You're there at Exodus 4, and the last two weeks we looked at the parallelisms between
the book of Acts and the book of Exodus, and then we kind of took just a brief
look at the life of Moses, you know, and how he pictures Jesus.
So today, we're just going to continue on the overview of the Bible, because I really
want to just focus on the big stories, and we're just going to cover the first four chapters
of Exodus today fairly quickly, and we're going to cover some of the big points that
lead us into what is then the ten plagues.
And I haven't decided if I'm going to split them or if we're just going to cover them
all that was, but these are the big moments in the book of Exodus, and then of course
But there's a couple of things that stand out here in chapter four before we even get into it.
It's just a couple of things we need to keep keep in mind as we're building up into the the lessons
here that we're going to get is number one, you know, Moses is chosen of God.
But Moses is reluctant right and because of that God's anger has kindled at him
And we're gonna see this interesting just kind of abrupt
Interruption in the story in verses 24 through 26 where God's seeking to kill Moses
Probably because of the fact that he's already been stubborn before, you know, the Lord's obviously is true to his nature
And the says that the Lord's slow to anger
But he's already kind of been pushed a little bit further along because Moses keeps pushing back
Right. And so we see several things here
The other thing we see is that who is the one hardening the heart of Pharaoh?
God because ultimately we may harden our hearts a little bit
But the ultimate hardening or the final, I guess the final blow of the axe or the final strike comes from God
You know, God's the one who takes control if you reject him enough
He's just gonna reject you that's why we have the reprobate doctrine because once God closes that door
It can never be open and these are really important concepts because this is where we start to build a lot of the New Testament
Doctrine that we have today it comes from these
Stories here. So these are really important stories. There's a lot more that we're going to cover
So for the sake of time, there's going to be we're going to go deep into maybe some of the scripture and some of the chapters
We're not we've already covered a lot of this as we were reading it
But it's worth reviewing that so go to Exodus one and the first point
I have for you today or this afternoon is well and actually well
Let me give you the title of the sermon right, you know, and the title of the sermon is God waits for no one
You know, obviously Moses is chosen. God waits for no one.
Moses is chosen and then what I mean by that is is that Moses is basically I don't know that he's doing on purpose
But he's he's causing a delay or trying to be
A delay in God's plan God's gonna execute what he needs to execute at the time
He needs to execute it and what he does is is in this instance here
He's he's does the things that I just discussed about getting angry and then getting air in and then the other thing that's
Really cool about it. Even though Moses is the one that created that scenario is that we see the first, I guess in a way
two by two
Tag team, right? We were talking about Barnabas and and Saul this morning
And then obviously the Bible tells us about how we should go out there two by two when we go soul winning
Even though Moses didn't mean to do that, you know, obviously he got a tag team partner in Aaron
to go into Egypt and request that his people would be let go. But we're there in Exodus
one. We're not going to read all of it. But there in verse six, we've seen this, right?
It says, and Joseph died and all his brethren and all the generation. And then what we see is
that they multiply and they grow greater and Pharaoh's threatened by them.
And right there in verse 12 it says,
but the more they afflicted them
after he started to just oppress them,
says the more they multiplied and grew,
and they were grieved because of the children of Israel.
What's interesting is that,
what are the children of Israel doing to the Egyptians?
Nothing.
You know, we were out, uh, so winning this afternoon, me and my kids and we knocked on
the door and you know, sometimes, remember, I think a couple of weeks ago I mentioned
how I'm just kind of impatient.
I just, I'm moving quickly and so sometimes I'll knock at a door and I won't stay there
long enough or, or, or what I think is I've already stayed too long and maybe I need to
just maybe put a timer and so I'll move on a door and then they'll open it.
A little bit after I've walked away and that this guy opened the door and he basically cussed us out
He's like who you know F this and F that oh it knocks on my door like this and Lucy looks up at me
She's like we didn't do anything and and she's right. We didn't do anything
We just knocked on his door, but we don't have to do anything
Anytime you're preaching the word of God and you got God's presence and you got his anointing behind you
You're gonna grieve the enemy and it's in it's interesting the way it's word here says and they were grieved because of the children of Israel, you know
Even though they're in bondage, God's always going to bless his people, right?
I mean, we are in bondage to what? To sin technically, right?
Even though we're saved, we're no longer bondage to sin in the spirit, but the flesh can't can't help itself
No matter how hard I try, you know, it doesn't matter what I say. I'm gonna do you guys heard me this morning
I said I wasn't gonna drink a coke for the whole month of April and you know, what's the first thing I did?
Drank a coke. I'm just like
And now now I'm drinking coke regularly because I'm like why are you messed up?
Well, what I really should do is just start all over again like right now, right?
And I probably will do that, but the flesh can't help itself.
Like, it just wants to do what the flesh does, and so we need the spirit to quench the flesh.
But we're always in bondage, but even with that, God still uses us and blesses us.
I mean, Moses started out really bad and he's one of the greatest characters
and one of the greatest men in the Bible.
Even the Bible tells us that, right?
And so a couple of things that we see here go over to Genesis 15 while we're doing that
But the devil can't stop God's promises
It doesn't matter what you know
I mean if you look at this this story of Exodus
What what is it? What are the pictures that we see what Egypt is really a picture of the world?
And we know that because obviously even in the New Testament there's a lot of references to Egypt
But Pharaoh picture Satan right yet. God's people thrive
I mean they continue to grow they continue to multiply and what's interesting is they don't even know the God's blessing them because
They think they're being oppressed even by God. I mean shortly after the you know
We're gonna see this it next week or in the following weeks, but after the first
Interactions between Moses and Pharaoh, you know Pharaoh then basically oppresses them more and who do they blame not Pharaoh
but Moses
They're like, why did you even come here?
Why are you even doing this?
And sometimes we get, we take that the wrong attitude, right?
The world's our enemy and we make enemies
of our brothers and sisters in Christ.
We grow contempt towards those people that love us,
but go to Genesis 15 and in verse 13,
God had already told them they would be afflicted.
So we know that this has to happen.
It says, and he said unto Abram,
know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger
in a land that is not theirs and shall serve them
400 years and also that nation they shall serve will judge will I judge and
Afterwards, they shall come out with great substance. So and they know this, you know, obviously they kept some records
But even with all that, you know, the people get caught up in the world
The reason that most people don't keep things top of mind is because they don't keep God top of mind, right?
