1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,680 Welcome to the Love and Context podcast of Unscripted Conversation with Ben and Spencer. 2 00:00:05,680 --> 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 --> 00:00:31,920 Welcome to the podcast of Unscripted Conversation where Ben and Spencer talk in an unscripted 7 00:00:31,920 --> 00:00:32,920 manner. 8 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:36,800 I always like it that when you say welcome, you're like, welcome. 9 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,640 Get that podcaster voice on, welcome. 10 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:44,280 It's like, I'm about to announce something. 11 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:46,480 What I'm going to say is very important. 12 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:47,680 Yeah, exactly. 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:52,640 So today we're going to be in Exodus 7 through 12. 14 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:58,520 So if you have not read those, go ahead and pause, get your Bible out and read those things 15 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,280 because we're going to assume that you know what we're talking about as we come into these 16 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:02,280 sections. 17 00:01:02,280 --> 00:01:03,280 Yes. 18 00:01:03,280 --> 00:01:08,000 And if you haven't read any of that stuff before, not sure how you got here. 19 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:09,000 Right. 20 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Yeah. 21 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:11,220 We've said that before, but we'd love that you're here. 22 00:01:11,220 --> 00:01:14,480 But if you have no idea what the Bible is about, I'm not sure how you got here, but 23 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:15,480 glad you're here. 24 00:01:15,480 --> 00:01:16,480 Yep. 25 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,720 I'd still read it because we're going to talk about it. 26 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:19,920 Also this is right up at the top. 27 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:23,120 I just want to go ahead and recommend once again, checking out the Baymah Podcast, Bible 28 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:27,960 Project, Aleph Beta, Rabbi David Foreman's book, The Exodus You Almost Passed Over. 29 00:01:27,960 --> 00:01:32,760 And also he has one other one called a Parasha Companion to the Book of Exodus. 30 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:34,160 And I would recommend that as well. 31 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:36,000 There's just a lot of like insights in there. 32 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,920 You're not going to agree with everything, but it's just got a lot of good insight. 33 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:40,960 Yes, it does. 34 00:01:40,960 --> 00:01:41,960 All right. 35 00:01:41,960 --> 00:01:46,600 So one of the things we talked about last week is that Moses is having an identity crisis, 36 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:47,600 right? 37 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:50,360 He is an Israelite raised in Pharaoh's court. 38 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:56,000 He strikes down an Egyptian overseer, but the Israelites don't really appreciate it. 39 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,000 He runs away. 40 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,000 He's in Midian. 41 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,000 He's a shepherd. 42 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,900 He is a savior. 43 00:02:00,900 --> 00:02:02,380 He's all these different things. 44 00:02:02,380 --> 00:02:06,080 And then God calls him and he's struggling with that call. 45 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,200 One of the things that I find very interesting after that, and it actually takes place in 46 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:14,360 chapter six, but we're not, we're just referencing it, is that there's a genealogy of Moses that 47 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:15,360 takes place. 48 00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:16,360 Yep. 49 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,800 Right in the middle of an identity crisis, there's a genealogy. 50 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,720 I think it's important for us to understand because we're going to get into the book of 51 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:26,000 numbers and there's a ton of genealogy things in there. 52 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:30,120 And we have to remember when we see stuff like that, it's intentional, right? 53 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:34,000 Like they don't just write these words down haphazardly. 54 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:39,200 The ability to get paper and actually write or carve things in stone, all of that was 55 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:40,200 rare. 56 00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:41,200 Right. 57 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:46,060 A lot of effort and they were very intentional with the order of which they put things down. 58 00:02:46,060 --> 00:02:50,200 Which can we also just say if they believe that it's really important to know where you 59 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:55,520 come from, it's also important for you listener to know where you come from. 60 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,520 Yes. 61 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:58,880 Like I know my family history. 62 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:00,240 I know who my parents are. 63 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:01,640 I know who my grandparents are. 64 00:03:01,640 --> 00:03:03,520 I know the kind of faith that I've been raised in. 65 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:05,440 I know what it was like for them. 66 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:07,000 I also know the history of my nation. 67 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:09,240 I know the history of my state. 68 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:14,040 And there are things to know about where you come from that allow you to speak into that. 69 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:15,040 Absolutely. 70 00:03:15,040 --> 00:03:20,880 All right, so this is your favorite part is that God sends Aaron with Moses. 71 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:21,880 I was talking to Noah. 72 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:22,880 That's not right. 73 00:03:22,880 --> 00:03:26,680 With Moses to go and be his mouthpiece, right? 74 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:27,680 Yes. 75 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:28,680 Yeah. 76 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,520 So they're going to go and their main thing is that they're going to go back and talk 77 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,000 to Pharaoh and they have their first confrontation. 78 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:40,040 This is a very interesting story because one, if you rewind a little bit, the only reason 79 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:46,520 Aaron is there is because God sent Aaron to Moses, but God did so because he got angry 80 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:48,960 with Moses. 81 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:55,280 God's response in his anger was, okay, let me get you somebody who can help you, who 82 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,200 can make you feel more confident in what you've been called to. 83 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:00,200 Yeah. 84 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:01,200 Right. 85 00:04:01,200 --> 00:04:03,960 Because Moses is like, well, I just don't want to go. 86 00:04:03,960 --> 00:04:04,960 Yeah. 87 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,280 And God's like, well, that's not an option because I want to bless the whole nation. 88 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,280 Uh-huh. 89 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:10,280 Yeah. 90 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,960 And so they get to the spot where they're getting ready to confront Pharaoh. 91 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:16,720 Now they've made this journey. 92 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:21,080 Side note, go back, look at the journey in chapter six, like go look at five and six 93 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:25,000 and watch that journey because there are some very interesting things that happen there. 94 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,120 We're not going to dive too much into that, but they get there. 95 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,600 And in chapter seven, you have this part where the Lord kind of renews his command. 96 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,720 And so starting in verse one, it says, then the Lord said to Moses, pay close attention 97 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:43,560 to this, I will make you seem like a God to Pharaoh and your brother Aaron will be your 98 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:47,680 prophet. 99 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:49,100 Think about that for a second. 100 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:51,100 Like rest on that for a second. 101 00:04:51,100 --> 00:04:58,320 God is saying to Moses, you are going to appear like you are a God to the most powerful man 102 00:04:58,320 --> 00:04:59,320 in the world. 103 00:04:59,320 --> 00:05:05,000 Like he's going to look at you and he's going to be in awe of how great and powerful and 104 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,160 mighty you are because of who I am. 105 00:05:07,160 --> 00:05:08,160 Right. 106 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:13,320 And it's important that at this point in Egyptian culture, Pharaoh is treated like a God. 107 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:15,360 He is considered to be a God. 108 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:16,360 Right? 109 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:20,480 So Moses is going to go and Aaron is going to be, you know, representing him as a prophet 110 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:23,760 and it's going to be like he's God to Pharaoh. 111 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:25,120 So what is this actually setting up? 112 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:29,520 It's setting up a confrontation between gods, right? 113 00:05:29,520 --> 00:05:34,720 Which to your point, it says here in the, in later, it says here in verse four, he will 114 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:36,440 not listen being Pharaoh. 115 00:05:36,440 --> 00:05:37,440 Yeah. 116 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,520 And then I will lay my hand on Egypt and with mighty acts of judgment, I will bring out 117 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,920 my divisions, my people, the Israelites and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. 118 00:05:45,920 --> 00:05:46,920 Okay. 119 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:47,920 Hold on a second. 