In this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast, the hosts discuss their embarkation on the book of Exodus, covering chapters 1 to 3. They reflect on the transition from Genesis, highlighting the 430-year gap, and delve into the context of Israel's plight under Egyptian rule. The episode breaks down key points such as the birth and early life of Moses, his eventual flight to Midian, and God's call to Moses through the burning bush. They explore theological insights regarding leadership, humility, and divine intervention, alongside a humorous commentary on biblical translations and traditions. The episode concludes with a preview of discussing Moses’ future reluctance and God’s steadfast provision in leading the Israelites.

00:00 Introduction and Technical Difficulties

00:09 Starting the Book of Exodus

00:45 Upcoming Sermons and Easter Plans

02:25 The Holy Spirit and Its Importance

02:57 Deep Dive into Exodus

05:54 Moses' Early Life and Calling

10:11 Moses' Reluctance and God's Assurance

12:13 God's Name and Translation Choices

13:56 Closing Thoughts and Prayer

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Hey everybody, welcome to an untimed

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Oh no, we are in trouble.

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Yeah, well, my clock died, so I

don't know how long we're going.

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Is it time to be done yet?

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I I was just gonna say it's probably

start time to start wrapping it up So

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if you could just kind of speed this

thing along bring your bibles and tune

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in again tomorrow No, man, we're in

a new book brand new book exodus and

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this one I think we get to read all

the way through in fact There's several

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books that we get to read all the way

through before we start hopping around

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Yeah, but hopping around is fun too.

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It is.

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Yeah, i'm not i'm not mad about it

But I also kind of like straight

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through continuity nice about that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that is nice Yeah, this is the

the second book In the bible, but

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not the second book that we'll finish

because we've already finished joe.

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That's true Yeah, we have

sometimes we forget that so

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Yeah, anyways what day is today?

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Today is thursday thursday thursday.

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Yeah, exodus one two and three

exodus one two and three.

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Yeah Excited about that.

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Hey this weekend.

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We're back in the gospel of john Oh,

yeah, i've been out of the gospel of

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john for a while for a long time, man I

almost forgot we were doing that book.

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I know me too.

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Yeah.

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Yeah see but but we're back in Yeah back

in chapter 16 and you can hold me to this.

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We're gonna finish john by the summer

Hey, man, you don't got to write checks

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that you may not be able to cash.

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It's okay.

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We love the preaching.

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We'll be there regardless I'm confident.

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Here's my dilemma.

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You don't know my dilemma.

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I'll let you in.

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I'll let everybody in on this So we've

got Easter coming up And right now we're

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in, we're literally in the garden of

Gethsemane in john and we're in john 16.

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We've got john 17 coming up

the high priestly prayer.

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You can't tackle that in one sermon.

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There's just too much in there

So we're going to break that up.

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Okay And then we get into the arrest

and the betrayal and the crucifixion

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and the way it's going to play out with

easter Is we're hitting that and then

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we're hitting it again like right In

in not right next to each other because

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then I could move some things around

But there's like a couple of weeks

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and then it's like back to the cruise.

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Let's go to it again direction again

Which if we're gonna hit what a thing

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what if you skip it and come back to it?

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No, no, it's the other way around so we

hit easter Ahead of time ahead of time.

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Oh, just speed it up then man.

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Come on.

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You could do it.

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Come on It would be so perfect.

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Yeah, it would be it really it just

it's almost dead on and and yet it's

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just like You don't want to do it.

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I don't know how you know It's a

shame that you're not preaching

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for the rest of your life.

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Otherwise, I'll never have a chance

to preach a section again Touche,

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but I just, I know it's your church.

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You get to preach here

for as long as you want.

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Well, I get God willing.

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Yeah, I get that.

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It's just, I, I don't want people to be

out there and be like, I can't believe

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you took that much text at one time.

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And John, how dare he do that?

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Yeah, but you get it.

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He is a pastoral privileges.

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The pitchforks and tar would come

out and you could always come back

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and be like, you know, I'm going

to do a special series about.

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The crucifixion or the, you

know, the high priestly prayer.

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Yeah, that's true.

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That's true, I guess.

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So we'll see.

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Maybe we'll just fast forward.

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But this week we're talking

about the Holy Spirit.

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I mean, Jesus literally says, it's

better for you that I should go away.

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Then if I should remain because

if I don't go away, you're not

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going to get the holy spirit.

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Yeah Yeah, the jesus inside you

is better than jesus beside you.

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Yeah Yeah, and and man our theological

camp the holy spirit not focused on

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a whole lot So we're going to focus

on the holy spirit this weekend.

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Wow, and he's going to

point us back to jesus.

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Totally exactly Yeah, we're

not going to do anything crazy.

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We're not doing strange strange fire

or anything like that But that's

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where we're going this weekend Our

goal is not to be written about

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by any of john mccarthur's books.

