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title: 02-05 Sermon-Conversation: Exodus 4–6, Suffering, Leadership, and Practical Coordination
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show the sign, which leads us to believe that the elders weren't immediately grasping, but they came to believe after seeing the sign. And I love this verse. It's so easy to skip over and go right to what we think about the children of Israel coming to the rest of Exodus, but in 31 it's so beautiful. The people believed. And when they heard that the Lord had visited the people of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshipped. Think about that. Their external circumstances at that verse are no different. They're still enslaved. They're still calling out. They're still wanting the Lord to come rescue them. In other words, nothing has changed externally for them yet, but they have hope. And they respond in faith, and they believe. This is a small thing, but I feel like.
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that I've gotten better as I've grown as a Christian at being grateful. I was entitled to this time, but maybe in the last 10 or 15 years, when good things come to me from the Lord, I feel like I'm going to be grateful. In fact, I find myself regularly saying, Thank you, Lord. Praise the Lord. But I don't know that. I think I need to expand on it. I need to worship sometimes better. Faith comes my way. Anyway, I think this is in my own daily Bible reading. Gideon, remember, he slips down into the camp, and he overhears the people talking about the dream, and it says, When Gideon heard the interpretation of the dream, he worshipped. Oh, Lord, make us a people who are filled, filled with worship. He can see what you're doing.
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But it doesn't last long, as you well know. We're going to see that that changes very quickly. So Moses is immediately received by his brothers, his family, the children of Israel. They're believing him, and they're worshiping, and they're excited. And then things get worse. I'm going to read all of chapter 5. I'm not going to make a lot of comments on chapter 5. Unlike what we just went through, where there's a lot of difficult things, hardening of God's heart, God trying to kill Moses. Chapter 5, when you read it, you kind of get exactly what's happening in the action. We'll make a few comments, but not many. So I'm going to read all of chapter 5. Afterward, Moses and Aaron went out and said to Pharaoh, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness. But Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord,
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that I should obey his voice and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, and therefore I will not let Israel go. Then they said, God of Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword. The king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens. Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land are now many. You will make them rest from their burdens. The same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen, You shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them. You shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle.
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Therefore they cried, Let us go and offer sacrifices to our Lord. Let the heavier work be made on the men that they made neighbor at it, and paying their regard to our works. So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people, Thus says Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. Go and give your straw yourselves, wherever you can find it, for your work will not be reduced to waste. So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt, together stumbled for straw. The taskmasters were urged and said, Complete your work. The people of Israel, Pharaoh's taskmasters had said over them, were beaten and were asked, Why have you not done all your tasks of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past? The foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh, Why do you change your service like this?
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No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us, Make bricks. Behold, your servants are beaten. The fault is in your own people. He said, You are idle. You are idle. That is why you say, Go. Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. Go now and work. No straw will be given to you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks. The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble, and they said, You shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily tasks, each day. And Moses and Aaron were waiting for them. And they came to Pharaoh and said to the Lord, Look on you and judge, because you have made us speak in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants, and have put a sword in their hand to kill us. And Moses turned to the Lord and said, O Lord, why have you done evil to this people? Why did you sin against me?
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For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people. The passage starts with the hope that we get from the end of chapter 4. Moses was worried primarily about the children of Israel, and they accepted him by faith. They almost got a feeling. Moses and Aaron are walking in, high-fiving each other. This is going to be easy. Look, God is with us. Man, we've got some momentum. Look at this. They walk in like, hey, Pharaoh. Pharaoh, Pharaoh, oh, let my people go. I was hoping that would land. I didn't know if that was just an Oklahoma song I grew up singing. But, okay, I did run into a very disturbing thing on this song.
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I grew up singing, Pharaoh, Pharaoh, let my people go. But apparently there's a textual variance online that it's, Oh, baby, let my people go. Anybody grow up O'Babian? Okay, I've got to, if you're saying, oh, oh, let me raise your hand. Oh, we're the minority. Oh, baby, people, raise your hands. Oh, wow, I grew up in the minority. Oh, baby wins. Randy, we'll go to an expert. What do you think of this? You stole my comic moment, Randy. It's sort of funny, but there's actually something in the text that leads us to believe that Moses is a little bit overconfident.