120 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:49,480 Who's going to know that he's Lord? 121 00:05:49,480 --> 00:05:51,600 The Egyptians, the Egyptians. 122 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:56,680 So the Israelites are coming down, but what are the mighty acts actually meant to do? 123 00:05:56,680 --> 00:06:00,200 They're meant to show who God is to the Egyptians. 124 00:06:00,200 --> 00:06:04,280 That's interesting because I thought this was punishment for Egypt. 125 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:05,280 Right? 126 00:06:05,280 --> 00:06:06,680 So that's not what God says. 127 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:13,440 In fact, elsewhere, he's going to say, I'm bringing judgment against Egypt's gods. 128 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:14,800 Yeah. 129 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:17,960 Specifically Egypt's gods. 130 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:19,320 And we're going to talk about that in just a minute. 131 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:23,840 So I just want you to keep the father right way back in your head, but God sets up this 132 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:24,840 whole precedent. 133 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:27,760 He says, we're going to go and we're going to have a conversation with Pharaoh. 134 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,600 We're going to ask him if you can go. 135 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,520 I'm going to give you very simple instructions. 136 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:34,680 He's not going to do it. 137 00:06:34,680 --> 00:06:39,680 Now that is God, forth telling on something that he knows is going to happen. 138 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:41,620 But here's the thing that I love about God. 139 00:06:41,620 --> 00:06:45,000 He's always giving people the option anyways. 140 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,880 Once again, the Bible doesn't start in Genesis three. 141 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:54,440 It starts in Genesis one with a very good creation and God's confrontation with Egypt 142 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,760 doesn't start in the plagues. 143 00:06:56,760 --> 00:07:02,480 It starts in Pharaoh's court where God gives an invitation for Pharaoh to trust him. 144 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:07,560 In this part where he talks about how God will be known to the Egyptians, just a real 145 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:12,840 easy relatable way that I have found in my life is whenever I see a miraculous thing 146 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,440 that the Lord has done in my life, right? 147 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:19,000 The Lord in one sense, we view these as plagues, but in one sense these could also be viewed 148 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:23,640 as miracles of like, Hey, I'm sending these so that you can know who I am. 149 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:28,360 I mean, that was like the day that you met me is like, it was a miracle in your life. 150 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:30,040 You knew the Lord was real. 151 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:31,040 Yeah. 152 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:37,200 So, you know, I don't like, I'm trying to think of which comeback to use. 153 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:38,200 Right. 154 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:39,200 I'm just like, you got to file through them. 155 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Yeah. 156 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:41,200 We'll show up later in the episode. 157 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:42,200 They'll come in five minutes. 158 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:43,200 I got the one. 159 00:07:43,200 --> 00:07:44,760 And then you'd be like, what? 160 00:07:44,760 --> 00:07:48,480 So one of the things we're going to see, let's go ahead and just deal with Pharaoh in his 161 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:49,480 court. 162 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,120 Like when they first come to talk to him, like they come and they, and they address 163 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:56,600 him and Moses and Aaron, they give the first preamble, right? 164 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:58,080 And then there's a demonstration of God's power. 165 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:01,240 So there's the, the withering hand and then the, and then the staffs that they turn to 166 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:02,240 snakes, right? 167 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:07,400 The thing I think is really important for Christians. 168 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:09,200 Okay. 169 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,560 The magicians also turn the staffs into snakes. 170 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:13,560 Right. 171 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,500 This is something that I think we need to be really realistic about. 172 00:08:16,500 --> 00:08:18,840 There are other powers in the world besides God. 173 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:19,840 Yeah. 174 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,660 The problem is they're an imitation of power. 175 00:08:22,660 --> 00:08:25,760 They're not the real thing because what happens to the other staffs? 176 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:26,760 They get swallowed up. 177 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,160 Yeah, they get swallowed up. 178 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,560 And in fact, later the magicians like, they're going to be like, oh yeah, well we can imitate 179 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:32,560 that. 180 00:08:32,560 --> 00:08:33,560 Oh, we can imitate that. 181 00:08:33,560 --> 00:08:34,560 Listen, what's going on here? 182 00:08:34,560 --> 00:08:35,560 We can't do. 183 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:36,560 Right. 184 00:08:36,560 --> 00:08:39,760 And, and so that's really a judgment of the gods because Pharaoh is having this conversation 185 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:40,760 all throughout this. 186 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:42,960 He's like, he's like, oh yeah, so you're, I can do that. 187 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:43,960 So can my gods. 188 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:45,400 So can I, so can I. 189 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:46,680 It's not just the staffs, right? 190 00:08:46,680 --> 00:08:47,680 It's not just the staffs. 191 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:48,680 It's not just the staffs. 192 00:08:48,680 --> 00:08:50,920 Like you talk about the blood in the river. 193 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:51,920 Right. 194 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:55,520 The Pharaoh's magicians copied that in a bowl. 195 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:56,520 Right. 196 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,800 Are you quoting from the Prince of Egypt by the way, because I, is that actually in a 197 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:00,800 bowl? 198 00:09:00,800 --> 00:09:01,800 I don't know. 199 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:02,800 I think you're quoting from the Prince of Egypt. 200 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:03,800 I think I am. 201 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:04,800 Yeah. 202 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:05,800 I think like Prince of Egypt is in my head. 203 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:06,800 Yeah, I think so too. 204 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:07,800 Hold on a second. 205 00:09:07,800 --> 00:09:08,800 Is it an actual bowl? 206 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:09,800 I mean. 207 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:12,800 Nope, it's not in a bowl. 208 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,520 It says that they did the same things by their secret arts. 209 00:09:16,520 --> 00:09:17,520 Right. 210 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:19,000 Oh, I just assume it's in a bowl. 211 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 You just assume it's in a bowl because of Prince of Egypt. 212 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,640 I just assume to put water in a bowl if you're going to do magic. 213 00:09:22,640 --> 00:09:23,640 I don't. 214 00:09:23,640 --> 00:09:24,640 Yeah. 215 00:09:24,640 --> 00:09:25,640 That's an assumption on my part. 216 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:28,880 Yeah, so they turn the entire Nile to blood, but then apparently they can dig around like 217 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:31,080 trenches and then there's normal water. 218 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:32,080 Yeah. 219 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:33,080 So that's interesting. 220 00:09:33,080 --> 00:09:36,360 Like God's command over turning the river to blood is very specific. 221 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:37,360 Yeah. 222 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:38,360 Right. 223 00:09:38,360 --> 00:09:41,280 Sorry, that was the throwing Spencer out of the bus there. 224 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:44,120 But anyway, so, but they, I mean, I like the Prince of Egypt. 225 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:46,600 But they do something and then they're like, then they imitate it. 226 00:09:46,600 --> 00:09:50,040 Then they do something and then they imitate it to the point that eventually like the magicians 227 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:51,500 are like, Hey, we can't do this. 228 00:09:51,500 --> 00:09:54,800 But God initially just comes and has this conversation and he's like, I'm not going 229 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:55,840 to throw. 230 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:58,640 He's not throwing death of the firstborn at them at the beginning. 231 00:09:58,640 --> 00:09:59,640 Right. 232 00:09:59,640 --> 00:10:00,640 Cause it's an invitation. 233 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:01,640 Yeah. 234 00:10:01,640 --> 00:10:02,640 Right. 235 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:06,080 God's not going to hit you with the whole shabam right off the bat because he's trying 236 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:07,800 to invite you into relationship. 237 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:08,800 Yeah. 238 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,600 And one of the things that Foreman, Rabbi David Foreman from that book we were talking 239 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:17,080 about is going to talk about is like sometimes God hardens the heart of Pharaoh to get him 240 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,920 through a situation in order to receive. 241 00:10:19,920 --> 00:10:21,680 Like it's a different word in Hebrew. 242 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:26,960 And sometimes a Pharaoh understands exactly what God is doing and hardens his own heart. 