1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,760 Hey everyone, this is Josh from Encounter Church Henley and thanks so much for tuning 2 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:17,000 into our podcast. 3 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,680 Our prayer is that through this podcast you can have an encounter with Jesus that will 4 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:22,800 change your life. 5 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:27,200 And now get ready for an inspiring message from our preaching team. 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:31,760 Hey, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Tex, I'm one of the pastors here 7 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,040 at Encounter Henley. 8 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:37,280 And the funny thing is less than six months ago is when I officially kind of stepped into 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,240 being a pastor and stepped into ministry. 10 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,560 I didn't really mean to either if I'm being completely honest with you. 11 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:49,240 I was a Christian, which is like a great start I think if you're going to go into ministry. 12 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:55,520 I was super heavily involved in our home church and counter prospect. 13 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:59,080 But honestly at 40 years old, I know some of you are like that old. 14 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:00,080 Yes. 15 00:01:00,080 --> 00:01:01,080 And some of you are going not that old. 16 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:06,560 At 40 years old, I honestly, I just didn't see this change of script coming in my life. 17 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:08,440 It seemed pretty inconceivable. 18 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,160 And for those who don't know me or kind of know bits and pieces, but not the whole bit, 19 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:16,800 I'll just give like the 30 second testimony, the 30 second rundown of kind of me and my 20 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:17,800 background. 21 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,760 I was an atheist until I was 34 years old. 22 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,520 I was led to church by my now eight year old, by my then eight year old daughter who's now 23 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,560 14 and actually helping out in kids. 24 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:35,400 I was lovingly supported and allowed to slowly find my way in faith by my wife, who had kind 25 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,840 of already made a little bit more progress than I had, but was just super do per patient 26 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:41,840 with me while I got there. 27 00:01:41,840 --> 00:01:44,280 And there we go. 28 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,040 She's not even in the room today, but she'll appreciate the clap. 29 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,440 I accepted Christ as my Lord and Savior at 34. 30 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:52,480 I was baptized at 35. 31 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:57,800 And then I spent the next four years running as far away from ministry as I could, as quickly 32 00:01:57,800 --> 00:01:59,160 as I could. 33 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:02,680 And then I became a pastor at 40 years. 34 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:05,640 So like the secrets of the ending is right there if I'm being honest with you. 35 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:13,040 So I, I, it sounds like a weird thing to say, but like I really quite like those bits of 36 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:14,920 my story. 37 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:19,000 Even that really a bridge version, because to me, what it is, is it's less about me and 38 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,240 it's more about, it acts as a real testimony to God's grace and God's faith when asking 39 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:24,240 God's patients. 40 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,640 It's nothing about me. 41 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:30,600 If I, if you'd asked me 10 years ago where I would be today, I promise you this wouldn't 42 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:32,760 have been the answer. 43 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,080 Lucky for me, God know a little bit better than I did. 44 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:40,080 So I think what this story though really also speaks into is that as people, we quite often 45 00:02:40,080 --> 00:02:43,320 are looking for reasons to say no. 46 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:45,200 God is looking for reasons to say yes. 47 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:47,400 And we are looking for reasons to say no. 48 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:53,640 We quite often view the word why through the prism of why not, not often looking for actually 49 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:59,080 the, the good things that can come out of asking questions like why we just refer to that negative 50 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:00,560 so often. 51 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,400 So while we're a real church, I'll, I'll get real for a sec. 52 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,200 Because when I say I ran away from ministry, that's just a really kind flowery way of saying 53 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:09,880 I was being a bit of a coward. 54 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:14,560 And I was just making heaps of excuses as to why it was not the way to go, why I shouldn't 55 00:03:14,560 --> 00:03:15,560 do it. 56 00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:19,200 And some of the reasons why I was wrong for it, why I was unequipped for it. 57 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,200 Some of those include I've never been to college to study theology. 58 00:03:23,200 --> 00:03:27,040 Some of you are like, yeah, we know. 59 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:30,960 There are children in our kids' min right now who probably have more Bible verses memorized 60 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:32,880 than I do. 61 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:38,160 My past includes regular abuse of both alcohol and drugs. 62 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:39,520 I've been a gossip. 63 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:46,840 I've been someone who idolized money, idolized power. 64 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,480 Pretty much if you make the list of things that you kind of think will remove you from 65 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:55,720 the ability to stand on a platform like this one and talk about the Word of God, I've lived 66 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:56,720 that life. 67 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:57,720 Like I did that. 68 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:03,160 I put those things well above and beyond what I choose to now put my faith in. 69 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,200 And that list as a result sometimes just kind of felt endless. 