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0:00:01 – Jaime Luce

Welcome to the Jamie Luce podcast. Thank you so much for tuning in today and listening. I have something for you that I think is really what will fall on the tales of what we discussed in our last episode. We talked about Jacob and his name, change and identity, but today we’re going to talk about the identity of God, so to speak, in the way that he relates to us and the way that he reveals himself to us while we are in the journey, or on the journey, I should say, of gaining freedom. So we’ll be talking about Moses today and the children of Israel and coming out of slavery and, in particular, I want to start with really looking at the way that the enemy whether that enemy is an actual foe, somebody that can be named, something you’re dealing with that has a face, whether we’re talking about the enemy of our souls or whether we’re talking about an enemy that is unseen. But there are things that we feel chained to, things we feel enslaved to, and I want to expose and really show you what that looks like. How the enemy, whichever enemy, that is, how that enemy will act towards you, even if it’s from within, even if it’s things that you’re battling from within, how that enemy will respond to you and act, because if we can expose it, then when we run up against something, we can recognize it. Once we recognize it, we now have the tools, the tools that we’ll need to navigate and find our way out of slavery and into freedom. So there’s a lot here. I don’t mean to confuse you, but up until this point we saw that God had revealed himself in three ways, by three names, in Genesis, and then, once we get to the Exodus, god reveals himself by new names. And so this little journey that we’re going to be on is to see the problem, how we’re in the problem, what to do in that problem, how to recognize the problem but then, at the same time, recognize who God is while we’re going through that, so that we’re able then to navigate freely, to navigate out of slavery and into freedom. Okay, folks, let’s dig in. I want to talk with you today about this because this is so important for us. We are all on a journey, and this I’m going to share a little tidbit with you here before I dive in and begin reading the scripture to you.

But even this message is about freedom and delivering and bringing freedom, and how the enemy buffets us and comes against us and tries to keep us bound, and so we need to understand and recognize what the enemy’s doing, how an enemy like this operates, so we know how not to be bound by a pharaoh. And I happened to look at my camera while I was recording and realized that it did not start recording when I thought it did, and I was literally halfway through and had to start over and I just kind of chuckled now to myself to realize, even in bringing you freedom, the enemy is buffeting me by my lack of skill. Maybe maybe not the enemy, maybe myself my lack of skill Don’t want to give credit where credit’s not due right, but it just shows me the importance of this To me, when things like this happen, I realize this message is vital and people need it, and so I want to start by reminding us that what Jesus did for us, our wonderful Father, saw to it that from the beginning of creation he had made a way for us the minute we fell, and he had given us a plan in place to redeem us. And those plans are important, and I’m going to read to you out of Luke 4, verse 18 and this is Jesus speaking and he is quoting from Isaiah, stood up in and read the scroll. And this is our God, this is his desire for us and this is where I want to start today.

First, you need to know God sees you, he cares, he knows where you are, he knows what you’re dealing with, he knows the battles you’re facing and he cares. So I want you to listen to this scripture the Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor, and whether you are physically poor, whether you are poor in spirit, this is for you, and he has sent me to proclaim liberty. He wants you free. Freedom matters. This was purchased for us. This matters. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord.

Do you feel blind today? Do you feel like there? You used to maybe know the direction to take and now you’re confused and and things have come against you and left you feeling like you don’t know which way to turn and you don’t know what to do and you just feel blind. I want you to know that Jesus cares, he sees, and that’s why he came and, because of what he’s done, he has purchased for us everything we need his death, his resurrection, his ascension, and then he gave us his holy spirit. We have everything we need in this life For the freedom that he has purchased for us.

