Second Guessing Ourselves - Rev. Holmes

Second Guessing Ourselves.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Ah, God bless you. Oh, And I do mean God Eloheim,
God Creator. You know God, that's capital good in our Bibles.
Him he bless you. And when I say blessed, I'm
talking about the Bible definition. It's bless you, make you happy,

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give you joy, answer your dilemmas, and all the other
things in there. I would look it up in strongs
to give it to you, but you can look it up. However,
I just want you to know that I don't just
mean it as off the cuff God bless you. I

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want to see God Creator, your creator, the one whose
image you're made in. I want to see Him bless you.
And when I'm saying bless again, I'm doing it according
to the way God showed me to get definitions. And
I've shared this often, but he showed me to look
up the particular Hebrew word, in this case Hebrew. But

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if I'm looking in the Greek Greek, look up the
particular word and see everywhere that word is used in scripture,
and see how God uses it and get my definition
from that. And that's why I know that it means
a happy, joyful things answered. It means all kinds of good, wonderful,

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and that's what I mean when I say God, creator
of you, creator of the universe and all that, that
means that He give you joy and every dimension and
aspect of that. Okay, So I want to go on
because I have a feeling that it's going to, as usual,

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take me way too long to get to to and
even finish what I want to give. I always blame
that on the fact that I'm a theologian, and that's
the wrong thing to do because God doesn't blame, and
I want to be like him, I hope you do.
I want everything about me to be like him, and

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he doesn't blame. Even when things are wrong, he doesn't blame.
And that's one of the reasons why I want to
look at second guessing ourselves and I wanted to say yourselves,
except for that. God is the one who taught me
that when you want to say you, they them you,
you look at me, look at me. And when it

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comes to second guessing, yeah, I have had problems with that.
And then when I think I've gotten over it, I
find I got over it in that area. Maybe what
about this area? So right now, I want to go
to Exodus fourteen, and if you know the Lord Jesus

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Christ is your savior. Or even if you don't, and
you're in church or churches a lot, and you hear
preachers preach a lot, you probably know and have heard
of that verse. Stand still and see the salvation of
the Lord, even if you don't know where it is. Now,

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we're going to look at it. I want to remind
you that you are a person of excellence. I want
to remind you that. And if you didn't know what
you are, and you didn't tune in here by accident,
and the message is for you, and that's not accidental either.

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We're going to look at this where m Moses when
it was time to Exodus fourteen, Maybe I'll do what
I never think I should do. The children of Israel
came out of Egypt, and that's a long, long, long,
long story. And that has to do with second guessing,

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because they kept thinking a whole lot of things about
that all through that long, long, long, long story. You
see most of the time living through something. I'm going
to put my tissue around my finger here so that
I don't go look at the video later and get

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upset with myself because it looks like something else. My
nose it's just. And I do it with my left hand,
since I use my right hand to shake hands to people.
I don't want to have been you know. Anyway, I'm
going to read the verse. I think I'm going to

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read the verse because it's highlighted here. Exodus fourteen thirteen,
and Moses said, unto the people, fear ye not stand
still and see the salvation. I'm going to say, Yahweh.

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I have a Bible Names of God compiled by Reverend
doctor K. E. Holmes, where every time it is for
the name of God, I put what it is in
the Hebrew, and here this would be Yahweh. And I
know we got tricked into saying Jehovah, but Ah, your

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Bible says the Lord, and Lord is in all caps.
So I'm going to do it, say it both ways.
And Moses Exodus fourteen thirteen, and Moses said, unto the people,
fear ye not stand still and see the salvation of
the Lord, which he will show you today. For the

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Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall see them
again no more forever now here again. The theologian that
I am, in that I am, I hope I don't
take the whole program to deal with forever, because it's

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not f O R e V e R forever all
one word. It is the way it is in God's
time and timing. For ever ever is its own time
and timing, and time is the wrong word to use
for that, But we don't know a better word, because
ever is outside of beyond and also inside of any

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kind of timing. We humans know how to do anyway
about second guessing. And Moses said, unto the unto the people,
Moses said to the people, fear ye not stand still
and see the salvation of Yahweh for which he pardon me,

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which he will show you to day. For the Egyptians
whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them
again no more for ever. Now. The reason why I

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have the Bible names of God that I compiled is
to always remember when we see Lord the way that
I said, God, bless you. It's become a saying that
it loses its meaning, it loses what it's to remind
us of, and we're so used to saying Lord. I
want us to always remember, and I want me to

