Class 6 from this series was used in GCT Episode 363.<\/p>\n
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\nthe Cleckheaton, UK Ecclesia.
\nThe theme for Brother Martin’s <\/p>\n
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\nclasses this week is Paradox of
\nLiberty. <\/p>\n
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\nToday’s class is entitled From
\nthe House of Bondage, Brother <\/p>\n
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\nMartin.
\nSo yesterday morning we <\/p>\n
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\nchannelled our inner founding
\nFathers and we were trying to <\/p>\n
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\nbegin a journey about
\nunderstanding what it means to <\/p>\n
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\nbe free in a post Christian,
\nalmost anti Christian world. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd, and we began our journey
\nwith well, a series of series of<\/p>\n
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\nquestions, really trying to
\nunderstand what it looks like <\/p>\n
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\nfighting and and challenging our
\ndiscipleship everyday that we <\/p>\n
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\nlive.
\nAnd we worked, if you remember, <\/p>\n
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\nthrough some of the background
\nin the Garden of Eden, we moved <\/p>\n
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\ninto the incidents around Noah
\nand the way in which the, the, <\/p>\n
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\nthe Noah and well, Noah and the
\nflood. <\/p>\n
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\nThe story points us both
\nbackwards towards the creation <\/p>\n
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\naccount and also forwards to the
\nrelease from bondage, which <\/p>\n
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\ncomes later on.
\nAnd we finished up with the <\/p>\n
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\nTower of Babel.
\nAnd again, just some of the <\/p>\n
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\nthreads that began to teach us
\nabout what would come. <\/p>\n
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\nThese, if you remember, if you
\ncan make it out on the screen, <\/p>\n
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\nwere our, our, as our agenda for
\nthe week. <\/p>\n
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\nWe’re, we’re in session 2 and
\nwe’re thinking pretty obviously,<\/p>\n
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\nas you’ll guess in the title,
\nabout liberty coming from Egypt <\/p>\n
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\ntoday.
\nThese were the principles that <\/p>\n
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\nwe tried to tried to capture
\nyesterday. <\/p>\n
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\nThis list is going to grow over
\nthe course of the week, by the <\/p>\n
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\nway.
\nSo if you’re writing them down, <\/p>\n
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\nby all means use ink rather than
\npencil. <\/p>\n
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\nBut they are going to get bigger
\nas we go on down through the <\/p>\n
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\nthrough the week.
\nGod’s freedom is wide, but it <\/p>\n
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\nhas guardrails for our benefit.
\nAnd and we don’t like God’s <\/p>\n
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\nfreedom and we don’t like his
\nguardrails and all of. <\/p>\n
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\nThose other challenges as we saw
\ncoming out through the Garden of<\/p>\n
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\nEden.
\nGenesis chapters 4 through to 11<\/p>\n
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\nare interesting because they’re
\nreally focused towards the east.<\/p>\n
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\nIt’s all about coming out of the
\ngarden and going away from what <\/p>\n
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\nGod had promised.
\nAnd it’s only where we finished <\/p>\n
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\nright at the end of yesterday’s
\nsession with the introduction of<\/p>\n
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\nAbraham that we begin to move in
\nthe opposite direction. <\/p>\n
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\nWhen Abraham comes from of the
\nColes and begins to travel <\/p>\n
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\nwestwards towards the land and
\nall of the ways in which we <\/p>\n
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\ndescribed yesterday, that he
\ngives up things that he owns, <\/p>\n
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\nwhether he gives up his past.
\nGives up his. <\/p>\n
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\nPresent or gives up his future
\nin the promise of his son in <\/p>\n
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\norder to show his dedication to
\nhis heavenly Father. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in this session, we’re going
\nto see first a series of, and <\/p>\n
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\nthis is a phrase I need to have
\nwith caffeine inside a series of<\/p>\n
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\nmini exoduses, which will
\nanticipate the great Exodus <\/p>\n
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\nwhere God leads his people to be
\nservants to himself. <\/p>\n
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\nSo if you want to put in one in
\na particular way, brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters, Genesis is going to
\nprepare us for the book of <\/p>\n
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\nExodus.
\nAnd you know this even if you <\/p>\n
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\ndon’t think you know this,
\nbecause you know the incidents <\/p>\n
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\nthat we’re going to talk about.
\nSo Abraham, as we’ll see in <\/p>\n
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\ndetail in just a moment, is
\ngoing to go down into Egypt <\/p>\n
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\nwhere there will be plagues and
\nhe’ll come out. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then he’ll go down into
\nEgypt again in Genesis chapter <\/p>\n
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\n20, slightly different, with the
\nsame kind of patent. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then Jacob will have a mini
\nexodus. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause if you remember, he
\ncomes out fleeing from his <\/p>\n
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\nbrother and the sunsets on his
\nold life when he has his dream <\/p>\n
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\nof the ladder that reaches up to
\nheaven. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’ll go and work 14 years
\nfor, well, originally for a wife<\/p>\n
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\nand then for a second as well.
\nAnd then we’ll come back. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd at the moment when he
\nwrestles with the Angel to the <\/p>\n
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\nbreak of day, the very point
\nthat the sun rises is the point <\/p>\n
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\nwhere he gets his.
\nNew name. <\/p>\n
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\nup again.
\nSo he himself has had a little <\/p>\n
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\nexodus and he comes back to his
\npeople after that, and then <\/p>\n
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\nJoseph.
\nWill go, would you believe it, <\/p>\n
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\ndown into Egypt as a forerunner
\nof the people. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd his family will follow him
\nvoluntarily because, you know, <\/p>\n
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\nwe like going places where we’re
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\nSo they go down to because of
\nthe famine and the whole family <\/p>\n
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\ngo down there.
\nAnd there, of course, they <\/p>\n
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\nmultiply.
\nAnd just in case we haven’t got <\/p>\n
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\nthe picture by now, when we open
\nup the beginning of the book of <\/p>\n
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\nExodus, Moses will have a mini
\nExodus. <\/p>\n
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\nIn fact, Moses will have two
\nmini exoduses, which is not a <\/p>\n
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\nphrase I can say particularly
\neasily just to make sure we <\/p>\n
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\ntelling us something about <\/p>\n
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\nfreedom.
\nThat everything that we <\/p>\n
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\nunderstand the great exodus from
\nEgypt to be is not just one <\/p>\n
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\nrandom, one off incident as
\ngreat and spectacular as it was,<\/p>\n
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\nbut that it’s something that has
\nbeen already foretold in the <\/p>\n
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\nlives of the Fathers.
\nAs well, let me bring you to <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis chapter 12 and to look
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\nand look at the Moses incident
\nas well before we get into the <\/p>\n
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\nExodus itself.
\nSo Genesis chapter 12. <\/p>\n
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\na quick overview and it’s, and
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\nsome of the detail.
\nGenesis chapter 12, you know it <\/p>\n
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\nincredibly well.
\nAbraham’s turned his back on his<\/p>\n
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\nfamily.
\nHe’s come into the land and in <\/p>\n
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\nverse 9 of chapter 12, he’s
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\nthere’s a famine in the land.
\nWould you believe it? <\/p>\n
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\nIt has a habit.
\nIt has a habit of repeating and <\/p>\n
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\nAbraham went down into Egypt to
\nsojourn there for the famine was<\/p>\n
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\ngrievous in the land.
\nAnd then there is this incident <\/p>\n
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\nwith Pharaoh, isn’t there?
\nWhere where Pharaoh takes a <\/p>\n
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\nliking to Sarai and all sorts of
\ncomplications happen. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in verse 16, Pharaoh
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\nAbraham for his wife and gives
\nhim sheep and oxen and donkeys <\/p>\n
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\nand servants and everything
\nelse. <\/p>\n
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\nBut as a result of this, of
\nAbraham going into Egypt and, <\/p>\n
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\nand all the complications with,
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\non Pharaoh and on his house
\nbecause of Sarah, Abraham’s wife<\/p>\n
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\nand Pharaoh.
\nI, I can’t think of a better <\/p>\n
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\nword, throws Abraham out of
\nEgypt. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at all the trouble that
\nyou’ve caused me. <\/p>\n
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\nHe says, what is this that
\nyou’ve done to me? <\/p>\n
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\nWhy did you not tell me she was
\nyour wife? <\/p>\n
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\nIf you why did you say she’s my
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\nI might have taken her to be my
\nwife. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he sent Abraham away and his
\nwife and all that he had. <\/p>\n
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\nJust think about the way in
\nwhich this pattern begins to <\/p>\n
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\nwork.
\nBrothers and sisters down into <\/p>\n
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\nEgypt because of a famine.
\nProtected. <\/p>\n
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\nCan you see that you can’t see?
\nI’m going to tell you what it <\/p>\n
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\nsays.
\nNeed to make sure I get these <\/p>\n
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\nslides darker for tomorrow.
\nSorry about that. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s protected and he’s
\ndelivered from plagues and he <\/p>\n
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\ncomes out right at the end of
\nverse 20 with everything that he<\/p>\n
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\nhas.
\nIt’s an anticipation of the <\/p>\n
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\nExodus.
\nIt’s going to, it’s telling us <\/p>\n
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\nthat what’s happening to Abraham
\nis exactly the same as what’s <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to happen to the nation
\nagain. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s having an exodus before the
\nExodus. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then, just in case we
\nhaven’t taken the hint properly,<\/p>\n
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\nwhen you come into chapter 13,
\nthe story is going to continue <\/p>\n
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\nbecause he meets or he comes
\nwith lots and there is a strife,<\/p>\n
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\nisn’t there, between Abraham’s
\nservants and Lot’s servants, <\/p>\n
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\nChapter 13, verse 8.
\nAnd they divide the land. <\/p>\n
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\nJust as the nation will do when
\nthey come into the land later on<\/p>\n
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\nand the land is divided between
\nthe 12 tribes. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd so Lot decides that where he
\nwants to go is the land that <\/p>\n
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\nlooks like the Garden of Eden.
\nAnd so he travels verse 11 of <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 13.
\nEastwards. <\/p>\n
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\nWhich is probably a little
\nforeboding, but Abraham of <\/p>\n
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\ncourse dwells in the land of
\nCanaan. <\/p>\n
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\nLot dwells in the cities of the
\nplain and pitches his tent <\/p>\n
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\ntowards Sodom.
