1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,580 (upbeat music) 2 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:08,300 - Just real quick, because I don't wanna take 3 00:00:08,300 --> 00:00:11,200 any more time away from our guest speaker. 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:12,920 If you are new to Springhouse, 5 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:15,200 we are going to have a newcomer's lunch 6 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:16,600 in two Sundays from now. 7 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,560 So that would be not next Sunday, 8 00:00:18,560 --> 00:00:20,400 but the next Sunday, right? 9 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,480 April 28th, April 28th, right following this gathering, 10 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:26,040 we're gonna provide a lunch for you. 11 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:28,560 Our pastoral staff is gonna be available, 12 00:00:28,560 --> 00:00:31,080 and we just wanna meet you and tell you about Springhouse. 13 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:33,200 So that's going to be on April 28th, 14 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,860 make plans to attend that if you are new here 15 00:00:35,860 --> 00:00:37,480 to Springhouse, okay? 16 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,680 Guys, we have a special guest speaker with us. 17 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,240 He has been with us before. 18 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,560 He has an on-time word this morning. 19 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,200 Would you guys please stand to your feet 20 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:48,720 and welcome Pastor Jonathan Evans. 21 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:51,880 (audience applauding) 22 00:00:57,760 --> 00:00:59,360 - Good morning. - Good morning. 23 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:01,160 - Y'all doing all right? - Yeah. 24 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:02,820 - Good, good to be here once again. 25 00:01:02,820 --> 00:01:05,040 It's been several years since I've been here, 26 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:06,800 but it's good to see familiar faces 27 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,260 and be back in the house. 28 00:01:08,260 --> 00:01:11,300 Before I get started jumping into God's word, 29 00:01:11,300 --> 00:01:13,300 I have my better half here with me. 30 00:01:13,300 --> 00:01:18,160 And so, Kanika, stand up, stand up, say hello to everyone. 31 00:01:18,160 --> 00:01:21,840 (audience applauding) 32 00:01:21,840 --> 00:01:24,040 As you can tell, I out-kicked my coverage on that one. 33 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:26,480 I out-kicked my coverage on that one. 34 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,120 But I'm excited to have the opportunity to share. 35 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:31,480 She's here with me, so she gets a good little break 36 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,300 from our five children. 37 00:01:33,300 --> 00:01:36,400 She's a stay-at-home mom as well, 38 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:37,980 formerly a physical therapist, 39 00:01:37,980 --> 00:01:41,880 but she stays at home and homeschools. 40 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:45,040 (audience applauding) 41 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:50,000 So she's got it going on. 42 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 My oldest daughter's name is Kelsey. 43 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:53,320 She's 15 years old. 44 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:54,720 She's the artist in the house. 45 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,560 She loves to sing, color, dance, draw, anything, 46 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:58,000 but you know, formal learning. 47 00:01:58,000 --> 00:01:59,680 (audience laughing) 48 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,400 And then we have Jonathan II. 49 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,680 His name is J2, just to throw a little swag on it. 50 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:06,160 But J2 is my intellectual. 51 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:08,080 He's the one who asked the question why, 52 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,700 which gets the common parental response, 53 00:02:09,700 --> 00:02:10,540 because I said so, boy. 54 00:02:10,540 --> 00:02:11,960 I ain't got time to be explaining everything to you. 55 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:13,160 (audience laughing) 56 00:02:13,160 --> 00:02:15,420 And so that's my boy J2. 57 00:02:15,420 --> 00:02:17,360 And then I have, after that, Camden. 58 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,280 Camden is my 10-year-old. 59 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,800 We call him Spider Cam, because he climbs on everything. 60 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:23,780 He's not happy unless he's trying to beat up his brother, 61 00:02:23,780 --> 00:02:25,400 wrestle his dad, or swinging from the chandelier 62 00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:26,480 in our kitchen. 63 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:27,600 And so that's Camden. 64 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:29,080 Then I have Kyler. 65 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:31,360 Kyler is my eight-year-old daughter, 66 00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,280 and she is the athlete of the family. 67 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:35,680 Okay, she is fast now. 68 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:37,920 At seven years old, her first quarter time 69 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:39,680 was a minute and 20 seconds. 70 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:41,400 And so she was flying around that track 71 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,060 as a seven-year-old, and so I said, 72 00:02:43,060 --> 00:02:44,920 it was not for me, that's your mom. 73 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:46,520 (audience laughing) 74 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,120 And then I have Jade Winter, who's our five-year-old. 75 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:53,000 And she just basically has all of her siblings jealous, 76 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,040 because she's the baby, that means she gets 77 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:54,960 whatever she wants. 78 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,100 (audience laughing) 79 00:02:56,100 --> 00:02:57,260 Is there any babies in the house? 80 00:02:57,260 --> 00:02:58,560 Is there any babies in the house? 81 00:02:58,560 --> 00:02:59,580 Isn't that the best? 82 00:02:59,580 --> 00:03:00,720 It's the best position. 83 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,020 You got parents taking care of you, 84 00:03:02,020 --> 00:03:04,360 siblings taking care of you, you know what I mean? 85 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,300 Your parents are already tired, they're like, whatever, 86 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:07,140 just do whatever. 87 00:03:07,140 --> 00:03:07,980 (audience laughing) 88 00:03:07,980 --> 00:03:08,800 You know what I mean? 89 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,360 So it's a great position. 90 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:12,700 So I'm excited to introduce my family to you this morning. 91 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:13,720 Y'all ready for the word? 92 00:03:13,720 --> 00:03:14,640 - Yeah. - Yeah. 93 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:15,480 - Let's jump in. 94 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:17,240 Heavenly Father, we love you and honor you. 95 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,160 If you don't do anything else, you've already done enough 96 00:03:19,160 --> 00:03:20,760 by sending your son, Jesus Christ, 97 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:22,140 to die on the cross for our sins. 98 00:03:22,140 --> 00:03:24,480 Help us to believe in it and walk in it. 99 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:26,800 We love you and give you the glory as you teach us today. 100 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,080 Help us to remember the words, 101 00:03:29,080 --> 00:03:31,880 and we remember the words by applying the words, 102 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:34,580 so that it's not like a seed that falls amongst the thorns 103 00:03:34,580 --> 00:03:36,400 that just gets choked out. 104 00:03:36,400 --> 00:03:37,780 We love you and we honor you today. 105 00:03:37,780 --> 00:03:40,040 In Jesus' name, amen. 106 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:43,200 I'm gonna read one thematic verse for you, 107 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:46,500 and that verse comes from Exodus 1.22. 108 00:03:46,500 --> 00:03:49,260 I want you to key in today because you'll learn 109 00:03:49,260 --> 00:03:51,040 some principles that I really believe 110 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:52,280 can change your life. 111 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:54,620 It has mine from this story. 112 00:03:54,620 --> 00:03:58,160 So Exodus 1.22, so Bibles, Bible apps, whatever, 113 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:00,720 I want you to be able to see this. 114 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:05,680 Exodus 1.22, it simply says this. 115 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:09,760 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, 116 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:14,560 "Every son who is born, you ought to cast into the Nile. 117 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,720 "Every daughter you ought to keep alive." 118 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,400 One more time, then Pharaoh commanded all his people, 119 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:23,080 saying, "Every son who is born, 120 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,040 "you ought to cast into the Nile, 121 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,860 "and every daughter you ought to keep alive." 122 00:04:29,860 --> 00:04:33,580 Today I wanna talk to you from the topic surviving Pharaoh. 123 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:35,760 Surviving Pharaoh. 124 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:40,080 Here is a commander in chief, if you will, 125 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:42,240 who has put out an edict in the land. 126 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,180 An edict is an official order by someone in power. 