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The Doors Are Open: Week 1 | Sept. 20, 2020
Asymptomatic Purpose | Pastor David Hughes
Welcome and thank you for joining us for the Church by the Glades Podcast. If you would like more information about church by the Glades, including service times and directions, visit CB glades dot com Way. Hope you enjoyed today's message on what is up Ch urch by the Glades Hey, thanks for logging on right now. People logging on all over the place And also we got people in the room. The doors are open at church by the Glades on the weekend. It has been 26 weeks since our last weekend worships 26 6 long mont hs half a calendar year But we are back baby Welcome. Glad you're here. I got really people in the room Here it sawgrass and in this section help you space We got fake people to fake people. That's not I'm not GM and you're being a hypocrite or something. We got some cool, fake people you could sit next to Kim and Kanye and I see all kinds of see the royal family back there. So anyways, having a little fun as we socially distance keep ourselves safe. But thank you so much for being here, being here physical ly in the room. And so we're meeting at Sawgrass, and we're also meeting at Lake Worth Campus Lake Worth giving it loudly for Lake Worth campus. Pastor Abe, you and your team thrilled to have you with this. Welcome back, my kids. They actually may be our m ost beautiful campus. If you've not been to the Lake Worth campus in Palm Beach County, the synergy between a beautiful historic building and then all the technologies and the passion of church by the Glades. It is a remarkable campus, Uh, Sawgrass campus online, Uh, Lake Worth campus online. And in the next couple of weeks, we'll bring back sample road campus. So excited about that. So sample roadies, they call himself the sample roadies hang in there and please continue to pray for our two campuses in Dad e County. They are prison campuses, and they're not allowed to meet by the state. They're trying Thio control co vid in the prison system. So listen, we can't be with them. We can pray for them. And God is with them. So for our brothers and sisters, we con tinue to pray. Anyway. It's gonna be fun. I wanna jump right into the study right now. So what do we do? What should be our theme be for the next few weeks? I think it's kind of obvious. We're gonna call this one the next few weeks That the topic? The door s are open, the doors are open. All right. Come on. I thought you get more response than that. The doors are open. I've been waiting soul the doors open. And again, if you're watching online, That's great. In fact, representing the online audience Let me w elcome right now are virtual. Amen corner. Come on, virtual. Amen. Corner. You'll look good. You look good and again, people checking in from all over the place. I think Brooke and Josh are with us from Arizona. Marguerite from Ohio. I see my daughter from F s U. What's up in Tallahassee, Victoria? Glad you're with us. So if you're watching online, that's great. Invite somebody right now. Share what God is doing. Great way to reach people online. And listen. If you are even in South Florida and you're a sen ior adult or you're immune compromised or you are sick, please don't come. Need to stay home right? Or if you've been quarantining and just sheltering at home during this whole six months and not going out much. I get it. You know these not extra spiritual ly people that air here. You go ahead and do church online. But stay connected, you know, don't multitask cause we do church together. Get your coffee. Get your Bible. Invite people. That is valid. Now, if you're in South Florida and you have been to the m all and a restaurants you're working out of the gym but of the beach. If you've been to Disney World, come back to church, Right? Been to see Mickey come back to church? We're making the safe again. Remember, I had Koven. If there's any pastor in America t rying to make sure we don't spread this, it is May. So the protocols. Thank you guys wearing your mask. Thank you for distancing. Thank you for the way you've been so cooperative. I know it's far from ideal. I love