\nSo they’ve gone into Egypt, <\/p>\n
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\nthey’ve been, there have been
\nplagues, they’ve come out of <\/p>\n
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\nEgypt, and now they’re dividing
\nup the land. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd if you remember what happens
\nnext, of course there’s going to<\/p>\n
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\nbe a conquest.
\nAnd Brother Steve told us about <\/p>\n
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\nthat in our exhortation on
\nSunday morning. <\/p>\n
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\nBecause of course, the conquest
\nis going to take place in <\/p>\n
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\nGenesis 14 with the Battle of
\nthe Kings, where Abraham is <\/p>\n
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\ngoing to be having been the
\nMoses before the Moses. <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s now going to be the Joshua
\nbefore the Joshua. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd he’s going to lead his 318
\nmen trained in his own house, <\/p>\n
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\nwho are going to carry out this,
\nthis conquest of the kings, <\/p>\n
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\nwhich is a great anticipation of
\nlatter day events. <\/p>\n
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\nBut which is also, of course, a
\ngreat anticipation of the exodus<\/p>\n
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\nto come.
\nAnd he’s going to go all the way<\/p>\n
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\nnorth, all the way to the very
\npoint where the children of <\/p>\n
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\nIsrael.
\nWill defeat the Giants of the <\/p>\n
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\nking of Baishan.
\nYou remember that journey that <\/p>\n
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\nthey take up the east side of
\nthe Jordan. <\/p>\n
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\nThey come to the place where the
\nDeuteronomy is given. <\/p>\n
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\nThen they go another 40 miles
\nnorth to to fight the battle <\/p>\n
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\nagainst the giant to make sure
\nthat that generation know that, <\/p>\n
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\nyou know, giants are not
\nanything to worry about. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd then they come back down
\nagain. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd it’s the exact same journey
\nthat Abraham is doing in chapter<\/p>\n
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\n14 to anticipate all the events
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\nSo Moses first Exodus is just is
\njust dropping little bread <\/p>\n
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\non their burdens and spied an
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\nNow, sometimes we look at this
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\nWe silo up parts of Scripture
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\nleading to something else. <\/p>\n
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\nthat all our fathers were under <\/p>\n
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\nHe’s making sure that they come <\/p>\n
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\nback into the land.
\nBut he could have used other <\/p>\n
338
\n00:18:03,560 –> 00:18:07,720
\nphrases.
\nHe could have given commandment <\/p>\n
339
\n00:18:07,720 –> 00:18:10,560
\nor could have been described as
\nthe fact he was giving <\/p>\n
340
\n00:18:10,640 –> 00:18:14,880
\ncommandment concerning his his
\nremains given commandment <\/p>\n
341
\n00:18:14,880 –> 00:18:16,640
\nconcerning his body.
\nThere would have been some other<\/p>\n
342
\n00:18:16,640 –> 00:18:18,840
\nBritish euphemism that would
\nhave kind of fudged the issue <\/p>\n
343
\n00:18:18,840 –> 00:18:21,320
\ncompletely probably, but
\nspecifically told he gave <\/p>\n
344
\n00:18:21,320 –> 00:18:23,080
\ncommandment concerning his
\nbones. <\/p>\n
345
\n00:18:23,080 –> 00:18:26,800
\nAnd then of course, the book of
\nJoshua picks this up and tells <\/p>\n
346
\n00:18:26,800 –> 00:18:30,840
\nus that he’s reburied in the
\nland because Joseph knew the <\/p>\n
347
\n00:18:30,840 –> 00:18:33,280
\nvery same things that Abraham
\nknew and Moses knew that there <\/p>\n
348
\n00:18:33,280 –> 00:18:35,240
\nwas a greater release for the
\npeople of God. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:18:36,760 –> 00:18:39,640
\nBut the reason that phrase is so
\nsignificant is because Ezekiel <\/p>\n
350
\n00:18:39,640 –> 00:18:46,680
\nwill then capture it in the
\nvalley of dry bones and says, <\/p>\n
351
\n00:18:47,000 –> 00:18:52,640
\nyou know what Joseph saw?
\nHe saw a time when another <\/p>\n
352
\n00:18:52,640 –> 00:18:56,920
\npeople would be raised back to
\nlife, when those bones would <\/p>\n
353
\n00:18:56,920 –> 00:18:59,440
\nhave flesh put on them and
\nsinews to bind them, and they <\/p>\n
354
\n00:18:59,440 –> 00:19:04,560
\nwould become a new people.
\nThat every Exodus we read of in <\/p>\n
355
\n00:19:04,560 –> 00:19:08,720
\nthis session, every mini exodus
\nor major Exodus we think about, <\/p>\n
356
\n00:19:08,960 –> 00:19:11,960
\nis anticipating the great
\nrelease that God will show to <\/p>\n
357
\n00:19:11,960 –> 00:19:15,080
\nHis people later on.
\nAnd it extends to us. <\/p>\n
358
\n00:19:15,720 –> 00:19:20,120
\nIf we are prepared to spend time
\nin exile, if we are prepared to <\/p>\n
359
\n00:19:20,120 –> 00:19:22,960
\nwalk away from the House of
\nbondage and follow the one who <\/p>\n
360
\n00:19:22,960 –> 00:19:27,320
\nleads us from captivity, come
\nback to Exodus chapter 1. <\/p>\n
361
\n00:19:27,320 –> 00:19:31,840
\nOops.
\nToo soon, Leave it there. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:19:33,760 –> 00:19:35,880
\nExodus chapter 1.
\nAnd it’s a bit of a gear shift. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:19:39,960 –> 00:19:41,840
\nLet’s go in.
\nWhere do I want to take you? <\/p>\n
364
\n00:19:41,840 –> 00:19:45,000
\nVerse 7.
\nSo after Joseph has died, <\/p>\n
365
\n00:19:46,120 –> 00:19:49,080
\nchildren of Israel are fruitful
\nand they increased abundantly <\/p>\n
366
\n00:19:49,080 –> 00:19:51,640
\nand they multiplied and they
\nwaxed exceedingly mighty and the<\/p>\n
367
\n00:19:51,640 –> 00:19:54,440
\nland was filled with them, which
\nis a pretty significant build up<\/p>\n
368
\n00:19:54,440 –> 00:19:56,400
\nof phrases, isn’t it?
\nTo make sure that we don’t miss <\/p>\n
369
\n00:19:56,400 –> 00:19:59,440
\nthe point that they are now
\ngetting much more abundant as a <\/p>\n
370
\n00:19:59,440 –> 00:20:01,160
\nnation.
\nVerse 8. <\/p>\n
371
\n00:20:02,960 –> 00:20:07,800
\nNow there arose a new king over
\nEgypt who knew not Joseph, and <\/p>\n
372
\n00:20:07,800 –> 00:20:09,760
\nhe said to his people, Behold,
\nthe people of the children of <\/p>\n
373
\n00:20:09,760 –> 00:20:12,080
\nIsrael are more and mightier
\nthan we. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:20:12,360 –> 00:20:15,480
\nCome on, let us deal shrewdly,
\nwidely, wisely with them, lest <\/p>\n
375
\n00:20:15,480 –> 00:20:17,600
\nthey multiply, which they
\nalready have actually. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:20:17,920 –> 00:20:20,200
\nAnd it comes to pass that when
\nthere falls out any war, they <\/p>\n
377
\n00:20:20,200 –> 00:20:23,880
\njoin also to our enemies and
\nfight against us, and so get <\/p>\n
378
\n00:20:23,880 –> 00:20:25,920
\nthem up out of the land.
\nThis is what Pharaoh’s great <\/p>\n
379
\n00:20:25,920 –> 00:20:28,280
\nfear is.
\nPharaoh’s fear is that they will<\/p>\n
380
\n00:20:28,280 –> 00:20:31,600
\nfight against the the Egyptians
\non behalf of their enemies. <\/p>\n
381
\n00:20:32,480 –> 00:20:38,280
\nAnd that they will escape, in
\nother words, and I take a deep <\/p>\n
382
\n00:20:38,280 –> 00:20:41,640
\nbreath when I say this out loud.
\nIn other words, brothers and <\/p>\n
383
\n00:20:41,640 –> 00:20:43,800
\nsisters, Pharaoh has an
\nimmigration. <\/p>\n
384
\n00:20:43,800 –> 00:20:48,200
\nProblem.
\nAnd you understand why I had to <\/p>\n
385
\n00:20:48,200 –> 00:20:52,240
\nsay it carefully.
\nSo they set the taskmasters over<\/p>\n
386
\n00:20:52,240 –> 00:20:55,840
\nthem to afflict them.
\nAnd verse 12, the more they <\/p>\n
387
\n00:20:55,840 –> 00:20:59,360
\nafflicted them, the more they
\nmultiplied and grew and they <\/p>\n
388
\n00:20:59,360 –> 00:21:02,720
\nmade them serve Verse 13, with
\nrigor, and made their lives <\/p>\n
389
\n00:21:02,720 –> 00:21:06,200
\nbitter with hard bondage in
\nmortar and in brick. <\/p>\n
390
\n00:21:06,200 –> 00:21:08,240
\nCatch your Babel echo from
\nyesterday. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:21:08,480 –> 00:21:11,080
\nAnd in all manner of service,
\nthey made them serve with rigor.<\/p>\n
392
\n00:21:11,680 –> 00:21:13,160
\nJust highlighted those on the
\nscreen. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:21:13,160 –> 00:21:15,200
\nFor you, you can just see the
\nemphasis that that. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:21:15,200 –> 00:21:16,880
\nLittle section of Exodus chapter
\n1. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:21:17,280 –> 00:21:19,880
\nGoes to to make.
\nSure, we understand the way in <\/p>\n
396
\n00:21:19,880 –> 00:21:28,440
\nwhich they were being treated.
\nNow, all of these verses seem to<\/p>\n
397
\n00:21:28,440 –> 00:21:31,360
\nsuggest that Israel were slaves
\nin Egypt. <\/p>\n
398
\n00:21:32,440 –> 00:21:34,200
\nAnd God is going to bring them
\nout to be free. <\/p>\n
399
\n00:21:35,160 –> 00:21:37,800
\nWe are unconsciously thinking
\nthat I suggest to you as we <\/p>\n
400
\n00:21:37,800 –> 00:21:40,040
\nread.
