WEBVTT 00:00:00.239 --> 00:00:02.720 I want to jump into our message this morning. 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:04.639 I'm excited about this message. 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:10.160 Not that I'm excited, not that I'm not excited about the previous one, but I'm excited about this message. 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:11.679 So I hope you're listening. 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:19.600 Last week we began this new topic looking at what is to come in the year 2023. 00:00:20.079 --> 00:00:24.320 2023 is going to be a year of blessing. 00:00:24.559 --> 00:00:24.960 Amen. 00:00:25.199 --> 00:00:34.079 I'm believing that this year, we as children of God, we're not only going to receive the blessings of the Lord, but watch this. 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:40.479 I believe that this year our eyes are going to be open to the blessings that are already here. 00:00:40.880 --> 00:00:44.960 The blessings that we fail to realize and recognize. 00:00:45.119 --> 00:00:50.560 We go about our day and we ignore the blessings that God has already provided. 00:00:51.280 --> 00:00:56.880 So many times we wait and we wait and we wait on God. 00:00:57.439 --> 00:00:59.840 We wait for His presence to show up. 00:01:00.159 --> 00:01:03.039 God, I'm just waiting for your presence to show up. 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.480 We wait for His power to unfold. 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:15.359 We wait and we wait and we sometimes never experience the blessing that has been prepared for you and I. 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:20.640 Sometimes, unfortunately, we even give up on God. 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:26.239 We've waited too long on God, so we've decided it's time to give up. 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:32.000 This morning I want to tell you that the wait is over. 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:35.359 The wait is over this morning. 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:38.000 God wants to bless you today. 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:39.359 Can I get an amen? 00:01:39.519 --> 00:01:43.840 God wants to reveal his blessings to you in a whole new way. 00:01:44.879 --> 00:01:50.319 Because the reality of it is, is that God's blessing is already here. 00:01:52.239 --> 00:01:56.000 His blessing has already been made available for you. 00:01:56.959 --> 00:01:59.920 The problem is, is you just don't see it. 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:02.079 We don't see it. 00:02:03.599 --> 00:02:05.439 We can't see it. 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:08.240 We choose not to see it. 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:13.759 And there's a few reasons why we don't see his blessings available to us. 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:20.719 One of the reasons that we don't see his blessings available to us is because we're distracted. 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:23.759 I believe Brother Craig said that yesterday. 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:33.439 So many things going on in our lives that we fail to see the blessings that God. 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.400 I don't have this written down, but I wanted to share it. 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:40.960 I was sitting home preparing for the sermon, and I'm like, I gotta get the sermon, I gotta get the sermon. 00:02:41.199 --> 00:02:44.960 Meanwhile, I see my baby girl, Emara, crawling on the floor. 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:49.039 She grabs her bottle and starts laying on the floor, sucking her bottle. 00:02:49.599 --> 00:02:55.599 And I'm so distracted that I'm missing out on the blessing that's sitting right on the floor drinking her bottle. 00:02:56.400 --> 00:03:01.599 So I put my computer aside, I picked up my baby girl, and we just sat there. 00:03:02.800 --> 00:03:04.479 You don't realize it. 00:03:04.719 --> 00:03:11.199 You don't realize it that we're so distracted, but yet there's blessings literally crawling all around us. 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:18.400 If we would just stop and recognize the blessings that God has for you. 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.400 We're too distracted, we're too busy. 00:03:22.719 --> 00:03:23.599 How about this? 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:27.439 We don't realize God's blessings because we wish it were more. 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:30.719 We wish it were more, we're discontent. 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:36.800 That's why it was important for us to address our discontentment before we rolled over into this new year. 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:50.000 Because if we're always discontent, if we're always dissatisfied, angry, and anxious, our eyes will continue to stay closed, and we're gonna miss out on some major blessings that God wants to reveal to us. 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:57.520 See, last week we began opening our eyes to these blessings by looking at the story of Moses. 00:03:58.000 --> 00:04:05.360 The story of Moses in the book of Exodus, we look at Moses encountering the burning bush. 