243 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:28,200 Right. 244 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:32,160 So there's a difference between being strengthened and being stonewalled against. 245 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:33,160 Right. 246 00:10:33,160 --> 00:10:34,160 Yeah. 247 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:35,640 Like those are different things. 248 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:37,000 Yeah. 249 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:43,240 So ultimately though, Pharaoh doesn't respond to the preamble, which God tells him that 250 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,240 he's not going to. 251 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:45,240 Right. 252 00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:46,240 So like, that's not a surprise. 253 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:47,240 Right. 254 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:52,200 But once again, I want to point out and we're going to stress this a lot. 255 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:54,520 The Bible doesn't start in Genesis three. 256 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,080 It starts in Genesis one. 257 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:00,600 God leads with grace and he follows up with discipline. 258 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,160 Okay. 259 00:11:02,160 --> 00:11:05,920 By the way, parents, just saying. 260 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:06,920 Yeah. 261 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:07,920 Right. 262 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:08,960 All right. 263 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:14,280 So one of the things that I think we is really important that we see is every plague that 264 00:11:14,280 --> 00:11:18,040 comes on Egypt is specifically tied to one of their gods. 265 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:19,040 Yes. 266 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:20,040 Right. 267 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,680 Because you have like the God of the river, you have the God of livestock, you have the 268 00:11:22,680 --> 00:11:28,760 God of pestilence, you have the God of fire and ice, which by the way is great that God 269 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:30,800 puts fire inside the ice. 270 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:32,280 Right. 271 00:11:32,280 --> 00:11:35,800 And all throughout this, this thing, like God is bringing out this thing over and over 272 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:38,380 and he's challenging all these gods, these preconceptions. 273 00:11:38,380 --> 00:11:41,200 By the way, I don't know that this is very much different than what God does with us 274 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,200 today. 275 00:11:42,200 --> 00:11:43,200 Right. 276 00:11:43,200 --> 00:11:45,800 But he's going to challenge all the gods that we put in our life. 277 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:49,360 Like how many times are we confident that we're like, man, if I could just make a little 278 00:11:49,360 --> 00:11:53,320 more money, I could just have a car that works. 279 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:58,200 If I could just find a spouse. 280 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:00,600 The car that works just hurts a little bit there, Ben. 281 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:01,600 Yeah. 282 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:02,600 Sorry about that. 283 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:03,600 That's fine. 284 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:04,600 A little context for everybody here. 285 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,560 I have three dead cars in my driveway right now. 286 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:08,400 They're in the process of getting fixed. 287 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:10,240 So yeah. 288 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:13,480 But like we put, place our trust in these things, right? 289 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:14,480 Yeah. 290 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,560 And we're like, and God like starts to take them away piece by piece. 291 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:20,280 And he's like, no, you don't trust in that. 292 00:12:20,280 --> 00:12:21,920 Like this isn't a bad thing to have. 293 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:23,840 Like of course in Egypt, in this case, they're serving gods. 294 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,880 Like, but the river is not a bad thing to have, but worshiping the God of the river 295 00:12:26,880 --> 00:12:27,880 is a problem. 296 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:28,880 Yeah. 297 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:33,400 Cows are not a bad thing to have, but worshiping the God of the cows is a problem. 298 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:39,440 Fire ice, both good things, but worshiping a God of the fire and ice and trying to appease 299 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:40,440 them that's a problem. 300 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:41,440 Yeah. 301 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,760 It comes to a point where it's where are you trusting God for your provision? 302 00:12:44,760 --> 00:12:45,760 Right. 303 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:46,760 All right. 304 00:12:46,760 --> 00:12:47,760 Is he all that you need? 305 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:48,760 Right. 306 00:12:48,760 --> 00:12:49,760 This is actually a very relevant story for us. 307 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:50,760 Yeah. 308 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:51,760 Yeah. 309 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:55,560 So I have a friend, he was going to go on a mission strip and he had the conviction from 310 00:12:55,560 --> 00:12:59,680 the Lord, the personal conviction from the Lord that not to fundraise for this mission 311 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:01,480 strip. 312 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,600 So the Lord put this conviction on his heart of like, you're going to go and I'm going 313 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:11,160 to provide every ounce of money, every dime that you need and you're not to ask a single 314 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,900 person for it. 315 00:13:13,900 --> 00:13:15,200 So he'll tell the story. 316 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:21,240 He's like, yeah, I was at a stoplight and I said, Lord, but in that light turned green 317 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:26,760 and I started driving and he's like, and the Lord just shut me up until I got to the next 318 00:13:26,760 --> 00:13:29,500 stoplight, which was about 300 yards away. 319 00:13:29,500 --> 00:13:33,580 And then I was like, okay, you got this. 320 00:13:33,580 --> 00:13:36,040 And it was one of those things where he was like, I know how to raise money. 321 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:38,640 I know how to get money for this type of stuff. 322 00:13:38,640 --> 00:13:40,640 But the Lord's like, no, I have it. 323 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,520 I don't need to trust me. 324 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,300 Part of us learning to understand Exodus in general, learning to understand the book of 325 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:50,320 Exodus helps us understand what God is doing through our lives as well. 326 00:13:50,320 --> 00:13:52,920 Because a lot of times he's bringing us to Exodus in ourselves. 327 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:53,920 Right? 328 00:13:53,920 --> 00:13:55,480 He says, don't trust in these things. 329 00:13:55,480 --> 00:13:56,480 Trust in me. 330 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:57,480 Yeah. 331 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:02,440 You have built a whole system metaphorically in your life where you have these things that 332 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,720 you pray to or you serve that fulfill different portions of your life. 333 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,680 I'm going to take all that away and let you realize that all of it actually relies on 334 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:11,000 me. 335 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:14,060 It all goes according to how I want it to go. 336 00:14:14,060 --> 00:14:18,400 Now you need to trust me and actually walk out of your Egypt. 337 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:21,480 That's what this is getting around to. 338 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:25,760 I think that sometimes we see this, we're like, oh, well, they had gods and blah, blah, 339 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:26,760 blah. 340 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,200 It's like, we have gods. 341 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:29,200 We have gods. 342 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:30,580 We just don't call them gods. 343 00:14:30,580 --> 00:14:33,360 There are people that I know that trust in their healthcare more than they trust in God's 344 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:35,360 ability to heal. 345 00:14:35,360 --> 00:14:36,360 Yeah. 346 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:43,000 Well, and there's people that I know who trust in their jobs more than they do in God's abilities 347 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:44,000 to provide. 348 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Right? 349 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,920 And I'm not saying quit your job and God's going to give you everything you need. 350 00:14:47,920 --> 00:14:48,920 That's not what I'm saying. 351 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:50,720 I'm also not saying that healthcare is bad. 352 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:51,720 Yeah. 353 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:52,800 But those are good things. 354 00:14:52,800 --> 00:14:55,040 But the Lord's saying, I'm the one who provides that. 355 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:56,040 Correct. 356 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:57,040 Correct. 357 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,560 Meaning that if your job goes away tomorrow, he's going to provide. 358 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:01,560 Right. 359 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:04,000 Well, and so we build entire systems on this. 360 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:05,000 Right? 361 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:06,000 So let's just talk about healthcare. 362 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Right? 363 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:08,000 Because that's the example. 364 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,800 And we're going to talk about trusting God in your job. 365 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:10,800 Right? 366 00:15:10,800 --> 00:15:14,040 So one of the things with healthcare in the way that we have it set up in America. 367 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:17,080 So if you're listening now from America, just tune us out for a second and you'd be like, 368 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:18,080 this is a weird system. 