WEBVTT 00:00:01.965 --> 00:00:04.091 We still serve a healing God, amen. 00:00:04.091 --> 00:00:28.346 I love it when God writes checks, because it never bounces and you can take that to the bank, and when God writes the check, you can walk in and when you leave out you own the bank. 00:00:28.346 --> 00:00:32.323 That's just how I believe my God. 00:00:32.323 --> 00:00:37.109 So, big man, what a service. 00:00:37.109 --> 00:00:50.374 That is the atmosphere and posture of a church that will see miracles happen. 00:00:50.374 --> 00:00:58.689 If you've been reserved or timid, you might have felt uncomfortable today. 00:00:58.689 --> 00:01:00.613 That's all right. 00:01:00.613 --> 00:01:02.225 Being uncomfortable leads to change. 00:01:02.225 --> 00:01:05.965 Is that too hard to start off? 00:01:05.965 --> 00:01:12.082 Sorry, okay, so we got a couple announcements November 7th. 00:01:12.082 --> 00:01:19.087 So this coming month, the 7th, we're going to have a churchwide business meeting immediately following that Sunday service. 00:01:19.087 --> 00:01:21.346 So be ready for that. 00:01:21.346 --> 00:01:25.474 If you are a member here, you are needed. 00:01:25.474 --> 00:01:30.649 We have not to throw a bunch of stuff at you, but out on the foyer we have a connect group sign up. 00:01:30.649 --> 00:01:32.173 So we also have this. 00:01:32.219 --> 00:01:34.165 Coming Saturday, brother Dale, the bass player, over here. 00:01:34.165 --> 00:01:46.563 He said that a man that he knows has had a heart transplant and he can't do anything, and him and his wife have had to move houses during this loss of income and there's a whole lot of situation going on. 00:01:46.563 --> 00:01:49.962 And he said do you think the church could step in and help move them. 00:01:49.962 --> 00:01:53.271 I said, well, I don't know if anybody else is going to, but I'll be there. 00:01:53.271 --> 00:01:57.625 So 830, this coming Saturday, on the 30th. 00:01:57.625 --> 00:02:01.710 There's a signup sheet out there If you want to put your name and your number so I could text you. 00:02:01.710 --> 00:02:03.332 There is also the address. 00:02:03.332 --> 00:02:05.176 If you just want to show up to the address, that's fine. 00:02:05.176 --> 00:02:07.787 Put it in your little GPS and show up. 00:02:07.787 --> 00:02:11.268 So we're not going to meet here, we're actually going to meet at that address. 00:02:11.268 --> 00:02:17.050 So what a service, mom, for you to come in with your husband Woody. 00:02:17.050 --> 00:02:18.051 Thank you all for being here. 00:02:18.312 --> 00:02:18.813 This is my mom. 00:02:18.813 --> 00:02:20.225 I don't know if you all have met her yet. 00:02:20.225 --> 00:02:34.341 Y'all ever watch Star Wars, princess Leia? 00:02:34.341 --> 00:02:36.221 She's Princess Leopard, she likes that print and it's her birthday today. 00:02:36.221 --> 00:02:37.141 Happy birthday, mom. 00:02:37.141 --> 00:02:51.768 We all know October babies are the best, so go out there. 00:02:51.867 --> 00:02:55.110 Also, the Christmas little shoe boxes are out up against the wall. 00:02:55.110 --> 00:02:57.510 I don't know if we have any left, but make sure you get one. 00:02:57.510 --> 00:02:59.532 There's three left, make sure you grab one. 00:02:59.532 --> 00:03:08.795 It comes with a little book thing that does have ideas and stuff in it and instructions and all that good stuff and a label where you could boy or girl, whatever it is, so make sure you get that. 00:03:08.795 --> 00:03:14.657 We got a couple of them because it is a good thing for the church to serve the community. 00:03:19.139 --> 00:03:22.546 If we can't do that as a body of believers, then what is the point? 00:03:22.546 --> 00:03:23.649 So happy birthday, mama. 00:03:23.649 --> 00:03:25.592 I'm glad that you are here today. 00:03:25.592 --> 00:03:33.860 Who else is alive because of the prayers and the correction of their parents? 00:03:33.860 --> 00:03:38.399 A lot of times in your life, specifically your moms. 00:03:38.399 --> 00:03:40.822 Right, they will make you shake in your boots. 00:03:41.883 --> 00:03:48.829 So I know we just sat down, but if you'll stand for the reading of God's word just for a second, we won't take too long If you want to flip over in your book or on your Bible app. 00:03:48.829 --> 00:03:50.991 We're going to be coming out of the book of Exodus today. 00:03:50.991 --> 00:03:54.634 Specifically chapter 3 is where we're going to be reading our key verse. 00:03:54.634 --> 00:03:56.877 But we are going to go back a little further in chapter 2. 00:03:56.877 --> 00:04:00.542 And we're going to be talking today about Moses. 00:04:00.542 --> 00:04:14.757 So in the main verse Exodus 3, verse 11, it says and this is very short, it's very simple, it's very sweet, but this echoed in my very soul of how I feel on an almost daily basis. 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:20.144 Exodus 3, verse 11, says but Moses protested to God. 00:04:20.144 --> 00:04:21.586 Who am I? 00:04:21.586 --> 00:04:25.970 Who am I to appear before Pharaoh? 