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Exodus chapter 9 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus Chapter 9 let us pray our Father, who's higher, who's
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  greater, who's better, who's everything to us.
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  God, we get out of our own way, out of our own understanding.
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  God would give you center stage. We love you Father.
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  We thank you for all of the many blessings you've already poured
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  out upon your people. Thank you God, we pray for the
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  strength of the underground church.
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  We pray for the strength of the ekklesia, the called out ones.
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  Lord, all of your people who are called by your name throughout
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  all of the world. God, I pray you'll strengthen us
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  for this hour, God, strengthen marriages, strengthen families
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  in this hour. God, for such a time as this,
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  help us not to shrink back in fear and be cowards, God, but
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  help us to ascend the hill. We look up, we see our Maker, we
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  see the one who created everything, God, and we receive
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  our salvation. We receive our marching orders.
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  We thank you God for giving us life and life abundant.
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  We thank you God for all of the many things that you do for us.
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  Lord, thank you for health. Thank you for food.
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  Thank you for clean drinking water.
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  God, I pray for those that are struggling today in addiction.
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  Lord, break the chains of addiction from off of them.
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  God, Break the suicidal spirit, God, from off of this
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  generation. God, I pray for the woman who's
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  struggling to make the decision to keep life.
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  God, we pray for the sanctity of life.
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  Lord, I pray she chooses life. God, I pray in the name of Jesus
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  for husbands and wives to be reconciled.
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  I pray in the name of Jesus for the prodigals to come home.
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  Bind the enemy, God, from off of our families, from off of this
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  ministry, God, bind the enemy from off of our workplaces.
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  God, bind the enemy, God, from every single demonic attack that
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  comes our way. Lord, I pray that we press in
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  hard to you. Lord, we rely on you.
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  God, give us a force field all around us.
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  Lord, form a hedge of protection all around us.
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  God, let us be bulletproof all the the way to the end.
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  Father, I pray that it'll be you and you and you alone, Lord,
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  that we're after and we press after that.
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  We want God more than we want our next breath, more than our
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  next heartbeat in our chest. God, we want you.
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  Lord, we eat sumptuously upon your flesh.
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  We drink your blood to take God. We eat the bread of life.
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  We drink the water of life. God, it is you and it is you
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  alone that we are here for. So God, hide me, hide my words
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  and hide my thoughts. Lord, you get the center stage.
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  You teach us, Lord, Holy Spirit, fill us today.
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  And Holy Spirit, come and have your way.
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  God, wreck us today, wreck all of our doctrine and theology.
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  God, break it all down in the name of Jesus, Lord, and build
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  us back up in your infallible, inerrant word.
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  We thank you, God, for everything that you do and
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  everything that you've done. Jesus Christ, the same
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  yesterday, today, and forever. Father, we love you and it's in
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  Jesus Christ holy and precious and powerful and awesome name
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  that I pray men. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  Then the Lord said unto Moses, go in unto Pharaoh and tell him,
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  this is what the Lord the God of the Hebrews says.
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  Let my people go that they may serve me.
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  So here, God's not playing games anymore.
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  He's already sent the lice. He's already sent the flies.
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  He has already sent the frogs. He's turned the staff into a
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  snake. He's turned the water into
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  blood. Friends, God has done so many
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  powerful signs and wonders and miracles and plagues that you
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  would think that Pharaoh will be done playing games with God and
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  hardening his heart. But let's see how it goes verse
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  2. For if you refuse to let them
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  go, will hold them still. 3 Behold, the hand of the Lord is
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  upon your cattle, which is in the field.
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  Upon the horses, upon the donkeys, upon the camels, upon
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  the ox, and upon the sheep. There shall be a grievous
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  Moraine. This was a pestilence.
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  This was a plague upon the livestock.
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  This was the first time you see death enter in from this point,
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  from here till this point, friends, you have seen there has
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  been this degree of escalation. And now we're going to see death
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  enter in and it'll start with all the cattle with this Moraine
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  for and the Lord shall sever between the cattle of Israel and
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  the cattle of Egypt, and there shall nothing die of all that is
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  the children of Israel's. So in the land of Goshen all is
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  well, but here in the land of Egypt it's going to be
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  catastrophic loss of livestock. 5 And the Lord appointed a set
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  time, saying to Morrow, The Lord shall do this thing in the land.
