Way maker

We’ve all been in a place where we’ve asked in prayer for a way of escape to be made out of a situation that’s causing us distress, putting us in danger or causing emotional pain. And yet we often miss the fact that we’re in a relationship with a God that sees all, knows all and is all powerful. So why then do we not more readily lean into the knowledge that if he knew I was going to be here, he’s already made a way? So maybe our prayer needs to change from “Lord make a way.” to “Lord please help me to see the way you’ve already made, and trust you to walk me through it.” We explore this in more depth through the story of the Exodus and the Israelite people walking across the Red Sea. 

Notes:
- Exodus 13:17-18 - (Sets the path) First he tells them what he’s going to do. Then blocks them in. (Ref 3 Hebrew boys - Daniel 3:13-27) (Peter walks on water  Matthew 14:22-33)
- Exodus 13:21-22 - (He’ll give you everything you need) Everything they needed for the journey they had. God will equip you with every thing you need, what you don’t have is not necessary. (Ref Jesus sends out his disciples Matthew 10:1-10)
- Exodus 14:1-4 - (Sets the plan) God is precise about the way to go not only to preserve Israel’s hope but to also confuse the enemy. There is a dual purpose situation going on here, for Israel it’s about freedom and identity, for God it’s about promises and honour. (Ref Genesis 12:1-3 God calls Abram to a better place).
- Exodus 14:8-12 - (Reactionary Fear) The sight of what they had left and thought they had overcome turned joyful hope into crippling fear and anxiety, even to the point where going back seemed like a better option. (Ref Matthew 14:22-33 Peter begins to sink)
- Exodus 14:13-18 - (Faith restored) Moses reiterates to the people who god is and what he’s said. He also takes a minute to freak out privately, God reaffirms his promise, repeats the plan and tells Moses to keep walking forward with the tool he already provided him. (Ref Job 42:1-6).
- Exodus 14:21-22/26-31 - (Action and counter action) Moses does as commanded by God, takes his rod and stretches it, thus completing his side of the bargain in the transaction. God opens, carry’s, keeps  apart (Egyptians) and then closes the sea once all is safe for Israel. Moses action called into play Gods counter action that allowed his honour to be restored.