369 00:15:18,080 --> 00:15:21,760 One of the best ways to get your healthcare is actually have it provided through work 370 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,920 because it's subsidized because your work pays for part of it. 371 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:28,920 So right now we have a whole system built on people going to college and getting a good 372 00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:32,280 job so they can have good insurance and they have good benefits and they have a good pension. 373 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:34,120 They can have a good retirement plan. 374 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:38,360 It's a lot of self production to get the things that you think you need. 375 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,240 Where's the trust in God in that? 376 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:42,240 It's not. 377 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,240 It's not there. 378 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:44,240 Right now. 379 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,520 Now, a hundred percent, I'm not saying that you shouldn't get an education or get a good 380 00:15:47,520 --> 00:15:49,000 job or save for retirement. 381 00:15:49,000 --> 00:15:50,320 I'm not saying any of those things. 382 00:15:50,320 --> 00:15:51,320 Yeah. 383 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:55,680 What I am saying is that when you trust in those things for your safety, when your identity 384 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:03,960 is found in your job or your wealth, you have gods that you're serving and it's time for 385 00:16:03,960 --> 00:16:04,960 an Exodus. 386 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:05,960 Yeah. 387 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:12,640 And one of the things that often gets overlooked in this story is yes, Israel was enslaved. 388 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:13,640 Right? 389 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,160 Yes, they were enslaved at this point. 390 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:17,160 Right? 391 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:18,360 But they've been there a long time. 392 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:19,360 Right. 393 00:16:19,360 --> 00:16:20,360 They knew the routine. 394 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:21,360 Right. 395 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:22,840 They knew what was going to happen. 396 00:16:22,840 --> 00:16:26,600 And the reality is even if the routine sucks, there's comfort in routine. 397 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:27,600 Right? 398 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,720 Of knowing what's going to happen. 399 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:31,000 Like it's predictable. 400 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,640 You can step into and be like, okay, I know this is horrible, but I know what's going 401 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:35,640 to happen. 402 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:40,320 There can actually be more fear, more anxiety, more stress and stepping out of that and not 403 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:41,800 knowing what's going to happen. 404 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:43,200 Oh, a hundred percent. 405 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,920 How many times in the desert, we're going to talk about this a couple of weeks, how 406 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:50,000 many times in the desert they're like, you brought us out to the desert to die. 407 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:51,000 Right. 408 00:16:51,000 --> 00:16:53,320 And then they're like, we're going to die. 409 00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:54,800 You know, like that's the thing. 410 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:55,800 Pretty quick after. 411 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,480 It's like pretty quick after. 412 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,680 It's not like they had months of celebration. 413 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:02,560 It's like they went out and then they're like, oh, wait a second. 414 00:17:02,560 --> 00:17:05,400 And they're literally going to get fed bread from heaven. 415 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:06,400 Yeah. 416 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,160 And they're going to be like, well, but we had meat in Egypt. 417 00:17:09,160 --> 00:17:10,160 Uh huh. 418 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:11,480 Hey, you're also in slavery. 419 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,480 Okay. 420 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:13,480 So there's that. 421 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:15,720 So like, let's just go there for just a second. 422 00:17:15,720 --> 00:17:16,720 Yeah. 423 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:19,920 And then we'll do a deeper dive, I think in a later episode on that one. 424 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,320 But go there for a second. 425 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,440 And how many times has the Lord provided for you? 426 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,680 And you've been like, well, but it could have been this. 427 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:27,680 Right. 428 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,360 Can we just like, can we just genuinely ask that question? 429 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:33,560 How many times has the Lord said, Hey, here's what you need. 430 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:36,960 And you're like, well, you could have done more. 431 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:39,440 Like how selfish are we when we do that? 432 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:40,440 Yeah. 433 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,560 What does that do to God's heart when we do that? 434 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:44,960 Right. 435 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:48,560 So taking a step back, because I have so many things I want to say about that, but I'm going 436 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,160 to save for our, I just wanted to do that too. 437 00:17:51,160 --> 00:17:52,160 No, it's so good. 438 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:53,160 It's so good. 439 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:55,320 And I think it's good because I want you guys to start thinking about that. 440 00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:58,480 Cause we're going to talk about it a couple of weeks, like really talk about it. 441 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:02,240 And it's going to be a little uncomfortable for people that look at God and are like, 442 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,280 prove it. 443 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:05,280 You don't think you do it. 444 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:06,740 And you do all the time. 445 00:18:06,740 --> 00:18:10,320 You're asking God to prove things that he doesn't have to prove. 446 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:11,640 Yeah. 447 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:17,500 We're asking our pastors to prove things that they don't have to prove. 448 00:18:17,500 --> 00:18:19,920 We ask our friends to prove things they don't have to prove. 449 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:21,800 Some people are insecurities. 450 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:22,800 Yeah. 451 00:18:22,800 --> 00:18:23,800 Yeah. 452 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:27,280 I work with a lot of people in their like late teens, early twenties. 453 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,520 One of my favorite things to say to them and, and they all, every single person I've said 454 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:33,000 it to has taken it well. 455 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,320 When they like start to get on my case about something, I'm like, I have nothing to prove 456 00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:37,320 to you. 457 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,740 And they're like, oh, okay. 458 00:18:41,740 --> 00:18:44,240 And then we're good. 459 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,800 And it's, it's one of those things where it sounds harsh when I say it, but then they're 460 00:18:46,800 --> 00:18:47,800 like, oh, okay. 461 00:18:47,800 --> 00:18:49,840 I understand where you're coming from now and we're good. 462 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:52,080 Now we're and we can talk and have a good conversation. 463 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:53,080 Right. 464 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:55,720 But when they're trying to pit me in a spot where they will, you have something to prove 465 00:18:55,720 --> 00:18:58,320 to me, I'm like, I know you misunderstand. 466 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:00,920 I don't have anything to prove to you. 467 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:02,800 There's other people have stuff to prove too. 468 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:03,800 Yeah. 469 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,200 So let's get back to this conversation that God is having with Pharaoh because one of 470 00:19:07,200 --> 00:19:13,000 the things that I think is really prominent in here that we miss is God is pursuing Pharaoh. 471 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:15,840 Foreman makes a, makes a statement and you can agree with it or not. 472 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:16,840 I don't really care. 473 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:22,320 I care a little, but I, his statement is he believes that Moses is told to come and bring 474 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:27,640 this presentation to Pharaoh and that if Pharaoh had granted it initially, their ability to 475 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:33,560 go out and worship their God in the desert, as God had instructed him to do, that God 476 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:38,400 would not have actually taken them out of Egypt because he could have turned Egypt. 477 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,120 Now that is, that is whether or not you agree with that or not. 478 00:19:42,120 --> 00:19:45,960 The thing is that God is looking for, he's looking for people who are willing to engage 479 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:50,080 him in relationship and he knows if he can, he's going to change an entire nation. 480 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:51,080 Yeah. 481 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:54,360 And by the way, that's what we've seen throughout history, not just the Bible. 482 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,360 Yeah. 483 00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:59,400 So, but they're having this conversation and Pharaoh is not having it. 484 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:05,080 Like most people in power who are comfortable, who like what they have, they're like, yeah, 485 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,080 it's not going to happen. 