 If you have your bibles, let's go into the word of God into Exodus chapter 7 verse 1 till verse 5 It says the following and the Lord said to Moses see I have made you like God to Pharaoh in the original text Word like is removed. That's why in most of your bibles word like is cursive meaning and actually that's how it says I have made you God to Pharaoh and Your brother Aaron shall be your prophet You shall speak all that I commend you and your brother Aaron shall tell Pharaoh to let the people go out of his land But I will harden Pharaoh's heart and through I will true and Though I will multiply some weird translation And though I will multiply my signs and wonders in the land of Egypt The Pharaoh will not listen to you Then I will lay my hand on Egypt and bring my Hosts my people the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by great acts of judgment The Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord When I stretch my hand against Egypt and bring out the people of Israel from among them Somebody say praise the Lord Even though translation is a little bit different, but this meaning is the same if you're taking notes I want to preach a message that will be titled a God to Pharaoh a God to Pharaoh We want to touch a little bit on the story of Moses and in our church We all take notes So if you have a phone and you have a notes app or if you have a notebook with you We ask that you write certain things down that the Lord speaks to you through the message And if you pay attention he will always speak and when you write it down You have a better chance to remember something and so we all encourage our youth and so if you see people on the phones They're not on Facebook. Well some maybe but most of us we are taking our notes That's how we want to teach our church to take notes and we also want to teach our church to be able to say amen Let's practice this somebody say amen Amen, so it's okay to shout. It's okay to speak. It's not disturbing. It's not a distraction It's a distraction when you fall asleep or when you're on your social media sites while preacher is preaching a God the Pharaoh a Story of Moses begins as such that a degree was released by a Pharaoh who was considered the king and those days in Egypt That all the Hebrew boys they will be born they have to be thrown into the Nile or they had to be killed They had to be thrown to the river and drown and When Moses was conceived we see that his mother and father they love the baby and they didn't want to throw their baby Out and they made a little arc and they put Moses into that little arc and instead of throwing him into the Nile They put him in that arc and Noah and Moses Noah Because Noah also had an arc Little bit bigger. Yes Noah's Ark Moses Ark and there was one more Ark in the Bible the Ark of God Where Moses actually made an arc where people came and worshiped God and everything and so Moses goes into the Ark And that's how his life is preserved Now it's interesting to see that Moses did not make that Ark unlike Noah it Was made for him Moses didn't find that Ark. He was placed in it but in that Ark He received the salvation And so the first thing that we see from Moses life that applies to our life is that what the Ark was to Moses's Life the cross of Jesus Christ is to ours Without Jesus's cross we perish in our sins Through Jesus's death his burial and his resurrection We find our salvation Salvation from sin Salvation from demons and salvation from darkness through Jesus's cross. We find our hope Jesus's cross provides more than just few pennies provides more than just good clothes provides more than just simply a nice house Or a great relationship. It provides an eternal salvation from eternal Damnation because somebody say amen. How many of you glad for the salvation of Jesus Christ that he has purchased on the cross for you Sometimes people think that when Jesus was on this earth that Satan Wanted Jesus to suffer on the cross when you watch movies like Passion of the Christ and after that like man You get so angry at Satan like man. He brought so much pain to Jesus But if you study the Bible you see very clearly that Satan Wanted anything but the suffering of Jesus He tempted Jesus in the wilderness to bypass the cross Satan did not want Jesus to go on the cross Satan did not want Jesus to suffer Because he knew if he will suffer an arc will be made and Moses won't drown. I won't drown You won't drown our generation won't drown. We will have an arc. We will have a place Call salvation That's why when Jesus was dying it was Satan's worst nightmare becoming a reality Satan wasn't rejoicing when he was dying He was being tormented because he knew and arc is being built my salvation is being rescued My salvation is being Created and it's being formed and salvation is so much more than forgiveness of sins If you've been last Wednesday, you've heard a testimony that salvation is so much more than having your name written in this Wonderful book called life even though if that's all the salvation would be It will be enough But salvation touches your spirit. It touches your soul We've heard the testimony so people who get free from drugs people who come back to their families and There's joy in the family Because this person is no longer Addicted to certain substances. This person is no longer taking every paycheck and on Friday night driving to Pendleton to spend it on gambling This person is no longer comes from work and locks himself for four hours in pornography while the kids are over there ignored And this person is no longer on the weekends drinking himself to sleep and being brought home by someone else