1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,760 Welcome to the Love and Context Podcast, an unscripted conversation with Ben and Spencer. 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:10,480 We're so glad that you could join us today, whether that's from your car, office, home, 3 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:13,180 church or wherever you're at. 4 00:00:13,180 --> 00:00:18,800 If you want to contact us, you can email us at lovingcontext at gmail.com. 5 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:24,320 Also follow us on Instagram at lovingcontext. 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:29,020 Welcome once again to the Love and Context Podcast, a unscripted conversation with Spencer 7 00:00:29,020 --> 00:00:30,480 and Ben. 8 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,080 I'm Ben. 9 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:34,800 And I'm Spencer. 10 00:00:34,800 --> 00:00:37,200 I was wondering if you're going to say that. 11 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,480 You're like just sitting there waiting. 12 00:00:39,480 --> 00:00:41,720 I was trying to add some suspense into the conversation. 13 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:42,720 Right. 14 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:43,720 Suspense. 15 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:44,720 Get it? 16 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:45,720 I get it. 17 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:46,720 Okay, cool. 18 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:49,120 Listeners are going to be like, wow, wow, these guys must be dads. 19 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:54,080 Actually, one of the things that was best about becoming a dad was I finally felt justification 20 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:55,080 for my dad jokes. 21 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,680 Oh, it's so great, right? 22 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:57,680 It's so great. 23 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,320 So today we are jumping into the life of Moses. 24 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:05,040 We're going to be talking about Moses all up until he comes to back to Egypt again and 25 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,040 confronts Pharaoh. 26 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:09,360 So we're going to be chapter two through most of four. 27 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,720 Great chance for you to pause the podcast. 28 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,040 There's a little button that's got like those two lines on it. 29 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,000 It's a pause button. 30 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:19,200 And then he can come back. 31 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,920 The other day, somebody I was on the phone with them and they're like, oh yeah, there's 32 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:24,280 a little button there that looks like a floppy disk. 33 00:01:24,280 --> 00:01:27,360 I'm like, yeah, the save icon. 34 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:29,040 And they're like, yeah, the save icon. 35 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:33,880 I just didn't know because I was like, listen, I used floppy disks back in the day. 36 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:36,080 They were the three and a half inch ones, right? 37 00:01:36,080 --> 00:01:37,840 But I was like, I use them. 38 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,080 And you know, there's Instagram reels that are going around where it's like the one sound 39 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,960 that forever separates the old generation from the new generation. 40 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:44,960 Right. 41 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:45,960 And it's dial up. 42 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:46,960 Yeah, it's dial up. 43 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:47,960 And it's like, oh, so good. 44 00:01:47,960 --> 00:01:48,960 So good. 45 00:01:48,960 --> 00:01:52,160 Well, sorry, we're just going to go and fill this on here because I love you guys getting 46 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:53,460 to know us a little bit. 47 00:01:53,460 --> 00:01:58,040 We were working with the youth group probably eight years ago and there's a website called 48 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:02,880 homestarrunner.com, which has like videos that millennials who got onto that were really 49 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:03,880 familiar with. 50 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:08,280 There's some videos called like the Strong Red emails with it has a song like Trogdor. 51 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,160 Some of you are like, I have no idea what he's talking about. 52 00:02:10,160 --> 00:02:12,560 And some of you are like, yeah, he's talking about Trogdor. 53 00:02:12,560 --> 00:02:13,960 I'm going to link that video. 54 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:17,160 But regardless, we're working with the youth and I'm talking to them about it and they're 55 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:19,120 like, oh, well, where's the app for Homestar Runner? 56 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,200 And I was like, yeah, it came out before there were apps. 57 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:28,040 And they're like, well, then how did you get to the videos? 58 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,160 And I was like, you went and you typed in the address and you actually went to their 59 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:36,760 homepage and they're like, people have those. 60 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:40,280 And I was just, I was now granted this is the year like 12, 13, but it was just, it 61 00:02:40,280 --> 00:02:41,280 was very funny. 62 00:02:41,280 --> 00:02:42,280 Like it was very funny. 63 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:47,120 So I was like, I was feeling, I was feeling like my parents when I was growing up and 64 00:02:47,120 --> 00:02:49,080 be like, what is this? 65 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:50,080 That's so great. 66 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,080 Yeah. 67 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,680 Which actually segues well into the last episode. 68 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:55,840 We talked about not remembering where you come from. 69 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:56,840 Yeah. 70 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:57,840 Right. 71 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,320 We talked about Pharaoh operating out of fear instead of knowing where he comes from. 72 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:04,440 We also talked about the midwives who were told that they needed to start killing the 73 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:09,000 Hebrew boys and are like, no, we're not going to do that. 74 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:12,360 And then we're left off with this instruction from Pharaoh where it said that they had to, 75 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,400 they're going to have to chuck the boys into the Nile. 76 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:19,160 And so I bring this where we are today. 77 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:25,080 So at this point in the story, a man and a woman from the tribe of Levi have a baby. 78 00:03:25,080 --> 00:03:26,080 They have a baby. 79 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:28,000 Actually, it doesn't say that they have a baby. 80 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,560 It says that they get married and she got pregnant. 81 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:32,760 I feel like you can probably read between the lines. 82 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:33,760 Yeah. 83 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:35,800 If you have children, you probably know how that happens. 84 00:03:35,800 --> 00:03:39,200 So they have this baby and his name is Moses. 85 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:40,200 Yeah. 86 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:45,360 And apparently he's a good looking child because it says she saw that he was a fine child. 87 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:48,320 Now I'm not sure how fine is pronounced. 88 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:49,320 Fine. 89 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:51,280 So here's the other thing about that. 90 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:55,640 It's presumed that Moses wrote Genesis and Exodus, right? 91 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:59,920 So is Moses just like inserting it here that I was like, I was a good looking baby. 92 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:00,920 Yeah. 93 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:04,840 Mama saw me and she was like, I had someone tell me that a few years ago and I was like, 94 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:05,840 oh, that's so good. 95 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:06,840 So good. 96 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,660 So interesting thing here is they don't actually disobey Pharaoh. 97 00:04:09,660 --> 00:04:12,920 They actually just, they put the baby in the water in the Nile like they're supposed to 98 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:15,360 and they just put him in a basket. 99 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:16,360 Yeah. 100 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:17,360 Right. 101 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,600 And Pharaoh didn't say anything about like, Hey, you can't send the baby's older sister 102 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,160 along to make sure he does fine. 103 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:24,160 Huh? 104 00:04:24,160 --> 00:04:25,160 Right? 105 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:26,160 Yeah. 106 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:27,160 Like you said, these are your people. 107 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,160 Yeah. 108 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:30,680 These are like, these are my people where they're like, okay, I hear the instructions and I'm 109 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,440 going to follow the instructions, but I'm going to do it in the most outside the box 110 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:38,480 way I can think of just to mess with you. 111 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:39,480 No other reason. 112 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:40,480 Right. 113 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,480 Right. 114 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:45,960 So then the baby's going down the water and Pharaoh's daughter's there. 115 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:46,960 Yeah. 116 00:04:46,960 --> 00:04:50,800 So she sends one of her attendants out to go get the basket. 117 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,800 And she goes, Oh, it's a Hebrew baby. 118 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:54,800 I'm sorry. 119 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:57,080 I'm going to take a second here and probably poop on some people's perspective on the Prince 120 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:58,080 of Egypt. 