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00:00:00 this thing keeps going back can I go back to that slide why oh where's that slide that's right guys I'm handling it yeah okay thank you so let me explain what we do this year right uh Peter will take the church through the New Testament he and his team I will take you guys through the Old Testament not that I'm an expert in it but we'll do it we did a Genesis last year and we're going to go through Exodus and I prayerfully hope we can have a you know fiveyear plan to go through the five books of the Torah right so here are the
00:00:33 sermons Peter will take us through first John Antichrist the false teachings after that we continue with first John chapter 2 with Alex children of God hope reborn and after that John Lee will take us through children of God life consistent so we'll be studying The Book of John and in parallel we'll do a study on the book of Exodus all right so now if I can get mine yes right Exodus Exodus is interesting if you do remember last time we did Genesis and we ended with Jacob and the family entering into
00:01:10 Egypt and in Egypt they will prosper and we're going to start off the story with this and I'm going to use a few key wordss for you to understand before we open in prayer a new king arises and exodus opens this his word and he does not know Joseph the word know no appears quite often in Exodus but this is a word we all understand it is actually a Greek word all right and the Latin picked it up and this is actually coming from a translation of the Hebrew Bible from what we call the sepen basically they
00:01:45 took the Hebrew Bible and they translated it and the word Exodus comes out of it let me give you another word the word Leviticus is actually the way of the Levites is actually Latin so what we getting with the first five books of the Torah are actually Greek translations of it I want you pick this up because we're going to go a little bit into that this word you understand how about this other word you understand this word come on who here I don't know whether to say understand or don't understand let's try
00:02:17 who here understands it I'm shocked you all don't get this oh see a few do hey hello every thing everywhere all at once our Malaysian winning Oscar you don't know shame on you you b r Malay everything every once all at once so obviously you guys haven't seen the show all right I I saw it I didn't get it all right I really didn't get it all right now let me just give you without spoiler alerts all right in the show there are multiple versions of the the key character she Michelle yo is leading what we call a very Bland life she runs
00:03:06 a laundromat in a Loveless marriage the life is just not getting anywhere but in an alternate universe she's an opera singer in Another Universe she's a spy Another Universe She has sausages for her hands I don't get it another one she's a glamorous star and in one part of the movie right she when she goes into another Universe she looks at a another version of herself which has got a better relational life a better career and she has this word that sometimes comes to us what if what if your life and my life turn
00:03:44 out a bit different what if you know you did something else differently and so the story has a side plot about identity and the story really talks about who Am I who are you as a person and today we're going to lash onto this very one verse as we study it and Moses tells God who am I should that I should go to faroh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt and they do two parts to this word the first is the issue of identity and the other is an issue of insecurity we'll pick up the two today and as usual this is a Family Life
00:04:23 Ministry sermon if those of you don't understand what family life is a Ministry in a church where if you're are hurting you're struggling you have issues of depression anxiety family issues you do not walk alone you walk with people of the church this is what a community of Believers are and so we'll be couching the entire sermon in this light so that we are real we authentic and we are gospel centered in are caring for everybody let's come before the Lord in prayer Lord Jesus we come this morning before you and I ask Lord not my
00:04:55 words but your words not the clever words of mankind but the work of the Holy Spirit oh Lord I ask that I I so shrink that you so be glorified that people just see your name hear your voice and you alone Be glorified and we say this in Jesus name amen right I'm going to give you a bit of some background because this is quite important just to pick up right now these five words what we call the Torah the words really came like I say from the Greek right I mean how many of you know what Deuteronomy means any Scholars
00:05:34 here raise your hands see what's that word is actually a Greek word meaning word all right word all right but generally the words actually tell us what the main story is for example the word Exodus we understand it as a journey and so the the traditional way of reading Exodus and not saying is wrong is this uh the key story will be Moses led the people out of slavery y from Egypt into a journey across the Red Sea and of course that's forward pointing to Jesus Jesus leads us out of slavery from sin onto a Journey of Faith
00:06:11 to the promised land I mean that's that's quite correct but I want to to tell you there's something more to that and sometime this kind of titles box Us in and we sort of don't get the full intent of the stories of the Torah for example numbers we see numbers as a sense how many of you read lus can you imagine doing Bible study lus that you people will cry at you it is so dry we look at it it's all about loss so let me give you the Hebrew rendering of the word Now Hebrew writing is very interesting because it's very much