it. I ask you to respond is like it is gr eat. Anyways, we're doing church together. So it Z Exodus, Chapter three, Exodus, Chapter three, the state. Together everyone Exodus, Chapter three And I want to deal with this idea in just a moment of an open door. Yes, our physical doors are open, but th e idea of the language of an open door shows up with some degree of frequency in your Bible, all kinds of conversation, that God's willingness to open a door, a door to your divine destiny, a door of opportunity, a door that unlocks your God given potentia l. Now the key is how to recognize and rightly respond. When God opens a door, make sure a couple examples samples of this language. A famous one is actually the last book of the Bible. You staying extras. The second book in your Bible, but a revelation. C hapter three Liquid, it says. And the speaker here is Jesus. Jesus is talking to some church people, people who met and gathered in ancient church in the city of Philadelphia. Now, if you're Washington, Pennsylvania, not that Philadelphia. This was a small city, and what would be modern day Turkey? There was a marginalized church. They were oppressed. They were persecuted. But look what Jesus says about the door. Read the highlighted word. If you were or put it in the chat. See, Jesus says I have placed bef ore you an open door look at this that no one can shut. Wow. What Jesus is saying that this this group of struggling Christians I know things air hard. I know you've been persecuted, but I'm faithful. I recognize your spiritually integrity, and you have be en hard pressed. But guess what? I'm gonna open a door, a door of effective ministry, a door of blessing. And when Jesus opens the door, you go through and no one can close it. This kind of idea shows up more than a few times your Bible and I'm gonna show you the same thing happening for somebody in Exodus, Chapter three. But when God opens the door, when there's a door of opportunity, recognize it, make your move. In fact, if you ever have an opportunity in life and you kind of missed your moment, ever had one of those things that happened and you thought you could take your time and you missed it. Anybody? Anybody put it there in the chat, raise your hand here in the room. Anybody? Lots of hands in the room. I'll be transparent. So back in Lisa, I think it was, uh gosh, we first came into this this property. So It was 2004, right? 2004. We opened our first building on this property and had a very nice senior adult in the church. This guy was a super kind guy. Ivory connected have been high up with the New Y ork City Fire Department for watching New York. He was a firefighter there for many years, but his career mainly had been in the Navy. He knew like everybody was, well, high up in the Navy. And so he called me one day and said, David, I have an opportunity . How would you like to be flown to an aircraft carrier off the coast of Florida? Spend the night an aircraft carrier hang out with the sailors, and the next day we'll take you up flying in a fighter jet. Now, back then, it was still like the F 15 Tomcat l ike the maverick Jet. So aircraft carrier, right, Spend the night flying on a jet. The next thing that will fly you back, I'm like, Yeah, I'm in. Absolutely, he said. Here's the only catch. You have to be a Homestead Air Force Base in 90 minutes with your bags packed. So I called Lisa at least, I guess I got this opportunity. And back then, Charlie, you and your sister were little, and I don't know what it was we thought, you know, it's just not a great time. We got responsibilities. And so I called him bac k and said, Look, I would love to do that, but I just I just can't do it in 90 minutes. If it ever comes up again, let me know. Never came up again. Nice fella. He retired. He moved away. He passed on his now in heaven. But it never happened again. Never h appened again. But I had that really important thing to do that day. I have no idea what it waas. I asked Lisa. Why didn't I go? What was the thing he had going on? I told Zane the story. He never heard the story. Said Dad, what in the world were you doing that you couldn't fly on a
jet and go stay? I don't even remember the door opened the door closed. I believe this. I believe maybe I don't know. You may be watching in some far away place, maybe in the room for the first time, and I don't presume to know many things about you. But I do know this based on Scripture, God made you and God loves you. And God sees you as a person of divine purpose. God has a supernatural plan for your life. It is so big. God's purposes are powerful Cadillac and eternal. That ap plies to every single person. And God reveals that plan and gives you moments. You pass through the door and you step into your destiny I believe is true. So you see it in Revelation Chapter three got opens the door for the people in Philadelphia. You're g onna see it here in Exodus, Chapter three. He opens the door for a guy named Moses. He opens the door for Moses to pass through this door and to leave a mark. Now, the moment I mentioned Moses, I lose somebody because there's a disconnection like Okay, Dav id. Yeah, I know God used Moses, but one reason God used Moses Moses was Moses. I mean, you talk about when it was gifted people in human history. I mean, he did miracles. He was hyper talented, iconic leader. Moses set the people free, wrote, wrote the Bi ble in his spare time. I mean, I'm kind of a