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Exodus chapter 5 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 5, let us pray. Father God, who is in heaven, we
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  thank you God for life and life abundant.
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  Thank you God for clean drinking water.
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  We thank you God for food abundantly.
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  We thank you for warmth. Father, we thank you for family.
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  We thank you for love. God, we thank you that you chose
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  us and predestined us, God, and elected us God, but gave us free
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  will, Father, to choose you. Lord, you already knew.
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  You already know. God, we get out of our own way,
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  out of our own intellect. God, we give you the center
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  stage. God, we put you and your
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  rightful place on the King of our heart, God, the King of our
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  emotions and our mind. God, give us an unoffendable
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  spirit. God, let us go through this
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  life, Lord, completely endued and indwelled with the Holy
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  Spirit filling us. God overflowing into the streets
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  and into the highways and into the byways, the workplaces, our
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  families, our homes, our marriages.
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  God, the relationships with our kids, Lord, with our coworkers,
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  Father, bringing the prodigals home.
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  Lord, I pray you, strengthen the church, strengthen marriages.
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  God, help the women to choose life today.
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  God, I pray for righteous leaders to be in office.
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  Lord, I pray that you'll continue, Lord, to propagate
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  your word throughout all generations, through all people
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  groups, God, throughout all countries, every single
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  continent, God singing out Yahweh everlasting Yeshua.
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  Lord, we pray that you'll continue to fan the flame.
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  God, that the gates of hell will never prevail against your
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  church. The ecclesia, the called out
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  ones, the ones that are called into full time ministry.
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  God, help us to love our neighbors as our self.
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  Help us to love you more than anything else, more than life
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  itself. God, we love you.
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  Father, teach us your ways. Lord, come and show us your
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  eternal righteous paths. God, Show us, Lord, what it is
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  to be men and women who are called by your name, Little
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  Christ, God, Christians in this land, Christians, God, for this
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  generation, for such a time as this, we thank you God for all
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  the protection. We thank you God for waking us
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  up and putting us on our feet. We thank you God for life and
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  life eternal for the down payment of the Holy Spirit.
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  We thank you that you are real and you are trustworthy and
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  true. And God, all of your promises
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  contained in this book is yes and Amen.
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  Lord, we know that the Word is alive and active and sharper
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  than any 2 edged swords of God. We just say yes.
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  Lord, let it read us as we try to read it.
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  Father, give us your wisdom. Give us new heights and new
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  depths of your love and your mercy, your goodness and your
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  grace. It's in Jesus Christ, holy and
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  precious name that I pray, men. Let's start in verse 1.
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  And afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, this
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  is what the Lord God of Israel says.
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  Let my people go that they may hold a feast to me in the
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  wilderness. So here we can see that Moses is
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  being used by God Almighty, and you can see that Moses is going
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  into the court and God is saying to let his people go.
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  We've already learned in the previous chapter that God sees
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  Israel as his first born. Friends, think about that verse
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  2. And Pharaoh said, who is the
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  Lord? That I should obey his voice and
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  let Israel go. I know not the Lord, neither
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  will I let Israel go. And God told Moses that it would
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  be this way. And you can see here that
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  Pharaoh has hardened his heart, friends.
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  And God is going to use that hardness, friends. 3 And they
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  said, the God of the Hebrews has met with us, let us go, we pray
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  three days, journey into the desert, and sacrifice to the
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  Lord our God, unless he fall upon us with pestilence or with
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  the sword. So here Moses and Aaron, they're
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  talking to Pharaoh and they're saying, let us go and do the
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  sacrifices out in the wilderness or else God's mighty hand will
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  come upon us. And the reality is God's mighty
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  hand is about to come upon the Egyptians, friends.
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  And the reality is that God is leading them back into Canaan.
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  For the king of Egypt said to them, why do you, Moses and
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  Aaron, let the people from their works get you unto your burdens?
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  Here Pharaoh's heart is revealed.
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  He cares nothing for the Israelites, and God knows it.
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  And that's the reason that God has seen their affliction.
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  He's seen the oppression, and he is going to intervene and do
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  something about it. And you can see Pharaoh's heart
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  truly being revealed in this chapter of how he feels about
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  the Hebrews. He says, you're lazy, get back
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  to work. 5 And Pharaoh said, behold, the people of the land
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  now are many, and you make them rest from their burdens.
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  So all he cared about was free labor, slave labor, friends.
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  That's all he cared about. Somehow, some way, he inherited
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  the problem of the Jews and he needed a solution for the Jews.
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  And isn't this just like Satan? How Satan always points the
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  finger towards the Jews as the problem?
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  Be aware of anti-Semitism rising up today friends.
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  The Jews are God's chosen people are not were they are God's
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  chosen people, and God is going to supernaturally protect them
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  and they're going to make it all the way in the end.
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  Check the record, friends. Go back and look.
