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[00:00:05] Amen. Do you believe that God has good plans?
[00:00:09] You know, we're going to look at Moses and we're going to discover he has good plans.
[00:00:18] He used Moses. He uses me. He wants to use you to accomplish his plans.
[00:00:25] But they're always going to be good. Let me pray. Father God, we say thank you. Thank you for that declaration.
[00:00:32] We're going to travel through life.
[00:00:35] There's no guarantee that it's going to be smooth.
[00:00:39] But no matter what happens, whatever comes our way, I'm confident we can trust in you to carry us, to walk us through those valleys and through those obstacles. God trusting that in the end your good plans will be accomplished in our lives. In Jesus name, Amen.
[00:01:03] Amen. Go ahead and have a seat.
[00:01:05] Thank you.
[00:01:08] Welcome to the series Moses. We're calling it Moses because it's based on Moses, right? And for the next few months, up until August, when we start our 21 days of prayer, we're going to be looking at one of the most pivotal figures in the Bible, particularly in the Old Testament, because Moses is serving as really the deliverer, as we will know and as you probably know, deliverer of the people of Israel. He's the one that God gave the ten Commandments to. And through Moses life and just the mission that God put upon his life, we come to understand so much about God, the nature of God and how God interacts with, with us as people. So it's going to be the Book of Exodus we're going to look at because much of Moses life is captured in the Book of Exodus. Now, it's not the only book. We're not going to be able to get and cover all of it and going into some of the other books. But we're going to look at Moses specifically in the Book of Exodus.
[00:02:14] Hopefully we will find as we study him, we learn about his life. He becomes an example for us that in faithfulness, in prayerfulness, and even as servants of God. You see, Moses was a good guy.
[00:02:32] He wasn't a perfect man, but he was a great example for us. And one thing can be said about him is that he did live to honor his God. Amen. Now when I think of Moses, I think of this guy. Can I show that picture?
[00:02:46] How many of you recognize that picture? Right? This is Moses from the film the Ten Commandments.
[00:02:51] It was icon for me growing up, even when I wasn't even a Christian. But I have now envisioned this Charlton Heston as Moses.
[00:03:01] And so Moses or Charlton Heston, I'm not sure who is known to be the author of the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Torah.
[00:03:12] And Moses wrote to the Jewish people during the 40 years that they were wandering after they left Egypt, that was about 1400 years. 1400 years before Jesus.
[00:03:24] Now, the story we're going to pick up in Exodus, it begins after the generation of Joseph.
[00:03:33] See, Joseph had died. You remember Joseph, he was the youngest son of his father, Jacob. And Joseph, you remember he had a dream and he shared that dream with his family. And as a result of that, his brothers really became angry with him. So much so that they wanted to kill him and they had a plan to kill him. But then there was a traveling caravan heading to Egypt. So they decided instead of killing him, they would sell him as a slave to this caravan, which then took him into Egypt. And they sold him. He became a servant in the house of Potiphar, and. And he was accused of making some moves on Potiphar's wife.
[00:04:12] So he was then thrown in prison.
[00:04:15] Then after interpreting some dreams for the butcher, the baker and the candlestick maker, actually it was just the baker and the cup bearer. But anyways, word got to Pharaoh when Pharaoh had a dream. And so Pharaoh invited Joseph to interpret that dream. And as a result of that, Egypt was spared of going through a famine without preparation. And so with that, Pharaoh released, Joseph invited him into his entourage. And Joseph rose up to become the second in command only to Pharaoh himself.
[00:04:52] Now, it's going to be a beautiful story to pick up where Joseph dies and his family is left there in Egypt.
[00:05:00] But when we look at the life of Moses, Moses in his story is considered a type of Christ. That means in the Bible, there are some situations, some people, some circumstances that point to the Promised Messiah foreshadows the promise of the Messiah that was promised to the Hebrew people. And so there's many parallels between Moses life and Jesus life, such as the roles as deliverers, but also as mediators of God's redemptive plan.
[00:05:32] Now, speaking of Jesus, when I think of Jesus, I picture this guy.
[00:05:38] How many of you recognize him, okay, from the TV series the Chosen. Now, I'm going to be honest, when I get to heaven, I hope I don't embarrass myself. I hope I, you know, don't, you know, run up to Charlton Heston and think he's Moses or run up to Jonathan Roumie and think he's Jesus. And then Jesus is over at the corner and hey, Aten, over here, over here. So I hope I don't embarrass Myself, but these are the icons of the faces that we imagine.
