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Exodus chapter 3 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 3 let us pray our Father who is in heaven.
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  We thank you God for another day to come and worship you in
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  spirit and truth. We thank you God, for giving us
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  life and life abundant. We thank you Lord for family.
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  We thank you, Lord for food and we thank you for clean drinking
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  water. We thank you for the bread of
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  life. We thank you for the living
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  water. We thank you for manna and
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  quail. We thank you, God, that you have
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  given us a reason to live. Help us not to slip back down
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  into despair. Help us not to slip back down
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  into carnal, earthy ways of thinking.
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  God, I pray that we'll come up to where you are.
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  Father, let us see the sea of glass mingled with fire, Your
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  hair like wool, your eyes like fire, the voice of the many
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  multitudes, the peals of Thunder.
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  God, we want to see you, Lord High, and lift it up with the
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  rainbow, Father. All around you, Lord, with the
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  four living creatures, Lord, crying out holy, holy, holy,
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  covering their eyes with their wings.
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  Because you are so holy, Father, we stand in your holy presence.
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  We are awfully inspired by you, God.
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  We only want more of you. We want to see you rightly.
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  Lord, we thank you for such a time as this.
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  We thank you, God, that you've beckoned.
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  Dusting called us into the fold. Beckoned.
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  Dusting called us into being yours, Lord, we believe in the
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  adoption. We cry out.
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  ABBA, Father. Maranatha.
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  Lord. Come.
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  Lord. We see the leaves on the fig
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  tree. We fill our lamps today.
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  We trim our Wicks today. We keep our love hot today,
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  Father, Help us not to grow cold.
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  Lord, help us not to lose faith. Help us to stand upon the water
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  and not sink. God, we love you, Father, we
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  love everything about you. Teach us your eternal paths in
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  your ways. And it's in King Jesus's holy
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  and precious and powerful name that I pray.
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  Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the
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  priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the backside of the
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  desert and came to the mountain of God, even to Horem.
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  So you need to know this is Mount Sinai and he's going to
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  lead Moses back here to give him the 10 commandments.
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  And here we're going to get to see the burning Bush.
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  The great I am that I am statement that is made that
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  Jesus says many times over in the New Testament.
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  This is a point in the scriptures, friends.
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  You need to know that God reveals himself here to Moses,
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  and Moses was brought up in the palace and here Moses was a
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  shepherd and he went out for 40 years tending his father in
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  law's flocks, didn't even have a flock of his own.
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  And here God is going to reveal himself to him in a mighty way.
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  And he had to do some education, some training out there.
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  He had to get him to a place where he could see this vision
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  and then not only see it, but react to it.
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  Let's see how it goes. Verse 2.
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  Angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of
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  the midst of a Bush, and he looked, and behold, the Bush
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  burned with fire, but the Bush was not consumed.
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  So here you can see that this Bush was on fire, but it did not
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  wither, it did not fail, it did not dissolve, it did not
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  dissintegrate. It was a perpetual fire.
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  And this speaks of God's holy manifestation.
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  It is an all consuming fire, and God dwells in unapproachable
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  light. And we could see that this is
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  Jesus Christ Incarnate. He is pre Incarnate in this
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  moment, and he's revealing himself in a mighty way.
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  Let's see how it goes. 3 And Moses said, I will now turn
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  aside and see this great sight, why the Bush is not burnt.
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  So perhaps he had seen these little sparks off in the
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  distance before, but they would burn up and go out.
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  But here you can see that this was a perpetual fire.
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  This is a fire that never goes out.
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  It is God Almighty. 4 And when the the Lord saw that, he turned
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  aside to see God called to him in the midst of the Bush and
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  said, Moses, Moses. And he said, here am I.
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  So that is our only appropriate response.
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  And you see how God repeats things.
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  And when he says something one time, you better pay attention.
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  But if he says it twice, it should make you stand at
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  attention. And here it's the same as when
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  he says Peter, Peter, this is the same.
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  Whenever he is calling his disciples, he lets them know by
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  repetition. Because he knows that we are
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  like little sheep that have gone astray, that he must get our
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  attention by repeating himself multiple times.
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  That's why you have 4 gospels, friends.
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  That's why you have many of the same stories repeated throughout
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  scripture. Because God knows that we
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  desperately need this repetition.
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  So here he gets Moses's attention not just once, but
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  twice. He mentions his name and he says
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  here AM I5 and he said draw not near here.
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  Put off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you
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  stand is holy ground. Friends, everywhere that we go
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  should kind of glory raining down is holy ground.
