1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,760 Welcome to Logan City Christian Church podcast where we bring God's Word to you weekly. 2 00:00:07,760 --> 00:00:12,520 We pray what you hear will bring clarity to your situation and open doors in your life. 3 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:13,520 Enjoy the message. 4 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:23,120 I guess next Saturday is the big day for the Queensland voting day and there's been voting 5 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:28,400 this week and there will be next week with early voting and all that sort of thing. 6 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:34,000 And it's a great democratic thing that we have the opportunity to vote. 7 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,480 And I hope that you don't go into the voting thing and just put a line through it and walk 8 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:38,680 out. 9 00:00:38,680 --> 00:00:40,360 Make a choice. 10 00:00:40,360 --> 00:00:41,760 Make the right choice. 11 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,000 Pray about it and ask God. 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:50,080 But you know, I can say a lot of things. 13 00:00:50,080 --> 00:01:00,600 But when Jesus comes in His second coming and He establishes the Kingdom of God on earth, 14 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,560 there will be no voting. 15 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,560 Hallelujah. 16 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:07,040 There will be no voting in there. 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:12,480 He will rule and reign for a thousand years and there will be no voting. 18 00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:15,560 He is the boss. 19 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:18,680 The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. 20 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,640 They couldn't get any better than Him so why vote anyhow? 21 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:23,560 There's no voting. 22 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:26,120 I think that's a wonderful thing. 23 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:29,360 But while we're here, that's our responsibility. 24 00:01:29,360 --> 00:01:30,440 Pray about it. 25 00:01:30,440 --> 00:01:32,220 Ask God about it. 26 00:01:32,220 --> 00:01:35,440 If you don't know what to do, ask God. 27 00:01:35,440 --> 00:01:42,320 If you don't know which way to go and there's more than one or two, I know that. 28 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:46,800 But if you don't know, check out the basics, what they believe, what their whole thing 29 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,560 is, where they come from, what their roots are and see if that's what you agree with 30 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,760 and that may help you. 31 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:56,560 But anyhow, that's next week. 32 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,800 I'm not being political when I'm saying any of that. 33 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:01,080 I'm just saying. 34 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:06,560 But I'm glad there's no voting in heaven or on earth actually when He comes. 35 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:10,840 Wonderful Lord. 36 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:15,980 You know, we could say the whole problem in the world is it all started in the garden. 37 00:02:15,980 --> 00:02:16,980 We know that. 38 00:02:16,980 --> 00:02:22,200 But I read a little thing the other day and I'll try and remember it. 39 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:32,680 It just said all the problems started in the garden because the computer that they were 40 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,520 using was an Apple. 41 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:41,000 Didn't have a lot of memory. 42 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,720 And he had one bite and when it crashed, everything went with it. 43 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:51,200 But true, that's where it all started, was in the garden. 44 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:55,920 And God has His hand on what's going on. 45 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:01,400 Ever since then, God is working out His plan. 46 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:02,400 And we know the story. 47 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,480 I know that. 48 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:11,440 But just to say and remind you again that what we are doing right now in this time, 49 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:19,880 in this age of grace, for grace will cease when no one can be saved. 50 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:28,820 But in this age of grace, our responsibility is to tell others about Jesus and tell them 51 00:03:28,820 --> 00:03:33,860 the gospel and that they can be born again and be part of the church that will come back 52 00:03:33,860 --> 00:03:40,960 with Jesus when He comes to rule and reign. 53 00:03:40,960 --> 00:03:45,520 Unless we go, we cannot come. 54 00:03:45,520 --> 00:03:48,760 And there will be a snatching away. 55 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:53,440 There will be that snatching away of the believers of the church will be taken to glory and in 56 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,100 that time, we'll be doing things in heaven. 57 00:03:57,100 --> 00:03:58,900 Things will be happening on earth. 58 00:03:58,900 --> 00:04:02,080 And when Jesus comes, we come back with Him. 59 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:03,480 Hallelujah. 60 00:04:03,480 --> 00:04:07,480 He comes with 10,000 of His saints. 61 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:12,000 And that will be you and me and those that know God and trust God and believe God and 62 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:14,600 are born again. 63 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,960 That's an exciting thing. 64 00:04:16,960 --> 00:04:21,680 And we will rule and reign with Him for that thousand years on earth. 65 00:04:21,680 --> 00:04:22,680 That's a long time. 66 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:29,920 Anyhow, I'm not here to preach that this morning. 67 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:35,640 It's all good stuff though. 68 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:37,680 Hallelujah. 69 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:43,720 Yeah, I guess Rob is right in what he's saying. 70 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:53,760 We've done a few things and we've seen a few things, good and bad, in the church. 71 00:04:53,760 --> 00:05:01,680 Seen some amazing miracles, seen some amazing things happen in people's lives. 72 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,140 And we've seen the opposite of that. 73 00:05:04,140 --> 00:05:08,640 Where things go pear-shaped, where things go wrong, where people get hurt, where people 74 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:14,640 get upset and leave and people turn their back on God because something happened and 75 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:15,640 they can't handle it. 76 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:20,600 So they blame God and walk away from God and worse than they ever were before they were 77 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:24,440 born again. 78 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:31,080 Been to different countries, seen different cultures, all that sort of thing. 79 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:36,040 But I know and Claire knows that we are not perfect people. 80 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:40,040 We might have seen a few things, done a few things, but that doesn't make us any better 81 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:41,040 than anybody else. 82 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:42,480 It doesn't make us perfect. 83 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:47,320 It doesn't make us in some echelon of something or other. 84 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:48,320 It's not. 85 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,040 We're just ordinary people. 86 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:53,400 Like you and me, we're just ordinary, all of us. 87 00:05:53,400 --> 00:06:01,920 And I just, I acknowledge God's goodness and what God has done in us and thank God for 88 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:02,920 it. 89 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,920 But that's all preparation. 90 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:08,920 What God is doing in me, what God is doing in you is preparation for that thousand years 91 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:09,920 ruling with Jesus. 92 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:16,920 Anyhow, as I said, I'm not here to talk about that. 93 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:23,240 Today, well last time we shared, if you remember, we looked at the children of Israel and how 94 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,080 their wrong attitudes hampered their journey into the promised land. 95 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:27,080 Do you remember that? 96 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:28,080 I don't know how long ago. 97 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:29,080 I looked it up actually. 98 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:35,200 I thought it was only a few weeks, but it was up in three months or something. 99 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:39,720 And how this hampered their journey into the promised land and their relationship with 100 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:41,040 God. 101 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,960 And then we related that to our own journey as we walk with the Lord. 102 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:51,200 And we highlighted things like being ungrateful, blaming the past, comparing ourselves to others 103 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:58,640 and being unteachable, feeling unworthy, impatience, pride, all those sorts of things. 104 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:03,880 And showing that that wilderness thinking can hold us bound in our spiritual growth. 105 00:07:03,880 --> 00:07:07,800 I trust that you got something from that and that it helped you. 106 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:12,420 And that not only just in that next week, but in your ongoing thing. 107 00:07:12,420 --> 00:07:13,960 Because that's what it's all about. 108 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:16,560 We are going from glory to glory. 109 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:22,760 How fast we go from glory to glory depends on how much we are allowing God to do what 110 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:28,520 God wants to do in us. 111 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:36,280 So today, we're going to look at Moses and his relationship with God. 112 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:40,400 Because he faced great challenges. 