Let’s Face It (Larry Brey)

0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:04.760 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.240 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.600 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:12.639 it builds your faith. Hope it gives your perspective to 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.440 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:21.600 Are you ready for the Word of God? You sounded 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:23.840 about thirty percent as ready as I need you to be. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:27.200 Let me ask, y'all, are you all ready for the 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:31.600 Word of God. Helpy Skinner is coming to preach in 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:37.040 just a moment. Hang on before he comes. This is 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:43.120 an epic warrior for Jesus Christ. Larry Bride. Larry and 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.920 Janet were two of the original core team members of 0:00:46.960 --> 0:00:49.879 our church. They've been with me all the way. They 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:52.400 believed in this church when it was nothing more than 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.160 a sonogram. Janet told me, because she was my dental 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:58.800 hygienists at the time, I said I'm going to plant 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:00.720 a church. She said, have fun with that. I would 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:04.120 never go. Fifteen years later, she's on the front road, 0:01:07.560 --> 0:01:12.399 but I'll get out of the way because I want 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:14.520 to give him the pulpit. I just wanted to say 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:17.800 that this ministry would not be possible without this man. 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:22.080 From the time that he almost rammed the gate with 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.640 his truck at a storage unit to get our equipment 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.480 so we could have church at the Providence High School 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.880 at Trim in the early days, to the day that 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:31.039 he almost broke the window out of my jeep Cherokee 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:32.920 so I could have a prop for a sermon illustration. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.040 As you can see, he's got an anointing of violence 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.160 and I love them for it. He hails from Minnesota. 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:45.000 He is a former NCAA Division one National Champion wrestler 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:46.960 or something like that. Maybe not, he wasn't that good, 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.800 but he used to wrestle. And what I want you 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:51.880 to know about your dad, Corbyn is that he's had 0:01:51.920 --> 0:01:55.320 my back at every turn, no matter what I've asked 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:58.080 him to do for the ministry Daylan, He's had my 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.000 back at every turn. It's absolutely amazing that whatever we 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.680 asked him to do to serve God, he did it. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.360 There are pastors and ministry that we're burning out and 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.440 we would always send your dad and we say, if 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:15.360 we can send him lb, it'll be like a intravenous anointing. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.880 Thousands of churches around the world would say we would 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.560 not be who we are without him. And I say 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:24.680 that to you today, Thank you for everything you've sown. 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.600 I want you to welcome to this pulpit today the 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:32.480 man who has had more job titles at Elevation Church 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:38.000 than I've had hair styles, the Great Larry Bride, come on, 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:53.200 help help help me. How are we doing elevation? Oh? 0:02:53.240 --> 0:03:01.160 I said, how are we doing elevation? Woo? It's hard 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.240 to come up after that, Pastor Stephen, I love you. 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.120 Fifteen years ago I said to all that you have 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:11.960 in mind, know with you heart and soul, my answers Yes. Now, 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.040 whatever question you ask, the answer will always be yes. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.040 I wonder if you've already said yes to the question 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.120 that's waiting to be asked of you. I wonder what 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.560 would happen of your life if you predetermined the answer 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.840 before you ever asked the questions. Let's not have conditional faith. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.320 Let's not have a faith it's based upon convenience or 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:33.360 comfort is simply saying yes, Lord, Yes, Lord. And in 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.880 the past year and a half, all of us have 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:38.200 experienced this thing called COVID. And I think there's two 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:40.880 parts of every story that I get into that I 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.520 always hear, and the first one is something like this, 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.840 and then COVID happened. They could be talking about a marriage, 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.560 they could be talking about a funeral, they could be 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:50.840 talking about school, they could be talking about alone, and 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:54.360 then COVID happened, and it's real. It happened. It did, 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.960 and it's affected all of our lives. But there's always 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:58.800 the second part of every story that I'm a part of. 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.920 Anybody who goes to elevation. First part is then COVID happened, 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.960 and the second part is and then Pastor Stephen preached, 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.680 it's real COVID happened, but there's a greater reality in 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.240 the word of God. I'm so glad that we live 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:16.200 in a house that there's a greater reality. And then 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:20.919 Pastor Stephen preached, what was it for you? Because he 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.000 preaches sermons every week that'll encourage you. But there's some 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:28.360 that marked the moment. Maybe it was comfort food, same 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:33.640 Devil's new levels, built different what you call small unlearn 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:39.520 your limitations. For me, though, it was it was lonely places. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.880 That was the sermon that marked COVID for me, because 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:47.440 COVID affected us. But there's a greater reality, and there 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:49.279 was thirty people in the room last July when Pastor 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.920 Stephen preached this sermon, and he walked off the stage 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.480 into that entire section here at Balentown, there's nobody in it. 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:57.680 And he got in the fourth row, one two three, four, 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:00.360 second seat over and he sat there and he talked 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:05.560 about the lonely places. And for me, that hit me 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.880 because that lonely place, I wanted to stay as far 0:05:09.920 --> 0:05:12.920 away from it as I could. I stay away from 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.240 it by getting busy just saying how you doing today, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.839 blessed highly favored brother, Like, I'll do everything I can 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:25.840 to avoid that lonely place. But Pastor Stephen does this 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.560 thing where he kind of forces you into that seat 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:30.040 in a loving way, and he forces you to look 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:33.240 at what you've been hiding from. And today I want 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.400 to talk about what God showed me in that lonely place. 