Guest Speaker: Jonathan Evans

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(upbeat music)

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- Just real quick, because I don't wanna take

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any more time away from our guest speaker.

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If you are new to Springhouse,

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we are going to have a newcomer's lunch

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in two Sundays from now.

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So that would be not next Sunday,

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but the next Sunday, right?

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April 28th, April 28th, right following this gathering,

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we're gonna provide a lunch for you.

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Our pastoral staff is gonna be available,

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and we just wanna meet you and tell you about Springhouse.

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So that's going to be on April 28th,

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make plans to attend that if you are new here

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to Springhouse, okay?

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Guys, we have a special guest speaker with us.

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He has been with us before.

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He has an on-time word this morning.

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Would you guys please stand to your feet

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and welcome Pastor Jonathan Evans.

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(audience applauding)

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- Good morning. - Good morning.

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- Y'all doing all right? - Yeah.

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- Good, good to be here once again.

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It's been several years since I've been here,

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but it's good to see familiar faces

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and be back in the house.

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Before I get started jumping into God's word,

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I have my better half here with me.

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And so, Kanika, stand up, stand up, say hello to everyone.

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(audience applauding)

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As you can tell, I out-kicked my coverage on that one.

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I out-kicked my coverage on that one.

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But I'm excited to have the opportunity to share.

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She's here with me, so she gets a good little break

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from our five children.

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She's a stay-at-home mom as well,

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formerly a physical therapist,

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but she stays at home and homeschools.

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(audience applauding)

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So she's got it going on.

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My oldest daughter's name is Kelsey.

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She's 15 years old.

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She's the artist in the house.

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She loves to sing, color, dance, draw, anything,

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but you know, formal learning.

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(audience laughing)

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And then we have Jonathan II.

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His name is J2, just to throw a little swag on it.

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But J2 is my intellectual.

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He's the one who asked the question why,

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which gets the common parental response,

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because I said so, boy.

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I ain't got time to be explaining everything to you.

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(audience laughing)

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And so that's my boy J2.

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And then I have, after that, Camden.

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Camden is my 10-year-old.

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We call him Spider Cam, because he climbs on everything.

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He's not happy unless he's trying to beat up his brother,

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wrestle his dad, or swinging from the chandelier

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in our kitchen.

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And so that's Camden.

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Then I have Kyler.

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Kyler is my eight-year-old daughter,

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and she is the athlete of the family.

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Okay, she is fast now.

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At seven years old, her first quarter time

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was a minute and 20 seconds.

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And so she was flying around that track

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as a seven-year-old, and so I said,

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it was not for me, that's your mom.

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(audience laughing)

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And then I have Jade Winter, who's our five-year-old.

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And she just basically has all of her siblings jealous,

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because she's the baby, that means she gets

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whatever she wants.

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(audience laughing)

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Is there any babies in the house?

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Is there any babies in the house?

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Isn't that the best?

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It's the best position.

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You got parents taking care of you,

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siblings taking care of you, you know what I mean?

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Your parents are already tired, they're like, whatever,

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just do whatever.

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(audience laughing)

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You know what I mean?

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So it's a great position.

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So I'm excited to introduce my family to you this morning.

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Y'all ready for the word?

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- Yeah. - Yeah.

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- Let's jump in.

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Heavenly Father, we love you and honor you.

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If you don't do anything else, you've already done enough

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by sending your son, Jesus Christ,

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to die on the cross for our sins.

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Help us to believe in it and walk in it.

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We love you and give you the glory as you teach us today.

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Help us to remember the words,

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and we remember the words by applying the words,

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so that it's not like a seed that falls amongst the thorns

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that just gets choked out.

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We love you and we honor you today.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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I'm gonna read one thematic verse for you,

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and that verse comes from Exodus 1.22.

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I want you to key in today because you'll learn

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some principles that I really believe

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can change your life.

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It has mine from this story.

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So Exodus 1.22, so Bibles, Bible apps, whatever,

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I want you to be able to see this.

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Exodus 1.22, it simply says this.

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Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying,

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"Every son who is born, you ought to cast into the Nile.

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"Every daughter you ought to keep alive."

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One more time, then Pharaoh commanded all his people,

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saying, "Every son who is born,

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"you ought to cast into the Nile,

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"and every daughter you ought to keep alive."

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Today I wanna talk to you from the topic surviving Pharaoh.

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Surviving Pharaoh.

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Here is a commander in chief, if you will,

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who has put out an edict in the land.

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An edict is an official order by someone in power.

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Basically, he said, y'all, this what we finna do.

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And everybody has to prepare to do what he says to do,

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and he has a evil edict, an afflicting edict,

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against the Hebrew people.

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He said, "Every Hebrew boy that is born,

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"I want you to throw him into the Nile.