00:04:25.970 --> 00:04:32.300 Who am I to lead the people of Israel out of Egypt? 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:37.442 If you don't know, this is where the burning bush happened, when Moses was overtending his father-in-law's sheep. 00:04:37.442 --> 00:04:37.942 Who am I? 00:04:37.942 --> 00:04:38.725 Who am I? 00:04:38.725 --> 00:04:39.466 Who am I? 00:04:40.428 --> 00:04:41.810 Let's pray, god. 00:04:41.810 --> 00:04:43.822 We thank you so much for your presence here today. 00:04:43.822 --> 00:05:04.504 I pray God that a special touch on every single person here, every person watching online, that when we speak today and we have the message come to them, lord, that it will penetrate their hearts, that we will be transformed, we will be renewed, we will be restored and we will know that we are loved and we have a place to belong. 00:05:04.504 --> 00:05:05.567 In your name. 00:05:05.567 --> 00:05:06.649 We pray Amen. 00:05:06.649 --> 00:05:08.230 You may be seated. 00:05:08.230 --> 00:05:11.055 We will be restored and we will know that we are loved and we have a place to belong In your name. 00:05:11.055 --> 00:05:11.937 We pray Amen. 00:05:11.937 --> 00:05:12.398 You may be seated. 00:05:12.398 --> 00:05:13.560 So the title of our message today. 00:05:13.819 --> 00:05:26.113 I told my wife the title and she was like really, because the title is something that we have probably said being upset with someone before you need to know your place, you need to learn your place. 00:05:26.113 --> 00:05:26.834 Stay in your lane. 00:05:26.834 --> 00:05:33.471 That's why they're painted there. 00:05:33.471 --> 00:05:34.014 Stay on your side. 00:05:34.014 --> 00:05:36.480 I've said it before. 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:41.329 I'll probably say it till the day that I die but if you're in the fast lane and you're going slow, get over, stay in your lane. 00:05:41.329 --> 00:05:43.593 The fast lane is not it. 00:05:43.593 --> 00:05:47.625 That was the spirit right there. 00:05:47.625 --> 00:05:48.146 Did y'all feel that? 00:05:48.146 --> 00:05:53.249 So know your place. 00:05:55.021 --> 00:06:00.434 Can anybody agree that we are living in a day and a time where people do not know where they belong? 00:06:00.434 --> 00:06:05.264 We, and the Bible calls it out. 00:06:05.264 --> 00:06:09.903 We live in a day Obviously, if the Bible said it, they were having issues then too. 00:06:09.903 --> 00:06:18.230 We live in a day where truth is no longer truth and the way that we feel we label it as truth. 00:06:18.230 --> 00:06:39.603 There is a mass wave of people saying that what they were born with physically is no longer viable, that if they feel a certain way, then they're just going to say that that is their truth. 00:06:39.603 --> 00:06:46.475 It doesn't matter if you put a there before it, it doesn't make it true based on feelings. 00:06:46.475 --> 00:06:51.971 So I told my wife you know, know your place. 00:06:51.971 --> 00:06:55.187 And I also told her that next week. 00:06:55.367 --> 00:06:57.564 So if you want to come next week, if you don't know, next week is Halloween. 00:06:57.564 --> 00:06:58.848 I'm not dressing up. 00:06:58.848 --> 00:07:02.803 If you're wondering, I know we talked about Brother Josh wearing a. 00:07:02.803 --> 00:07:04.067 What was it a shark or something. 00:07:04.067 --> 00:07:05.149 He was going to come as Jonah. 00:07:05.149 --> 00:07:06.252 He was going to have a whale. 00:07:06.252 --> 00:07:08.646 It was going to be like one of those foam things and when he played it would dance around. 00:07:08.646 --> 00:07:11.269 But we figured that would probably be a little distracting for worship service. 00:07:11.269 --> 00:07:15.927 But so next week's sermon is going to be entitled Killing it. 00:07:18.192 --> 00:07:30.545 On Halloween we're going to be killing the flesh, but today I hope that you learn your place. 00:07:30.545 --> 00:07:34.730 Turn to your neighbor and say know your place, come on, you can put a little sass into it. 00:07:34.730 --> 00:07:36.252 I know y'all been waiting all week. 00:07:36.252 --> 00:07:38.836 Know your place, give it to them. 00:07:38.836 --> 00:07:41.663 You get that little head going. 00:07:41.663 --> 00:07:43.569 Put a little snap in there if you want, that's fine. 00:07:43.569 --> 00:07:44.492 Get some attitude with it. 00:07:44.492 --> 00:07:55.124 Know your place, put the little Pentecostal at the end of it. 00:07:55.124 --> 00:07:55.463 We're in church. 00:07:55.463 --> 00:07:57.805 No your place, come on. 00:07:57.805 --> 00:08:03.932 How we call that out of shape, out of shape. 00:08:03.932 --> 00:08:19.274 So there's no doubt that at some point in your life and I know I have in mine, and especially since I've stepped into the role of a more in-depth ministry than I ever have been in my life before I've always been surrounded, always been involved in ministry. 00:08:19.293 --> 00:08:20.202 I was the pastor's kid. 00:08:20.202 --> 00:08:21.430 You were there when the doors were open. 00:08:21.430 --> 00:08:22.997 You were there when they closed. 