Well, good evening. Welcome and thank you so much for coming. We Yes, zooming right along. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. You put Adam and Eve in a perfect garden and had a perfect relationship with them didn't take them long for they broke that relationship by sending and they get kicked out of the garden, the rest of Genesis their spiral into the sin, or Cain kills Abel. Eventually they build a tower of Babel to try to make a make a landing zone for God to come down. So he would fill the temple on their terms. God's scattered them and spread them all over the place. And then by Genesis 12, God calls Abram and says, I'm going to bless you, I'm going to make your name great and you're going to be a great nation. I'm going to bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. He makes a promise to Abraham, that he continues to keep throughout the rest of the story, and so he makes a covenant. So that's your first two chapters. Now we're getting to calling out and so get ready Exodus. Any prayer requests or anything going on that is pertinent to you? We've got several people out, we'll definitely pray for them, but
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First name is Phil Hill. I can beat down that's probably scary. Yeah. Good. Anybody else? Good. All right. Well, let me pray and then we'll get rolling. Father we do thank you for this evening or thankful that we get to know you that you continue to reveal yourself to us, Lord, help us to learn tonight as we continue to seek You through Your Word. And as we continue to seek you because you want relationship with us, Lord, we definitely want to pray for those that are out sick or has a sick kid, or that you'll be with them provide healing answers of your doctors and nurses and experts that are dealing with people like Phil, that that she'll just clear out what's going on in his brain and that he'll be able to heal up. And Lord, we are your people and you are God. And we worship you by studying together tonight. It's in your name we pray. Amen.
All right, guys, here we are. For those that were in Exodus class.
Y'all read what? Yes. They have heard me say many times. It's my favorite book in all of Scripture. For good reason. It's probably one of the most important books and all of Scripture. There's so many things that are attached to Exodus and we even see Christ circles back to Exodus many times and kind of closes loopholes really.
I don't know if that's the right way to say it. But you know what I'm saying like he really connects back for that and you see, I still I've told them I haven't done this, but it's something that I would love to dig into sometime. It's just laying the life of Moses next to the life Life of Christ and seeing all these correlations really powerful. We can see some and we'll probably hit on a few tonight but that would be I think, if you like to get into nerdy stuff like that in Scripture, I think that would be really cool. And we're some time so we're jumping in. What did you guys like see or stick out anything? And for those of you that were in Exodus before, did you see something different now that we've kind of framed this in the context of all of Scripture like the big story, when insights does anybody have thoughts or questions
nobody else likes Exodus, huh? Anybody strike you guys is interesting or unique, something maybe you haven't seen before? It's interesting that you did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because his name was so great. Everybody knew who Pharaoh was. Yeah, absolutely. And it stumped scholars, like nobody can really figure out who he was. And I just think God's funny. When God puts us in his foot, what do you say? Well, somebody takes them. Oh, yeah. Somebody took some creative license there. Because for everyone that says they know who they think it was. Somebody can come by and find as many reasons to say why it's not that one. So it's very like it's very muddy. And I think I did that on purpose. I don't think it's like oh, shoot, we lost that information. Your name will die with you. Joe, are you gonna say something? Yeah,
classmates. I'm sure you all read the Bible and you read this stuff and you just kind of take it for granted or you've lost that stuff. But yeah, not the fact that God doesn't even want their names mentioned or ended in the thing too, with all the you know, Zeb did a great job Sunday with stuff about all of that idols and just so many of them that guy just came out with those places that these guys don't even use was I am. I'm the man with the power. Yeah, powerless to do anything. You read it on your own and you just kind of gloss over the whole thing with a name that was just like that count blew me away. Yeah, everything and all these games are named throughout the Bible. These guys have no thing they have no significance. God says you
Yeah, yeah, sometimes we can feel like we know Exodus because those are some of the most famous stories that you learn as a kid. If you grew up in church. And so we do we gloss even the the important things that we gloss over. And so I think it's really important. You know, there are several different translations to get that where they they write in a different way or they write in a story for him. And I think that's really good. If it's a story you've heard a lot to read it in a different way. So it's like you're hearing it fresh. And I think some of those things punch but there's just so many things that I mean, excellent. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It got us so intentional about everything. Everything's on purpose with a purpose. I love that.
Numbers. In here. The numbers that we'll talk about something for seven days, I forget what it was. But yeah, so significant throughout the Bible. Yeah. You're wondering why do you put that in there and then you realize later on, which is if you fall down, you say, Oh, yeah. Yeah. Kind of makes things. Yeah, I was interested in what Ian said, pointed out in the sermon about God, the one thing that I tend to make first when I was reading it, I thought that came to me was the first three plagues. Well, the first two plagues or was three, the pharaohs magicians were able to, okay, yes,
yeah. But after that they weren't the first three. And they all skipped not conjuring, like in magician. School. They were like, we can't conjure that.
Yeah. Yeah, Jesus died and was in the right for three days. And then he rose Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I were able to do it for three but then after that, God's power. That's powerful. Yeah, yeah. The two threes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I
had never thought of that before because interesting. Yeah. And
then I never mentioned the magician's ever try new the rest of them after the one.
Oh, no, because they backed away. They were like, he's the real deal day. So that's why some people say the magicians were just doing sleight of hand or something. I don't know like it again. That's how we interpret that Hebrew there. And it's like where they dark music like there's dark magic, like, like where they're calling because there's definitely dark powers like you know, Satan and his demons. They have powers that are more than human, that they can do things. So, you know, it's interesting. There's a lot of different takes on that. So I think regardless of where you ran on that, it's still is they could only go so far. Like when they really like they were trying to go toe to toe with God and they held their weight for a little bit. But he wasn't really even flexing yet so
they can replicate. Uh huh. They couldn't stop Yeah, yeah. That was interesting that okay, they can make whatever God does. Uh, huh. Whatever it was happening. Yeah. Yeah. Do you remember
in class when we talked about that? It was it was more like they did this horrible thing that was such like, this horrible thing to all of the people and everybody's like, Oh my gosh, like the, the Nile was their lifeblood. And for that, to turn to blood and to kill the fish that they ate, you know, like, the frogs that were in there. Like all these things that happened. It's like, they made it worse. By trying to show off that like, really, if they were showing their power they would have stopped him or done something else. But they it was it was a cheap imitation. And the invitation just made the situation worse. You're like, You're not helping. But they were trying to show off and then it was like, is that right? You know, so yeah. Yeah, yeah. Good thoughts anymore.