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"I want you to take him out.

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"Every daughter, I want you to keep alive."

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What he's doing here is he's a little insecure.

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The enemy is a little afraid,

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because he does not want the advancement of God's kingdom.

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He's in the business of advancing his own kingdom.

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And one of the things I want you to notice

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is that while the enemy is coming after everyone,

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he does have a specific hit out on men.

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He is not interested in godly men,

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godly fathers, godly husbands, godly city council,

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godly men in the church,

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godly men leading their community.

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He's not interested in godly men

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stepping up and stepping out.

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He's not interested in none of that.

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And so what he wants to do is put out an edict

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to take out the men, because in society at large,

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in all of history, there has never been a society

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in all of history that has ever survived without strong men.

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So if you can take them out,

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then you can take out a culture.

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Has nothing to do with the significance of women,

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because here, he's talking about a military threat.

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And so he's saying, I need to multiply,

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and the Hebrew people are multiplying at a faster rate,

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and that makes me insecure.

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Don't you know that the enemy is insecure

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when the Church of Jesus Christ begins to multiply?

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That's not something that he's interested in.

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And in this context, he's speaking

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from a military standpoint,

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so he's really specifically thinking about taking out men,

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because he's thinking in terms of war.

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Okay, and so what he says in Exodus 1, 9,

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he says, "He said to the people, behold,

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the people of the sons of Israel are more mightier than we.

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Come, let us deal wisely with them,

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or else they will multiply in the event of war."

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Okay, or else they will come against us,

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multiply and come against us in the event of war.

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So the enemy here is thinking in war terms,

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so he comes up with this edict,

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let's go ahead and get rid of these boys

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before they grow up.

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I wanna get the boys before they become men.

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Okay, so you need to understand this, mothers,

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that your sons, they don't fly in on storks.

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This ain't Dumbo.

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They come out of your wombs,

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and you need to understand

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that when it comes to spiritual warfare,

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when it comes to war, the enemy is trying to take men out.

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So if you've ever said to yourself,

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boy, it sure is hard to find a good man,

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understand that what you see,

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if all you see is what you see,

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you do not see all there is to be seen.

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(audience laughing)

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Okay, the enemy has a hit out on everyone,

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but he's got his eye on men

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because he knows what happens when strong men stand up

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and say, "For me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

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Okay, he already knows that,

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and I need you to understand what he's saying is,

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I don't, I'm really not interested,

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and I'm really afraid because the Hebrew people,

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God's people, are multiplying.

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That's not what I'm interested in.

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Understand, from the beginning,

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the enemy is just an imitator of God.

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God said from the beginning,

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be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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God's goal is the visible manifestation

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of his invisible self all over the earth, okay?

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And so that's his goal.

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When Noah docks the ark in Genesis 9,

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he gives them the same command he gave Adam and Eve,

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be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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He tells the disciples the same concept in Matthew 28.

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Go ye therefore and make disciples of all nations.

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Be fruitful and multiply and make replicas of who I am.

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The enemy is insecure with more godly people

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coming into the fold because he wants to build his kingdom,

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and not only does he want to build his kingdom

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through multiplication, he wants to build his kingdom

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and is so bold to try to use God's people to do it.

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Here, he's trying to enslave God's people

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to build his kingdom.

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He doesn't mind you going to church.

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He just minds you being the church.

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He minds the multiple,

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he don't mind you sitting in a worship service.

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He just doesn't want you to break huddle

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from the worship service.

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As a chaplain of the Dallas Cowboys,

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I know I'm a Dallas Cowboy,

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I know there's Green Bay people in here,

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especially your pastor.

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Your pastor is a Green Bay guy.

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I ain't worried about none of that.

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I'm up here, I'm talking.

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As a chaplain of the Dallas Cowboys,

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100,000 people don't come to AT&T Stadium or Texas Stadium

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to watch 11 men bend over

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and have a private conversation in the huddle.

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That's not what they come for.

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They don't mind the huddle,

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but they want to know what difference the huddle makes.

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They want to know having now huddled, can you now score?

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What are you going to do about 11 other men

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on the other side of the ball daring you to go public

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with that private conversation?

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That's why people come in.

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You got to understand this is a huddle,

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but the kingdom of God wants to know

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what difference the huddle makes.

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They want to know having now huddled, can you now score?

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What are you going to do about Pharaoh

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outside of these buildings daring you to go public

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with this private conversation?

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Pharaoh is totally okay with this private conversation,

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but once the church of Jesus Christ begins to break huddle,

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begins to multiply, begins to teach their children,

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have healthy families, begin to multiply

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and infiltrate the culture, then all of a sudden,

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he becomes insecure and has a plan of attack.

