The Bush is Burning Where YOU are!

Good morning. Welcome to True Word, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. I'm Dr. Sean. We are going through the Bible in a year, walking the story of God. And here we go. Day 56. You weren't looking for it. I want you to put yourself into this place that I'm going to describe. You weren't looking for it. You were just doing what you do every day. Same work, same land, same routine. Moshe wasn't on Moses. Moshe is the real name for Moses. Moshe wasn't on a pilgrimage. He wasn't fasting. There wasn't some big thing going on. He wasn't in a temple. He was just doing his job. He was just at work. Just doing his job regular every day. He was leading sheep across familiar ground. And God showed up in a bush. Not because Moses earned it, not because Moses was ready. Not because Moses was even asking. But because God had been watching and God heard and God remembered and the time had come. My friend, I have to ask you the question: what if the burning bush isn't always dramatic? What if God is already in the ordinary place where you've just been walking past every day? You say, I've got to go to some fancy place to serve God. I've got to go to some far-flung place away. I've got to do some big dramatic thing to serve God. What if God is already in those ordinary places you just walk past every day? Stay with me here. Exodus 3 is one of the most important chapters in all of Scripture. And it begins with a man just doing his job, a complicated man doing his job and God showing up. Shalom and welcome to True Word Faith for Life. Again, I'm Dr. Sean. In case you forgot, today's day 56. And if you've been with us from the beginning, God bless you. God bless you. I see many people in the live chat. We're streaming live to eight locations. By the way, if you're listening on playback, or you even if you're listening live and you say, Well, I want to listen to more of this when I'm driving to work or I'm going to the grocery or whatever, we're on all of your favorite podcast locations. Usually about an hour or two hours after the show, we're there. I have to do a bunch of work to it, takes about an hour, sometimes an hour and a half, and then we populate it out. And you don't have to look at this face, which is a bonus.

So, Exodus. Exodus three.

Before we go in, I want to mention my book, True Word Faith for Life. Written for the person who needs the word to speak to real life. Not just Sunday morning. It's available now in the link in the description of this show. If you're listening on True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean, YouTube or Rumble, thank you. Please, subscriber link. That's the last time you'll hear me say that. So let's go in. Before we go in, I want you to drop uh either the emoji fire or the word fire in the chat. If you've ever felt like God shows up for other people, God shows up for other people, but you feel like he just doesn't show up for you in the ordinary moments of your life. Because Exodus 3 is specifically for that. The bush that burned and wasn't consumed. God is already in the place that you've been walking past. Moses is tending the flock of his father-in-law, Jethro. He leads them to the far side of the wilderness. He comes to Horeb, the mountain of God. And the angel of the Lord appears to him in a flame of fire out of the middle of a bush. The bush is burning. And if you're watching on live chat, I spent a lot of time developing this image, the thumbnail image. If you're listening on playback, you'll see it. It's the thumbnail there. A lot of time trying to depict what I would imagine would be. And that hopefully is helpful. The bush is burning, but the bush isn't consumed. I want you to sit with that for a moment. I want you to sit with that for a moment. A fire that burns without destroying what it burns in. That's not natural. That's not chemistry. That's the presence of the holy God, the holy God, resting on something ordinary without consuming it. And Moses sees it. He says, I will turn aside to see this great light. Why the bush isn't burned. The phrase, I will turn aside that matters. He could have kept walking. He could have told himself it was a trick of the light. He could have been too busy, too familiar with this ground, too locked in to this routine, his daily routine. He turned aside. He turned aside. And when God saw that he turned aside to look, God called him out of the bush. God called to him out of the bush. Moshe. The double name. When he called Avraham, Avraham, or Abraham, Abraham, as your English Bible say. In Genesis 22. If you were with us from the beginning, you'll remember that. He even said it in uh Genesis 46, Jacob Jacob. When God doubles the name, he's not just announcing, he's meeting. He's saying, I see you specifically. I'm calling you personally. I know your name. And Moses says, Here I am. By the way, let me pause a moment. Listen to those of you who are new to the chat, we're kind to one another here. We don't treat each other ignorant, and we pay attention. We're not just