00:08:22.997 --> 00:08:24.483 You cleaned the church, you did the yards. 00:08:24.483 --> 00:08:30.485 You know small church, the church, and the pastor does it all and the pastor's kids get drug along for the ride. 00:08:30.865 --> 00:08:37.869 So I as a young age could not figure out where my place was because I had all these other friends that never really understood. 00:08:37.869 --> 00:08:39.902 Because I was the only pastor's kid that I knew local. 00:08:39.902 --> 00:08:49.120 It was hard for me to understand who I was because my responsibilities didn't look like everybody else's. 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:56.335 I didn't know who I was, and there's no age limit on this question. 00:08:56.335 --> 00:08:57.480 Who am I? 00:08:57.480 --> 00:09:02.246 Moses asked this question directly to God who am I? 00:09:02.246 --> 00:09:09.615 Who am I that I can go and be your mouthpiece and speak freedom over a people? 00:09:09.615 --> 00:09:10.360 You know who he was. 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:15.312 He had already infiltrated the enemy's camp and they didn't even know. 00:09:15.312 --> 00:09:18.980 That's who he was. 00:09:18.980 --> 00:09:25.730 He was the secret weapon that God set up and designed for a time such as that. 00:09:27.333 --> 00:09:28.075 Where do I belong? 00:09:28.075 --> 00:09:28.775 Where do I belong? 00:09:28.775 --> 00:09:33.510 We are living in a day where nobody really knows where they belong. 00:09:33.510 --> 00:09:36.129 They're seeking constantly. 00:09:36.129 --> 00:09:38.687 They want to be TikTok famous. 00:09:38.687 --> 00:09:41.067 If you don't know what TikTok is, it's a little short video thing. 00:09:41.067 --> 00:09:42.129 I will explain later. 00:09:42.129 --> 00:10:15.293 It's too much, but like we live in this TikTok day where, like, like it's very quick, very fast and people want to be TikTok famous or they want to be an influencer Like the only influence that I need is I ain't doing it that people base their value and their identity on sexual preference. 00:10:15.293 --> 00:10:32.101 Those two things don't even have anything in common, but they want truth because it feels right to feel that they belong somewhere or with someone. 00:10:32.423 --> 00:10:34.730 Anybody been single before and you just want to have somebody. 00:10:34.730 --> 00:10:45.681 After my first train wreck of a marriage, I didn't think I was going to ever have a lady again in my life and I didn't want no part of it. 00:10:45.681 --> 00:10:55.501 But God sent somebody on my way, come on, and it changed my mind because I was searching for who I was. 00:10:55.501 --> 00:10:57.488 But you know when I really started understanding? 00:10:57.488 --> 00:11:00.261 The answer to that question is when I found out who my God was. 00:11:00.261 --> 00:11:08.934 When I stopped looking inward and start looking upward, I started living forward. 00:11:08.934 --> 00:11:11.203 You ever met someone? 00:11:11.203 --> 00:11:12.606 And listen, guys, I'm not. 00:11:12.606 --> 00:11:16.144 I'm not calling you out, but when we get older, we start living in the past more than we are the present. 00:11:16.144 --> 00:11:25.725 We got a lot more stories and we will end up spending the whole day telling stories and we're missing out what's happening right in front of us. 00:11:25.725 --> 00:11:29.051 That was free, sorry. 00:11:29.051 --> 00:11:32.535 So in Moses' story it didn't start here. 00:11:32.535 --> 00:11:35.971 See, this is where Moses, in this point in time, moses was grown. 00:11:36.592 --> 00:11:39.721 He had been raised in Egypt for at least 40 years. 00:11:39.721 --> 00:11:41.806 Then he did something wrong. 00:11:41.806 --> 00:11:42.928 And what did he do? 00:11:42.928 --> 00:11:43.990 What we all do. 00:11:43.990 --> 00:11:45.212 We tried to cover it up. 00:11:45.212 --> 00:11:49.488 It literally says that he buried the man that he beat and then he ran. 00:11:49.488 --> 00:11:56.047 We try to cover it up and then exclude ourselves from anybody who can point out who we are. 00:11:56.047 --> 00:12:03.229 He ran and in this point in time, he's saying wait a minute, god, are you sure Now? 00:12:03.229 --> 00:12:03.629 Now listen. 00:12:03.629 --> 00:12:11.129 If I walked up outside and there's a bush that is on fire, that is not burning and a voice comes out of it, I'm not asking questions. 00:12:11.129 --> 00:12:19.245 I've lived long enough to know that if something is burning but it's not burning, there's a miracle happening. 00:12:19.245 --> 00:12:22.350 I need to shut up and listen and do as I am told. 00:12:22.350 --> 00:12:32.706 Can I hear any husbands say amen, you don't want to get caught up in that burning bush. 00:12:32.706 --> 00:12:36.374 Sorry, but at this point in time, he'd already made some big mistakes. 