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Exodus chapter 8 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 8, let us pray. Father God, who reigns on high,
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  we thank you, Lord, for another day.
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  We thank you God, for giving us life and life abundant.
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  We thank you God for your holy scriptures.
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  We are thankful for who you are. God, for giving us the down
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  payment of the Holy Spirit. Lord, I pray that we'll be
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  filled with the Spirit today. Lord, give us your righteousness
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  and your holiness. Help us to walk across the
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  stones, God of fire. Help us to walk across the
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  water, God, and not be drowned. Lord, I pray you'll fan the
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  flame. God, I pray for the living
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  water. God, I pray that you'll continue
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  to empower us for the journey. Help us to know what to do and
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  when to do it and how to do it. God, we pray for the peace of
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  Jerusalem. God, we pray that you will help
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  them. Father, help your ethnic people,
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  Lord, who are called by your name.
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  God, I pray that they'll come into the fold, Lord, in the same
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  way that we did through Christ Jesus.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll continue to have your purposes
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  and plans played out. Lord, for today, for such a time
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  as this. God, we thank you for
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  protection. God, we thank you that you have
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  kept us, or we thank you that you've preserved your word
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  through the ages. God, heaven and earth shall pass
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  away, but not one of these words.
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  Or we know that your Word is alive and active.
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  We know that Jesus became the Word, flesh became the Word
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  Father. So we eat it today, or we eat
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  the scroll that is sweet, Lord, but help it, Father, to become
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  bitter within our bellies. Lord, help us not to just be
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  complacent. Help us not to be complicit.
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  Help us not, Father, to just lay down God and take whatever's
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  coming our way. But God, I pray it will rise to
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  the occasion. It will be the men and women who
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  are on the front lines, got out in the harvest, Lord, going and
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  making disciples of all nations, all people groups, all languages
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  and tongues, God, and baptizing them in the name of the Father,
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  the Son and the Holy Ghost. Three in one, Father, for you
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  are You are holy and worthy and righteous God, and you are just
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  in all of your ways, even when we don't understand them.
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  Father, we thank you God, for giving us your counsel through
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  the Word. Help us to study it and to know
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  it, to learn it, to own it, to live it.
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  God, faith in action today, Lord, for all your Saints, and
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  it's in your mighty and powerful and precious name.
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  But I pray, Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And the Lord spoke unto Moses, Go to Pharaoh and say to him,
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  this is what the Lord says, Let my people go, that they may
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  serve me. So God Almighty is the one who
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  calls the Israelites his people. They are his first born.
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  And he's saying, let them go. Pharaoh verse 2 And if you
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  refuse to let them go, behold, I will strike all your borders,
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  frogs. So here we can see that God has
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  unlimited power to literally do anything.
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  And if he wants to cause frogs to spring up on the borders of
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  Egypt, that's exactly what'll happen. 3 In the river shall
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  bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into
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  your house, into your bed chamber, upon your bed, into the
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  House of your servants, upon your people, and into your
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  ovens, and then to your kneading troughs.
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  So this is a complete covering of frogs on every square inch of
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  the habitation. In the bedroom, in the bathroom,
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  in the kitchen, in the dining room, in your yard, your car,
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  every single place, there will be billions of frogs.
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  Four. And the frogs shall come up both
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  on you and upon your people and upon all your servants.
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  So when no one's safe, 5 And the Lord spoke to Moses, say to
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  Aaron, stretched forth your hand with your rod over the streams
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  and over the rivers and over the ponds, caused frogs to come up
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  upon the land of Egypt. 6 And Aaron stretched out his hand
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  over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered
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  the land of Egypt. So God was not playing around,
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  friends. Aaron stretched forth his hand,
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  and all of a sudden the frogs were there in the land. 7 And
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  the magicians did so with their enchantments and brought up
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  frogs upon the land of Egypt. So here the Egyptians, they're
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  going toe to toe, They're trying to outmatch old Moses and Aaron.
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  They're showing Pharaoh that there's nothing peculiar in
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  their magic, that they have the same magic.
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  And so they bring up frogs as well.
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  It's the same as whenever the rod went down and turned into a
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  serpent. And then the magicians were able
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  to do the same. But just remember, the Aaron
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  staff ate up the other staff and we're here.
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  We know that God is the one who has all the power and any of the
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  power that within the magicians is very limited and allowed by
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  holy God. And it's for the purpose to lead
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  them astray, friends, and harden their hearts.