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because in the chapter that's before, God has sort of told Moses two things. Go to Pharaoh with the elders. He doesn't seem like he's doing that. He's just going with Aaron. And God says, here's what you should say to Pharaoh. And he doesn't quite say that either. So he doesn't do it exactly the way God tells him to do it. So he starts off kind of haughty. Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness. You get a glimpse? Pharaoh's heart. For God to be hard in Pharaoh's heart. Pharaoh's already pretty hard. Pharaoh says, who is the Lord that I should obey in some ways? I do not know. And then Moses, the second time around, it's a little bit closer to how God had told him to do it. They said, the God of the Hebrews has met with us.
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Please let us go three days into the journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the Lord, lest he fall on us with a pestilence or with a sword. It seems like that might be a little, once again, I was tagged on. It's almost like, you have a lot of servants, and if we don't get to obey God, God might mess with all your servants to where your servants are no longer able to serve you. The rest of the passage, like I said, is as clear as it could be. But you see that what happens is Pharaoh becomes a political spin-off. Pharaoh takes every time that they ask for this ability to worship as an opportunity to call them lazy. You're idle. You're lazy. That's why you want to go do this. And he takes the opportunity to point at Moses and Aaron, and he calls them liars. That's what happens in verse 9.
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Let heavier work lay on the men, that they may labor in it, and pay no regard to these lying words. So Pharaoh is exercising his political powers and saying, I need to spin the narrative to call the children of Israel, these hard-working slaves, lazy, and these two self-promoted leaders, as liars. And essentially, Pharaoh says, you want me to let the children of Israel go? You want me to let my slaves go? I'll let them go. Go back to work. I'll let them go. Go make bricks without straw. It actually says it exactly like that. Verse 7, I shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks. It says in the passage, let them go and gather straw for themselves. Look at verse 18, when the people come to Pharaoh,
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he's like, go! Go down. That's what he means by go down. And understandably, a pitiful situation, becomes pitiful-er. Because now you have the servants not only making the same number of bricks, but they're scurrying all about trying to gather their own, and they can't even gather the straws, so they end up having to gather stubble. And justifiably, it seems to me, in my human nature, frustrated with Moses and Aaron. Now, did you notice one other thing? It's sort of interesting. The chapter, the whole book starts with what? Children of Israel in slavery and bondage, and their cry goes up to the Lord.
Speaker 1 00:06:13
And the Lord hears their cry, which is why he started this plan. But where are their eyes now? Look at verse 15. You can just notice in the language of the foreman that the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh. Why do you treat your servants like this? No straws given to your servants, lest they say to us, make bricks, and behold, your servants are beaten. It seems like in the midst of this burden, their eyes have gone from being up and crying out to the Lord to down a notch, and they're crying out to Pharaoh for rescue. Pharaoh, be fair. This is unfair. Pharaoh, be just. This is unjust. It's almost as if the patience of waiting on God that they just had worshipped only at the end of the chapter previously has already faded because of the circumstances that they walk in.
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And I think I get it. I can understand. I can empathize with why they might feel that way, which is exactly why Moses has sort of a I-told-you-so moment, right? Moses turned to the Lord and said, Oh, Lord, why have you been evil to this people? Why did you even send me? I told you not to. For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he's been evil to this people, and you have not delivered your people at all. A little bit of whining there, understandable, that you haven't done. God, you said I'm going to do this, and you haven't done it. You haven't even started to do it. You haven't done it at all. That's not the end of our passage. That's certainly not the end of the entire story, so we're going to finish and round out the rest of the passage, starting in verse 1 of chapter 6.
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The Lord said to Moses, Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh, for with a strong hand he will send them out, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land. God spoke to Moses and said to him, I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty. By my name, the Lord, I did not make myself known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land of which they lived as sojourners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of this people of Israel, whom the Egyptians hold as slaves, and I have remembered my covenant. Say, therefore, to the people of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment.
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I will take you to be my people, and I will be your God. And you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you as a possession. I am the Lord. Moses spoke thus to the people of Israel, but they did not listen to Moses because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery. The people of Israel go out of his land, but Moses said to the Lord, Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips? The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel.