113 00:07:40,400 --> 00:07:42,720 So how did he do that? 114 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:47,760 What did he have that enabled him to do that? 115 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,840 What was the key to his success? 116 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:57,840 As I said last time, he was the pastor of some three and a half million people. 117 00:07:57,840 --> 00:07:59,840 That's a big church. 118 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:03,560 They had no building. 119 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:05,760 They were wandering around in the desert and all that. 120 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,040 But he pastored those people. 121 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:08,560 He looked after them. 122 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,040 He went before God on their behalf. 123 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:19,840 And so, to pastor a church of a couple of hundred, three hundred, five hundred, a thousand, 124 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:25,080 ten thousand even, none of that is easy. 125 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:26,560 It's not easy to be a pastor. 126 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:28,460 I understand that. 127 00:08:28,460 --> 00:08:29,460 It's not. 128 00:08:29,460 --> 00:08:31,320 I'm not saying don't do it if God is calling you. 129 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,240 What I'm just saying is it's not easy. 130 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,240 Otherwise, everybody would be doing it. 131 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:40,960 But it's not easy. 132 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,400 And it wasn't easy for Moses either. 133 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:49,200 So what was it that was in Moses or Moses had that enabled him to do that? 134 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:56,560 And I trust that as we look at this this morning that this will be able to reveal some things 135 00:08:56,560 --> 00:09:01,720 that would help us as we draw on what Moses had in his life. 136 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:06,160 But see, God had his hand on Moses from the time that he was born. 137 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:12,040 And you know the story, he was hidden in the ark in the bulrushes there and Pharaoh's daughter 138 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:16,680 came along to bathe and she saw the ark there and thought it must have been one of the Hebrew's 139 00:09:16,680 --> 00:09:21,880 children because the Pharaoh had said he was going to kill all the firstborn of the Hebrew 140 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:24,220 children. 141 00:09:24,220 --> 00:09:27,520 And so she got the... 142 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:29,400 Anyhow, you know the story. 143 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,400 She didn't... 144 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:36,480 Well, I suppose she adopted him but she took him and brought him up in the household of 145 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,720 Pharaoh and he was educated in that way and whatever. 146 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,040 But then he killed an Egyptian because he saw this Egyptian giving one of his Hebrew 147 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,240 brethren a hard time. 148 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:51,960 And so he fled to the desert, married Zipporah and had a son Gershom and became a shepherd 149 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:57,000 looking after his father-in-law Jethro's sheep. 150 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:00,320 Now that in itself is quite a story. 151 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:07,360 Miracles were happening at that time, even the fact that he wasn't killed. 152 00:10:07,360 --> 00:10:15,720 But in Exodus chapter 3, this is where we're going to pick up today, Exodus chapter 3, 153 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:21,600 we find that Moses, as I said, he's there being the... 154 00:10:21,600 --> 00:10:25,960 He's married, got a family and he's looking after Jethro's sheep. 155 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:30,600 And he was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law and the priest of Midian and 156 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:35,840 he led the flock to the back of the desert and he came to Herob, the mountain of God 157 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:41,760 and the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of the bush. 158 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:46,560 So he looked and behold, the bush was burning with fire but the bush was not consumed. 159 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:47,560 Another miracle. 160 00:10:47,560 --> 00:10:52,760 Then Moses said, I'll now turn aside and go and see this great sight, why this bush is 161 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:54,720 going to burn. 162 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:56,880 So it does not burn. 163 00:10:56,880 --> 00:11:03,520 So he was inquisitive enough to go and have a look, see what was going on. 164 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:08,040 So when the Lord saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst 165 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:12,320 of the bush and he said, Moses, Moses. 166 00:11:12,320 --> 00:11:15,160 And he said, here I am. 167 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,600 That was another miracle. 168 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:19,340 Like he was just... 169 00:11:19,340 --> 00:11:22,760 Like if you went to see a burning bush and you went up to that burning bush and it started 170 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:27,240 to talk to you, how would you feel? 171 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:30,880 The fact the thing wasn't burning would be one thing but then it spoke and knew your 172 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:31,880 name. 173 00:11:31,880 --> 00:11:36,400 See, God knows your name no matter what the circumstances you are in, no matter where 174 00:11:36,400 --> 00:11:42,080 you're at, no matter what's going on, God knows you by name. 175 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:44,800 It's a personal thing between you and God. 176 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:46,640 He knows you by name. 177 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:52,920 And not just because we are born again people but he knows the name of every person. 178 00:11:52,920 --> 00:12:01,600 I've heard testimonies of people that have been living in sin and not people that you 179 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:08,280 want to bring home and meet your parents, you know, or come home and be part of your 180 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:09,760 family. 181 00:12:09,760 --> 00:12:15,760 But their experience was that God called them in a dream and God spoke to them and called 182 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:18,000 them by their name. 183 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,960 That opened their eyes. 184 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:32,680 When God speaks to you and calls you by name, what an amazing thing. 185 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:35,760 And he said, do not draw near to this place. 186 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,560 Don't come any closer but take your sandals off your feet for the place where you're standing 187 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:43,760 is holy ground. 188 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:48,480 Then he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and Moses 189 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:52,400 hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God. 190 00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:57,240 The Bible says that no one has seen God at any time. 191 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:01,720 We know that Moses saw the hind part of God as he walked past and he hid him in the cleft 192 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:02,720 of the rock. 193 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:03,720 We understand that. 194 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:15,080 We've seen God face to face. 195 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:19,280 And the Lord said, I have surely seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt. 196 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:24,240 You see, God never forgot his people even though they were in bondage for something 197 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:25,720 like three, 5,400 years. 198 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,840 They were slaves in Egypt there. 199 00:13:28,840 --> 00:13:30,880 He never forgot them. 200 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:33,400 And he always had a plan to do something. 201 00:13:33,400 --> 00:13:36,720 But God's timing is different to our timing. 202 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:40,680 And so he said, I've seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt and have heard 203 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:45,840 their cry because of their taskmasters for I know their sorrows. 204 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:50,540 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them 205 00:13:50,540 --> 00:13:56,040 up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to 206 00:13:56,040 --> 00:14:00,960 the place of the Canaanites, the Hivites, the Amorites, the Pezirites, the Hittites, 207 00:14:00,960 --> 00:14:01,960 the Jebusites. 208 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:07,880 Now, therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to me and I have also seen 209 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,240 the oppression with the Egyptians oppress them. 210 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:14,600 So he's really saying to him, I know what's going on, Moses. 211 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,680 I am aware of what's going on, Moses. 212 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:21,400 And I've come down to deliver them. 213 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:23,640 Listen to this verse, verse 10. 214 00:14:23,640 --> 00:14:29,640 Come now therefore and I will send you to Pharaoh. 