1 00:00:02,580 --> 00:00:09,600 God is faithful, yes, amen? 2 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:10,920 He is so faithful. 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:15,380 I have a couple of things 4 00:00:15,380 --> 00:00:18,540 before I have Justin come this morning. 5 00:00:18,540 --> 00:00:21,220 This coming Thursday, this coming Thursday 6 00:00:21,220 --> 00:00:24,220 kicks off our Springhouse Conference. 7 00:00:24,220 --> 00:00:25,700 And you won't wanna miss it. 8 00:00:25,700 --> 00:00:29,300 And guys, we have a headliner coming in on Thursday night. 9 00:00:29,300 --> 00:00:30,340 It's Pastor Barbie. 10 00:00:30,340 --> 00:00:32,620 She's gonna be bringing the Word, guys. 11 00:00:32,620 --> 00:00:35,600 And I am super excited about everything 12 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:40,480 the Lord's weaving together for our conference this spring. 13 00:00:40,480 --> 00:00:43,880 And so come and be a part of that time together. 14 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,320 I do need to let you know that on Sunday, 15 00:00:46,320 --> 00:00:48,020 everybody say Sunday. 16 00:00:48,020 --> 00:00:52,100 On Sunday next week, this gathering will begin at 11 a.m. 17 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:54,200 and it will go until 1230, okay? 18 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:56,960 So if you come at 1030, that's great 19 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:59,460 because you'll be early to church. 20 00:00:59,460 --> 00:01:02,560 If you're used to coming to church at 11 o'clock, 21 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,580 then you'll actually experience what it's like 22 00:01:04,580 --> 00:01:06,720 to be on time to church. 23 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:09,120 And so we are excited either way, 24 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:12,920 but just so you'll know, the gathering will begin at 11 25 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:16,120 and the gatherings on Sunday are two different gatherings. 26 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:17,740 Now we typically have a repeat gathering. 27 00:01:17,740 --> 00:01:19,560 We want to invite you to both. 28 00:01:19,560 --> 00:01:21,860 We have an early session at nine o'clock 29 00:01:21,860 --> 00:01:25,000 and we have the main session at 11, two different speakers. 30 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,400 It's gonna be two different services. 31 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,520 So we invite you to come and be a part of all of that. 32 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:31,440 There will not be the 12 meeting next week. 33 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:34,080 We have conference time. 34 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,460 Second, we are in the Lenten season, 35 00:01:36,460 --> 00:01:39,440 which means we have asked you to fast during this time. 36 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,640 And some of you may think, oh no, I forgot and now I'm out. 37 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:45,140 Well, that couldn't be further from the truth. 38 00:01:45,140 --> 00:01:46,760 You can begin fasting tomorrow. 39 00:01:46,760 --> 00:01:47,580 Now here's the thing. 40 00:01:47,580 --> 00:01:49,720 There are 40 days in the Lenten season, 41 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,720 the 40 days prior to celebrating Resurrecting Sunday. 42 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:55,240 But if you count the days, you might say, but there's 46. 43 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,560 What is going on? 44 00:01:56,560 --> 00:01:59,000 We do not fast on the Sundays 45 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,680 because Sunday's a day of celebration. 46 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:03,280 Have we been celebrating what the Lord's done today? 47 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:05,560 Yes, and so we don't fast on Sunday. 48 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,540 So those things that you gave up today, man, 49 00:02:07,540 --> 00:02:09,360 enjoy those things unless it's sin. 50 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:11,000 Enjoy those things. 51 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:15,540 And you can lean in and celebrate those things 52 00:02:15,540 --> 00:02:17,420 on the Sundays, okay? 53 00:02:17,420 --> 00:02:22,100 Lastly, we have a wonderful problem here at Springhouse. 54 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:24,220 We are growing, we are growing. 55 00:02:24,220 --> 00:02:26,900 And I have been told that some of you have parked 56 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:29,400 on the grass when you're coming to church on Sunday, 57 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:31,620 which is great because you don't have another place to park 58 00:02:31,620 --> 00:02:32,800 and I'm glad you are. 59 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:34,080 Here's the thing. 60 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:36,200 We are going to, I believe the Lord's gonna bring 61 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:38,040 some more people to Springhouse. 62 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,320 And so I'm gonna ask you, some of you might say, 63 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:41,920 man, what is a way that I could serve? 64 00:02:41,920 --> 00:02:45,200 What is a way that I could really help at Springhouse? 65 00:02:45,200 --> 00:02:48,760 I would like for some of you to prayerfully consider 66 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:50,480 attending the early gathering 67 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:52,920 if you only attend one gathering each Sunday, 68 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,380 especially as we head into the Easter season 69 00:02:55,380 --> 00:02:57,220 and people start to begin to come. 70 00:02:57,220 --> 00:02:59,600 What we don't want is our visitors to come 71 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:00,880 and have to park on the grass 72 00:03:00,880 --> 00:03:02,540 because we don't have room for them. 73 00:03:02,540 --> 00:03:04,320 We want to make room. 74 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:06,600 The gatherings are typically repeat gatherings. 75 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,140 So if that is something where, 76 00:03:08,140 --> 00:03:11,120 if you have the capacity to choose the morning gathering, 77 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:13,520 if you only come do one of the gatherings, 78 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:15,740 I would ask you that you prayerfully consider that 79 00:03:15,740 --> 00:03:17,640 so we can make room for everybody 80 00:03:17,640 --> 00:03:20,120 the Lord's wanting to send to Springhouse, amen? 81 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,500 I don't wanna say anymore because God has a word for us 82 00:03:22,500 --> 00:03:24,940 this morning, would you guys welcome Pastor Justin? 83 00:03:24,940 --> 00:03:28,440 (congregation applauding) 84 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,780 - Good morning. 85 00:03:32,780 --> 00:03:34,680 It's been a while. 86 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,820 So I've been here. 87 00:03:36,820 --> 00:03:37,700 I did wanna let you know, 88 00:03:37,700 --> 00:03:40,100 I did make good on my promise on my chain. 89 00:03:40,100 --> 00:03:41,520 So thing was empty. 90 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:44,220 I told you I was gonna put a charm on there, did that. 91 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,160 This passage we're gonna read. 92 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,400 Let me give you guys a little bit of a background, okay? 93 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,560 The Israelites are enslaved. 94 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:02,160 God is going to bring His people out. 95 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:05,720 He has implemented instructions for the Passover meal 96 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:07,640 and how they're supposed to take it. 97 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,280 He explains to the Israelites what they need to do. 98 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,240 And then He tells them what He was going to do. 99 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:17,460 And then He gives them the reason why He's going to do it. 100 00:04:17,460 --> 00:04:20,020 So if you're able to please stand with me, 101 00:04:20,020 --> 00:04:22,220 let's get into the word and then I'll pray. 102 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:26,240 Are you ready? 103 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:30,600 In this manner, you shall eat it. 104 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,260 With your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet 105 00:04:34,260 --> 00:04:38,920 and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste, 106 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,500 it is the Lord's Passover. 107 00:04:41,500 --> 00:04:45,380 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night 108 00:04:45,380 --> 00:04:49,740 and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, 109 00:04:49,740 --> 00:04:53,960 both man and beast and on all the gods of Egypt, 110 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:56,200 I will execute judgments. 