00:06:50 poetry you you know that right they do it in sets they do it in the structure what we call chitic structure the middle part is the main aim they repeat words they do it in multiplications of sevens and the title of this in the Hebrew has a meaning let me first give you the title in Hebrew all come from the first verse and the first line the first word and the first verse all right give you example Genesis bashid in the beginning in English is three words all right but is in the beginning numbers
00:07:35 bitah it is in the wilderness now why are they doing this because when they named the book from the first verse except for numbers which is the fifth verse they are telling you that is the main aim of the book for example Leviticus we think is a boring book about all these laws and that's no one does Bible study about it but it's a book about the call of worship you want to understand worship you do the Book of Leviticus Wilderness the story is about intergenerational because one generation did not enter the
00:08:16 other generation did you want to study intergenerational ministry right how young adults should talk to old peop and uncles you read the book of numbers and Deuteronomy is really the first sermon ever recorded and it's really about choices so what's Exodus and this is quite interesting because this one really picks up so if you read your Bible right and you look at the first verse of the book of Exodus you notice it doesn't say anything about Journey it says this is very specific and I'm going to
00:08:52 suggest to you as you read the book of Exodus naming and knowing comes up very often you see names for us don't have quite significance you know especially Chinese people Chinese people like to use very strange English name what's your name Angela baby yeah oh yo what does it even mean you know when I was growing up I grew up in Mala know grew up malaka and Know My Name an you know teacher mitan Abdul Raz taning ar ar no ar ar no you know my dad gave me you know why my dad gave me my name because my dad's a golfer so Anna Palmer
00:09:40 was very famous I mean no logic then I went to University right and that time was in the '90s right and I I was in Sydney and I I I I I sat up to the gym yeah M what's your name an know yeah yeah right sh was aeger yeah give me your real name m an no and I was really skinny said oh yeah you know so you know that time if you were bodybuilder other made sense but but the Jews don't look at it they were a name to a Jew is Destiny you know and you find it picked up in Genesis because when Abraham changes is Abraham to
00:10:15 Abraham is Jacob to Israel and so we get this again again I want you to pick this up all right so who is Moses all right let you put that at the back of your mind that naming and knowing is critical to other understanding Exodus and now we're going to look at who is Moses so Exodus opens like I said with have this key understanding a new faroh comes up probably 30 years because 430 years I'll tell you before they come out all right 400 years in Genesis but in Exodus 4:30 30 years of peace and then a new faroh
00:10:49 comes up and he enslaves them and he starts off by saying I do not know Jacob hear that word because when it comes to the 10 plagues when Moses comes and says Let My People Go he says I do not know your God hear that word all right so who is Moses number one Moses The Prince of Egypt I think Disney got it right Pharaoh's daughter said to her this is when Pharaoh decides to kill all the babies take this baby and nursing for me I will pay you and what happened is that Moses like an ark is put on a leaf and is inside the river
00:11:24 now a river of death just like at the Waters of the flood brings death so the woman took the baby nursing when the child Grew Older she talk him to Pharaoh's daughter she became her son I want you to remember this it means he has Egyptian blood in him and here's the first naming she named him Moses and the name is interesting I drew him out of the waters and the waters here the Waters of death and Moses will draw the Israelites out of Egypt out of what the Waters of death when he separates the water that's Hebrew poetry for you all
00:11:59 right pick up that all right so Moses is the Prince of Egypt his mom who raised him up was Egyptian and then the Hebrew writer tells us that you know what he he gave up his life of comfort he had a Mercedes he had all this thing all his SP friends went to go partying at the pyramids you know he decided to find his DRS I'm going to join the Hebrew Liberation Front and free my people and so there Moses the fail Liberator one day after Moses grown up he went out to wear his own people notice were and
00:12:31 washed them at their heart labor he saw an Egyptian beating Hebrew and then this is repeat again one of his own people so his identity now is I'm not Egyptian I'm Hebrew looking this way and seeing no one he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand the next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting he asked one in wrw why you he think you f Hebrew and of course the Hebrew guy told him get lost we saw you killing somebody so much from Moses The Liberator so he gives up his Egyptian Roots he tries to be a Hebrew
00:13:03 Liberator he fails what's interesting in this attempt he does not ask God for help all right and so where is Moses now Moses is now the political Refugee when Moses Pharaoh heard of this that's his dad his stepdad he tried to kill Moses so Moses fled for Pharaoh when pharaoh and went to live in Midian where he sat down by a well and you know where median is I give you the thing median is where we what we call Modern Day Saudi Arabia there's 200 kilomet over there you know 200 miles kilometers and during