121 00:04:58,080 --> 00:04:59,080 Yeah. 122 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:00,920 Moses knew his heritage. 123 00:05:00,920 --> 00:05:04,560 You remember there's this thing that happens on the eighth day with boys that makes them 124 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:07,280 very distinctive from Egypt. 125 00:05:07,280 --> 00:05:11,400 And apparently it's still a thing because Pharaoh's daughter sees this boy, this baby 126 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:14,080 boy and she goes, Oh, it's a Hebrew boy. 127 00:05:14,080 --> 00:05:20,480 Well, what about the Hebrew boy is so distinctive that she immediately knows he circumcised. 128 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:21,480 Yep. 129 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,760 Like turns out it makes everything look a lot different. 130 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:24,760 Right. 131 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:26,400 Moses actually knows that he's Hebrew. 132 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:27,400 Yeah. 133 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,080 And that's going to be confirmed in the text repeatedly, but that's just important to know 134 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:33,520 moving forward. 135 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:39,080 So you have this shift from Exodus one where people are forgetting where they're from, 136 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,080 right? 137 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:45,400 So you have Egypt forgetting about Joseph or the King of Egypt forgetting about Joseph 138 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,440 to you have Moses knowing where he's from. 139 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:49,440 Right. 140 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,480 And he's going to struggle with it too. 141 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:52,480 Like that. 142 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:53,480 In fact, actually let's just point out. 143 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:57,520 So Pharaoh's daughter brings him in and she raises him in Pharaoh's court, which means 144 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,400 that Moses would have had excellent education. 145 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:01,400 Yeah. 146 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:02,400 Right. 147 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:03,440 The best education of the day. 148 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:08,280 And so not only does he know Hebrew, Hebrew background, he also is very familiar with 149 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:09,840 Egyptian culture as well. 150 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:10,840 Yeah. 151 00:06:10,840 --> 00:06:13,920 Which by the way should send off some flags in our brain. 152 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:15,800 Of course, God would use Moses. 153 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:16,800 Yeah. 154 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:17,800 Right. 155 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:18,800 Yeah. 156 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:22,120 Because he's taking somebody who's uniquely qualified to deal with both cultures. 157 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:26,840 Talking about like you were talking about, he's like, does he remember where he comes 158 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:27,840 from? 159 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:28,840 So later it just jumps. 160 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:29,840 It just jumps. 161 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:30,840 I love this. 162 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:31,840 He's a baby. 163 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:35,560 And then in verse 11 says one day after Moses had grown up, he went out where his own people 164 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:36,560 were. 165 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:37,560 Okay. 166 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,240 And he's like, Hey, by the way, we're just jumping 14 years in the future and 17 years 167 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:41,240 in the future. 168 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:47,040 I mean, he's quite a bit older at this point and he sees an Egyptian abusing his people 169 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:49,000 and so he kills him. 170 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:50,000 Maybe an overreaction. 171 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,280 Also, they have been in slavery, so I kind of get it. 172 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:57,360 And that doesn't end very well for him because the next day he sees a couple of Israelites 173 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:01,480 fighting again, brothers fighting in a field, by the way. 174 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:03,840 Seems like that stuff happens a lot. 175 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:05,520 And he's like, guys, you shouldn't be fighting each other. 176 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:06,520 You're brothers. 177 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:11,720 And in fact, he actually says, why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew? 178 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:16,040 We pointed this out last week, but there's a lot of connection back to Genesis. 179 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,260 These stories happen a lot. 180 00:07:18,260 --> 00:07:23,380 It's almost like the first 11 chapters of Genesis, like put us in this world and really 181 00:07:23,380 --> 00:07:25,000 tell us about human nature. 182 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:26,000 Yeah. 183 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,400 So he's talking to these guys and then they're like, what are you going to do? 184 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:29,400 You're going to kill us? 185 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:30,400 Like kill the Egyptian? 186 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:32,240 And he's like, Oh boy, that's not good. 187 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:35,320 So he got afraid and he's like, I better get out of here because Pharaoh hears about it 188 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,400 and he decides to try to kill Moses. 189 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:38,400 Yeah. 190 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:39,400 Right. 191 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,160 So Moses fleets from Pharaoh and now he's in Midian and you guys are like, man, you 192 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:44,360 just jumped through that so fast. 193 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,680 Yeah, we did because we really want to talk about who is this Moses character. 194 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:48,880 Yeah. 195 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:54,160 And there's some very key things we want to pull out in this time in Midian. 196 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,480 And so that's why we're jumping through this part pretty quick. 197 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:57,480 Right. 198 00:07:57,480 --> 00:07:58,960 So he goes to Median. 199 00:07:58,960 --> 00:07:59,960 Median. 200 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:03,000 It's in the middle of things. 201 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,560 This is so great because at church, Ben makes fun of us all the time for mispronouncing 202 00:08:07,560 --> 00:08:08,560 things. 203 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:13,000 And so here he is like, Mediob in Jenefis or whatever you just said. 204 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,000 This is just priceless. 205 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:16,000 Oh, it's so good. 206 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:17,280 So good. 207 00:08:17,280 --> 00:08:19,920 So they're in Midian and so there's a priest of Midian. 208 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:22,800 He has seven daughters and they go to the water and they're filling up the trousers. 209 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:26,840 So then for the father's flock and the shepherd, the shepherds come and they're trying to drive 210 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,000 him off and Moses steps up and defends them. 211 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,000 Right. 212 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:36,240 So they go back to their father and he says, you know, talking about the situation, they 213 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,080 say an Egyptian helped him. 214 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:39,080 Okay. 215 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,520 What was the last thing? 216 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,560 So an Egyptian daughter, a Pharaoh, right? 217 00:08:45,560 --> 00:08:46,760 And Pharaoh is considered what? 218 00:08:46,760 --> 00:08:48,240 He's considered a god in Egypt. 219 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:49,240 Right. 220 00:08:49,240 --> 00:08:56,040 So his daughter saw him as a baby and is like, oh, this is a Hebrew boy. 221 00:08:56,040 --> 00:09:01,640 Now these children of the priest in Midian see Moses and go talk about them and they're 222 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:03,800 like, oh, it's an Egyptian. 223 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,300 Like these aren't accidents in the text. 224 00:09:06,300 --> 00:09:09,680 There is a clear identity crisis that's going on for Moses through this area. 225 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:10,680 Yeah. 226 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:14,840 This is far more than just confusion from one person to another being like, oh, well, 227 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:15,840 he looks like a Hebrew. 228 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,600 Oh, he looks like an Egyptian. 229 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:18,600 All right. 230 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:20,280 This is far more from that. 231 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:24,360 You back up in chapter two a little bit where it talks about in verse 11 where Moses goes 232 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:25,360 out. 233 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,520 Why did he go out? 234 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,880 Like he was clearly from his earliest memories Egyptian. 235 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:32,880 Right. 236 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,040 I mean, he knew his heritage, but there's something about knowing where you come from 237 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:41,880 that makes you want to go there and see that and experience that. 238 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:47,680 I mean, a few years ago, like I was born in middle of nowhere Kansas and I was like, okay, 239 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:50,040 I want to go see the town I was born in. 240 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:51,040 Right. 241 00:09:51,040 --> 00:09:52,040 Because I was born there. 