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  You would think that this would be enough for Pharaoh to say,
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  OK, stop, make it stop, y'all go get from me, get from here.
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  But he does not. 6 And the Lord did that thing on the Morrow,
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  and all the cattle of Egypt died, but the cattle of the
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  children of Israel did not die, not 17 And Pharaoh sent, and
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  behold, there was not one of the cattle of the Israelites dead.
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  And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the
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  people go. So look at how Pharaoh time and
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  time and time and time and time again, he's given chance after
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  chance after chance after chance, and he will not let the
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  people go. And God is going to have his
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  way, regardless of what man has to say. 8 And the Lord said unto
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  Moses and Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the
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  furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it towards heaven in the sight
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  of Pharaoh. 9 And it shall become small dust in all the
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  land of Egypt, and shall be a boil, breaking forth with blames
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  upon man and upon beast throughout all the land of
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  Egypt. So here you're going to see that
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  Moses is going to grab some of the ashes and throw it up in the
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  air, and it's going to cause many boils and sores and pussing
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  wounds to happen within all of the land of Egypt.
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  And you're going to see a lot of this mirrored and modeled in the
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  Book of Revelation, friends. You see so many of these plagues
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  and so many of these bowls and so many of the seals that come.
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  And you can also see God's long-suffering giving kindness
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  upon mankind, as He gives them chance after chance after chance
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  after chance to repent and to make it right.
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  But how many times have we seen that Pharaoh's heart was
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  hardened? 9 In it shall be becomes small
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  dust in the land of Egypt, and shall be a boil, breaking forth
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  with blames upon a man and upon beast throughout the land of
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  Egypt. 10 And they took ashes of the furnace, stood before
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  Pharaoh, Moses sprinkled it up towards heaven, it became a
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  boil, breaking forth with blames upon man and upon beast. 11 And
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  the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the
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  boils, for the boil was upon the magicians and upon the
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  Egyptians. 12 The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he
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  listened not to them, as the Lord had spoken to Moses.
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  So you can see here that time and time again he's given a
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  chance, and time and time again his heart is hardened, and God
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  reveals that. 13 And the Lord said to Moses, rise up early in
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  the morning, stand before Pharaoh, say to him, this is
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  what the Lord God of the Hebrews says, Let my people go, that
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  they may serve me. So if you can only imagine this
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  scene where you have Moses and Aaron and they're coming unto
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  Pharaoh's court, they're asking for an audience.
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  They told him what their request was.
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  Moses and Aaron were like a prophet and a God unto Pharaoh.
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  Pharaoh is looking down upon them from his high position and
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  we see the staff get turned into a snake.
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  We're seeing the water get turned into blood.
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  We're seeing Moses hand leprous and then clean again.
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  We're seeing flies and frogs and lice.
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  We're seeing the cattle die. We're seeing boils all over
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  every single person in Egypt. We're seeing the land of Goshen
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  spared, and you would think all of this would be enough for
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  Pharaoh to finally throw in the towel and to admit defeat and
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  allow them to leave on their own terms.
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  But let's see how it goes. 14 Four I will at this time send
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  all my plagues upon your heart and upon your servants and upon
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  your people, that you may know that there is none like me in
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  all the earth. So God Almighty is omnipotent,
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  omniscient, and omnipresent. He's the only one.
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  There is no one who is higher than God Almighty. 15 For now I
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  will stretch out my hand, that I may strike, and all the people
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  with pestilence, and you shall be cut off from the earth.
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  So God is done playing games. He's about to bring this
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  judgment of hail and fire upon the land. 16 And in very deed
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  for this, 'cause I have raised you up for to show in you my
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  power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the
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  earth. And we're still talking about it
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  today. We're still talking about the
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  Exodus today, friends. And God wants to call you out of
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  bondage, friend. This is synonymous to a lot of
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  the things that we go through in life, things that have ensnared
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  us into slavery and bondage. And God wants us to have our
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  Exodus moment where we completely annihilate all the
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  opposition and give God all of His due honor and glory and
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  power over our lives. 17 As you exalt you yourself against my
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  people, that you will not let them go. 18 Behold, tomorrow
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  about this time I will cause it to rain a very grievous hail,
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  such as has not been in Egypt since the foundation of it, even
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  until now. 19 Send therefore now and gather your cattle and all
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  that you have in the field. For upon every man and beast
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  which shall be found in the field shall not be brought home,
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  and the hail shall come down upon them, and they shall die.