Being a Christian requires a renewing of the spirit what?
Daily, the Bible says right that mercies are true every day
If we if I don't wake up and think about God, you know what God's not gonna show up
He's gonna be around
He's gonna you know, he's gonna still be God, but he's just not gonna show up for me
Like if I'm just like Lord, let me draw a night of you the Bible says draw a night of God and he will draw a night of you
Right, it's not just like oh well. I got saved. So let me just figure this out
And, you know, it's interesting, people want to know about God.
The kid that I was preaching to this afternoon, like he opens the door, I don't know, he's
probably between 15 and 17 years old, and I couldn't even see his eyes.
You know, he's in that age where he has like the long hair, like this big, long, fluffy
hair that was covering his eyes.
And he almost seemed dismissive to everything I was saying, but he never stopped listening.
Right and that's where experience comes in right at my age
You just know if nobody's kicking you out that means that they're really interested even if they're acting like it
Well, it's interesting. So I got done, you know, we we we prayed and he believed on the Lord Jesus Christ
And then I was like, hey, let me give you a Bible
He's like why I got two Bibles and he brought me the Bibles and one was a Gideon's Bible and then was an IV was like
Well, these aren't King James. I said that's a longer explanation. I don't want to go into it
He's like, well, what's wrong with the Bibles? And so I took him to Acts 8 verse 36
And he's like, oh, why would they remove that from the from the Bible?
And I said, well, look, what did you just do right now?
He's like, well, I just believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
I said, those, those verses removed that.
And you know what he did?
He laughed at it, not at me.
Like he laughed like, like that laugh, like, you know, these people, you know,
like when you figure out somebody's trying to be a jerk to you, like he got it.
I didn't even have to explain it.
He was curious about it, you know, what probably is going to happen.
He's going to go in and do more research and he's just going to grow in Christ.
My prayer would be that he just show up and we'd go out there and do things, but there are people that are just curious, you know, I didn't even tell him to look up.
I don't even try to go into it because as any of you know, the topic of Bible translations is a long topic.
Like I'd have to explain how they all came and that's a whole other thing that, you know, it's not even worth discussing.
But go to Romans 8 real quick, I'll read for you Acts 7-17, but in Acts 7.
Stephen and we're going to probably use Stephen a lot while we're going through this because Stephen covers a lot of this
But in Acts 7 17 the Bible says but when the time of the promise drew nigh
Which God had sworn to Abraham the people grew and multiplied
You know, this is an important part of history because it's part of what how we preach the gospel also to other people
It's how we battle the enemies of Christ, but if you go to Romans a 28
I love the way that it that actually it's at Romans a 27
know we know the verse right all things work together for good but I love verse
27 it says and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the
spirit because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of
God
Well, what was Moses?
He was intercessory, right?
He literally made intercession for the people.
He was a picture of Christ.
Christ makes intercession for us daily, you know, daily the Bible says, and right here
it says, and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to
them who are called according to His purpose.
You know, God's plans are way bigger than anything that we could ever imagine.
Right the book of Exodus teaches us that like they never saw it coming. They didn't see the coming of the Red Sea
You know, they didn't see the manna. They didn't see the water coming out of the rock and even when they did see it
They were still blinded by their murmuring and complaining, you know, we could just
Take time out of our busy schedules and our egos to actually just realize what God's doing in our life
I think it'd be super impressive to see where we're at from where we came from, right?
But the reality is most people aren't gonna do that. They're too busy. I don't know
Fighting about some stupid doctrine that nobody cares about
You know, I was listening to the podcast yesterday.
I don't know if you guys caught it.
There were podcasts that Pastor Shelley was doing
about this movie that came out where they're saying
that the city of David or the Solomon's Temple
is not really where it is and somewhere else
or something like that.
And I thought to myself, every time I hear about that,
sometimes I just think to myself,
how much time people invest in things that don't matter.
Right?
People say, oh, I'm for Christ.
And you're like, well, let's go soul winning and they're like, no, I need to build.
I need to, you know, I need to make a movie about a lost city.
or let's go sow it and they're like,
no, we need to first fix the building.
Or let's go sow it and they're like, no,
let me go bury my father first or whatever it is.
People are always coming up with excuses.
But the Bible says in Romans two
that we're gonna be without excuse, right?
We really need to focus on those things.
But why is that?
Because Satan's always trying to thwart the plan.
If you go over to Exodus one,
you're still there in verse 22.
You know, Satan's always tries to not only thwart the plan, but also he tries to destroy
the deliverer.
And in this case, I'm not just talking about destroying Jesus or Moses, he's also trying
to just destroy anybody who has an opportunity to grow in Christ, right?
Because how do we apply this to modern day? Obviously, I'm not a deliverer, I'm not like Moses, Jesus already died for our sins, there's no need for a Savior anymore in the sense that Jesus doesn't need to come on the scene again, He's already saved us, even though He had saved us from before the foundation of the world.
But you know what? We're all deliverers to those souls that are going to hell. The Bible says that with compassion, we pull them out of the fire, right?
And what's the what's the greatest attack that Satan has done in modern times? He's killing babies
He's killing the innocent. I mean, he's convincing the world that God doesn't exist
I mean, these are the things that happen, right?
Think about all those those children that could have been born that'd be just better preachers better soul winners than anybody
That's out there today, right?
But at the same time if we're here God protected us further for the purpose of what being here right now
so that we can continue to grow in Christ and do the things that got Christ's
disasters to do. Right there in verse 22 says,
and Pharaoh charged all his people saying,
every son that is born you shall cast into the river
and every daughter you shall save alive.
Well look, it's not just abortion. The devil
wants all guys' children to suffer and since it's not like in the time of Moses
or in the time of Jesus, what does he do? He's going to create
You know, I want to prepare a sermon.
I just, you know, I want to really do it justice, but even without going too deep into it and
giving you all the statistics, our world, especially in America, is a drug-addicted
world.
And, you know, drugs distract from God because it's an escape from reality and an escape
from God.
I mean, people are so drugged up in today's society, it's not even funny.
I mean, literally, we ran into a guy, today, he was outside of his apartment, and my kids
don't know this, but I do.
