Tim Timberlake

Tim Timberlake - I See You

May 3, 2026 | 27:29

Tim Timberlake deep biblical wisdom empowers audiences to create transformative change in their lives.

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Tim Timberlake | Tim Timberlake - I See You | May 3, 2026

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Hey, family.
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It's an honor and a privilege to be back with you.
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And god has a word for you today.
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This word has been burning in my soul, and i can't wait
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To deliver to you what god has instructed for me
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To share with you on this incredible day.
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I want you to grab your word, get your notepad, get your pen
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Called, text your friends, let them know we're on right now
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And you want to do bible study with them
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And celebrate the victories and the wins
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That god is allowing us to celebrate together.
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Let's go into the message as it has already
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Begun entitled i see you
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Renewing of our mind through the word of god and the name of
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Jesus. we pray everyone that's glad that jesus is still alive
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And well. one time. can you shout amen!
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You can take your seats.
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As we continue
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Through the acts of the apostles in chapter seven,
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We see stephen still in front of the sanhedrin council,
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Explaining and giving context to this council
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About how god continues to send deliverers to his people
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And how his people continue
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To reject the very help that god sends.
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He's reminding them that the same person
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That they say that he is blaspheming
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Is the very same person that they crucified,
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And they are repeating this cycle over and over again.
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And in acts chapter seven, verse 33, the scripture says,
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But the lord said to him, remove the sandals from your feet.
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For this place on which you are standing is holy ground.
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Stephen is quoting exodus chapter three, verse five,
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And this place where he is standing is an incredible place.
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Not because he's standing there,
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But because god desired to meet him there.
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And right here at the very beginning,
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I want you to know that the place you're standing in,
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The building that you're in is not holy because we are here.
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It's holy because the presence of the lord is here.
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And scripture teaches us that
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Where the spirit of the lord is, there is freedom.
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And so whenever we step into a moment where we encounter
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The spirit of the living god, we can always expect
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To leave differently than how we entered it.
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Because god, he does something supernatural.
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When we acknowledge our weakness and we lift up his strength.
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That's why praise and worship is so important.
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Amen.
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That's why silence doesn't move the needle of heaven.
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Praise and worship does.
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And when we begin to lift god up, when we begin to magnify
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His name,
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When we begin to exalt him, when we begin
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To make much of the name of jesus,
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Then our lives are changed and better because of it.
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And so stephen, he's teaching the sanhedrin council
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How god reveals himself
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And how god is not limited to a building,
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How god is not limited to a box, how god is not limited
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To a particular place.
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God is always everywhere at the same time.
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And stephen is teaching the sanhedrin council.
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Although you put much emphasis on the temple,
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You don't put much emphasis on the presence of god.
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And god's presence can move anywhere he desires to move.
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He can speak through anything
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And anyone he desires to speak through.
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And you cannot limit what god does,
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But you can't limit how you see what god does.
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And what we
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Have to look at as it pertains to this passage
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Is this point number one, many people want god's assignment
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But refuse god's reverence.
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The ground didn't change because moses arrived.
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It changed because god did
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The presence of god.
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It turns ordinary places into sacred moments
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And something i believe we are missing as the body
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Of christ, as the church, specifically here in the west.
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It is reverence.
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Everyone say that word with me.
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We don't reverence the presence of god anymore.
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It's okay.
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You don't have to talk back to me.
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I'll talk to myself.
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Because we like to think these moments are catered for us.
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We we have become consumers of christianity and consumers
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Of christ instead of followers and disciples of jesus christ.
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And so we don't utilize words like reverence.
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We we put words like that.
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Building is sacred.
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Instead of saying the spirit of god is sacred,
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And where the spirit of god is, that is where holy ground is.
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And this particular place is not holy
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Because something happened there.
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It is holy because the spirit of god is there a generation
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That treats the presence of god like background music
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Will never experience him like a consuming fire.
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And that's
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Why most of the churches here in america are not experiencing
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The move of god.
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The way god desires to move is because we have
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Boxed god in.
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We have limited the power of the holy spirit.
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We, we,
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We talk about him in passing, and we talk about what
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He used to do, but we don't talk about
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How he's moving right here today, right now.
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And we treat the presence of god just as in
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Some casual person, and has this casual personality.
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When the presence of god is not something
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You treat casually, it's something you revere.
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Amen.
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The church wants
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The benefits of his name
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Without the trembling that once came with it.
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And so we come into his presence
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In any kind of way.
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We come in any time we want to.
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We leave when we want to.
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There's no reverence in the house of god anymore.
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And if this makes you uncomfortable,
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Maybe you need to revisit the last time
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You revered his presence.
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Maybe you need to go back to the last place
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You honored his presence and
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And and had a holy fear in the presence of god.