\nThose verses through that, what <\/p>\n
401
\n00:21:40,040 –> 00:21:42,880
\nwe’re about to find out about is
\nthat Israel was slaves in Egypt <\/p>\n
402
\n00:21:43,240 –> 00:21:45,240
\nand God brought them out to be
\nfree. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:21:45,720 –> 00:21:48,120
\nIn fact, one of the Passover
\ntexts the Jewish. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:21:48,120 –> 00:21:51,280
\nPassover texts actually says
\nthat specifically that he <\/p>\n
405
\n00:21:51,280 –> 00:21:53,400
\nbrought us out from slavery to
\nfreedom. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:21:55,920 –> 00:21:58,440
\nAnd I just suggest you that
\nthat’s not quite true. <\/p>\n
407
\n00:21:58,440 –> 00:22:00,760
\nDon’t, don’t throw things at me
\nyet, but I just suggest you that<\/p>\n
408
\n00:22:00,760 –> 00:22:04,960
\nthat’s not quite true, that
\nthose words verses 10 through to<\/p>\n
409
\n00:22:04,960 –> 00:22:09,560
\n14, they certainly tell us that
\nthe Israelites worked like <\/p>\n
410
\n00:22:09,840 –> 00:22:14,720
\nslaves, but we are not told that
\nthey came out to be free. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:22:16,600 –> 00:22:17,800
\nAnd we’ll see what that means in
\na minute. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:22:17,800 –> 00:22:20,560
\nLet me just carry on that there
\nare a whole series of phrases <\/p>\n
413
\n00:22:20,560 –> 00:22:22,120
\nbuilt up.
\nWe don’t, I’m not going to take <\/p>\n
414
\n00:22:22,120 –> 00:22:24,280
\nyou through all of them, but but
\nyou can mark them if you need to<\/p>\n
415
\n00:22:24,880 –> 00:22:28,800
\nthat three times in chapter 1,
\nthe Egyptians bring hard bondage<\/p>\n
416
\n00:22:29,360 –> 00:22:31,400
\non the Israelites.
\nAnd then if you just look at <\/p>\n
417
\n00:22:31,400 –> 00:22:37,240
\nchapter 2 and verse 23, that
\nwhen that king of Egypt dies, <\/p>\n
418
\n00:22:38,000 –> 00:22:40,640
\nthe children of Israel continue
\nto sigh by reason of the bondage<\/p>\n
419
\n00:22:40,640 –> 00:22:43,320
\nand cried and their cry came up
\nto God by reason of their <\/p>\n
420
\n00:22:43,320 –> 00:22:46,280
\nbondage.
\nAnd then it’s only in chapter 3 <\/p>\n
421
\n00:22:46,280 –> 00:22:51,280
\nthat things shift slightly.
\nGod says when He appears to <\/p>\n
422
\n00:22:51,280 –> 00:22:54,600
\nMoses at the Bush, chapter 3 and
\nverse 7. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:22:55,040 –> 00:23:00,880
\nI have surely seen the
\naffliction of my people which <\/p>\n
424
\n00:23:00,880 –> 00:23:04,360
\nare in Egypt.
\nI’ve surely seen the affliction <\/p>\n
425
\n00:23:04,760 –> 00:23:08,480
\nof my people who are in.
\nEgypt, Israel cried because of <\/p>\n
426
\n00:23:08,480 –> 00:23:11,000
\ntheir bondage, because they were
\nnot free. <\/p>\n
427
\n00:23:12,240 –> 00:23:14,320
\nGod’s responses not specifically
\nto that. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:23:14,320 –> 00:23:17,040
\nGod’s responses to their
\nsuffering is to their <\/p>\n
429
\n00:23:17,040 –> 00:23:19,360
\naffliction.
\nIn other words, the problem in <\/p>\n
430
\n00:23:19,360 –> 00:23:21,080
\nEgypt was not that they had to
\nwork. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:23:22,880 –> 00:23:24,720
\nWork is fine, Paul says in the
\nNew Testament. <\/p>\n
432
\n00:23:24,720 –> 00:23:27,600
\nWork is OK.
\nThe problem in Egypt was the <\/p>\n
433
\n00:23:27,600 –> 00:23:30,240
\naffliction.
\nIt was the hard bondage, it was <\/p>\n
434
\n00:23:30,240 –> 00:23:33,200
\nthe ruthlessness with which they
\nwere treated. <\/p>\n
435
\n00:23:33,200 –> 00:23:36,040
\nIn fact there were there were
\nthree challenges, I think, for <\/p>\n
436
\n00:23:36,040 –> 00:23:37,320
\nthe Israelites when they were in
\nEgypt. <\/p>\n
437
\n00:23:37,320 –> 00:23:38,920
\nThe first was that it was hard
\nlabour. <\/p>\n
438
\n00:23:39,040 –> 00:23:41,640
\nIn other words, it was no longer
\nequitable for wages. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:23:43,120 –> 00:23:44,920
\nIt was what you and I would call
\nslavery. <\/p>\n
440
\n00:23:46,840 –> 00:23:49,320
\nThe second challenge was that
\nthey were foreigners. <\/p>\n
441
\n00:23:50,400 –> 00:23:52,800
\nIn other words, the immigration
\npolicy changed if Pharaoh wants <\/p>\n
442
\n00:23:52,800 –> 00:23:54,320
\nto do something different with
\nthe foreigners. <\/p>\n
443
\n00:23:55,200 –> 00:23:57,000
\nAnd the third.
\nThing was, and perhaps this is <\/p>\n
444
\n00:23:57,000 –> 00:24:00,720
\nthe most significant, was that
\nthere was no escape mechanism. <\/p>\n
445
\n00:24:02,200 –> 00:24:05,800
\nThere was no there was no opt
\nout X is Israel couldn’t <\/p>\n
446
\n00:24:05,800 –> 00:24:09,440
\nexercise freedom.
\nIn other words, working in Egypt<\/p>\n
447
\n00:24:09,440 –> 00:24:11,160
\nwas not the problem.
\nThe fact that they couldn’t not <\/p>\n
448
\n00:24:11,160 –> 00:24:13,840
\nwork in Egypt was the problem.
\nThe fact that they had no <\/p>\n
449
\n00:24:13,840 –> 00:24:16,800
\nchoice, no opportunity to change
\ntheir circumstances. <\/p>\n
450
\n00:24:17,960 –> 00:24:20,520
\nWhich is just going to lead US
\none step closer to making sure <\/p>\n
451
\n00:24:20,520 –> 00:24:23,080
\nwe know what freedom is actually
\nall about and to understand <\/p>\n
452
\n00:24:23,080 –> 00:24:24,680
\nwhat’s going on.
\nI just need to take you back <\/p>\n
453
\n00:24:24,680 –> 00:24:27,240
\nagain just to make sure that we
\nunderstand the story. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:24:27,240 –> 00:24:32,160
\nGenesis 47 coming back into
\nExodus in just a second, but <\/p>\n
455
\n00:24:32,160 –> 00:24:35,160
\nGenesis 47?
\nThis is the bit of the Joseph <\/p>\n
456
\n00:24:35,160 –> 00:24:40,280
\nnarrative that we forget.
\nAnd if you’ve if you know the <\/p>\n
457
\n00:24:40,280 –> 00:24:42,960
\nmusical.
\nIt’s after the after the first <\/p>\n
458
\n00:24:42,960 –> 00:24:46,200
\nsong and it’s after the after
\nthe Technicolor Dreamcoat and <\/p>\n
459
\n00:24:46,200 –> 00:24:48,760
\nit’s after the the dreams with
\nPharaoh and it’s after Joseph’s <\/p>\n
460
\n00:24:48,760 –> 00:24:51,040
\ncome down into Egypt’s after and
\nin fact, it’s after the very end<\/p>\n
461
\n00:24:51,040 –> 00:24:54,400
\nof the musical and the musical
\nwasn’t interested in this. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:24:54,400 –> 00:24:56,880
\nBut even though I think it’s the
\nmost important chapter, so <\/p>\n
463
\n00:24:56,880 –> 00:25:05,120
\nExodus, Genesis chapter 47, this
\nis when Joseph has been has been<\/p>\n
464
\n00:25:05,120 –> 00:25:11,600
\nraised to power before Pharaoh
\nin Egypt, and there is a famine <\/p>\n
465
\n00:25:12,520 –> 00:25:15,640
\nonce again in the land. 47 verse
\n13, there is no bread in the <\/p>\n
466
\n00:25:15,640 –> 00:25:17,160
\nland, for the famine was very
\nsore. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:25:17,560 –> 00:25:20,640
\nSo that all the land of Egypt
\nand all the land of Canaan <\/p>\n
468
\n00:25:20,640 –> 00:25:24,080
\nfainted by reason of the famine.
\nAnd Joseph gathered up all the <\/p>\n
469
\n00:25:24,080 –> 00:25:26,120
\nmoney that was found in the land
\nof Egypt and in the land of <\/p>\n
470
\n00:25:26,120 –> 00:25:27,720
\nCanaan for the corn which they
\nbought. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:25:28,240 –> 00:25:30,600
\nAnd Joseph brought the money
\ninto Pharaoh’s house. <\/p>\n
472
\n00:25:32,440 –> 00:25:38,400
\nSo what’s the first step in
\nrelieving your burden? <\/p>\n
473
\n00:25:38,880 –> 00:25:43,040
\nWhen there is a famine in the
\nland of Egypt, you buy corn with<\/p>\n
474
\n00:25:43,320 –> 00:25:45,640
\nmoney.
\nThat’s step one. <\/p>\n
475
\n00:25:46,640 –> 00:25:52,120
\nBut the problem is that you have
\na finite amount of cash and at <\/p>\n
476
\n00:25:52,120 –> 00:25:56,840
\nsome point you spend all of your
\nmoney buying corn to relieve the<\/p>\n
477
\n00:25:56,840 –> 00:25:59,880
\nproblem.
\nAnd verse 15, the money runs <\/p>\n
478
\n00:25:59,880 –> 00:26:03,360
\nout.
\nSo when the money runs out in <\/p>\n
479
\n00:26:03,360 –> 00:26:05,440
\nthe land of Egypt, down in the
\nland of Canaan, all these the <\/p>\n
480
\n00:26:05,440 –> 00:26:09,280
\nEgyptians came to Joseph and
\nsaid, give us bread, for why <\/p>\n
481
\n00:26:09,280 –> 00:26:12,560
\nshould we die in your presence?
\nFor the money fails. <\/p>\n
482
\n00:26:13,760 –> 00:26:18,760
\nAnd Joseph said, give me your
\ncattle and I will give you for <\/p>\n
483
\n00:26:18,760 –> 00:26:22,800
\nyour cattle if money fail.