00:12:36.374 --> 00:12:43.870 One mistake he could not control and he could not choose was where he was born and the area he was born in. 00:12:47.014 --> 00:12:47.754 You ever felt this way? 00:12:47.754 --> 00:12:55.910 Have you ever been in the middle of a situation, have you been in the middle of a work environment and you said, god, why in the world am I here? 00:12:55.910 --> 00:13:00.527 Have you ever been in the marriage? 00:13:00.527 --> 00:13:15.333 I'm just kidding, okay, all right, that's real, though have you ever had children and you swear they're demonic and you're like Lord, I'm praying, cast out that demon. 00:13:17.299 --> 00:13:25.794 Sometimes, in the middle of situations that are rough and hard and they cause conflict in our lives, we want to question God, why am I here? 00:13:25.794 --> 00:13:27.219 Or who am I? 00:13:27.219 --> 00:13:43.403 That you would put me here, but let me tell you, where you are is exactly where God has designed for you to be, because the surroundings, if you take kids and you put them in a certain scenario, tristan likes to hang out. 00:13:43.403 --> 00:13:44.869 He dresses sports stuff. 00:13:44.869 --> 00:13:49.089 He's got Nike checks on this and all the jogger pants and all this stuff. 00:13:49.089 --> 00:13:50.673 He likes sports. 00:13:50.673 --> 00:13:59.833 If one of his friends that is inside of his influence circle gets a we went through this last year for Christmas they have a dirt bike, they go and they race. 00:13:59.833 --> 00:14:03.804 The kid races with his dad with dirt bikes and all this, and he wanted a dirt bike. 00:14:03.804 --> 00:14:08.894 I said, tristan, you don't know how to ride one, oh, it's easy. 00:14:08.894 --> 00:14:11.448 I'm like, just because you've seen somebody else do it doesn't mean it's easy. 00:14:11.448 --> 00:14:18.672 That dirt bike was not meant for you, because I've seen you drive a regular bike and it ain't going to happen. 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:26.431 But Moses felt like that he was born in the wrong time, in the wrong place. 00:14:26.431 --> 00:14:32.711 Where he was born was actually in bondage. 00:14:32.711 --> 00:14:41.673 Where he was born and brought up was actually in the middle of opposition. 00:14:41.673 --> 00:15:02.847 But I don't know about you, but in the times that are tough for me, whether it be with somebody that I am dealing with, whether it be me dealing with me, there is prime real estate for God to really mature and work on us and work on us. 00:15:02.847 --> 00:15:18.820 The toughest situations that we have issues dealing with usually, if we allow them, will teach us something and create in you the leader that you're supposed to be. 00:15:22.720 --> 00:15:26.436 Where Moses was born in this time and in this place, any other way, any other location, any other family, the mother would not have the wisdom. 00:15:26.436 --> 00:15:33.532 The sister would not have the wisdom to bring Moses to the mother to be nursed. 00:15:33.532 --> 00:15:43.792 In the first place, she was giving up her child because she didn't want to see him die, and actually, when God is in the middle of it, he will restore the house and make it better. 00:15:43.792 --> 00:15:46.587 You know what the Pharaoh's daughter used her for? 00:15:46.587 --> 00:15:49.479 It was a wet nurse To nurse the baby. 00:15:49.479 --> 00:15:58.451 And then, in this culture, the wet nurse would then come into the house of the wealthy person and live there and raise the child as the nanny. 00:15:58.451 --> 00:16:03.024 She gave up. 00:16:03.024 --> 00:16:04.164 Listen, this is the Nihil. 00:16:04.164 --> 00:16:10.289 There are I don't know if it's alligators or crocodiles, it looks the same to me Something vicious in there and they snap and they got strong jaws. 00:16:10.289 --> 00:16:22.226 God saved that baby from going down the wrong river, but allowed it to go just enough, allowed it to get just so far. 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:30.368 Moses, if he was an adult and probably looked back and probably a lot of us are the same way if we look back, we're like I don't know if I would have picked there. 00:16:30.368 --> 00:16:33.785 I don't know if I would have picked then. 00:16:33.785 --> 00:16:37.365 I don't know if I would have picked those parents for me. 00:16:37.365 --> 00:16:39.652 I'm just kidding, mom, I love you. 00:16:39.652 --> 00:16:44.062 That wasn't a stab, that was just. 00:16:44.062 --> 00:16:49.547 I'm just saying we probably probably as many people's in here are watching online. 00:16:49.547 --> 00:16:57.249 We probably have someone that we know that was born into a household that was terrible, that the parents would beat them. 00:16:58.551 --> 00:17:05.230 My mother was raised in a household growing up where her adoptive father was an alcoholic and would beat her mom every weekend. 00:17:05.230 --> 00:17:06.593 He'd work throughout the week. 00:17:06.593 --> 00:17:08.404 He'd get off Friday night and he'd come in drunk. 00:17:08.404 --> 00:17:10.671 He'd flip tables, he'd punch holes in the walls. 