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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're excited that you joined us for today's episode of
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
Anybody in here like candy Land? If you like candy
Land the game, It's a brilliant game and the reason
I love candy Land so much is It's very simple. Basically,
you just take cards and you turn the cards over
and whatever color is on the card, you move to
that particular space. And the whole thrust of the game
(01:25):
is you go from the start all the way to
candy Land. Candy Lando was a very emotional game. We've
played it for a long long time with our kids
and all sorts of emotions, you know, like they would
pick a card they wouldn't like, and they would throw
the figures around the playroom, take the cards and scatter them,
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and because of that, many would get disqualified from the game.
Candyland teaches obedience, following directions. It teaches colors, It teaches
how to respond to the good times and the bad times. Yes,
it's a children's game, but it reminds me of some
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other children. We're going to talk about the children of Israel,
because they pretty much had the same response and reaction
as my kids have had over the years when we
used to play Candyland. Think about God's people. I'm talking
about the Israelites. Think about this nation back in the
book of Genesis. It's interesting to put this together. We're
(02:32):
gonna talk about some general concepts today from the Bible,
and so often when it comes to scripture, we got
so specific.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Many times we miss the general flow.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So if you think in the Book of Genesis, the
first book in the Bible, God established a covenant with Abraham,
basically you have the beginning of the Jewish nation, and
Abraham's descendants moved to a land called Gshen. You remember Joe,
don't you. I'm talking about Joseph. Joseph and his clan
(03:03):
cruised down there. It was a great place. Generations melt
off the clock four hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So Israel goes from.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Joe to Moe, and then the Bible says, there arose
a guy, a leader, a president of Pharaoh, who didn't
know what Joe had.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Done for Egypt.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So he was absolutely clueless, and he saw all of
these Jews. The Jews were enslaved, and it was a difficult,
difficult situation. So that brings us to Candyland, because we're
gonna find out how Moses, this guy Here's here's Moses.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We're gonna find out how this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Led God's people all the way through this track, hopefully
to a place called Canaan, the land flowing with milk
and honey, or you could call it canandie land. Why
aren't we studying this? Why the board game? I mean, why, Well,
(04:13):
this is the way we learn, and also too, as
you peruse the New Testament, for example, think about the
Apostle Paul. You know, Saint Paul, this is a New Testament.
Here's what he said referring to this story and the
blessings that will accrue in your life and mind when
we study this and know this stuff. First Corinthia, chapter ten,
(04:34):
verse six, and following, here's what the Apostle Paul said
in the New Testament. Now, these things occurred as examples
to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things
as they did. Do not be idolators, as some of
them were. As it is written, the people sat down
to eat and drink and got.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Up to indulge in revelry.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
We should not commit sexual immorality on this track that happened,
and as some of them did, and in one day
twenty three thousand of them died. We should not test
Christ as some of them did and were killed by snakes.
Don't grumble as some of them did and were killed
(05:16):
by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples,
and we're written down as warnings for us on whom
the culmination of the ages has come. So if you
think you're standing firm, be careful that you don't fall Candyland.
This game is analogous to the game of life. We
(05:40):
read and we look at the children of Israel. The
apostle Paul says, we learn from their example about what
to do and what not to do, and it pretty
much is an example of your walk in my walk
in the Christian life, because the Bible says it's a
winning walk, it's a it's a trek, it's a it's
(06:03):
a journey. And basically, like this game candy Land, we
don't know what's in the cards, and sometimes we think, man,
the deck is stacked against us. We turn the card
over and it's a color, and God simply says, trust
and obey. So that's the way it is in your
(06:23):
life and mind. God has a great purpose, a great
plan for your life. Well, here's Moses, and you probably
know a little bit about him if you don't listen up.
Moses was born when all of the babies were being killed,
so here he is born in captivity. Yet through a
strange set of circumstances we'll talk about next time. He
(06:46):
was adopted into Pharaoh's family. He had the best education,
the best wardrobe, the best technology, the best of everything
in this family. And what's so striking about it is
God's enemies were rearing him to become the next Pharaoh
(07:08):
of Egypt.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
This is Moses that you. God is so amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He's so intentional that many times he can cause your
enemies and mine to bless us.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Did you know what I just said?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The enemies of God ended up blessing Moses. They gave
him this amazing education. You know, he relied on that
as he led these two million people through all of
these different colors and this track to can Andy Land.