normal person. I'm not hyper gifted, mega talented. I can't perform miracles like, Yeah, so God had a door of destiny for Moses. I'm I'm not Moses really talented guy, and I get it. You know, sometimes in life, it's no, those those very talented people that make a mark, you know, that that leven impact is those people have, and sometimes that talent there that gifting shows up really early. They're so accomplished at a young age, we call them prodigies, and they' re just hyper gifted people, very effective, successful early on. But here's some examples behind me, By the way, they have tweaked the L E. D. S in the last few months. The L E. D. S in this room are pretty outstanding. Uh, maybe it's music. Mozart had pu blished music at age five. That's kindergarten. Stevie Wonder had his first number one hit at age 11, Michael Phelps and Cocoa Golf. Phelps made his first Olympics at age 15, and Coco played at Wimbledon at the same age. They don't have their driver's lice nse yet. That's highly accomplished at a very young age. You may not recognize the journalists right here Ronan Farrow. Ronan Farrow broke the story on Harvey Weinstein. All that kind of drama. Me too, movement. He's the guy that kind of broke, very respec ted. He is so smart. He went to college at age 11. Zane, you're 11. He went to college at Asia. He went to Yale Law at 16. That, of course, Doogie Howser was a doctor, right? At age 17. Okay, just throw it in their season. He's not really. But some people, man, they do these amazing things. They drip with talent at a young age. And of course, they shake up the world. And you look at this and say, I can't associate with that. And guess what? Neither could Moses. I mean, there's some prodigies in the Bible, y oung people. There is some teenagers that count for the kingdom at a very young age. I mean, Daniel David killed the giant Mary, the mother of Christ, probably all in their teens, elementary age. Samuel was hearing the verse of God in fourth grade, But for some people, it takes a little longer and nothing in their early life scenes. Exceptional. They're not a prodigy. They're not hyper gifted. No one recognizes any greatness in them, including themselves. So as we begin to unfold the mindset of Moses and Ex odus, Chapter three Moses didn't think Moses had much potential. Now he might thought, Well, what we years ago, many years before you see, actually may not know this about me. I'm a shepherd now, but many years before, you know, I grew up in Egypt. I actua lly grew up in the palace. He would tell you I grew up in the palace. I was a member of the royal family. I had opportunity to see the education of the Egyptians mean things were opulent and beautiful, and I probably could have worked that
system. I could work. Maybe someday I could have become Pharaoh. Maybe I could work hard in that Egyptian system. You know, they were the singular Supreme World superpower, and maybe someday they'd built pyramids and honor of me. But Moses didn't go with that. Why? Becaus e Moses had Well, he grew up as an Egyptian about a Hebrew heart and at the heart first people. But he was a prodigy. So many times, people early on, man, we see all kinds of evidence of success very early. So Mozarts and Stevie Wonder. And how about scien ce for the science people? Inventors? Thomas Edison, Thomas Edison. When the greatest American minds of all time invented gosh has 1100 different patents, it's a record to this day. Incandescent light ball, The technology for motion pictures photograph All that is Thomas Edison. Hey, was world famous by the time he was 30. Anybody here, 30 year over anybody 30 year over. All right, We gotta get with the pick it up. He's already world famous at that point in his life, but a prodigy. One day when he was about seven years old, he came home with a sealed letter from his teacher, his mom, and open up the letter. And here's what she read to her. The teacher wrote, Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him. He doesn't have good enough teachers to train him. Please teach him yourself. Wow. And she did. She hoped she is homeschooled him. She poured into him and she very much created the genius Thomas Edison. But when your teacher recognizes that in second grade, Moses had none of that. See Moses once upon a time. But the group has an Egyptian. He has this flame burning him. Why? Because the Egyptian Empire was built on the backs of two million Hebrew slaves. He was a Hebrew and he wanted to be used by God. He thought, Maybe I'm the person. Maybe God has a purpose for my life. Maybe I could be a catalyst of change. So it goes. Something does. What you see is an Egyptian slave master beating a Hebrew slave. He looks this way and that way, the Bible says, and he bumps off the slave master. Now, I won't contemp late with