127 00:04:45,180 --> 00:04:48,160 Basically, he said, y'all, this what we finna do. 128 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:51,680 And everybody has to prepare to do what he says to do, 129 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:56,520 and he has a evil edict, an afflicting edict, 130 00:04:56,520 --> 00:04:58,560 against the Hebrew people. 131 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:01,660 He said, "Every Hebrew boy that is born, 132 00:05:01,660 --> 00:05:03,060 "I want you to throw him into the Nile. 133 00:05:03,060 --> 00:05:04,500 "I want you to take him out. 134 00:05:04,500 --> 00:05:08,620 "Every daughter, I want you to keep alive." 135 00:05:08,620 --> 00:05:12,500 What he's doing here is he's a little insecure. 136 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:15,200 The enemy is a little afraid, 137 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:18,880 because he does not want the advancement of God's kingdom. 138 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:21,740 He's in the business of advancing his own kingdom. 139 00:05:21,740 --> 00:05:24,920 And one of the things I want you to notice 140 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,880 is that while the enemy is coming after everyone, 141 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,440 he does have a specific hit out on men. 142 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,200 He is not interested in godly men, 143 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:39,560 godly fathers, godly husbands, godly city council, 144 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:40,960 godly men in the church, 145 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:42,720 godly men leading their community. 146 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:44,320 He's not interested in godly men 147 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:45,560 stepping up and stepping out. 148 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,760 He's not interested in none of that. 149 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,800 And so what he wants to do is put out an edict 150 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:55,440 to take out the men, because in society at large, 151 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:59,100 in all of history, there has never been a society 152 00:05:59,100 --> 00:06:03,360 in all of history that has ever survived without strong men. 153 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,080 So if you can take them out, 154 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:07,280 then you can take out a culture. 155 00:06:07,280 --> 00:06:09,560 Has nothing to do with the significance of women, 156 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:13,200 because here, he's talking about a military threat. 157 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:16,080 And so he's saying, I need to multiply, 158 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:19,920 and the Hebrew people are multiplying at a faster rate, 159 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:21,760 and that makes me insecure. 160 00:06:21,760 --> 00:06:23,900 Don't you know that the enemy is insecure 161 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:26,840 when the Church of Jesus Christ begins to multiply? 162 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:28,840 That's not something that he's interested in. 163 00:06:28,840 --> 00:06:31,140 And in this context, he's speaking 164 00:06:31,140 --> 00:06:32,640 from a military standpoint, 165 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,760 so he's really specifically thinking about taking out men, 166 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:38,080 because he's thinking in terms of war. 167 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,240 Okay, and so what he says in Exodus 1, 9, 168 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:43,480 he says, "He said to the people, behold, 169 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:46,840 the people of the sons of Israel are more mightier than we. 170 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:48,920 Come, let us deal wisely with them, 171 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,640 or else they will multiply in the event of war." 172 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,480 Okay, or else they will come against us, 173 00:06:55,480 --> 00:06:57,280 multiply and come against us in the event of war. 174 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:00,540 So the enemy here is thinking in war terms, 175 00:07:00,540 --> 00:07:02,200 so he comes up with this edict, 176 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:03,540 let's go ahead and get rid of these boys 177 00:07:03,540 --> 00:07:04,380 before they grow up. 178 00:07:04,380 --> 00:07:06,940 I wanna get the boys before they become men. 179 00:07:06,940 --> 00:07:09,660 Okay, so you need to understand this, mothers, 180 00:07:09,660 --> 00:07:13,460 that your sons, they don't fly in on storks. 181 00:07:13,460 --> 00:07:15,460 This ain't Dumbo. 182 00:07:15,460 --> 00:07:16,640 They come out of your wombs, 183 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:18,280 and you need to understand 184 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,720 that when it comes to spiritual warfare, 185 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,720 when it comes to war, the enemy is trying to take men out. 186 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,260 So if you've ever said to yourself, 187 00:07:28,260 --> 00:07:30,220 boy, it sure is hard to find a good man, 188 00:07:30,220 --> 00:07:34,560 understand that what you see, 189 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:35,980 if all you see is what you see, 190 00:07:35,980 --> 00:07:37,940 you do not see all there is to be seen. 191 00:07:37,940 --> 00:07:40,240 (audience laughing) 192 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,320 Okay, the enemy has a hit out on everyone, 193 00:07:43,320 --> 00:07:45,760 but he's got his eye on men 194 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:49,620 because he knows what happens when strong men stand up 195 00:07:49,620 --> 00:07:54,280 and say, "For me and my house, we will serve the Lord." 196 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:55,480 Okay, he already knows that, 197 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,280 and I need you to understand what he's saying is, 198 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,560 I don't, I'm really not interested, 199 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:03,520 and I'm really afraid because the Hebrew people, 200 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,540 God's people, are multiplying. 201 00:08:06,540 --> 00:08:08,160 That's not what I'm interested in. 202 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:09,920 Understand, from the beginning, 203 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:11,560 the enemy is just an imitator of God. 204 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:13,160 God said from the beginning, 205 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:15,760 be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 206 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:18,560 God's goal is the visible manifestation 207 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,240 of his invisible self all over the earth, okay? 208 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:23,640 And so that's his goal. 209 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,160 When Noah docks the ark in Genesis 9, 210 00:08:27,160 --> 00:08:29,380 he gives them the same command he gave Adam and Eve, 211 00:08:29,380 --> 00:08:32,280 be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. 212 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:35,800 He tells the disciples the same concept in Matthew 28. 213 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:40,280 Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations. 214 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:44,240 Be fruitful and multiply and make replicas of who I am. 215 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,880 The enemy is insecure with more godly people 216 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:52,680 coming into the fold because he wants to build his kingdom, 217 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:54,880 and not only does he want to build his kingdom 218 00:08:54,880 --> 00:08:58,340 through multiplication, he wants to build his kingdom 219 00:08:58,340 --> 00:09:01,440 and is so bold to try to use God's people to do it. 220 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:07,000 Here, he's trying to enslave God's people 221 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:10,120 to build his kingdom. 222 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:13,480 He doesn't mind you going to church. 223 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,920 He just minds you being the church. 224 00:09:16,920 --> 00:09:18,240 He minds the multiple, 225 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,800 he don't mind you sitting in a worship service. 226 00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:22,820 He just doesn't want you to break huddle 227 00:09:22,820 --> 00:09:24,680 from the worship service. 228 00:09:24,680 --> 00:09:27,040 As a chaplain of the Dallas Cowboys, 229 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:28,680 I know I'm a Dallas Cowboy, 230 00:09:28,680 --> 00:09:29,880 I know there's Green Bay people in here, 231 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:31,400 especially your pastor. 232 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:32,960 Your pastor is a Green Bay guy. 233 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,580 I ain't worried about none of that. 234 00:09:36,580 --> 00:09:37,800 I'm up here, I'm talking. 235 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:42,580 As a chaplain of the Dallas Cowboys, 236 00:09:42,580 --> 00:09:48,160 100,000 people don't come to AT&T Stadium or Texas Stadium 237 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:52,340 to watch 11 men bend over 238 00:09:52,340 --> 00:09:54,760 and have a private conversation in the huddle. 239 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:56,480 That's not what they come for. 240 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,520 They don't mind the huddle, 241 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:01,280 but they want to know what difference the huddle makes. 242 00:10:02,100 --> 00:10:05,440 They want to know having now huddled, can you now score? 243 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,640 What are you going to do about 11 other men 244 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:09,760 on the other side of the ball daring you to go public 245 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:11,460 with that private conversation? 246 00:10:11,460 --> 00:10:14,060 That's why people come in. 247 00:10:14,060 --> 00:10:17,320 You got to understand this is a huddle, 248 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:19,380 but the kingdom of God wants to know 249 00:10:19,380 --> 00:10:21,280 what difference the huddle makes. 