111 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,640 I am the Lord. 112 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,480 The blood shall be a sign for you 113 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,640 on the houses where you are. 114 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:07,540 And when I see the blood, I will pass over you 115 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:10,080 and no plague will befall you 116 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,320 when I strike the land of Egypt. 117 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:13,720 This is God's word. 118 00:05:13,720 --> 00:05:16,920 Lord, today I ask that you would help me 119 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:20,600 to clearly explain the scriptures, 120 00:05:20,600 --> 00:05:22,420 that you would open our hearts, 121 00:05:22,420 --> 00:05:24,940 that we would see the bigness of the cross, 122 00:05:24,940 --> 00:05:28,980 the might of your hand and the grace that you give us. 123 00:05:28,980 --> 00:05:32,560 Father, I thank you for Jesus, the Lamb of God, 124 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:35,980 the Lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. 125 00:05:35,980 --> 00:05:38,580 I thank you for the complexity of scripture 126 00:05:38,580 --> 00:05:43,140 and the desire for your people to know you in new ways. 127 00:05:43,140 --> 00:05:46,780 God help us today in Christ's name, amen and amen. 128 00:05:46,780 --> 00:05:47,840 You can be seated. 129 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:52,000 I wanna give you guys a little bit of a clarifying term. 130 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,180 If I say the word cosmic, 131 00:05:56,180 --> 00:05:58,760 it's his equivalent to the word supernatural. 132 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:00,600 Supernatural is not really a good word 133 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:03,320 because there's really only one supernatural being 134 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:04,280 and that is God. 135 00:06:04,280 --> 00:06:07,240 He's the only supernatural being. 136 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:08,600 Everything else is cosmic. 137 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:12,100 So when I say cosmic, what I mean is not of earth. 138 00:06:12,100 --> 00:06:14,100 We all agree 139 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:20,020 that there are cosmic beings, 140 00:06:20,020 --> 00:06:23,680 angels, rebel angels, things that are not human, 141 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:25,320 people that are not human, 142 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,400 that are a part of the biblical narrative 143 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:32,100 that we have somehow dismissed. 144 00:06:32,100 --> 00:06:35,560 So when I say cosmic beings, 145 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:36,960 I don't want you to freak out and be like, 146 00:06:36,960 --> 00:06:37,800 what is he talking about? 147 00:06:37,800 --> 00:06:40,400 I'm just talking about not people, not you. 148 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:41,680 Okay, everybody got that? 149 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,520 This is one of the most famous Bible stories 150 00:06:46,520 --> 00:06:51,080 and Bible sections and it's filled with some hard truths. 151 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,160 But if you've been reading the Bible long enough, 152 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,520 this may or may not come as a shock to you. 153 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,520 We have got to read the Bible for what it says 154 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:00,180 and not what we want it to say. 155 00:07:00,180 --> 00:07:05,360 We have got to read the Bible for what it says 156 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:07,720 and not what we want it to say. 157 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:10,720 This book was not written to you, 158 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:13,300 but it is for you. 159 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:16,800 And it is very difficult at times 160 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,220 in our modern Western culture 161 00:07:20,220 --> 00:07:24,720 to get our heads around an ancient Near Eastern book. 162 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,600 But you have to immerse yourself 163 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:29,980 into the context of the book. 164 00:07:29,980 --> 00:07:35,520 Last week, we were graced with Pastor Kevin's word 165 00:07:35,520 --> 00:07:40,520 and Yahweh's commission to Moses at the burning bush. 166 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:43,840 And Kevin reminded us that when God tells you 167 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,960 to do something, the answer is obey. 168 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:51,140 Is delayed obedience disobedience? 169 00:07:51,140 --> 00:07:54,960 How many of you parents like when your kids 170 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:57,060 start questioning what you just told them? 171 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:01,140 I told my kids, you can ask questions, 172 00:08:01,140 --> 00:08:04,520 but you better be careful how you ask that question. 173 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,840 If you're just asking to buck, then I don't wanna hear it. 174 00:08:06,840 --> 00:08:09,120 But if you really need some clarification, 175 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:10,740 then I might oblige. 176 00:08:11,580 --> 00:08:14,900 I don't think that Moses' rebuttal to God 177 00:08:14,900 --> 00:08:16,740 is more like, well, why do I gotta do that? 178 00:08:16,740 --> 00:08:17,960 He's like, help me understand 179 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,580 because I don't really know what's going on here. 180 00:08:20,580 --> 00:08:23,420 There's a bush that's burning and it's not consumed. 181 00:08:23,420 --> 00:08:25,500 And there's a voice that comes out of this bush. 182 00:08:25,500 --> 00:08:28,640 And then you tell me that this place is cosmic geography. 183 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:30,100 This is heaven and earth space. 184 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:33,980 Holy ground would be the other word for that. 185 00:08:33,980 --> 00:08:35,680 And he said, take your shoes off. 186 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:41,000 Moses had no reason to not believe what God was saying. 187 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:43,380 However, one thing we must understand 188 00:08:43,380 --> 00:08:45,820 is this is the first time he's met Yahweh. 189 00:08:45,820 --> 00:08:51,820 He's like, I've heard about you from my ancestors, 190 00:08:51,820 --> 00:08:53,320 but I've never met you. 191 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,720 This is the first time that you've come to church 192 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,400 on your grandma's face and experienced God 193 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:03,280 at this altar for yourself. 194 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:04,400 That's what it equates to. 195 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:05,480 I've heard about you. 196 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,200 My grandmother told me about you. 197 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:10,360 My mom prayed over me, but I've never experienced you. 198 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:12,080 This is new for me. 199 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,800 So while I know that something genuine is happening, 200 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:18,200 I don't have a context for this in my life. 201 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:19,960 This is new for me. 202 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:23,840 Moses also grew up under the influence of Pharaoh 203 00:09:23,840 --> 00:09:26,640 and the Old Testament gods, the gods of Egypt. 204 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:29,120 He argues with God. 205 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:32,880 He says, I don't really talk that good, 206 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:36,100 which is the excuse for most Southern preachers. 207 00:09:36,100 --> 00:09:39,600 We'll get to one of the plagues. 208 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,760 And my wife reminds me, you've got to enunciate hell. 209 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:44,080 I can't say it. 210 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:46,320 Hail, does that sound right? 211 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:48,720 When I say hell, what do you think of? 212 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:51,680 Not, you think of somewhere else, I'm struck, 213 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:52,880 I can't say it, right? 214 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:54,320 So I would have that same excuse. 215 00:09:54,320 --> 00:09:56,580 Listen, listen, I can't say that, God. 216 00:09:56,580 --> 00:09:58,000 But the nature of the argument, 217 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:00,480 it reveals to us some insight about where he, 218 00:10:00,480 --> 00:10:03,040 the context of where he's grown up at. 219 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,100 In Egypt, words were powerful. 