The Seven I WILLS

Moses asked God, why? Why did you send me? Nothing has changed. In fact, it's worse.

We're suffering more.

God didn't answer the why question. He answered a deeper question. Moses had an answer.

Do you know who I am? Not what I can do. Not what I promised. Not what the plan is.

Everything else. Every promise, every plan, every deliverance flows from the answer to that question. Exodus six is God's answer to Moses' lament. It's one of the most concentrated declarations of covenant identity in all of scripture. Stay with me. Welcome to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean and Dr. Sean. This is day 59. Today we're in Exodus 6, and as always, I want to mention my book, True Word Faith for Life. It's my second book, True Word Faith for Life.com. In the store, TrueWordFaithforLife.com. It's available anywhere books are sold, but you buy it from direct uh through the printer and all that. It's no difference in price. But it helps us more. So I um let's see here.

Rumble is not working. Okay. Sorry, Rumble. Well today's question. And maybe I write this one down. When God answers the hard question of the covenant. What do you do?

You go to him asking him a question, and and he reminds you. Apparently you forgot this. Good morning, all of you in chat. Lovely to see you. Thank you so much for joining us today. You know, Exodus 5. I I told you yesterday, Exodus 5. By the way, speaking of yesterday and tomorrow and the next day, um, I want to remind you that uh the the mic will be silent Sunday and then all of next week, we will come back next Sunday with the summation and deepening. And you don't want to miss it because I've made it a special episode. Um and uh yeah, we got a wedding and whatnot in a family. So lots of wedding stuff. Anyway, um, which we're super excited about, by the way. All that said to say, this is your opportunity. Some folks say, well, I didn't get to listen. I missed this or I missed that. And you and you want to be, you know, you want to I don't want to say caught up, but you you want to kind of get into all those that you've that you've missed. Or maybe there's a topic that you say, man, I'm really I wonder if Dr. Sean has ever talked about this or that. Then you put that in the search bar, or you just go and you scroll through and you figure out, oh, I think I will watch this one. And then you then you watch this next one, and yeah.

So there's your chance. Exodus five. I mean it's yesterday it was pain. It was serious pain, and I told you today's coming, Exodus six is coming. Exodus five, you know.

Moses was in pain, he was hurting over his people because he's like, Man, this is no better, this is not a good situation.

And Exodus six opens with God speaking. This is God speaking.

