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So this morning we're getting
back into the Book of Exodus after

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that unexpected break last week.

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And I should say from the
outset, I've often said that I've

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never really planned two books
to coincide as we're studying them.

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But this year I have, because
we begin looking at the Book of Revelation

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this evening.

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And whenever we look at
Revelation and look at the imagery,

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we see so much of it in
Genesis and Exodus.

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And so as we make our way
through Exodus in the morning, we

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will see the light of Exodus
illuminating parts of Revelation

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for us.

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And so these two very
intentionally being looked at together.

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Well, I don't know what
generation you class yourself to

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be in.

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You may be a baby boomer, you
may be Gen Z.

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We may even have some
Generation Alpha here this morning.

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We all know that there's
different generations.

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Some of you may refer to
yourself as the War generation.

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Some of you, well, maybe not
the Victorian generation.

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Maybe you imbibe Victorianism
rather than actually lived in that

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time.

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But in every generation and in
every culture around the world, there

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are more times than not they
are waiting for a savior.

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Now, I would like to say that
they're waiting for the return of

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the Lord Jesus, but more often
they're looking for a savior to rescue

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them from a political tyrant
or from a conflict situation.

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There are those looking for a
savior to turn their fortunes around,

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and there are those seeking a
savior to rescue them from all of

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their troubles.

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In the 2010s, people in
Zimbabwe were looking for a savior

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to rescue them from the
tyranny of Robert Mugabe.

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On the left, they thought they
had found the one to free them in

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the person of Morgan Shangirai.

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There on the right, he came
from the trade union background and

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stood up to the crippling
economic policies of the Mugabe government.

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And it looked like for a
while, he was succeeding.

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He was little by little
bringing down the Mugabe regime.

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But like all humanity,
Tsangirai died of cancer, never being

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the savior people hoped him to be.

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During the Second World War,
many occupied nations, France, the

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Netherlands, Poland, longed
for the day when someone would come

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and rescue them from oppression.

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Resistance fighters and
ordinary citizens looked to these

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allied forces there,
represented by the national leaders,

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as their saviors.

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In this case, it wasn't simply
one person they were looking to,

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but salvation in the fighter,
the one who had superior firepower.

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And we see so much of it in
literature as well.

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In the Lord of the Rings, we
see the people of Middle Earth wanting

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to be rescued from the evil Saruman.

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And it looks like the
fellowship of the ring will be the

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saviors.

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But one by one they fall away.

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And even the eventual hero in
Frodo Baggins has moments where he

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is less heroic than we would like.

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And so as we settle into the
book of Exodus, we see here a people

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who are looking for a savior.

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The children of Israel had
been settled in the land of Egypt,

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particularly in Goshen, by
their brother Joseph.

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He had given them good land on
which they were to live and farm,

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and they were truly fruitful.

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Years after Joseph's death, as
we saw in chapter one, a new Pharaoh

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comes and knows nothing of his
own history, nothing of what Joseph

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had did.

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And he starts to see Israel as
a threat.

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He punishes the people by
enslaving them.

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He then tries to kill their
male children at birth.

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And when neither of these
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In verse 22 of chapter one,
every boy that is born you must threw

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into the Nile, but let every
girl live.

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Here were a people who were
hard pressed and they needed a savior,

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someone to rescue them from
their hardship in Egypt.

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And so in chapter two, we see
God at work in bringing Moses into

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the story.

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And it is through his birth
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God's salvation for his people.

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And the first one is that God
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Now, the text is very clear
here in telling us that Moses existed.

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And in the opening verse we're
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A Levite man marries a Levite woman.

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And this has always been
important in scripture so that families

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can trace their lineage
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So we have Moses identified as
a son of Levi, but in verse two we

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go on to place him in the
exact moment in Egyptian history,

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because as we continue to
read, we see a mother in turmoil.

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Because Moses, mother, who we
know as Jochebed, is simply like

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any other mother.

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When she sees her newborn
baby, she is completely taken by

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him.

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But remember what the Pharaoh
had decreed.

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Every boy that is born, you
must throw into the Nile.

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Well, Jochebed simply couldn't
bring herself to do that.

