DOES GOD STILL SEE YOU?

Good morning. What do you do when God hasn't spoken yet? What do you do when you you haven't heard the voice of God, you don't think? What do you do when the situation is far worse than it was last year? When the thing you feared most, well, it's already happened. When the person who shouldn't when the person who should have protected you didn't. When you're completely hidden instead of seen. When you're running instead of leading. Exodus two doesn't open with a burning bush. It doesn't open with a rescue plan announced from heaven. It opens with a woman making a basket out of reeds and pitch. It opens with a mother who couldn't keep her son safe. So she put him in the river and she let him go. And that might be exactly where you are today. You've done everything you can do. And now the basket is in the water. All you can do now is watch. Stay with me because the God who is already on the riverbank. Oh. The God who sees is already on the riverbank. Some of you are there. Some of you are on the riverbank, and you're in the water, and in that water are alligators and snakes, crocodiles, and everything that can hurt you and will hurt you. And you think, am I even seen? Does God even see me in the midst of all this danger? I assure you, he's already on the riverbank, and he sees you. Shalom. Shalom and welcome to True Word, Faith for Life. I'm Dr. Sean. This is day 55 of our journey together through the Word, walking the story of God. And today, well, as always, you know, I wrote it. You might as well read it. True Word Faith for Life? I know, hard to hard to remember. True Word Faith for Life. That's the title of the book. It's available everywhere, but it benefits the ministry the most if you buy it through TrueWordfaithforLife.com store. Um but you don't have to. Do however is best for you. The difference is Amazon and the other big booksellers give us an average of a dollar per book. And in a dollar per book, it costs us more than to produce than it than it does. But if if you if that's easiest for you and it gets it in your hands, and that's how you're comfortable, do it. You say, well, what's it about? One of these days I'll talk about it a little bit greater length, but we got stuff to do today. But I'll just tell you this it's written for the person who's tired of religious pieces that don't hold together in real life. How many times have you read books, Christian books, and they just they don't hold they don't hold up in real life. You think to yourself, man, I don't know what kind of life this author has lived, but it ain't mine.

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It'll make you ready for the word to make sense where you actually live. And that, my friends, is what it's about. True word, faith for life. You don't have to. It's up to you. Today's question is this What if God sees you even when you can't see Him? Look, let's be honest. Most of the time, that's exactly what it looks like. So let's go in. Let's go all in. First of all, welcome to everybody. I see we've got a whole bunch of folks in live chats across the eight different places we're streaming live right now. Three Facebook channels, uh X, LinkedIn, and I think uh two YouTube channels. True Word, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. That is um, that's the primary channel, the one with like 4,000 subscribers. That's the one you want to subscribe to. Even if you've subscribed the other one by accident, subscribe to this one. Um, and click on the little bell, click on the little all for notifications. That's all I'll say about that. So, Exodus 2. It does something moy unusual, very unusual. It moves fast. A Levite man and woman marry, a son is born, he's good. The Hebrew word is tov. Tov, mazletov. It's the same word God uses over creation. The mother hides him three months, but she can't hide him any longer. So she makes a basket, she waterproofs it with pitch, and she uses the reeds, and she places him in the Nile and stations his sister nearby to watch. And you know the river moves, moves fast. Pharaoh's daughter comes to bathe because they bathe in the water, and there's crocodiles and whatnot. But whatever. Well, she comes to bathe. She sees the basket. She opens it.

The baby cries. And thank God. She has compassion.