00:17:10.671 --> 00:17:17.505 He even a couple of times they ran out in the night through the front yard and he was shooting at them with a shotgun and said if you ever come back, I'll kill you. 00:17:17.505 --> 00:17:29.344 But God had a plan for her, because the circumstance that you were born into does not dictate how God can use you. 00:17:29.344 --> 00:17:32.965 Matter of fact, it fuels what God can do in your life. 00:17:35.416 --> 00:17:43.744 If Moses was not born into this time and this era and this conflict in his life, he would not have had the life that he did. 00:17:43.744 --> 00:17:53.346 He was born into a place to where God, as a baby, infiltrated the enemy's camp years before the freedom came. 00:17:53.346 --> 00:18:14.999 He would not have had the ear of Pharaoh if he wasn't born to this family at this time, wrong place, wrong time, there was an Airbnb commercial and if you guys know what that is, it's a place you can go and stay. 00:18:14.999 --> 00:18:19.198 It's like hotel, but actual houses and it was the whole thing was like a retro theme. 00:18:19.198 --> 00:18:23.968 So they had like records, they had VHSs. 00:18:23.968 --> 00:18:31.219 I was like I mean, they show the wall of a VHS tapes everywhere and I'm like, wow, I thought all those were destroyed. 00:18:31.219 --> 00:18:42.957 And it was actually these young kids that was like early college age and they went for the weekend there and the commercial was pretty much saying have you ever felt like you were born at the wrong time? 00:18:42.957 --> 00:18:47.150 I'm like man Moses, that's actually what spawned this message. 00:18:47.150 --> 00:18:50.862 Moses felt like he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. 00:18:50.862 --> 00:18:56.159 As a young kid I tried to convince my brother that he was adopted. 00:18:56.159 --> 00:19:05.944 I got in major trouble over that, but I wasn't getting all the attention anymore and I felt that he was born in the wrong place at the wrong time. 00:19:09.756 --> 00:19:23.684 When you feel like you don't belong, when you feel like that you're the outcast, you instinctively make enemies out of everyone. 00:19:23.684 --> 00:19:24.246 Your mind. 00:19:24.246 --> 00:19:34.035 It starts to go into this survival mode and psychologists call this a fight or flight. 00:19:34.035 --> 00:19:42.154 You may fight for your place or your territory, or you fly. 00:19:42.154 --> 00:19:52.119 You will pull yourself away from everyone and become secluded and the devil will start whispering in your ear that no one knows how you feel. 00:19:52.119 --> 00:20:02.068 If they only really knew you behind closed doors, if they knew your darkest secrets, your deep thoughts that you hide away, that you don't talk to anybody about. 00:20:02.068 --> 00:20:05.705 If only they knew who you were, you wouldn't be accepted at church. 00:20:07.536 --> 00:20:09.364 Can I tell you that the devil is a liar? 00:20:09.364 --> 00:20:14.865 I talk about my past, methodiction and everything else from a pulpit. 00:20:14.865 --> 00:20:18.444 Don't you be ashamed to let pride stop you from getting free? 00:20:18.444 --> 00:20:23.805 Don't you let the devil whisper in your ear that you're never good enough and too used to be used? 00:20:23.805 --> 00:20:26.819 We've all sinned, we've all messed up. 00:20:26.819 --> 00:20:29.875 None of us are worthy of the blood of Jesus, but he gave it freely. 00:20:29.875 --> 00:20:34.580 None of us are worthy of the blood of Jesus, but he gave it freely. 00:20:34.580 --> 00:20:37.605 That he knew us and yet he still died for us. 00:20:37.605 --> 00:20:41.309 That puts all of us on the same playing field. 00:20:41.309 --> 00:20:51.378 That levels the ground for every sinner, which is every one of us. 00:20:51.378 --> 00:21:00.267 And when we find that voice of our testimony and we start to declare it, it takes away the power of the devil from you, because he has nothing else hidden in secret that he can use against you. 00:21:00.267 --> 00:21:05.266 Now you're telling everybody what God's done and he has no ammunition. 00:21:05.266 --> 00:21:10.226 It's time for us to stop being scared of the devil and start proclaiming what he's done. 00:21:10.226 --> 00:21:14.405 And Jesus has saved us, and it will rob him of his power. 00:21:15.556 --> 00:21:19.386 We talked a few weeks ago about if he can rob you of your testimony, he can rob you of your freedom. 00:21:19.386 --> 00:21:24.642 God designed us for more than that. 00:21:24.642 --> 00:21:33.384 He was born at the exact location and the exact time that all baby boys were supposed to be killed. 00:21:33.384 --> 00:21:44.470 There would have been no other reason for his mom to put him in that river, except there was something coming against that family Sound familiar. 00:21:44.470 --> 00:21:49.858 Jesus went through something very similar when they were trying to kill the firstborn. 00:21:49.858 --> 00:21:52.145 They were trying to find out where Jesus was, because Messiah was coming. 00:21:52.145 --> 00:21:55.325 But he was also born to a mother who had wisdom. 00:21:55.325 --> 00:21:59.246 Thank you, mothers, for keeping us alive. 