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Sunday Message: Moses' Faith, Part 3 · CCC West Covina

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It was the late. Aw, Tozer who said these words,
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it is doubtful. Whether God can bless the man
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greatly until he. First of all, hurts him deeply.
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You see it to you again, it is doubtful whether or not God, can
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bless the man greatly until he first of all hurts him deeply.
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Why is that? Is that true?
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Well. It is true.
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Because Jesus is is all you need, but Jesus is never.
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All you need until Jesus is all you got.
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See, we got everything else. We have our income, we have our
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family. We have our job.
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We have our cars. We have our health, we have our
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talent, we have her education, who needs Jesus.
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We got everything else that we need, but the problem is, Jesus
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is really all you need. Until you realize that, You are
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far from walking. Intimately, with our Lord.
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Man, by nature is autonomous. He's independent.
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He's self-sufficient. He is in control, he is
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self-reliant, he wants to be in control of his world.
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And so by Nature. He goes that direction.
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Only to realize that is not. That God is in charge of
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everything. He needs the Lord, he needs to
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depend upon the Lord for everything.
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So God sets out. To erase your independence from
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him. To establish your dependence
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upon him. That's what God does when he
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takes you through the desert. He wants you totally dependent
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upon him for everything. After all the Lord said in John
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15, without me ye can do. Some things all things you can't
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do anything. Without the Lord.
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We think we can. We think we can raise our
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children without the Lord. We think we can have a good
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marriage without the Lord. We think we can preach a sermon
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without the Lord. We think we can do everything
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that we do without the Lord. Because we're talented were
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eloquent. We are gifted.
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We are well educated. This is not true.
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It might be true, your well-educated might be true,
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you're talented and gifted, but you need the Lord in everything.
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You see spiritual growth has is like a coin, right?
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There's two sides to a coin. There's a human side and the
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Divine side. so when you look at spiritual growth, look at it
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from The Human Side, and it primarily deals with scripture,
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right, we're to grow in Grace and in the knowledge of our Lord
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and Savior, Jesus Christ, second Peter 3, verse number 18, The
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Bible tells us in second Timothy chapter 3, that that God's word
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is inspired right? And therefore because it is, it
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is that one thing that is profitable for man to equip him
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to do everything he needs to do. so from The Human Side in order
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for us to grow spiritually, We need the scripture and the
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spirit of God uses the word of God in our lives.
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To grow us in our walk with the Lord.
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But the flip side of the coin is the Divine side.
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And from God's perspective, it's not the Scripture its suffering,
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that's the Divine side. And he's in charge of the
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suffering. You're in charge for lack of a
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better, phrase of the scripture, and reading and studying and
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memorizing, and applying that scripture to your life by the
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Divine side. God uses suffering to perfect
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the soul. Remember Psalm 119 verse number
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67 before I was afflicted. I went astray.
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But now I keep your word. Before I was afflicted, I did
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whatever I wanted to do. I did life my way.
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But now, because I've been Afflicted.
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Now I keep your word. It will be great if we were
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committed to the scriptures and we were so committed to them
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that every day we'd read them and memorize them and apply
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them, but we just don't. So God uses suffering.
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He uses Affliction, he uses distress, he uses for lack of a
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better phrase, the desert to drive us to his word.
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Before I was afflicted, I went astray but now, now I keep your
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word. What's next verse?
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You are good and do us. Good.
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Psalmist, only knew of the goodness of God after his
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affliction. Because then he was able to
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understand the word of God and then he was able to stand that
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God himself. It says, in verse number 71, it
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is good for me that I was afflicted that I might learn
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your statutes. It's almost makes it very clear
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that there's something about Affliction that teaches me the
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statutes of God. That without the Affliction, I
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would not learn the lessons. I need to learn God knows what
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you need the best. So on a date of your toes are
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says that it is doubtful whether or not God can bless them and
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greatly until he's first of all hurt him deeply he is so right
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on. Every man, scripture.
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Was hurt, significantly. That God might use him greatly.
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Every man for lack of a better phrase was broken.