242 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:53,040 We lived there a year. 243 00:09:53,040 --> 00:09:54,040 I don't remember it. 244 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:59,080 I was completely underwhelmed and no offense if anybody from Kansas is listening specifically 245 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:00,440 if you're from nowhere Kansas. 246 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:04,560 Yeah, I was completely underwhelmed, but at the same time I was like, okay, I was fun 247 00:10:04,560 --> 00:10:05,560 to see. 248 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:10,800 I'm also like my heritage goes back to Scottish and Irish roots. 249 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:16,200 And so someday I want to go over to Scotland and Ireland and see that landscape, see that 250 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:17,200 culture. 251 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:21,960 I know it's changed from when my ancestors were there, but there's something about knowing 252 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:28,920 where you're from that makes you want to go there and see that and experience that. 253 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:34,400 Well even genetically there are markers in our DNA that carry characteristics of where 254 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:35,400 we come from. 255 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:36,400 Yeah. 256 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:40,320 There is a test that you can have done on your dietary things that says because you 257 00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:44,240 come from this area, these types of foods are going to be more beneficial for you and 258 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,680 these types of foods you're going to have more difficulty with. 259 00:10:46,680 --> 00:10:48,480 Like that's crazy. 260 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:50,520 Right? 261 00:10:50,520 --> 00:10:51,520 That's in your DNA. 262 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:53,720 I've always loved potatoes. 263 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:54,720 Yeah. 264 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:56,080 I'm Scotch Irish. 265 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:57,080 Yeah. 266 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:58,080 Always love potatoes. 267 00:10:58,080 --> 00:10:59,080 Right? 268 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,280 That's just the best all I got for that one. 269 00:11:02,280 --> 00:11:03,280 Yeah, that's it. 270 00:11:03,280 --> 00:11:05,000 He doesn't actually have anything else to go with that. 271 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:06,000 Right? 272 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:07,000 I was just trying to compliment your point. 273 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:10,880 Well, speaking of potatoes though, the the Minion priest is my kind of guy because look 274 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:11,880 what he says right away. 275 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:13,480 He's like, why did you leave him there? 276 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:15,080 Invite him to have something to eat. 277 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:16,080 My man. 278 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,080 Right? 279 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:18,080 Right. 280 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:19,460 Why did you leave him there? 281 00:11:19,460 --> 00:11:20,460 Let's go feed him. 282 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:21,840 I love that. 283 00:11:21,840 --> 00:11:24,880 By the way, I really wish more of us just did this. 284 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:26,320 Just fed people. 285 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,280 Never underestimate the power of hospitality. 286 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:30,360 Or a meal. 287 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:32,440 Just be like, hey, come on over. 288 00:11:32,440 --> 00:11:33,440 I'll feed you dinner tonight. 289 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:37,020 You know, I don't want you to have to worry about lunch today. 290 00:11:37,020 --> 00:11:39,000 I'll take you out, get you some food. 291 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:40,000 Yeah. 292 00:11:40,000 --> 00:11:44,760 There's something as simple as that can change someone's day. 293 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:45,760 Like in an instant. 294 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:51,400 One of my favorite things in my office is sometimes I'll be like stressed or something 295 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:56,560 and my assistant will come in and be like, did you go to lunch yet? 296 00:11:56,560 --> 00:11:59,520 You seem like you're grouchy not eating lunch. 297 00:11:59,520 --> 00:12:00,920 And it's like, I was like, no, I haven't. 298 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:02,760 And she's like, well, you need to go. 299 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:03,760 Like now. 300 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:05,180 Eat lunch. 301 00:12:05,180 --> 00:12:07,320 So that just lets you know how my hangries go. 302 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,280 Ben might think he's the boss at his office. 303 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:10,280 He's not. 304 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:11,280 I'm not. 305 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:12,280 No, no, he's not. 306 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,320 Moses goes and agrees to stay with them and then he marries the daughter is a Zipporah, 307 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,280 which is a fantastic name. 308 00:12:18,280 --> 00:12:19,800 It's where we get zipper from. 309 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,800 That's not true. 310 00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:29,760 That's a good, and now this week of heretics and and then he has a son and he names him 311 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:32,640 Gershom because he is a foreigner. 312 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:35,680 He is now like a foreigner in a foreign land. 313 00:12:35,680 --> 00:12:37,040 Okay. 314 00:12:37,040 --> 00:12:40,480 And during that period of time, the king of Egypt dies. 315 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:43,840 So I think it's actually important to note this that the king of Egypt dies. 316 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,520 So whoever comes up after him is bad news bears because the Israelites groaned in their 317 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:49,120 slavery and cried out. 318 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:50,120 Okay. 319 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:53,280 So apparently this has been happening for a while. 320 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,600 And what hasn't been ideal, they haven't been really freaking out about it because now when 321 00:12:57,600 --> 00:13:01,120 this new Pharaoh comes, it really ups the ante. 322 00:13:01,120 --> 00:13:02,120 Yeah. 323 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:03,120 Right. 324 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,360 To the point that they're cry for help. 325 00:13:04,360 --> 00:13:07,320 There is a right rises up to God. 326 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:08,320 That's Hebrew, by the way. 327 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,160 And God heard their groanings and he remembered his covenant. 328 00:13:12,160 --> 00:13:13,160 Okay. 329 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:14,760 Once again, we've been talking about Genesis. 330 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:15,840 What does that remind you of? 331 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,360 God remembered his covenant. 332 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:20,640 Like what story? 333 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,080 The story this reminds me of is when God made his covenant with Abraham because he said, 334 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:25,320 Hey, I'm going to take this on. 335 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:30,080 I'm going to take on both sides of the covenant and I'm going to be the one who's responsible 336 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:33,600 for holding up both ends of the deal. 337 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,980 And you see that happen later on in Exodus and you can rewind this even further. 338 00:13:37,980 --> 00:13:43,800 If you go over back to Noah, it says that God remembered. 339 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:49,880 And so you have this echo of God remembered here in Exodus to, to God remembered back 340 00:13:49,880 --> 00:13:51,880 in the story of Noah. 341 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:58,200 Because once again, whose responsibility is it to uphold or to remind of the covenant? 342 00:13:58,200 --> 00:13:59,200 It'd be ours. 343 00:13:59,200 --> 00:14:00,880 It'd be our job. 344 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,800 Except they don't actually cry out to God. 345 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:09,200 They actually just cry out and God hears them, which by the way, I feel like there is an 346 00:14:09,200 --> 00:14:16,400 implication in the text that when somebody cries out in oppression, God hears that and 347 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:17,400 he's on his way. 348 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:21,500 And it may not feel like it, but God's on his way. 349 00:14:21,500 --> 00:14:25,400 And we should definitely partner with him when it's bringing wholeness to brokenness. 350 00:14:25,400 --> 00:14:31,120 So doesn't that just speak to like the crazy, awesome nature of God? 351 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:39,400 Where you have these people just crying out, not even talking to God and God's like, you 352 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,440 know, I'm going to show up. 353 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,520 I'm going to be there ready to take care of this issue. 354 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:51,680 I'm going to be there for you, even though you didn't even ask me to. 355 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:53,160 Yeah. 356 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:58,680 In American history, we have this blot on our history called slavery. 357 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:00,280 Right? 358 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:05,120 One of the depressing things when you study the church during that time is that there 359 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:10,560 were people from the pulpit who were using scripture to justify slavery, justifying the 360 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:16,000 subrogation of another group of people. 361 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,320 That's not good. 362 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:24,880 But at the same time, people who were strongly moved of God, we're going to call them abolitionists, 363 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:30,000 were motivated by the grace and mercy and goodness of God that they actually created 364 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,720 entire systems that eventually brought down slavery. 