Transcript

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Hello everybody and welcome to Rima Reloaded with me, Sean Williams. It is an honour, a privilege, and a pleasure. A pleasure. Even with my Justin Timblade jacket. Don't hold the banters. Hold the banters. Say it in your head. Don't let it come out of your mouth. Let's get into it. Um, I'm so happy for you all to be with us here today. I hope that you enjoyed our last Bible study. Um, I'm gonna tell on myself a little bit, guys. I was having a conversation with the Holy Spirit, and I was I was in prayer and I was complaining about a couple of things. Um, and I was like, Lord, make a now the sentence and the statement that I was going to finish was Lord make a way. I got to the Lord Maker, and the Holy Spirit was just like, if I'm omnipresent, I'm everywhere, I'm omniscient, I'm all-knowing, and I'm omnipotent, I'm all powerful. Is it that you need me to make a way, or is it that you need to pray for better vision so that you can see the way that's already been made? And obviously, dum dummy, I was like, Yeah, you're probably right there, Jesus. I probably need to, I need better vision. So he was like, Sean, pray for insight over eyesight, pray for foresight instead of hindsight. And I was like, Holy Spirit, what stops us from seeing the way that you've made in moments where we know that you've taken care of everything, but sometimes it just feels like it's slipping away. Which took me to the book of Exodus, okay? And if you will turn with me to the book of Exodus, chapter 13. Um, we're going to start at verse 17, and we're gonna go to verse 18. And I've broken this down because I want to set um today's Bible study is gonna be called Waymaker, and I've broken this down because what I want to do is I want us to hack our processes. So many times we go through certain situations or moments, and it's almost like we use the Holy Spirit as a last minute.com Superman or saviour, right? So, because as humans, there's a certain element and part of us where we love control, like we like control because there is so much of our lives where we don't feel in control. Many of us are in jobs that if we could probably change, we would. Um, some of us are in situations that we may feel either constricted by or bound by. Um sometimes because of when we look at society, our social standing, we feel like there's always either somebody over us, and if there is somebody over us, then we're trying to make sure that we're keeping control of everything under us, right? And the reason why we ask the Holy Spirit to get involved at the last minute is because at that point we, you, I have exhausted every single idea that we think will get us there. And sometimes, a bit like Job, we are victims of conversations that we were never present for. The Bible says in the book of Job that the sons of God presented themselves before God and in walk Satan. And God's like, Where have you been? He's like walking up and down, he's like, doing what? You know, just surveying stuff. And then God's like, You seen Job? No, this isn't that Bible study. I will do a Bible study on that because I felt some of you even just in my heart go, tell me more. Um, Job became uh a victim of a conversation he was never even present before. And if you know that story and you're familiar with those passages of scriptures, Job went through some some ridiculous things. Things that most of us, after the first thing, probably would have thrown our hands in here and gone, no. But what does the story tell us at the end? That his faith and his trust in God, even when he couldn't see it, meant that when God would come to him and qualify his whole experience, not only did Job get double, but he had a greater understanding of who God was, and it meant his relationship was firmer and deeper, right? So the first uh subheading that I want to talk about when God is making a way is he sets the path, okay. Um, Exodus 13, 17 to 18, and it reads thus when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country, though that was shorter. This is very important, okay. So God is leading Israel out of Egypt because we've just had um what we now know to be the Passover within um Judaism, and the updated version of the Passover, as we understand in Christendom, it's communion, right? Um, because Passover celebrates Israel leaving Egypt, um, unleavened bread, the the sacrifice, the sacrificing of the lamb and the blood over the door so that when the angel of death came over, it passed over them. And then we understood that at the Last Supper that what Jesus and his disciples were celebrating was Passover, and then Jesus was like, This is gonna have different significance, and they were like, Why? Because the symbolic um representation of the sacrificial lamb I am, and you remember he broke the bread and he said, This is my body broken for you, and he gave them the wine, he said, This is my blood shed for you, right? So, what we're seeing is that they've now come out of Egypt, so there is great celebration going on amongst the people, the same way it is with us. Come on, you know when you've been in a tricky situation and you get out and you're a bit like and then you're like, Wait there, and you're so caught up in the celebration of the release of the moment, sometimes you don't see what's happening on the road. Let me get back into this. So when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country. How do we know about the Philistines? Because later we would hear about David and who? Goliath. And Goliath was an a fighter for the armies of the Philistines. Um, and he didn't take them through that because even though it was shorter, for God said if they face war, they might change their minds and return to Egypt. Imagine you've been in slavery for 400 years, right? And God, who knows everything, sees everything, is everywhere, is all powerful. He sits there and goes, based on what these guys have been through, I might not take them through the Philistine country. Because the visual representation of more struggle might cause them to repent. Now, I want to clear up this word repent because a lot of us, when