Beyond the Mountain: Why Jesus is the Better Moses

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We welcome the Holy Spirit into this place.
[00:00:20] And we ask you to move like you want to move.
[00:00:25] Do what you want to do.
[00:00:27] Say what you need to say.
[00:00:29] We worship You, Lord, in this place.
[00:00:35] Welcome into this place Welcome into this broken vessel You desire to buy in the praises of Your people
[00:00:56] So we lift our hands and we lift our voice And we offer up the praise unto Your name For we say welcome and welcome to this day You are welcome Lord and welcome
[00:01:24] In the praises of your name, Lord, we lift our hands, and we lift our voice, and as we call to God, we praise our

[00:02:04] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
Praise the Lord!
[00:02:08] Praise the Lord!

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I've got a reason to pray

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Praise God you reign Praise God you rose and defeated the grave Praise God you're faithful Praise God you're true

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Praise the Lord!

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Oh we worship you Jesus We worship your holy name For you are righteous, for you are holy It's your heart I'm searching for
[00:07:05] In every word I stand In Your presence I find peace Peace for my soul There's no place I'd rather be Than with You, Lord
[00:07:36] You never let go You always stay close Don't turn the place I'd rather be Than right here in Your presence There's healing Right here in Your presence
[00:08:03] All hope is found, I lift my hands in worship Hallelujah, right here in your name
[00:08:35] In Your presence I find peace Peace for my soul There's no place I'd rather be
[00:10:03] You're worthy, Jesus You're worthy, Jesus You will never leave, never forsake So I lift my hands
[00:10:21] You never let go, you always stay close No other place I'd rather be, I'd rather be here You never let go, you always stay close
[00:10:42] Come on, if you could lift your hands in this place.
[00:11:04] He says he will never leave and he will never forsake.

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That's who our God is.
[00:11:06] He is always there.
[00:11:06] He is always present.
[00:11:07] Father, with your presence we fill this place.
[00:11:08] With your joy, with your goodness, with your faithfulness, with your mercy, with your grace.
[00:11:10] Come on.
[00:11:10] Come on.

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Right here in Your presence Right here in Your presence Right here in Your presence

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Come on, if you can lift your voice and sing that again.
[00:12:40] You're right here in my presence There's healing You're right here in me Yeah, a whole new world I lift my hands up Oh, right here in your presence
[00:12:47] Right here in your presence There's healing right here in your presence The road is down but my hand is first Right here in your presence
[00:13:15] Only in Your Presence There is freedom Only in Your Presence There is freedom I raise my hands Only in Your Presence
[00:13:42] Only in Your Presence There is Sanity Only in Your Presence There is Freedom I raise my hands Only in Your Presence
[00:14:12] And just to be close to you And just to be close to you And just to be close to you Is my desire
[00:14:40] And just to be close to you, oh my King, oh just to be close, yes And just to be close to you, He is my desire
[00:15:09] And just to be close to you.
[00:15:15] And just to be close to you.
[00:15:19] Some of y'all haven't been close in a while.
[00:15:22] Come on, call His name.
[00:15:23] Just to be close to you is my desire.
[00:15:42] Come on, we sing the Lord bless you.
[00:16:13] Come on with our voices lifted our hands lifted high we sing amen in this place
[00:16:43] Oh, Amen Oh, Amen Oh, it is so

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Come on, of course, this will be joined together.

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Sing out, yeah.
[00:17:42] Amen.
[00:18:17] We will walk one in Jesus

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May His favor be upon you and the thousand generations and your family and your children and their children and their children May His favor be upon you and the thousand generations and your family and your children and their children and their

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Sing it like you mean it.
[00:19:34] On you, your whole family, your children.
[00:19:42] Procrastination, Ascension, Ascension, Ascension, Ascension, Ascension

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He is born!
[00:21:38] He is born!
[00:21:38] He is born!
[00:21:38] He is born!

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Come on, give Him praise, give Him praise, give Him praise.
[00:22:39] And I'll let it rain Oh, let it rain Oh, open the floodgates of heaven And I'll let it rain
[00:22:48] And open the floodgates like that Oh let it rain And let it rain Sing open the floodgates Sing let it rain Oh let it rain Oh let it rain And open the floodgates
[00:23:27] Let it rain and open the pockets of heaven Let it rain and open the pockets of heaven
[00:23:56] His faith be upon him and a thousand generations And your family and your children and their children and their children And his faith be upon him and a thousand generations And your family
[00:24:22] Your children and their children and their children Oh, we're fighting for our families today.
[00:24:32] May His faith be upon Him And a thousand generations And Your family and their children Oh, may His presence go before them
[00:24:50] He is for you, He is for you, He is for you, He is for you
[00:25:28] Amen.
[00:25:42] Amen.
[00:25:53] Amen.
[00:25:59] Thank you, Jesus, for all that you've done and who you are.
[00:26:05] We worship your name, and in his name we pray.
[00:26:09] Amen.
[00:26:10] Amen.
[00:26:11] Come on, give him one more shout of praise in this place.