220 00:10:07,100 --> 00:10:10,400 The Egyptian magic was word focused or spell based. 221 00:10:10,400 --> 00:10:12,560 The Egyptian book of the dead believed 222 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:15,520 that certain incantations can force the dowry 223 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,160 to act on their behalf. 224 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:20,920 Even the scriptures tell us that life and death 225 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:23,200 are in the power of the, 226 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:26,680 why is that a foreign concept? 227 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:27,520 All of, 228 00:10:27,520 --> 00:10:29,980 I digress. 229 00:10:29,980 --> 00:10:34,980 Jesus called Lazarus out of the tomb, did he not? 230 00:10:34,980 --> 00:10:38,340 What did he, did he, he said, hey, Lazarus, come out. 231 00:10:38,340 --> 00:10:42,420 What's even more amazing was prior to that, 232 00:10:42,420 --> 00:10:44,320 when they said, hey, Jesus, Lazarus is dead. 233 00:10:44,320 --> 00:10:46,820 He said, no, he ain't, he's sleeping. 234 00:10:46,820 --> 00:10:50,360 So he sent his word ahead of himself. 235 00:10:50,360 --> 00:10:55,360 So he sent his word and then when he got there, 236 00:10:55,360 --> 00:10:58,720 he was already in agreement with what was about to happen, 237 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,820 even if you don't believe. 238 00:11:00,820 --> 00:11:05,120 Psalm 107 20 says, he sent his word and healed them 239 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,280 and delivered them from their destruction. 240 00:11:07,280 --> 00:11:09,720 He sent his word. 241 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,460 God said, let there be, 242 00:11:12,460 --> 00:11:16,760 and the cosmos responded. 243 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:19,300 There is power in speech. 244 00:11:19,300 --> 00:11:21,680 That's why he says, hey man, be careful about the stuff 245 00:11:21,680 --> 00:11:25,380 you say under your breath about people, 246 00:11:25,380 --> 00:11:28,100 the things you confess over your life. 247 00:11:28,800 --> 00:11:30,700 Mom was asking me, I wonder how you gonna throw me 248 00:11:30,700 --> 00:11:31,640 under the bus this week? 249 00:11:31,640 --> 00:11:32,560 Here's how, mom. 250 00:11:32,560 --> 00:11:36,960 We were on the phone just yesterday and she said, 251 00:11:36,960 --> 00:11:39,080 oh, I was asking him, my dad was all right. 252 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:40,840 He had some issues with blood sugar. 253 00:11:40,840 --> 00:11:42,820 And she said, yeah, you know, it's hereditary. 254 00:11:42,820 --> 00:11:44,420 I said, ain't hereditary for me. 255 00:11:44,420 --> 00:11:48,600 I don't know which one it's passing on to, 256 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:50,920 but it ain't passing on to me. 257 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:52,960 She said, shut up, you know what I mean. 258 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:56,600 I said, yes, ma'am, you're right. 259 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:57,960 Amen, amen. 260 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,740 Man, I'm not, absolutely not. 261 00:12:01,740 --> 00:12:05,800 Absolutely not, there's power in words, okay. 262 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:09,540 The two magicians that oppose Moses are mentioned by name 263 00:12:09,540 --> 00:12:12,120 in 2 Timothy 3, verse eight. 264 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:14,680 It says, just as Jonas and John Braes, 265 00:12:14,680 --> 00:12:16,260 and I might be messing their name up, 266 00:12:16,260 --> 00:12:19,540 but I don't care 'cause they're warlocks, okay. 267 00:12:19,540 --> 00:12:22,400 They was casting spells and throwing down sticks 268 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:23,700 and it turned into snake. 269 00:12:23,700 --> 00:12:25,780 (coughs) 270 00:12:25,780 --> 00:12:28,840 That's what it says. 271 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:30,820 I didn't make that up. 272 00:12:30,820 --> 00:12:32,800 There was some power to it, 273 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:34,520 but it wasn't power like God has. 274 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,960 Here's the problem. 275 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,220 Here's the problem. 276 00:12:39,220 --> 00:12:41,780 I'll get there. 277 00:12:41,780 --> 00:12:47,880 Why was this the excuse to Moses used? 278 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,180 Moses grew up under the influence of Pharaoh 279 00:12:51,180 --> 00:12:52,340 and the Old Testament gods. 280 00:12:52,340 --> 00:12:53,240 And you might say, wait a minute, 281 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:54,080 there's not other gods. 282 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:56,580 Well, there are, but they're not what we think they are. 283 00:12:56,580 --> 00:12:59,960 Okay, remember I mentioned cosmic beings, right? 284 00:12:59,960 --> 00:13:04,740 Can we all agree that in the garden, when Eve was there, 285 00:13:04,740 --> 00:13:06,700 there was already a bad guy there. 286 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:10,920 That bad guy was not created as a bad guy. 287 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:14,180 He became a bad guy. 288 00:13:14,180 --> 00:13:17,600 All of the crime that's committed in our communities 289 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,160 are committed by people who didn't start out as bad guys. 290 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,120 They chose rebellion. 291 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,420 So when I say to you, there are other gods, 292 00:13:26,420 --> 00:13:29,000 they're not God like God. 293 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,240 They have taken on the mantle of a God, little G gods. 294 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,400 They have no power like God. 295 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:37,900 They have a little bit given to them 296 00:13:37,900 --> 00:13:40,460 by worship and idolatry. 297 00:13:40,460 --> 00:13:42,480 So when I say that there are other gods, 298 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:44,780 when the first commandment is, 299 00:13:44,780 --> 00:13:46,560 you're not gonna worship any of the gods, 300 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:50,240 understand there is not a pantheon of gods 301 00:13:50,240 --> 00:13:52,380 and then Yahweh reigns supreme. 302 00:13:52,380 --> 00:13:55,260 There are other beings that have claimed themselves 303 00:13:55,260 --> 00:13:57,540 to be God just like the devil did. 304 00:13:57,540 --> 00:14:00,560 So when I say there are other gods, 305 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:02,420 don't freak out and have a moment, 306 00:14:02,420 --> 00:14:05,040 but understand there are other cosmic beings 307 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:08,380 who have elevated themselves in the position of God 308 00:14:08,380 --> 00:14:12,000 and taken worship for themselves. 309 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:14,180 Does that make sense what I'm saying guys? 310 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:22,900 In Deuteronomy 32, verses 89, 311 00:14:22,900 --> 00:14:28,320 he's telling us what happened after the tower of Babel, 312 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,500 after they build this ziggurat, this mountain pyramid, 313 00:14:32,500 --> 00:14:35,140 and they're trying to build their way to heaven. 314 00:14:35,140 --> 00:14:38,140 God separates the nations in the languages. 315 00:14:38,140 --> 00:14:41,060 And it says here, "When the Most High gave the nations 316 00:14:41,060 --> 00:14:44,760 their inheritance, He divided mankind 317 00:14:44,760 --> 00:14:47,160 and He fixed the borders of the peoples 318 00:14:47,160 --> 00:14:50,000 according to the number of the sons of God." 319 00:14:50,000 --> 00:14:53,760 This phrase in Hebrew is (speaking in foreign language) 320 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:56,080 Every time you see sons of God mentioned 321 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,400 in the Old Testament, it's primarily talking about not us, 322 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,480 angelic beings, but the Lord's portion is His people, 323 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:06,560 Jacob, His allotted heritage. 324 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,660 So when you hear that the Jews are God's chosen people, 325 00:15:09,660 --> 00:15:12,120 this is why He divided up the nations 326 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:14,900 and He put representatives in charge. 327 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:17,740 And some of them did not do right. 328 00:15:17,740 --> 00:15:20,700 And they became the gods of the Old Testament, 329 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,820 the gods of Egypt, accepting worship 330 00:15:23,820 --> 00:15:26,980 that was only supposed to be given to Yahweh. 331 00:15:26,980 --> 00:15:30,680 And there are gods in your life that have accepted worship 332 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,480 that is reserved only for Yahweh. 