we hear the word repent, we in our mind, and obviously I'm gonna project a concept to you. I feel like most of us think and see and connect it to a person going, you're wrong, you need to do better, you're evil. It's not that. To repent means not just to say sorry. Saying sorry is a fruit of the act of repentance. I'm gonna let you, I'm gonna make that make sense. Repentance is actually a complete mind change. If I'm going in this direction, repentance spins me 180 degrees and sends me in the opposite direction. And because I'm going in the opposite direction, my understanding not only of self but to change the action means that apology, sincere apology, is a bypart and process of repentance. Because I've now turned my action, my mind, my thinking, I'm able now in equilibrium to look at a situation, and when I apologize, my apology now comes with the assurance of not repeating that. Why I don't think in the same way. Repentance can't be doing anything, can't be about necessary, it can be about doing wrong, but it's not fundamentally about doing wrong. Why? Because the Bible tells us in the book of Genesis, I think chapter 7 or 8, when he's looking at what's going on in the time of Noah, the Bible said it repented God. That he made man. Where else do we see this? In the book of 1 Samuel, in uh I think it's either chapter 16, 17, or 18, Samuel is crying because Saul has done so wrong. And the Bible says, it repented God that he allowed Saul to become king. So repentance isn't necessarily about doing wrong, it's about changing your mind. So God sits here and he's looking at the situation, he's looking at Israel, and imagine he's watching a joyful, jubilant Israel, but underneath the joy and the jubilance, there's an anxiety. God sees on top of the surface, but he also sees what's going on underneath. There is nothing that you're feeling that you're going through, irrespective of what you're showing the world, that he's not taking into consideration. The Bible doesn't tell us that Israel were trembling, everybody was looking to their sides. There was none of that going on. They were like, yo, we're leaving with stuff. I've got a little golden cow, I've got myself some other tools, I've got some food. But God was able to look past the physical expression and see the internal condition. Oh, that's good. It just slapped me in the face. God could look past the external expression and see the internal condition and go, they're not ready to go through there. Verse 18. So God led the people around by the desert road toward the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of Egypt ready for battle. Okay, so what we're looking at is that the Egyptians have basically said, I don't think we should let these Israelites go. I don't think this is a good idea. The children of Israel are leaving, but God is sitting there and He's saying, I'm not going to take them through the Philistine country because if I do that, they're not ready to fight, they might go back. And also the Philistines might join the Egyptians, and all of a sudden, ah, this becomes slightly techie, right? So the first thing when God is making a way, he sets the path. This is what we're seeing. In uh Exodus 13, 17, and 18, going to the beginning of 19, God is setting the path, he is mapping the way. And for those of us that are reading it in this moment and experiencing it in this moment, we can see objectively like there's more than one way to go, right? Now, the next thing we see, and I'm gonna take you to verses 21 and 22. After God sets the path, he'll give you everything that you need. You are equipped for the journey ahead on the path that he's set for you. Let's go to verses 20, 21, and 22. After leaving Sukhof, they camped at Etham on the edge of the desert. By day the Lord went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud. Okay, so in the daytime, because you remember, these are people that have been enslaved for four centuries, they don't know where they're going, they don't know left from right. It's just one bit of the desert to the next part of the desert. So God was like, I tell you what, since I'm bringing you onto myself, I'm gonna give you a pillar of cloud by day so that you can see which way to go, and then at night, because it would have been pitch black, it's not like we have in our modern times, we've got street lamps and cat eyes and all these other wonderful things. God's like, No, no, no, no, no, no. That pillar of cloud in the daytime will turn into a pillar of fire by night. Okay, and the reason he did this was to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light so that they could travel by day or night. Verse 22 Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night left its place in front of the people. Okay, now what we're seeing here is that irrespective of how unfamiliar the territory is, God will never leave you. Say that to yourself right now. God, thank you for never leaving me. These people were on their own. In in terms of a physical accompaniment or or expression, they're runaways. And yet the God of the universe will sit there and go, I won't leave. I haven't left you for the last 400 years, but in this moment of transition, in this moment of transformation, I'm not gonna leave you. I'm gonna stay right here. You have everything you need. You just need to keep putting one foot in front of the other. So, what God does is he provides a great sign. He doesn't ask them to walk without any sign. He goes, There I am. Walk. Oftentimes, when God is taking you to next or he's leading you out of something, he'll walk with you, but he'll walk with you on the basis that he will give you something to walk towards. You have to be able to know the difference. Your relationship with God, your understanding of his word with time spent in meditating day and night, taking the word in, letting it be a guard to your heart and a contentment for your mind. That's what gives you the peace. There's a very uh famous hymn that we sing, and it's called Trust and Obey. Now, for our generation, trust and obey feels like an archaic, an old sense of thinking and feeling. Why? Because we want control.