And I mean, I'm talking to him, and behind his phone, he's holding a blunt, right?
Nobody even cares anymore. You know used to be the back in the day people would would smoke weed like in the like you know
Dark room or nobody could catch up. I mean this guy now was not only smoking weed
You smoke a weed outside and then when he turned around he saw me
And he wouldn't even make it uncomfortable. I used to be a few years ago
I used to not like we would go soul-inning and if somebody was drinking a beer
I remember right into some people that maybe we're drinking a beer or something they get embarrassed
Even though I never said anything, they're like, they'd hide their beer, they're gonna apologize to me for drinking.
Nobody cares anymore.
You know, people are just like high on drugs, and that's the illegal drugs.
I'm not even talking about the legal stuff.
I mean, Adderall and Xanax and...
I mean, there's just a I was there's a big billboard like I think it's
Well, I saw it on the way here or it's on the way to where we were going so when he and it says like what's that?
I can never pronounce it
But it's the one that basically counteracts like fentanyl and stuff and they're like this drug
Counteracts this drug so make sure you carry it. You know, it's the one the cops carry that they basically like
It's like we have drugs to counteract the other drugs. Let's just keep everybody drug. Oh, you're in drugs
Oh, here's how I help you get off drugs.
Let me give you these drugs.
You know, oh, this hurts, take this.
Oh, that hurts, take this.
Oh, you feel bad, take that.
Isn't that how it is?
Pastor Cobb tells me all the time he goes,
cause he goes to the doctor regularly gets his checkup
and the doctor's always trying to put him on somewhat,
some drug.
Hey, you know, you're 88 years old.
You need to be on this and that and that.
I remember being like 30, I was 34 years old.
dental offices and I was really close with the owner the dentist at the time and he was like my age either
I was older he was older by a few months
I think I was older and I remember we were in the car one time coming back from lunch or something and he's like hey
He was asking me some question about he's like what do you take like for for your age?
And I was like, what do you mean?
He's like, yeah, you know, I went to the doctor
and they told me I have low testosterone,
that I have high cholesterol.
He's like, so I'm on this drug and I'm on that drug
and I'm on testosterone, I'm on this and that.
I was like, what are you doing?
Like, you're taking all of this?
He's like, well, yeah, well, what do you take?
I was like, nothing.
I was like, you're 34 years old.
I mean, there's nothing wrong with you.
And then he, I mean, think about it.
So this is 10 years later now, I'm 45.
So this is about 10, 11 years later.
Can you imagine the amount of drugs he's taking?
Cause the problem with drugs, even over the counter drugs,
is you grow a resistance.
So you always need more of that drug.
So even cholesterol drugs, like if you're on them,
you just need more of it.
You know, I love my dad, my dad's a great doctor.
I mean, he's, I think he's one of the most brilliant individuals, but after he had heart
surgery, I think he's, he just didn't want to have any more issues.
So he started, he takes, he basically self-medicates, right?
My dad.
And I remember one time he's like, he's like, if, if the world like we lost electricity
and the ability to just do commerce, you know, we're talking about doom and gloom.
He's like, he's like, I'd probably die within three days.
He's like, if I can't have like, and my, my wife and my kids know he's, he looks
Healthy as long as he's got all his his drugs and I'm not picking on him because he's told me
He's like directly said if I don't have like the things that I take every day. I would probably die within three days
That's that's insane that you're that dependent on that and he's one of the good ones
The Medicare Medicaid system is horrible like people go they're 18 19 20 years old and they're like on dialysis
For the rest of their life
with just all kinds of issues and things like that.
It's because the devil wants to stop us from delivering the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Right? So we're not, he's not maybe Pharaoh's not taking out children between the ages of two and three years old,
but he's taking out generations just by drugging them down, by slowing them down.
I mean, think about the number of children.
Especially in the more liberal states. I remember reading an article several years back about how like 70% of
like public school children under the age of 10 are on some form of drug like in California. That's insane.
That's just insane. But anyways, I didn't mean to distract from that
but it's just it's just a good way to tie what's going on in Exodus to like the reality of today because it's not the same, right?
But we can have applications and the devil is always attacking.
Right one of the ways he does it though is infanticide. I mean to do to this day infanticide exist
It might not exist in Texas, but there's there's states that actually believe in that where they're like
Oh, it doesn't matter if the baby is born as long as it's within certain hours. You can still kill it. I
Mean we've been dealing with that since Obama Obama literally openly said that like it wasn't even a challenge
I wish that I was like conspiracy theory could actually be better the fact that it's a reality makes it really sad, right?
And, I mean, we've got the biggest parenthood in the country right there off of 45 going
towards Galveston.
That thing is huge and it's already been proven that they murder babies there and they're
selling parts and doing all kinds of stuff.
This is even like five, six a year, it's probably longer than that, right?
But what does God do?
He just uses two Hebrew wives.
Or the midwives right to Hebrew midwives to defy the king and go over to where did I have you turn Matthew?
Revelation or John I remember just go to Revelation go to Revelation 12
I'll just that's where I'll have you go, but in Matthew 2 16. We already saw this last week, but it's worth
Covering it says that Herod when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men was exceeding Roth and sent forth and slew all the
Children that were in Bethlehem and all the coast thereof from two years old and under according to the time
which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
When is the day of salvation now? Because the devil, he's not taking a break.
He's destroying where you can destroy. There's no new thing under the sun.
You know, the world wants to destroy and it's always going to go after the weak and the innocent.
Those are the people that are most susceptible. That's why hard preaching is very important
because it's our duty to open the eyes of people that are just too innocent.
Right. I mean, we live in a great country last night. I went to bed
You know what? I didn't have next to my pillow a gun and I didn't like, you know
Set the alarms and the trip wires and all that stuff. I didn't have to go to Mexico
Who's been to Mexico so any I don't if you haven't it's okay, but who's been to Mexico?
Anybody know right? It's been several years. It's all right. Don't worry about it. Every house is a fortress
I'll just make it for you real easy
So waiting in Mexico has to happen like in the open square or out where there's a lot of traffic and people you can't even
Knock the doors because every house in Mexico is like a wall like a brick wall with a gate
That's really high with a doorbell
And then there's like 10 or 15 feet before the actual door if you happen to get into the corridor
to the door. You know what the door is? It's made of metal. And so are all the windows.