I like the fact that the midwives have they had a cover up story. I just like tested out the motion like you kill a baby for whatever you do cuz you're jealous. Yeah in half our places and things like that, because you overpopulated I love how they like no, we know we don't like but I do have a heart. We do care a little bit. Yeah. Not to kill the
babies. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. All right. Well, good thoughts. Let's, um, the the themes is we're gonna this is basically even though Dave kept telling me this isn't an outline isn't I was like, Well, no, I'm just thinking of themes. But this is kind of how we're going to flow through tonight. Looking through this, so if you don't want to look at that, you can kind of see where we're going. But we're gonna jump in with this first. One, that God keeps the Abrahamic covenant. And we talked about this and Hayes and Devall but I want to I pulled this from Dr. EIMs. Y'all know I quote her all the time from Exodus. She's one of my favorite scholars on she she is like one of the leading scholars on the book of Exodus, and she's written some phenomenal books and has some really interesting insights. And she's just really brilliant. And this is she did, what's it called a Bible Bible class. I did, I will. The class that I'm taught for Exodus No, the class with the Bible. What will project Bible project y'all are familiar with Bible project? Yeah. So it's a free class that she does on Exodus. It's like, as long as what I tell you all, it was like 14 hours or something like once you do all the sessions, so I did it over the course of a few months, and it was really it's free. If you want to do it, but if there's anything if you go to Bible project and do Exodus or search for Dr. ions, it's i m e s. She just has some really great material and she's a scholarly but I think you know, if you like the little bit nerdy stuff, you can hang with her but this is from her Bible project class, and I pulled it out because they talked about it, but I just think it's really powerful, you know, right away. And y'all are gonna hear us talk about this a lot throughout the entire from Genesis to Revelation, this idea of creation, like what started everything like this love story that God had with his creation is woven through and so we say things like, Oh, we see the, the, what the author was doing there with the recreations of the uncreation or that and so there's a ton of that and Exodus. You'll hear us say that a lot. But if you look at and I love how she lays it right beside each other Genesis 128, which we've already talked about this Be fruitful and multiply. And, and how we see that same thing. There right on the opening of Exodus, that they're laying out, you know, again, it's important that he said the God of I am the God of Isaac, Abraham, and Jacob. Yeah. Oh, sorry, my brain went blank. And so it's important to keep saying that, because that lineage is significant. It's that family. And it's that blessing, like David mentioned earlier that those that Allah bless those who bless you, and I'll curse those who curse you like, you're in God's family, like you're in this protected. You're not just an image bearer, you're the child like you're in the family of God. And so as you see this blessing laid out it's really cool. That they, the language that they use in Exodus one seven, because it's talking about that they're going to be piled up like that they are going to multiply, and that eventually is what would create spear and Pharaoh because this Pharaoh is possibly we don't know for sure, but possibly because he is, is a different dynasty of Pharaoh, from the one that when Jacob and like like, just like Joseph and all of his brothers were there and he was under Pharaoh. And Pharaoh blessed that family and so Egypt was blessed and there was this symbiotic relationship that's getting along until there wasn't and now you have these foreigners who are multiplying, and they're Hardy. And he's like, What do we do about it? And so again, we see this laid out in the book, that there's the plan A, which is harsh labor, and so he's trying to subdue that and he's like, if I take all of their energy and just beat them down and oppress them, they won't, they won't have babies. They won't get out of line. They won't do all of this. And despite that, they multiply like, just like, we have to remember this, like people are burying children like out in the wilderness. Like there's no hospitals, they had midwives but I mean, it just it was a bloody messy business. And children meant there was the death rate was high. And so if you had just not not just having children, but being able to carry them to term and birth them and the mother not dying, like those were significant things. So that was the blessing of their God, that they were able despite all of this, so then Pharaoh was like, Okay, well, we gotta do something else. Right. So he was like, midwives, I'm commissioning you, you're there at the birth. Let's take care of and as Tara mentioned, did they agree with this? But they were still doing their job and they didn't do this verse. If we're not doing what you safer because they really couldn't do that. Anyway, he would have just murdered them and then they would have gotten new midwives. So the Israelites, the Egyptians called them Hebrews, and that was actually a derogatory term. Like that he Pharaoh and the Egyptians referred to them as dogs and like lowly people, beastly people, like they thought so low of them. And so the midwives are very clever, and they turn his, you know, like Slater's, talk against them back in his face and say, Well, you know, they're such a hearty people like, they just, they pop out these babies before we can even get there. Make a meme with their own plan. And it's really interesting because God didn't call them to do that. They didn't do anything. They were just doing their career, their job, like what they had been, you know, commissioned with for their life, and yet they still use their work to bless God and to bless His people. And I think that's a huge important thing for us that we don't have to have some glamorous job to have like and their names on like Pharaoh, a midwife gets her name in all of Scripture. I mean, how special is that? And their name is remembered and we speak their names. So when we read the Scripture that cool so, so if everyone's like, Oh, what am I going to do? Please like everybody's in charge of killing the babies, throw them in the water drown them. So that's where we enter the story here with the calling of Moses. Things are dark things are ugly, there they are, like, laboring and they're crying out and it's really interesting, because did they cry out to God? They did it. They cried out in agony and pain. woe is us. We're an oppressed people. And again, we see that we're like, you're God's people. Why did you say God help us? They didn't. So it's interesting, but a loving God said and this is important, y'all, because this is going to be something that we like, I grew up Baptist. I love the Baptist tradition. I married a Baptist preacher, y'all like I'm like, Yay, Baptist, but there's a lot of things we get wrong and screw up and we screw each other up in some of our doctrine. And I think one of that is this idea. We put more emphasis than we should on coming to God for the right reasons or getting our life together. We may say something different, but it's not how we live. And it's not how we preach. And we should do a better job of that because it as we'll see this as we go through. All of this happens, we're not going to get to commandments until next week, right? The whole first half of Exodus is God seeing his people in anguish and lovingly reaching out and he saves them and then he gives them instructions, but we'll get to that next week. Right. I won't jump ahead, but I think it's really important. They didn't cry out to God. They cried out and loving God said, You are my people and I'm going to honor this Abrahamic covenant to have a break. I'll say it I can't say it. The covenant of
Abrahamic Yeah, the Abrahamic Yeah, I
was gonna say the 3d because they keep repeating that and it's significant, that that's their forefathers and that to remind them of who they are and who's they are this covenant. And so we get this back in here. So, turn the page, any thoughts or questions? I know I talk fast. Y'all gonna listen bass was mentioned in it. Yeah. Yep. All right. Some other things we don't like as Baptists, women. Mind you toes all right. The first part of Exodus