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and about Pharaoh, king of Egypt, to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt. In this final conversation piece, God does all the talking. It's actually the first time God's talking to Moses again after he tried to kill him, from our text at least, which sort of shows something beautiful about Moses' trust in God, even given that he had this weird occasion in the desert, that Moses is still willing to whine to God. And God deals with it patiently, and reestablishes his promises. That's really what he's doing there, isn't it? Things are worse for the people. Moses is complaining to God. The people are complaining. And what does God do? God says, Moses, I already kind of told you this stuff.
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from the burning bush. I'm going to say it again and this is what you're to say to the people. Here's who I was. Here's what I'm currently doing and here's what I will do. These are my promises of what will happen in the future. That I will take you to be my people and I will bring you to the land that I swore. And you will know me. Knowing God is an important theme, right? What did Pharaoh say earlier? I don't know you. You may or may not have heard the name Yahweh, but the word know, particularly in the Hebrew use of it, is intimate knowledge. He has no such intimate knowledge of Yahweh. And God's promise to his people is by the time this story is over, you will know. You will have intimate, experiential knowledge.
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of what it's like for Yahweh to bring you out of your captivity and place you into the land. It's a heartbreaking verse. That'll preach the way God said it to Moses, right? I can just read that. they messaged with the men of the people. Now listen, their spirit seems too broken, because of their circumstances. Verse 9. And listen to Moses, because of their broken spirit and harsh slavery. And then Yahweh sends Moses back into Pharaoh, which is where we will pick up that part of the story.
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So, like I told you, we've done the verse, we're just, there's one point in this sermon. The one point in the sermon is, what do we learn about God, Jesus, and ourselves? I guess it's one point with three sub-points. What do we learn about God from this passage? Well, we can learn so much about God from just these 49 verses.
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Thank you.
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BOOM.
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the cries of children. He sends Moses. He's patiently working with Moses while Moses is talking about his insecurities. And Moses, in some ways, seems the ideal candidate for this job. He grew up in the palace. He probably knows some of the cultural things that maybe the slaves wouldn't know. But on the other hand, he seems like the worst person for this candidate. He doesn't speak well. He's nervous. He doesn't seem to be a strong, robust, confident leader like we all tend to think. But God's like, no, you're my man. I'm going to blend your things that seem to make sense along with your things that don't seem to make sense and put them into place to be my person. We learn about God. But we also learn that God sometimes is full of surprises. That.
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God's not only loving and compassionate, but God's also holy and powerful. God already told Moses, threaten Pharaoh, I will kill him first. Then God meets Moses. He's like, you're out of the covenant. I seek to kill you. And this is not a vision of God that we don't see again. And when God comes later in the book, on to Mount Sinai, God says, hey, I'm going to come down to the mountain. I'm going to talk to my people. But Moses, you better put police paper on the mountain lest any of these pretty, sordid people come to me and strike at you. This mind-blowing representation of God in us. Comforting, and God is in his heart the rest of the time.
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To do justice to thinking about both of those. And keeping the vote in our hands. And that's okay. Because God is infinite and we are finite. And our goal is to try to trust and respond in faith. That's what we can learn about God. What can we learn about Jesus? There's actually a lot of such points. This whole narrative is essentially a reminder of the incarnation of Jesus. God's people are in slavery in Egypt. God's plan for getting his children who are in slavery in Egypt out of Egypt is to send someone incarnationally into Egypt in order to lead them out. That's exactly what Jesus does for us. So there's a hint. It points at least to the fact that we, dead in our sins and transgresses,
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Jesus, God-man, comes in, becomes man, takes on flesh so that he can lead us out. There's another nice little hint here. And I kind of glossed over it and didn't mention it because I hoped that I would get back to it and pick it up. But when God's talking to Moses in chapter 4, he uses this interesting term in verse 22. Thus says the Lord, Israel is my firstborn son. refer to Israel as his son or his firstborn, but it's not completely unique. It shows back up in Hosea. So you think, okay, so God's son is Israel. God's son initially responds with worship and gratitude and faith. But very quickly, God's son turns his eyes lower.