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  And that's what you see time and time and time again, that God
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  gives them over to a powerful delusion, so that they will
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  believe the lie, because they delighted in evil and they
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  refuse to love the truth. 8 And Pharaoh called for Moses and
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  Aaron and said, Entreat the Lord, that he may take away the
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  frogs from me, from my people, and I will let the people go,
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  that they may do sacrifice to the Lord.
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  So here Pharaoh is saying, Take the frogs away, and I'll let you
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  go. 9 And Moses said to Pharaoh, Glory over me, When shall I
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  entreat for you and for your servants, and for your people,
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  to destroy the frogs from you and your houses, that they may
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  remain in the river only. So Moses says, At what time
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  would you like for me to stop all this tan?
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  And he said, Tomorrow. And he said, Be it according to
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  your word, that you may know that there is none like unto the
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  Lord our God. So here Pharaoh says, Make it
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  stop tomorrow. And Moses says, I sure will.
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  But by it's stopping tomorrow, you will know that God is who he
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  says he is. 11 And the frogs shall depart from you, and from
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  your houses, from your servants, and from your people.
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  They shall remain in the river only. 12 And Moses and Aaron
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  went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried unto the Lord, because of
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  the frogs which he had brought against Pharaoh. 13 And the Lord
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  did, according to the word of Moses.
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  And the frogs died out of the houses, out of the villages, and
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  out of the fields. So here we can see that God
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  stops this plague of frogs. 14 And they gathered them together
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  upon heaps, and the land stunk, stink, stunk, stank, friends.
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  It's nothing but rotting frogs in the land, heaped up in piles
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  because there were so many. 15 But when Pharaoh saw that there
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  was respite, he hardened his heart, and he listened not to
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  them. As the Lord had said, God
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  already knew what was going to happen.
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  It was not as if God hardened his heart.
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  It is because he chose to harden his own heart, and God allowed
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  it. Friends, he does not 'cause it,
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  but he allows it, and that's a hard lesson for a lot of us to
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  learn about the character of a loving, peaceful, almighty God
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  who can do anything. 16 And the Lord said to Moses, say to
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  Aaron, stretch out your rod and strike the dust of the land,
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  that it that it may become lice throughout all the land of
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  Egypt. So here they're going to turn
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  all the dust into lice. 17 And they did so for Aaron straight
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  stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the
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  earth, and it became lice and man and beast and the dust of
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  the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
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  So you can see here friends, that all Aaron had to do is
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  stretch out the rod, and all the dust of the land became as lice.
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  18 The magicians did so with their enchantments to bring
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  forth lice, but they could not, so the lice upon man and upon
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  beast. 19 Then the magician said to Pharaoh, This is the finger
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  of God, and Pharaohs heart was hardened, and he listened not to
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  them as the Lord had said. So not only would he not listen
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  to Moses and Aaron, not only would he not listen to the
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  plagues that have come and the signs and the miracles that have
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  already come, but here he will not even listen to his own
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  magicians who say, Surely this is from the hand of God.
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  This is not some magic trick. This is a divine miracle that
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  only God could do. He will not listen to them
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  either. 20 And the Lord said to Moses, rise up early in the
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  morning, stand before Pharaoh, lo, he comes forth to the water,
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  Say to him, This is what the Lord says, Let my people go,
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  that they may serve me. So God here again is calling the
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  Jews, He's calling the Israelites his first born.
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  They are his people, friends, and it's still the same today.
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  Don't forget that 21 else if you will not let my people go,
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  behold, I will send swarms of flies upon you, and upon your
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  servants, and upon your people, and into your house, and into
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  the House of the Egyptians shall be full of swarms of flies, and
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  also the ground whereon they lay.
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  So it's no wonder that the flies come about because of the
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  massive amount of toads and frogs that were heaped up that
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  stung. 22 And I will sever in that day the land of Goshen, in
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  which my people dwell, that no swarms of flies shall be there
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  to the end that you may know that I am the Lord in the midst
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  of the earth. The earth is the Lord's and
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  everything in it. He has full control over every
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  single person continent, all the molecules of water, the
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  droplets, friends, all of the electrons and neurons.
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  God is Lord over it all. Never forget that there is
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  nothing within the tapestry of life, within the tapestry of how
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  we operate and move and have our being, that God is not Lord over
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  friends. Never forget that.