you or have a conversation about the morality of that. Guess what? Ah, Slave Master Beaton slave might need to get bumped off, but violence in this case as often was counterproductive. It did not work, and he finds himself running for his life. S o he was the right man on the right mission with wrong methodology. You got to do God's work God's way. And here he's He's just out of his thirties. He's ahead of God and the Bible says he ran to a place called Midi and he ran to the wilderness. And what h appened? Why was in the wilderness Well in Chapter two, Verse 23. Here's what happened Life. Ah, whole bunch of life, this one time young man, you know, impulsive and and lacking self control, who in a moment of rage, bumps off the Egyptian and kind of mes ses everything up. If that was his door, he didn't walk through his door. Life happens, and it says in verse 23 Chapter to put on the screen guys right now during that long time in that little phrase, forwards represents four decades of life. You understan d the decades it z his forties, his fifties hiss sixties this seventies thinking God gave me a door. I messed up. I thought once about time, maybe I was the person, the perfect. I could help set people free 40 long years. It's been a long period of time, s o so Bible scholars. He's in the wilderness. He's in Midian. Now. Let me help you frame that properly, because if you know the story fairly well, it is a very, very famous story. Hollywood's made several movies on this story, right when you think of Moses in the wilderness during these 40 years between age 40 and up to age 80. You tend to think of him like in a cave alone. Despondent, disheveled. You think like Tom Hanks in a movie, right? You think Tom Hanks and cast away that you're thinking of No, no str ike that your mind? That's that's not what is going on with Moses. Actually, these years, immediate. I don't think we're all that bad. I don't think they were terrible years. E. In the Bible says if you check it out. What happened during
this season? The m iddle of these 40 years? He got married. Getting married is a good thing. Single people. He got married. Oh, I heard Moses got married. He married Zipporah in that Jethro oldest daughter older than 70 she's the pretty one. That's who Moses married. Good fo r Moses. She's a nice girl. He had Children. He had two healthy, strapping boys. He joined the family business, went to work for his father in law. He was a shepherd. Was a good place to be a shepherd. Good season. So when you think about him marginalized and disheveled and alone, No, he's probably a somewhat successful shepherd. It's good work, has a family. I mean, I think he has a comfortable life in Midian. He has a good life, admitted he has a hashtag blessed life in Midian. But it's been a long time, no matter how successful He waas how comfortable he was. That little spark that God had lit in his heart years ago for his kindred in bondage, I believe was still there. I believe he was a person of purpose. I believe God had a plan for his life and no mat ter how much success he had as a shepherd. So you understand this success and purpose are not the same thing. Success and purpose are not sitting them now. By the way, I'm pro success. Be successful, right? Work hard work. Smart young people Get your degre e, uh, being apprentice intern, learn all this stuff you can When you get into business, Don't be a workaholic, but work make it happen. Mean God, God bless you with success. Understand success and purpose. God's purpose. Not the same thing if you're confu sed watching online. But you could be very successful and be completely disconnected from God's purpose. Okay, example your ah, highly successful, very well off crack cocaine dealer. You're successful. Your peers respect you or fear you. I don't know. You make a lot of money. You drive a Bentley. You are not aligned with God's biblical purpose for your life. Another example was ludicrous. That was obvious. But how about something more subtle? Um, when I went off to college, Not sure what to what? A big deci sion. Making that what I major and what's my career? Okay, I thought, Pre law, pre law, I'll be an attorney. I'll be if you know me very well. Some of my skill set. My natural ability would probably lend itself to being a lawyer, you know? What do I do? Ev ery week I look at evidence and find persuasive ways, hopefully to make my case. So I use my words to frame a persuasive argument that would probably translate well to practicing law. Correct. So maybe I would have been a successful lawyer and surely made more money than I do as a pastor. But though I would have been successful, perhaps this is God's purpose for May. This is what God designed me for us. What God wired me for. I don't care how big the case. High profile. It's not nearly