70 00:04:06,200 --> 00:04:12,600 When I look back now, I thought that each and every one of those things on their own 71 00:04:12,600 --> 00:04:17,760 was the reason that I couldn't step into ministry. 72 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:22,120 And then when I stacked them all on top of each other, it just started to look like this 73 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:24,200 beanstalk that descended into the clouds. 74 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:26,760 And I went, well, that's going to be far too hard to climb. 75 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:31,160 That's going to be unreasonable. 76 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,000 I never thought I'd get there. 77 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:38,360 So there's some good news, which is though the more that I read the Bible and the more 78 00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:41,920 that I pushed into Jesus and the more that I looked at these things and tried to look 79 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,320 at them as objectively as possible, the more I realized that the Bible was just completely 80 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:51,320 full of just damaged and broken men and women. 81 00:04:51,320 --> 00:04:57,400 That it wasn't always, very rarely, these shining examples of like that is the person 82 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:02,240 you should follow, that God was equipping to step into these spaces. 83 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:08,080 And it kind of gave me this real comfort and gave me this realization to go like, actually, 84 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:11,920 each of these completely broken people were redeemed by God's grace and God's love. 85 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,320 And if they can be redeemed by God's grace and God's love, so can I. 86 00:05:16,320 --> 00:05:20,920 So I found the more I pursued Jesus, the closer he pulled me in. 87 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:25,080 So welcome to church. 88 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,840 Today is the first day in a new series we're doing called called. 89 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:34,600 And I keep on saying called called and it is not getting any easier or better or more 90 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:35,600 effective. 91 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:41,240 So the series we're starting today entitled, hey, yeah, entitled called today is called 92 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:46,920 but unequipped, which as you can see before, I feel like I'm pretty good to speak into. 93 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:48,560 It's a four week series. 94 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:52,280 If you are someone who is new or you're someone who's been a little bit intermittent, you're 95 00:05:52,280 --> 00:05:56,160 going to hear us say this a lot, but please hang around for the four, hang around for 96 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:57,160 all four. 97 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,560 You're going to hear me preach, you're going to hear Pastor Tim speak into it. 98 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,160 You're going to hear Cara, the aforementioned Cara before is going to speak into it. 99 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,720 So you're going to get really good perspective of different people and different viewpoints 100 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:07,720 in our church. 101 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:09,200 And I just think it would be really beneficial. 102 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:10,360 Come and hang out with us. 103 00:06:10,360 --> 00:06:13,240 Come and listen for four weeks and see how it all sits. 104 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:17,480 So as we return to today's teaching text, really what we're entering into is in the 105 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,960 middle of a period of time where God's kind of decided he's seen enough pain and suffering. 106 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:26,840 So it's time his people have been imprisoned as slaves in Egypt and he's decided you know 107 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:27,840 what, enough. 108 00:06:27,840 --> 00:06:32,200 It's actually time for a change and he needs someone to partner with in that moment and 109 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:33,720 he chooses Moses. 110 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:38,360 And the good news is Moses looks at that and goes, this is awesome. 111 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:39,560 I am ready to go. 112 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:40,560 I'm pumped. 113 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:41,560 I'm hyped. 114 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:42,560 Let's get going. 115 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:44,160 I'm running into Egypt straight away. 116 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,320 Or he does the opposite of that. 117 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:52,120 And what he does is he goes, oh, hang on God. 118 00:06:52,120 --> 00:06:57,720 Or counterpoint, what if I give you all the reasons that I shouldn't do this? 119 00:06:57,720 --> 00:07:00,000 What if I just begin to list those one by one? 120 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,960 He's like, look, I'm not your guy. 121 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:07,040 I have never read a single Pete's, Pete's Kazeero book on healthy leadership. 122 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,040 Never done it. 123 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:09,040 Right. 124 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:11,160 He's like, I've never been to theology college. 125 00:07:11,160 --> 00:07:12,160 Let's go Moses. 126 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,640 I've never done an internship. 127 00:07:14,640 --> 00:07:17,800 I've never even listened to a John Mark Comer podcast. 128 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:21,440 Like how could I possibly lead anybody out of Egypt? 129 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:23,440 What are you thinking? 130 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:28,560 We find as part of this, when you go back and read through that there's actually five different 131 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,880 ways that Moses pushes back on God during this. 132 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:38,920 And we're going to call those the five butts of Moses with one T. Boy, did I spell check 133 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:40,320 that slide a few times. 