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No or any of his books

Cronies either that's true.

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Yeah, let's let's not do that.

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All right, let's jump into exodus exodus

is such a rich book and as paul ends

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who's a commentator wrote on it It's

it's good to remember that this is in the

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context of the pentateuch at large that

this is a chapter In these first five

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books that God is is writing about the

history and the, the formation of Israel.

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We are picking up with a very

familiar account, very familiar story.

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You've got Pharaoh, you've got Moses,

you've got all these players on the

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scene that you've known for a long time.

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If you've grown up in the church, but

remember pastor, you always like to point

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out the amount of time that's that span.

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So about 430 years since we've

last seen Israel, as we open up

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in the book of Exodus, crazy.

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Yeah.

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So this is not like, okay,

there's Joseph's gone now and

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tomorrow and the next day there's

a new Pharaoh on the scene.

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But in the meantime,

what has God been doing?

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God has been verse seven,

multiplying the people in Israel.

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God has been faithful to

the Abrahamic covenant.

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And so the people are blowing up and

it says in verse seven, they grew

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exceedingly strong so that the land, the

land of Egypt here was filled with them.

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And as would happen, a new

Pharaoh arose, a new King who.

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Joseph.

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Now, is he the first one

that didn't know Joseph?

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Who knows?

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430 years have passed.

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Probably not at this point, but at least

he's the first one that doesn't have a

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recollection of Joseph and the kindness

of Joseph that that God had used to bless.

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Israel and bless Egypt

even during that time.

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And so he's looking at the

Israelites as a threat.

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He's going, man, these

people are growing so strong.

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They're overwhelming us and we

need to do something about it.

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And so he starts to make life hard on

Israelites, which sets the table for

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what's going to happen in this book.

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As the people begin to groan

and to begin to grumble, God

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is going to respond to that.

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But before that, it turns out

that the Pharaoh says, you

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know how I'm going to stop him.

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I'm going to stop him by, I'm going

I'm just going to weed them out.

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I'm going to eradicate them.

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Oof.

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Yeah.

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I mean, this is, this is

nothing short of genocide.

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And the way he's going to go about

that is he's going to take every

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male born to them and he's going

to make sure that every male child

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that's born is going to be killed.

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And yet you've got this

group of midwives that.

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Fear the Lord.

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And I just think that's super cool.

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We talked about it last episode.

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What was their knowledge of God?

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How much did they know about him?

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There's 430 years that we can't

account for of theological development

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within the nation of Israel.

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And it's just fascinating to think, and

maybe someday God will be kind to allow

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us to know this, but how did they develop

this concept in this fear of God, the way

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that they had that led them to look at

the most powerful man in the world and

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say, yeah, you've ordered us to kill these

babies, but we're not going to do it.

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How did these midwives

deliver the 603, 000 people?

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I mean, there's that many women and

there's two guys, two gals here listed.

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How do you propose a reconciliation

with that, with that idea of

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these two gals doing this?

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I imagine there's more

than just the two gals.

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The two, I think these

are just the figureheads.

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Yeah.

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So like a management scenario,

they're the ones who oversee it.

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Right.

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Right.

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An easy solution to a thorny problem

that people have suggested in the past.

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So if there's that many Hebrews and that

many Israelites, which is going to be

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something we're going to come up against

soon about how quickly they multiply.

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If we're talking about 600, 000 of

them that are that are around in the

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Exodus, that puts them about, about

the ballpark of one to 2 million at

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a conservative estimate, which means

that one to 2 million plus are marching

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through the desert, which seems to be.

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Impossible apart from some kind of

divine intervention, which is I think

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what both of us would propose, right?

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Yep.

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Yeah Well, one of these babies that's

gonna be born is Moses and Moses is

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born and hidden by his parents In

fact, the writer of Hebrews says that

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they noticed that he was beautiful

that there was something about

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this child that caused them to say

there's something distinct about him.

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And so out of faith, it says there in

Hebrews 11, they hide him from Pharaoh.

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They're, they're not going to

let Pharaoh get to him because

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Pharaoh says, okay, you know what?

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If the midwives aren't going to

kill them, then I'm just going

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to have the Egyptians do it.

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He can conscripts everybody

in Egypt to, to kill these.

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These Israelite toddlers, these

Israelite male children, two

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years and under these these boys.

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And he just a horrific thing.

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But anyways, Moses is famous

as we're going to hide him.

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And that leads to the scene with Moses

in the basket in the Nile river and

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Pharaoh's daughter stumbling upon him

there and taking him into her care and

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calling Moses's mom to come and be his,

his wet nurse and to take care of him.

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That's just a measure of God's grace there

to allow his mom, even though she had

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to give up her son to still have that.

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that time with him and that,

that those early stages there.