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I'm not talking about being a, scared.
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And i'm not talking about an unhealthy fear.
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I'm talking about a reverence that makes your sin tremble.
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I'm talking about a reverence that brings out the impurities
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On the inside of you, and lays it on the altar
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So that it can be consumed by an all consuming fire.
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When reverence leads.
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God doesn't stop being holy.
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Amen.
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People just start recognizing who they're
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Standing in front of.
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And the most dangerous church.
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Is the one that has learned how together,
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Without ever bowing.
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We don't like to hear messages like this
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Because they don't make us feel good.
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They don't cater to our flesh and our emotions and
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And we love to be emotional without conviction.
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We love to pick and choose
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What we thank god for
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Instead of implementing what scripture says,
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Give thanks always and and and a praise
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Shall continually be in my mouth and pray without ceasing.
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We don't want to
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Hear messages like that because we like to treat
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God like he's a genie in a bottle and
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And when he doesn't do what we want him to do,
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Then we no longer reverence him the way we should reverence him
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When we should be
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Looking at the presence of god and the person of jesus christ
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With awe and wonder, not for what he will do,
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But for what he's already done.
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The fact that you're still here
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Is a testament of the faithfulness of god.
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The fact that the so called in your right mind is consistent
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With the scripture
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That says, he
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Will keep your mind in perfect peace when it stays on him,
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And if he doesn't do anything else with your,
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Praise him for the rest of your life.
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Because he is holy, he is righteous
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And he is worthy.
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Most of us have a transactional relationship with jesus christ
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And you do this for me.
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I'll do this for you and
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Then i'll study.
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When i got to talk about scripture to somebody else
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And i'll. i'll pray when i need something.
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But i'm not going to seek you. i'm not going to be disciplined.
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I'm not going to be consistent.
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I'm not going to be faithful
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If i don't get the things that i've been praying for
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And i want and i've been believing you
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For i'm not going to do these things,
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Because surely my relationship with you is all about me.
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And the reality is your relationship with jesus.
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It's all about jesus.
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And if you don't die
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Every single day, you will never live in eternity with him.
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Before assignment
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Comes, awe must come
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Before commission comes.
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Consecration must come
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Before public deliverance comes.
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Private reverence must come.
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And the reality about this passage is that moses
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Cannot help to free others until he is
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First learn how to stand before god rightly.
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In acts chapter seven, verse 34, the next verse, it says,
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I have certainly seen the oppression
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Of my people in egypt, and have heard their groaning,
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And i have come down to rescue them.
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Come now, and i will send you to egypt.
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Point number two is this.
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The rescue of god often begins long
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Before the results of god appear,
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And some of you are waiting for the results
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And god is busy rescuing you.
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Some of you are waiting for the benefits without the breaking.
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And the reality is, is god
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Will not position you in a season of results
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Without first rescuing you, because god will not position
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You where you are,
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A bad reflection of his presence and his glory.
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He will allow you to stay in the wilderness
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Long enough for you to no longer look like you.
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And so the rescue
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Of god often begins long before the results of god appear.
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And the reality of this passage is this although you are in
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A season of suffering, god is not absent from your suffering.
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And what stephen is quoting here is exodus chapter
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Three, verses seven through ten, which says, and the lord said,
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I have surely seen
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The affliction of my people who are in egypt,
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And have given heed to their cry because of their taskmasters,
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For i am aware of their sufferings.
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Look at what he says.
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I am aware of their sufferings.
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God is aware of your sufferings.
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He sees your sufferings.
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He feels your sufferings.
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He's involved in your sufferings because the word of god
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Says that he'll never leave you, nor will he forsake you.
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And so if you find yourself in a season of suffering right now,
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I need you to understand that god sees you
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While you're going through.
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And the good news is verse number eight.
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So i have come down to deliver them
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From the power of the egyptians.
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Some powerful statements in this passage
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That i want you to take note of.
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The first one is this i have seen.
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I want you to think about that for a moment.
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The god who created everything, he sees you.
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Scripture says he knows the number of hairs on your head.
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He knows you in such detail that he can tell
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What you're about to do before you even think about doing it.
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He created you.
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He finished you before he started. you.
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He put a period before he begin to write the sentence,
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God sees you, not the you you think everyone else sees.
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God sees the you.
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You pray.
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No one else discovers he sees you.
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I'm not talking about the public version of you.
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I'm talking about the private version of you.
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The one that you pray.
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No one ever sees god sees you.
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I'm not talking
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About the facebook, instagram, tiktok version of you.
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I'm talking about the snapchat version of you.
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God sees you and he calls you.