333 00:15:33,480 --> 00:15:41,660 So Moses goes to tell Pharaoh, "Hey, let my people go." 334 00:15:42,620 --> 00:15:45,600 And of course, what does Pharaoh say? 335 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:47,360 "You don't tell me what to do. 336 00:15:47,360 --> 00:15:49,520 You don't tell me what to do, I'm Pharaoh. 337 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,900 You don't tell me." 338 00:15:52,900 --> 00:15:57,040 And he says, "We have to do it the hard way." 339 00:15:57,040 --> 00:16:00,720 Have you ever wondered why the plagues? 340 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:01,960 Like if you read the story, right? 341 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:03,080 You've been to Sunday school class 342 00:16:03,080 --> 00:16:04,440 or maybe this is your first time 343 00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,960 and you've not heard about the plagues of Egypt. 344 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:08,060 Well, buckle up. 345 00:16:10,360 --> 00:16:12,560 Listen, I've told you guys that Jimmy V said, 346 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:15,660 "Hey, if you laugh, if you laugh during the day, 347 00:16:15,660 --> 00:16:17,540 if you cry during the day and you think during the day, 348 00:16:17,540 --> 00:16:19,280 hey, that's a good day." 349 00:16:19,280 --> 00:16:21,200 And there's already been some laughing and crying down here 350 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:23,480 and now I need you to think, okay? 351 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:26,940 Ever wondered why the plagues, 352 00:16:26,940 --> 00:16:28,160 what's the significance of them? 353 00:16:28,160 --> 00:16:29,980 Well, there's two reasons for the plagues. 354 00:16:29,980 --> 00:16:31,760 The first reason is to show His power 355 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:33,000 as Lord of all creation. 356 00:16:33,000 --> 00:16:34,520 The second is to set His people free. 357 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:36,160 And God does it in two ways, 358 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:39,980 acts of de-creation and attacks against the gods of Egypt. 359 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,620 There's two reasons and two ways. 360 00:16:42,620 --> 00:16:44,440 One, I'm gonna show my power 361 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:46,180 and I'm gonna set my people free. 362 00:16:46,180 --> 00:16:47,400 And the way I'm gonna do it 363 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,860 is I'm gonna take what is orderly and turn it into chaos 364 00:16:50,860 --> 00:16:53,540 and I'm gonna systematically dismantle 365 00:16:53,540 --> 00:16:55,460 all these gods you worship. 366 00:16:55,460 --> 00:16:59,820 Systematically dismantle them. 367 00:16:59,820 --> 00:17:03,780 Just as the 10 commandments become symbolic 368 00:17:03,780 --> 00:17:06,100 of the fullness of the moral law of God, 369 00:17:06,100 --> 00:17:07,740 the 10 ancient plagues of Egypt 370 00:17:07,740 --> 00:17:11,020 represent the fullness of God's expression of justice 371 00:17:11,020 --> 00:17:14,860 and judgment upon those who refuse to repent. 372 00:17:14,860 --> 00:17:19,460 If He would have turned the Nile to blood 373 00:17:19,460 --> 00:17:23,400 and Pharaoh said, "I repent and you can have them." 374 00:17:23,400 --> 00:17:26,360 Then the consequences would not have continued. 375 00:17:26,360 --> 00:17:28,220 But He hardened Pharaoh's heart 'cause He says, 376 00:17:28,220 --> 00:17:30,020 "I know how this is gonna go." 377 00:17:30,020 --> 00:17:32,020 You're gonna say, "I'm so sorry." 378 00:17:32,020 --> 00:17:34,200 And tomorrow you're gonna do it again. 379 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:35,040 Anybody? 380 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:36,660 Just me? 381 00:17:37,540 --> 00:17:39,140 That's me. 382 00:17:39,140 --> 00:17:41,520 I have gotten to the point where I have to pray, 383 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:43,280 "God, I don't even know how to repent. 384 00:17:43,280 --> 00:17:46,240 I need you to show me how to repent. 385 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,900 I can say it, but I don't even know how to do this, God. 386 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:51,260 I need your help to repent." 387 00:17:51,260 --> 00:17:57,700 10 times God through Moses allows Pharaoh to change his mind 388 00:17:57,700 --> 00:18:00,340 repent and turn to the one true God. 389 00:18:00,340 --> 00:18:03,500 Each time increasing the severity of the consequence 390 00:18:03,500 --> 00:18:06,060 of the plague suffered for disobedience to his request. 391 00:18:06,060 --> 00:18:08,940 10 times Pharaoh because of pride 392 00:18:08,940 --> 00:18:10,540 refuses to be taught by the Lord 393 00:18:10,540 --> 00:18:12,560 and he receives judgment through the plagues 394 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:15,800 pronounced on his head from Moses the deliverer. 395 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:19,760 The 10 Egyptian plagues testify of Jesus, 396 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:22,640 the anointed one in His power to save. 397 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:27,640 Every T that is crossed and every I that is dotted 398 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:32,180 in this word is weaved together in a story 399 00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:37,140 that is all about Jesus restoring His family to Himself. 400 00:18:37,140 --> 00:18:43,020 He systematically dismantled each of those Egyptian gods 401 00:18:43,020 --> 00:18:45,980 leading up to Pharaoh, the ruler. 402 00:18:45,980 --> 00:18:48,940 And God wants to systematically dismantle 403 00:18:48,940 --> 00:18:51,220 each of the gods you have placed your faith in 404 00:18:51,220 --> 00:18:52,600 and remove you from the throne. 405 00:18:52,600 --> 00:18:54,700 Remember I said they were not gods 406 00:18:54,700 --> 00:18:56,680 and they masqueraded as gods? 407 00:18:56,680 --> 00:19:00,360 There are things in your life that are not supreme, 408 00:19:00,360 --> 00:19:02,260 that are masquerading as supreme 409 00:19:02,260 --> 00:19:05,320 and you have elevated them above the place of God. 410 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:08,840 And God says, today we're gonna destroy them. 411 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:11,600 And all I ask you to do is repent. 412 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:17,440 Turn to me and put the blood on the doorpost of your life. 413 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:20,540 So let's look at these acts of de-creation. 414 00:19:20,540 --> 00:19:24,340 The first one was the plague of blood. 415 00:19:24,340 --> 00:19:27,220 He turned the Nile River to blood 416 00:19:27,220 --> 00:19:31,180 and the magicians were able to mimic this. 417 00:19:31,180 --> 00:19:33,660 The problem was they couldn't turn it back. 418 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:36,080 They could pour mud in the water, 419 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,380 but how do we get it out now? 420 00:19:38,380 --> 00:19:44,640 Remember this, when Moses was a baby, 421 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:47,240 they said Pharaoh, I said they, 422 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,240 Pharaoh said, hey, kill all the Hebrew babies 423 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:54,520 and throw them in the Nile, effectively turning it to blood. 424 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:56,120 And God is saying with the first plague, 425 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:57,380 I want you to know, I didn't forget what you did 426 00:19:57,380 --> 00:19:58,660 to my people. 427 00:19:58,660 --> 00:20:00,620 I didn't forget you threw all them, 428 00:20:00,620 --> 00:20:03,320 I didn't forget you sacrificed all them babies 429 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:04,540 and threw them in the river. 430 00:20:04,540 --> 00:20:06,100 Watch, I'll turn it to blood. 431 00:20:06,100 --> 00:20:08,860 I'll turn it to blood. 432 00:20:08,860 --> 00:20:10,800 This was their source of life. 433 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,480 Their whole entire civilization was built 434 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:16,660 on the banks of the Nile River. 435 00:20:16,660 --> 00:20:19,500 It was a source of life for them. 436 00:20:19,500 --> 00:20:22,420 And God says, I will take away this source of life. 437 00:20:22,420 --> 00:20:25,580 The words used here are actually the same words 438 00:20:25,580 --> 00:20:28,460 in Genesis one, where it says God called the bodies 439 00:20:28,460 --> 00:20:33,460 of water together out of chaos and made them into order 440 00:20:33,460 --> 00:20:36,220 and set boundaries for the sea. 441 00:20:36,220 --> 00:20:39,380 And in stark contrast, the act of de-creation, 442 00:20:39,380 --> 00:20:42,780 God says, I will take this orderly Nile with banks 443 00:20:42,780 --> 00:20:45,540 and I will turn it into a chaotic state. 444 00:20:45,540 --> 00:20:47,000 But you see the contrast? 445 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:49,740 It's an act of de-creation. 446 00:20:49,740 --> 00:20:52,480 It was also an assault against their God, Hapi, 447 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,940 whoever this guy is, God of the Nile. 448 00:20:55,780 --> 00:20:56,960 Let looks made up. 449 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:00,540 Try to find a real picture. 450 00:21:00,540 --> 00:21:01,620 I was like, show me a real picture. 