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.520 I watched the sermon eight times that week, and I 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.119 cried every time because God was revealing wave after wave 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.760 after wave of his revelation of the place that I 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:47.520 didn't want to get to. That I found the blessing 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.760 when I sat in it. And I just want to 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.640 unpack for a few moments with you. What God showed 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.480 me in that lonely place. Maybe this would encourage you 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.320 for anybody's in that lonely place, for anybody who feels 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.440 like they're outcast or overlooked, for anybody who feels like 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:01.920 they're marginal or push to the periphery of life. This 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.839 is a word for you. God's gonna meet you in 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:05.800 this place, and it's not just gonna encourage you. It's 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.280 gonna mark the moment. It's gonna mark the moment of 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.000 your life. Help me thank Pastor Stephen every week for 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.719 getting in this pulpit and preach your words that we 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.360 live on. I love me, Pastor Stephen, Thank you, We 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.600 honor you. And the character I want to give you 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.360 a couple verses and then he'll be seated. The character 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:26.120 that God led me to is Moses. It's in Exodus 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:30.400 chapter three, just a few verses. This is what I 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:32.120 learned in that lonely place that maybe you to be 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.200 encouraged with Exodus three, verses one to six. It says 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.080 now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.400 in law, the priest Obmitian. He led the fuck flocked 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.000 to the far side of the wilderness and came to 0:06:43.040 --> 0:06:45.240 horror of the mountain of God. They're an angel of 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.120 the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.400 within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:53.960 on fire, it did not burn up. So Moses thought, 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.839 I will go over and see this strange sight. Why 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.880 does this bush not burn up? When the Lord saw 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:02.720 that Moses had gone over to look, he called him 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:07.920 from within the bush, Moses. Moses. Moses said, here I am. 0:07:08.040 --> 0:07:10.280 We would do well to consider the cadence of this text. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.160 God is present, but his voice is absent, and it's 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:17.680 easy for us to stand at a distance saying God speak, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.520 but her feet aren't moving. And the progression of the 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:26.240 text indicates that as Moses moved, God spoke. And I 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.480 want to celebrate your decision to move towards God today, 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.400 to get out of bed and go to the Orlando campus, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.520 to get out of bed and go to the Gaston campus, 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:34.480 to roll over in bed, and to click on the 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:38.280 Lincoln just to watch those small movements God sees. And 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.760 when you make one small step towards God, he comes 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.640 moving towards you. As some of you fell like God, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.680 you're at a distance, And I can't hear you. Just 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:52.880 move towards him and trust that he will speak to you. Today, says, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.400 do not come any closer. God said, take off your 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.880 sandals for the place where you are standing his holy ground. 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:00.400 Then he said, I am the God of your the 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.600 God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:08.480 of Jacob. At this Moses hid his face because he 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.960 was afraid to look at God. And for a few 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.640 minutes we have together. I want to considered this subject. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.280 I need your help announcing the sermon title to your neighbor. 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.400 If you're in a room, maybe you'd say it out 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.160 loud to your cat, it's this. It's look at you. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:24.840 Look at your neighbor and say this to him. Say 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.360 let's face it now. Maybe there's somebody else you would 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.120 have preferred to talk to. Look at them and say 0:08:30.400 --> 0:08:32.360 let's face it. Maybe in the comments you would drop 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.680 in like some emojis, type in the title less face 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.679 you guys can be seated here at balance on all 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.840 of our locations. Thank you, worship team. Now. When I 0:08:41.000 --> 0:08:43.800 was in third grade, I loved school. I loved it. 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.080 I would sit for hours in the living room and 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.120 doing my math and doing my science and doing my words. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.160 It was amazing. I would hear my mom, little Dorothy 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:54.319 four foot eleven, on a good day. She would be 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.199 yelling from the kitchen like, I'm so proud of you, 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.480 my baby, hur glees, you looked, You're so good. And 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.000 I'm like, yeah, my mom is proud of me. I'm smart. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.400 She's like, you're so smart, You're so smart. And then 0:09:07.520 --> 0:09:10.160 one day at school, my third grade teacher, Missus Rasmus, 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:12.560 and she gave me a note to take home to 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.800 my mom. It was stapled together, and I thought, oh, 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:17.280 my gosh, she wants to like throw a party from 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.760 me or something. She's so proud of me. I bet 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:21.640 I'm gonna win like student of the Month award or 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.760 something like that. So, of course I did what every 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.160 third grader does. I opened the note. I did staple 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:28.600 didn't mean anything that was insignificant. I opened the note, 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:32.240 but I tried to read it. But that was the problem. 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.440 I couldn't read very good. And so I can make 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.720 out a couple of words. I can make out one 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:41.520 of the words like special. I'm like, oh, Missus Rasmussen 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.720 thinks I'm special. Oh, this is amazing. Yes, Missus Rasmus 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.079 is thank you, and then I can make out another 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:52.560 word like slow. I'm like, obviously she's not seen me. 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.320 In pe like, I am the fastest kid in the school, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.280 Missus rasmus, and I am very fast, fooking me, she 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.960 must not have seen me. And I came to this 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:02.880 other word that I tried to read, and I like, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.120 I asked my buddy Paul, I said what's this word? 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.520 And he said remedial. I said, what's that meaning? He said, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:15.640 it means you're stupid. And I can tell you what 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:18.920 I was wearing. I could tell you where I was standing. 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:21.560 And that was the first moment in my life. I 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:25.600 felt shame. I felt it. It was like a clo, 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.000 like a coat you put on me, and I wore it. 