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He chooses you.
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He anoints shoe.
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He affirmed you.
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God sees you in your suffering.
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He says in exodus chapter three verse seven through ten,
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I have seen and i have heard.
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I have seen
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And i have heard
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The groaning
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Of my people.
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And not only is god a god that sees, and not only is
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God a god that hears, but he is also a god that will come down.
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And visit you.
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And dwell with you
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And sit with you
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And walk through seasons of suffering with you,
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And guide you through the valley of the shadow of death,
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And remind you
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That there is nothing to fear because he is with you.
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And as long as the good shepherd is with you,
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And as long as he is guiding you and giving you a light
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For your path, there is no reason to fear.
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I did not
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Say you will not have pain.
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I did not say you will not encounter seasons
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Of difficulty and discomfort.
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You, in fact, will say,
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But the good news is that he'll be with you
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When you're going through those seasons.
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I have seen, i have heard,
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I have come down.
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And he says, i will send.
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This is the language
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Of divine involvement.
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And israel may have felt forgotten egypt,
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But god was neither blind or passive.
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And he was reminding them, just as he's reminding you,
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I have seen, i have heard,
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I have come down,
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I have seen,
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I have heard, i have come down.
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Let me put it to you this way.
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God sees you,
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God hears you, and god is with you.
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And if god before you.
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It's not a demon strong enough
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To stand against god.
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There's not a disease powerful enough
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To go against the creator of the universe.
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Does that a person, an enemy, an adversary that can stand
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In front of you and defeat you
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And the god of all gods,
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The king of all kings, the lord of all lords,
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Has your back.
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If god before you, who or what can stand against you?
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So rest assured god sees you.
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Point number three.
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Deliverance is often prepared
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In hidden pain.
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The man god used to deliver israel
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Was the same man israel rejected first.
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Moses suffering had stages.
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He was rejected by egypt.
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He was rejected by israel.
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He was hidden in midian for 40 years.
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But those silent decades weren't
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Wasted.
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Those silent decades
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Were preparation.
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And some of you feel unseen today.
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You feel like time is wasting.
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You feel like everyone around you is advancing.
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And maybe it seemed like they're advancing
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Because they're still stuck in egypt.
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And by the outside perspective, egypt looked like advancement
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Because egypt had the money, egypt had the resources,
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Egypt had the people.
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And so by culture and society standards, egypt
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Was the gold standard.
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But culture and society's
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Gold standard does not align with the kingdom standard.
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And so it does not
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Matter how it is perceived,
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What other people are doing and how quickly they're doing it.
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Just because something is done fast does not mean that
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That something will last.
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And god will often hide you in pain
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So that pride doesn't destroy you when promotion arrives
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And god will leave you in the wilderness long enough
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To strip you of the clothes you put on in egypt
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So that you can better reflect
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His nature, his glory, his grace, his love,
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His mercy, his steadfast kindness towards you.
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And scripture reminds us this moses
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Some day this old saying, who made you a ruler
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And a judge is the one whom god sent to be both a ruler
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And deliverer, with the help of the angel
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Who appeared to him in the thorn bush.
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I want to camp out here for a
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Little bit, because it can be misconstrued
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Who this angel is.
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In exodus chapter three, verse two, it
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Says, the angel of the lord appeared to him
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In a blazing fire from the midst of the bush.
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But in exodus chapter three verse four, it says,
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When the lord saw that he had turned aside to look,
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God called to him from the midst of the bush.
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And sometimes when we read this word angel, we think that
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The name of the person that we're reading is angel.
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This word angel, when we read it in
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Scripture, specifically in the old testament, simply
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Means messenger on behalf of god.
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And in certain passages, god appears as an angel
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To communicate a message that he desires
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For his people to receive.
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And so scripture does not,
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Go against itself scripture, it completes itself.
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So if there's something that looks
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Confusing in the text, it's not that scripture is confusing,
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It's that we have not done
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The research to identify what exactly scripture is teaching us
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In exodus chapter three, verse six, a couple of verses down,
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It says, i am the god of your father,
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The god of abraham, the god of isaac, and the god of jacob.
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So this passage, it moves from angel of the lord
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To lord to god.
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That's not accidental.
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And this word angel in hebrew
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Is the word malachi, which means messenger.
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It can also refer to a message given to human beings.
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It can mean god himself appearing as his own messenger.
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And in several old testament passages, the angel of the lord
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Speaks as god receives worship and forgives
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Sin, which normal angels never do.
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That's what we see happening in this passage.
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The angel of the lord is often god appearing in the flesh.