Everything's metal. You know why? Because everything's dangerous in Mexico.
Nobody wants to open the door if you knock everybody's like kind of weird it out. They're like, who are you?
Are you gonna ask me for money? You're here to steal or destroy like it's just constant danger last night
I went to bed sometimes it's actually sad to say but sometimes, you know
We live in such a nice neighborhood that and we're not even rich
I'm just saying the neighborhood's great because it's an America right like most people don't worry
I forget to lock the doors and we wake up the next day and everything was fine
You can't do that in Mexico. You forget to lock the doors. Good luck
If you find anything out and they might not do anything to do, but they'll take all your stuff, right?
Like they're just going to take all your stuff, but go over to your there in Revelation 12 verse 4
We see that this is the pattern even in the end times right in Revelation 12 4
The Bible says and his tail drew
The third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth and the dragon stood before the woman
Which was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon as it was born
And she fraught forth forth a man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron and her child was caught up
Up unto God and to his throne. What is this a picture of this is a picture of obviously Satan always wanted to destroy who Jesus?
But it's not just Jesus. It's his people
And you know why he goes after the innocent children because they're all you know until the age of accountability
They're with Christ
Then you he just wants to do anything that God touches the devil wants to destroy
And I think it's a sobering thought, and it'd be important for you to remind yourself how evil of a world we actually live in.
You know, I'm not trying to be doom and gloom, but you should just be a little bit somber about the fact that there's evil out there,
and people are looking to destroy you.
Even when I go soloing with my kids, you know what's on Red Alert?
Everything that I'm doing because people are crazy. They'll take your kids and brought it's not I mean guys
I wish I was making this stuff up. I mean just go look. I actually don't just freak you out
You won't sleep at night, especially you moms don't do it
My wife was like I gotta turn this thing off like because I guess there was a streak of like people going up in grocery stores
And just literally pulling the carts trying to take their kids from the mothers
It's in broad daylight. It's not even at night anymore. It's just like darkness is all the time
In John 10 verse 10 the Bible says or in verse 9 says I am the door
Buy me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pastor the thief
Cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy
I am come that they might have life and that they might have it what more abundantly
But we need to be in God's with God's people. We need to be in God's house
We need to do that. And so we see here that as we're leading up to these four chapters
There's already all this these issues, right? Moses is chosen. He's protected by God
He's also raised by the Egyptians and maybe that's why he's a little rebellious, right?
You know, when you ever you have a little bit of the world in you or a lot of the world in you when God
Because you think you know better, you know, one of the advantages I have is that I got saved at 25
But it's actually a major disadvantage
Because even though you're more innocent and you might not know all the ways of the world
God's always going to protect you
And it's way better for God to protect you than for you to know the ways of the world and protect yourself
There might be some advantages there, but overall there's disadvantages because you know what also
You know the world
And sometimes knowing the world takes you back to want to do the things of the world,
right?
Whenever tough things happen, our tendency as humans is to want to escape.
Well, if you know the world, you want to escape to the things that you know.
Right?
So if you've tasted of this or that, you're going to want to go and just relive that because
then you just get to forget those things.
That's why drug addiction is so bad because what ends up happening is most people, they're
not, they don't even like drugs anymore.
What they like is the feeling of not thinking about the reality of their problems while they're
in the drug induced phase, right?
We've had him here at church for decades, you know, and even for the decade that I served before
Brother Bobby passed we've had a lot of drug addicts here and most of them will tell you
they don't even like drugs anymore. It's that they don't even get high anymore. Like it's not the
same high. What it is is just it's just they're used to that feeling of escaping away from the world.
I mean there's a guy that I've been dealing with just recently in the last two years
who actually he showed up. Why was it a cup like a month ago?
He just showed up and knocked on the door when you guys were here
He showed up like drug induced and he was saying that he was dying and pastor Cobb called me
He's like I thought we're gonna have to call the cops. He's like hey
So-and-so is here, and he thinks he's dying and everything and then he ran away like a madman
And I dealt with this guy on a regular basis, and you know what he told me
He's like I just want to stop but I can't they just can't stop anymore
Go over to Exodus to go over to Exodus to so we see that you know God even though we're in bondage to our fleshly sin
Not in the spirit God still protects us, right?
But the devil he's always gonna look to destroy the deliverer and in this case
He's I'm talking about the soul winner, right? If God can distract us from doing the work then less people get saved
That's why spring crest is so important because if you think about the churches in our community, how many are actually so many?
I mean, go do the research, none.
It's not even a pat on the back, it's sad.
I mean, honestly, I'd prefer if we had more soul winners.
Houston is huge, and it's wide onto the harvest.
I mean, as exciting as we got one soul, one today,
you know, whenever you got three people going out soloing
in the city of six million people,
I mean, that's like, it's not even a drop in the bucket.
Not even a drop in the bucket.
It's like, you ever been, you know, you ever,
You ever see cloudiness and then you get a little bit of a miss, but it's not really a sprinkle
And you're like, oh, I think it's gonna rain and then it never nothing happens. It's not even that
It's worse than that like in because I don't even think it's six million people
They might be like eight million, but go to your exodus to
You know, but regardless of all this, all this opposition God prepares
Moses in the wilderness, right?
Moses goes through this this event where he killed somebody. It's found out and he flees, right?