looking for a platform to type our bias, our confirmation bias. We're not just looking to disrupt and mess people up with our thing, our issue that we push. Like, for instance, oh, is you know, is this some uh hijack in this Jewish hijack and infiltration of the KJV? Come on, listen and learn. Stop with all this mess. It's silly. It's silly. And what did he really mean? What did God really mean by Israel? I teach on all of that. Be patient. Listen, don't be so focused on your bias. Just listen and receive the teaching with dignity, with character, and with maturity. If it's not for you, there are millions of other YouTube channels, and I'm sure some of them teach what you want to learn. Not what you need to learn, but what you want to learn. They teach what bias will be confirmed in you watching them. I teach a lot about confirmation bias. It's devastating. And Moses says, Here I am. Hinani. Hineini. The same word Abraham said on the mountain. The same word Jacob said in the night vision, the covenant word. Present, available, listening, holy ground. Holiness isn't about location, it's about presence. And God says, don't come near. Take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. This is what God says to Moshe. This is what he says to Moses, don't come near, take your sandals off of your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. You wonder why a lot of modern um, and you know, we would we back in the day, we would have never done this, especially in high church and traditional church. But um anyway, hey, listen, hang on one second before we go on. Corn Plum 80, and all the rest of you. Listen, you can go somewhere else and fight among yourselves about, ooh, why did this happen? Uh-huh. Why did this? Because you've hung your hat on certain things. Listen, listen to the teaching. Why, why did the Sanhedrin remove books of scripture? Okay, I get your tribe now. You're the books of the Bible were removed. I teach all about that. This isn't that teaching. This is not that teaching. You want to come through the Bible in a year, maybe a year, maybe not, and you want to walk the story of God as accurately as has ever been presented. This is your place. If that's not for you, there are millions, millions of other places. And we're not going to discuss the King James Version. Everybody knows my public view uh and assessment of the King James Version. It's not, this is not the place or the time for that discussion. Now, prepare yourself for teaching. And if you're not prepared, maybe this isn't the thing for you. Don't come near. God says, don't come near. And he says, take the sandals off your feet. And for the longest time, Jesus is a Jew. He not was a Jew, he is a Jew. So he says, Don't come near. Take your sandals off your feet. And and I could not comprehend the worship leaders in a lot of really popular uh worship music videos I would watch from these different churches, and I'd be like, what's with all the feet, you know, bare feet on stage? And like, you know, they they just why? I don't get it. And then I remembered this passage. Because you know, honestly, the sort of the bias that I that I had was, and it was, I didn't realize the bias, but I'm like, man, don't you don't you respect the house of the Lord, the sanctuary? You're gonna take your shoes off? And I see it in the modern world, and I applied that modern anachronistic lens to modern world. But the fact of the matter of this, God himself told Moshe, Moses, don't come near, take your sandals off your feet, for the place you are standing in is holy ground. Holy ground, not the temple. He wasn't in the temple. He was outside, not Jerusalem. He was outside. Not a formal sanctuary with priests and incense and an ark. He was in a hillside. He was on a hillside in the wilderness. He had a shepherd and a flock. He was probably sweating his rear end off. An ordinary man on an ordinary day. Now, I say ordinary man. I don't know so much that he was an ordinary man. The guy was pretty extraordinary. If if if it if I'm being honest, that guy was a better guy than me. A lot better guy. He had a lot on the ball, this guy. A lot. I want to say this, I want you to hear it. Holiness isn't primarily about location. Holy ground, not primarily about location. That's not what it's about. It's just not what it's about. Holiness, holy ground. You say, well, I don't have a place like that. I've got to go to those places. No, no, no. Where you're right now, where you're standing, where you're sitting right now, could very well be holy ground. It's not about location, it's about presence. Listen, you can say, oh, I don't feel like this place is, you know, I don't feel like the Lord is in this place because the worship music is bad. There's lots of incredible churches with horrible, horrible worship music. Or mediocre worship music. Maybe they're not blessed with a bunch of great musicians. I want you to know that that many of the best worship music uh groups that you see, they're paid. And some of them are just, you know, they they paid for them to come. That