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Allen Jackson Ministries | An Exodus Experience Part 1 | June 16, 2022
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- Allen Jackson: We're working on a little series, "Time To Lead."
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- Folks, we have a leadership deficit in our nation, and I
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- don't want you to think about the places where we lack them, I
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- think it's more evident in the church than any place else.
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- Most of us have some leadership skills, you use them in the
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- business community, you use them with your--in your neighborhood,
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- you use them in the schools, you use them on the sports fields,
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- with your children, with their peer groups,
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- you lead in many ways, but when it comes to
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- our faith, we are far more reluctant.
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- And so we looked at the lessons from the Exodus.
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- The Exodus is the label we used to describe the deliverance of
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- the Hebrew slaves from Egyptian bondage, they've been there for
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- hundreds of years, without independence, without freedom of
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- choice, and God sent someone in out of the desert, you know him,
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- Moses, to initiate that Exodus, that deliverance.
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- And in this session, I wanna talk in a little more broad
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- terms about that whole Exodus experience, not
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- just that event, but what that event represents
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- to you and to me as an experience.
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- Then I'll step back for just a moment in case
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- you didn't, it's a time of dramatic change.
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- Revolutionary change.
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- All the familiar patterns and routines of their lives are
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- going to be left behind, their favorite foods are gonna be left
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- behind, their habits are gonna be left behind, the routines
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- that their children had are gonna be left behind, all they
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- did invested in establishing lives and patterns
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- and habits were gonna be left behind and
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- they're gonna be asked to do new things.
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- Now we could say from our vantage point that they were
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- better things and good things and more freedom, but it was
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- still an enormous amount of change.
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- And I quit making fun of them because we're walking
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- through a season of unprecedented changes.
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- And while I can point to many things that are good and
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- positive, we've baptized more people in the last few months
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- than any season in the history of the church.
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- We're ministering to more people, we're seeing new
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- outcomes, we're serving more children.
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- I can point to all sorts of good things that are
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- happening, but it still doesn't feel easy.
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- And some days you think, you know, do we
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- have to change something else?
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- And the answer is we don't have to, but we get to, and then that
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- Exodus generation, they just had a tremendous amount of change.
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- They were up close and personal with God's power and so are you.
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- I mean, they had pillars of cloud and pillars of fire and
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- the seas were parting and food and all sorts of
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- things but, they told us 2 million of us
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- would very likely die, and we didn't.
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- We have seen expression after expression of the power of God.
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- They had front row seats to be participants
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- in God's plan and purpose, but so do we.
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- What's key in the narrative that we read in
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- the scripture was their response to that.
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- The outcomes of their lives ultimately depended not upon God
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- and his willingness, but upon their responses and I would
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- submit to you that the key in our generation isn't about the
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- power of God or his willingness or his interest or what he
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- intends to do, it's about our response.
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- So there's just some big rock ideas I'm gonna tag
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- them quickly, you can listen to last night message
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- and get a bit more of the background.
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- If you wanna read ahead of the story, you're in Genesis, you'll
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- need, we're gonna go through Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
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- Deuteronomy, and then I'm gonna tag on Joshua because Joshua was
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- the next generation leader that really brings to completion what
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- started back in the brick pits of Egypt.
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- One generation wasn't able to close that deal.
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- So those are the books in the Bible where you'll find the
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- majority of the story and they're all really talking about
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- the same story, slightly different perspectives, maybe a
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- little bit of a different messaging, a different part of
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- the story, but you need the story from all
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- of those places to get the big picture.
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- And as you read through those books, you're gonna
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- find a very diverse cast of characters.
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- You're gonna meet some people who are exceptional leaders, the
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- greatest example of leadership in the Bible until we get to
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- Jesus is Moses, just a remarkable leader.
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- I mean, Joshua was not like chopped liver.
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- So you're gonna meet some wonderful leaders,
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- you're gonna meet a whole host of grumblers.
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- They got a whole class of complainers.
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- I mean, a whole segment of the people and the earth will open
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- up and swallow a few thousand of them one day and the next day,
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- there's a whole new line in the complaint line.
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- I mean, there, some of them were persistent grumblers.
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- You'll meet leaders, and you'll meet grumblers, you'll meet
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- rebels, you'll meet adversaries to the purposes of God.
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- You'll meet God's allies, people that will cooperate with him.
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- You'll meet those who are willing to be learners, you'll
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- meet those who fail and repent and God restores.