215 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:35,720 You can imagine Moses saying, but God, I thought you were going to do it. 216 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:37,520 I thought you were going to do it, God. 217 00:14:37,520 --> 00:14:42,200 And God said, no, I'm going to send you. 218 00:14:42,200 --> 00:14:56,280 You see, sometimes, you know, as Christians, as church people, we expect God to do it all. 219 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,800 And sometimes there, God is saying, no, you do that. 220 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:06,760 When God said feed the hungry, clothe the poor, God is not going to drop it out of heaven 221 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,080 on them. 222 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:10,760 He raises up people to do that. 223 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:15,400 It might be helping your neighbour or whatever it might be and giving them something when 224 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:19,680 they're sick or whatever it might be or raise up an agency that delivers food. 225 00:15:19,680 --> 00:15:20,680 I don't know. 226 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:23,160 But we don't see God doing it. 227 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,800 We see God's people doing it. 228 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:33,760 And so God is saying to Moses, I'm going to send you to Pharaoh, that you may bring my 229 00:15:33,760 --> 00:15:38,200 people, the children of Israel out of Egypt. 230 00:15:38,200 --> 00:15:40,920 Can you imagine Moses' brain at that time? 231 00:15:40,920 --> 00:15:42,600 Can you imagine his mind? 232 00:15:42,600 --> 00:15:43,800 It's just going round and round. 233 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:45,920 Here I am standing in front of a bush that's not burning. 234 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:47,320 It's talking to me. 235 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,240 God's telling me what he's going to do. 236 00:15:49,240 --> 00:15:50,240 And now he wants me to do it. 237 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,440 I haven't got a clue. 238 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:57,880 Sounds like being a pastor, doesn't it? 239 00:15:57,880 --> 00:16:00,320 This is the most clueless pastor I've ever met. 240 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:02,560 I don't mean that. 241 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,160 But I mean there's a lot of times he stands up here and says, well, I don't know what's 242 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:06,160 going on or whatever. 243 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:07,160 No. 244 00:16:07,160 --> 00:16:08,960 You're a good man, Rob. 245 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:13,520 You're a good man. 246 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:20,840 And I think it's so good just to be so relaxed sometimes that we just go with the flow. 247 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,760 I've seen the other side of that when people are so uptight about everything, got everything 248 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,840 organized to a tee, and it still goes wrong in here. 249 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:36,760 So here's Moses thinking all these things. 250 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:40,160 And Moses said to God, well, who am I that I should go to Pharaoh? 251 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:43,840 That I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. 252 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:48,280 And remember, he ran away from Pharaoh because he'd murdered an Egyptian. 253 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:51,800 So he wasn't in the good books, though he knew Pharaoh. 254 00:16:51,800 --> 00:16:59,080 But he also knew how strong Pharaoh was, how dangerous he was, if you like, how angry he 255 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:00,600 could get. 256 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,720 So he's saying, no, no, no, no, no, not me. 257 00:17:03,720 --> 00:17:08,720 Not me. 258 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:16,320 So God said to him, but I will certainly be with you. 259 00:17:16,320 --> 00:17:19,600 Verse 12, I will certainly be with you. 260 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:22,680 And this shall be a sign to you that I've sent you when you've brought the children 261 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:28,440 of Israel out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain. 262 00:17:28,440 --> 00:17:32,440 And so there was this dialogue between God and Moses. 263 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:37,280 And Moses trying to wheel his way out of it and God strengthening this all the time. 264 00:17:37,280 --> 00:17:40,120 No, this is what you're going to do. 265 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:43,320 God, didn't you have any mercy on Moses? 266 00:17:43,320 --> 00:17:46,960 Yes, he did, because he said, I'll be with you. 267 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:48,320 I'll be with you. 268 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:51,840 Friend, let me say this. 269 00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,880 All you need is a word from God. 270 00:17:54,880 --> 00:18:00,680 Now, I say this carefully, you need a word from God. 271 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:08,720 Not a friend, not the government, not a prophet even. 272 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:12,560 You need a word from God in your own heart. 273 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:18,160 And any prophetic word you get should confirm that word to you that you've got in your heart. 274 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:26,280 Not news that you've never heard before. 275 00:18:26,280 --> 00:18:37,040 I know that it would have happened in other churches, but I know in COC, you know, it 276 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:46,720 was, Clark heard from God in a way that he did things on just that thing of three or 277 00:18:46,720 --> 00:18:48,920 four words that God might have spoken to him. 278 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,240 I will be with you. 279 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,000 I know that happened on numerous occasions. 280 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:59,480 Most likely it happened with Pastor Reg in AOG at Mount Gravatt. 281 00:18:59,480 --> 00:19:01,080 Just a word from God, you see. 282 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,440 It's a word from God we need. 283 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:15,240 We need to hear from God for ourselves. 284 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:23,720 So in this burning bush experience, God spoke to him and called him to work with him. 285 00:19:23,720 --> 00:19:29,080 He didn't just send him out on his own, like wind him up and set him off with a commission 286 00:19:29,080 --> 00:19:34,640 to do something. 287 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:36,480 But he called him to work with him. 288 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:38,320 I'll be with you, Moses. 289 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,400 I'll be with you. 290 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:45,960 We'll do it together, Moses. 291 00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:54,600 I've come, but I'm sending you and I'll be with you. 292 00:19:54,600 --> 00:20:02,800 You see, when you have a face-to-face encounter with God, you're never the same. 293 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,960 Now he may not have seen God's face there, but I tell you what, if ever there was a face-to-face 294 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,760 encounter, I think that was one of them. 295 00:20:09,760 --> 00:20:13,200 A burning bush that spoke and Moses was there. 296 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:19,840 But you see, when we meet with God, when you meet with God in your private devotional times 297 00:20:19,840 --> 00:20:27,760 or wherever it might be and God's presence comes and touches you in a real way, you'll 298 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:32,440 never be the same again. 299 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:38,560 I'm not talking about an emotional experience, although emotions come into it, but that presence 300 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:48,920 of God, that literal presence of God that you feel, that you even fear to a degree, 301 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:52,960 but once you know it, you don't, that changes you. 302 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:59,720 And when you're touched by that presence, nothing ever satisfies ever again. 303 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:12,360 You see, Moses was changed from being unwilling to being willing or more willing. 304 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:17,020 So you received instructions and assurances from God, but he was a changed man because 305 00:21:17,020 --> 00:21:20,420 now he was God's man. 306 00:21:20,420 --> 00:21:22,640 So he went with God and God was with him. 307 00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,380 There was major miracles that happened in Egypt then. 308 00:21:25,380 --> 00:21:29,360 Went to Pharaoh, let my people go, no way. 309 00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:30,880 So then the plague started to come. 310 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,360 There were 10 plagues, weren't there? 311 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:36,480 Flies and you know them all. 312 00:21:36,480 --> 00:21:39,960 I'm trying to save time because I want to get to what I want to get to. 313 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:43,480 But there were those major miracles. 314 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,080 River turned to blood, flies and all that sort of thing. 315 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:54,720 And Pharaoh still did not let the people go because God hardened his heart and here's 316 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:56,640 a bit of a paradox sort of thing. 317 00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,080 I'll be with you Moses, I'll help you, but I'm going to harden his heart. 318 00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:04,000 God, I thought you were supposed to make this easy for me. 319 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,000 God, you're making it harder for me. 320 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 Ever felt like that? 321 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,800 I have, my goodness. 322 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:23,680 And all you can do is say, God, you said you'd be with me and I believe you. 323 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:26,080 So then we know that there were those miracles. 324 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,960 And the last one, he was going to kill the firstborn of the Egyptians, God said. 325 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:36,160 So the Passover was instituted and they, you know, well we know the story of the Passover. 326 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,080 They took the sacrificial lamb, they put blood over the doorposts and lintels. 327 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:41,560 The angel of death passed over them. 328 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,200 It saw the blood, it passed over those who were under the blood. 329 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,980 There's the gospel right there. 330 00:22:48,980 --> 00:22:56,680 And finally the Exodus when Pharaoh just said, just go, just go, just take, just go. 331 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,600 So when they went, they took all, they plundered the Egyptians. 