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Exodus chapter 4 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Exodus chapter 4, let us pray. King Jesus High, lifted up above
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  every other entity, above all principalities.
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  God, you are moving and orchestrating everything exactly
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  according to your plan. God, we get out of our own
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  intellect. We get out of our own
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  understanding. God, we worship you in spirit
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  and truth today. Help us, Lord, to know that
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  you're fighting our battles. God that you are, you are
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  pulling and pushing us into greater measures of who you are.
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  God, be here with us. God, in every single thing that
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  we do, All of our thoughts, Lord, all of our emotions, God,
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  all of our feelings. Father, I pray that you'll put
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  them at rest. Lord, help us to take a hold of
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  the peace that you have for us that surpasses all
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  understanding. God help us to experience the
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  joy inexpressible. God, help us to know, Lord, that
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  you're here in the room, that you are well pleased with this
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  Father. We only want you.
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  We only want more of you. God, teach us your eternal past.
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  Help us to live on purpose. God, help us to live sold out
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  lives unto you, Yahweh everlasting.
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  I decrease as you increase. It's all about you, King Jesus,
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  teach us your ways. Show us the past.
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  Light them up. Father God, we pray for the
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  peace of Jerusalem today. God, we thank you that you're
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  the same God yesterday, today, and forever and ever.
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  We love you, King Jesus, saying your holy and precious and
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  powerful name that I pray, Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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  And Moses answered and said, but behold, they will not believe me
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  or listen to my voice, for they will say, the Lord has not
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  appeared to you. So here Moses is objecting.
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  He is saying that the people will not believe him, that God
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  had sent him. He'd already asked when I go,
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  who should I tell him sent me? And now he's saying that when I
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  go, they will not listen to me. It is perhaps as if Moses was
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  just trying to make a bunch of excuses.
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  Verse 2 And the Lord said to him, What is it in your hand?
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  And he said, a rod. 3 And he said, cast it on the ground, and
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  he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent, and Moses fled
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  from before it. So God says, what is that that
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  you have in your hand? He says, I have my staff.
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  He says, throw your staff on the ground.
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  And it became a snake, and it scared Moses, and he fled away
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  from the snake that was on the ground that used to be his
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  staff. Four.
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  And the Lord said to Moses, put forth your hand and take it by
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  the tail. And he put forth his hand, and
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  he caught it, and it became a rod in his hand.
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  So God gave him a miraculous sign that he could turn his
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  staff into a snake. And he says, pick it up.
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  And as soon as he touched it, it turned back into his staff.
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  That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the
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  God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has
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  appeared to you. He is the only one true living
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  God. And every other God is a idol
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  who cannot see, who cannot hear. It's far be it from us to
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  worship all of these idols that our hearts perpetually pump out.
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  Friends, we've got to take our eyes off of.
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  Mammon, we've got to take our eyes off of self, we've got to
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  take our eyes off of vanity, We need to take our eyes off of all
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  the riches and the promises of this life, and turn them towards
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  the God of Israel. 6 And the Lord said furthermore unto him,
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  Put now your hand into your bosom, And he put his hand into
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  his bosom, and when he took it out, behold, his hand was
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  leprous as snow. So here you can see that God
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  says, Put your hand inside of your coat.
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  And when he did, he pulled it back out and it was a leprous
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  hand diseased 7 And he said, put your hand into your bosom again.
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  And he put his hand into his bosom again and plucked it out
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  of his bosom. And behold, it was turned again
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  as his other flesh. So you can see here that God has
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  given him two miraculous signs that he can throw his staff on
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  the ground and it'll be turned into a snake.
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  And when he picks it up, it's turned back into a staff.
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  When he puts his hand into his coat and he pulls it out, it's
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  leprous. But when he sticks it back in
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  and pulls it out, it's made clean again.
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  A and it shall come to pass. If they will not believe you,
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  neither listen to the voice of the first sign, then they will
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  believe the voice of the latter sign.
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  So God saying, I've given you two different things to show
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  them that I am with you, and that I am actually speaking
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  through you. 9 And it shall come to pass if they will not believe
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  also these two sons, neither listen to your voice, that you
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  shall take of the water of the river and pour it upon the dry
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  land, And the water which you take out of the river shall
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  become blood upon the dry land. So here are a bunch of little
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  precursors of the plagues that are coming upon Egypt, friends.
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  And God has unlimited power. He can literally do anything
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  that he wants friends, but if he leaves you in that desperate
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  place, just know that it is for a purpose and it is going to
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  bring him an immense amount of glory.
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  When you pray the pain off the walls and nothing happens, it
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  does not take anything away from a holy God who can literally do
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  anything. These things are not just for
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  previous times friends. They for.
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  They are for our time, for today, friends, they are still
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  available this very day. It is US who have hardened our
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  hearts. It is US who have seared our
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  consciences. We refuse to see the miraculous
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  happening all around us today. 10 And Moses said unto the Lord,
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  O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, neither
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  since nor since you have spoken unto your servant.
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  But I'm slow of speech and slow of tongue.
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  So here Moses is objecting a second time.
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  He's saying that he is lacking eloquence, which probably was
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  not an accurate statement. He's just trying to make up
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  another excuse. 11 In the Lord said to him, Who has made man's
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  mouth, and who makes the dumb, or deaf, or the sing, or the
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  blind, have not I the Lord? So God can reverse blindness, He
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  can reverse deafness, friends, he can cause the mute to speak.
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  12 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you
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  what you shall say. And that is what Jesus tells us
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  in the New Testament, that when we're handed over, don't be
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  afraid of what to say, but the Holy Spirit will speak through
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  us. And here God is promising Moses
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  that he will be the one who speaks through him not to worry
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  about what to say. 13 And he said, Oh my Lord, send, I pray
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  you, by the hand of him who you will send.
