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Hi I'm Ryan, founder and pastor of Ocean Water. We install systems that turn ocean

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water into drinking water for small marginalized rural communities in the

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108 countries of the world that have direct ocean access. The water is

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distributed for free and the annual savings for the community goes towards

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empowering locals for their future. Now we do this while starting easy beach

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churches revolving mostly around reading the Bible together every day and eating

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a lot of food together. We would love for you to be involved so I'd like you to

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email me at ryan.oceanwater.gmail.com because I'd like to send you a

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free copy of a book I wrote called Ride for Water, the story of the time I wrote

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a hundred thousand miles through ten countries and help bring clean water to

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over a hundred thousand people. It's a fun read and it documents our beginnings

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here at Ocean Water. In the next 12 months we will go to El Salvador,

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Indonesia and Bangladesh and we want you to be on one of those trips with us. We'd

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love to have you come. Our objective is simple, it's disciples making disciples

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who plant churches that plant churches. Now today we're looking at Exodus chapter

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2 from our daily Bible reading plan. Let's read it together. It says, now a man

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of the tribe of Levi married a Levi woman and she became pregnant and gave

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birth to a son. When she saw that he was a fine child she hid him for three

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months but when she could hide him no longer she got a papyrus basket for him

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and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it

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among the reeds along the bank of the Nile. His sister stood at a distance to

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see what would happen to him. Then Pharaoh's daughter went down to the Nile

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to bathe and her attendants were walking along the riverbank. She saw the basket

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among the reeds and sent her female slaves to get it. She opened it, she saw

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the baby, he was crying and she felt sorry for him. She said, well this is one

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of the Hebrew babies. Then his sister asked Pharaoh's daughter, shall I go out

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and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for him? Yes, go she answered.

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So the girl went and got the baby's mother. Now Pharaoh's daughter said to her,

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take this baby and nurse him for me and I will pay you. So the woman took the

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baby and nursed him. When the child grew older she took him to Pharaoh's daughter

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and he became her son. She named him Moses saying, I drew him up out of the

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water. One day after Moses had grown up he went out to where his own

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people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a

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Hebrew, one of his own people. Looking this way and that, seeing no one, he killed

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the Egyptian and hit him in the sand. The next day he went and saw the two

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Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, why are you hitting your fellow

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Hebrew? And the man said, who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking

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of killing me as you killed the Egyptian? Then Moses was afraid and thought, what I

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did must have become known. When Pharaoh heard of this he tried to kill Moses. But

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Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian where he sat down by a well.

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Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came to draw water

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and fill the troughs to water their father's flock. Some shepherds came along

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and drove them away. But Moses got up, came to their rescue and watered their flock.

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When the girls returned to Ruel, their father, he asked them, why have you

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returned so early today? They answered, an Egyptian rescued us from the

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shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock. And where is he Ruel?

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Asked his daughters, why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.

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So Moses agreed to stay with the man who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in

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marriage. Zipporah gave birth to a son, Moses named him Gershom, saying, I have

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become a foreigner in a land. During that period the king of Egypt died. The

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Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out for help because their slavery

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went up to God. God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with

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Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. So God looked on the Israelites and was

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concerned about them. So let me give you some background. Exodus has been called

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the sequel to Genesis. In the book of Exodus nothing is commenced, nothing is

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finished. Exodus actually means a way out. Now the key verse of the whole book says,

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I am the Lord thy God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the

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house of slavery. Exodus 20 verse 2. Now Moses's life is divided into three parts,

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kind of three forty-year periods. The first is forty years in Pharaoh's

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palace, then forty years in the desert, then forty years in the wilderness as

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the leader of Israel. Now today we're gonna look at the very beginning of his

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life, the first forty years. Verses 1 through 4, Moses was a Levi both by

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father and mother. Now Jacob left Levi under the mark of disgrace and yet soon

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after Moses appears and descended from him, this tribe began to distinguish from

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the rest by the birth of Moses and afterwards it became remarkable in many

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other instances. So there's a newborn infant now he's hidden. It seems to have

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been at just that time that there was a cruel law that was passed about

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murdering all of the newborn baby children. Now observe the beauty of God's

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direction. Just at the time when Pharaoh's cruelty rose to the height a

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deliverer was born, though he didn't appear for many years. You see men have

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always predicted the ruin of the church but God's always been preparing its

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salvation. Moses is a type of this. Now God ordered that being afterwards told

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of this, he might be come to the deliverance and bring his brothers out of