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So you need to understand that that's what he's doing here

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is that in this context, he is insecure.

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Do you know the devil's insecure?

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He does not like when God's people do more than be churchy.

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We're good at being churchy,

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but he don't like it when we start multiplying.

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And so he comes up with an initial plan.

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His plan is found in Exodus 1, verse 11.

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He says, "So they appointed taskmasters over them

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to afflict them with hard labor,

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and they built for Pharaoh his cities and ramses

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and all of those different things."

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So his plan was, I'm going to make life so hard on them

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that it will prevent them from being encouraged enough

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to multiply.

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So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna appoint taskmasters

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to just give them a hard time and make life hard on them.

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I need you to understand that the enemy uses affliction

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to make things hard on you and to make you stop.

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But God will allow you to be afflicted

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to actually produce in you something that he can use

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for his purpose, he has in you.

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So while the enemy is using affliction to stop them,

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God is allowing affliction to take them.

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Okay, so I need you to understand that.

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But what the enemy does is he says,

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"I'm going to make things so hard on them

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that they don't want to continue in the faith."

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Okay.

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If you're going through affliction,

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you need to think of it differently.

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Affliction means that God has a purpose.

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My coach used to tell me,

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"If I don't yell at you and I'm quiet,

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that's when you need to be worried.

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(audience laughing)

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If I'm yelling at you, it's because I see something in you

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that I think can grow and become better

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and be useful for the team.

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But if I'm quiet, then I don't really think

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that you're that good.

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I don't think that you're usable."

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In other words, when things are loud in your life

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and there's affliction in your life,

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it's because the enemy knows

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that God has something major for your life.

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And you cannot build a skyscraper

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on the foundation of a chicken coop.

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Anytime you see a skyscraper in downtown Nashville,

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the higher they go up is evidence

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of how low they had to dig down.

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God will allow something to get dug down in your life

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and afflictions and hard times in your life,

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but that is evidence that the enemy is insecure

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of the skyscraper that God wants to put on top of it.

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And so you need to understand that even in your affliction,

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that's what the Bible says in the book of James,

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consider it joy when you go through various trials

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and affliction because I am producing something in you.

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Okay, so the Christian sees affliction differently

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than the non-Christian sees affliction.

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We see affliction as, "Oh, you afflict,

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you think so highly of me.

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I'm glad you think about me the way you are

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because I'm going through this affliction

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because there's something that God must be doing."

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And so you need to understand 'cause the people of God,

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this is what Pharaoh found out.

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It says in verse 11, so he appointed taskmasters.

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In verse 12, he said, "But the more they afflicted them,

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the more they multiplied."

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Because God knows when there's affliction,

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all of a sudden the people of God are more dependent on God.

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When there's affliction, all of a sudden

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they're praying again.

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When there's affliction, all of a sudden the church is full.

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When there's affliction, all of a sudden

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they're linking arms.

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God will allow the affliction because in affliction,

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actually the church begins to multiply.

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So the enemy was like, "Well, that didn't work."

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Pharaoh said, "That plan wasn't a good plan.

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That actually went against what I'm trying to do."

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They are multiplying even the more with the affliction.

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So he has to come up with a new plan.

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And the new plan is found in Exodus 1.15.

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Y'all still following along or am I going too fast?

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Y'all still with me? Okay, good.

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Gotta stay with it now.

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Exodus 1.15, it says, "Then the king of Egypt

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spoke to the Hebrew midwives, one who was named Shiphrah

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and the other named Puah.

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And he said, 'When you are helping the Hebrew women

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to give birth and sieve them upon the birth stool,

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if it is a son, you shall put him to death.

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And if it is a daughter, then you shall let her live.'"

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Okay, so the affliction didn't work.

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So do you know what Pharaoh just said?

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Okay, this dude is so slick and so sly

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that he went to the Hebrew midwives,

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not the Egyptian midwives.

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He didn't go to his people.

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He went to the Hebrew midwives and said,

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"Let me holla at you for a minute.

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Whenever there's a Hebrew woman who's giving birth,

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if it is a son, Hebrew midwives,

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I need you to put the Hebrew boys to death.

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What does a daughter let her live?"

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Okay, let me say that again.

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Y'all didn't get that.

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Hebrew midwives, I need you to go kill the Hebrew boys.

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Well, that's bold.

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Hebrew midwives, I need you to go kill your Hebrew boys.

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Okay, y'all still ain't.

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Springhouse, y'all ain't.

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Okay.

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Pastor Kevin, I got to tell them in a more modern way.

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The enemy went to God's women

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and tell them to go kill God's men.

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So the enemy must know the power, the influence, the ability.

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He must know that there is enough influence,

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power, and ability in women

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that if he can distort them,

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he can take out a culture of men.