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always remember that when God first introduced that name title Yahweh,
He's covenant keeper, he's covenant ratifire. And when we hear
Jesus in the Gospel say I'll never leave you nor
forsake you. And here again, I love the Greek because

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the tense of the Greek is no, not ever, not ever,
not ever. I want us to remember that when we
see Lord in all caps, it's Yahweh who rad the covenant,
and he's the one who keeps the covenant. And that's
whether we're keeping the covenant or not keeping the covenant.
So that if you were standing there afraid and he said,

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don't be afraid, he's keeping the covenant and he's going
to do what Moses said here. However, the lesson today
is on second guessing. Now, remember there was a whole

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lot of situations with the people getting out of Egypt.
There were so many different situations living it. I'm talking
about living it. It's a lot when you read it too,
but understand living it out, it was so much more.

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And that's the way we're living today, that we're living
circumstances and you want them to be over kind of
like you know, read to the next verse and it's
just not over like that. There's more to the circumstance.
Very like with God. God told Moses how it was

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going to be, but living it, living it out, going
before Pharaoh each time, and he changes his mind. Ah,
he says he doesn't like it in the first place,
and then finally he agrees, and then he changes his mind.
And then you go back to the people, and the people, well,
they think they're with you, and then they're not with you,
and then they blame you for the things that happened.

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And that's whether or not you're the blame. They're convinced
that you're the blame. We live that. We live that.
And it doesn't mean that God didn't say what he said.
God said what he said, and Moses did something, even
second guessing himself, he still at least said what God said,

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and Moses said, unto the people. And I'm so glad
that God that Moses said to the people, the thing
that God said. That is how not to second guess yourself.
Always say what God said, and I just say what

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he said, no matter what else is going on, no
matter what else isn't going on. Always in always say
what God said. Now, I want to read down and Yahweh,
Yahweh shall fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.

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Now later we learned that he's Prince of peace. Except
for that, it's hundreds of years later we learn actually
we've learned that. We've learned that as people. But for
me to be able to go to a scripture, it's
going to be further. Just because you didn't we don't

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see it recorded until later. It doesn't mean God just
became that because we recorded it. Exodus fourteen fifteen, and
Yahweh said, unto Moses, now watch this. This is why
I'm giving this the title second guessing ourselves. Now do

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I need to remind you again? It's what Moses told
the people in fourteen thirteen. And Moses said, unto the
people fourteen thirteen, there ye not and stand still? Didn't say,
and stand still? There's the and see the salvation of Yahweh,

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which he will show you to day. For the Egyptians
whom you have seen today, ye shall see them again
no more forever. Now that that has so much connotation
in there, for the Lord, for Yahweh shall fight for you,

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and ye shall hold your peace now verse fifteen, and
Yahweh said, unto Moses, wherefore Christ thou to me speak
unto the children of Israel, that they go forward guessing yourself.

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Stand still, see the salvation of the Lord. And God says, not,
why are you asking? Why are you crying to me?
Why are you crying to me? Exodus fourteen sixteen. But
lift up thou, But lift thou up thy rod, and

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stretch out thine hand over the sea and divide it,
and the children of Israel shall go on dry. Now,
the word ground is in italics. And I always let

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you know, in King James, if the word is in italics,
it wasn't in the actual language. It's not a mistranslation.
It's there to make the language flow, the language that
we're reading in. But it says Israel, the children of
Israel shall go on dry through the midst of the sea.

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That doesn't even make sense. And things like that are
why we second guess ourselves, because we know seas of water, seeds,
you know, even the sand is wet around the sea.
And I behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians,

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and they shall follow them. Now, Moses just got finished
telling you're gonna see them no more, Oh boy, makes
sense to that. Things like this are why we second
guess ourselves, and behold, I will Exodus fourteen seventeen. I

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will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall
follow them. And I will get me honor upon Pharaoh
and upon all his hosts, upon his chariots, and upon
his horsemen, and the verse eighteen. And the Egyptians shall

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know that I and here M is in italics, Yahweh,
that I am, Yahweh, I am the Lord. When I
have gotten me honor upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots and

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upon his horsemen verse nineteen. And the Angel of God,
that's Elohim, and the Angel of Elohim, which went before
the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them. Now,
if I do have a sense of God, that would