250 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,800 They want to know having now huddled, can you now score? 251 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:26,880 What are you going to do about Pharaoh 252 00:10:26,880 --> 00:10:29,280 outside of these buildings daring you to go public 253 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,080 with this private conversation? 254 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:34,680 Pharaoh is totally okay with this private conversation, 255 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:38,460 but once the church of Jesus Christ begins to break huddle, 256 00:10:38,460 --> 00:10:41,040 begins to multiply, begins to teach their children, 257 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:43,680 have healthy families, begin to multiply 258 00:10:43,680 --> 00:10:46,440 and infiltrate the culture, then all of a sudden, 259 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:49,880 he becomes insecure and has a plan of attack. 260 00:10:49,880 --> 00:10:52,960 So you need to understand that that's what he's doing here 261 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,760 is that in this context, he is insecure. 262 00:10:55,760 --> 00:10:58,000 Do you know the devil's insecure? 263 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,000 He does not like when God's people do more than be churchy. 264 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,240 We're good at being churchy, 265 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,240 but he don't like it when we start multiplying. 266 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:13,840 And so he comes up with an initial plan. 267 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:17,080 His plan is found in Exodus 1, verse 11. 268 00:11:17,080 --> 00:11:21,040 He says, "So they appointed taskmasters over them 269 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:23,560 to afflict them with hard labor, 270 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:27,280 and they built for Pharaoh his cities and ramses 271 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:28,440 and all of those different things." 272 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,360 So his plan was, I'm going to make life so hard on them 273 00:11:33,360 --> 00:11:38,140 that it will prevent them from being encouraged enough 274 00:11:38,140 --> 00:11:39,500 to multiply. 275 00:11:39,500 --> 00:11:43,080 So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna appoint taskmasters 276 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:47,920 to just give them a hard time and make life hard on them. 277 00:11:47,920 --> 00:11:52,520 I need you to understand that the enemy uses affliction 278 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,720 to make things hard on you and to make you stop. 279 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:58,240 But God will allow you to be afflicted 280 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:01,840 to actually produce in you something that he can use 281 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,040 for his purpose, he has in you. 282 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,920 So while the enemy is using affliction to stop them, 283 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:10,720 God is allowing affliction to take them. 284 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:12,880 Okay, so I need you to understand that. 285 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:14,880 But what the enemy does is he says, 286 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:18,520 "I'm going to make things so hard on them 287 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,700 that they don't want to continue in the faith." 288 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:24,800 Okay. 289 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,640 If you're going through affliction, 290 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:30,240 you need to think of it differently. 291 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:34,440 Affliction means that God has a purpose. 292 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:39,000 My coach used to tell me, 293 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,520 "If I don't yell at you and I'm quiet, 294 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,320 that's when you need to be worried. 295 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:44,860 (audience laughing) 296 00:12:44,860 --> 00:12:49,120 If I'm yelling at you, it's because I see something in you 297 00:12:49,120 --> 00:12:51,880 that I think can grow and become better 298 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:53,680 and be useful for the team. 299 00:12:53,680 --> 00:12:56,800 But if I'm quiet, then I don't really think 300 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,320 that you're that good. 301 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:00,280 I don't think that you're usable." 302 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,760 In other words, when things are loud in your life 303 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:05,800 and there's affliction in your life, 304 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:08,280 it's because the enemy knows 305 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:10,920 that God has something major for your life. 306 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,760 And you cannot build a skyscraper 307 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:15,640 on the foundation of a chicken coop. 308 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:20,320 Anytime you see a skyscraper in downtown Nashville, 309 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:22,660 the higher they go up is evidence 310 00:13:22,660 --> 00:13:25,160 of how low they had to dig down. 311 00:13:25,160 --> 00:13:29,180 God will allow something to get dug down in your life 312 00:13:29,180 --> 00:13:31,780 and afflictions and hard times in your life, 313 00:13:31,780 --> 00:13:35,380 but that is evidence that the enemy is insecure 314 00:13:35,380 --> 00:13:38,560 of the skyscraper that God wants to put on top of it. 315 00:13:38,560 --> 00:13:42,260 And so you need to understand that even in your affliction, 316 00:13:42,260 --> 00:13:44,100 that's what the Bible says in the book of James, 317 00:13:44,100 --> 00:13:47,960 consider it joy when you go through various trials 318 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:51,920 and affliction because I am producing something in you. 319 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,100 Okay, so the Christian sees affliction differently 320 00:13:55,100 --> 00:13:57,260 than the non-Christian sees affliction. 321 00:13:57,260 --> 00:13:59,420 We see affliction as, "Oh, you afflict, 322 00:13:59,420 --> 00:14:02,880 you think so highly of me. 323 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,200 I'm glad you think about me the way you are 324 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:06,800 because I'm going through this affliction 325 00:14:06,800 --> 00:14:10,320 because there's something that God must be doing." 326 00:14:10,320 --> 00:14:13,200 And so you need to understand 'cause the people of God, 327 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,060 this is what Pharaoh found out. 328 00:14:15,060 --> 00:14:17,500 It says in verse 11, so he appointed taskmasters. 329 00:14:17,500 --> 00:14:20,960 In verse 12, he said, "But the more they afflicted them, 330 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,620 the more they multiplied." 331 00:14:24,620 --> 00:14:26,580 Because God knows when there's affliction, 332 00:14:26,580 --> 00:14:29,900 all of a sudden the people of God are more dependent on God. 333 00:14:29,900 --> 00:14:31,540 When there's affliction, all of a sudden 334 00:14:31,540 --> 00:14:32,900 they're praying again. 335 00:14:32,900 --> 00:14:35,460 When there's affliction, all of a sudden the church is full. 336 00:14:35,460 --> 00:14:37,100 When there's affliction, all of a sudden 337 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:38,160 they're linking arms. 338 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,140 God will allow the affliction because in affliction, 339 00:14:41,140 --> 00:14:43,700 actually the church begins to multiply. 340 00:14:43,700 --> 00:14:46,780 So the enemy was like, "Well, that didn't work." 341 00:14:48,580 --> 00:14:51,080 Pharaoh said, "That plan wasn't a good plan. 342 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:54,500 That actually went against what I'm trying to do." 343 00:14:54,500 --> 00:14:58,820 They are multiplying even the more with the affliction. 344 00:14:58,820 --> 00:15:01,740 So he has to come up with a new plan. 345 00:15:01,740 --> 00:15:06,140 And the new plan is found in Exodus 1.15. 346 00:15:06,140 --> 00:15:07,860 Y'all still following along or am I going too fast? 347 00:15:07,860 --> 00:15:09,540 Y'all still with me? Okay, good. 348 00:15:09,540 --> 00:15:10,740 Gotta stay with it now. 349 00:15:10,740 --> 00:15:15,540 Exodus 1.15, it says, "Then the king of Egypt 350 00:15:15,540 --> 00:15:20,540 spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one who was named Shiphrah 351 00:15:20,540 --> 00:15:23,500 and the other named Puah. 352 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:28,300 And he said, 'When you are helping the Hebrew women 353 00:15:28,300 --> 00:15:31,980 to give birth and sieve them upon the birth stool, 354 00:15:31,980 --> 00:15:35,300 if it is a son, you shall put him to death. 355 00:15:35,300 --> 00:15:38,480 And if it is a daughter, then you shall let her live.'" 356 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,880 Okay, so the affliction didn't work. 357 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:45,360 So do you know what Pharaoh just said? 358 00:15:45,360 --> 00:15:49,140 Okay, this dude is so slick and so sly 359 00:15:49,140 --> 00:15:53,280 that he went to the Hebrew midwives, 360 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:56,140 not the Egyptian midwives. 361 00:15:56,140 --> 00:15:58,900 He didn't go to his people. 362 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:02,620 He went to the Hebrew midwives and said, 363 00:16:02,620 --> 00:16:04,320 "Let me holla at you for a minute. 364 00:16:04,320 --> 00:16:07,980 Whenever there's a Hebrew woman who's giving birth, 365 00:16:07,980 --> 00:16:09,960 if it is a son, Hebrew midwives, 366 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,140 I need you to put the Hebrew boys to death. 367 00:16:13,140 --> 00:16:15,140 What does a daughter let her live?" 368 00:16:15,140 --> 00:16:17,200 Okay, let me say that again. 