332 00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:03,080 They just didn't walk out with their own gear, but they walked out with all the gear of the 333 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,080 Egyptians. 334 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:09,520 They took all their jewels and they took all their goods and all the things that they wanted. 335 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:11,200 And can you imagine? 336 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,280 All these ones that have been taskmasters over you, you know, now you've got the permission 337 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:21,120 to go and you go and say, oh, I'll have that, thanks very much, keep that in my bag. 338 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:24,200 Walk up to the other one that used to punch you and knock you around with a whip, you 339 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,320 know, and say, hmm, I'll have that, thank you very much. 340 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:33,800 Took his watch, sundial if you like. 341 00:23:33,800 --> 00:23:37,240 They plundered the Egyptians, the Bible said. 342 00:23:37,240 --> 00:23:43,760 They probably got 400 years' wages in one day. 343 00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:47,200 They came to the Red Sea and they crossed the Red Sea. 344 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:52,720 Pharaoh's pursuing army was drowned and they were then free. 345 00:23:52,720 --> 00:23:57,000 And they were then rich. 346 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:02,720 You see, we need to understand here right at this particular point, as I said before 347 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:09,280 really, that Moses embarked on a faith journey with God. 348 00:24:09,280 --> 00:24:11,680 A faith journey. 349 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:17,560 Not just a task to take people from A to B, but it was a faith journey. 350 00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:25,360 So how do we, and so do we, when we are saved, we embark on a faith journey with God. 351 00:24:25,360 --> 00:24:33,200 And we're called to trust God in every situation in that journey. 352 00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:35,240 It's faith all the way every day. 353 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:36,240 That's it. 354 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:37,760 Everything is faith. 355 00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:44,840 Can I just refresh your memories, because Hebrews says, in Hebrews 11, which is the 356 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:52,400 hero's chapter, verse 23, by faith Moses, when he was born, he was hidden for three 357 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:53,400 months. 358 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:55,400 This is a synopsis of his whole thing here. 359 00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:59,840 He was born for three months, he was hidden by his parents because he was a beautiful 360 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:03,880 child and they were not afraid of the king's command. 361 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:09,280 And by faith Moses, when he became of age, he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's 362 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,560 daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures 363 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:22,320 of sin for a season, esteeming the reproach of Christ's greater riches than the pleasures 364 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,120 or the treasures of Egypt rather, for he looked to the reward. 365 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:31,800 And by faith he forsook Egypt by fearing the wrath of the king, not fearing the wrath of 366 00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:38,400 the king, for he endured and seeing him who is invisible. 367 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:44,840 By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he be destroyed, who destroyed 368 00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,020 the firstborn should touch them. 369 00:25:47,020 --> 00:25:52,640 By faith they passed through the Red Sea on dry ground, whereas the Egyptians attempting 370 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,840 to do so were drowned. 371 00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,800 So it was a faith journey and that was the only part. 372 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:02,800 They were then free but it was still faith up to then, did faith stop then? 373 00:26:02,800 --> 00:26:07,880 No, it was faith all the way. 374 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:13,840 Now this was a massive undertaking for Moses. 375 00:26:13,840 --> 00:26:19,560 Can you imagine being responsible for three million people, over three million people, 376 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:27,540 three and a half some say, plus their animals and all their goods and to take them from 377 00:26:27,540 --> 00:26:35,280 A to B. Supposed to be ten days journey, ended up being forty years or something for different 378 00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:36,560 reasons. 379 00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:40,600 But that would be no easy task even for ten days. 380 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,600 So can you imagine the logistics of that? 381 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:48,080 Just to put this into perspective, we've read the story, we know the story, we've seen the 382 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:55,640 movie Ten Commandments, it was a great movie, we've seen it all but to really say, hey that 383 00:26:55,640 --> 00:27:01,480 was a big deal, to really realise that, that's bigger than I thought. 384 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:06,520 Because I heard this when I was a little one in Sunday school, how did Moses cross the 385 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:11,200 Red Sea, you know all that sort of thing and all the thing came down on them and they were 386 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:16,120 all drowned and we all laughed and everything, that's a big deal. 387 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:21,520 So can you imagine the logistics, water for the people? 388 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:23,400 How long do you live without water? 389 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,800 How long? 390 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,400 You can go for twenty something days I think it is, forty days without food or water but 391 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,320 any water for the animals as well. 392 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:39,360 Feed for all the animals, food for the people, camp hygiene, toileting and all that sort 393 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:40,360 of thing. 394 00:27:40,360 --> 00:27:46,920 Three million people, I could say more. 395 00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:52,280 But Moses had a big God, you see he, God said I'll be with you and Moses said I don't know 396 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:58,200 how, where am I going to get the water from, where am I going to get it from, then he remembered, 397 00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,880 I'll be with you. 398 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:04,320 That's the thing you see, if you know that God has spoken to you when the time is tough, 399 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,720 that's what you're going to draw on, God you said you'd be with me. 400 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:18,280 If he didn't have that, he'd just say, I've got no idea, I'm going home. 401 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:31,760 You see, Moses, the God of Moses if you like, our God, he is a big God, capital G God, capital 402 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,520 O D God, big God. 403 00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:41,120 He's not just another God, he's not just average God, he's not just a bit bigger than the devil, 404 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:45,160 he is a big God. 405 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:50,040 He's a powerful God. 406 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,740 You see he was a God that could lift three and a half million people out of slavery in 407 00:28:54,740 --> 00:28:55,740 one day. 408 00:28:55,740 --> 00:29:00,040 They'd been there 400 years. 409 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:07,680 That's a big God. 410 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,080 They had seen him open the Red Sea wide enough for them, for the children, three and a half 411 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:21,720 million, that's a lot of people to walk through in a short space of time. 412 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,960 A God who could supply all the water needed for the people and their animals, that's a 413 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:26,960 lot of water. 414 00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,520 Friends, let me just give you a few statistics here. 415 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:40,240 We know that the 1 Corinthians 10, 4 says that they drank from the spiritual rock that 416 00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,440 followed them and that rock was Christ. 417 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,080 He watered them. 418 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:51,320 Literally, the water flowed from him and that was enough water for them to bathe in, to 419 00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:56,440 drink in, to toilet in and do all those things, wash themselves in and water their animals 420 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,320 every day. 421 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:05,960 You're not going to get that in 44 gallon drums. 422 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,360 The logistics of this is absolutely amazing. 423 00:30:08,360 --> 00:30:14,400 When I was in the army, there was another unit that a guy that I worked with, it actually 424 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,360 was part of this other unit. 425 00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:23,320 I was in an engineering unit and he was in this unit called movement control. 426 00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:27,880 I thought, what unit would that be, movement control? 427 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:34,920 They did all the logistics of moving an army from A to B. They had to organize where they 428 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,520 get water from, they had to organize food, they had to organize their ammunition, they 429 00:30:38,520 --> 00:30:43,040 had to organize the whole deal, petrol for the vehicles, whatever. 