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:31.080 And so I took the note and I folded it 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:32.719 back up, and I'm trying to figure out in a 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:33.880 way to give this to my mom. But I'm not 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:35.720 going to give it to my mom. So I took 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.520 my little Duke's of hazard lunchbox. And on one side 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:41.040 it opened up and you had the thermis and all 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:42.360 this stuff and it. But on the other side, if 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.440 it had like a secret compartment, the other lid opened, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:46.480 and you would put your napkin in there and your 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.880 soup spoon and all that stuff. So I thought, that's 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.240 where I'm going to put my note. So I hit 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:54.880 it in that little secret compartment. So when I took 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:56.439 it home and I gave my mom my lunchbox. The 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.079 next day missus rasmus and said, did you give the 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.920 note to your mom? I'm like, yes, I did. Isn't 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.120 it amazing what shame will cause you to do that's 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:08.400 inconsistent with your character? Isn't it amazing what shame will 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:12.439 get you to do? And that day I went home, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.600 my mom said, are you gonna do your math? I 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.720 remember telling you no, Mom, I'm not very good at it. 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:23.320 She's what do you mean? I just I'm kind of 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.880 done with that, mom. So I go back to school 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.640 and the next week, teacher's like, will your mom hasn't 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.360 called me because there was no text message back in 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:33.000 this day, And she goes, here's another note. Take it home. 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:34.400 So I put it right with the other note in 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.040 my duke's that it has her lunchbox. A couple of 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.040 weeks go by, she finally feels like, I don't think 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:39.840 your mom's getting these notes. So here's what we're gonna do. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:44.280 She staples the note to my shirt. True story. Of course, 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:45.640 I took it off my shirt and I put it 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.319 right in with the other ones. And a couple of 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.040 weeks go by, and Missus Rasmus is like, make sure 0:11:51.040 --> 0:11:53.240 you give your mom that note so she can call me. 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:54.600 And I can't even look at her, because you know, 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:56.559 what shame causes you to do, doesn't even let you 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.120 look anybody in the face. Shame makes you feel so 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:01.679 unworthy you can't look at anybody. I can't even look 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.640 at Missus Rasmussen. And that little boy who used to 0:12:04.679 --> 0:12:06.719 do all those math things died and he would never 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.120 come alive again. And I'm walking on the way out 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:12.640 to the school bus and accidentally hit my lunchbox against 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.840 the desk and it opens up and out floats all 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:21.439 my notes. Missus Rasmussen sees it. She's like, Larry, and 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:26.240 I hide my face and I just start crying. She 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:29.520 comes in so gender gently and she says, LB, Larry. 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.680 She says, you've got a learning disability. But I'm with you. 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:37.480 She said, let's face it. So in the text, when 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:40.640 Moses hides his face, I identify with that situation. That's 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.320 the lonely space. That's the place where you go to 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.040 where you hide your face because you don't even feel 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.440 worthy to look anybody else in the face. That's that 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:50.199 lonely space for me. So when God comes to Moses 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:53.480 in this scene in chapter three of Exodus, I get it. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:55.600 God's got a job for him to do, and he's like, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.560 not me. He gives them all these excuses, not me, 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.440 Send somebody else? Should I tell him? What about all 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.960 these things? And finally he gives this answer. In verse 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.160 ten of chapter four says Moses said to the Lord, 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.960 pardon your servant. Lord, I've never been eloquent, neither in 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.880 the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.800 I am slow of speech and sung. And if you've 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.080 grown up around the church world, you've heard that voice before. 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.520 And every time you hear the character of Moses preach, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:25.640 he sounds a little bit like Forrest Gump with a stutter, 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:30.720 because I can't talk very good. And that's the story 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:33.000 you've heard your whole life, and you've believed a lie 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.320 because that's not true. This is the part about the 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:40.760 lonely place and makes you believe lies. That are not real. 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:45.200 They're not real. Because as I jumped into this lonely 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.080 place and I started to inspect the story of Moses, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.319 I came to the Book of Acts where it's recorded. 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.439 Luke records this in seven twenty two, and this busted 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.120 the bubble of my perception of Moses. And maybe God 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:59.880 wants to bust your bubble for how you see yourself today, 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.920 the stereotypes you have labeled yourself with the things you said, 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.600 I'm not going to do math because I'm dumb, because 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.559 in Acts seven twenty two it says this is as 0:14:09.679 --> 0:14:13.800 Moses was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:20.480 and was powerful is speech and what like. That's got 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.040 to be a typo that doesn't really happen. That's not 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:25.040 in the Bible. Because I always thought that Moses was 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:28.040 slow and he was dumb. But what you're telling me 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:29.680 is in the text. If there's a place where it 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.640 says he was powerful in speech and an action. It's 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.240 the same word the pastor referenced a couple of weeks 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.240 ago when you talked about the Holy Spirit, when it 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.880 comes on you, it will give you power. It's the 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.600 same word that te's talked of Jesus. He says, with him, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:47.080 all things are possible. So if the limitless potential of 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:50.720 God is in this moment, why is Moses responding with 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:55.920 an inferior answer? And it made me examine myself. Are 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:59.840 my answers really just excuses rooted in insecurity or are 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:06.080 they responses grounded in truth? What answers have you been 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:09.680 giving that are rooted in insecurity? Because it's the story 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:12.680 you believed when you were in third grade? I'm stupid? 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:17.520 Where's that at? This is the lonely place for me? 