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- You'll meet those who fail and refuse to
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- repent, and they come under judgment.
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- The plot line is not overly complex, but it is very
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- dramatic, it's a story born in adversity and I want you to hold
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- that, because I think we imagine that if there's adversity in our
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- lives, God is far from us and his purposes are far from us,
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- but this Exodus narrative is rooted in the fact
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- that God's story emerges from adversity.
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- Can you hold that and in the disappointments of
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- your life or the failures of your life or the place
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- where injustice or even evil has touched your life,
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- that the purposes of God could break forth?
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- Are you willing to unhook your self-image from your
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- failures or from the places where evil has
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- touched you and allow the grace of God and the
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- Spirit of God to write a new future for you?
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- It's a very important question.
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- The plot line is grounded in the power
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- and the faithfulness of God.
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- It's important to know.
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- God's not a theoretical concept that we gather
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- in polite study societies to learn about.
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- He's Almighty God, an omnipotent God, an all-powerful God and he
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- will rock the world around you if you'll follow him.
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- The plot line is crowded with the inconsistency of our hearts.
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- As you read through Genesis and Exodus and Leviticus in those
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- books, you'll think these people were not paying attention, but
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- if somebody watched the video of our lives on fast
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- forward, they would be certain we hadn't been
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- paying very close attention either I'm afraid.
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- And then the plot line is also gonna include the conflict
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- that's involved in experiencing God's best.
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- And I need to acknowledge that, that if you want God's best in
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- your life, you're gonna have to overcome.
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- You'll have to overcome your carnal self, you'll have to
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- overcome the attacks of an enemy.
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- You'll have to overcome living in a sin filled world.
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- It's not an easy journey.
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- It's a wonderful journey, it's a wonders journey, it's an amazing
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- journey, but it would be misleading to say
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- it was simple or easy or unchallenged.
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- They're gonna move from the brick pits of Egypt from decades
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- and decades and hundreds of years of enslavement, to the
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- freedom and autonomy of occupying a land
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- that God promised was theirs forever.
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- In fact, you can turn on the evening news and see the
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- fulfillment of that promise today, but it wasn't easy.
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- And the emerging purposes of God in your life
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- should not be imagined to be easy.
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- There'll be days that're wonderful.
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- They'll be triumphant, they'll be celebratory
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- and there'll be days when you'll be required
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- to persevere and endure and overcome.
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- Exodus chapter 6 and verse 6 is God stating his case.
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- It's not the first nor the only time he states it
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- but it is a very clear statement.
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- This is the words God gives to Moses to give
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- to the Hebrew slaves, they're still in Egypt.
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- "Say to the Israelites, I'm the Lord.
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- I will bring you out."
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- He's gonna make seven statements of what God said he will do.
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- He's not considering anybody else's engagement,
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- he said, I will do these seven things.
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- See if you can hear him as I read it, "I will bring you out
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- from under the yoke of the Egyptians.
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- I will free you from being slaves to them.
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- I will redeem you with an outstretched arm
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- and with mighty acts of judgment.
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- I'll take you as my own people.
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- I will be your God.
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- Then you will know that I'm the Lord your God who brought you
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- out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and I will bring you
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- to the land I swore with uplifted hand
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- to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob.
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- I will give it to you as a possession.
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- I'm the Lord."
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- Did you get them seven things?
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- God said, I'll bring you out, I'll free you, I'll redeem you,
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- I'll take you as my own people, imagine that.
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- The creator of heaven and earth said,
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- I'm gonna take you as my own people.
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- Imagine if he said that to those people on this campus today.
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- You are gonna be my own people.
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- I mean, I know there's other ones, but you are my own.
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- As a matter of fact, he has said that to you.
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- Through faith in Jesus we are grafted into
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- that covenant he made with Abraham.
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- God's own people.
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- He said, I will be your God.
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- Personal connection, personal responsibility,
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- covenant, bound by contract.
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- The most stringent form of commitment that's presented in
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- all of the scripture is a covenant, and God
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- said, I will make a covenant with you.
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- I will be your God.
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- So we have seminars, do we believe in God?
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- Don't you know the angels shake their heads?
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- I will be your God, he said.
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- I will bring you to the land I swore to give to Abraham.
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- I swore to give it to Abraham.
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- He said, I will bring you into that land, then he makes one
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- more statement, he said, I will give it to you.
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- And that's really the point of
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- this little series on leadership.
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- I want you to imagine that God wants to use
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- the influence of your life for his purposes.