369 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:18,360 Y'all didn't get that. 370 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:23,760 Hebrew midwives, I need you to go kill the Hebrew boys. 371 00:16:23,760 --> 00:16:27,680 Well, that's bold. 372 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:35,120 Hebrew midwives, I need you to go kill your Hebrew boys. 373 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,120 Okay, y'all still ain't. 374 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:39,220 Springhouse, y'all ain't. 375 00:16:39,220 --> 00:16:40,060 Okay. 376 00:16:41,140 --> 00:16:43,680 Pastor Kevin, I got to tell them in a more modern way. 377 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:46,780 The enemy went to God's women 378 00:16:46,780 --> 00:16:48,520 and tell them to go kill God's men. 379 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:56,260 So the enemy must know the power, the influence, the ability. 380 00:16:56,260 --> 00:17:02,580 He must know that there is enough influence, 381 00:17:02,580 --> 00:17:04,880 power, and ability in women 382 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,880 that if he can distort them, 383 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:10,960 he can take out a culture of men. 384 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,180 (congregation laughs) 385 00:17:13,180 --> 00:17:15,260 Okay, there's not enough 386 00:17:15,260 --> 00:17:19,700 of people talking about the power of women. 387 00:17:19,700 --> 00:17:23,920 But if the enemy knows it, certainly we should know it. 388 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:28,460 Because from the beginning, Eve, let me holler at you. 389 00:17:28,460 --> 00:17:29,300 He skipped at him. 390 00:17:29,300 --> 00:17:30,140 He said, "Eve, let me holler at you. 391 00:17:30,140 --> 00:17:32,140 I'm going to use your influence." 392 00:17:32,140 --> 00:17:33,100 Offered his brother this fruit. 393 00:17:33,100 --> 00:17:34,540 He going to eat it if it come from you. 394 00:17:34,540 --> 00:17:37,700 (congregation laughs) 395 00:17:37,700 --> 00:17:40,420 Delilah, just cut his hair. 396 00:17:40,420 --> 00:17:41,320 It's his hair. 397 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:44,560 Jezebel, kill the prophets. 398 00:17:44,560 --> 00:17:46,100 Herodias, y'all know who Herodias is? 399 00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:48,420 Y'all like, "Herodias, who is that?" 400 00:17:48,420 --> 00:17:50,800 Herodias in Matthew 14 got her daughter 401 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,700 to go get the head of John the Baptist. 402 00:17:53,700 --> 00:17:56,400 Through scripture, if you look through it, 403 00:17:56,400 --> 00:17:59,820 the enemy knows he can use the power and influence of women 404 00:17:59,820 --> 00:18:02,980 to go take out men in God's plan. 405 00:18:02,980 --> 00:18:05,140 But also the opposite is true. 406 00:18:05,140 --> 00:18:07,800 That's why Proverbs 14, one says, 407 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,980 "A wise woman builds her house, 408 00:18:09,980 --> 00:18:13,100 but a foolish one tears it down with her bare hands." 409 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:17,020 Which means and suggests that a woman has the power 410 00:18:17,020 --> 00:18:20,580 to build a house, she also has the power 411 00:18:20,580 --> 00:18:22,180 to tear a house down. 412 00:18:22,180 --> 00:18:26,100 Women possess that power and the enemy knows it, 413 00:18:26,100 --> 00:18:26,940 but guess what? 414 00:18:26,940 --> 00:18:28,100 God knows it too. 415 00:18:28,100 --> 00:18:31,660 That's why he would call Rahab to hide the spies 416 00:18:31,660 --> 00:18:34,460 and save her families while the walls are crumbling down. 417 00:18:34,460 --> 00:18:36,380 That's why he would call Ruth and tell her, 418 00:18:36,380 --> 00:18:38,260 "Don't go back to the past. 419 00:18:38,260 --> 00:18:40,900 It's time to go to the future and go with Naomi." 420 00:18:40,900 --> 00:18:44,500 And she meets a man named Boaz, has a son named Obed. 421 00:18:44,500 --> 00:18:46,100 Obed has a son named Jesse. 422 00:18:46,100 --> 00:18:47,860 Jesse has a son named David 423 00:18:47,860 --> 00:18:50,100 and puts her in the lineage of Jesus Christ. 424 00:18:50,100 --> 00:18:51,980 That's why he would call Priscilla. 425 00:18:51,980 --> 00:18:54,740 I need you to teach Apollos the word appropriately 426 00:18:54,740 --> 00:18:56,300 so that he can teach the gospel 427 00:18:56,300 --> 00:18:58,160 so that we can continue to multiply. 428 00:18:58,160 --> 00:18:59,940 That's why he would call Phoebe. 429 00:18:59,940 --> 00:19:02,540 Paul would send Phoebe out and tell the church of Rome 430 00:19:02,540 --> 00:19:05,800 to listen to her because she's able to help carry out 431 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:07,420 the advancement of God's kingdom. 432 00:19:07,420 --> 00:19:09,700 There are women who were used for destruction, 433 00:19:09,700 --> 00:19:12,460 but there were also women who were used for building up. 434 00:19:12,460 --> 00:19:15,220 So I'm just letting you know, Springhouse Church ladies, 435 00:19:15,220 --> 00:19:18,360 that you have the power for good or the power for bad 436 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:20,760 and because we're the church of Jesus Christ, 437 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:22,580 you can build the house. 438 00:19:22,580 --> 00:19:23,500 What am I telling you? 439 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:27,100 I'm telling you, if you've ever heard the impact 440 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:29,700 or ministry of Pastor Kevin, 441 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:33,300 it's because you have his wife's fingerprint all over you. 442 00:19:33,300 --> 00:19:35,760 I'm telling you, if you've ever heard the ministry 443 00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:37,820 of Jonathan Evans, it's because you have 444 00:19:37,820 --> 00:19:40,020 Kenneka's fingerprint all over you. 445 00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:43,020 If you've ever heard the ministry of Dr. Tony Evans, 446 00:19:43,020 --> 00:19:44,800 it's because you have the fingerprint 447 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:46,740 of Lois Evans all over you. 448 00:19:46,740 --> 00:19:48,740 When the enemy came into the house, 449 00:19:48,740 --> 00:19:52,000 they told the enemy, no, I'm gonna lift him up, 450 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,660 not tear him down. 451 00:19:53,660 --> 00:19:55,920 And so I need you to understand that the enemy 452 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:58,500 wants to use your experiences, your emotions, 453 00:19:58,500 --> 00:20:01,760 your past, your abilities, and he wants you to use it 454 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,000 to tear down instead of build up 455 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,420 because he knows you possess that power. 456 00:20:06,420 --> 00:20:08,780 I need you to understand that there would be 457 00:20:08,780 --> 00:20:13,140 no sermons on Moses if it wasn't for two ladies 458 00:20:13,140 --> 00:20:16,200 you've never heard of, Shiphrah and Puah. 459 00:20:16,200 --> 00:20:18,740 There would be no sermons on Moses. 460 00:20:18,740 --> 00:20:20,940 It's because they were able to look at the enemy 461 00:20:20,940 --> 00:20:23,400 and say, we are not doing that. 462 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:28,800 I know the pressure and you, 463 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,580 Pharaoh is the most powerful man on the earth right now. 464 00:20:31,580 --> 00:20:34,760 He can, this is a very lucrative deal. 465 00:20:34,760 --> 00:20:36,740 You understand, he can write big checks, 466 00:20:36,740 --> 00:20:40,020 gold and silver, for Shiphrah and Puah 467 00:20:40,020 --> 00:20:42,200 to carry out his plan. 468 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:46,920 But they thought it is not good for me to take something 469 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,720 that is momentary lucrative that will have 470 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,780 our whole culture in debt. 471 00:20:51,780 --> 00:20:54,080 I need you to understand that you can do something 472 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,880 that's in the moment that's emotionally lucrative 473 00:20:56,880 --> 00:20:59,300 that can put your whole heritage in debt 474 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:02,440 because the enemy wants to use the power 475 00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:06,060 to tear things down instead of build things up. 476 00:21:06,060 --> 00:21:09,900 And fortunately, fortunately for the Scriptures advancement, 477 00:21:09,900 --> 00:21:11,900 because Moses is kind of a big deal. 478 00:21:11,900 --> 00:21:16,920 Fortunately for the Scriptures advancement, 479 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,840 these ladies got influenced by the enemy 480 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:24,200 and looked at Pharaoh and said, 481 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:26,600 modern, we ain't doing that. 482 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:30,120 I mean, I understand what you can do 483 00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:32,280 and how much you can pay and how this may, 484 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:33,920 but we just ain't doing that. 485 00:21:33,920 --> 00:21:37,900 We have to, we're gonna have to find another way. 486 00:21:37,900 --> 00:21:42,280 And so Pharaoh's trying to get ladies to work for him 487 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:47,280 did not work, but Pharaoh would not quit. 488 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,600 It says in Exodus 1 22, then, this is back 489 00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:54,240 to our original passage that I read at the beginning. 490 00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,520 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people saying, 491 00:21:57,520 --> 00:22:02,460 every son who is born, you ought to cast into the Nile 492 00:22:02,460 --> 00:22:05,040 and every daughter you ought to keep alive. 493 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:06,280 So he's trying again. 494 00:22:06,280 --> 00:22:10,760 So I'm going back to our original verse, 495 00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,760 but you need to know that Pharaoh had already tried, 496 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:14,960 this is his third try. 497 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,400 Okay, affliction God's people didn't work. 498 00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,920 Trying to get the ladies to tear it down didn't work. 499 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,800 So now he called all his people. 500 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,240 He had to go back to his minions. 501 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,520 He had to go back to his minions and say, okay, 502 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:28,880 now let's try this again. 503 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:30,680 So now that we're back at my initial verse 504 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,720 and I've got the introduction out the way, 505 00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:34,700 we can get going. 