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:19.680 This is the place when God took me to that 0:15:19.760 --> 0:15:21.600 space I didn't want to look at because I couldn't 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:28.040 look at myself. But before we impuneis character, it's important 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:30.840 that we look at the backstory. Never judge the behavior 0:15:30.840 --> 0:15:34.160 without knowing the backstory, and then never never because how 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.440 did he get here? That would be a good question 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.120 for you to type into the comments. How did you 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:40.280 get here? How did you get to this point? How 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.000 did you get to these beliefs? How did you get 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.480 into the system where that defines through you are? How 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.040 did you get here? And you're just saying, well, I'm 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:49.400 just not very smart. That's a lie, shut your pie hole. 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:55.280 That's not true. But Moses believed it. But God simply 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:59.040 ministered to Moses in the moment. But let's look at 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.920 the backstory. I want to summarize. If you flip a 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.800 chapter over into Exodus chapter two, you could type into 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:06.800 the comments this would be your additional reading during the week. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.280 Verses one to ten. Let me just summarize for you. 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:11.840 Moses is born onto the scene. He's got a mom 0:16:11.840 --> 0:16:15.440 and a dad, am Ram his dad, and Jocobed is mom. 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.440 And at that time an issue, an order had been 0:16:19.480 --> 0:16:23.560 issued among the Israelites from Pharaoh, the king of the Egyptians, 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.360 who said, hey, the firstborn must be thrown into the 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.120 Nile river. The Israelites are getting too big. We can't 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:31.880 let him overtake us, so we need to exterminate some 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:34.640 of them. So they have a baby, and the scripture 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.200 says that he was a fine child. It says that 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.280 he was special in the king James. It says goodly. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:44.760 It's the same word that when God created he said 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:49.600 it was very good. The mark of God was on Moses. 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.640 His mom and dad saw it, and they said we 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:55.720 have to protect it. And so this week, when somebody 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.080 asks you how you doing. Don't let it be just 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.840 a back end comments and I'm good. No, no no, no, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.840 say say I'm good. I'm good. God made me, God 0:17:04.920 --> 0:17:10.720 formed me, God fashioned me. I'm good. I'm good. And 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.800 Moses mom and dad and they saw it. So they 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:18.240 hid him for three months. Wait, no, as a grown man, 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:22.879 he's hiding his face. And his life started at obscurity. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.960 Being hidden by his parents. Was his behavior something that 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:29.840 was created by God or conditioned by man? Was the 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.159 environment that you grew up in? Did it shape you 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.080 to change your decisions for how you expressed yourself as 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:40.160 an adult? How did you get here? Moses? It wasn't 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.720 the story in that day. It was the story that 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.359 had been unfolding his whole life, and you got to 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.359 peel it back. You will not understand the scene of 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.680 your life unless you rewind the movie a little bit. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.040 And Moses, he's hidden. And they said when he can 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.119 hide him no longer. They had to put him in 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.000 a basket and toss him out under the Nile River. 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.480 Mama had to abandoned him because she didn't know what 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.080 to do with him. Could it be that God has 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.280 hidden something in your heart and you haven't known what 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:09.240 to do with it, and you've been staring at the 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.440 situations say it's not gonna happen, So I guess I'll 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.840 just abandon it. I wonder how many abandoned dreams are 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.359 left on the floor of all of our services because 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.720 you have given up on it and you've less settled 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.879 for the lie. I'm just not smart, I'm not good. No, 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:26.320 that's not true. That's not true. That's not true. So 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:28.480 she has to abandon this thing. Can you imagine the 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.320 pain of jocobet is She just hands over her son 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.719 onto the Nile River, the very thing that was created 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:37.879 to destroy him. Now she has to lay him in. 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.160 But say but, but MOS's older sister, Miriam, was watching 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.040 at a distance, and she sees where the basket comes 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:48.760 against the shore, and it just so happens that it's 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.840 near Pharaoh's daughter where she's coming down. And she's seeing this, 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.479 and God sees you, and you might feel like you've 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.120 been tossed out into the waves of life. But God 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.000 is controlling the current, and he controlled where she landed. 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:02.800 And she sees Pharaoh's daughter come and get this baby, 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.639 and she just happens. Oh do you want me to 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:06.800 go get one of the Hebrew mamas to nurse him 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:12.080 for you. She says yes, So she takes Moses back 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:15.879 to his mom. Imagine the joy and Jocobed and hearing like, 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:18.120 oh my gosh, this thing that I gave away come 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.640 back to me. Oh my soul in the story gets 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:23.399 even better. They're gonna pay me to do it. Oh, 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:25.639 I declare over you. Whatever the devil has caused you 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:27.800 to forfeit, God's gonna restore and He's gonna make him 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.080 pay for it. God's gonna make him pay for it. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.480 And he paid for it, and it comes back to her. 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:37.679 Oh my God, you brought this back to me. But 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:39.879 then she hears the other part of the story. But 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:41.680 you can only have him for a certain time because 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:47.840 Pharaoh's daughter wants him as her son. What God, this 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:51.719 is in faith? Or maybe it really is. So now 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:54.560 Jocobed begins this process of training up a child in 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.120 the way he should go, because she knows she's only 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.800 got a finite time with him. Some theologians it would 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.960 have been only about four years up to about eight 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.480 years because the child would have needed to be weaned. 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:06.080 But in that time there wasn't a whole lot of 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.840 bread on the Israelite tables, so they would nurse these 0:20:08.920 --> 0:20:11.199 children as long as they can be could because it 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:13.840 kept more food on the table. So it's a reasonable 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:16.920 to assume that Jokobed was delaying the process as much 0:20:16.920 --> 0:20:18.960 as she could because she didn't want to hand this 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:20.880 child over, but she knew she would have to one day. 