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- I don't want you just to know what he did with Abraham or
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- Moses or Joshua or Caleb or somebody else.
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- I want you to know that God has a purpose and a plan
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- for your life and he's waiting for you
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- and me to say to him, I'm all in.
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- We've looked for so many reasons.
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- We'll use historical social customs to go, well, the Bible
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- doesn't really mean what it says.
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- I'm amazed, we're more than willing to talk about social
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- customs and cultures from the past as we interpret our Bible,
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- but we don't wanna talk about social customs and cultures of
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- the present as we read our Bibles.
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- That's another lesson.
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- Very next verse, it's same chapter Exodus 6 verse 9.
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- Moses reported this to the Israelites.
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- Moses told the Israelites what God said,
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- but they didn't listen to him.
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- They didn't listen to Moses because of their
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- discouragement and their cruel bondage.
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- Discouragement is more than a casual problem.
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- Discouragement can cause you to miss the invitations of God.
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- To be discouraged isn't to be blue or to be
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- despondent or to not be enthusiastic.
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- Fundamentally to be discouraged is to be without courage.
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- That little prefix dis means without.
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- So the discouragement is to be without the courage you need to
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- face the challenges of the moment or the day, and we'll
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- have to stay close enough to the Lord, we need encouraged.
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- Encouragement is not trivial, it's not insincere.
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- If you don't practice the encouragement of others,
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- you are forfeiting a ministry that has been entrusted
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- to you because the scripture says in the
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- New Testament to encourage one another daily.
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- Why should God give you an expansion of your influence if
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- you're not willing to encourage the people who are around you?
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- If you spend your time mad at them, agitated with them,
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- annoyed by them, more aware of what they're not, then how you
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- can encourage them, you're stuck.
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- We wanna become world class encouragers.
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- Now the book of Exodus concludes, they've made it out
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- of Egypt, they've made it through the
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- Red Sea, they've made it to Mount Sinai,
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- they've gotten all the rules for community.
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- They've got the big 10, all the thou shalts and thou shalt nots.
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- Moses is on the mountain for 40 days and
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- while he's gone, they have a little detour.
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- Golden calf, pagan revelry, orgies.
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- They almost forfeit the whole thing.
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- They manage to right the ship.
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- Moses is given a vision on Mount Sinai
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- of the tabernacle, a place to worship.
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- You see, they didn't know how to worship.
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- They've been Hebrew slaves in Egypt.
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- They know Egyptian gods, Egyptian religions,
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- Egyptian holidays, Egyptian patterns.
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- They've never been an independent people,
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- they've never been an autonomous nation,
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- they went into Egypt as a family.
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- And now they're this mixed multitude and
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- God said, I will reveal my character to you.
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- We'll talk about holiness and purity and
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- cleanliness of spirit and cleanliness of person.
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- How you care for your temple as a part
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- of your worship, it does matter to God.
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- So God begins to put all those community rules in place and the
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- book of Exodus concludes the tabernacle has
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- been constructed, it's been put together.
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- God said, I will lead you with a pillar of cloud and a
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- pillar of fire, you can travel by day or night.
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- I'll protect you from your enemies.
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- They've already had a little skirmish
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- and they've come out on top.
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- So Exodus concludes and says, all right,
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- let's break camp, here we go.
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- It's less than a two day walk to the promised land, let's go.
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- We had a little pause here where we put some social rules in
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- place and we began to learn about the character of the God
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- who is your God, and you understand what it means
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- to be his people, let's go, let's go.
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- It's about, it's not even a two week walk.
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- Let's move.
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- Now some of you know the story well enough to know the tragedy
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- of it, it'll be 40 years before they get there.
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- about God's story that are the ones who really need the review.
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- So, as a way to help all of us, we're gonna recap the entire
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- The story starts at the beginning
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- of the whole enchilada.
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- When God spoke the universe into existence, including
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- creating the world's first man and woman.
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- At first, life was perfect, but soon after these folks and their
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- kids and grandkids decided they didn't wanna live the way God
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- had told them to and pretty much everybody on earth
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- got into some kind of evil or another.
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- So God decided to hit the reset button and wiped out all of
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- earth with a flood, except for a man named Noah and his family.
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- The population started to grow again and eventually God chose a
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- group of people to start a new nation called Israel.
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- Israel went through some pretty rough stuff early on like being
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- slaves in Egypt, but eventually God rescued them and brought
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- them into a giant piece of land God had promised to them.