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(congregation laughs)

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Okay, there's not enough

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of people talking about the power of women.

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But if the enemy knows it, certainly we should know it.

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Because from the beginning, Eve, let me holler at you.

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He skipped at him.

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He said, "Eve, let me holler at you.

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I'm going to use your influence."

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Offered his brother this fruit.

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He going to eat it if it come from you.

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(congregation laughs)

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Delilah, just cut his hair.

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It's his hair.

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Jezebel, kill the prophets.

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Herodias, y'all know who Herodias is?

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Y'all like, "Herodias, who is that?"

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Herodias in Matthew 14 got her daughter

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to go get the head of John the Baptist.

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Through scripture, if you look through it,

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the enemy knows he can use the power and influence of women

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to go take out men in God's plan.

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But also the opposite is true.

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That's why Proverbs 14, one says,

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"A wise woman builds her house,

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but a foolish one tears it down with her bare hands."

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Which means and suggests that a woman has the power

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to build a house, she also has the power

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to tear a house down.

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Women possess that power and the enemy knows it,

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but guess what?

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God knows it too.

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That's why he would call Rahab to hide the spies

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and save her families while the walls are crumbling down.

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That's why he would call Ruth and tell her,

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"Don't go back to the past.

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It's time to go to the future and go with Naomi."

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And she meets a man named Boaz, has a son named Obed.

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Obed has a son named Jesse.

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Jesse has a son named David

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and puts her in the lineage of Jesus Christ.

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That's why he would call Priscilla.

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I need you to teach Apollos the word appropriately

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so that he can teach the gospel

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so that we can continue to multiply.

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That's why he would call Phoebe.

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Paul would send Phoebe out and tell the church of Rome

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to listen to her because she's able to help carry out

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the advancement of God's kingdom.

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There are women who were used for destruction,

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but there were also women who were used for building up.

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So I'm just letting you know, Springhouse Church ladies,

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that you have the power for good or the power for bad

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and because we're the church of Jesus Christ,

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you can build the house.

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What am I telling you?

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I'm telling you, if you've ever heard the impact

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or ministry of Pastor Kevin,

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it's because you have his wife's fingerprint all over you.

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I'm telling you, if you've ever heard the ministry

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of Jonathan Evans, it's because you have

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Kenneka's fingerprint all over you.

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If you've ever heard the ministry of Dr. Tony Evans,

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it's because you have the fingerprint

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of Lois Evans all over you.

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When the enemy came into the house,

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they told the enemy, no, I'm gonna lift him up,

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not tear him down.

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And so I need you to understand that the enemy

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wants to use your experiences, your emotions,

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your past, your abilities, and he wants you to use it

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to tear down instead of build up

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because he knows you possess that power.

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I need you to understand that there would be

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no sermons on Moses if it wasn't for two ladies

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you've never heard of, Shiphrah and Puah.

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There would be no sermons on Moses.

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It's because they were able to look at the enemy

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and say, we are not doing that.

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I know the pressure and you,

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Pharaoh is the most powerful man on the earth right now.

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He can, this is a very lucrative deal.

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You understand, he can write big checks,

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gold and silver, for Shiphrah and Puah

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to carry out his plan.

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But they thought it is not good for me to take something

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that is momentary lucrative that will have

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our whole culture in debt.

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I need you to understand that you can do something

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that's in the moment that's emotionally lucrative

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that can put your whole heritage in debt

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because the enemy wants to use the power

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to tear things down instead of build things up.

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And fortunately, fortunately for the Scriptures advancement,

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because Moses is kind of a big deal.

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Fortunately for the Scriptures advancement,

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these ladies got influenced by the enemy

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and looked at Pharaoh and said,

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modern, we ain't doing that.

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I mean, I understand what you can do

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and how much you can pay and how this may,

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but we just ain't doing that.

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We have to, we're gonna have to find another way.

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And so Pharaoh's trying to get ladies to work for him

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did not work, but Pharaoh would not quit.

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It says in Exodus 1 22, then, this is back

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to our original passage that I read at the beginning.

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Then Pharaoh commanded all his people saying,

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every son who is born, you ought to cast into the Nile

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and every daughter you ought to keep alive.

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So he's trying again.

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So I'm going back to our original verse,

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but you need to know that Pharaoh had already tried,

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this is his third try.

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Okay, affliction God's people didn't work.

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Trying to get the ladies to tear it down didn't work.

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So now he called all his people.

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He had to go back to his minions.

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He had to go back to his minions and say, okay,

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now let's try this again.

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So now that we're back at my initial verse

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and I've got the introduction out the way,

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we can get going.

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So now you need to understand

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that Pharaoh is after what has been conceived in you

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that you have given birth to that you want to see develop.