doesn't make them bad people. And then there are some churches, great churches with great ministries, that say, listen, before you can play here, we have to have a conversation about your faith. Yeah, I know you're a great musician and all, but we have to have a conversation about your faith. We want to make sure you understand about what we're doing here. We want you to understand, but we want you to know the God and the Yeshua, the Elohim, the Adonai. We want you to know and and and believe in what we're talking about. And if not, we want to chat with you and tell you all about it before you come, before you play. And some of those places they don't have the greatest musical things. Good morning, Miss Colleen. I love you. They don't have that. Their music kind of stinks sometimes. And then there are places where these the the worship, the worship teams, which, you know, they have teams. They're blessed with a ton of musicians, excellent musicians, singers, um, vocalists, I should say, that are incredible and directors that are incredible. And they sing beautifully. It isn't about how incredible the worship music is. It's not. I gotta feel that in order to feel the presence of God. Well, then you're hunting for a music situation, not a holy ground situation. Where God is, is holy, and God was there. The sandals come off because Mose is standing on ground consecrated by the presence of the Holy One. And what I was saying about the music leaders, sometimes with their bare feet, maybe they know about this passage. Maybe they're maybe they're they're saying, hey, I'm treating this as holy ground because we're we're we're inviting. Now look, I'm not saying churches with incredible worship teams can't be holy ground and can't be incredible. They may have incredibly accurate preaching, they may have incredibly accurate worship teams, they may have incredible, incredible nurseries and student ministries, and and it may be clean and beautiful and modern and all of those things. Absolutely, absolutely. I'm not saying that at all. I talk about it in both books. I talk about it in many of my speeches. And then when I'm called to a giant church to preach, I talk about it, but I I don't talk lightly about it because it has become a big deal. I want to go get the feeling, man. I want to go get the feeling because then I feel like God is there. They are untethered. They're untethered. They're untethered. It could be just one person with a guitar, and they it may be a little bit out of tune, and they may not be a great singer, but they are singing to and for the Lord. To and for the Lord. And you say, Oh, but I like great music. I want a million programs. You say that's the only way I'll believe that this is holy ground. I'll feel this is holy ground. Maybe I'm talking to you, I don't know. But I'm gonna tell you something. This holy ground, mm-mm. This this land, this, this dust and dirt where Moshe, Moses was standing, it was consecrated by the presence of the Holy One, not because the ground was special before God arrived. Had nothing to do with it. Because God arrived. And some of us have been waiting for some for a holy place before we expect to encounter God. We're looking for a better church, a better season, a better version of ourselves. You say, well, when I get my life together, then God can meet me. Nope, that's exactly where he needs to meet you. When things are complicated. When I'm not in this wilderness season, then I'll go find him. No, no, no. I always say, and I wasn't the first one to say it. There have been many, many far greater men than me. Say it. Motivation, listen, motivation doesn't bring action. Action brings motivation. You say, I don't feel like going and worshiping. I don't feel like reading my Bible. I don't feel like praying and encountering God. Or maybe just listening to him. The heart is deceitful above all things. Feelings and emotions lie. The Lord meets you where you are, he hears you, he sees you, and he cares about you no matter where you may be in your life. He is at the door, waiting. You say, I gotta have that feeling, I gotta have that place, I gotta have this certain thing in order to feel God, and in order to feel it's holy. No, no, no. That's not how it works. Listen, the bush burns right where you are, not only. Where you plan to be. Not only where it feels. Listen, Moses, this is a regular day. Your regular day. The covenant name. I have seen, I have heard, I have come down. Then God speaks the words that anchor the entire scene. I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hides his face. Why? Because he's afraid to look at God. And God says, I've seen the affliction of my people. I've heard their cry. I know their sufferings. I've come down to deliver them. Don't blow past that. Like you're trying to beat a yellow light going to red. Heard. Known. Come down. Those four verbs were at the end of Exodus two. Yesterday we watched them accumulate. God heard. God remembered. God saw. God knew. Now those verbs are turning into action. The watching is becoming moving.