00:21:59.246 --> 00:22:01.640 Can I get an amen? 00:22:01.640 --> 00:22:01.942 Amen. 00:22:10.683 --> 00:22:18.425 So she asked Pharaoh's daughter and two Moses was raised. 00:22:18.425 --> 00:22:19.528 I mentioned this a minute ago. 00:22:19.528 --> 00:22:22.183 Moses was raised in the enemy's house. 00:22:22.183 --> 00:22:35.203 Now you talk about not feeling like you fit in, and I researched this and I was like okay, so if Moses was raised in the house of Pharaoh, how did he know he didn't belong there? 00:22:35.203 --> 00:22:46.407 Because his mother was there teaching him about God the whole time, even in the enemy's camp, when you don't feel like you belong, god will still be in the middle of it. 00:22:46.407 --> 00:22:52.948 So the very oppressor of her people asked her to raise her own son. 00:22:52.948 --> 00:23:01.506 No matter the situation, no matter how the circumstance looks or feels, when you place it in the hands of God, it will work together for your good. 00:23:01.506 --> 00:23:07.703 Moses didn't just have an annoying next-door neighbor. 00:23:07.703 --> 00:23:12.407 He was literally raised in the same house as his oppressors. 00:23:12.407 --> 00:23:18.363 It wasn't somebody at his job he didn't like or he had conflict with, and they always butted heads. 00:23:18.363 --> 00:23:28.738 He was in the enemy's house, the very enemy's household that was being raised in the specific situation God was setting him up. 00:23:28.798 --> 00:23:29.380 Let me explain. 00:23:29.380 --> 00:23:33.415 A Hebrew cannot just walk into the house of Pharaoh and have his ear. 00:23:33.415 --> 00:23:39.348 Pharaoh despised Anybody else hear that there's something running across here. 00:23:39.348 --> 00:23:46.076 Pharaoh despised the Hebrews, so much so that he told the slave drivers harder, harder, work them harder. 00:23:46.076 --> 00:23:47.839 They're multiplying, stop. 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:54.237 God started blessing them in the middle of the oppression because we serve a God of justice. 00:23:54.237 --> 00:24:01.617 We serve a God that favors the weak and will lift the strong or the weak and will make the weak strong. 00:24:01.617 --> 00:24:07.699 God has blessed them even though Pharaoh oppressed them harder, worked them to death, killing their baby boys. 00:24:07.699 --> 00:24:10.124 God infiltrated the house in spite of what was going on. 00:24:11.287 --> 00:24:13.498 That was born in the wrong place and the wrong time. 00:24:13.498 --> 00:24:21.219 You see, god's setups oftentimes look like bad situations, but it's a setup. 00:24:21.219 --> 00:24:23.884 Turn to your neighbor and say it's a setup. 00:24:23.884 --> 00:24:27.416 Tell him, like you know, it's true, it's a setup. 00:24:27.416 --> 00:24:29.902 He was born in the wrong place. 00:24:29.902 --> 00:24:38.125 He was born at the wrong time, raised in the enemy's house so that years later, when God sent him, he would have the ear of Pharaoh. 00:24:38.125 --> 00:24:49.305 You know, when I studied this, I was like you know, okay, I understand how Moses realized he wasn't Egyptian because his mother was there. 00:24:49.305 --> 00:24:50.391 How did Pharaoh not know Egyptian? 00:24:50.391 --> 00:24:51.154 Because his mother was there? 00:24:51.154 --> 00:24:55.530 How did Pharaoh not know? 00:24:55.530 --> 00:24:56.979 You ever thought about that? 00:24:56.979 --> 00:24:58.402 So we know that Pharaoh's daughter. 00:24:58.402 --> 00:25:10.252 When he found the baby, she said it was a Hebrew child, and so I looked this up and I'm like how did she know? 00:25:10.252 --> 00:25:10.835 But Pharaoh didn't know. 00:25:10.835 --> 00:25:15.061 Most likely the baby was wrapped in Hebrew clothes. 00:25:15.163 --> 00:25:23.144 But by this time in history, the Hebrews and the Egyptians have been in the same region for about 130 years. 00:25:23.144 --> 00:25:27.539 They had the same climate, they had the same sun. 00:25:27.539 --> 00:25:38.236 Most of the time they probably ate close to the same food because you have to grow it in that region, and so after years and years of integration, they probably looked a lot the same. 00:25:38.236 --> 00:25:40.825 I never thought of that before. 00:25:40.825 --> 00:25:41.689 I was like, well, that's kind of cool. 00:25:41.689 --> 00:25:48.099 So after 130 years, throughout the years in different nationalities, they intermingled, and generations later they started to look similar. 00:25:48.099 --> 00:25:50.434 There wasn't such a distinction between them anymore, and generations later they started to look similar. 00:25:50.434 --> 00:25:55.932 There wasn't such a distinction between them anymore. 00:25:55.951 --> 00:25:56.413 So wait a minute. 00:25:56.413 --> 00:25:59.252 You're telling me that over 130 years ago, god set this up to happen. 