Don't know where they've been and what they've done But now on the weekends they cut their grass that the kid of their house. This person now is a better worker He's a better citizen. He's a better husband. He's a better wife. She's a better wife. They're better kids This person is different because salvation not only rescued Moses from the crocodiles. It put him in the palace That's exactly what salvation is and that's why we ought to preach the gospel of salvation That's why we ought to never leave the purpose of the church that is to see people saved because it's more than just getting people's names In the book of life. It's about getting people's lives into the palace into the new life into the blessed life Somebody say a man. I heard a testimony this morning was out. Well, I was eating breakfast from the from the minister I just came from in Ukraine this particular lady She lived with her mother and her mother had a very struggling struggling life She always went from one boyfriend to another and as a little kid at the age of five She was sexually abused by one of the mother's boyfriends and that scarred her for for a very long time And then because her mother was not being responsible They took her away from her mother and in Ukraine. We don't have faster faster care system You know where you are placed into the family. They put you into this place Where all of the kids who don't have parents are placed into it's called Internet and what this is It's just a hell house because you have all these kids who have rage who have issues who are placed there They're usually very rough. There's a lot of really crazy things that happen there Even when I was in Ukraine or remember going to school. We knew that you don't mess with those kids Because though they don't have parents They also have a lot of issues and they really really just just broken kids So she was placed there for many years until one day that she was reconnecting with her mother Her mother would come and visit her on the weekends and her mother told her he she said I love you And I know God has amazing plans for your life But if I am going to die or if I'm going to pass away, I want you to still know that everything is gonna be alright with you She looked at her mom and she's a mom. You're not gonna die. Everything's gonna be fine few weeks later she walks into her mother's place and What she saw next completely destroyed for the her life for the rest of her life She saw her mother who was pregnant at the time was chopped into pieces by one of her boyfriends And when they did autopsy they found out that her body was stabbed 35 times and She said as a young person seeing that she said it completely Destroyed me and inside I went into drugs I went into drinking and then I became homeless for some 10 years lived in the woods Picked up garbage and because she lived in the woods She developed attracted all kinds of diseases where she started to lose weight She started to being immobile with her legs and she found herself laying paralyzed Not able to move with her legs because of the amount of sicknesses the amount of addictions that she had and she got to such A place she could no longer speak with her vocals She only whispered and in her thoughts was crying If there was someone God let him find me and Help me before I die And lo and behold somebody did walk into that apartment found her there It was two leaders from this church in Ukraine. They prayed for her She felt a little bit better and they took her from that apartment brought her into their own house and for three months She was living there. She was still unable to move But now she received Jesus in her heart and they took her to a crusade that they had in their city And on that crusade in that bed that she was there She got up from that bed begin to walk and completely from that day She was completely cured of all diseases and all sicknesses that she had today this woman testified and today She's actually one of the pastors in that ministry She's serving other people and I remember listening to the testimony and thinking salvation is so much more Than getting a new heart It's getting a new life It's getting a new future. It's getting everything new That's exactly what happened to Moses and that's exactly what must happen to people in our city when we see Salvation's we will always see miracles when we see salvation's we will always see healings when we see salvation's We will always see new lives being changed for the glory of God Let's give Jesus a round of applause for the saving power to the cross of Jesus Moses we see not only Moses he gets saved by the ark, but Moses also goes into the palace and in the palace He develops, you know a great life. He becomes educated Moses becomes prosperous Moses has a powerful position in this in the society and If he's not gonna be the next Pharaoh He was definitely gonna stick around in the court and be somebody great and The Bible says that offered after some time when being there Moses saw the hurts and the pain that his people were suffering He came back to his palace and decided to resign and completely walk away from that He walked away and went to live with his own people We don't know exactly how things happened But we know that he lived with his own people until one of these times He went in and he attacked one of the Egyptians and the Egyptian died and Moses fled Egypt completely I believe that one of the things that we have to come into our life to the second part of Moses life And it has to happen in our life as well is that where we have to Surrender our life to God Now you may say well isn't salvation the same thing. It's