Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.
If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.
Thank you for joining us today.
So I'm gonna need you guys prayer.
Me and my two brothers started a diet called the carnivore diet. If anyone's ever heard of it, it's great.
You only eat meat exclusively and some dairy and apparently it's really good for you.
But I overdid it and I ate way too much meat right before coming here.
So a little nauseous, but we're gonna make it through all right.
So pray for me when you think about it because you don't want to see it, right?
We made it through Leviticus. So give yourselves a round of applause.
Wasn't it better than you expected? You always hear like how awful Leviticus is and it was great.
So we're in Numbers and to do a little math. So Exodus was one year for the Israelites.
Leviticus was one month for the Israelites.
And then
Numbers is 28 or 38 years.
So if you do the math that it took us six months to get through one month of Bible time,
that means we're gonna be studying Numbers for 224 years.
So if that math pans out, we'll see.
I think we'll be studying it in heaven because I don't think we're gonna be doing it this long, but.
Anyway, so just wanted to go through a little bit of a high level of Numbers.
Before we really get into chapters one and two, we're not gonna read the entirety of the chapters. I feel like
really these chapters, it's a census. So it talks about the total numbers of people
in in Israel at that time. So for me when I read this, I see like, okay,
this is straightforward numbers of people, but what we see here is it's a fulfilled promise that we're gonna talk about and that's really the
significance of this. So in
Hebrew,
they don't call it Numbers. They actually call it in the wilderness because that's the first opening line of
Numbers. It says when the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness. And
Moses wrote this. It's a continuation of Exodus, then Leviticus and now into Numbers. And
like I said, Leviticus was one month. Now Numbers is 38 years. It was not supposed to be 38 years.
That first generation coming out of Egypt was supposed to inherit the Promised Land, but they disobeyed,
they didn't have faith in God, and they had to wander until the 40 years ended. The whole generation died and the new generation
went into the Promised Land. So
Numbers is broken up really into two sections, and that is chapters 1 through 10, which is
preparation for the journey. So it's gonna cover some, you know,
they're doing a census here, some rules, what to expect, I guess, and then
chapters 10 through 36 is the actual journey. And you'll see that rebellion, the punishment, and the preparation for the new generation
going in. And,
you know, Numbers is great. There's some crazy stuff that happens.
And I know a lot of pastors that will teach from the Old Testament love the stories in here.
So there's a lot of application and
pretty entertaining stories. And while I was reading this, it says that Moses wrote this book in around the
1400s BC. And
for a while there were a bunch of scholars that said, there's no way Moses wrote this.
This was actually written when they were in Babylon.
Hundreds and hundreds of years later, I think in the years like 4 to 500 BC.
So we're looking at like almost a thousand years later. And I love this because then this was debunked.
Like you can't go against God. If you go against Him,
you're gonna lose. And they actually discovered something called the silver
katathinom scrolls in 1979. You probably haven't heard of it, neither did I.
But the oldest Bible verse we have written verbatim was discovered on these silver scrolls.
And it was Numbers 6 24 through 26 that says, the Lord bless you and keep you.
The Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.
The Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Isn't that a beautiful one? So that was discovered on these scrolls.
That's from the year 700 BC, prior to the exile age.
So we know for sure that this is definitely from Moses's time.
He wrote it and this theory is totally wrong.
So this was written at the time that we believe it to be written.
Alright, so
let's see what we can get out of chapters 1 through 2.
It's actually, there's a lot packed in here
because of the importance of this promise fulfilled.
But let's read just chapter 1 verses 1 through 3.
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai
in the tabernacle of meeting on the first day of the second month in the second year.
So this is the second year, like we said, on the second month in the wilderness.
And the Lord says,
take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel by their families,
by their father's houses, according to the numbers of the names of every male individual,
from 20 years old and above, all who are able to go to war in Israel.
You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
So here we see that they are going to number the people.
And the reason they're actually able to do this is because already there was organization
by Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, who said,
look, this is too much work for you to manage all the people.
Put people below you in charge of the thousands and the hundreds and the tens.
