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Overtaken: The Holy Spirit's Power and the Egypt of Bondage 0:01 Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible handy, I want you to hold 2 spots. 1 in Deuteronomy chapter 10 and 1 in Luke 4. We're in part 2 right now of a series0:12 called overtaken. And last week, I asked everybody the question, have you ever had a force or a feeling overtake you to the point where there was a visible0:24 change in your thinking, and that led to a change in your behavior where people around you might have asked you what has gotten into you because they're0:36 seeking an explanation for this hidden process and this hidden force or this hidden feeling that has kind of overtaken your spirit, which is leading you0:48 to do stuff that they cannot explain. And that is the exact question, what has gotten in to you, that was asked of the first followers and1:00 believers in Jesus who were filled with the Holy Spirit. People said, what has gotten into them? Now Jesus, as we learned last time, had predicted that his followers would1:12 be overtaken by the power of the Holy Spirit. It was a force inside that would change the way they saw themselves, the way they saw their purpose, the way they saw1:24 where they should put their energy. And he predicted it that it would literally rock their personal world and change the world. Right?1:35 And now as then, what I see happening in male culture, spirit empowered male culture, is a rush1:47 of the Holy Spirit, a wind, a violent wind, a shaking, and a fire that is consuming men who are waiting on, who are seeking,2:00 and who are experiencing that same Holy Spirit impartation that leads to a Holy Spirit ignition and change, and the people around those men2:12 are saying, what is going on with them? What has gotten into them? Right? Now, this goes to our theme overtaken. God wants to overtake2:24 your life through the power of the Holy Spirit to advance his kingdom, and he wants to set you loose in your personal world,2:36 where you live, where you where you work, where you play, where you pray. He wants to overtake you in the power of the Holy Spirit and then begin to advance his kingdom in these2:48 dimensions where you find yourself. He knows exactly what he wants to do now just as he knew exactly what he wanted to do with those first believers3:00 and those first following men. So in part 2 of overtaking, we're gonna look specifically at the first way the Holy Spirit moves through followers to advance God's purposes.3:12 And of course, we're gonna use, the Bible, God's word, Jesus, and the first followers of Jesus as kind of our models. And to get us thinking in the right direction, I want you to think of God's3:23 people in Egypt under the oppressive rule of Pharaoh. Now maybe you've seen the 10 Commandments, maybe you've read the story3:35 of Exodus, or maybe it's just a familiar historical narrative that you're familiar with. But God's people in Egypt, under the3:47 oppressive rule of pharaoh, it's it's a time and it's in a season for God's people, that is a time where they're powerless.3:59 It's a time where they're oppressed. It's a time where literally they're in bondage to a godless little g,4:11 right, a god godless culture. They're not serving. Right? Pharaoh doesn't serve the 1 true god. He's a god. Right? And so they're under the4:23 the thumb of the ruler of the godless world. Right? And there's oppression. It's it's just not a place where they wanna be. They never thought4:35 that that it would turn into this, right? Especially after coming, under the reign of Joseph, you know, when Joseph was the prime minister there, a Hebrew serving in Pharaoh's court, and4:47 then just circumstances changed. And instead of staying a friendly place, it became an oppressive place, and God's people were enslaved. Alright? Egypt. Okay?4:59 Now in your life, we have our Egypt places. Right? They're not the high points. They're kind of the low, depressing, and oppressive points, right, on5:11 our life map. Right? And just like God's people, we might have entered that that Egypt, whether it's a relationship or a circumstance or, an activity.5:23 And we thought it might be good for us, you know, on the front side, and it might have started off benign, but slowly and then steadily over time, that season, those5:35 activities, those people, those places, it starts to oppress. Okay? Can I just say to everybody who's hearing me right now? Every dude has5:46 got his Egypts. Okay? I definitely have my places in my life that I can easily go back to in my mind and go, man,5:58 I was in bondage. I was not in control. It was attacking my soul. It was hurting people.6:11 I wasn't it wasn't a high point for me, my character, my conduct, and I wanted out. And that that's the thing about Egypt, kind of6:23 in the narrative biblically, but also in the spirit that spiritual place of, man, I don't wanna be here anymore. This is not good for me. I6:35 feel oppressed, depressed, not alive. I'm dying. My soul is being attacked. Now here's what we need to know as we kinda link the6:47 Holy Spirit overtaking us and working in our lives. Here's a truth that we all need to come into contact with. Without Christ,6:58 without the power of God in place, every