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Their self will was shattered. Their independence from God.
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Was broken to a point where they learn to be dependent upon God.
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So God could use them mightily. For his glory.
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And for his purpose, Years ago, many years ago.
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I did a series maybe some of the of you remember it.
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Tom, you might remember this. It was called invitation to
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intimacy. You're not serious.
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A long, long time ago, at least 20 years ago, maybe 25 years
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ago. I don't know, invitation to
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intimacy. We wanted to invite people to
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walk in an intimate relationship with the Living God.
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And so we told them, it begins with the Divine inheritance, you
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want to walk into intimate with God, it begins with a Divine
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inheritance. Paul said, it this way, in
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Ephesians chapter 1 verse number 11, because we've been redeemed,
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we have obtained, an inheritance having been predestined.
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According to his purpose, who works all things.
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After the counsel of his will to the end that we who were the
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first to Hope in Christ. Would be to the praise of his
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glory. Paul says, we've been redeemed
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because we have been predetermined to be partakers of
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a Divine inheritance. Peter would say this way in
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First Peter, chapter 1 verse number 3, blessed, be the God
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and father of our Lord, Jesus Christ who according to his,
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great Mercy. Has caused us to be born again
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to a Living Hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ
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from the dead in order to obtain an inheritance which is
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imperishable and undefiled, and will not fade away.
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Reserved in heaven for you. To walk in intimacy with God, it
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begins with a Divine inheritance.
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But it's also number two, balanced by a disciplined
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obedience. It's balanced by a disciplined
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obedience because I had been redeemed.
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I now have a responsibility to live in obedience to my God.
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And so there is this desire I have as Paul would say that
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bodily exercise profits little but godliness is profitable for
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all things. Therefore discipline, yourself
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unto godliness. First of the four seven and
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eight. First Corinthians 9, Paul was
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his I beat my body into subjection.
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I discipline myself, lest I be disqualified from the ministry.
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Paul knew about discipline. So he would reiterate it over
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and over again in his Epistles about discipline, your life unto
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godliness. So that which begins with the
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Divine inheritance, is now balanced with a disciplined
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obedience. And that which is balanced with
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a disciplined obedience. Is beautified in a daily
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silence. It's beautified in a daily
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silence, be still and know that I am God.
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Isaiah 30 says this in silence. And in trust, shall be your
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strength. How many times did the psalmist?
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Say, I wait silently for the Lord.
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Silence is such a major part of walking and intimacy with our
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God, it's like a marriage, right?
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When is the marriage beautified? It's not beautified amidst, the
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hubbub of activity with family and friends, and all kinds of
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social activities. No, it's beautified in the
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silence, Mom and Dad husband, and wife together in silence
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cultivating. The relationship, when there are
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no distractions around you, it's just you and your wife, are you,
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and your husband? So that which begins with the
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Divine inheritance is balanced with a discipline.
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Nope. The ants and as beautified in a
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daily silence. but, That intimacy is always battled with
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a diabolical vengeance. Satan does not want you to walk
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intimately with the Lord. So he is going to attack attack
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attack all the time. He goes about like a roaring
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lion seeking whom he may devour, right?
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And so we need to resist him steadfast in the faith.
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We need to Shield ourselves with the armor of God, so because
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he's going to attack us, we must arm ourselves with the armor of
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God if he's in 6 10 to 18 realizing that Satan does all he
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can. To keep us from walking.
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Intimately, with the Living God. The invitation to intimacy.
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It is a invitation that's extended to man.
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To walk with our Lord. It begins with the Divine
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inheritance, it's balanced with a disciplined obedience.
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It's beautified in a daily silence its battle with a
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diabolical vengeance. Ah, but it blossoms in a desert
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experience. That's where blossoms.
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In a desert experience. Listen to the words of Peter.
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As he concludes his first epistle.
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Writing to Jews who had experience the ultimate desert.