[00:06:06] But that's neither here nor there. I just don't want to embarrass myself later on with these, with these images. But I do want us to, as we look into Exodus, is to really glean the heart of God as it's revealed in a man who learned to walk with God.
[00:06:24] Amen. So let's pray and we'll get into God's word. Father God, we say thank you, thank you for your word and how we can look at it. Sometimes it's like looking in a mirror. We can see ourselves.
[00:06:35] Maybe some of the ugliness of ourselves, but some of the wonder of what we can be when we live in relationship with you. So I pray as we take this journey and study the person of Moses God, that we see you and how you love and how you interact with your people throughout history, and that God we would embrace more of who you are in our lives and yet surrender ourselves more to your work in our lives. And we say thank you in Jesus name. Amen.
[00:07:10] So I want to just begin by asking this question as we look to getting into a study of Moses life. Are you convinced that God's plans are unchanging?
[00:07:22] God's plans are unchanging. Do you believe that his plans, his purposes for his people, that they can't be thwarted, that they are going to be fulfilled? Do you believe that's true?
[00:07:36] You know, I know for me it's easy to say yes because I read the Bible.
[00:07:44] But do I really believe that his plans are unchanging? Or do I kind of cross my fingers behind my back and hope it turns out that way?
[00:07:52] Maybe it might be easier to believe that God's big plans for the world, for people, those big plans are going to happen.
[00:08:02] But what about the other plans, the littler plans, the plans that he has for my life? If he has any plans for my life, can I trust him to accomplish those in me?
[00:08:14] I think as we look at the life of Moses, I hope we become more convinced that God is working in us and through us to accomplish his purposes, certainly his big plans for humanity.
[00:08:28] But God worked through Moses.
[00:08:31] And I hope that we don't sell God short in thinking that he can't work in us and through us, even today. Amen.
[00:08:38] So let's pick up in Exodus chapter one, verse six.
[00:08:43] And this is when things change for the people of Israel. In time, verse six, Joseph and all of his brothers died, ending that entire generation.
[00:08:55] But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.
[00:09:07] Now this sounds like good news, right? Because we know back in Genesis chapter 12, God made a promise to a man called named Abraham or Abram, who became Abraham. He made a promise that Abraham, you are going to be the father of many nations, that you are going to.
[00:09:26] Your descendants are going to be like the grains of the sand. So it seems here when we get to this point, that God's plan for Abram and the people of Israel is well underway.
[00:09:37] It says in verse eight, though eventually a new king, I.e. a new Pharaoh, came to power in Egypt who knew nothing about Joseph or what he had done.
[00:09:48] You see, Israel is entering a time when this new leader had no context for Joseph's contribution to Israel. He doesn't know anything about the dream and how the nation was saved from a famine. And so this new leader had no knowledge or respect for the history of Joseph and the Israelites who were in Egypt. Verse 9 goes on and says, this new pharaoh said, he said to the people, look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are.
[00:10:20] We must make a plan to keep them from growing even more if we don't, and if war breaks out, they will join our enemies and fight against us.
[00:10:32] Then they will escape our country.
[00:10:37] You see these non Egyptian residents, the Hebrew people, they were cooperative, they were good neighbors. But they were growing so large that this new pharaoh feared, feared their numbers, feared that they would take sides.
[00:10:54] And so he became threatened in his own sense of insecurity.
[00:10:58] I think we can all say we like it when our lives are going good, when there's peace and there's prosperity, there's no trouble.
[00:11:07] But the reality is sometimes things change.
[00:11:11] Not necessarily because of anything we did. Sure, we can sometimes bring in calamity upon our lives, but sometimes things just change and it rocks our world.
[00:11:23] It gets upended.
[00:11:25] My encouragement is, don't be surprised when that happens. Don't panic, don't doubt.
[00:11:32] Let's just be reminded that these are the times when we must be certain to lean in to God.
[00:11:40] Because God knows what we're going through. He sees us. And so these are exactly the times when things change that we lean into God because we're going to need Him. Now look what happens verse 11 as we continue, things are going to get harder.
[00:11:56] So the Egyptians, that is under Pharaoh, made the Israelites their slaves. They weren't slaves. They were just good neighbors living in the land. Remember Joseph and what he meant to the land. He invited his dad and his brothers, and then they started populating.
[00:12:13] The Egyptians made the Israelites now their slaves. They appointed brutal slave drivers over them, hoping to wear them down with crushing labor.