134 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:41,320 Let's go. 135 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:42,320 Okay. 136 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:44,480 So the first was, but who am I? 137 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,600 The second, but who are you? 138 00:07:46,600 --> 00:07:49,800 The third, but they won't trust or listen to me. 139 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:52,760 The fourth is, but I'm not a good public speaker. 140 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,360 And then the fifth is just kind of a little bit sad if I'm being honest. 141 00:07:55,360 --> 00:08:00,880 And he says, but, you know, it just send anybody else. 142 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,400 So the first, he says, but who am I? 143 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,400 But Moses said to God, who am I to appeal, appear before Pharaoh? 144 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,680 Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt? 145 00:08:11,680 --> 00:08:16,920 Now the funny thing is, you hear that and then you go, yeah, why are you Moses? 146 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,560 I don't know, we'll start with someone that God has chosen to interact with directly. 147 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:24,920 Like if I were Moses, I would think that would give me a little confidence boost to begin 148 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:26,800 with, not so much. 149 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:30,680 He immediately just goes into this like, Hey, here's my why not. 150 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:31,880 Here's why I can't do this. 151 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:33,160 Here's why I'm not your guy. 152 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:35,880 And then I mean, some of them feel pretty convincing. 153 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,440 Some of them for the first one, he's going, look, man, he, Moses was born into a time 154 00:08:39,440 --> 00:08:41,520 of genocide, right? 155 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,240 His people were the victims, not the perpetrators, if that's helpful, just putting that out 156 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:46,240 there. 157 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:47,960 Moses was a foster child. 158 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:49,200 He was a murderer. 159 00:08:49,200 --> 00:08:50,600 He was a runaway. 160 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,760 And at the time that God was speaking to him, he had chosen to reach out to Moses. 161 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:56,720 Moses was 80 years old. 162 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:02,560 And you can imagine why at that point that Moses has probably gone like, that's it. 163 00:09:02,560 --> 00:09:05,480 Like my life, my script is actually already written. 164 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,680 Like I've done the things that I'm going to do. 165 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:08,680 There's no more for me. 166 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:10,480 And you're probably with some of these context. 167 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:11,960 These are kind of silly. 168 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:16,320 Like some of these seem like not the best reasons to say no in this moment. 169 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:19,160 And you might, you know, you might be going, okay, murder, I'll give you that. 170 00:09:19,160 --> 00:09:20,160 Right? 171 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:22,920 But the other ones don't seem so bad. 172 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:26,840 And you're saying, why should any of these exclude Moses from being part of God's plan? 173 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:28,080 And here's the spoiler. 174 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:30,140 Like they shouldn't. 175 00:09:30,140 --> 00:09:34,080 And the truth is, even though it's the one that makes us feel a bit icky, is murderers 176 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,440 on that list, by the way, none of these things should remove Moses from the ability to be 177 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:41,680 part of God's plan. 178 00:09:41,680 --> 00:09:48,160 The truth is that our stories and our histories and the lies that we tell ourselves always, 179 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,280 always enter into the equation when we're in the decision making process with anything, 180 00:09:52,280 --> 00:09:54,560 especially when it's something hard. 181 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:57,960 Or when we're facing something we just simply don't think we're worthy of. 182 00:09:57,960 --> 00:09:59,160 Look at Moses list. 183 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,200 You can refer back to my list up above before. 184 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,120 It's easy to do. 185 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:08,000 So when he's asking God this really simple, who am I? 186 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,400 He's no doubt letting each of these doubts, these concerns, these insecurities, that's 187 00:10:11,400 --> 00:10:15,560 where this is coming from. 188 00:10:15,560 --> 00:10:20,080 Then he comes into a second point, the second bud of Moses, but who are you? 189 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:23,800 Now I'm choosing to be gracious with Moses here and I don't think this is a sassy like 190 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:25,840 who do you think you are? 191 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:31,560 What he's doing is going, you've got to remember Moses at this point is saying, I am not confident. 192 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:33,880 I am not 100% here. 193 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:35,320 I need something else. 194 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:37,360 I need you to tell me, what do I tell them? 195 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:38,880 Who is it that sent me? 196 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,200 He's just looking for backup. 197 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:42,760 He's looking for something surefire. 198 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,200 He wants that bullet in the chamber. 199 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:49,240 God, because he's God, doesn't share the same lack of confidence. 200 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,120 This is one of my favorite things in the Bible. 201 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,400 He literally just goes, I am who I am. 202 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,840 Tell them I am sent you. 203 00:10:56,840 --> 00:10:57,840 Whoo. 204 00:10:57,840 --> 00:10:59,440 No lack of confidence there. 205 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:00,440 That is amazing. 206 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:05,400 So God in this moment is both declaring to Moses like, I am who I say I am. 207 00:11:05,400 --> 00:11:11,240 But he's also putting it into language that at the time that the Hebrews and the pharaohs 208 00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:12,240 will understand. 