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You want to see it grow.

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You want to see it be nourished.

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You want to see it come to maturity.

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He wants to kill whatever that thing is.

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He will let you live,

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but he wants to kill the thing that gives you life.

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Because if he can kill the thing that gives you life,

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then he can even enslave God's people to build out his plan.

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He can make you so anxious, so depressed, so fearful,

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losing faith, become a doubter.

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He can put you in position where you're actually doing

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more harm to the kingdom than good

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because you're wondering, well, if I don't have this,

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what is it all for?

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And God must not be on my side.

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And God is not working it out for good.

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And God is not doing it.

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I thought the pastor said this.

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Maybe he's not.

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And if he can get believers to start talking like that,

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then he can have you enslaved

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even though you've been set free.

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That's why Galatians 5, 1 says it is for freedom

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that you have been set free.

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Therefore, never again return to the yoke of slavery,

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which means there's a yoke of slavery you can return to

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even if you've been set free.

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You say verses backwards, you'll get them.

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(congregation laughing)

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So he says, I know something's been conceived in you.

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And as soon as you deliver it,

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and your expectations are that you'll get to raise it

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and nurse it and develop it, oh, I'm coming for it.

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And this is now the start of the story

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where there's a lady who gives birth.

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In Exodus 2, 2, it simply reads,

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"The woman conceived in Bora's son."

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Ah, oh man.

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You know how people do the reveals?

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It's a girl, yeah, it's a boy, yeah.

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Not here.

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It's a girl, yeah, it's a boy, ah.

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Ah.

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Now, you can't read these stories like novels.

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You have to read them and put yourself in it.

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She has a baby and it's a boy.

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And she saw that he was beautiful, verse two,

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and hid him for three months.

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Can you imagine hiding a baby for three months?

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You gotta put yourself in there now.

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Shh, shh, shh, shh.

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That's nurse all the time, keep you quiet.

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I don't know what their diaper situation was,

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but probably wouldn't, you know.

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It's just a disaster.

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It's a disaster.

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She saw that the baby was beautiful.

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The word beautiful there means healthy,

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meaning, oh, this is great.

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But now I have to, since it's great,

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I'm gonna do what I can to protect it, okay?

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Many of you have beautiful things.

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You're excited about it, it's great.

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So now you put your hands on it

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to do what you can to protect it.

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Simple as that, that's what she's doing.

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Beautiful baby boy, I wanna protect him.

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I wanna make sure that the enemy does not get his hands

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on this thing, this person.

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And many of you have callings, destinies, purpose.

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You have families, you have children relationships,

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you have businesses, you have finances,

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you have things that you desperately want the enemy

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to keep his hands off of, is that correct?

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So what we do initially is we try to use our stamina,

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our relationships, our intellect,

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we try to use our finances, we try to use our wit,

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we try to use our whatever it is

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to try to keep the baby safe so that it doesn't come

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in contact with the enemy's plan.

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Am I right by saying that?

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Okay, this is what she was doing.

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And it's a disaster because it's very hard

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when Pharaoh has an edict out against you

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and you're doing what you can to keep the baby safe,

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whatever it is for you, it becomes a struggle.

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How do you know when Pharaoh was after your baby?

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Simple, your blessing starts turning into a burden.

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Have you ever had a blessing that starts becoming a burden?

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Your battle is not against flesh and blood.

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It's against the rulers, the principalities,

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the world forces of darkness, the spiritual forces

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of wickedness in heavenly places.

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The reason why your hands are burning is because Pharaoh's

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on the other end of the rope and you're playing tug of war

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in the spiritual realm trying to keep the baby safe

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through which there's gonna be a kingdom advancement.

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So that's why it's hard is because if you can picture

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Pharaoh doing this, trying to pull out of your hands

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what God has placed in your hands,

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that's why your hands are burning.

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So I need you to understand that for her,

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she got to a place where the blessing was now becoming

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a burden and it became hard to hold this precious baby.

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Verse three lets you know it says,

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but when she could no longer hide him.

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I don't know if you've ever gotten to a place

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where you told God, I just can't do it anymore.

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Some of us have gotten to a place in our marriages

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or with our wayward children or with our business

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trying to keep it together or our home or our school

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or our things that we're trying to put together.

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I can't do, I'm tired.

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Three months of keeping this baby quiet

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and Pharaoh's minions are everywhere.

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I'm tired, I can't do it anymore.

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So for any person in this room that has ever experienced

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being tired or you are tired or if you're not one of those

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two, you will be.

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'Cause trials in this world are like the mailbox

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that you get and your mailbox that says occupant.

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Translation, we don't care who lives here.

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You just have to be on earth and you gonna get some.

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You're about to learn a valuable lesson in surviving Pharaoh.