[00:12:23] They forced them to build the cities of Python and Rameses as supply centers for the king.
[00:12:31] But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became, life got harder.
[00:12:46] Life got so much harder for them.
[00:12:49] Their freedom, the freedom that they knew, was taken away. And they were forced into hard labor, very demanding hard work environments. As a matter of fact, I looked it up. According to Google, this is when OSHA was first started providing health and safety in their working conditions.
[00:13:10] Okay, that maybe isn't true.
[00:13:12] Verse 13.
[00:13:14] So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy. They made their lives bitter, forcing them to mix mortar and make bricks and do all the work in the fields.
[00:13:28] They were ruthless in in all their demands. So don't miss something as we get to this part of the story.
[00:13:36] God's plan.
[00:13:38] Despite the oppressive actions of Pharaoh, despite that the nation of Israel continued to thrive to grow and even cause greater concern for Pharaoh.
[00:13:52] The Egyptians were ruthless, they were brutal. They caused these bitter experiences that we just raised read about. But whenever we experience those things in life, friends, it isn't necessarily a sign that things are bad.
[00:14:08] Yeah, they feel bad, they look bad, they look hard, but they aren't necessarily bad.
[00:14:14] They just might be a signal that God is at work in our lives.
[00:14:19] God is at work around us. God is at work, maybe in our communities.
[00:14:25] So rather, when we see things get harder, instead of throwing our hands up in the air and whining to God, maybe what we ought to do is get on our knees first.
[00:14:36] Get on our knees and ask God if he's up to something.
[00:14:41] Because first, if we get on our knees and go to God, that helps us regardless of what happens. It helps us get our hearts prepared for what's coming and what we're in the middle of. But secondly, if we go to God, we may discover that he's actually at work and we begin to see him at work. We don't necessarily see the hardship and the difficulty that has come into our lives. We maybe see that God is up to work and then we can join him and be part of what he's doing rather than whining to him about it.
[00:15:15] Now, when we get the first 15 following, the situation is going to get real ugly. Verse 15 says this. Then Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, gave this order to the Hebrew Midwives. I don't know how to say their names. Ship, Ra and Puah.
[00:15:32] Now, these weren't necessarily the only two midwives in the nation of Israel because they were so large, they were probably the union representatives for all the midwives.
[00:15:41] And so Pharaoh gave these two ladies this order. When you help the Hebrew women as they give birth, watch as they deliver.
[00:15:52] If the baby is a boy, kill him.
[00:15:56] If it is a girl, let her live.
[00:16:00] Verse 17. But because the midwives feared God, they refused to obey the king's orders, and they allowed the boys to live, too.
[00:16:13] Wow. Pretty crazy, huh?
[00:16:15] What would you do?
[00:16:17] What would you do if you were given an order to murder, to kill anyone, much less the male children?
[00:16:26] What do you suppose would happen to them if they didn't obey?
[00:16:31] Probably get killed, right? They'd probably have their heads on the chopping block as well.
[00:16:36] For us, maybe we would say, okay, well, I'm going to change my name or I'm going to leave the country.
[00:16:41] But what did these midwives do when their devotion to God was tested?
[00:16:49] The question is, what would we do?
[00:16:51] See, you and I, we may not be asked to kill babies, but maybe you already know this. There will be times in our lives, sometimes in community, sometimes in our work environments, that we'll be asked to do something that stands in contrast to what we believe.
[00:17:11] It stands in contrast to who God is.
[00:17:15] The question is, what will we do?
[00:17:19] My encouragement is decide now.
[00:17:23] Work on becoming the man or woman who lives for God. Decide now what kind of person you want to be.
[00:17:30] Because if we wait till those challenges come up, that challenge our faith, the challenge of things we believe, if we wait till that time to make the decision, it might be too late.
[00:17:40] Because we are likely to make all kinds of excuses or even to justify doing what is being asked of us to do, even if it stands against God. So right now, let's be focused our lives on being the men and women who will stand with God. So when the challenge comes, our devotion as is tested will prove true. This is what happened with these women. Praise God for them.
[00:18:07] Praise God. Because God's plan needs to be accomplished.
[00:18:13] So instead of giving in, trust that God's plans are uninterruptible in your lives, Exodus, chapter 1, verse 18 picks up the story.
[00:18:24] So the king of Egypt called for the midwives. Of course he did.
[00:18:28] Why have you done this? He demanded. Why have you allowed the boys to live?
[00:18:35] The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, the midwives replied. They are more vigorous and have their babies so quickly that we cannot get there in time.