209 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,000 Because during this time, there are actually a lot of different gods. 210 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:19,400 People were praying to anyone for anything. 211 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:23,280 You had gods of sex, gods of virtue, gods of cakes, gods of basket weaving. 212 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,480 Like you had gods for everything. 213 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:27,760 And in this moment, God's saying, hey, guess what? 214 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:29,920 I am God. 215 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,760 I am the one true God. 216 00:11:31,760 --> 00:11:36,040 God's saying, Yahweh literally means, translates to, I am. 217 00:11:36,040 --> 00:11:38,160 God is saying, you cannot minimize me in this moment. 218 00:11:38,160 --> 00:11:40,360 You cannot put me into one of these other boxes. 219 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:41,520 I am the box. 220 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:42,520 Right? 221 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,240 That's who sent you. 222 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,240 So I'm the God of Jacob. 223 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:46,240 I'm the God of David. 224 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:48,200 I'm the God of your ancestors. 225 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:49,200 That's who sent you. 226 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:53,800 Now, I'm sure again in this moment, when a burning bush with the voice of God is speaking 227 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,000 to you, I am probably sounds pretty hardcore. 228 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:58,640 That probably sounds pretty good. 229 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,600 Pretty hard not to be confident in that. 230 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:03,400 And Moses is like, yeah, right on. 231 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:04,400 But wait a minute. 232 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,400 It will be me saying this, not you. 233 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:14,840 And still he kind of slinks back into a little bit of uncertainty. 234 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:16,160 Like but what, but what though? 235 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,680 What when it's me, which leads into his third, which is, but they won't trust me. 236 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:22,840 They won't listen to me. 237 00:12:22,840 --> 00:12:24,440 God's pretty awesome in this, in this moment. 238 00:12:24,440 --> 00:12:25,440 God's pretty awesome in general. 239 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:26,440 We'll just go with that. 240 00:12:26,440 --> 00:12:30,120 But in this moment in particular, I love how God responds. 241 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:33,080 He recognizes it and he kind of almost goes like, yeah, I get it. 242 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,560 Like physical something you can feel, you can see, you can touch that'll probably be 243 00:12:37,560 --> 00:12:38,560 pretty helpful. 244 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:44,880 So he immediately begins to do two amazing like acts of miracle. 245 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:45,880 Really. 246 00:12:45,880 --> 00:12:48,640 He tells Moses, throw your, throw your staff onto the floor. 247 00:12:48,640 --> 00:12:49,640 And he does. 248 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:52,080 Well, Moses being obedient to that exact moment. 249 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:53,080 That's a good start. 250 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:54,080 Right. 251 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:55,080 So Moses throws his staff onto the floor. 252 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,120 God immediately turns it into a snake and then turns it back again. 253 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,640 Then he says, Hey, Moses, do me a favor to slip your hand into your robe. 254 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:03,640 Moses goes, I can do that. 255 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:05,320 And he slips his hand into his robe and he pulls it out. 256 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:06,320 He has leprosy. 257 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:08,760 And then God goes, just do me a favor, slide it back in there. 258 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:09,760 And he does that. 259 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:10,760 I'm paraphrasing, of course. 260 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,480 I don't think God's doing like do me a favor. 261 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:13,480 Right. 262 00:13:13,480 --> 00:13:16,040 So he paraphrases, he slides the hand back into the robe, pulls it out again. 263 00:13:16,040 --> 00:13:17,040 The hand is healed. 264 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:18,040 Right. 265 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:22,080 So what he's done in this moment very quickly. 266 00:13:22,080 --> 00:13:24,200 God has gone. 267 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,680 If I can show you, I can show them. 268 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:27,840 So he's giving him the confidence. 269 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,560 Like I'm telling you who you are. 270 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:31,000 I'm telling you who I am. 271 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,760 And if those aren't enough, I will allow you to show people that I am with you. 272 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:36,760 Right. 273 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:37,760 So these are pretty cool. 274 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:39,680 These are two signs. 275 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:42,160 And then he offers the assurance of a third. 276 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:48,320 And he says, if they don't believe you or listen to you, even after these two signs, 277 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:52,000 then take some water from the Nile River and pour it on the dry ground. 278 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:57,320 And when you do the water from the Nile will turn to blood on the ground. 279 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,480 Now this is one of those moments where it's actually pretty easy to miss. 280 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:00,480 There's a pinnacle word in here. 281 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,200 I talked a couple of weeks ago about how important one word can be. 282 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,560 And the word I want you to focus on in this moment is you. 283 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:07,560 Right. 