I said that we like women, we like women. We like women. We just we just want women in their place. Sometimes I think that's what I meant. That's what I'm
yeah. Anyway,
I didn't know I mean, it just distract us. So we're talking about women. And I think it's really important when we look at this beginning part of Exodus, who are the heroes of the story who's mentioned in this story? In the first few chapters, who is it? Are there any men in this story other than nasty Pharaoh? Really, like there's not like, Moses stands on the shoulders of all these heroic women. And some of them like the midwives they were just doing what they do, but they were doing it as a way to say, I will obey you to a point Pharaoh, but God is my God. And I you know, and I don't know if they said that, but that's what they did. Like they protected what God needed, you know, protected God's people, if they were blessing God's people as he had promised in the Abrahamic covenant. If you bless my people, I will bless you. And so you see that there. And so again, these are some notes from Dr. IMEs so she talks about a tale of three daughters. And it's really kind of cool that you see these daughters that are really daughters of the King, you know their king their gods daughters, that are doing some extraordinary things. And so, Moses, his mother, the daughter of Lille, Levi, she said that she saw that he was good. What does that language sound like? Where have we heard creation, right? So she was admiring what God had created. And it's, you know, every mother thinks their child is beautiful and perfect. But there's the the Hebrew the Hebrew language here is so much stronger. And it's it's it's echoing creation, like how God was in awe and marveled at what he had done, she marveled. It's like, it's like she knew God's you're gonna be something great, but more so than any other mother. She had this motherly instinct that I can't I cannot drown this baby and no mother was thinking they could drown her but I don't know how they did it. You know, probably somebody else always did it. I can't imagine any of the moms did it. Like I gotta go away can't look, you know, you know, I just can't even imagine what they had to go through the horror that they had to go through. And so she saw that he was good, and she did the unthinkable. She defied Pharaoh to a point and she obeyed him to a point right. won't get there. She did. And then his sister, like, Miriam was incredibly brave, and audacious, right? Like no show love that little turn there because they put him in this arc, which is the same word for the arc like so. And she used tar the same thing to make it waterproof how to in this reads, and she pushed him down the water in the in the reads. And really the Red Sea is better translated were clearly translated as in when you translate in the Hebrew you get Sea of Reeds because there was all these reads, it was this sea of reads, but when they translated it from Hebrew to Greek, they translated it as the Red Sea. So there's some discussion as to is that was because that's what it had been come became known as you know, how things change like, you know, you start getting names for stuff and it kind of becomes its name even though it wasn't in its original, which that kind of makes sense. Or it's just a breakdown in the Hebrew to the Greek. But it's again, really powerful because you see, that the same like see that Moses is put in for his deliverance, his protection by God by his mother by his sister, and the sister follows along and she happens upon we say happens we know that God ordained it, that Pharaoh's daughter should arrive at the same time. And later Moses is going to with his staff, by the power of God, like yes, like push the waters back and lead the people through their deliverance. And we're gonna see this throughout the whole book of Exodus. I know we're gonna touch on it really briefly, but you see, Moses is life and that Moses was called and commissioned in protect delivered, he was delivered, called and commissioned, and then we're going to see the same exact thing. So you see it on this small scale with the man and then it's multiplied for an entire nation. So all the things that happen in Moses's life, then we start watching this happen for the whole nation, and it's really cool. The ways that you see that, like Kim was talking about the symbolism and the power of all of this. So the sister walks along, and this is the the ultimate twist. I just love Exodus because the Pharaoh's daughter is like, Oh, my baby, she takes it down. Here is Miriam. Oh, do you need a midwife for that baby you're gonna adopt. I know someone if she goes and gets Moses his mother, nurses as a wet loving God knowing that this mother, yeah, as a mother, you put this child you know, in God's hands and he brings it back to us. You get to nurse Yeah, yeah. It's like God gives you giving. It's just so beautiful. It doesn't feel beautiful. If you look at it like I have to give up my child. God didn't protect my child. But when we look at it through God's eyes, it's like the wait, yeah, the way God had a mighty call and that mother could sense that. And even though it wasn't like how any mother would want to raise a child, she still got to. Yeah, God's so good and so funny. So she actually paid probably the other only mother in all of history that ever got paid to nurse her baby. I'm like, Where can we find out for that? God is so good. I mean, when God blesses God blesses so so and then we have the third obviously Pharaoh's daughter as she took that so y'all, I'm getting too deep. We got to keep moving. Okay, um, anything else we need to talk? And then we see all of these other women with the midwives who talked about Moses mother sister, the daughter Pharaoh, the maid servants of Pharaoh's daughter that helped and then later we're going to see that again. God plans to kill Moses he mad and who saves him? Zipporah Do you like well, and we won't get into that that. That's a whole can of worms. We talked a lot about that. Didn't we? Wait, but anyway
I didn't get it. Wait,
that's, that's a long let me see if I can answer that in a really short nobody knows exactly for sure. Some people think that it was his son that was not circumcised which would make sense because he's Midian and living with the Midianites. Moses was born as an Israelite, so he should have been circumcised but maybe she chose not to sit. She knew that because she was supposed to be drowned. So if she didn't, the Hebrews did a partial circumcision. So it wasn't a full circumcision. So I believe that Dr. EIMs lands in the place that she thinks, and this is kind of where I learned to because Moses is like one of the main characters and driving all of this and it would explain like God so angry that he's out a covenant. So he's going to say, I'm going to do and he knows that this is, this is the Abrahamic covenant, this is that outward sign that the males in the family have to be circumcised, but it also makes sense. Again, it's because Hebrew is a I don't know if I want to say a rough language. It's just it was an oral language. And so it's really hard. Like a lot. One word can mean a lot of different things. Sort of, but not exactly like Chinese. That's kind of always how I think about if you know anything about the Chinese language is very complicated because they have one word, and it means rain, snow, like it means all this liquid and it's how it's used or whatever and native people just know, and it's hard for non native people to read into that so there's not a clear pronoun like we have. So was it talking about his son or was it talking about Moses, but somebody was not circumcised. And she literally like, does a good job. And then she rubs it on probably his testicles. So because it says feet but in Hebrew that's euphemism kind of, you know? Yeah. So they have you fitness euphemisms too. So that's the really dirty short version, but that's a very complicated and God was mad because they weren't in covenant so and she was like she slung it on Moses and said, there you go, we're blood kin now. You gotta love the poor, right? Okay, let's keep going. So we got the women the women will