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0:00 You are listening to Waters Church podcast. Waters Church is a multisite, multigeneration community of faith on the East Coast of America. Now for a message from our pastor.0:13 Exodus chapter 8. You got it? Exodus chapter 8, either paper bible, smartphone bible, and if you don't have a bible, that's okay. This is what let's read what it says. It says, verse 1, then the Lord said to Moses,0:25 into Pharaoh and say to him, thus says the Lord. Does anybody know this line? Let my people go. Let my people go. Free my people. But but doesn't stop there.0:38 That they may serve me. That they may serve me. At the end of the day, that's what we are. We are his servants. You know what you're0:49 looking at today? You're looking at a servant. And my prayer and my hope is that I get out of the way and Jesus becomes so clear to you. Father, thank you. Thank you for1:01 letting us gather together today to worship and praise you. What a privilege and honor it is to remind ourselves we're not alone and no weapon formed against us is gonna prosper. That the kingdom1:13 of God is suffering violence. It always has and it always will until that kingdom is made a reality in the1:25 cosmos. I pray God over my mouth and my thought my thoughts. They they are aligned with yours. I pray every ear is open and every eye1:37 sees Jesus. Him and him only. In his mighty name, we pray. Amen. Amen. God bless you. And we're gonna honor somebody who met the1:49 Lord this past week. So have a seat.1:55 It's wrong to murder a baby. You're not murdering a baby. It's not a baby. What is it then? It is an embryo. What species is the baby in the womb? It's a human, but it's Therefore, they should have human rights. No.2:07 I do not agree. Oh, so so small humans know human rights, grown humans human rights. A small human, it's an embryo. It has a heartbeat. It has brain waves. How make it a child? The excuses given for abortion is2:19 dehumanization. Oh, it's just an embryo. Guys, that's just using different language to justify the massacre of something smaller than you. Yeah. If I were to be pregnant right now and forced to have a baby, that would2:30 ruin my life. If I just happen to be pregnant Oh, you don't happen to get pregnant. It's like not getting COVID. I know2:35 how works. You don't2:35 get the flu. Got a question.2:37 Sure. What was2:38 your name again? I'm sorry. I don't need to actually do my need for my care.2:41 Nice to2:42 meet you. Why are2:43 you 2?2:43 Okay. I I I've been asked2:44 that question a lot. First of2:45 all, that question should not even have to be asked, but when people stop talking, really bad stuff starts. When marriages stop talking, divorce happens. When civilizations stop talking, civil war ensues. When you stop2:56 having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to wanna commit violence against that group. What we as a culture have to get back to is being able to have a reasonable disagreement3:06 where violence is not an option.3:08 How do you wanna be remembered? If I die? Everything just goes away. How would you if you could be associated with 1 thing, how would you wanna be remembered?3:16 I wanna be I wanna3:17 be remembered for for courage, courage, for my faith. Are you a Christian by any chance?3:21 Very, very much so. Like, why is that exactly? Oh, Jesus saved my life. I'm a sinner, gave my life to Christ, most important decision I ever made. So you3:28 believe the Bible is real?3:29 Yes. I believe the Bible is true and real. Why is that? Well, I could give you the technical answer. There's never been archaeological discovery that has contradicted the truth of the bible. And then, of course, the3:37 wisdom. There's not a truth of the bible that if you apply to your life, your life does not improve dramatically. And then finally, we have the most accurate and transparent, historically robust account that 1 can have3:48 of the most important figure ever to live in the history of the world, Jesus of Nazareth. And the resurrection is the is the pinpoint of my belief that Jesus did rise from the grave so that we may live. If Genesis 1 14:00 and the resurrection is true, anything in the Bible is possible. You're looking at the greatest miracle. The greatest miracle is creation. And then the fact that Jesus rose from the dead, I say, how do you know that4:10 Jesus rose from the dead? Well, show me another historical piece of a story where so many people willingly died a brutal death for a lie. Every single person around him had everything to lose,4:22 and yet they went to the absolute death from Paul to Peter to the half brother of James saying4:26 saying that Jesus is Lord, Jesus rose from the dead.4:31 went4:40 Some of you might not be aware that Charlie Kirk started his, political action movement turning point in 2012. And when he