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All kinds of distressed and affliction, all kinds of
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persecution and hardship Nero had had given all of his efforts
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to persecute the Christians and they were being killed and
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destroyed on a daily basis. and so, Peter in his epistle, And we
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did a series on Peter and we entitled it, hope for those who
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hurt. Because there was no one hurting
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more than the Jews that were scattered abroad.
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Then these Jews were, and they needed hope, and Peter gives
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them hope. In the end.
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First 10 for p25 says these words after you have suffered
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for a while. In other words, your suffering
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is inevitable. It's going to happen. and after
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you've suffered for, A little while, the God of all Grace.
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The personal Ministry of our God is to extend Grace, to all those
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who suffer. So the God of all Grace is going
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to do something that will cause your life to Blossom as it's
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never bloomed before. By saying this. the God of all
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Grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ will
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himself, perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you So
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after you've suffered for a little while, God is going to
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perfect you, he's going to supply all that you need.
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There's something lacking in the word.
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Perfect is a word used in two different ways of scripture, The
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Mending of Nets, right? Or the many together of broken
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bones, putting them back together again, putting Nets
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back together again after you suffered for a little while.
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God is going to put you back together.
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Again he's going to let you go through difficulties in the
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hardships and and and tie the Nets together.
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Mend the broken bones, put them back together so that you can be
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one. and then, he's going to Confirm, you other words.
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It's a phrase that's used in ancient literature to speak of
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making one solid as Granite immovable.
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You'll emerge tougher than you've ever been before stronger
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than you've ever been before after you've suffered for a
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while. He'll perfect.
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You he will confirm you. He will strengthen you.
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He will fill you with his strength.
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God wants to fill you with his strength but we're so busy
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trying to exude Our Own Strength that we had no time to rely upon
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God to fill us with his strength.
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We want to show everybody how strong we are.
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Instead of God infusion us with his strength. but after you've
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been broken, After you've been desolate.
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After you're on your own, with no one to hold on to accept the
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Lord, will fill you with his strength.
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And then he'll establish you. He'll settle you, he'll lay a
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foundation. The foundation is laid and
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established to the point where it's in unshakable and
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immovable. But happens after you've
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suffered for a little while. There's some of you might be
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here today and say, well, you know, I've gone through
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suffering and I've gone through persecution and I've gone
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through hardship and I've gone through distress, whether it be
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emotional relational financial and all those kind of things.
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But no, that's happened to me. I'm not confirmed, I'm not
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perfected. I'm not strengthened, I don't
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see anything being supplied in my life.
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Well, there's an answer for that.
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He tells you up in verse number 5.
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God is opposed to the proud. But he gives Grace.
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To the humble. God of all Grace will do this.
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But he opposes the proud. But it is give Grace.
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To the humble. so, in the process of your desert
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experience, Instead of relinquishing yourself and
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relinquishing your pride and relinquishing all that.
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You think you are to the Lord and throwing yourself on his
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grace and his Mercy, you are still kicking and screaming and
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fighting and becoming bitter because of your situation and
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your circumstance and you don't understand why and you get so
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upset and you get so frustrated. Because your pride.
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So God does not bestow his grace.
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On the prideful, but only on the humble.
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A need to humble yourself before the true and living God.
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All that plays itself out in the life of Moses.
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It's all right there. and you know, as you go through Hebrews
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11, I could spend years on each character taking you back to
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Genesis and exodus explaining all these people to you, taking
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you back to Joshua and judges and letting you see the
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character of these people develop before you we could do
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that. But that would take us forever
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to get through Hebrews. Right?
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And we're not Jewish people Jewish.
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People would know the historical background of all those
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characters inside and out, right?
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Even know them. We don't But every once in a
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while, we take a brief moment to help you fill in the blanks.
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She can begin to understand what it means to walk by faith and
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not by sight. To believe.
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Absolutely. What God has said.
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And behave accordingly to all that.
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God has said, And Moses and Abraham are written about more
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than anybody else in Hebrews 11. And we know that that Moses
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would prefer the imperishable. We know that he would perceive
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the invisible because it says that he endured as seeing him
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who is unseen. He was 11.