show up again later in Exodus, but I definitely want to hit on that. Okay. The name of God. Y'all. This is huge. Nobody knew God's name. Like it was the God of Abraham, Isaac and like, even that's how God identifies Himself to Moses and Moses like No, no, who are you? I want to know, and we're not sure exactly why Moses one of the answer to this question, there's a lot of different you know, suggestions and ideas. But you guys know this in the Hebrew I'm sure you all have her I am who I am. Or I am who I will be, is probably a really like wooden clear, like, and so I think whenever we speak like that, I will be who I will be like, it's like he's God. And He determines everything. Even the order that he creates. He can as we're going to see, can undo that order. He can break the laws that he himself defies. We see that you know, the darkness and things that will come with the plague. And so he tells Moses his name, and you'll probably know this too, but the Israelites God's name was so holy, they didn't speak it. And so that's why if you have in your Bible, like my Bible has the my translation has L O R D, Lord, all caps. And that's just a way to signify that that I am who I am or I am or who I will be. And they they wouldn't say that out loud. So if they were reading scripture, they would just pause like they went and like that was so they took God's name very seriously. And then he said, This is what you say to the that he's like, You tell them who I am, because they know me. I have a covenant. And you gotta remember, Moses, and we don't have time to get on all of this but Moses was so like, uniquely gifted for this calling, even though he didn't feel like it right because it's like I want to talk so good guy. Yeah, my words are not good sin Aaron's and somebody else I'm not your guy. And that's what I always refer to as my Moses syndrome. Like when I'm always telling God, here's why I am not the girl. I am not the one for you move along as somebody else, you know. And so it's one of those things that can play you and it plagued Moses for his whole life. Like, he overcame it many times, but you even see at the end of his life, you see that theme has this identity crisis. He didn't know who he was. And there's a lot of truth in that Moses, his name means to draw out again significant because he was drawn out of the water by by Pharaoh's daughter. And then we see that he draws God's people out of the water while the like, and they are like reborn rebirth, recreation, we see all of this stuff happening, while the those that curse them are obliterated, you know. So again, we there's a lot of really cool symbolism here. So, as he's calling him and telling him who he is, and Moses is like, I'm not the guy. God doesn't give him a pep talk, even though he's so uniquely qualified, because he is both an Israelite, he was born as one. He has their nationality, but he was raised as an Egyptian and he knows that culture and that people and it's like, Who else could say that? You know, like, What a unique upbringing he had, what a unique background, and he had been hiding for 40 years because he killed a man. He thought righteously, but then he realized he really screwed up because Egyptians are favored and nobody thought twice about killing what they would consider a dog which was a Hebrew, a dirty Hebrew, like that's a taskmaster they can do what they want. So he's hiding from that. So just like the Israelites, like they, they have kind of like, let's be small and do whatever Pharaoh wants, you know, and like we not do anything. And it's like, who better to understand their plot and their position, you know, and who better to go talk to the Egyptians than the one who knows them? You know, so perfect. But God doesn't say that. What is his answers to Moses when Moses like not me? What is what does he say? What is what is it? What is objections? What does God say? Yes, God starts saying, I'm your God, I will be I will give you words. And then God gets annoyed like fine. Eric can go with you. And we see later. That was not God's plan A and there's some little hiccups from that. And how often in life do you do and you see the beauty of this divine and human and it's so like, wrapped up together that it we can't separate it, because you see human will and divine will. And God grants him because he he is giving him even though Moses is when the burning bush happens, and God's calling him. There is this ability for Moses to still be Moses and have a voice and he pushes back on God, which is interesting, because the man that doesn't talk so good, has some really good strong language to tell his god you know, so there's a really interesting dynamic as he's pushing back and doing all of this. Any other thoughts there? We gave you a really nerdy so if y'all want to read this, you can. It talks about that I the I am and how it is in the Hebrew and stuff. So I'll let you all read that later if you want to. And if you're like that's way over my head, that's okay. It's very, it's very scholarly. Um, we talked about whether to put it in or not, and then we were like, well, some people might appreciate it. Some people may not okay.
I had to fight for it.
He didn't fight that hard. I was like, it's fine. All right, y'all. I love like, oh, yeah, sorry. We're on page six. Y'all got it. This pretty this really in this painting. So beautiful. Again, I stole this from Dr. IMEs she's the bomb. This I hadn't heard this before either. If y'all know some more church history than I do. It is standard within the church history to connect Mary with the burning bush. Have y'all heard that before? Hadn't heard that? The burning bush because Mary Had God in her and she wasn't consumed. And I was like, ah, like, that's so cool. You know. So this is a mural that somebody did. And you see the burning bush and Mary's insider and Jesus's like, there. What is it that like, give you goosebumps and chills? So cool. I know. Like I want that painting was really cool. And I'm sure there's a lot of other symbolisms that I haven't dug into like with the the Greek Greek name what is it Greek This is Greek up here. What is that? What is that? Oh, that's Hebrew. What's that? Yeah, not sure. Anyway, there's some really cool stuff happening that you can see within the painting. But we see that the Bush represents Israel in the fire is the oppression in Egypt. So just common as we understand what's happening and how God and this is what we call a theophany. Right. So God is present in the bush, but he's not. It's like this. I don't want to say essence but almost it's like he's coming down in a way to manifest himself so that Moses can interact with God, but God is still holy God and we can't be hold him. And he can't really be contained within a form that we can understand. He may have some form, but we don't know that this side of heaven. And so we see this in the burning bush and the significance of this holy moment. of Moses has been delivered and saved a couple of times, right because he he was saved from being drowned. He ran away and hid and was saved from being like punished for murdering a taskmaster. And now God's saying, Moses, you're my guy. And here's you know, I'm gonna do this and he speaks this Get ready, and he prepares him for all the stuff that's going to happen. So any thoughts questions? I know we could talk way more about the bush but we don't have time. And you all have probably heard lots on that. I bet you'll have a lot of things you could say. Okay, we're on the 10 plagues. We're gonna bust through these really quickly. Days put together this amazing chart. You can use it took my class. No, I am not the handout playing. I really like what do you want from like, I had to sit down and figure out like, Okay, what would I put in here? But I was like, I do I want to I want to chart anything. I'm already working on one. I was like, of course you were was like I think it's really helpful.
Some of the ladies in the Tuesday morning class when they were reading through the plagues started kind of making their own chart so they kind of saw some of those cycles. You know, what you know, was was a was fair warned. Yes. Then yes and no. Yes. Then yes. Then no, you know, and so I thought I was like, oh, you know, they had some hair and stuff. I go, I got one I'm gonna give it to you. Um, I've been working on it. So I printed this off.