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She couldn't bring herself to
follow that command and to give this

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baby over to the waters of the
Nile and the crocodiles within.

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She just couldn't do it.

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We're told in the second half
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was a fine child, she hid him
for three months.

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She so desperately wanted to
keep him, she couldn't bring herself

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to throw her newborn into the
waters, so she hid him and she was

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able to do this for three
months in defiance of Pharaoh's decree.

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But the time came when the
docile three month old started to

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grow so much that he couldn't
be ignored.

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And still she couldn't bring
herself to throw him into the Nile.

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And so she does everything
within her power to preserve and

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to protect Him.

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Verse 3 tells us.

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But when she could know, when
she could hide him no longer, she

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got a papyrus basket for him
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Then she placed the child in
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the bank of the Nile.

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And so there is baby Moses and
resting in the basket that had been

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made as waterproof as possible.

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Now interestingly, the word
that is used here for basket in the

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English is the same Hebrew
word that was used to describe the

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ark in Genesis 6.

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And what did the ark do?

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Well, the ark rescued a
family, rescued the family of Noah

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from disaster.

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And so here we have another
ark that will rescue Moses so that

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he can be a savior to God's people.

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And you see, this is how God works.

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God works in the events of
history to bring about his plan of

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salvation.

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And this is what we see
throughout the story of the Bible.

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That's what we see in his
covenant promises, beginning with

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that covenant of works in the
garden, right through to the covenant

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of descendants, or that
covenant of grace with Abraham, through

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to the covenant of an
established kingdom with David, to

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the fulfillment in Christ.

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We see it in the genealogy of
Jesus, where there's no mistake of

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his lineage so that we would
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history.

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As we began our communicants
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Apostles Creed and who's
mentioned there?

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Only Pontius Pilate.

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Why on earth would Pontius
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the church?

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Because it places Jesus in
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It places him in time and in
space, so that we will know he died

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and he rose again.

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And so we too, like the
children of Israel and Moses, live

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in time and space.

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The difficulties we face are
the difficulties of daily life.

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Loneliness, addiction,
conflict, grief.

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And what we need is a Savior
who can actually do something to

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help us in our moment.

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We need a Savior who is at
work in our homes and stays with

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us on the job.

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God demonstrates in the story
of Moses how he works in human history

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to rescue his people.

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And this is what he continues
to do today.

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In Jesus we have a Savior who
can rescue us from the difficulties

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of daily life.

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In fact, it's Jesus who tells
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he assures us that he is our
rescuer and Savior.

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The thief comes only to steal
and kill, Jesus says, and destroy.

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I have come that they may have
life and have it to the full.

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This is the great rescuer.

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This is the one who isn't here
to try and trick us and deceive us

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or accuse us as we saw with
the devil in the kids story from

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Zechariah.

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This is one who has come that
we may have life and have it to the

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full.

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This is our rescuer in human
time, in this day that the Lord has

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made a Savior today for each
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And of course, God's work of
salvation through human history is

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seen fully in the crucifixion,
the death and the resurrection of

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Jesus.

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He was born in time to be not
a Savior, but the Savior, so that

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we may have life to the full
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And Paul confirms this in
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Four beautiful words that
assure us.

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But when the time had fully
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right time, God sent his son,
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to redeem those under the law
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of sons.

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God works in our human history.

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He is concerned about your
today, he is concerned about your

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tomorrow.

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He's concerned about your
home, he's concerned about your place

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of work.

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He's concerned about your
family as you are.

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We can turn to him.

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We can trust him.

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Because at just the right
time, he came into the world to rescue

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sinners.

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So that's the first thing we
see, God working in the events of

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history to bring about his
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And this leads us to our
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that God's salvation triumphs
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For many, they see the tyranny
of leaders as an insurmountable problem.

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How could they ever go up
against the machine of government

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with all state resources at
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And so far, we've seen Pharaoh
do everything in his power to stop

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God's people from growing in number.

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But let's not forget that each
of his plans have failed.

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They've been frustrated in
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When he tried to order the
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boys at birth, they refused.