430 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:47,120 That was what they did and I thought, how boring would that be? 431 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:51,520 Then I did at that stage think, but I've heard of this story before about logistics for a 432 00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:53,880 big move and that's where this is coming from. 433 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,720 This is an amazing thing and God did it. 434 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:57,720 Was a miracle. 435 00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,480 It was a miracle. 436 00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:07,040 It wasn't done by the movement control, I tell you. 437 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:12,200 Just to get this into perspective, because I thought this was rather interesting, you 438 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:18,840 got three and a half million people, let's say about 270 liters a day. 439 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,720 Let's just take that for a figure. 440 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:26,600 That's the national average of daily use for water per head in Australia, 274 liters per 441 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,080 head per day, national figure. 442 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:33,800 Some states vary, whatever. 443 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,160 Let's just take that figure anyhow. 444 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:37,960 That's not just enough for per head. 445 00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:43,120 I'm talking about per head for them to water their animals, to bathe into the whole thing 446 00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:47,000 in. 447 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,040 That's 959 million liters of water. 448 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:58,960 959 million liters of water or 959 gigaliters, a million liters is a gigaliters. 449 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,640 Per day. 450 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:07,960 Now Sydney Harbour has a capacity of 500 gigaliters. 451 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:14,680 So two Sydney Harbours per day is what they needed for water. 452 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:18,760 That is a lot of water and that is a major miracle. 453 00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:22,080 Can you imagine? 454 00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:25,080 The water in Sydney Harbour. 455 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:30,400 Oh dear me. 456 00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:33,560 How big is God? 457 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,240 Now if you multiply that's only per day. 458 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:41,240 So you multiply that over 40 years, my calculator went up in smoke, I just tried to work that 459 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,240 one out. 460 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,760 But that's still a lot of water. 461 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:45,760 What about the manna? 462 00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:50,960 See, he had a mighty God there with him who provided fresh manna every day for 40 years. 463 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,320 He never failed them. 464 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:53,320 40 years. 465 00:32:53,320 --> 00:32:54,320 How many loaves? 466 00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:55,920 How many loaves was that? 467 00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,200 I have no idea. 468 00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,640 But God knew and he provided it. 469 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:07,360 You see these were major miracles that God did. 470 00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,560 Not that Moses did, but God did. 471 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:15,480 But Moses trusted God. 472 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:23,280 Moses had confidence that God would do these things for 40 years. 473 00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:27,560 And Moses knew that it wouldn't be easy and he knew that there would be danger in this 474 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:28,560 whole thing. 475 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:29,560 He knew there would be obstacles. 476 00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:34,620 He knew people enough to know that they would rebel and complain. 477 00:33:34,620 --> 00:33:36,480 And the people were rebellious. 478 00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:41,560 Because in Exodus 32 we read that while Moses was coming down from the mountain with the 479 00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:47,720 tablets of stone that God had written with his finger, the Ten Commandments. 480 00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:54,360 They built themselves a golden calf and they started to worship this golden calf. 481 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,600 And when he saw what they were doing, he was angry and he broke the tablets and the stone 482 00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:03,240 and the ground. 483 00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:04,240 Can you imagine it? 484 00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:05,640 You're just doing the wrong thing. 485 00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:10,320 Here I am talking with God, getting all this and now you're going and worshiping some created 486 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,000 thing that you've all thrown in the gold that God gave you and fashioned this calf 487 00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:18,800 out of it and now you're having a good time and worshiping this calf. 488 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:19,800 He was angry. 489 00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:25,480 I tell you, God was more angry because he just wanted to kill them. 490 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:26,480 Verse 10. 491 00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,480 He just wanted to kill them. 492 00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:29,840 Wipe them all out. 493 00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,480 Start again. 494 00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:38,920 Moses pleaded with God not to kill them and the Lord relented from harming them in verse 495 00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:39,920 14. 496 00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:45,200 I tell you what, that is a great pastoral act. 497 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,720 God's going to kill them and Moses said, no, hang on Lord. 498 00:34:48,720 --> 00:34:50,640 If you kill them, what are the other nations going to say? 499 00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:54,480 You brought them out into the wilderness to kill them? 500 00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,600 They know that you brought them out to set them free. 501 00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,040 That's not going to look really good. 502 00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,560 And he talked with the Lord and changed God's mind. 503 00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,560 I think that's very interesting. 504 00:35:05,560 --> 00:35:12,440 Now in Exodus 33, we read here and this is where we're coming to. 505 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:19,360 God had instructed him, Moses, now to leave Sinai and lead the people on to the promised 506 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,440 land. 507 00:35:21,440 --> 00:35:26,240 And God said that as we read before, he'd drive out before them the Amorites, the Canaanites, 508 00:35:26,240 --> 00:35:30,960 the Hittites, Perizzites, Hiveites, Jebusites and any other that was around, he was going 509 00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:38,120 to get rid of them and go up to that land that flows with milk and honey, but I will 510 00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,240 not go in your midst. 511 00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:48,240 God now is saying, you go and do it, but I'm not going to be there. 512 00:35:48,240 --> 00:35:54,140 And he was withdrawing himself now. 513 00:35:54,140 --> 00:35:57,760 And the bell started to go off in Moses' mind. 514 00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:07,360 Hang on, hang on, if you're not going to go and be with us, we're going to be in bigger 515 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:13,120 trouble than we're already in. 516 00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:17,300 Because he knew that he couldn't do it without God because he knew he couldn't do it. 517 00:36:17,300 --> 00:36:18,300 God said he'd be with him. 518 00:36:18,300 --> 00:36:20,680 Now God's saying, I'm not going to go with you. 519 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:23,560 Moses is left there hanging. 520 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:29,280 Big trouble. 521 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:36,920 But you see, Moses and God had a special relationship. 522 00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:42,920 He was a chosen vessel of God from when he was born. 523 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,120 God had his hand on him. 524 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:53,000 In Exodus 33, 7 to 11, it says here, Moses took the tent and pitched it out outside the 525 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,240 camp, far from the camp, and he called it the Tabernacle of Meeting. 526 00:36:56,240 --> 00:37:00,080 It came to pass that everyone who sought the Lord went out to the Tabernacle of Meeting, 527 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,560 which is just outside the camp. 528 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,480 So it was, whenever Moses went out to the Tabernacle, that the people rose and each 529 00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,560 man stood in his tent door and watched Moses until he had gone into the Tabernacle. 530 00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,000 And it came to pass when Moses entered the Tabernacle that the pillar of cloud descended 531 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:22,000 and stood out of the door of the Tabernacle, stood at the door of the Tabernacle, and the 532 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,080 Lord talked with Moses. 533 00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:28,800 The people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the Tabernacle door, and all the people 534 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,780 rose and worshiped each man in his own door. 535 00:37:31,780 --> 00:37:40,720 So the Lord spoke to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend. 536 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:45,060 So Moses desired to meet with God. 537 00:37:45,060 --> 00:37:46,760 He wanted to talk about this. 538 00:37:46,760 --> 00:37:48,840 God, I don't understand. 539 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:50,560 I don't understand. 540 00:37:50,560 --> 00:37:54,400 You said this, but now you're saying this. 541 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:59,000 I don't understand. 