00:13:38 the time no grab no taxi No Air Asia flights you went by camel you know and who are the medit just to give you a bit of history after Abraham's wife died Sarah he married a woman called Cura where Jewish scholars believe is actually Sarah we don't really know Cura had children one of the children was called median and the midianites come out of that the midianites worship the god of Abraham and so like every time where well you notice in the Old Testament in Genesis and exodus every time there's a well
00:14:11 what happens if a guy goes to the well they get married we don't know why you know Abra Isaac the the servant goes there and VOA wife comes out of there Jacob runs away you know and then he goes me well voila he gets married and so this guy goes to well he gets married also he marries the priest daughter all right and so Zapora gives both those son and look at this again Moses names him G now become a Foreigner Foreigner imagine that after you look at your son you say you know what I see my failures quite toxic they like pray of
00:14:46 Ja best right the mom names the son you know you know so anyway he's bitter you find his echo in Jacob because Jacob not Jacob Joseph when Joseph is captured now becomes a slave lands up in Egypt he names his children why does he name one of them he has been forgotten just look it up he's now a foreigner in a foreign land so who is Moses Liberator Egyptian Comfort uh comfortable King Prince political Refugee Foreigner in the next 40 years he's just going to become a shepherd he's given up 40 years I'm just going to ra ship in
00:15:33 median that's me I got married I got kids I'm going to rare ship go home and watch Netflix so Moses was attending the flock of jetro's father-in-law the priest of media he led the flock to The Far Side of wilderness and came to hor up the Mountain of God this is interesting we're going to pick up some themes as we continue Exodus there the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire within a Bush Moses saw that the bush wasn't fire it did not burn up so Moses thought I would go over and see this strange sight why the bush
00:16:02 does not burn up I'm going to pick up the significance of the burning bush in another sermon but I want you pick up some of this yeah when Moses the Lord saw that he had gone over L God Called to him from the bush and said Moses Moses and Moses said here I am some little bit of History where else in the Book of Genesis was there a mountain and God called out a name twice and a person said here I am Abraham Abraham here I am mountains pick this up all this is background do not come any closer take off your sandals
00:16:39 and here for the first time we get Temple imagery the place where you're standing is Holy Ground and later when the Israelites encamp in the same Mountain do not touch that mountain and this is all four runner for the setting up of the Tabernacle then he said I'm the god of your father the god of Abraham the god of Isaac the of Jacob at this Moses hid his face because he afraid to look at God the Lord said I've indeed seen the misery my people in Egypt I heard them crying out because they slave drivers
00:17:12 I'm concerned about their suffering I've come down to rescue them from the land of the Egyptians to bring them out the land to a good and spacious land a land flowing with milk and honey the home of the Canaanites hites amorites perizzites hites and jebusites I want you to take this here's a guy 40 years he's been a but he's an old man now with a tonat all right he's resigned himself to living with sheep Simon P say there lot of land lot beir in New Zealand that's where he's living in median in desert space
00:17:40 there just a lot of sheep there right and so he's he's resigned himself to that life and now the cry Israelites had reached me I've seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them so now go I'm sending you to pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites of Egypt or let me put in simple words you know Moses 40 years you mean intending ship I'm going to send you back to the same place that traumatized you so much and you're going to go back and do the very same thing you ran away from so you can imagine the
00:18:09 guy the guy is like like this you know he's scared you know and God says you know what you go back to Egypt he will maybe God's calling someone else that's probably what he did me and so he says who am I that I should go to pharaoh and bring the Israelites out Egypt or in simple translation I'm not qualified how many of you relate to that let me put in simple English I'm not good enough Anna don't ask me to lead Bible study don't know my Bible Anna if you only know the things I struggle with as a
00:18:56 sinner go ask Yul go ask Peter go ask one of the pastors I I I I'm not good enough this is where the text is heading and God said I will be with you this will be the sign to you that it is I who have sent you when you brought the people of Egypt you will worship God on this mountain you know when you see a lot of Hollywood movies and the guy says I'm not good enough the guy the the response in Hollywood will say no no no no actually you're very good you just don't know it is inside you you just
00:19:27 need a seafood k k about you need a Jedi master you need a mentor you actually good the world has pressed you down but inside you have the word potential let me train you God doesn't say that you know what God tells him yeah you're right you're nobody not going to disagree with you but I I am somebody and that's enough my presence will make you qualified you see how different it is from the world well this guy is bit ther he continues you know Moses said to God suppose I go to the Israelites and say
00:20:11 to them the god of your fathers sent to me and they ask me here the same phrase what is his name then what should I tell them Moses is now saying I have no Authority from asking God who am I he's not telling God when I go people ask who are you L what's on your name card Moses Shepherd not doctor he you know mothers here right I mean story your daughter come Mom Mom I got boyfriend mother they think very good very good wait for it wait for it anything and then so what does he do uh you say doctor continue lawyer