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We know that he would forsake their treasures and Riches of
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Egypt that he might hinder her Affliction with the people of
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God. So you prefer the imperishable,
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he perceived the invisible, and we know through the book of
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Exodus that he he performed the impossible.
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But the only way he could perform the impossible was that
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he had to pass through the invaluable.
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And that was on the backside of the desert in Midian. now, the
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writer of Hebrews doesn't tell us about that, but the book of
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Exodus does In the Jewish audience would know about Moses
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because they knew that Moses was Israel's greatest leader.
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But what made Moses Israel's greatest leader?
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Because you see Moses in and of himself could not convince the
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Hebrew people that he was their deliverer.
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Although he tried always so desperately, tried he killed an
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Egyptian, we saw in Exodus chapter 2 because in Egyptian
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head had mistreated one of his one of his Hebrew people.
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So he killed them to show his power, his strength, his
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athleticism, that people will sit back and say, whoa, man, the
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man is strong. Look at that guy, maybe he will
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be our deliver. No didn't respond.
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And then the very next day, there were two Brethren to
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Hebrew people. Who are arguing?
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He broke up the fight so he can show them that.
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He was a peacemaker. But they said, what are you
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gonna do? Kill one of us to, they weren't
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ready to accept him as their leader.
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But he was doing all he can to prove to them.
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Hey I'm your guy man. Look at me.
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I can do these kind of things. Follow me but nobody wanted to
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follow. Although he was.
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Well educated, and he was a very educated, man.
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Very intelligent man. Very wise man.
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Moses was Acts tells us that he was mighty and deeds in mighty
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words. He could speak.
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He was able to perform great acts of wonder.
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Great guy. Magnificent man.
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You see him very self-confident. You see him very independent.
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You seem very self-reliant. You see him in control, right?
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All the things that we would say well this guy can lead this
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guy's a man. This guy's a man's man.
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This is the guy we need to have lead us.
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But nobody was following. So, by faith.
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That is he believed what God Said.
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He fled to Midian. He fled to Midian. interesting
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that in the book of Exodus, It says he's words.
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Verse 16, Exodus ship to another priest of Midian had seven
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daughters and they came to draw water and filled the troughs to
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water their fathers flock. Then the shepherd's came and
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drove them away, but Moses stood up and helped them and watered
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their flock. Wow, imagine the scene Seven
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women, because, He only had seven daughters and they went to
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to draw water for the Sheep, but other Shepherd's came and moved
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them out a way out of the way in Moses sees that.
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So what does Moses do? He does what?
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He's been educated to do, he does what he's been trained to
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do, he warns them off, he defends the women, and we would
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applaud that and rightly. So, he did the right thing.
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But, even in that, he was showing that he didn't need God.
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He just needed to do what he could do himself.
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And so he moved them all away and the women like me.
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Who, look at this guy, man. Look at Moses muscles.
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Take a whole bunch other Dad. Look at this.
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When they came to her Elder, father, he said, why have you
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come back so soon? They said, in Egyptian delivered
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us from the hand of the Shepherds and what is more?
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He even drew the water for us and one of the flock.
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Wow, dad, you should have been there.
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This guy was incredible. He went in and took a staffing.
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Well, what about that map? Move them all the way and then
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he filled the trauma often. Why did sheep?
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So the father says, as any good father would too, he said well
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where is he then? Where is he then why is it that
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you have left The Man Behind invite and to have something to
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eat? Go get the guy, ask him if he
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wants to stay forever, just go get them.
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Moses was willing to dwell with the man.
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And he gave his daughter zipporah to Moses that she gave
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birth to a son. He named him gershom and he said
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I had been a Sojourner in a foreign land.
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Next scene is. 40 years later. At Mount, Horeb Mount Sinai.
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Would God would appear to Moses in the burning bush.
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So you have a man, Moses. Hoofer the better part of 80
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years. Saw himself as the man.
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But had to come to a place to realize.