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:23.000 So she begins the process of every day looking at 0:20:23.000 --> 0:20:26.400 most and say, Moses, you're special. You're a deliverer. Your 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:28.960 God is the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. You're 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:30.760 a creative for it to be a deliverer of Moses. 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.200 And every day she's speaking over him. She'd speaking over him, 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.920 she'd speaking over and she'd make him repeat it back. Moses, 0:20:36.119 --> 0:20:38.800 you're a deliverer. You are special. God's hand is on 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.240 your left. Your God is the God of Abraham, Isaac 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.520 and Jacob. Because she knows she's got to give him 0:20:43.560 --> 0:20:46.119 over to a household of the Egyptians, and not just 0:20:46.200 --> 0:20:49.760 any household, the household of Pharaoh. Ramsey's the second, the 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:52.240 one who wanted all the Israelite baby's dead. She's got 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:55.439 to give her baby too. You imagine the uncertainty of 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:57.320 the situation, and she's got to hand her son over 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.679 every day. Moses, you can do this, Moses, you can 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:01.600 do this. Moses. Your God is the God of Abraham, 0:21:01.760 --> 0:21:04.440 Isaac and Jacob. And every day, every day, every day 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.399 training up this child, because she knows he'd end up 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.879 in a household where they did not believe that God 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:12.520 is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Know they 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:14.600 had a bunch of other gods. There were polyheistic, they 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.359 worshiped everything, not the true God, not the living God. 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:20.040 So she's got to hide the word in his heart. 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:21.760 That's who he can endure that environment when he gets 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.840 handed over. Imagine the pain of jocobt as she holds 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:26.919 her boy's hand and she's got tears welling up, but 0:21:27.000 --> 0:21:28.600 she can't let him be expressed. He's got to say, 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.400 remember who you are, Moses, Remember who you are, Remember 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:33.680 who you are. And she's gonna walk this child over 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.160 to be handed over to the Egyptians. Remember Moses, Remember Moses, 0:21:37.200 --> 0:21:39.720 Remember Moses. And I have to believe the sound of 0:21:39.760 --> 0:21:42.960 Mom's voice is ringing in Moses's ears, because now he's 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:45.320 got to be handed over to the Egyptians, and the 0:21:45.400 --> 0:21:50.280 first thing he hears over here is forget, forget all that. 0:21:50.400 --> 0:21:54.919 Don't let anybody know you're a Hebrew. Don't let anybody know. 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.520 He is trying to be conformed into the image of 0:21:57.560 --> 0:22:01.120 an idol. In the Egyptian household, he would have had 0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:05.320 his clothes changed. Outside the palace, he would have been 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:08.439 given a completely new haircut, and he was given the 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.000 name Moses. Moses was not his first name. That was 0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:13.200 his second name. We don't even know his first name. 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:16.480 That was not his Jewish name, that was his Egyptian name. 0:22:16.920 --> 0:22:18.760 And so by the time he gets to the palace, 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:20.960 he's hearing from his new mom forget all that, don't 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.159 let anybody know, don't let anybody know. But I have 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:25.560 to believe. In his heart, he still hears mama's voice, 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:30.520 Mama speaking over my mama said. My mama said, I'm 0:22:30.560 --> 0:22:33.920 a deliverer. My mama said, I am special. My mama said, 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:39.040 my Goddess, God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Because he's 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:40.919 gonna have to sit in a religion class, because he 0:22:40.960 --> 0:22:43.159 was trained by all the smartest Egyptian minds, and they 0:22:43.200 --> 0:22:44.919 were the leaders in the world at that time. And 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:46.639 he's got to send in their science classes and their 0:22:46.680 --> 0:22:49.359 religion classes when they hear about the god raw, the 0:22:49.359 --> 0:22:50.800 God of the sun, or the God of the moon, 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:52.640 or the God of the alligators. They had all these 0:22:52.640 --> 0:22:54.720 gods they worship, And I have to believe he's sitting 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.680 in these classes going, yeah, you get your rah my God. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.400 He's the god of ava, Isaac and Jacob, and he 0:23:02.400 --> 0:23:05.680 hears Mama's voice, just encouraging him, just encouraging him. Pastor 0:23:05.760 --> 0:23:09.120 Stephen preached it last week. Spiritual growth isn't always learning 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:12.600 something new, it's remembering something old. I wish I could 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:14.320 shake every single one and say, do you remember who 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:16.159 you are? Do you remember who you are? Do you 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:18.200 remember who you are? Do you remember who you are? 0:23:20.560 --> 0:23:23.320 So Moses gets raised in his household, and then the 0:23:23.359 --> 0:23:27.639 story continues. In Acts chapter seven it says this. In 0:23:27.680 --> 0:23:31.639 Acts seven twenty three, it says when Moses was forty 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:35.440 years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites. 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:39.520 Interesting story. I believe that Moses knew who he was, 0:23:40.560 --> 0:23:43.439 He knew whose he was, and he knew his purpose. 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:46.760 He weathered the storms for forty years of living in 0:23:46.760 --> 0:23:49.000 an Egyptian household, and the moment came. This is the 0:23:49.000 --> 0:23:51.040 moment God, this is what I was created for, this 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:52.800 is what I'm called to do. I'm ready. I'm gonna 0:23:52.880 --> 0:23:54.639 jump onto the scene, and I'm gonna deliver my people. 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:57.440 Here we go, God, Here we go God. And because 0:23:57.720 --> 0:23:59.800 verse the next verse that tells us a verse twenty four, 0:24:00.600 --> 0:24:04.000 he saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, 0:24:04.640 --> 0:24:06.439 so he went to his defense and avenged him by 0:24:06.520 --> 0:24:12.480 killing the Egyptian Verse twenty five. Moses thought that his 0:24:12.560 --> 0:24:15.840 own people would realize God was using him to rescue them, 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:22.560 but they did not. The whole story hinges on that 0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:28.520 verse right there, But they did not. I shuld Stephen 0:24:28.560 --> 0:24:30.640 Law preached last week. Then they gathered, there's a good 0:24:30.680 --> 0:24:34.240 day and there's a bad day. But they did not 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:37.280 see Moses. He was prepared to stand against the Egyptian, 0:24:37.320 --> 0:24:39.520 but he wasn't ready to battle the disbelief of his 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:46.760 own people. He was prepared for the enemy, he wasn't 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:50.720 prepared for the friend. We teach our kids to fight 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:54.119 the devil, but will we teach him to endure their friends? 0:24:56.000 --> 0:25:00.080 But they did not. There was someone who's supposed to 0:25:00.119 --> 0:25:03.600 look out for you but they did not. They said 0:25:03.600 --> 0:25:05.840 they would be with you for good or for bad, 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:09.119 for better or for worse, but they did not. They 0:25:09.320 --> 0:25:10.960 said they were going to care for you, but they 0:25:11.000 --> 0:25:13.000 did not. They said they were going to protect you, 0:25:13.080 --> 0:25:15.639 but they did not. Who is they? Who were the 0:25:15.680 --> 0:25:17.439 ones that were supposed to be there for you that 0:25:17.520 --> 0:25:20.480 they did not? And it's not always the big day. 0:25:21.680 --> 0:25:25.520 Sometimes it's you thought it was funny, but they did not. 0:25:27.560 --> 0:25:30.480 You thought they'd be proud of you for going to 0:25:30.520 --> 0:25:37.959 that church, but they did not. And it was the 0:25:38.000 --> 0:25:41.080 rejection of the people he was called to rescue that 0:25:41.200 --> 0:25:44.480 caused him to pause in this moment. The very people 0:25:44.520 --> 0:25:47.520 he was sent to rescue rejected him. Sounds very much 0:25:47.560 --> 0:25:52.800 like Jesus, doesn't it. And the story continues. It says 0:25:53.240 --> 0:25:55.840 the next day, Moses came upon to Israelites who were fighting. 