possible to be saved and not surrendered It's possible to be saved and have your life changed and not surrendered It's possible not to smoke and not not be surrendered It's possible not to drink and not be surrendered It's possible to have integrity, but not surrender It's possible to have money, but not surrender a Young ruler comes to Jesus and he had everything good young ruler He was a wealthy man and the Bible says he says I kept all of the Ten Commandments and Jesus said okay. Wow. This is awesome. And the Bible says Jesus liked him I think on the back of his mind Jesus was thinking man. I wish all my disciples were like this and Jesus said I Want you to do something. I want you to give everything away Come and follow me and the Bible says he would sadness walked away from Christ and then disciples came to Jesus They said Jesus we sure don't have anything this guy has we have pretty rough past But we gave everything to follow you. What are we gonna get and Jesus told those disciples? He said you're gonna get reward in heaven, but I'm gonna also use use you mightily on this earth You know what that means to me? God does not Really look for perfect people. He does not use perfect people He uses surrendered people and sometimes the more perfect you think you are The less surrendered you'll be Because your perfection my idea that I'm good becomes a stumbling block for humility and Brokenness before God That's why God chose fishermen not because they had achievements not because they even had great mortal life But because they had the flexibility in their character to say Lord if we're gonna follow you we're gonna leave everything behind That's why God was able to use Moses why because Moses from before he met God Moses already had in his character The ability to surrender Walk away forgive everything for believe everything behind and God says that's kind of a man I'm gonna use Catherine Coleman says God doesn't use golden vessels wooden vessels bronze vessels She said God uses yielded vessels People who yield That's why you see all the time the people that God uses you look at them and you're like man But he did such a bad things. You know one thing about these people. It's not what they've done or didn't do It's their ability To leave everything behind and say God I surrender Maybe you're not perfect here today None of us are perfect The only time we think we're perfect is when the neighbor behind us in the front of us is not doing things that we do That's the only time we think we're perfect. God is not using perfect people. He will use surrendered people He will use people who will give up their life for him He will use people and the biggest misconception. I found it with myself is That we sometimes say when I get better then I will surrender When I change then I will really surrender to God when I quit smoking then I will surrender When I quit doing this then I will surrender when I finally find the man that I want to be with and get married Then I will surrender when I finally finish the school and then I will not be busy I will surrender when I finally have a job pay off my debt then I will sacrifice in give I want to tell you something you first of all will never get there without surrender If you ever get there without surrender You will never surrender once you're there Young young ruler told us this he arrived in that place and Jesus said now I want you to surrender and guess what happened. He walked away being sad Because surrender is your choice and that choice has to be made today Don't wait for crisis. Don't wait for your heart to be broken Don't wait for some bad thing to happen if God touches your heart and God calls you by name and says come and follow me Drop everything like disciple and says I'm gonna follow you Don't wait until your life gets shattered and broken for you to surrender so many people say I will do drugs I will smoke I will have broken relationships and then once I am on the bottom of the barrel I will cry out to God most people I know who are on the bottom of the barrel committed suicide Not cried out to God and most nothing happened when they cried out to God Because you don't gamble and play games with God when God calls you don't reject and then you do what you want to do You when he calls you accept and then he changes your life Jesus changed Paul's life not when Paul was in crisis the Bible says Paul was running with his horse passionate to destroy Christians He had no problems in his health. He had no problems in his finances Paul's marriage wasn't falling apart. Paul's kids were not trying out on drugs Paul Had a great life great reputation connections with the authorities and God comes as Paul your head in the wrong direction And Paul said two things Who are you Lord and the second question was this? What would you have me do? You can always know somebody's greatness by the kind of questions they ask Most people would ask why did this happen to me? Why did that happen to me? Those kind of people that's good, but the better question is God. Who are you? What should I do and God says Paul the very people you're going to kill Go to them for advice and they will tell you what you should do and the Bible says the moment they prayed for him Paul gets baptized and Paul didn't wait for six months to say well, I need to get stronger I need to get stable before I start coming to prayer. I need to get better before I start You know kind of really pressing in to start my home group. I need to take some time the Bible says the next day Paul gets on the streets and starts preaching God with passion Confuses people see do not wait when God touches your life and