00:20:58 continue runs a business con he's a influencer I didn't send you to study so hard to go and date and influencer you know okay so think about it I have no Authority and this is critical God said to Moses I am who I am this who you have to say to the Israelites I am has sent me to you and remember Peter brought this up the Gospel of John picks it up how many times does Jesus use the word I am in the Gospel of John seven times and so he says say to the Israelites the Lord the God your father the god of Abraham the god Isaac Jacob
00:21:44 send me to you this is my name forever the name you shall call me from generation to generation that means his name never ends remember that go as somebody Elders Israel say to them the Lord the god of his fathers the god of Abraham and then he repeats the same thing now if you look at your Bible right you find the word Lord some mention small caps but often is big caps you know why it's big caps because they actually translating these four consonants or what we call the tetran in theology this is y h whh
00:22:22 Yahweh olden days you used to call him Jehovah but Yahweh is the name of the Lord and is the name given to people whom he has a relationship with so I want you to understand what names are right so God's revealing the name to people he has a relationship we picked it up a little bit so what is God telling him my name will give you Authority now then let's the Elders of Israel listen to you then you and the elders have go to the king of Egypt and say the Lord the god of Hebrews have met with us let us take a three-day journey
00:23:04 to Wilderness offer sacrifices to the Lord Our God but I know the king of Egypt will not let you go until a mighty hand compels him I will stretch out my hand and strike the Egyptian all the Wonders that I will perform on that after that he will let you go and we'll do this in a two-part on the 10 plagues and I will make the Egyptian favor dispose to this people so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed Every Woman to ask a neighbor and any woman Liv in the house of Articles of silver
00:23:32 and gold and clothing which you will put on your sons and daughters and you will plunder the Egyptians that means they're getting jewelry you know do you know what they do with this jewelry just give you a bit teaser right they get gold and silver jewelry God gives it to you you know what they do with it they melt it down and turn it into an idol so God gives you a Mercedes be very careful you don't turn that into an idol we'll get to that when we go to the golden Club Exodus is incredibly relevant to your life all right now I
00:24:08 want to give you a little bit homework you notice the word mighty hand stretching out the hand is all over the first few chapters and Deuteronomy Moses picks it up again so little bit of homework what does this mean go and look at Egyptian hology on pharaoh and then me and you can have a conversation all right just a bit a sidebar so Moses answer what if you don't believe me or listen to me the Lord did not appear to you basically I'm not believable I'm not like this un no this guy he got he can go and con people
00:24:48 I I'm very timid people won't believe me and so God gives him three things all right three things one what is in your hand the staff T Throw It To The Ground now I just going to read it for you you can read it God turns that ST which is an inanimate object into a snake right now the other thing I want you to pick up if you look at the verses before that the author uses the word God but now it shifts to the Lord have you noticed that from verse two onwards of chapter 4 no longer God is used by yahweh's name name is yours so the first
00:25:30 test is something which is not alive becomes alive the second test the Lord says put your hand inside your cloak so Moses put his hand inside cloak he took it out the skin of Lapras became White as snoke put it back into your cloak comes out it's like flesh first test that which is not alive becomes alive second test that which is alive that became dead becomes alive again third test all right if they don't believe you pay attention take some water from now and P it on the dry ground the water you
00:26:00 from the river will become blood so let me give you the recap that which is dead becomes alive that which is alive that becomes dead becomes alive again that which brings life to those that oppress you you will make it death who can do this God and so Moses becomes the image of God against the wall with the gods of Israel pick that up a bit Yeah my power will make you believer the next one is a classic right the next one speaks to me it really speaks to me pardon your servant Lord I have never been eloquent
00:26:42 neither in the past nor since you spoken I am not I'm slow of speech and tongue and I say anim you really need to learn this just because someone who can talk doesn't mean you make him a preacher it's very important I can't communicate and so the Lord says who gave human beings their mouths who makes them death mute now go I will help you speak and teach you what to say my instructions will enable you to communicate now God is not saying you take anybody without a gift and let them do what they
00:27:21 want Moses doesn't believe he can speak by the time you go to Deuteronomy he gives the longest sermon in the entire Bible no PowerPoint you got to ask what happens from this to that all right and here's the cruncher Moses said pardon your servant Lord please send someone else you know in church when we ask people uh can you do something serve there always two answers the first answer is I'm not qualified we gone through that you know what's the second most common answer I don't have time now I'm not going to judge you if