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:20.720 We only read a segment of the story last week, but we see Moses has his eyes opened where he learns a game-changing blessing as he moves forward under the leadership of the Almighty God. 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:24.879 I want to recount that story just so we're up to speed for where we're going. 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:36.720 In Exodus chapter 3, verse 10, it says, And now come and I will send you to and now come I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may bring my people, the sons of Israel, out of Egypt. 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:44.000 But Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and that I should bring the sons of Israel out of Egypt? 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:49.360 And he said, and this is important, assuredly I will be with you. 00:04:49.519 --> 00:04:50.959 Can you say that this morning? 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.000 Assuredly, I will be with you. 00:04:54.480 --> 00:04:59.839 And this shall be a sign to you that it is I who have sent you. 00:05:00.160 --> 00:05:05.839 And when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall worship God at this mountain. 00:05:06.720 --> 00:05:08.959 Assuredly, I am with you. 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:12.800 Certainly I am with you. 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:16.879 We recounted the beginning of Joshua's journey in leading the Israelites. 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:22.720 God reminds Joshua as they go into the promised land of this in Joshua chapter one. 00:05:22.959 --> 00:05:25.199 We're gonna f uh verse five and verse nine. 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:28.639 No one will be able to oppose you all the days of your life. 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:33.920 Just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you. 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:37.199 I will not desert you nor abandon you. 00:05:37.920 --> 00:05:42.959 Have I not commanded you, be strong and of good courage. 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:50.240 Do not be terrified nor dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. 00:05:50.720 --> 00:05:52.959 The Lord your God is with you wherever you go. 00:05:53.040 --> 00:05:53.759 Praise the Lord. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:06:04.959 See, the blessing that God has for you this year in 2023 is an assurance of the presence of God. 00:06:05.600 --> 00:06:15.600 The presence of God, the presence of God is everywhere that you go, a realization that God is in the room. 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:18.879 God is in the room. 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:24.480 You know what this feels like when you realize that God is in the room. 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.560 How many have ever tried to clean their garage before or move around furniture? 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:39.360 You've gone to clean out your garage, move around furniture, and there's a large box or piece of furniture that you cannot move on your own. 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.519 You can't lift it yourself, so what do you do? 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:46.639 You try the scoot technique. 00:06:46.879 --> 00:06:48.879 You see if you could scoot it. 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:52.240 You can't do it with your arms, so you do the whole hip thing. 00:06:52.480 --> 00:06:53.839 The hip technique. 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:55.600 I've done that. 00:06:56.399 --> 00:07:00.959 You've tried lifting with your knees, the piece will not budge. 00:07:01.519 --> 00:07:12.560 After you've smushed fingers, you've cracked toenails, you've bruised toes, you have a sore back, we finally do what we should have done in the first place. 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:14.240 What is that? 00:07:15.519 --> 00:07:19.839 Claudia, I need your help for a minute. 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:22.879 Claudia, can you come here for a second? 00:07:24.959 --> 00:07:35.920 We finally uh we we constantly find ourselves in these anxious moments, our bad news moments, too difficult to handle on my own moments. 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:38.319 And what do we need to do? 00:07:38.800 --> 00:07:49.360 We need to turn to the right, we need to turn to the left, we need to look up, we need to look down, and we need to realize that we are not alone, but God is in the room. 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:54.160 God is in the room when you're driving in your car. 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:59.120 God is in the room when you're sitting in the doctor's office. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:06.000 God is in the room in your tough in your toughest moments and in your best of moments. 00:08:06.639 --> 00:08:11.519 Now listen, this can work other ways, like we said last week. 00:08:11.839 --> 00:08:19.439 When we go to say something snarky to our spouse, and we go to say something hurtful to somebody, God is in the room. 