451 00:21:01,620 --> 00:21:05,120 It was like, cartoon. 452 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:10,580 Plagues two, three and four, frogs, lice or gnats. 453 00:21:10,580 --> 00:21:11,460 I know you're gonna read about it. 454 00:21:11,460 --> 00:21:14,300 It says gnats, the same thing, okay? 455 00:21:14,300 --> 00:21:15,640 And flies. 456 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:20,020 These form a triad of water, earth and air. 457 00:21:20,020 --> 00:21:21,320 Are you hearing me? 458 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:23,260 Water, earth and air. 459 00:21:23,260 --> 00:21:26,940 These frogs emerged from the rivers, canals, 460 00:21:26,940 --> 00:21:30,460 the ponds in Egypt and instead of swarming in the waters, 461 00:21:30,460 --> 00:21:32,500 they swarmed in the people's homes. 462 00:21:32,500 --> 00:21:35,860 The Bible says that even in the mixing bowl 463 00:21:35,860 --> 00:21:37,740 where they was trying to make bread, 464 00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:39,180 hopefully only on a Sunday 465 00:21:39,180 --> 00:21:41,100 because they weren't supposed to be, 466 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:42,940 unless they're prepared, anyway, look. 467 00:21:42,940 --> 00:21:47,620 It was in the mixing bowls. 468 00:21:47,620 --> 00:21:51,500 They're everywhere, everywhere. 469 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:54,760 The gnats or the flies come, 470 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,680 or the lice come forth from the clumped earth. 471 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,380 He struck the dust of the earth 472 00:21:59,380 --> 00:22:03,160 and it corresponds to the crawling creatures over the earth. 473 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:06,780 The flies, swarm of insects, 474 00:22:06,780 --> 00:22:10,060 correspond to the flying creatures in the creation story. 475 00:22:10,060 --> 00:22:12,080 And the crazy thing about this is, 476 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,360 those animals are out of control. 477 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:16,520 And the first mandate he gave man was, 478 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:18,820 you have dominion over the fish of the sea 479 00:22:18,820 --> 00:22:21,180 and the birds of the air and the animals of the land. 480 00:22:21,180 --> 00:22:24,280 And here in contrast, they rule the people. 481 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:29,200 God said, here's the order, here's the chaos. 482 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:32,820 It wasn't lost on the Israelites 483 00:22:32,820 --> 00:22:36,780 because they knew the oral history of their people. 484 00:22:36,780 --> 00:22:38,360 We don't know it. 485 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:40,560 It don't matter to us. 486 00:22:40,560 --> 00:22:44,760 Most of us don't even know anything past 1996. 487 00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:51,100 Call me a liar, why? 488 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:53,740 'Cause we're distracted with entertainment. 489 00:22:53,740 --> 00:22:56,300 We're so distracted, myself included. 490 00:22:56,300 --> 00:22:57,740 My kids asked me last week, 491 00:22:57,740 --> 00:22:59,100 when is March Madness bracket? 492 00:22:59,100 --> 00:23:01,180 I'm like, one more week guys. 493 00:23:01,180 --> 00:23:05,100 We're distracted, man. 494 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:07,020 We're so distracted, we're entertained. 495 00:23:07,020 --> 00:23:09,060 We just wanna be entertained instead of, 496 00:23:09,060 --> 00:23:10,620 we don't wanna be students. 497 00:23:10,620 --> 00:23:11,660 We don't wanna study. 498 00:23:11,660 --> 00:23:13,420 We don't wanna know. 499 00:23:13,420 --> 00:23:15,740 There's a history of God's people 500 00:23:15,740 --> 00:23:18,160 that we don't even care to look at. 501 00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,480 Oh, damn. 502 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:23,980 (congregation laughing) 503 00:23:23,980 --> 00:23:27,000 These were also, they would have been praying to these gods. 504 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:30,640 They would have been praying to a cat and Gab and Capri. 505 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:31,480 They would have been saying, 506 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:32,940 hey, come help us get these frogs out. 507 00:23:32,940 --> 00:23:35,200 God says, nope, 'cause they're not in charge. 508 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:38,700 Doing the wrong thing. 509 00:23:38,700 --> 00:23:42,240 Plague five was pestilence. 510 00:23:42,240 --> 00:23:45,040 This plague affected animals, specifically field animals. 511 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:46,960 In Genesis 2, 18 through 20, 512 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,880 animals are created specifically for man. 513 00:23:49,880 --> 00:23:51,600 In this plague of pestilence, 514 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,280 the domestic animals that were under man's dominion 515 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,000 were taken away from the Egyptians. 516 00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,100 That which was created first for man 517 00:23:59,100 --> 00:24:01,700 is the first taken away from man in this plague. 518 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:05,040 You see how God is like, oh, remember how I did this 519 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:06,440 and I gave you these animals first? 520 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:07,280 How about this? 521 00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,600 Those will be the first ones I'll take away from you. 522 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:11,480 And the Israelites knew it. 523 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,400 This was also against Hathor, 524 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,600 their goddess of love and protection, 525 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:19,680 depicted with the head of a cow. 526 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:26,800 Our actions have consequences 527 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,340 because there were other things that were affected 528 00:24:29,340 --> 00:24:31,840 by the actions of Pharaoh. 529 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:33,240 It was affecting his people, 530 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,760 now it's affecting the livestock. 531 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:36,680 Well, let's continue. 532 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:38,260 Plague six were boils. 533 00:24:38,260 --> 00:24:39,900 The Egyptians considered themselves 534 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:41,600 superior to other people. 535 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,180 And Pharaoh himself was a god 536 00:24:43,180 --> 00:24:44,800 and his officers were priests 537 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:48,200 and they were afflicted with a disgusting disease 538 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,120 and affliction of boils and sores on their bodies 539 00:24:51,120 --> 00:24:53,320 while the Israelites were unscathed. 540 00:24:53,320 --> 00:24:55,840 Oh, you think you're better than us? 541 00:24:55,840 --> 00:24:57,840 Let's just see how you scratch that. 542 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:04,160 Just reading, just reading what's in here. 543 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,280 And conjecture, there's a little bit of conjecture in there. 544 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:07,800 It's probably not what, 545 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:09,120 let me put that in there, that's me. 546 00:25:09,120 --> 00:25:11,620 But he said they was making, no they weren't. 547 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:14,560 The next, here we go. 548 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,160 That was their attack against Isis, 549 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,720 the god of medicine and peace. 550 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:21,760 And then hell, I'm trying honey. 551 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,260 Hell, that sounds even worse. 552 00:25:24,260 --> 00:25:27,920 Hell and locusts, plague seven and eight. 553 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:29,440 The next two plagues, hell and locusts, 554 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:31,520 involved the destruction of another part of creation, 555 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,000 primarily vegetation. 556 00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,420 What was not destroyed by the hell 557 00:25:34,420 --> 00:25:36,140 was consumed by the locusts. 558 00:25:36,140 --> 00:25:38,800 This is in contrast, in Exodus 10, 15, 559 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:41,680 we're told nothing green was left of the trees or grass 560 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,440 or the field and all the land of Egypt. 561 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,080 And in Genesis 1 12, it says, 562 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,960 the land brought forth vegetation. 563 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:49,300 He says in Genesis, my act of creation, 564 00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:52,280 I'll take the land and I will bring up vegetation. 