Our salvation is purchased, but what we’re going to look at and what we’re going to concentrate on this morning or that today is that there is a freedom that he has purchased, but there’s a journey we often have to walk out getting free from Pharaoh, so to speak, getting free from this Oppressive taskmaster. And that oppressive taskmaster can be your flesh, it can be a circumstance, it could be an old wound, an old habit, things that are having a hard time dying. You know, we are to Crucify our flesh daily and we’re to pick up our cross and follow him, and there are things that we have to die to. That journey to freedom can look a little different for everybody, but I’m going to show you some parallels and I want you to get a good picture of how the enemy and that pharaoh will act in our lives, how it will manifest, so that we can recognize it and we can deal with it and have a right mindset, so that we stay on our journey forward into our promised land, that we get Through our deliverance, we get through our red sea, we become free from our oppression, but then we also lay hold of the promises that God has for us. So I want to read to you the last couple verses of exodus, chapter 4, just so you can see the heart of god for you, if you can see that he has come.

We know Jesus was so compassionate. The scriptures tell us over and over again. He was moved with compassion and he sees you. He sees you very specifically I’m going to talk about that in a few minutes but he sees you very specifically and and he’s intricately involved in each of our lives and again, I’ll get to that in a moment. But I want you to see in this passage of scripture how god looked at us, what he saw.

This is the exchange of when god had called moses. He’s going to send you, send him to egypt, and moses goes through his whole identity crisis. You know the whole imposter syndrome. I can’t do this. I’m not good enough to do this. I can’t talk. Pharaoh’s going to kill me, the people of israel, the children of Israel. They don’t have any regard for me. No, I’m I’m not Liked by either camp. I mean, he went through everything and yet god said, okay, fine, he’s angry. God’s angry that he didn’t trust him and that he could use him in the state that he was in, but he had enough compassion on him. He said, fine, I’ll let you take Aaron, your brother, with you. In fact, now he’s coming to you.

Well, you need to understand that about about god in your life, because so many times when you hear god say he’s going to do something, folks, he’s, at that moment, orchestrating that and doing that on your behalf, even though you can’t see it. He’s dealing with other people, other circumstances. He is the great tapestry maker and he is putting and and mosaic creator and artist and he’s bringing all those pieces together. He’s doing what you can’t do and you need to know he’s actively doing it, and this is a picture of that, because he told him okay, I’m gonna. Then here comes Aaron, aaron’s gonna come, he’s gonna help you. You can take Aaron with you. So let’s look at exodus 4, and I’m gonna begin it in verse 27 and take you through Verse 31, because 31 is where I want to go.

But the Lord said to Aaron go into the wilderness to meet moses. So he’s telling moses, but then he’s also talking to Abraham. So he went and met him at the mountain of god and kissed him and moses told Aaron All the words of the lord with which he had sent him to speak and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. Then moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the people of israel. Aaron spoke all the words that the lord had spoken to moses and did the signs in sight of the people. And the people believed. And when they heard that the lord had visited the people of israel and that he had seen their Affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped. They knew and believed that god saw them, that god cared that they were afflicted. This is the process, folks. This is where we’re gonna go. This is the process, this process into freedom, this journey into freedom and, at the same time, how god reveals himself to us During that time. It’s, it’s a. It’s a beautiful journey if we’re willing to go on. It doesn’t mean it’s easy. In fact it could be very difficult, but this is the journey we need to go on.

Chapter five on this is this is our text for today. I gave you a couple extra scriptures, but this is our text and I’m gonna read this. This is a lot of scripture. I encourage you, if you’re in a place that you’re actually sitting and and watching this, and you can do this. If you’re driving, I understand. If you’re doing things where you can’t do that, fine, you don’t have your bible. But if you have your bible, I encourage you to read along with me and see this for yourself and highlight anything that really stands out, because I’m going to try to emphasize those things when I read them to you. But but I I want you to hear and recognize how the enemy works to keep you oppressed.

Okay, afterward, moses and Aaron went to and said to Pharaoh thus says the lord, the god of Israel, let my people go, that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness. But Pharaoh said who is the lord? That I should obey his voice and let Israel go. I do not know the lord and, moreover, I will not let Israel go. Then they said the god of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a three-day’s journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the lord, our god, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.

So I’m going to stop there for just a minute because I want you to see this. This is really important. So, first of all, we see immediately the enemy of our souls. If that’s the enemy that you’re dealing with right now, if you feel a buffeting, if you feel under attack, then you need to see that this is how the enemy operates. Or if you’re dealing with this in your own, in your own mind, in your own thought life, in your own emotions, or in old habits and things, I mentioned that.