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But, but Pharaoh or Moses rather goes

into Pharaoh's household through this

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interaction of a Pharaoh's daughter

finding him there in the the Nile river.

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Verses 11 through 22, then Moses has

grown up in Pharaoh's household and

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goes out it says in the text to see

what's going on amongst his people.

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So he had this awareness probably

because his mom is, his mom is raising

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him and teaching him and nursing

him is, is teaching him these things

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about who his people truly were.

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And he sees this Israelite being

abused and ends up killing him.

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And not the Israelite, the Egyptian

and burying him in the sand and then

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finds out the next day, Hey this has

become known and he fears that Pharaoh

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is going to kill him for doing this.

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And so he flees into Midian medium being

the middle of nowhere and ends up staying

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with a man named Jethro and marries

one of his daughters named Zipporah.

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And during that time, Zipporah is going

to give birth to Moses's firstborn

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son, who's going to be named Gershom.

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You said the guy's name is Jethro.

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Yeah.

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My Bible here says in verse 18,

that his name is Ruel or Raul Raul.

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Which one is it?

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It's both.

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You think it's both?

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It's both.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I think multiple names.

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We've seen that multiple times,

which by the way, one name that we

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haven't mentioned yet, but is actually

in the text, I think anyway, is.

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Moses sister, Miriam.

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So even though she's not mentioned

as Miriam, just keep her in mind.

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She delivers him by catching him

and catching Pharaoh's daughter and

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saying, Hey, by the way, would you

like me to find someone to nurse him?

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I know just the person, and

she goes and gets her mom.

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So just notice, that's Miriam here.

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She delivers him, and eventually

Moses will deliver her.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, cause Miriam's not

gonna be great later on.

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She has a few dark spots, but overall,

I think she's Probably good good at it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah dark spots or white spots depending.

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Oh leprosy.

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Yeah Bible nerd joke Yeah, so he's there

in Midian and in verses 23 through 25

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Then we get this transition section

where back in Egypt the Israelites under

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the the harsh treatment of Pharaoh are

crying out under God's Are crying out

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to God rather for deliverance under the

harsh treatment of Pharaoh Treatment from

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pharaoh and it says there and god saw

them heard their cry and god knew and and

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that's just a A weighty word there that

he knew he was acquainted with he was

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aware of and he was not Ignorant to what

they were going through at the time Time

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frame marker here starting at verse 11 all

the way through the end of this chapter.

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Moses is 40 years old Yep, this is

chapter one of his life He's got

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three chapters basically and this is

chapter 140 40 40 is how you break

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down his life This is the first 40

years that we've gone through a lot.

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I mean he was born like

three verses ago Yep.

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And now he's 40.

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So you're missing some timeframe here,

but just notice we're looking at a

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40 year old man who's now looking

at the next phase of his life.

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And it's going to be a scary one.

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Yeah, wilderness wandering.

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I feel that to you.

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I've chapter one of my life 40s done

now I'm in my second second 40 a chapter

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dude 40 is gonna be crazy your third 40

gnarly anyways yeah, so we've got the

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the situation taking place where the

Israelites are crying out to God for

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deliverance and that's what exodus is

really Going to be all in response to

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and so chapter 3 we hear it is we get

The burning bush God shows up appears

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to Moses while he's in Midian while he's

Tending the flock, the sheep and median

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is really a formative time in Moses's

life because he's going to be there

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taking care of these sheep Preparing to

go and take care of the flock of God as

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he's going to lead them out from Egypt.

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And so Moses is there taking care

of Jethro's sheep, but then God

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shows up in this bush that's on

fire, but not being consumed.

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Moses turns aside, goes to see it.

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And God there calls him

to the task at hand.

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And he instructs him

on how to go about it.

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He also tells him that the Egyptians

aren't going to listen to him,

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but that he would compel them

through mighty works and wonders.

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And so we get this opening call here

for Moses, which would be great if

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Moses said, check, Roger, let's go.

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I'm ready to go.

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Yeah.

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As we're going to find out.

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I think in tomorrow's episode,

he's, he's not going to say that.

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Which I find so fascinating because

you would expect Moses to be like

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this man of faith, this incredible

man of strength that says, yes,

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Lord, anything, anytime, anyplace.

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And yet he's not right.

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He fights God.

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In fact, in chapter four, we're going to

see some of the things that he says to

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God as excuses for why he can't do this.

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And I wonder why God would use

a man like Moses because he.

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Pushes moses into this role and

then he makes him lead them and

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then at certain points, he's like I

give up lord You're not gonna lead

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these people Then just kill me.

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Please help me just deal with this.

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Why do you think he does this first

corinthians chapter one, right?

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I mean, it's not the the wise Those of you

you weren't not many of you were noble.