Now you will see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will let them go. And with a strong hand, he will drive them out of his land. God doesn't apologize for the hard beginning. God doesn't apologize for our hard beginnings. He speaks from the outcome. Now you will see. Now you will see. Present tense moving into future revelation. The deliverance isn't theoretical. It's coming. God says something is coming, it's coming. It's already in motion in God's economy, even when it's invisible in Moses' experience. And God says something we need to put it in the palm of your hand and hold it very carefully. Are you ready? I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, El Shaddai, but by my name the Lord, I did not make myself fully known to them. Now, at first blush, you might say, okay. And no, this is a staggering statement. If you know the ancient Near Eastern language culture in context, and you and you know the the scripture, you know, really how it happened in context. This is a staggering statement. The patriarchs knew God as El Shaddai, all sufficient one, the all-sufficient one, El Shaddai. But the fullness of the covenant name, Yahweh, the I am. It's being unveiled in this moment. To Moses in this generation, and in this crisis, Yahweh. The revelation of God deepens in the hard places. The name that sustains isn't always fully known until until you need it the most. And then comes the seven I will statements of God. Then God gives Moses seven covenant promises. Seven times he says, I will. I will bring you out from under the burdens of Egypt. I will deliver you from your slavery. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm. I will take you to be my people. I will be your God. I will bring you into the land I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will give it to you for a possession. Seven I wills. Not seven I hopes. Seven I wills. Not seven I plans. Well, I'm planning on. No. Not seven I'll try. I will. And when God says He's going to do it, He does it. The basis for every single one is this. I am the Lord. Three times in this passage, God anchors the promise with his name. The promise is only as reliable as the one who makes it. You ever know somebody? They make a lot of promises. You don't bank on it. You don't even change your schedule for it. They make lots and lots of promises. Meaningless. Not El Shaddai. Not the I am. Not Yahweh. And he is the I am. He is El Shaddai. He is Yahweh. His name is the guarantee. There were people that just couldn't hear it. And Moses. Moshe. He takes the message back to his people. He takes them back to the people. And they didn't listen to Moses. As if he needed one more thing. They didn't listen to Moses because of their broken spirit and the harsh slavery. They were, they were, look, they were they were they were crushed under the weight of all this. Can you blame them? My lands, can you blame them? I used to not understand that. Why, here's your deliverance. But they weren't all where Moses was. They weren't all where Moses was. Maturity-wise, spiritually. They weren't where Moses was. You ever have a revelation of truth? And your family isn't caught up, they're not on the same page. Your friends, maybe, maybe your organization, if you're a leader in an organization, maybe, maybe you're not a leader, but you've watched this happen. There's a new plan unveiled. By the way, I didn't even ask. How's the sound? Don't even know. Slavery, the likes of which they experienced good lands, horrific. Broken spirit, the Hebrew for this word. You have to learn the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context. Okay, so you're not gonna go to divinity school or seminary or language school or any of those things. That's fine. That's why you have this show. That's why you have this podcast. I know it's weird. I know. I'm weird. But God called me to this, not some other fluffy bit. To this. So this is where you're gonna learn the the words you you can't scroll past. You can't just but oh, I read through the Bible. Tick. Broken spirit. The Hebrew is Kutzeroak. Kutzerok. The word for the Holy Spirit is Rachot Hokodesh. Rachokodesh. But this is Kutzeroak. Short of spirit. Breathless. Crushed. They're not rebellious. See, you would read this, you would read this, and and maybe you've been in a church where the pastor or the teacher said, they were rebellious. They were blah, blah, blah. You know, they did, you know, they did this, and they were they were just, you know, they're finicky. Kutzeruak, short of spirit, breathless, crushed. Not rebellious, not faithless, breathless. They got no breath left in them. Have you ever been Kutzeruak? You've you've just got, listen, I found out yesterday. Miss Colleen and I found out yesterday. A dear friend of ours passed away. This has been a rough couple of weeks. Good lands, but this guy, he and his wife Annie, ugh. Precious people. Precious people. We love them to death. Love, love them both. And he passed. A sweeter man you'd never want to meet. Sweeter woman you never want to meet. I was when when I when I was told, I I just uh it's good I was sitting down. I was out of breath. I was crushed. I knew he was sick. I just didn't envision that. You know, I can't imagine a world without Robert in it. As you get older, this happens. Good morning, Tammy. Good morning. Good morning, Nicole. Good morning, Joe. God bless you. Good morning, Linda. God bless you. You are all loved. And good morning to