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]:
Amen.
[00:26:20] He is for us.
[00:26:22] You may be seated.
[00:26:24] It's so good to see you today.
[00:26:26] We've had a wonderful time of worship through music and we're continuing to see how we can worship Him in spirit and truth today.
[00:26:33] My name is Paul Allen.
[00:26:34] I'm one of the elder pastors here and I want to say thank you for being here with us today.
[00:26:39] if you're a first-time guest today if this is your very first time to join us we want to say thank you for doing that for taking the time to be with us and we trust that this service today is a gift to you but we'd also like to get to know you a little better so in your worship guide there's a connection card and in the seat back in front of you there's one as well if you would take the time fill that out
[00:27:01] At the end of this service, take it to the lobby to the Next Steps area and one of our team members would love to meet you and give you a special gift.
[00:27:10] And that's a copy of Pastor Derwin's book, The Good Life.
[00:27:12] And that's our way of saying thank you for being here today.
[00:27:16] We continue our worship through generosity.
[00:27:37] We are so excited that we have a God that loves us so much that he gave his first and best to us through his son Jesus.
[00:27:45] And for us as Christ followers, that means we have an opportunity to reflect that love by giving our first and best through our financial generosity.
[00:27:55] And I want to say thank you, Transformers, for those that you give and that give regularly.
[00:28:00] It's because of your faithfulness we're seeing lives transformed.
[00:28:03] and for everyone else if you've not yet taken that step we want to encourage you to do that because generosity is an act of worship and an act of obedience and because of that worship and obedience when we do that and we give freely to him you'll be amazed at what god does in and through you because of that there are several different ways you can give you can give through our app you can give online or you can give it one of the generosity boxes on your way out today
[00:28:31] and as we're talking about generosity we want to remind you that next sunday is all give sunday what does that mean we're looking for a hundred percent participation in our time of generosity next sunday that means from our
[00:28:46] To our kids, to our teens, to our young adults, to our middle-aged adults, to some of us senior adults, that includes all of us, that we get to give together.
[00:28:56] And we want to see God use that and bless in so many ways.
[00:28:59] So that's next Sunday, December 14th.
[00:29:03] And to celebrate that, we want everybody to wear red.
[00:29:06] So give you an opportunity.
[00:29:08] Make sure you have red on.
[00:29:09] Imagine what that'll look like next week.
[00:29:11] If you need some red, I got plenty of it, because I love red.
[00:29:14] So just come see me after.
[00:29:15] All right, so we're excited about that and we are thankful we get to do that.
[00:29:19] Also, we want to remind you that there are a lot of things happening here at TC during the Christmas season, so make sure you go to ChristmasAtTC.com and that will let you know of all the things that are happening.
[00:29:32] And one special reminder is our Christmas Eve service.
[00:29:36] At our Christmas Eve services, we'll be having three of them, 12 o'clock,
[00:29:40] 2 o'clock and 4 o'clock.
[00:29:43] And we're looking forward to seeing you there.
[00:29:45] And this is the time to invite people to hear the message of Emmanuel, God with us.
[00:29:51] Thank you again for being here.
[00:29:52] Let's welcome our very own Pastor Derwin Gray as he brings a message today.