00:28:05 you are saying that but let me ask you from the heart the real truth that you just don't want to do it that's the clinker he just doesn't want to go he's scared you get it right he the last time he did it he almost got killed God wants me to go back there are you kidding me you know I spent 40 years I oh man why didn't you approach me when I was was a younger guy I'm not old man God loves to use other very old people very young people like King David he got to him he was a kid Abraham he is old he
00:28:36 got no child you know what I'm going to make you a children like the Sea of the sand really and he finds an old man right now in the desert in Saudi Arabia now you go back save the Israelites like like really now that's the plotline of scripture then the lot's anger burned against Moses say what about your brother Aaron the levite I know he can speak well he's already on his way to meet you and he will be glad to see you you speak to him and put words in your mouth I'll help both of you speak I will
00:29:03 teach you what to do he will speak the people for you you will be as if he were your mouth you were God to him take this down your hand and you can perform the signs with it and this is important to all of us there two things coming out here one he doesn't want to go but he goes and two he doesn't go alone let me give you four lessons and and why this text really really spoke to me and I I really hope it speaks to you from from a very authentic place all right I mean we we come to church and we all go
00:29:42 through our church routines and we can say all the right words and we say Jesus died for me Hallelujah my identity is in Lord Jesus Hallelujah it becomes like a mantra I want to give us a bit of soul searching today so let let me give you point one now we often let worldly success or failures Define our identity that's right off the bad right off the bad with our lips we say our identity is a child of God reshaped in image of Christ Jesus because we brought up to say that but our hearts we Define ourselves by our
00:30:21 careers our relationships our sense of selfworth I mean Moses is basically saying Lord this why I should stick to relationship now I will tell you this is much more real than you imagine if you're honest to yourself you you know you know ask yourself when you ask yourself what makes you feel confident I I want you to do it from a from a very honest place would you be really enough to say you know yeah I I'm I'm confident because uh I I I'm I'm a Child of God I tell you there this speaking but the eyes of the heart are
00:31:10 closed I'll tell you one of my biggest Temptation right and this is coming from sincere place you know some people get up here on the pull pit they get scared people I come up here is electricity to me I have to pray every time I come up here to speak to you that I go in the power of the Lord because if I'm not careful I suffer from one disease you know what they call it they call it Pulpit disease because it's my identity if you are successful as a businessman have you notice successful business people carry themselves
00:31:44 differently if you're a mother single mother and you come to church and you see people with children happy walking around laughing doesn't it bite what if you wanted to get married but didn't quite come out you know when I was a kid I I grew up with this cartoon I really loved it Kelvin and Hobs I love this you know imaginary tiger and and this particular cartoon struck me I I for some reason it kept to my heart I remember it dearly so Kelvin r uh sees an ad in the paper about a propeller and a beanie I mean this is
00:32:34 the ' 90s right before we had computers so give it a break guys all you Minecraft people you know and so he wants to he he puts he he orders a beanie with a propeller and he's very excited he thinks he's going to fly with it kids right he can't stop thinking about it he goes to school he thinks about it he's the boss he thinks about he asks his mom where when is going to come when is he going to come and finally comes he opens it and of course he needs to assemble it have you ever felt like that I felt like that
00:33:10 when many times when I was po to go to study in Australia I felt like that I have new life ahead of me when I went out to work I felt like that when I came out age and I said life ahead of me I'm going to find this and do that I had all of this and so he finally gets his beanie he puts it on and it doesn't fly and so he trashes it you see all of us enter life with expectations you know we see this we say I'm going to be happy I'm going to get married I'm going to get a good job I'm going to raise
00:34:06 kids and improve myself oh by the way I'm going to go to church also yes I didn't forget about that then life kicks you really hard and then you wake up one day like Kelvin and you hit it and you end up raring ship in median and that's Michelle yo in her laundr man I want you to look at that and want you see Moses when he says I have become a foreigner and foreign land and whether you are in many ways cutting yourself short by settling for life you are not called to I want you to hear this you are settling
00:35:00 for a life you are not called to Second Line don't despise your weakness disappointments or failure despite instead the pursuit of self-made strength Moses saying I'm not qualified God says yeah you're not qualified but my presence is enough I have no Authority my name my power my word my will and Paul picks this up right up in second Corinthians he starts off by saying all he has is credentials as the Pharisees are but like dung and as he goes towards the end of the book he says I will boast of what my weakness and