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Egypt. Now I want you to note that God sometimes gives his gifts and manifests

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himself in those that he designs to do great things. He put an early strength

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into Samson, an early strength in Samuel, an early strength in David, an early

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leadership in Timothy. Now we can often see the signs of our leadership early on

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in our lives but faith needs encouragement. It needs favor. We need

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hints that God's actually working in our life. This is what he was doing with

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Moses. He was preparing Moses. He wanted Moses to fear him and not fear man. So

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God puts into his hearts these things to bring about his own purposes that Moses

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might be the means to bring his people out of the land of Egypt. So he prepares

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Moses by making him a part of Pharaoh's court. Now verses 5 through 10 he talks

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about that he'd been left there, that he'd been perished there. Then in a little time

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with hunger, if he had not been sooner washed into the river, he might have been

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devoured by a crocodile. Now God cares for us in our infancy to remind us that

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he's working for us later in our life. You see Moses was surrounded by a lot of

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peril but God also brought him out of much. God often raises up people even

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amongst their enemies. Now Pharaoh was seeking Egypt's destruction but God was

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preparing a deliverance. Now Moses was provided with a mom. Pharaoh's

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daughter became his mother. Now God often looks out for us in raising people up to

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help us. This is what's happening here. Many who seem by their birth marked for

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poverty, God can raise up and prosper them and actually prepare them to help

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be his hands and feet in the world. Those whom God designs for great service he

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often finds ways to qualify and prepare them for. Moses got his education in

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Pharaoh's court. He got his training in the best Egyptian schools. He learned how

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to serve and be a good employee under Pharaoh's care. He got his education there.

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These were all the early signs of something that God was going to prepare

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Pharaoh for. God was already laying the seeds of preparing Moses for what he was

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going to do in his life. Now the seeds of how God is going to use this is usually

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shown very early but it's only in looking back that we can see with

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clarity what God was up to. Now Pharaoh's daughter called him Moses, drawn up out

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of the water. This signifies this in Egyptian language, very strong. He was

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drawn out. He was a leader. Now Moses had passed the first 40 years of his life in

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the court of Pharaoh. He was preparing himself for business and now it's time

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for him to enter into action and he boldly owns and begins to lead God's

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people but he doesn't get off to a great start. Moses was grown when he went out

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to his brothers and he looked at their burdens. This really bothered him. It said

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that he had a holy contempt for the way that his people were being

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treated. So much so that he took a man's life. Now this is really an interesting

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passage. Why was Moses so quick to short-circuit everything that God was

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beginning to do in his life? Was it good that he saw his brothers and sisters in

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bondage? Yes. Was it poor that he acted impetuously and struck out at a man and

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caused it to take his life? Yes it is. Moses found himself under God's divine

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direction and impulse but he rushed in and made some wrong moves. He killed an

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Egyptian man, one of the taskmasters who he found abusing one of his fellow

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people. A man of the same tribe. Now this Egyptian was killed by Moses. Now

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Moses was only reprimanded really. So what's going on here? Well God's the

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ultimate judge. God always has all the facts. Justice will be distributed

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perfectly in heaven. On earth we have social justice. Sometimes we have no

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justice and sometimes we get justice right. But in heaven justice will be

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perfect. It's gonna be so refreshing and God will be able to have justice

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perfectly because he has all of the facts. Now later on this would come into

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play because Moses would experience God's grace and this would help him

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later on be gracious as a leader. We find in verse 16 Moses gains a settlement

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in Midian. The father of Jacob had gained one in Syria and again God was working

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through this situation. Events that would seem weird or accidental were

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actually designed by God in his wisdom and in his purpose to set Midian, Moses

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up to be the leader that God wanted him to be. Moses had some melancholy and some

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distress and was really confused but he rose up and he began to be the person

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that God wanted him to be. Now he loved justice and appearing in the defense of

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those that he sought injured which every man should do as it is in the power of

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his hand to do. He loved to be doing good. Wherever God puts us we should desire

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and endeavor to be useful and when we cannot do the good we should be ready to

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do the good that we can. And God is faithful when we're faithful in the

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little things God will help us be faithful over the big things. Now when

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the young women acquainted their father with the kindness that they have

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received from the stranger he sent them to invite them to his house and he made

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much of it. Now God will repay the kindness which were shown any time that

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we show it to others. God will never lose our reward. Now Moses soon recommended

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himself and received the favor of this prince in Midian who took him into his

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house and in the process at this time married one of his daughters by whom he

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had a son and he called him Gershom. He was a stranger there. Now if God would

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ever give us a home we should remember in the land that God has given it to us.