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- Later God raised up a king named David to rule Israel.
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- David was an amazing guy, helping
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- people live the way God wanted.
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- The people of Israel were united and living at peace.
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- But when David's son Solomon became king, he sort of forgot
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- about God and started to worship other gods.
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- As you can imagine, that was about to spell great trouble not
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- only for Solomon, but for all of Israel.
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- Sixty six books written over a long period of time, dozens of
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- Allen: In fact, the next big rock lesson we will learn is
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- that there's a far more powerful force confronting God's people
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- than the threats of Pharaoh or his chariots or his armies.
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- Look at Numbers Chapter 13.
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- They get to the borders of the promised land
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- and they send spies in to check it out.
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- Is it really a good place?
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- When they came back and "We saw the Nephilim," the giants.
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- "We seemed like grasshoppers in our own
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- eyes and we looked the same to them."
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- They looked really big to us and they told
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- us we looked really small to them.
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- "That night all the people of the community
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- raised their voices and wept aloud.
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- All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the
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- whole assembly said to them, "If only we had died in Egypt!
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- Or in this desert!
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- Why is the Lord bringing us to this land
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- only to let us fall by the sword?
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- Our wives and our children will be taken as plunder.
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- Wouldn't it be better for us to go back to Egypt?"
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- And they said to each other, "We should
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- choose a leader and go back to Egypt."
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- Did you identify it?
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- What's that force that's more powerful than Pharaoh's armies?
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- What's more daunting than the Red Sea?
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- It's their own unbelief.
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- They're eating manna every day that God provides for them.
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- Hundreds of thousands of people in the wilderness
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- and none of them have a Costco membership.
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- It's the ultimate supply chain interruption.
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- There's no food available to them, there's no water available
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- to them, there's no healthcare available to them and yet
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- there's no sick people amongst them and they're eating well and
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- there has been water in the wilderness.
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- God has provided for even their clothes didn't wear out.
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- And they get to the border and God said,
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- that's your land, that's what I gave you.
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- The reason we left Egypt was to enter
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- that place, go check it out.
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- Now it was occupied by these Canaanite cities that were well
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- fortified, but they weren't as well fortified as the Egyptians.
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- Not nearly as intimidating, not nearly as opposing, but when
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- they went and looked, they said, we can't do that.
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- We cannot do that.
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- I would rather go back to Egypt than face that challenge.
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- Not us, not us.
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- They were unwilling to bear any more discomfort.
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- They said, it's too difficult, it's just too difficult.
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- They refused the lessons of deliverance.
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- You see all the plagues and the Red Sea and the water at Marah
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- that was bitter and the water from the rock and the manna and
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- all the lessons they've been learning were
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- preparatory experiences so they'd be
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- prepared to occupy their inheritance.
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- And they said, no, we don't wanna do that.
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- Has nothing to do with God's willingness.
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- It's not about God's power or God's ability or God's interest
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- or the commitment God's made, it has everything to
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- do about with the choices of their heart.
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- I have a question for you and it's a little personal.
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- Do you imagine that our choices have any bearing
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- on what God would do in this generation?
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- Or if we stepped back and go, no, no, no.
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- I was born again, I've been baptized and I've gone to church
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- with some regularity, this is not on me.
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- Well folks, they're the covenant people of God.
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- They were delivered from the brick pits of Egypt.
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- They came through the Red Sea.
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- They're eating manna, they got manna stuck in
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- their teeth, the supernatural provision of God.
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- They've been gargling with water from a rock that God provided.
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- Their leader spends so much time in the
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- presence of the Lord, his face glows.
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- I mean, they're pretty well equipped.
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- They're following a pillar of cloud and a pillar of fire,
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- they have a newly constructed tabernacle,
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- a newly formed priesthood, a whole new set
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- of regulations to interact with God.
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- They are front and center with what it means to be the
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- people of God and they go wait a minute.
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- No, I don't think so.
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- See, I think this Exodus experience
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- is far more relevant to us.
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- How many times have we said in the last two years, well, I wish
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- we could just go back to where we were.
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- I missed my routine.
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- I missed my schedule the way it was.
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- I sure liked it better the way we used to do things.
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- Now, I mean, we lost 60 million children 'cause we didn't care
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- enough to stand up for them and we took Jesus out of our schools
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- and prayer out of our schools and the 10 commandments out of
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- our schools and we redefined marriage, but sure
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- was a good place where we were living.
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- And God began to move us.