00:35:45 three times he asked God take away this pain this taor I don't know what and God says no my grace is sufficient for you and he says I will boast of my weakness and Jeremiah picks this up and I I think this one verses all of you who are successful should take to memory and all of you who look at people who are successful should take to memory all of you who look at other people says you know what why can't I be like that person why was my life robbed of this you should Commit This to Memory this is
00:36:23 what the Lord says let not the wise men boast of the wisdom or the strong boast of the strength or the rich boast the richest but let the one who boasts boast about this and here's the key word again they have the understanding to what know me and three qualities I am the Lord exercise of kindness Justice and righteousness and for this I delight and the context of Jeremiah 9 is really interesting because the verse before that he says the dead are ped up like dong the Babylonians have come if you
00:37:01 have money and you're beautiful and your talent and you're smacked right in the middle of Ukraine it means nothing because there's a war going on as scripture sometime tells you the things that you put yourself confidence in are actually D but your weaknesses the Lord will use to glorify his name and so the trajectory leads us to Isaiah and to a man who walked the earth called Jesus Christ who was not just a man but who was God and Isiah says he would despised and rejected a Man of Sorrows acquainted with grief now
00:37:44 you know you sit there and you say you know what all of this sounds all very very theological but I struggle with insecurity now you won't be the only one I struggle with self-esteem I look at other people and I see why can't why why didn't God make me like them easy for you to talk I wanted my life to be like this you know I end like Michelle you in the LA bed I thought my marriage will make me happy my husband turned out like this I thought the job I got was great can stand my work so let me give you some little
00:38:35 thing which the text is pointing to about self-esteem the world tells you self-esteem is what looking inside you know what a text is telling you self-esteem is looking upward not looking inward why is that so let me give you the key point of the text because the Lord knows you by name he knows you and when he calls your name out he knows every hair on your head every pain every struggle he knows you and that is why the book Book of Exodus is the book of names let me give you the big picture when the Lord saw Moses he says
00:39:38 Moses Moses and he takes Moses through 30 plus chapters and Moses changes from a guy with a tonat who needs you know his older brother with him to a man who will fight for the Israelites and he will intercede for the Israelites at the golden Cal and stand again the way Abraham stood in the gap for the people of Sodom and gomorra and God is pleased with him and he's bold enough to say Show Me Your Glory and I want you to see how Yahweh responds the Lord came down the clown and stood there with him and proclaimed
00:40:16 his name and he passed from Moses proclaiming what yahwe Yahweh this is the book hands of the the story and he gives three characteristics which Jeremiah picks up compassionate and gracious slow to anger abounding in love and faithfulness and this is not lost to the Apostle John and so thousands of years later it is the name of Jesus that every knee sh el bow because Jesus knows us you know what Jesus is in Hebrew Yeshua you know what Yeshua means he saves and that's what he wants to do today I want to give you a story and
00:41:16 maybe you you see how maybe it connects to you uh I I read some theology because I like not I just not as much as Peter but do this is Brian Rosner he he's the guy from Sydney so I'm a bit from Sydney so you know so he he's great scholar you know he wrote a really great commentary on First Corinthians for all you Wabi back seit Scholars like me right great he had a good life he was a pastor he was a Bible teacher he was married stable career like what all of us want right then he got divorced you know if you get divorced
00:42:03 and you're just a churchgoer is a bit more acceptable but if you're a pastor or a missionary the stigma is worse you know and he he wrote in this book that when he got divorced you know for years he was teaching people about identity about Jesus he woke up he didn't know who he was he didn't know who he was he took he thought one leg on a three-legged chair was taken away from him because his identity was in his marriage and if we real it is to us too and so he wrote this book which I found quite insightful he picks up a bit
00:42:48 on the burning bush but he gave one example in the book that really really struck me I want to share it with you he looked at the story of Cinderella and it was a very prolific example he said Cinderella is an orphan she has no love the person who loved her her father died her stepmother is cruel her sisters are cruel she is poor and uneducated she lives in the basement she has no nice clo no friends as The Story Goes Cinderella is saying this is if only I have a fairy godmother if only I have nice clothes if
00:43:33 only I have a a a nice carriage and if only I can go to a ball only will I be happy and so she gets all of it and when she's in her best dress in a coach and at a ball she's alive but at the stroke of midnight is all taken away and so Rosner gives an interesting take on this famous fairy tale the prince pursues her with the glass slipper and sees her for who she really is an often unloved uneducated no social standing no nice clothes no carriage and he loves her guess what the story is saying we are that
00:44:43 offered and God is our Prince Charming and he had to go back to basics to know one thing I'm known by God because I'm known by love and that my friends is what I wish for you today and I pray the spirit speaks to you in a very powerful way this is how God showed his love Among Us he sent his one and only son in the world they might live through him this is love not that we love God we are like the Cinderella that he loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins wherever you are whatever place you