So now you have people who are in charge of ten people and a family,
and so they count the names and return those numbers to the next stage, up to the next stage,
so they could actually take a census pretty accurately and quickly.
So this isn't just like Moses going through these crazy amounts of people
and trying to add them up.
He had all these people coming to him, and they totaled it up.
This number, which is amazing, you'll see in verse 45, we jump there.
So it says,
so all who were numbered of the children of Israel by their father's houses,
from 20 years old and above, all who were able to go to war in Israel,
all who were numbered were 603,550.
That's just men over the age of 20 who could go to war.
There's possibly some people that weren't capable of going to war
that were not counted in that number,
and in addition to that, scholars say, based on the factors of children and females
and people not able to go to war,
we'd be looking at somewhere between 2 to 2.5 million people going into the wilderness.
Isn't that incredible?
So I went to chat GPT, and I'm like, okay.
If we had normal people with large families,
because think about these people having like 10, 12 kids or something,
and I put in all the numbers,
and it turned out this number that's actually like,
yes, this number is feasible,
especially if there's heavy group identity,
which there is the people of God,
and also spiritual blessing, you can't take God out of this.
He blessed the families, and they were doing great.
So there's literally over 2 million people,
and chat GPT even agrees with me, no.
But why does this matter, right?
You might be wondering, okay, cool.
A lot of people came out, and now we numbered them.
This seems pretty dry.
Well, the reason this is so important is because God keeps his promises.
God made massive, incredible promises over this very chapter,
430 years before.
So let's turn to Genesis 12.
Verse 1 through 3.
Now the Lord had said to Abram,
who would later be renamed Abraham,
get out of your country from your family and from your father's house
to a land that I will show you.
I will make you a great nation.
I will bless you and make your name great,
and you shall be a blessing.
I will bless those who bless you,
and I will curse those who curse you,
and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
He said to Abraham, I will make you a great nation.
Now Abraham was already 75 years old when he got this word from the Lord.
And he believed him, but then he struggled,
but then he believed him and struggled, but still believed.
And it actually took another 25 years until his son came Isaac.
So he was 100 years old when he had this promise son
that was then going to turn into two and a half million people.
So let's turn to Genesis 15 now,
because this promise is again confirmed.
Verse 1.
After these things, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision,
saying, do not be afraid, Abram, I am your shield,
your exceedingly great reward.
But Abram said, Lord God, what will you give me
seeing I go childless?
And the heir of my house is Eleazar of Damascus.
Then Abram said, look, you have given me no offspring.
Indeed, one born in my house is my heir.
And behold, the word of the Lord came to him saying,
this one shall not be your heir,
but one who will come from your own body shall be your heir.
And he brought him outside and said,
look now to award heaven and count the stars.
If you are able to number them, and he said to him,
so shall your descendants be, and he believed in the Lord
and he accounted it to him for righteousness.
It goes on to say that he was going to give him also the land of Canaan
and that these people would actually be slaves
in a foreign land in the land of Egypt
and it would be 400 years.
Now, if you have questions about the 400 years
because they were actually only enslaved for 215,
well, that actually adds up that Ishmael,
the son of Hagar in Egyptian at the age of five,
started persecuting Isaac, the chosen son.
And so God is saying at that time in this foreign land,
even at the persecution when Isaac was a kid,
this is the beginning of the 400 years of persecution.
But this promise is being fulfilled right here.
Now they're coming out of the strongest country
at that time, this nation of Egypt.
Super evil, super strong, nobody can beat them.
And the Lord does these crazy plagues
and just shows his power and his wrath
and takes them out of there.
And he also makes two and a half million people thrive
in the wilderness and he's taking them there
to the promised land, to Canaan now.
He's giving it to them, he's confirming it
and he's equipping them and he even calls them
before they've ever fought a war,
he calls them their armies.
Aren't you glad that God sees the good in you
before you ever even see it?
Like he can see the destiny that's on you,
he can see what he's called you to,
even when you don't believe it yourself.