But this is what the flesh says. The flesh says I don’t know the lord and I’m not letting you go. And I’m not letting you go. And you need to know that that’s the threat. The enemy will always threaten you. Your flesh will threaten you. Let’s say that you’re dealing with a, an addiction. Your flesh will scream I’m not letting you go. And then when you try let’s say you’re trying to give up cigarettes then all of a sudden it gets harder. It gets harder, the threat gets harder. I don’t know the lord. Cigarettes don’t know the lord, cigarettes don’t care about god. Cigarettes don’t live. So they have no, they have no Desire to bow to god. It’s, it’s, it’s the hold that is on our flesh that we’re dealing with. Okay, and you have to see that that’s what happens. That’s how the enemy works.

But we also need to see that there are consequences. Moses has just said let us go into the Three days journey into the wilderness that we may sacrifice to the lord, our god and he already says so that we may worship him in the wilderness. So what is moses saying? He is saying that there are consequences If you do not worship the lord. There are consequences when we do not go and give to god what belongs to god. There are consequences, and they can be severe consequences. And it’s not god being mean to us. These are the natural Consequences that we will go through if we do not go and give honor to god and worship god, the one who created us, the one who can change it all, the one who owns it all, the one who is sovereign. If we do not offer him praise and the worship he’s due, consequences naturally follow, because we remain in bondage to our flesh or to the, to the thing that is holding us bound.

All right, let’s pick back up verse four. But the king of Egypt said to the moses and erin why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens. Wow, I mean, the enemy is flat out, not hiding any of this. He’s saying I have put burdens on you and I expect you to get back underneath the weight of that burden. And pharaoh said behold, the people of the land are, how many, are now many, and you make them rest from their burdens. He’s saying this god that you’re wanting to serve, moses, this person that you’re trying to act on behalf of. You know, pastors can feel this way a lot of the time bringing the word to the, to the people, being a mediator, so to speak, in in receiving a word from the lord and administering that word to the people. And they can feel this way that, because of doing this, the answer back to them is it’s um, the people of the land are now many and you make them rest from their burdens. I mean, that’s the goal, right? The people who are delivering the word. They want you to rest from your burdens, they want you to lay those burdens down. They don’t want you to carry that thing anymore. And look at what the pharaoh says, look at what this enemy says You’re a many. The church is many, boy, if the church ever got this and understood their position. But the enemy wants the church to stay bound. The enemy wants you individually to stay bound. Let’s continue, moses and Aaron. Why do you take the people away from their work? Get back to your burdens. And Pharaoh said behold, the people of the land are now many and you make them rest from their burdens.

The same day, pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen you shall no longer give the people straw to make bricks, as in the past. Let them go and gather for themselves, but the number of bricks that they made in the past, you shall impose on them and you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore cry. Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God. Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor at it and pay no regard to the lying words. So the taskmasters and the foremen of the people went out and said to the people thus says Pharaoh I will not give you straw. Go and get your straw yourselves, wherever you can find it, but your work will not be reduced in the least. So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. The taskmasters were urgent, saying complete your work, your daily task each day. As when there was straw and the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh’s taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked why have you not done all the task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past? Then the foremen of the people of Israel came and cried to Pharaoh why do you treat your servants like this? No straw is given to your servants, yet they say to us make bricks. And behold, your servants are beaten. But the fault is your own people. But he said you are idle. You are idle. That is why you say let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. Go now and work. No straw will be given you, but you must still deliver the same number of bricks.

The foremen of the people of Israel saw that they were in trouble when they said you shall by no means reduce your number of bricks, your daily task each day. They met Moses and Aaron who were waiting for them as they came out from Pharaoh and they said to them the Lord, look on you and judge, because you have made a stink in the sight of Pharaoh and his servants and have put a sword in the hand to kill us. Then Moses turned to the Lord and said oh Lord, why have you done evil to these people? Why did you ever send me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to these people and you have not delivered your people at all. Boy, this is how the enemy works. Every time, every time.