506 00:22:34,700 --> 00:22:41,080 So now you need to understand 507 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:48,600 that Pharaoh is after what has been conceived in you 508 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:52,900 that you have given birth to that you want to see develop. 509 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:54,540 You want to see it grow. 510 00:22:54,540 --> 00:22:56,200 You want to see it be nourished. 511 00:22:56,200 --> 00:22:59,160 You want to see it come to maturity. 512 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,520 He wants to kill whatever that thing is. 513 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,340 He will let you live, 514 00:23:04,340 --> 00:23:07,120 but he wants to kill the thing that gives you life. 515 00:23:07,120 --> 00:23:11,720 Because if he can kill the thing that gives you life, 516 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:16,040 then he can even enslave God's people to build out his plan. 517 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:20,480 He can make you so anxious, so depressed, so fearful, 518 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,040 losing faith, become a doubter. 519 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,620 He can put you in position where you're actually doing 520 00:23:26,620 --> 00:23:28,920 more harm to the kingdom than good 521 00:23:28,920 --> 00:23:30,980 because you're wondering, well, if I don't have this, 522 00:23:30,980 --> 00:23:31,980 what is it all for? 523 00:23:31,980 --> 00:23:33,840 And God must not be on my side. 524 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,820 And God is not working it out for good. 525 00:23:35,820 --> 00:23:36,800 And God is not doing it. 526 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,180 I thought the pastor said this. 527 00:23:38,180 --> 00:23:39,260 Maybe he's not. 528 00:23:39,260 --> 00:23:42,720 And if he can get believers to start talking like that, 529 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,120 then he can have you enslaved 530 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:47,780 even though you've been set free. 531 00:23:47,780 --> 00:23:51,540 That's why Galatians 5, 1 says it is for freedom 532 00:23:51,540 --> 00:23:52,760 that you have been set free. 533 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,980 Therefore, never again return to the yoke of slavery, 534 00:23:55,980 --> 00:23:59,000 which means there's a yoke of slavery you can return to 535 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:00,440 even if you've been set free. 536 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,640 You say verses backwards, you'll get them. 537 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:04,920 (congregation laughing) 538 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,520 So he says, I know something's been conceived in you. 539 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:10,940 And as soon as you deliver it, 540 00:24:10,940 --> 00:24:13,680 and your expectations are that you'll get to raise it 541 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:17,800 and nurse it and develop it, oh, I'm coming for it. 542 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:22,720 And this is now the start of the story 543 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:25,760 where there's a lady who gives birth. 544 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,880 In Exodus 2, 2, it simply reads, 545 00:24:28,880 --> 00:24:31,760 "The woman conceived in Bora's son." 546 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:34,880 Ah, oh man. 547 00:24:34,880 --> 00:24:38,000 You know how people do the reveals? 548 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:43,640 It's a girl, yeah, it's a boy, yeah. 549 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:44,560 Not here. 550 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:49,680 It's a girl, yeah, it's a boy, ah. 551 00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:53,520 Ah. 552 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:58,040 Now, you can't read these stories like novels. 553 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,300 You have to read them and put yourself in it. 554 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:04,360 She has a baby and it's a boy. 555 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:08,540 And she saw that he was beautiful, verse two, 556 00:25:08,540 --> 00:25:10,900 and hid him for three months. 557 00:25:10,900 --> 00:25:18,500 Can you imagine hiding a baby for three months? 558 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:21,040 You gotta put yourself in there now. 559 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,800 Shh, shh, shh, shh. 560 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,480 That's nurse all the time, keep you quiet. 561 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,280 I don't know what their diaper situation was, 562 00:25:29,280 --> 00:25:30,880 but probably wouldn't, you know. 563 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:34,080 It's just a disaster. 564 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,380 It's a disaster. 565 00:25:36,380 --> 00:25:40,040 She saw that the baby was beautiful. 566 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:41,520 The word beautiful there means healthy, 567 00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,140 meaning, oh, this is great. 568 00:25:44,140 --> 00:25:46,360 But now I have to, since it's great, 569 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:49,700 I'm gonna do what I can to protect it, okay? 570 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,980 Many of you have beautiful things. 571 00:25:52,980 --> 00:25:55,040 You're excited about it, it's great. 572 00:25:55,040 --> 00:25:56,640 So now you put your hands on it 573 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:58,600 to do what you can to protect it. 574 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,800 Simple as that, that's what she's doing. 575 00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:03,340 Beautiful baby boy, I wanna protect him. 576 00:26:03,340 --> 00:26:07,000 I wanna make sure that the enemy does not get his hands 577 00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,280 on this thing, this person. 578 00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,440 And many of you have callings, destinies, purpose. 579 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:15,040 You have families, you have children relationships, 580 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,520 you have businesses, you have finances, 581 00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,720 you have things that you desperately want the enemy 582 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,080 to keep his hands off of, is that correct? 583 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:29,080 So what we do initially is we try to use our stamina, 584 00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:31,980 our relationships, our intellect, 585 00:26:31,980 --> 00:26:36,060 we try to use our finances, we try to use our wit, 586 00:26:36,060 --> 00:26:38,500 we try to use our whatever it is 587 00:26:38,500 --> 00:26:43,440 to try to keep the baby safe so that it doesn't come 588 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,200 in contact with the enemy's plan. 589 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:47,640 Am I right by saying that? 590 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:50,040 Okay, this is what she was doing. 591 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:55,720 And it's a disaster because it's very hard 592 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,240 when Pharaoh has an edict out against you 593 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:02,300 and you're doing what you can to keep the baby safe, 594 00:27:02,300 --> 00:27:06,520 whatever it is for you, it becomes a struggle. 595 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:10,480 How do you know when Pharaoh was after your baby? 596 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:15,080 Simple, your blessing starts turning into a burden. 597 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,520 Have you ever had a blessing that starts becoming a burden? 598 00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:25,060 Your battle is not against flesh and blood. 599 00:27:25,060 --> 00:27:27,040 It's against the rulers, the principalities, 600 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:28,980 the world forces of darkness, the spiritual forces 601 00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:30,440 of wickedness in heavenly places. 602 00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:34,500 The reason why your hands are burning is because Pharaoh's 603 00:27:34,500 --> 00:27:38,040 on the other end of the rope and you're playing tug of war 604 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:41,200 in the spiritual realm trying to keep the baby safe 605 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,660 through which there's gonna be a kingdom advancement. 606 00:27:44,660 --> 00:27:47,680 So that's why it's hard is because if you can picture 607 00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,280 Pharaoh doing this, trying to pull out of your hands 608 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:53,420 what God has placed in your hands, 609 00:27:53,420 --> 00:27:55,820 that's why your hands are burning. 610 00:27:55,820 --> 00:27:58,660 So I need you to understand that for her, 611 00:27:58,660 --> 00:28:02,180 she got to a place where the blessing was now becoming 612 00:28:02,180 --> 00:28:06,520 a burden and it became hard to hold this precious baby. 613 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,600 Verse three lets you know it says, 614 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:11,840 but when she could no longer hide him. 615 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,100 I don't know if you've ever gotten to a place 616 00:28:15,100 --> 00:28:18,180 where you told God, I just can't do it anymore. 617 00:28:18,180 --> 00:28:21,740 Some of us have gotten to a place in our marriages 618 00:28:21,740 --> 00:28:24,740 or with our wayward children or with our business 619 00:28:24,740 --> 00:28:28,320 trying to keep it together or our home or our school 620 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,340 or our things that we're trying to put together. 621 00:28:31,340 --> 00:28:35,180 I can't do, I'm tired. 622 00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:37,700 Three months of keeping this baby quiet 623 00:28:37,700 --> 00:28:39,340 and Pharaoh's minions are everywhere. 624 00:28:39,340 --> 00:28:41,620 I'm tired, I can't do it anymore. 625 00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:45,320 So for any person in this room that has ever experienced 626 00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:48,580 being tired or you are tired or if you're not one of those 627 00:28:48,580 --> 00:28:49,760 two, you will be. 628 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,380 'Cause trials in this world are like the mailbox 629 00:28:54,380 --> 00:28:56,820 that you get and your mailbox that says occupant. 