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Exodus chapter 2 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 2. Let us pray.
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  Lord our Father, our King, the Master, the life giver.
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  Lord, we thank you for another day to come and to worship you
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  in spirit and truth, for you are worth to be praised.
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  You are holy. You are mighty to save.
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  Thank you, God, for saving us to the utmost.
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  Your arm is not too short to save.
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  We thank you, God, for giving us a reason to wake up, a reason to
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  live, a reason to draw breath. God, I pray that you'll
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  encourage the Saints. Strengthen the Saints in this
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  hour. God, I pray for the underground
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  church worldwide. God, I pray that you will help
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  us to finish this race well, to make it all the way to the end.
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  Help us not to grow despondent and lazy.
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  God, help us not to grow distracted.
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  God, I pray that you'll fan the flame in our lives.
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  God, send the comforter. Lord, refine us in your refiners
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  fire. God, make us more like Jesus
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  today than we were yesterday. God, we consecrate this temple.
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  We say no to the vile things that are dragging us away from
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  the communion that we have with you.
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  We say no to those things. God, we've counted the cost.
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  Lord, we stiff arm every other lover, and God, we returned back
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  to our first love. Lord, help us to do the things
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  that we once did. Lord, when we felt the
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  connection. God, when we knew your voice,
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  when we were listening and in tune with you.
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  Father, I pray God that you will put your finger, Holy Spirit,
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  upon all the things in our lives that are holding us back from
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  the fullness that God has for us.
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  God, help us to be in communion with you 24 hours a day, seven
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  days a week, 365 days a year. God, we never get a day off,
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  Father. We never check out Father, but
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  help us Lord to abide in you and you and us as Jesus is in you,
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  Father, we are in him. God, seated with you in heavenly
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  places more than conquerors. God, we just want more of you.
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  Teach us your ways, God. Show us your eternal past.
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  Light up the path, Father. Help us to be light and salt or
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  to this wicked and dark perverse generation.
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  God, I pray that you'll make us into image bearers of you.
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  Father, I pray that we will not hold back from sharing our
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  testimony with those all around us, Father, helping them, Lord,
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  showing them, modeling for them what it looks like to follow
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  after you. God, I pray that we'll overcome
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  the enemy by the blood of the Lamb and the words of our
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  testimony. Help us not to love our lives so
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  much as to shrink back from death.
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  Help us to charge the hill, or we look up, or we see you,
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  Father, the Maker of heaven and earth.
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  We know where our help comes from.
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  The Spirit and the Bride say come, Maranatha, come.
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  We see you, Father returning. Your rewards are with you.
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  Help us to wait well in the middle.
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  God, do in our lives and do with us whatever is your will.
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  Help us to get out of the way. Help us not to fall down.
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  Lord. Help us not to be overcome by
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  depression and anxiety and fear. The love of mammon.
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  God, I pray against those things.
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  Lord, just say you are enough. Jesus is enough.
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  He's all that we need. He's all that we want.
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  We don't care about anything else.
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  We just want Jesus Christ. Teach us your pass in your ways.
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  Show up and show off today. Holy Spirit, wreck us with your
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  presence. Should kind of glory come?
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  I don't know Elohim a Leon, Holy, holy, holy, worthy,
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  worthy. Worthy is the Lamb that was
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  slain before the foundations of the earth.
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  It pleased you to bruise Him. Cover us with Your blood.
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  Cover us with Your holiness and Your righteousness.
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  Take our sinfulness and impute to us Your righteousness.
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  For You are holy and set apart, high and lifted up.
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  We look upon you. Today we receive salvation.
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  Today we call upon that name. We believe that God raised Jesus
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  Christ from the dead. We believe that the Holy Spirit
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  is within us as the down payment, as the security, as the
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  surety of what is to come. We say thank you Jesus Christ,
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  holy and precious and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Let's start in verse one.
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  And there was there went a man out of the House of Levi and he
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  took to wife a daughter of Levi. So we see that Moses is from the
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  tribe of Levi friends. And we're going to find out
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  later on that it's the Levitical priest friends who actually get
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  to minister in the temple. And they were not able to
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  actually possess the land because God is their
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  inheritance. And we see that Moses is from
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  that lineage too. And the woman conceived and bore
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  a son. And when she saw him that he was
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  a goodly child, she hid him three months.
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  So she went against the King's command to throw the little boys
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  into the water. 3 And when she could not longer hide him, she
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  took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with
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  slime and with pitch, and put the child in it, and she laid it
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  in the flags by the river's brink.