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  And here, if He wants to cause a massive amount of flies, thick
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  as clouds, to come in and cover the land where you get no
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  respite, you get no peace, you cannot move, you cannot do
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  anything without the flies being all over and around you.
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  Friends, then that is exactly what will happen.
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  He can do it again today. God is not limited and we are
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  not in a sensational thinking and thought process and
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  theology. God can do miracles today in
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  signs and wonders. There is nothing outside of
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  God's power and control. 23 And I will put a division between my
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  people and your people tomorrow. Shall this sign be so?
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  God says you will know it by tomorrow, that there is a
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  distinction between the Jews and the Egyptians. 24 And the Lord
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  did so, and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the
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  House of Pharaoh, into his servants houses, into all the
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  land of Egypt. The land was corrupted by reason
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  of the swarm of flies. So all of these things, the
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  frogs, the flies, friends, this is all ridiculing their false
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  lowercase G pantheon of gods that the Egyptians worshipped.
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  And what Yahweh everlasting Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Nisi,
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  what he was doing is he was proving that there was no
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  substance to their false worship of all of their lowercase G
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  gods. He was putting them to shame and
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  mockery here with all of the plagues.
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  And the Egyptians would have understood way more clear than
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  you and I who have no context for the matter.
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  But they grew up within their culture.
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  They grew up within the way that they had their society
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  structured with all of these lowercase G gods that they
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  worship. And God was dismantling it all
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  in this moment. Friends, don't miss it. 25 And
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  Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and he said, Go sacrifice
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  to your God in the land. 26 And Moses said, It is not good to do
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  so, for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians,
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  and to the Lord our God, lo, shall we sacrifice the
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  abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and they will
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  stone us. So here Moses is telling Pharaoh
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  we cannot do all of the sacrifices that God requires
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  here in Egypt, or else the Egyptians will stone us to
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  death, because we'll be slaughtering the very animals
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  that they worship. And here Pharaoh has to make a
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  hard decision. He has relegated his own power
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  and his own self denoted deity. And he's acknowledging that
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  there is someone higher than him.
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  He's acknowledging that there is no power within all of their
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  pantheon of lowercase G gods here. 27 We will go three days
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  journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God.
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  He has commanded us. And so you can see here,
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  friends, that he says we will not just sacrifice here in
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  Egypt. We're going to go out for a
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  three day journey out into the wilderness to sacrifice as God
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  had told us to do so. 28 And Pharaoh said, I will let you go,
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  that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness,
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  only you shall not go very far away.
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  Entreat for me. So here Pharaoh's trying to find
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  some kind of compromise. He's trying to find the hook.
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  He wants them to agree to his terms, but Moses and Aaron will
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  not. As long as they are being led by
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  Almighty God in this, they will not give in to any of Pharaoh's
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  entreaties. 29 And Moses said, Behold, I go out from you, and I
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  will entreat the Lord that the swarms of flies may depart from
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  Pharaoh, from his servants, from his people tomorrow.
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  But let not Pharaoh deal deceitfully anymore in not
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  letting the people go to sacrifice to the Lord.
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  So just like Judas had the decision that he did not have to
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  sell our Lord out, but he chose to hear, Pharaoh is given chance
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  after chance after chance after chance to not harden his own own
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  heart, chance after chance after chance after chance to let them
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  go. But he continuously keeps going
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  back this sin cycle, and he's stuck in his own ways, and he's
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  deceived himself and he's believing the lie, friends, that
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  he is the one that is in control, when ultimately it is
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  God who will have the final say. 30 And Moses went out from
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  Pharaoh, and he entreated the Lord. 31 And the Lord did,
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  according to the word of Moses, and he removed the swarms of
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  flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, from the people that
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  remain, not one. You can't even begin to imagine
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  what this must have looked like from the lice and the frogs and
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  here the flies. And this is a plague that unless
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  you were able to be there, it is incomprehensible of how this
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  would have affected your daily life.
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  And here this would have been enough for Pharaoh to let them
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  go. But he continuously keeps
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  hardening his heart. We'll end on 32.
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  And Pharaoh hardened his heart at this time also.
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  Neither would he let the people go.
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  Come on, Pharaoh, give it up. Give it a break.
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  But he doesn't. We're going to see how the story
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  goes as it progresses. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I love you.
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  I'm praying for you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.