[00:30:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]:
My back was feeling good.
[00:30:04] I thought I'd jog on out here.
[00:30:06] Hey, let's give a big welcome to all of our guests who are tuning in online from Fort Mill to Brazil.
[00:30:11] Let's give it up for TC Lake Wiley and TC Indian Land.
[00:30:15] Welcome, welcome, welcome.
[00:30:18] Especially welcome if you have no clue who Jesus is.
[00:30:22] Someone shot you with a tranquilizer gun and you ended up watching online or you're physically present.
[00:30:27] We're especially glad you're here.
[00:30:29] If you really jacked up, tore up from the flow up, we are glad that you're here.
[00:30:32] Translation from the Hebrew means if you're a mess, if you can't figure it out, if you need some help, Jesus is looking for you.
[00:30:41] You are in the right place.
[00:30:42] Let's give it up to the over.
[00:30:44] Listen now.
[00:30:45] 1,400 correctional facility partnerships that we're in at Transformation Church to the mighty men and incredible women.
[00:30:55] It is just awesome.
[00:30:58] So I was marinating in the scriptures this week and I keep finding myself surrounding Matthew 25 where Jesus said some very poignant things to the religious leaders of his day.
[00:31:09] He said this, that what you do for the least of these you do for me.
[00:31:12] He says that when you feed the hungry and when you visit those in prison,
[00:31:19] You're doing it unto me.
[00:31:21] And so Transformation Church, I am grateful to be a part of a church that has a free grocery store called The Market.
[00:31:28] And I'm grateful that we are literally, not figuratively, literally in 49 states around this great country,
[00:31:36] Reaching thousands upon thousands of our brothers and sisters who are incarcerated but yet liberated in Jesus and we expect God to do incredible things about them in that situation with their families and their friends.
[00:31:51] So I'm glad to be a part of a church that takes the words of Jesus seriously.
[00:31:55] I hope you are as well.
[00:31:58] And to the TC family, you guys look marvelous.
[00:32:00] On the count of three, say I'm ready.
[00:32:02] One, two, three.
[00:32:03] I'm ready.
[00:32:04] Okay, we're continuing our series
[00:32:06] Jesus is better.
[00:32:08] In week one, we looked at Jesus is a better Adam.
[00:32:12] In week two, we looked at Jesus is a better Noah.
[00:32:14] Week three, we looked at Jesus is a better Joseph.
[00:32:17] In week four, my homie Ed Stetzer came in and preached, and I hope you remember his sermon outline.
[00:32:22] It was four points.
[00:32:23] Number one, we are sent with Jesus on mission.
[00:32:25] Number two, we're sent to different kinds of people, different ethnicities.
[00:32:29] Number three, we are sent with a message, the gospel.
[00:32:31] Number four, we're sent in the power of the Holy Spirit.
[00:32:34] Don't think I memorized that just because I'm a preacher.
[00:32:38] I memorized it because God's words matter.
[00:32:42] So I'm not talking to everybody here, but if you follow Jesus,
[00:32:47] Every single word needs to matter.
[00:32:49] We need to see it literally as life or death.
[00:32:53] I'm just an old football player, and our coaches told us every single word of this playbook, listen to it, because you gotta go play the game, and when you play the game, there's real consequences.
[00:33:02] Well, I wonder if you and I realize that we are not in the national championship, we're not in the Super Bowl, we're in the kingdom of God, and every moment of every day is the game of life.
[00:33:12] How you listening?
[00:33:13] What you listening for?
[00:33:15] And then are you listening to actually obey it?
[00:33:19] Guys, do you know what you were singing?
[00:33:22] Lord have his favor upon us, bless us.
[00:33:25] You ready?
[00:33:26] It's from Numbers chapter six, verses 24 through 26.
[00:33:32] You ready?
[00:33:33] It is a blessing for the Nazarite priests
[00:33:38] Y'all, that was like the special forces.
[00:33:41] You think the blessing and the favor meant like you get stuff.
[00:33:45] No, the blessing and favor is you're consecrated for mission with God, obedience with God, holiness through God, the glory of God.
[00:33:55] And when you sing, He is for us, He is not against us, you just quoted Romans 8.31, who is for us if God not be against us.
[00:34:03] who would charge his elect and in verse 34 says we have a high priest who intercedes for us verse 35 says and nothing will separate some love of christ verse 36 and 37 says this that we are lambs led to slaughter verse 37 no we're more than conquerors in him who loved us so be careful what you're saying in because what you're calling for is deeper discipleship can i get amen from about five of y'all didn't know the bible if you're new here
[00:34:30] We take the Bible seriously because this is serious times and every word matters deeply.
[00:34:40] Today we're gonna look at Jesus is a better Moses.
[00:34:46] Check this out, Transformation Church family and guests.
[00:34:48] Jesus is the lens by which we understand the Bible.
[00:34:53] He is the crimson cord that stretches from Genesis to Revelation.
[00:35:00] What does that mean?
[00:35:01] It means this, that the Bible is different literary genres.
[00:35:05] The Bible is actually a library of 66 different books called the Canon.
[00:35:11] 39 in the Old Testament, 27 in the New Testament, and all of them point to Jesus.
[00:35:17] So understand this, the goal is not just to learn little Bible stories, the history and all that's important, but if we miss
[00:35:25] that it's pointing to Jesus, alls we have is Bible facts.
[00:35:29] God doesn't want us just to have Bible facts.
[00:35:31] He wants to know the fact of who wrote the Bible, who redeemed us, who saved us, who's come to live inside of us.
[00:35:36] In other words, it's not just about learning Bible stories, it's about learning that the Bible is a story about the greatest love story of all, that there's a God who's reached from Genesis to Revelation to reach your heart.
[00:35:48] To do what?
[00:35:50] To mobilize you to participate in his kingdom right here, right now.
[00:35:56] on Earth.
[00:35:57] Jesus is a better Moses.
[00:36:03] Teenagers, check this out.
[00:36:04] How is Jesus a better Moses?
[00:36:07] Moses rescued Israel from Pharaoh.
[00:36:10] Moses rescued Israel from Pharaoh.
[00:36:13] But let's do a little back story.
[00:36:16] How did Moses and the Hebrew people even get into Egypt?
[00:36:20] Well, let's start in the beginning.
[00:36:24] God created this third rock from the sun called earth and on earth he put a garden which was a temple and he created man and woman Adam and Eve to be his image bearers so that what's happening in his realm called heaven can happen on earth he has deemed them his royal priests his image bearers and he gives them basically one command you ready here it is make love have a bunch of babies and spread my kingdom and they messed it up
