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A Closer Look At Moses First Sign Before Pharaoh, The Implications, Exodus 7:8-13
Feb 20, 2025
The charge to speak, see link below for access to the presentation
https://tayibs.com/2020/10/19/a-closer-look-at-exodus-610-13-the-charge-to-speak/
God sent Moses to pharaoh, king of Egypt with the following charge - tell him to free the people of Israel, I’m paraphrasing. The charge is recorded for us in Exodus 6:10-13
10 So the Lord said to Moses, 11 “Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the people of Israel go out of his land.” 12 But Moses said to the Lord, “Behold, the people of Israel have not listened to me. How then shall Pharaoh listen to me, for I am of uncircumcised lips?” 13 But the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge about the people of Israel and about Pharaoh king of Egypt: to bring the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
God already knew that pharaoh was going to resist Him, as a matter of fact the Lord Himself said that He was going to harden pharaoh’s heart in order that He might show the king of Egypt and the Egyptians that HE is Lord.
I want us to focus on the first sign Moses did in front of Pharaoh today and I’m hoping that we’ll be able to look at the miracle itself and its significance. A lot of time we are so thrilled and enamored by the supernatural power of God in the events recorded for us that we forget the other lessons that are being taught, see video .
Scripture References:
Exodus 7:8-13
Genesis 3:1-7
Numbers 21:4-9
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hello this is t.com I hope you had a
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great weekend and I'm sure you're
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looking forward to uh Thanksgiving I
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don't know that how that's going to play
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out this year but I'm hoping that all of
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you guys are going to take some
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precaution and make sure uh to to to to
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be save first okay so we want to do that
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now today we are going to be looking at
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Exodus uh 7 verse
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8-13 and the title of the study is a
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closer look at Moses first sign before
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pharoh so I'm going to jump into the
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introduction and then we are going to
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talk about what is uh at hand today now
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if you recall uh God sent Moses to
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pharaoh and king of Egypt and he said uh
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the following tell him to free the
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people of Israel now I'm I'm just
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paraphrasing what God Said and the
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charge is recorded for us in Exodus 6:
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10-13 and I'm going to read that so the
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Lord said to Moses go in tell Pharaoh
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king of Egypt to let the people of
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Israel go out of his land but Moses said
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to the Lord behold the people of Israel
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have not listened to me how then shall
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Pharaoh listen to me for I am of
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uncircumcised lips but the Lord spoke to
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Moses and Aaron and gave them a charge
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about the people of Israel and and about
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Pharaoh king of Egypt to bring the
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people of Israel out of the land of
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Egypt that was a charge that God gave to
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Aaron and Moses and I actually did a
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study on that so I'll give you the link
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in the description if you want to read
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that now basically uh God already knew
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that Pharaoh was going to resist him and
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as a matter of fact the Lord himself
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said he was going to harden Pharaoh's
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heart in order that he might show the
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king of Egypt and the Egyptians that he
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is Lord so I want us today to focus on
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the first sign Moses did in front of
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pharaoh and I'm hoping that we'll be
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able to look at the miracle itself and
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its significance now a lot of time we
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are so thrilled and enamored by the
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supernatural power of God in the events
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recorded for us in sacred scripture and
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then we forget the other lessons uh that
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are being taught so today I want us to
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just look at the miracle and just really
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focus on it and then see what God is
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teaching us through it so let's do that
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now the first thing we need to
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understand is this why the serpent sign
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why did he use that
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okay and first let's recall the
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scripture uh this is Exodus 7 verse
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8-13 then the Lord said to Moses and
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Aaron when Pharaoh says to you prove
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yourselves by working the miracle and I
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want to pause for a second you see this
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time God is the one telling Aaron and
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Moses when he says to you prove yourself
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by working a miracle then you shall say
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to Aaron take your staff and cast it
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down before Pharaoh that he may become a
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serpent you see Pharaoh is asking a
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question and God allows Aaron and Moses
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to perform a miracle they're not testing
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they're not proving themselves because
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they want to do it God is allowing them
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to do that I want I want us to really
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understand at the outset so Moses and
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Aaron went to pharaoh and did just as
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the Lord commanded basically they are
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just obeying the Lord's command because
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they've been called to do something and
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God creates what he command
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so let's understand that now Aaron cast
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down his staff before pharaoh and his
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servant and he became a serpent then
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Pharaoh summoned the wise men and the
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sorcerers and they The Magicians of
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Egypt also did the Same by their secret
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arts for each Man cast down his staff
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and they became servants but Aaron staff
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swallowed up their staffs still
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Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he
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would not listen to them as the Lord had
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said so now we need to understand why
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the serpent sign okay and before we do
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that let's see how Egyptians actually
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viewed serpents I want and looked it up
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and this is what they said a popus also
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called apep or R is an ancient Egyptian
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demon of chaos and he had a form of a
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serpent and he he was the foe of the son
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God Ray who represented all that and it
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represented all that was outside the
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ordered uh Cosmos so apus was a demon of
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chaos and he represented everything that
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that was outside the ordered Cosmos okay
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now although many serpents symbolized