(07:53):
So you think, wow, I got a bunch of haters, Wow,
these people don't like me, Wow this family situation. God
can use your enemies to tip you off to what's
around the corner. Maybe the reason you're feeling persecuted right
now at your school or maybe at the office, is
(08:17):
because God wants to show you through them what he
has for you, what He has in sore for you.
And that's the situation with Moses. So Moses is happy.
I mean, he's living the life right. Yeah, Well he
draws another card. Here is when Moses makes a mistake.
(08:38):
We all make mistakes. And here's what I love about
the Bible. The Bible not only shows the strengths of characters,
but also the weaknesses.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Moses was a man of passion. He was the man
who was aggressive.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He saw his fellow Jews being taken advantage of, and
the Bible says, he looked one way, he looked the way,
and he killed an Egyptian who was abusing one of
his countrymen, took him out.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
He look one way, he.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Looked the other. He though forgot to look up. God
sees everything. It's the omni presence, It's the nicience of God.
God knows it all. There's no such thing as a
secret text. There's no such thing as a closed office
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door or bedroom door.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
God sees it all.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
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Speaker 2 (10:41):
Misplaced passion, though, can cause chaos.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Isn't that true?
Speaker 2 (10:47):
I want passionate about life.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Well, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
God's given you that passion to be passionate about him.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
And the life he has.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah, what can happen is we can become pass passionate
about the wrong things.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
How many people do we know?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Oh, I'm passionate and they look at what God has
told them to do sexually, But they say, I'm just
a passionate man, a passionate lady, and they go off
the grid, off the board.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
It leads to chaos, and that's what Moses did.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
So because of that, he was a fugitive. They wanted
to take him out, so he.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Draws another card.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Again, did this game Candy lend you draw the cards
and just follow the colors. He goes to a place
called Midian, whereas Midian Midian the Bible calls it is
on the back side of the desert. He meets a
beautiful woman there who becomes his wife. Moses is thinking,
I totally messed up. I fumbled the ball. I mean,
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I was right there and I missed this awkward unity
because of a misplaced passion in my life. Will remember,
God has a purpose and a plan for every single
person here, an amazing agenda. We make mistakes. Moses a mistake.
Let him out to the wilderness, and maybe right now.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
You're going well ed.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
I mean, I feel like I'm in the wilderness because
of what I've done.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I've gone through a marriage or two.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
I'm trying to recover from this substance issue. I feel
like I'm in the wilderness because I'm disenfranchised.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
I'm separate from my daughter or my son.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Financially, I feel like I'm in the wilderness.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Man, woman, the wilderness is real? Is it not? Yet?
In the wilderness? What happened? God showed up in a
massive way.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
So he's no wilderness, and he has this burning bush experience.
God shows up and you've got this call on his life.
So you might think, oh, man, I've made some of
the mistakes. God can't use me anymore. I've screwed up
so many times. God can't use me anymore. And the
enemy himself is whispering in your ear?
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Do you realize what you did?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Do you think God can use you at Fellowship Church?
Do you think you can really serve? Do you think
those are lies?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Lies?
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Moses had this encounter with God, and this encounter, this
calling was so amazing. Even though he felt inadequate. God
is not concerned about our ability. He's concerned about our availability,
and Moses was available. God calls him, and God says, Moses,
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you are going to be the man to lead?
Speaker 3 (14:00):
What to lead? Just to stutter? To lead? I feel
insecure to lead. I have nothing to say to lead
my people out.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Of Egyptian slavery. He finds himself in Pharaoh's office. I mean,
they taught me how to walk like an Egyptian and
talk like an Egyptian. Moses is gonna think to himself,
but he's like, I'm asking Pharaoh, Pharaoh God says, let
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my people go. Pharaoh was like, yo, Moses was to
get hey, Pharaoh, let my people go. Pharaoh refused, refused.
Here's what I've learned. It's best to obey God the
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first time, because when you obey him the first time,
that's when everything kind of hits on all cylinders. When
we don't, we end up having some serious, serious, serious,
serious problems.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
And here's what happened.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
God sent plagues to pound the Egyptians, to pound Pharaoh.
Maybe right now you're like, yeah, okay, you know what,
I'm experiencing a plague. It's better the first time when
someone challenges you the first time to become a Christian,
make that decision the first time, to begin devotions, make
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that decision the first time to tithe, make that decision
the first time to live a pure life. I'm gonna
do it the first time, the first time, the first
the first time is the best time to serve God.