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have confused me and made me second guess what's going on,
and so on and so forth. That I know I
need to tune in and hear what God is saying,
and not just know what I'm looking at, because sometimes
we're so busy knowing what we're looking at, and we
know goodwill. I'm looking at a sea and it's water
and it's wet, and God's talking dry, and I'm hearing

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the chariots and the horses of Pharaoh, and God's saying,
I'm gonna see them no more. And then I feel
God or the Angel of God. What do I feel?
What do I sense? And goosebumps don't matter at this time,
you know, because we've gotten into the point where we
feel goosebumps and we know it's God. Well, you could

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feel goosebumps because of the wind and the ways and
the water, because of the weather. You can feel goosebumps
from all of those things, and some other things. And
the Angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,
moved and went behind them, and the pillar of the
cloud went from before their face and stood behind them.

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Now that before they understood certain things about the pillar,
and now it's moving, and now I don't know what's
going on. And fourteen twenty and it came between the
camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and

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it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it
gave light by night to these And do you understand
this didn't just happen as quick as one verse to
the next. This took some time. And Moses said, to day,

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and do we even remember that it's the evening in
the morning, that's a day with God. God. And I'm
not talking about a thousand years as a day either.
I'm talking about living it out, second guessing yourself while
you're living it out. You want to say what God said.

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You don't want to take time to think about it.
You don't want to take time. You want to hear
God and you want to say what He said. And
the powerful thing to do is to always rehearse what
he said, so that when the circumstances come up that
make you want to second guess, make me one to

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second guests, make us one to second guess what's going on?
What God said, what isn't going on? You only say
what God said. It's rehearsed in your mouth, that's rehearsed
in your brain, it's rehearsed in your heart, it's rehearsed
in your gut, so that as a situation changes and

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you don't know what's going on, and it's going on
so that you don't even know what the question is.
You know what the word of God is, You know
what he said, and you are saying what he said.
You might want to second guess yourself, but what you're
saying is what he said. And I'll remind you that

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you learned to say because when Elohim created, he demonstrated
to us he said, he said, he said, light be
he said, he said, so that when he gets to
teaching us that we're made in his image, we've learned

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to say, to say, to say. And that's why you
want to have your mouth, your mind, your your heart,
your gut, your soul, your spirit, everything filled with what
God said. Because circumstances that we live, they take time.

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You don't want them to take your mind while they
take time. You don't want them to take your soul
while they take time. You don't want them to take
your heart while they take time. You want what God said.
God is covenant, Elohim, He's creator, and through faith it
tells us Creator God through the Hebrews Faith, Chapter Hebrews eleven.

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Through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by
the word of God. So that not anything that appears
and look it up in case I'm saying some of
the words differently because you want to know it the
way he said it. But anything that was made, none

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of it, and anything all of any of it was
not made by anything that we see, not by anything
that appears. That's why you can't go by the circumstance
that you're looking at it and you can see it,
the circumstance that you understand and you know what's going on.
You want to say what he said so that you

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can have what he said no matter what else anything
looks like and anything is going on because the worlds
were framed by the word of God, and it's through faith.
You understand that, not through looking. And that doesn't mean

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you don't see. That doesn't mean you don't understand what
you're looking at, because you'll see the wind, you'll see
the water's raising, and you'll see them separating. You want
to know what God said. God said walk, you'd second

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guess yourself and not walk in the middle of a river,
much less a see much less ac So you don't
want to second guess yourself. You want to have faith
in God and what he said, and you want to
be saying what he said. And I want you to

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see Moses, who God testifies was more humble than anybody
ever and humble doesn't mean humble means teachable. God could
teach him and he told the people stand still, tell them,

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don't fear we go back to what it was thirteen
and Moses said, unto the people, fear ye not. Doesn't
that sound like Jesus way later, way later? Jesus is
always telling us that wasn't new with him, and it's

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not new in scripture. It's not new with God. Whenever
you go through the scripture, you find out God's saying,
don't be afraid. It's something that could capsize you and
something that could kill you. And he's telling you don't
be afraid. That's why I'm letting you know, don't second guess,
don't second guess, say what he said. That means that
you have had to have been listening to him already.