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Divinity and royalty a poist uh
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threatened the underworld and he
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symbolized evil so let's understand that
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so the Egyptians they viewed serpent as
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uh a symbol of evil or sometimes
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Divinity so I just wanted to to set that
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up now now let's also see how
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serpents are viewed in scripture in the
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Bible when when when the Bible mentions
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serpent what does he attach it to we're
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going to look at that so in Genesis we
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see that the snake or serpent is The
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Great Deceiver who led Adam and Eve into
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sin in Genesis 3: 1-7 scripture says now
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the serpent was more crafty than any
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other beast of the field that the Lord
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God had made he said to the woman did
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God actually say you shall not eat of
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any tree in the garden and the woman
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said to the serpent we may eat of the
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fruit of the trees in the garden but God
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said You shall not eat of the fruit of
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the tree that is in the midst of the
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garden neither shall you touch it l you
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die but the serpent said to the woman
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you will not surely die for God knows
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that when you eat it of it your eyes
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will be open and you be like God knowing
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good and evil so when the woman saw that
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the tree was good for food and it was a
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delight to the eyes and the tree was to
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be desired to make one wise she took of
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its fruit and ate and she she also gave
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some to her husband who was with her and
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he ate then the eyes of both were opened
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and they knew that they were naked and
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they sued fig leaves together and made
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themselves L cloths so you can see that
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he's a Great Deceiver okay that's in
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Genesis 3 now let's go to numbers 21 and
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read the account of the fiery serpent
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this is numbers 21:4 to9
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now from Mount hor and they set up by
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the way up to the Red Sea to go around
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to the land of Edom to go around the
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land of Edom and the people became
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impatient on the way and they
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spoke against God and against Moses why
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have you brought us up out of Egypt to
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die in the wilderness for there is no
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food and no water and we Lo this
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worthless food then the Lord sent fiery
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Serv among the people and they bet the
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people so that many people of Israel
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died and the people came to Moses and
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said we have sinned for we have spoken
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against the Lord and against you pray to
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the Lord that he take away the serpent
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from us so Moses prayed for the people
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and the Lord said to Moses make a fiery
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Serpent and set it on the pole and
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everyone who bitten when he sees it
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shall live so Moses made a bronze
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Serpent and set it on the pole and if a
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serpent bit anyone he will look at a
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bronze Serpent and leave live so you can
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see what's going on here like in both
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accounts okay now we see from this
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account that the serpent was usually
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synonymous of evil and death snakes
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usually were responsible of death in
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Genesis 3 we see that it was a
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separation from God and eventually
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physical death and in numbers 21 it was
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physical death so we can conclude that
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the serpent brought
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evil chaos death fear and death
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spiritually so those are the three
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things and four things that we see about
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serpent so we can establish that at the
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outset and now let's go back to the
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account and we can see what we can learn
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from it now let's recall What God Says
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to Moses in Exodus 4: 2-4 the Lord said
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to to Moses what is in that what is that
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in your hand and he said a staff and he
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said throw it on the ground so he threw
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it on the ground and he became a serpent
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and Moses ran from it but the Lord said
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to Moses put out your hand and catch it
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by the tail so he put out his hand and
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caught it and he became a staff in his
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hand again now I'm going to speculate a
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little bit here okay it sounds to me
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more like taking something by the tail
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is basically dominating on controlling
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that thing okay and recall what God told
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Adam and Eve uh in the creation days in
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Genesis 1: 26-28 God said let us make
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men in our image after our likeness and
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let them have dominion over the fish of
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the sea and over the birds of the
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heavens and over the livestock and over
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all the Earth and over every creeping
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thing that creeps on the earth so God
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created man in his own image in the
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image of God he created him male and
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female he created them and God blessed
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them and God said to them be fruitful
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and multiply and fill the Earth and
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subdue it and have dominion over the
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fish of the sea and over the birds of
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the heaven and over every living thing
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that moves on the earth so you can see
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that right now let's go back to the
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account and we're not going to read it
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again because we read that again we
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already read that but let's understand
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what's going on here Moses staff of
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serpent swallowed the other Serpent and
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we need to establish at the outset that
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sometimes Satan and his demons are also
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given permission to mimic The Works of
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God they are right because The Magicians
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were able to do the same thing they