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We don't no one can tell me what to do. I'm the master of my life until it goes wrong. And then we're all scrolling for every inspirational quote you can get your hands on, right?

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And yet, everything you need to know about every single day that you're gonna walk in this transition of your life, you have access to. You have to trust the thing before you obey the thing. The reason I don't put metal in the microwave is because once I left the spoon in the bowl, and all of a sudden, the microwave turned into a November the 5th firework show. So I obey the rules of the instructions of the microwave because it told me don't put metal in there, bro. This is not gonna end well. So, because I had my own experience, I trusted the information, and guess what I do now? I obey the microwave. I don't be putting nothing metal-y or nothing plasticky or anything that could be kind of like why? Because I had through my own experience, I was able to access the information to then know that I can trust it. This is what God is doing here, right now. The next thing I want to do is I want to take you to Exodus 14, verse 1 and verse 4. So, our first um, our first bullet point is God sets the path. When he's making the way, he sets the path. The second thing he does is he'll give you everything you need, he will equip you for every moment of every part of this journey. Third thing, he sets the plan. Okay, come with me to uh the book of Exodus 14, 1 to 4, and don't worry, the notes are in the description. So you should be going in there, taking them, writing some stuff down because I've got some reference scriptures and doing your own studying. Okay, do not turn me into a little black Jesus. I am not he. I am not he. I am just a regular guy that loves God, that's trying to get it right. So the same word, the same process that you have to go through, it's the same process I have to go through. When we get to heaven, I won't be teaching Bible study. You will not be leading praise and worship. It will not be happening. So we're here to edify one another, right? To strengthen one another, to connect so that as ambassadors and citizens of the kingdom, we can make sure that we're expressing in the perfect nature as God would call us to, the culture of the kingdom. Okay, so Exodus 14, um 1 to 4, we now see that God is setting the plan. Okay, let me read it. Then the Lord said to Moses, Tell the Israel, tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hyroth, between Migdal and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea directly opposite Belziphon. Pharaoh will think, God is so sneaky here. The Israelites are wandering around the land in confusion, hemmed in by the desert, and I will harden Pharaoh's heart. Wow. Imagine a God of love decides, nah, I'ma let you have it. Crazy. I will harden Pharaoh's heart and he will pursue them. Now hear the underpinning, but I will gain glory for myself through Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord. So the Israelites did this. When God says a plan, he's precise. He's precise. Why? Because your plan is generally only taking on two of the three dimensions. Most of the time, one. Or our plan usually takes on one of the three dimensions. You are a spirit, you live in a body, you have a soul. For most of us, our plan only takes care of our body, our environmental world. For those of us that are a little bit more clued in, we'll sit there and we'll take in the soul realm, the self-conscious. How is this, how what is this putting out in the world in terms of the emotive expression, my intention, right? You see, God, He only knows how to deal in 3 and 4D. Why? Because He created all of the dimensions, He knows exactly where everything lives. In a natural sense, he has Israel covered. Why? Because the Bible says they left Egypt with spoils on an emotional sense, a self-conscience, a self-conscious level, he's got them covered. Why? There's a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. Emotionally, their self-consciousness can't. Okay, God's in control. And spiritually, why are they covered? Because God is fulfilling a promise that he gave to their forefathers Abraham. Abraham to Isaac, Isaac to Jacob, Jacob and his sons. How do we know this promise is being fulfilled? Because the Bible says in Exodus 13, you can read this, that Moses had to take the bones of Joseph. Yes, Mr. Technicolor Dream Coat himself. Mr. Brothers, you're gonna serve me because I'm gonna be a great king. Mr. Oh my gosh, I want Joseph. Remember Pot of his wife? She kind of wanted the boy, right? She saw him and was like, mmm, and he was like, Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Let me tell you something, let me tell you something. And then what happens? He goes to jail only for God to raise him up, right? So we can see that God has got Israel covered on every level and every dimension. Now, the only problem is Israel are blocked in. They are all the way blocked in. Why? Because now God hasn't taken through the Philistine country, but what he has done, he's taken them by the sea. Which means mountain, mountain, Pharaoh, sea. When God is changing something in your life, he'll block you in. I know. Let's all take a communal sip. How do we let that one just think in? Let me tell you why I'm taking a minute. You know when we're all praying, and the reason most of the time we pray is because we kind of feel blocked in, right?

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We very rarely sit there, oh God, thank you for blocking me in. I can't move anywhere, I can't do anything.

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Right? None of us are praying that. But we have a clear instruction here God blocks them in. Why? Because not only is he delivering Israel, he is making a point to Pharaoh. Now, in previous uh Bible studies, I've explained to you that in Egypt. Culture, Pharaoh was seen as a god. When God sends Moses to Pharaoh, he tells Moses, Oh no, no, no, you are going to be in the physical me. Aaron will be you.

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Aaron was his brother because Moses was like, God, I can't talk, and I stand right and I don't feel good about myself.