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You have to have heard him already to say what
he said. And I want to tell you practice it
saying it so that when the dilemma comes up, when
the trial comes up, when your sea comes up, when
you're Pharaoh and Pharaoh's are he's coming after you, You're

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saying what he said. You're saying what he said. And
how far did I get down? I didn't mean to
read the whole circumstance, because I want to go to
some other things. I'll read nineteen Exodus fourteen nineteen and

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the Angel of God which went before the camp of Israel.
And they'd learned some things about that, okay, and they
learned how to do and how to operate. Now something
different is happening. The Angel of God which went before
the camp of Israel, removed and went behind them, And
the pillar of the cloud went from before their face

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and stood behind them. Does that mean I'm supposed to
turn around to go that way? Practice what he said,
and do not second guess yourself, and don't let people
around you second guessing their selves caused you to second
guess yourself. And it and it came between the camp

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of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and it
was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave
light by night unto these, so that the one came
not near the other all the night, not just in

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a second, not just in a flash, all night, all night.
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and
the Lord caused a sea to go back by a
strong east wind all that night, not all at once,

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all that night. What were they doing all night? What
were they saying all night? Hopefully not second guessing all night?
And made the sea dry land and the waters were divided.

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And actually I didn't like the way I read that
the sea to go back by a strong east wind
all that night and made the sea dry land, and
the waters divided. I mean, who has seen waters standing

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up like a wall divided? Verse twenty two. And the
children of Israel went into the midst of the sea
upon the dry Groundess is there for the English, and
the waters were a wall unto them on their right

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hand and on their left. Now the English is there
for you to understand. What they're walking on is not wet.
The waters are still water. The waters are still wet,
but what they're walking on is ground, and it's dry.

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Sometimes I say a lot of times, because for me,
it's a lot of times God does things that are
so into his glory that even looking at it, you've
just got to believe him, and not the things we
think we know. Because we know water's wet, and there's

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a bottle of water right here, and if I put
someone on the desk here, the desk is going to
be wet with water twenty four Verse twenty four, fourteen
twenty four Exodus fourteen twenty four. And it came to pass,

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and even that we read it like boom boom boom, boom,
boom boom. It came to pass. I hope you get
what I'm putting out there that in the morning watch

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the Lord looked upon the host of the Egyptians through
the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled
the hosts of the Egyptians and took off their chariot.
I'm gonna need to look back. I'm pardon me, I've
skipped I shouldn't have skipped verse twenty three. And the

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Egyptians pursued and went in after them in the midst
of the sea. Even all pharaoh horses, his chariots and
his horsemen. God lets us know further on in scripture,
and I was listening to Proverbs over and over and
over again for the last several days because of things

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like this, because of living things that it's taken too
long to get to the victory that God told me
that I have. God already told me what he was
gonna do, like he told Moses before he even went
to went in to Pharaoh, went into the children of Israel.
God already let him know, you know, the burning bush experience.
God already let him know. And there's some things going on,

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and God already let me know. It's just that I
didn't know it was gonna get that bad before he
did what he said he's gonna do. So now I'm
in the circumstance and it's like this, very like this.
It's taken way too long, and it's taken way too much,
and it's going way past what I've understood, what I
thought I understood, and now I need to just rehearse

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what he said and say what he said, and not
just say what I'm looking at, not just say I'm
looking at the wet water and I'm looking not just
the river, but a sea, not that I'm looking at.
I can hear the horsemen, I can hear the chariots, Yeah,
I can hear them. I have to say what God said,

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say what he said, not second guess myself because of
what I hear, not second guess myself because of what
I see, not second guess myself because of what I
know about water. It's wet. I know that anybody knows that,

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and I know what God said. I'm sorry because I
skipped that verse in fourteen twenty three that the Egyptians
pursued and went in after them. And I'm gonna go
back to twenty And the children of Israel went into
the midst of the sea, upon the dry ground, and

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the waters were a wall unto them on their right
hand and on their left. The children of Israel, that's
what they experienced. And at the time, at the time,
it's still frightening. It's still frightening. Next verse. And the

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Egyptians pursued and went in after them. And notice in
went in after them to the midst of the sea.
Even italics is even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and

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his horsemen fourteen twenty four. And it came to pass
that in the morning watch Yahweh looked unto the host
of the Egyptian through the pillar of fire and of
the cloud. Now was the pillar of fire mentioned before?
I mean it was mentioned way before, but just now

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you go back and look. I want to move on
because I want to get to some other things about
second guessing ourselves. So I want us to know that
even when we do, God will do what he said,
He'll keep what he said, and he doesn't shame us
or blame us. It doesn't mean that nothing, that everything
goes exactly right with us, because there's a cost to