\nSo step one, in the famine you <\/p>\n
484
\n00:26:22,800 –> 00:26:27,040
\nbuy corn with cash.
\nWhen the cash runs out, you then<\/p>\n
485
\n00:26:27,040 –> 00:26:30,040
\nbuy corn with your animals.
\nYou trade them in because that’s<\/p>\n
486
\n00:26:30,040 –> 00:26:32,400
\nall that you have left.
\nVerse 17 They brought their <\/p>\n
487
\n00:26:32,400 –> 00:26:34,960
\ncattle to Joseph, and Joseph
\ngave them bread in exchange for <\/p>\n
488
\n00:26:34,960 –> 00:26:38,200
\nhorses and flocks and cattle and
\nasses, and so on and so forth, <\/p>\n
489
\n00:26:38,200 –> 00:26:40,560
\nand fed them with bread all that
\nyear. <\/p>\n
490
\n00:26:40,800 –> 00:26:44,040
\nStep one, Buy corn with cash
\nwhen the cash runs out. <\/p>\n
491
\n00:26:44,200 –> 00:26:46,440
\nStep 2.
\nYou trade in your animals well. <\/p>\n
492
\n00:26:48,120 –> 00:26:52,160
\nWhat happens when the cash is
\nall gone and the livestock’s all<\/p>\n
493
\n00:26:52,160 –> 00:26:54,360
\ngone?
\nWhat do you do next? <\/p>\n
494
\n00:26:54,720 –> 00:26:57,720
\nWhat is the only thing?
\nLeft that you can do next. <\/p>\n
495
\n00:26:59,240 –> 00:27:01,680
\nWell, they came at the end of
\nyear 2, verse 18 and said we <\/p>\n
496
\n00:27:01,680 –> 00:27:04,200
\nwon’t hide it from you.
\nAll the money’s gone and you’ve <\/p>\n
497
\n00:27:04,200 –> 00:27:06,040
\ngot all of our animals and
\nthere’s nothing left. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:27:06,040 –> 00:27:10,880
\nWhat are we going to do?
\nVerse 19, Why should we die <\/p>\n
499
\n00:27:10,880 –> 00:27:16,400
\nbefore your eyes by us and our
\nland for bread. <\/p>\n
500
\n00:27:17,360 –> 00:27:21,440
\nAnd we in our land will be
\nservants to Pharaoh, and give us<\/p>\n
501
\n00:27:21,440 –> 00:27:24,880
\nseed, that we may live and not
\ndie, that the land be not <\/p>\n
502
\n00:27:24,880 –> 00:27:27,880
\ndesolate.
\nAnd so Joseph brought all the <\/p>\n
503
\n00:27:27,880 –> 00:27:31,000
\nland of Egypt for Pharaoh, for
\nthe Egyptians sold everyone his <\/p>\n
504
\n00:27:31,000 –> 00:27:33,440
\nfield because the famine
\nprevailed over them. <\/p>\n
505
\n00:27:33,720 –> 00:27:37,720
\nStep 1 You buy corn with cash.
\nStep 2, You buy corn with <\/p>\n
506
\n00:27:37,720 –> 00:27:41,560
\nanimals.
\nStep three, you buy corn with <\/p>\n
507
\n00:27:41,560 –> 00:27:45,320
\nyourself.
\nYou give yourself as laborers in<\/p>\n
508
\n00:27:45,320 –> 00:27:49,360
\norder to earn the food that you
\nneed to feed your families. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:27:50,360 –> 00:27:54,000
\nIn other words, who are the
\nservants in Egypt? <\/p>\n
510
\n00:27:55,360 –> 00:28:00,840
\nWhen the Book of Exodus starts?
\nIt’s not the Israelites, it’s <\/p>\n
511
\n00:28:00,840 –> 00:28:04,240
\nthe Egyptians.
\nWhen the Book of Exodus begins, <\/p>\n
512
\n00:28:04,240 –> 00:28:06,640
\nbrother, the Egyptians are the
\nones working. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:28:06,680 –> 00:28:10,080
\nFor Pharaoh, because Joseph has
\nset it up like that. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:28:11,560 –> 00:28:12,960
\nAnd what are the Israelites
\ndoing? <\/p>\n
515
\n00:28:14,600 –> 00:28:19,360
\nWell, verse 27, Israel dwelt in
\nthe land of Egypt, in the land <\/p>\n
516
\n00:28:19,360 –> 00:28:21,200
\nof Goshen, and they had
\npossessions and grew and <\/p>\n
517
\n00:28:21,200 –> 00:28:23,440
\nmultiplied exceedingly.
\nIsn’t it interesting? <\/p>\n
518
\n00:28:23,960 –> 00:28:28,040
\nThe Egyptians are Pharaoh’s
\nservants and the Israelites are <\/p>\n
519
\n00:28:28,040 –> 00:28:31,520
\nthe land owners.
\nIt’s completely backwards from <\/p>\n
520
\n00:28:31,520 –> 00:28:37,800
\nwhat we think is going on.
\nAnd that’s why Pharaoh’s panic <\/p>\n
521
\n00:28:38,320 –> 00:28:40,560
\nin Exodus chapter one, that the
\npeople are going to do something<\/p>\n
522
\n00:28:40,560 –> 00:28:42,360
\ncompletely different.
\nThey’re going to rise up against<\/p>\n
523
\n00:28:42,360 –> 00:28:43,680
\nus.
\nAnd here’s my immigrant problem <\/p>\n
524
\n00:28:44,640 –> 00:28:48,800
\nis such a massive shift in
\npolicy because he’s having to <\/p>\n
525
\n00:28:48,800 –> 00:28:54,240
\nturn an entire structure upside
\ndown because as the book of <\/p>\n
526
\n00:28:54,240 –> 00:28:58,600
\nGenesis ends and Exodus begins,
\nthe Israelites are not serving. <\/p>\n
527
\n00:28:58,920 –> 00:29:01,240
\nThey are actually the ones who
\nown the land. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:29:02,600 –> 00:29:05,040
\nIsn’t it interesting?
\nEverybody in the book of Genesis<\/p>\n
529
\n00:29:05,040 –> 00:29:07,240
\nis serving somebody.
\nThere was a real trend. <\/p>\n
530
\n00:29:08,160 –> 00:29:11,760
\nIt runs all the way through.
\nEsau serves. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:29:12,240 –> 00:29:15,440
\nJacob shouldn’t have done, but
\nhe did because he was hungry. <\/p>\n
532
\n00:29:16,480 –> 00:29:22,560
\nAnd then Jacob serves Laban for
\nLeah seven years, And then Jacob<\/p>\n
533
\n00:29:22,560 –> 00:29:25,480
\nserves Laban for Rachel another
\nseven years. <\/p>\n
534
\n00:29:26,120 –> 00:29:31,520
\nAnd then Joseph, when he is
\ntaken as a slave and goes down <\/p>\n
535
\n00:29:31,520 –> 00:29:35,760
\ninto Egypt, serves Potiphar.
\nAnd then after the dreams, <\/p>\n
536
\n00:29:35,760 –> 00:29:37,960
\nJoseph serves Pharaoh.
\nAnd then as. <\/p>\n
537
\n00:29:37,960 –> 00:29:40,680
\nWe’ve just seen here the
\nEgyptians serve Joseph, while <\/p>\n
538
\n00:29:40,680 –> 00:29:43,760
\nthe Israelites are the
\nfreeholders in Egypt. <\/p>\n
539
\n00:29:44,320 –> 00:29:46,800
\nAnd it’s only when we get to
\nExodus chapter one that the new <\/p>\n
540
\n00:29:46,800 –> 00:29:50,880
\nPharaoh with his new policy and
\nhis new dislike of immigration <\/p>\n
541
\n00:29:50,880 –> 00:29:55,320
\nissues, forces Israel into this
\nhard bondage, this hard labor <\/p>\n
542
\n00:29:55,520 –> 00:29:58,080
\ncome back into Exodus and come
\nto chapter 3, please again. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:30:09,200 –> 00:30:12,520
\nSo I think we did we don’t
\ndidn’t quite do justice to this <\/p>\n
544
\n00:30:12,520 –> 00:30:17,360
\nthis incident with the burning
\nBush Exodus chapter 3 and and <\/p>\n
545
\n00:30:17,360 –> 00:30:20,320
\nthis marvelous phrase that God
\nuses in verse seven. <\/p>\n
546
\n00:30:20,400 –> 00:30:23,080
\nI’ve seen the affliction of my
\npeople. <\/p>\n
547
\n00:30:23,560 –> 00:30:30,120
\nI’ve heard their cry, I know
\ntheir sorrows, and I’m come down<\/p>\n
548
\n00:30:30,120 –> 00:30:33,920
\nto deliver.
\nThem again, this is for the dark<\/p>\n
549
\n00:30:33,920 –> 00:30:35,440
\nKnights of the soul brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n
550
\n00:30:35,480 –> 00:30:40,760
\nI’ve I’ve seen it, I’ve heard
\nit, I know it and I’m come down <\/p>\n
551
\n00:30:40,760 –> 00:30:43,800
\nto deliver.
\nIf you lose track of your faith.<\/p>\n
552
\n00:30:43,800 –> 00:30:46,240
\nIf you lose weight in your
\njourney. <\/p>\n
553
\n00:30:46,680 –> 00:30:48,200
\nThis is the God who speaks to
\nus. <\/p>\n
554
\n00:30:48,200 –> 00:30:52,280
\nI’ve seen it, I’ve heard it, I
\nknow about it, and I’m come down<\/p>\n
555
\n00:30:52,280 –> 00:30:54,840
\nto deliver in the person of my
\nson. <\/p>\n
556
\n00:30:55,760 –> 00:31:00,080
\nCome down to verse 11.
\nMoses said to God, who am I that<\/p>\n
557
\n00:31:00,080 –> 00:31:02,880
\nI should go to Pharaoh and that
\nI should bring forth the <\/p>\n
558
\n00:31:02,880 –> 00:31:07,880
\nchildren of Israel out of Egypt.
\nAnd he said, I will be with <\/p>\n
559
\n00:31:07,880 –> 00:31:09,920
\nthee, and this will be a token
\nto thee. <\/p>\n
560
\n00:31:09,920 –> 00:31:13,560
\nWhen I have sent thee, when thou
\nhas brought forth the people out<\/p>\n
561
\n00:31:13,560 –> 00:31:21,320
\nof Egypt, you shall serve God.