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  So here Moses is trying to get out of it.
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  He's trying to say, no, not me, send anybody else. 14 And the
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  anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said, it's
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  not Aaron to Levite your brother.
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  I know that he can speak well. And also behold, he comes forth
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  to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his
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  heart. So here you can see that Moses
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  is trying to come up with every excuse and every time that he
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  does, God tries to encourage him.
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  But here at the last, finally God hits his breaking point and
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  his anger is kindled against Moses.
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  He was not angry when he said that he wasn't eloquent.
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  He was not angry when he said oh send someone else friends.
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  But he was angry whenever Moses continuously kept on and on and
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  on, and wanted him to just send anyone, one besides himself. 15
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  And you shall speak unto him, and put words in his mouth, and
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  I will be with your mouth and with his mouth, and will teach
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  you what you shall do. So you can see here that God is
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  going to be the voice. He's going to be the mouthpiece
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  for both Aaron and Moses in Pharaoh's court. 16 And he shall
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  be your spokesman to the people, and he shall be even.
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  He shall be to you instead of a mouth, and you shall be to him
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  instead of God. So he was going to use this tag
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  team to go in and to dismantle all of the opposition from
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  Pharaoh. 17 And you shall take this rod in your hand wherever
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  you shall do signs, so you can see.
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  Moses's staff had a very special miraculous power that God had
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  put into it. 18 And Moses went and returned to Jethro, his
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  father-in-law, And he said to him, Let me go, I pray, and
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  return to my brothers which are in Egypt, and see whether yet
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  they be alive. And Jethro said to Moses, Go in
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  peace, he let him go out of his profession of keeping intending
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  Jethro's flocks. And Moses was 80 years old, and
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  he was asking to be relieved of this profession.
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  And he said, Go in peace. 19 And the Lord said to Moses and
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  Midian, go return to Egypt, and all the men are dead which
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  sought your life. So you can see Moses outlasted
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  them all, the ones who were trying to take his life.
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  When he slew the Egyptian friends, they were all dead.
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  And now he says, go back, do not fear. 20 And Moses took his
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  wife, his sons, and he set them upon a donkey, and he returned
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  to the land of Egypt. And Moses took the rod of God in
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  his hand. So you can see that Moses takes
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  his family, and he takes the staff, and he goes into Egypt.
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  21 And the Lord said to Moses, When you go to return into
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  Egypt, see that you do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I
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  have put in your hand, and I will harden his heart, that he
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  shall not let the people go. So God doesn't 'cause these
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  things, but he uses these things.
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  Never get it twisted, friends, when it says that God hardened
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  Pharaoh's hearts, He just used the hardness that is in
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  Pharaoh's heart. 22 And you shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus
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  says the Lord Israel is my son, even my first born.
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  So he's giving him at the very outset.
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  He's giving him the opportunity to understand what first born
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  love looks like. And so here God is saying that
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  Israel is like his first born. 23 And I say unto you, Let my
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  son go, that he may serve me. And if you refuse to let him go,
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  behold, I will slay your son, even your first born.
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  So we're going to get to see as the story unfolds that God makes
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  good on his promises. Pharaoh should have let them go
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  right here and right now. But because he had hardened his
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  heart, Pharaoh is going to have to learn a very grievous lesson
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  as the time goes on. 24 And it came to pass, by the way, in the
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  end, that the Lord met him and sought to kill him.
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  So we're going to see a very valuable lesson that Moses was
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  about to miss. And Moses was about to go in and
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  do the work of the Lord, and he had refused to circumcise his
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  son. 25 Vin Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the
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  foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a
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  bloody husband are you to me? So perhaps she was not buying in
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  to the whole Jewish culture of cutting off the foreskin and
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  circumcision, which we know is a sign unto God of who his people
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  are. And we are called to circumcise
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  our hearts, friends, and we can be accounted as God's people. 26
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  So he let him go. And then she said, a bloody
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  husband, you are because of the circumcision.
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  So perhaps old Zipporah, she was not wanting to do this, but God
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  had forced her hand. And you can see here that Moses
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  was about to die in the way. 27 And the Lord said to Aaron, go
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  into the wilderness to meet Moses, And he went, and he went
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  and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.
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  So you can see here that Aaron is so excited to see his brother
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  coming back into the land. 28 And Moses told Aaron all the
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  words of the Lord who had sent him, and all the signs which he
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  had commanded him. 29 And Moses and Aaron went and gathered
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  together all the elders of the children of Israel. 30 And Aaron
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  spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses, and
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  did the signs in the sight of the people.
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  So can you even imagine, friends, Moses throwing the rod
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  down and becoming a snake and picking it up and it's going
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  back to his staff. Moses putting his hand into his
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  coat and pulling it back out, and it's leprous and putting it
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  back in and pulling it out and it's clean.
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  Moses taking water and pouring it on the ground and it becoming
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  blood. Can you even imagine the people?
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  What did they say? We'll end on 31.
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  And the people believed, and when they heard that the Lord
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  had visited the children of Israel and that he had looked
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  upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and
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  worshipped. You need to know it's going to
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  get a whole lot worse before it gets better.
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  And don't be surprised if that's the case in your own life.
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  Following after God takes faith. It's impossible to please God
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  without faith. And he told Thomas, blessed are
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  you because you see and believe. But how much more blessed are
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  they who don't see and believe? And that is you and that is me,
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  who are the greatest in the Kingdom of God.
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  Friends, you need to know that God is going to help us make it
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  to the end, no matter how hard that it gets.
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  We put our full trust and our full faith in Him and watch how
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  He brings you home. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter, 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.