I love that. That's cool. Okay, so as we look through here, we have these 10 flip these 10 plagues, and we know that Moses has already showed up like he's he's back in Egypt, the famed murderer that ran away with his brother Aaron. And we see at the beginning, Aaron does a lot of the speaking and then towards the end, we don't really hear Aaron anymore and now Moses has kind of found his chops as his, you know, his legs are under him. He can He's found his voice, and he has no problem pushing back on Pharaoh. But he does what God says he turns his staff into a snake who snakes gobble up his snake. We'll talk more about that in a little bit. But he there's there's this escalating that we see like not that any of the plagues are nice or easy. They're all harsh. But you see this growing in intensity to when it comes to the unthinkable like a firstborn child. And you know, you can read the plagues and maybe you've heard from non believers or people that are like anti church and like they they push back like what kind of loving God would kill cattle and firstborn babies. And it's like, well, you're kind of taking all that little bit out of context, because Pharaoh had been murdering their children for so long. And God is like, I'm gonna handle this. And when God handles something, you you know, it's gonna lie. Oh, God's mad. I would I would stop I would walk away But Pharaoh does it. And you see, again, this human and divine, we don't have a lot of time to get into it, but just really quickly, I know sometimes that can be a verse where people can really get stuck and hung up on God hardened Pharaoh's heart. He's manipulating his puppet you know, Pharaoh didn't have a choice. It's really sad and mean, but it's really again, it's a breakdown in translation that we lose. When it talks about his heart being hardened. The the Egyptians and even the Israelites would have understood that to be like a stiff neck and stubborn like he's like, I'm going to do what I'm going to do just almost like a child and you see a lot of childish things. Like God's like, Okay, well, I will let you have your way. And you'll see and we talked about in the class, y'all remember he talks about the example of like a small child when they're like, I don't know Anyway, make coke it's cold outside and yeah, I'm gonna we make it and then the moms like, Fine, don't workout and then you know you're outside for like two minutes to call and so call me Well, that'll teach you like I don't know if that's how you all parent, it's how we parent. It's how I was parented, like, like, I was like, Mom, I really want to touch no, don't take like, fine touch. Like I told you, I was like, You're gonna learn like we're, I grew up in the old truth. You will learn like the hard way and yes, you learn, you know, yes, you won't do that again. So, we see that in Pharaoh, it's it's yes, there's this God's allowing him to choose that. And there's this acceleration of it, but it's really Pharaoh has full will. And he's willfully choosing that and after he continues to do that, God's like, Fine. Have your way. You're going to be against me that be against me, and I'm going to come at you as God. So
why don't you just kill Moses? Who just kill Moses? That's
a great question. I think it's God's protection. It wasn't meant to bake Yeah, it's just like every great movie Kathy right. You're like like like they're like killing people right and left and then the like, the the villain and the hero were like going together and you're like, like, it's this long battle. And I always get nice punches in a deal. And it's like, the other guy was like, oh, and he's dead. Like, this other great fighter that you saw, like, annihilate people, like, you know, I think it's, you know, it's part of that great story, like a real story, but like, it's God's protection and we'll get to that for sure. Like when God calls you to for something, he is going to provide every means and protection and ability and we just have to rest into that. Even in those scary moments when you're saying before Pharaoh that could strike you dead like he could say, okay, magician kill that guy right there. Because he wouldn't kill it. He wouldn't get his hands dirty. So I'm gonna blow your mind. Maybe not for those that was in my class. So, it was interesting because when we talked about this gala, are you like, are you going to say this, I am going to say this. Okay. So, because I think it's good for us to hear different things because the scholars don't agree on everything. And I think that helps us know that no human should be our source for information. Like that's what I told the women all the time, like when we do classes is like, I don't like doing I don't think there's anything wrong with it. But I think we need to be more quick to say I want to study scripture and I want to come before God's word. And yes, we can ask people that God's Spirit is going to reveal things to you. And we may not always agree and that's okay. But like nobody in my class like so what what we talked about on Sunday about the plagues, representing specific like, Egyptian gods has had anybody other than before, is that bad? Has anybody heard that before? Yeah, okay. See, and that's what my class had to But see, I grew up hearing that like, I was raised in Baptist Church and I remember my Baptist preacher was a phenomenal teacher. And he taught me that in exit like our whole congregation, and I remember hearing that thing. Oh, it's so cool, dude. But the more I've studied and like every scholar that I read, like as I studied for Exodus class, and even day like, he was like, I can't find that anywhere. He hadn't heard that. And I was like, I grew up thinking that that's what it was. And I think it's interesting because I really appreciate Volland Hayes because they were really amazing guys. Like we hold them in high esteem, for sure. And I thought it was interesting that they were like, I think there's some of that where he's kind of putting them in their place. But I don't think we want to say that these 10 plagues are a like, boom, boom, like cat like plagues are targeting the he didn't care about those little gods. God has Pharaoh in his crosshairs. Pharaoh was the one who set himself up as the guide. Now there were many gods, but like, he's going toe to toe with his magicians. You don't see any other things that come up. Like there's just no basis for it. To really say that that definitively is it? He may be like, there may be some little like jabs and slights there because there were gods. There was a god of the front like we taught the cat heck, Hecht? Hecht again, I'm trying to remember some of these ones. So those gods did exist. But the other issue with it is if he's attacking those gods, there were so many more Gods than that, and we see some of the gods like they connect them multiple times. And it's like, God does everything so intentional on purpose. It just seems a little haphazard, like I don't, it just doesn't fit with God or anything else we see. But what makes the most sense is we see that it's, it's really an attack on creation. Like he has thrown everything back into chaos. And like the, like, the animals that man is supposed to write right from Genesis or you will have dominion over them. The animals are gone crazy. They're like basically the frogs are in their house and on top of everything and like they're taking over their water supply. They can't clean it. They can't do anything they can't drink. So the the creation that's supposed to keep keep them life is gone. Crazy. And so there's all this, you see God undoing creation and that's what a lot of scholars and I think that's where I land to y'all can land wherever you want. I think there is some pokes at these others but I don't think it's this category like I'm gonna knock down all of your gods because there's so many and I don't think God cared. I mean, he does. He doesn't want you to worship them. But they repentance Pharaoh was oppressing his people. And he was taking gone on head to head because God had already went in with Moses and Aaron had warned him Let My People Go and have a three day retreat to go worship which was probably actually a week they were going to worship for three days but it was gonna take them a couple of days to travel and a couple days back to travel and Pharaohs like this is my moneymaker. They are building and we didn't get to get into all of this but it's really interesting. This tat like they were basically building tabernacles for Pharaoh because the pharaohs believed all the pharaohs not just this Pharaoh that they would be worshipped as a god even in death. And so the richer you were these more like elaborate pyramids that they would build and they'd be entombed in there, and people would bring them food and jewels and goods and all of this. So that's all built on the Hebrews back like they're building all of this. And so they're their worship and their services to Pharaoh. Whether they want it to be or not. And God's like those are my people they worship Me and Pharaohs like they're my people and they work for me. So you see this and some of that you gotta give it to Pharaoh because that's, that's a huge part of his wealth like these people. These aren't This is his laborers. This is his labor force and they worked for nothing. He didn't pay them, but they're about to pay them right. Because they didn't walk out as free people. They walked out as conquerors with plunder. And God does some amazing things with that. So as we go through that we see this uncreation until we get to the part where God's like I'm gonna make it right you took their firstborn, the firstborn of Israel, like the Israelites are going to be set apart and protected. We see this protection and Pharaoh there everybody that's against me like they're they're done. They're going Pharaoh finally gets it. So where are we on our little chart? Let's see, we should be on are we talking about Pharaoh? So he says God is above all other gods. So Moses, his staff. I love God he does a common man and a common tool, a shepherd staff. It becomes that like every time that Moses does something really great for at least most of the plagues and throughout the book of Exodus. What does he do it with that staff and an outstretched arm? Do y'all remember?