And here he is, he's calling these people armies
and he's preparing and equipping them
to do the very thing that he's called them to do,
that he's promised 430 years before.
Now, the last part of the promise that we first read was,
in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
So we don't see that right here, how this is happening.
But Galatians 3 16 says,
now to Abraham and his seed where the promise is made.
He does not say and to seeds as of many,
but as of one to your seed, who is Christ?
This promise was not only fulfilled 400 years later,
but we're looking at what is that 1800 years later
when Jesus is born is the final fulfillment of this promise
because the seed who is Jesus,
a descendant of Abraham is now blessing
all the nations of the world through salvation,
which is by his death on the cross.
And this doesn't, this isn't free, right?
This actually comes at great cost.
And let's take a look right here in,
actually let's finish Galatians 3, it says,
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law,
having become a curse for us.
And the blessing of Abraham
might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus
that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Abraham, the father of the faith, right?
He believed and it was counted to him as righteousness
before the law ever came.
Faith made you righteous.
Then the law came and that was to guide them
to realize they need a savior.
But here he is, he realizes,
and I believe he probably captured part of it.
He didn't even know the full thing,
but one day Jesus would come from him.
He would save all the nations of the world
and actually give us his spirit,
the greatest fulfilled promise of all.
But this does come at a cost, right?
At the end of Genesis 15,
when we saw this whole,
like when he gives up promises
accounted to him as righteousness,
they do this thing called a cutting ceremony.
Now, this is actually somewhat common
back in the day at that time.
They would get animals, they would cut them in half,
put one on each side, kind of like these chairs.
One person who was saying,
yes, I'm gonna agree to this promise,
this covenant is on that end.
The other person's here
and they walk through the middle
and meet in the middle
and they then like shake hands,
whatever they do, I don't know at that point,
but they say something and they make this promise.
And what it's saying is,
if either of us breaks this promise,
we're gonna be like these animals.
That person has the punishment of death
being broken in half and dead.
But Moses is put under,
I mean, not Moses,
Abraham is put under a deep sleep,
which we see.
It says in verse 10,
he brought all these to him,
these animals,
and then verse 12,
when the sun was going down,
a deep sleep fell upon Moses
and behold,
horror and great darkness fell upon him.
And he said to Abram,
no, certainly that your descendants
will be strangers in a land
that is not theirs
and will serve them
and they will flick them 400 years.
And the nation whom they serve,
I will judge.
And then jump down to 17,
it says,
it came to pass when the sun was down
and it was dark,
that behold,
there appeared a smoking oven
and a burning torch
that passed between those pieces of animals.
On the same day,
the Lord made covenant with Abram.
This is incredible
because think about it,
Abraham was supposed to walk
halfway through and meet with God.
But while he's asleep,
God walks all the way through.
And what he's saying is,
if you break this covenant,
I will die.
We see Jesus here.
Usually if you break the covenant,
you deserve to be like the animals
and get the punishment and die.
But God walks all the way through
who can't break a promise,
who could never fail.
And he says,
if you break the promise,
I will die for you.
We see you, Jesus.
We thank you, Lord.
Lord, we thank you that you took
the punishment, God,
that we deserved.
And you fulfill all promises, God.
You're faithful, God.
You're faithful
to generations and generations.
So God keeps his promises
over the centuries
as we see over the millennium
and for eternity.
And the thing that's so great
about God
is that his faithfulness
isn't dependent on us,
on our actions, right?
It's actually who he is.
It's hidden in his name
and we see Moses
when he goes out
to the burning bush
before he goes
and saves these people,
the Israelites,
out of Egypt.
He sees the burning bush
and he meets with God.
And he tells him
all the great things
that he's gonna do.
And he says,
who am I that I can't do this?
And then the Lord speaks to him
and then Moses says,
well, who should I say you are?
Like, I know your God,
but what's your name?
Who should I say you are?
And God says,
my name is Yahweh.
I am who I am.
Now, you might think
that's like a riddle
and that's confusing,
but with the beauty
and the depth of God,
you understand something
about his character
that I am who I am
means he's unchanging.
