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I'm thinking today of the story in the Bible

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where Moses meets God, essentially, in the burning

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bush. After taking his shoes off because it's

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holy ground, Moses averts his face. He looks

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away because he's afraid to look at God. And

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the Lord begins to speak. And he says, I have

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indeed seen the misery of my people. Boy, that's

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loaded, isn't it? But we have a lot of misery

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now. God's people are suffering in many ways

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all over the earth. And they're not the only

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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. Well, God has

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seen the misery of his people. And he says, so

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I have come down to rescue them from the hand

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of the Egyptians and to bring them out of that

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land into a good and spacious land. He describes

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how the land that he will send them into is a

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land flowing with milk and honey. And he names

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the people that currently live there at the end

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of chapter 8. He says, and now, the cry of the

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Israelites in chapter, I'm sorry, the end of

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verse 8. And now, in verse 9, it says, and now

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the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and

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I have seen the way of... the Egyptians are oppressing

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them. So now go, I'm sending you to Pharaoh to

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bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.

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Does this sound like a God plan? Does this sound

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like a plan that God has worked multiple times

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in the history of his people? It is indeed. And

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he sent Jesus to die on the cross, to win us

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out of an oppressive world. And though we are

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still here serving him as his ambassadors in

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Christ, we know he will come again to save us

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from the oppression that we are facing. He'll

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turn our fortunes again. We're looking forward

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to his coming.