\nOn this mountain, in other <\/p>\n
562
\n00:31:21,320 –> 00:31:24,960
\nwords, you’re currently servants
\nto Pharaoh, but when you come <\/p>\n
563
\n00:31:24,960 –> 00:31:27,960
\nout of Egypt, you will be
\nservants to me and you will <\/p>\n
564
\n00:31:27,960 –> 00:31:31,000
\nserve God on this mountain.
\nA phrase, incidentally, which is<\/p>\n
565
\n00:31:31,000 –> 00:31:34,680
\nused more of Israel after they
\ncome out of Egypt than it is of <\/p>\n
566
\n00:31:34,680 –> 00:31:40,480
\nthem before they come out.
\nSo that trend of people serving <\/p>\n
567
\n00:31:40,480 –> 00:31:43,000
\nother people through Genesis in
\nthe beginning of Exodus actually<\/p>\n
568
\n00:31:43,000 –> 00:31:46,320
\nneeds another line because of
\ncourse Israel are going to leave<\/p>\n
569
\n00:31:46,320 –> 00:31:49,000
\nEgypt to serve God at Mount
\nSinai. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:31:49,000 –> 00:31:50,920
\nThey’re not coming out of Egypt
\nto be free. <\/p>\n
571
\n00:31:51,200 –> 00:31:53,360
\nThey’re coming out of Egypt to
\nserve again. <\/p>\n
572
\n00:31:54,520 –> 00:31:56,800
\nIn fact, they’ll go out in two
\nstages, you remember, because <\/p>\n
573
\n00:31:56,800 –> 00:32:00,960
\nthe first stage was to go 3 days
\njourney out and worship. <\/p>\n
574
\n00:32:01,720 –> 00:32:03,600
\nThat was how Pharaoh tried to
\nswing it, wasn’t it? <\/p>\n
575
\n00:32:03,600 –> 00:32:05,880
\nWhen he realized that there were
\nproblems brewing and he said, <\/p>\n
576
\n00:32:05,880 –> 00:32:07,640
\nwell, you could go out a bit and
\ncome back. <\/p>\n
577
\n00:32:08,320 –> 00:32:11,240
\nAnd Moses said no, we all going
\nto go together and we’re going <\/p>\n
578
\n00:32:11,240 –> 00:32:13,800
\nto go properly.
\nNobody is free. <\/p>\n
579
\n00:32:14,680 –> 00:32:18,520
\nEverybody is serving or being
\nsubject to somebody else. <\/p>\n
580
\n00:32:18,520 –> 00:32:23,000
\nEven even Pharaoh is a servant
\nof the deities. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:32:24,880 –> 00:32:26,520
\nNow we I.
\nDon’t believe in Egyptian <\/p>\n
582
\n00:32:26,520 –> 00:32:27,720
\nmythology.
\nI don’t think you do either. <\/p>\n
583
\n00:32:27,720 –> 00:32:30,600
\nBut but, but in that, in that
\ntime, in that way, Pharaoh is <\/p>\n
584
\n00:32:30,600 –> 00:32:32,680
\nsubject to what the deities are
\nsaying. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:32:32,680 –> 00:32:34,960
\nIn other words, brothers and
\nsisters, Egypt is not painting a<\/p>\n
586
\n00:32:34,960 –> 00:32:38,160
\npicture between slavery and
\nfreedom. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:32:38,720 –> 00:32:42,000
\nIt’s painting a picture between
\nservice in Egypt. <\/p>\n
588
\n00:32:43,240 –> 00:32:47,440
\nAnd service to Almighty God.
\nAnd that’s the point I’ve been <\/p>\n
589
\n00:32:47,440 –> 00:32:49,000
\nat pains to try to get you
\ntowards that. <\/p>\n
590
\n00:32:49,000 –> 00:32:53,680
\nThat God is not interested only
\nin freedom from something, as we<\/p>\n
591
\n00:32:53,680 –> 00:32:57,840
\ntalked about yesterday, but that
\nhe’s interested in freedom for <\/p>\n
592
\n00:32:57,840 –> 00:33:02,440
\nsomething, for worship, for
\ngrowth, obedience or joy or <\/p>\n
593
\n00:33:02,440 –> 00:33:07,320
\nglory.
\nApologies for continually <\/p>\n
594
\n00:33:07,320 –> 00:33:10,640
\nquoting non Christadelphians,
\nbut I read widely and sometimes <\/p>\n
595
\n00:33:10,640 –> 00:33:13,400
\nI underline passages.
\nDavid Foster Wallace gave a <\/p>\n
596
\n00:33:13,400 –> 00:33:16,680
\nvaledictory speech in 2005.
\nIn the day-to-day trenches of <\/p>\n
597
\n00:33:16,680 –> 00:33:20,120
\nadult life, there is actually no
\nsuch thing as atheism, he said. <\/p>\n
598
\n00:33:20,120 –> 00:33:22,320
\nThere is no such thing as not
\nworshipping. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:33:22,560 –> 00:33:25,920
\nEverybody worships.
\nThe only choice we get is not is<\/p>\n
600
\n00:33:25,920 –> 00:33:29,080
\nwhat to worship.
\nThat is not the dominant <\/p>\n
601
\n00:33:29,080 –> 00:33:33,120
\nnarrative of 2025.
\nThat is not the dominant <\/p>\n
602
\n00:33:33,120 –> 00:33:35,080
\nnarrative that your kids are
\npicking up in school, where <\/p>\n
603
\n00:33:35,080 –> 00:33:38,840
\nfreedom is understood as freedom
\nfrom oppression or from <\/p>\n
604
\n00:33:38,840 –> 00:33:41,720
\nconstraint, where society says
\nyou can do anything you want <\/p>\n
605
\n00:33:41,840 –> 00:33:44,280
\nwith whoever you want, however
\nyou want, whenever you want. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:33:45,880 –> 00:33:50,280
\nEverybody worships.
\nBut I want freedom of speech. <\/p>\n
607
\n00:33:51,120 –> 00:33:54,480
\nI want to be able to say what I
\nwant however I want, even if it <\/p>\n
608
\n00:33:54,480 –> 00:33:56,560
\ndemeans and degrades you
\nbecause, well, you know, I’m <\/p>\n
609
\n00:33:56,560 –> 00:34:00,240
\nfree to say it, aren’t I?
\nOr I want freedom to bear arms <\/p>\n
610
\n00:34:00,480 –> 00:34:02,040
\nregardless of the potential body
\ncount. <\/p>\n
611
\n00:34:03,200 –> 00:34:07,240
\nOr we talk about the free
\nmarkets and yet don’t talk about<\/p>\n
612
\n00:34:07,240 –> 00:34:10,280
\nthe consequences of unfettered
\nconsumerism where everything is <\/p>\n
613
\n00:34:10,280 –> 00:34:11,960
\nup for debate and I can buy
\nanything I want. <\/p>\n
614
\n00:34:13,040 –> 00:34:17,480
\nOr I am free in my sexuality to
\nexplore and sleep with anybody I<\/p>\n
615
\n00:34:17,480 –> 00:34:20,199
\nwant to, because, you know, who
\ncares about the consequences on <\/p>\n
616
\n00:34:20,199 –> 00:34:22,480
\nother people.
\nAnd society is mature and <\/p>\n
617
\n00:34:22,480 –> 00:34:25,040
\nprogressive when that goes on,
\nand it’s traditional and <\/p>\n
618
\n00:34:25,040 –> 00:34:26,760
\nbackwards and limited when it
\ndoesn’t. <\/p>\n
619
\n00:34:28,880 –> 00:34:31,800
\nEverybody serves, Everybody
\nworships. <\/p>\n
620
\n00:34:32,199 –> 00:34:34,520
\nThe only choice you get is what
\nto worship. <\/p>\n
621
\n00:34:35,719 –> 00:34:39,159
\nScripture tells an altogether
\ndifferent story of what freedom <\/p>\n
622
\n00:34:39,159 –> 00:34:43,440
\nlooks like.
\nGod cares about what you say <\/p>\n
623
\n00:34:44,600 –> 00:34:48,360
\nbecause His will, His words,
\nbrought the galaxies into being,<\/p>\n
624
\n00:34:50,280 –> 00:34:53,080
\nand He knows that certain words
\ncan send people into counseling <\/p>\n
625
\n00:34:53,080 –> 00:34:57,280
\nfor the rest of their lives.
\nGod cares about who we sleep <\/p>\n
626
\n00:34:57,280 –> 00:34:59,720
\nwith because He cares about the
\npeople doing the sleeping. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:35:01,320 –> 00:35:04,200
\nFreedom isn’t absence of
\nresponsibility. <\/p>\n
628
\n00:35:05,840 –> 00:35:09,800
\nIt’s it’s not license.
\nIt’s defined by responsibility. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:13,400
\nIt’s defined by those very broad
\nguardrails that we talked about <\/p>\n
630
\n00:35:13,400 –> 00:35:15,600
\nin Exodus in Genesis chapter 2
\nyesterday. <\/p>\n
631
\n00:35:16,360 –> 00:35:21,240
\nFreedom principle number six,
\nservice to no one is not an <\/p>\n
632
\n00:35:21,240 –> 00:35:24,760
\noption.
\nEverybody serves. <\/p>\n
633
\n00:35:26,160 –> 00:35:29,040
\nWhether you’re in Egypt serving
\nPharaoh or whether you’re on the<\/p>\n
634
\n00:35:29,040 –> 00:35:31,640
\nmountain serving God, everybody
\nserves. <\/p>\n
635
\n00:35:31,640 –> 00:35:35,720
\nIt’s what the Apostle Paul says
\nin Romans chapter 6. <\/p>\n
636
\n00:35:36,360 –> 00:35:42,160
\nThanks be to God that you who
\nonce were slaves to sin have <\/p>\n
637
\n00:35:42,160 –> 00:35:47,720
\nbecome slaves to righteousness.
\nAnd Scripture is is full of the <\/p>\n
638
\n00:35:47,720 –> 00:35:51,000
\nconsequences of our faith, the
\nfact that our faith demands us <\/p>\n
639
\n00:35:51,000 –> 00:35:55,640
\nnot merely to believe something,
\nbut to live out our discipleship<\/p>\n
640
\n00:35:55,640 –> 00:35:58,560
\nin trembling and in fear.