0:25:56.200 --> 0:25:59.280 He tried to reconcile them, but say, men, you are brothers, 0:25:59.520 --> 0:26:02.480 and I'm brother. Why do you want to hurt each other? 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:05.040 But the man who was mistreating the other pushed Moses 0:26:05.040 --> 0:26:11.920 aside and said, who made you ruler and judge over us? 0:26:12.880 --> 0:26:15.919 And what you see in this pivot point, this is 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:20.159 a lynch pin in the story of Moses. This is 0:26:20.200 --> 0:26:24.000 the shift in his life is up until this point, 0:26:24.040 --> 0:26:27.240 He's like, I'm created, I'm ready, here's my moment, this 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:31.159 is going to happen. But they did not. And the 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:33.520 voice of his mother saying you're creative for this and 0:26:33.560 --> 0:26:35.560 you can do this, it faded in this moment. He 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:41.960 could not remember it. Their disbelief caused his doubt. Wow, 0:26:41.320 --> 0:26:49.399 whose disbelief has caused your doubt? But they were supposed 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:52.080 to be there for you. I just don't think they'd 0:26:52.119 --> 0:26:54.280 be the smartest decision with your life. But they did not. 0:26:56.960 --> 0:27:03.840 Don't let they keep you from knowing who who? Here's 0:27:03.880 --> 0:27:06.720 the question? Who made you rule and judge over us? 0:27:07.560 --> 0:27:09.640 Moses could have appealed at two different levels. He's got 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:12.080 two nature He's got an Egyptian nature and he's got 0:27:12.080 --> 0:27:15.160 a Jewish nature. He's a Hebrew and he's an Egyptian. 0:27:15.200 --> 0:27:17.640 He's got both of these natures. And he's so conflicted 0:27:17.680 --> 0:27:19.720 because I'm both of these things. I'm both of these things, 0:27:19.880 --> 0:27:21.439 and some of us are living in a world that 0:27:21.480 --> 0:27:23.840 you're so conflicted. I got one hand raised with a 0:27:23.880 --> 0:27:25.680 red solo cup on Saturday night, but I'm raised it 0:27:25.720 --> 0:27:27.760 in a Sunday in worship, and I'm conflicted. I don't 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:29.919 feel like I belong in either place. I won't make 0:27:29.920 --> 0:27:32.199 it real practical because some of us are straddling the 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:33.800 fence in different worlds and we don't feel like we 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:36.960 belong in either. And when you give equal weight to 0:27:37.000 --> 0:27:41.440 competing voices, you'll always be conflicted. You'll always be conflicted. 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:44.400 But I do believe in my spirit that Moses gave 0:27:44.440 --> 0:27:46.560 greater weight to the voice of his mom and saying, 0:27:46.600 --> 0:27:49.280 you're special your delivery, you're creative for this. And he 0:27:49.320 --> 0:27:52.879 could appeal to either of his natures because that an 0:27:52.880 --> 0:27:55.400 Egyptian nature. He could have said, who made me rule 0:27:55.440 --> 0:27:57.280 and judge over you? You You might have heard of him, 0:27:57.760 --> 0:28:02.240 here's my grandpa Ramsey's the second Pharaoh. Yo, I can 0:28:02.280 --> 0:28:04.719 do whatever I want. I'm the prince of Egypt. He 0:28:04.800 --> 0:28:06.919 had a very natural level that he could have appealed, 0:28:06.920 --> 0:28:08.760 and he would have won that argument. But he did. 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.040 Why did he forfeit his memory in that moment because 0:28:11.080 --> 0:28:14.720 of their disbelief. Their disbelief cost his doubts, and the 0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:18.359 entire direction of his life is shifted because of the doubt. 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:21.520 Who has solen in on you? Who has busted in 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:25.880 on you and sold your faith because of their disbelief. 0:28:27.520 --> 0:28:29.600 But he could have appealed if you had have remembered 0:28:30.160 --> 0:28:36.080 his mama's voice, Who made you ruler and judge over us? Oh? Hey, 0:28:36.080 --> 0:28:41.280 mama said, Mama said, mama, Mama said, Mama, Mama, Mama said, mama. 0:28:41.480 --> 0:28:44.920 Mama said, I'm a deliverer. Mama said, I'm special. Mama said, 0:28:44.920 --> 0:28:47.440 I'm gonna lead to Egyptians or the the Israelites out 0:28:47.440 --> 0:28:50.080 of Egyptian slavery. My God is the god of Abraham, 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:52.440 Isaac and Jacob, So I guess my God made me 0:28:52.520 --> 0:28:54.479 ruler and judge over you. He could have appealed at 0:28:54.480 --> 0:28:56.600 the natural level and at the supernatural level, but he 0:28:56.640 --> 0:29:01.480 forgot both. He forfeited in where in your life? When 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:04.200 you tell the story, you go back to the backstory, 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:07.320 and you can come to this pivot point, where did 0:29:07.400 --> 0:29:12.720 your life shift because of someone else's disbelief that caused 0:29:12.760 --> 0:29:22.680 your doubt? They to forget who The story verse twenty 0:29:22.680 --> 0:29:24.040 eight says, are you thinking of killing me as you 0:29:24.120 --> 0:29:28.840 killed the Egyptian yesterday? When Moses heard this, he didn't 0:29:28.840 --> 0:29:33.720 even answer. He just shut it down and he fled 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:37.720 to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner, and he 0:29:37.800 --> 0:29:42.120 had two sons. He's so intimidated by the situation that 0:29:42.160 --> 0:29:45.040 he ran from it. You'll always be defeated by something 0:29:45.040 --> 0:29:49.480 you're intimidated by. Moses was intimidated by something he did 0:29:49.480 --> 0:29:53.160 not understand, and because he didn't understand it, he was 0:29:53.160 --> 0:29:56.400 intimidated by it. This doesn't make sense. God, I thought 0:29:56.440 --> 0:29:58.320 they were going to receive me, So rather than actually 0:29:58.400 --> 0:30:03.600 sitting in this lonely place, he hides. He was hidden 0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:08.760 for the first three months of his life in Exodus three. 0:30:08.840 --> 0:30:11.760 Read the story where he's hidden. He's hiding his face. 0:30:12.280 --> 0:30:14.440 That's at age eighty. This is at age forty right 0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:16.880 here this scene. So what does he do? He hides 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:22.920 himself and where does he go? Midian Midian? Can anything 0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:27.000 good happen from Nazareth? It's like Midian Midian. The Egyptians 0:30:27.000 --> 0:30:29.720 would have referenced it as the abomination they would have 0:30:29.760 --> 0:30:32.760 called in the scripture, says those detestable shepherds of Midian. 0:30:33.880 --> 0:30:36.320 So Moses has got to go to the place that 0:30:36.480 --> 0:30:38.840 is detestable in the eyes of the family that he had. 0:30:39.560 --> 0:30:42.840 It's the only place he could go to survive and 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:45.040 as Moses is heading towards a new place, and everything 0:30:45.080 --> 0:30:47.000 he had is washed away, and he's going to go 0:30:47.040 --> 0:30:48.240 to a place where he's got to learn a whole 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:51.040 new language, a whole new culture, a whole new family, 0:30:51.200 --> 0:30:53.920 a whole new job. Everything's going to be new. It 0:30:54.000 --> 0:30:55.520 was the second time he would have went through this 0:30:55.560 --> 0:30:58.080 event in his life, because the first time he had 0:30:58.080 --> 0:31:00.320 to do wo and he went to Egypt. But as 0:31:00.360 --> 0:31:02.080 he was going to Egypt, he was heading to Egypt 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:05.920 on with purpose. But now when he's heading towards Midian, 0:31:06.840 --> 0:31:10.440 he's only moving with pain. It's different this time, isn't 0:31:10.440 --> 0:31:14.959 it say? It's different? This time is different from Moses. 0:31:16.000 --> 0:31:19.200 It's different. So when we see his behavior of hiding 0:31:19.200 --> 0:31:20.720 his face in front of God, we got to rewind 0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:25.080 the scene to forty years earlier when he's like, God, 0:31:25.120 --> 0:31:28.560 I tried it your way. I thought I heard you 0:31:28.600 --> 0:31:32.920 in it. It didn't work. So now he's got to 0:31:32.960 --> 0:31:37.640 go live in Midian. He's going to get a new name. 0:31:37.640 --> 0:31:41.440 This would have been his third name. He's got to 0:31:41.440 --> 0:31:45.120 have a whole new family. All that's forgotten. And it 0:31:45.160 --> 0:31:47.760 says he lived as a foreigner in the land for 0:31:47.760 --> 0:31:55.600 forty years whatever's unfamiliar is always foreign. Man. Talk about 0:31:55.600 --> 0:31:59.520 the last eighteen months of our life in this unfamiliar territory. 0:32:00.200 --> 0:32:02.800 But here's the thing. For Moses, even it became more familiar, 0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:06.680 it was no less foreign because he always felt like 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:10.320 he didn't belong there. In fact, he named his first 0:32:10.360 --> 0:32:17.680 son Grisham, which means wanderer, foreigner. And so you got Moses. 0:32:18.320 --> 0:32:21.560 He was that God. I thought, I thought, I heard 0:32:21.560 --> 0:32:25.840 you right, I heard Mama's voice, and I did what 0:32:25.880 --> 0:32:31.080 she said and didn't work out. Didn't work out God, 0:32:31.120 --> 0:32:35.440 because we talk about Moses being Egyptian and being Hebrew. Well, 0:32:35.480 --> 0:32:38.880 for the first seven years of his life he was Hebrew. 