And like I said, we're not going to go through these because we've already covered a lot of this
But in verse 15 of Exodus 2 the Bible says now when Pharaoh heard this thing
He sought to slay Moses, but Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the Land of Midian
and he sat down by a well and then this is where he meets his wife and he ends up living there
for another 40 years. So now Moses has basically been on earth for 80 years and by the world
standards, he's done nothing, right? He's just an 80 year old man who's lived his life. He's got some
children. He's got a good family relationship. That's about it. But go over to acts seven and
actually I think I'm going to go there with you guys because there's a couple of things that I
Go to act seven
The famous sermon by Steven and we're there in verse 29
Okay, we're actually go to verse 22 first before I do verse 29. I just want to cover this
Because we're about to get to the point where the part of the the sermon where I'm telling you about Moses a little bit
And why all this how we get to the fact that he's finally going to deliver people, but there's there's a little bit of
Strife or a little bit of rebellion and disobedience on the part of Moses, right and remember Moses says to God
That he is not like he's not good at speech. I'm getting ahead of myself
But the reason is because I want to cover this because we're not going to come back here
But an X7 verse 22 says that Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and in
Indeeds so now here's where people sometimes misconstrued the Bible if they don't study a world
Moses says that he's not he's not good at a speech
But that's what Moses says remember the Bible is true
So which was true this one or the other one. Well, this is true
Moses was learned in the ways of Egypt and he was probably a good orator because you know, you think about his royalty
He they teach him the important like the big boulder stuff
That means that's why God got mad at him because God was God knows that Moses is learned in the ways of words and these things and
He's lying to him basically
Right, that's why God's anger is kindled. It's not that the Moses was denying it is the fact that Moses wasn't being completely honest
But let's go there verse 29
It says
Then fled Moses at this saying it was a stranger in the land of Midian
Where he beget two sons and when 40 years were expired
He appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai in the angel of the Lord in the flame of a fire in a bush
And this is where we get to the the fiery bush, right? He he says up
He he's coming to him also in James 4 the Bible tells us to be afflicted and mourn and weep and let your laughter be turned
to mourning and your joy to heaviness
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and he shall lift you up
So Moses has this challenge that that as we get to the burning bush
Which by the way, this is a part of the story that the kids will like so kids pay attention
I know you don't pay attention all the time, but pay attention right now, right? And is that?
For 80 years Moses is basically kind of he became somebody under the tutelage of Egypt
But then he fled and he's kind of just been in hiding waiting to do something with with his life
But God has a bigger plan, right? He's he's ready to get break him in
He's ready to say Moses. I'm about to take you and do some great stuff with you and do some great things
Even though you've been a stranger for a long time
And this is where we get to Exodus 3 and this I we will read a little bit. So in Exodus 3 and verse 1
We see what the burning bush, right?
And this is where the God basically calls Moses to lead his people out.
Now there's a really interesting thought that I had and I want to build on that, but
right here in verse 1 the Bible says,
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian,
and he let the flock to the backside of the desert and came to the mountain of God.
Even to Horeb and the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush
And he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed
And Moses says Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why this bush is not burnt
So he obviously this is a cool story, right? He turns around he sees this bush burning, but it's not burning
There's fire, but it's not being consumed right and when the Lord saw that he turned aside to see God called on to him out of the
midst of the bush
So first of all the angel is there in the you know
It says the the angel of the Lord appeared unto him
But then God calls unto him in the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses and he said here
I am and he said draw
Now I hither put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place where on thou stand is his holy ground
Moreover, he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob, and Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God.
And the Lord said, I've surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and I've
heard their cry by reason of their task, masters, for I know their sorrows, and I have come
down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of the
and in a large and unto a land flowing with milk and honey unto the place of the
King night and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Parasites and the
Hivites and the Jebusites. Now therefore behold the cry of the children of Israel
come unto me and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians
oppress them. Come now therefore I will send thee unto Pharaoh that thou may
The thing that I want to point out go to Isaiah 6, but I'll read for you these really quick verses is
First of all who who decided that Moses was qualified God did
You know when God calls you and I'm not talking like this old IFB hokey, you know called but we all have a calling
And by the way, God doesn't have to call you like some, you know, these old tent revivals
where people are like, you know, what's your calling?
Everybody has a calling, right?
If you called upon the name of the Lord, well, first of all, everybody's called to preach
the gospel to every creature.
You already have a calling.
You don't have to have some weird sign or some superfluous or fluid experience where,
you know, I don't know.
and everybody was in the tent and you got chills,
and now that's why you know you're gonna be a missionary.
You know, even in the Adventist world, they would do that.
They'd send those like preachers
and they'd do like the altar callings.
And I remember thinking maybe I should be a missionary,
you know, because your emotions get in the way,
or maybe I should be a preacher,
or maybe I should do this,
because you wanna do something great for the Lord.
But you already have the ability to do something great.
You're saved.
So you don't need to wait for anybody
to call you to do the work, right?
So God's already qualified you, number one.
And number two, God does whatever He wants, right?
If you look, go to Isaiah 6, but really quick, in Psalm 115 in verse 3, the Bible says,
But our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.
Now let me tie this with Hebrews 12-29. The Bible says, For our God is a consuming fire.
But you know what God chooses when he consumes and when he doesn't consume
God controls the flames, right? He can consume you in hell for all eternity
Or he can just purge you or he can just have a fiery bush. That's not consumed
It's not that God's a liar. God is a consuming fire, but God just decides
Whatever he decides he can turn a bush on fire and not burn it
Because he's God
You can also have a lake of fire and brimstone where you're tormented day and night forever and ever
You can also say hey, beloved thinking not strange
You know when this fiery trial is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you
Because the fiery trial doesn't burn you up it just burns up all the bad stuff in your life
So we just got to remember God does whatever he wants and I think that's the problem with Moses here, right?
I mean, obviously Moses is a great character, but here Moses is not that great. Let's just be honest
I'm picking on all the patriarchs today right all on the but I mean that's why God gives us the word of God like
Moses is messing up. I mean, he's not being honest with him. He's kind of doing this stuff
In Jeremiah 20 verse 9 the Bible says then I said
I will not make mention of him nor speak any more in his name, but his word was,
in my heart, as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forebearing,
and I could not stay." Remember when Jesus is with the apostles after he's risen in disciples and
said, did we not burn in our heart? But he didn't consume them, right? In Isaiah 6, that's where I
It says, then flew, in verse six, then flew one of the seraphims unto him, having a live
coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar, and he laid
it upon my mouth and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquities taken away,
and thy sin is purged.
How was it purged by fire?
Also I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Who shall I send, and will go for us?
Then I said, I hear my, send me.
What's interesting is, when was I sail ready to be sent?
After the fire because remember before the fire he didn't even want to talk because he knew he his mouth was not worthy to
The speech was not worthy to be spoken in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ
So we got to be you know the burning bush is a great picture of just that God does whatever he wants
You know, I wish that more people had the attitude to realize
God doesn't owe you an explanation. God doesn't owe you anything
God does whatever he wants. You know when my children sometimes I'm like, hey, I need you to do this
And they're like why and I'm like because daddy said so that's why oh
Okay
Well, but but nothing
Sometimes I just don't feel like explaining myself. How about that?