00:45:44 are in this life of yours don't let the root of bitterness go deep don't look at others and say you know what if only my life turn out different you may be broken in your relationships you may be broken in your careers you may be broken in your health you may be wanting something so bad and is not coming your way but no one thing you are known by love and Paul picks this up and says this whoever loves God is known by God and the context here the Corinthians thought they were very smart with food
00:46:22 offered to idols and knowledge and sometimes in Evangelical Church our knowledge outpaces our heart we know a lot of things up here but not here so let me end with one challenge for you and then we'll get the worship team up and then we try to let the Lord really minister to us you sit there and you say well you're right Arn know I I struggle with this I mean like any human being I strugg strle in security I struggle with unmet needs we all do and here's the big question how and I like to give you this is the
00:47:10 answer give me more of you oh Lord we're going to spend some time in prayer after this on that how do we do that I'm going to suggest three areas in your life you and I should examine and I want to close with that challenge and then we'll get the worship team up and it is this how do you know when you're having a burning bush moment one when you know in the heart you should do something for God but you're afraid to do so you know that I would tell you that's a burning bush moment you know nowadays we don't need
00:47:56 Moses and burning burning bushes you know why because we in the age of the New Covenant we don't need burning bushes we need the fire of the holy spirit in everybody second when you struggle with a sin and you come up in front you talk to me or talk to one of us and we say okay right fine let's do this together and you sit with me you walk with me and after third sessions you give up I'm not referring to anyone in particular but as a person who does quite a lot of counseling that is so common the failure rate is so high
00:48:36 because people look at pastors and Elders as a quick fix solution they're trying to tell you fix my problem go talk to my husband go talk to my wife go talk to my son no God wants you to talk to yourself that's hard and here's the most obvious you know when you build walls because you were hurt and you keep people at a distance you are raring sheep I go and ask the worship team to come out and I want you to pause on this tree because know sometimes God speaks and he doesn't need to speak in thunder
00:49:14 and lightning he just Whispers to you and I'll ask you if today this morning he whispers he's asking you to take baby steps and you say look I I don't know how to do this well God will send an aand to you who am I I'm known by you oh Lord and so let me end with the words of Yahweh to Moses now go make yourself useful there's a world out there that needs to hear the gospel and you and I are part of the commission let us spend a moment of silence and reflection and then I can get some keys going as we prepare ourselves to sing
00:50:08 this [Music] song Lord this morning we just ask as we come before you in quietness and humility that you speak to us oh Lord as David said he could not run from you David after he sinned he went down on his knees and he asked the Lord to search him I'm going to read out Psalm 139 because it it it really speaks to us at this moment no and as I pray as we speak as we read out this Psalm you you you you you you realize that you are known by God Psalm 139 you have searched me Lord and you know me you know when I
00:51:08 sit when I Rise you perceive my thoughts and aair from afar you discern my going out my lying down you are familiar with all my ways you know me Lord before a word is on my tongue you Lord know it completely you H me in be behind and before you lay your hand upon me such knowledge is too wonderful for me too lofty for me to attain I known by you where can I go from your spirit where can I flee from your presence if I go up to the heavens you are there if I make my bait in the depths you are there if I rise in the
00:51:51 wings of the Dawn if I set on the far side of the sea even there your your hand will guide me your right hand will hold me fast if I say surely the doctors will hide me Lord I want to run in hide and build a wall even the darkness will not be dark to you the night will shine like the day for darkness is as light to you he knows your pain your struggle don't run and so David ends this and I ask this be your prayer as we prepare our hearts to worship God search me God and know my heart test me know my anxious
00:52:40 thoughts see if there's any offensive way me lead me to the way Everlasting Church let's rise to sing this song In Christ Alone will I Glory though I could cide myself in batt one for I've been blessed beond measure and by his strength alone I [Music] overcome oh I can stop and count successes like diamonds in my hands but the trophies could not equal to the gra by which I stand in Christ I place my trust and find my glory in the power of the cross in every Victory let it be said of me a source of
00:54:22 strength my source of Hope is [Applause] aw Christ and Lord will I glory for only by his grace I am eting only his tender Mercy reach be on my wings to my knees now I seek no greater on and just to know him and to count my G loes to the glory of my Lord in Christ alone I my TR find my glory in the power of the Cross every Victory Let It Be of me S so [Applause] [Music] strome his [Laughter] I'd like to invite all of you to sit down and just as the music place we're going to let the Lord minister to us