the, I don't know, 30 or 40 others watching. I can't see because you're not on one of the ones that pop up in my thing. Look, they they were Kutzaroak. I had nothing left. Have you ever been there? It's okay to say it. Look, man, I got nothing left. I got nothing left. Have you ever been in that place? Your heart is broken, your will is broken. You're not rebellious. You're not faithless. But you to say that you're going through a tough time is pedantic. It's reducing to, you know, it's tantamount to, oh well, you know, I was one minute late, or one minute later than I wanted to be going to the grocery today. You know, we should change the way we think, by the way. We should change the way we think. We think, oh, woe is me. I was one minute late driving to the grocery. Got there one minute later and I wondered why? Because there was traffic. More traffic. You have a car when so many others don't. And you can buy food when so many others can't. You are blessed. You can make choices. That's not Kotzerwak. I remember sitting in the car. I was trapped in the car. 92 miles per hour versus 51 miles per hour, head on. I went from 51 to 0 in 7 feet. I died in the crash. I didn't know it. Till two years after. Till the one of the guys that marked my car fatal. He and the other EMT had run a strip on me and dunked my vitals and said he's gone. And he knew who I was. That we didn't know. Whenever it was that I reanimated, I was in horrific pain. Just utterly. I've been in terrible, I've been critically injured several times before. This one was different. Oof. Traumatic brain injury, shattered left side, internal injuries, serious ones. Spinal injury. My spinal cord was damaged. All kinds of stuff. Craziest injuries. Weird. I was trapped, I couldn't move. The first thing that occurred to me was to thank God. Avraham Heschel. Abraham Heschel. Great philosopher and theologian. One of my favorite quotes of his, I have many, but one of my favorites is something sacred hangs in the balance of every moment. And that's what I thought. Right at that moment. But then I said thank you. I prayed three prayers. I thanked God that nobody in my family was in the car. I thanked God that my dear, my dear dog Buckeye, who was with me 99% of the time, wasn't in the car. I almost took her. I thanked God. And then I prayed for the people in the other car. I said, man, if they, if, if, if, with all the training that I've had, if they were able to hit me, and I know it was heart impact, I know how much pain I'm in. I had no idea the level of devastation. Their car was fully engulfed, fully involved in flame, burnt to the rails. I had no idea that my son not only knew the boys in the car, he played football with them. The right front passenger, Andre. He's the only one that died and stayed dead. The rest had minor injuries, really. Andre was a sweet, sweet boy. Had everything in the world to live for. The driver was driving like a nutjob. Borrowed car, statement of insurance. I remember I was trapped for 40 minutes. They had to cut the left side of the car off. I remember just thinking, thank God. But I was. In addition to being crushed, you know, literally, physically. Critical thoracic, cardiothoracic injury. I was breathless. I couldn't couldn't get my breath. I was crushed. I just remember being grateful. It was weird. Some people can't receive. I look, by the way, I I I thought maybe I was going night night. I could feel myself little bits here and there just kind of like the light turning down a little bit. The pain never subsided, it only got worse. And when they'll tell that. Story another time. I've told it in detail before. It's all on True Word, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean, the YouTube channel. I remember. I remember. Wow, my faith is real. I had no doubt that I was speaking to God. I thought for the last time from earth to heaven. I thought soon, very soon it seems, I'm gonna be seeing him. Little did I know I'd already been dead. It's weird. Some of you are at the edge of life and death right now. Literally. You're facing it down. You're taking inventory. Some of you are in are in a really terrible financial situation. Some of you are facing losing someone who is so dear to you. Some of you are facing divorce. Some of you are facing a diagnosis, a prognosis. Susan, I definitely will. Susan says, greeting Sean and Colleen. Please greet the wedding person for me. I will definitely do that. Short of spirit, breathless, crushed, not rebellious, not faithless, breathless. I can't breathe. That's how these people were. We're so quick to throw rocks at them. Don't you stay at rescue? We have, by the way, this is the one of the new. I do it as I can afford them. Um, she has two more. Alyssa Mooseworks Bible has two more of my Bibles that she'll do them as I can pay for them. I'm not gonna lie to you, it's not it's not cheap, but it's it's artisanal work. If you want your Bible to last forever, you can pass it down. This one's the the one. This one, this is uh one of the most important Bibles to me because my brother Dean, out of nowhere, sent me this Bible. He's deceased, he's been gone, he was 52 years old when he left this world. But this is this is the one, the one she did. And I had two more waiting. As soon as I can afford to do them, I'm gonna pay her to do them. Those are gonna be very different. This book, regardless of the cover or the look or any of those things, this book, it will only change your life.