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:25.439 Imagine if before you said that, you looked over and you said, Oh, God's here. 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:35.039 Before you cut somebody off the road and yell out the window, God's in the room. 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:38.480 God is in the room. 00:08:38.799 --> 00:08:48.799 See, when you have this awareness of who your God is and his omnipresence, it keeps you accountable to being your very best at all times. 00:08:49.120 --> 00:08:58.399 Because you know that somebody's watching you, somebody is resourcing you to live life and life more abundantly. 00:08:59.039 --> 00:09:00.399 God is in the room. 00:09:00.879 --> 00:09:02.000 Imagine this. 00:09:02.399 --> 00:09:04.720 I want you to close your eyes for a second. 00:09:05.840 --> 00:09:15.759 Imagine you're at home and you're reading God's word, and you feel like, I don't understand what they're saying here. 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:19.759 I don't understand what they're talking about. 00:09:20.320 --> 00:09:21.919 Could you imagine this? 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:23.759 That God is in the room. 00:09:24.799 --> 00:09:45.679 Could you imagine this that the author of the book that you are reading is sitting right next to you and is able to come alongside of you to give you such a deeper understanding of what life is all about past, present, and everlasting. 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:49.279 God is in the room. 00:09:50.480 --> 00:09:52.080 Open your eyes this morning. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:10:03.039 You need to realize that God is there, and He's equipped you to grow up in Him and to become all that He has created you to be. 00:10:03.519 --> 00:10:07.039 The blessing that God has already provided. 00:10:07.600 --> 00:10:12.080 This morning I want to talk to you about another blessing that God has given you this year. 00:10:12.159 --> 00:10:19.120 And I want to turn back to the story of Moses, the story of Moses, where he's already encountered that burning bush. 00:10:19.279 --> 00:10:24.799 And watch what God reveals to Moses that is so important for you and I to understand. 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:28.159 God has already given Moses his mission. 00:10:28.399 --> 00:10:37.440 He's already blessed him with the knowledge of his omnipresence, but now Moses is thinking how he is going to take this message to his own people. 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:42.399 And watch what happens here in Exodus 3, 13 through 14. 00:10:42.480 --> 00:10:54.559 It says this, then Moses said to God, Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, the God of your fathers has sent me to you. 00:10:55.200 --> 00:10:59.360 Now they may say to me, What is his name? 00:10:59.600 --> 00:11:01.279 Can you say what is his name? 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:05.279 What shall I say to them? 00:11:05.759 --> 00:11:10.480 And God said to Moses, I am who I am. 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:15.919 And he said, This is what you shall say to the sons of Israel. 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:22.320 I am that I am. 00:11:23.279 --> 00:11:30.879 This part of Moses' conversation reveals Moses' lack of understanding and knowledge of who God is. 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:38.720 It's here that Moses discovers that his God is more than just a fairy tale. 00:11:40.080 --> 00:11:42.399 God is more than just a religion. 00:11:42.639 --> 00:11:52.879 Moses would have probably heard stories from his mother as a child, but here Moses begins to experience who God truly is. 00:11:54.159 --> 00:11:58.960 God reveals to Moses that he is I am. 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:01.759 Say I am this morning. 00:12:02.960 --> 00:12:04.240 He is I am. 00:12:06.080 --> 00:12:17.440 In this, God reveals himself as the all-self-sufficient, self-sustaining God who was and is and who will always be. 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:29.440 You see, if you look throughout history into the varieties of the cultural gods that are taking place, typically each God is the God of something. 00:12:29.679 --> 00:12:35.600 You have the God of the earth, you have the God of water, you have the God of wind, you have the God of love. 00:12:36.799 --> 00:12:48.000 And it's here to Moses that the one true God reveals himself as the one and only God. 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:53.840 His existence was not provided through any other means. 00:12:54.399 --> 00:13:00.240 His power was not granted to him by something by something or somebody else. 00:13:00.639 --> 00:13:12.480 He is the God over everything that you see, everything that you hear, everything that you smell, everything that you think, he is period. 00:13:13.440 --> 00:13:26.080 In Deuteronomy it says this, therefore know today and take it to your heart that the Lord, He is God in heaven above and on earth below, there is no other. 00:13:54.559 --> 00:14:02.399 This is my name forever, and this is the name for all generations to use to call upon me. 00:14:03.360 --> 00:14:15.279 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has appeared to me, saying, I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt. 00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:28.320 So I said, I will bring you out of the oppression of Egypt to the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite to a land flowing with milk and honey. 