you say God I give to you my life Don't wait for everyone to wait for six seven months to see change Go hard after God And God will use you because somebody say amen Commitment to God is what he's looking for not perfection Even the God people uses are still not perfect when he uses them because they're committed Because they are surrendered not perfect not always holy not always strong not always everything in their life is right But there's one thing you know about them when there is Friday night prayer They will be here when there is Sunday morning service whether I'm tired week or I feel bad I will drag myself over here why because once I made a deal with God that I'm gonna serve him I'm gonna serve him and no devil in hell is gonna stop that and no demon in hell is gonna stop the why Because they cannot temper once a man is committed Remember listening to a man reading a book by a man named Bob Larson who has in his history has cast out He said documentary documented 30,000 Exorcisms and he says something very interesting He says every exorcism that I've done and the studies he's done about people who are demon possessed He says this is what I found people who have a strong will and a strong commitment He says less likely to have an access or demons have access to them He said even if they commit sins that other people commit That cause demons to enter them. He says those people who have a strong will means once they make a decision They stick with it. He says somehow demons cannot enter them My friends be a person who lives their life surrendered people will make fun of you say oh, you're not good You're not this let them say what they want to say But no one thing God is not looking for perfection. He's looking for surrender He can always make surrendered people perfect, but he can never make perfect people surrendered He will qualify the called, but he doesn't always Calls the qualified Amen The third thing about Moses life. So we see that Moses is saved by the Ark We see secondly that Moses his life really takes a turn where Moses begins to commit his life to God where he begins to commit his life to a greater cause and the part that I wanted to talk to you about is the part of Him coming eventually to Egypt to deliver his country to deliver his countrymen from bondage and when he came in there we see that God begins to share with him the struggle that people had he begins to share with him the concerns That God has with his people now the interesting part is when God was sharing these concerns with Moses Moses didn't care about it Moses said well, they're your people they're struggling. I'm not there and honestly God. I don't give a flip about it. I Have a wife kids sheep. I got a life I have a business and the fact that they are suffering over there. Honestly, that's their problem and God says to Moses too bad It's your problem too. He says you have to be concerned for that and every selfish man You know said none of my business. I have my own life. It's all is good. I'm not gonna go into there just to help them Why just for their sake? No, and God says you have to do that and Moses begins to for the first time in his life go to another season of his life where he begins to take what God cares about and Make it what Moses cares about Each one of us here cares about something Most likely we care about our life What are we gonna eat? Where are we gonna sleep if you have a business you're probably thinking and care about your business your marriage your family Your finances your health. It's the things you think about even when they're not happening I remember when before I left the Ukraine one of my duplics had a demon in a sewer pipe and The water got stuck there and the neighbors the tenants called on Monday and says hey There's water not flushing out of the toilet and and I was like hey just do this and they did that and and when they hang up The phone I start to care about that duplex literally I'm like thinking looking at my phone if any phone call is coming I'm thinking about that that's gonna be them and Tuesday they called again on Wednesday They called again I called the city people came cleaned up and I went with my father Spend her three hours nothing we're not able to fix it and the next day the service came and they Like took them two hours and some 400 bucks and they finally cleaned it and I remember when I went to Ukraine I was thinking I'm like oh my goodness for a whole week. I only spend there about maybe two hours about four hours being there But I was caring about it for a whole week I was in Ukraine in the apartment on 23rd floor thinking about the stupid sewer pipe in Richland And in one prayer I couldn't sleep at night because of the time change and I was I was praying and I felt like Holy Spirit Start to deal with my heart and he said Vlad that that sewer pipe got cleansed because you were thinking about it. I Said no, he said but you feel worse. It destroys you when you care Like that about your life Doctors have proven you will destroy your health by caring about your life But you know how you can restore your life. It's when you take the cares God has and put him on yourself Not that you ignore your life Not that you ignore your family not that you ignore your business, but you don't care as Much as you care about things that will outlast your business your family your health and your life It's the eternity of people's souls This is the best antidote for depression the best antidote for anxiety It's not just simply to find some come place where you just meditate It's to replace your anxiety with the anxiety in the heart of God It's to replace the things that