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I'm thinking today of the story in the Bible where Moses meets God essentially in the burning bush.

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After taking his shoes off because it's totally ground, Moses averts his face.

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He looks away because he's afraid to look at God and the Lord begins to speak.

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And he says, I have indeed seen the misery of my people.

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Boy, that's loaded, isn't it? But we have a lot of misery now.

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God's people are suffering in many ways all over the earth.

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They're not the only ones suffering. Basically everyone's suffering.

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There is suffering on the highway of holiness.

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One kind of suffering or another.

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Well, God has seen the misery of his people.

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And he says, so I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out,

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out of that land into a good and spacious land.

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He describes how the land that he will send them into is a land of flowing with milk and honey.

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And he names the people that currently live there at the end of chapter eight.

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He says, and now the quiet Israelites in chapter, I'm sorry, the end of verse eight.

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And now in verse nine, it says, and now the quiet Israelites has reached me

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and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.

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So now go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.

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Does this sound like a God plan?

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Does this sound like a plan that God has worked multiple times in the history of his people?

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It is indeed.

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And he sent Jesus to die on the cross, to win us out of an oppressive world.

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And though we are still here serving him as his ambassadors in Christ,

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we know he will come again to save us from the oppression that we are facing.

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He'll turn our fortunes again.

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We're looking forward to his coming.