I want you to see this. This is so important. What was the first thing they did? They blame the message, they blame Moses and want God to judge Moses because it’s hard for them, because getting free wasn’t as easy as they thought it was going to be. And yet we see that Moses, on the other hand, has then turns and complains to God and says God, you’ve made it worse, why did you do this? And yet this is what’s amazing God had told Moses before he even went listen, moses isn’t going to listen to you.

In fact, I’m going to harden his heart, but I’m doing it with purpose. I’m hardening his heart because I’m about to do some things. I’m going to show the power that I have, the might that I have. I’m going to show you how strong I am. And not only am I going to show you. Not only am I going to show Pharaoh, I’m going to show the nations. Everyone is going to see my power and you need to understand that when God is getting ready to take you through a journey of deliverance, it’s not just about you. There’s a journey for a reason. Somebody who’s watching In fact there’s probably many watching.

If you have friends, if you have children, if you have family members, if you have relationships, you have a spouse who’s watching you. They watch you get freedom. That’s important because they need to know how strong God is. They need to know God and if they’re not going to serve God, they need to know. They need to fear God on your behalf and if they’re going to serve God, they need to know this God. If he rescued you, he can rescue me.

God has a purpose in this task. God has a purpose in his method. And what does he do? He ends up sending all. We’re not going to read the whole thing, but he sends 10 plagues, one after the other, and you see that, pharaoh, his first response and your first flesh response, the first buffet you’re going to feel, is that not only is this hard, not only do I already have a burden, but now my burden just got heavier. You know, maybe you’ve one day worked at a job and they’ve suddenly your pay has stayed the same, but now you’ve been given all these additional tasks and now you’re expected to increase your burden, with less help, with the same help you already have, but increase your productivity and your burden. Your burden has gotten bigger.

Or what if you were someone who was injured? You sustained a physical injury, maybe you were in a car crash and you are in pain and your body is broken from this traumatic event that you’ve been through, and the doctor prescribed you pain medicine to get you free from the pain. And now your burden is worse because now you’re addicted to the pain pills. So the pain remains in your body and now you have an addiction. Do you see how this works? That the way of the enemy, the way of a Pharaoh, is to not only oppress you but to make the oppression stronger, to put more chains on you, to make your burdens heavier. But then the way to deliverance? We want an immediate deliverance, we want it, and sometimes, sometimes God does miraculously just deliver from every single burden, and there are reasons for that. If God’s doing it, there’s a reason for that, for him to do it that way. But, folks, we live in a world where there is so much we are all fallen and there is such sin rampant and there is such destruction rampant and such bondage rampant that God takes us through in a way that we are able to then teach those by our journey how to get free.

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We’re not all given the same circumstances. We’re not given the same methods. We don’t all have the same availabilities. We don’t have all the same skill sets. We don’t have all the same support system. We don’t have all the same personalities. There are so many things that we need to be able to learn and God was so faithful to us to show us. He even went to the cross by way of suffering, so that we could understand that there is a dying to the flesh that brings forth a resurrection and a new birth. So we have to know that there is this journey that we go on, and not to get discouraged and think God is against you. No, even if the burden has become heavier, that is not God’s hand against you. God has begun the work to set you free.

We are recognizing our enemy and, as you see, each one of these pharaoh I’m sorry each one of these plagues that was sent. I want you to see this pattern because in the first several of these plagues that were sent, what did the enemy do? What did the oppressor do? Because your flesh wants you to think you need to remain in the flesh to stay carnal. Your flesh is trying to keep you bound in that position. In that position, the pharaoh would call his musicians and say perform the same act that God did. They would perform the same thing.

So then the flesh then can get puffed up and think that’s not God. God’s not involved, god didn’t immerse himself in this to us. Your flesh can do this, anybody can do this. You don’t need God. You’ll have people tell you you don’t need God. You need a really good psychiatrist. And I’m not saying that psychiatrists are bad, I’m just saying the enemy could easily say that’s what you need. You don’t need God. And dismiss God, dismiss what God is doing, dismiss what God can do. And you can see that this has happened multiple times. There was this arm wrestling match going on, so to speak.