The knowing is becoming coming. Then God says, I'm sending you.

And Moshe, Moses, the man who ran from Egypt, who has been in the wilderness for forty years, who named his own son Gershom, meaning, I've been a sojourner in a foreign land. Moshe, or Moses says, Who am I that I should go? And God doesn't answer the question Moses asks. Sometimes we ask the wrong questions of God. God answers the question underneath the question. He doesn't say, You're capable, Moses, you can do it. You can handle this difficult season, so and so. You're smart enough, you're brave enough, you're all of these things. No. He doesn't say you're impressive. He doesn't fluff up Moses. He doesn't say, hey, listen, let me let me go through your resume, Mosey. Moshe, Moshe. Maybe you've forgotten about your resume. Let me just tell you all about how important you are. Come on. He says, I will be with you. The answer to who am I? Who am I? Is always I am with you. The name of above all names. Listen, I gotta tell you something. I gotta tell you something. You're probably sitting there and you're thinking, yeah, that's that's this guy. That's them. That's this. That's this thing. That's this place. I'm not there. I don't have those things. This isn't who I am. This isn't what I am. I'm not I'm not I'm not good enough. I am too complicated. I I'm t I'm too jacked up. I've got too many hurts, habits, and hangups. And and you know what? Here's the truth. I I can't do it. I can't do it. I don't I don't have I don't I can't I can't even talk. I'm shy. I don't pray in public because I'm shy. Not because I'm I I I don't know, I'm not stupid. I'm just shy. It's not because I don't love God, I'm shy. I'm intimidated. I just don't know if I'm the one, God, you must have spoken. You I get it, I appreciate you thinking I'm great. I appreciate you thinking I'm great. Aye, a shareye, a yeah, a share yeah, I am who I am. This is what God says. I am who I am. Then Moses asks the question that changes everything. By the way, I didn't even think they answered ask about the sound. Is it loud enough? Can you guys hear me? If I go to the people of Israel and they ask me what is his name, what do I say? If I go to the people of Israel, his people, my people, and they ask me what is his name, what do I say? And God says, Eye, Asher Eye, I am who I am. I am who I am. This is the most theologically dense sentence in the entire Torah. God doesn't say I was who I was, past tense, historical, a God who acted once and is now waiting to be remembered. God doesn't say I will be who I will be. It's not, it's not, thank you, Nicole, appreciate it. Welcome, Mr. Business W. Welcome, welcome to you all. I don't know if I remembered to say that. God doesn't say, I will be who I will be, future, distant, a God who's coming someday, but not yet here. No, he says, I am present, active, continuous, uncontained. Don't tell me about your problem being insurmountable. Don't tell me that. God cannot be contained. We serve a wild God. Please do not sanitize God. God is wild. He's not wild, uncontrolled. He is just beyond our comprehension. And let me tell you something, he is undiminished. He's not less of a God now than he was then. He won't be more of a God down the road a little bit when he shows us miracles, like he did back then. He simply is. He requires no prior cause. He needs no permission to exist. He's not dependent on whether you believe in him or not. Listen, God is not waiting around for you to come around to believing in him. Oh, Miss Nancy. Y'all, I want you to welcome Miss Nancy Flanagan into the chat and into watching today. I want you to know Nancy Flanagan heard from God and spoke a word over me that no one else could have known except for my wife. And it was under the most extraordinary circumstances you could ever imagine. I've told it before, and someday I'll tell it again. But in the meantime, I love you. And you listened to God and you did what he said, even though it might have made you look like a crazy person. I might have gone, lady, you're crazy, but it didn't. I knew. I knew. Listen, God needs no permission to exist. And and and you listen, you you may think, well, that sounds terrible. That that he's not dependent on whether you believe in him or not. He is. He is God, and he is present, and he is for his people. But that's a decision you have to make. It doesn't affect God. Oh, sure, he grieves those who don't don't accept and place their faith in his son Jesus. No, this is the name the covenant people carry. Are you ready? This is how you say it. This is accurate. The Lord, the one whose very name is a declaration of uncaused, unending, undiminishing