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And God was like, Shut up. I don't care. Great. Go get your brother. He'll talk, you'll tell him what to say. So God isn't just dealing with Egypt because I've heard people go, Well, if God is God, why would He let this happen and that happen? Because we have the power to choose against Him. Let me tell you something. Somebody said to me, Well, if God's God, why does bad things happen? Because bad things are a consequence of the power to choose. And the problem that we have, especially in this day and age and this generation, we won't look beyond the choice that we made. We won't follow it back and go, well, what was my output at this point? And what did I do in this moment that shaped me to take that route? No. Because we're so self-consumed with ourselves, we're so obsessed with ourselves. Oh well, I didn't do that. You think God's got time to sit there and dish out pain and sorrow and destruction to the thing He loves most? Because, well, I'm God and I feel like it. No, dummies. What happened in the Garden of Eden? Chilling. God just says a couple of things, and it's no different than what. And if you grew up in a West Indian household, you may have experienced this. And you may have experienced actually just general households. There was always one room that you weren't allowed to go into. Okay, now it it when me and my brothers grew up, it was the front living room. That room was a monument to itself. The cushions were perfect, they were pristine, carpet, everything the pictures on the mantelpiece perfect. Why? That if we should have some house guests, that room was always ready to go, and we were told that we couldn't go in that space. Right? That we couldn't go in that room. The consequences of us going in that room meant our parents might discipline us. Because when they need it, if it doesn't look the way it needs to look upon presentation, there would be consequences to that action. Right? So a lot of the time when we experience things that feel negative or feel hard, sometimes we are experiencing, or not sometimes, but 99.9% of the times we are merely experiencing the consequences of previous choices. And instead of realizing that we serve a God and we have a God that loves us beyond what we can do, everything that we go through is to bring us closer to Him. Enjoy your sorrow, to draw closer to Him, to anchor into Him. Right? So what we're looking at is that sometimes the physical sight of what's going is what creates the reactional fear. Let me take you to verse 8 and let me show you what this reactional fear looks like. Um, so the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh the king of Egypt so that he pursued the Israelites who were marching out boldly, right? Remember, I told you there was celebration, people at gas were like, yeah, we're leaving Egypt.

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Whoop, whoop, whoop.

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So the Egyptians, all of Pharaoh's horses and his chariots, horsemen and troops. Did you hear that little rundown of who he was rolling on, like who he was rolling out with? Let me say one more time for you. The Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, his horsemen, and his troops pursued the Israelites and overtook them as they camped by the sea near Pihairoth opposite Balcephon. As Pharaoh approached the Israelites, looked up, their men were like, You have got to be kidding. You know that when it's like dum dum dum. Okay, that's this moment, right? And it says, as Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians marching after them. This is the best bit. They were terrified and cried out to the Lord. They said to Moses, now imagine, how can you be terrified, right? Crying out to God, yeah, and then you're like, I can't see him. And then they go, they turn to the visual representation of who they could see. Because remember, I said to you that when God charged Moses with this, the first thing he said to Moses was like, Listen, you're gonna be the visual representation of me, because you already know these people. They they need to see stuff. You humans, you need to see stuff, right? So they turn to Moses and they said to Moses, Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? You done spent 400 years in slavery. And you'd think if you were gonna die, you'd at least want to die a free person, right? Don't worry, I'll wait. You spend that amount of time, and you'd rather perish. Right? In what you were waiting to be taken out of. But what we're looking at in their response is a trauma. Why? Because this was the first clue that was going to let us know that they were never going to spend the 40 days they needed in the wilderness, and those 40 days was gonna turn to 40 years. Why? Because of this heart, mind, mind, heart. The Bible says it's with this that we make confession, but it's with this that we believe. You see, when you're scared, what's truly in you that's what comes out. The Bible said just a couple of verses before that, they were marching out boldly, doing the Macarena, whatever the version was in their time. Or, you know, you know the little the dance for candy, they would they would bopping. And all of a sudden they look behind. You know when you do the the knee thing and you turn around, they're like, oh, the Egyptians, all of a sudden the dance is done, and it's like, tell them I want my money back, and God's like, it's a good thing I've got a plan, right? So let me take you to um verse 12. Didn't we say to you in Egypt, this is them still freaking out, leave us alone, let us serve the Egyptians. It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians and to die in the desert. Moses answered the people, do not be afraid. Now we're looking at faith restored. Why? Because God, God's visual representation of who he is and what he wants to do is this guy. So Moses turns around and says, Do not be afraid, stand firm, and you will see the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you. You need only be still. Now, this is the part that I really love because this is now going to help us just to wrap up our Bible study today. Sometimes you're gonna say stuff in the moment and you're gonna exhibit fear, you're gonna exhibit faith, excuse me, that your fear is trying to overcome. When your trust is in God, that does not mean that fear will be eradicated. It just means that your faith has a greater stake in the whole than your fear does. Let me make it make sense.