565 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,500 And over here, I will take all the vegetation away from you. 566 00:25:56,500 --> 00:26:00,440 He is showing them that he is in control. 567 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,220 And what a mighty way to do it. 568 00:26:03,220 --> 00:26:06,080 And every time Pharaoh's digging his heels in, 569 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,740 he's hitting matter and matter. 570 00:26:07,740 --> 00:26:10,760 His heart is harder and harder. 571 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,200 And Pharaoh actually felt bad after this one. 572 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:14,920 The word tells us he felt bad 573 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,360 and even acknowledged his wrongdoing before the Lord. 574 00:26:17,360 --> 00:26:19,840 But when the hell stops, he doesn't follow through. 575 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:21,800 Is that true of us? 576 00:26:21,800 --> 00:26:23,780 When all hell's breaking loose, 577 00:26:23,780 --> 00:26:27,780 y'all knew which one I was saying that time, 578 00:26:27,780 --> 00:26:32,240 and then the hell stops and you don't change. 579 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:33,960 When it's all going crazy, you're like, 580 00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:36,520 God, I'll stop time, I'll repent. 581 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,440 And it comes down for you to actually do it, you don't. 582 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:43,280 We acknowledge our rebellion against God 583 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,320 and we even feel bad and we swear we'll change, 584 00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,520 but when it comes time to change, we don't. 585 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,160 Two more knuckleheads. 586 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:55,400 Oh, you gotta admit, that's pretty dope, look. 587 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:02,900 I mean, I was like, yeah, that's how I picture my sky, God. 588 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:05,620 Right, with a canine head. 589 00:27:05,620 --> 00:27:09,000 The next plague was darkness. 590 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,120 And what is described here in the scriptures 591 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:13,000 is a darkness that is palpable. 592 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:17,520 This is not merely just, it's not light over here, 593 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,000 it's something tangible. 594 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,120 They can feel the absence of God's presence. 595 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:26,200 True darkness is the absence of all light, 596 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:29,160 the absence of God's presence. 597 00:27:29,160 --> 00:27:31,220 And it's palpable. 598 00:27:31,220 --> 00:27:33,720 You can feel it when Jesus was on the cross, 599 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:37,420 he said, my God, my God, and the sky was dark. 600 00:27:37,420 --> 00:27:39,700 He could feel that darkness. 601 00:27:39,700 --> 00:27:45,260 In Genesis, light and dark existed side by side, 602 00:27:45,260 --> 00:27:47,580 he separated the light from the dark 603 00:27:47,580 --> 00:27:50,200 and here he separated the light from the dark, 604 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,760 but instead of the night and day, 605 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,240 it was his people from those that refused to believe in him. 606 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,940 You see what I'm saying? 607 00:27:57,940 --> 00:28:00,420 This was attack on Ra, the sun god. 608 00:28:00,420 --> 00:28:02,320 Finally, the death of the firstborn. 609 00:28:02,320 --> 00:28:05,080 (mouse clicking) 610 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:11,020 This is an echo of what is expressed in Genesis 1 26, 611 00:28:11,020 --> 00:28:12,500 where he said, we'll make man in our image 612 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:13,500 after our likeness. 613 00:28:13,500 --> 00:28:17,300 Instead of creating human male, he'll destroy human males. 614 00:28:17,300 --> 00:28:21,360 They're all acts of de-creation. 615 00:28:21,360 --> 00:28:25,380 Pharaoh, the king of Egypt was worshiped by the Egyptians 616 00:28:25,380 --> 00:28:27,500 'cause he was considered to be the greatest 617 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:29,260 of the Egyptian gods of all. 618 00:28:29,260 --> 00:28:32,260 God in the flesh. 619 00:28:32,260 --> 00:28:35,260 The irony, right? 620 00:28:35,260 --> 00:28:39,100 We believe that this is God come to us in the flesh 621 00:28:39,100 --> 00:28:41,800 and they're like, we do too, he's just not here yet. 622 00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:48,680 Before God's final act of judgment on Egypt, 623 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:50,460 we're introduced to the Passover. 624 00:28:50,460 --> 00:28:54,500 What's so beautiful about this is God says, 625 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:57,120 I will offer my son before I take yours. 626 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,400 (mouse clicking) 627 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:04,560 Let's look at these elements of the Passover. 628 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,120 You can find this for yourself in Exodus chapter 12, 629 00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:09,320 one through 13. 630 00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:10,860 If you're taking notes, I'm gonna say it again. 631 00:29:10,860 --> 00:29:13,680 Exodus 12, one through 13. 632 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:15,980 If you're on our greatest stories ever told Bible plan, 633 00:29:15,980 --> 00:29:18,040 tomorrow morning, you'll read this, okay? 634 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:21,920 This is God's description of what's going to happen. 635 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:26,200 The word for Passover, pasa, means not just to slide by. 636 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,400 He doesn't mean I'm just gonna skip your house. 637 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,240 When he said, hey, take and put the, 638 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:32,120 here's what I want you to do. 639 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,680 I want you to take a lamb and bring it into your household 640 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,600 and expect it for blemish and spot. 641 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,060 And then you're going to sacrifice this lamb, 642 00:29:41,060 --> 00:29:42,120 then you're gonna make a meal 643 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:43,560 and you're gonna eat this meal 644 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,280 and you're gonna take the blood of the lamb 645 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,000 and put it on the doorpost of your house. 646 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:49,880 And when I see the blood, 647 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:54,320 on the door frames of my life. 648 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:57,840 What do you think that is? 649 00:29:57,840 --> 00:30:01,400 He's saying, when I see the blood on your house, 650 00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:04,120 I'm not gonna, I'm not going to, 651 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:05,960 I'm not gonna hit you with the plague. 652 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:10,140 I will pass over you, pasa. 653 00:30:10,140 --> 00:30:13,640 I will accept that as atonement. 654 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,500 But for those that are not covered in the blood, 655 00:30:16,500 --> 00:30:18,900 your firstborn will die. 656 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:21,960 If you don't take my, 657 00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:22,800 Lord, 658 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:31,000 this is clearly substitutionary language. 659 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,360 The language is substitutionary. 660 00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:37,640 This is an example of God's justice and mercy. 661 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,180 The plagues were for everyone without protection. 662 00:30:41,180 --> 00:30:43,360 Pastor Wayne used to ask me a question. 663 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:47,860 He said, hey, if they kept bringing jars to the widow 664 00:30:47,860 --> 00:30:50,040 that was making the cake for Elijah, 665 00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:53,500 and he said, hey, the oil won't run out. 666 00:30:53,500 --> 00:30:56,000 What would happen if they kept bringing jars? 667 00:30:56,000 --> 00:30:59,420 Would the oil still be flowing today 668 00:30:59,420 --> 00:31:02,360 if they kept bringing jars? 669 00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,480 If the Egyptians, if the Egyptians 670 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,540 had participated in the Passover, 671 00:31:08,540 --> 00:31:10,140 would they been saved too? 672 00:31:10,140 --> 00:31:12,100 It's just a question. 