[00:18:47] Well, maybe that's true. Maybe the Hebrew women were more vigorous and child birth than the Egyptian women. Or maybe they weren't really telling the whole truth to the Pharaoh. Even so, verse 20, it tells us God was good to the midwives and that the Israelites continued to multiply, growing more and more powerful.
[00:19:13] Verse 21. And because the midwives feared God, he. He gave them families of their own.
[00:19:20] We don't know exactly what all that means, but likely a lot of the midwives were either unmarried women or maybe women who historically hadn't been able to bear children.
[00:19:29] But God, because of their faithfulness, showed favor upon them, that they even had families of their own. God rewarded them.
[00:19:38] Verse 22.
[00:19:40] Then Pharaoh gave this order, and he gave it to all his people. That means he's deputizing all the citizens, the Egyptians, he said, throw every newborn Hebrew boy into the river, the Nile river, but you may let the girls live.
[00:20:02] See, he's asking the whole nation now to get involved in this, that if you discover a male newborn, that you're to seize that child and immediately go and throw him in the river.
[00:20:17] And seeing that his plans were failing, so Pharaoh goes to this extreme, this far reaching, radical command, asking the people to participate in the evil.
[00:20:31] How would you like to bring a baby into this world?
[00:20:35] Not so much, huh?
[00:20:36] But God did.
[00:20:39] In Exodus, chapter two, we find the story of the birth of Moses, which I will also call the birth of a promise to Israel. Verse 1, chapter 2.
[00:20:50] About this time a man and a woman. Later on we learn in chapter 6, Moses Birth parents Amram, and not sure how to say it, Yahabed Yohebed from the tribe of Levi. They got married, the woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son.
[00:21:11] And she saw that the baby was a special baby. That doesn't mean that he was special, as we would say special, but that means he was healthy and he was happy. There was nothing wrong with him.
[00:21:21] And so she kept him hidden for three months.
[00:21:26] Remember, Pharaoh had decreed that all newborns be found and thrown into the Nile river. And so the parents did everything they could do until it became too difficult to conceal him any longer. Verse 3 says, but when she could no longer hide him, and rather than risk punishment for the whole family, she got a basket made of papyrus and reeds, or papyrus reeds, and waterproofed it with tar and pitch.
[00:21:53] She put the baby in the basket and laid it among the reeds along the bank of the river, the Nile River.
[00:22:01] The baby's sister, Verse four then stood at a distance watching to see what would happen.
[00:22:08] Interesting commentators suggest that they placed strategically the basket in the reeds in a place that was known to be a place where the Egyptian women would come down to bathe. Wasn't just as maybe the movies portray. It was just a basket just cast out in the middle of the river, letting it take it wherever it wanted to. There was some strategy, it would seem, in where they placed the basket. Now watch how God provides for Moses. Verse 5. So Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe in the river and her attendants walked along the riverbank.
[00:22:47] When the princess saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it for her.
[00:22:53] When the princess opened it, she saw the baby.
[00:22:57] The little boy was crying and she felt sorry for him. This must be one of the Hebrew children, she said.
[00:23:05] Interesting. They're not really sure which Pharaoh this was that came after the Pharaoh that knew Joseph.
[00:23:13] And the historian suggests that there may be two daughters of two possible pharaohs. One daughter was a young maiden who was very kind and tender hearted. And so this would have been most likely the kind of the Pharaoh's daughter that would have been in this scene. But another situation is another woman who was the only surviving female of her family, the daughter of the pharaoh. And she was very tender hearted as well. And they believe most likely would be the one that would naturally want to adopt a child. But it doesn't matter, I tell you that just to confuse you a little bit. But in the end it doesn't really matter either way.
[00:23:54] By God's own providence, the woman takes pity on the seemingly abandoned child that she clearly knew was a Hebrew male.
[00:24:06] This is what's important to understand God in order to fulfill his purposes in this story.
[00:24:15] But in our lives, God sends someone, in this case to rescue the Hebrew child and preserve God's plan to deliver his people from their slavery. Amen. Let's not forget that God is looking out to accomplish his purposes. And so often he sends someone to help preserve and continue his plan. Verse 7 goes on to say, then the baby sister, we know her name is Miriam, she approached the princess.
[00:24:44] Should I go and find some random Hebrew woman to nurse the baby for you? She asked.
[00:24:51] Verse 8 yes, do, the princess replied. So the girl went and called the baby's mother.