He never changes.
At all times,
he is who he is
and there's no changing
who he is.
And this also shows
that he's self-existent.
He's outside of time.
There was no beginning
and there's no end.
That's a dependable God.
That is the God
who loves you,
who made promises
to you and me.
And later,
when we see Moses
ask to see God's glory,
God says,
I can't show you my face,
which really,
you know,
it could be his face
or his poetically,
his full glory.
You can't see his glory
and live,
but you can see my back
or the aftermath
of my glory going by.
I can't even imagine
what that would be like.
Moses, after he meets with God,
his face is shining for days.
That's aftermath of his glory.
And he didn't even see his face.
He just saw the aftermath
of God's glory
is now leaving aftermath
of the glory on him.
And when he passes by
in front of Moses,
he says,
this is what God says,
the Lord, the Lord,
Yahweh, Yahweh,
I am who I am,
merciful and gracious.
He's declaring who he is here.
I am who I am,
merciful and gracious,
long suffering
and abounding in goodness
and truth,
keeping mercy,
man, sorry guys,
keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity
and transgression and sin,
by no means clearing the guilty
but visiting the iniquity
of the fathers
upon the children
and the children's children
to the third
and fourth generation.
And Moses made haste
and bowed down his head
towards the earth and worshiped.
Then he said,
if now I have found grace
in your sight,
oh Lord,
let my Lord,
I pray go among us.
Even though we are a stiff neck
to stubborn people,
pardon our iniquity and sin
and take us as your inheritance.
It's such an amazing response,
like all he wants
is Lord be with me
and Lord,
can we be yours?
Knowing that you're stubborn
and knowing that you're fail
and you already had the golden calf
and there was wrath
against you,
all this stuff
and he's saying,
can we be your inheritance?
Can we be your people?
Can we be yours?
And I see that when we see God
in his glory,
when we know who he truly is,
there's nothing in you
except to want to be with him
and to want to be his
and he be yours.
And I love that
this is who he says he is,
like that this is not dependent
on what we do.
So often,
we as Christians
can like mess up
and we know like,
okay, we're supposed to be holy,
we're supposed to do all the right things
and now I messed up
and God must be distant
and far from me
and I have to do all this stuff
to make him happy again
and then maybe we'll be good.
And he says that this is unconditional.
This isn't based on you.
I've known everything you've ever done
and we can actually have the boldness
to say Lord,
in spite of this,
thank you for forgiveness,
but in spite of this,
I want to be yours
and I want you to be with me
and he accepts us wholeheartedly
because it's who he is.
He is the one
who is gracious, merciful,
long suffering,
abounding in goodness and truth,
keeping mercy for thousands
and forgiving iniquity,
transgression and sins.
Second Timothy says,
if we are faithless,
he remains faithful.
He cannot deny himself.
Now Jesus is the ultimate revelation
of the faithfulness of God.
Like we saw this promise of Abraham
went all the way to Jesus
like we read in Galatians.
He is the image of the invisible God.
The reason we can even know God
is because we know him
and he says because you've seen me,
you've seen the Father.
We can actually know
what the invisible God,
Father is like
because we've seen Jesus
in the Word
and also in our hearts.
And he is the fulfillment
of every single covenant
in the Bible.
And I'm not going to go through them all.
There's seven of them,
some debate more,
but there's the covenant of Adam,
Noah, Abraham, Moses, David,
the land covenant,
and then the new covenant.
And look it up.
It's pretty amazing.
Every single one.
God, Jesus is the fulfillment of,
not the people.
And in Numbers 2,
we're going to jump forward.
There's such great symbolism
pointing that Jesus is the fulfillment.
Jesus is the one
we should be looking for.
And we jump to,
well, verse 1.
The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron
saying,
Every one of the children of Israel
shall camp by his own standard
beside the emblems
of their father's house.
They shall camp some distance
from the tabernacle of meeting.
On the east side
toward the rising of the sun,
those of the standard
of the forces with Judah
shall camp according to their armies.