284 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:13,120 Because what he's saying in this is if you don't feel confident in this moment, that's 285 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:14,120 okay. 286 00:14:14,120 --> 00:14:19,040 Because when it comes to time, when it comes to the really important time, you are going 287 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:20,040 to do this. 288 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:21,880 The other two goddess said, I'm going to do this. 289 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:26,400 When it comes to this miracle of turning water from the Nile into blood on the ground, God's 290 00:14:26,400 --> 00:14:28,120 like, you're going to do it. 291 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,120 I'm going to do it through you, but you're going to do it. 292 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:33,400 And this is a beautiful concession by God. 293 00:14:33,400 --> 00:14:38,680 It's a promise that he is working not just with Moses, but that God is working through 294 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:40,180 Moses. 295 00:14:40,180 --> 00:14:44,240 It's a confirmation of everything he's promised up until now. 296 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:49,720 Like, hey, reminder, you don't actually have to do anything because I'm doing it. 297 00:14:49,720 --> 00:14:54,920 You just so happen to be the guy who I'm doing it through. 298 00:14:54,920 --> 00:15:01,320 Which leads us to our fourth, which is, but I'm just not a good public speaker. 299 00:15:01,320 --> 00:15:04,560 Now this one speaks to me on a few different levels. 300 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:09,160 Personally, not because it's like, I'm not a good public speaker, although some of you 301 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,120 have, feel free to agree with that part. 302 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:17,200 It's the next part in which Moses is still pretty certain that to convince the Pharaoh 303 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,360 and to convince the Israelites themselves to leave Egypt, to go on a certain journey, 304 00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,400 that it's going to come down to him. 305 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:31,120 Moses is still, despite everything else we've heard, is like, hey, it's going to be my confidence. 306 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:32,520 It's going to be my turn of phrase. 307 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:35,320 It's going to be my words that are going to make this happen. 308 00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:38,640 There's still that playing in the back of his brain. 309 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:42,440 And then God goes, God's getting pretty heavy-headed with this stuff now in this interaction. 310 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,200 And he's like, hey, just who makes a person's mouth? 311 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:52,920 Who decides what people will see, what they'll hear, what they'll believe? 312 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:54,160 The answer is God. 313 00:15:54,160 --> 00:16:00,440 God is again just kind of pushing back and like, you're not quite getting it yet. 314 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:04,080 It's me, not you. 315 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,720 And he starts to get a little bit annoyed, which I think is pretty fair. 316 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:16,400 He's like, I am telling you, I am affirming you, I am showing you, and still, Moses, 317 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,200 like still, we're still doing this. 318 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,160 He can't be more explicit than he's been. 319 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,920 This isn't just your story, Moses. 320 00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:28,560 This is Moses' story and God's story. 321 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:29,720 Okay? 322 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,400 There is no just you in this. 323 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:43,000 There is me inviting you into this incredible story of hope and redemption and salvation. 324 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:45,240 Yet Moses continues to make excuses. 325 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:49,760 He continues to claim, hey, man, I'm just not your guy. 326 00:16:49,760 --> 00:16:53,880 And that culminates in the fifth one, which is let's face it, it's the weakest one of 327 00:16:53,880 --> 00:17:01,360 all, which is just, hey, cool, thanks, just do me a favor, but just send anybody else. 328 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,320 Not like find somebody good. 329 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,120 Not find someone exceptional. 330 00:17:06,120 --> 00:17:07,960 Moses at this point doesn't care. 331 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:12,440 It's like just as long as it's not me, right? 332 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:13,480 It's wild. 333 00:17:13,480 --> 00:17:20,560 And this is really like a pretty sad conclusion because despite God's best efforts, he's using 334 00:17:20,560 --> 00:17:21,560 his literal voice. 335 00:17:21,560 --> 00:17:22,640 He's giving him assurances. 336 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:24,760 He's giving him signs and wonders. 337 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:30,760 And Moses in this moment is still just like, I'm not so sure. 338 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:34,320 And it's one of these things that I almost pity Moses a little bit in this, because 339 00:17:34,320 --> 00:17:40,880 just imagine, imagine how strong his own lack of confidence and how much his self doubt 340 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:48,200 must be just bubbling away within him to have God do all of this and still want to respond 341 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:55,920 with like, nah, just you need to send somebody else. 342 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:02,400 My real response is it's a little bit pathetic, but it's desperately relatable. 343 00:18:02,400 --> 00:18:08,400 Because there's always reasons for our pushback. 344 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:13,040 There's doubt, there's uncertainties, there's this broken belief that I believe most of 345 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:20,360 us carry, which is what we've done and who we've been in our past somehow negates who 346 00:18:20,360 --> 00:18:25,440 it is that we can and will become in the future. 347 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:30,080 The most important truth that Moses thought he knew, and this will give you that better 348 00:18:30,080 --> 00:18:35,360 context again, he was convinced, if I go back to Egypt, I am going to be killed. 349 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:39,000 I am a murderer that fled the scene of the crime. 350 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:43,200 If I come back, I fled the Pharaoh's house, I am going to be killed. 