542 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:00,840 Just a little aside here. 543 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:09,160 Bible says here in verse 11, the Lord spoke to Moses as a man speaks to his friend and 544 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:15,040 he would return to the camp, but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, did not 545 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:16,720 depart from the Tabernacle. 546 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:23,000 Just a little aside, this is Joshua who 40 years later led the children of Israel in. 547 00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:26,660 He lingered. 548 00:38:26,660 --> 00:38:31,840 Just another little aside, in the hero's chapter of the Bible, Hebrews 11, Joshua never even 549 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,480 got a mention. 550 00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:39,160 You can write that one down if you like. 551 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:40,160 Never got a mention. 552 00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,360 I never knew that before. 553 00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:46,880 Then he left until the other day. 554 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:55,680 So Moses now is wanting to talk with God. 555 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,200 He had reason with God before. 556 00:38:57,200 --> 00:39:01,520 He changed God's mind before because God was going to kill all the people of the children 557 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:03,620 of Israel and he said, no, no, no. 558 00:39:03,620 --> 00:39:06,440 And then God relented. 559 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:13,080 So verse 12, Moses said to the Lord, see you say to me, bring up this people, but you've 560 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:20,520 not let me know whom you will send with me, yet you have said, I know you by name and 561 00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,720 you have also found grace in my sight. 562 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:25,280 You've said all this. 563 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,640 I don't understand now why you're doing this. 564 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:35,040 So now therefore I pray, if I have found grace in your sight, show me now your way that I 565 00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:40,680 may know you and that I may find grace in your sight and consider that this nation is 566 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:41,680 your people. 567 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:42,680 They're not my people. 568 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:43,680 They're your people. 569 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:52,320 That's your responsibility. 570 00:39:52,320 --> 00:40:07,320 It's interesting that in Psalm 103 verse 7, it says there that he made known his ways 571 00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:13,000 unto Moses and his acts unto the children of Israel. 572 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,920 Moses wanted to understand God. 573 00:40:14,920 --> 00:40:17,760 He wanted to understand how God thinks. 574 00:40:17,760 --> 00:40:19,760 What is his process in doing this? 575 00:40:19,760 --> 00:40:21,920 How does this work? 576 00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:23,320 How do you work God? 577 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:24,320 How do you? 578 00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:25,320 What do you? 579 00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,720 He just wanted to know God. 580 00:40:29,720 --> 00:40:31,840 Nothing wrong with that. 581 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,200 How much do I want to know God? 582 00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:35,280 How much do you want to know God? 583 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:39,720 Do you want to know God to that extent? 584 00:40:39,720 --> 00:40:40,920 I must say this at this point. 585 00:40:40,920 --> 00:40:45,720 Well, I want to say this at this point. 586 00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:49,480 Clark was one that always asked the questions, God, how did you do that? 587 00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,760 How do I do that? 588 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:51,760 How do I do that? 589 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,040 You haven't seen Clark move in the Gifts. 590 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:58,240 If you haven't seen it in church, you'll see it on YouTube or whatever. 591 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:02,240 But Clark would say, how did I do that? 592 00:41:02,240 --> 00:41:04,400 I started to ask God these questions too. 593 00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:09,400 God, I pray for someone over here and they get a miracle. 594 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,240 I pray for someone over here, exactly the same one and nothing seems to happen. 595 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:14,240 Why God? 596 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:17,520 Now, I haven't really got the answers for all that. 597 00:41:17,520 --> 00:41:20,120 But there's nothing wrong with asking the question. 598 00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:25,880 But I think that that, well, I've got some answers, but you know, he made his ways known 599 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:26,880 to Moses. 600 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,240 God shared his ways with Moses, the Bible says. 601 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:33,240 The children of Israel just saw what God did. 602 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:34,240 They were the spectators. 603 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:35,240 Whoa, that's good. 604 00:41:35,240 --> 00:41:36,240 I've got water again today. 605 00:41:36,240 --> 00:41:37,800 Yes, I've got the bread there again today. 606 00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:38,800 Oh, I'm sick of it. 607 00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:39,800 But there it is. 608 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:41,040 My clothes are not wearing out. 609 00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:42,120 My shoes are not wearing out. 610 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:43,120 All that. 611 00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:44,120 That's all wonderful. 612 00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,040 And, you know, they still complained. 613 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:51,520 But I believe that Moses knew how God did it. 614 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:56,280 Just total miracles, of course. 615 00:41:56,280 --> 00:42:00,960 In Philippians 3.10, it says that I might know him because that's what Moses wanted 616 00:42:00,960 --> 00:42:02,760 to know God. 617 00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:07,720 And Paul's saying, God, that I might know you and the power of your resurrection. 618 00:42:07,720 --> 00:42:08,720 I might know you. 619 00:42:08,720 --> 00:42:12,240 Friend, that's the cry of our heart that we might know God more. 620 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:23,720 We might know God in a more intimate way, in a closer relationship, day by day. 621 00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:29,360 So God, Moses is asking God, show me your way. 622 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:31,120 Show me your way. 623 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:32,120 Tell me your way. 624 00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,600 Tell me what's going on. 625 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:39,900 He didn't demand it of God, but because of his position and responsibility, he certainly 626 00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:43,720 had the right, I believe, to say, God, you said this and this. 627 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:45,120 I don't understand this. 628 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,560 You've got to show me because I've got to do this thing. 629 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,240 I'm the one that is responsible here under you. 630 00:42:50,240 --> 00:42:52,880 And if I don't know God, how's it going to work? 631 00:42:52,880 --> 00:42:58,200 You know, I think that's a fair enough thing. 632 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:12,160 In verse 14, God says to him, my presence will go with you and I will give you rest. 633 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:15,840 My presence will go with you and I will give you rest. 634 00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:22,560 In other words, God's saying, I'll be there and you can rest in that, that I am there. 635 00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:26,240 My presence will go with you. 636 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:33,640 And this was Moses' response in verse 15. 637 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,760 If your presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. 638 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:48,600 In other words, God, if you're not coming with us, I'm not going either. 639 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:54,320 You see, I believe this is the key to understanding Moses, to have the promise of his presence 640 00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:58,640 as they move forward, he rested in that presence. 641 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:01,800 He trusted in that presence. 642 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:07,160 You might say, well, that's okay for Moses, but it's okay for us too. 643 00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:13,120 Matthew 11, 28 to 30, come unto me, all you that labor and are heavy laden and I will 644 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,400 give you rest. 645 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:19,240 Take my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am gentle and lowly in heart and you shall 646 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:25,560 find rest to your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. 647 00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:29,000 God wants us to come into his presence. 648 00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:31,280 In church, yes. 649 00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:35,080 Every day, yes. 650 00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:41,160 There was a, it's a good, well, I might preach it one day, I don't know, but anyhow, just 651 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,720 practicing the presence of God. 652 00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:46,240 It's a good sermon title and there's a lot in it. 653 00:44:46,240 --> 00:44:49,160 But practicing the presence of God. 654 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,360 Why not? 655 00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:55,280 Why not have God with you in all that you're doing, talking to the Lord about everything 656 00:44:55,280 --> 00:44:56,280 that you're doing. 