Sometimes I just don't need to give you all the details of why I need you to do a certain thing. Just listen
I'll never forget, we went to Dallas one year.
My dad's always been an entrepreneur,
maybe that's why I'm a business owner.
He just planted that entrepreneur seed in us.
And I'm glad that my dad was a tough taskmaster
because I'll never forget it.
We were in downtown Dallas and we were at a convention.
We were, we bought a screen printing,
like a screen printing machine.
And my brother and I actually ran a screen printing business
when we were like 15 years old and he was like 13.
I remember we'd stay up to like three, four o'clock
in the morning, screen printing shirts.
And then we'd get up in the morning and go to school.
Like, that slave labor right there, we worked hard.
I wish we would have known better because we probably would have kept that business.
It was a fun business, but we were either on a break or we're coming from the, I don't
know what we're doing, but we were in downtown Dallas, staying wherever we were staying.
And, you know, downtown of any city is, you got some good areas and you got some not so
good areas.
And we were by the bus station, which is always not a great area.
And all of a sudden, my dad just.
He basically started hurrying us up and he was he became like real tough
Honest, he's like hurry up and he put us together and he had us across the street
And it wasn't till we got to the hotel that he pulled us to the side
He's like hey, I'm glad you guys listen to me because the guy next to us
I think was gonna like either assault us or try to take our money because he pulled out a knife
You know, my dad just, that's why you have a dad, right?
My dad protected us from like some dangerous situation
we didn't know.
But can you imagine, you know, the rebellion of,
that's where children need to just learn to obey sometimes.
Imagine your dad's like, hey, I need you to shape up
and hurry up.
You're like, why?
Why do we need to, you know, and that,
that's the kind of stuff that gets you in trouble.
Moses is like, why?
Why am I, why am I going to Egypt?
Well, you know, God's protecting you
and you sit around there just fighting with,
and God doesn't need to answer.
You didn't need to give you any explanation.
Why should I go to church three times a week?
Because I said so.
Why should you read your Bible?
Because God said so.
Why should you pray?
Because God said so.
Actually, I don't even need a preach.
God said so, just do it.
But the problem is we're not going to do it.
And I'm just, I'm including myself in that, right?
We're not going to read like we need to.
We're not going to pray like we need to.
And then we wonder why God chastises us.
But here we see that he's a consuming fire.
that, but he doesn't consume, but he gets the attention of Moses with fire, which is
a picture of what the fact that God gets her attention by pulling us out of the fire.
You know, when I got to that kid today, he was a little bit different.
And I said, Hey, Debbie, uh, you know, if you were to die today, 100% sure you're going
to heaven.
And he's like, well, I don't think about those things.
And I said, well, you know, maybe it's, maybe it'd be wise to think about them.
There's only two places you can go heaven or hell
When I got to the part of hell, I said hey, do you believe in hell? He's like, yeah, you know, but I don't I don't really
Understand it. I said well the Bible says it's a fire and brimstone
Sound good. He's like no. I said, do you think if God wants everybody to go to hell? No good
You know, we should talk about hell a little bit more often than we do now
Because we're getting to a point where people don't even believe hell exists
Go over to Exodus 3. Are you still there? I think you're still there in Exodus 3. Let's go down a little bit
But you know what God doesn't God doesn't not we can have excuses
But excuses don't exempt you from God, right? It doesn't matter how many excuses you give God
If God needs you to do something one of two things is going to happen. You're either going to shape up
Or you're going to be shipped out
I could use Jonah here. I'm not gonna go too deep into it, but even Jonah gave the excuses and God was like
I need you to do something. I'm not gonna wait around. You're gonna do what I say
right and
So in Exodus 3 verse 1 I mean in verse 11 the Bible says and Moses said unto God
Who am I that I should go into Pharaoh and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?
And he said, certainly I will be with thee, and this shall be a token unto thee that I've sent thee.
When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon his mountain.
And Moses said unto God, behold, when I come unto the children of Israel,
and shall say unto them, the God of your fathers hath sent me unto you,
and they shall say to me, what is his name? What shall I say unto them?
And God said unto Moses, I am that I am.
And he said, thus shall thou say unto the children of Israel, I am he,
I I am had sent me unto you. Sorry about that. I am had sent me to you
I like the reason I picked this I like this because it
I deal with a lot of people a lot of times not just in church, but you know running a business
I deal with clients. I deal with their employees. I deal with my employees and one of the most frustrating things as a business owner is the fact that
When people come to me is because I have a certain expertise that they don't, right?
For the most part, the business owners will understand that I'm leading them
to a solution that they've asked me for. But when I have to deal with their,
like, lower-lings, right, like someone who's maybe not the business owner, just an administrative
or someone they just pay hourly, they tend to do that. They tend to give me
They tend to ask me, well, what happens if this,
when it hasn't even happened?
You know, Moses is like, well, what happens when they ask me?
How do you even know they're gonna ask you?
Now, I love that God's like,
you just need a response to this.
But most of the time, we're jumping the gun, right?
We're, it's like if I were to teach you soul winning right now,
I'd probably get frustrated.
I'm like, hey, here's the soul winning process
and you interrupt me every few seconds.
They're like, well, what if they say this?
But what if they say that right that that would be a very natural thing when in reality most times most people don't even say anything
Now yeah, are there occasions where you're gonna run into rebuttals?
Probably, but you'll learn those along the way
But the only way to be able to learn the tough things is to just deal with just accept the fact that somebody already knows what they're telling you
You know Moses here. He's like, well, what do I do?
Now love God's response. He didn't give him this long response. He said just tell him that I am
And the story, you know, I just I kind of I really enjoy this part of scripture
I enjoy the whole by the way. I just enjoy it because you I just I love seeing how God responds to things
He's like not very impressed with Moses. He's like I am that I am
Because I'm pretty sure Moses was a little frustrated
He's like that's not the because the other part of that is the other part of that equation is when someone's asking you all
These questions and you give them the answers. You know what it's not the answer. They wanted to hear anyways
That's why I get frustrated too because somebody will ask me something and I'm like, okay
Well, the way you deal with it is this they're like they'll keep asking the same question
You know why they keep asking the same question because they they want the answer
They want to hear not the answer. That is the correct answer, right? They you know, if somebody comes to you and says well
Pastor do you think that this is a sin and you're like real quick? Yeah, that's a sin
Well, what if it, then what you really want it was for me to agree with your sin, right?