630 00:28:56,820 --> 00:28:59,660 Translation, we don't care who lives here. 631 00:28:59,660 --> 00:29:03,300 You just have to be on earth and you gonna get some. 632 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:09,040 You're about to learn a valuable lesson in surviving Pharaoh. 633 00:29:11,340 --> 00:29:13,260 She couldn't do it anymore. 634 00:29:13,260 --> 00:29:16,700 Time was up. 635 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:17,900 Three months is a long time. 636 00:29:17,900 --> 00:29:20,860 You know how slow three months goes trying to hide a baby? 637 00:29:20,860 --> 00:29:25,980 It feels like forever and your hands are burning 638 00:29:25,980 --> 00:29:31,540 and cramping up trying to hold on with your own power. 639 00:29:31,540 --> 00:29:37,640 It says that she put the baby in a wicker basket, 640 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,180 covered it with tar and pitch and placed it in the Nile. 641 00:29:40,180 --> 00:29:45,180 What? 642 00:29:45,180 --> 00:29:47,740 You gotta be at your wits end to put the baby 643 00:29:47,740 --> 00:29:48,940 in the Nile yourself. 644 00:29:48,940 --> 00:29:52,980 Now, if you've ever gotten to a place, 645 00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:55,860 ladies and gentlemen of Springhouse Church, 646 00:29:55,860 --> 00:29:59,700 where you begin to lose your mind trying to keep something 647 00:29:59,700 --> 00:30:03,780 safe or keep something healthy or keep something going, 648 00:30:03,780 --> 00:30:06,380 do you know why you're losing your mind? 649 00:30:06,380 --> 00:30:09,020 Because you just stepped into God territory. 650 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:12,460 And once you step into God territory, 651 00:30:12,460 --> 00:30:14,960 you find out quickly you ain't him. 652 00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:21,260 So then you start to lose your mind to hold it yourself. 653 00:30:21,260 --> 00:30:22,980 When you're losing your mind, 654 00:30:22,980 --> 00:30:26,860 he's just allowing you to experience what's evident. 655 00:30:26,860 --> 00:30:29,980 That is that you have stepped into a territory 656 00:30:29,980 --> 00:30:32,340 that your humanity can't handle. 657 00:30:32,340 --> 00:30:35,220 And when you're handling things in the spiritual realm, 658 00:30:35,220 --> 00:30:37,280 you may have to go get the spiritual realm 659 00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:39,120 to help handle that thing. 660 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,880 Because that is a realm that's too strong for your hands. 661 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,600 And while Pharaoh's hands are stronger than your hands, 662 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:49,360 God's hands are stronger than Pharaoh's hands. 663 00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:55,540 Matter of fact, God doesn't even have to use both. 664 00:30:55,540 --> 00:30:58,320 The Bible says the mighty right hand of God. 665 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,300 He can just use one on Pharaoh, just. 666 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:07,680 And so she realizes this is too big for me. 667 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,700 I can't do it anymore. 668 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:12,260 I can no longer hold on to this situation. 669 00:31:12,260 --> 00:31:15,080 I'm losing my mind, which is evident 670 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,740 that I'm in God territory, 671 00:31:16,740 --> 00:31:19,740 and God will allow you to lose your mind 672 00:31:19,740 --> 00:31:21,780 so that you can come to the realization 673 00:31:21,780 --> 00:31:23,920 of how good at being God you are. 674 00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:25,000 Not that good. 675 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,520 And then what do we do? 676 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,320 We get to a place after, some of us, three years, 677 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,300 some of us a decade, some of us three months, 678 00:31:35,300 --> 00:31:37,020 some of us figure it out quick. 679 00:31:38,020 --> 00:31:42,460 I've got to put this situation in a basket 680 00:31:42,460 --> 00:31:44,200 and put it in the Nile. 681 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:49,200 This lady said, "God, I'm giving the baby to you. 682 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,360 I can't do it anymore." 683 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:55,400 I need you to know, Springhouse Church, 684 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:58,860 this is very, you need to grab this, 685 00:31:58,860 --> 00:32:03,740 that your survival will not be contingent upon 686 00:32:03,740 --> 00:32:05,680 what you're able to hold onto. 687 00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,360 Your survival will be contingent upon 688 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:11,840 what you're able to let go of. 689 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,480 And if you're not willing to let go of it, 690 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,280 then you won't experience God in your life 691 00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:21,720 who is able to do much more than what you can do 692 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:23,380 keeping that thing in your hands. 693 00:32:23,380 --> 00:32:25,920 A lot of us think we're waiting on God, 694 00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:27,200 and God is saying, "No, I'm waiting on you, 695 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,200 and I got more time than you, trust me." 696 00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,880 (audience laughing) 697 00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,080 She puts the baby in a wicker basket 698 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:34,920 and places it in the Nile. 699 00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:37,660 Now, I know some of you scholars are thinking, 700 00:32:37,660 --> 00:32:39,680 "Now, how did you get she gave it to God 701 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:42,280 by putting it in a basket and putting it in the Nile?" 702 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,000 I'm glad you asked. 703 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,220 (audience laughing) 704 00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:49,980 Wicker basket in the Hebrew is translated ark. 705 00:32:49,980 --> 00:32:54,920 Y'all didn't get that? 706 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,000 (audience laughing) 707 00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,920 The ark found in Genesis 6 708 00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,080 was used for the salvation of Noah's family. 709 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,560 So he built the ark for purposes of salvation. 710 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:09,320 So when she put the baby in the wicker basket, 711 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:10,680 which is translated ark, 712 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,240 she didn't put the baby in there for death, 713 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,240 she put the baby in there for life. 714 00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:15,920 She had the full expectation 715 00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:17,920 that if I give this baby to the ark, 716 00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:22,080 if I place faith in the ark, Jesus Christ, 717 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,420 then my life will be saved. 718 00:33:24,420 --> 00:33:26,840 So this wicker basket actually represents the ark, 719 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,400 which represents Jesus Christ, who's our salvation. 720 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,440 So she was fully expecting salvation 721 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:32,920 by putting the baby in the ark. 722 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,700 So she put it in the hands of God. 723 00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:36,280 She went to the prayer closet, 724 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:37,880 she came to the church service, 725 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,600 she had an expectation that if I go to God with my problem 726 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,540 and put it in his hands and let it go out of my hands, 727 00:33:44,540 --> 00:33:47,140 that he can do a much better job in the basket 728 00:33:47,140 --> 00:33:49,200 than I can do in my hands. 729 00:33:49,200 --> 00:33:52,160 And so she's saying here, God's word is saying here, 730 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,600 that you need to get ready, if you haven't gotten ready, 731 00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:59,480 and take that situation and put it in the hands of God. 732 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:01,720 But not only did she put it in the wicker basket, 733 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,720 it says she covered it with tar and pitch. 734 00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:08,680 Genesis 6, Genesis 6, the Bible says 735 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,520 that the word of the Lord came to Noah and said, 736 00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,600 make yourself an ark, make yourself an ark of gopher wood, 737 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:17,020 you shall cover it with tar and pitch. 738 00:34:17,020 --> 00:34:19,120 So then I had to look up pitch. 739 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:20,180 Well, what's pitch? 740 00:34:20,180 --> 00:34:22,200 The Hebrew word for pitch is kefer. 741 00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,720 The root word of the Hebrew word means atonement. 742 00:34:25,720 --> 00:34:27,720 Oh my goodness. 743 00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:30,560 (audience laughing) 744 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,760 Atonement has to do with reconciliation, 745 00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,240 forgiveness of sins. 746 00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:37,000 So she had to repent. 747 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:42,800 She had to say, it is actually sinful to trust me 748 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:45,020 than it is to trust you. 749 00:34:45,020 --> 00:34:50,320 I repent, Lord, here's the situation. 