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us not doing what he said. However, God will do
what he said, Oh, yes he will so in verse
twenty five. Well, at the end of twenty four, God
troubled the host of the Egyptians verse twenty five and

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took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily,
so that the Egyptians said, let us flee from the
face of Israel, for Yahweh fighteth for them against the Egyptians.
There's a whole lot there. There's a whole lot there

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about culture and cultures that were in Egypt, not just Egyptians.
There's a whole lot there that we would want to
apply to us today, about culture and cultures living together
in one nation. Oh, I'd love to go into it.
And the Lord said, unto Moses, stretch out thine hand

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over the sea, that the waters may come again upon
the Egyptians, upon their chariots and upon their horsemen twenty seven.
And Moses stretched forth hand over the sea, and the
sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared again.

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That took some time, and the Egyptians fled against it,
and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of
the sea, and the waters returned and covered the chariots
is verse twenty eight. And the horsemen and all the
hosts of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them,

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there remained not so much as one of them. But
the children of Israel. You know, I'm always telling you
that there's no butt the way we use it in English.
I would stop and show you what that is in
the Hebrew. However, like I said, I want to go
on and show us some other things. But some of

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you go look it up in your Hebrew Bible. The
children of Israel walked upon dry land is in Italics,
in the midst of the sea, in the middle of
the sea, and the waters were a wall, unto them,
a wet wall. The sea is a wall. It's still

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water on their right hand and on their left Verse thirty.
Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand
of the Egyptians. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon

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the seashore next verse. And Israel saw that great work
which Yahweh did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared
Yahweh and believed Yahweh and his servant Moses, and I'm
reminding you that they feared Lord. Okay, and Lord is

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Yahweh covenant keeper, and I will I went somewhere else. Okay, Lord,
thank you. I don't know what three o seven has
to be. It has to deal with something the number
three oh seven up there. I want to take us

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to this matter of I hope I didn't erase the
page I think I did of Joseph, because for the
thing that I mentioned, God let me know how it
was gonna be. He let me know that it's gonna
be fine, and he let me know that I called

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you to be this, and I ordained it as that.
What I'm always sharing with you, you're a person of excellence,
and you're annoying at appointed and equipped from the foundation
of well, I'm listening to Proverbs and I'm thinking of wisdom.
What I share with you is that you're a person
of excellence. You came here annointing, appointed and equipped all

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of that God ordained that of you. It's his his
eternal purpose what he ordained in you and for you,
and that He would do through you. And yet we
live things and it can make a second guess. And

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I was asking God about some things, and he began
to remind me about Joseph and the dream that he had.
Jacob's Joseph, you know, Abraham Isaac, Jacob, Jacob's Joseph, Jacob
who had the twelve sons, and Joseph the tenth son.

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Am I saying that right now? I'm not saying that
right At the time, Joseph Was's youngest son. He's the
eleventh son, and he was he was Leah's first born,
and Abram, I thank pardon me, pardon me, he was

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best loved. Now, I don't think that's a wise thing
of parents to have a favorite child. However, we see
that there in the word. We see it there, and
the scripture actually tells us that, like going to thirty seven.

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I'm going to Genesis thirty seven. I hope I'm remembering
it right. The scripture tells us that he favored that son,
and Jacob I do. And I don't want to read
all this because of the time Jacob dwelt in the

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land with his father, was a stranger in the land
of Canaan. These are the generations of Joseph of Jacob.
Joseph being this being seventeen years old, was feeding the
flock with his brethren. Notice, God lets us know how
old he is. And I want us to notice that,

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because I'm asking how long was he in prison before
he's let out to be the right hand of Pharaoh,
the right arm of Pharaoh. So he, being seventeen years old,
was feeding the flock with his brethren, and the lad
was with the sons of Bilah Villah and with the

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sons of Zipphah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought unto
his father their evil report. Now here's why I'm there. Now,
Israel loved Joseph. Notice, God starts out saying, Jacob dolt

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in the land. Now we're going to Jacob his name
under the promise of God. I want us to notice
that these are the generations of Jacob, it says in
verse two. Now verse three. Now, Israel loved Joseph more

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than all his children. Israel is his name of promise
that God gave because he was the son of his
old age. Oh, there's a reason I was asking my
son this morning, a reason for a thing. Because there's
a reason. And here God gives us the reason. Now,

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Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he
was the son of his old age, and he made
him a coat of many colors. And when his brethren
saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren,
they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him.