\nNeed to get these slides <\/p>\n
641
\n00:35:58,560 –> 00:36:00,080
\nslightly darker for tomorrow,
\ndon’t I? <\/p>\n
642
\n00:36:00,080 –> 00:36:03,640
\nBut I’ll read the words to you.
\nPaul says in Ephesians 2, By <\/p>\n
643
\n00:36:03,640 –> 00:36:06,440
\ngrace you have been saved.
\nYou’ve been created in Christ <\/p>\n
644
\n00:36:06,640 –> 00:36:13,400
\nfor good works, not just that
\nyou have been saved, but that <\/p>\n
645
\n00:36:13,400 –> 00:36:16,880
\nyou have been created to do
\nsomething specific, to live out <\/p>\n
646
\n00:36:16,880 –> 00:36:18,600
\nyour discipleship in a
\nparticular way. <\/p>\n
647
\n00:36:18,800 –> 00:36:21,360
\nPaul says to the Corinthians,
\nthe love of Christ controls us <\/p>\n
648
\n00:36:21,360 –> 00:36:25,200
\nor constrains us.
\nThe impact of his of his love <\/p>\n
649
\n00:36:25,200 –> 00:36:27,080
\nmakes us live in a particular
\nway. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:36:27,080 –> 00:36:30,200
\nIt makes us treat people in in
\ncertain ways. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:36:31,600 –> 00:36:34,960
\nPaul says to Titus, the grace of
\nGod has appeared training us to <\/p>\n
652
\n00:36:34,960 –> 00:36:38,920
\nrenounce ungodliness and live
\nself controlled, upright, godly <\/p>\n
653
\n00:36:38,920 –> 00:36:42,680
\nlives zealous for good works.
\nThere is a consequence to what <\/p>\n
654
\n00:36:42,680 –> 00:36:48,040
\nyou believe.
\nTo use a a bumper sticker <\/p>\n
655
\n00:36:48,040 –> 00:36:50,280
\nexpression doctrine is something
\nthat you do. <\/p>\n
656
\n00:36:51,240 –> 00:36:54,280
\nIt’s not just something that you
\nbelieve, it’s something that has<\/p>\n
657
\n00:36:54,280 –> 00:36:55,880
\nan impact on us.
\nWhat are the consequences, <\/p>\n
658
\n00:36:55,880 –> 00:36:58,440
\nbrothers and sisters, of
\nbelieving that God is 1, not 3? <\/p>\n
659
\n00:36:58,440 –> 00:37:00,560
\nWhat are the consequences of
\nbelieving in the promises? <\/p>\n
660
\n00:37:00,720 –> 00:37:03,240
\nWhat are the consequences of
\nbelieving that sin is my fault <\/p>\n
661
\n00:37:03,600 –> 00:37:06,480
\nand not that I can outsource it
\nto somebody else and blame them?<\/p>\n
662
\n00:37:09,080 –> 00:37:13,120
\nWe are created in Christ for
\ngood works. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:37:13,160 –> 00:37:15,320
\nDon’t misunderstand me.
\nIf Christianity, if the gospel <\/p>\n
664
\n00:37:15,320 –> 00:37:19,520
\nis not freeing, then it’s
\nnothing, right? <\/p>\n
665
\n00:37:19,520 –> 00:37:23,080
\nBut it does not mean that
\neverything that our world calls <\/p>\n
666
\n00:37:23,080 –> 00:37:26,320
\nfreedom is what God calls
\nfreedom. <\/p>\n
667
\n00:37:27,680 –> 00:37:31,560
\nWe’re not just talking about
\nindividual, external stuff that <\/p>\n
668
\n00:37:31,560 –> 00:37:34,320
\nmight oppress you from the
\noutside, but understanding that <\/p>\n
669
\n00:37:34,320 –> 00:37:38,240
\nthere is something on the inside
\nfrom which we need to be freed. <\/p>\n
670
\n00:37:39,840 –> 00:37:43,040
\nWho’s read the Narnia stories?
\nThank you. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:37:43,320 –> 00:37:44,240
\nTwo people.
\nYes. <\/p>\n
672
\n00:37:44,280 –> 00:37:45,440
\nOK, You can.
\nIt’s OK. <\/p>\n
673
\n00:37:45,440 –> 00:37:46,720
\nThere’s no shame here.
\nYou can admit it. <\/p>\n
674
\n00:37:47,440 –> 00:37:48,920
\nRemember the line, the witch and
\nthe wardrobe? <\/p>\n
675
\n00:37:48,920 –> 00:37:51,960
\nThat that When?
\nWhen Aslan is taken by the witch<\/p>\n
676
\n00:37:52,040 –> 00:37:56,440
\nand, and, and is bound to the
\ntable and, and killed, and it’s <\/p>\n
677
\n00:37:56,440 –> 00:37:59,800
\nthe CS Lewis’s picture of death
\nand resurrection and it has its <\/p>\n
678
\n00:37:59,800 –> 00:38:01,000
\nholes and all that kind of
\nstuff. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:38:01,000 –> 00:38:03,840
\nBut Aslan is bound to the table
\nbecause she thinks that the way <\/p>\n
680
\n00:38:03,840 –> 00:38:06,400
\nyou control it is, is by
\nlimiting people. <\/p>\n
681
\n00:38:06,880 –> 00:38:09,160
\nAnd she has no idea that there
\nis this deeper magic that comes <\/p>\n
682
\n00:38:09,160 –> 00:38:11,880
\nfrom beyond the dawn of time,
\nthat it’s not physical freedom <\/p>\n
683
\n00:38:11,880 –> 00:38:13,160
\nthat matters, it’s spiritual
\nfreedom. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:38:13,160 –> 00:38:15,600
\nThere is something bigger than
\njust being tied down to <\/p>\n
685
\n00:38:15,600 –> 00:38:17,600
\nsomething.
\nThat’s why Moses comes to the <\/p>\n
686
\n00:38:17,600 –> 00:38:21,240
\npeople with one specific request
\nto let the people go three days <\/p>\n
687
\n00:38:21,240 –> 00:38:24,240
\njourney to worship and then to
\ngo out all together because <\/p>\n
688
\n00:38:24,240 –> 00:38:26,960
\nEgypt is associated with a lack
\nof freedom to worship. <\/p>\n
689
\n00:38:29,000 –> 00:38:31,520
\nYou can’t do what God wants when
\nyou are in Egypt. <\/p>\n
690
\n00:38:32,440 –> 00:38:35,360
\nThat’s why you have to come out
\nand serve on the mountain. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:38:36,200 –> 00:38:39,520
\nThis is freedom principle number
\nwherever we’ve got to seven. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:38:40,040 –> 00:38:44,920
\nFreedom is not doing what you
\nwant, it’s doing what you were <\/p>\n
693
\n00:38:44,920 –> 00:38:48,640
\ncalled to do.
\nAnd all of those verses higher <\/p>\n
694
\n00:38:48,640 –> 00:38:50,360
\nup on the screen just begin to
\nbear that out. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:38:51,520 –> 00:38:55,280
\nEgypt is associated with a lack
\nof freedom to worship, not a <\/p>\n
696
\n00:38:55,280 –> 00:38:59,200
\nlack of just doing whatever the
\nheck I please. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:39:00,680 –> 00:39:06,280
\nAnd isn’t it therefore ironic,
\ndeeply ironic, that all of the <\/p>\n
698
\n00:39:06,280 –> 00:39:11,320
\npleas from the Israelites to go
\nback into Egypt during the <\/p>\n
699
\n00:39:11,320 –> 00:39:14,840
\nwilderness journey are all
\ncouched in freedom language? <\/p>\n
700
\n00:39:16,280 –> 00:39:19,520
\nEverything they say is about
\ngoing back in that way. <\/p>\n
701
\n00:39:19,680 –> 00:39:22,120
\nExodus chapter 14, They’re just,
\nthey’re just to keep us moving <\/p>\n
702
\n00:39:22,120 –> 00:39:26,640
\nthrough.
\nWe wanted to serve in Egypt <\/p>\n
703
\n00:39:26,840 –> 00:39:30,080
\nrather than to die in the
\nwilderness, which is a <\/p>\n
704
\n00:39:30,080 –> 00:39:32,920
\nridiculous expression.
\nBut you and I say that in our <\/p>\n
705
\n00:39:32,920 –> 00:39:37,400
\ndeepest hearts every day, much
\nrather serve sin than die with <\/p>\n
706
\n00:39:37,400 –> 00:39:41,000
\nGod.
\nWhat a preposterous expression. <\/p>\n
707
\n00:39:41,000 –> 00:39:42,920
\nAnd yet we hold to it far more
\nthan we should. <\/p>\n
708
\n00:39:43,400 –> 00:39:46,760
\nIn Exodus 32, where we’ve got
\nthe golden calf is incident. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:39:47,280 –> 00:39:49,320
\nMoses comes down the mountain
\nand he breaks the tables of <\/p>\n
710
\n00:39:49,320 –> 00:39:52,680
\nstone under his feet.
\nThey are described specifically <\/p>\n
711
\n00:39:52,680 –> 00:39:55,840
\nas having broken loose.
\nIt’s freedom language again. <\/p>\n
712
\n00:39:55,840 –> 00:39:57,200
\nThey have.
\nThey have tried to make <\/p>\n
713
\n00:39:57,200 –> 00:39:59,520
\nthemselves no longer servants to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
714
\n00:40:00,080 –> 00:40:02,720
\nThey’ve tried to become free
\nunder their own ways. <\/p>\n
715
\n00:40:03,400 –> 00:40:05,840
\nI just threw it in and out It
\ncame and it now it looks like a <\/p>\n
716
\n00:40:05,840 –> 00:40:08,000
\ngolden calf.
\nNumbers 11. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:40:09,480 –> 00:40:12,640
\nWhen there is no water and the
\npeople are hungry, we ate freely<\/p>\n
718
\n00:40:12,640 –> 00:40:14,800
\nin Egypt.
\nWe had the melons and the leeks <\/p>\n
719
\n00:40:14,800 –> 00:40:16,400
\nand the onions and the garlics
\nand the cucumber. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:40:17,040 –> 00:40:18,560
\nDidn’t eat freely in Egypt at
\nall. <\/p>\n
721
\n00:40:20,400 –> 00:40:22,360
\nBut that’s the way they’re
\ndescribing their past <\/p>\n
722
\n00:40:22,360 –> 00:40:25,240
\nexperiences.