365 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:33,720 Yeah. 366 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:34,720 Right? 367 00:15:34,720 --> 00:15:38,640 That just as there are people who are misusing scripture, there were people who lived it 368 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:41,920 out and actually brought about change in culture. 369 00:15:41,920 --> 00:15:42,920 Yeah. 370 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:43,920 Right? 371 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:44,920 And that's a big deal. 372 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:45,920 Yeah. 373 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:46,920 Right? 374 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,480 Because they looked at this and they said, this is not who God is and we refuse to be 375 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,480 a part of it. 376 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:55,480 Yeah. 377 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:56,480 That's so good. 378 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:57,480 Yeah. 379 00:15:57,480 --> 00:15:59,200 There's so much that could be said on that. 380 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:03,400 And so like God hears the cry of the oppressed. 381 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:09,360 Like we know it from our history in the nasty nastiness. 382 00:16:09,360 --> 00:16:15,800 God will hear the cry of the oppressed and he sends out people to address it. 383 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:22,320 Often people who are very qualified to address exactly what's going on. 384 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,960 It's almost like he rose them up just for that day. 385 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:25,960 Yeah. 386 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:26,960 Right? 387 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,800 So let's jump into chapter three where we get into the burning bush. 388 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:30,800 Yeah. 389 00:16:30,800 --> 00:16:34,560 Now we're not going to spend a ton of time on the burning bush, but there are a few things 390 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,760 that we want to pull out. 391 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:38,440 You want to take that? 392 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:44,640 So Moses now run out of town as a murderer, identity crisis, am I Hebrew? 393 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:45,800 Am I Egyptian? 394 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:48,080 Now he's learning to be a shepherd, right? 395 00:16:48,080 --> 00:16:52,800 Living near his father-in-law who's a priest, right? 396 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:58,720 Then he's leading the flock around and then he sees like this crazy thing, this bush that's 397 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,280 on fire that won't burn. 398 00:17:01,280 --> 00:17:06,720 Now a burning bush in the desert is not like something like super stunning because I mean, 399 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:08,320 it's literally a hot desert. 400 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:09,880 You're talking hot desert. 401 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:11,560 You're talking dry. 402 00:17:11,560 --> 00:17:16,040 Actually something that happens in deserts are like thunderstorms actually happen in 403 00:17:16,040 --> 00:17:17,040 deserts. 404 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:21,040 So it would not be completely unexpected for like lightning to strike a bush and it to 405 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:23,680 catch on fire. 406 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:26,640 But there's this bush, it's not getting burnt. 407 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,640 Yeah. 408 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:28,640 Like that's crazy. 409 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:29,640 That's weird. 410 00:17:29,640 --> 00:17:30,640 Yeah. 411 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:31,640 It's weird. 412 00:17:31,640 --> 00:17:32,640 And so then God calls, it says Moses and then Moses says, here I am. 413 00:17:32,640 --> 00:17:35,640 What does that remind you of? 414 00:17:35,640 --> 00:17:36,640 Wow. 415 00:17:36,640 --> 00:17:39,080 They're on a mountain again. 416 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,480 Yeah. 417 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,520 There is a bush, right? 418 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:45,680 Thistles. 419 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,320 God calls out the name of the person and they say, here I am. 420 00:17:49,320 --> 00:17:50,320 Isaac. 421 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:51,320 So they're on a mountain again. 422 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:52,320 I'm looking at Abraham on the mountain, right? 423 00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:53,320 Wow. 424 00:17:53,320 --> 00:17:55,860 This is happening on a mountain again, right? 425 00:17:55,860 --> 00:18:00,160 It's almost like God is repeating stories that Moses would have been familiar with, 426 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:01,160 right? 427 00:18:01,160 --> 00:18:02,160 Okay. 428 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:06,560 And God says, don't come any closer, take off your sandals because where you're standing 429 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:07,560 is holy. 430 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:08,560 Right? 431 00:18:08,560 --> 00:18:10,560 And then he makes a statement. 432 00:18:10,560 --> 00:18:16,280 He says, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God 433 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:22,520 of Jacob, and at this Moses hit his face because he was afraid to look at God. 434 00:18:22,520 --> 00:18:23,520 Yeah. 435 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:27,800 And so one of the interesting things that happens here is you have this guy, this guy, 436 00:18:27,800 --> 00:18:29,360 identity crisis. 437 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:30,360 Am I Egyptian? 438 00:18:30,360 --> 00:18:31,360 Am I Hebrew? 439 00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:33,120 Am I Midian? 440 00:18:33,120 --> 00:18:36,400 Now I'm living with Midianites, like who am I? 441 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:42,160 And then God comes and says, I am the God of your ancestors. 442 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:50,400 He comes and confirms who Moses is and says, this is who you are, a descendant of Abraham, 443 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:53,440 Isaac, Jacob. 444 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:56,000 And why I wish I could say that that just clears it up for Moses. 445 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:59,000 And he's like from that does not, he's like, Hey, I know who I am now. 446 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:00,000 No, it's not. 447 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:01,580 There's going to be tons of stuff where Moses struggles with it. 448 00:19:01,580 --> 00:19:04,600 But God is very clear to Moses right here. 449 00:19:04,600 --> 00:19:05,600 This is who you are. 450 00:19:05,600 --> 00:19:10,280 And now I want to read this because I think it's really important for us to hear because 451 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:11,720 I'm going to make a point on this. 452 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:15,240 It says, I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. 453 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,240 I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers and I am concerned about their 454 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:20,240 suffering. 455 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:24,520 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them out 456 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:27,760 of that land into a good and spacious land. 457 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:28,760 Okay. 458 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:36,760 So we just talked about our blot in American history and we've got more than just that. 459 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:40,920 Like there's tons of like every culture, every state, every nation that exists has a blot 460 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:44,600 in their history. 461 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:49,800 When we as a church today see injustice, right? 462 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:55,960 Or we see misery or we see brokenness or we see darkness. 463 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:57,080 We need to hear God's voice. 464 00:19:57,080 --> 00:20:03,400 I have seen this and I'm ready to take care of this. 465 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:05,240 But here's the thing. 466 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:09,560 God is not going to do it without partners. 467 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:15,760 And so when there is a darkness, when there is a tragedy, when there is a brokenness, 468 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:22,280 he's looking for a Moses who's ready and willing to step into the role of being the conduit 469 00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:26,840 of God's grace and mercy in that moment. 470 00:20:26,840 --> 00:20:32,760 You get to be the tangible presence of God in that moment. 471 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:33,920 Why God wants to work that way? 472 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:36,000 I don't know, but it is what he wants to do. 473 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:37,640 Yeah, it is. 474 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,440 And that can feel overwhelming. 475 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:45,080 That can feel like, okay, why is this infinite, all powerful God, all loving God choosing 476 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:46,080 me? 477 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,720 I'll tell you why. 478 00:20:48,720 --> 00:20:54,680 Because you're a son or a daughter and he has great plans for you. 479 00:20:54,680 --> 00:21:01,120 Great plans for you not to build a tower to yourself, but to subdue the earth and fill 480 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:05,280 it till all the world looks like Eden. 481 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:11,160 And when you start casting your identity onto him, you start to pull your identity away 482 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:12,840 from sin. 483 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:16,720 You start to pull your identity away from the things of this world, from the confusion 484 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,400 of who you thought you might be to who you actually are. 485 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:21,400 Right. 486 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,860 Well, and that's actually a good point because what's the next thing Moses says? 487 00:21:24,860 --> 00:21:31,960 He says, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? 488 00:21:31,960 --> 00:21:35,840 Now on a broad level, you're the exact dude. 489 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:37,280 You're it. 490 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,000 You were raised in Pharaoh's court. 