It can't change. Look, I can put whatever beautiful cover on there.

I I can do I can I can put it in special boxes. I've got my Bible collection up there. Miss Linda gave me one of the Bibles I treasure. Just treasure. Just showed up one day at Kala. I think you can give me two. I'm trying to remember. But I can tell you this, they're in a special prominent place. I can do that with all of my Bibles. I can have to pick it up, you have to read it. You have to make a way, just like exercise and healthful eating, you have to make a way. I don't care how busy you are, I don't care. I don't care. You say, Well, Dr. Sean, you're disabled. You know, all you do is sit around and read the Bible and study and whatnot, and then write these messages and deliver these messages. Okay. It's all I do now, but it's not what I did before I got hurt. We have lots of excuses for lots of things. We find time to do what we want to do. This is not a I'd like to, it's a I've got to. If you want to connect with the Heavenly Father, if you really want to understand Yeshua, if you really want to understand why, what what all of this? What I'm I'm confused. I need to know more. I need to understand my life. I'm Kutze Ruak. I'm short of spirit, I'm breathless, I'm crushed. I'm not rebellious, I'm not faithless. I believe in God, but I'm breathless. There's a difference. Some people can't receive the promise right now, not because they don't want it. It's because the crushing has been going on so long. They don't have the breath left to lift their head. Some of you have been crushed in spirit. You've been crushed in spirit through no fault of your own. Some of you, I talked to someone the other day. He's been, uh he and his wife, I talked to both of them. They were listening, and uh I didn't know them prior. And uh he contacted me. I said, Yeah. Sent me a thing, said, Hey, can we talk to you? Sure. Well, can we schedule something? Okay. How's your next 10 minutes look? They said, What? I said, How's your next 10 minutes look? They said, Oh, uh now? Yeah. Okay. So I said, send me your number, I'll call you. So they called me. Or I called them. And we had a lovely talk. I said 10 minutes, but we ended up talking for a half hour, 45 minutes. I mean, who are we talking to here? You know what I mean? 20 minutes, 10 minutes, half hour, 45, I don't know. It's all runs together. It's a lovely conversation. And they said, they told me what happened. I'm not going to relate it here. At a church. It was a church that they were attending. They had attended for I think, I think 15 years. Uh yeah, 15 years. They were heavily involved. You know, sometimes I'm just going to say this. Some of a lot of you have church hurt. You've been hurt. Church hurt. Listen, you go to a church, you think it's perfect. Bam. It's not. Because imperfect people make up the church. But in this case, I always tell people, you know, you don't want to, you don't want to work at a church if you don't want to know how the sausage is made. Because you learn stuff. Even in great churches, you learn stuff. I've gotten to preach, you know, my book tour and all that. I got to invited, I got invited to preach at places, thousands and thousands of people. Six services of thousands of people. Crazy. Amazing. And you know, they have, I went to one church, had a 23-person tech team. Just the people who mic you up, test your voice. You know, look for technical things and make you sound good. Make you look good. I mean, they were working. They didn't. They had a job was too hard even for 23 people to make me look good. But hey, I appreciate them trying. But you know, you you go to the green room. That's where you wait. And it's interesting. You you hear all the preparatory things. Several of them were TV ministries. They're big ministries. And you hear all the preparatory things because, you know, once they put your in-ear monitors in, there's a lot that you can hear until you, you know, you go live, and then they shut, they shut that off, and you just hear yourself. Well, you know, I have to say, you learn how the sausage is made, and and some of it is necessary. You can't you can't have essentially a stadium event six times on a day and not be organized. You can't be willy-nilly. The red light goes on, green light goes on. You have to be ready. And it goes on and it goes off in a finite amount of time. Everything has to be timed. So you see that and you get kind of disappointed a little bit. You see how the sausage is made. Some of you have been hurt. This couple, she was um top, one of the top people on the worship team. I think she led one of the worship teams. They have six. They had this church had six. Six worship teams. Wow. So, and he was like a deacon, or I think deacon or elder, I can't remember which he said. Deacon, it was one of the two. Deacon, it was deacon. And uh, you know, he was responsible for 150 families, keeping up with them, you know, just touching base with them. And he said he became aware of some financial improprieties. And if I said the name of the the uh pastor of this church, you would know. So he he became aware of that, and he went through the channels and worked his way up until finally, you know, he and his wife get called in for a meeting. They meet with the executive pastor, the vice principal, you know, when you're in school, in charge of the discipline. And they said, We're gonna put you under church discipline. There's a process we're gonna do. If you don't submit to that, then you'll be trespassed from here. Your key card, everything handed to us. First thing out of their mouth was fifteen years. Fifteen years. We've been ministering here fifteen years. I said, so be it. I said, wait a second. This is a problem. The money is it's being there's things that are being done with a certain segment of money that aren't what the people are being told and aren't what is right, and good lands. Hey Robbie, good to see you. God bless you. Good morning. It was a major deal. It was a big deal. And it crushed them. So they didn't even address that. When they said you can leave. So wait a second. Our kids are in the teen ministry here. What do you mean? You're not even you're not even addressing what we're telling you. It's a big deal. It's a serious deal. Get out.

What?