She had compassion on him. The same empire whose king issued the death decree is now the deliverer. The same river meant to be his grave becomes the channel of his rescue. The enemy's house becomes his education. Pharaoh's own household funds the man who will undo Pharaoh. Can you imagine? Don't tell me God can't work in your situation. Don't tell me God can't intervene and fix it. Now, sometimes the right thing isn't the fix. The thing God is going to do sometimes isn't fixing it. Sometimes the consequences they have to happen. But the circumstances here, listen, that's wild. He decrees all these babies be killed. All these boy babies, kill them. Kill them. And yet, here's this little one. This little Jewish boy, of course, it wasn't Jewish then, Hebrew, then. Imagine. That's not coincidence. That's not God. Look, that's not like, oh, well, why don't I do this? No, that's God working in the architecture of the enemy's house. And God can work in the architecture of your hurts and your habits and your hangups, your struggles. Listen, you don't have to answer this if you don't want to. I always say these things, and but last night, on last night's message, I get it. Yeah, it was long. I think it was an hour and something, hour and a half, maybe. This is this is not gonna be, you know, I'm never gonna teach in like two minutes. This is not me. Now there you'll see reels pop up, and what we do right after the show, post-production is frenetic. Um after the show. I do it all by the way. I don't have a team. There's nobody, there's none of that. Um so then I go through and I do all the different steps and I pull the audio down and and then I have to edit that because I have then I put it on this thing called Buzzsprout, which is a service. It's expensive, it's $100 a month. I mean, it's not cheap, but what it does is amazing. So if you listen on a podcast, an audio-only podcast, we're on all of them. Literally, there is no podcast that is a real podcast that we're not on. Usually it takes about two hours to get posted there. Amazon, um uh i HeartRadio, Apple Music, uh Spotify, all of them. We're on all of them. Well, anyway, so I do that and things are crazy and it's gonna be done, and I'm really focusing because I'm terrible at it. And uh, so if you're listening on that, I'd love for you to do it if you if you want to. I'm getting comments from them, from people listening afterward, and I'll tell you what. Wow. Amazing. Hey Kenneth, good to good to see you. Thank you so much. Ain't killing this Hebrew. They knew who he was. He was one of them. That's awesome. Kenneth, where are you listening from? And how how did you even hear about us? Listening on uh YouTube. I always love to know where people how in the world you found out about us. Anyway, the whole point of that diatribe I just said was I want to ask, and you can answer it if you want to. Has God ever used the very thing meant to destroy you as the thing that positioned you? You thought, this is gonna destroy me, this is gonna wreck me. Maybe you took a job and you felt God's leading against all odds. Man, I don't want this job, or I don't want this thing, or I don't want this or that, I don't want to live here, I don't want this, I don't want that. Then somehow or another, somehow or another, down the road just a little bit, you find God working. He's working. And he's he's you thought this place was gonna wreck you. Maybe it's somebody, a co-worker, maybe a neighbor. You thought, man, oh man, this person's gonna destroy me. This place is gonna destroy me. This this struggle is gonna destroy me, this illness is gonna destroy me. And turns out it positioned you. You were in the right place, the right time, in the right way. Drop a yes in the chat if that's your story. I don't know your life. Only way I can know is if I ask. So the wound in the text. Oh man, don't don't rust past. We when we read scripture, when we read scripture, I had somebody get a hold of me. This is pertinent, don't worry. I had somebody get a hold of me, send me a message. I don't know how they got. Uh it didn't come through true word faithforlife.com slash contact. It came directly to my email. I did, you know, my email's out there, so anyway. Came directly to my email, and I'm assuming it's a she because it sounded like a lady's uh, you know, email address. Anyway, she or he or whatever said, You're never gonna get through this Bible in a year. I'm tired of all the detail. Stop with all the explanations, and what's with all the Jewish talk? I quote, what's with all the Jewish talk? I think she means Hebrew. But that's okay. I don't know what she's gonna say when we get in the New Testament and I start popping off with some uh coiny Greek up on her. She won't listen then. Anyway, she had an agenda, and uh, and I and I hear this a lot. You know, well, well, you know, why? Why why do you do this? Why do you take all this time with all these this Hebrew stuff and the ancient Near Eastern? We're living here. What difference is the the Bible's written in English? The ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context you're always talking about, it's it's it's immaterial, it doesn't matter. Oh, it does. It does, it so much does. And ticking a box, oh, I'm gonna get through the Bible in a year, like that's an accomplishment. It's good that you're doing it, it's good that you set that goal, but if you don't understand what you've read, what's the point? You've wasted your time. So I say that to say this: don't rush past the mother. She made the basket herself. This is the mother of this child. She waterproofed it herself. She went to great lengths, she wanted her son to live. She placed her son in it herself, she put her son right in there. And that current was going. Can you imagine her struggle? And then she had to let go of the basket because she wanted her son to live. And then, because scripture is honest, she's the one called back to nurse him. Wow. The sister intercepts Pharaoh's daughter, she suggests a Hebrew nurse. Pharaoh's daughter says, Yeah, okay, that makes sense. That tracks. The