00:56:05 quietly and speak to our hearts we you sit down and and we don't need a burning bush the fire of the holy spirit is on us right now and I'm going to offer three prayers let's quiet and ourselves so we let the Lord speak to us and here's the first prayer oh Lord as the music just plays Lord speak to every broken heart out here those that have to endure loneliness in particular those that had to endure and struggle with forgiveness those that have to endure [Music] hurt speak to them and tell [Music]
00:57:02 them I know you my name here's the second prayer speak to all with proud Hearts the first prayer is to Broken Hearts the second prayer is to prop hearts and the Lord says repent or your self-sufficiency repent that you're proud that you're rich you're talented you're beautiful we are well-liked you got a good career you got money in the bank such boasting is evil and for those things I do not Delight in repent and that you know your name is in the Book of Life not because of these things but by
00:58:16 grace that he loved us while we were still worthless Sinners the first prayer was for broken hearts the second prayer is for proud hearts and here's the third prayer is for fearful hearts a lot of us want to continue lives raring sheep in median and God is saying this if I can take an old man in median and make him one of the greatest heroes of the Bible I will do the same for you if you but let me and you sit there you say Lord I'm scared I I've been like this too long I can't change and I tell you there's the
00:59:14 devil talking to you and the Lord says take baby steps he will give you your Aon broken hearts proud Hearts fearful hearts all of us are in that category and the Lord spoke to you today we're not going to ask for a raising of hands or standing up I just ask you at the end of the service to speak to one of us and let us pray for you for together we are that church that is to go forth out and bring his word to the Nations and that the world can see to weak powerless People Like Us they will see the power of
01:00:16 God the power of his love that changes [Music] life in Christ alone I place my trust and find my glory in the power of the Cross and never [Music] Victory let it be said of me my source of strength my source of hope my source of strength my source of strength my source of hope my source oh my source of strength my source of Hope is Christ [Music] we now come to a time of Holy Communion and I'd like to ask you if you have not received the bread and the wine please raise your hands if you're not a Christian in our
01:01:45 midst we like to ask you to refrain from taking this we do this once a month we don't want to do this out of meaningless ritual we want to do this knowing he knows us and we will make it our life journey to know him in what better way than as a family to celebrate Holy Communion together so take some time to quiet your hearts as the ushers go around and pass the emblems rest in his presence be still be very quiet for God's presence is in our midst in the Gospel of John he records seven IMS I'm going to give you
01:02:59 three and as we read these three I AMS meditate on it and we'll take this as a worship to our Lord the first I am I am the bread of life he who comes to me shall never hunger he who believes in me shall never thirst John 6:35 Lord we hunger often after the wrong things we hunger to be accepted by others we hunger for stable job for relationships we hunger for you least as we take this bread teach us to eat of the bread of life which is you as you know us let it let us make it our journey to know you and to love
01:04:01 you so let's take this bread as commanded by our Lord on the night he was to be crucified and eat this and remember he's the bread of life I am the resurrection and the life John 11:26 and he said this to his friend Martha do you believe this sometimes life brings Despair and hopelessness until these words speak to our life he's the restriction and the life as the blood on the lamp PO on the night of the Passover brought life as God stood over the doorway and the angel of death passed by the blood of
01:05:15 Christ brings us New Life as we drink of the wine remember this you are to to live resurrected lives and may I I pray that the world does not bury you you are reborn to Le a life of purpose not pending sheep in median let a drink of the wine the blood of the Lamb that brings us to resurrected living [Music] and the last I am I am the True Vine abide in me and I will abide in you by this shall all men know you are my disciples if you love one another the way I loved you as Moses in his fear didn't want to go
01:06:32 in the end he went I ask this morning the Lord speaks and has spoken to every heart that this doesn't didn't just become another meaningless Sunday worship but you made a small commitment to turn your life better whether you're a broken heart whether you're a proud heart whether you're a fearful heart Jesus says he is the true vine abide in him and he will walk with you and provide others to walk with you Lord Jesus as we celebrate Holy Communion remember we celebrate it together as a body as a
01:07:23 church may we love each other deeply wats and all uphold one another that together we are on this Exodus this journey to the promised land is a hard journey Lord but you go before us and we go together as a church and God's people say amen now receive the benediction may the Lord who tells you you are a child of God may the Lord who tells you you are Made In His Image may the Lord who says you are known by him may you go out from this Hall and proclaim the name of Jesus to the world out there go in peace God bless you all
01:08:21 the service is over any one of you who wants to stay back to receive prayers talk to us the leaders of the church are in front God bless all of you have a good week ahead