0:32:39.360 --> 0:32:42.280 Next thirty three years of his life, he was Egyptian. 0:32:42.640 --> 0:32:44.560 For the next forty he's meeting. We don't even talk 0:32:44.560 --> 0:32:46.920 about that part of his life. Isn't it funny how 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:48.680 you skip over big parts of your life that shaped you, 0:32:48.720 --> 0:32:52.000 and you'd forgot it because you want to forget the 0:32:52.040 --> 0:32:54.560 foreign part of it, and you want to sit in 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:56.800 a moment, how you doing a blessed and highly favored sister, 0:32:58.600 --> 0:33:01.880 But you're a foreigner and Moses. So when the scene 0:33:01.920 --> 0:33:05.120 in Exodus three gets picked up, it says, Moses went 0:33:05.160 --> 0:33:10.480 to the far side of the wilderness, the far as 0:33:10.520 --> 0:33:14.200 far away from God as you could be, And he 0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:18.480 paints a picture of Moses sitting in this place, and 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:22.480 it's an image of contentment. There's two competing visions of 0:33:22.480 --> 0:33:25.480 contentment in the scriptures. One of them is from the 0:33:25.520 --> 0:33:28.680 apostle Paul when he pens the book to the Philippian Church. 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:31.600 I know what it is to be in plenty, and 0:33:31.640 --> 0:33:33.920 I know what it is to be in want. I 0:33:33.960 --> 0:33:36.080 know itice have everything and nothing, he says, and have 0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:40.720 learned the secret of being content. And he says, this 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:44.840 is all I'll ever be. And it's the highest potential 0:33:44.880 --> 0:33:47.800 possibility for contentment, because it doesn't matter where you put me, 0:33:47.960 --> 0:33:50.520 it doesn't matter what happens to me. I know who 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:54.480 I am. I know and I know whose I am. 0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:58.720 This is all I'll ever be. The pendulum swing of 0:33:58.800 --> 0:34:03.320 contentment now goes way over here to Moses, and he's 0:34:03.360 --> 0:34:07.360 sitting in the desert, far away from the promises, and 0:34:07.440 --> 0:34:12.080 all he has is pain, and he says, this is 0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:17.719 all I'll ever be. A foreigner, a wanderer, this is 0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:21.480 my lot in life. And it's the lowest expression that 0:34:21.520 --> 0:34:25.719 you could have for your faith. I vacillate between these 0:34:25.960 --> 0:34:29.120 different levels of contentment. I like to be like Paul, 0:34:29.160 --> 0:34:34.160 but some days I'm a lot like Moses, and I 0:34:34.200 --> 0:34:36.840 get it. So when God comes to him and Exitdus three, 0:34:36.960 --> 0:34:39.520 I get it. I get it. I get it. And 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:41.520 he hides his face. He didn't start hiding his face 0:34:41.520 --> 0:34:43.680 in that moment. He started hiding it forty years earlier. 0:34:43.840 --> 0:34:46.680 It's been in motion for forty years, and now you 0:34:46.719 --> 0:34:49.400 just see the expression of it. And so God comes 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:52.040 to him in the middle of this bush and accent 0:34:52.160 --> 0:34:53.640 it picks up the story here, and I love the 0:34:53.640 --> 0:34:56.760 way that axe unfolds this acts thirty. It says after 0:34:56.880 --> 0:35:00.319 forty years had passed, and the Angel he heard to 0:35:00.320 --> 0:35:03.160 Moses in the flames of the burning bush in the 0:35:03.160 --> 0:35:06.760 desert of Mount Sina. When he saw this, he was amazed. 0:35:06.760 --> 0:35:08.440 At the side. He went over to get a closer look, 0:35:08.440 --> 0:35:10.439 and he heard the Lord say, I am the God 0:35:10.480 --> 0:35:14.560 of your father's, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 0:35:15.400 --> 0:35:17.200 and the God of Jacob. Moses trembled with fear, and 0:35:17.239 --> 0:35:21.600 he dared not look. It brought Moses to the place 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:24.560 where he's covering his face and I get it. I 0:35:24.560 --> 0:35:27.440 get why he did it in that moment. So I 0:35:27.520 --> 0:35:31.840 so resonate in that moment with Moses as he's because 0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:33.799 in the scripture it says that he called he called 0:35:33.840 --> 0:35:36.839 his name twice, God did Moses, Moses. It's a Hebrew 0:35:36.920 --> 0:35:40.080 term of intimacy, means that God is close, means he's 0:35:40.080 --> 0:35:43.200 whispering because he's he's close. But I also think there's 0:35:43.200 --> 0:35:45.040 a practical reason why he had to say his name 0:35:45.080 --> 0:35:52.160 twice Moses, and Moses like, who I heard that name 0:35:52.200 --> 0:35:57.600 a long time? Who's who's that? And he hears the 0:35:57.640 --> 0:36:03.399 second Moses, Oh, that God died a long time ago. 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:08.520 I didn't even want to think about him. I just no, 0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:11.759 I can't even go there, Like, don't kick that door 0:36:11.800 --> 0:36:14.839 back up. And he thinks it's just his mama's voice 0:36:14.840 --> 0:36:18.640 in his head. But he pushed that down a long 0:36:18.719 --> 0:36:21.359 time ago. That voice died and that part of him 0:36:21.440 --> 0:36:24.480 was over. But he thinks it's just mama's voice. And 0:36:24.480 --> 0:36:29.319 then he realizes, like, this is mama's voice, This is 0:36:29.360 --> 0:36:31.759 actually the God that my mama spoke about talking to me, 0:36:34.200 --> 0:36:38.440 and he hides his face. I get it. He's given 0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:40.880 up on everything and now the God that he had 0:36:40.920 --> 0:36:43.840 heard about is coming to him, and he's like, I 0:36:43.920 --> 0:36:49.120 can'd no leave me alone, God. And his response to 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:51.200 God in this moment is amazing, and I think it 0:36:51.239 --> 0:36:54.040 paints a picture for the struggle of the lonely place. 0:36:54.080 --> 0:36:57.040 And Exodus three eleven, it says, but Moses said to God, 0:36:57.360 --> 0:37:01.319 and he says, who am I? Who am I? God? 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:03.600 I don't know who I am? Am I an Israelite? 0:37:04.280 --> 0:37:07.920 Am I an Egyptian? Am I a Midianite? Am I? 0:37:07.960 --> 0:37:10.360 A slave? Am I A prince? Am I a shepherd? 0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:13.240 Am I A failure? Am I a mistake? Who am I? God? 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:19.919 I don't know who I am? Leave me alone? Want 0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:22.240 nothing to do with you. I tried to eat your way. 0:37:22.600 --> 0:37:25.120 I stepped out like my mama said, and it didn't work. 0:37:26.160 --> 0:37:32.560 Just leave me alone. And I love the tenderness of 0:37:32.600 --> 0:37:36.480 God in this moment. I love how God just gently 0:37:36.560 --> 0:37:38.920 pushes past of all the excuses that He's given in 0:37:38.960 --> 0:37:41.200 this moment. And I think this is what God is 0:37:41.200 --> 0:37:43.520 speaking over you today as well. I think this is 0:37:43.560 --> 0:37:45.000 what he's telling you because some of you know that 0:37:45.080 --> 0:37:49.399 hiding place you go to, and Moses is saying, God, 0:37:49.440 --> 0:37:51.000 I can't look at you because I can't even look 0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:57.879 at myself. And verse twelve, God said, and God said, 0:37:59.160 --> 0:38:06.760 I will be with you. Because I think God's telling Moses. Moses, 0:38:06.800 --> 0:38:09.440 up until this point, you've only heard about me from 0:38:09.440 --> 0:38:12.520 your mama. It's sen for you to see me for yourself. 0:38:14.640 --> 0:38:19.680 It's some for you to Moses, I'll be with you 0:38:21.080 --> 0:38:24.319 wherever you go. I'm in it with you. And I 0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:27.640 think God is telling him, let's face it together, I'm 0:38:27.680 --> 0:38:29.719 in this thing with you wherever you go. Because in 0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:32.200 the past, all you took with you into Egypt was 0:38:32.200 --> 0:38:34.799 a memory from your mama. Huh no, no, no, no, 0:38:34.840 --> 0:38:37.000 God is saying, I'm sending you back to Egypt this time, 0:38:37.120 --> 0:38:39.080 and it's not just a memory from your mammy. It's 0:38:39.120 --> 0:38:41.319 my presence that will go with you. I will be 0:38:41.440 --> 0:38:43.879 with you, Moses. I got you. I'm in this thing 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:45.920 with you. You don't have to do this on your own. 0:38:46.600 --> 0:38:48.360 And I think some of us are coming to the 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:50.560 point that maybe God is saying, quit living off of 0:38:50.600 --> 0:38:57.200 mama's faith. Quit living off of mama's faith. It's time 0:38:57.280 --> 0:38:59.520 for you to have your own faith. It's time for 0:38:59.520 --> 0:39:04.080 you to see God face to face. It's time for 0:39:04.120 --> 0:39:07.200 you to embrace God rather than just reject him because 0:39:07.200 --> 0:39:11.160 somebody else rejected you. And I love the tenderness of 0:39:11.200 --> 0:39:15.319 God in this moment, and Moses asked God, like, who 0:39:16.800 --> 0:39:19.520 am I supposed to say? Sent me? Like if I 0:39:19.560 --> 0:39:24.080 go to the Egyptians. In verse fourteen, God said to Moses, 0:39:24.120 --> 0:39:26.680 I am who I am. This is who you are 0:39:26.719 --> 0:39:28.560 to say to what you say to the Israelites. I 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:32.880 am has sent you. And I think what God was 0:39:32.920 --> 0:39:35.080 speaking to Moses in this moment. He says, you will 0:39:35.120 --> 0:39:38.919 never know who you are if you don't know who 0:39:38.960 --> 0:39:45.760 I am. You've been searching for answers. You've been searching 0:39:45.760 --> 0:39:50.120 for answers in yourself. The real answers will only come 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:55.120 outside of yourself. It will only come from that space. 