as exciting for me as teaching you God's inspired word. Success and purpose are not the same. And I don't think Moses was miserable. I don't think he was impoverished. I think he probably had a degree of success. I thought, Look, look out the flocks Look, the sheep I have in t he field, Modern day equivalent. Look at the escalates I have in the driveway. Good, wonderful, be successful. But make sure you are aligned with God's purpose. And so Moses is successful. But he's thinking, you know that that dream I had to help set peopl e free. That dream I had, because God's purpose is always about his kingdom and other people. Can I say that again? Because you're really quite God's purpose, for you is always about his kingdom and other people see most of our own dreams or what their sel f centered me, me, me, my, my, my, my platform, my influence, my comfort, my wealth. That's okay. God's dream is always bigger about other people and his kingdom, right? And that dream he had way back 40 years before it had been a long time. He substitute comfort and success for God's purpose because he thinks the door has closed. I had a door when I was 40 but it's been a long time. I'm 80 now, and I missed out on that door and I fumbled that door. Here's what I believe God's
purpose in your life never die s as long as you're alive. I think for Moses and for some of you in the room or watching online, God's purpose in your life is simply asymptomatic. And maybe right now you're in rebellion, your prodigal you are safe. There's been a time in your life you gi ve yourself by faith to Christ. But any holiness any love of Christ is so asymptomatic. You can't even tell your Christian. But you will still test positive for purpose. I've said it before, almost points cliche. If you if you have a pulse, God has a purpo se And Moses is a prime example of someone. He is four decades. It's been a long time, but I got a nice wife. I got these two boys. I'm in the family business. I got a bunch of sheep. I'm hashtag blessed. So what God had to do was represent the door, repre sent the door I got. Moses is thinking This is all there is not get it. He's 80. He's always been on AARP for 25 years. I gotta represent the door. So what happens? Let's jump to Exodus Chapter two, Chapter three, verse two and three And here's how God pre sents the door. I love the genius of God. They're the angel of the Lord Appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that the bush was on fire. It did not burn up. You're out of practice, weren't you? Got to read. Those words did not bur n up. So Moses thought I will go over and see this strange sight Why the bush does not burn up. Alright, alright. So next week next week we gathered next week online or physically, I'm gonna walk through one of those famous conversations in history this wh ole God speaking to Moses and God represents the door or his destiny or his purpose, you know, go set my people free. And then Moses, you know, he kind of box. He's a little worried about it. And listen, Moses, he makes excuses. Now they're lame excuses, b ut not that he's lazy or lacking empathy. I mean he's beat up. It's been a long time. It's been a long time. Once upon a time, I thought maybe, but I'm no prodigy. I'm 80. I missed my moment. God, sure, there's somebody better than me. So they have this gr eat conversation. We'll unpack it next week. Not just won the best conversation, the Bible when most famous conversations ever recorded. And you're gonna find it so relevant. But today, what I want to close with is this idea that the verbal vehicle that Go d used to communicate the conversation because listen, here's one time I wish you didn't know this story, but everybody knows the story. Why you've not read the Bible. You seen Prince of Egypt or you watched the 10 Commandments with Charlton Heston back in the 10 Commandments. Right, So So you've seen this. So nobody finds an extraordinary a remarkable that God chooses a bush. But I was proposed to the fact that Almighty unlimited God choose a Bush is strange. Hey, listen, if God wants to pick a plan, this is a big deal. This the first time God has spoken to a human being in a direct way for almost 500 years, Heaven has been silent for 430 years. But God is going to speak to one person in his Moses. God have a sense of showmanship. If you want to choose a pl ant, choose Anoke tree. Choose a mighty oak tree, a powerful oak tripping, and by the way, bushes bushes are common. They're everywhere in that part of the world. There's plenty of they're not green, beautiful and lush. No, they're kind of dry and brown an d ugly, but they're everywhere. Oak trees, air powerful and by the bushes don't last very long. Oak trees going for centuries. There's oak trees here in Florida that were alive when the founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence. So God choose an oak tree if you want to, that would be kind of cool. Or choose an ancient African baobab tree. Choose a tree that was there the first time Europeans ever set foot on that continent. That went kind of sideways after that, um, or choose shoes, I don't kn ow. Ah, California redwood. They lived for thousands of years. They store. They choose that the guy says No, a Bush. I'm gonna appear to the first human being I've spoken to out loud in almost 500 years, and I'm gonna pick a Bush