You wanted me to agree with the fact that you're trying to do this, or you're trying
to divorce this person, or you're trying to commit this adultery, or you're trying to
take this drug, or you're trying to excuse your, usually that's how it comes in that
shape or form, because I mean, if it's cut and dry, it's cut and dry.
But that's what people do go back go down in verse one of Exodus 4 as we start to round this thing out
There in verse one of Exodus 4 the Bible says in Moses answered and said but behold
Here it is
God gave him the answer and what does Moses do is exactly what I'm explaining right and behold
They will not believe me nor harken up to my voice for they will say the Lord had not appeared unto thee
You know, there's this thing in sales that we say
You know ask for the sale
And and and bat sales people will say well, what if this or or I don't want to you know
What if they don't have the money or what if they don't and the one thing we always like an experienced sales person will tell you
It's never make a decision for somebody else that they were they need to make for themselves, right?
Don't decide for them. Moses is deciding for them here. He's like, well, what if they don't believe me or listen to your voice?
Or what do they say the Lord hadn't appeared unto you?
And the Lord said unto him, what is in thy hand?
And he said a rod, and he said, casteth the ground,
and he casteth the ground, and became a serpent,
and Moses fled.
And so he basically shows him that the rod's
going to be this source of power.
Go down to verse 10, and it says,
and Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord,
I am not eloquent, neither here to for,
nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant,
but I am slow with speech, and of a slow tongue.
And the Lord said unto him, who hath made man's mouth?
Or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seen, or the blind?
Have not I the Lord?
Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.
And he said, O Lord, send I pray thee by the hand of whom thou will sent me.
And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Moses, and he said,
Is not Aaron the Levi thy brother?
Know that he could speak well and also behold he comeeth forth to meet thee and when he seeeth thee he will be glad in his heart
But remember the Lord didn't say this nicely. He's angry
Right because Moses just keeps giving excuse after excuse no matter how many times God gives him a solution
He's just like more excuses more excuses
And you know what the lazy Christian always gives excuses
I mean, I invite all Christians of all walks.
I mean, if you're a Christian and what I mean by all walks of life is you don't have to think like spring crests
You don't have to be as conservative as hardcore as we are. Hey, let's go. So winning. Oh, I'm just I
Don't know about that
Why?
Well, you know, I'm just not comfortable talking to people. So I
Mean honestly, so God didn't care
I mean, he literally said go ye into all nations, right baptized him in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost
He didn't say oh Enrique only go soul winning or Mo only go soul winning or you know
Liberty's children only goes no everybody in the church should go soul winning, right?
You're not soul winning then pray for the soul winning, but you should be doing something for the Lord not making excuses all the time
I'll read for you really quick go to verse Philippians 4
Actually, I'll just read for you for it go to verse first Corinthians one
We'll skip Philippians 4 because I want to close out on the last point, but verse Corinthians 1 verse 26
I mean verse 23 the Bible says but we preach Christ crucified unto the Jews a stumbling block and unto the Greeks foolishness
But unto them that are called both Jews and Greeks Christ's power the power of God and the wisdom of God because the foolishness of God is
Wiser than man and the weakness of God is stronger than men for you see you're calling brother and how that not many wise men after the flesh
Not many mighty
Not many noble are called but God has chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise and
God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and
The base things of the world and the things which are despised got it chosen
Yay, and the things which are not to bring to not things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence
I know whenever I read verses like this and you know, obviously, we know Philippians 3rd thing where we can do all things through Christ
It's a it's a strong reminder that
We should never downplay the fact that God has you where you are and that you need to take that and do something great with it
You know, I used to be a little bit more
Because I'm naturally a people pleaser like I would feel weird that you're taking time out of your schedule to be here to listen
And we preach like that's just the way I feel sometimes
I don't do it as much now because the reality is if God has me here to preach then he has something to say through me
And, if you're there, God has something to say to you through what I'm saying.
And it's not for me to decide what it is because it doesn't matter how weak I feel, God is
always stronger, right?
He's using us, who the world looks at, and we're a little bit backwards.
The Bible says, I mean, the Bible, the world says that we're bigots, or that we're, you
know, old school, or antiquated, right?
It uses things like that, archaic, you know, who lives like that anymore?
But God uses us to do great works for him
But the minute we lose power is the minute we start thinking that we need to do something different
Than what God's asked us to do. Let's go to our final points here
Before that so the final point here is God reassures the reluctant
Leader right he regardless of what we do God's always gonna back us. This is what we get the two by two
I'm gonna spend just a little bit of time here, and then we're gonna close out
but God
Might even kill you if you don't take him seriously. I
Mean, we might not have had Moses
We were pretty close to not having Moses
You're in the book of Exodus. It's I love the way the Bible is written
You're in the book of Exodus and you're reading about this basically dialogue between God and Moses
And they're going back and forth about how he can't do it
And then all of a sudden in verse 24
It says, I mean, it feels random because it's just really abrupt.
It doesn't even really tie in the story the way that we would normally tie it, but it
actually does, right?
And it says, and it came to pass by the way in the end that the Lord bed him and sought
to kill him.
Whoa!
I mean you ever heard that term that escalated quickly like you just all of a sudden
We're over here dealing with the fact that hey
I'm gonna send you Aaron and your brother's coming to meet you and then the Lord's like
I'm done. I'm gonna kill you
I mean, this is God Almighty, and he's going to take out Moses and it says,
Then Sipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at his feet.
And said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
So let him go. Then he said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.
And then that's it. We go back to the story. Like there's no other information we have.
So, you know, there's a lot you can you can do this
You can look this up. But if you're just reading the Bible, I think two things to learn from this is number one
We have a tendency to want to look beyond what God's already told us
But if God wanted us to know the rest of the story, he would have given us the rest of the story
So all we got to do is just take the story at face value
Right because for a long time I would read this and then just be like, what does this all mean?