means power and authority?
That's right and dominion. So this first picture is a picture of a typical Pharaoh and you guys may have seen this but they often at will have a serpent on top of like around their head dress because the serpent was the sign of wisdom and power and ruling. So again, it's significant that this common tool turns in to the very representation of Pharaoh. It's almost like he identified with the snake like it was this representation of power and wisdom. And ruling. And what happens when, like Moses is like Shepherd staff, and Pharaoh has a shepherd staff and it gobbles it up. It's like I eat God's like I eat your snakes for lunch for breakfast, you know, like, that's what happens there. And so it's really significant. Again, that God chose that Moses was a shepherd. He had a shepherd staff, he used his simple tool to like undermine the greatest, most powerful man in the entire world like this. Pharaoh was the most powerful person on earth when this is happening. So you all can kind of read that a little bit there. And then under that, as Gala was pointing out, we talked a lot about this, because this becomes really significant language throughout the rest of the Old Testament. And then it's echoed again in the New Testament. What does it say that God created the earth what with uh uh, huh, all Lord God thou has made the heavens and the earth by thy great power that was made the heavens and the earth by line outstretched or nothing is dude it was oh, it's so interesting, because every like, you'll know the song right Pharaoh Pharaoh. Do you know why we do that? Right? Why do we do this for Pharaoh? This hence the symbol? Well, that's interesting, but no, like, so every Yes, every image Egyptian like any. So, this was so this because this is how you see every Pharaoh depicted and like on all their pottery on all their gold this this picture down here. This was so commonplace, because when an arm is stretched out, this is my mighty power. I rule over everything and with this hand, I subdue all of those. My like that are under my rule. And so whenever Moses says these words that God tells him to say to Moses, it's inflammatory and Moses or Pharaoh is ticked, like with an outstretched arm, and so he say, mudita No, Pharaoh doesn't do that. I do that. And not only that, but I did that. For all of creation, everything that you are ruling over, I created it, and I have power over it. And that's what the plagues show. Like as we go through that God's dominion over his creation. No matter how powerful people think they are and how rich and how comfortable they might be. They God can make them uncomfortable like that. Because he has that power he can speak it and so that language that was associated with a pharaoh becomes the language that we sing in songs and hymns and like silly kid songs and stuff for all of the rest of humanity and that cool y'all guys like I take what you try to like take as yours it's like, let me just take that back. I love that. So
yeah, and with with the shepherd imagery. On that first box on page eight, it talked about how the Israelites were known. It's like the archetypal profession that they were shepherds in and they were hated by Egyptians for being shepherds like that was in Genesis mentions that so I included an article in the last page on your handout is an article that was in Christianity today around Christmas time this last year, that that makes that connection between God appearing to the shepherds with the Christmas story. And then you know, not he's not going to the pharaohs or the pyramids. He shows up to the shepherds to be like, hey, guess what Jesus is born and so just I thought it was a cool little connection.
But did you add it? I
don't, I don't have it. Mine. On the last page of your handout. Oh, I just I didn't get one. You get tonight's handout.
She got it. I didn't get it. Okay, all right. Any thoughts? Questions, comments?
Oh, he got a few more and there's some on that back there and everybody
get one it looks like this one's very cool read. All right, y'all. We're gonna keep zooming. So this happened several times. Throughout Exodus, you have this like crazy like, action movie almost. That's happening all this like drama. And then it just stopped like we had it in chapter six or six. Like this stops and pauses to do this lineage. Because it's again, affirming why Moses and Aaron were chosen and why they were their family was special and then we have it again after so all these plagues like they've had this major showdown with Pharaoh time and again, the people have given up hope and Moses like don't do that. Wait, God's gonna get this and, and then we stop and we have a lesson on how to have Passover. Like, that's so weird. But we have to remember that ritual is so important to God. And we know that because we practice that right. Like we were practicing that right now we gather as a people to worship God to learn about and we gather on Sundays, and we sing songs and we pray. Like that's important. It's important what we do and how we do it, and to have that sacred time in a sacred space. Again, we talked about this quite a few times, I think in our Exodus class, but church is a holy sanctuary and it's a sacred space, but it's also just a building, but it becomes sacred because we say, we meet Holy God here and we pray over it, we pray in it, and we handle it in an act and behave in a way that's kind and respectful. And so it's this nuance and it's God's space is beautiful, it's intentional, it's purposeful, and how he wants and we'll see that more next week when we talk about the setup of the temple. But we see he stops here and explains to them what Passover and why is Passover becomes so important your Sunday School answer Sunday school can answer Yeah. Jesus, Jesus. Yeah. Jesus chose Passover intentionally for him to be captured and died on the cross because he was the perfect land. And he knew God knew that we were gonna get it wrong again and again and again and again. And Christ was going to come and he was gonna get it right finally, and then we could walk in that true forgiveness with him for always. So this is an important thing that's going to matter for all of eternity. And he's setting it up here in the midst of this recreate, like he's like He has thrown the world into chaos. He has done this uncreation and now it's like before we set it up, let's make sure we get a few things straight. I need to make sure you know what you need to do. So that Holy God can come dwell with you, and you can be my people and be holy. And so he sets this up. This is another really interesting thing. I wanted to talk about. I think we all learn like Passover is called that because the angel of death passed over right? But really the better way this is Dr. eines. This stuff here we're in the middle where she's talking about, really when you look at that Hebrew word again, it can mean Passover, it can lead to leap like God let like the or not God, but the angel of death like leaped over them or it could be that there was protection. And I think that that and it's a nuanced thing, but it's an important thing, because the the Angel of Death whether you believe that that was God's angel that he sent on this mission to kill people which I it's hard for me to lay in there. I think more that Angel of Death is associated with with Satan death dying and that he gave him the He's like, he's kept him at bay. And I think God keeps him at bay at times. And there's times when he's like, Go, and so God is with his people protecting him and God's not protecting the others. So that angel of death it goes and kills Gods here protecting his people. He's not passing over and then killing people. So I think it's important how again, how we see God and how we view that he's protecting. He's allowing that to happen. Again, a small nuance, but I think it's unique if y'all read through that on page nine, that's an interesting, she sets that up. And if y'all want more stuff, Dave can help you out.