491 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,920 You are a natural born Hebrew. 492 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,440 Like if there was somebody who was going to bridge the gap and be able to have this conversation, 493 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:46,440 Moses, you're it. 494 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:50,000 But he doesn't feel that yet. 495 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:51,440 Yeah. 496 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:54,360 And Moses runs through a list of excuses here. 497 00:21:54,360 --> 00:21:55,720 So many excuses. 498 00:21:55,720 --> 00:22:01,040 He runs through a list of excuses that if we're just being honest, are all too relatable. 499 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:02,040 Too relatable. 500 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,120 Like there are some of these I think have shown up in my prayers. 501 00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:05,120 Yeah. 502 00:22:05,120 --> 00:22:06,120 Right. 503 00:22:06,120 --> 00:22:07,120 Yeah. 504 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:08,120 But who am I to do this? 505 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,120 Oh, I don't talk well. 506 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:10,120 I'm bad with words. 507 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:11,120 Right. 508 00:22:11,120 --> 00:22:15,520 To like in his final excuse was like, I just don't want to. 509 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:23,520 And but God works with him throughout all these excuses. 510 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:25,040 So real story here. 511 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,040 Yeah. 512 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,040 Right. 513 00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:31,160 So God moved to where we are now from where we were six years ago. 514 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,840 I know that's really vague, but just deal with it. 515 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,960 God came to me and spoke a very clear thing. 516 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:39,720 And people are like, oh, did he actually talk out loud? 517 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:40,720 I don't know. 518 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:42,000 The reality is that he didn't need to talk a lot. 519 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,560 I knew that was talking. 520 00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:44,900 Okay. 521 00:22:44,900 --> 00:22:47,040 But God told me that we needed to move to this place. 522 00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:50,600 He said he needed somebody like me here. 523 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,520 Now my question for God was like, I don't know what that means. 524 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,120 What do you mean you need somebody like me? 525 00:22:57,120 --> 00:22:59,080 And he's like, I need somebody like you here. 526 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:03,400 And I just stopped arguing because that's not going to end well for me. 527 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:07,680 But then I had a prophetic word spoken over me one time. 528 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,920 And it was interesting the word that they gave them because had they used any other 529 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,240 word, I probably would have just dismissed it. 530 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:20,220 They asked God what God wanted, wish that I knew about how he feels about me. 531 00:23:20,220 --> 00:23:25,640 And what they said was God says that he appreciates your bigness. 532 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,840 That's big-ness. 533 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,440 Now one of the things you don't necessarily know about me, because you listen to my voice 534 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:35,040 and you have never seen me is I'm 6'6". 535 00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,320 I weigh just shy of 400 pounds. 536 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,320 I'm a big dude. 537 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:40,320 Okay. 538 00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,740 And I struggle with the thought of being big all the time. 539 00:23:43,740 --> 00:23:48,200 You know, like I'm getting my health in order and all those different things and like it's 540 00:23:48,200 --> 00:23:49,920 progressing in a right way. 541 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,960 But it's been an issue all my life because I've been huge. 542 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:53,960 Right? 543 00:23:53,960 --> 00:23:55,520 And I've never thought the bigness being a good thing. 544 00:23:55,520 --> 00:24:00,480 So when they said that initially I was like, oh great, just because I'm big. 545 00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:04,960 And then they followed it up and they said, not because of your physical stature, but 546 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:14,840 because you will plant yourself firm in what God calls you to be and you will not move. 547 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:22,060 When I came here, I was forced to plant myself in a situation where I knew what God was doing 548 00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:24,280 and I just refused to move. 549 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:25,840 Yeah. 550 00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:29,000 God knew what he was doing. 551 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,600 And I don't want to try to claim like I was some like hyper spiritual, no, I screwed it 552 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,440 up all along the way. 553 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:39,960 But looking back, there was moment after moment after moment, I could talk to you about 30 554 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:46,360 50 times that God showed up in a very specific way that had there been somebody else here 555 00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:49,440 that wouldn't have happened. 556 00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:54,880 We have to trust God when he calls us into dark places that he's going to work through 557 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,000 us. 558 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,280 And in Moses's case, he has like just a ton of excuses. 559 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:05,040 And I think that we do too. 560 00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:07,720 And it's probably time for us to just let him go. 561 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:08,920 Yeah. 562 00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:14,240 So Moses has five main excuses here and tell me if these sound relatable at all. 563 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:15,240 Okay. 564 00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:16,240 All right. 565 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:18,240 Who am I to do this? 566 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:19,240 That's the first one. 567 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:20,240 All right. 568 00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:21,240 Okay. 569 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:22,240 Who am I? 570 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,840 The second one is who like who do I say you are? 571 00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:25,840 Like how do I talk about you? 572 00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,840 How do I talk about you? 573 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:28,840 God. 574 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,000 God gives him answer to that one. 575 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:37,280 Third one, the guy is he's like, okay, well, what if they don't believe me? 576 00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:39,200 God answers that fourth one. 577 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,600 He's like, I'm just not very good with words. 578 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,040 I just don't know how to articulate it. 579 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:47,000 Well, God works with that. 580 00:25:47,000 --> 00:25:51,560 And then the fifth one, he's like, I just don't want to do it, which is probably the 581 00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:52,560 true one. 582 00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:53,560 Mm hmm. 583 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:54,560 Yeah. 584 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:55,560 Right. 585 00:25:55,560 --> 00:25:56,560 Mm hmm. 586 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:57,560 All the other ones are excuses. 587 00:25:57,560 --> 00:25:58,560 Right. 588 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:01,640 But you look at those five things and you're like, when I look at those, I remember preaching 589 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,880 a sermon on this a while back and I was like, this is and as I was prepping, I was like, 590 00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,960 this is painfully relatable. 591 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:09,960 Like who am I? 592 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,680 Who am I to proclaim God's word? 593 00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:12,680 Okay. 594 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,680 God, who are you? 595 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,160 Like show me who you are so I can do it right. 596 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,160 Oh man. 597 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:17,160 What if they don't believe what I'm going to say? 598 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,440 It was it was they don't believe. 599 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:19,440 Okay. 600 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:20,440 What if I just don't articulate it? 601 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:21,440 Well, okay. 602 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,920 Then I'm like, okay, well, I don't want to do it. 603 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,680 And then God's like, all right, finally got to the real reason. 604 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,080 We got to the reason and he's like, I can work with this. 605 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,080 Yeah. 606 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,080 Yeah. 607 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:40,960 So I think the story of Moses is actually extremely relatable. 608 00:26:40,960 --> 00:26:45,200 And I really want to take note of a lot of the things that happens with Moses because 609 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:51,440 at some point we're going to do a series where we go through the gospels and very frequently 610 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,120 the gospel writers are helping us understand that Jesus is the second Moses. 611 00:26:55,120 --> 00:26:56,120 Yeah. 612 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:57,120 Right. 613 00:26:57,120 --> 00:26:58,960 He's leading a second Exodus. 