[00:36:53] Hold on, wait, y'all didn't hear what I just said.
[00:36:55] Like guys, you know that's what God said to Adam and Eve.
[00:36:57] Be fruitful and multiply.
[00:36:58] That's biblical language.
[00:36:59] By the way, parents, stop teaching your kids that sex is bad.
[00:37:03] Sex is worship between a husband and a wife.
[00:37:05] It is a good gift from God.
[00:37:07] It is a good gift from God.
[00:37:08] If not, we wouldn't be here.
[00:37:10] So anyway, God is like, look, all you gotta do is trust me and get busy and have a bunch of babies.
[00:37:18] And you know what?
[00:37:19] They blew it.
[00:37:20] So God puts them in exile, but he still gives them grace.
[00:37:23] The people flourish.
[00:37:25] and then they mess it up again.
[00:37:27] So this is two rebellions already and we're only in the first six chapters of Genesis and God's like, okay, Noah, I'm gonna start over with you and your family.
[00:37:34] So through Noah, big flood, he saved some people.
[00:37:36] They start growing again and then Genesis 11, guess what the people do?
[00:37:40] They build a ziggurat, a tower, so that the gods could come up and down.
[00:37:44] By the way, those were demons and God's like, again?
[00:37:48] We're only Genesis 11 and you rebelled against me three times already?
[00:37:51] Okay, I'm going to confuse your language.
[00:37:53] I'm going to call a pagan by the name of Abram, change his name to Abraham and say, Abraham, through you, I'm going to make a big old family made up of all the families.
[00:38:00] I'm going to bless them.
[00:38:02] And Abraham, Isaac, and then Jacob.
[00:38:04] Jacob was one of his sons and his name got turned to Israel because he wrestled with God.
[00:38:10] That's what Israel means, to wrestle with God.
[00:38:13] And Israel...
[00:38:14] was a polygamist.
[00:38:16] By the way, polygamy never works in the Bible.
[00:38:19] It is always a disaster.
[00:38:21] By the way, why can't women marry more than one man?
[00:38:23] You know why?
[00:38:24] Because they got common sense.
[00:38:27] One is enough.
[00:38:29] Polygamy is not God's deal.
[00:38:31] Okay.
[00:38:32] His young wife, Rachel, they have a son named Joseph.
[00:38:36] Joseph's his favorite.
[00:38:36] He gives him a Gucci coat, Louis Vuitton.
[00:38:39] It looks awesome.
[00:38:40] His brothers get mad.
[00:38:41] They sell him into savory.
[00:38:43] He has a gift to interpret dreams, and he goes to Egypt, but Egypt is going through a famine, and all of a sudden, there's a guy in prison, because Joseph was in prison, unjustly goes, hey, Pharaoh, I know this guy named Joseph.
[00:38:54] He interprets dreams.
[00:38:55] Joseph told Pharaoh everything that was going to happen and he saved all the people of Pharaoh.
[00:39:01] And then his brothers came and heard about a wise man who had food and grain.
[00:39:09] His name was Joseph.
[00:39:10] And then the Hebrew people come into Egypt and they go to a place called Goshen.
[00:39:16] Say Goshen with me on the count of three.
[00:39:17] One, two, three.
[00:39:19] Well, guess what was in Goshen?
[00:39:20] Goats.
[00:39:22] and the Egyptians thought goats were gross.
[00:39:25] So guess what happened?
[00:39:27] The Hebrewites continued to multiply and multiply and grow.
[00:39:32] And then there was a new Pharaoh and he didn't know Jojo, he didn't know Joseph.
[00:39:40] And guess what he did?
[00:39:41] He looked around and went, who are all these immigrants in our land?
[00:39:47] He forgot that it was an immigrant named Joseph who saved his land.
[00:40:03] About 80 of y'all caught that.
[00:40:06] That's Bible, don't get mad at me, that's Bible.
[00:40:09] So Pharaoh's like, listen, all these immigrants, these foreigners, listen, we're gonna enslave them, we're gonna impress them, and when the women have male boys, kill them.
[00:40:19] Now Moses' mom was like, nah, homie, heaven no.
[00:40:24] So she gets her daughter Miriam and says, look, this is what we're going to do.
[00:40:28] We're going to put Moses in a basket.
[00:40:30] By the way, on a side note, the word basket is the same Hebrew word pitch that was used for Noah and the ark, and it's the same word atonement.
[00:40:38] You see, God always saves through wood, ultimately.
[00:41:01] and Miriam's like, hey, do you want me to take him to get nursed by his mom?
[00:41:06] She was like, yes, come here, mom.
[00:41:08] And by the way, I'm gonna pay you to nurse him.
[00:41:12] So Moses' mom and sister was so smart, not only did they save Moses, but they got paid to save Moses.
[00:41:20] Question, why don't we hear more about the greatness of those women right there?
[00:41:24] Wasn't they intelligent?
[00:41:25] Wasn't they brave?
[00:41:27] Hey, ladies of Transformation Church, that's the kind of women you're gonna be.
[00:41:31] Brave and courageous and walk by faith.
[00:41:33] You need to know this.
[00:41:34] You're not second string to the men.
[00:41:36] You're not the backup team.
[00:41:38] You are made in the image of God and you have value and worth and significance and dignity and don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
[00:41:48] If it wasn't for a woman, Moses wouldn't have been born.
[00:41:51] If it wasn't for Mary,
[00:41:53] Jesus wouldn't have been born.
[00:41:56] Now Eve did do that thing though.
[00:42:01] Back to the story.
[00:42:02] Back to the story.
[00:42:04] Moses grows up.
[00:42:06] He goes into the house of Pharaoh.
[00:42:07] He's living in luxury.
[00:42:10] I mean he's in the Pharaoh's palace.
[00:42:13] But one day his conscience gets to him and he looks out and he sees that the Hebrew people, like his mom, are slaves.
[00:42:20] And he sees an Egyptian oppressing a Hebrew, beating him.
[00:42:23] And so guess what Moses does?
[00:42:25] Moses kills the Egyptian.
[00:42:27] Friends, don't miss this.
[00:42:29] Listen, whenever you try to do something that is not in the power of God, it's not gonna go well.
[00:42:41] Moses killed a man not in God's power to do something just, but in his own power.
[00:42:47] Wives, you can't chihuahua theology your husband to be more faithful to Jesus.
[00:42:54] Get on your knees and pray.
[00:42:56] Husband, you can't make your wife be more respectful.
[00:42:58] Get on your knees and pray.
[00:43:00] You want your children to follow God?
[00:43:02] Get on your knees and pray.
[00:43:04] You want God to move?
[00:43:06] Get on your knees and pray.
[00:43:08] Don't pull a Moses!
[00:43:11] So Moses killed a man.
[00:43:13] He comes out the next day.
[00:43:17] I ain't no sellout to my people, son.
[00:43:20] And guess what the Hebrews do?
[00:43:22] Oh, you gonna come kill us too?
[00:43:24] The very people he tried to help snitched on him.
[00:43:28] Ain't it always that way?
