go back.
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  What an amazing story in God's Word.
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  What an amazing fact for him and just as true as this is, is just
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  as true as all of the plagues and the bowls and the seals that
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  we're going to find in the Book of Revelation.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter.
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  If we see God's power on display, that he can literally
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  do anything, I pray that you understand that I love you.
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  I'm praying for you, and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.