673 00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:16,440 This first Passover was celebrated within the home 674 00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:17,280 for each family. 675 00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,160 And then later, if you're taking notes, 676 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,300 Deuteronomy chapter 16, verses one through eight, 677 00:31:23,300 --> 00:31:25,140 Yahweh adjusts the parameters. 678 00:31:25,140 --> 00:31:27,480 He said, this is no longer just for you and your family. 679 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:30,640 This is a national celebration we're gonna do every year. 680 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,460 Why is this important? 681 00:31:33,460 --> 00:31:36,680 What does it matter, all these details and parameters? 682 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,440 He said, you're gonna do it on this day. 683 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,440 This is the day of this month. 684 00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,700 I want you to take the lamb and do it. 685 00:31:42,700 --> 00:31:44,140 And then on this day, 686 00:31:44,140 --> 00:31:47,060 I want you to bring it into your house, right? 687 00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:48,660 And then for the next four days, 688 00:31:48,660 --> 00:31:51,220 I want you to inspect it for blemishes and spots. 689 00:31:51,220 --> 00:31:54,140 And then on this day, I want you to sacrifice it. 690 00:31:54,140 --> 00:31:57,300 And then you will eat the meal together with your family 691 00:31:57,300 --> 00:31:58,900 or as a nation. 692 00:31:58,900 --> 00:31:59,740 Got it? 693 00:31:59,740 --> 00:32:01,420 Wow, what does it matter? 694 00:32:01,420 --> 00:32:03,060 Why all these details? 695 00:32:03,060 --> 00:32:06,720 The sacrifice was to be offered 696 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,740 where the Lord chose to establish His name. 697 00:32:09,740 --> 00:32:13,820 First, that was in Shiloh, and then it became Jerusalem. 698 00:32:13,820 --> 00:32:18,100 So when you see Jesus in the New Testament, 699 00:32:18,100 --> 00:32:22,180 and He's eating the Passover with His disciples, 700 00:32:22,180 --> 00:32:25,160 there's legal context for that. 701 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,540 Because they didn't have to eat it with their family, 702 00:32:27,540 --> 00:32:30,740 they could eat it as an act of celebration. 703 00:32:30,740 --> 00:32:35,400 John 12, one tells us, 704 00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,980 an important date, 705 00:32:38,980 --> 00:32:42,100 six days before the Passover, 706 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:45,340 Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, 707 00:32:45,340 --> 00:32:49,260 whom Jesus had raised from the dead by telling Him to get up 708 00:32:49,260 --> 00:32:53,140 six days before the Passover. 709 00:32:53,140 --> 00:32:58,980 This is Nisan nine, not Nisan plant in Smyrna. 710 00:32:58,980 --> 00:33:03,180 This is a Hebrew month, the ninth day of that month, 711 00:33:03,180 --> 00:33:07,700 which was the day that Yahweh told them to do this. 712 00:33:07,700 --> 00:33:12,380 Then in John 12, 12, we get another very important date, 713 00:33:12,380 --> 00:33:13,920 the next day. 714 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:16,840 The next day. 715 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:22,100 The next day would be Nisan 10. 716 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:26,100 This is Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem. 717 00:33:26,100 --> 00:33:32,520 The place where I choose to worship Jerusalem. 718 00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,640 Then for the next four days, 719 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,980 the Pharisees and Sadducees did everything they could 720 00:33:37,980 --> 00:33:40,320 to trick Him and get Him caught in a lie 721 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:41,680 and ask Him hard questions. 722 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:42,800 You know what they were doing? 723 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:47,200 They were expecting the Lamb of God for blemish and spot. 724 00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:52,740 And here we got 4,000, 5,000 years prior, 725 00:33:52,740 --> 00:33:53,580 Yahweh is saying, 726 00:33:53,580 --> 00:33:56,520 "Hey, I'm fixing to do something crazy with you guys. 727 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:57,980 "And here's how I want you to do it. 728 00:33:57,980 --> 00:34:01,080 "These are the details, these are the specifics." 729 00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,200 And then thousands of years later, 730 00:34:03,200 --> 00:34:06,240 Jesus on the exact same day He said 731 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:07,880 to bring the Lamb into your home 732 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,120 is the exact day He goes into Jerusalem. 733 00:34:10,120 --> 00:34:10,940 Are you hearing me? 734 00:34:10,940 --> 00:34:12,200 Are you awake today? 735 00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:15,320 And then for the next four days, 736 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:20,320 they inspect this Lamb for blemish and spot. 737 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:25,480 And then on Friday, four days later, 738 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:30,240 He's crucified on a Roman cross at the exact same time 739 00:34:30,240 --> 00:34:33,300 that the priests are killing the Passover lambs. 740 00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:39,520 You can't, you can't make that up. 741 00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:41,860 It doesn't just happen like that. 742 00:34:42,860 --> 00:34:47,180 God was, He delivered one nation, 743 00:34:47,180 --> 00:34:50,740 then through a Passover lamb 744 00:34:50,740 --> 00:34:53,020 in order for thousands of years later 745 00:34:53,020 --> 00:34:55,420 for Him to deliver all the nations 746 00:34:55,420 --> 00:34:57,180 through the true Passover lamb. 747 00:34:57,180 --> 00:35:01,680 (congregation applauding) 748 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:06,520 Oh my God. 749 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,620 When Jesus was being tempted, 750 00:35:13,620 --> 00:35:17,280 when Jesus was in the wilderness being tempted by the enemy, 751 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,340 He said, "Hey man, let me take you somewhere." 752 00:35:20,340 --> 00:35:22,080 And He took Him up on a high place. 753 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:25,200 And He showed him all the nations of the earth. 754 00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,940 He said, "Hey man, I want you to look at this. 755 00:35:26,940 --> 00:35:28,720 "These are all mine. 756 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:29,740 "These are all mine. 757 00:35:29,740 --> 00:35:30,580 "They've been given to me. 758 00:35:30,580 --> 00:35:33,760 "All these, the nations have been given to me, I got 'em." 759 00:35:33,760 --> 00:35:37,860 And Jesus didn't argue that with Him. 760 00:35:37,860 --> 00:35:40,900 He said, "Hey Jesus, here's what I want for you to do. 761 00:35:40,900 --> 00:35:43,240 "I just want you to bow down and worship me 762 00:35:43,240 --> 00:35:45,080 "and I'll give you all the nations." 763 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:50,280 And in fact, what He's saying is, "Take the easy way out." 764 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,340 'Cause Jesus knew that if He went to the cross, 765 00:35:54,340 --> 00:35:57,080 He would get the nations anyways. 766 00:35:57,080 --> 00:36:00,560 And Satan said, "Hey, take the easy way out." 767 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:02,200 And that's what He's whispering to us. 768 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:04,020 Hey, take the easy way out. 769 00:36:04,020 --> 00:36:05,460 Don't go the hard road. 770 00:36:05,460 --> 00:36:07,420 Don't commit your life to Christ. 771 00:36:07,420 --> 00:36:09,480 I didn't sign up for all this struggle 772 00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:10,380 when I became a Christian. 773 00:36:10,380 --> 00:36:11,940 He said, "Yes, you did." 774 00:36:11,940 --> 00:36:17,860 This idea that you get saved and life is grand and great. 775 00:36:17,860 --> 00:36:20,780 There's people that's been delivered and healed. 776 00:36:20,780 --> 00:36:23,180 There's the stories of people that are still waiting on it. 777 00:36:23,180 --> 00:36:25,720 They waited for 5,000 years 778 00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:28,380 to see that Lamb of God come through. 779 00:36:28,380 --> 00:36:29,960 We didn't have access. 780 00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:33,000 The nations were not. 781 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:38,100 In Matthew 28, 19, I don't have it up there. 782 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:39,940 This is the Great Commission. 783 00:36:39,940 --> 00:36:44,940 When Jesus went to the cross and He rose from the grave, 784 00:36:44,940 --> 00:36:47,140 'cause it doesn't matter if He goes to the cross 785 00:36:47,140 --> 00:36:48,260 if He doesn't get up. 786 00:36:48,260 --> 00:36:50,620 It doesn't matter. 