[00:43:31] You can't help somebody who wants to stay stuck in a slave mentality.
[00:43:37] You can't help somebody who wanna stay stuck in addiction.
[00:43:40] You can't help somebody who wants to stay stuck in sin.
[00:43:46] Pharaoh found out, and guess what?
[00:43:48] Moses got to hit the road, Jack, and don't you come back no more, no more.
[00:43:53] So he's in the wilderness 40 years.
[00:43:55] He sees some Midianite women.
[00:43:57] He saves them.
[00:43:58] Forty years go by.
[00:43:59] He's out with the
[00:44:01] Goats and stuff, and one of his goats runs into a cave and he runs in and Exodus 3 says this, and the angel of the Lord appeared and God spoke to him from the burning bush.
[00:44:10] Quickly, whenever you see angel of the Lord in the Old Testament, it's what's called a Christophany, the pre-incarnate Christ.
[00:44:18] The Father originates, the Son reveals, the Holy Spirit executes.
[00:44:23] Theologians call that the economic trinity.
[00:44:25] You're like, is that just fluff for the sermon?
[00:44:27] No, that's so you can trust God.
[00:44:29] We have a God who executes, the Son who reveals, and the Father who originates.
[00:44:34] He's trustworthy, and look what he says to Moses.
[00:44:40] By the way, the Bible is incredible.
[00:44:45] Exodus 3, 7 through 10.
[00:44:48] The Lord said, I have observed the misery of my people in Egypt and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors.
[00:44:56] Really quickly here, the word oppressor is not a Marxist word, it's not a woke word, it's a biblical word.
[00:45:02] It means powerful people taking advantage of impowerful people.
[00:45:06] Don't let cable news talk you out of biblical words.
[00:45:09] Can I get an amen?
[00:45:11] Next, I know about their suffering, and I have come down to rescue them, rescue them from the power of the Egyptians and to bring them from that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey.
[00:45:26] That's just, teenagers, that's just symbolism for it's a good, luscious, fertile place.
[00:45:32] The territory of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Persevites, the Hivites, the Jesubites, and in the desert, there's ants that bite.
[00:45:45] So because the Israelites' cry for help has come to me,
[00:45:50] and I've also seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.
[00:45:53] They held them as slaves.
[00:45:55] They dominated them.
[00:45:56] Please understand this.
[00:45:57] Please understand this is so important.
[00:45:59] Slavery is not a United States of America invention.
[00:46:02] Slavery is a new kid on the block.
[00:46:04] There's cheese in Europe older than America.
[00:46:07] Slavery is as old as time is.
[00:46:10] What does that mean?
[00:46:11] It means we don't discount history.
[00:46:13] We become a student of history and say, not on my watch.
[00:46:20] Oppressing them, therefore go.
[00:46:22] I imagine Moses is like, Lord, I'm tracking what you're saying.
[00:46:26] You said go.
[00:46:27] Who going?
[00:46:28] Who going?
[00:46:29] To Pharaoh?
[00:46:31] I'm sending you to Pharaoh so that you may lead my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.
[00:46:36] Oh God, I tried that and they turned me in.
[00:46:39] God, I can't do this.
[00:46:41] He's like, I know you can't, silly goose.
[00:46:44] I'm gonna do it through you.
[00:46:45] By the way, John Legend years ago, R&B dude, he's talented, he said this, the world is waiting on a hero, and the hero's you.
[00:46:52] Who you waiting to save you?
[00:46:55] God wants to save people in you and through you.
[00:47:00] You are called.
[00:47:01] You've been recruited.
[00:47:03] You've been drafted.
[00:47:04] The Spirit of the living God is in you if you follow Jesus.
[00:47:07] There's no benchwarmers.
[00:47:09] You got a place to play.
[00:47:10] You got a role to play.
[00:47:12] I don't know what voices have been spoken over you, but you need to know God is for you.
[00:47:16] You know what that means?
[00:47:17] The Spirit of God is in you.
[00:47:19] He's gifted you.
[00:47:20] He's called you.
[00:47:21] He's empowered you.
[00:47:22] Who you waiting on?
[00:47:23] You.
[00:47:25] I don't know if that did nothing for you, but it did something for me.
[00:47:30] So, Moses goes to Pharaoh.
[00:47:32] Pharaoh, let my people go.
[00:47:34] Why?
[00:47:34] Because God made a promise to Abraham that I'm going to bless the world.
[00:47:38] If the nation of Israel stays in slavery, no Messiah Jesus.
[00:47:43] The ten plagues
[00:47:45] The God unleashes against the Egyptians were an attack against the false gods of Egypt.
[00:47:54] The last plague, the death of the firstborn in all of Egypt, the Lord told the children of Israel through Moses, put the blood of a spotless one-year-old lamb over your door and the angel of death will pass by.
[00:48:07] Why did God do that?
[00:48:09] Pharaoh thought he was a God, thus his son was a son of God.
[00:48:15] Pharaoh had multiple times to obey God, so finally God had to bring him to his knees.
[00:48:21] Some people go, well that's kind of cruel.
[00:48:23] You know what would be really cruel?
[00:48:25] Is if the Messiah didn't come and we all go to hell.
[00:48:28] And that would be really cruel.
[00:48:30] Pharaoh could have listened at any time.
[00:48:32] By the way, so could you.
[00:48:34] You know that dude ain't no good for you.
[00:48:37] But you think his love is better than Jesus' love.
[00:48:40] Test Jesus and see.
[00:48:42] It's better to be lonely in your bed than to be with somebody and still be lonely in your bed.
[00:48:51] Check this out.
[00:48:53] Every plague was a sermon.
[00:48:56] Every judgment was a declaration that the Egyptian gods are weak and false.
[00:49:00] And Yahweh, the Great I Am, is strong.
[00:49:03] Idols enslaved, the living God saves.
[00:49:06] All of this points to Jesus, the true Lamb of God, the Passover, the one who breaks the chains of slavery.
[00:49:14] Here we go.
[00:49:15] How was Jesus a better Moses, teenagers?
[00:49:18] Jesus rescued us from the greater Pharaoh, sin and death.
[00:49:22] Sin simply means this, my will over God's will.
[00:49:26] We've all done that.
[00:49:28] We're all born into that.
[00:49:30] Some people go, well, that's a good person.
[00:49:32] He's a good person.
[00:49:33] Compared to who?
[00:49:35] When you say there's a good person who can make it into God's kingdom on their own merit, you don't know the value of God.
[00:49:43] Why in the world would Jesus die for people's sins if you don't need it?
[00:49:47] That is an assault against God's character to go, my son died for nothing because you're good enough.
[00:49:54] It's really only for the messed up people.
[00:49:56] And typically, the messed up people are people who don't have the sins we have.
[00:50:01] No, no, we all need grace.
[00:50:04] And all of us are gonna die.