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  You can't do nothing with them. Every time you put the heavy
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  burdens on them, they only multiply and get stronger.
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  They only grow richer, friends, whenever you try to annihilate
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  them. It's never worked out for any
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  other purposes, friends, than for God's purposes over the land
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  and over eternity and over his story.
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  This being worked out right in front of your eyes and you'll
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  miss it just like you miss the nose on your own face friends,
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  you'll miss the fact that God is for the Jews and he's going to
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  bring them into the fold. Go and look at Romans chapter of
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  11:00 and you're going to find out that they are the natural
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  and we're just the wild that's grafted in.
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  Go and look at the 144,000 in Revelation.
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  They make it all the way to the end.
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  There's going to be the Jewish, the ethnic Jews all the way at
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  the end. They're going to admit that they
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  murdered Jesus and they're going to see that Jesus Christ is the
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  Messiah after the the Antichrist comes on the scene and demands
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  to be worshipped in the temple as God.
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  They're going to see the error of their ways and they're going
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  to finally admit that Jesus Christ is the Lord.
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  And we look forward to that day. But in the meantime and in
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  between time, their disobedience has led to many of the Gentiles
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  coming into the fold. And we celebrate God's ways.
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  We don't pretend to understand them, but we say yes and Amen to
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  all of God's purposes and plans. And look at how here in this
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  passage, Pharaoh's heart is being hardened.
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  And look at how the Jews are about to be able to leave rich.
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  They're about to be able to leave friends and go out and go
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  into the promised land. Eventually 6 and Pharaoh
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  commanded the same day the task masters of the people and their
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  officers saying, 7 you shall no more give the people straw to
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  make brick as before, let them go and gather straw for
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  themselves. So prior, the Egyptians would
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  provide the straw, and then the Hebrews would make the bricks
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  with the straw. And now Pharaoh is so ticked off
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  that he's saying we will not even provide the straw, you must
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  go find it. And we're not going to cut down
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  the quota of the amount of bricks that we need. 8 And the
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  tally of the bricks which they did make before you shall lay
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  upon them, you shall not diminish it thereof, for they be
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  idle. Therefore they cry, saying, let
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  us go and sacrifice to our God. So here Pharaoh is relegating
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  their request to go out and sacrifice to Yahweh everlasting
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  in the wilderness. He's relegating it to laziness.
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  He's relegating it to them, just wanting to get out from
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  underneath the burdens. Just remember that God is the
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  one that instigated this entire event.
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  This is not people that are begging and crying out to God.
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  God sees and God is making good on the covenant that he made
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  with Abraham. And he told Abraham all the way
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  back in Genesis chapter 12 that this would all be happening.
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  Isn't it just like our God? He sees it all before it ever
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  happens and he writes it down. And we can go and study the good
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  book and we can figure out what's happening in the world
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  today. Even this day, this very day
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  that we're in the Bible has talked about it.
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  It's all prophetic and it's all on his timeline And it's
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  everything is working out exactly according to plan.
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  Never forget that, friends. We don't fret.
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  We have no anxiety, friends. We just say yes and Amen.
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  We get out of our own way. We give God the center stage and
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  we build our entire lives upon this book that can tell us what
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  is to happen, what is to come in.
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  Some of it is wrapped up as an enigma in a mystery, friends.
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  And we just hold on to the limited amount that He's given
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  us. And we build our lives upon
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  that, friends. And that is called faith.
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  And we allow the faith to drive us.
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  We allow the faith to lead us, friends, into eternal places.
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  We allow the faith in our lives to be the reality.
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  We do not look at the stock market.
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  We do not look at all of what the world is trying to sell us,
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  friends. All of the prosperity, all of
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  the luxury. We do not look upon the security
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  and safety, friends. All we look upon is God's Word.
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  And we say yes and Amen to every single syllable, every single
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  jot and every single title, friends.
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  And it is yes and Amen to God Almighty.
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  And it is going to happen exactly the way that He tells us
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  it's going to happen. Never forget that, Nine.
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  Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labor in
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  it, and let them not regard vain words.
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  So here Pharaoh is trying to make it harder.
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  And don't be surprised when God comes into the mix if things get
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  harder before they get better. Friends, don't forget that Tim
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  and the task masters of the people went out, and their
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  officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus says
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  Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 11 Go.
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  You get you straw where you can find it, yet not all of your
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  work shall be diminished. So you have to go find your own
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  straw. But the amount of bricks that
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  you were making before when we were giving you the straw is the
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  same. So you cannot slack up and stop
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  making the same quota of bricks that you had before.
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  And you must go find your own straw for the bricks. 12 So the
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  people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt
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  to gather stubble instead of straw.
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  So they couldn't even find straw.
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  All they were gathering was a bunch of stubble.
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  Look at how God is working in their midst. 13 And the
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  taskmasters hasted them, saying, fulfill your works, your daily
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  tasks, as when there was straw. So they're not slacking up on
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  them, they're not giving up on them.