657 00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:59,680 When you're driving your car and you're coming to a red light or coming to an intersection, 658 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,160 Lord, is it going to go red or green? 659 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:06,560 I first heard that said, I thought, do I really need to know that? 660 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,920 I just got to stop whatever it does or go when it says green. 661 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:13,680 But this is the thing of practicing the presence of God. 662 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,540 And I've done that and I've, amazing the number of times. 663 00:45:17,540 --> 00:45:23,080 Amazing the number of times that I've got it wrong too. 664 00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,520 But it's practicing, you see. 665 00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:27,520 Having the presence of God there with you. 666 00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:32,720 Ladies, when you're cooking and when you're doing your household duties and your wifely 667 00:45:32,720 --> 00:45:36,760 duties there and all that, why not have God with you doing that? 668 00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:42,800 This ironing, that's creased, not too bad. 669 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:43,800 Goes in the back and tucks in. 670 00:45:43,800 --> 00:45:45,720 That doesn't matter. 671 00:45:45,720 --> 00:45:47,720 It does matter. 672 00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:51,920 Clay's a good ironer. 673 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:52,920 She never complains. 674 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:58,240 Clay never complains. 675 00:45:58,240 --> 00:46:01,960 I never complain. 676 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:05,800 But you may as well have God there with you doing it while you're hanging out the washing, 677 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,400 while you're doing the ironing, while you're washing the dishes, whether you're stacking 678 00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,920 the dishwasher men or whether you're making the bed or whatever you're doing. 679 00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:16,600 Why not have God with you rather than say, well I don't need God with me to do that? 680 00:46:16,600 --> 00:46:19,120 That's silly. 681 00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:20,640 Practicing the presence of God. 682 00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:27,080 It's all that Moses wanted, just to know that God was with him and that God would remain 683 00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:34,080 with him and stay with him and help him and do the miracles that needed to be done. 684 00:46:34,080 --> 00:46:38,000 So much so that he said, well if you're not going God, I'm not going either. 685 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:45,200 God take us anywhere if you're not coming with us. 686 00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:50,720 I believe in the times of his going into the tabernacle, it wasn't only to receive instructions 687 00:46:50,720 --> 00:47:01,000 from God but just to be there with him and enjoy the presence of God. 688 00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:10,440 Psalm 1611 says, in your presence is fullness of joy. 689 00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,760 In your presence is fullness of joy. 690 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:19,320 Why wouldn't we want to then be in his presence, remain in his presence, be conscious of his 691 00:47:19,320 --> 00:47:20,320 presence? 692 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:24,720 So Moses and God talked together and they fellowshiped, they enjoyed that intimacy and 693 00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:28,640 we can do that as well. 694 00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:35,000 Because when you spend time in the presence of God, what happens? 695 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:45,680 Now at times, at different seasons, we've seen a few things and whatever but 1990, what 696 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:46,680 is it? 697 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:55,040 I don't know, 1993, 4, 5, somewhere around there, they called it the laughing thing, 698 00:47:55,040 --> 00:48:00,080 the presence of God had come down and people would start laughing and slithering off the 699 00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:05,560 chairs on the floor and rolling around on the floor laughing and it was a worldwide 700 00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:08,960 thing. 701 00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:14,760 When I first saw this, when I backed up to the wall, I thought, whoa, how about this? 702 00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:19,560 I've seen a few Pentecostal happenings but I've never seen anything like that before. 703 00:48:19,560 --> 00:48:25,240 Seeing on the floor laughing my head off. 704 00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:32,080 I've seen it in those times when there's been a lot of laughter and a lot of joyous 705 00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:39,880 expression and I've also seen it when it goes deathly quiet, absolute silence, like thick 706 00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:46,840 silence when you've got maybe 500 people, it's just nothing. 707 00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:54,600 I've seen people lie on the floor at a conference for hours on end, completely quiet, being 708 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:59,960 in the presence of God and then later on hearing the stories of what God shared with them, 709 00:48:59,960 --> 00:49:06,800 what God spoke to them and God commissioned some and all this sort of thing and others 710 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:10,640 just said, I didn't tell anything, I just went to sleep. 711 00:49:10,640 --> 00:49:14,640 Well in the presence of the Lord is fullness of joy and if being asleep and being peaceful 712 00:49:14,640 --> 00:49:19,160 and everything else and you went to sleep, I'm not pointing the finger at that. 713 00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:26,640 But you can see the difference, there's the noise and then there's the quiet. 714 00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:33,320 You see the presence of God changes us, that's the thing. 715 00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:38,360 Can I just say this? 716 00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:51,360 If you come to church and you go home the same, not good, not good. 717 00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,480 There can be reasons, I understand, we're all human and whatever and we've got worries 718 00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:56,480 and why. 719 00:49:56,480 --> 00:50:03,800 But friend, why even come if you don't expect to be different when you walk out? 720 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:10,240 Expect to be different, want to be different, desire to be different. 721 00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:14,640 Because if you allow the presence of God to touch you, let me put it this way, you can 722 00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:20,200 be in the presence of God in a meeting and not be touched by the presence of God in that 723 00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:22,040 meeting. 724 00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:26,720 You've got to open your heart to receive that, you've got to open your heart to want that 725 00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:30,680 and you see when we do that, the presence of God changes us. 726 00:50:30,680 --> 00:50:35,040 We said it before, when we have that face to face with God, when we have that encounter 727 00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:37,000 with God, we're different. 728 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:41,880 Can't be the same again. 729 00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:50,760 I heard it said this way, going to church is going to change you more, being in the 730 00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:55,560 presence of God at church and going to church is going to change you more than hours of 731 00:50:55,560 --> 00:51:01,040 counselling. 732 00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:02,640 Now we don't counsel anymore. 733 00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:10,560 Used to have appointments, diaries full of appointments, day after day after day, tiring. 734 00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:15,360 We don't counsel anymore, we just give godly advice when it's asked for. 735 00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,640 Different thing because you've got a bit of paper to say you can counsel now. 736 00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:23,680 Anyhow, that's what the government does. 737 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,640 So friend, I'd rather just to touch from God to deal with the things that I need dealt 738 00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:35,080 with in my life than have to talk to someone about it because that to me is just embarrassment. 739 00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:43,080 And if God can do it like that, if God can do it so quickly, friend, why would we want 740 00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,160 to go through the processes of other things? 741 00:51:45,160 --> 00:51:47,600 Now if that has to be the case, fair enough. 742 00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:53,040 But I tell you what, I've seen more people's lives changed instantly on a prayer line than 743 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:57,440 I have in counselling. 744 00:51:57,440 --> 00:51:59,000 So it changes you. 745 00:51:59,000 --> 00:52:04,160 You see, this presence of God that I'm talking about, it not only changes you but it spoils 746 00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,400 you for anything else. 747 00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:09,200 Normal Christianity is just out the window. 748 00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:14,960 You're ruined for normal Christianity because you just want this presence of God, this power 749 00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:25,000 of God, this anointing, this cloak, this... 750 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:27,040 You might say you're going a bit off the deep end. 751 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:28,580 No, I'm not. 752 00:52:28,580 --> 00:52:30,880 I'm talking here from experience as well. 753 00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,400 And not only my experience but a thousand. 754 00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,560 I trust that you have experienced that. 755 00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:38,120 If you haven't, you can. 756 00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:39,120 You can. 757 00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:40,120 Desire it. 758 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:42,600 We'll get to that in a minute. 