[00:50:05] Listen, you can have your little juice machine, your little vitamins, but you're gonna die.
[00:50:11] And so am I.
[00:50:18] Seriously, I'm like 54.
[00:50:20] I'm like, wow, I am 54.
[00:50:22] How is this possible?
[00:50:24] I was 17 yesterday in high school.
[00:50:27] I got a child almost 30 years old.
[00:50:29] Are you talking to me?
[00:50:31] Yes, you, man.
[00:50:32] My grandmother, before she passed away, she said, Dewey, I don't feel like I'm 72.
[00:50:39] It happened so fast.
[00:50:41] Listen, life is not going to slow down, but will you?
[00:50:45] And focus on what really matters.
[00:50:48] Talking about you hustling.
[00:50:49] The only thing you're hustling is your soul.
[00:50:51] We need to be abiding in Christ.
[00:50:52] Let's get to the text.
[00:50:55] So here's Paul in Colossians 1, 13 and 14.
[00:50:58] This is all Exodus language.
[00:50:59] Paul is a pharisaical Jew in Messiah Jesus.
[00:51:02] He says this, for he has rescued us, there's that same word, from the kingdom of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his dear son.
[00:51:11] Notice what this says.
[00:51:12] It doesn't say, and he transferred those who were really good.
[00:51:17] and He transferred those who climbed the ladder to heaven and showed God they were awesome.
[00:51:22] No, He transfers those who trust Him.
[00:51:25] End of discussion.
[00:51:26] Whatever baggage you got ain't too big for Jesus.
[00:51:29] Whatever sin you got is not too great for His blood.
[00:51:32] Whoever you are, whatever you've done, His forgiveness and grace and mercy is strong enough.
[00:51:38] And what did He do?
[00:51:39] Who purchased our freedom and forgave our sins.
[00:51:41] That's Exodus language.
[00:51:42] That's the word rescue or redeem.
[00:51:45] Jesus
[00:51:46] God purchased us with His own life.
[00:51:49] Now, please understand this.
[00:51:50] When God rescues us, it's not a one-time rescuing.
[00:51:55] Listen, Protestant evangelical Christians like us, we've got to get over this idea of God's goal is, okay, the goal is for you simply to go to heaven when you die.
[00:52:05] It's to experience the power of God's life now and for all eternity.
[00:52:09] The power that forgives you is the power that makes you grow as a human being reflecting Christ and overcoming sin.
[00:52:21] It's the same power.
[00:52:25] Now I want to point to how the Exodus points to Jesus.
[00:52:31] So, the Passover lamb.
[00:52:34] That's Jesus.
[00:52:35] The Passover lamb in the book of Exodus was spotless.
[00:52:38] Jesus had no sin.
[00:52:42] By the way, can you imagine growing up with Jesus as your brother and you do something wrong in the house and then you blame it on Jesus?
[00:52:52] Mary's like, bruh, really?
[00:52:55] Seriously?
[00:52:56] Really?
[00:52:58] But not only that, the lamb was slaughtered, Jesus was
[00:53:03] slaughtered.
[00:53:05] I will never get over the day that I discovered that God died for me.
[00:53:12] There's no degree.
[00:53:14] There's no amount of money.
[00:53:15] There's no accomplishment.
[00:53:17] My wife doesn't compare to it.
[00:53:18] My children doesn't compare to it.
[00:53:20] Nothing and no one compares to the reality that God wanted me.
[00:53:24] That's your cure for low self-esteem.
[00:53:27] You're worried about some fickle human wanting you and God wants you.
[00:53:31] Focus on the fact that God desires you so much so He gave His life for you.
[00:53:36] I love me some Vicki Grafe.
[00:53:38] I love my children.
[00:53:40] But only God died to save them, and my greatest joys appoint them to the Savior.
[00:53:49] He was the sacrifice.
[00:53:51] But not only that, the blood that was put over a door is now splashed all over you.
[00:53:58] Okay, you ready?
[00:54:02] If you are struggling with habitual sin patterns that you can't seem to break, here's how.
[00:54:10] You're gonna be like, no, it's gotta be harder.
[00:54:13] I promise you it's not.
[00:54:16] You ready?
[00:54:18] Think about the blood of Jesus that splashed on you.
[00:54:23] So when those thoughts of porn come in your mind, immediately go like this.
[00:54:28] I'm declared righteous in the blood of Jesus.
[00:54:29] I'm forgiven by Jesus.
[00:54:30] I'm gonna praise him.
[00:54:31] I'm gonna worship him.
[00:54:32] Like when you are in a situation with someone that you're attracted to and the hormones are going and you know that that's reserved for the beauty of marriage,
[00:54:39] Begin by praising Jesus for the blood.
[00:54:41] Keep your eyes on the blood.
[00:54:42] Keep your eyes on the blood.
[00:54:43] It's hard to sin when you're worshiping.
[00:54:45] It's hard to sin when you're praising.
[00:54:47] What I'm saying to you, it's not as hard as we make it.
[00:54:49] Stop trying to negotiate with sin and go to worship.
[00:54:53] When you begin to worship, it's hard to do it.
[00:54:56] It's hard to be insecure when you realize you're the righteousness of Christ.
[00:54:59] It's hard to be unfriendly when you realize you're a friend of Christ.
[00:55:02] Keep your mind on Jesus.
[00:55:04] Get your mind off of yourself.
[00:55:06] You are not all that.
[00:55:07] and a bag of chips like we used to say in 1990.
[00:55:10] He is great.
[00:55:11] He is good.
[00:55:12] He is awesome.
[00:55:13] Put your mind on Him.
[00:55:17] Guys, all I did was preach Colossians 3.
[00:55:22] Set your mind on Christ where things are seated above.
[00:55:25] And then when you get to verse 5 it says, and you won't do these things.
[00:55:27] You guys are trying to manage sin.
[00:55:30] Let me move it around here.
[00:55:31] Let me move it around here.
[00:55:32] How about you move your eyes up here?
[00:55:38] People go, what's helped you the most, Pastor?
[00:55:39] I go, you ready?
[00:55:41] I see myself soaked in the blood of Jesus.
[00:55:44] And I think about it all day every day.
[00:55:48] I think more about that than what's been done to me.
[00:55:50] I think more about that than what I've done.
[00:55:53] I think about Him.
[00:55:58] The Bible's awesome.
[00:56:01] And here's what we're gonna do on All Give Sunday next week.
[00:56:06] Those of you online, those of you at Lake Wiley, all of us together, here's what we're gonna do.
[00:56:11] We're all going to give generously.
[00:56:13] The 54% of us that give, continue, awesome.
[00:56:16] The 45% that don't give, it's time to begin to walk by faith.
[00:56:19] You guys also need to know, 11% of the 54% that give, give 60% of everything that comes in.
[00:56:27] So 11% is carrying a lot.
[00:56:30] It's time for us to do our part as well.
[00:56:33] Trust God.
[00:56:34] By the way, how is being stingy working out for you?
[00:56:37] How's that anxiety?
[00:56:38] You're still worried about money.
[00:56:41] God ain't broke.
[00:56:42] You are, and I am.
[00:56:44] Not financially, but spiritually.
[00:56:47] Learn to manage his resources and be free.