486 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:09,240 Man, if only there was something more relevant for us, right? 487 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:10,240 Yeah. 488 00:20:10,240 --> 00:20:15,520 And one of my things that I find really interesting is Pharaoh is obsessed with God's ability 489 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,720 to control things, right? 490 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,040 Time. 491 00:20:21,040 --> 00:20:26,520 Like being able to say three o'clock tomorrow, the frogs are going to go away because it's 492 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:29,880 not just that God has the power because Pharaoh has seen power. 493 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:34,640 He's seen staffs turn to snakes, but they can't control their power, right? 494 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:37,060 Because it doesn't originate with them. 495 00:20:37,060 --> 00:20:42,520 The ability to actually control power is something that only God does. 496 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:43,800 Yeah. 497 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:48,820 The ability to, as we've said back in creation, to know when, when creating, you've created 498 00:20:48,820 --> 00:20:55,280 enough and it's time to dwell when there is the flood and God knows when to stop. 499 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,280 Right? 500 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,360 Like that's something that only God does. 501 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:03,160 Everybody else is like, you asked for rain and they'll send a monsoon. 502 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:06,260 It was way too much rain. 503 00:21:06,260 --> 00:21:08,640 That does exactly what he's supposed to do. 504 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:09,640 Right? 505 00:21:09,640 --> 00:21:10,640 Yeah. 506 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:14,000 And then Pharaoh is intrigued and he is fascinated by this. 507 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:15,420 Yeah. 508 00:21:15,420 --> 00:21:19,840 But I think if, if, I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, it seems like Pharaoh is interested 509 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:22,480 in that he wonders if he can control it. 510 00:21:22,480 --> 00:21:24,400 Yeah, I think there's a bit of that. 511 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:30,340 I don't think the text specifically says, says that, but I would, I would say there's 512 00:21:30,340 --> 00:21:37,160 this natural inclination of jealousy of, or coveting if you see something that someone 513 00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,720 else can do that you can't do. 514 00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:41,320 Especially if you're someone in power. 515 00:21:41,320 --> 00:21:42,320 Yeah. 516 00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:43,320 Right? 517 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:48,200 Like you see, I mean, you see this in the political world all the time and that's the 518 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,560 extent of political talk that you're going to hear, but you see that all the time. 519 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:59,520 And so I think there is an element of that where Pharaoh's like, I want what you have, 520 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:01,640 you know, the text doesn't directly say that. 521 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:06,320 Well, and, and so like what that fires in my brain, right? 522 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:12,440 Is the way that we run churches nowadays where pastors want to consolidate support or consolidate 523 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,000 power with themselves. 524 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:18,560 They want to, they want to micromanage everything rather than trusting God to actually work 525 00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:20,280 through people. 526 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:25,500 We talked a few weeks ago about like going after people who we say we're doing a service 527 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:30,660 to God, but we're actually standing in his way. 528 00:22:30,660 --> 00:22:33,880 And we're like, Hey, we're doing God a service and we're actually doing everything, but because 529 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,320 we're trying to control who God is. 530 00:22:35,320 --> 00:22:37,600 I was raised in the Southern Baptist church. 531 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,520 I currently go to a Pentecostal church. 532 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:48,480 So I've seen some very different opinions on gifts of the spirit that God puts in us, 533 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:49,480 right? 534 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,280 Because there's, those are, those are pretty wildly different. 535 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:56,860 And I think the temptation when we talk about God's power moving through us is to always 536 00:22:56,860 --> 00:22:59,860 focus on the gifts of the spirit that have outward demonstrations. 537 00:22:59,860 --> 00:23:03,480 So you want to talk about the people who are waving capes and people are falling over and 538 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,480 all these different things. 539 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:08,360 First of all, I've been in situations where God moves that powerfully. 540 00:23:08,360 --> 00:23:11,840 I said, I'm not saying that's every situation, but I've been in those situations where God 541 00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:13,760 does move that powerfully. 542 00:23:13,760 --> 00:23:16,080 And if you've ever been there, you know what I'm talking about. 543 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,440 And if you doubt it, you're going to be there someday and you'll be surprised. 544 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:25,300 But the other position is what about the gifts that God puts in us with like the word and 545 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:30,040 in being able to preach the gospel and to evangelize and do all these other things that 546 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:31,960 are gifts of the spirit. 547 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:37,760 And on the Baptist side of things, we also had the tendency to try to control what God 548 00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:41,640 was doing in those two. 549 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:43,640 Both of those things are a problem. 550 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:45,600 You don't get to control God. 551 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,000 We listen and we follow as he leads. 552 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:52,680 Church leaders, I hope this is an encouragement to you. 553 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:59,680 When you step back and let God lead and be like, okay, I'm going to pursue what you want 554 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,480 me to pursue. 555 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,280 It changes everything. 556 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:11,240 It makes your job a thousand times easier because you are not trying to dictate the 557 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,240 terms. 558 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:15,560 What if I told you you're not responsible for your church growth? 559 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:17,080 No, you're not. 560 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,920 You are responsible to be faithful to what God hands you. 561 00:24:19,920 --> 00:24:20,920 Yes. 562 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:21,920 Right. 563 00:24:21,920 --> 00:24:24,320 His job is the increase. 564 00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,120 But if you're not faithful to what he's giving you, he won't increase. 565 00:24:27,120 --> 00:24:28,120 Yeah. 566 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:31,340 I remember the story about five talents and two talents and one talent. 567 00:24:31,340 --> 00:24:34,520 If you take what God gives you and you bury it in the dirt, it's going to get taken away 568 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:35,520 from you. 569 00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,640 You got to at least put that puppy in the bank. 570 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:44,120 So my first youth pastor job, at the end of the day, there was one student I had an impact 571 00:24:44,120 --> 00:24:45,720 on. 572 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,280 There was more than one student there, but a lot of them I'm like, I don't think I had 573 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:55,280 a single impact on, but there was one student that I had an impact on. 574 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:58,600 So if you're thinking of it in that context, who is the one or two people in your life 575 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,960 that the Lord's put there for you to have an impact on? 576 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:04,320 It's huge. 577 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:05,320 That's what it's about. 578 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:09,120 It's about being like, okay, Lord, you have me here for this reason. 579 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:10,720 What am I called to do? 580 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:15,320 And lean into what the Lord has for you, not what you think you need to bring to the Lord. 581 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,840 It's not our job to control God. 582 00:25:17,840 --> 00:25:19,760 It's our job to follow him. 583 00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,160 So getting back to Pharaoh, Pharaoh is trying to control God. 584 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,000 He's trying to figure out how he can get what he wants. 585 00:25:27,000 --> 00:25:30,640 And every time he makes a small concession, he's like, ah, you guys can go, but you can't 586 00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:31,640 do this. 587 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:34,760 And God's like, no, that's not what we said. 588 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:38,480 And he's like, well, you can take this and this, but you can't do this. 589 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,800 No, that's not what he said. 590 00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,760 And it gets progressively more difficult and more difficult and more difficult. 591 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:46,780 But then there's this point later on towards the end. 592 00:25:46,780 --> 00:25:49,760 This is right when you're coming towards the last plague. 593 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:50,900 It's at the end of chapter 10. 594 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:54,680 And Pharaoh said to Moses, get out of my sight and make sure you do not appear before me 595 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:55,760 again. 