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She couldn't do it anymore.

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Time was up.

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Three months is a long time.

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You know how slow three months goes trying to hide a baby?

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It feels like forever and your hands are burning

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and cramping up trying to hold on with your own power.

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It says that she put the baby in a wicker basket,

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covered it with tar and pitch and placed it in the Nile.

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What?

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You gotta be at your wits end to put the baby

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in the Nile yourself.

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Now, if you've ever gotten to a place,

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ladies and gentlemen of Springhouse Church,

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where you begin to lose your mind trying to keep something

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safe or keep something healthy or keep something going,

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do you know why you're losing your mind?

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Because you just stepped into God territory.

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And once you step into God territory,

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you find out quickly you ain't him.

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So then you start to lose your mind to hold it yourself.

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When you're losing your mind,

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he's just allowing you to experience what's evident.

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That is that you have stepped into a territory

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that your humanity can't handle.

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And when you're handling things in the spiritual realm,

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you may have to go get the spiritual realm

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to help handle that thing.

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Because that is a realm that's too strong for your hands.

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And while Pharaoh's hands are stronger than your hands,

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God's hands are stronger than Pharaoh's hands.

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Matter of fact, God doesn't even have to use both.

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The Bible says the mighty right hand of God.

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He can just use one on Pharaoh, just.

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And so she realizes this is too big for me.

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I can't do it anymore.

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I can no longer hold on to this situation.

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I'm losing my mind, which is evident

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that I'm in God territory,

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and God will allow you to lose your mind

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so that you can come to the realization

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of how good at being God you are.

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Not that good.

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And then what do we do?

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We get to a place after, some of us, three years,

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some of us a decade, some of us three months,

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some of us figure it out quick.

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I've got to put this situation in a basket

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and put it in the Nile.

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This lady said, "God, I'm giving the baby to you.

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I can't do it anymore."

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I need you to know, Springhouse Church,

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this is very, you need to grab this,

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that your survival will not be contingent upon

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what you're able to hold onto.

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Your survival will be contingent upon

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what you're able to let go of.

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And if you're not willing to let go of it,

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then you won't experience God in your life

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who is able to do much more than what you can do

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keeping that thing in your hands.

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A lot of us think we're waiting on God,

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and God is saying, "No, I'm waiting on you,

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and I got more time than you, trust me."

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(audience laughing)

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She puts the baby in a wicker basket

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and places it in the Nile.

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Now, I know some of you scholars are thinking,

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"Now, how did you get she gave it to God

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by putting it in a basket and putting it in the Nile?"

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I'm glad you asked.

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(audience laughing)

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Wicker basket in the Hebrew is translated ark.

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Y'all didn't get that?

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(audience laughing)

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The ark found in Genesis 6

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was used for the salvation of Noah's family.

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So he built the ark for purposes of salvation.

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So when she put the baby in the wicker basket,

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which is translated ark,

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she didn't put the baby in there for death,

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she put the baby in there for life.

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She had the full expectation

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that if I give this baby to the ark,

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if I place faith in the ark, Jesus Christ,

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then my life will be saved.

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So this wicker basket actually represents the ark,

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which represents Jesus Christ, who's our salvation.

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So she was fully expecting salvation

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by putting the baby in the ark.

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So she put it in the hands of God.

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She went to the prayer closet,

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she came to the church service,

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she had an expectation that if I go to God with my problem

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and put it in his hands and let it go out of my hands,

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that he can do a much better job in the basket

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than I can do in my hands.

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And so she's saying here, God's word is saying here,

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that you need to get ready, if you haven't gotten ready,

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and take that situation and put it in the hands of God.

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But not only did she put it in the wicker basket,

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it says she covered it with tar and pitch.

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Genesis 6, Genesis 6, the Bible says

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that the word of the Lord came to Noah and said,

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make yourself an ark, make yourself an ark of gopher wood,

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you shall cover it with tar and pitch.

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So then I had to look up pitch.

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Well, what's pitch?

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The Hebrew word for pitch is kefer.

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The root word of the Hebrew word means atonement.

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Oh my goodness.

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(audience laughing)

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Atonement has to do with reconciliation,

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forgiveness of sins.

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So she had to repent.

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She had to say, it is actually sinful to trust me

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than it is to trust you.

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I repent, Lord, here's the situation.

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Let me reconcile my trust in you and my faith in you.

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How do you know if you trust God?

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I can tell by what you do.

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I can tell by whether you give him the baby or not.

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Anybody can say they believe until there's a baby

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that has to be given up.

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And once there's a baby that has to be given up,

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then all of a sudden, there's some reconciliation

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that needs to happen.

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And so she is in a repented state that,

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Lord, I am sorry that I thought more of my hands

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than I did of your hands.