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Now this was a settlement in Midian. It was designed by God to shelter him for

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the present moment to do great things for him. God will often hide us in a

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place to prepare us for what he's going to be doing for us. Just because you're

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hidden doesn't mean that you're forgotten. It was also designed to prepare him for

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the future. He gave him a manner of life in Midian where he kept the flock of his

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father-in-law. This prepared him to be a shepherd over a large group of people and

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to toughen him up to hardship and poverty that he might know how to lead

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in a desert situation. So those God intends to exalt he first humbles to get

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complete devotion to him. Now Egypt accomplished in him the role of being a

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scholar and a gentleman and a statesman and a soldier because those were the

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qualities he was going to need to lead God's people in a desert. Now in verse

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23 the murdering of the infants did not continue. This part of the suffering was

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only for a period. It was connected with the birth of Moses and served to

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signalize it. Now the Egyptians were content with their increase. They were

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finding that Egypt was enriched by their labor so they might have had them for

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slaves. Now they were intent to keep them working in the land so much so that 70

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people entered in to the land of Egypt. Now they were swelled to two million

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people by most scholars study of this and so this created a problem. The people

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wanted out and so if ever there was a time when God wanted to deliver them it

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was now. God had began to hear their cry and that's how we kind of see this

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chapter wrapping up. So we can see God preparing Moses early on. We can see him

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testing his leadership and developing him and then he starts to see his moment

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of leadership that he's then gonna begin to step into. We all have a moment in our

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life that we step into. It's been said that you get to pick the furniture in

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your house but you don't get to pick your moment. This is certainly true of

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Moses. Now was it hard looking after sheep and Midian? Yes. But God was getting him

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ready to answer the afflictions that they were facing. Now the preface to

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their deliverance at last it says they cried and they began to think of God

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under their troubles and to return to him from the idols that they had served.

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Now they had worried they had been exposed to all of this and now they were

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finally ready to come and worship God after all of the slavery and the

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oppression that they had been experiencing. Now it's a good sign that

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God is coming with us and he's about to deliver us when we

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cry out to him. God heard the name of God here is different. It's with a focus that

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God was ready to move and God was ready to act. God had heard their groaning. He

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made it appear that he took notice of their complaints. There's not a complaint

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in our life that God doesn't hear and want to help us with but his timing is

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different than when we cry. We have to always trust God for his timing. So we

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can see God working in the life of Moses. We can see him preparing. We can see God

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getting ready to do things through Moses and we're gonna learn about this as we keep reading it into the rest of the book of Exodus.

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Now God was preparing him just like he's preparing us. Now God looked upon the

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children in Israel. Moses looked upon them and he pitied them but now God

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looked upon them and he helped them. God had respect for them, a favorable aspect

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towards them. The final repetition of the name of God here at the end of the

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chapter intimates that we're to expect something great when we cry out to God.

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Do you expect something great? I know I do. It's one of the reasons I pray. I

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believe that God's gonna hear me and answer my prayers. God wants to show

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himself strong on Moses's behalf and strong on our behalf. Now this concludes

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our time today in Exodus chapter 2. Now every time we finish I'd like to invite

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you to pray with us at the end. Would you pray with me right now? Would you just say

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God I ask that you help me to follow you today. That you'd help me to do your will

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for my life. That you would transform me into the person that you want me to

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become. I ask that you help me today. That you would forgive me of my sin. That you'd come

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into my heart. That you'd fill me with your spirit. In Jesus name, Amen.

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Now I want to thank you, our team of 15 people now that really helped run

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Ocean Water. On our website we have a 38 page business plan and a market

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analysis of the 108 countries. We have a link of over 2,000 future sites that

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we're praying for. When I started Ocean Water I knew that if we had a plan, we

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have a 38 page one, that if we had a great team and that if we ran a

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transparent organization that we would attract smart, generous, and capable

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people and we are. Now there's never been a better time to give through Ocean Water.

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We're doing our part. Would you do yours? Would you pray to God? Would you ask him

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what to give and then would you give it? Amen. Have a beautiful week.

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If you'd like more information about Ocean Water Church, how to join us on an upcoming

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trip, how to be part of one of our Clean Water projects, how to financially

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support our movement, or even information on how you can start an Ocean Water

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Church yourself, please look us up at OceanWater.com