first started, he was not at all interested in mixing Christianity4:52 with his political message. In fact, he believed that Christianity and and the church and the state should be separate. And, he was a libertarian. Libertarians believe that you should just have freedom,5:04 and, government should not impose on you. And if you disagree with Christianity, it's alright as long as you have your freedom to practice your religion how you want. He had an awakening. He had an awakening at the same5:14 time we all did. During the COVID lockdowns as he watched marijuana dispensaries and out and liquor sales, businesses remain opened and churches being forced to shut,5:26 and then seeing the lack of bold, courageous pastors stepping up to the pulpit, reopening their churches, and telling the government that we serve God rather than men,5:38 he realized that the only way to effect change permanently in any culture is through the gospel of Jesus Christ. And ever since COVID5:50 19 and all that nonsense, he has been growing. If you've watched him, if you followed him, growing more and more, less and less from a political activist and more and more into an evangelist.6:01 And the devil targeted him, and listen to me, he was targeted. He was targeted to silence not political leanings,6:13 but the message of the person of Jesus. Because the devil knows. Young people, listen to me. The devil knows that anyone with a heart for Jesus6:24 Christ has unlimited potential to turn this world upside down and change nations and change cultures and change individuals. That's what happened.6:36 Now I wanna start today by quoting his wife, who I was blown away by on Friday night when she spoke. The last few statements that she made were these, but most important of all,6:48 if you aren't a member of a church, I beg you to join 1. A bible believing church. Our battle is not simply a political 1. It is spiritual. The spiritual warfare is7:00 palpable. Charlie loved his savior with all of his heart, and he wanted every 1 of you to know him too. He wanted everyone to know that if they confess Jesus Christ as Lord who rose from the dead, they will7:12 be saved, end quote. And I just wanna let everybody know you have found yourself a bible believing, Jesus preaching church. And the news may have brought you here7:24 today. I'm praying that Jesus brings you back next week. Because this is just the beginning. This is in no way an ending. God has lit a7:36 fire in my belly, and I believe in the next generation's future that the best days of the church are in front of us and not behind us. Now7:48 I have a I have a soft spot in my heart for Gen z. Good news, Gen Z. Your generation is8:00 the most church attending generation in the country right now. The Lord is lighting you up. Good news. Bad news.8:12 Your generation is also 1 of the most intolerant generations. A statistic came out last week that shocked me. 58 percent of Gen Z believes that people should be able to say what they8:24 believe without the fear of violence. Violence is never the answer. That means 42 percent believe that sometimes violence is the answer when speech is spoken that they don't agree with. The spiritual battle8:36 is real. And I'm asking you to zoom out today. I'm asking you to zoom out. Take out your notes. They look like this. And I want you to fill in blanks and follow along with us. And the8:48 title of my message, we're starting a series today called influenced. Influenced. Everybody wants to be an influence. Now let me just tell you something, little backstory about this. We planned this series for today, 28:59 months ago. This was scheduled today, 2 months ago. God is aligning things for our church because 1 of the greatest influences of9:11 the gospel has been taken up taken from us and and brought to his savior Jesus. But that just means that there's something God wants to do and who he left behind. And and and don't mourn. Don't weep because9:23 this this is not this is not a loss. This is a win for the gospel. Tertullian said, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. The more they kill us, the stronger we become.9:36 And my heart for Gen z. Listen. Ages 13 to 30. I I don't know if you see it, but I see such unlimited potential in you. I've got Gen z's in my home. I got a 13 year old, and I got a9:47 24 year old. Turned 24 last week, my daughter, my son, 20. And I see them all loving the Lord, and I think, man, this is just a sign. This is a sign of where God's gonna bring this generation. I feel so bad for you too9:59 because you you were born when the towers fell. You you you became teens when the financial systems collapsed. You were in high school and10:10 college when liberties collapsed under COVID 19. And and now you're entering the workforce when Charlie Kirk was10:21 assassinated. I I I fear I feel for you because your whole history