[00:56:50] Just because our government got $38 trillion in debt don't mean you got to.
[00:57:00] Can you imagine not having a Bible?
[00:57:02] Well, there are two tribes in Nigeria that we're gonna translate the New Testament for.
[00:57:07] And next week, we're gonna bring our gifts, and we're gonna celebrate, and our brothers and sisters in a whole nother continent and a whole nother country from a different nation, tribe, and tongue is gonna have the Word of God, and God is gonna use you and I and our sacrifice to do it, and I'm excited about it.
[00:57:24] Can I get an amen?
[00:57:26] All right.
[00:57:28] Teenagers, young adults, how is Jesus a better Moses?
[00:57:31] Moses was a mediator between Yahweh and Israel.
[00:57:34] So that's God, Yahweh and Israel.
[00:57:36] So imagine this, guys.
[00:57:38] Okay, they've seen the Red Sea get parted.
[00:57:42] They've seen all types of miracles.
[00:57:44] So Moses goes up to the mountain,
[00:57:48] to meet with God.
[00:57:49] And God gives him the Ten Commandments.
[00:57:51] By the way, the Ten Commandments are not bad.
[00:57:53] It's really two commandments.
[00:57:54] The first four of the Ten Commandments is love God with all your heart, mind, soul, and strength.
[00:57:58] And the next six are love your neighbor as you love yourself, or upward, inward, outward.
[00:58:01] So when we talk about upward, inward, outward, what we're really trying to do is become the people that God has created us to be.
[00:58:06] So Moses is up there for 40 days, and guess what happens?
[00:58:11] Guess what happens?
[00:58:13] His brother Aaron is left in charge.
[00:58:16] And the people like, hey Aaron, where Moses at man?
[00:58:21] Aaron's like, I don't know.
[00:58:23] They were like, you know what?
[00:58:25] He might be gone.
[00:58:27] We need a God.
[00:58:29] And Aaron's like, great idea.
[00:58:32] So guess what Aaron does?
[00:58:33] He's like, give me your earrings.
[00:58:36] Give me your necklace.
[00:58:37] Give them off your kids.
[00:58:38] Give them off your wife.
[00:58:40] Give them off everybody.
[00:58:41] We're gonna put it in a fire for our holy desire.
[00:58:44] Oh, I can rap a little bit.
[00:58:46] So guess what they did?
[00:58:47] They made a golden calf.
[00:58:51] You're like, what's the big deal?
[00:58:52] Here's the big deal, you ready?
[00:58:54] The golden calf in the pantheon of the Egyptian gods is the god of fertility, which not only meant crops, but also the birth of children.
[00:59:04] The scripture says in around Exodus 32, seven or five or four, somewhere in there, it says they got up early in the morning, they ate breakfast, and then they partied.
[00:59:15] The translators were very modest.
[00:59:20] That word party ain't a cancinera.
[00:59:25] Guys, it was sexual immorality.
[00:59:27] That's what you did around the golden calf.
[00:59:30] Wherever there's idolatry, sexual immorality follows because as Paul says, sex is a sin against the body when we do it outside of God's order.
[00:59:39] So when Moses comes down and he sees, oh, are you kidding me?
[00:59:45] You know what happened?
[00:59:47] They took their eyes off the blood over the door.
[00:59:51] You know what Aaron should have done as a leader?
[00:59:54] By the way, don't be like Aaron.
[00:59:56] You know what Aaron should have done?
[00:59:57] He should have said, wait, wait, wait.
[00:59:58] Why are you talking about my brother, man?
[01:00:00] Do you know what he's gone through?
[01:00:02] Do you remember when he was holding his hands and the Red Sea parted?
[01:00:05] Do you remember when he went to the most powerful man in the world on behalf of God?
[01:00:08] Do you remember how we've been delivered?
[01:00:10] How quickly you forget?
[01:00:11] Don't be talking about my brother.
[01:00:12] In other words, don't be listening to gossip like you're a garbage can.
[01:00:15] Some of you are gossip garbage cans and some of the reels you listen to is just gossip.
[01:00:22] And it's contaminating your soul.
[01:00:24] How long are you going to let people just gossip to you?
[01:00:26] Have the courage to say, you don't need to be talking to me about this.
[01:00:29] Go talk to the person you got something with.
[01:00:33] Aaron failed miserably.
[01:00:38] But look what Moses does.
[01:00:41] He mediates.
[01:00:43] But Moses sought the favor of the Lord.
[01:00:45] That's grace, favor.
[01:00:48] The Lord is God.
[01:00:49] Lord, why does your anger burn against your people you brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and a strong hand?
[01:00:55] Well, Moses, because they getting freaky out here, buddy, that's why.
[01:00:59] Like Moses, this is again, these people doing the same thing, Moses!
[01:01:07] Why should the Egyptians say he brought them out with an evil intent to kill them in the mountains and eliminate them from the face of the event?
[01:01:14] By the way, God is not forgotten.
[01:01:16] Here comes a big word.
[01:01:17] This is called biblical anthropomorphological language.
[01:01:20] Anthropos means man.
[01:01:22] It means a language that human beings can understand.
[01:01:24] God doesn't forget.
[01:01:25] God doesn't know.
[01:01:27] It's more of a narrative story, okay?
[01:01:31] Turn your fierce anger and relent concerning this disaster planned for your people.
[01:01:36] Now, God gets a bad rap.
[01:01:37] He's so angry.
[01:01:38] Wouldn't you be mad too?
[01:01:41] You did all this stuff to save them, and this is the response that you get.
[01:01:47] Somebody, well, he shouldn't have made me that way.
[01:01:50] That's why he wants to remake you a new way.
[01:01:54] Sin has fractured us, but grace can make us whole.
[01:01:58] Remember your servants Abraham, remember?
[01:02:00] Covenant with Abraham.
[01:02:01] Isaac and Israel, you swore to them by yourself and declared, I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give your offspring all this land that I've promised and they will inherit the earth.
[01:02:12] By the way, by the way, that's talking about you.
[01:02:15] You're the offspring of Abraham and Christ because of Jesus.
[01:02:20] Guys, that's talking about you.
[01:02:23] This ain't just a Bible story.
[01:02:25] Their faithfulness affected you,
[01:02:27] and Me.
[01:02:28] And your faithfulness will affect future generations.
[01:02:32] Oh, you can't get away from responsibility.
[01:02:34] Salvation is responsibility, men and women.
[01:02:41] So the Lord relented concerning the disaster He had said He would bring upon His people.
[01:02:47] Moses was a mediator while Jesus
[01:02:50] is a better Moses because he's the ultimate perfect mediator.
[01:02:53] Jesus the perfect mediator because he is Yahweh the Son and 100% man.
[01:03:01] For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom.
[01:03:07] That is all Passover language, who gave himself as a ransom as a testimony at the proper time.