00:25:59.252 --> 00:26:01.602 Right now, don't tell me God don't care about you. 00:26:01.602 --> 00:26:12.681 If he can send a little baby boy into the Pharaoh's house to bring that house down and set free God's people, what can he do for you? 00:26:12.681 --> 00:26:16.057 What can he do for us? 00:26:16.057 --> 00:26:23.682 God's chosen one, the one to deliver his people, bring them into the promised land that God had designed specifically for them. 00:26:23.682 --> 00:26:24.984 He had been promising that. 00:26:24.984 --> 00:26:27.538 God set it up in such a way. 00:26:27.538 --> 00:26:36.200 The enemy thought he had God's people defeated, but in reality, god had already set the Israelites up for victory. 00:26:36.441 --> 00:26:39.407 I don't know what's going on in your life, but let me tell you something. 00:26:39.407 --> 00:26:41.020 You're not here by accident. 00:26:41.020 --> 00:26:52.606 You're not hearing this message today, by accident, god is setting you up for freedom and for free true love that you have never felt before in your life and for free true love that you have never felt before in your life. 00:26:52.606 --> 00:26:55.707 It's a setup. 00:26:55.707 --> 00:27:00.772 He loves you that much. 00:27:01.075 --> 00:27:02.758 You may not feel like you were born in the right era. 00:27:02.758 --> 00:27:04.821 You may not feel that you were born in the right house. 00:27:04.821 --> 00:27:06.645 Maybe you had the wrong kids. 00:27:06.645 --> 00:27:08.628 Anybody ever look at somebody else's kids. 00:27:08.628 --> 00:27:12.980 I wish mine acted that way. 00:27:12.980 --> 00:27:13.741 Then nobody lied. 00:27:13.761 --> 00:27:14.483 We've all been there. 00:27:14.483 --> 00:27:21.836 There've been times and fits in Walmart and I'm like, oh my goodness, what if I? 00:27:21.836 --> 00:27:22.939 Just what happens if I put you in their cart? 00:27:22.939 --> 00:27:23.980 I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. 00:27:23.980 --> 00:27:30.522 Or maybe you've looked at somebody else and you feel like that you should have had their gifts, you should have had their house. 00:27:30.522 --> 00:27:37.843 You should have had their job, you should oh, if I had their spouse, we'd never fight. 00:27:37.843 --> 00:27:42.498 I'm going to leave that one alone. 00:27:42.498 --> 00:27:44.281 You know what I'm talking about. 00:27:44.281 --> 00:27:50.423 We live a life of jealousy, of what ifs and oh, if I had, life would be better. 00:27:50.463 --> 00:27:55.325 If you can't get your junk together, you're still going to carry you around when you get in a different situation. 00:27:55.325 --> 00:28:02.023 You may get mad at a church and leave it, but guess what? 00:28:02.023 --> 00:28:03.307 At the other church you're still there. 00:28:03.307 --> 00:28:09.423 I'm sorry that was a little too hard of a truth, but it's real. 00:28:09.423 --> 00:28:12.161 You still got to deal with you. 00:28:12.161 --> 00:28:22.267 It might not be the other person's fault, but listen, you may feel like you don't have the right personality. 00:28:24.194 --> 00:28:30.943 Peter, at some point in the Bible, had to think maybe I don't have the right personality for this. 00:28:30.943 --> 00:28:32.395 Think about it. 00:28:32.395 --> 00:28:37.556 Always sticking his foot in his mouth, always going the extra mile in the wrong direction. 00:28:37.556 --> 00:28:41.763 So much so that Jesus himself said I rebuke you Satan. 00:28:41.763 --> 00:28:53.906 And then called him a cornerstone Because, in the hands of God, whatever junk you got, he can use it. 00:28:53.906 --> 00:28:57.471 Because it's not just so happens. 00:28:57.471 --> 00:28:58.719 It's a setup. 00:29:00.282 --> 00:29:01.507 God has designed you. 00:29:01.507 --> 00:29:02.691 He's put you where you are. 00:29:02.691 --> 00:29:08.915 He's put you in the surroundings that you are to make a difference and not to stay there and sulk because things aren't the way you wish they were. 00:29:08.915 --> 00:29:15.288 It's a setup he knew before the beginning of time. 00:29:15.288 --> 00:29:18.435 He chose you. 00:29:18.435 --> 00:29:24.848 You are a royal priesthood designed specifically for a time such as this. 00:29:24.848 --> 00:29:27.743 You are not an accident. 00:29:27.743 --> 00:29:40.958 God has designed and sculpted you before you were even in your mother's womb, with a destiny, a divine destiny, a revelation from God that is going to come to you and open up what your purpose is. 00:29:40.958 --> 00:29:42.640 You are not an accident. 00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:48.650 Know your place and your place is here. 00:29:50.997 --> 00:29:55.355 If you are feeling unfulfilled when you come to a body of believers, you're not serving. 00:29:55.355 --> 00:30:05.190 If you don't feel like your church is doing something, do something about it. 00:30:05.190 --> 00:30:11.741 But you're placed exactly where. 00:30:11.741 --> 00:30:14.448 Listen, god allows us to make our own choices. 00:30:14.448 --> 00:30:27.609 We have free will, but I believe that even through what I put myself through now, god is using it to reach others. 00:30:27.609 --> 00:30:34.307 Did you not know that God can use our stupidity for someone else's salvation? 