596 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,160 The day you see my face, you will die. 597 00:25:58,160 --> 00:26:02,400 I guess to this point where eventually, and Foreman covers this in his book where he's 598 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:06,040 diving into the Hebrew, which by the way, I just can't recommend it enough. 599 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:07,040 Okay. 600 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:12,500 But he dives into the Hebrew and what happens at this point is Pharaoh just decides, I know 601 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:13,960 what you're doing, God. 602 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:19,000 I know what you're trying to do with me and I just don't want it. 603 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:24,480 And God says, okay, we're going to bring it home. 604 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:26,440 Right. 605 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,560 And that's hard because I see a lot of people there. 606 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:31,560 Yeah. 607 00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:32,560 Right. 608 00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:34,200 Jesus makes a statement to the disciples. 609 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:37,200 He says, you know, you go out and you preach as like, but if people don't receive you, 610 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,760 shake the dust, move on. 611 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,520 There is a lot of times that we are still preaching to people who don't want to hear 612 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:44,520 what we have to say. 613 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:49,200 Now, I'm not saying that God can't eventually turn their attention and not that you shouldn't 614 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:53,420 still be loving and gospel bearing and all those different things that you're supposed 615 00:26:53,420 --> 00:26:57,760 to be, but there's a time to move on. 616 00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:00,920 This is how to just walk away. 617 00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:02,040 And it's not because you don't care. 618 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,700 It's because you do care and you're leaving them open for God to do something greater 619 00:27:04,700 --> 00:27:09,440 in their midst, but it's not going to be with you. 620 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:13,640 You need to go to the people who are going to listen and who are going to receive what 621 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:17,040 God is speaking through you. 622 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:18,960 Pharaoh was not one of them. 623 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,440 At this point, he's like, nope, not going to do it. 624 00:27:23,440 --> 00:27:24,960 Yeah. 625 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:29,360 And then there's this plague on the firstborn, the firstborn son. 626 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:34,200 Now one of the reasons I think that I don't, I have a lot of thoughts about this, but I'm 627 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,080 not going to get into the nitty gritty is I think that they covered it well with the 628 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,960 Bible project, covered this well. 629 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,240 I think that Baymaw covered this well, so I'm not going to get into some of the things 630 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:48,000 that are going on inside of the firstborn, but on a broad level, you need to understand 631 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:56,540 that this one is God actually coming after Pharaoh as a God, right? 632 00:27:56,540 --> 00:27:59,800 Because it's actually, you know, power of life and death. 633 00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,080 Also the firstborn. 634 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,220 So Pharaoh is like supposed to be like a God in this situation, right? 635 00:28:05,220 --> 00:28:10,320 And Pharaoh's children, whoever is his oldest is going to be also, you know, God at some 636 00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:17,280 point and God is bringing judgment saying, nope, that's not the case. 637 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:18,600 This is a hard story. 638 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:19,600 Yeah. 639 00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,600 This one should be difficult. 640 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,720 There's like, there's some context things that once again, check out those resources 641 00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:29,460 we talked about that are going to help you navigate this. 642 00:28:29,460 --> 00:28:35,480 This is a hard story because there has to be a, there has to be a clear story about 643 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:36,960 who is God. 644 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:37,960 Yeah. 645 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:38,960 Right. 646 00:28:38,960 --> 00:28:44,760 But even in the midst of this, there's actually grace because what are the Israelites actually 647 00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:46,000 instructed to do? 648 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:52,600 So the Israelites are instructed to take a one year old ram, either sheep or goat with 649 00:28:52,600 --> 00:29:00,520 no defects, butcher it and paint the doors, door frames red with the blood. 650 00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:04,160 And is there, does it say that only Israelites are able to do this? 651 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:05,160 No. 652 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,160 Right. 653 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:12,720 So if you're Egypt and you've watched these nine plagues that have come before this, at 654 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:15,880 the very least, I might think about hedging my bets. 655 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,920 Like I might think about it as my bets and be like, Oh, they're going to put blood on 656 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:19,920 the doorpost. 657 00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,420 I might do that too. 658 00:29:21,420 --> 00:29:26,280 And I imagine that there was probably some Egyptians who did paint the blood on the doorpost. 659 00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:27,280 Probably. 660 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:30,800 And there were probably some Israelites who didn't. 661 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:34,360 Because there were Egyptians who actually left with them. 662 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:35,660 Yeah. 663 00:29:35,660 --> 00:29:39,680 And with that, with that mentality, by the way, if you see the implications of the new 664 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:43,840 Testament with like Jesus blood and passing through and Exodus and all these different 665 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,160 things you're supposed to, right? 666 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:47,920 Passover lamb, all those different things. 667 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:48,920 Yeah. 668 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,040 I've been telling people very frequently that just because you went to church doesn't mean 669 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,600 we'll see you in heaven. 670 00:29:54,600 --> 00:30:00,640 Like there, Jesus has a lot of conversation about, didn't we cast out demons in your name? 671 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,320 Do we perform miracles? 672 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:03,720 Didn't we preach? 673 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:04,800 When did we see you hungry? 674 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,560 When did we see you poor? 675 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:07,560 Yeah. 676 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:10,320 You know, and Jesus is like, get away from me. 677 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,960 I don't even know you. 678 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:18,040 Like you're calling my name and I'm like, dude, who? 679 00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:19,800 New phone, who this? 680 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:20,800 Right? 681 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:21,800 And. 682 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,200 It's like, I kept asking for your number and you never gave it to me. 683 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,200 Right. 684 00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,400 I think there's a lot of people like we're going to really struggle. 685 00:30:28,400 --> 00:30:32,640 No, I don't think actually the people who like, it's not really going to be a struggle, 686 00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:35,640 but I think that we struggle with the idea that there's going to be people in heaven 687 00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,920 that you don't anticipate being there. 688 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,720 Right? 689 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,200 Because they trust in the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. 690 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:43,200 Right? 691 00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:47,960 So just like an Egyptian would trust in that blood to actually have the spirit pass over. 692 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:48,960 Right? 693 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:53,040 Some people trust in the faithfulness of Jesus Christ, even if they're not necessarily a 694 00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,680 member of the community. 695 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,480 But they do trust the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. 696 00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:03,820 And in those people, they're still going to find themselves in the kingdom of heaven. 697 00:31:03,820 --> 00:31:06,400 And there are going to be other people who are part of the community who don't actually 698 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,800 trust the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. 699 00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:12,160 They don't actually trust the blood of the lamb and they never actually paint their board 700 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:16,760 or posts because they're like, this is ludicrous. 701 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,400 And guys, I'm just concerned because there are a lot of people who I see following a 702 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:23,200 religion and not a relationship. 703 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:30,600 They got in the community, but they have not dipped the reeds in the blood. 