presence. And then God says the line that seals it all this is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations, not just for Moshe, not just for Israel in Egypt forever. This is the name you call on. This is the name that answers. This is the name that doesn't change when your circumstances do. The I am was there when Israel groaned in Egypt. The I am was there when Moshe was hiding in Midian. The I am was there before the world began. And the I am is here right now, in whatever ordinary place and circumstance that you're standing in today. Listen, I talked about my two friends. Two dear friends that have gone on to their reward. Dear people, Don and Wes. They suffered greatly. I hate that they did, but they are healed and made whole in the presence of the healer now. Their faith, their life complicated. And then with the Lord, right now, when they had challenging circumstances to face. In fact, Miss Colleen will tell you over and over I had to confront this. But there are three things. Exodus three. It changes about how you see your life, your life first. Are you listening? Are you ready to receive this? This is real. God often speaks in the ordinary before he calls you to the extraordinary. Oh, did you hear that? God often speaks in the ordinary before he calls you to the extraordinary. Moshe wasn't in a prayer closet. He wasn't on some deep retreat. He was at work. Oh, you say, Oh, I can't take my faith to work. I gotta be quiet about my faith at work. Well, God, He stays. By the way, hey Joe, good to see you, man. Love you, brother. And Miss Shiro. We're praying for you. We're praying for you. Listen, don't wait for dramatic conditions before you expect God to speak. Turn aside. Pay attention. He is in the ordinary. The bush might be already burning. You just might have your head down. Focused on all problems, all the listen, listen, we're we're challenged with something right now. And it's easy to forget who God is. It's easy to forget what He is. I'm living this. Right along with you. Listen, number two, I want you to hear this. The answer to inadequacy is always presence. It's not credentials. I have a lot of initials after my name. I do. And it may not be from some prestigious university or or uh uh divinity school or seminary. No, not prestigious. It was wonderful. They are wonderful. I have the greatest faith relationship, and I grew more there at Masters than Ever. Ever in my life. What sits before you isn't some fancy pants guy. The answer to inadequacy is always presence, not credentials, not feelings, not emotions. Moshe asked who he was. And God didn't upgrade Moses' resume. He didn't say, Let me give you a new skill set, a better personality, more confidence. God said, I'll be with you in that tough time. I'm gonna be with you. I'm gonna be with you on the mountaintop and in the valley. That's still the answer for you today. And that is still enough. Whatever you're facing that feels bigger than you are, it is. And the I am is with you. God is with you. Third, hear this. Hear this. Don't check out mentally. Don't pay attention to any of the distractions around you. Holy ground is wherever God is, not wherever you decided he ought to be, not wherever you felt like the worship music was off the chain. Oh man, I really felt the presence of the Lord. Listen, you gotta grow out of that. You gotta mature through that. Holy ground is wherever God is, not wherever you've decided he ought to be. Yes, are there places that we call sanctuary? Hello, Christian. Good to see you. Hello, Miss Linda. God bless you. Holy ground is wherever God is, not where you decided you ought to be. But I'm not saying at all that you can't feel the presence of God out on a boat. Or maybe standing on a mountain, looking at the autumn leaves changing, watching the mist come over the mountains and going, Majesty, God, watching the waves crash on the shore, out in the woods, hearing all the birds, watching the animals. No, I'm not saying that that cannot be a sanctuary. I'm saying that holy ground is wherever God is, not wherever you've decided he ought to be, not wherever you've placed him. You say, oh no, uh, I need to be here in order to feel God. I need to be here in order to feel God. And then it's the next place and the next place and the next place. Welcome, Ruth. Good to see you. Thank you so much. Listen, take the sandals off. Take your sandals off. Show up present. He's already where you are, he's already there. You don't need a better season, you don't need a more prepared version of yourself. You need to turn aside right here, right now, where you are. Oh, come on, somebody knows