00:14:29.360 --> 00:14:34.240 God says to Moses, get ready to face the impossible. 00:14:35.519 --> 00:14:41.279 And now Shepherd Moses, who's not good at speaking, which we see in Scripture. 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:58.240 Moses has been given the task to lead the Israelites out of Egypt after 400 plus years of bondage, and then take them to a land flowing with milk and honey, who has a bunch of other people living in it already. 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.320 It's impossible. 00:15:01.279 --> 00:15:03.120 It's impossible. 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:09.600 Yet God blesses Moses with something so powerful. 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:18.080 God blesses Moses with something that will open doors, something that will knock down walls. 00:15:20.320 --> 00:15:26.320 God blesses Moses with something that will cause the enemy to run in fear. 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:34.879 The next blessing given to you this morning, this year, is the name of God. 00:15:35.759 --> 00:15:37.120 The name of God. 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:42.320 The name of God, talk about your yes, your best year yet. 00:15:42.559 --> 00:15:44.720 You have been given the name of God. 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:49.039 I want us to look back at what we just read in verse 15. 00:15:49.200 --> 00:15:56.639 It says this, this is my name forever, and this is the name for all generations to use to call upon me. 00:15:56.879 --> 00:16:05.200 In the King James Version, it says this, this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.159 This is my name forever. 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:15.360 The name of God given to Moses was key to Moses' success. 00:16:15.919 --> 00:16:18.480 The name of God was key. 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:20.960 Watch what happens here. 00:16:21.200 --> 00:16:29.679 If we fast forward a few chapters later, we see that Moses speaks with the Israelites, then makes his first appearance before Pharaoh. 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:35.440 And I want you to watch what unfolds through the next few chapters, if you follow along with me. 00:16:35.600 --> 00:17:01.200 In Exodus chapter 5, starting verse 1, it says this, and after Moses and Aaron came and said to Pharaoh, and you have to imagine what's going on here, Pharaoh, the greatest ruler at the time, this is what the Lord the God says, and this is what they're saying to him, let my people go so that they may celebrate a feast to me in the wilderness. 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:10.640 But Pharaoh said, Watch this, who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? 00:17:11.359 --> 00:17:17.359 I do not know the Lord, and besides, I will not let Israel go. 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:24.799 Then they said, The God of the Hebrews has met with us. 00:17:25.839 --> 00:17:34.640 Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God, otherwise he will strike us with the plague or with the sword. 00:17:34.799 --> 00:17:41.359 But the king of Egypt said to them, Moses and Aaron, why do you let the people neglect their work? 00:17:41.599 --> 00:17:43.279 Get back to your labors. 00:17:43.519 --> 00:17:45.440 Listen here, people of God. 00:17:45.839 --> 00:17:50.480 Pharaoh did not yet know the God of the Israelites. 00:17:51.359 --> 00:17:52.799 Pharaoh said, What? 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:54.880 I don't know your Lord. 00:17:55.200 --> 00:17:56.720 I don't know your God. 00:17:57.279 --> 00:17:59.759 I don't know who you're talking about. 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:05.839 He even says, Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? 00:18:06.559 --> 00:18:14.240 If we read on, we see that Pharaoh sends Moses and Aaron away and he says, Get those people back to work. 00:18:14.319 --> 00:18:20.640 And in fact, I'm gonna have them go grab their straw on their own and make their labor even more. 00:18:22.559 --> 00:18:27.279 When Pharaoh asks this question, who is the Lord? 00:18:29.519 --> 00:18:37.839 Moses and Aaron responded with something that you and I typically would have come up with. 00:18:40.400 --> 00:18:43.680 Moses and Aaron, Pharaoh says, Who is the Lord? 00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:45.680 What did Moses and Aaron say? 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:48.160 The God of the Hebrews. 00:18:49.119 --> 00:18:50.880 The God of the Hebrews. 00:18:53.359 --> 00:18:55.279 You know what this reminds me of? 00:18:55.920 --> 00:18:59.039 When somebody asks us what religion we are. 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:01.359 Right? 00:19:01.839 --> 00:19:03.440 What religion are you? 00:19:04.720 --> 00:19:06.160 I'm a Christian. 00:19:08.000 --> 00:19:09.200 Oh, okay. 00:19:09.920 --> 00:19:15.039 Somebody asks you about the most important aspect of your life. 00:19:16.400 --> 00:19:25.039 Somebody asks you about something that has shaped and transformed your entire being in your future. 00:19:27.920 --> 00:19:34.480 Somebody asks you about something that you have circled your every day in and out about. 