Then it comes to the point that all of a sudden, god does a mighty act. God sends another plague and the magicians cannot do it. The magicians cannot read, they cannot produce what God has produced. Now this begins to make pharaoh question. He starts to say okay, I’ll let you go, but I only want to let go of you a little bit. And this is so important because this is what the enemy does. He tries to tempt you with a little bit of freedom and he wants you to lay hold of it and say, okay, we will only go, but only this. This many people will go or we’ll only go and we won’t take our family with us, and only we can go a little bit, but we won’t take all our stuff. Everything has to stay bound and you need to see. This is the way the enemy works.

Do not fall for this. Allow the journey to play out. Let God bring you total freedom, 100%, totally free. You cross the Red Sea. There’s no going back. Total freedom, never to go under the bondage of Pharaoh again, never to fall prey to that same thing again. To get complete deliverance, complete freedom. This is so important, okay, so you? I don’t want you to get discouraged. God sees you, he’s your deliverer. Remember we read that Jesus came to do exactly that to set us free, to remove our oppression. He came to make us be able to see and not be blind. He came to bring us freedom. And at the same time, we read that God saw his people, he saw their affliction and he has sent deliverance. Okay, god sees you. He is intricately involved, in fact. That takes us, that takes us into this next part.

I want you to see how God reveals himself, because in Genesis, before we get to the Exodus, god revealed himself by three names. This is how we tend to know God before we enter real deliverance of things that are really you know you could get saved and you are saved. God has saved you. You are, you are on your way to heaven. You don’t have to worry about a hell. Hell is not where you will ever be. You are in God’s kingdom, you are his servant, you are living for his kingdom. That is not changing. Okay, that’s how you know God and that’s what’s happening. Praise God. But then you could be serving him for a while and realize all of a sudden you’re noticing a pattern in your behavior or there’s this nagging thing. That’s not. You feel like I need to get free of this. You start to recognize places that you’ve had old chains that need to come on. Okay, so you can know God in these first ways before we know him in these new ways, before we know him in the journey to freedom ways. These are ways we know him first and I want you to see this.

So in Genesis, God revealed himself in Genesis one versus 26 and 27, by the name Elohim and that word Elohim right there and that verse means God’s or Godhood, but it’s the plural. That’s why we have the Trinity. The scripture said let us make man in our image, the plurality of the word Elohim. So we know him by Elohim as the creator. He is the sustainer and supreme judge. He rules it all. He created it all. He rules it all. It shows that he involves himself personally and is involved in our um, in.

This will help you, because this helped me picture God as a sculptor. He has the clay, the sculptor, the sculptor or a potter, either one, and he is sculpting an image and he’s intricately. If you think of eyes, he’s making you. He’s sculpting you. He’s making the eyes and the eyebrows and the nose, the ears, the mouth and the way the forehead is, and and the neck, the fingers, he’s he’s making. If you think of the inner parts, of the sculpting of all the, your heart, muscle and the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the muscle and the tissues and the nerves. Every cell in your body was created by this great sculptor.

Okay, he is intricately involved in your life. He is directly involved in the lives of his people, individually as well as in a group, like we see in Exodus um three, verse seven. In fact, I’ll read that real quick. Exodus three, verse seven says then the Lord said excuse me, my voice is going. I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings.

Okay, so we can see that God intricately knows and he involves himself, that’s what, and he may, and he uses people. We are, we are his hands and his feet extended. So that’s his, that’s Elohim. Then we know him in Genesis 14, verses 18 to 20. This is the exchange between Abraham and Melchizedek, who is the king and priest, and it, this word is LL yawn. God is known as LL yawn and the priestly one, the most high God to be worshiped. Okay, so we know God before our freedom journey. We know he’s creator, he’s God, he’s the one who is the priest, he’s the one who can, who has made intercession for me, he’s the one who sacrificed for me. He is to be worshiped. We have this understanding of who God is.