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mimic
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so now but we see that God in this
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account established himself as Supreme
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over all other creatures because he is
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the
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creator by swallowing the other serpents
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God was showing through the agency of
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Aaron and Moses his Supreme Supremacy
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and sovereignty I repeat that again by
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swallowing the other serpent God was
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showing through the agency of Aaron and
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Moses his Supreme Supremacy and and
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sovereignty and one of the pernicious
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errors we make often times is to assume
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that evil and good are on equal grounds
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as if God and the evil one are on equal
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like on equal standing and they're
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contending constantly to see who's going
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to win that's not how it is at all in in
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the Heavenly Realms God far outweighs
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the enemy infinitely because God is the
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creator the scripture clearly tells us
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that he that is in US is greater than he
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that in the world okay I'm going to show
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you some some scriptures to show you the
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sovereignty and the supremacy of God
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over all creation and creatures the
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enemy and his minions included because
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we need to really understand that God
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isn't fighting against Satan and they
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not like it's not like an equation where
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you have God here and Satan here now God
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far
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outweighs the enemy like he an
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inequality God is far superior okay so
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let's look at First Kings 22:18 to 23
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Job 1 6-12 and Luke
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22 30-32 we're going to come back to our
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our stuff in a second now I'm going to
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tell you exactly what this passage is
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all about and Ahab um and then
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Jehoshaphat they want to fight against
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um one of Israel's enemy and and um
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there's this false prophets that are
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prophesying that Ahab is going to win
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this battle and then um Jehoshaphat
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realizes that listen these prophets are
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full of lies I want an actual Prophet to
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come here and tell the truth and Ahab
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tells um Jehoshaphat there's one his
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name is MAA but I don't like him because
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he never says anything good about me he
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never prophesies good anything good
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about me but uh Jehosaphat convinces uh
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Ahab and then m is in the picture M
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comes in and then we're going to listen
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to what M says okay so uh we're going to
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pick up from verse 19 and Mah said
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therefore here the word of the Lord I
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Saw the Lord sitting on his throne and
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all the host of Heaven standing beside
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him on his right hand and on his left
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hand and the Lord said who will entice
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Ahab that he may go up and fall at Remo
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Gilead and one said one thing and
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another said another then his Spirit
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came forward and stood before the Lord
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saying I will entice him and the Lord
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said to him by what means and he said I
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go out and will be a lying spirit in the
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mouth of All His prophets and he say you
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are to entice him and you shall succeed
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go out and do so now therefore behold
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the Lord has put a lying spirit in the
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mouth of all these Prophet the Lord has
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declared disaster for you okay you see
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what's going on here the demon has to
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ask for permission he is not a free
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agent and God allows him now those
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Prophet Heard a Voice but it wasn't the
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voice of God they heard a voice of a
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demon let's let's set that out the said
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understand that so they were given
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permission but the demon has to ask for
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permission he's not just roaming around
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and doing whatever they want okay and
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now let's go to job 1:
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6-12 now there was a day when the sons
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of God came to present themselves before
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the Lord and Satan also came among them
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and the Lord said to Satan from where
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have you come from and Satan answered
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the Lord and said from going to and
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through on the earth and from walking up
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and down on it and the Lord say to Satan
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have you considered my servant job that
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there is none like him on the earth a
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blameless and upright man who fears God
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and turns Away From Evil then Satan
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answered the Lord and said does job fear
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God for no reason have you not put a
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hedge around him and his house and all
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that he has on every side you have
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blessed the work of his hand and his
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possessions and have increased in the
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land but stretch out your hand and touch
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all that he has and he will curse it you
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your face and the Lord said to Satan
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behold all that he has in is in your
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hand only against him do not stretch out
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your hand so Satan went out from the
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presence of the Lord you see Satan
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himself is not a free
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agent he has to ask for permission prior
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to attacking one of God's Saints he
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doesn't just go and do it God allows him
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but again what Satan means for evil God
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also means for
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good now Luke 22:
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30-32
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now Jesus tell um Peter Simon Simon
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Satan has asked to sift all of you as
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wheat but I have prayed for you Simon
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that your faith may not fail and when
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you have turned back strengthen your
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brothers so you can see from this three
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accounts that Satan is not a free agent