0:39:56.400 --> 0:40:02.400 Who am I God? God's saying, I am, I am 0:40:02.440 --> 0:40:06.640 your God. And for forty years up until this point, 0:40:06.760 --> 0:40:09.960 Moses had lived as a foreigner. He had lived as 0:40:09.960 --> 0:40:14.320 a failure, lived as a fraud, a fake, all these things. 0:40:14.520 --> 0:40:16.200 And he's hiding his face because he can't even look 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:20.480 at himself. And it begins this beautiful relationship that Moses 0:40:20.560 --> 0:40:23.879 gets to have with God. And in Exodus thirty three, 0:40:23.920 --> 0:40:28.160 Levis says the Lord would speak to Moses face to 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:35.040 face as one speaks with a friend. In this moment, 0:40:35.080 --> 0:40:38.120 what I picture is is God gently grabbing Moses by 0:40:38.160 --> 0:40:41.520 the chin and lifting it up so that he could 0:40:41.560 --> 0:40:47.439 see God's face, and he spoke over him. Friend. You've 0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:50.719 lived as a foreigner, but I call you friend. You 0:40:50.760 --> 0:40:53.600 feel like a failure, but I call you friend. You 0:40:53.640 --> 0:40:56.000 feel like you are such a fraud, but I call 0:40:56.080 --> 0:40:58.960 you friend. God speaks over you. I call you friend, 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:01.080 and I will go with you. I will be with you. 0:41:01.160 --> 0:41:04.040 I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake you. I will 0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:09.480 be with you as one speaks with a friend. And 0:41:09.600 --> 0:41:14.520 God is saying to Moses, let's face it together. He 0:41:14.560 --> 0:41:20.640 would see God face to face. And for me sitting 0:41:20.640 --> 0:41:26.279 in that lonely seat over there, this last year has 0:41:26.280 --> 0:41:29.880 stripped a lot away from us. And if I'm really honest, 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:33.200 one of my biggest struggles in my life is always 0:41:33.920 --> 0:41:38.440 my worth coming from my work. My identity is so 0:41:38.560 --> 0:41:42.480 intertwined into what I do, so that as I lost 0:41:42.520 --> 0:41:49.120 parts of job, it wasn't that I lost parts of 0:41:49.160 --> 0:41:54.799 a job. I lost parts of me. And it made 0:41:54.840 --> 0:41:59.640 me wonder like who am I? And I sat in 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:01.880 that seat, and I'm so glad Pastor preached on it 0:42:01.880 --> 0:42:05.840 because it was for me. In that lonely place. I 0:42:05.880 --> 0:42:07.480 had asked the question, God, who am I? Because I 0:42:07.480 --> 0:42:11.359 don't know who I am? And if you're in that seat, 0:42:11.440 --> 0:42:13.440 or you struggle with that seat, maybe you would take 0:42:13.440 --> 0:42:16.880 comfort from how God comforted me. He said, it's the 0:42:16.920 --> 0:42:21.040 right question, who am I? He said, it's just the 0:42:21.040 --> 0:42:25.120 wrong perspective, he said. God said He's spoke into my spirit. 0:42:25.120 --> 0:42:27.680 He said, LB, you keep asking me who you are? 0:42:28.840 --> 0:42:30.680 How about you flip it and you hear me ask 0:42:30.760 --> 0:42:37.160 you who am I? He's my beginning in my end. 0:42:38.600 --> 0:42:42.400 He's my bride and morning star. He's my wonderful counselor. 0:42:42.600 --> 0:42:45.439 He's my ever present help in trouble. He is my rock. 0:42:45.520 --> 0:42:49.239 He's my salvation. He's my mighty refuge. He is the gate. 0:42:50.120 --> 0:42:54.480 He is my Jesus. He is my Savior. But the 0:42:54.520 --> 0:43:00.440 only way I saw that was in the lonely place. 0:43:02.400 --> 0:43:05.680 And I said, and I thought about Moses, why did you? 0:43:07.080 --> 0:43:09.239 Why did you faint in the moment? Like I do. 0:43:10.800 --> 0:43:15.360 Pastor preached borrowed confidence. Once you put your confidence in 0:43:15.440 --> 0:43:19.880 determines when it leaves. I think Moses put his confidence 0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:23.040 in what his mama said. I think he put it 0:43:23.080 --> 0:43:26.239 in what the teachers taught him. I think he put 0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:28.360 it in the thought that they would receive him. And 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:33.279 when that was taken away, he had no confidence. So 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:36.799 if I put my confidence in what I do, when 0:43:36.840 --> 0:43:43.719 that leaves I come to an identity crisis, you and 0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:46.160 I can have confidence in the finished work of Jesus Christ. 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:52.839 You and I can have confidence in the salvaffic work 0:43:52.880 --> 0:43:56.080 of Jesus that He's died a substitutionary death for your 0:43:56.160 --> 0:44:00.000 sin and for my sin. Because as Jesus went up 0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:01.879 onto the cross, they didn't nail him, but he put 0:44:01.920 --> 0:44:04.239 himself up there. They didn't take his life, he gave it. 0:44:04.760 --> 0:44:07.719 And as he's on the cross, all the sin that 0:44:07.719 --> 0:44:09.600 should have been laid on you and on me was 0:44:09.680 --> 0:44:12.959 laid on him. And there was a moment that the sin, 0:44:13.520 --> 0:44:16.320 the wrath, the penalty for all the sin, needed to 0:44:16.360 --> 0:44:19.120 be laid on him. And as he stretched on the cross, 0:44:19.200 --> 0:44:23.640 God had to turn his face away from his son 0:44:24.280 --> 0:44:27.239 for a moment, and the sky grows dark and the 0:44:27.360 --> 0:44:29.880 veil is torn in Jesus Christ out in a loud voice, 0:44:30.000 --> 0:44:33.480 my God, My God, why have you forsaken me? Because 0:44:33.480 --> 0:44:37.480 he didn't see his father's face, he didn't feel his presence. 0:44:38.080 --> 0:44:42.040 And for three days it was dark and the enemy 0:44:42.040 --> 0:44:47.680 thought they had won. But after three days God turns 0:44:47.800 --> 0:44:52.359 his face back towards his sun, and he said, let's 0:44:52.360 --> 0:44:55.880 face it. Here's the keys to hell and the grave 0:44:56.320 --> 0:44:58.719 rising victory, and he broke the end out of a 0:44:58.760 --> 0:45:04.200 borrow too when he rose in victory. You and I, 0:45:06.280 --> 0:45:08.920 You and I can have the assurance that God sees 0:45:09.000 --> 0:45:13.279 you face to face. Why because of the finished work 0:45:13.280 --> 0:45:16.640 of Jesus. Because when God looks at me, he doesn't 0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:24.279 see LB. He sees Jesus. And as Jesus ascended, he said, 0:45:24.320 --> 0:45:28.120 I will not leave you as an orphan, but I 0:45:28.160 --> 0:45:32.359 will send my spirit to live in you. And where 0:45:32.400 --> 0:45:35.719 you go, he will go with you. God promises to 0:45:35.800 --> 0:45:39.880 be with you, to never forsake you, to never leave you. 0:45:39.920 --> 0:45:44.360 And he's saying, let's face it together. Whatever's going on 0:45:44.400 --> 0:45:48.040 in your life, let's face it together, because I'm with you. 0:45:48.120 --> 0:45:49.800 If you go to the mountaintops, I'm there. If you 0:45:49.840 --> 0:45:51.400 go to the depths, I'm there. Where can you go 0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:55.120 to escape his love? He is with you. That's the 0:45:55.160 --> 0:45:57.280 assurance you have if you've placed your faith in Jesus. 0:45:58.040 --> 0:45:59.840 And if you haven't placed your faith in Jesus, this 0:45:59.880 --> 0:46:01.680 is the moment that God brought you to. This is 0:46:01.680 --> 0:46:03.080 the moment that will mark you for the rest of 0:46:03.120 --> 0:46:05.520 your life. If you have never placed your faith in Jesus, 0:46:05.600 --> 0:46:09.240 he is asking you to come in, and he says, 0:46:09.320 --> 0:46:12.680 I will be with you and all of our locations. 0:46:12.719 --> 0:46:16.240 Would you buy your heads and close your eyes. Someone 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:18.279 feels the presence of God in their spirit right now, 0:46:18.920 --> 0:46:21.640 and you feel him calling you back to yourself as 0:46:21.640 --> 0:46:27.400 he ran after Moses, so he's running after you. Forty 0:46:27.440 --> 0:46:31.520 in the Bible means season. The first season of Moses' 0:46:31.840 --> 0:46:37.520 life was marked by man's rejection at age eighty. It 0:46:37.560 --> 0:46:41.560 was marked when he saw God's acceptance. Would you accept 0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:45.279 him today? Would you receive him today? And all of 0:46:45.280 --> 0:46:48.680 our locations, all of our online, our epam. I need 0:46:48.719 --> 0:46:52.120 you to pray with me out loud. Pray this with 0:46:52.160 --> 0:46:54.160 me for the benefit of somebody who's making this decision 0:46:54.160 --> 0:46:57.960 to place your faith in Jesus. I believe that Jesus 0:46:58.000 --> 0:47:02.680 Christ is the son of God who died on the 0:47:02.680 --> 0:47:06.719 cross and rose from the grave to forgive me of 0:47:06.760 --> 0:47:10.640 my sin. I give you my life, I give you 0:47:10.680 --> 0:47:15.160 my sin, I give you my shame. Forgive me, and 0:47:15.200 --> 0:47:19.279 I'll spend my life following you with your head still bouting, 0:47:19.320 --> 0:47:21.480 your eyes still close. If you displace your faith in Jesus, 0:47:21.760 --> 0:47:23.759 I'm going to count to three. When I get there, 0:47:23.760 --> 0:47:26.480 without hesitation, boldly shoot your hand into the air. This 0:47:26.520 --> 0:47:30.399 is your moment. This is the time where you see God. One, two, three, 0:47:30.440 --> 0:47:33.239 shoot your hand up. All of our locations. Come on, 0:47:33.520 --> 0:47:36.680 all of our locations. E Sam, If you just made 0:47:36.719 --> 0:47:39.719 that decision, let us know in the chat. Let us 0:47:39.760 --> 0:47:43.239 know in the chat. Come on, let's celebrate that elevation. 0:47:43.719 --> 0:47:48.360 Come on, no, let's celebrate that elevation. Thank you for 0:47:48.480 --> 0:47:51.000 joining us. Special thanks to those of you who give 0:47:51.120 --> 0:47:54.000 generously to this ministry. 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