Then we learn who God is in Genesis 49, verse 25. God reveals himself by another name and that is L Shaddai. L Shaddai means God Almighty, god of the mountain. I love that God of the mountain which is foreshadowing God’s revelation of the what takes place on Mount Sinai in Exodus six, when Moses goes up to Mount Sinai. So there’s this beautiful picture. God is saying I’m getting ready, I’m the God of the mountain, I’m the God of what’s to come, I am the God, I am God Almighty over now and your future, your past, your present and your future. That’s the God that I am. But then we get to Exodus, we get to the, to this part of learning who God is in our journey to freedom. And I want you to look up in Exodus, chapter six, verses two through eight. We see that God now has taken Moses to this mountain because, as L Shaddai, god is a full filler of promises.

The Exodus is not just a mountain. It is a place of distinction or destination, and it’s also an event. So it’s a place he’s taking them to, but it’s also a place that something happens there, something new happens, something is birthed. There is an event. It’s not just a place. It is a place but it is also an event. It also shows us that the overpower Okay, that word is overpower. So L Shaddai means God Almighty, it means God of the mountain and it means the overpower, meaning that God will do what he purposes to do, overpowering all opposition. So this is the setup, this is the setup for freedom. He’s getting ready to show us I am about to overpower everything that overpowers you. Isn’t that beautiful. I love that.

It also means sufficient, the all sufficient one. He is all sufficient, so in him you have enough for whatever the need may be. That’s why God was upset with Moses. He picked Moses to be his mouthpiece and he was angry with him when Moses kept saying I’m not enough. I’m not enough because Moses wasn’t understanding that God is saying, yes, but I am enough in you, my call on you is enough. Me in you, through you, is enough. My spirit is enough.

So here are the names of God in Exodus. This is how God will reveal himself to you and manifest himself to you through your journey of freedom, through getting free from this oppressive Pharaoh. In Exodus, three versus 13 to 15, this is the burning bush. This is God with Moses, and his name is Yahweh, and that means I am who I am, so he’s not giving himself a name other than to say I am. Tell them the I am has sent me to you, the God of your ancestors. So all that is all all that you already know about me. Why is he saying the I am? So, however, they know God up until this point. The children of Israel, he’s saying I want them to know me by this name, because Moses is saying how do I tell them who sent me? God is saying everything that they knew, that their father taught them, that their grandfather passed down, that their great grandfather passed down I am, I’m, he, I am everything you’ve known up to this point already about me. I am. But everything you’re going to need me to be, everything that you are hoping that I will be, I am. Tell them the I am, I am over everything. I am, I am almighty. So if we even go back to how they knew him, the names of how they knew him, he is already El Shaddai. They know me as that. They know me as El El Yon, they know me as Elohim. I am, I am all of those and praise God, he still is.

So, first, God is saying I am self, I am self existed, self existent in Exodus and all the ways that we have known him. He was before all things, so he created because he was before the thing that was created. So he is self existent. He is the non created one. I am. There is no higher authority or position or power. I am. I am Lord, someone having power, authority or influence, a master, the ruler In Exodus 6, 2 through 8, I want to read this to you because this is really essential.

So, Exodus 6, verses 2 through 8. Let me find my okay. Here we go, 2 through 8. God spoke to Moses and said to him I am the Lord. Now we use the Lord as a common way to refer to God. We say the Lord all the time. We say they said it in the New Testament of Jesus. They called him Lord, but this was the first time that he’s called Lord. This is the first time that God is revealing himself as Lord. This is how God wants them now to know him. He is Yahweh.

God spoke to Moses and said to him I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob as God Almighty, but by my name, the Lord. I did not make myself known to them. I also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they lived as sojourners. Moreover, I have heard the groaning of the people of Israel, whom the Egyptians hold as slaves. I have remembered my covenant. Say therefore to the people of Israel I am the Lord and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians and I will deliver you from slavery to them, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great acts of judgment. I will take you to be my people and I will be your God, and you shall know that I am the Lord, your God, who has brought you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. I will bring you into the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. I am the Lord. Oh, praise God. That is so awesome.