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  They're giving them no mercy, no pardon, no quarter.
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  They're saying you must produce the same amount of bricks as
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  when we were giving you the straw. 14 And the officers of
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  the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set
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  over them, they were beaten and demanded, Why have you not
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  fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today
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  as before? So here the Hebrew supervisors
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  that were over the people were getting beaten by the
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  taskmasters because Pharaoh had said they would not diminish the
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  quota. But here you can see that they
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  have diminished the quota because they couldn't find the
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  straw. They could only find the
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  stubble. 15 And the officers of the children of Israel came and
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  cried to Pharaoh, saying, why have you dealt with us with your
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  servants? So they're asking Pharaoh why
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  he's dealing so harshly with them. 16 There is no straw given
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  to your servants. And they say to us, make brick,
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  and behold, your servants are beaten, but the fault is in your
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  own people. So here they're belly aching to
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  Pharaoh. They don't have the context.
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  They can't see the the entirety of what's happening.
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  Let's see how Pharaoh responds. 17 But he said, you are idle,
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  you are idle. Therefore you say, let us go and
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  sacrifice to the Lord. So here he is turning it and
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  flipping the script. You could see that his anger is
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  red hot and he's saying you're lazy.
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  You're lazy and it has really nothing to do with the bricks.
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  It has everything to do with the Hebrews request to go out into
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  the wilderness and to sacrifice unto Yahweh everlasting. 18 Go
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  therefore now and work, for there shall no straw be given to
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  you, yet you shall deliver the tally of bricks.
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  So he's saying, we give you enough fuel, we give you enough
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  straw, you've got to keep making the same amount of bricks as you
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  were before, when we were giving you the straw. 19 And the
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  officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in
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  an evil case, after it was said, You shall not diminish from your
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  bricks of the daily task. So here they can see that they
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  are being dealt with evilly from Pharaoh.
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  He cares nothing about the Hebrews.
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  It's all a facade. All he cares about is the free
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  labor. All he cares about is usurping
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  his authority over them. And now it's all coming out, and
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  God already saw it before it did. 20 And they met Moses and
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  Aaron, who stood in the way as they came forth from Pharaoh. 21
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  And they said to them, the Lord, look upon you and judge you,
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  because you have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of
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  Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in
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  their hand to slay us. So they're saying it's because
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  of you, Aaron, it's because of you, Moses, that this heavy
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  burden has been laid upon us and it's going to kill us. 22 Moses
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  returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you dealt so evil
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  with this people? Why is it that you have sent me?
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  So here Moses is just being really real with God, and that
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  is for us to learn a lesson here.
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  Friends, listen to me very carefully.
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  God has broad shoulders and He can take whatever you throw at
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  Him. Do not just pray a little Jingle
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  of a prayer unto God and try to get into His presence by some
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  kind of formula. Go and be real with God.
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  Pour out your heart to Him. He already knows everything
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  that's going on with you. Just go and lay it all out for
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  Him and tell him of all the times you were disappointed, of
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  all the times that you prayed to paint off the wall and nothing
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  happened, of all the times you were offended by his ways.
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  Pour it out to him. Don't hold it in, don't try to
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  pretend. Friends.
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  Here, Moses just gets really real with God Almighty. 23 For
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  since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil
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  to this people. Neither has neither have you
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  delivered your people at all Well in there.
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  There's a lot more to it, friends.
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  There's so much more to be said here, but suffice to say that
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  God is big enough and he can literally do anything.
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  And if he leaves you in the mess, it's for a purpose.
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  And that's one of the hardest lessons in our lives.
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  When you pray and you pray and you pray and the loved 1 still
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  dies. When you pray, you pray and you
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  pray and you still can't find a job.
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  When you pray and you pray and you pray and the sickness still
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  is in you. When you pray and you pray and
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  you pray and the marriage doesn't come back together.
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  When you pray and you pray and you pray, and the prodigal is
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  still out there lost. So one of the hardest lessons of
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  a Christian to learn is that God can literally do anything.
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  He can bring the prodigal home. He can restore the marriage, He
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  can regrow the limb, He can re give eyesight and the ability to
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  hear. God can literally do anything.
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  He can take the cancer out friends.
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  God can literally do anything. He can make churches full again,
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  make the Bible the number one selling book in the world.
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  God can literally do anything. We could literally all fall upon
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  our faces and literally worship Him for all of eternity,
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  friends, forever and ever. That's all we would know to do
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  is worship, worship and worship. But God, in his unlimited amount
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  of wisdom, sometimes he doesn't operate in the way that we think
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  that he should. And that is one of the hardest
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  lessons. But we need to know that whether
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  it's in this life or the life to come for the Saint, there's
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  always a better day coming. Whether it's after we take our
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  last breath or whether we wake up and all of the things that
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  were plaguing us have dissolved. God is big enough, He can do
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  anything. Let's not put God in a box.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.