sister brings the mother, and Pharaoh's daughter pays her to nurse her own son. Come on, somebody, somebody, shake your head, shake your head in your body and go, whoa. Tell me God's not awesome. Tell me God is is is beyond, beyond my problem, my complicated life, my complex issue. Tell me God. And here is your answer. Yes, he can do it, because he has and he will. More than a couple, but yeah, it was pretty cool. And then we had the good old USA. Happy 250th. I mean, if you're an odds person, you know, you have to look at this and go, wow, inconceivable. So Favor's daughter says yes, and the sister brings the mother who made the basket and did the pitch and the reeds and let go of that basket and watched it float down the river. And in her mind, I'll never see that child again, but he'll live. He will have a chance at living. If he survives this river, he will have a chance at living. But if he stays in my house, he will die. By Pharaoh's decree. And she's the one that gets picked to nurse him. Listen, Pharaoh's daughter doesn't know she's paying the boy's mother, but God knows. God knows because God arranged it. Oh, you think, oh, come on. Come on. That's beyond. Beyond conceivable. You're doing right. You're doing right it is. It is inconceivable. It's absolutely inconceivable. God, God does miracles every day that we look at and we go, because we go, whoa, whoa, science. Science says, who you think created science? Come on now. God has no limits. God arranged it. God knew. This is what God's provision looks like sometimes. It's not a rescue before the basket hits the water. Oh no. It's not something, booming voice from heaven explaining the whole plan. Let me share with you so you will be at comfort before you exercise your faith. No. It's not comfort before the cost. Sometimes provision looks like getting to keep what you already surrendered. Sometimes it looks like being paid to love what you were willing to release. Sometimes the miracle is on the other side of letting go. Sometimes the miracle is on the other side of the letting go. Somebody might want to write that down. Sometimes your miracle is on the other side of letting go. Now, Moses and Midian, Moshe. That's his real name. If you called him Moses, if he walked in the room and he said, hey everybody, and you said, Hey Moses, he wouldn't know who you were talking about. That's just a derivative name. He wouldn't know. It's Moshe. He sees an Egyptian. Listen, I think it's important. If you come up to me and you tell me, hi, my name is Susan, but I keep calling you Sue. Or hi, my name is Linda, and I keep calling you Lynn. Well, similar. But you told me your name was Susan. You told me your name was Linda, and I keep calling you by the wrong name. Wouldn't you? You'd do one of two things. You'd correct me and say, um, my name is Susan. Not Sue. Susan. My name is Linda, not Lynn. You correct me. And then if I didn't pay attention to it, guess what you'd do? Click, you'd turn it off. You turn me off. Hey, I'm not listening to that guy. I'm not gonna pay any attention to him. I'm gonna move on. I'm gonna move around. Good morning, Sean spelled correctly. Good to see you. Listen, that's why it's important to use the real names. That's why I say Yeshua. Hebrew is is the language of God. I do a whole teaching on why Hebrew, why Aramaic. It's free on the YouTube channel on my on true wordfaithforlife.com. They're searchable. You can find everything. I have thousands of videos. There are many names for God. Let's read scripture, ask, what is God's name? There are many names for God that are used at different times in different ways in different names. And they have for reasons that they they apply. But excellent question. So then Moses grows up, right? Doesn't stay a baby. He sees an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. Looks around. He looks around and then he kills the Egyptian. Why? Because he has an affection for his own people, Hebrew people. He doesn't know. He doesn't know everything he needs to know yet. Probably. About his origin? Who knows? Maybe he does. Maybe he knows the whole story. Who knows? We don't know. Bible doesn't spend a whole lot of time on that. So he kills the Egyptian and he buries the body in the sand. So the next day, two Hebrews are fighting. Moshe tries to intervene. One of them says, Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the Egyptian? What in the world? Moses is afraid. He's afraid the thing he thought was hidden isn't hidden. Listen, we always think the thing is hidden. And it's not. We think, oh, I've tucked that all away. And nobody's gonna find out. They'll find out. Guess what else? Pharaoh finds out. He tries to kill Moses. Good lands. Trying to kill Moshe again. Once when he was a baby. Because he killed all those babies. And now all those boy babies, they didn't survive. Murdered by Pharaoh. And guess what? Here it is again. Moses. Moshe. He is he is on the run from Pharaoh, because Pharaoh trying to kill him again. So he flees to Midian. And now the deliverer is a fugitive. The man God has been positioning since the Nile is now sitting at a well in the wilderness. Come on, somebody. Sitting at a well in the wilderness. But even in Midian, Moses can't stop being who Moses is. Jethro's daughters come to water the flock, and the other shepherds drive them away. Moshe says, no. Nope, not gonna let this go. Moshe stands up. And he defends them. Moshe was a sheepdog. He defends them. He defends the women. Watering the flock, he defends them because they're trying to run them off. He waters their flock for them. Listen, character shows up whether anybody's watching or not. Character shows up when nobody's looking, especially when nobody's looking. Whether or not the stage is big, whether or not Moshe feels like a deliverer, he acts like one, he behaves as one, his action is deliverer. And he settles in Midian. And guess what? He marries Zaporah. Zipporah. And he has a son named Gershom. Gershom. What does this mean? It means I have been a sojourner in a foreign land. Even the name of a son is a confession.