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and starts to appeal to Pharaoh. And I'm sure as that would with their own children, that would break God's heart. In fact, God's story with his son throughout the whole of the Testament is a disobedience. Contrast with Jesus. Jesus is perfectly obedient. Jesus is willing to lay down his will for the will of the Father. Even when things get hard for Jesus, when things get hard for Israel, they lose faith. When things get hard for Jesus, he's facing the cross. He's on the cross, bearing the wrath of God. And Jesus responds in perfect obedience on our behalf. Oh, thank you, Lord. We have Israel, not a great firstborn son. Jesus, the perfect firstborn. But what can we learn about us? I think there's really.
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one beautiful reminder here. Because when I talk about us, in this room there's a lot of us. Some of us don't know Jesus. Some of us know we don't know Jesus. We know that we're not Christians. Some of us aren't sure whether we have this intimate knowledge of God the Father through Jesus or not. Some of us know that at one point we knew Jesus, but maybe because of the bricks that we're making in our life right now, we're willing to walk away from him, or maybe we kind of already have in our heart. Others of us might be in the midst of really difficult circumstances, and we're responding just like the Israelites initially. We're worshiping in the midst of difficulty. Some of us may have had that experience in 2025, and we walked into 2026 with confidence and expectations of goodness, that the circumstances have already hit us to the point that we're broken spirits.
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I thought that my marriage would get better, but no, it's gotten worse, and I'm making bricks without straw. I thought that I would no longer be single, but here I am, and I'm making bricks without straw. I thought that my health situation, I was hopeful that these next set of doctor's visits might actually shed some light and give some hope. I'm making bricks without my job. My family, my wider family, there's so many circumstances that can make us feel like, ever right now, we're making bricks without straw. And I don't think that my message to you needs to be anything other. Regardless of where you're at in that situation, whether you don't know Jesus yet,
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you think you're about to give up on Jesus, or you're convinced that he's given up on you, here's the message. Jesus is enough. It's exactly what God reminds the children of Israel. God says, hey, think about who I was. I established my covenant with them, I introduced myself to them, so we can think in those terms of, what has God done for me in the past? Through Jesus. Okay, well, he's forgiven my sins. He's met me everywhere along the way. What is God doing now? God reminds them, I heard the groaning, and I remembered my covenant. God hears us in the midst of our difficulties, and don't minimize that. The God of the universe listens to you. He hears your groaning. Don't.
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allow that to be lost on you. He comes to you. And then, of course, the future promises. Jesus is enough, yesterday, today, and forever. Jesus is enough, regardless of what your circumstances are. Jesus is enough for you to have confidence in what he's already done in forgiving your sins, what he's currently doing and listening and caring for you, for the next step, he's going to be with you. My brother Darren, God's got you, man. The reference back is Jesus is enough. The Lord helped us to fully, fully walk in that truth. That Jesus is enough regardless of how much straw we have.
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Chapter 25. While Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to whore with the daughters of Moab. These invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to their gods. So Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor. And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel. And the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people and hang them in the sun before the Lord, that the fierce anger of the Lord may turn away from Israel. And Moses said to the judges of Israel, Each of you kill those of his men who have yoked themselves to Baal of Peor.
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And behold, one of the people of Israel came and brought a Midianite woman to his family, in the sight of Moses and in the sight of the whole congregation of the people of Israel, while they were weeping in the entrance of the tent of meeting. When Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose and left the congregation, and took a spear in his hand, and went after the man of Israel into the chamber and pierced both of them, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly. Thus the plague on the people of Israel was stopped. Nevertheless, those who died by the plague were twenty-four thousand. And the Lord said to Moses,
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Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy. Therefore say, Behold, I give to him my covenant of peace, and it shall be to him and to his descendants after him the covenant of a perpetual priesthood, because he was jealous for his God, and made atonement for the people of Israel. The name of the slain man of Israel, who was killed with the Midianite woman, was Zimri the son of Salem, chief of a father's house belonging to the Simeonites. And the name of the Midianite woman who was killed was Cosbi the daughter of Zur, who was the tribal head of a father's house in Midian.