Yet Pharaoh totally blew it. So Moses now is doing
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the stuff. He is going to to lead God's people
through gum Drop Pass on his way to keen Andy Land,
God's chosen tract of land that he mentioned again earlier
(16:26):
in the Book of Genesis to Abraham. So Moses is like, wow, okay,
we're gone, well out of here, see you later.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
So he takes two million people.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Across gum Drop Pass and he's he's following the Bible says.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
The cloud the cloud. And the cloud.
Speaker 2 (16:58):
Went right ahead of them like this GPS thing that
we use with all of our you know, technology, And
this cloud just moved in front of them.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
And they followed the cloud. At night, it was a
it was a fire in the sky.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Yet the cloud took them to the Red Sea. The
Red Sea was miraculously parted. The Egyptians followed Moses and
the children of Israel. When they walked through the ocean
floor and on the dry land, the waters engulfed them.
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They were taken out miracle after miracle. They had this
worship concert God's people did after they made it through
the Red Sea.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Yet these people still.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Grumbled, they still murmured, they still went negative.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Even though God did these great things. All they have
to do was look back.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Sometimes people do grumble, and God understands our emotions. But man,
we can grumble way, way, way too much.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
They followed though the cloud.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Read here, the cloud is a picture an example of
the holy Spirit of God. As as we live life,
we have a choice. We either yield ourselves and walk
in the spirit down this amazing track that God has
for us, or we live the self yielded life. It's
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either the spirit yielded life or the self yielded life.
And how many people do we know, and how many
times in our own lives do we just go by
what makes me look good, what makes me feel good,
what brings passion to me? We forget the spirit led life.
And the spirit led life is the life of success.
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It's not always easy, but it's the life of the ultimate.
So children of Israel, let's go back. Followed the cloud
red sea parted. They had this worship concert. People still
started grumbling.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
We're thirsty, Mummy and Daddy. We wore food and God
rained down. And we'll talk about this next time.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Mana candy bars because manna tasted like honey from heaven.
Some were paleo. Here's some quail. He gave them quail.
So they go all the way, all the way, all
the way to Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai, and it's interesting
to study. I don't have time to follow this. It's
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interesting to study how many times mountains are mentioned in
the Bible. Well, Moses scales Mount Sinai and receives the
Ten Commandments. So they're doing the koa thing, two million Jews.
They're camping at the base of Mount Sinai. Mo goes up,
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gets the Ten Commandments, comes down, and goes back up.
He gets other laws and other ways to live. The
tabernacle system is set up, the worship is set up.
Moses is setting up their offensive strategy to go through
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the rest of the trek into the Promised Land.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
This trek was supposed.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
To take forty days, say forty days with me forty days.
It was supposed to be a short, little jaunt, but
it turned into a forty year road trip from hell.
How can you take a little forty day trip and
it into a forty year road trip from hell?
Speaker 3 (21:02):
We're gonna find out.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So, so they're at the mountain, and even when Moses
will go up for a while and go back down,
all this drama and trauma, sexual immorality, idolatry, the patience
of God just as you know, he just it just
it just wears out. So anyway, Moe is is here
(21:28):
and finally He gets everybody together. Let's go and take
out who we have to take out. Let's go and
claim the promised land. Here's what's so interesting about God.
He doesn't just drop things on us like, oh, I
mean sometimes.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I mean something like this.
Speaker 2 (21:48):
We're gonna have to have aggressive, offensive faith. God says,
the land is yours. Take the land. So here's the strategy.
He dials up a cool offensive, send some spies out.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
They come back and.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
They're like, Moses, Man, the land is awesome, but there's
giants in the land. These people are big. I mean, yeah,
the land is cool, but these people are big and
bad and amazing. And this negativity, this grumbling, begins to
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become an infectious disease. And he tells this person and
then you have grumbling. And then here's what they do.
They want to kill Moses. Then they say, man, I
wish I was back in Egyptian slavery. Now there's a
couple of guys. We'll talk about them next week. They
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were like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
Are you kidding me? They tell these negative people, are
you kidding me? We can take it. God's given it
to us. Let's go. We got the mo Let's.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Go no, no, no, What happened to Moses? What happened
to junior ment? Joshua? What happened? I mean, what happened
to Cane Andyland?
Speaker 3 (23:18):
I thought? God keeps his promises. I mean he does.
But here's the deal. Are you on this track? Are
you on this journey of faith?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Because if you are, the moment you start this relationship
with God, you're promised can Andyland heaven?