\nAnd later on in Numbers 11, you <\/p>\n
723
\n00:40:25,240 –> 00:40:30,240
\nremember that’s when the quail
\ncomes down and it gets stuck in <\/p>\n
724
\n00:40:30,240 –> 00:40:33,120
\ntheir teeth and they get sick.
\nNumbers 11 talks about the <\/p>\n
725
\n00:40:33,120 –> 00:40:37,400
\nquails as having been gathered
\nwithout limits, and it’s almost <\/p>\n
726
\n00:40:37,400 –> 00:40:40,120
\nas if we were meant to see a
\ncontrast between the, the quail <\/p>\n
727
\n00:40:40,120 –> 00:40:43,600
\ngathered without limits that
\nmade people ill and the manner <\/p>\n
728
\n00:40:43,600 –> 00:40:47,640
\nthat had this specific quota.
\nYou remember 2 owners per person<\/p>\n
729
\n00:40:47,640 –> 00:40:49,280
\nper day.
\nIt was a, it was a, it was a <\/p>\n
730
\n00:40:49,320 –> 00:40:52,600
\nlimit that they were to gather.
\nAnd by some miracle, everybody <\/p>\n
731
\n00:40:52,600 –> 00:40:55,960
\nhad precisely that amount.
\nIn Exodus 16, when the people <\/p>\n
732
\n00:40:55,960 –> 00:40:57,720
\nare left of their own devices
\nand they get to get what they <\/p>\n
733
\n00:40:57,720 –> 00:41:01,960
\nwant, everybody gets sick.
\nAnd all the way down in <\/p>\n
734
\n00:41:01,960 –> 00:41:04,560
\nNehemiah, when we’re told that
\nthey appointed a Captain Cora, I<\/p>\n
735
\n00:41:04,560 –> 00:41:07,760
\nthink they were not just going
\nback to Egypt. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:41:08,120 –> 00:41:11,920
\nThey were going back to bondage.
\nWe don’t like God’s guardrails. <\/p>\n
737
\n00:41:12,400 –> 00:41:14,920
\nWe don’t like being free in the
\nway that He describes it. <\/p>\n
738
\n00:41:14,960 –> 00:41:24,680
\nExodus chapter 4, please.
\nExodus chapter 4 and verse 22. <\/p>\n
739
\n00:41:26,120 –> 00:41:33,760
\nYou shall say to Pharaoh, Thus
\nsays the Lord Israel is my son, <\/p>\n
740
\n00:41:34,840 –> 00:41:38,920
\neven my first born.
\nAnd I say to thee, Let my son <\/p>\n
741
\n00:41:38,920 –> 00:41:43,800
\ngo, that he may serve me.
\nAnd if I refuse to let him go, I<\/p>\n
742
\n00:41:43,800 –> 00:41:46,480
\nwill slay thy son, even thy
\nfirst born. <\/p>\n
743
\n00:41:47,520 –> 00:41:49,320
\nWe don’t like guardrails.
\nNot even Pharaoh likes <\/p>\n
744
\n00:41:49,320 –> 00:41:52,000
\nguardrails.
\nPharaoh’s big mistake, my <\/p>\n
745
\n00:41:52,040 –> 00:41:56,360
\nbrothers and sisters, was not
\nhis immigration policy, it was <\/p>\n
746
\n00:41:56,360 –> 00:42:00,280
\nnot his HR policy, it was not
\nhis employment policy. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:42:01,640 –> 00:42:04,560
\nIt was making somebody else’s
\nson work for him. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:42:06,120 –> 00:42:11,320
\nWhen Israel was a child, I loved
\nhim and out of Egypt I called my<\/p>\n
749
\n00:42:11,320 –> 00:42:14,400
\nson.
\nPharaoh is the son of Rah. <\/p>\n
750
\n00:42:14,960 –> 00:42:17,160
\nWhen he when he died, he will
\nbecome divine. <\/p>\n
751
\n00:42:17,840 –> 00:42:20,520
\nAnd all of the plagues one by
\none are systematically <\/p>\n
752
\n00:42:20,520 –> 00:42:25,000
\nundermining his his quote
\nsonship as one of the sons of <\/p>\n
753
\n00:42:25,000 –> 00:42:28,560
\nthe deities.
\nSo at the end of the plagues, in<\/p>\n
754
\n00:42:28,560 –> 00:42:31,440
\nthe darkness of Passover night,
\nwhen Israel has been sorry, when<\/p>\n
755
\n00:42:31,440 –> 00:42:37,200
\nEgypt has been uncreated and
\nleft as the beginning of Genesis<\/p>\n
756
\n00:42:37,200 –> 00:42:38,800
\n1, it’s like it’s without form
\nand void. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:42:38,800 –> 00:42:42,160
\nThere is blackness everywhere.
\nSuddenly everything has been <\/p>\n
758
\n00:42:42,160 –> 00:42:45,040
\nturned back on itself again, and
\nthe plagues are employed to show<\/p>\n
759
\n00:42:45,040 –> 00:42:49,600
\nPharaoh who has got dominion.
\nIs it the first born son of <\/p>\n
760
\n00:42:49,600 –> 00:42:51,840
\nPharaoh, the son of the Egyptian
\nGod? <\/p>\n
761
\n00:42:53,560 –> 00:42:57,880
\nOr is it the first born son of
\nYahweh out of Egypt? <\/p>\n
762
\n00:42:57,880 –> 00:43:02,360
\nI called my son John chapter 8
\njust to finish, please. <\/p>\n
763
\n00:43:03,480 –> 00:43:11,480
\nJohn chapter 8 connects us up to
\nAbraham as well, doesn’t it? <\/p>\n
764
\n00:43:11,480 –> 00:43:14,960
\nYou remember we talked about
\nMariah yesterday where Abraham <\/p>\n
765
\n00:43:14,960 –> 00:43:17,920
\ngoes to offer his son and and
\nthe challenge for the challenge.<\/p>\n
766
\n00:43:17,920 –> 00:43:21,120
\nThat’s a silly word, the that
\nthe great task that Abraham is <\/p>\n
767
\n00:43:21,120 –> 00:43:24,200
\ngiven.
\nIt’s not so much the sacrifice <\/p>\n
768
\n00:43:24,200 –> 00:43:27,840
\nof his son, but the journey that
\nhe makes knowing that he’s going<\/p>\n
769
\n00:43:27,840 –> 00:43:31,920
\nto give his son back to God,
\nrealizing that Isaac is not his.<\/p>\n
770
\n00:43:32,840 –> 00:43:36,200
\nBut gods, and that’s the
\nrealization process that Pharaoh<\/p>\n
771
\n00:43:36,200 –> 00:43:43,120
\nnever comes to John chapter 8.
\nWhere do I want to bring you? <\/p>\n
772
\n00:43:44,320 –> 00:43:46,680
\nIt’s going at verse 31.
\nJesus said to the Jews who <\/p>\n
773
\n00:43:46,680 –> 00:43:49,600
\nbelieved on him.
\nIf you continue in My word, then<\/p>\n
774
\n00:43:49,600 –> 00:43:54,280
\nyou are my disciples indeed, and
\nyou shall know the truth, and <\/p>\n
775
\n00:43:54,280 –> 00:43:57,560
\nthe truth will make you free.
\nAnd they answered him. <\/p>\n
776
\n00:43:59,480 –> 00:44:01,720
\nThey answered him.
\nWe are Abraham’s seed. <\/p>\n
777
\n00:44:02,720 –> 00:44:04,640
\nAnd we were never in bondage to
\nanyone. <\/p>\n
778
\n00:44:05,520 –> 00:44:09,320
\nHow can you say we shall be made
\nfree? <\/p>\n
779
\n00:44:10,000 –> 00:44:12,920
\nDid it make any sense?
\nAnd that dialogue is going to <\/p>\n
780
\n00:44:12,920 –> 00:44:14,280
\ncontinue, isn’t it?
\nTruly? <\/p>\n
781
\n00:44:14,280 –> 00:44:17,440
\nI say to you, the Lord says
\nwhoever commits sin is the <\/p>\n
782
\n00:44:17,440 –> 00:44:19,840
\nservant of sin, and the servant
\ndoes not abide in the house <\/p>\n
783
\n00:44:19,840 –> 00:44:22,640
\nforever, but the Son abides
\nforever. <\/p>\n
784
\n00:44:23,120 –> 00:44:27,000
\nIf the Son therefore shall make
\nyou free, you shall be free <\/p>\n
785
\n00:44:27,000 –> 00:44:29,880
\nindeed.
\nI know you’re Abraham’s seed, <\/p>\n
786
\n00:44:30,640 –> 00:44:34,600
\nbut you seek to kill me because
\nmy word has no place in you. <\/p>\n
787
\n00:44:35,520 –> 00:44:42,320
\nI by contrast, speak that which
\nI have seen with my father, and <\/p>\n
788
\n00:44:42,320 –> 00:44:45,560
\nyou do things which you have
\nseen with your father. <\/p>\n
789
\n00:44:46,560 –> 00:44:48,640
\nAnd they answered him and said,
\nwell, Abraham’s our father. <\/p>\n
790
\n00:44:48,640 –> 00:44:51,720
\nAnd Jesus said, if Abraham were
\nyour father, if you were <\/p>\n
791
\n00:44:51,720 –> 00:44:55,680
\nAbraham’s children, you would do
\nthe work of Abraham. <\/p>\n
792
\n00:44:55,960 –> 00:44:57,160
\nAnd he goes on to say, doesn’t
\nhe? <\/p>\n
793
\n00:44:57,160 –> 00:45:00,880
\nVerse 44 You are of your father
\nthe devil, and the lusts of your<\/p>\n
794
\n00:45:00,880 –> 00:45:04,360
\nfather you will do.
\nWe have never been in bondage <\/p>\n
795
\n00:45:04,360 –> 00:45:07,400
\nbefore is the great lie that you
\ntell yourself. <\/p>\n
796
\n00:45:07,520 –> 00:45:10,840
\nAnd I tell myself we have never
\nbeen in captivity. <\/p>\n
797
\n00:45:11,200 –> 00:45:13,200
\nI have always been able to do it
\nmyself. <\/p>\n
798
\n00:45:13,480 –> 00:45:16,040
\nI do not need shackles.
\nI want to go out and do whatever<\/p>\n
799
\n00:45:16,040 –> 00:45:18,240
\nI choose.