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Is it, Jude, where there's envy, their strife and every
evil work. If you look it up, you'll recognize. I
didn't say it exactly every evil work, And you're going
to see that here, just because it's not written till Jude,
these things are so. God lets us know the things

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that are so. That's why the word lets us know that.
The Word is quick, that is alive and powerful, sharper
than any two edged sword. It divides ussunder soul and spirit.
And the word lets us know that about rightly dividing
the word, because it's for our understanding. It's for the

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Man of God to be thoroughly furnished, not for us
to use against one another or to accuse against one another.
We come up with that on our own. When his
brethren saw their father loved him more than all his brethren,
they hated him and could not speak peaceably unto him. Yeah,

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uh uh. And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told
it to his brethren, and they hated him yet the more,
and he said, unto them, here I pray you the
dream which I have dreamed for. Behold, we were binding

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sheaves in the field, and lo, my sheaf arose and
also stood upright, And behold, your sheeps stood round about
and made obey usance to my sheep. And his brethren said,
unto him, shalt thou indeed rain over us, or shalt
thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him

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yet the more for his dreams and for his words.
And he dreamed yet another dream. Please understand that, don't
second guess yourself if you have another dream. Don't try
to figure it out and figure how this could possibly be. You.
Just let God let you know what he wants to
let you know. And he dreamed you didn't let it

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yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and behold,
I have dreamed a dream more. And behold the sun
and moon and the seven stars made obey incnse to me.
And he told it to his father and to his brethren,
and his father rebute him and said, unto him, what

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is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall thy mother
and thy brethren indeed come to bound down ourselves to
thee to the earth. Yeah, that sound is quite ridiculous,
doesn't it. And his brethren envied him. Remember remember what
I let you know Jude says were their strife and envy. Yeah,

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there's every evil work. But his father observed the same.
His father recognized even though he didn't like it, that
dream didn't make any sense. But his father has experience
with God. Remember, I mean, he's the one who his

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hip anyway, and his brethren went to feed Okay, And
I want you to read through it because I'm taking
too long. I want you to see who took up
for him, why they took up for him, and what
they did with him, because you're going to see that

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each one has a characteristic. Each person has a characteristic
that when Jacob goes to bless his sons, you get
to see Ruben, the firstborn lost his birthright because of
something he did. And you get to see the characteristics
of each one. And what I want you to see

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is that, and maybe i'll skip to it, but Ruben
is the one who when Reuben heard what they wanted
to do, Ruben in thirty seven to twenty one. I
want you to hear what the it is. But Reuben

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heard and he delivered him out of their hands and said,
let us not kill him. Here's a good point to Reuben. However,
you find out that Reuben lost his birthright because he

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went into his father's conkybine, and that was just something
that you knew better not to do. And Reuben apparently
didn't know better. He knew better in the sense that
he knew not to do it, but he did it anyway.
Yet he wasn't completely God awful. And I want us
to understand, just like Moses, when he wouldn't do what

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God said do, when he didn't want to speak, there's
a cost to it. God told Moses, you're my prophet. However,
when Moses wouldn't do what God said do and when
he didn't want to believe God about it, there's a
cost to it. And so he told him, Okay, there's
your brother. He's going to be glad to see you.

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Then please understand that glad to see you. How to
do it. They had an attitude towards Moses like, who
does he think he is? Similar to this thing with Joseph,
because Moses was raised up under royalty. He wasn't raised
up under the oppression of the rest of us. So
God let him know. Your brother's going to be glad

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to see you. They're not going to be all disgusted
with you like you're usually experiencing. The thing of it is,
he's going to be your prophet. And his brother wasn't
prepared for all of that, and he led Israel into
some wrong things. So what I'm showing you is, don't

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second guess yourself. And Moses, because he got used to acting,
Oh yeah, he spoke. He spoke when God said, tell
Pharaoh this, and tell Pharaoh that, and most of the
time it was Abram, I mean, pardon me, his brother
Aaron speaking for him. And when God said, speak to

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the rock. First time, he spoke to the rock when
the people of Israel wanted water and the water came out.
The second time he let himself. He let his anger
get in the way and he didn't speak. I want