00:19:35.200 --> 00:19:45.920 Something that you meditate on every day, and your answer is a one phrase, sometimes one-word, vague, nondescriptive answer. 00:19:47.519 --> 00:19:48.400 I'm a Christian. 00:19:50.000 --> 00:19:51.680 Typically we do this. 00:19:52.000 --> 00:19:52.480 Why? 00:19:53.920 --> 00:19:58.400 Because we don't want to ask a we don't want to answer a lot of questions after they ask. 00:19:59.680 --> 00:20:00.960 Why do we do this? 00:20:01.200 --> 00:20:03.519 Because we're probably trying to hide something. 00:20:03.680 --> 00:20:06.319 We don't want to set off any triggers or any alarms. 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:08.079 It's easier if I just keep it. 00:20:08.160 --> 00:20:09.119 I'm a Christian. 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:14.720 What do you said this? 00:20:14.880 --> 00:20:16.160 You know what it reminds me of? 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:17.680 What do you do for a living? 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:19.279 Oh, I'm a manager. 00:20:19.920 --> 00:20:21.359 A manager of what? 00:20:21.839 --> 00:20:23.519 What are you talking about? 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:25.200 I'm a manager. 00:20:25.359 --> 00:20:25.920 Oh wow. 00:20:26.079 --> 00:20:26.559 For what? 00:20:26.720 --> 00:20:27.279 For whom? 00:20:27.440 --> 00:20:28.240 I'm a manager. 00:20:28.319 --> 00:20:30.559 You don't want to tell him what you're a manager of. 00:20:31.599 --> 00:20:37.759 In the text, I we read that Moses is struggling with the identity of who God is. 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:42.960 He's struggling with his understanding of who God is. 00:20:43.519 --> 00:20:51.599 He either lacks an understanding of who God truly is, or Moses is ashamed or embarrassed by who God is. 00:20:52.079 --> 00:21:03.759 And I believe that we find ourselves in the same situation where we cannot confidently proclaim that the God that we serve is the one and only true God. 00:21:03.920 --> 00:21:10.559 We're either embarrassed or we truly lack an understanding of who our God is. 00:21:12.079 --> 00:21:20.400 Men and women of God, I'm telling you today, it's time to grasp a full understanding of who is in the room with you. 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:32.240 It's time to grasp a full understanding of who God is and what you have been given as a resource for today, for tomorrow, and into eternity. 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:41.279 Moses is obviously disappointed in the outcome of his appearance before Pharaoh. 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:43.599 He says this to God in verse 22. 00:21:43.759 --> 00:21:48.720 Then Moses returned to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you brought harm to this people? 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:53.200 Why did you ever send me ever since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name? 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:58.480 He has done harm to this people, and you have not rescued your people at all. 00:21:59.200 --> 00:21:59.440 Again, 00:22:00.319 --> 00:22:03.519 We see Moses and his ignorance to who God is. 00:22:03.839 --> 00:22:08.720 God has already revealed his name to him, which is, I am who I am. 00:22:09.440 --> 00:22:12.559 Yet Moses still trembles in fear. 00:22:13.119 --> 00:22:17.200 Moses still doubts what God is able to do. 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.680 Watch what God says to Moses, and this is a key thing here. 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:23.519 So I want you to pay attention. 00:22:25.119 --> 00:22:35.359 Exodus 6, 1 through 5, it says, Then the Lord said to Moses, Now you shall see what I now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:41.599 For under compulsion he will let them go, and under compulsion he will drive them out of this land. 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:47.759 God spoke for spoke further to Moses and said to him, I am the Lord. 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:54.319 And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, to Jacob as God Almighty. 00:22:54.559 --> 00:22:55.599 Watch this. 00:22:56.400 --> 00:23:04.160 But by my name, Lord, I did not make myself known to them. 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:12.720 I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they have lived as strangers. 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:20.079 Furthermore, I have heard their groaning of the sons of Israel, because the Egyptians are holding them in bondage, and I've remembered my covenant. 00:23:20.319 --> 00:23:27.359 God says to Moses that the name of God had not yet been known to the ones who came before him. 00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:32.799 God's name had not yet been made known to those that came before him. 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:42.720 God says to Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, they knew me as God Almighty, but Moses, you're gonna know my name. 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.559 You're gonna know the name of the Lord. 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:52.720 Moses would know who Yahweh was. 00:23:54.079 --> 00:23:57.839 Moses would know who Jehovah was. 00:23:59.119 --> 00:24:03.200 Moses would be the one to know who Adonai was. 