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They needed God. She never read about Moses and
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prayer. Never read about Moses, walking
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and intimacy with God Walking with God, the cool of the day
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and fellowshipping with his God, you never see those things in
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Moses, his life. Description doesn't record those
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things. We know by faith, we knew what
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God Said, and God have to speak to him and move him.
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And so he knew that, but we never saw Moses of the men of
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prayer and prayer is that one element that shows us our
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dependence upon God, right? Show me how long you pray and
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I'll show you how dependent you are up on.
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God, show me how little you pray.
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And I'll show you how much you depend upon your own education,
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your own skill, your own Financial, well, being your own
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person Hood. So simple as that.
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So, here's Moses. Never really spent time in
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prayer. He was one who was never.
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Said of one who sought after God or waited on God.
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He used human logic human wisdom.
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And Riley, so he was gifted that way.
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He used the fact that he was an educated man who knew what to do
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all those things. But none of that qualified him
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to be God's man. The qualified him to be
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pharaohs, man. That qualified him to lead in
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Egypt. But in qualifying, the lead in
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God's Kingdom. Because God has a different set
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of Standards than the world does. and so, while he Had been
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to the school of, man. By faith, God led him to Midian
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a dry desert Place. Modern-day Saudi Arabia because
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although he was educated in the school of man, He now had to be
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educated in the school of God. In the school of God, there's
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only one professor. It's God himself.
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And the classroom is not air conditioned or done remotely so
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you can sit at home on your bed and do the schooling.
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No, the classroom is the backside of a desert?
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When you graduate. You graduate with a PhD in the
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ways of God. That was Moses.
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He would graduate with the PHD in in the ways of God.
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When you come to Exodus chapter 3, you can already see a
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difference in Moses. It says, in chapter 3 verse
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number 11, Moses said to God, who am I?
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That I should go to pharaoh and that I should bring the sons of
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Israel out of Egypt. Who am I?
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Well, 40 years earlier he was trying to convince him that he
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was the god. And then in verse number 1 of
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chapter 4, Moses said, what if they will not believe me or
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listen to to what I say for? They may say the Lord has not
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appeared to you. You can't reason with these
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Jewish people, you can't sit down with them and have a
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conversation with them. I tried that it doesn't work
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verse 10 of chapter 4. Then Moses said to the Lord,
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please Lord, I have never been eloquent neither recently, nor
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in time past nor since you have spoken to your servant for I am
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slow of speech and slow. Of ton, we're 40 years earlier.
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He was very verbose, he would speak all kinds of things
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because he was eloquent and words, he would try to reason
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with everybody, talk them into following him, but now, 40 years
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later, Can't speak so much. I'm slow of speech.
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What can I say? What do I say?
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How do I say it? Different kind of, man. and
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then, In Exodus chapter 14. When they have been released.
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From Egyptian bondage, listen to the words of Moses to show you
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the difference of how this man is at the age of 80.
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That he was at the age of 40. Verse 10 of chapter 14 and
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Pharaoh Drew near the sons of Israel looked and behold the
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Egyptians were marching after them and they became very
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frightened. So the sons of Israel, cried out
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to the Lord, then they said to Moses, is it?
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Because there were no graves in Egypt that you have taken us
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away to die in the wilderness. Why have you dealt with us, in
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this way, bringing us out of Egypt is this?
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Not the word that we spoke to you in Egypt saying leave.
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Us alone that we may serve the Egyptians for it would have been
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better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the
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wilderness. Hmm, so what do you do?
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Moses said to the people did not fear stand by, and see the
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salvation of the Lord, which he will accomplish for you today
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for the Egyptians. Whom you have seen today, you
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will never see them again forever.
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The Lord will fight for you while you keep Silence, the
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Great. Moses learned.
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Psalm 103 thousands. First number 7, mark it down.
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He made known his ways to Moses. His acts to the children of
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Israel. He made known his ways to Moses
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his acts to the children of Israel.
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Moses knew the ways of God. But the children of Israel did
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not know the ways of God. They could see the acts of God.
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They could watch God from a distance.
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But they did not know the ways of God.
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That's why the psalmist would say these words.