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And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Harass the Midianites and strike them down, for they have harassed you with their wiles, with which they beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cosbi the daughter of the chief of Midian, their sister, who was killed on the day of the plague on account of Peor. Psalm 68 To the choir master Yes, David A Psalm. God shall arise, his enemies shall be scattered, and those who hate him shall flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so ye shall drive them away.
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As wax melts before fire, so the wicked shall perish before God. But the righteous shall be glad, they shall exult before God, they shall be jubilant with joy. Sing to God, sing praises to his name, lift up a song to him who rides through the deserts. His name is the Lord, exult before him. Father of the fatherless and protector of widows is God in his holy habitation. God settles the solitary in a home. He leads out the prisoners to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.
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O God, when you went out before your people, when you marched through the wilderness, Selah, the earth quaked, the heavens poured down rain. Before God, the one of Sinai, before God, the God of Israel. Reign in abundance, O God, you shed abroad. You restored your inheritance as it languished. Your flock found a dwelling in it. In your goodness, O God, you provided for the needy. The Lord gives the word. The women who announce the news are a great host. The kings of the armies, they flee, they flee. The women at home divide the spoil.
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Though you men lie among the sheepfolds, the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold. When the Almighty scatters kings there, let snow fall on Zalman. O mountain of God, mountain of Bashan. O many-peaked mountain, mountain of Bashan. Why do you look with hatred, O many-peaked mountain, at the mount that God desired for his abode? Yes, where the Lord will dwell forever. The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, thousands upon thousands. The Lord is among them. Sinai is now in the sanctuary.
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You ascended on high, leading a host of captives in your train, and receiving gifts among men, even among the rebellious, that the Lord God may dwell there. Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up. God is our salvation. Our God is a God of salvation, and to God, the Lord, belong deliverances from death. But God will strike the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of him who walks in his guilty ways. The Lord said, I will bring them back from Bashan. I will bring them back from the depths of the sea, that you may strike your feet.
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In their blood, that the tongues of your dogs may have their portion from the foe. Your procession is seen, O God, the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary. The singers in front, the musicians last. Between them, virgins playing tambourines. Bless God and the great congregation, the Lord, O you who are of Israel's fountain. There is Benjamin, the least of them, in the lead. The princes of Judah in their throng, the princes of Zebulun, the princes of Naphtali. Summon your power, O God, the power, O God, by which you have worked for us.
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Because of your temple at Jerusalem, kings shall bear gifts to you. Rebuke the beasts that dwell among the reeds, the herd of bulls with the calves of the people. Trample underfoot those who lust after tribute. Scatter the pupils who delight in war. Nobles shall come from Egypt. Cush shall hasten to stretch out her hands to God. O kingdoms of the earth, sing to God. Sing praises to the Lord, Selah. To him who rides in the heavens, the ancient heavens, behold he sends out his voice, his mighty voice.
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Ascribe power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, and whose power is in the skies. Awesome is God from his sanctuary, the God of Israel. He is the one who gives power and strength to his people. Blessed be God. Chapter 15. An oracle concerning Moab. Because Ar of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone. Because Kir of Moab is laid waste in a night, Moab is undone. He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Over Nebo, and over Medaba, Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn. In the streets they wear sackcloth. On the housetops and in the squares, everyone wails and melts in tears.
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Heshbon and Eliela cry out. Their voice is heard as far as Jehaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. His soul trembles. My heart cries out for Moab. Her fugitives flee to Zoar, to Eglath-Shalishia. For at the ascent of Luhith, they go up weeping. On the road to Horaneum, they raise a cry of destruction. The waters of Nimrim are a desolation. The grass is withered, the vegetation fails, the greenery is no more.
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Chapter 3.
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As Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord. and you are her children if you do good and do not fear anything that is frightening. Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered. Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. Do not repay evil for evil, or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called,
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that you may obtain a blessing. For whoever desires to love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit. Let him turn away from evil and do good. Let him seek peace and pursue it. For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those who do evil. Now who is there to harm you, if you are zealous for what is good? But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy,
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always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you. Yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God's will, than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit, in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, because they formerly did not obey, when God's patience waited in the days of Noah,
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while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons were brought safely through water. Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body, but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who has gone into heaven, and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.