has been filled with these traumatic earth altering moments. I got a news. It wasn't always like this.10:33 I grew up in the eighties. Do you know what happened in the eighties? The moonwalk. That was it. That was a big control the big cultural shift. I still can't do it.10:46 To this day, I still can't do it. I mean, why I had such an easy upbringing. My world was not shaken every other weekend. I miss the old days. I don't know about you. I miss the old days, like,10:58 3 weeks ago. When when the world wasn't crazy, every single Sunday, did get up here and say, now what do I say now? That's my world, but I'm so excited at the same time because I11:09 know when there is a shaking going on in the earth, that means that heaven is stirring something in the hearts of God's people. This is not the end. This is just a beginning.11:21 Actually, this is where we're going because we're gonna take a wide angle lens and look at what God is really doing. Now I have a a statement to make to start off what I'm talking about today, and I think you need to11:31 hear this. The devil wants America. The devil wants this country. And you say, why? What makes us so special? You have no idea how much more special this country is than other countries. You really11:43 don't. And if you don't know yet, all you need to do is get on 1 of our missions trips and go somewhere else. Or just visit another country, any other country. Pick 1. Throw a dart at a map and go visit it,11:55 and you will see just how great this country really is. The freedoms, the privileges, the wealth, unfortunately, the excesses, and a lot of the enslaving factors that we see around us, they12:07 exist nowhere else. But that's not what makes this country great. There's an argument in our political discourse. What makes this country great? You know what makes this country great? The people who love Jesus enough to12:17 leave this country and bring him to someone else. Here's the stats. No country in the history of the world has sent more gospel preaching missionaries out of itself than the United States of12:29 America. No country comes close. In the last decade alone, the number 2, number 3, and number 4 nations are are these. Brazil sent 30000 missionaries out of Brazil with the gospel of12:41 Jesus over the last 10 years. Second of list is South Korea. They sent 20000 missionaries out of its out of its borders with the gospel of Jesus Christ to other countries. Fourth on the list is the Philippines12:52 that sent 15000 missionaries out of its borders with the gospel to other unreached people groups. Guess how many America has sent in the last 10 years? 150000. The13:04 devil wants to stop that. You understand? Wide angle lens, friends. I'm asking you a wide angle lens. Do you think this is about pro life and abortion? Do do you think this is13:16 about gay marriage? Do you think this is about left wing and right wing, Republican and Democrat, conservative and liberal, capitalist and socialist? You think that's the argument? That's the battle? The battle is for13:26 the hearts and souls of men and women. The battle that God is involved in is setting people free Amen. From sin, shame, hell, and death. Because I got13:38 news for you. You could have all the correct and politically correct opinions and beliefs in your heart. If you don't know Jesus, you're bound for hell. God13:50 is on the move, and he's been on the move since Jesus rose again to tell people that there is a carpenter from Nazareth named Jesus who was nailed to a cross and14:02 bled and died for the souls of men and women. And if you put your faith in that, you will be saved eternally and brought home to be with the father. Upon the last day of your life will14:14 be the first day of your eternity with God forever, and no 1 can take you out of the hands of God. That is the battle. And some of you today, you14:26 need a turning point in that regard in your heart. So let's wide angle by looking at this ancient story of Israel because we think this is Israel's story. Got news for you. It's our14:38 story. It's our story. It starts in Exodus chapter 1. The Bible first talks about the people of Israel who came with Joseph14:50 to Egypt, all of his brothers. If you remember, Joseph was this chosen, precious son of Jacob. He was the chosen, precious son. He was adorned with a robe of many colors, and he15:02 was selected for God for special purposes. He had dreams, and he told his brothers, and they hated him, and they rejected him. His own people rejected him. They sought15:13 to kill him. Instead of killing him, they sold him to Midianite slaver slave traders. And then he went to ended up in, Pharaoh's palace through a confluence of coordinated events by almighty God. And he comes to the15:25 right hand side of Pharaoh, and he delivers he delivers, the nation of Egypt and all the other nations