person without God that you know, without Jesus, is living in spiritual7:10 Egypt. Alright? They're under the pharaoh of this world according to the Bible. Right? That's Satan, the devil. And the forces7:22 that he uses to keep them under his control, which is the spirit of culture or the world and their flesh. So7:34 you've got the unholy trinity, as it were. Right? You've got Satan. You've got the spirit of the world. And then you have the agent of expression, which is our7:46 flesh. And that is spiritual Egypt. And God, just like he wanted to set his people free from a physical Egypt and release7:57 them. God wants all people to experience release and freedom from spiritual Egypt, from the oppression and lies and deceit8:09 and injustice of living under the world, under the flesh, and under the devil. So everyone without Christ, right, is8:21 living in a spiritual Egypt, and God has a plan, which is great, for them to experience freedom and experience release, and he8:33 has a plan to do it in your personal context. Right? Your life, where you live, where you work, where you pray, where you play. You know what his plan is? You.8:45 So here's what we're gonna do today. We're gonna look back at the Egypt scenario with God's people. Right? Just as a template, as a road map. We're gonna assess what8:57 what what went on there. We're gonna see God's heart and energy to set people free, and then we're gonna look at a solution for people being held captive. And we pick up the9:08 story in Exodus 3, and that's the passage, I told you to kinda hold. And then Exodus 13, we're also gonna read a couple passages. So let's let's start in Exodus 3. God said,9:21 I've taken a good long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I've heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters. I know all about9:32 their pain, and now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt. Get them out of that country and bring them to a good9:44 land with wide open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey. So you see that that god sees his people. He sees their9:56 desire not to wanna be there in that in that place, and they're crying out to God, in that situation. And then you see what's going on there, and it's characterized by10:07 pain. Right? They feel like they're in the grip of something, and they just they can't break free. They don't have the power to literally, physically.10:20 They are in need of deliverance, and God is saying, alright. I'm gonna help. I'm gonna come. I'm gonna loosen that grip. I'm gonna get them out of Egypt10:32 and then bring them to a space and a realm that is wide open. See the contrast? People in a grip. Right? Controlled, oppressed10:45 versus being in a a space that is wide open and free and full of blessing. Right? So that's Exodus chapter 3. That's God just sharing his heart about people who are10:57 held captive in in Egypt. And then in Exodus chapters 4 through 12, it is it is just this wild process that leads to 1 and a11:09 half to 2000000 people being released. Imagine this. Right? We're seeing right now in the world refugees leaving Ukraine and going into neighboring countries, and it's it's in the11:21 numbers right now of about 2000000. Well, imagine you have, 1 and a half, 2000000 people in in in a country, and then God11:33 moves, and he does all these wild signs to just basically bring the pharaoh of Egypt to his knees. Right? He's got this this this11:44 community, this massive population of people enslaved and building monuments to himself. It's his labor force. Right? And God just goes, that's11:56 it. I'm coming in. And that's what happens in Exodus 4 through 12 that just brings Pharaoh to his needs, signs, wonders, plagues, fire,12:09 miracles to show that God means business, and he's using a man to do it. So that happens. God liberates his12:21 people from Egypt, and then here's the reflection of Moses, right, to the people who just got set free. Listen to what it says in Exodus 13 verse 3. It says, Moses said to12:33 the people, always remember this day. This is the day when you came out from a house of slavery. God brought you out of12:44 here with a powerful hand. Right? So a day of deliverance is a pretty big marker in the story of12:56 God's people, and and how it's how it's kinda structured is you were in a house of slavery, and then God brought you out through his power13:08 and his mighty hand. So let's let's just unpack that simply. Alright? Number 1, what do you see? You see people afflicted. So there's people in a house of slavery.13:21 I want you to think about that. Remember earlier I said everyone around you who is without Christ is in a spiritual Egypt. Okay? They might be in the honeymoon phase of that, just like God's people had a honeymoon phase13:32 in Egypt, and then that honeymoon phase turned very oppressive and they became enslaved. Alright? So whether you're they're in the honeymoon phase headed to slavery or maybe they're enslaved by the world13:44 of flesh and the devil, everyone you know without Christ, they're afflicted and in a house of slavery, and that's what we see here. Secondly, we see a God who says, enough. Right?13:56 He hears their moans. He hears their cries. He he sees the pain. He sees they're stuck. He sees