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:07.680 Moses would know who I am. 00:24:08.960 --> 00:24:17.759 I am the self-sufficient, everlasting God who was and is to come. 00:24:17.920 --> 00:24:20.559 Nobody handed him his power. 00:24:21.039 --> 00:24:23.359 But he is in the beginning. 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:28.880 He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. 00:24:29.599 --> 00:24:32.720 He is the one who formed you in your mother's womb. 00:24:33.039 --> 00:24:36.240 He is the one who created every part of who you are. 00:24:36.480 --> 00:24:42.240 He knows your in, he knows your outs, he knows your hair, every every hair on the top of your head. 00:24:42.480 --> 00:24:44.640 Exodus 8:8, it says this. 00:24:44.880 --> 00:24:56.480 From here we see, say therefore to the sons of Israel, I am the Lord, I will bring you out from under the labors of Egypt, and I will rescue you from their bondage. 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.400 I will also redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:09.359 Then I will take you as my people, and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord your God, who brought you out from under the labors of Egyptians. 00:25:09.519 --> 00:25:16.240 I will bring you to the land which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and I will give it to you as a possession. 00:25:16.559 --> 00:25:18.160 I am the Lord. 00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:24.079 From here on out, we see the power of God now unfold. 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:28.079 Aaron's staff turns into a serpent. 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:31.279 The Nile is turned to blood. 00:25:31.599 --> 00:25:36.000 Ten plagues in Egypt, including the death of the firstborn in Egypt. 00:25:36.160 --> 00:25:46.400 The Lord revealed his name to Moses as he remembered his covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, brought them out of Egypt into a land promised to them. 00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:52.400 Moses saw and experienced what his fathers had only heard about. 00:25:53.599 --> 00:25:59.680 Moses experienced something that his fathers had only dreamt about. 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:05.359 Moses experienced the fullness of what God was able to do. 00:26:05.599 --> 00:26:07.519 Moses knew who God was. 00:26:09.839 --> 00:26:18.160 In Exodus chapter 8, only a few plagues have come to pass, and the power of God is unfolding before their eyes. 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:19.759 This is the I am. 00:26:21.200 --> 00:26:23.680 We see a different attitude in Pharaoh. 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:28.559 Pharaoh, who once originally said, Who is the Lord that I shall obey his voice? 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:29.920 Get back to work. 00:26:30.480 --> 00:26:32.480 Exodus 8 8, it says this. 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:46.480 Then Pharaoh called for Moses and said, Plead with the Lord to remove the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go so that they may sacrifice to the Lord. 00:26:47.279 --> 00:26:49.599 Pharaoh begged and pleaded. 00:26:49.839 --> 00:26:54.880 The one who did not know who the Lord was, oh, he saw who the Lord was. 00:26:56.079 --> 00:27:00.880 He couldn't help but experience the power of the Almighty God. 00:27:02.160 --> 00:27:21.599 I want to tell you this, people of God, when you truly know the name of God and what it encompasses, what it means, what it describes, the power that the name of God possesses, you are no longer a Christian who just goes to church. 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:30.160 You are a child of the Most High God. 00:27:30.559 --> 00:27:31.759 Imagine that. 00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:36.880 You are more than a conqueror. 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.359 You're more than just a Christian. 00:27:41.680 --> 00:27:43.759 And I'm not saying that negatively. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:49.279 I'm saying that so small of who you really are. 00:27:51.519 --> 00:28:05.119 You are beyond, you are a beyond blessed son and daughter who has the Spirit of God dwelling with you, dwelling within you at all times. 00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:13.279 You see, the name of God is even more fulfilled when Jesus Christ comes on the scene. 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.839 What does Jesus say? 00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:18.240 In John 8, 58. 00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:23.759 So the Jews said to him, You are not yet 50 years old, and you have seen Abraham. 00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:32.240 Jesus said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was born, I am. 00:28:34.960 --> 00:28:44.799 Jesus, the Son of God, God Himself coming to earth to save humanity and bring life for future generations, says this in John 8, 12. 00:28:44.960 --> 00:28:46.799 Jesus spoke to them saying, What? 00:28:47.119 --> 00:28:49.680 I am the light of the world. 