750 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,820 Let me reconcile my trust in you and my faith in you. 751 00:34:54,820 --> 00:34:56,240 How do you know if you trust God? 752 00:34:56,240 --> 00:34:58,580 I can tell by what you do. 753 00:34:58,580 --> 00:35:00,500 I can tell by whether you give him the baby or not. 754 00:35:00,500 --> 00:35:02,720 Anybody can say they believe until there's a baby 755 00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:03,920 that has to be given up. 756 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,240 And once there's a baby that has to be given up, 757 00:35:07,240 --> 00:35:10,040 then all of a sudden, there's some reconciliation 758 00:35:10,040 --> 00:35:11,720 that needs to happen. 759 00:35:11,720 --> 00:35:14,400 And so she is in a repented state that, 760 00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:18,000 Lord, I am sorry that I thought more of my hands 761 00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,340 than I did of your hands. 762 00:35:19,340 --> 00:35:22,200 So let me reconcile, and how I reconcile 763 00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:26,800 is by giving my life away, giving my situation away, 764 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:28,760 actually placing it in your hands. 765 00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,280 We walk by faith, not by sight. 766 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,420 Faith is acting like it is so, even when it's not so, 767 00:35:34,420 --> 00:35:37,120 so that it might be so, simply because God said so. 768 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,120 (audience laughing) 769 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:45,000 Faith is actionable. 770 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:48,960 You can feel faith-ish and not have much faith. 771 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,960 You can feel like you don't have a lot of faith 772 00:35:50,960 --> 00:35:52,360 and have a whole lot of faith, 773 00:35:52,360 --> 00:35:55,280 because faith has to do with your feet and your movement, 774 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:56,620 not just your feelings. 775 00:35:56,620 --> 00:36:00,360 And here, she's reconciling with God 776 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,080 because she's saying, I'm going to put it in the basket, 777 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,080 I'm gonna cover it with tar and pitch 778 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,760 so that it's sealed from the devastation of denial. 779 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:13,340 Don't you know that if you're in Christ, 780 00:36:13,340 --> 00:36:15,460 the Bible says in Ephesians 1, 13, 781 00:36:15,460 --> 00:36:18,280 you are sealed by the Spirit. 782 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,240 Don't you know that there is, Romans 8, 1, 783 00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:22,160 there is therefore no condemnation 784 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,560 to those who are in Christ Jesus. 785 00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,680 So she's sealing it with the full expectations 786 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,320 that the crocodiles won't be able to get through it. 787 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,060 She's sealing it with the full expectation 788 00:36:34,060 --> 00:36:38,560 that even if I put my baby in the same scenario 789 00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:40,460 where everybody else is drowning, 790 00:36:40,460 --> 00:36:41,960 my baby will have destiny. 791 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,800 The Nile was the place of devastation, 792 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,240 but for her, it was the place of deliverance. 793 00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:49,600 The Nile was the place where everybody else was dying, 794 00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:52,920 but for her, it was the place where she would be surviving. 795 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,680 Because in the hands of God, 796 00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:56,480 you can be in the same scenario 797 00:36:56,480 --> 00:36:58,400 where everybody else is getting destroyed 798 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:00,080 and be experiencing victory. 799 00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:05,700 Here she is placing the baby, what we need to do. 800 00:37:05,700 --> 00:37:09,280 I'm giving it to the hands of God. 801 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:14,240 Now notice, she doesn't put the baby in the Nile 802 00:37:14,240 --> 00:37:16,800 without a wicker basket. 803 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:21,320 There's wicker basket, then Nile. 804 00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:22,960 Can't need you to understand this. 805 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,880 If there's no wicker basket, you gonna be dead. 806 00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:30,200 You have to have the wicker basket, 807 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:33,360 meaning the expectation of what you're letting go 808 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:35,240 is that God will save it. 809 00:37:35,240 --> 00:37:36,940 I wanna make sure, Pastor Kevin, 810 00:37:36,940 --> 00:37:38,360 that nobody thinks that I'm saying, 811 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,520 well great, I'm gonna let my marriage go. 812 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:41,680 The pastor said I can let it go. 813 00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:43,600 I'm just gonna take this marriage like a football 814 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:44,800 and punt it, boom. 815 00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,520 Oh no, that's not expectation of salvation. 816 00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,520 That's just selfish. 817 00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,320 No, he says wicker basket. 818 00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,480 If I'm letting it go, I'm letting it go 819 00:37:56,480 --> 00:37:58,200 for the purpose of salvation, 820 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,600 that God will bring it back. 821 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,120 Now, okay, here we go. 822 00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:04,460 Are y'all still with me? 823 00:38:04,460 --> 00:38:05,300 Here, you're tracking? 824 00:38:05,300 --> 00:38:08,760 Okay, so she does, remember, put yourself in the story. 825 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:10,720 This is very difficult. 826 00:38:10,720 --> 00:38:13,360 A mother, you're talking about trusting God 827 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:14,280 with your situation. 828 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,700 She's trusting God with a literal baby. 829 00:38:16,700 --> 00:38:21,400 Whatever your situation is is hard, but it ain't like this. 830 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,980 She's putting a baby with the crocodiles? 831 00:38:25,980 --> 00:38:32,880 That is a level of trust that we can only aspire to, 832 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:40,500 but that's the level of trust that God deserves. 833 00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:46,200 She puts the baby in the now, now. 834 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,920 Verse four says, "His sister stood at a distance 835 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,600 "to find out what would happen to him." 836 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,000 So this is Moses' sister Miriam. 837 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,820 Moses' sister Miriam is watching this like, 838 00:38:57,820 --> 00:38:59,940 "Oh my goodness, this is terrible." 839 00:38:59,940 --> 00:39:05,080 She's watching her mother's faith. 840 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:11,320 And at first, it's scary to watch the generation before you 841 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,560 or your parents show faith and just give things to God. 842 00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,200 You're thinking to yourself, "You've lost your mind." 843 00:39:17,200 --> 00:39:23,000 But this little girl is watching her mother's faith, okay? 844 00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,000 I need you to remember that and lock that 845 00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:26,980 in the back of your mind, okay? 846 00:39:26,980 --> 00:39:28,840 She's watching her mother's faith. 847 00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:33,280 At the moment that Moses' mother puts him in the Nile, 848 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:34,220 watch what happens. 849 00:39:34,220 --> 00:39:36,640 Verse five, "The daughter of Pharaoh came down 850 00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,220 "to bathe in the Nile with her maidens 851 00:39:39,220 --> 00:39:42,120 "walking along the Nile and she saw the basket 852 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,800 "among the reeds and said to her maid 853 00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:48,120 "to bring it over and sent her maid to go get it 854 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,420 "and she brought it to her." 855 00:39:49,420 --> 00:39:54,420 So when Moses' mother puts the baby in the Nile, 856 00:39:54,420 --> 00:39:58,260 by luck and chance, 857 00:39:58,260 --> 00:40:02,900 Pharaoh's daughter decides she stinks 858 00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:05,560 and wants to come take a bath in the Nile. 859 00:40:06,740 --> 00:40:09,720 I need to go take a bath at the moment 860 00:40:09,720 --> 00:40:11,440 Moses' mother puts the baby in the Nile 861 00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,880 because God's not doing anything. 862 00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,440 It's just all happenstance and luck. 863 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:20,400 And Pharaoh, as the story goes, 864 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,720 Pharaoh's daughter says, "Hey, go get that basket." 865 00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:24,500 The basket comes over, it's a baby, 866 00:40:24,500 --> 00:40:27,200 and she says, "Oh my goodness, coochie, coochie, coo." 867 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:30,200 (audience laughing) 868 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,680 This is all luck and chance that Pharaoh loves, 869 00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,120 Pharaoh's daughter loves babies. 870 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:36,520 She knows it's a Hebrew boy, 871 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,520 but she doesn't care 'cause she just felt pity in her heart. 872 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:42,940 It's just kind of a thing that happened. 