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Moses in verse 13 has just said to the people, Don't be afraid, stand firm, you'll see the deliverance.

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But we know Moses was saying something that he didn't necessarily believe or couldn't see himself. How do we know this? Let me take you to verse 15. In verse 14, Moses just saying, All you've got to do is stand still and watch God do his stuff, right? The beginning of 15 says, Then the Lord said to Moses, why are you crying out to me? The God is delivering to calm down. Satan went, I'll tell you what, guys. Um, I just got to use the toilet, I'm just gonna go around the rock real quick. Moses got around the time, God, help me.

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He just said to the people, Don't be afraid, God will fight for us, He'll deliver us. Yeah, stand still, give me a second. Moses, like God, help me.

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The reason I'm laughing, I know this well, not in this same way, because I haven't had to stand at the banks of the River Canam or the Thames and be like open, but we've all gone through experiences and situations in our life where you're speaking faith, but all you feel is fear, like real fear. You are you know what to pray, you are um speaking the word according to your situation, and even though you believe it's hard to not see what's in front of you. Remember at the beginning, I was talking about switching eyesight for insight. Eyesight projects, it's the projection of what's happening externally, right? Insight is your ability to see within what's happening in the moment. Hindsight is your ability after the thing to look back and go, oh, retrospectively, this is what was meant to happen. Foresight tells you what's going to happen before it happens. And yet, in this moment of fear, Moses cries out to God and he says, God, help. And this is where sometimes God gets frustrated with us. Actually, let me read this and then let me bring that point back. Verse 15 and the Lord says to Moses, Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on, raise your staff, stretch out your hand over these seas, and divide the water so the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground. And then remind Moses, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians that they will go in after you, and I will gain glory on Pharaoh and all his army. God was pretty much saying to Moses, Moses, I saved you as a baby in the Nile from those crocodiles. Moses, I'm the one that took you across a desert that should have killed you to become a shepherd in a community that would then prepare you for the moment that I'd called you for. I'm the one that burnt the bush and didn't consume it, and told you I was the god of your fathers. I'm the one that told you to put your hand in and touch your breast, put it out, and your hand was leprous. I'm the same person that took that same hand, told you to put it back, it came out and it was white as snow. I am the one that told you to take your rod, put it in the water, and turn that water to blood. I'm the one that told you to tell Aaron, to tell Pharaoh that I'm gonna send frogs, lice, locusts, boils. I'm the one that reversed Pharaoh's judgment when he wanted to come and kill again the kids of Israel, and I sent or I released the angel of death who passed over your house and took the children of theirs in this incremental stage, already showing you that I am the author of life and death. Moses, I'm the one that bought you all out, and with all of that accounting, and sorry, Moses, one more thing. Since you've been walking out here, how have you been getting around? Oh, yeah, my cloud and my fire. And for all God's accounting, Moses' situation in that moment rendered his memory absent. Sometimes when we're going to God and we're freaking out, God's going, you're talking to me like this is our first interaction. You're talking to me like I'm trying to pitch you. Me, King Creator, Lord of all, top man, have to pitch you. He said, Moses, what's in your hand? I know. That same stick I told you to pick up on Sinai. Shut up. Stop talking to me. Go to the edge. Stretch. It'll be dry. Maker. It's not about God making a way. It's about us being insued. Open. Keen. Vigilant. To identify the way that's already been made. Guys, I hope you've enjoyed today's Bible study. Please don't forget to like, subscribe, share, look at the Bible study notes, pass it on to people, clip it up, do whatever you want to do. We're going to pray now. We're going to get out of here. God, thank you for this time. Thank you for this moment. Whoever may be listening to this, God, whatever they may be going through, whatever's happening in their life, whether this is for them or whether this is to go into them for them to speak to someone else, let this word go far beyond me and my capabilities and what I can and can't do. This is about you. And God, we are all instruments of your grace and of your will and of your predestined intention. And we just want to say thank you. Have your way. Take control. God, those parts of us that are broken and are scared, we hand it to you. Because we believe you can do anything but fail. As we say thank you, Jesus, in your name.

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Amen.

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Bye, guys.