Speaker 3 (23:49):
So are you on this track? Have you been.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Delivered from bondage from slavery? Like God's people work, it's
not Moses who does the delivering, It's Jesus.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
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Speaker 2 (01:03):
Anybody in here like candy Land? If you like candy
Land the game, It's a brilliant game and the reason
I love candy Land so much is It's very simple. Basically,
you just take cards and you turn the cards over
and whatever color is on the card, you move to
that particular space. And the whole thrust of the game
(01:25):
is you go from the start all the way to
candy Land. Candy Lando was a very emotional game. We've
played it for a long long time with our kids
and all sorts of emotions, you know, like they would
pick a card they wouldn't like, and they would throw
the figures around the playroom, take the cards and scatter them,
(01:49):
and because of that, many would get disqualified from the game.
Candyland teaches obedience, following directions. It teaches colors, It teaches
how to respond to the good times and the bad times. Yes,
it's a children's game, but it reminds me of some
(02:09):
other children. We're going to talk about the children of Israel,
because they pretty much had the same response and reaction
as my kids have had over the years when we
used to play Candyland. Think about God's people. I'm talking
about the Israelites. Think about this nation back in the
book of Genesis. It's interesting to put this together. We're
(02:32):
gonna talk about some general concepts today from the Bible,
and so often when it comes to scripture, we got
so specific.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Many times we miss the general flow.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
So if you think in the Book of Genesis, the
first book in the Bible, God established a covenant with Abraham,
basically you have the beginning of the Jewish nation, and
Abraham's descendants moved to a land called Gshen. You remember Joe,
don't you. I'm talking about Joseph. Joseph and his clan
(03:03):
cruised down there. It was a great place. Generations melt
off the clock four hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
So Israel goes from.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Joe to Moe, and then the Bible says, there arose
a guy, a leader, a president of Pharaoh, who didn't
know what Joe had.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Done for Egypt.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
So he was absolutely clueless, and he saw all of
these Jews. The Jews were enslaved, and it was a difficult,
difficult situation. So that brings us to Candyland, because we're
gonna find out how Moses, this guy Here's here's Moses.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
We're gonna find out how this guy.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Led God's people all the way through this track, hopefully
to a place called Canaan, the land flowing with milk
and honey, or you could call it canandie land. Why
aren't we studying this? Why the board game? I mean, why, Well,
(04:13):
this is the way we learn, and also too, as
you peruse the New Testament, for example, think about the
Apostle Paul. You know, Saint Paul, this is a New Testament.
Here's what he said referring to this story and the
blessings that will accrue in your life and mind when
we study this and know this stuff. First Corinthia, chapter ten,
(04:34):
verse six, and following, here's what the Apostle Paul said
in the New Testament. Now, these things occurred as examples
to keep us from setting our hearts on evil things
as they did. Do not be idolators, as some of
them were. As it is written, the people sat down
to eat and drink and got.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Up to indulge in revelry.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
We should not commit sexual immorality on this track that happened,
and as some of them did, and in one day
twenty three thousand of them died. We should not test
Christ as some of them did and were killed by snakes.
Don't grumble as some of them did and were killed
(05:16):
by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples,
and we're written down as warnings for us on whom
the culmination of the ages has come. So if you
think you're standing firm, be careful that you don't fall Candyland.
This game is analogous to the game of life. We
(05:40):
read and we look at the children of Israel. The
apostle Paul says, we learn from their example about what
to do and what not to do, and it pretty
much is an example of your walk in my walk
in the Christian life, because the Bible says it's a
winning walk, it's a it's a trek, it's a it's
(06:03):
a journey. And basically, like this game candy Land, we
don't know what's in the cards, and sometimes we think, man,
the deck is stacked against us. We turn the card
over and it's a color, and God simply says, trust
and obey. So that's the way it is in your
(06:23):
life and mind. God has a great purpose, a great
plan for your life. Well, here's Moses, and you probably
know a little bit about him if you don't listen up.
Moses was born when all of the babies were being killed,
so here he is born in captivity. Yet through a
strange set of circumstances we'll talk about next time. He
(06:46):
was adopted into Pharaoh's family. He had the best education,
the best wardrobe, the best technology, the best of everything
in this family. And what's so striking about it is
God's enemies were rearing him to become the next Pharaoh
(07:08):
of Egypt.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
This is Moses that you. God is so amazing.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
He's so intentional that many times he can cause your
enemies and mine to bless us.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Did you know what I just said?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
The enemies of God ended up blessing Moses. They gave
him this amazing education. You know, he relied on that
as he led these two million people through all of
these different colors and this track to can Andy Land.
