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April 27 - Exodus 4 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. It's Sean here.
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  And welcome to a chapter A Day. Bible reading the podcast where
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  as we are. So creatively named we read a
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  chapter a day of God's word so that we can be delighted and
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  inspired equipped and informed and reminded that we are loved
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  people who walk in the presence of almighty God and that is
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  exactly what we are doing today. And today we continue reading
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  our way through the book of Exodus.
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  And we have reached this wonderful point where the god of
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  the universe and Beyond comes majestically to Moses to say,
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  this is what you and I are going to do.
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  And Moses goes you've got to be kidding.
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  I am not your man. Go and find someone else to do
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  your dirty work. I am not up to the job, so if
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  you have ever had a crisis of Faith or a Isis have courage
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  where you just don't feel like you can do what you think you
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  ought to do. You're not alone.
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  Even this Titan, let's tighten of our faith, Moses didn't feel
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  like he could do what God was asking him, but boy does God use
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  him powerfully so there's still hope for you and me, friends
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  fear. Not so let's read the story.
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  Together as we today will read together.
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  Exodus chapter 4 But Moses protested again.
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  What if they won't believe me? Or listen to me?
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  What if they say the Lord never appeared to you?
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  Then the Lord asked him. What is that in your hand?
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  A shepherd's staff. Moses replied, throw it down on
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  the ground, the Lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff
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  and it turned into a snake, Moses jump back.
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  Then the Lord told him. Chat and grab its tail.
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  So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a
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  shepherd's staff in his hand. Perform this sign, the Lord told
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  him, then they will believe that the Lord, the god, of their
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  ancestors, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and the god of
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  Jacob really has appeared to you.
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  And the Lord said to Moses, now put your hand inside your Loke.
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  So Moses put his hand inside his cloak and when he took it out
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  again, his hand was white as snow with a severe skin disease.
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  Now, put your hand back into your cloak, the Lord said, so
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  Moses put his hand back in and when he took it out again, it
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  was as healthy as the rest of his body.
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  The Lord said to Moses, if they do not believe you and are not
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  convinced by the first miraculous sign, They will be
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  convinced by the second sign, and if they don't believe you or
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  listen to you, even after these two signs, then take some water
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  from the Nile River and pour it out on the dry ground when you
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  do the water from the Nile will turn to blood on the ground.
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  But Moses pleaded with the Lord. Oh, Lord, I'm not very good with
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  words. I never have been and I'm not
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  now. Even though you have spoken to
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  me, I get tongue-tied and my words get tangled.
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  Then the Lord asked Moses who makes a person's mouth who
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  decides whether people speak or do not speak here or do not
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  hear, see, or do not see, is it not I the Lord.
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  Now go. I will be with you as you speak
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  and I will instruct you in what to say, But Moses again.
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  Pleaded Lord please send someone else.
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  Then the Lord became angry with Moses.
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  All right. He said, what about your
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  brother? Aaron the levite.
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  I know he speaks well and look, he is on his way to meet you.
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  Now, he will be delighted to see you talk to him and put the
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  words in his mouth. I will be with both of you as
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  you speak and I will instruct you both in what to do.
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  Aaron will be your spokesman to the people.
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  He will be your mouthpiece, and you will stand in the place of
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  God for him. Telling him what to say, and
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  take a shepherd's staff with you and use it to perform the
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  miraculous sign. I've shown you.
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  So Moses went back home to Jethro his father-in-law,
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  please. Let me return to my relatives in
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  Egypt. Moses said, I don't even know if
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  they're still alive. Go in peace Jethro replied
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  before Moses left, Midian. The Lord said to him return to
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  Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill, you have died.
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  So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and headed,
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  back to the land of Egypt in his hand.
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  He carried the staff of God. And the Lord told Moses, when
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  you arrive back in Egypt, go to pharaoh and perform all the
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  Miracles. I have empowered you to do, but
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  I will harden his heart so he will refuse to let the people
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  go. Then you will tell him.
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  This is what the Lord says. Israel is my firstborn son.
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  I commanded you let my son go so he can worship me.
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  But since you have refused, I will now kill your firstborn
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  son. On the way to Egypt at a place
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  where Moses and his family had stopped for the night.
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  The Lord confronted him and was about to kill him.
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  But Moses wife zipporah took a flint knife and circumcised her
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  son. She touched his feet with the
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  foreskin and said, now, you are the bridegroom of blood to me,
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  when she said a bridegroom of blood, she was referring to the
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  circumcision after that the Lord left him alone.
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  Now, the Lord said to Aaron, go out into the Wilderness to meet
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  Moses. So Aaron went and met Moses at
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  the Mountain of God and he embraced him.
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  Moses then told Aaron everything, the Lord had
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  commanded him to say, and he told him about the miraculous
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  signs. The Lord had commanded him to
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  perform, then Moses and Aaron return to Egypt and called all
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  the Elders of Israel together. Aaron told them everything, the
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  Lord had told Moses and Moses perform the miraculous signs as
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  they watched. Then the people of Israel were
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  convinced that the Lord had sent Moses and Aaron when they heard
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  that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their
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  misery. They bowed down and worshiped.
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  Thank you for believing in US, father.
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  Thank you, that it's not about us.
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  It's not about who we are. It's not about what we think we
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  can do. But you have a plan for each of
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  our lives and you have incredible things that you want
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  to achieve in the world through us.
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  Father, help us to step out in faith and to be your
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  representative to be bold. When you tell us to act to
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  follow through on the way that you prompt us, thank you that
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  you speak to us and you do use us A tune out is to your voice.
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  So we will always hear when it's you that's prompting us to step
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  out in faith. Help us to be faithful to you
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  empowered by your spirit and saved by Jesus, and whose name
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  we pray. Amen.
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  A tune out is to your voice. So we will always hear when it's
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  you that's prompting us to step out in faith.
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  Help us to be faithful to you empowered by your spirit and
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  saved by Jesus, and whose name we pray.
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  Amen.