from famine, from starvation by providing grain. He's got the wisdom of God, the spirit of God, and he15:37 stores up grain for 7 years 7 years. So that 7 years of famine, everybody can get through. His brothers have to come. They bow down. They get forgiven by Joseph. This is a beautiful picture of Jesus Christ, the chosen15:47 son sent to save the world by providing the bread of life to all who believe on him. That's the story of Joseph. But the story is not done in the bible. The scripture says that they were in they they were fruitful in15:58 Egypt and they increased greatly, so the land was filled with them. In chapter 1 of Exodus verse 8, now there arose a new king over Egypt. The scripture wants us to know that this16:10 man did not know Joseph. In every generation, and I've seen this in my lifetime. In every generation, the benefits of the Christian faith get forgotten, and16:22 people start to become secular. They start to abandon it, and they don't think they need it. And I've seen it now in my lifetime. What happens is God starts to just give you what you want. If16:34 you don't want him, hear me. He'll give you what you want. And what you want will enslave you and trap you. And our I was born into a culture. I was16:45 born in the seventies into a culture that did not know the Lord Jesus. Our our schools started to abandon the Christian faith. Our our our institutions started to abandon. A lot of battles about the16:57 10 commandments. A lot of battles about the Bible. And then this this absurd notion that all religions are the same and they all lead to God. This absurdity. This insane notion, when not even all the religions agree,17:09 and not all the religions believe that that's true. You you you have to abandon rational thought to embrace such a notion. But because America is just like any other17:21 country, that's what happened. We abandoned. And so here's what happens. The king of Egypt did not know God's deliverer. So he said to his people, behold, the Israel the the people of Israel are too many and mighty for17:33 us. Let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply. And if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land. Therefore, they set taskmasters over them. To what? Afflict them with17:44 what? Heavy burdens. They enslaved. They oppressed. Who? God's people. And scripture says, they built for Pharaoh store cities, Ramses and17:55 Python. But the but the more check this line. I love this. But the more they were oppressed, the more they what? Multiply. Multiply. And the more they spread abroad. Can I tell you that that is our18:07 spiritual heritage in Christ? Amen. More the devil turns up the heat, the more God multiplies our efforts. I don't believe anything ended this past18:19 week. I believe a fire was lit. And there's gonna be fruit for this from this for generations. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel, and they ruthlessly18:31 made them, what, work as slaves, made their lives bitter with hard service, mortar, brick, all kinds of work in the field. Skip ahead. Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, Siphran Puah, when you18:43 serve as midwives to the Hebrew women and see them on the birthstool, if it is a what? You shall Kill. Kill. The devil wants to kill the sons.18:56 Understand this, men. This is his game plan in every generation and every culture because the devil knows just how potent you can be. And forgive me, ladies, but I am talking to men right19:08 now. The devil understands how potent you can be. Men of God and young men not yet married or just recently married or about to get married, I don't think you19:19 understand the potential you have. I don't think you get it that this is how God has this is how the devil has always worked. He targets men for enslavement and darkness. Because if19:31 he can get you, he can get the kids. All the statistics bear this out. When dad loves the Lord, 93 percent of the time, the children love the Lord. I don't wanna share19:43 the opposite stat because I don't wanna depress you. But it is almost a 1 for 1 proportion. When God comes first in dad, God comes first in the kids.19:55 This is why I always talk about this. This is why we have Forge Night. This is why we invest in men. This is why we do what we do, because we know your potential. We know what God can do through a man who is committed20:07 to the Lord Jesus Christ. Hey. Listen. Jesus chose 12 men who were uneducated and weren't in the in crowd of the religious establishment in Israel, and he literally20:18 split history in half, AD, BC, based on Jesus and Peter and the apostles who carried his message forward. That's how potent you are. That's how powerful20:30 you are. The reason why we're not Catholic is because of a man named Martin Luther who nailed 95 theses to the wall at Wittenberg in Germany in 15 17, and