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Chapter 26. After the plague, the Lord said to Moses and to Eliezer, the son of Aaron, the priest, Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, from twenty years old and upward, by their fathers' houses, all in Israel, who are able to go to war. And Moses and Eliezer, the priest, spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, Take a census of the people from twenty years old and upward. As the Lord commanded Moses, the people of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt were, Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, the sons of Reuben, of Hanuk, the clan of the Hanukites, of Palu, the clan of the Paluites,
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of Ezron, the clan of the Hezronites, of Carmi, the clan of the Carmites. These are the clans of the Reubenites, and those listed were forty-three thousand seven hundred thirty. And the sons of Palu, Eliab, the sons of Eliab, Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are the Dathan and Abiram chosen from the congregation, who contended against Moses and Aaron in the company of Korah, when they contended against the Lord, and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah, when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a warning.
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But the sons of Korah did not die. The sons of Simeon, according to their clans, of Nemuel, the clan of the Nemuelites, of Jamin, the clan of the Jaminites, of Jachin, the clan of the Jachinites, of Zerah, the clan of the Zerahites, of Shaal, the clan of the Shaalites. These are the clans of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred. The sons of Gad, according to their clans, of Zephan, the clan of the Zephanites, of Haggai, the clan of the Haggites, of Shunai, the clan of the Shunites, of Oznai, the clan of the Oznites, of Eri, the clan of the Erites, of Erod, the clan of the Erodites, of Aureli, the clan of the Aurelites.
Speaker 3 00:40:41
These are the clans of the sons of Gad as they were listed, forty thousand five hundred. The sons of Judah were Ur and Onan, and Ur and Onan died in the land of Canaan. And the sons of Judah, according to their clans, were of Shelah, the clan of the Shelanites, of Perez, the clan of the Perezites, of Zerah, the clan of the Perezites. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Every tribe shall be given its inheritance in proportion to its list, but the land shall be divided by lot. According to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.
Speaker 3 00:41:14
Their inheritance shall be divided according to lot between the larger and the smaller. This was the list of the Levites according to their clans. Of Gershon, the clan of the Gershonites, of Kohath, the clan of the Kohathites, of Merari, the clan of the Merarites. These are the clans of Levi, the clan of the Libnites, the clan of the Hebronites, the clan of the Maalites, the clan of the Mushites, the clan of the Korahites. And Kohath was the father of Amram. The name of Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt. And she bore to Amram Aaron and Moses and Miriam their sister.
Speaker 3 00:41:48
And to Aaron were born Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. But Nadab and Abihu died when they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord. And those listed were twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward. For they were not listed among the people of Israel, because there was no inheritance given to them among the people of Israel. These were those listed by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who listed the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. But among these there was not one of those listed by Moses and Aaron the priest, who had listed the people of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai.
Speaker 3 00:42:20
For the Lord had said of them, They shall die in the wilderness. Not one of them was left, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. Psalm 69. To the choir master, according to Lilies of David. Save me, O God, for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold. I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. I am weary with my crying out, my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for my God. More in number than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause. Mighty are those who would destroy me, those who attack me with lies. What I did not steal, must I now restore?
Speaker 3 00:43:05
O God, you know my folly. The wrongs I have done are not hidden from you. Let not those who hope in you be put to shame through me, O Lord God of hosts. Let not those who seek you be brought to dishonor through me, O God of Israel. For it is for your sake that I have borne reproach, that dishonor has covered my face. I have become a stranger to my brothers, an alien to my mother's sons. For zeal for your house has consumed me, and the reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
Speaker 3 00:43:36
when i wept and humbled my soul with fasting it became my reproach when i made sackcloth my clothing i became a byword to them i am the talk of those who sit in the gate and the drunkards make songs about me but as for me my prayer is to you o lord at an acceptable time o god in the abundance of your steadfast love answer me in your saving faithfulness deliver me from sinking in the mire let me be delivered from my enemies and from the deep waters let not the flood sweep over me or the deep swallow me up or the pit close its mouth over me answer me o lord.