common, unspecific and ord inary. Exactly why a Bush. Why a common ordinary, unspecified Bush? Because that's exactly how Moses felt about himself. God, I'd love to do something. Slavery is horrific. Broke my heart 40 years ago, but it's been a long time. And back when, you know, I did live in a palace and I knew people I was connected. Maybe it could be Pharaoh of things worked out just right. But now I'm okay. Being a semi successful shepherd, God says, Guess what? There's the door. There's the door. Moses, it's you. Let's go get m y people. Do you feel ordinary? Don't answer out loud. Don't put in the chat. Do you feel comedy? Phelan Specialist and I'm run of the mill. There's millions just like me. God has made you uniquely he's made you for a purpose. This purposes powerful, God s ized, eternal and customize. So to communicate to Moses, guess what I can choose and use. Anybody does not choose a baobab tree or a redwood or no tree. He choose a common ordinary bush. They're everywhere. He saw him every single day of his life everywher e he turned. Now what got his attention was not the Bush. It was the Bush was what the Bushes on? Come on, the bushes. What do better than I've been waiting for you guys for six months? The Bush was on. Now that's the thing that caught his attention to thi nk about fire, fire changes, everything it touches from acres of four. Sadly, in California right now, to fire changes the burger on your grill or the Cuban cigar in your hand if you're watching online smoking a Cuban cigar. All right, I said that for Past or Roy, Um, it changes everything. But in this story, what got his attention was not the bush or not the fire? He probably seen bushes on fire before. Why it's an arid climate. Lightning strikes. They've been probably brushfires before. What God's attentio n was, what made him amazed? Living Bible says he was amazed. It wasn't He didn't have cable or Netflix. It was this. It was it was not consumed and fire. Stay with me. Smart people fire, consumes or fire fire changes everything it touches. But the fire di d not change the Bush. Why did the fire not change the bush? Because Because, God, the unchanging, eternal, immutable God was in the bush, would you? And this Bush that was aflame but not burning or being consumed with the doorbell? Is God circled back aro und? Is that Hey, Moses? You're still ah, person a purpose. Here's the door. God. But it's been a long time. Yeah, I know it as Moses. Recognize your season. Recognize your season? You thought the season was over. You thought your season back. When you're 40 and you're young, you're connecting the palace blah, blah, blah. Guess what? And you think this season is your shepherding season? You think this is your shepherding season and probably because your age you think that's your permanent season or your ret irement season or your final season? This is not your permanent season. This has been your preparation season because that young punk, at 40 he was impetuous, lack self control, who acted and thought later I couldn't use him. I want you to be a world class leader, and you must be season to be that kind of leader. And I couldn't use you back then. So guess what? It's taking 80 years. But now you're finally ready. You're right. You're not a prodigy. But you're my person. And this is your purpose. Here is the door. Will you pass through the door? Okay. Yeah. Recognizing your season. Rightly recognizing your season defining your season is key to you discovering your blessing. Let me stay with you. Defining your season is the key to you recognize the power of God 's purpose in your life. So is that game over season? It's just getting started. Season. Moses. I'm gonna send you to Pharaoh. We'll talk about that next week. The conversation? That is incredible. You're gonna go because God saw promise in Moses and most suspicion, most is iconic. Most is probably thought that flame I want to make a difference had burned out. But it happened. In fact, if I can close this, I was just as I've been studying this past these last couple weeks. I thought when did that flame