614 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:03,080 And so a lot of the places where Moses struggles, Jesus is just going to walk it out. 615 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:08,920 Jesus is going to show us what it looks like to walk out the will of God perfectly to be 616 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,560 Torah made flesh. 617 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,800 So before we get onto anything else, can we go back and talk about when God talks about 618 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:16,800 his name? 619 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:17,800 Yeah. 620 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:18,800 Because this is so cool. 621 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:19,800 Yeah. 622 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,600 So if you've seen our logo, you see the podcast love and context. 623 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,920 It says YHVH, right? 624 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:31,040 So it's a English equivalent of Yahweh or Yahweh is the name that is actually given. 625 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:36,400 It is God's name that he gives the Hebrews to call him by, but it doesn't translate well 626 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,440 to English, right? 627 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:45,580 God sent to Moses, I am who I am. 628 00:27:45,580 --> 00:27:47,320 This is what you say to the Israelites. 629 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,600 I am has sent me to you. 630 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:54,040 Now the interesting thing about this and one of the things that Rabbi David Forman is going 631 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:58,640 to cover in his book, the Exodus He Almost Passed Over, which once again, want to recommend 632 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:05,440 that book again, is that this name is actually an overlaying of three different tenses and 633 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:15,400 it could just as easily be, I always was, I always am, and I always will be. 634 00:28:15,400 --> 00:28:19,840 Now we've talked about the compassion and the goodness of God. 635 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:24,480 The Israelites have been crying out in agony. 636 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,520 What does God's name actually tell them? 637 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:36,000 I have always been here and I'm with you now and I will always be with you and I will always 638 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,080 be with you. 639 00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:42,040 It's not going to change. 640 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,760 And I think the invitation is to trust that. 641 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,240 Because we see it and we're like, oh, but I'm in slavery. 642 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:51,160 Yeah, but Exodus is coming. 643 00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,200 Oh, but you know, we talk about the plagues that are coming. 644 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:56,200 These plagues are coming. 645 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,280 Yeah, but Exodus is coming. 646 00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:03,720 Ah, but slavery, but Exodus is coming. 647 00:29:03,720 --> 00:29:06,880 And I am with you now and I always have been. 648 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,240 And what an encouragement. 649 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,360 I mean, relate that to today a little bit. 650 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:18,720 What an encouragement in this fast changing world to know that God is always going to 651 00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:19,720 be there. 652 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:22,840 He's always going to be who he says he is going to be. 653 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:24,160 All right. 654 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,520 He is the great I am. 655 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:32,320 And to have that in our lives to be like, okay, no matter what is going on around us, 656 00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:39,000 no matter the good, the bad, the crazy, right? 657 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:42,960 God is always the same. 658 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,360 He's consistent. 659 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,440 I think it's very likely that somebody listening to this at some point in their life has had 660 00:29:50,440 --> 00:29:55,680 a situation where they're like, I don't know where God was in this. 661 00:29:55,680 --> 00:30:00,080 And I don't understand how it works when God looks from eternity and he knows the right 662 00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:02,160 time that things should happen. 663 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,880 And you go, well, what about this? 664 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,880 What about that? 665 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,040 We also live in a broken world, right? 666 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:12,480 What I will tell you is that in every moment of brokenness, God was with you. 667 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:18,280 And in every moment of brokenness that's coming, God is going to be with you because his very 668 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:23,920 identity, the thing that defines him is he is with you. 669 00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:24,920 Amen. 670 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:30,600 And he always was and he always will be. 671 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,480 And that is very comforting. 672 00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:41,420 That is an astounding, astounding truth. 673 00:30:41,420 --> 00:30:48,200 So then when we are called to go and be like God, that means we got to be people. 674 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:58,120 People who are with people in their chaos and in the jubilation, in their brokenness 675 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:01,280 and in their parties. 676 00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:07,320 That we know how to sit with people in chaos and we also know how to bring Exodus. 677 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:08,320 Absolutely. 678 00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:13,060 There's one thing I want to kind of talk about a little bit. 679 00:31:13,060 --> 00:31:19,160 So you jump over to chapter four, verse 14, it says right after Moses lays out his last 680 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:20,160 excuse. 681 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:27,320 And it says, and then the Lord became angry with Moses. 682 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:30,920 So we haven't really seen this. 683 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:33,400 No, this is the first time we've seen God get angry. 684 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:39,760 This is the first time I see God get angry because even when he in the flood, he's remorseful. 685 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:40,760 He's remorseful, right? 686 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,760 Right. 687 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,400 So you actually have God getting angry. 688 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:48,040 Now we've talked about this in the past, but anger isn't a sin. 689 00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,120 It's what you do with that, right? 690 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:55,160 So if that's the lens we're taking this from, you got to look and see what God does in his 691 00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:56,600 anger. 692 00:31:56,600 --> 00:31:59,760 He sends a helper to Moses, right? 693 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:00,760 Right. 694 00:32:00,760 --> 00:32:02,040 He's angry with Moses. 695 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:04,000 He's like, all right, I'll send you Aaron. 696 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:07,640 A matter of fact, he's already on his way. 697 00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:09,120 Right. 698 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:15,480 I am mad at you, but I'm going to step back and I'm going to actually see what's going 699 00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,920 to help you fulfill this call I've put on your life. 700 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,600 Aaron's good with words, Moses. 701 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:21,600 Okay. 702 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,020 He can speak on your behalf. 703 00:32:24,020 --> 00:32:27,420 How frustrating do you think that is for God because he knows the power that Moses is going 704 00:32:27,420 --> 00:32:28,840 to have when he speaks? 705 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:29,840 Yeah. 706 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:30,840 Right. 707 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:37,160 He knows how he wants to use Moses and Moses is just like, I don't want to do this. 708 00:32:37,160 --> 00:32:39,440 And so this is the hard part about that, right? 709 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:40,440 Okay. 710 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:42,240 So like we're like, okay, well, why is God mad? 711 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:46,560 Because it's not just about Moses, right? 712 00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:50,500 It's about all the people Moses is supposed to bless. 713 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:54,000 This is the frustrating thing when we don't take up the mantle that we've been entrusted 714 00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:55,000 with. 715 00:32:55,000 --> 00:33:00,840 Kingdom life, like there are people who are desperate for what we've got for the real 716 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:01,840 thing. 717 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:06,480 Not the jerk thing that we bring out when we try to evangelize, quote unquote. 718 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:12,760 Not the beat downs, not the harassment, not the pious justification and pontification 719 00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,140 that we use. 720 00:33:14,140 --> 00:33:17,760 Like the real authentic Jesus where we actually show love and compassion and goodness and 721 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:22,000 mercy to people where we see miracles poured out, like the lame actually walking, the blind 722 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,360 seeing, and people who are broken made whole. 723 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:30,060 People passing from death to life and finding faith in Christ Jesus and actually being part 724 00:33:30,060 --> 00:33:31,060 of a renewed life. 725 00:33:31,060 --> 00:33:34,640 And then they get that same Holy Spirit and they go do the same thing. 726 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:35,840 Like this is the ministry. 727 00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:45,000 This is the kingdom and it's not happening because you don't want to be a conduit. 