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he definitely has to ask for permission
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and we learn that we need to understand
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that because we sometimes think that
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Satan and God are on equal ground and I
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really want to drill that into you today
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that understand God is supreme over all
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things like he has sovereignty nothing
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happens apart from God allowing it to
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happen for his own purposes okay now
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let's set that now let's keep going so
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basically there is more to this instance
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than the supernatural power and
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sovereignty of God and to one understand
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the other implications of the story we
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need to go to 1 Corinthians 15:
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53-57 so let's do that now so the
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scripture says in 1 Corinthians 15:53 to
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55 for this perishable body must put on
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the imperishable and this Mortal body
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must put on the
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immortality when the perishable puts on
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the imperishable and Immortal puts on IM
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immortality then shall come to pass the
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same that is is written that is written
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death is swallowed up in Victory oh
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death where is your Victory oh death
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what is your Sting the sting of death is
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sin and the power of sin is the law but
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thanks be to God who gives us the
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victory through our Lord Jesus Christ
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Now by swallowing the other serpent the
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Lord was also showing that he had power
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over death it's almost almost if Moses
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was preaching the
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resurrection see death represented by
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the magician serpents was swallowed up
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and death was Jesus last enemy according
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to 1 Corinthians 15: 25-27 let's see
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that scripture says for he must Reign
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meaning Jesus until he has put all his
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enemies under his feet The Last Enemy to
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be destroyed is death for God has put
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all things in subjection under his feet
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but when he says all things are in
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subjection it is plain that he's
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expected he is expect he is expected
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will put all things in subjection under
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him okay God basically was establishing
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through Moses his power and dominion
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over Mankind's fiercest enemy physical
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death and spiritual death which is
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separation from god let's also go to
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Hebrews 2:14 the scripture says since
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therefore the children share in Flesh
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and Blood he himself meaning Jesus
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likewise partook of the same things that
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through death he might destroy the one
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who has the power of death that is the
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devil so you
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see Jesus through his death destroyed
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the one who has power of death Satan's
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power is death basically but God has
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power over death by swallowing the
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serpents of Egypt God was demonstrating
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his ultimate power and dominion over our
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greatest enemy death physical and
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spiritual separation from God God was
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saying I have power over sin because
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I've destroyed it by
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nailing uh Jesus on the cross the Lord
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was saying look I'm killing what was
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killing you sin is killing you and I
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killed it remember what Jesus says for
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as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
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wilderness even so must the Son of God
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be lifted up that whoever looks to him
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shall not perish but have everlasting
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life see God nailed it on the cross he
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killed what was killing us so by Moses
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staff swallowing the other serpents God
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was saying I am killing what is killing
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you I'm killing death through the
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resurrection of Christ through the power
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of God demonstrated by Jesus on the
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cross we have victory over death and we
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have been saved by
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grace through the instrument of Faith so
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that we may have life eternally with God
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so this is good news so I don't want us
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to just focus on the Miracle when you
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read this account but I want you to see
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the work of Christ through it because
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the word of God is really about exalting
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Christ that's all this is all about so
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every scripture is about Jesus Christ
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and his work and who how he's so worthy
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of all our adoration and praise so when
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you look at these passages this is what
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I want you to focus on he ask the Lord
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to open your eyes to see now this is a
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very um difficult task because we are
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not we are called to really remain um
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consistent with scripture and his truth
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so when you read the scriptures and you
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read this account you you ask the Lord
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to to let the Bible be its own inter
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preter by looking at other scriptures
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that have references to the same
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scripture that you're reading so you can
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be understand what is being what is
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being taught so don't just focus on the
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Miracles as great as they are but see
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what God is teaching beside and in and
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and um in the Miracles through the
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Miracles okay so God swallowed up the
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serpent by showing that he has power
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over chaos he has power over death he
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has power over sin and he's given us
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that freedom in Christ and one day we
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will be perfect as god is perfect
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because this is the promise that we have
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eternal
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life okay now go back and read those
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passages again and have a wonderful day
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and I'll see you next time thank you
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