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  So here among the reeds you can see that Moses was put in to an
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  ark, just like old MO, just like old Noah, whenever he got into
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  the ark and God shut the door. We see the same word mentioned
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  here and we see that Jesus Christ is our ark, and you must
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  get into it, friends. And you see that it is the same
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  word used for the ark that Noah got into, the same slime and
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  pitch that was covered over it, friends.
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  And that was what our life was. It was nothing but a pit of
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  despair. And God pulled us up out of the
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  muck and the mire, and here he's going to protect little Moses as
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  he goes in the little basket down the river.
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  And it's going to come upon this divine protection, this divine
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  appointment that we're going to get to see here. 4 And his
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  sister stood far off to see what would be done to him.
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  So his little sister, she's out there and she's watching to see
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  what's going to happen of this little baby.
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  Five And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the
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  river, and her maidens walked along by the Riverside, and when
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  she saw the ark among the weird reeds, she sent her maid to
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  fetch it. So here we go friends.
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  This is a big story in the book of God, as you can see that
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  God's divine protection for the entire race of the Israelites is
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  going to come about from this man Moses.
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  And you see how the daughter of Pharaoh is the one who finds him
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  there by the water. 16 And when she had opened it, she saw the
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  child, and behold, the baby wept.
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  She had compassion on him and said, this is one of the
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  Hebrew's children. So it was her father who had
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  commanded all the Hebrew babies, all the baby boys to be thrown
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  into the river. Seven then said his sister to
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  Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to you, a nurse of the
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  Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?
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  So here you can see that Moses's sister was watching the whole
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  event, and she saw Pharaoh's daughter come down to wash
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  herself. She saw Pharaoh go to the basket
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  and open it. And then she called out and
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  said, should I go and get a woman, which of course would
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  have been her mother, Moses's mother, to come and nurse him?
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  A and Pharaoh's daughter said to her, go.
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  And the maid went and called the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's
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  daughter said to her, Take this child away and nurse it for me,
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  and I will give you your wages. And the woman took the child and
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  nursed it. So you can see here how Moses
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  was able to go back to his mother legally in the law of the
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  land. And this is the way that God
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  works, friends, don't ever miss it.
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  Just think about it. God's protection and provision
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  and His plans for the ages cannot be done away with.
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  They will happen in exactly the way that He has written it down
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  for us. And there is nothing that the
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  enemy can do against it. And as a matter of fact, every
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  single time that the enemy tries to come up with a plan to do
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  away with the plans of God, it plays right into God's hand,
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  because He already saw it. 10 And the child grew, and she
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  brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son.
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  And she called his name Moses. And she said, because I drew him
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  out of the water. So you can see here that Moses
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  is going to grow up in a very favorite environment, and then
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  God is going to use him mightily to set his people free. 11 And
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  it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown that he
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  went out to his brothers and he looked on their burdens, and he
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  spied an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
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  So here Moses would have known as he was growing up that he was
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  not an Egyptian, that he was just a Hebrew that was saved
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  during that time because of the compassion of Pharaoh's
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  daughter. And here he sees an Egyptian
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  striking a Hebrew, and it does not fare well with him. 12 And
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  he looked this way, and he looked that way, and when he saw
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  that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the
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  sand. So he killed this Egyptian.
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  Then he tried to cover it up. And here is a lesson for us,
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  friends. We need to wait on God and wait
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  on the way that God wants to do things.
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  We don't need to take God's word and try to make it happen within
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  our own strength and our own mind and our own reasoning and
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  our own flesh. And there have been many Saints
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  along the way who have got themselves into a heap of
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  trouble because they outpaced God and thought that they were
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  the ones who had to manifest their destiny within the walk of
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  the Christian life. And it does not work that way,
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  friends. We must wait on an omnipotent
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  God, who in his perfect timing can do literally anything. 13
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  And when he went out of the second day, behold, 2 men of the
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  Hebrews strove together, and he said to them that they did the
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  wrong. Why do you strike your fellow?
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  So? He's saying you are brothers
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  from the same race. Why are you striving with each
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  other? 14 And he said, Who made you a
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  Prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you
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  killed the Egyptian? And Moses feared and said,
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  surely this thing is known. So you're going to see how God
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  uses this situation to get Moses up and out of Egypt.
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  Perhaps Moses, if he would have stayed in that place, he would
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  not have known the Lord's plan in the full, and he would have
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  tried to make it happen within his own strength.