Now we see between the rising of the sun
and between the tabernacle,
the actual presence of God is in there.
The entrance to that
is on the east side.
So we see from the rising of the sun
to the entrance
into the presence of God,
there is the tribe of Judah.
Now Jesus is born
from the tribe of Judah.
Also,
Zachariah in Luke,
when he sees pregnant Mary
in the temple,
he runs up to her
and says of Jesus in her womb
without even knowing.
The Holy Spirit reveals and says,
This is the dawn.
The day spring.
The dawn from on high
has visited us,
calling Jesus the dawn.
So he is the light of the world,
he also says.
So the sun is rising.
Through Judah,
there is entrance
into the presence of God.
We see the dawn
of Jesus in our hearts.
He is the only light of the world.
And through him,
we actually have the ability
to enter the presence of God.
So my main takeaway
from here is pretty simple,
that Jesus is faithful.
Amen.
Jesus is faithful.
And I've experienced
his faithfulness
honestly every day.
Like, it doesn't have to be
crazy answered prayers.
The fact that I wake up
and I know he's with me
is proof of his faithfulness, right?
You wake up,
you talk to him.
He's right there.
You know he's with you.
You feel his presence.
That is just proof
of how faithful he is
because guys,
we're not perfect.
We mess up,
we get distracted.
We know we should be
maybe more serious
about things of God
and we get distracted
and, you know,
maybe do dumb things.
But like, he's still there.
He's still faithful.
He's still forgiving.
Generation to generation,
he's never failed.
And I see in 2 Corinthians,
verse 1,
2 Corinthians 1 verse 20 says,
For all the promises of God,
in him are yes,
and in him are amen,
to the glory of God through us.
In him, all the promises,
every single promise in the word is yes.
It doesn't say,
through our obedience,
all the promises of God
are yes and amen.
It says in him,
all the promises of God
are yes and amen,
to the glory of God through us.
So I was writing down a list
of some of the promises
just to think about.
This actually is for you.
This is for me.
This is real life,
something we can actually experience.
So some of these promises,
and there's tons of them.
There's too many to write down.
But forgiveness of sins,
we have complete and total
forgiveness of sins
in the past,
present, and the future.
We have his mercy,
which is not getting what we deserve,
and his grace,
which is getting far more
than we could ever expect,
and we do not deserve at all.
We have eternal life.
So this life,
though it's important,
we know it's not our home,
and there's something far greater.
We have his constant presence
with us at all times.
We have the indwelling Holy Spirit
living inside of us,
refining us,
making us look more like him.
We have guidance, wisdom,
comfort, help, provision,
empowerment, peace, joy,
answered prayers,
a heavenly home,
and adoption as sons and daughters
of the Most High God.
Don't doubt his faithfulness.
You know, I love Romans 8.
It says, chapter 8, verse 15,
we do not receive the spirit
of bondage again to fear,
but you receive the spirit
of adoption by whom we cry out,
Abba Father.
That's like Daddy God.
This is how intimate
and close we are.
Jesus called him Abba Father.
We call him Abba Father.
And that spirit,
the spirit himself bears witness
with our spirit
that we are children of God.
And if children and heirs
and heirs of God
and joint heirs with Christ,
that is something you can
lean on and rely on.
If you ever doubt,
maybe, like honestly,
sin causes confusion.
It's, there's no doubt about it.
If you're not walking closely with him,
the enemy will put doubts in your mind
and you will go off the rails.
But if we come to him,
he promises here
that his spirit will tell your spirit
that you are a child of God
and you will be reminded
of the joy of your salvation
and the confidence of your faith.
And so in my life,
you know, I see so much faithfulness.
I'm just gonna share a few stories
that are kind of cool.
Yeah, a little bit of time.
So, you know, Philippians says,
being confident that he has begun
a good work will carry it on
to completion until the day of Jesus.
So, that means the good work in you,
your faith and being formed
to look more like God,
more like Jesus.
He is the one doing the work in us.
All we do is submit.
So when I was 13,
I was just kind of like
in a weird place with faith.