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So let me reconcile, and how I reconcile

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is by giving my life away, giving my situation away,

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actually placing it in your hands.

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We walk by faith, not by sight.

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Faith is acting like it is so, even when it's not so,

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so that it might be so, simply because God said so.

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(audience laughing)

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Faith is actionable.

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You can feel faith-ish and not have much faith.

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You can feel like you don't have a lot of faith

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and have a whole lot of faith,

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because faith has to do with your feet and your movement,

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not just your feelings.

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And here, she's reconciling with God

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because she's saying, I'm going to put it in the basket,

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I'm gonna cover it with tar and pitch

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so that it's sealed from the devastation of denial.

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Don't you know that if you're in Christ,

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the Bible says in Ephesians 1, 13,

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you are sealed by the Spirit.

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Don't you know that there is, Romans 8, 1,

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there is therefore no condemnation

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to those who are in Christ Jesus.

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So she's sealing it with the full expectations

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that the crocodiles won't be able to get through it.

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She's sealing it with the full expectation

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that even if I put my baby in the same scenario

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where everybody else is drowning,

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my baby will have destiny.

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The Nile was the place of devastation,

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but for her, it was the place of deliverance.

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The Nile was the place where everybody else was dying,

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but for her, it was the place where she would be surviving.

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Because in the hands of God,

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you can be in the same scenario

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where everybody else is getting destroyed

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and be experiencing victory.

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Here she is placing the baby, what we need to do.

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I'm giving it to the hands of God.

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Now notice, she doesn't put the baby in the Nile

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without a wicker basket.

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There's wicker basket, then Nile.

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Can't need you to understand this.

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If there's no wicker basket, you gonna be dead.

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You have to have the wicker basket,

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meaning the expectation of what you're letting go

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is that God will save it.

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I wanna make sure, Pastor Kevin,

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that nobody thinks that I'm saying,

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well great, I'm gonna let my marriage go.

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The pastor said I can let it go.

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I'm just gonna take this marriage like a football

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and punt it, boom.

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Oh no, that's not expectation of salvation.

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That's just selfish.

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No, he says wicker basket.

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If I'm letting it go, I'm letting it go

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for the purpose of salvation,

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that God will bring it back.

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Now, okay, here we go.

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Are y'all still with me?

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Here, you're tracking?

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Okay, so she does, remember, put yourself in the story.

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This is very difficult.

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A mother, you're talking about trusting God

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with your situation.

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She's trusting God with a literal baby.

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Whatever your situation is is hard, but it ain't like this.

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She's putting a baby with the crocodiles?

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That is a level of trust that we can only aspire to,

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but that's the level of trust that God deserves.

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She puts the baby in the now, now.

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Verse four says, "His sister stood at a distance

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"to find out what would happen to him."

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So this is Moses' sister Miriam.

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Moses' sister Miriam is watching this like,

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"Oh my goodness, this is terrible."

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She's watching her mother's faith.

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And at first, it's scary to watch the generation before you

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or your parents show faith and just give things to God.

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You're thinking to yourself, "You've lost your mind."

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But this little girl is watching her mother's faith, okay?

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I need you to remember that and lock that

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in the back of your mind, okay?

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She's watching her mother's faith.

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At the moment that Moses' mother puts him in the Nile,

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watch what happens.

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Verse five, "The daughter of Pharaoh came down

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"to bathe in the Nile with her maidens

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"walking along the Nile and she saw the basket

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"among the reeds and said to her maid

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"to bring it over and sent her maid to go get it

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"and she brought it to her."

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So when Moses' mother puts the baby in the Nile,

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by luck and chance,

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Pharaoh's daughter decides she stinks

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and wants to come take a bath in the Nile.

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I need to go take a bath at the moment

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Moses' mother puts the baby in the Nile

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because God's not doing anything.

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It's just all happenstance and luck.

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And Pharaoh, as the story goes,

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Pharaoh's daughter says, "Hey, go get that basket."

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The basket comes over, it's a baby,

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and she says, "Oh my goodness, coochie, coochie, coo."

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(audience laughing)

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This is all luck and chance that Pharaoh loves,

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Pharaoh's daughter loves babies.

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She knows it's a Hebrew boy,

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but she doesn't care 'cause she just felt pity in her heart.

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It's just kind of a thing that happened.

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But I want you to notice that now Moses is taken out,

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but God's sovereignty would only pick up what she put down.

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If she doesn't put it down,

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then Pharaoh finds that boy a different way.

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When she puts it down,

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then God's sovereignty comes and picks him up.

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God's sovereignty is waiting on you to put it down.

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(humming)

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Because he has a plan.

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He's waiting on you to stop doing his job.