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The only time in scripture god appears in the flesh
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Is through jesus.
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And so notice what happens in exodus chapter three.
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The angel appears.
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God speaks
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The voice speaking identifies
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Himself as yahweh.
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This pattern appears many times in scripture.
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Hagar. genesis chapter 16.
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The angel of the lord speaks to hagar,
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And she responds, you are the god who sees me.
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Are you listening to me?
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God never shows up in a situation or circumstance
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Without first acknowledging that he sees you, that
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He hears you, and he comes down to be with you.
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We see it again in genesis chapter 22.
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Abraham, the angel of the lord, stops abraham from sacrificing
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Isaac and says, you have not withheld your son from me.
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The angel speaks,
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Is god not for god?
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Judges. chapter six gideon,
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The angel of the lord appears to gideon, and a few verses
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Later the text says, the lord said to him
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Again,
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Angel interchangeable with god.
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Many historians and many theologians
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See this as the pre incarnate appearance of christ.
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And the reason this is important
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Is because the angel of the lord in this context,
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It speaks as god.
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It receives worship from moses.
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It forgives moses of his sins.
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It possesses divine authority.
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Yet this presence that is speaking
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Is distinctively different from the father,
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Because scripture teaches us no one
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Will be able to see the father.
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But many people saw jesus.
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So this fits perfectly with the new testament
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Understanding of christ as the visible revelation of god.
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John chapter one, verse
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18 says, no one has seen god at any time.
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The only begotten god has explained him.
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In other words,
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When people encountered god visibly in the old testament,
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It was likely the son of god.
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That is a very important distinction
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For us to look at whenever we see the angel of the lord
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Speaking from the burning bush.
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This progression is intentional.
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The angel of the lord appears.
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God speaks from the bush.
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The voice identifies himself
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As yahweh.
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Messenger.
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And the fire is not separate from god.
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He is god, revealing himself.
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And god often
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Speaks to us through fire
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Because fire gets our attention
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Back after exodus chapter three, the burning bush.
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Exodus chapter 13 the pillar of fire.
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Exodus chapter 19 on mount sinai.
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Acts chapter two.
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Tongues of fire god speaks through fire.
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Why does god speak through fire?
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Because fire represents
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Holiness, presence,
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Purification, and revelation that.
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God's holy presence, dwelling
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With the fragility of humanity
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Without destroying it, can only be attributed
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To the actual power of an almighty god.
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And just as god allowed
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The bush to be burned by fire but not consumed by it,
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God will in fact leave you in the wilderness
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On fire long enough
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To be refined and purified to reflect
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His glory and grace.
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And although you may feel forgotten today,
00:24:46.768 --> 00:24:50.038
God sees you.
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And although you may be in a foreign place,
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You are not in a forgotten place.
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He sees your suffering.
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He hears your suffering,
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And god comes down to dwell with you
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While you're walking through seasons
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Of suffering, pain, and hardship.
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My prayer is that from this broadcast, you.
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You feel seen by god.
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You feel known by god.
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You feel like god
00:25:22.037 --> 00:25:23.538
Has not turned his back on you because he hasn't.
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Often times
00:25:26.608 --> 00:25:27.442
When we don't feel seen by god, it's
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Because we've turned our backs on him
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And he's in the same place that we last discovered him.
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I want to encourage you do whatever you can today
00:25:35.750 --> 00:25:37.953
To make sure that your heart is in alignment with him.
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If you're watching this broadcast
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And you feel disconnected from god,
00:25:42.791 --> 00:25:44.426
You feel disconnected from the voice of god.
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You feel unseen by god.
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It's probably because you have unrepentant sin in your heart.
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I want to lead you to a prayer
00:25:52.167 --> 00:25:53.835
Very simple, yet powerful prayer.
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This prayer will ensure
00:25:56.104 --> 00:25:58.373
That you spend eternity with jesus christ.
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Repeat after me, lord jesus, come into my heart.
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I am a sinner in dire need of grace.
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Save me jesus, i repent from my sin.
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I turn away from the decisions
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And the lifestyle that was leading me.
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And now i follow you.
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I believe that you are the king of kings, so i confess it.
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I believe you are the lord of lords,
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And so i believe it with all of my heart.
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In jesus name i pray. amen.
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Well, family,
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If you prayed that prayer,
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Our team is going to throw some information
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At the bottom of the screen.
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I want you to scan that qr code, write down that email address,
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Write down that website, write down that phone number.
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Let us know you prayed that prayer
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And we're going to set ourselves in agreement with you
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And go on a journey of faith with you as you grow deeper
00:26:47.022 --> 00:26:49.924
In your relationship with jesus christ.
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If you're ever in the north florida area,
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Come by celebration church any sunday 9 a.m.
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And 11 a.m.. would love to see you.
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Would love to lift up the name of jesus with you.
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If you're not within driving distance from north florida,
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Continue to stop by this broadcast
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As we continue to deliver the unadulterated word of god.
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I'll see you next time.
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I want you to know god loves you and i love you to be blessed.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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Tim Timberlake - I See You

May 3, 2026 | 27:29

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