We had a small group,
or not small group,
Question Time,
whenever you call it after this.
So I already shared the story there.
I'll keep it brief.
But I was at a point in my walk
where, you know, you're 13,
so you're still a kid.
Nothing's super serious yet.
But I still felt God's like
speaking to me and wanting me
to just like spend more time
with him and read the word.
You know, my parents are obviously
super, super strong in their faith.
And they weren't pastors.
My dad wasn't a pastor at the time,
but still like my mom and my dad
showed me how to read the Bible
and journal and all that stuff.
So I knew what I was supposed to do,
but I didn't want to.
And honestly, like,
it was hard for me to think
that Christianity was fun.
It kind of seemed boring.
And I'm like,
do I really want to do this?
Like, God, I know you're real.
I know I'm a Christian.
But like, I don't want
to really do this, right?
And so it was like right around Christmas,
right after Christmas.
And we go to church,
Central Bucks,
Calvary Central Bucks,
sitting there.
It's like all the chairs
are kind of like this,
but really long rows.
And there's this guy next to me,
this bigger guy
I've never seen ever before
sitting next to me.
And he keeps interrupting me
while I'm listening to the message.
And I'm like thinking
about all this stuff.
And I'm like,
man, like, okay.
We talked,
he asked me what he got for Christmas,
you know, like 13-year-old questions.
And then I was like,
I feel like I should be paying attention,
but this guy keeps talking to me.
And then the main thing
I was struggling with
was reading the Word.
And he leans next to me
and he speaks.
And it was totally God.
He says,
read this.
And he hands me a book
of the Psalms of Proverbs.
He says,
read this every single day
and it will change your life.
Right while I'm struggling
with this very thing.
And he also gave me a silver dollar,
which I still have to remember.
And so I was like,
oh, wow,
that's kind of cool timing.
I was like, thank you.
So I put in my pocket
and then the whole service ends
and I turn to my parents
and my brother and sister
and we're like talking and stuff.
And like maybe 60 to 90 seconds later
I turn around and look
and he's not there anymore.
I'm like, okay,
well, he probably just left.
I was like,
but there's people down.
There's like six people
at the end of the aisle.
They'd all have to get up.
And he's not like
the type of guy that just jump
over the row, you know.
So then I'm like,
okay, I look like in the back
and he's not there
and there's a window and I look out
and he's not in the parking lot.
And I never saw him again.
So I'm like,
okay, either this guy is like
a spiritual ninja sent by God
to a 13 year old
or maybe this was an angel,
which I have faith it was
because it had such
a profound impact on my life.
Another one
that I see God's faithfulness
to me was
buying a house.
Back in the day,
it was like 2018
and I was like,
okay, there's no way
we're going to afford a house.
We'll just try.
Get pre-approved for a mortgage.
I'm like, okay, cool.
So then we see this house
on the market,
put in an offer,
we lose it.
It's Nashville.
Things are crazy.
It's like hard to get a house.
Then there's this like,
we're just driving home
kind of down about the fact
we're like,
we're never going to be able
to buy a house.
And then,
you know like when clouds
have silver linings
from the sun behind it,
it's one of those silver lining clouds
and there's rays of light
shooting through it.
And I randomly get emotional
and I tear up.
I'm like,
what the heck?
Like why am I crying
at this sunset?
And I,
but I just felt like
I turned to Maria.
We're driving.
I'm like,
I think this means
something for our house.
Don't know what,
but I feel like God
has something for us.
And I believe them.
The very next morning,
Maria went on Zillow.
There's a house that pops up.
It looks perfect.
It's in Sunset Hills neighborhood
on sundown drive.
We go in.
We put in an offer.
They're Christians.
We tell them we're Christians.
There's seven offers
ahead of us.
There's better offers,
cash offers,
and they see
that we're Christians
and a young couple
that's going to have kids
and they say,
we want to give it to them.
And we get the house.
Another one.
One more.
So when we were praying
about getting pregnant
with Beau.
So, you know,
we're thinking of names.