constantly go through your mind and you're going taking a shower and driving and you think it How am I gonna make that money? How am I gonna pay for that? How am I gonna the more you think about it the less ideas you have But if you say God I'm gonna flip this over and think about what you're thinking about people getting saved and people getting healed You will find your own problems being taken care of by God your health being restored and the Holy Spirit connecting with you We cannot save souls if we only pray about them, but we don't care We don't anxious our heart is not heavy with it and we don't think about it And if when we don't think about it like that guess what happens Satan will load our mind with the things to think about that will destroy our health ruin our conscious our our mind and our body organs receive consciously Care for souls Moses receives that then he goes to this country and we see he goes to his people in Egypt and when he is there He goes straight to Pharaoh. He says Pharaoh. You got to let my people go Pharaoh says what? Pharaoh says I am God in Egypt if you study history Egypt you find out that every Pharaoh was considered God raw means they were the God of son They were considered God people worship them as God they acted as God and they lived as God and here's Moses as ex slave Waxinesses you have to let all of your slaves go Destroy your financial history your economy completely wreck yourself because God told me so and Then Moses does few simple tricks that God taught him, you know super natural to do and Pharaoh brings his guys they do a few tricks and cast Moses out and Instead of that Pharaoh increases the workload for the Israel so now not only Pharaoh doesn't like Moses Israel come to Moses say you put a sword in Pharaoh's hand get out of our face We were slaves, but at least we we had some straw for our bricks You came with your God ideas and now we don't have straw and we're still slaves get out and Here is Moses in chapter 6 at the end. It's as God. I like the idea of helping your people You like the idea. I like the idea. It started really good, but it went really south And that's where Moses throws self pity and says God I told you from the beginning. I'm not a good speaker I am not the right person Don't use me Pharaoh calls Moses now You don't see Moses pleading because Moses knew now Pharaoh You're not letting our people go only for one reason because not all of your God has been crushed to the ground when you walk in the revelation of Who you are in God? Before you see your situation change when we walk in the revelation in our city Not just caring for souls But praying for souls and in our prayer that we don't take the position of these little people Trying to convince everyone to be a part of our religious group, but that we realize there is a spiritual world that holds our city and our region's captive the God of frogs the God of pornography the God of gambling the God of Smoking the God of divorce these different gods and when we are praying for revival Remember our goal is not just to get people saved our goal is also to demolish and crush the gods Satan has established in our region and in our generation and somebody say amen and That comes with a revelation that you and I in a spiritual world are superior To everything the enemy has built If we wait until our situation changes to know that you are in the place of authority That will not happen first things change in chapter 7 in Moses's mind God says I make you a God to Pharaoh and plagues begin plagues was a punishment By a superior power to a lower power the power of Egypt. We are going to see in our city The gods the Satan has established that keep people hostage these gods Will one by one be brought down? by the power of God Not from heaven But from the Holy Spirit that lives inside of us You and I are in the place of authority in a spiritual world. We might be ex slaves We might be ex drag addicts. We might be ex alcoholics. We may be ex Adulters, we might be ex this and ex that but I want to tell you when God says that he is the king of kings That's us. We are no longer ex. We are now in Authority we are now in a place of victory We are now in the place of God's rulership And we pray out of that place and out of that place. We see the enemy backing down out of that place. We see Satan pleading begging fleeing falling and Letting go and that's exactly what the plan of God is and God said on purpose to Pharaoh I will harden his heart Why? So that you don't leave Egypt without destroying every one of their gods I'm not just interested in helping your people. I'm interesting to get the point across to the enemy you are Defeated when we pray for revival when we pray for our friends when we pray for our city We don't have to expect that things will always go like we expect But at the end we have to know one thing We will win The enemy will be defeated and people will be saved in Jesus name Maybe you prayed for someone they responded to Jesus and you don't see them coming back to God And you go back to the old pattern. Oh God, I knew I'm not good enough. I should have not been the one I don't even should be doing witnessing because everybody I bring they don't really get saved They don't really get touched. That's an old Moses a new Moses has to walk into a court of a Pharaoh saying I am in a place of authority not because I'm all this great and almighty It's because I know the Lord and because I know the Lord He makes me Lord over my circumstances and Pharaoh is not my God Creator of heaven and earth is my God and with him I will ride over every situation in Jesus name because somebody say