704 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:35,240 It's so hard to watch because like when you're sitting on the outside watching it, you're 705 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:38,880 like, man, God has so much for you. 706 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:45,400 And you are sitting there squabbling about something that doesn't matter. 707 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,080 God has so much for you. 708 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:53,200 And if you just stepped back and said yes to what he has for you, if you just step back, 709 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:59,840 saw what you're doing and leaned into what he has for you, it would change yourself. 710 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:05,140 It would change the community around you and everybody you come in contact with. 711 00:32:05,140 --> 00:32:12,960 So in the plagues and this confrontation between Pharaoh and Moses and God, what are our big 712 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:13,960 takeaways? 713 00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,680 I think one of the big ones is God wants everyone. 714 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:22,280 And he's going to be relentless in that pursuit. 715 00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:23,400 He is. 716 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:28,240 He's not going to hold back on coming after you. 717 00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:29,400 He's going to do it lovingly. 718 00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,680 He's going to be gentle about it. 719 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:33,920 I can guarantee you he's going to do those two things. 720 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:37,240 Outside of that, I'm not going to put him in a box. 721 00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:41,520 I can guarantee you he's going to be loving and he's going to be gentle towards you. 722 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:45,920 So there's the bridge of that song, Reckless Love, which is very controversial, but I'm 723 00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,420 going to quote from anyways, where it says, there's no shadow. 724 00:32:49,420 --> 00:32:50,680 You won't light up mountain. 725 00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,560 You will climb up coming after me. 726 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:53,560 There's no wall. 727 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:54,560 You won't kick down. 728 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:55,560 Lie. 729 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:56,560 You won't tear down coming after me. 730 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:00,240 Now, one of the things that I really felt convicted by God one time when I was singing 731 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:07,960 that song, he says, yeah, by the way, those walls and those lies are yours. 732 00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,180 Because sometimes like Pharaoh, we decide to harden our heart. 733 00:33:11,180 --> 00:33:15,480 Even though we see we're like, God, I see what you're doing, but I'm going to make 734 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:17,480 my heart like stone. 735 00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:18,480 Yeah. 736 00:33:18,480 --> 00:33:19,480 Yeah. 737 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:26,240 I think that's a huge takeaway from this is that Lord wants everybody. 738 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,120 And he is going to come after you. 739 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,480 If you're sitting there listening to this and you're like, man, I just don't know if 740 00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,600 this is true or if this is real. 741 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:38,520 If God loves me, whatnot, whatever your excuse is, God's coming after you. 742 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:45,560 Yeah, if he wanted Pharaoh, the guy who literally was enslaving an entire people group, he wants 743 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:46,560 you. 744 00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:47,560 Right. 745 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:48,560 Yeah. 746 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:49,560 People widely uncomfortable with us. 747 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:50,560 Okay. 748 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:51,560 I'm going to throw some names out there. 749 00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:52,560 Adolf Hitler, Mussolini. 750 00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:58,600 What would have happened if they repented and turned to God? 751 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,240 I'm not saying the consequences of their sin would have gone away. 752 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:02,240 No, no. 753 00:34:02,240 --> 00:34:03,240 Okay. 754 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,240 Right. 755 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,240 Please hear us very clearly. 756 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,040 The sin would not go away, but God wants everyone. 757 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,000 And if you're uncomfortable with that, then I don't think you quite understand the mission 758 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,000 of God. 759 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,200 Well, and there's actually an equivalent of this in the Bible, which is Nebuchadnezzar. 760 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:18,200 Yeah. 761 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:19,200 Not a good dude. 762 00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:20,200 Not a good dude. 763 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:25,040 Like if you actually look at what the Babylonians did when they conquered nations and enslaved 764 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:27,960 people, it was horrific. 765 00:34:27,960 --> 00:34:34,680 And Nebuchadnezzar was like the war conquering, I'm going to take over the world, Babylonian. 766 00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:40,200 And at the end of Daniel chapter four, do you know what Nebuchadnezzar says about God? 767 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,280 He says that he worships him. 768 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:43,280 Yeah. 769 00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:49,160 God was pursuing the most evil person in the world and he turned to, and that evil person 770 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:50,160 turned to God. 771 00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:51,160 It's not even the first time he did it. 772 00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:52,160 Look at Exodus. 773 00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:53,160 Right? 774 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,160 Mm-hmm. 775 00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,160 God is a pursuing God. 776 00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:56,920 He wants a relationship with his people. 777 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,920 He also knows when to say enough and to shut down his kids when they're being bad. 778 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:01,920 Yeah. 779 00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:05,360 So again, one of the things that I think is really important for us to understand is we 780 00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:10,480 think the world works a certain way and God is not building a fence. 781 00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:11,920 He is raising sons and daughters. 782 00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:12,920 Yeah. 783 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,080 If you don't get that reference and you didn't listen to the episode a few weeks ago. 784 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,920 It just means you got more podcasting to do. 785 00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,680 Yeah, and more podcasting to do. 786 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,480 But God is looking at the world way different than we are. 787 00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,880 So takeaway one is that God has a real emphasis on his pursuit of people. 788 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:25,880 Yeah. 789 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,320 People that you may not like. 790 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,160 And you got to get real comfortable with the fact that you're going to be uncomfortable 791 00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,240 with the people God wants in his kingdom. 792 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:34,240 Yeah. 793 00:35:34,240 --> 00:35:35,480 It's all of us. 794 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:40,320 The good ones, the bad ones, let's be honest, most of them are all bad, including us. 795 00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:41,440 Yeah. 796 00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:46,240 Takeaway number two, God isn't bringing judgment on Egypt. 797 00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:49,640 He's bringing judgment on the things that Egypt trusts in. 798 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,080 By the way, he's going to do the same thing in our life. 799 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:54,320 He's not bringing judgment on us. 800 00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:55,760 By the way, Paul actually mentioned this. 801 00:35:55,760 --> 00:36:01,480 He says, we do not fight flesh and blood. 802 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,960 Church, hear that. 803 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:12,160 Our war is with rulers and principalities and the forces of evil. 804 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:16,400 People are not your battle. 805 00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,800 Your battle is with the spiritual. 806 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:21,780 Your battle is not with people. 807 00:36:21,780 --> 00:36:26,440 It is with the forces of darkness because people matter to God and you're supposed to 808 00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:30,000 love people, but we're going to fight the devil. 809 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:37,000 All too often what we do is we fight the forces of darkness by fighting people. 810 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:39,400 Or we try to make people the devil so that we can fight them. 811 00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:40,400 Yeah. 812 00:36:40,400 --> 00:36:42,880 And it's like, no, no, you want to fight the forces of darkness. 813 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,200 Don't get me wrong. 814 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:53,280 But these people are people whom God loves, whom he created, who he wants back. 815 00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,800 I'm so excited about when we get to Leviticus and we talk about the temple. 816 00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:57,800 It's going to be so much fun. 817 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:02,920 By the way, this sentence never uttered before in the history of podcasting or life. 818 00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:05,760 I'm so excited to talk about Leviticus. 