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  So this was a massive amount of heavy hail that was going to
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  come down and would end all life of anyone caught outside in the
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  open. 20 He that feared the word of the Lord among the servants
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  of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses.
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  21 And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his
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  servants and his cattle in the field. 22 And the Lord said unto
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  Moses, Stretch forth your hand toward heaven, that there may be
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  hail in all the land of Egypt, on man, on beast, on every herb
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  of the field throughout the land of Egypt.
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  So you can see here that there were those who actually followed
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  after the instructions, and then there were those who took
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  lightly upon it, and it caused them their life. 23 of Moses
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  stretched forth his rod toward heaven, and the Lord sent
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  Thunder and hail, and the fire ran along the ground, and the
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  Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
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  So can you see the lightning and the Thunder and the hail coming
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  down on the land, and it is burning up the vegetation, and
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  it's crushing even the trees and the cattle and the men?
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  24 So there was hail and fire mingled with the hail, very
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  grievous, such as there was none like it, And all the land of
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  Egypt since it became a nation, they had never seen anything
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  like this. There was no getting prepared
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  for something like this. It was only by the mouth of
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  Moses that they could learn what was going to happen. 25 And the
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  hail struck throughout all the land of Egypt, all that was in
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  the field, both man and beast. And the hail struck every herb
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  of the field and broke every tree of the field.
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  So this hail and this lightning and Thunder and the fire was so
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  much so that it even broke all the trees down. 26 Only in the
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  land of Goshen, where the children of Israel were, was
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  there no hail. See how God supernaturally
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  protects his people? And it's no different in our day
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  and our our friends. We have the supernatural hedge
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  of protection around us, friends.
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  And I've never seen the righteous begging for bread. 27
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  And Pharaoh sent and called for Moses and Aaron and said to
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  them, I've sinned this time the Lord is righteous, and I and my
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  people are wicked. Finally Pharaoh consents, but he
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  will eventually retract this consent. 28 Entreat the Lord,
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  for it is enough that there be no more mighty thunderings and
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  hail, and I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.
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  So it looks as if God finally got a hold of Pharaoh's heart,
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  and he's going to let him go. But we're going to learn how it
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  ends. 29 And Moses said to him, As soon as I am gone out of the
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  city, I will spread abroad my hands to the Lord, and the
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  Thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail,
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  that you may know how that the earth is the Lords Psalms. 24
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  The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it.
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  And we do not bow down to a false God or swear by a false
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  idol. And we have clean hands and a
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  pure heart. Friends, that is our call.
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  Everything in the earth, all the inhabitants, every single thing
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  that's in the earth is the Lord's dirty.
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  But As for you and your servants, I know that you will
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  not yet fear the Lord God. So Moses had the insight that
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  God had given him, and he knew that Pharaoh was just wanting
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  everything to stop. But he cared nothing for the
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  Israelites. He cared nothing for God.
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  He was thinking that somehow, some way, he could still keep
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  control of God's chosen people. And it will never work out that
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  way, friends, just so you know, even today, in this day and such
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  a time as this, and for all time sake till the end of his story,
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  God's chosen people will be there in the end.
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  You can't do anything with them, friends.
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  They have God's supernatural protection. 31 And the flax and
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  the barley was struck, and the barley was in the year, and the
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  flax was bald. 32 But the wheat and the rice, they were not
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  stricken, for they were not grown up.
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  So he's saying, even though your crops have failed, you have
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  other crops that have not grown up yet.
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  And so your heart will be hardened, because in your mind
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  you will think we'll just survive off of the crops that
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  are not here yet. 33 And Moses went out of the city of Pharaoh,
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  and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord, and the thunders and
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  the hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
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  34 And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the
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  Thunder ceased, he sinned yet more and hardened his heart.
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  He and his servants we'll end on. 35 In the heart of Pharaoh
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  was hard, and neither would he let the children of Israel go.
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  As the Lord had spoken by Moses, so Moses had the insight that
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  Pharaoh was going to continue this on, that he was not yet
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  ready to let them go. And Can you imagine Pharaoh
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  losing his workforce? Here he was thinking that he
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  could just take away the straw and have them keep the quota of
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  bricks up and beat the taskmasters and deal with them
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  even more severely and look at how it's all going for them.
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  It'll never amount to anything good when we oppress God's
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  people. I hope that you've been blessed
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  by this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.