759 00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:51,120 You see, if you spend time in the presence of God, it helps you to love people more. 760 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:54,000 Marriages start to change. 761 00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,760 Then people say, you know, since you've been coming to church, you know how marriage is 762 00:52:57,760 --> 00:52:58,760 different. 763 00:52:58,760 --> 00:53:01,520 So it should be. 764 00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:06,640 Because God is now working. 765 00:53:06,640 --> 00:53:07,640 Relationships change. 766 00:53:07,640 --> 00:53:10,800 Friendships change. 767 00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:13,560 Church will be different. 768 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,560 Because you'll be different. 769 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:21,120 I've got a reference here. 770 00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:22,400 Oh yes. 771 00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:28,520 In 2 Chronicles 5, 13 and 14, we read there that when they had the presence of God and 772 00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,880 they brought the Ark of the Covenant in, you know, the presence of God so filled that place 773 00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:34,440 that they couldn't stand to minister. 774 00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,440 The people just fell over. 775 00:53:36,440 --> 00:53:40,040 The power of God and the presence of God is an amazing thing. 776 00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:44,640 And friend, I want to see it more and more and more and more and more. 777 00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,520 Throughout the church. 778 00:53:46,520 --> 00:53:47,640 The church worldwide. 779 00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:49,600 The church in Brisbane, if you like. 780 00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:50,600 Every church. 781 00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:52,440 Not just the charismatic churches. 782 00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,360 But let God be God in all the churches. 783 00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:58,680 Because it's His church. 784 00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:05,240 Now unless there's some changes that go on in there, apart from it being a sovereign 785 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:09,600 thing, some will never see it. 786 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:18,080 And you see the presence of God literally will change society because that's what happened 787 00:54:18,080 --> 00:54:19,080 with Moses. 788 00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:22,800 Released them out of slavery. 789 00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:24,960 Look at Wales. 790 00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:31,480 You've heard the story of the revival in Wales. 791 00:54:31,480 --> 00:54:34,400 The Welsh revival. 792 00:54:34,400 --> 00:54:38,680 Because people came into the presence of God and they prayed and they were in the presence 793 00:54:38,680 --> 00:54:40,600 of God and people's lives would change. 794 00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:42,240 The atmosphere over the place was changed. 795 00:54:42,240 --> 00:54:44,680 All the pubs closed. 796 00:54:44,680 --> 00:54:49,600 And when the miners went back to work, when they're pit donkeys down in the dark, they 797 00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,920 walk around in the dark there. 798 00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:56,840 And they would operate by command and sometimes it was commands that were colourful language 799 00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:00,640 commands and because they weren't hearing this colourful language command, they weren't 800 00:55:00,640 --> 00:55:06,640 doing anything. 801 00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:11,080 Because God had changed the miners and they weren't using that language anymore and the 802 00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:15,360 pit ponies didn't know what to do. 803 00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:19,800 See God changed that place. 804 00:55:19,800 --> 00:55:27,720 You see, let me close by saying this, the presence of God is powerful and it's wonderful. 805 00:55:27,720 --> 00:55:32,540 It's wonderful when God, see because God is a wonderful God. 806 00:55:32,540 --> 00:55:38,000 His name shall be called wonderful. 807 00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,560 It's wonderful. 808 00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:46,560 Full of wonder. 809 00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:50,200 So Moses learned to trust the presence of God. 810 00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:53,440 He wanted the presence of God with him. 811 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,640 And I trust that you want that as well. 812 00:55:55,640 --> 00:56:00,080 You want the presence of God not just for yourself but the presence of God building 813 00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:07,200 in church, building in our society, that the presence of God, you see, anyhow. 814 00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,120 How do I develop that in my own life then? 815 00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:10,680 This is where it comes down to it. 816 00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,360 How do I do this? 817 00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:17,600 Well Christ in me, the Bible says, Galatians 1.27, Christ in me, the hope of glory. 818 00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:19,360 He is in me. 819 00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:26,240 Realise, God that we're talking about is in me. 820 00:56:26,240 --> 00:56:29,320 Jesus is in me by his spirit. 821 00:56:29,320 --> 00:56:30,320 He is in me. 822 00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:31,880 He is in you. 823 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:38,000 The same one that the water flowed out of to feed the children of Israel lives in me. 824 00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:44,120 The same one that part of the Red Sea is in me and is in you. 825 00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:51,320 When we start to realise these things, think about these things, it lifts us from our, 826 00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:58,440 the scales from our eyes that were, from our earthly thinking to heavenly thinking, spiritual 827 00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:00,000 thinking if you like. 828 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:03,800 You see the Bible says that the spirit of Jesus is joined to your spirit. 829 00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:09,160 When we're born again, our spirit is joined to his spirit. 830 00:57:09,160 --> 00:57:10,160 1 Corinthians 6.17. 831 00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:15,320 And all that Jesus is, is joined to you, his character, his nature. 832 00:57:15,320 --> 00:57:16,320 It's in you. 833 00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:17,320 He is in you. 834 00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:18,320 He is in me. 835 00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:21,720 I don't have to go and find him. 836 00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:22,720 He is in me. 837 00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:30,400 I just need to realise that he is in me. 838 00:57:30,400 --> 00:57:41,680 1 John 2.27 says the anointing, the presence that empowered, that realised presence of 839 00:57:41,680 --> 00:57:44,120 God is in me stays there. 840 00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:45,120 It abides there. 841 00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:47,360 Friend, how do I do it? 842 00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:50,520 I need to hunger for his presence. 843 00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:52,840 Moses hungered for it. 844 00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:56,960 He said, God, we need you. 845 00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:58,560 If you're not going, I'm not going either. 846 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,400 God, I want your, show me your way. 847 00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:02,800 Show me how you think. 848 00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:04,060 Lord, show me. 849 00:58:04,060 --> 00:58:05,960 Can we talk to the Lord like that? 850 00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,760 Yes, we can. 851 00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,760 Yearn for it. 852 00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:12,760 Want it. 853 00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:13,760 Linger in it. 854 00:58:13,760 --> 00:58:20,840 Meet the wonder and that intimacy between you and God. 855 00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,680 That's the wonder of it all. 856 00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:28,160 That he would love us, that he would care for us, that he'd even want to live within 857 00:58:28,160 --> 00:58:29,160 us. 858 00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:32,720 That's the wonder of it. 859 00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:35,960 The presence of God. 860 00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:37,560 Wonderful thing. 861 00:58:37,560 --> 00:58:38,560 Wonderful thing. 862 00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:43,520 I trust that you would be encouraged today to take another step in that direction and 863 00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:47,640 let God be God in whatever way he needs to be for you. 864 00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:53,800 Father, we thank you for your presence and your blessing upon every person here today. 865 00:58:53,800 --> 00:59:01,600 I ask you, Lord, that you would just touch every heart, minister to every life, meet 866 00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:04,120 every need, Lord. 867 00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:05,880 Lift the burdens. 868 00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:08,040 Lift the heaviness. 869 00:59:08,040 --> 00:59:15,000 Father, release your presence more and more and ask God we desire to know you more and 870 00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:20,200 more. 871 00:59:20,200 --> 00:59:22,600 We love you, Lord. 872 00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:24,680 We love you. 873 00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:30,400 Help us, Lord, to be doers of the word not here is only. 874 00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:36,600 We ask your presence and linger with us in Jesus' name. 875 00:59:36,600 --> 00:59:41,040 Amen. 876 00:59:41,040 --> 00:59:42,540 Thank you for joining us. 877 00:59:42,540 --> 00:59:45,280 We pray God's richest blessing on your life. 878 00:59:45,280 --> 00:59:49,880 If you haven't already, make sure to join us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. 879 00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:53,560 You can also find us at 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