351 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:48,200 What he's really saying is like, God, I really, really, really need to know that you've got 352 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:53,840 my back on this one. 353 00:18:53,840 --> 00:18:58,440 And I think part of the reason that he's still feeling this doubt, you're like, are you sure 354 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:00,000 like you need a real reason text? 355 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:06,320 Like God's given him a bunch of assurances over here. 356 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:10,720 The truth is to me, those assurances is that Moses just wasn't looking hard enough. 357 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:14,280 Because I think even with all those obvious ones, we have this tendency to forget the 358 00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:18,440 places where God has already been working in our lives. 359 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:22,880 Because it's true that Moses was born in a time of great persecution of his people. 360 00:19:22,880 --> 00:19:28,320 At the time of his birth, the Pharaoh had literally ordered that all first born male 361 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,680 babies were to be just thrown into the Nile River and drowned. 362 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:32,680 Gone completely. 363 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:37,720 This is 80 years on, not Moses, right? 364 00:19:37,720 --> 00:19:40,600 Moses was hidden and kept under God's protection. 365 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:41,600 He survived. 366 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:46,040 Now, I don't know if many of you know this. 367 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:50,360 Babies cry a lot. 368 00:19:50,360 --> 00:19:55,840 For three months, his mother was able to keep him completely hidden from guards from anybody 369 00:19:55,840 --> 00:19:57,840 that may have been out looking for these babies. 370 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:01,600 But how is it that Moses was able to still push through all that, that he was able to 371 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,800 be kept safe, that his cries would stop when the guards came to visit? 372 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,920 How is that possible? 373 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:12,080 And it's true he was a foster child. 374 00:20:12,080 --> 00:20:16,120 When his mother no longer felt like she could keep him concealed, she made a, you know, 375 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:18,600 we've all seen the story, we've all heard it, you know, she makes the basket of reason 376 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:20,200 and she sends him down the Nile. 377 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:21,200 And he's found by someone. 378 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:22,600 Now, who's he found by? 379 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,000 He's found by the Pharaoh's daughter. 380 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:30,000 This is the same Pharaoh that has ordered all these babies should be killed. 381 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:34,920 And she doesn't pick up the baby and go back in the Nile with you, no basket for you. 382 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,120 She's like, no, no, I'm going to raise this child as my own. 383 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:43,800 And she says, I'm going to take care of this baby and I'm going to look after him. 384 00:20:43,800 --> 00:20:46,840 She recognizes, by the way, his origin. 385 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:51,280 She recognizes where he's come from, not specifically, but she knows this baby is not 386 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:52,280 meant to be. 387 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:53,280 And she says, I will take him on board. 388 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,280 I will raise him as my own. 389 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:59,680 But of course, you know, she's not given birth to this baby. 390 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:04,920 She needs a wet nurse to look after this baby and who gets selected to be Moses Wet Nurse, 391 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:06,420 his own mother. 392 00:21:06,420 --> 00:21:09,240 So even despite this, he's had to be sent away from home. 393 00:21:09,240 --> 00:21:11,200 He's been adopted by somebody else. 394 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:15,240 And then it's still his own mother is brought in to take care of him. 395 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:16,880 And now it's true also that he was a murderer. 396 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,160 I can't actually skate over this one. 397 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:25,240 Just living in Egypt, living in the Pharaoh's palace, he sees an Egyptian guard attacking 398 00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,800 a slave and an adjustable fit of anger. 399 00:21:28,800 --> 00:21:31,200 Moses just kills the Egyptian. 400 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:32,880 And in the moment, completely fine. 401 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:33,880 Nobody sees anything. 402 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,560 And then the next day, it's actually his own people. 403 00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:36,760 Somebody sees him and they call him out. 404 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:38,440 And they're like, aren't you the guy who murdered someone? 405 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:40,720 Maybe you don't tell me how to do my thing over here. 406 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:46,080 So Moses, though, he escapes. 407 00:21:46,080 --> 00:21:47,640 And he's able to run away. 408 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:51,080 He's able to live another day. 409 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,560 And he's an 80 year old man and he's assuming that his best is behind him and he's failing 410 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:55,560 to see his own worth. 411 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:59,560 He fails to see what could live ahead of him still because he's believing the narrative. 412 00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,800 And let's go ahead and say at the lie that because of this, because of that, he's just 413 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:04,800 list them all together. 414 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,400 And the final was just like, I'm 80 years old. 415 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:07,720 I'm an old man. 416 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:08,720 I'm done. 417 00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:09,920 Nothing left for me. 418 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,760 And God's like, that is 100% not true. 419 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:16,200 Moses is constantly pushing back and back against God. 420 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,080 He's giving him all the reasons he can. 421 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:19,880 He can to not do this. 422 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:21,680 But hear this. 423 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,800 It's easy to miss. 424 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:28,560 Not once does God agree with Moses. 