00:30:34.307 --> 00:30:37.897 And thank God he does. 00:30:38.739 --> 00:30:41.884 Even in my sin, it still becomes a setup. 00:30:41.884 --> 00:30:44.209 That excites me. 00:30:44.209 --> 00:30:45.316 It makes me listen. 00:30:45.316 --> 00:30:50.468 You will never, ever doubt me as the leader of this church more than me. 00:30:50.468 --> 00:30:56.035 Ever doubt me as the leader of this church more than me. 00:30:56.035 --> 00:31:03.712 You will never question how much I have studied or read the word of God. 00:31:03.712 --> 00:31:06.237 More than me, I doubt myself daily. 00:31:06.237 --> 00:31:13.584 You will never look at me with more uncertain eyes than I look at myself every day in the mirror, because I am not worthy. 00:31:13.584 --> 00:31:17.624 I know who I am. 00:31:17.624 --> 00:31:24.938 I know what I've been, but I'm here to tell somebody today that it doesn't matter where you came from, where you're going. 00:31:24.938 --> 00:31:27.605 God has set it up for your success. 00:31:27.605 --> 00:31:37.838 That who you are is exactly who God can use, because every single person in here there's nobody designed the same. 00:31:37.838 --> 00:31:41.367 Even Daytona and Commer are designed a little bit different. 00:31:41.367 --> 00:31:48.428 Even twins are different, because there's no one who is supposed to do the same job. 00:31:48.428 --> 00:31:54.403 You can reach someone and have a conversation with somebody that I will never be able to reach and have a conversation with. 00:31:55.395 --> 00:32:14.115 And if we, as a body of believers, start to step into this setup and understand that it's not the pastor's job, that it's not the pastor's job to reach where you go to work, it's not the pastor's job to reach where you go to work, it's not the pastor's job to reach your family. 00:32:14.115 --> 00:32:19.645 I will be a part of it as much as you want me to be, but I cannot do it all. 00:32:19.645 --> 00:32:20.708 I need you. 00:32:20.708 --> 00:32:25.567 That is your place with me, with Pastor Jesse side by side. 00:32:25.567 --> 00:32:31.607 We have got to reach this community because we have people around us that are celebrating sin. 00:32:31.607 --> 00:32:37.094 To reach this community because we have people around us that are celebrating sin. 00:32:37.094 --> 00:32:41.970 I'll do some online arguing with that one. 00:32:41.970 --> 00:32:45.557 Listen, we live in a day that celebrates sin. 00:32:45.557 --> 00:32:50.684 It's time that we show them how to celebrate Jesus and show them what true salvation and freedom looks like. 00:32:50.684 --> 00:32:51.306 Did you know? 00:32:51.385 --> 00:32:59.507 Paul wrote to churches that had homosexuals once and he said that you once lived that lifestyle, but God set you free. 00:32:59.507 --> 00:33:01.923 God is here for the homosexuals. 00:33:01.923 --> 00:33:09.848 If God can save me, addicted to meth and living in my car and all the things that I did, that was wrong, because sin is sin. 00:33:09.848 --> 00:33:13.424 God can save people in sexual immorality. 00:33:13.424 --> 00:33:21.606 God does not hold your sin against you once it's washed in the blood. 00:33:21.606 --> 00:33:25.943 We cannot either. 00:33:30.096 --> 00:33:30.718 That's a tough one. 00:33:30.718 --> 00:33:36.483 Anybody else ever before in the history of you going to church ever thought that someone couldn't serve because of their sin? 00:33:36.483 --> 00:33:40.880 How's your toes? 00:33:40.880 --> 00:33:42.663 Y'all wear your steel toes today. 00:33:42.663 --> 00:33:44.969 Listen, we cannot. 00:33:44.969 --> 00:33:49.160 All right, I'm gonna walk slow. 00:33:49.160 --> 00:33:56.009 We cannot tell God who's allowed to serve. 00:33:56.009 --> 00:34:00.457 That's the nicest way I can say. 00:34:00.457 --> 00:34:02.381 It Is that okay you guys? 00:34:02.381 --> 00:34:06.288 All right, we have got to. 00:34:06.288 --> 00:34:12.226 You cannot tell God who is allowed to serve in the church. 00:34:12.226 --> 00:34:22.985 The very serving could bring them to salvation, because when they see us, this is the commandment that Jesus gave. 00:34:23.456 --> 00:34:32.666 I preached from it before that we are to show love to each other so that they know what love is If they're serving alongside us and seeing that we actually do love each other. 00:34:32.666 --> 00:34:49.286 How in the world can they see what real love is if we never allow them in, because they're searching to know who they are, just like we have all searched and probably still are searching on who we are? 00:34:49.286 --> 00:34:51.518 It's not a sin to not know who you are. 00:34:51.518 --> 00:34:55.221 As long as you know who Jesus is, he'll work out the rest. 00:34:55.221 --> 00:34:58.461 But you are not an accident. 00:34:58.461 --> 00:35:03.186 Listen, there's a pastor or evangelist. 00:35:03.186 --> 00:35:05.083 I don't know what he is, but his name is Todd White. 00:35:05.083 --> 00:35:07.844 He does not look like your typical minister. 00:35:07.844 --> 00:35:11.822 The man's got dreadlocks down to like here. 00:35:11.822 --> 00:35:15.159