their inability to change their14:08 situation on their own power. Right? And so we see a God who's just like, alright. That's it. Enough. Okay? Third, we see a man is chosen and14:19 sent. Now we didn't address that particular story. That's another study. But God chooses a man, and he sends a man to14:31 be the agent of his deliverance of people. Okay? Very important. And then lastly, we see a day14:43 of rescue and release. Captives are released. People in a grip, the grip is loosened, and they now14:55 get to leave that country, that Egypt. Okay? So when you look at just the structural kind of dynamics of what's going on, people afflicted, God saysFrom Deliverance to Purpose: Reflecting God's Heart 15:07 enough, God God chooses a man and sends him, and then there's a day of rescue and release. Now I think you can smell what I'm stepping in. Alright? This is the pattern.15:19 God wants people set free from any kind of slavery. Right? Any kind of oppression, right, that leads to harm15:32 in their relationships with God, people, or life, right, could be a physical slavery. But for our purposes, for this study, people are spiritually15:44 enslaved without Christ and they need rescue. Alright? Now the Bible calls your salvation, my salvation experience, a rescue from being a captive. And we see that language in15:56 Colossians chapter 1 verses 13 and 14 says this, God rescued us, might want to circle that if you have the downloaded notes, from dead end alleys and dark dungeons.16:09 He set us up in the kingdom of the son he loves so much. The son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating. So16:21 we see that there is this spiritual Egypt that we were in before. It was a dead end, a cul de sac spiritually. It was a dungeon. It was a place16:32 of of captivity. It was a pit of self and sin and Satan, and we were powerless until God sent his son16:45 who delivered and rescued us, and he set us up in this new place of spiritual freedom and release.16:57 We're out of the pit. We're out of the dead end alley. We're out of the dark dungeon. And aren't you glad? I am so glad. Hallelujah. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Right? Amen. Now we17:09 can just have a worship service right now on that. But this goes to who God is, what God did, bringing us out of spiritual17:21 slavery from the world of flesh and the devil to a place of spiritual freedom, right? And it goes to how he wants to use us and17:33 what the Holy Spirit wants to do through us, alright? So now let's go into let's connect the dots. Alright? So we've very clearly seen that when people are afflicted and oppressed17:44 and enslaved, God wants them set free. We've concluded that everyone without Christ is in a place like we were in before believing in Christ. Right? It's a dead end alley, a dark dungeon, a17:56 place of captivity, of sin, Satan, and selfishness that may have started off fun, not fun anymore. It always leads to death and harm. Right? And what we're seeing now is that God's18:08 fight for us, right, now becomes our fight for others. Right? Our deliverance becomes our purpose18:20 of being deliverers and setters free of people. Now in Deuteronomy 10, actually, this is the verse I told you to hold a spot for. You see18:32 God helping his people sort of look at their own deliverance and how he wants them to process it and then turn it into a18:44 purpose. Okay? I want you to listen in to Deuteronomy 10 verses 17 to 21. For the Lord your God is a God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no18:56 partiality and accepts no bribes. He defends the cause of the fatherless and the widow and loves the alien, giving him food and clothing.19:08 And you are to love those who are aliens. For you yourselves were aliens in Egypt. Fear the lord your god and serve him. Hold19:20 fast to him, and take your oaths in his name. He is your praise. He is your god, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own19:31 eyes. Right? So kind of processing, hey. This happened to you. I'm the person who authored that. This was your19:44 experience. This is who I am. What's my response? Well, I'm to reproduce that in my relationships and in my19:56 environments and with the people that are around me because I saw and experienced and witnessed it myself. So God's in essence saying, you're gonna pay this20:07 deliverance forward in the way that you relate to people. So let's unpack that very simply. Alright? The first thing we see is god is asking his people to20:19 process their own deliverance and turn it into a purpose. We see a strong god who fights for others freedom. Not just his own people but everybody.20:31 Listen to what it says. For the lord your god is god of gods. Right? Big g, little g, and lord of lords, big l, little l. The great god, mighty, and20:43 awesome. Listen, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes. So very simply, a simple reading goes, wow. There's a great a20:55 great god, a mighty god, an awesome god, and his energy goes toward people. Right? Not just his own people, but toward21:07 everybody. Now, just pause and think about everybody that's around you. Black, white, brown, whatever color they are, wherever they21:19 work, you know, that strong God who fights for others freedom, he