you're in that place and you've been fighting it. The I am of the burning bush took on flesh. All of this points to Yeshua, Jesus Christ. He's not forced, he's not added on. It's where the text has been pointing all along. And if you don't understand the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context, you miss this. You stay all in the New Testament and you say, Well, I'm just New Testament. I like to read that. If you don't have the foundation, my friends, we spent what, how many days? 50-something days. 50-something days in Genesis. We spent all that time in Genesis. You say, Why? Why? You'll never get through in a year. I don't care. Maybe I will, maybe I won't. God is in control of this, not me. But I can tell you this: He said, Lean hard into the foundation, son. Lean hard into the foundation. They need to understand where it all came from. When the religious leaders challenged Yeshua about Avraham or Abraham, he said, Before Abraham was, I am. Before Abraham was, I am. Yeshua said this. When the religious leaders challenged him and said, Well, what about Abraham? Before Abraham was, I am. He didn't say I was. He didn't say I existed before Abraham. He used the covenant name on purpose in their hearing, and they knew exactly what he was saying. That's why they picked up stones. Oh, come on. If some folks aren't picking up stones when you speak of the name of Yeshua in Elohim Adonai, when you when you live your life, if people aren't coming up against you a little bit, bristling up against you. If people aren't picking up stones, maybe they don't even know you're a person of faith. Maybe they don't know the I am is real to you. The I am of the burning bush took on flesh, and his name is Yeshua Hamashiach, the one who met Moshe on the holy ground, came down to make every ground holy. Not by the fire of the bush, but the fire of his own sacrifice. And the promise he gave Moshe, Moses, I will be with you. Didn't stop at the Red Sea. It didn't stop at the Jordan. It didn't stop at the cross. In Yeshua, the promise, that promise became, I will be with you always, even to the end of the age. The I am is still speaking. He's still calling names. He's still meeting people in the wilderness seasons. He's still saying, I've heard, I've seen, I've come down. Today he's asking you a question. He's asking you a question, will you turn aside? Now, where does Exodus 3 find you today? Maybe you're in the Midian season. It's the quiet season, the invisible season, the season that doesn't look anything at all like what you thought the calling would look like. You've been faithful with the small things. And you wonder if the burning bush is ever coming for you. Or if it's just for other people. It's for you. Here's the news flash of the day. It's for you. It's for you. Moshe didn't earn the burning bush. He didn't qualify for it. He turned aside when he saw it. That's all. Turn aside. Maybe you've been asking the wrong question. You've been asking who am I to do this? Listen, that's an honest question. I asked it for decades. But it's the wrong question. Miss Nancy's blessed prophetic influence in my life. I didn't know her at all. Changed my faith life, changed my direction. And it has not been an easier path. I'm going to tell you that. Not by a long shot. Amen, Miss Colleen. I was asking the wrong question all that time. Because the answer to that question left to yourself is I'm not enough. I have too many hurts, habits, and hang-ups. I've done this, that, and the other thing. I'm not qualified. Listen, I'm not saying he's calling you to preach. I'm not saying he's calling you to be a missionary. I tell you what I could be saying. What he could be calling you to is stop hiding. Stop hiding in your house. Stop hiding in your cubicle at work. Stop hiding in your car. You have the light of Christ in you? Go show that light to other people. Stop being unfriendly. Stop being unkind. Stop being afraid to speak of your faith. The right question is who is with me? And the answer to that question is if you know the Lord, The I am. Stop answering the question of adequacy with your own resume. Answer it with his name. And maybe you've been waiting for a holier place. Maybe it's a better church, a better season, a more spiritual version of your life. When things settle down, then I'll seek him then. Then things settle down. When I'm not in this mess, when I'm not a mess, well, then he can use me. Listen, take your sandals off. This is holy ground, right where you are. He's already here. He was here before you ever noticed.

Take a deep breath. You're gonna need it. One step today. One step today. One step.