Stop by my office
Oh, there you go. He's got books. And then again, it's this the firstborn was, was killed by Mike was wiped out for those that didn't. And it wasn't just the Israelites. It was anybody that chose to say we want to be included. And protected and put this and we see that there's other people coming and we'll see this again when they pass through the water. This is not just Israelites, it's everyone who believed everybody who got to be included. And God continues that in mighty ways. That's why we're all sitting in this room today. Praise God right? So we see this protection of the firstborn. A significant thing. I also want to share this with you guys. If you want to do this is something you can kind of do on your own if you want to. We don't have time to go through all of these. But as we said the Passover the reason why the narrator takes time to lay out what to do is because Passover, if it includes everybody in that because they were supposed to remember this moment for always, as are we that God saved his people. He rescued them from oppression, he brought them out he made a new covenant. So we have we have the Abrahamic covenant and then he adds on the Mosaic covenant that we're about to get to we're not quite there yet. And so they have this Passover that's preparing them for it. In this protection with God, this ability to come before Him to be cleansed and renewed. God's going to forget all their sins all of their wrongs. It's going to be wiped clean with blood. Blood is we see blood in birth, and we see it in rebirth. And we see it in cleansing and sacrificial and that was important. Like that was very common like even other when they worshipped other gods other people, they would do sacrifice blood sacrifice, a lot of times they would kill children, which was gross and sick, but that's what they would do as sacrifices. And we see that later in the Old Testament. When man aside goes nuts. But um, this lays out for you the ways that Passover was set up and all of this stuff that Jesus then comes back and fulfills, and it's really kind of cool. If you look at that. The tie ins there where you see an Isaiah and then you see John the Baptist identified Jesus as a lamb and the Jesus use the Passover way of explaining to him why Jesus had to die. He was trying to prepare them and he was drawing them back again to Moses, and into the Passover. And again, it's really cool because when Jesus was in Transfiguration, right, who's on the mountain with him? You remember Moses and Elijah? Really cool, really cool. Like they got to be there without and so it's really interesting how those tie back in got and then Christ made us clean. So you just see this all this Passover that set up in Exodus 12. And then we see this ultimate fulfillment in Jesus Christ. Not cool. All right. Let's see is that it? Do we make it through everything so like, there's one more thing? Oh, no, no, yeah. We talked about protection. God protects his people. Oh, and then I think the last thing I just wanted to mention with you guys, I don't think we have a page on this. But just this idea that God freed his people not from slavery, he did free them from slavery, but he freed them from slavery, to be His people and to worship Him. So they are serving and worshiping Pharaoh, even if they're maybe trying not to choose like, ultimately, that's who they're serving and worshiping. And God was like, I'm saving you not just so that you can be free but so that you can be my people and that you can be under my rule and reign. Because we know like, as Jesus said, like my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. So when God rules, there's no oppression, there's freedom. And then they're going and then we'll set up the next part but any other thoughts or questions? I did that with 12 minutes to spare.
But you can talk without breathing.
He was like, Can you cover half of accidents in one class? I was like watch Oh, Roger. We got 12 minutes go to
the plagues um yeah, it's it's it's days
Yeah. You had that the cycle of in the morning as the as the time. Right is that well,
and it's really interesting because we talked about that for some time because what was that the plague? I'm trying to run it here. Remember? Because we I know you had some thoughts on this one about he didn't ask right Pharaoh didn't ask for help. Right? away. He waited and they call them in the morning. He's like, Okay, well, you ask your God. Like it was like why did he wait? But wait, so you know, there's a couple of thoughts on that. It's, it's again, Pharaoh flexing, his are trying to flex and poorly and the people all suffered because of it. But yeah, we like out like a week of each plant or something like yeah, it's not long. It's not a long period of time,
seven and 725. It says seven full days passed after Lordstown, Ohio. So that's the blood one right? Yeah,
that's the first one. Yeah. Yeah, no, I mean, it was it was at least for a whole day.
You mentioned breathing and breathing and they
were miserable. He wrecked them. I mean, they their health was wrecked their their land that was their livelihood was wrecked. Their homes were wrecked. They had illnesses. So, I mean, their animals were dead in the field. I mean, it's Israelites. Again, you see that protector? God? Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. I don't think we have timeframe though. Just when when he went to him in the morning, except for the first one but
also, it killed livestock.
Livestock as well, so that it wasn't much time. Because so there's, so when the hail hit. They have a couple of different crops that were common. And so when the hail hit, it took out that early crop I can't remember what that one's called. So it wiped that one out. But then after the hail is gone, the second crop that they did, I can't remember what it's like was able to come up. So that's why there wasn't complete devastation because they had multiple crops. So right out one, but another one came. But yeah, no, that's a really good question. I mean, we had spent, we spent, like two, two solid hours or what was that three hours? I guess. Talking about that place? Yeah. wasn't even a rabbit hole.
That's on topic, though.
So that's on topic and your great question.
continues on except for the darkness. He's always
Yeah. Yeah. I have to go back and reread them to kind of see that no,
but it really I think, I think it's symbolism and then we see that again with Christ. Like there's darkness for three days and then there's light
what are your calendars were different than our Yeah, yeah. But yeah,
well and you've got to remember that Israelites their day starts in the evening like they don't start it in the like they don't do a midnight start like we do. No, not at all. So if you're if you actually read I know it didn't have us read all of that in a couple times. But except for the Israelites, do you hear the Israelites that the magician's and the people like his advisers all tell him the Pharaoh do what Moses says? Like but like as the plagues go on more and more people, the people are like no more Pharaoh and Pharaoh is the one that's just like he will not he's a dog with a bone he will not let it go. Because all the people were like, This is awful. Stop there. God is angry. Let the people go. And Pharaohs like no I will not let your people oh hey, it's a great way to learn. You're a bunch
of former youth ministry volunteers here.