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  Friends. Take off your shoes in the
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  presence of God. The earth is the Lord's and
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  everything in it. Friends, have reverence for a
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  holy God. 6 Moreover, he said, I am the God of your father, the
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  God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.
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  And Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look upon God.
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  Surely this was Jesus Christ preincarnate.
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  And you can see here that Moses had the reverence for a holy
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  God. He did not try to just stare at
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  the sun. Friends, have you ever tried to
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  stare at the sun? It never works out well, it will
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  burn your retina. And here his only appropriate
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  response was to fall like a dead man, to hide himself from a holy
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  God. 7 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my
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  people, which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason
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  of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.
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  So God remembered the covenant that he made with Abraham, and
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  he was visiting Moses, who grew up in the palace, who had the
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  insight, who knew the insurance and outs of Pharaoh's court and
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  had to deal with a Pharaoh. And so here God's going to use
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  this man in a mighty way who was from the tribe of Levi, and he's
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  going to call him and tell him to go in and to be the one that
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  helps set his people free. Nate and I have come down to
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  deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, to bring them up
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  out of the land into a good land and a large unto a land flowing
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  with milk and honey, into the place of the Canaanites, the
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  Hittites and the Amorites, the Perizzites and the Hivites and
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  the Jebusites. So here God had already told
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  Noah way back whenever Ham had sinned against him by uncovering
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  the nakedness, he had cursed Canaan, his son.
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  And here you can see it all coming full circle, and we could
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  see that God had allowed the sin of the Canaanites to come to a
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  rightness and now it was time to deal with them.
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  And everything that God does is always twofold.
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  You can look at it from one side and you can look at it from
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  another. And it all spells righteous
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  holiness, friends. It all spells justice, friends.
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  That is what we need. We do not need a fair God.
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  We need a just God. And you will find that in Yahweh
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  ever blasting. 9 And therefore, behold, the cry of the children
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  of Israel has come to me. And I have also seen the
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  oppression where the Egyptians oppressed them.
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  So nothing is missed upon a holy God.
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  He sees it all, friends. He's writing it in his book.
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  And at the great White Throne they will have to give an
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  account for everything that they've done.
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  And they will try to give all of their humanitarian efforts of
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  all the good things that they've done.
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  And it'll not amount to anything.
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  We must be covered in the blood of Jesus Christ to be passed
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  over. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh,
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  that you may bring forth by people the children of Israel
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  out of Egypt. So here he is, the deliverer.
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  God's going to use Moses as an instrument in his hand to get
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  the people out from the bondage and the oppression of the
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  Egyptians who were not willing to let them go so easily.
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  And if you remember old Joseph, he had saved that land.
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  But now all of Joseph's favor has gone by the wayside and a
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  new Pharaoh has taken who has no at 0 respect at all for the
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  Israelites. He just sees them as his free
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  labor in the land and he is oppressing them.
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  And God sees it. And God will not tolerate things
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  forever, friends. There is a finite time on all
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  the things that are here that are temporal friends, and God
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  will deal with it in His perfect timing. 12 And he said,
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  certainly. 11 And Moses said unto God, Who am I that I should
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  go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of
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  Israel out of Egypt? So here Moses is trying to make
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  excuses, and he's saying, God, I am not eloquent enough, God, how
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  could I be the one to do it? But God all the way back,
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  whenever his parents put him in the ark and floated him down the
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  river and Pharaoh's daughter found him in the reeds, God had
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  a plan for this young man. And now 80 years later, God's
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  going to start that. 12 And he said, certainly I will be with
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  you, and this shall be a token to you that I have sent you.
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  When you have brought forth the people of Egypt out, you will
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  serve God upon this mountain. So God is saying you will serve
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  me in this very place. Once all of you cross over the
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  Red Sea, you're going to be able to be here on Mount Sinai, and
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  I'm going to reveal to you that all of the things that I said
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  were true, and you'll know it at that time. 13 And Moses said
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  unto God, Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel and
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  say unto them, The God of your Father's has sent me to you, and
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  they shall say to me, What is his name?
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  What shall I say to them? So here you remember that this
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  is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God that revealed
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  himself unto Abraham. And you can see that it has been
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  400 plus years and now the Israelites have gone by the
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  wayside. The Israelites have forgotten
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  about Yahweh everlasting. They're down in Egypt and they
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  have all of their false gods surrounding them.
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  And God's going to make good on the covenant that He made with
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  Abraham, and He is going to bring the people out and He's
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  going to remind them of who they are. 14 And God said to Moses, I
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  am that I am. And he said, Thus shall you say
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  unto the children of Israel, I am has sent me to you.
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  So he is pre-existing, the only uncreated.