873 00:40:42,940 --> 00:40:48,540 But I want you to notice that now Moses is taken out, 874 00:40:48,540 --> 00:40:55,260 but God's sovereignty would only pick up what she put down. 875 00:40:55,260 --> 00:40:58,960 If she doesn't put it down, 876 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,160 then Pharaoh finds that boy a different way. 877 00:41:01,160 --> 00:41:03,860 When she puts it down, 878 00:41:03,860 --> 00:41:06,120 then God's sovereignty comes and picks him up. 879 00:41:07,120 --> 00:41:10,340 God's sovereignty is waiting on you to put it down. 880 00:41:10,340 --> 00:41:15,960 (humming) 881 00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:20,480 Because he has a plan. 882 00:41:20,480 --> 00:41:22,980 He's waiting on you to stop doing his job. 883 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:29,940 Pharaoh's daughter, shoop, picks the baby up, 884 00:41:29,940 --> 00:41:32,680 and she says, "Coochie, coochie, coo." 885 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,120 And then watch this. 886 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:36,140 Remember that thing I told you to put 887 00:41:36,140 --> 00:41:37,840 in the back of your head? 888 00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:38,860 What'd I tell you to put in the back of your head? 889 00:41:38,860 --> 00:41:39,700 You don't remember. 890 00:41:39,700 --> 00:41:40,640 (audience murmuring) 891 00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,460 Miriam, Miriam was watching. 892 00:41:43,460 --> 00:41:45,040 So at first she's nervous, 893 00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,320 but she's also watching everything 894 00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:48,800 that I just told you play out. 895 00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,120 Pharaoh's daughter pick it up, 896 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:51,640 she's watching the maid go get it, 897 00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,960 she's watching Pharaoh's daughter say, "Coochie, coochie, coo." 898 00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:58,180 And now she's watching her mother's faith play out. 899 00:41:58,180 --> 00:42:01,160 See, when you give your things to the Lord parents, 900 00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,940 your children's get to watch God work in your life. 901 00:42:05,780 --> 00:42:07,340 They get to watch it play out. 902 00:42:07,340 --> 00:42:10,620 And when they're able to watch faith work, 903 00:42:10,620 --> 00:42:12,900 then they know faith works. 904 00:42:12,900 --> 00:42:16,980 But we talk a lot in church, 905 00:42:16,980 --> 00:42:18,520 but nobody's trusting God, 906 00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,220 and so they're out there in the culture 907 00:42:20,220 --> 00:42:21,840 just trying to figure it out on social media 908 00:42:21,840 --> 00:42:22,820 like everybody else, 909 00:42:22,820 --> 00:42:24,700 because they've never seen their parents 910 00:42:24,700 --> 00:42:25,780 put it in the Nile. 911 00:42:25,780 --> 00:42:29,700 And here Miriam is watching coochie, coochie, coo. 912 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:31,900 She's watching Pharaoh's daughter do all these things. 913 00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:33,340 She's watching this play out, 914 00:42:33,340 --> 00:42:34,980 she's like, "Immediately, 915 00:42:34,980 --> 00:42:37,580 the boy is not even in the Nile anymore, he's out." 916 00:42:37,580 --> 00:42:39,500 So now her faith is conjured up 917 00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,700 and she wants to be a part of God's plan. 918 00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:44,980 Watch this, verse seven, 919 00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:46,660 "Then his sister," Miriam, 920 00:42:46,660 --> 00:42:48,300 "said to Pharaoh's daughter, 921 00:42:48,300 --> 00:42:53,220 shall I go and call a nurse from you from the Hebrew women 922 00:42:53,220 --> 00:42:56,680 so that she may nurse the child for you?" 923 00:42:56,680 --> 00:43:00,740 Y'all ain't, come on, Springhouse. 924 00:43:00,740 --> 00:43:03,300 (audience laughing) 925 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:04,740 Miriam's, it's a little girl. 926 00:43:04,740 --> 00:43:07,580 Now you gotta understand, her faith is conjured up 927 00:43:07,580 --> 00:43:09,940 because she's seeing God work. 928 00:43:09,940 --> 00:43:13,500 You can't just go up to Pharaoh's daughter. 929 00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:15,000 That's not how this works. 930 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,700 They can have you killed, you're supposed to be a slave. 931 00:43:17,700 --> 00:43:19,760 If she's going up to Pharaoh's daughter, 932 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,380 that means her faith in God has been conjured up. 933 00:43:22,380 --> 00:43:24,300 She is no longer afraid. 934 00:43:24,300 --> 00:43:26,180 She know this God thing works. 935 00:43:26,180 --> 00:43:30,260 So she's coming against the culture now at a young age. 936 00:43:30,260 --> 00:43:32,340 Young people, you don't have to wait till you're old. 937 00:43:32,340 --> 00:43:34,540 God can use you when you're young. 938 00:43:34,540 --> 00:43:37,580 And so she comes, y'all still with me, y'all getting tired? 939 00:43:37,580 --> 00:43:42,460 Okay, so she comes up to Pharaoh's daughter and says, 940 00:43:42,460 --> 00:43:44,080 "Listen here, I got an idea. 941 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,320 You like the baby, right?" 942 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:48,420 "Yes, oh coochie, coochie, coo." 943 00:43:48,420 --> 00:43:49,620 I saw you doing that. 944 00:43:49,620 --> 00:43:55,640 I think it's a great idea, since you like the baby, 945 00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,200 you don't want them to go hungry. 946 00:43:57,200 --> 00:44:00,020 I can go get a Hebrew woman 947 00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:02,760 to nurse the baby for you. 948 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,020 You know what Pharaoh's daughter's response was? 949 00:44:06,020 --> 00:44:08,560 That's a great idea. 950 00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:10,980 I would love that, that's awesome. 951 00:44:10,980 --> 00:44:13,700 Let's do that, that's a great idea. 952 00:44:13,700 --> 00:44:17,780 Little did Pharaoh's daughter understand 953 00:44:17,780 --> 00:44:20,980 that Miriam was just gonna take the baby back to the mother. 954 00:44:20,980 --> 00:44:23,980 (audience laughing) 955 00:44:23,980 --> 00:44:28,740 She says, in verse eight, Pharaoh's daughter said to her, 956 00:44:28,740 --> 00:44:32,940 "Go ahead," so the girl went and called the child's mother. 957 00:44:32,940 --> 00:44:33,780 Ooh! 958 00:44:33,780 --> 00:44:39,340 You got to be kidding me! 959 00:44:39,340 --> 00:44:42,720 That child said, "I love this, let's go. 960 00:44:42,720 --> 00:44:44,280 Hey, I got an idea, let's do this." 961 00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,280 Pharaoh's daughter, not knowing she's being used by God, 962 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:54,800 is about to give the baby right back to the mother 963 00:44:54,800 --> 00:44:57,720 against the edict of her own father. 964 00:44:57,720 --> 00:45:00,720 (audience laughing) 965 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:06,940 I need you to understand that a boomerang 966 00:45:06,940 --> 00:45:08,640 only comes back when you let it go. 967 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:14,940 That God is trying to return to you 968 00:45:14,940 --> 00:45:19,220 the very thing that you have to trust Him to put down. 969 00:45:19,220 --> 00:45:22,420 And He's going to work, the providence of God, 970 00:45:22,420 --> 00:45:24,720 He's gonna work out the details 971 00:45:26,060 --> 00:45:28,100 and bring that thing right back around. 972 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:30,300 But not only is He gonna bring it around, 973 00:45:30,300 --> 00:45:32,440 you're talking about God. 974 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:36,940 Okay, Springhouse, this is God we're talking about. 975 00:45:36,940 --> 00:45:39,380 He don't just do the normal. 976 00:45:39,380 --> 00:45:40,900 Okay, y'all don't know the story, 977 00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:43,260 so let me show you how to, okay, let me read this to you. 978 00:45:43,260 --> 00:45:44,740 You're gonna trip out, you're gonna trip out. 979 00:45:44,740 --> 00:45:46,340 Okay, here it goes. 980 00:45:46,340 --> 00:45:48,980 Pharaoh's daughter said, "Go, go get the mother," 981 00:45:48,980 --> 00:45:49,980 she didn't say go get the mother, 982 00:45:49,980 --> 00:45:52,100 but go ahead, go get the Hebrew woman. 983 00:45:52,100 --> 00:45:53,820 So the girl went and got the child's mother. 984 00:45:53,820 --> 00:45:56,640 Then Pharaoh's daughter said to the child's mother, 985 00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:02,780 "Take this child away and nurse him for me 986 00:46:02,780 --> 00:46:06,020 "and I will give you wages." 987 00:46:06,020 --> 00:46:09,020 (audience laughing) 988 00:46:09,020 --> 00:46:13,860 So the woman took the child and nursed him. 989 00:46:13,860 --> 00:46:19,220 (audience laughing) 990 00:46:19,220 --> 00:46:22,340 She got paid to nurse her own baby. 991 00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,480 (audience laughing) 992 00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:28,860 'Cause you need to understand 993 00:46:28,860 --> 00:46:32,900 that God can do exceedingly, abundantly, beyond 994 00:46:32,900 --> 00:46:34,680 all that you can ask or think. 995 00:46:34,680 --> 00:46:37,460 (audience applauding) 996 00:46:37,460 --> 00:46:38,300 Watch this. 997 00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:43,880 According to the power that works in you. 998 00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:47,420 Everybody jumps over pews 999 00:46:47,420 --> 00:46:49,800 with the first part of Ephesians 3.20. 1000 00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:51,380 They forget the last part. 1001 00:46:51,380 --> 00:46:55,340 He can do exceedingly, abundantly, beyond 1002 00:46:55,340 --> 00:46:58,180 all that you can ask or think 1003 00:46:58,180 --> 00:47:02,480 according to the power that works in you. 1004 00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:06,020 So if you're experiencing a little bit of God, 1005 00:47:06,020 --> 00:47:08,300 he's saying, well, I'm experiencing a little bit of you. 1006 00:47:08,300 --> 00:47:11,940 (audience gasping) 1007 00:47:11,940 --> 00:47:14,540 Because when God's sovereignty picks something up, 1008 00:47:14,540 --> 00:47:18,680 she got paid to do what she would have done for free. 1009 00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:21,440 (audience laughing) 1010 00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:22,960 You got to be kidding me. 1011 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,680 And this all came from one point and one concept. 1012 00:47:27,680 --> 00:47:31,560 Let it go. 1013 00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:36,720 (audience applauding) 1014 00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:39,720 (audience cheering) 1015 00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:41,880 [APPLAUSE]