Like, what could we do?
I don't know.
Maria.
There's a rainbow outside.
So Maria says,
what about rain?
Well, turns out is like,
I said no right away
because I knew when she's
in middle school,
she liked a guy named rain.
I'm like, there's no way
you're naming our kid rain.
And she's like,
well, what about Beau?
I was like,
it's pretty good.
Actually, I like Beau.
And BAU is how we spelled it.
So Maria,
you know how it is
your first time.
And I think there were
some things actually,
like when they were doing scans
that we're a little worried about.
So Maria would just pray
and ask God,
like, Lord, I pray
that you would keep Beau healthy
and that he would be born
a healthy baby.
And I kid you not,
we would see rainbows,
like more in those nine months
than my entire life,
like combined.
And there's rainbows everywhere.
And then when she's in labor
and we're flying to the hospital,
it's raining.
The clouds break.
The sun shoots through.
There's a huge rainbow
going over the highway
when we're five minutes
out from the hospital.
And I'm like, what?
So we're just like,
thank you, Lord.
And we go in and like,
there was a moment there
where the heartbeat,
his heartbeat was dropping
and everyone starts running around.
And I just knew,
I'm like, the promise,
the faithfulness of God,
we're going to be okay.
And he's born,
he's super healthy and awesome.
And he's, you know,
it just, it proves that like,
if we just open our eyes
and pray and look around,
he's going to prove
his faithfulness all the time.
And one last thing,
just thinking about
the Israelites during this time,
like, sometimes when we
are in perceived chaos,
like things are going crazy,
we actually don't realize
that God's fully in control, right?
Like he fully knows
what's going to happen
and he's going to use
all things together
for the good of those who love him
and are called
according to his purpose.
So here, the Israelites
are slaves.
They don't realize
that this was part
of the promise of God
to do something great through them,
to bring about the savior
of the world, right?
And so they're slaves,
they're being tormented.
And then this random guy Moses
who used to be part of the nation
that was tormenting him,
he was a Jew,
but he, you know,
adopted by Pharaoh.
So they're like,
do we trust this guy?
And then God starts
doing these plagues,
just like unbelievable plagues.
And, you know,
they're in the midst
of this chaos
and they're probably thinking like,
man, if this keeps up,
maybe we're going to die from a plague,
maybe Pharaoh's going to kill us
because Moses just keeps
going back and doing this,
like what's his problem?
And then God pulls them out,
but then they're in the wilderness
and then like all this mayhem
is happening.
But the whole time
God had a plan
and was actually in control.
And in the midst of perceived chaos,
there was actually extreme peace
they could have
knowing that God is faithful
and there was an extreme sense of order.
Like they met the God of order
when they went out there.
The laws of Leviticus,
like can you get more in depth
and orderly than that?
That is our God.
And so all I want to say
is with that in mind,
like you might feel
like you're in chaos,
like maybe personally,
maybe mentally, emotionally.
Maybe it's, you know,
your family, your work,
whatever in life,
you might feel like it's chaos.
But remember that
God is a faithful God.
That God has a plan
that's bigger than anything
we can be going through.
And that he who began
a good work in you
will bring it to completion.
He will not fail.
So let's just pray it out.
I got some questions
we can go over,
but I just want to pray
and thank him
for how good he is.
Lord, Yahweh, I am who I am.
Lord, we thank you
that you never change.
Lord, we thank you
that in you,
the father of lights,
every good and perfect gift
comes from you, Lord.
There is no variation
or shadow of turning God.
You will never stop being faithful.
It is who you are, Lord.
And I just pray, God,
that like Moses,
we would have hearts
that would just say,
Lord, would you just be with me?
I want to be with you.
I want to be yours.
And I pray, God,
that we would open our eyes, Lord,
that your spirit would reveal
how you've been so faithful
every single day, God.
And I pray that we would also see,
Lord, where there's chaos,
there's a peace-filled,
loving God that has a plan.
And I pray that that
would rise up faith in us.
We love you so much.
In Jesus' name, Amen.
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