he turned the world upside down again. That's how powerful20:42 men can be. That's the future. That's the hope. And understand this. That's why the devil is always out to kill you men. Enslave you, beat you down, kick you20:54 around. Look at the entertainment options of our culture and how often dad is portrayed as the loser, stupid idiot of the home. And mom is all wise and21:06 all knowing and holds all things together. Now listen, ladies. I do not mean to put you down at all. I'm gonna be honest with you. Without you ladies, we21:18 fall apart. My wife was out of the house for 3 days this past week. She came home to a homeless encampment. Plates were in21:30 the bed. The microwave door was open and covered in soot. Don't ask me how it happened. Just a cyclone threw out our house. This is how it21:42 works. Men could do mighty things, but they need women because without you, we fall to pieces. Amen. You help us. You support us. You strengthen us. You empower us. Be the voice of21:53 encouragement. Believe in your man. Build him up. Pray for him. If he's not with the Lord yet, pray for him. You've got you've got a nuclear bomb for good just waiting to go off22:05 in your home. Anyway, God saw Adam walking around in the garden naked, running with scissors, said no. This guy needs a wife. Without women, men22:17 fall to pieces. And so this guy this this this this evil leader knows, let's kill the sons. If it's the otter, let her live. The midwives feared God, and they didn't. And the king of Egypt called them and22:29 said, why have you done this? And let the male children live. And the midwives, do a little lying here. Little lying. And and and the only way I can justify this little lie is because this little lie led to a greater22:39 good. Happens a couple times in scripture. Here and in Joshua when Rahab lies about where the spies are hidden. I'm not encouraging lies. The Bible's not encouraging lies. It's just in this case and in 1 other case,22:51 it worked. And so the women say, no. They're more vigorous. They give birth before we can get there. So God dealt well dealt well with the midwives, and they had their own children. And this is how Pharaoh ends this23:02 chapter. And he commanded all his people saying, every son every son that is born to the Hebrews, you shall cast into the what? Nile. Into the Nile, but you shall let every daughter live.23:14 I want you to understand the plan of the enemy for you because this story is our story. This is not just Israel's story. This is our this is our reality. Understand the23:26 plan of the enemy for you. Write this down. Number 1, he wants you enslaved. He wants you enslaved. Like Pharaoh enslaved the little boys and the little children of Israel.23:38 Let's keep them busy. Okay. Hard truth. The devil loves alcohol. The devil loves drugs. The devil loves pornography. The23:50 devil loves an obsession over your golf score, over a video game, over some trif event or hobby in your life. The devil loves24:02 you men being enslaved. That's why he targets you with the red light district and with foolish errands in life, foolish foolish24:13 ventures in fake realities, whether it be in the metaverse or an Xbox or PlayStation, whatever it is. He wants you enslaved by something. Now listen. Anything24:25 can enslave you. Anything has the capacity to become an enslaving thing in your life, even something good. Men, if you let it, women24:38 can enslave you. A wife can enslave you. And and and this is true. If you're going to take a wife into24:49 your home, you've got to be the head of the home. You must not follow her around like a little puppy dog, hopelessly attached to her25:01 affection for you. You gotta lead. You gotta be a man. You gotta model to your sons what does a man do. A man leads. A man has authority. A man stands in the authority that God25:13 has given him in Christ Jesus over his home, over his family. A man fights for what's right. A man lays down his life. Yes. But he fights for what's right for his home and for his family. Number 2, the devil wants you25:25 dehumanized. That's what they did with the Israelites. They dehumanized them. They made them work as slaves. Slavery is a dehumanizing experience. And that's what's happening right now in our culture. Dehumanization,25:36 robbing young people of the image, the Imago Dei of God. You're made in the image of God. You are not a clump of cells. You are not a random chance of particles in the universe from 100000000000 years25:47 ago. You are designed by a loving father in heaven who created you, listen, in his image Amen. In his likeness, men and women, and that's25:59 the only 2. And you are made in his image for his glory, and he has a wonderful plan and purpose for you. Written into the DNA structure of your life are the purposes of26:11 God. Every day of your life was written out before 