[00:24:58] Funny, huh? Can you see what's happening? Can you see how God is working here?
[00:25:06] My friends, we should begin to see the hand of God and grow in our trust that God will work out his plans because his Plans are uninterruptible. Verse 9 goes on to say, take this baby and nurse him for me. The princess told the baby's mother, get this, I will pay you for your help.
[00:25:29] So the woman took her her own baby home and nursed him.
[00:25:34] Understand this. In ancient times, infancy was a very fragile state for a child.
[00:25:42] Getting a child to the place that they could eat solid food was a key, a key development for them. And so here the princess is asking for the baby to be cared for till he was weaned. And in those days, and much like today, the age would have been, yes, between 18 months to maybe 5 years old, meaning that long. Typically, people believe it's around two to three years old.
[00:26:06] That before the baby was returned. And here's what it says in verse 10. Later, when the boy was older, maybe two, three years old, his mother brought him back to Pharaoh's daughter, who adopted him as her own son.
[00:26:20] And the princess named him Moses.
[00:26:23] For she explained, I lifted him out of the water.
[00:26:28] My friends, this story is amazing to think about.
[00:26:32] See, in God's providence, Pharaoh's daughter found a baby floating in the reeds.
[00:26:40] For some reason, she was drawn to it.
[00:26:44] Although in her culture and certainly in her upbringing, she was conditioned to reject the Hebrews.
[00:26:52] But that day, the cry of the baby, it melted her heart.
[00:26:57] And so, as we see this story, and ironically, as we know the rest of the story, ironically, Pharaoh's effort to squash, to eliminate the people of Israel results ultimately in his own household, raising the child who would one day free the Israelites from this Pharaoh's oppressive grip. Does God have a sense of humor or what right?
[00:27:24] God works things out in our lives.
[00:27:28] As we look at this story, how God has provided for Moses.
[00:27:33] There's three observations I want to share with us before making a conclusion. The first one is this.
[00:27:42] God provides for Moses in that first, he delivered him from danger.
[00:27:48] When the princess saw the basket among the reeds, she sent her maidservant to get it for her. Because Hebrew boys were to be killed and murdered. But God delivered her. See, it doesn't matter. No danger, no adversary's threat can squash God's plan.
[00:28:07] God is able to overcome. God is able to navigate around. God is able, if he wants to, to run right over an obstacle to accomplish his purposes.
[00:28:20] Secondly, God arranged for his care.
[00:28:25] Should I go and find one of the Hebrew women to nurse him, nurse the baby for you? Yes. Do see, God knows what we need. God knows what is required to care for us, to be sure we are cared for and he will send help. Oftentimes it is someone he will send to our life to speak a word, a word of encouragement, a word of counsel to us. He'll send somebody to help shoulder the burden that we are having to carry.
[00:28:58] Sometimes it comes in the form of his word, where he steers us in the direction we ought to go.
[00:29:07] You know, we're encouraged in 1 Peter, chapter 5 to cast all our cares, cast all of our worries, cast all our anxieties on him.
[00:29:19] Because God cares for you, and he will arrange for our care. The third thing he delivered from any danger, he arranged for his care. But thirdly, God provided for his need.
[00:29:31] It says, I will pay you. The princess says, I will pay you. The nursing mother, his own mother, I will pay you to help.
[00:29:40] I'm reminded in Psalm 50, and I think it's verse 10.
[00:29:46] It says, all the animals of the forest are mine.
[00:29:49] The cattle on a thousand hills belong to me. You see, for God the details of our care, of our need, our financial need. To God, that's just details.
[00:30:01] Because God has everything and he can supply anything we need in our lives.
[00:30:07] But to him they're nothing. For us, they might be wearisome for us, they may even be crushing.
[00:30:14] But God makes a way where there seems to be no way, doesn't He?
[00:30:19] When there seems to be no way. And this is what God has done here as he prepares to deliver his people.
[00:30:27] See, God has beautifully planned all of this. The rescue and the deliverance of Moses from the river.
[00:30:36] He provided for the needs of the boy even into adulthood.
[00:30:41] And eventually, as we know, this same man will be the one to deliver the people of Israel.
[00:30:48] See, God, he takes care of things.
[00:30:52] He guided Moses parents. He steered the princess to the waterside.
[00:31:00] And God will continue to provide for us. So I suggest to you, God still has plans that he wants to accomplish in our world. God still has plans for people he wants to bring in to his kingdom, to deliver people, to rescue people from their lives, from the darkness of their lives.