I'm not home yet. I'm not where I belong. Something is still waiting. Then comes the hinge of this whole chapter.

During those many days, the king of Egypt died. The people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning. And God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. Now, remembered here. Oh, what was he forgotten? He had to be reminded. Well, I don't want to serve a God that needs remembered. Well, you gotta understand the origin of the word. You gotta understand the origin of the word.

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Listen, let's read scripture. I appreciate that you're asking these questions, but here's the thing there are a million resources on True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean, YouTube channel, True WordFaithforLife.com, the Rumble channel, everywhere. I've written countless words on the name of Jesus, Yeshua. The names of Jesus. It comes by money, many names. The names of God. It's a big argument. Some people are like, oh no, if you don't say Yahovah, then you're saying the wrong name, then you're wrong. You're wrong about everything. Well, if you don't say Elohim, then you're wrong. You're wrong about that. You're wrong about everything. Nope. We're not gonna go down that road. Lots of teaching available. If you disagree, that's okay. Here's the thing. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham and with Isaac and with Jacob, and God saw the people of Israel and God. God saw. God knew. Not past tense in the sense of God once noticed and moved on. This is covenant attention. This is the God of Abraham leaning in. The people didn't know what they didn't know they were being heard. They were just groaning. Who can blame them? They're slaves. They're being worked to death. They're being murdered by the slave masters. They don't work fast enough, gotta go. Out you go. Dangerous conditions, horrible conditions to live in. They were just groaning. They weren't praying a polished prayer here. They were crying out under the weight of a system that was crushing them. And God heard the groan. And he hears yours too. Are you groaning? Are you thinking God doesn't hear you? He hears you. Now here's where. Here's where Exodus 2 goes deeper than a history lesson. First, God positions people before they know they're being positioned. Come on, some of you. I mentioned it at the outset of this, at this message. God positions people before they even know they're being positioned. Moses, Moshe, is hidden in a basket. Moshe, Moses, is educated in Pharaoh's house. Moshe is trained in the wilderness of Midian. And none of it looks like preparation while it's happening. But all of it is preparation indeed. My friends, if you're in the middle of what feels like a wilderness season, hear this carefully. Midian isn't the end of Moses, Moshe's story. It isn't the end. It's where he learns the land that he'll need, he'll need that learning to lead a nation through. The wilderness isn't always punishment. Sometimes the wilderness that you're in is curriculum. Sometimes the suffering is tuition. Shake that out, shake that out. Sometimes the suffering, sometimes the wilderness, isn't punishment, it is the curriculum and the tuition. Second, surrender is sometimes the bravest act of faith. The mother didn't abandon her son, no. She surrendered him to the only one who could save him. There's a difference. Abandonment walks away. Surrender hands it to God and keeps watching. Third, God hears groans, not just prayers. You don't have the you don't have the right words. You can't, you can't figure out. You just don't even know. You can't figure it out. I can't figure it out. I can't even, I don't even know what to pray. I just know I'm hurting. I know I'm devastated. I know I'm in terrible grief. I just found out yesterday one of our dear friends died. A few days before that, another of our dear friends died. Sometimes you don't have the words. So you groan. My friends, you don't have to have the right words. You don't have to have the right posture. You don't have to explain your situation in some theological language. You just have to cry out. He hears, he remembers, he sees, he knows. How do I know? Because he told us and he's done it with me countless times, and I don't deserve it. Now, all of this points us to Yeshua. Jesus. Moshe is drawn out of the water to become the deliverer of his people. Can you imagine? He was delivered by the act of his mother, the act of faith by his mother. She handed him to God on a river that he created. And Moshe was delivered. And now God uses Moshe. Moses, the one he delivered to deliver his people. Yeshua is the greater Moses. The one who goes into the waters of death and comes out the other side in resurrection to deliver his people permanently. Moshe's mother, she couldn't save her son by holding on to her son. Can you imagine that moment? Her hand is on the basket she made and put her son in in a deadly river that both took life and gave life. And the current was running. Her own flesh and blood. And then she let go. And the