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And their prize, or their
honor was a blessing from the Lord

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because of what they'd done in
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When Pharaoh enslaved the
children of Israel in the hope that

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they would be too tired to
produce offspring, they produced

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even more.

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And now he will be defied
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by an Israelite mother, but by
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There is an irony that Pharaoh
wanted all of the boys killed.

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And yet it's a list of three
women who defy Pharaoh at every stage.

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So Moses is adrift on the Nile
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daughter.

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Of course it doesn't just so happen.

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The Lord works in human history.

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And so Pharaoh's daughter and
her maids are down at the Nile to

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bathe.

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And verse five tells us
Pharaoh's daughter went down to the

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Nile to Bath, and her
attendants were walking along the

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riverbank.

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She saw the basket among the
reeds and sent her slave girl to

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get it.

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The tiny ark is indeed the
vessel of rescue for baby Moses as

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it's lifted out of the Nile
and the princess of Egypt opens it

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to discover a Hebrew baby.

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Now whether it was the
clothing that he was wrapped in or

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the circumcision of his flesh,
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But Pharaoh's daughter knew
instantly that she was looking at

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a child that had been
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She should in that moment have
been loyal to her father and thrown

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Moses into the Nile and obeyed
the Pharaoh's decree.

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But she didn't.

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She kept the baby as her own.

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And we skipped over verse
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see that Miriam Moses sister
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And when she realizes that the
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baby, she runs up to Pharaoh's
daughter and offers to get a Hebrew

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to nurse the baby for her.

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Now Pharaoh's daughter agrees
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And so once again Pharaoh is defied.

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But to rub more salt into the
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the royal household to keep
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This baby that should have
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is now going to be paid for
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We couldn't make this up.

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It is only the divine will of
the Lord that this happened as it

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did.

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Look at what we're told in
verse nine when Jochebed appears

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before Pharaoh's daughter.

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Pharaoh's daughter said to
her, take this baby and nurse him

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for me and I will pay you.

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So the woman took the baby, we
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nursed him.

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You see, nothing will
frustrate God's plan of salvation

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of his people.

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The Pharaoh thought he had all
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actually God who was in control.

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And it is the same at the time
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Not only was it the right time
in history, with the Roman form of

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execution to be there, but
just after his Birth King Herod ordered

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that all the boys under the
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This led Jesus to flee with
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Egypt until it was safe to return.

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God defied the evil tyrant and
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rescue plan for us.

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And ultimately, salvation will
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Jesus will return and take his
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And the revelation given to
John that we begin looking at tonight,

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we read in Revelation chapter
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Then I heard a loud voice in
heaven saying, now have come the

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salvation and the power and
the kingdom of our God and the authority

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of his Christ.

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For the accuser.

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It's not the first time we've
heard that word today.

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The accuser, the one who stood
beside Joshua, the high priest, accusing

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him.

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Well, the accuser of our
brothers who accuses them before

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our God day and night, has
been hurled down.

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They overcame him by the blood
of the Lamb and by the word of their

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testimony.

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They did not love their lives
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This is the outcome.

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This is the end.

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This is how salvation wins
over evil.

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The accuser will be hurled
down no more to accuse God's people

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so that they may live forever
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And so this accuser, the
devil, may seem to be winning the

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battle, but he isn't.

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God is at work in his plan of
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So we can take heart that the
greatest evil will be defeated by

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our risen and returning Savior.

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But before we move on, let's
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That Pharaoh, who was defied,
probably at times unbeknownst to

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him, had a statue.

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If we believe it to be
Rameses, he had complete failure

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in Luxor, where there is an
enormous statue of him, but it has

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fallen down, its face crushed
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This is an old picture of when
it was discovered, and there's newer

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photographs of the same.

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Now, Ramesses may or may not
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but every pharaoh believed in
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His broken statue now is a
monument to the futility of the pharaohs

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who thought they could do
better than God.

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They're boundless and they're bare.

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The lonely sands of the desert
stretch far away to the empty horizon.

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His power is no more, because
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And this is what leads us to
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Salvation is God's work from
beginning to end.

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God was at work in the birth
of his Savior.