(07:53):
So you think, wow, I got a bunch of haters, Wow,
these people don't like me, Wow this family situation. God
can use your enemies to tip you off to what's
around the corner. Maybe the reason you're feeling persecuted right
now at your school or maybe at the office, is
(08:17):
because God wants to show you through them what he
has for you, what He has in sore for you.
And that's the situation with Moses. So Moses is happy.
I mean, he's living the life right. Yeah, Well he
draws another card. Here is when Moses makes a mistake.
(08:38):
We all make mistakes. And here's what I love about
the Bible. The Bible not only shows the strengths of characters,
but also the weaknesses.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Moses was a man of passion. He was the man
who was aggressive.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
He saw his fellow Jews being taken advantage of, and
the Bible says, he looked one way, he looked the way,
and he killed an Egyptian who was abusing one of
his countrymen, took him out.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
He look one way, he.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Looked the other. He though forgot to look up. God
sees everything. It's the omni presence, It's the nicience of God.
God knows it all. There's no such thing as a
secret text. There's no such thing as a closed office
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door or bedroom door.
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God sees it all.
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Misplaced passion, though, can cause chaos.
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Isn't that true?
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I want passionate about life.
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Well, that's awesome.
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God's given you that passion to be passionate about him.
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And the life he has.
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Yeah, what can happen is we can become pass passionate
about the wrong things.
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How many people do we know?
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Oh, I'm passionate and they look at what God has
told them to do sexually, But they say, I'm just
a passionate man, a passionate lady, and they go off
the grid, off the board.
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It leads to chaos, and that's what Moses did.
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So because of that, he was a fugitive. They wanted
to take him out, so he.
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Draws another card.
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Again, did this game Candy lend you draw the cards
and just follow the colors. He goes to a place
called Midian, whereas Midian Midian the Bible calls it is
on the back side of the desert. He meets a
beautiful woman there who becomes his wife. Moses is thinking,
I totally messed up. I fumbled the ball. I mean,
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I was right there and I missed this awkward unity
because of a misplaced passion in my life. Will remember,
God has a purpose and a plan for every single
person here, an amazing agenda. We make mistakes. Moses a mistake.
Let him out to the wilderness, and maybe right now.
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You're going well ed.
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I mean, I feel like I'm in the wilderness because
of what I've done.
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I've gone through a marriage or two.
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I'm trying to recover from this substance issue. I feel
like I'm in the wilderness because I'm disenfranchised.
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I'm separate from my daughter or my son.
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Financially, I feel like I'm in the wilderness.
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Man, woman, the wilderness is real? Is it not? Yet?
In the wilderness? What happened? God showed up in a
massive way.
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So he's no wilderness, and he has this burning bush experience.
God shows up and you've got this call on his life.
So you might think, oh, man, I've made some of
the mistakes. God can't use me anymore. I've screwed up
so many times. God can't use me anymore. And the
enemy himself is whispering in your ear?
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Do you realize what you did?
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Do you think God can use you at Fellowship Church?
Do you think you can really serve? Do you think
those are lies?
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Lies?
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Moses had this encounter with God, and this encounter, this
calling was so amazing. Even though he felt inadequate. God
is not concerned about our ability. He's concerned about our availability,
and Moses was available. God calls him, and God says, Moses,
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you are going to be the man to lead?
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What to lead? Just to stutter? To lead? I feel
insecure to lead. I have nothing to say to lead
my people out.
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Of Egyptian slavery. He finds himself in Pharaoh's office. I mean,
they taught me how to walk like an Egyptian and
talk like an Egyptian. Moses is gonna think to himself,
but he's like, I'm asking Pharaoh, Pharaoh God says, let
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my people go. Pharaoh was like, yo, Moses was to
get hey, Pharaoh, let my people go. Pharaoh refused, refused.
Here's what I've learned. It's best to obey God the
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first time, because when you obey him the first time,
that's when everything kind of hits on all cylinders. When
we don't, we end up having some serious, serious, serious,
serious problems.
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And here's what happened.
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God sent plagues to pound the Egyptians, to pound Pharaoh.
Maybe right now you're like, yeah, okay, you know what,
I'm experiencing a plague. It's better the first time when
someone challenges you the first time to become a Christian,
make that decision the first time, to begin devotions, make
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that decision the first time to tithe, make that decision
the first time to live a pure life. I'm gonna
do it the first time, the first time, the first
the first time is the best time to serve God.