[01:03:14] So Jesus, eternally God the Son, holds the metaphorical hand of God the Father, and he represents you and me and all of humanity, and he is the bridge that we walk across to be in covenant and relationship with God.
[01:03:28] The ultimate mediator.
[01:03:30] All our judgment fell upon Him so that all of His grace could fall upon us.
[01:03:36] All of God's wrath fell upon Him so all of His mercy can fall upon us.
[01:03:42] God has to deal with sin or He wouldn't be just.
[01:03:46] But because He's loving, He is the one who is just and the one who loves.
[01:03:51] He takes it upon Himself.
[01:03:55] Why?
[01:03:56] So that we could give ourselves
[01:03:58] To Him.
[01:04:00] And by the way, that's when you truly find yourself.
[01:04:08] Some of us are lost, and it ain't because we don't have a GPS.
[01:04:14] It's because we don't know who we are, and our Father's going, I want to tell you who you are.
[01:04:20] One time in my life, I thought I was just a football player.
[01:04:23] Don't get me wrong, football's great.
[01:04:25] But football was who I thought I was.
[01:04:28] Problem is, you can't do that very long.
[01:04:31] Your body break up.
[01:04:32] You ever seen a 54-year-old NFL player?
[01:04:34] Me neither.
[01:04:38] You're like, Derwin playing for the Panthers.
[01:04:40] He's not moving, people.
[01:04:42] Is he praying out there?
[01:04:46] Negative effects of performance-based living is this, crushing insecurity and fragile relationships.
[01:04:52] I'm gonna say this quickly.
[01:04:54] We'll come back to it later this year.
[01:04:56] But listen, now hear my heart.
[01:04:58] I don't have time to explain it.
[01:05:00] My intentions are good.
[01:05:02] In your relationships, if somebody else is always the problem and not you, you might be the problem.
[01:05:13] And crushing insecurity will be hard to have a mutual self-giving relationship.
[01:05:21] Okay?
[01:05:22] And God wants to fill us with his love so that we can.
[01:05:25] We'll cover more of that.
[01:05:26] Lastly, how was Jesus a better Moses?
[01:05:30] Moses gave the people bread from heaven.
[01:05:32] So here's the backstory, right?
[01:05:34] So this is Exodus 16, we backtracked a little bit.
[01:05:36] Things are going pretty good, but then in the wilderness it gets a little hard, y'all.
[01:05:40] And the people, their stomachs is grumbling.
[01:05:43] And guess what they did?
[01:05:46] Exodus 16, 1.
[01:05:47] Moses, why you bring us out here to die?
[01:05:52] We hungry, man.
[01:05:54] When we were slaves, we had ribeye, wagyu.
[01:05:59] Man, we had, they were like, we had food to eat.
[01:06:02] You were a slave.
[01:06:04] Guys, listen, if you're new to Christ,
[01:06:08] There will be a season called the dark night of the soul where you won't hear from God.
[01:06:12] And you'll think He's abandoning you.
[01:06:14] He's testing you.
[01:06:17] Remember what God told you in the light so that when it's dark, you'll keep trusting.
[01:06:27] So, guess what God does, y'all?
[01:06:30] He's so gracious.
[01:06:32] He's like, okay.
[01:06:33] Then the Lord said to Moses,
[01:06:35] It's raining bread, hallelujah.
[01:06:43] I had a flashback from like 79 when I was eight years old, disco.
[01:06:50] I'm gonna rain bread from heaven for you.
[01:06:53] The people are gonna go out each day and gather enough for the day.
[01:06:57] This is while I will test them to see whether or not they will follow my instructions.
[01:07:01] So in the wilderness, God brings bread.
[01:07:04] Thousands of years later, Jesus is talking to the Jewish people in the wilderness.
[01:07:08] He's like, I'm bread, guys.
[01:07:13] Jesus is the bread of life from heaven.
[01:07:15] How do we know?
[01:07:15] For the bread of God is the one who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.
[01:07:23] Then they said, sir, give us this bread always.
[01:07:29] I am the bread of life, Jesus told them.
[01:07:32] No one who comes to me will ever be hungry and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty again.
[01:07:44] Jesus is a better Moses.
[01:07:49] He is the mediator.
[01:07:52] He is the rescuer.
[01:07:54] He is the bread of life.
[01:07:57] I want to spend about 20 seconds
[01:08:00] Have you come to Jesus as the bread of life?
[01:08:02] I mean, not just someone to do your agenda, your plan, but you fully want to surrender to Him.
[01:08:07] You want to turn to Him and Him alone for forgiveness of sins, for the blood to cover you, to make you new, to feed from Him.
[01:08:16] Are you ready?
[01:08:17] Are you ready now?
[01:08:18] It's time.
[01:08:19] Let's pray.
[01:08:21] God right now for those who are saying pastor I am ready to follow Jesus I'm ready to give my life to Jesus just say this to him he is present he will answer this prayer in the silence of your heart say to him today King Jesus I am ready by faith I turn from my sin and I turn to the cross
[01:08:39] I say, Lord, thank you for the forgiving blood.
[01:08:42] Thank you for taking my place.
[01:08:44] Thank you for being my mediator.
[01:08:46] Thank you for being the bread of life.
[01:08:49] Thank you from raising the dead on the third day.
[01:08:51] Thank you for living in me.
[01:08:53] I choose to follow you as my God, my Savior, my King.
[01:08:57] Amen, amen, and amen.
[01:09:00] Can we give God a round of applause?
[01:09:05] All right.
[01:09:06] Okay.
[01:09:08] There's a connection card in the seat in front of you.
[01:09:10] Could you fill that out and let us know you prayed to receive Christ?
[01:09:12] If you're at Lake Wylie, if you're online, let us know you prayed to receive Christ.
[01:09:16] We're gonna have a baptism in a few weeks.
[01:09:18] Let us know.
[01:09:19] That's very, very, very important.
[01:09:22] So here's our soul tattoo.
[01:09:25] Live from the life and power of the better Moses Jesus.
[01:09:29] Here's our action step.
[01:09:30] Pray about how you will participate in All Give Sunday next week.
[01:09:36] I pray that collectively the thousands of us would be generous so that the kingdom of God would be advanced.
[01:09:43] In Jesus' name, can I get an amen?
[01:09:45] All right, let's welcome our location host.

[01:09:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]:
All right, thank you, Pastor Derwin.
[01:09:54] Let's go ahead and stand for our benediction.
[01:09:56] Our benediction is a good word, and our good word is upward for loving God completely, inward for loving ourselves correctly, outward for loving our neighbors compassionately.
[01:10:07] I point at you, you point at me.
[01:10:08] We say, Transformers, roll out.
[01:10:11] Why?
[01:10:12] Because this is just the... And now it's time to go play the... And what color are we wearing next week?
[01:10:18] Awesome.
[01:10:19] All right, on the count of three.
[01:10:21] One, two, three.
[01:10:23] Upward, inward, outward.
[01:10:25] Transformers, roll out.