\nAnd I just suggest to you, <\/p>\n
800
\n00:45:18,240 –> 00:45:20,960
\nbrothers and sisters, if you
\ncontinue to insist it, and if I <\/p>\n
801
\n00:45:20,960 –> 00:45:25,360
\ncontinue to tell myself that in
\nmy private moments that then we <\/p>\n
802
\n00:45:25,360 –> 00:45:30,040
\nhaven’t repented.
\nBecause I’m absolutely convinced<\/p>\n
803
\n00:45:30,040 –> 00:45:32,000
\nthat all of my sin is still
\nsomebody else’s fault. <\/p>\n
804
\n00:45:32,000 –> 00:45:34,480
\nI’m not mine.
\nAnd it goes to the very heart of<\/p>\n
805
\n00:45:34,480 –> 00:45:37,160
\nour key doctrines, doesn’t it?
\nThat we are sin prone and that <\/p>\n
806
\n00:45:37,160 –> 00:45:40,840
\nwe need redemption, Not that we
\ncan be our best selves if only <\/p>\n
807
\n00:45:40,840 –> 00:45:42,400
\nwe can get everything else out
\nof the way. <\/p>\n
808
\n00:45:44,080 –> 00:45:48,440
\nNot that my lack of ability to
\nbe my authentic self is just the<\/p>\n
809
\n00:45:48,440 –> 00:45:50,600
\nframeworks and the structures
\nand the other things that get in<\/p>\n
810
\n00:45:50,600 –> 00:45:55,000
\nthe way of me.
\nBecause if the barriers are the <\/p>\n
811
\n00:45:55,000 –> 00:45:58,120
\nonly problem, then everything
\nmust be right with me. <\/p>\n
812
\n00:45:59,560 –> 00:46:04,800
\nAnd we know very well that that
\nis not the case. 2025 has got <\/p>\n
813
\n00:46:04,800 –> 00:46:11,080
\nsome, some real problems.
\nThere is division in this <\/p>\n
814
\n00:46:11,080 –> 00:46:13,600
\ncountry, there is division in my
\ncountry, there is division <\/p>\n
815
\n00:46:13,600 –> 00:46:15,920
\nacross most of the Western world
\nat the moment. <\/p>\n
816
\n00:46:15,920 –> 00:46:18,880
\nIt’s why things are so utterly
\ndysfunctional. <\/p>\n
817
\n00:46:19,160 –> 00:46:20,600
\nSo you can never get anything
\ndone. <\/p>\n
818
\n00:46:21,760 –> 00:46:24,400
\nAnd there was this conflict
\ngoing on between, or so it seems<\/p>\n
819
\n00:46:24,400 –> 00:46:28,320
\nwe are being told this between,
\nyou know, me and my choices and <\/p>\n
820
\n00:46:28,320 –> 00:46:29,920
\nthe artificial forces of
\nsociety. <\/p>\n
821
\n00:46:29,920 –> 00:46:31,720
\nAnd I am born good, so the
\ntheory goes. <\/p>\n
822
\n00:46:31,720 –> 00:46:34,560
\nBut I am tricked by Big Pharma
\nand Big government and <\/p>\n
823
\n00:46:34,560 –> 00:46:37,520
\ncivilization itself and all of
\nthese other issues into some <\/p>\n
824
\n00:46:37,640 –> 00:46:39,800
\nliving something short of my
\nbest life. <\/p>\n
825
\n00:46:40,720 –> 00:46:42,640
\nAnd all I need is to get these
\nthings out of the way and I’ll <\/p>\n
826
\n00:46:42,640 –> 00:46:44,880
\nbe able to be who I should be.
\nGet rid of the external <\/p>\n
827
\n00:46:44,880 –> 00:46:46,840
\nbarriers, and success will
\nnaturally follow. <\/p>\n
828
\n00:46:49,160 –> 00:46:51,840
\nAnd it ain’t true.
\nThat’s how dictators. <\/p>\n
829
\n00:46:51,840 –> 00:46:54,160
\nCome to power, actually.
\nBy saying that other people are <\/p>\n
830
\n00:46:54,160 –> 00:46:57,760
\nto blame for the job market,
\nother people are to blame for <\/p>\n
831
\n00:46:57,760 –> 00:47:00,360
\nthe crime levels.
\nBecause after all, if we’re Born<\/p>\n
832
\n00:47:00,360 –> 00:47:02,160
\nFree, then the fault must be
\nsomebody else’s. <\/p>\n
833
\n00:47:02,360 –> 00:47:04,320
\nWe are not Born Free.
\nBrothers and sisters, whatever <\/p>\n
834
\n00:47:04,320 –> 00:47:06,640
\nyou are being told, you are
\nliterally not Born Free. <\/p>\n
835
\n00:47:07,000 –> 00:47:09,800
\nYou are literally born tethered
\nto somebody else. <\/p>\n
836
\n00:47:11,760 –> 00:47:15,800
\nEverything from the very moment
\nof your birth tells you that you<\/p>\n
837
\n00:47:15,800 –> 00:47:19,200
\nare not Born Free, even though
\nthe narrative goes in completely<\/p>\n
838
\n00:47:19,200 –> 00:47:21,360
\nthe opposite direction.
\nWhy is that so important? <\/p>\n
839
\n00:47:21,360 –> 00:47:24,120
\nBecause because any rehab
\npatient will tell you that you <\/p>\n
840
\n00:47:24,120 –> 00:47:27,560
\ncan’t get through rehab until
\nyou realize what you are sick <\/p>\n
841
\n00:47:27,560 –> 00:47:31,320
\nwith.
\nYou can only come through it if <\/p>\n
842
\n00:47:31,320 –> 00:47:33,040
\nyou’ve identified what the
\nproblem is. <\/p>\n
843
\n00:47:34,960 –> 00:47:39,040
\nWe’ve only recognized our
\ndiscipleship and understood what<\/p>\n
844
\n00:47:39,040 –> 00:47:42,320
\nGod is telling us if we realize
\nthat the issues with our freedom<\/p>\n
845
\n00:47:42,320 –> 00:47:45,600
\ncome from here.
\nNot that I can farm it out and <\/p>\n
846
\n00:47:45,600 –> 00:47:47,720
\nsomebody else and blame them.
\nI saw. <\/p>\n
847
\n00:47:47,720 –> 00:47:50,240
\nI forget who I said this to on
\nSaturday. <\/p>\n
848
\n00:47:50,880 –> 00:47:54,720
\nSo somebody in my gym wearing,
\nnot my gym, in the gym I go to <\/p>\n
849
\n00:47:54,720 –> 00:47:56,280
\nrandomly because I think I’m
\nunfit. <\/p>\n
850
\n00:47:56,560 –> 00:48:02,400
\nSaw somebody in that gym wearing
\nAT shirt and it said I can’t <\/p>\n
851
\n00:48:02,400 –> 00:48:04,000
\nhear you because of how epic I
\nam. <\/p>\n
852
\n00:48:05,400 –> 00:48:07,680
\nAnd I thought if that does not
\nsum up everything I want to say <\/p>\n
853
\n00:48:07,680 –> 00:48:09,120
\nin this series, I don’t know
\nwhat does. <\/p>\n
854
\n00:48:10,080 –> 00:48:11,960
\nI cannot hear you because of how
\nepic I am. <\/p>\n
855
\n00:48:12,480 –> 00:48:16,920
\nI need to fix me, and God will
\ntake care of the stuff on the <\/p>\n
856
\n00:48:16,920 –> 00:48:20,880
\noutside because He’s in control
\nof these things as He was for <\/p>\n
857
\n00:48:20,880 –> 00:48:26,720
\nHis people, as He was when He
\ncalled them to be His servants <\/p>\n
858
\n00:48:26,720 –> 00:48:30,520
\non a mountain, as He was when
\nthe fire came down and Moses <\/p>\n
859
\n00:48:30,520 –> 00:48:33,600
\nexceedingly feared and quaked
\nand all of that great power and <\/p>\n
860
\n00:48:33,600 –> 00:48:35,160
\nglory was shown on top of the
\nhill. <\/p>\n
861
\n00:48:36,200 –> 00:48:41,280
\nOur task is to make the exit,
\nthe Exodus, louder in your life <\/p>\n
862
\n00:48:41,280 –> 00:48:43,760
\nand mine.
\nOur greatest threat to freedom <\/p>\n
863
\n00:48:44,680 –> 00:48:48,520
\ncomes from us, which is why, I
\nsuppose, when you think about <\/p>\n
864
\n00:48:48,520 –> 00:48:53,240
\nit, delivering Israel from
\nPharaoh took 10 plagues, but <\/p>\n
865
\n00:48:53,240 –> 00:48:57,600
\ndelivering that first generation
\nfrom themselves took 40 years <\/p>\n
866
\n00:48:58,560 –> 00:49:01,280
\nbecause it was not as easy as
\njust moving from one physical <\/p>\n
867
\n00:49:01,280 –> 00:49:04,440
\nplace to another.
\nThat’s why baptism matters, <\/p>\n
868
\n00:49:04,840 –> 00:49:07,840
\nbecause it’s a memorial to
\nfreedom on God’s terms. <\/p>\n
869
\n00:49:08,640 –> 00:49:11,120
\nThat’s why bread and wine
\nmatters, because it’s a memorial<\/p>\n
870
\n00:49:11,120 –> 00:49:14,320
\nto freedom on God’s terms.
\nThat’s why the apostle Paul, <\/p>\n
871
\n00:49:14,320 –> 00:49:16,360
\nwhen he writes to the
\nCorinthians, says where the <\/p>\n
872
\n00:49:16,360 –> 00:49:21,560
\nSpirit of the Lord is, there is
\nfreedom because he’s speaking in<\/p>\n
873
\n00:49:21,600 –> 00:49:24,680
\nthe context of Egypt and the
\nExodus. <\/p>\n
874
\n00:49:26,080 –> 00:49:31,000
\nThe God of Israel sets us free.
\nThe God of Exodus sets us free. <\/p>\n
875
\n00:49:31,600 –> 00:49:35,280
\nFree from sin, Free from the
\nburdens of the law. <\/p>\n
876
\n00:49:35,680 –> 00:49:40,800
\nFree to speak boldly, Free to
\nenter the veil without fear. <\/p>\n
877
\n00:49:41,400 –> 00:49:47,280
\nFree, perhaps above all, to
\nserve in spirit and in truth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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