425 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,920 Moses is pushing back against God over and over and over again. 426 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,120 And not once does God entertain any of these doubts. 427 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:35,120 He provides solutions. 428 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:37,840 He provides assurances, options, support. 429 00:22:37,840 --> 00:22:38,840 Have your brother come along. 430 00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:39,840 I'm going to do this. 431 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:40,840 I'm going to do that. 432 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:41,840 He's doing all of that. 433 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:43,600 And not once does God go, you know what? 434 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:44,600 You're right. 435 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:45,600 Actually, I'm going to get somebody else. 436 00:22:45,600 --> 00:22:46,600 You know, there is a little bit of God around us. 437 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:47,600 We are too hard. 438 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,400 I'm sure there was a little bit of God. 439 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,440 At some point, it was like, I'm not. 440 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:55,080 We just, we did the stick thing, like we've made the snake. 441 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:59,800 What do you need, man? 442 00:22:59,800 --> 00:23:00,800 You know, but he doesn't. 443 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:05,840 At no point does he look to give up on Moses despite the fact that Moses is willing to give 444 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,480 up. 445 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:10,360 All of his responses are all but imploring Moses. 446 00:23:10,360 --> 00:23:15,120 Like, why can't you see you the way that I see you? 447 00:23:15,120 --> 00:23:17,120 Why don't you believe me? 448 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:19,120 What do I have to do to get you to trust me? 449 00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:23,500 With fear and doubt in his heart, 450 00:23:23,500 --> 00:23:26,660 Moses is ready to give up on God's mission, but not God. 451 00:23:26,660 --> 00:23:28,360 He is not ready to give up on Moses. 452 00:23:29,900 --> 00:23:31,740 Now truth be told, I knew for a while 453 00:23:31,740 --> 00:23:33,280 that God had a call on my life. 454 00:23:35,220 --> 00:23:39,280 I knew that this church, this plant, this encounter church, 455 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:41,480 I knew that this was where I was meant to be. 456 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,040 And I knew that he had plans for me. 457 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:47,200 I couldn't comprehend and I fought really hard against it. 458 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:48,040 And why? 459 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:54,080 Truth be told is I just didn't like the man that I used to be. 460 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,440 And I thought that, that was it. 461 00:23:58,440 --> 00:23:59,440 That was my story. 462 00:24:00,780 --> 00:24:02,400 Truth be told sometimes. 463 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:03,540 I think this is people again. 464 00:24:03,540 --> 00:24:06,700 I don't always love the guy that I am right now. 465 00:24:06,700 --> 00:24:08,400 I thought maybe that'll exclude me. 466 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:13,000 No difference Moses, probably no different to you. 467 00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:18,280 The truth is that God has never, ever faltered. 468 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:19,360 God never wavered. 469 00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:22,720 God has always had a plan for me 470 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,800 as he has always had a plan for you. 471 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,040 He has always loved me as he has always loved you. 472 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,400 Now it's impossible in this moment for me to not be drawn. 473 00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:34,520 You always think about this stuff 474 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:36,160 and not to be drawn to Jesus 475 00:24:36,160 --> 00:24:39,480 and not to be drawn to his own response to God's call 476 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:41,480 as he prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane. 477 00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:45,720 As he said, my father, if it is possible, 478 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,840 let this cup of suffering be taken away from me. 479 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,920 Yet I want your will to be done, not mine. 480 00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:54,400 Now Moses thought that should he return to Egypt, 481 00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:55,400 he would be killed. 482 00:24:56,480 --> 00:25:00,840 Jesus knew that by following God's call, 483 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:06,360 he was going to a painful execution on the cross. 484 00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:10,200 His response, Moses' response is, 485 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,160 do something with anybody else. 486 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:16,600 And Jesus' response is, father, not my will but yours. 487 00:25:18,880 --> 00:25:22,040 The calling that God places on our life 488 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:26,360 is not our calling to control, it's God's. 489 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:28,240 Right? 490 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:30,960 None of us are worthy. 491 00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:33,560 None of us. 492 00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:36,760 We all fall short of the grace and the glory of God, 493 00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:38,640 every single one of us. 494 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,000 I'm pointing to me first, okay? 495 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:41,760 So don't worry about that. 496 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:42,880 But here's what I need to tell you 497 00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:45,880 is that that does not exclude us 498 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:48,720 from God's mission nor his vision. 499 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:51,760 Our God is a redeeming God. 500 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:55,440 Now here's the fun part. 501 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,160 We live, as we read the Bible, 502 00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,720 we actually get to live with the benefit of hindsight. 