The Word of God. There’s nothing like His word. His promise is still true. That word is still active. That word is still right now. That word is still for you. I want you to read that, meditate on that over and over again. I will, I will. I am the Lord, I will. That is the God you serve and he will bring you out of this oppressiveness, out of your bondage, out of the trouble that you might find yourself in. God will bring deliverance to you.

So in that passage, God essentially is saying I am the God known to your fathers, abraham, isaac and Jacob, the God who personally was involved with them individually, and now with you, as well as the whole of Israel, whom I made a covenant. He made a covenant to each of them and to whom I fulfill my promise to. I am the God that is all sufficient and not only met their needs but was their might and protection all along their soul journey. So they were on a journey too, and God was on that journey with them, protecting them, showing putting up like a hedge of a godly fear that encapsulated them so that enemies would not harm them and gave, giving them favor all along the way. And now I am revealing another part of myself I will free you from your burden, set you free from slavery, show you my might and power and give you all the promised land. Because I never break my covenants, he says. I am always faithful and true. I have not forgotten my covenant or my promise to you. So I want to read this to you, because this is what God proclaims about himself. This is what God if this isn’t me saying this, this is what God says of himself.

Turn to Exodus 34 and we’re gonna read verse 5, 6 and 7. Exodus 34, verse 5, 6 and 7. The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed passed before Moses, the Lord. This is God speaking of himself.

The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers, of the children and the children’s children to the third and fourth generation. Folks, god is saying I will do, I am telling you, this is who I am. I am God Almighty, the all-sufficient one, I’m the one who cares for you. I don’t break covenants. I’m slow to anger. I’m so merciful, I show mercy to thousands of generations and I don’t hold guiltless those who need the judgment. God makes sure he is the great judge. He is all that we need. One scholar put it this way God is merciful and gracious. He is indicating, sorry, that he is thoroughly and permanently present in our lives, intervening on our behalf. Slow to anger shows us that he is the true God, unlike pagan idols, who were often depicted as quick to anger. The steadfast love which is kept for the thousandth generation demonstrates his limitless nature. And finally, he announces that those who are not redeemed will suffer the consequences of their sins to the next generations. Only those who repent will be forgiven.

I want to end this today by saying we have a choice. We have a choice in this, folks. We can choose to follow God and His commands and instructions through our journey of freedom in every way ultimate freedom, complete freedom or we can choose to stay under the bondage of whatever that pharaoh is, and if we stay in that bondage of that pharaoh, if we stay in that condition, we pass it on from generation to generation. Oh, I pray today that you choose freedom. I pray you choose real freedom and that you not allow the enemy to stay in the power position in your life. You have a decision to make today. I want you to.

Let me pray for you, Father, I ask, in the name of Jesus, that you would reveal yourself through each person’s journeying process today that they recognize the difference between your mighty acts and the acts of the flesh. That when these so to speak plagues find their way in demonstration and manifestation around us, that we are safe, just as the children of Israel were safe in Goshen, but that we can recognize that it is the enemy’s hand, even as a nation. Father, I pray over us as the United States, that we would recognize a pharaoh’s hand and versus the power of man’s might, versus the power of God, and that we would choose to follow and choose to trust that you are working on our behalf, bringing us ultimately to true freedom, and that we will not stay willingly under oppression, but that we would leave that oppression and walk towards and gain our freedom. Jesus purchased it for us, father, and we want today to choose to lay hold of it. Open blind eyes, as you said you would do, set the captive free God, as you said you would do. We give our lives into your hand. We trust you and we thank you for the promises that you have made us and the things that we will lay hold of because of your goodness to us. Thank you for seeing us and thank you for making a way of escape. We give you all the praise and all the glory that is due you, for you are worthy to be praised. We choose not to suffer the consequences of not coming into fellowship and worshiping you, but we celebrate with feasts and thanksgiving how good you have been to us, and we give you the thanks for it. In Jesus’ name, we pray Amen, amen. Thank you so much.

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