819 00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,680 Oh, dude. 820 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,200 But there's so much good stuff in Leviticus. 821 00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,120 We're going to talk about the temple and it's actually at the back end of Exodus as well. 822 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:19,040 What it actually means to take on the forces of darkness by being the temple of the Holy 823 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,040 Spirit. 824 00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:21,040 Right? 825 00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,040 It's going to be awesome. 826 00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,040 Yeah. 827 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,760 So that's his first takeaway is God is reliance on his pursuit. 828 00:37:25,760 --> 00:37:30,220 The second is he's going to place judgment on the things that you place trust in that 829 00:37:30,220 --> 00:37:32,800 aren't him. 830 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:38,200 The third thing I would say is that God isn't afraid to curse the things around you to get 831 00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:39,200 your attention. 832 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,200 Yeah. 833 00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:42,960 And this actually harkens back to Genesis. 834 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:45,400 God didn't curse Adam, but he cursed the ground. 835 00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:46,400 Right? 836 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,920 And then that was supposed to point him back to God. 837 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:49,920 Right. 838 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:50,920 Okay. 839 00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,760 So there might be things in your life that the Lord's like, no, this isn't good. 840 00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,560 And all of a sudden you might see that just starting to fall apart. 841 00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:57,560 Right. 842 00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:01,600 And the idea is that that's going to point you back to God, point you back to who God 843 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:02,600 is. 844 00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:03,600 Right? 845 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,640 Don't be surprised if as you're following God, you're like, man, this is tough. 846 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:08,640 This thing is falling apart. 847 00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:09,960 This thing that I took comfort in. 848 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,960 Yeah. 849 00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,520 It's because God's saying, I don't want you to take comfort in that. 850 00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,040 I want you to take comfort in me. 851 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,440 I don't want you to take comfort in your money. 852 00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:17,520 I want you to take comfort in me. 853 00:38:17,520 --> 00:38:19,120 I don't want you to take comfort in your career. 854 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:20,880 I want you to take comfort in me. 855 00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:26,900 I don't want you to take comfort in your education, in your family, in the house that you're living 856 00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:27,900 in. 857 00:38:27,900 --> 00:38:31,240 I want you to take comfort in me. 858 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:35,540 And so I think that's a takeaway that's happening here in Egypt, too, is God is saying like, 859 00:38:35,540 --> 00:38:40,680 he's showing that He's so much bigger than these Egyptian gods and He's showing that 860 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:47,960 he can actually defeat them essentially curse them for the sake of the 861 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:55,480 Egyptians seen God for who he is and seeing a God who wants them. Right. By the 862 00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:59,600 way if you're if you're struggling with this idea of God pursuing Egypt Genesis 863 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:04,500 12 I'm gonna bless you so that all nations will be blessed. Guess where 864 00:39:04,500 --> 00:39:10,660 Egypt is? Part of all nations. Wait it is? Yeah. True story. God is gonna 865 00:39:10,660 --> 00:39:14,920 put Israel at the crossroads of the nations and one of those nations is 866 00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:18,800 gonna be Egypt. Egypt is down there. Like people still go to Egypt for different 867 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:24,360 things. God is putting a story on display which we are going to partner with to 868 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:32,080 restore a lost world back to him. That didn't change when Jesus came. No. All 869 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,120 that happened is the temple went from being a Jerusalem to being everywhere we 870 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,840 go. I'm gonna stop before I get into more temple talk because Leviticus is 871 00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:42,760 coming guys and you're gonna be excited about it when we get there because it's 872 00:39:42,760 --> 00:39:47,180 a cool book. And let's just let's just preempt a little bit I guess a little bit. 873 00:39:47,180 --> 00:39:50,360 I'm gonna say it's a little tongue-in-cheek but don't don't stop 874 00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:54,280 listening to us when we get to Leviticus. No it's a great book. Let's keep going. 875 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,240 Like it's it's a great book there's a lot of good things in there that we are 876 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:02,200 and we often skip over it as a church because we're like okay this is boring 877 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:07,280 this doesn't relate to us today but it does it totally does. Also if you were 878 00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:11,160 looking for things that are going to be perhaps controversial in this podcast 879 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,240 it's a lot of it's gonna come up in Leviticus. I think we're heavy 880 00:40:14,240 --> 00:40:18,600 hitting right now. Yes. We're getting warmed up. God is gonna teach his people 881 00:40:18,600 --> 00:40:21,240 how to be a kingdom of priests. We're gonna talk about this next week because 882 00:40:21,240 --> 00:40:24,200 we're gonna be talking about the Exodus and what God is doing with his people. 883 00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:29,440 And this book of Leviticus is actually instructing them how to be priests. How to 884 00:40:29,440 --> 00:40:36,240 be a stronger healthier more ethical ecumenical people to put a different 885 00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:43,080 story on display. Yeah. Hey guys that's the ten plagues. That's God's conversation 886 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:47,160 with Pharaoh. That's God's pursuit of Pharaoh. Next we're gonna be talking 887 00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:50,360 about the actual Exodus like what happens when they leave when they come 888 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,440 to the Red Sea all these different things. But you gotta understand that 889 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:58,520 before the plagues happen God issues an invitation. Yeah. And we're gonna say 890 00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:03,680 this one more time. Where does the Bible actually start? Genesis 1. So stop 891 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:09,600 starting it in Genesis 3. If you read the Bible as God is mad with humanity 892 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:14,760 you're always gonna start in Genesis 3. But it starts in Genesis 1. And our 893 00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:19,720 invitation to you is to start your story in Genesis 1 as well. Yeah. And next week 894 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:23,720 I believe we're going to have our first guest. So thank you for guys for joining 895 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:27,640 us. Please you know check take a look at these spots. Understanding Exodus is 896 00:41:27,640 --> 00:41:30,040 gonna be really important especially when we get into the Gospels later. 897 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:34,200 Mm-hmm. Because a lot of what like the Gospels are doing is they're positioning 898 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:38,880 Jesus as a second Moses. And if you don't understand the first Moses you're not 899 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:44,000 gonna understand the illustrations that Jesus is actually taking on. Yeah. Thank 900 00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:49,400 you guys for listening and until next time you know where to find us. Thank you 901 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:54,440 so much for listening today. We hope you enjoyed this podcast and we hope that 902 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:59,880 you got something out of it. If you have any questions please contact us at 903 00:41:59,880 --> 00:42:05,640 loveandcontext at gmail.com. You can also follow us on Instagram and message us 904 00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:12,040 through there. Instagram is loveandcontext. Again loveandcontext.gmail.com 905 00:42:12,040 --> 00:42:16,160 or Instagram are the two ways to get a hold of us if you would like. 906 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:22,600 Thank you once again. We really appreciate you being here. God bless. 907 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,680 This is our mac and cheese break. Mac and cheese break. Hey do you still put 908 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,480 ketchup on everything? Are you quoting from the Prince of Egypt by the way 909 00:42:32,480 --> 00:42:36,160 because I hope is it actually in a bowl? I don't know. I think you're quoting 910 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,960 from the Prince of Egypt. I think I am. Yeah. I think like Prince of Egypt is in my head. 911 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:45,480 Yeah I think so too. Hold on a second. Is this an actual bowl? I mean. No it's not in a bowl. 912 00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:50,640 What is it? What's it in? Yeah it's it says that they did the same things by their secret arts. 913 00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:54,880 Right? Oh. I just assume it's in a bowl. You just assume it's in a bowl because of the Prince of Egypt. 914 00:42:54,880 --> 00:42:58,180 I just assume you put water in a bowl if you're gonna do magic. I don't. Yeah. That's an 915 00:42:58,180 --> 00:43:02,260 assumption on my part. All right. What about where did I finish? Oh so yeah okay. 916 00:43:02,260 --> 00:43:08,800 We're back. This is the part of the podcast where Ben makes a random noise 917 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:28,840 into the mic that I have to edit out. Just like that.