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Exodus chapter 10 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 10, Let us pray, our Father who is in heaven,
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  holy is your name, your Kingdom come and your will be done on
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  this earth just as it is there in heaven.
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  Give us this day Our Daily Bread.
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  Forgive us for our many sins as we forgive those who trespass
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  against us. Lead us not into temptation God,
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  but deliver us from the evil one.
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  For yours is the power and the Kingdom and the glory and the
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  honor forever and ever. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And the Lord said unto Moses, Go
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  into Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart
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  of his servants, that I might show these my signs before him.
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  So we're about to see this plague of locusts.
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  We see that Pharaoh's heart was already hardened by his own
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  accord, but God had allowed it. Friends, God can literally do
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  anything. He can stop it, but He's allowed
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  Pharaoh's heart to be hardened in this moment.
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  And it does not excuse Pharaoh, friends.
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  No, No more than it would have excused.
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  No more than it would have excused Judas when he tried to
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  sell our Lord out or throw the money back in the temple.
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  It just does not work that way. So Pharaoh's heart was hardened
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  by himself, but God allowed it in the same way that he allowed
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  Judas to sell our Lord out. And it worked out, and he wrote
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  about it and he knew it would happen.
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  And this is one of the hardest lessons we must learn about God
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  and the way that God operates. God can stop it all, friends.
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  He can stop every disease, He can stop every car accident, He
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  can stop every tragedy. But for the greater good of his
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  glory, he allows things to happen, friends.
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  And in the end, no one ever really dies.
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  And we're going to spend eternity somewhere.
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  And there's only two options, friends.
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  There's not a third options. There's no purgatory, there's no
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  praying people out of hell. There's no baptism for the dead
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  that gets people out of hell. Friends, it is only two options.
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  And the moment that you take your last breath, you will
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  immediately go to one of those places to in that you may tell
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  in the ears of your son and of your son's son what things I
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  have wrought in Egypt, in my signs which I've done among
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  them, that you may know that I am the Lord.
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  So this is a generational story that'll be told from this time
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  all the way till now. And you and I are blessed
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  because of the words that are contained here in the book of
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  Exodus. And we can see how God works in
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  his character and how he cares for those that are oppressed and
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  in bondage and in slavery, and he wants to set them free.
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  And only Jesus has the key to do that.
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  Three. And Moses and Aaron came in unto
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  Pharaoh and said to him, This is what the Lord God of the Hebrews
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  says. How long will you refuse to
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  humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may
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  serve me. So here God is asking Pharaoh
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  through Moses and Aaron, how long are you going to keep
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  stringing me along? Let them go before something
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  worst comes upon you, For else if you refuse to let my people
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  go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your coast. 5
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  And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be
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  able to see the earth. And they shall eat the residue
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  of that which is escape, which remain unto you from the hail,
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  and you shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the
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  field. So they're going to come in and
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  devour all the crops, they're going to come in where you can't
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  even see the ground six. And they shall fill your houses
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  and the houses of your servants, and the houses of all the
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  Egyptians, which neither your father nor your father's fathers
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  have seen since the day that they were upon the earth, until
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  this day. And he turned himself and went
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  out from Pharaoh. So he didn't even give Pharaoh
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  the opportunity to even respond. He told him what was going to
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  happen. And it was period and it was end
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  of story. 7 And Pharaoh's servant said to him, How long
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  shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may
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  serve the Lord their God. Do you not know that Egypt is
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  destroyed? Think about it, friends.
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  From the staff and the leprosy, to the water turned to blood,
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  the frogs and the lice, The hail mixed with fire.
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  The frogs, friends, the locusts here, think about it.
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  Think of all of the things that have happened, the cattle dying,
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  the boils all over everyone, the sores that were pussing.
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  And that is what is mentioned here.
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  And Pharaoh should have listened to his circus clowns when they
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  told him that this was the finger of God.
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  And here they doubled down. And they say, How long before
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  you finally give up? Do you not know that all of
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  Egypt is destroyed? 8 And Moses and Aaron were
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  brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, Go serve the Lord
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  your God. But who are they that shall go?
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  So you can see his heart is hardened.
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  He calls them back in. Up until this point they had to
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  ask for a time to go and speak to Pharaoh, and now Pharaoh for
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  the first time, he sends them people to gather them to come
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  and talk to him. You see how he's getting broke
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  down here? 9 And Moses said, We will go
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  with our young, with our old, with our sons, with our
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  daughters, and with our flocks, with our herds, we will go, for
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  we may hold a feast unto the Lord.
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  So Pharaoh wants to know who all is going to go, and Moses says
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  every single man, woman, child and beast must go.
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  This was a mass exodus, Tandon. He said to them, let the word be
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  so with you, and I will let you go.
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  And your little ones look to it, for evil is before you.
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  So Pharaoh's saying, if you do not just go for three days and
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  come back, then you are doing evil, and let something worse
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  come upon you. 11 Not so go now you that are men and serve the
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  Lord, for that you did desire, they were driven out from
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  Pharaoh's presence. So he's saying only let the men
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  go, because that's what you said in the beginning, where only the
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  men were going. And here Pharaoh's wanting to
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  hold hostage the women and the children and the cattle, and he
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  is only giving concessions to the men leaving. 12 And the Lord
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  said to Moses, Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for
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  the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and
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  eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail has left.