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Not many of you were wealthy Not many

of you were wise but god chose what is

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weak God shows the things that are not

in order to shame the the proud the proud

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and so I think if you had a leader here

who was You know You know, super eloquent

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and on the front lines and strong and

brave and everything else like that.

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We might be tempted to look

at him and give him glory.

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Whereas this, when we read

this, we give God glory.

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We're like, okay, God, you

used a broken instrument to

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bring about this deliverance.

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You used a broken vessel to do this.

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And you've worked in

spite of Moses weaknesses.

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And if you can use Moses, then here

I am, send me, I'm ready to be used.

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I've got my own weaknesses,

just like Moses had.

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But use me the way you use moses

to do great things Is moses a good

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type of leader in other words?

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Is he the kind of person that we

should say man if I if I aspire to

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leadership ala first timothy three

titus one I should be like moses.

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I should not want to lead I should

maybe even in some ways push against

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it And only do it unless god makes me

do it There's a measure of humility

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that's demanded of any leader and

there's a measure of Of trepidation

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before stepping into a leadership role.

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That should be true that

any leader should have.

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But the Bible also says the one

who desires to be an overseer, to

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be a pastor desires, a noble task.

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And so there's a, there's a point

at which the scriptures commend the

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desire to go into pastoral ministry.

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And that desire to do that is not

the desire that we see in Moses.

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Moses is saying, send

anyone else about me.

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I don't want to do this.

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In fact, Peter says of qualifications

in first Peter chapter five,

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that An elder needs to shepherd

the flock, not under compulsion.

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In other words, not that somebody

is making him do it, but willingly.

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Now he goes on to say, not for sorted

gain, not for those things, but the

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desire, the motivation to do it is, is

something that a leader needs to have.

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A leader needs to step in

and say, okay, I'm ready.

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God, here I am.

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Use me.

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That's a good word.

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Yeah.

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Note here in verse 14, God uses his name.

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I am who I am Yahweh.

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And that's going to become the

predominant name that God uses to refer

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to himself from this point forward.

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Now he's going to even say,

and we'll get to this tomorrow.

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He's going to say, I didn't, I

didn't reveal myself this way to

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your forefathers, but this is who

I'm revealing myself to you as.

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And we'll talk about why that's

significance significant there.

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Shout out to the LSB, the

Legacy Standard Bible.

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They will use God's name, Yahweh,

in the text, which I do appreciate.

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I kind of wish the ESV would

do something like that.

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I know that's a textual choice, but

why does the ESV choose not to do that?

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Readability, making it contextualizing.

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Yeah, making it readable for people

that don't know Hebrew, so that if

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somebody picks up the Bible and reads it.

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Tradition, too, and

there's some of that, too.

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We have a translation that is a

traditional translation that actually

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has, one, two, three, I think three

connections to it that are older.

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So it's, it's not a

matter of faithfulness.

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It's not a matter of fidelity,

but if you do like something like

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that, the LSB is a good option

to supplement your ESV reading.

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You know what else has it?

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What else has it?

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The y'all Bible.

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The y'all Bible.

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It says Yahweh.

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Yeah.

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But see, that doesn't

have a leather cover.

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It's not as nice.

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Not yet.

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Unless you go post Tenebroso.

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I, yeah, I'm still waiting

to hear back from those guys.

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They've not gotten back to me, man.

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How long is their backlog?

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Hey, PTL.

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We got to get you, I mean,

I know you're listening.

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I know they're listening.

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They are obviously anyone who's anyone in

Christendom is listening to this podcast.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's yeah, you're right.

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I think it is tradition because

the Jews, the tradition amongst

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the Jews is they would not

pronounce the name Yahweh instead.

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In fact, still today, they won't.

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Even the scribes, as they were writing

the divine name, Yahweh could not

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be interrupted for anything because

they didn't want to have somebody

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interrupt them and, and the name would

be defiled through a pen stroke even.

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So I think that carried over into

Christendom that, that led to that.

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Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

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I mean, the high view

of God is a great thing.

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It's one of our distinctives, but I think

we go beyond the pale of what scripture

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calls when we get into that point.

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Yeah, that's good.

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Hey, let's let's wrap up by praying

and then we will continue on tomorrow

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with another edition God, thanks for

this this text this portion and we

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are grateful for what we read in The

account of the exodus in the greater

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exodus that all of us have come to know

through The deliverance works for us at

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the cross by jesus christ on our behalf.

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And so we're grateful for that father

Thank you for the better Moses the one who

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went for us to deliver us to free us from

our sins As we read this god help us to be

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men and women who are attentive Attentive

to detail who are paying attention to

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what you're doing with Israel here in

understanding The the foreshadows and

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everything else that are pointing us to

jesus all the while while we read it So

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we are grateful for this passage grateful

for this text and pray this in jesus name.

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Amen Hey, keep reading your bibles

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