current took her son. She saved him by letting go. Heavenly Father sent his son, not to be hidden in a basket, but to be exposed on a cross. So that through that surrender, rescue would come for all who would call on his name. And what of those four verbs at the end of Exodus two heard, remembered, saw, knew. The echo all the way to Calvary. God heard the groan of a broken world. God remembered his covenant promise. God saw the depth of the need. Our need. And God knew what it would cost. And he sent his son Yeshua anyway. Yeshua isn't a distant observer of your suffering. He entered it completely. And he came out on the other side. So in the world that you're living, you're living right now. What does obedience look like after Exodus 2? First, name what you've been refusing to surrender. Name it. You've been refusing to surrender it. Name it. What's still in your hands because you don't trust the river? Is it the relationship? Is it the outcome? Is it the reputation? The plan? Name it. Then say out loud, Father, I'm making a basket and I'm letting it go. Number two. Stop apologizing for being in Midian. If you're in a wilderness season, a quiet season, a slow season, a season that doesn't look like the calling, stop treating it like a failure. Ask instead, what is God teaching me here that I'll need later? Number three. Cry out. You don't need a polished prayer. You don't need a bunch of religious language, just honest groaning. Just honest groaning. He hears groans. He heard Israel's and he'll hear yours. Here's the truth that holds Exodus two together. God sees you before you can see him working. God hears you before you know you're being heard. God remembers the covenant before you remember to claim it. My friends, the basket isn't the end of the story. Midian is not the end of the story. The groan is not the end of the story because the God who heard Israel groaning in Egypt is the same God, the God who hears you right now. He has heard, he remembered, he has seen, and he knows. And he's already working on the other side of what you can see. You can't see it, but he's working. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Yeshua, thank you that you hear groans, not just polished prayers. Thank you that the basket in the river was never outside your sight. Thank you that Midian wasn't a mistake. It was curriculum. Father, for everyone carrying something they haven't been able to surrender, give them the faith of a mother making a basket. Help them let go. Help them watch. Help them trust that what they release into your hands is safer than what is in theirs. And for everyone groaning under something too heavy to explain, hear them. Remember your covenant over them. See them. Know them. Move on their behalf. I pray this in Yeshua, your matchless son's name. Amen. Maybe today's word met you somewhere real. Send it. Send it to someone who's in a basket season. They're in the basket season. Someone who's let go and doesn't know if God caught it. Someone who's in Midian, wondering if they missed their moment, someone whose prayer has been a groan more than a sentence. Send it today. Send it now. Have you ever placed your faith in Christ? Do you even know what we're talking about here? Why wait another moment? Seriously, why wait another moment? Why would you put off eternity with God? Or choose by your failure to choose. Eternal damnation and hell. It's not God doing it to you, it's your choosing. It's real. Heaven is real, hell's real too. Just listen, you've danced around this long enough. Pray this prayer with me, Heavenly Father. Yeshua. I know that you are the Messiah, the Hamashiach. And you lived a sinless life. And you were tortured and you were murdered. And you were buried in a grave. And you rose again. Just like prophesied. Heavenly Father. We ask you now. I ask you now. Forgive me of my sins, my hurts, my habits, and my hang-ups. I need your help. I need your mercy. I place my faith in you. I ask that you guide me. Thank you for saving me. In the name of your son, your matchless sons. Name Yeshua. Amen. If you prayed that prayer, if you have any questions, reach out to me. It's free. True WordFaithforLife.com slash contact or hit the little button on the top or on the side. It'd be silly, just absolutely silly, to have questions and not have them answered. Tomorrow morning we're going to be here at 7 a.m. Monday through Friday. And then usually we do Sunday. But this week, gonna be different. I will do the summation of this when I come back to this microphone the following week. Until then, I'm gonna say it in Hebrew first, and then I'm gonna tell you what I said. The ironic blessing over you. I'm nothing special, believe me. These are the words of God, the language of God, and our Redeemer Yeshua. May Adunai bless you and keep you. May Adunai make his face to shine upon you and show you his grace. May Adunai lift up his face toward you and give you shalom. Shalom Bashem Yeshua. Peace in the name of Yeshua. Peace be unto you all. Until tomorrow. Same place. 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