Get out. You'll be escorted out by security. Hand me your key cards. You'll be trespassed. You can't come on the property ever again. If you do, you'll be arrested. They were crestfallen.

They were utterly crushed. Good serak.

Crushed in spirit. Breathless. They said the whole walk to the car, the security people. It's like they they were armed robbers or something. They walked them to their car. Said they weren't ignorant to them or anything, but they were business-like and all ex-law enforcement that they hire there. They said, our instructions are to watch you leave. And you can't come back. If you've forgotten anything, contact the church, they will get it to you. They said the whole walk there, they couldn't breathe. Maybe it's a child that has chosen a really horrific path for themselves. Maybe it's a child that has rejected the faith. It's breaking your heart. It's taking your breath away. Understand, this is where these people were. We cannot just read scripture and think that we're just going to understand it easily. We can't blithely just, you know, skim through it and think that it's going to get into our heart and our head. That's why I'm here. I really believe that. That's why I'm here. I'm no special person. Trust me when I tell you, I am really definitely not. Listen. Some people cannot receive the promise right now. It's not because they don't want it. It's not because you don't want it. It's because the crushing has been going on so long. So long. You don't you don't have the breath to lift your head. I prayed with this couple and and we talked about some strategies. I said, you can't live in Church Hurt forever. He said, but we were there for 15 years in leadership. They were there longer than that. He said, we built our family around it. Yeah, I understand. You got hurt by a group of people who were supposed to not hurt you, but they're people too. It is going to happen. Why even go to church then? Why even attend a church? Why you just listen to this? I hey look, I love you to listen to this. I don't say listen to this to the exclusion of. But you've got to gather regularly together with a body of believers. Afflicted people, people who are are messed up. And no matter how put together they are, everybody is. God doesn't condemn you for it. God didn't condemn these people. He didn't condemn them. He doesn't condemn you. He keeps working. The seven I wills are still in force even when Israel can't hear them. Listen, this couple. They said, we miss, we would get excited to go to church. Even though we worked at the church, we would get excited. Our kids, when they were little, they were excited. They couldn't wait to go. Now they're in teens and they were excited. Alright, let's, everybody, let's um let's stop for a second. We're gonna we're gonna say a prayer for Robbie. Robbie has surgery at 1.30. We're gonna pray. Heavenly Father, our brother Robbie needs your help. He needs your intervention. He's having surgery today, you know, you know all the details. You know each of the hands. You've created each of the hands that will interact with Robbie today.

Father, we we have that you give Robbie comfort and home.

Each of those hands you also created. Each of those brains you also created. The surgery would be a success. We know there's others here facing surgery. Major big time surgery. And we ask that you give them shalom. We ask that you give them We thank you that you are the healer. We know that if if our physical bodies don't receive healing here on earth, if we are in you, we are believers.

Listen, God doesn't condemn you. The hard, hard work of living.