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- Began to change our hearts and realign our lives.
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- We were certain the devil was doing it.
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- I mean, we were certain, all this disruption had to be the
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- result of evil and there's certainly evil involved and
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- there's certainly displays of wickedness and ungodliness in
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- unprecedented ways but through it all, I believe God is moving.
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- Now some of you prefer the New Testament.
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- So I brought you a passage from the New Testament, Hebrews
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- chapter 3 is the New Testament commentary on what I just read
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- to you from the book of Numbers, the Holy Spirit says, "Today, if
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- you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in
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- the rebellion, during the time of testing in the desert,
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- where your father's tested and tried me
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- for forty years and saw what I did.
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- That's why I was angry with that generation, and I said,
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- "'Their hearts are always going astray,
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- and they have not known my ways.'
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- So I declared on oath in my anger,
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- 'They shall never enter my rest.'"
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- See to it, brothers, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving
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- heart that turns away from the living God.
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- Encourage one another daily, as long as it is called today, so
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- that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness.
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- We've come to share in Christ if we hold firmly till
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- the end the confidence we had at first."
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- I'm really grateful for the beginning you have in the Lord.
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- I'm grateful for the new birth, conversion, salvation.
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- I'm grateful for the step of obedience and baptism.
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- I'm grateful that you have read through your Bible once,
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- but we have to continue that journey.
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- We have to finish the course.
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- "We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the
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- confidence we had at first.
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- As has just been said: 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not
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- harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.'
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- Who were they who heard and rebelled?"
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- It's an important question.
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- Who is this that we just read about?
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- And the author of Hebrews fills in some of the blanks, "Weren't
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- they all those Moses led out of Egypt?"
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- Weren't these the people who were slaves and their parents
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- were slaves and their grandparents were slaves and
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- their parents before them were slaves?
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- They don't remember autonomy.
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- They don't remember self direction.
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- There's no pictures of that.
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- And Moses led them out.
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- "And with whom was God angry for forty years?
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- Was it not with those who sinned,
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- whose bodies fell in the desert?
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- And to whom did God swear that they would never
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- enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed?
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- So we see that they were not able to
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- enter because of their unbelief," not their fear.
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- You can do courageous things
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- while you're dealing with your fear.
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- The presence of fear doesn't disqualify you, sometimes
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- the presence of fear means you're alive.
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- It was their unbelief that's stopping them.
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- God was so frustrated with them.
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- He said, all right, I heard you and I will do what you said.
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- You don't go into that land, you will not enter that inheritance.
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- I will lead you, I will feed you, I will provide you, I will
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- keep my end of the bargain, but you don't wanna enter the
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- promised land, you don't wanna pay the toll, you
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- don't wanna trust me, you don't wanna have
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- the experiences, let's just walk in a circle.
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- And for 40 years, they had a two week journey, they could have
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- crossed the river and started with Jericho, and they said no.
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- Folks, it's time to lead.
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- It's time to say to the Lord, where have
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- you given me influence?
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- To whom does my opinion matter?
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- Am I using my voice? Am I standing up for you?
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- Am I an advocate on your behalf?
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- That entire generation, except two people, Joshua and Caleb,
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- they all perished in the wilderness.
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- Oh, they ate manna and quail, they drank water
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- that God provided, he kept them healthy,
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- but an entire generation perished.
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- So we have a whole new generation,
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- that's another day we'll get to that.
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- A whole new generation has to be read in on the rules.
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- They have to be given the same opportunity.
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- They come right back to that same Jordan river,
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- this time with Joshua at the helm,
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- and Joshua says, consecrate yourself, get yourselves ready
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- because we're gonna cross the river.
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- I'm not really here to talk about preceding generations, I'm
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- here for you and me to say to the Lord we're in.
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- I don't wanna moan and groan and complain about what we left.
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- Allen: I wanna take a minute to pray before we go.
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- Father, I thank you that you love us.
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- I thank you that you, that in your great mercy
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- and compassion, you have made a way for us to be
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- at peace with the Creator of all things.
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- That you're not angry with us, that you are not resentful of
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- us, that you have welcomed us into your kingdom
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- and made peace with us through Jesus Christ.
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- I thank you for that today.
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- Nothing's hidden from you, no part of our past,
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- no thought within us and yet you love us.
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- May that love grow in us every day and bring a boldness
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- and a courage within us to face the
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- challenges before us, in Jesus's name, amen.
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- God bless you.
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