[00:31:23] And maybe he might just want to use you and I because he wants to do a work in us. I know that for sure.
[00:31:30] And I'm confident He wants to do a work through us as well.
[00:31:34] But what do you need to trust in that kind of a God? What are you going through right now that you could really use God to show up?
[00:31:42] So how do you need to trust God to provide from? Obviously, these last few minutes, I draw three different thoughts for us to bring to God this morning.
[00:31:57] Do you need to trust him to deliver you from danger.
[00:32:00] What are you going on? What's going on in your life? What are you facing that seems so overcoming.
[00:32:05] The first thing I would encourage you is to get on your knees before God. No doubt when we go to God, when we are feeling threatened, something is out of whack in our lives. Get to our knees because one, it prepares our heart to face what we're happening. But secondly, we might just discover that he's up to something and he's still going to use you in the middle of it.
[00:32:27] So we trust him with our lives by going to him. So that maybe we will not be worrying, but maybe we can join him in the face of the difficulty.
[00:32:36] And as difficult that is, maybe we also need him to send somebody along in our path to help us through this challenge, this situation that we're facing. Because the reality is as resilient as we can be and sometimes as prideful as we can be, we want to handle things ourselves.
[00:32:53] But I can tell you, as Christ followers, as the people of God, God never intends for us to face it all on our own.
[00:33:01] Sometimes God will bring someone into our lives, as I said, to maybe to speak, to shoulder, or to steer us in some direction.
[00:33:11] My encouragement is to always watch prayerfully for God's answers. You guys have maybe heard the illustration of the person who is seeking God's help because of a difficulty. There was a flood that came through and they were stranded on the top of their house, right?
[00:33:29] And so a person in a rowboat comes by and asks them if they want to ride to safety. They said, no, no, no, I'm okay, I'm okay.
[00:33:36] Then a helicopter comes by and the rescuer drops down on the line and says, hey, can I lift you out of here? And the person says, no, no, no, I'm okay.
[00:33:44] And after a while, the person starts complaining, God, where are you? Why aren't you rescuing me?
[00:33:50] And God said, well, I sent a rowboat, I sent a helicopter.
[00:33:55] What are you looking for?
[00:33:57] For you and I, my encouragement is be watchful and prayful because God might just send somebody to help you through the challenging time that you're facing.
[00:34:07] And the last thing that maybe you're looking for some kind of a provision, a financial need for God to meet in your life.
[00:34:14] Will you take it to Him?
[00:34:16] Will you trust him with it?
[00:34:19] So you may not need to be delivered from a dangerous situation. You may not need to be provided any specific direction to go. Maybe you just need a few dollars to help you get through.
[00:34:32] God wants to meet your needs.
[00:34:34] So my encouragement would be, let's trust him. Let's trust him with everything that we face so that he can prove that he is trustworthy and he wants to continue to work things out in our lives as well.
[00:34:50] I'm going to pray for us and I'm going to ask if Dan and Robin Bishop will join me down front. I'm going to ask Megan if you in the team would come this morning. We've looked to just the introduction to Moses and his beginning is quite amazing.
[00:35:10] God in his providence, directed plans to keep him safe in order to bring him into the world so that he could ultimately fulfill his plans and his purposes. God has something for you and I to do. So you and I continue to grow in our trust of God to see us through our difficulties because he still wants to use us in his kingdom work. Let me pray for us and we'll close with a song. I trust in God, Father. God, I say thank you for who you are and your work in our lives.
[00:35:44] I pray you will continue to deepen our understanding and our trust of who you are.
[00:35:53] That we would be a people that do not see difficulty and dangers as things to put us into a state of panic, but they're things that drive us to our knees because we know something's happening and we're going to need to trust you in the middle of it. And God, even as we trust you and as you show up by delivering us through a situation or providing someone to help us through it or even to provide the actual material need we have, God, our faith is assured that there is a God in heaven who loves us, who has a plan in us. So, God, I pray this morning we will close in a song of trust and worship of you in Jesus name, Amen.
[00:36:42] Hey, if there's something that you'd like to bring to God this morning, we invite you to come down, kneel before God, raise it up to him. Whatever you're facing a danger, a challenge, you're needing him to show up in some way, you can come and kneel before him. Or maybe Dan, Robin or myself can pray with you. Or even if, as you know, if you've got some kind of burden that you've carried into the building, we'd love to be able to pray with you about that as well. But let's go ahead and stand and worship together. It.