728 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,240 Let that sit for a moment guys. 729 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:51,320 It's not if you're saying it's not happening because you don't want to be a conduit, that's 730 00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:52,320 on you. 731 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:53,320 Right? 732 00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:54,320 Right? 733 00:33:54,320 --> 00:34:00,320 That's that's 100% on you and don't put that blame on somebody else. 734 00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,880 God has infinite patience when you are going to struggle following him. 735 00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:04,880 Yeah. 736 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:06,480 People are going to screw up a lot. 737 00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:07,480 Yeah. 738 00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:09,800 Spoiler alert, it happens a lot in Moses and Aaron's life. 739 00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,200 There's this little thing called the golden calf. 740 00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:12,600 I don't know if you're familiar with it. 741 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:13,600 Yeah. 742 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:14,600 Kind of a big mess up, right? 743 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:15,600 Just a little bit. 744 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:16,600 A little bit. 745 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:22,120 You're going to mess up, but God has patience with you and works through those things. 746 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,320 You know what he doesn't have patience for? 747 00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:30,200 Bailing on people. 748 00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:31,520 Because Moses knows the oppression. 749 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:32,520 He was there. 750 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:38,080 And we're going to jump way forward to right now. 751 00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:42,640 If we actually stepped into the call that Christ has put on our lives and loved our 752 00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:49,880 community like he calls us to love our community, people would just naturally question what 753 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,080 we're doing. 754 00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,720 That's my firm belief, at least they would just naturally be like, why are they sitting 755 00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:59,400 on the street corner with that homeless person? 756 00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:03,520 Why are they associating with those people in that community? 757 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:07,060 Why are they fill in the blank? 758 00:35:07,060 --> 00:35:12,640 People will look at you and be like, are you sure that's a safe thing to do? 759 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,720 They would look at you and be like, are you sure you should be talking to that person? 760 00:35:16,720 --> 00:35:20,520 Well, can we just say it's not safe, but it is not transformative. 761 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:22,440 It's not we want it to be safe, but it's not. 762 00:35:22,440 --> 00:35:24,880 We talked about that last episode, right? 763 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,880 It is redemptive. 764 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:26,880 It is redemptive. 765 00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:27,880 It is transformative. 766 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:28,880 Yeah. 767 00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:31,680 It is what forgiveness looks like. 768 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,000 It is what restoration looks like. 769 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,280 And this ties into the story of Moses in the sense that as we move forward, he's going 770 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:47,760 to go about things in a way that Israel probably doesn't expect. 771 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:49,440 But that's another episode. 772 00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:53,360 Does it concern you that in America we want the government to solve problems that Christians 773 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:55,360 weren't able to do? 774 00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,800 Yeah, it does concern me. 775 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:02,240 And I'm not like, so don't hear me mishear me. 776 00:36:02,240 --> 00:36:05,600 I'm not saying that the government programs are bad, like, because I think you could easily 777 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,120 mishear that. 778 00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:13,120 I have an issue when we abdicate responsibility and we throw money at a problem that we don't 779 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,840 want to deal with. 780 00:36:15,840 --> 00:36:17,400 Yeah. 781 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,360 My wife is a wonderful cook. 782 00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,160 And if she asked me, she's like, hey, I would really like it if you could come home and 783 00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,360 cook. 784 00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,520 And instead I just send somebody. 785 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:34,520 I hire a chef to come home and cook so that I don't have to cook and do dishes. 786 00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,480 I've thrown money at a problem that my wife isn't really looking to solve. 787 00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:41,160 She's looking for a partner. 788 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:46,040 And I just brought in a chef who, by the way, probably makes a huge mess. 789 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,040 Yeah. 790 00:36:47,040 --> 00:36:50,160 And that's also how Ben ended up sleeping on my couch. 791 00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:51,160 Yes. 792 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:52,700 But my wife is looking for a partner. 793 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:57,120 And by the way, guys, can you know, let's just, we're going to go and talk about it. 794 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,120 You need to help your wives. 795 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:00,120 They are your partner. 796 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,400 They are not your mother. 797 00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:03,400 Okay. 798 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:08,160 They are not walking behind you, picking you up, changing your diapers. 799 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,200 That's what mothers do. 800 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,820 Hopefully not forever because you should have grown up. 801 00:37:13,820 --> 00:37:18,200 And now that you're a grown up, you should respect your mother and treat her well. 802 00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:19,840 Get her flowers on Mother's Day. 803 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:20,840 You were a big kid. 804 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:25,360 It's very difficult to birth. 805 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:26,680 But your wife is not your servant. 806 00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:28,800 Your wife is your partner. 807 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,140 And however you just split that up, whether you both work, one of you works, I don't care 808 00:37:32,140 --> 00:37:33,140 what it is. 809 00:37:33,140 --> 00:37:37,440 You are their partner and your responsibility is to come and meet them 100% of the way. 810 00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:41,400 No, I didn't say 50% 100% of the way. 811 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,920 Each person gives 100% into the relationship. 812 00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:50,840 Oh, the like, oh, it's a 50 50 split and married biggest lie you will ever hear. 813 00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:54,280 If anybody tells you that as you're getting ready to get married, go talk to somebody 814 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:55,280 else. 815 00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:58,760 Like, no, you are supposed to give 100% into your marriage. 816 00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:02,000 Do you know what happens when two people take a test and they both get a 50%? 817 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,000 They both fail. 818 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,000 They both fail. 819 00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,400 And so you're supposed to give 100% into your marriage. 820 00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,120 And that doesn't matter if you're the husband, if you're the wife, you're supposed to give 821 00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:11,320 100% into the marriage. 822 00:38:11,320 --> 00:38:12,320 Okay. 823 00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:15,880 So we're talking about husbands and wives, but we're talking about partnering with God. 824 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,600 And frequently throughout scripture, there's going to be this tongue in cheek comparison 825 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:24,080 between marriage and partnering with God, because we're meant to be partners, right? 826 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,480 Where in fact, the church is called the bride of Christ. 827 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:27,480 Yeah. 828 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:31,200 So one of the things I always want to want to reiterate too is the church is the is the 829 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:38,400 bride of Christ, which also means when you don't like her, it's still God's bride. 830 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:42,040 When she's annoying, still God's bride. 831 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:47,840 When she says things that you don't like and you're like, Oh, I wish she would shut up. 832 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:52,260 That is still God's bride and he loves her fiercely. 833 00:38:52,260 --> 00:38:53,720 So be really careful. 834 00:38:53,720 --> 00:38:58,560 There's a reason we don't talk about people on this podcast because one, we recognize 835 00:38:58,560 --> 00:39:01,400 they're a part of the bride, just like we are. 836 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:03,640 And let's take this as a whole body analogy here. 837 00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:07,720 If the church is God's bride, which the church is God's bride. 838 00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:12,280 If we're one entity like that, we put on multiple personalities. 839 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:17,480 We put on inner turmoil, inner conflict, right? 840 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:22,320 When we're arguing about these things, we don't actually put ourselves in a place where 841 00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:25,440 we're actually acting like a bride of Christ. 