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Or put it this way. Exodus 33 Moses said this.
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I pray you Lord. If I have found favor in your
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sight let me know your ways that I may know you.
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You don't know God, unless, you know the ways of God.
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And so Moses is cry. Was Lord.
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Show me your ways. Teach me your ways.
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So you go to the Psalms. And it says, in in Psalm 25
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verse, number four, make me know your ways O.
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Lord, teach me your paths, Lead Me In Your Truth and teach me
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for you are the god of my salvation for you.
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I wait all the day but it's all dependent upon the ways of God.
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And then it says in verse number nine, he leaves the humble and
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Justice. He teaches the humble his way,
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he doesn't teach the Arrogant as way he teaches the humble his
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way. Doesn't the Book of Numbers.
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Tell us that Moses was the meekest man on the face of the
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Earth. He made known his ways to Moses.
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But the children of Israel. Could only watch the acts of God
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from a distance. And then, it says over in Psalm
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27. Teach me your way O Lord and
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Lead Me in a smooth or level path because of my foes again,
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the song was Christ, Lord, teach me your ways, Psalm 86.
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So many 6 verse, number 11, teach me your way O Lord I will
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walk in your truth unite My Heart To Fear your name and I
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will give thanks to You O Lord my God with all my heart and
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will glorify your name forever. Who was the guy that glorifies
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it? The name of God forever.
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He's the guy who give thanks to God in his heart.
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Who's the guy who gives thanks to God in his heart, the guy
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whose heart has United to fear the lord.
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And who is the guy whose heart is United to fear?
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The lord? It's the guy who says, Lord
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teach me your ways. I want to know, you're with my
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ways are irrelevant. My family's waves are
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irrelevant. Lord, your ways are relevant
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your ways. Your ways are the only thing
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that makes a difference. Teach me.
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Your ways. Psalm 95.
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Listen to this. God says for 40 years, I
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loathed. That Generation The Generation
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that came out of Egypt. I load them and said they are a
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people who are in their heart. Why do they are in the heart?
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Here it is. Ready.
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And they do not know my ways. Therefore, I sworn my anger,
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truly, they shall not enter my rest.
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Wow, how about you? You know, the ways of God.
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What did Jesus say? I am.
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The way. And the truth.
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I am the life but he says, I am. The way.
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I'm the only way. In other words, it's my way or
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the hell way, there is no other way on the way.
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And you got to cry for me to know the way.
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Like Moses did. And God brought Moses to a place
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in his life where he would depend upon God for everything.
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No longer was he self-reliant no longer was.
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He self-confident? All of us confidence was in God.
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All of us dependence was upon God.
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No longer. Was he an independent thinker?
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No longer. Was he an arrogant individual
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knows all about Lord? What do I do now?
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Lord, teach me your ways. Lord, if your present does not
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go with us, we are not leaving from this place because we need
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you, we're not going anywhere unless you go before us.
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Lord, we need you. So, when the psalmist says, he
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may notice ways to Moses. But his acts to the children of
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Israel. Moses would walk.
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In intimacy with his God. Because he the path through
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that, which is invaluable. Because it is doubtful.
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Whether God can bless the man greatly.
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Until he is. First of all hurt him deeply.
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Let me pray with you. Father, we thank you for this
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day. We thank you for the time as
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brief as it is that we could spend a new word.
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But we are grateful for the reminder.
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The man, Moses. Who learned the ways of God?
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May we be those kind of people Lord.
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You have said that you are the way.
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You are the only way there is no other way.
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You are that way. And father we want to know your
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ways. We want to know you.
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We don't want to air in our hearts.
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We don't want you to loathe this generation.
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We want you to love this generation.
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So, we're asking. That you would do a mighty work
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in all of our lives. Draw us closer to you, Lord.
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Stop at nothing. To make us the people you want
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us to be. That we might totally Rely Upon
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Our God for everything. Erase our independence from you.
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Establish our dependence upon you.
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And we will give you glory. until you come again, as you
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most surely will in Jesus name, amen.