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It was God who formed the
child in his mother's womb and safely

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delivered him into the world.

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Moses birth was a reminder of
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The Bible calls attention to
this when it says in verse two, and

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from the King James version,
that his mother saw that he was a

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goodly child.

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There was something about this
baby that was different.

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And his mother saw this wasn't
just a doting mother.

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This was a recognition of
Moses being a goodly child.

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You see, God was at work in
the baby's basket.

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At one moment in history,
God's entire plan for triumphing

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over evil was riding down the
Nile river in a little papyrus basket.

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His mother, Pharaoh's daughter
and Miriam were all used by God to

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ensure Moses safety.

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And it'll be 80 years before
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And he will be in the Egyptian
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He will not be a perfect
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expect that in humanity.

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But what Moses does for us,
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point us to one greater look
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When the child grew older, she
took him to Pharaoh's daughter and

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he became her son.

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She named him Moses, saying,
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Moses here is both a Hebrew
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Egyptian name as well.

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as the text tells us here,
means being taken up out of water.

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And how will God rescue his
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He will use Moses as a savior,
and he will lead them up out of the

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waters of the Red Sea, which
God will part so that they can walk

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across some dry ground.

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Nothing is impossible with God.

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And there is no mistake.

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What God will achieve through
Moses, even in his name, that he

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will be the one to lead God's
people out of the water and into

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a rescue land.

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But we must always remember
that Moses is a savior and not the

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savior.

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Jesus Christ is the only one
who can save us from sin and assure

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us of our home in heaven.

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He lived a perfect life until
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And in that death is our salvation.

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For the cross of Christ is
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I wonder if you believe this.

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You may be looking for a
savior to rescue you, but you must

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know this morning that you
need a savior.

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Jesus died for you so that you
would know him as your only savior.

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And we can try to save
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We can try amassing money and
possessions, having a good education

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and a good career.

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We can even aspire to the
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But these won't work.

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They'll all pass and fade away.

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The only one who calls us to
Himself so that he can rescue us

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from a lost eternity is Jesus.

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That's what we affirmed right
at the start of our service this

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morning.

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What is your only comfort in
life and death?

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That I am not my own, but
belong body and soul in.

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In life and in death to my
faithful Savior, Jesus Christ.

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You see, the salvation God has
accomplished in history becomes our

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salvation when we receive
Jesus by faith.

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He is truly Christ, the victor.

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For his salvation overcomes evil.

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And it continues from the
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We are called to trust God, to
live for him, to trust him as a desperate

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mother once did when she put
her heart in a basket and entrusted

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that little baby to the God
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I wonder today, will you trust
in Christ to save you from whatever

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it is this world is bombarding
you with?

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From whatever it is that's
holding you back from the Lord and

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also from being with his people?

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What's holding you back from
coming to salvation in all its fullness?

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And young people, I don't want
you to think that this is just something

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for the older people.

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It's not for you who are here listening.

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From the youngest to the
oldest, this message is the same

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and this message remains true.

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Christ is the only salvation
we can know.

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And it is a wonderful
salvation as demonstrated through

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the birth of Moses.

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It's a salvation that has been
wrought in time and space.

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It is a salvation that will
overcome evil and it is complete

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salvation from beginning to
end as we look to Jesus as the One

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who will lead us home.

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Why would you want anything different?

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Why would you want to try and
do something else that isn't going

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to work?

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Come only to Jesus.

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Find rest in him as he invites
you today to trust him as your great

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rescuer and your great Savior.

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Let's pray.

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Our Father God, we thank you
for your word that challenges us.

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It challenges us to the core.

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We may not be looking for a
Savior this morning, but Father,

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we need one.

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We need one who's good and faithful.

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We need one who has gone
through the passage of death before

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us and risen again so that we
can know that death is not the end,

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that our hope springs eternal.

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As we look ever to Jesus and
live for Him.

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So, Father, help us to know
ourselves deeply.

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Help us to know ourselves
afresh, to be honest with ourselves,

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so that we will know we need
Christ this day and live for him

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forevermore.

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So help us to respond well
this day as we pray these things

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in Jesus name, amen.