842 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:29,400 We put ourselves in a place where we are trying to, where we were just fighting conflict within 843 00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:36,620 ourselves and God's coming alongside of us being like, no, I have so much more for you. 844 00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:39,800 So our takeaways on this, right? 845 00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:44,300 Moses is uniquely qualified, but he has an identity crisis. 846 00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:45,300 He doesn't know who he is. 847 00:39:45,300 --> 00:39:49,440 In fact, it even comes up one more time after this when they're actually on their way there 848 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:53,360 and he hasn't circumcised his kids. 849 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:54,460 It's a really weird story. 850 00:39:54,460 --> 00:39:55,460 Go check it out. 851 00:39:55,460 --> 00:39:57,040 There's some great material on the Baymau podcast. 852 00:39:57,040 --> 00:39:59,360 Go check it out. 853 00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:04,560 He's living between two worlds and ultimately the call on his life, the thing that he's 854 00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:10,240 been made for, this Exodus, this leading of the people of Israel, he's flopping between 855 00:40:10,240 --> 00:40:15,840 two identities and he can't settle that this is exactly what he was made for. 856 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,280 Stepping into who he's supposed to be. 857 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:19,880 So much someone got to this go. 858 00:40:19,880 --> 00:40:24,240 He's like, you know, I really don't want to. 859 00:40:24,240 --> 00:40:27,960 And you know what ends up happening at the end of the day? 860 00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:32,240 He ends up going, he ends up being like, yeah, I'm going to step into this. 861 00:40:32,240 --> 00:40:33,240 Right. 862 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:34,240 Right. 863 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:35,240 And so we need to take note of that. 864 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:39,040 We need to take note of like, God might be calling you to something that you're like, 865 00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:40,640 man, I don't really want to do this. 866 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:43,440 And you know what you need to do? 867 00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:49,180 Step into it because it's not necessarily about you, right? 868 00:40:49,180 --> 00:40:50,440 You are uniquely qualified. 869 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:52,960 You're uniquely gifted for what the Lord's called you to. 870 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,200 But sometimes he's going to call us to things that were like, man, I don't want to do this. 871 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,040 I actually guarantee you it's not about you. 872 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:00,040 Yeah. 873 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:07,000 Because God says to Abraham, Abraham in chapter 12 of Genesis, I'm going to bless you so that 874 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,600 all the nations around you are going to be blessed. 875 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:10,600 Yes. 876 00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:12,960 This is the tree we've been grafted into. 877 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:17,680 The church is meant to be blessed so that all nations would be blessed. 878 00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:18,680 Yeah. 879 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:19,680 That's so good. 880 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,840 God comes and he, and he, and he touches your life and he gives you an anointing. 881 00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:23,840 He gives you a call. 882 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:25,500 He gives you an identity. 883 00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:26,500 It's not for you. 884 00:41:26,500 --> 00:41:28,600 Like you get to live in it. 885 00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:29,600 It's great. 886 00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:30,840 You know, God made you a great musician. 887 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:32,360 You get to live in that, but it's not for you. 888 00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:33,360 It's for those around you. 889 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,360 Yeah. 890 00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,520 God made you good at making money. 891 00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:37,080 That's great, but it's not for you. 892 00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:38,560 It's for those around you. 893 00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:39,560 God made you good at cooking. 894 00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:40,560 That's great. 895 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:41,560 It's not for you. 896 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:42,920 It's for those around you. 897 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:47,200 So that the kingdom of God would move forward and his rule and reign would be instituted 898 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:52,120 throughout the entire earth because God is looking for sons and daughters who will partner 899 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,200 with him to restore a lost world back to him. 900 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:59,580 And he made you exactly who you need to be. 901 00:41:59,580 --> 00:42:01,560 And remember what his name is. 902 00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:12,380 I always was, I always am, and I always will be with you every single step of the way. 903 00:42:12,380 --> 00:42:14,960 This is the beginning of Exodus. 904 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:16,740 God is always with us. 905 00:42:16,740 --> 00:42:17,840 He works through us. 906 00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:22,300 He blesses us so that all nations can be blessed in your life right now. 907 00:42:22,300 --> 00:42:26,960 There may be someone in your, in your circle that needs an Exodus. 908 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:31,040 Listen to the voice of God, know he's with you and go bring the kingdom. 909 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,040 Yes. 910 00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:33,120 So good. 911 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:34,720 Thank you all for listening. 912 00:42:34,720 --> 00:42:38,000 Email, love and context at gmail.com. 913 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,680 Also follow us on Instagram at love and context. 914 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,280 I said context. 915 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:46,280 Love and context. 916 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,280 Yeah. 917 00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:48,280 Not contact. 918 00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:49,280 Oh man. 919 00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:50,400 So yeah. 920 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:53,900 So those are two ways to get ahold of us right now if you want. 921 00:42:53,900 --> 00:42:57,200 We are on Apple and Spotify. 922 00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,840 There might be more options coming soon, but that's where you can find us. 923 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,920 If you like what you're hearing and you know somebody who you think needs to hear this, 924 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,960 please share this with them. 925 00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:09,920 We're not, we're not doing this to gain fame. 926 00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:13,520 We don't really like if, if 10 people are blessed from this, wonderful. 927 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:14,520 Yeah. 928 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:17,120 If a thousand people are blessed from this, wonderful. 929 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:22,540 We want you guys to help us draw people in who you think would be blessed by this conversation. 930 00:43:22,540 --> 00:43:26,640 We're going to speak the kingdom and let God do with it what he's going to do. 931 00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:27,640 Yeah. 932 00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,160 And so if you think people can benefit from this conversation, we want to invite him into 933 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:31,160 it. 934 00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,240 We're, we're called to be faithful. 935 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:34,600 God's in charge of the outcome. 936 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:35,600 Exactly. 937 00:43:35,600 --> 00:43:38,300 So thanks for listening guys until next time. 938 00:43:38,300 --> 00:43:40,160 Thank you so much for listening today. 939 00:43:40,160 --> 00:43:45,680 We hope you enjoyed this podcast and we hope that you got something out of it. 940 00:43:45,680 --> 00:43:52,120 If you have any questions, please contact us at love and context at gmail.com. 941 00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:59,040 You can also follow us on Instagram and message us through their Instagram is love and context. 942 00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:04,640 Again, love and context at gmail.com or Instagram are the two ways to get ahold of us. 943 00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,100 If you would like, thank you once again. 944 00:44:07,100 --> 00:44:09,400 We really appreciate you being here. 945 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:14,640 God bless. 946 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,440 Now I'm a guy and I still do that. 947 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:18,440 Thanks. 948 00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:19,440 Right. 949 00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:20,440 You do that again. 950 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:25,720 I, I was trying to guess, but all I ended up doing was making a really loud like inhale. 951 00:44:25,720 --> 00:44:26,720 Yeah. 952 00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:27,720 Yeah. 953 00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:34,000 She wrote a book called the hiding place based on her experiences in, in world war two, specifically 954 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:35,000 living in crap. 955 00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:36,000 Where'd she from? 956 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:40,200 I think it's, I think it's, and this is part of the podcast where you get to cast your 957 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,360 votes. 958 00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,280 Where was Corey Tim boom from? 959 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:48,000 Love and context. 960 00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:52,880 It's podcast with Ben and Spencer and you're here. 961 00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:56,960 So at this point you're stuck with us, I guess. 962 00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,680 Oh man. 963 00:44:58,680 --> 00:44:59,680 Sure. 964 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:06,680 I think I can use that as the intro.