787 00:36:50,620 --> 00:36:51,740 He died for you. 788 00:36:51,740 --> 00:36:53,080 He rose! 789 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,220 He rose! 790 00:36:56,220 --> 00:37:02,340 The apostles lived crazy lives 791 00:37:02,340 --> 00:37:04,980 that turned the Roman world upside down 792 00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:07,280 'cause they believed that they saw Him. 793 00:37:08,140 --> 00:37:11,700 They understood this is God in the flesh. 794 00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:14,940 We have God in the flesh. 795 00:37:14,940 --> 00:37:17,860 Pharaoh was not God in the flesh. 796 00:37:17,860 --> 00:37:22,860 Newt and Capri and Seth and Ra, they're not true gods. 797 00:37:22,860 --> 00:37:26,140 They're trying to get you to take the easy way out. 798 00:37:26,140 --> 00:37:29,300 Christ says, "I've done it." 799 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:30,940 What does He commission His disciples to do? 800 00:37:30,940 --> 00:37:32,500 He said, "Hey, here's what I want you to do. 801 00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:33,600 "I want you to look at this. 802 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,420 "All authority has been given to Me." 803 00:37:37,420 --> 00:37:38,700 This is what Jesus says. 804 00:37:38,700 --> 00:37:41,620 All the authority, when He's being tempted, 805 00:37:41,620 --> 00:37:43,580 the devil says, "Hey, they're my nations." 806 00:37:43,580 --> 00:37:45,500 And after the resurrection, He said, 807 00:37:45,500 --> 00:37:49,780 "I got 'em back, big boy, and I'm giving 'em back to you." 808 00:37:49,780 --> 00:37:53,340 Go make disciples. 809 00:37:53,340 --> 00:37:54,180 What? 810 00:37:54,180 --> 00:37:59,140 Of all nations, the cross of Christ, 811 00:37:59,140 --> 00:38:02,320 the resurrection of Jesus is the disinheritance 812 00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:05,100 of the nation and allows the gospel to go forth 813 00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:06,500 and spread across the earth. 814 00:38:07,420 --> 00:38:09,740 We've made the cross too small. 815 00:38:09,740 --> 00:38:11,540 We've made it all about us. 816 00:38:11,540 --> 00:38:12,820 We made the cross of Christ. 817 00:38:12,820 --> 00:38:15,820 It's all about me and my sin, and that's true, 818 00:38:15,820 --> 00:38:18,100 but it's bigger than you. 819 00:38:18,100 --> 00:38:21,240 When did you become the star of the story? 820 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:24,220 Jesus is the star of the story, 821 00:38:24,220 --> 00:38:27,540 and we've made everything else about everything else. 822 00:38:27,540 --> 00:38:31,220 He is the Lamb of God. 823 00:38:31,220 --> 00:38:35,500 He was the one who was beaten and crucified 824 00:38:35,500 --> 00:38:38,100 and rose from the grave, and His resurrection 825 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:40,420 broke the legality of the nations 826 00:38:40,420 --> 00:38:43,540 and allowed the veil to be torn 827 00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:46,220 and the Holy Spirit to move out and the gospel 828 00:38:46,220 --> 00:38:49,840 to be transcended out into the nations, into the earth. 829 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:51,740 Before then, it was impossible. 830 00:38:51,740 --> 00:38:54,320 There was a legal notice. 831 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,340 It couldn't be done, and Jesus did it. 832 00:38:57,340 --> 00:39:01,660 Don't you see the beauty of the cross? 833 00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:04,540 Don't you see the bigness of our God? 834 00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:08,000 Don't you see the complexity of scripture? 835 00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:10,860 How complex that is? 836 00:39:10,860 --> 00:39:12,100 How beautiful of a story? 837 00:39:12,100 --> 00:39:13,820 You couldn't make that up. 838 00:39:13,820 --> 00:39:15,340 If you had a million lifetimes, 839 00:39:15,340 --> 00:39:17,220 you couldn't have weaved that together. 840 00:39:17,220 --> 00:39:23,180 The Passover was to remind them. 841 00:39:23,180 --> 00:39:26,940 It was a foreshadow of the ultimate victory 842 00:39:26,940 --> 00:39:28,340 of Christ on the cross, 843 00:39:28,340 --> 00:39:31,740 and it was to remind them each year 844 00:39:31,740 --> 00:39:33,940 of what He had accomplished. 845 00:39:33,940 --> 00:39:37,800 He showed them, "You trust these gods. 846 00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:41,400 "You're trusting in these gods. 847 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,860 "I'm in control. 848 00:39:43,860 --> 00:39:48,940 "They have no power like me. 849 00:39:48,940 --> 00:39:50,420 "They aren't good like me. 850 00:39:50,420 --> 00:39:52,560 "They don't create like me. 851 00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:56,020 "They don't give their son like me." 852 00:39:56,020 --> 00:40:01,060 He gave them a Passover lamb then, 853 00:40:01,060 --> 00:40:04,400 and He has given us a Passover lamb now. 854 00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:10,180 Same thing you ask Pharaoh to do, I ask you to do. 855 00:40:10,180 --> 00:40:11,000 Repent. 856 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,640 Repent. 857 00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:15,780 If you don't know how, ask him how. 858 00:40:15,780 --> 00:40:16,900 I don't know how sometimes. 859 00:40:16,900 --> 00:40:18,320 God, I know I want to. 860 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,820 I know I need to lay my life down at the altar, 861 00:40:21,820 --> 00:40:23,060 but I don't know how to. 862 00:40:23,060 --> 00:40:28,260 He said, "You apply the blood to your life, 863 00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:31,040 "and I will work out the details." 864 00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:35,960 Do you need the blood applied to your life? 865 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:36,800 Do you? 866 00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:37,620 I do. 867 00:40:37,620 --> 00:40:41,040 Do I need to acknowledge the bigness 868 00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,600 and grandeur and splendor of God? 869 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,560 Have you made Him too small? 870 00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,540 Have you made the cross all about you? 871 00:40:47,540 --> 00:40:50,920 So do we have an opportunity this morning 872 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:54,520 to worship the same, it's the same exact God. 873 00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,240 It's the same God, man. 874 00:41:01,240 --> 00:41:06,120 Then we get to be included in the story somehow. 875 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,680 Somehow I'm included in the story. 876 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:09,520 Why? 877 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,320 'Cause I'm part of those all nations. 878 00:41:11,320 --> 00:41:14,820 If they didn't go out, if Jesus told them, 879 00:41:14,820 --> 00:41:17,400 "Hey, go and make disciples of the nations," 880 00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:20,360 and they didn't do it, we wouldn't be here right now. 881 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:23,560 Because somebody discipled somebody, 882 00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:27,180 and they discipled somebody, and they discipled somebody, 883 00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:29,760 and it had eventually got to me. 884 00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:33,940 That's big, guys. 885 00:41:33,940 --> 00:41:35,120 That's a big God. 886 00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,680 Stop limiting Him. 887 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:41,240 He showed His act of creation and de-creation. 888 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:44,620 He's assaulted all the gods that we put our faith in, 889 00:41:44,620 --> 00:41:46,320 but His ultimate act of power and glory 890 00:41:46,320 --> 00:41:50,620 was humbling Himself to the death on the cross. 891 00:41:50,620 --> 00:41:52,340 That's power. 892 00:41:52,340 --> 00:41:54,880 He said, "No man take my life, I lay down my life." 893 00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,960 And it allowed the gospel to go forth 894 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,800 and disciples to be made, and it made its way to you. 895 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:02,640 And for that, we should be thankful. 896 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,860 So let us pray. 897 00:42:04,860 --> 00:42:06,360 Let us worship. 898 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,240 If you've been set free, lift up holy hands. 899 00:42:08,240 --> 00:42:11,280 If you need prayer, elders and leaders and teachers 900 00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:12,680 and pastors will come and pray for you. 901 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,760 If you just need to stand and worship this big God, 902 00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,820 then let's do it together. 903 00:42:17,820 --> 00:42:20,000 You can sit in your seat, you can stand, 904 00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:21,880 you can get in the aisles. 905 00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:24,500 But it's the same God who set His people free then 906 00:42:24,500 --> 00:42:27,280 is the same God that will set His people free now. 907 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:38,400 Let's worship this God and be set free.