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  And Moses stretched forth his wrought over the land of Egypt.
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  And the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day
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  and all that night. And when it was morning, the
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  east wind brought the locusts. 14 And the locusts went up over
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  all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coast of
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  Egypt. Very grievous were they.
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  Before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after
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  them shall there be such. There's never been anything like
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  this, and there never had been anything like this.
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  This was a one time event unlike anything that this world has
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  ever known, unlike anything that we could study, friends, any
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  kind of locust event that's ever happened.
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  This was by far the most cataclysmic event, and you can
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  see it mirrored in Revelation when the locusts come. 15 For
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  they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land
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  was darkened. And they did eat every herb of
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  the land and the fruit of the trees which the hail had left.
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  And they remained not any green thing in the trees or in the
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  herbs of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.
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  So they devoured everything that was edible. 16 And Pharaoh
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  called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, I've sinned
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  against the Lord your God and against you.
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  So Pharaoh was finally trying to come to his senses and he sees
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  that he is undone and he is powerless and there's nothing he
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  can do apart from surrendering unto a holy God.
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  And that's where we all need to get to friends.
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  Every single one of us needs to have a moment where we realize
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  that there is no power within our own selves.
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  It is only God who has all the power, and it gives you your
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  very next breath, and it gives you the very next heartbeat, and
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  it gives you the very next day, and it gives you your abilities
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  to get up into work and to do the things in your eyesight and
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  your ability to hear and your speech.
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  Friends, God is the one who is in full control over our bodies
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  and our minds and over our destinations, friends, and we
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  just laid down and give Him His due reverence and all power and
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  glory unto a holy God. 17 Now therefore forgive, I pray
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  you, my sin only this once entreat the Lord your God, that
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  he may take away from me this death only. 18 And he went out
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  from Pharaoh and entreated the Lord. 19 And the Lord turned a
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  mighty strong West wind, which took away the locust and cast
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  them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust
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  and all the coast of Egypt. 20 But the Lord hard in Pharaoh's
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  heart, so that he would not let the children of Israel go.
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  So we can see time and time and time and time and time again,
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  friends of this is Pharaoh doing, This is not God who is
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  hardening Pharaoh's heart. This is Pharaoh who has hardened
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  his heart, and God is allowing it. 21 And the Lord said unto
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  Moses, Stretch out your hand towards heaven, that there may
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  be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may
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  be felt. So this is a darkness where you
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  can't even see the hand in front of your face. 22 And Moses
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  stretched forth his hand toward heaven.
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  There was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt.
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  Three days. 23 They saw not one another, neither rose any from
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  his place for three days, but all the children of Israel had
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  light in their dwelling. Imagine that, friends.
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  Imagine how in the land of Egypt it was pitch black, could not
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  see the hand in front of your face.
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  But for the Israelites, they had the light.
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  And this is synonymous to the world.
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  They think that they've got it all together and they've got all
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  the pieces of the puzzle and they can marginalized God and
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  they can get rid of the Bible because it's barbaric and
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  archaic and outdated and not relevant for our progressive
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  society. But I need you to know, friends,
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  at the end of the day, it is God who has the light of the world.
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  And nothing will make sense until you finally surrender unto
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  a holy God and he shines the light upon what's actually
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  happening all around you in the world.
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  And you will finally put your hand over your mouth and say,
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  I've said too much God. Far be it from us to try to play
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  God and to be God. Far be it from us to try to tell
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  God how he should behave. Far be it from us to try to get
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  rid of the holy, infallible, inerrant Word of God.
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  It is the only lifeline that we have that will lead us home. 24
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  And Pharaoh called to Moses and said, go, you serve the Lord
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  only. Let your flocks and your herds
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  be stayed. Let your little ones also go
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  with you. So here he's trying to
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  manipulate Moses and Aaron. He's saying you can go, your
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  little ones can go, your wives can go, but leave the flocks.
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  We can see here, friends, that it's all or nothing. 25 And
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  Moses said, You must give us also sacrifice and burnt
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  offerings, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God. 26 Our
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  cattle also shall go with us. There shall not a hoof be left
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  behind, for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God, and
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  we know not with what, with what we must serve the Lord until we
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  come there. So he's telling Pharaoh that
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  they do not know what the sacrifice required will be until
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  they get there. Therefore, they must take all of
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  their cattle. So not only are they going to
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  take their wives and children, but all of their livestock must
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  go with them as well. And we know ultimately God's
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  going to lead them out of Egypt, and He's going to settle them in
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  the land of milk and honey. 27 But the Lord hard in Pharaoh's
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  heart, and they would not let him go. 28 And Pharaoh said to
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  him, Get you from me, take heed to yourself.
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  See my face no more. For in that day that you see my
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  face, you shall die. So finally we get to see the
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  true Pharaoh come about. This is what he has been hiding
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  and masking. This is what God knew about,
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  because God can look into the matters of the heart.
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  But here Pharaoh finally reveals his evil, murderous intent.
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  He loathes the Jews. And it's no different in our
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  time and our day. Friends, you see it.
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  And it is satanic at its core, every single time period.
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  End of story 29 and Moses say, do you have spoken?
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  Well, I will see your face again.
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  No more well in there friends. You have to stay tuned to see
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  what happens. I have to check back in.
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  I hope that you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you, God loves you. I'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.