Like this is just so odd
But the more I've just read the Bible and you just take it at face value the easier it is to understand
I mean literally all it is is
God's angry at Moses
Well, his son's not circumcised so all we can deduce really quickly
Moses is being disobedient
That's easy, right? He already instituted the circumcision Moses chosen to do a great work for the Lord
He's not just like some run-of-the-mill Christian
He's literally gonna become the leader of the largest exodus in the history of the world. I
Mean at least obey me in circumcising your child, right? That's number one number two
His wife now does it so she knows it should have been done we don't know why Moses didn't do it
You know, if you do some reading, you listen to them stuff, it's speculated that people
think that he might have been sick.
We don't know.
I don't know why you didn't do it.
But what we do know is that his wife was probably,
she sounds like she's not happy about the situation.
She did it kind of begrudgingly.
Meaning she's not being very obedient as a wife.
The Bible says wife submit yourselves and your husband.
Like God's getting this whole house in order.
He's like, this thing needs to be sure it up.
And you know what's a good lesson about this
is that sometimes there's certain things
that God would just pinpoint in your life
that you just need to clean up now.
We're not gonna clean up all the sin, but there's certain sins that God's like if you don't if you don't fix this now
We're gonna I'm gonna take you out
God will kill you
God will take you out
If he was willing to take out Moses, he'll take you out as a matter of fact if you got sin in your life right now
You say man, that sounds like you're threatening me. I'm not threatening you
I'm just telling you the truth if you die next week you after you listen to this
I'm just gonna be like man, they didn't pay attention to that sin. I mean that sermon
I'm not even joking around.
I believe God's that serious about his business.
Like, if you've got stuff in your life you need to clean up that you know God would probably
take you out, just clean it up.
And if you think that thing in your life that you need to clean up that God might take you
out, it might not be that serious to God, but if you think about it, just clean it up
anyways.
You know why?
That's a good sign that you're probably not going to get killed.
And I'm not trying to scare you completely, but I do want you to like maybe have a sleepless night or two
You should
God serious about his business
When I preached that sermon a couple weeks ago
I check on that guy regularly like his go fund me like that guy that got all the boils just to remind me not to mess with God I
Got two children and a wife and God will take me God does not care
If if my children grow up with their daddy or not if I'm sending against them
I'm just gonna be raw honest God does not care if you're gonna be around for your children if you're messing with God
I mean by this time Moses has a wife and kids and it says that the Lord met him at the end to kill him
I mean God's literally gonna take this guy this part of scripture just always like anytime. I'm reading it
I'm almost looking forward to it like I get to Exodus 4
I'm like I can't wait to we I get to verse 20 because it's just so
Impact like I think that's why God did it like that because he just throws you off
You're just like there. Wait a minute. It's got really just is this saying that God's gonna kill Moses and
Then support is the one that has to like take take things into our own hands
So don't tell me that God, you know, obviously God wants mental eat
But don't tell me God doesn't let women do things because supporters want to have to take action here, right?
It's just not the greatest way to do it, you know, so just take him seriously, right?
Don't don't don't disobey the Lord. We know all the verses, but let's just let's let's wrap this thing up
Right, but you know, the Bible tells us the Lord's gonna chastise us
The Bible tells us in 1 Peter the judgment begins at the house of God
But let's go to the end of Exodus 4. God will always provide a plan. And what we need to learn
about that story, though, is God comes in ready to kill. And once the thing is fixed, God moves on.
He's not passive aggressive about this thing. He's not a Mexican. Right? My wife says that,
you know, my kids know
Daddy's passive aggressive mom's straight aggressive. That's so that's how my kids describe it, right? Daddy's passive aggressive mom's straight aggressive
Right, but you notice
It's not mentioned anymore because God is true to his nature once the sin is forgiven
He's for he's forgiven it
But let's go there and close out in verse 27 says in the Lord said unto Aaron go to the wilderness to meet Moses and when he
Met and when and he went and met him in the mount of God and kissed him and Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord
Who had sent him and all the signs which he had commanded him and Moses and Aaron went to and gathered together all the elders of the
Children of Israel
and Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses
and did the signs on the side of the people
and the people believed.
And when they had heard the Lord had visited the children of Israel
and that he looked upon the reflection,
they bowed their heads and worshiped.
What's interesting is they believed,
but they didn't grow.
Remember, so they don't lose their salvation,
but they still get any rewards.
But the only the last thing of this lesson and I just I've already gone too long with the other part
So I just let's keep this real simple. Ecclesiastes tells us and a Luke. It's two or better than one
Right at the end of the day. God says well Moses. You're just gonna I almost killed you your wife fixed this thing
Here's Aaron go out and do the work of the Lord and he delivers them
And later on, I mean, literally Moses, if we go to Hebrews 11, he gets a huge part just
like Abraham of the Hall of Faith.
So the lesson here is, number one, don't mess with God, but number two, once God forgives
you, it's over.
You shouldn't even be bringing it up.
And too many times, what do we do?
We spend all our time thinking about all the things that we could have done that should
have been, that should have happened, when all that we need to do is just know God's
already called us to do great things for Him.
Jesus said greater things we would do than He would, right?
So we just need to do it.
I know it's not like this great super ex Jesus sermon, but it really is a wonderful sermon
in the sense that, you know, if you think about it, God's so loving and forgiving.
Right got so favorable to his people that
Even a rebellious wife could get you out of trouble
She intercede he intercedes for six. What is it?
Almost a million people
But before that his wife comes in and she's like let me take care of this business so you can go take care of your business
All right, so let's close in a word of prayer. Heavenly Father Lord. Thank you so much for
The book of Exodus. Thank you for these big stories that just stand out
burning bush, you know, rebellious, midwives to civil government, but obedience to you, Lord,
just some abrupt interruption in the story where you're almost killing Moses and then everything
gets lined up. Lord, just thank you that you do as you please and that you don't take us into account
It protects us from things that we don't understand.
It prepares us for things that we don't understand, and it allows us to just unencumber our minds
with the cares and the stresses of this world so that we can focus on the most important
thing, which is just doing your will, Lord.
And it's not just the soul winning, although soul winning is extremely important, but
it's also just.
Coming to you humbly Lord praying reading our Bibles
Showing up to church doing the things that you've asked us to do Lord help us to sanctify ourselves
more and more every day until the day that we
Go on to be in heaven with you. Thank you for this week Lord be with all those that are here. Jesus name. We pray amen