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  And that is what is referenced here.
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  There is only one true living God, and it is the God of
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  Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God of the Jews, the God of
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  Israel, friends. And we are just the wild
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  branches grafted into the natural.
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  And never forget that, friends. But the ethnic Jews, just
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  because they're attached to Father Abraham, it does not mean
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  that they automatically get to go to heaven.
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  They must come through Jesus Christ in the same way that we
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  do, friends. And that is what we are so prone
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  to miss, friends. We air on one side or we air on
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  the other. And we need to find ourselves
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  right in the middle between the mayonnaise and the mustard,
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  friends. Keeping it between the two lines
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  in this perfect balancing act, friends.
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  And that is how we're going to make it there.
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  And we cannot be legalistic and we cannot be super dogmatic.
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  We cannot be those that are very libertarian.
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  We cannot be those that abuse grace, friends.
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  We need to be the ones who are rooted and grounded in God's
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  Scripture from Genesis to Revelation, nothing added and
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  nothing subtracted. And you will see the full
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  counsel of God's Word and it will actually guard your heart
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  from all all the things that are coming against you, all the
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  counterfeit teachings, all of the false prophets and false
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  teachers that are on the rise, the apostasy that you see all
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  around you. And it's by actually studying
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  the real thing, friends, that will, you will keep yourself in
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  perfect unity and in unison with a holy God. 15 And God said,
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  moreover unto Moses, that you shall say unto the children of
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  Israel, the Lord God of your father's, the God of Abraham,
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  the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob has sent me to you.
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  This is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all
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  generations. We call upon that name today and
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  we are saved. Yeshua, Jesus Christ, the
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  Anointed, the Messiah, that is who we call upon, this Jewish
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  St. Preacher who died and rose again
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  and ascended to the right hand of the Father.
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  That is the name that we call upon, and his name means
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  salvation, friends. 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel
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  together, and say to them, The Lord God of your father's, the
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  God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob appeared to me, saying, I
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  have surely visited you and seen that which is done to you in
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  Egypt. So here God is telling Moses
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  what to go to the Israelites and say, 17 And I have said, I will
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  bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, into the
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  land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the
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  Perizzites, and the Hivites, the Jebizites, unto a land flowing
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  with milk and honey. So he's telling them that he's
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  going to lead them into the promised land. 18 And they shall
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  listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders
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  of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and you shall say to him,
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  The Lord God of the Hebrews has met with us, and now let us go.
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  We beg you 3 days journey into the wilderness, that we may
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  sacrifice to the Lord our God. So here Moses is instructed to
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  go into Pharaoh's court and ask for Pharaoh to let them go and
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  sacrifice in the wilderness. 19 And I am sure that the king of
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  Egypt will not let you go. No, not by a mighty hand.
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  So God already knows what the outcomes going to be.
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  And so many times this is where we fail, friends.
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  We think that there's this big chess match that's happening,
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  that God's trying to figure out his next move.
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  But God is the alpha and the Omega.
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  He's the beginning and the end. He already knows everything
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  that's going to happen, and that is how he can write it all down.
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  It's not that he wrote it down and now he has to try to figure
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  out a way to make Scripture line up with what's happening.
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  It doesn't work that way. God's already at the end, He
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  already knows how the story ends, and he gave us this book
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  that is inspired by the Holy Spirit and able to actually
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  predict itself with pinpoint accuracy.
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  Because to God, he's already at the end, He already knows how it
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  goes. 20 And I will stretch out my hand and strike Egypt with
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  all my wonders, which I will do in the midst of it.
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  And after that, he will let you go.
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  So God here is telling Moses, hey, listen, you're going to
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  have to go through a lot. You're going to have to see that
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  my mighty hand is the only thing that can deliver you from this
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  powerful king. He knows that Pharaoh's not
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  going to just immediately let them go.
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  It's going to have to come at a high price, friends. 21 And I
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  will give this people favor in the sight of the Egyptians.
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  And it shall come to pass that when you go, you shall not go
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  empty. Well end on. 22 But every woman
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  shall borrow of her neighbor and of her that journeys in her
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  house jewels of silver and jewels of gold and clothing, and
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  you shall put them upon your sons and upon your daughters,
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  and you shall spoil the Egyptians.
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  So not only are they going to get to go into the prom promised
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  Land, but they're going to go with all the riches of Egypt.
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  Friends, look at how God takes care of His people and you can
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  see that the riches of the unrighteous will be spent upon
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  the righteous. What an amazing thought.
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  Friends, I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter
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  in God's Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I'll see you back here tomorrow. God bless you.