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you to go back and read these things about second
guessing yourself instead of moving into what God said. What
God said, what God said, because it has consequences that
we're not even thinking about. That we don't even know
to think about and if we knew to think about,
maybe we wouldn't, and maybe we would. Ruben knew he

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knew better than to have his father's conkybine, but he did.
He also knew better than to kill kill his brother,
and he convinced his brothers not to do this thing.
When Reuben hurt, Well, I'm going to read the verse

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before thirty seven twenty. Come now therefore, well nineteen, the
brothers said to one another, okay, And they said to
one another, behold this dreamer cometh when they saw him coming,
when they saw Joseph coming. Come now, let us therefore
slay him. Remember every evil work where there's envy and strife,

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there's every evil work that's in June in the New Testament.
But that's how it's been ever since God said about man,
only evil continually in his heart. God said that way
back in Genesis, when you further back, so here we

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are Genesis thirty seven twenty. Come now therefore, and let
us slay him and cast him into some pit, and
we will say, some evil beast hath devoured him, and
we will see what will become of his dreams. Yeah,
and Reuben heard it. See, we don't always know what

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the it is. It is in italics. Reuben heard. Reuben heard,
she there's an it that comes with our circumstances. And
when you want to know what the it is, you
know it from God. Reuben heard. And he delivered him
out of their hands, and he said, let us not

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kill him. And Reuben said, unto them he had no blood,
but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness,
and lay no hand upon him, that he might rid
them out of their hands and deliver them to his father. Again.
He had a plan. It was a good plan. It
was a plan. When you second guess, When you second guess,

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it doesn't always come out to what you guessed, and
the consequences are not what you think. And because there's
only a few minutes left, I want to remind you, Joseph,
he gets cast, he gets sold to slaves. I mean,
he gets sold to Canaanites. I'm looking for it. And behold,

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a company of Ishmaelites came upon Gilead, and their camels
came bearing spicery bomb and mirr that's verse twenty five,
going to carry it into Egypt. And Judah said, unto
his brethren, now this is Judah what profit is it
if we slay our brother and conceal his blood. Come,

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let us sell him to the Israelites, and let us
and let not our hands be upon him, for he
is our brother and our flesh, and his brothers they
were content. You know, Let's get rid of him. Whatever
we can get rid of him. Let's get rid of him.
And they're passed by Midianites. Now, notice the scripture is

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letting you know who's who, because Isaac, God, let Abram know,
I'm gonna give you this land, this Canaanites, I'm there.
Their sin hasn't come to it's full in the lifetime

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of these grandsons, these sons and grandsons, their sin is
coming to the full that like the Egyptians, they're going
to be out of the land, and Abram's seed will
inherit everything. And understand, second guessing yourself, it was a

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cost to Abram saying that Sarah's my wife instead of
saying what God gave. It was a cost to Isaac
naming his wife as his sister instead of believing God.
Second guessing, there was a cost, and God didn't put

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them aside. As a matter of fact, in the middle
of with a Bemelech. God says, he's my prophet, telling
telling a Bemelek that Abram's his prophet. When we second guess,
there's cost to it. When you look at when you
look at Simeon and Levi, they slaughtered an entire people,

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not moving in who they are. Judah is a praiser.
Judah praise causes God to slaughter entire people who are
against his people. Understand, when you second guess yourself, it
will not turn God against you. It will turn your
circumstances so that you have a cost in your inheritance

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and in your walk. And I want you to see Joseph.
He got to see his dreams. He went to prison.
We don't know how many years he was in there.
We can guess it. We can guess it by the timing. However,
he stayed faithful to God. He wouldn't take he wouldn't
take the woman who offered himself to her. He wouldn't

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do that. And what he said is, I can't do
this to your master, and I can't do this before God.
And he was in prison, we think, oh, yeah, if
he was so good, nothing that that bad would have happened.
And he was in there for years. He didn't second
guess the dream that he had when he was seventeen,

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and through dreams, he interpret dreams, he interpret dreams, and
then even that didn't come right away. When what God
told you doesn't seem to come right away, rehearse what
he said, so you don't second guess yourself and lose
birthright and lose this and that and the other. But

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like Joseph, you go from the prison to the palace,
and you honor God and not only who he is,
but who you are, who He made you. I'm talking
to you, person of excellence. You God anointed, you, appointed,

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you ordained it in you to be a person of
excellence to His honor, to your joy. Amen,