Speaker 3 00:44:10
for your steadfast love is good according to your abundant mercy turn to me hide not your face from your servant for i am in distress make haste to answer me draw near to my soul redeem me ransom me because of my enemies you know my reproach and my shame and my dishonor my foes are all known to you reproaches have broken my heart so that i am in despair, I looked for pity, but there was none, and for comforters, but I found none. They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me sour wine to drink.
Speaker 3 00:44:45
Let their own table before them become a snare, and when they are at peace, let it become a trap. Let their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see, and make their loins tremble continually. Pour out your indignation upon them, and let your burning anger overtake them. May their camp be a desolation, let no one dwell in their tents. For they persecute him whom you have struck down, and they recount the pain of those you have wounded. Add to them punishment upon punishment, may they have no acquittal from you. Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, let them not be enrolled among the righteous.
Speaker 3 00:45:20
But I am afflicted and in pain, let your salvation obey.
Speaker 4 00:45:24
Would you mind having the boys put that bag on the front porch and writing... Quote, D-A-V, end quote, on it, question mark.
Speaker 3 00:45:54
God, set me on high. I will praise the name of God with a song. I will magnify him with thanksgiving. This will please the Lord more than an ox or a bull with horns and hooves. When the humble see if they will be glad, you who seek God, let your hearts revive. For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners. Let heaven and earth praise him, the seas and everything that moves in them. For God will save Zion and build up the cities of Judah.
Speaker 3 00:46:24
And people shall dwell there and possess it. The offspring of his servants shall inherit it, and those who love his name shall dwell in it. Chapter 16. Send the lamb to the ruler of the land. From Sila, by way of the desert, to the mount of the daughter of Zion. Like fleeing birds, like a scattered nest, so are the daughters of Moab, at the fords of the Arnon. Give counsel, grant justice. Make your shade like night, at the height of noon. Shelter the outcasts. Do not reveal the fugitive. Let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you. Be a shelter to them from the destroyer.
Speaker 3 00:47:05
When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land, then a throne will be established in steadfast love, and on it will sit in faithfulness in the tent of David, one who judges and seeks justice, and is swift to do righteousness. We have heard of the pride of Moab. How proud he is! Of his arrogance, his pride is proud.
Speaker 4 00:47:31
Please regenerate.
Speaker 3 00:47:40
And his insolence, in his idle boasting, he is not right. Therefore let Moab wail for Moab. Let everyone wail. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir Haraseth. For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibma. The lords of the nations have struck down its branches, which reached to Jazer, and strayed to the desert. Its shoots spread abroad and passed over the sea. Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibma. I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Eliela.
Speaker 3 00:48:12
For over your summer fruit and your harvest, the shout has ceased. And joy and gladness are taken away from the fruitful field, and in the vineyards no songs are sung, no cheers are raised. No treader treads out wine in the presses. I have put an end to the shouting. Therefore my inner parts moan like a lyre for Moab, and my inmost self for Kir Haraseth. And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself on the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail. This is the word that the Lord spoke concerning Moab in the past.
Speaker 3 00:48:44
But now the Lord has spoken, saying, In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who remain will be very few and feeble. Chapter 4, Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking. For whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh, no longer for human passions, but for the will of God.
Speaker 3 00:49:15
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. With respect to this, they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you. But they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. For this is why the gospel was preached even to those who are dead, that though judged in the flesh the way people are, they might live in the spirit the way God does. The end of all things is at hand. Therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
Speaker 3 00:49:47
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace. Whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God. Whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies. In order that in everything, God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion, forever and ever. Amen. Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you,
Speaker 3 00:50:20
as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed. Because the spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler. Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name. For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God. And if it begins with us,
Speaker 3 00:50:51
what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God? And if the righteous is scarcely saved, what will become of the ungodly and the sinner? Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will, entrust their souls to a faithful creator while doing good.
Speaker 4 00:54:34
I had a lunch with Bill on Saturday at 11 o'clock at the Lazy Dog Cafe.
Speaker 2 00:54:43
To the calendar. The calendar event shows Sunday and Saturday.
Speaker 2 00:59:54
Thank you.
Speaker 5 01:08:38
renee said to you and manuel good morning i'm going to be late my car keeps turning off on me.
Speaker 4 01:10:05
Give me a task that I can do while driving.