00:28:51.039 --> 00:28:58.799 The one who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life. 00:28:59.440 --> 00:29:07.599 John 14, 6, Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth, and the life. 00:29:08.160 --> 00:29:12.240 No one comes to the Father except through me. 00:29:13.759 --> 00:29:15.599 I want to ask you this morning. 00:29:16.319 --> 00:29:20.400 I want to ask you this morning, do you really know who the name of God is? 00:29:20.640 --> 00:29:23.279 Do you really know the name of your God? 00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:26.960 Do you know the name of your God? 00:29:28.640 --> 00:29:31.039 Is he truly the Alpha and Omega? 00:29:31.920 --> 00:29:33.359 Is he your provider? 00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.160 Is he your beginning and your end? 00:29:39.119 --> 00:29:45.119 Did you do you have an understanding of the name of God and the power that is found therein? 00:29:46.160 --> 00:29:58.160 The name of God that is more than words, the name of God that is a supernatural power that can shake the foundations of the world. 00:29:58.960 --> 00:30:00.400 How do I know this? 00:30:00.720 --> 00:30:04.240 When Jesus was arrested in the garden, what happens? 00:30:04.559 --> 00:30:05.599 Do you remember? 00:30:05.839 --> 00:30:12.559 They run into the garden to arrest Jesus, and they asked, Is this Jesus the Nazarene? 00:30:12.799 --> 00:30:14.559 And Jesus says, What? 00:30:15.119 --> 00:30:16.400 I am He. 00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:18.400 They fell to the ground. 00:30:18.640 --> 00:30:29.039 Gee, John 14 says this, whatever you ask in my name, this I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 00:30:29.200 --> 00:30:33.839 If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it. 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:35.759 The name of God. 00:30:37.759 --> 00:30:47.920 Philippians 2, 10 through 11 says this, so that at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess. 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:51.920 Oh, I every I I skipped. 00:30:52.319 --> 00:31:01.920 Knee of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father. 00:31:02.160 --> 00:31:05.279 And I want you to realize that God is in the room. 00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:11.440 That was the first blessing of this year already happening, already done. 00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:21.839 The second blessing this morning is that you have been given the name of God. 00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:34.000 In his name is power, in his name is healing. 00:31:36.160 --> 00:31:40.880 In his name, you can break every stronghold. 00:31:54.160 --> 00:32:00.799 That his name can call fire down from heaven. 00:32:02.240 --> 00:32:11.440 That his name can cause people to fall to the ground because of the power that comes from it. 00:32:12.480 --> 00:32:28.160 God, I pray that each and every person here would be able to understand how vast, how deep, how high, how great is your name. 00:32:31.279 --> 00:32:41.920 God, and as heirs through your son Jesus Christ, that name is upon us, that name is within us. 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:47.519 We are sons and daughters of the Most High God. 00:32:49.359 --> 00:33:03.759 I pray that there would be an awakening here like never before, God, that we would be empowered to realize that you have equipped us with something so special. 00:33:04.160 --> 00:33:07.440 Something that for some reason we're ashamed of. 00:33:08.640 --> 00:33:13.279 For some reason we can't proclaim it. 00:33:13.920 --> 00:33:19.680 For some reason we can't hold our head high and our shoulders back. 00:33:22.160 --> 00:33:34.640 God, we thank you for giving us the opportunity to be known as a child of God, to receive all the blessings that your name comes with. 00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:46.240 God, that we would be confident in it, that we would be bold, that we would be able to speak to that mountain, and it would be cast into the sea. 00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:55.920 God, that we would be able to speak to that situation in your name and it will be done. 00:33:56.880 --> 00:33:59.359 The power that is in your name. 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:03.279 God, we thank you for the name of God. 00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:07.759 I pray that we could say it boldly when people ask, What's your religion? 00:34:07.920 --> 00:34:11.920 I'm a Christian, I'm a child of the most high God. 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:20.800 Every day I open up the word of God and I read more and more about Him. 00:34:21.360 --> 00:34:23.199 He's my best friend. 00:34:25.360 --> 00:34:28.719 Religion, I have a relationship with my God. 00:34:29.280 --> 00:34:31.440 I talk to Him every single day. 00:34:41.599 --> 00:34:47.840 So that I could live life more abundantly, so that I could have a blessed hope. 00:34:49.360 --> 00:34:50.719 Who is my God? 00:34:51.119 --> 00:34:58.320 Oh, he is the I am, He's Jehovah. 00:35:01.440 --> 00:35:04.239 My God is the one and only true God. 00:35:05.280 --> 00:35:11.920 God, I pray that we would have an awakening, a realization of the blessing that is here this morning. 00:35:13.440 --> 00:35:17.840 Continue to fill us with your spirit, fill us with understanding. 00:35:18.079 --> 00:35:22.639 God, like never before, that this could be our best year yet. 00:35:22.880 --> 00:35:24.800 Full of blessings, God.