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April 24 - Exodus 1 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends. It's Sean here.
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  And it is Monday. It is the 24th of April and I'm
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  so glad that you and I get to start our weeks together.
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  How are you going? Well, I hope I'm doing great.
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  Just had a cup of tea and ready to open up a brand new book of
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  the Bible. Last year, we worked our way
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  through the Book of Genesis. And so this year, we are doing
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  another book from the Edit. Ook the start of the Old
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  Testament. This year.
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  We are reading the book of Exodus.
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  Exodus is a fascinating story and the first half of the story
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  will take us along with Moses as God, uses him to rescue the
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  people of Israel from their captivity in Egypt, and then
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  they will go out into the desert and you'll know this part well,
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  and then they reach Sinai and that is where God gives them the
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  law. And in the second half of Exodus
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  is where God unpacks the law and how they are going to enable God
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  to be present with them as they journey into their new identity.
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  Now, what I would love for you to do as you and I read through
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  because we're going to be spending 40 days 40 chapters
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  working our way through Exodus. It's keep in mind that this book
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  is all about God's presence. And so as you and I are reading
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  through, I'd Love you to be thinking about this from that
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  lens. How is God present?
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  Where is God present? How is God not present in each
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  chapter of this story as we work our way through?
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  And at the beginning, we're going to notice that it seems
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  like God is very not present very absent and that is what
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  this story seeks to rectify. So certainly ourselves and we
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  are going to be spending some time in this story that Moses
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  tells his people. That is captured here in the
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  book of Exodus. So Holy Spirit, awaken our
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  hearts and let us hear your truth as we spend time in this
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  story that we've heard before. And that, we know.
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  Well, but that your truth resides and every page of your
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  word, inspire us, Captivate Us, and help your presence.
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  Be a reality, in our lives. All Right.
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  Let's do it. Friends.
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  Let's read together. Exodus chapter 1.
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  These are the names of the sons of Israel, that is Jacob who
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  moved to Egypt with their father, each with his family.
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  Reuben Simeon. Levi.
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  Judah, issachar zebulun Benjamin Dan naphtali Gad and Asher.
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  You know, Jacob had 70 descendants in Egypt, including
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  Joseph, who was already there in time Joseph and all of his
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  brothers died ending that entire generation but their
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  Descendants. The Israelites had many children
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  and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied.
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  So greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled
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  the land eventually. A new king came to power in
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  Egypt, who knew nothing about At Joseph for what he had done.
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  So he said to his people look the people of Israel.
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  Now, outnumber us and a stronger than we are.
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  We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more if we
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  don't. And if War breaks out they will
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  join our enemies and fight against us, then they will
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  escape from the country. So the Egyptians made the
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  Israelites, their slaves, they appointed brutal slave drivers,
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  over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor, they
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  forced them to build the cities of pithom and rameses as Supply
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  Centers for the king. But the more the Egyptians
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  oppress them, the more that Israelites, multiplied and
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  spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became, so the
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  Egyptians worked the people of Israel without Mercy.
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  They made their lives, bitter. Forcing them to mix mortar and
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  make bricks and do all the work in the fields.
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  They have a ruthless and all their demands.
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  Then Pharaoh the king of Egypt gave this order to the Hebrew
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  midwives, shiphrah and puah. When you helped the Hebrew
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  women, as they give birth watch as they deliver, if the baby is
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  a boy kill him. If it is a girl, let her live
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  but because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the
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  king's orders. They allowed the boys to live
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  too. So the king of Egypt called for
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  The Midwives. Why have you done this?
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  He demanded. Why have you allowed the boys to
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  live? The Hebrew women are not like
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  the Egyptian women, The Midwives replied.
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  They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we
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  cannot get there in time. So, God was good to The
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  Midwives. And the Israelites continued to
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  multiply growing more and more powerful.
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  And because the midwives feared God, he gave them families of
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  their own. Then Pharaoh gave this order to
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  all his people, throw every newborn On Hebrew boy, into the
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  Nile River, but you may let the girls live.
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  Jesus, no matter how it feels, we know that you are always
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  present in your creation. Sometimes your presence is overt
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  and obvious and we feel you near by another times.
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  It seems like you're a silent or even absent character.
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  Lord in our lives. When we walk through lonely.
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  Valleys and it feels like you are far, far away.
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  Help us know that. You aren't remind us, that you
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  walk. Right beside us, help us to feel
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  your presence. So that we never doubt and we
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  never worried that you are indeed, absence leaving us to
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  fight the challenges of Our Lives alone.
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  And thank you that no matter how we feel, we know that you have
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  promised to never forsake us and to walk each moment of Life
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  beside us. You are a good good God.
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  And we are so grateful that you choose to love us and draw us
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  into your family. That's in your name that we
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  pray. Amen.
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  That's in your name that we pray.
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  Amen.