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  Now he's going to have to leave out of that place and start
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  relying upon the God of Abraham, Isaac in Israel. 15 Now when
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  Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses, but Moses
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  fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelled in the land of
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  Midian, and he sat down by a well.
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  So here we see that Moses leaves Egypt and goes to Midian. 16 Now
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  the priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw
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  water and filled the troughs to water their father's flock. 17
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  And the shepherds came and drove them away, but Moses stood up
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  and helped them and watered their flock.
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  So here we see Moses. He's fleeing from the face of
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  Pharaoh, and here comes the seven daughters of the priest.
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  And you see the shepherds trying to run them off, but Moses
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  stands up for them, and he waters their flocks and make
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  sure that they get the water that they need. 18 And when they
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  came to Ruel, their father, he said, How is it that you've come
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  so soon today? 19 And they said, An Egyptian
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  delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and he also drew
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  water for us and watered the flock.
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  So you can see here that these daughters were impressed by
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  Moses. 20 And he said to his daughters, Where is he?
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  Why is it that you'd left the man, call him, that he may eat
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  bread. So Ruelle wants to invite him
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  over for supper to meet this man who helped his daughters out. 21
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  And Moses was content to dwell with the man, and he gave Moses
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  Zipporah, his daughter. So look at the contentment that
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  is found within Moses. Here he is coming from the
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  palace, and he's out in the field running away.
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  And now you can see that God's working on his heart and his
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  mind and he becomes content. Friends, that is what we
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  desperately need. We need to be content in the
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  situation that we find ourselves in.
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  No matter where you are on planet earth, no matter what
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  your circumstance is, we need to find the contentment with
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  godliness which is of great gain.
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  And here Moses is starting to understand that his identity is
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  not in the palace. His identity is not in the
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  riches. His identity is not in the
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  wealth, his identity is not in the prosperity, but his identity
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  is is in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel.
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  He is content to dwell there. And he is given Zipporah 22 and
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  she bore him a son. And he called his name Gersh,
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  for he said, I've been a stranger in a strange land.
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  That is what we are called to be friends.
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  So is your nurse, and we are strangers in a very strange
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  land. Look around, friends.
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  When God takes the blinders off of your eyes, when he unstopped
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  your ears, it is like you're living in a whole new world.
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  You don't see things the same way that you used to see them.
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  You don't hear things the same way that you used to hear them.
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  You finally get to see the layers pulled back and you get
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  to peek into, peer into the spiritual reality all around
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  you, friends. And I pray that that is your
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  walk with him. I pray that that is your
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  experience. I pray that you have seen the
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  revelation and been able to look behind the curtain and been able
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  to see all the spiritual things that are happening all around
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  you. Friends, I pray that you're not
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  just waiting for heaven, but that heaven can come to earth
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  today, and God gives us glimpses and snapshots of what is to
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  come. 23 And it came to pass in the process of time that the
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  king of Egypt died, and the children of Israel's side by
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  reason of the bondage. And they cried, and the cry came
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  up unto God by reason of their bondage.
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  So God is going to have pity upon Israel. 24 And God heard
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  their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with
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  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God never forgot it, friends,
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  but he put them there for a reason.
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  And He already told Abraham back in chapter 12 of Genesis that he
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  was going to send his descendants into a land for 400
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  years and that they would be oppressed and in bondage, but
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  they would come out of that place stronger and richer and
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  more mighty, friends. And that is what has happened.
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  We'll end on 25. And God looked upon the children
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  of Israel, and God had respect to them.
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  So He's going to make good on His word.
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  He told Abraham what would happen.
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  And that is exactly what is going to happen, in the same way
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  that today God has told us what is going to happen.
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  And that is exactly what is going to happen.
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  Friends, you can bank on it. You can build your whole life on
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  it. Friends, you'll never be put to
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  shame if you place your entire faith upon the Lord Jesus.
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  Christ, build your life upon the cornerstone.
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  Build your life upon the solid rock.
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  Do not build your life on the sinking sand of materialism and
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  mammon. Do not build your life upon
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  vanity. Do not build your life upon your
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  own abilities. Do not build your life upon your
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  own intellect and the degrees that you have on the wall.
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  Do not build your life upon all of your own abilities, but build
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  it upon the solid rock of the Lord Jesus Christ, which is
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  profitable for this life and the one to come.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know that I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you and we'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.