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Pharaoh's daughter, shoop, picks the baby up,

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and she says, "Coochie, coochie, coo."

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And then watch this.

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Remember that thing I told you to put

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in the back of your head?

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What'd I tell you to put in the back of your head?

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You don't remember.

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(audience murmuring)

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Miriam, Miriam was watching.

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So at first she's nervous,

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but she's also watching everything

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that I just told you play out.

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Pharaoh's daughter pick it up,

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she's watching the maid go get it,

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she's watching Pharaoh's daughter say, "Coochie, coochie, coo."

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And now she's watching her mother's faith play out.

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See, when you give your things to the Lord parents,

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your children's get to watch God work in your life.

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They get to watch it play out.

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And when they're able to watch faith work,

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then they know faith works.

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But we talk a lot in church,

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but nobody's trusting God,

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and so they're out there in the culture

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just trying to figure it out on social media

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like everybody else,

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because they've never seen their parents

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put it in the Nile.

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And here Miriam is watching coochie, coochie, coo.

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She's watching Pharaoh's daughter do all these things.

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She's watching this play out,

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she's like, "Immediately,

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the boy is not even in the Nile anymore, he's out."

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So now her faith is conjured up

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and she wants to be a part of God's plan.

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Watch this, verse seven,

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"Then his sister," Miriam,

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"said to Pharaoh's daughter,

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shall I go and call a nurse from you from the Hebrew women

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so that she may nurse the child for you?"

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Y'all ain't, come on, Springhouse.

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(audience laughing)

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Miriam's, it's a little girl.

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Now you gotta understand, her faith is conjured up

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because she's seeing God work.

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You can't just go up to Pharaoh's daughter.

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That's not how this works.

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They can have you killed, you're supposed to be a slave.

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If she's going up to Pharaoh's daughter,

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that means her faith in God has been conjured up.

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She is no longer afraid.

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She know this God thing works.

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So she's coming against the culture now at a young age.

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Young people, you don't have to wait till you're old.

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God can use you when you're young.

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And so she comes, y'all still with me, y'all getting tired?

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Okay, so she comes up to Pharaoh's daughter and says,

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"Listen here, I got an idea.

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You like the baby, right?"

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"Yes, oh coochie, coochie, coo."

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I saw you doing that.

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I think it's a great idea, since you like the baby,

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you don't want them to go hungry.

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I can go get a Hebrew woman

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to nurse the baby for you.

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You know what Pharaoh's daughter's response was?

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That's a great idea.

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I would love that, that's awesome.

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Let's do that, that's a great idea.

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Little did Pharaoh's daughter understand

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that Miriam was just gonna take the baby back to the mother.

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(audience laughing)

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She says, in verse eight, Pharaoh's daughter said to her,

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"Go ahead," so the girl went and called the child's mother.

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Ooh!

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You got to be kidding me!

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That child said, "I love this, let's go.

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Hey, I got an idea, let's do this."

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Pharaoh's daughter, not knowing she's being used by God,

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is about to give the baby right back to the mother

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against the edict of her own father.

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(audience laughing)

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I need you to understand that a boomerang

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only comes back when you let it go.

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That God is trying to return to you

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the very thing that you have to trust Him to put down.

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And He's going to work, the providence of God,

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He's gonna work out the details

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and bring that thing right back around.

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But not only is He gonna bring it around,

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you're talking about God.

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Okay, Springhouse, this is God we're talking about.

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He don't just do the normal.

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Okay, y'all don't know the story,

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so let me show you how to, okay, let me read this to you.

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You're gonna trip out, you're gonna trip out.

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Okay, here it goes.

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Pharaoh's daughter said, "Go, go get the mother,"

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she didn't say go get the mother,

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but go ahead, go get the Hebrew woman.

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So the girl went and got the child's mother.

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Then Pharaoh's daughter said to the child's mother,

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"Take this child away and nurse him for me

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"and I will give you wages."

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(audience laughing)

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So the woman took the child and nursed him.

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(audience laughing)

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She got paid to nurse her own baby.

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(audience laughing)

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'Cause you need to understand

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that God can do exceedingly, abundantly, beyond

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all that you can ask or think.

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(audience applauding)

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Watch this.

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According to the power that works in you.

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Everybody jumps over pews

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with the first part of Ephesians 3.20.

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They forget the last part.

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He can do exceedingly, abundantly, beyond

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all that you can ask or think

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according to the power that works in you.

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So if you're experiencing a little bit of God,

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he's saying, well, I'm experiencing a little bit of you.

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(audience gasping)

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Because when God's sovereignty picks something up,

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she got paid to do what she would have done for free.

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(audience laughing)

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You got to be kidding me.

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And this all came from one point and one concept.

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Let it go.

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(audience applauding)

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(audience cheering)

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