Speaker 5 01:10:28
Alexander sent a long message. Good morning, Brayden. So I fell asleep last night and forgot to put my phone on the charger.
Speaker 5 01:11:01
So I'm literally just waking up. If I leave my house right now, my ETA is 8.31 give or take. As for my knee, it still hurts, but I'm able to put my weight on it and move around without it hurting as bad.
Speaker 4 01:11:29
Normally I would say yes to this, comma, I love comma. I don't think it's a good idea for you to be lifting heavy things right now, period.
Speaker 4 01:12:03
it is more important for me that you get better period do you need another day off question mark.
Speaker 2 01:14:09
Okay, comma, please keep us posted, period.
Speaker 4 01:19:11
Let's do that. Period. No pressure. Period.
Speaker 4 01:24:15
I don't see it in my calendar. Can you double check question mark. 
Speaker 2 01:28:19
Thank you.
Speaker 2 01:46:19
Whoa.
Speaker 2 01:56:37
Okay.
Speaker 6 02:16:36
the squad working on this feature and what to do is we'll do is scan the image and very much the same for the text and find the tasks and responsibilities for those tasks from the images and you'll see a little bit of a preview of some of the task attributes that we're looking to support in these experiences as well so i'll also give you a quick demo of text extraction so this is just an unedited transcript from meeting notes and it'll do exactly the same thing what we want.
Speaker 6 02:17:07
to do is enable you to move from thought from theory to action as quickly as possible and hopefully you'll see exactly what you're expecting from that but this is very much an early access what we would love is for all your feedback and insights and yeah happy experimenting. And hopefully you'll see exactly what you're expecting from that.
Speaker 4 02:19:31
hello adam period good morning hi everyone good morning this is leticia coming for your dental.
Speaker 7 02:19:50
office in new year um you were supposed to have an appointment with us for your night guard the delivery on monday the 9th but unfortunately the lad called yesterday saying they are going to be late on the delivery is that okay if you move your appointment for the 11th or the 16th if you're not.
Speaker 4 02:20:13
able to be on the 11th it's on wednesday right now i'm just looking through my schedule to see what what i've got going on um let's go with.
Speaker 7 02:20:29
let's go with the 16 16 yeah uh they'll prefer in the morning or the afternoon um let's go with the afternoon please yeah sure of course i have two o'clock or five o'clock i think it's two o'clock.
Speaker 4 02:20:47
two o'clock all right perfect thank you so no problem thank you oh no no problem sorry you.
Speaker 7 02:20:59
cut out for a second no problem thank you thank you have a good day bye.
Speaker 4 02:21:43
If you are open to being tentative about tomorrow, comma, I can do 11 o'clock or 12 o'clock Pacific Standard Time, 12 PST, period. I have jury duty call-in this week, so each day I have to call the day I have had to call to see.
Speaker 4 02:22:41
If I have to report in the following day, period.
Speaker 4 02:23:47
If not, comma, we could push to Monday and I could be available at 8.30 a.m.
Speaker 4 02:24:48
or 11 o'clock a.m. PST, period. Would you be willing to share the job description with me so I could better understand your needs, question mark?
Speaker 4 02:25:51
Let me know your thoughts, period, period, Braden.
Speaker 2 02:26:08
714-794-hyphen, McLeish.
Speaker 5 02:28:46
Corey liked your message.
Speaker 5 02:30:01
From Corey, 818 8th. Did you verify the 2 inches x 2 inches tile layout over the top of the spa? I need to release the order for the tile with the correct joint spacing.
Speaker 4 02:30:17
I did. Gamma. Sorry. Period. It will work.
Speaker 4 02:31:48
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[AI_SUMMARY]
The sermon integrates pastoral theology with practical life coordination, addressing themes of faith, suffering, and leadership through the lens of Exodus 4:31–6:13. It emphasizes the importance of compassion, reliability, and flexibility in daily actions while exploring God's faithfulness amidst adversity. The narrative transitions from initial worship to oppression, highlighting the struggles of Moses and the Israelites. The message reassures that Jesus is sufficient for life's challenges, connecting the Exodus story to Christ's redemptive work and encouraging believers to maintain worship and trust in God's promises despite hardships.