503 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:03,480 So we know that Moses eventually said, 504 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:05,120 all right God, I'll be your guy. 505 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:07,400 What happened? 506 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,440 He freed his people by responding to that call. 507 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:15,240 Moses, God through Moses freed these people 508 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,560 from a life of slavery with God's call, 509 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,280 with God's power, with his discernment, 510 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:27,280 with his willingness to say yes, there was victory. 511 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,600 Jesus won, not the battle. 512 00:26:32,600 --> 00:26:34,000 Jesus was crucified on the cross. 513 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,480 We know that's why we're here. 514 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,520 But Jesus won, conquered death. 515 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:42,680 As a result, we all win. 516 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,840 Not because Jesus avoided pain or hurt 517 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:47,440 or avoided crucifixion, 518 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,440 but because he put his full trust 519 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:52,720 and his full obedience into the call of God. 520 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:53,720 That's how we won. 521 00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,400 And he won a victory that we couldn't 522 00:26:57,400 --> 00:26:58,920 have possibly won on our own. 523 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,040 Why? 524 00:27:03,040 --> 00:27:04,760 Reiterate, because it's the most important thing 525 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:05,800 I'm gonna say all day. 526 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:07,720 Because in his moment of greatest doubt 527 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:09,520 and greatest weakness, 528 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,040 Jesus simply said, father, not my will, but yours. 529 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:17,960 As we come to a close and band, 530 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,280 I'd love it if you could come back up. 531 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:25,480 I really do wonder, church, what are the doubts? 532 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:27,320 What are the buts? 533 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,240 What are the question marks you've put on your life? 534 00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:30,520 What are the things in your past 535 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,040 that you've convinced yourself mean that you are excluded? 536 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,360 That God can't, what does it you think? 537 00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:38,600 God can't fix this. 538 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:39,680 Yeah, he can do that. 539 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:41,840 And I'm glad he did all that stuff with UTex. 540 00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:43,720 And I'm glad he was able to get through to Moses, 541 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:44,560 but not me. 542 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:46,240 He can't get through to me. 543 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:47,960 What are those things? 544 00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,640 Because again, church, hear me when I say and reassure you, 545 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:55,640 God can and will fix and change and redeem everything. 546 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,080 Your story is redeemable. 547 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,280 Your history, your past is not exclusionary. 548 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,760 It is the way that God will work through you moving forward. 549 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:10,560 So as we come to a close, I'm gonna say this, 550 00:28:10,560 --> 00:28:12,320 we're gonna come into a time now of response. 551 00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:14,200 The band's gonna play. 552 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,680 We're gonna have a couple of people up the front here 553 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,000 to pray if you'd love some prayer, 554 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,600 we would love to pray for you. 555 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,400 Think about those buts. 556 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,720 Think about those things that you think exclude you 557 00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:26,400 and take it to Him. 558 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:27,280 Take it to Jesus. 559 00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,040 Take it all to Him and speak, 560 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:32,520 but then you have to listen. 561 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,360 You have to be willing to listen. 562 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,200 And whatever it is that you might hear, 563 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,360 I pray that you have the strength 564 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:46,480 to make your only response in that moment. 565 00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:48,800 Father, not my will but yours. 566 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:53,760 Heavenly Father, we are just so thankful 567 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:56,200 that we have a God that redeems us. 568 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:57,880 We are so thankful that we have a God 569 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:00,720 that never looks at our past and says, not you, 570 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,120 but he looks at our future and says, yes, you. 571 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:06,160 And he is able to see the inner workings of us 572 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,560 that you know it all already, Father. 573 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,240 There is no secrets from you. 574 00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,600 There is nothing we can hide from you. 575 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,000 All we can do is reveal it to you and say, God, use me. 576 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,880 Father, not my will but yours. 577 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:23,120 And as a result, we will bring this to you 578 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,760 at time and time again, Father. 579 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:27,200 Thank you. 580 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,520 Your heavenly name, we pray. 581 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:41,360 Amen.