star t? Because no one early, as I thought he was special, with one exception. Mom, read Genesis Genesis Exodus, Chapter one, Chapter two and you'll find out what happened was there was a pharaoh in Egypt to his paranoid and genocidal, evidently and and for pop ulation control of the Hebrews. He had this idea to assassinate every baby boy. And so every couple that had a baby boy would try to hide the baby boy. But they were found out they'd be executed. Two and Moses parents saw that he was, you know, special. In fact, his mom's name, Yaka bed, and says she saw that he was no ordinary child and so she tried to hide him. But with God's do something, your life that's not ordinary is extraordinary, is hard to hide, and eventually a three months they couldn't hide him anymore. So she made Remember that that little basket? And she made it watertight with pitch and brokenhearted, you know, trusting God. She put him adrift in the Nile, big sister Mary, and went on the shoreline, just seeing what would happen. And God did his God stuff, right? He kind of work through the waves and the current and blew the windows certain direction. And and and baby Moses now navigate the crocodile over here in the hip, Over here in the boat. Over here, he Lance, just in that spot where Phar aoh's daughter is bathing. She sees the basket. She has a handmade get it. And sure enough, the moment she opens up, she sees it's a baby. She recognizes what the Hebrew babies in that moment and a visual angel pinched Moses because the Bible said he cried When the baby cried. It broke her heart. Adoption is a beautiful thing to kiss. What? I'm all adopt this little boy, right that Marien pops out of the reads. Hey, you need a wet nurse because formula has not yet been invented. And I know, I know. Ah, Hebr ew woman. Here's her resume right here. She is great with kids. I know firsthand her name is Jack. A bed who but God who? But God could save Yacoub IDs. Extraordinary child, then get her paid for raising her own baby. So where was this flame initiated in M oses life, I think, as his own mother is raising him in a Hebrew palace for her adopted mother princess. And he's all these beautiful Egyptian trappings and she's whispering. Learn it all. Learn, learn their language, learn their culture, enjoy every advan tage. But you're no Egyptian. You're Israeli. You wanna God's chosen people. I know We don't look chosen right now. We're being oppressed. But I think you're the one. You're a person. I promise. God is a dream for your life. Never forget. See this story? I think we must understand the story. Well, this famous conversation, we think this conversation is about, you know, God, trying to convince Moses to believe in God. No. I don't think this whole Bush conversation is God trying to convince Moses to believe i n God. I think he's trying to convince Moses that he believes in Moses. God's saying. Guess what, Moses. I believe in you. No one sees potential in you, but I do because I placed it there. No one sees you as a person of destiny. Your 80 year old man who ju st raise sheep semi successfully. You're gonna leave my people. Two million people will find their freedom because of you. I believe in you. I don't know you, but I know this because Jesus died for you and God made you and love you. That God obviously beli eves in you. Someone just needs to speaker that call that out of you. So for Moses, it's a Bush and his mom. I'm not sure if these other prodigies I know this Thomas Edison story is remarkable because many years later, after his mother, y'all can place I f eel more spiritually sambas. You guys play good. Play something. Alright. Play something, Derek, if you would. So Thomas Edison, many years later, found that same letter The teachers at home when he was seven. So he was a genius. We know how to educate him . So she opened up is now you know, whether it and yellow. And here's what the message actually said the teacher wrote, Thomas Edison's mother. Your son is mentally deficient. We cannot let him attend our school anymore.
I'm sorry to tell you he's expelled . That's why the greatest geniuses of American history. No one saw potential in him except one person. Your heavenly father sees that in you. God has made you with purpose. He made you on purpose. He made you for a powerful purpose. Once you find that purp ose, pass through the door. Father God, thank you so much that you do care about heaven. You care about attorney? You care about our impact here on Earth and Father's time for some Mostow, wake up and get busy, recognize the season and craving. I pray for every Christian whose sense of divine purpose is asymptomatic right now in this season, My gosh, thank you so passionate for you that their passion and love for their God and pursuit of God's great purpose will become viral. That is our prayer Lord, Take u s and use us. We make this prayer together together in Jesus name. As they gather church loudly says, We'll see you next week.