I love it the whole time?
Yeah, I think from for me the I had never heard that pass over a better translation of the Hebrew for Passover is this idea of protecting, you know, and so you see them with the blood kind of sealing them up and protecting them. And I think similarly, like our understanding of plagues, we think this is God doing bad, horrible mean stuff. And so it's a plague and you know, but it's more
a warning. Well, it's
more of a sign and wonder, like, I'm showing you these things. That's why I kind of started including these purpose statements prior to that and Exodus. Six, seven, he's like, I will be your God. And we see that language repeating is often I will be your guide you will be my people. I will be your guide. I will dwell among you, which we'll get when we get next into the tabernacle next week. But it's a he's got purpose in what he's doing. So it's not just these plaguing him. Yeah, he's showing his son his one of their miracles. Yeah, he's performing to this entire nation to show him I'm in charge.
We talked about the Egyptians were going through all this and it wasn't happening to the Israelites. The Israelites setting sitting back watching what was happening so they were actually seeing God or
they were making bricks with no straw.
Like we're still trying to find straw to
figure this out. God, I gotta go find some straw. Hate it for you. Yeah, yeah. The hell even go further to get the straw. Yeah, because it's Moses.
God's judgment was not the plagues. And I think that sometimes taught or we maybe read it that way. And that's not what it was intended. It was signs and wonders, but it was also warnings like God kept warning he gave and so I think really, when we think about Pharaoh, it's not that God hardened his heart as much as like Pharaoh hardened his own heart. And then God just leaned into it. And he continued, even after he hardened his heart, he continued to give them opportunities to turn back and everybody in Pharaoh's campus like don't do it. Don't do it like the magician's are all like, we're out of here this a scary stuff and we're like, No, he won't let go. And it's interesting because when they get to the water, so Pharaohs finally let him go, like his firstborn has been killed. His hopes of having a someone in his lineage to carry on, you know, are definitely dampened. And so he takes like, he's like go get out of here and all the people like here Take whatever you want, like gold jewels like silver like they. They went out of there like kings rich. And so they're go yes, yes. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it's
it's really cool. But they get to the water and they've seen all they've been like, it's been that God like, like show Yes. And they get there. And And Pharaoh shows up and they're stuck, right? Because there's water and like, do they say, oh, Lord, do what if your miracles do something like what did they say?
Oh my gosh. Oh, my gosh, it's it's the drama of our nine year old daughter. You brought as Erina died in new like, and you're like, yeah, that's my god did all these wonders and why we went through all of this. So you could just die in the desert, but that's what they say. That's what they feel. They don't again, they don't cry out and say, Holy God, creator, like do something they're coming you know, like, they're just like, well, we're done for Yeah. That's right. That's right. They, they still didn't get it.
They were crying. Crying. Because people remembered his promise with Abraham.
Water that they that God delivered them from?
Very, very
well, and you see this, like
they are saved and we see this idea of salvation starting to form that we then see in the New Testament. And we talked about this like in the Hebrew it literally says that God flared his nostrils. That's like when it talks about in the pelvis, like God flared. He's not so like God is like and he's just like, well, and he blows overnight. Like it's like it doesn't it's, if you read it, it's not instantaneous. We think about that. He just hit it. And it was like, like, God uses his own creation to do his work. And so he's saying water move. And so the water moves, and it slowly moves and there's dry ground like he's glowing it dry, and they walk across it. There's no mud on their feet. They're not getting stuck. And they walk through it. And then mighty Pharaoh, that's God's judgment, because Pharaoh didn't let it go. Like God probably. God probably would have let them be like, I think that God would have let him be if you hadn't pressed it. Yeah, you went too far Pharaoh.
Yeah, the answer is probably earlier, plague kills
all the animals in the fields but not those in the shelter. Yes.
And the people have the opportunity to bring the so he was they taught like Moses warned them that was the one with a warning right? So they had a warning and they didn't heed it what well, some of them did and some of the Egyptians he did it so not all like like, like if they chose to be associated with that it was those that didn't heat it. Were completely wiped out. Yeah. Okay, y'all, I think we really are out of Yeah, so
next week.
I'm gonna do this real quick. I mean, you can do next week, so on this week. Oh, well, I'll do this part really quick. So Dave did this at the beginning where he really quickly said how he would summarize like what we've covered. If you haven't started this, you don't have to redo it every week, unless you want to like go back and tweak it, but like each one, you're adding a new one. So talk about creation covenant, and this is in galas words and Steve's words and Kim's like, you'll put this in your language, how you would communicate it so that you get Yeah, so how you would say it, but you can still Dave's or whoever else is, like out of the book.
Yeah, they've got it like an introduction to the book. They kind of do it but it's base and then sometimes you read it like Oh, but there's a couple more things I would include do that but I give you a practice sheet, write down your bullet points, your notes, your thoughts, whatever, to be able to tell up to now these three parts of the story and then like we said, we're gonna keep building on it, but we want to keep reminding our we're not just trying to spit out information and the tech can be amazed. About these phenomenal handouts. We want you to actually be able to articulate this story and share it with others, you know, in practice it so Yep. Absolutely. There there are two. In your homework section. You'll see. We're going to read the next chapter Deval and Hayes you got some text I think we might be passing the Bible recap plan at this point. So well yeah, show y'all didn't there. We've been pretty close though staying with them. So we knew that wetland and then there's an article in there because next week, we're going to start focusing on a little bit of the holiness of God. How can a holy God be living and dwelling among his people? So there's a little article in there, her name is Marna hooker. Don't be distracted by her name. She's a phenomenal scholar. She's written some Mark commentary. So she's amazing.
You can't do without our commentary, right?
What's her name? I didn't name her, you know, but we're, I mean, I'm named David. You know, I'm going around killing Hittites and stuff. And then there's that article by Russell Moore we already mentioned, you know, so that the Russell Moore article is totally optional. If you have time and you want to go for it, if not just this you know. Stay with that the other stuff so
awesome. Oh, maybe I lied when you didn't give me this. You did give me this. Oh, you know, you
have to get well everybody good.
Y'all excited. We're gonna talk about the commandments next week. is so good. I love the commandments.