1 of them came to be. God has infinite worth deposited in you just because you're a human. Don't let the devil devalue that. How does the26:23 devil devalue that? By the way that Pharaoh does. Did you understand? Kill the young children as they're born. That's called ancient abortion. Abortion is a vile sickness that has come over this world26:35 in the name of freedom and liberty. It's not a liberty. It's not a freedom, and it's not a right. It's a murder. And more importantly, it dehumanizes us. It don't you understand? It dehumanizes the life in the mother26:47 and the life of the mother. Where motherhood becomes complicit in the murder of someone innocent, it dehumanizes both. It's it's the plan of26:59 the devil for culture. Wake up and wide angle your lens. Number 3, the devil wants you targeted. Targeted for destruction. And if you're a Christian, you've gotta learn something. He's got27:11 a target on you. Every day of your life, you can't take a day off from the spiritual battle. You might have a few setbacks. You might have a few hard weeks. Listen to me. Good news. Waters Church is here every week.27:23 Amen. Come back. I don't care how beat up you were last week. I don't care how hard the devil had with you last week. I don't care how messed up you you were. Let I don't care what you did last night. I don't care27:35 what you slept with, what you drank, or anything that's going on in your life. I care that you show up here and say, I need Jesus now more than ever before. Keep coming back. We're here. We'll wash you.27:47 You come dirty, we'll wash you and send you back out clean again. That's how it works in the kingdom of God because none of us have it perfect, and we need church every week. During this series, I'm gonna ask you to do27:59 something. I'm gonna ask you. Some of you can listen to me. It's time to get in the waters. It's time to jump all the way in into Waters28:10 Church. We're bringing back a class, and and I want everybody to take it, even if you've taken it in the past. It's called growth track. We're re redesigning it, and it's going part and parcel with this series28:22 of how we can partner together as the church to make an eternal difference in our lives, in our communities. And we want you to write your name down and join28:34 our church. See, some of you have just been tapping your toes in the water. That's what you've been doing. Waters. Oh, Sunday's here. Waters? And then I go do my own thing. And then suddenly go, oh, waters? Waters? And28:46 then I get right no. No. No. We want you to cannonball jump right into the heart of this church. Let's go. Cannonball jump. You ever notice that water is only enjoyed 2 ways, when you drink it and when you28:58 swim in it. Think about it. Every other way, we're annoyed by it. Somebody splashes us. Oh, how dare you? Somebody shoots us with a squirt gun. We hate it. Or or29:10 we're outside walking and suddenly there's a few drops. What do we do? We freak. We run. Oh, it's just water. Listen to me. If you just get a touch of waters, we'll annoy you. We'll29:22 trouble you. And that's why you're that's why you're a come and go. That's why you're you're you're a spectator. You're not a participator. And in this series, I'm asking you, get influenced by Jesus Christ in this29:32 church so that you can be an influence for Jesus in this world. Jump in. More of that to come as we continue this series. Anyway, this is the story. This29:44 is our story. The devil wants us enslaved, dehumanized, and targeted. Okay. That's the first act of the book of Exodus. Let's go. Chapter 2 verse 1, hope dawns.29:57 The people of Israel are enslaved, dehumanized, and targeted. Hope dawns. How does it dawn? Now a man from the house of the now a man, woo, there it is, went from the house of Levi, took his wife, a Levite woman, and the30:08 woman conceived, and what she do? Woman conceived and bore a son. Woman conceived and bore a son. Do you understand? The story repeats. This story points to a bigger30:20 story. This conception points to a a later conception. Are you are you hearing me? This son points to a son that's to come. It all repeats. And when30:32 she saw that he was a fine child other translations say, he was no ordinary child. In other words, this is a special son. This son is different. This son is unique. Born of a woman, but unique.30:44 And she took him, and she hid him, but she couldn't hide him after a while, and she took and made a basket. And and she daubed it with bitumen and pitch, and she put the child among the reeds by the riverbank. Now where30:55 were they tossing the boys? Where were they tossing the boys? In the Nile. The judgment of the enemy was tossing the boys in the Nile. She puts her boy in the Nile, but she creates look at it. She31:06 creates what? A basket for him to be spared the judgment of the Nile and and be and be saved. Okay. Couple chapters earlier in your bible, in the31:18 book of Genesis, there's another basket that holds another man who saves humanity, only that basket's called an ark. It goes through the waters and it spares humans from total31:30 annihilation. The story repeats. The story recycles, and it's all pointing to the bigger story, our story in Jesus. Are you following this? So he's saved31:42 from the waters of judgment. He's saved and spared. And and and the daughter of Pharaoh came down and she bathed and she saw him. Among the reasons, she sent her servant. She said, open it. She opened31:54 it and she saw the child and she said, this is 1 of the Hebrew children. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, his sister was watching over his ladies, we can't do it without you. The sister said to Pharaoh's32:05 daughter, shall I go and call a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse a child for you? Pharaoh's daughter said, yeah. Go. So his sister went and called her mother, his mother. And I love this. And Pharaoh's daughter said32:14 to her, take this child and nurse it for me, I will give you your wages. I love this. Look at this. Moses' mom got paid to be Moses' mom. Don't tell me that God didn't have a sense of humor.32:27 Don't tell me that God doesn't work things out coordinatedly and and and wonderfully so that we can have hope even in the midst of our slavery. Even in the midst of darkness, watch for the touches of God's32:39 grace, the touches of God's providence. Now check what happens. When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter. He became her son. She called him Moses. And verse 11, here we go. 1 day when32:50 Moses had grown up, this is Moses who had a privileged place in the palace. He was separate. He was unique, and he wasn't living under the bondage of33:02 Israel. He goes out and he sees his people. He goes out and he sees his people, and he looked on their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, and he delivered that Egypt33:14 the that Hebrew from the Egyptian. Now he did the story breaks down from there. He that's a failure on Moses' part. And but God will redeem it. But do you see the story that's really being told here?33:26 A chosen precious son, once again, no ordinary child steps out of his place of privilege, comes down to the place, sees the burdens of his people, and decides to do33:38 something to get them out of their condition. That, my friends, is the story of Jesus. Hebrews chapter 11, we'll talk about it this way regarding33:49 Moses. It says, by faith Moses, when he was grown, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. In other words,34:00 Moses abandoned his position of power to come and dwell amongst his people. And 2000 years earlier than us, Jesus did that for us.34:12 He walked among us. He associated with us. Somebody needs to hear me today. Jesus knows what it's like to be where you are. He suffered.34:24 He faced betrayal. He was misunderstood. He was hated. He was attacked. He was vilified. He his own father died when he was still young. He was raised in many ways34:36 by a single mom. He lived among us and understands the human experience. But he's separate, he's holy, he's undefiled, and he's completely sinless. And that's34:48 what makes him the perfect savior for us. So write this down. Understand the players in this story. Wide angle lens. Egypt is a picture of the world. Pharaoh is a picture of the devil. Israel is a picture of the35:00 flesh. And as we study this text and this chap and this book, we're gonna see that we resonate well with Israel. Because there's be some dark moments where they still wanna go back to Egypt as God's delivering them. I35:12 don't know if anybody's been there. I don't know if anybody's got the boldness to say that there's there's some parts of me that wanna go back to Egypt. Sometimes I struggle, and sometimes you struggle. That's the flesh.35:23 That's what Israel represents. And then Moses is a picture of the savior. The savior that Jesus comes and and and is for you and for me. Well, fast forward this story a little bit.35:35 Moses has found out that he almost that he killed the Egyptian. Pharaoh put a bounty on his head, and he runs for his life. And that time, he's 40 years old. He runs for his life. He becomes a Midianite, but but dwells35:47 with the Midianites. He doesn't become 1. Dwells with the Midianites, he starts to shepherd his father in law's sheep. And he gets stuck there for 40 years. 40 years in the backside of the wilderness. Somebody needs to35:58 hear this. God can use your wilderness years to train you for your productive years. Yes. Some of you, that's where you are. You're in the wilderness. You don't know what's going on. You feel like God has no purpose, noShow more
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