lives in you. The second thing we see is a strong god who wants all captives21:31 released. In the Deuteronomy 10 passage in verse 18, it says, he defends the cause, listen to these categories, of the fatherless and the widow and loves21:43 the alien, giving him food and clothing. So what do you see? What are the common denominators between the fatherless, the widow, and the alien? Well, they're vulnerable, they're21:54 trapped, and they're in need, and they're controlled by circumstances outside their control which oppresses. Okay? And we22:06 can very safely add to that that the world, the flesh, and the devil compound that and make it a triple dog of pressure. It's not just the circumstances,22:18 but it's the messaging of the circumstances. It's the perception that they're of themselves that their circumstances give to them where they feel less than. They don't feel dignity.22:30 They don't feel worth. Not only are they alone, but their their circumstances are telling them a lie that this is who you are.22:42 Right? You're alone. Right? You're not worthy. You're in the margins. Right? You're fatherless. You're a widow. You're an22:54 alien. You don't belong. Right? God has a tremendous heart for people trapped in spiritual Egypts like that,23:06 fatherlessness, single moms, people experiencing loss, people who feel like they're alone because they just they're just not like everybody else, or they're not23:18 they don't belong. An alien. And you you don't have to be from a foreign country to be an alien. You can be an alien, you know, in your own social network. So you see god's heart.23:31 We see a a strong god who who defends the cause of these people who feel vulnerable, trapped, and they're in a circumstance outside their control, and that23:42 circumstance is messaging them lies about their dignity and their worth. Man, you just let the paint dry on that 1, guys.23:54 I would I would venture to guess just knowing sociology that there's probably 70, 80 percent of people around you. You know, they're letting their circumstances like this define their self24:06 perception, their worth. They're in circumstances that that are beyond their control, and the messaging of those circumstances by the devil24:19 is is harming their perception. It's attacking their worth. It's attacking their their soul, and God wants to set them free. Third, we see a strong God who delivered24:31 me. Listen to how God just kinda turns the crank on them. He says, and you are to love those who are foreigners for you yourselves.24:43 We're aliens in Egypt. Right? So once again, he's reflecting back on, hey. You were just like them, and you are just like them.24:56 K. Even though you're mine, right, you have you know how it feels to be an alien somewhere, out of control, oppressed, and feeling very alone and undignified.25:08 Right? So you should be the number 1, people. Right? You should be loving those people who felt and feel right now the same way you felt before I jumped in and then I rescued25:20 you. Right? So God is speaking directly to them and their rescue, he says, repurposes their lives. Right? They25:32 experience rescue and they experience redemption and release from God. Now that experience repurposes them and then all of a sudden25:43 they become ambassadors of the same to people who who feel now like they felt. Okay. So I think you get the picture. Fourth, we see a strong God who wants me to reflect him in25:55 my actions. Alright? In this passage, God goes on to say, fear the Lord your God and serve him, hold fast to him, and take your oaths or your26:07 commitments in his name. He is your praise. He is your God who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw in your own eyes. When the Bible when God26:19 says to his people who've experienced his rescue, alright, now you're gonna make commitments in his name. Well, what what's his name? Well,26:31 he's Yahweh, the 1 who delivers. He's their deliverer. To them, he's their rescuer. He's their deliverer. And so now it's you make26:43 commitments in his name. It means in his character and in his conduct that reflects his character. So we now make new commitments based on our experience26:55 in his name, in his character, and we see his character expressed in conduct, and his character and conduct went toward me, and he delivered me,27:08 and now he wants me to reflect his character and conduct in my actions as a delivered 1, as a released 1. I now27:20 work to reflect him and how I relate to other people. Right? So we make commitments in his name. God went to27:32 work on our behalf. He's the God who delivers people, and those delivered people become deliverers like God. Now that's the backdrop27:45 of God, the Egypt experience, how the Egypt experience is a template for our salvation experience, our rescue spiritually27:58 from spiritual oppression and spiritual Egypt, right? And now we see this strong God who fights for us, who wants all captives released, who delivered me, and who wants me to reflectShow more In this video 0:00 Overtaken: The Holy Spirit's Power and the Egypt of Bondage15:02 From Deliverance to Purpose: Reflecting God's Heart28:02 Empowered Mission: Holy Spirit Freedom Through Believers
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