Yet Pharaoh totally blew it. So Moses now is doing
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the stuff. He is going to to lead God's people
through gum Drop Pass on his way to keen Andy Land,
God's chosen tract of land that he mentioned again earlier
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in the Book of Genesis to Abraham. So Moses is like, wow, okay,
we're gone, well out of here, see you later.
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So he takes two million people.
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Across gum Drop Pass and he's he's following the Bible says.
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The cloud the cloud. And the cloud.
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Went right ahead of them like this GPS thing that
we use with all of our you know, technology, And
this cloud just moved in front of them.
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And they followed the cloud. At night, it was a
it was a fire in the sky.
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Yet the cloud took them to the Red Sea. The
Red Sea was miraculously parted. The Egyptians followed Moses and
the children of Israel. When they walked through the ocean
floor and on the dry land, the waters engulfed them.
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They were taken out miracle after miracle. They had this
worship concert God's people did after they made it through
the Red Sea.
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Yet these people still.
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Grumbled, they still murmured, they still went negative.
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Even though God did these great things. All they have
to do was look back.
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Sometimes people do grumble, and God understands our emotions. But man,
we can grumble way, way, way too much.
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They followed though the cloud.
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Read here, the cloud is a picture an example of
the holy Spirit of God. As as we live life,
we have a choice. We either yield ourselves and walk
in the spirit down this amazing track that God has
for us, or we live the self yielded life. It's
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either the spirit yielded life or the self yielded life.
And how many people do we know, and how many
times in our own lives do we just go by
what makes me look good, what makes me feel good,
what brings passion to me? We forget the spirit led life.
And the spirit led life is the life of success.
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It's not always easy, but it's the life of the ultimate.
So children of Israel, let's go back. Followed the cloud
red sea parted. They had this worship concert. People still
started grumbling.
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We're thirsty, Mummy and Daddy. We wore food and God
rained down. And we'll talk about this next time.
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Mana candy bars because manna tasted like honey from heaven.
Some were paleo. Here's some quail. He gave them quail.
So they go all the way, all the way, all
the way to Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai, and it's interesting
to study. I don't have time to follow this. It's
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interesting to study how many times mountains are mentioned in
the Bible. Well, Moses scales Mount Sinai and receives the
Ten Commandments. So they're doing the koa thing, two million Jews.
They're camping at the base of Mount Sinai. Mo goes up,
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gets the Ten Commandments, comes down, and goes back up.
He gets other laws and other ways to live. The
tabernacle system is set up, the worship is set up.
Moses is setting up their offensive strategy to go through
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the rest of the trek into the Promised Land.
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This trek was supposed.
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To take forty days, say forty days with me forty days.
It was supposed to be a short, little jaunt, but
it turned into a forty year road trip from hell.
How can you take a little forty day trip and
it into a forty year road trip from hell?
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We're gonna find out.
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So, so they're at the mountain, and even when Moses
will go up for a while and go back down,
all this drama and trauma, sexual immorality, idolatry, the patience
of God just as you know, he just it just
it just wears out. So anyway, Moe is is here
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and finally He gets everybody together. Let's go and take
out who we have to take out. Let's go and
claim the promised land. Here's what's so interesting about God.
He doesn't just drop things on us like, oh, I
mean sometimes.
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I mean something like this.
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We're gonna have to have aggressive, offensive faith. God says,
the land is yours. Take the land. So here's the strategy.
He dials up a cool offensive, send some spies out.
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They come back and.
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They're like, Moses, Man, the land is awesome, but there's
giants in the land. These people are big. I mean, yeah,
the land is cool, but these people are big and
bad and amazing. And this negativity, this grumbling, begins to
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become an infectious disease. And he tells this person and
then you have grumbling. And then here's what they do.
They want to kill Moses. Then they say, man, I
wish I was back in Egyptian slavery. Now there's a
couple of guys. We'll talk about them next week. They
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were like, are you kidding me?
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Are you kidding me? They tell these negative people, are
you kidding me? We can take it. God's given it
to us. Let's go. We got the mo Let's.
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Go no, no, no, What happened to Moses? What happened
to junior ment? Joshua? What happened? I mean, what happened
to Cane Andyland?
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I thought? God keeps his promises. I mean he does.
But here's the deal. Are you on this track? Are
you on this journey of faith?
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Because if you are, the moment you start this relationship
with God, you're promised can Andyland heaven?
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So are you on this track? Have you been.
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Delivered from bondage from slavery? Like God's people work, it's
not Moses who does the delivering, It's Jesus.
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