I'm not asking you to climb a mountain, neither is he. If you're in Midian wondering if the bush is coming, stop treating the wilderness like a mistake. Ask out loud right now, Father, what are you teaching me here that I'll need later? Then listen. Don't ask questions, then run off, say, oh, I didn't hear the voice like God. I'm the it's be still and know that I am God. Sometimes you got to be still and you got to be quiet and you got to be patient. Father, what are you teaching me here, right where I'm living? Right now. What are you teaching me at this job that I have now or that I'm gonna have that I'll need later? Then listen. If you've been asking, who am I? Who am I? Say this out loud before we go any further. The I am is with me. That is enough. I'm not doing this alone. Then take one step today as if that's true. Why? Because it is true. It's always been true. And if you've been waiting for some holier place, right where you are right now, say, Here I am I, here I am. He name me, present, available, and listening. Then turn aside from something today long enough to actually hear him. Put the phone down, turn the noise off, even for ten minutes. The bush is burning. Turn aside. I have for you today, as I do every day, a challenge and a choice. Here's the challenge. The bush burned on an ordinary workday for an ordinary shepherd in an ordinary wilderness. And God called him by name, and he sent him to do the impossible. And the only qualification Moshe needed was I am will be with you. That's your qualification, too. So choose, turn aside, stop walking past the ordinary moments where God might already be speaking. Slow down enough to notice what's burning. Say, Hinane, here I am, present, available, not performing, not managing, just here. Trust the name, not your resume, not your history, not your capability, the I am. Let me tell you something. Some of those people in the worship team or the praise team or music people up on the stage of that church that you scoffed at because they weren't that great. Some of those people spent a lot of time with their shoes off in front of the burning bush. And God called them just like he calls the amazing voice, the voices of the Jen Johnsons and the Naomi Rains and the Jordan Smiths and the Dave, the David Phelps, and and all of the ones you want to name. These great voices, CeCe Wynans, and and uh so many that I love. So many. So many. I the list is long. And you say, Oh, but I really get feeling of the spirit from them. I'm not against great music, I love great music. I love it. But those people, those same people that aren't great singers, that aren't great guitar players, maybe they're learning the violin. Pixie Dust 007. Why? Stupid. This is dumb. It's childish, it's immature. Why? The I am. They might have listened. Those same people that aren't fancy, that don't have fancy pedigrees, not super professional, they might well have heard from God. God said, hey, go there. But let me tell you just another quick story. For all those incredible musicians out there that are singing their faces off sincerely. They've they they love the Lord. They live for the Lord. They went to music uh school and and and they they studied. And, you know, a music degree is very difficult. It's one of the most difficult degrees. It's extremely challenging. And they might have done that. But let me tell you something. I know people right now who are concert pianists. They are some of the greatest talents ever. You may say, Dr. Sean, why are you spending so much time on this? Because there's a lot of you walking past churches, writing that tick box, going, mm-mm, that church isn't for me, that place isn't for me, because you know, I don't feel the Lord in that place. You don't feel the Lord in that place, or you just don't like the music. Those people might have sought God. They might have been still and heard God. But I know lots of incredible musicians. I know singers with the voice of angels. I know singers that have ranges that are incredible. I know people that can sing or play their instrument, and it's so compelling that you can't look away. You can't walk past it. And yet God called them, gave them that talent, and they keep it hidden.

They keep it hidden. The I am.

It's not your resume, it's not your history, not your capability, it's the I am. Who was present before the world began? Who met Moshe in a in a wilderness? Who took on flesh and walked among us? Who is with you right now? The bush is burning. Will you turn aside? That's your challenge and your choice. Will you turn aside? Welcome, Robbie. God bless you. You're never late. You never, you're never too late. You can always go back and listen. Prayer isn't asking for a burning bush, my friends. It's turning aside when you see one. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Yeshua, thank you that you meet people at work, not only at altars. Thank you that the burning bush wasn't for the worthy, it was for the willing. Thank you that the answer to who am I is always I am with you. For everyone who feels ordinary, too failed, too far from what you've called them to, let the burst, let the bush burn today. Give them eyes to turn aside. Give them the grace to take their sandals off, speak their name twice if you have to. In the silence, remind them that the wilderness is curriculum, it's not punishment, that you've been positioning them for something they cannot yet see. And for everyone who's been asking the wrong question, who am I? Remind them of the answer, which is I am, is with you. In Yeshua's name. Amen. If you've never surrendered your life to Yeshua, maybe today's the day the bush finally gets your attention. The I am who met Moses in the wilderness is the same God who come, He He came down.

Not in a bush. Not this time, but in a body.

Who lived the life you couldn't live, who died the death I deserved and you deserved, who rose again so that the grave doesn't get the final word. He's not calling you because you're qualified. He has always known your name. And he's been watching, and he's heard, and he has come down. And today he's saying, Here I am. Amen. Will you say it back? Pray with me. Yeshua, Jesus. I believe you are the Son of God. I believe you died for my sin and rose again. I turn from my sin and self-rule. Forgive me, cleanse me, make me new. Here I am. I receive you as Savior and Lord. Teach me to follow you. Amen. Most important step you have ever taken in all of your eternity. If you prayed that prayer today, welcome to the family of God. We are not perfect. Despite what everybody else thinks. Those unbelievers, maybe some of the people in chat, you know, the disruptive ones, the ooh, we've reported you ones. Banning doesn't change that. So does creating multiple profiles. So you can try to disrupt things. You will answer one day. And that day may come a whole lot sooner than you think. I just pray you listen. I pray that you act. If you prayed that prayer today, God bless you. The I am knows your name. And you don't have to figure out your next step alone. I don't get anything for this. My wife and I were talking through tears last night. I've spent so much money. So much money. We have spent so much money on all of this stuff. You have no idea how much this has cost. Sure, I could have tried to do it with a cell phone. God called me to excellence. And I'm pursuing it every day. Not for me, not for accolade, and certainly not for money, because 4,000 and some odd subscribers. I don't have money coming in. Not a dime. There's some dear people that give money, some on a regular basis, and some when they can. And I I appreciate it. I'm not asking you for money. I'm just telling you, there's some people that have helped out, but I'm telling you this. I did this because God, the burning bush, he said, do this. Do it. Do it with excellence, the best that you can. So when I say reach out to me, I'm I don't get any money for it. I pay for it. It costs me for you to reach out to me through true wordfaithforlife.com/slash contact or the little button at the top that says contact or the little thing on the side, you can leave me a voicemail. It's only two minutes. There's no charge for it. Nothing tricky there, nothing behind the scenes. I pay for it all so you don't have to. Reach out to me there. I will personally connect with you and I'll help you take your next steps. Listen, I've helped countless people do it. I'll help you. We'll have fun while we're at it. Listen, if you gave your life to Yeshua today, understand, understand, you've done the greatest thing in your life you can ever do. And I'm sure you still have honest questions, and you're not sure you're allowed to ask. That door is open. That door is open. For as long as I have breath in my lungs and I'm able to do this, that door is open. Listen, if today's word it meant you somewhere real, send it to one person who needs to know the I am is still speaking. Someone who thinks the bush only burned for other people. Maybe they're a believer, maybe they're not. Someone in their Midian season who forgot the mountain is right there. Someone who's been asking, who am I, for so long? They've forgotten there. It's a better question. And send it today. Don't delay. Send the link. Listen, I'm going to pray a blessing over you. It's a blessing that has been prayed for centuries. I'm going to say it in Hebrew first, and then I'm going to translate it for you. Why? Why do you say it in Hebrew first? We're already at 58 minutes. Good lands. I'm trying to get this down to 20 minutes. So far, an abject failure on that. I keep trying. But people say, well, why do you, what are you trying to be a Jew? No. It's the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context. I spent decades, decades learning it, so I would understand accurately the language of God, the people of God, the context of where we all come from. That's why. And when I speak Hebrew, I speak the language of my Lord. I'm not saying you have to learn Hebrew. I'm just saying, why do I do it? You ready? You ready? May Adonai bless you and keep you. Yeer panav, yeer Adonai Panavakha Vitchunika. May Adonai make his face to shine upon you and show you his grace. May Adonai lift up his face. May he list, may Adonai God. May he lift up his face toward you and give you shalom. Tomorrow morning we will be here. 7 a.m. Until then. Shalom Bishem Yeshua. Peace in the name of Yeshua, and peace be upon you all. Shalom, shalom.