Living. Swinging your feet over the edge of the bed and put your feet on the ground. And standing up. Taking those first few steps. For some, it's incredibly difficult. For many, you don't know when you lay down, am I gonna wake up? The situation is that serious for you. And you have you're breathless. This couple said, We are rudderless. We don't know where to go, we don't know what to do. I said, first things first, don't compare every church to this church. But I'm gonna tell you something you probably don't want to hear. Every church has problems. Some you see, some you don't. Every business has problems, every company has problems. They all do. They are not perfect. Even the really great ones are not perfect. Because we inhabit them. Human beings inhabit them. People keep throwing around the, you know, uh the term greedy corporations. You know what a corporation is? It's a gathering of people. It's human beings. Corporate greed is human greed. There's problems everywhere you go, every church. Because they're human beings trying to make decisions. And you don't know what's behind every curtain there. You don't know what's behind every decision. And I said to them, I said, listen, you're gonna you're gonna compare every church in a good way and in a bad way, in all of the bad ways and all of the good ways, you're gonna compare. But you're gonna say, every church, you're gonna be like, well, back at our church, we, you know, well, we had six worship teams. And we had professional, they were all inhabited by professional musicians. We had, you know, professional directors directing, you know, I'm talking about the production, directing the production. And now this little bitty church, or this just slightly smaller church, they don't have all that. Or some teams not as good. They don't sound professional at all. The pastor's preaching his face off, but he has a he has a speech impediment. It's extremely distracting. I told somebody said that to me one time, and I said, Why don't you why don't you replace the word distracting with humbling? It's extremely humbling. He chose, he chose, God chose for that preacher something that would expose him to measurement and ridicule every day. Every day that he spoke. And yet he did it anyway. You think he likes more ridicule? And I told them, you're gonna measure. You're gonna measure these churches by an unreasonable standard. If it's a small church, you're gonna look down on them, you're gonna go, hey, you know, they they protested. They said, no, no, no, we're we we're not, we wouldn't do that. Yeah, you would. Consciously or subconsciously, you isn't that precious. Bless their hearts. Look at the little team. Their little drum set, little Walmart drum set, you know, and oh the guitar. They don't know how to play. God bless them. Look at their microphones. They're they're so cheap. And then comes time for the teaching, the preaching. Your mind's already tilted the wrong direction. And then you go to a big church, you know what to look for. Now that you know how the sausage is made, you know what to look for. So you look for all the problems. I said, you just can't do that. You have to ask God to lead you to the right church. And then don't serve. Not for at least a year. Don't serve. Go and be ministered to. Go and receive. Go and heal. Don't go and tell everybody your story about how this church did this and that. Listen, somebody comes to you privately. Hey, listen, I'm thinking about going to this church over here. I know you guys have served there a long time. What do you think? Well, what's drawing you to that church? Don't throw the church under the bus. If they've committed crimes, they need to be reported to the authorities, not via gossip. To the authorities if they're stealing, and they were. It was misappropriation of funds, at the very least. If you've ever been fired from a job and they walk you out as if you're some sort of criminal, that's what they felt like. We're just telling the truth. I said, but look, you can call yourself a whistleblower. You can do any of those things. Recognize it's going to be a hard, hard thing. Tell the right people, but don't tell everybody that comes up to you. And when you go, you go, you're trying out churches, don't give them a rundown of your church hurt. But don't dress it up. If the pastor, you know, they have some meet the pastor after deal where you have donuts and coffee and tea and or maybe even lunch, and you you talk about the church. This is what our church is about. Don't vomit all over them what you've just experienced. We're just in a new season. But privately, when that pastor, if that pastor says, hey, would you guys like to meet privately? Just us. And you do that, don't vomit all over them. But tell them the truth. And see, this is where we are. But don't butter it all up. Don't sugar it all up with a bunch of church language. We're just in a challenging season. We're in a healing season. I told them, I said, you know, they said, we feel so guilty. We've brought hundreds of people to that church. Literally hundreds. And I and I don't doubt that. They were influential people. They said, we've we've given probably hundreds of thousands of dollars to the church. I don't doubt that. They were influential people. Our kids grew up there. And I said, you know, none of that is nullified by what has happened.

None of it. But I said, you know what? Those are real experiences. Your kids were blessed there. You were blessed there.

It wasn't all what was happened with the impropriety. It wasn't all bad. It was just that. And maybe there were some other things, some other disagreements, but on balance, you don't throw the baby out with the bath water. You look at your overall experience and say, hey, did I grow in the Lord? Did my faith in God, did my ability to hear the seven I wills? Are you a stronger believer? Is your faith solid? You don't gloss over if the pastor of whatever church you end up going to, but you must find another church. You might have to drive a little farther. You might you might have to. You might have to make some concessions. Okay, we love great music, but not everybody has six worship teams full of professional musicians. Not everybody does. Not every church has that available to them. And they were paid. I'm sure they didn't make a mint. I didn't ask how much, but they were professional paid musicians. You know, not to belabor the point, I don't know what your hurt is. I don't. I don't know what it is. I can't know unless we interact and you tell me. Privately, one-on-one. Chat's not the place for it. Because not only can everybody see what you put in chat now, but on playback. Some of you want that, some of you don't. Just remember that. What you tell me in private is confidential. You know, I asked them, I said, can I give this example? At some point, I didn't know it'd be today. This is not planned. And they said, Yeah, but just don't give our names and don't give the church. I said, easy peasy, I wouldn't anyway. You know, I'm not one of these guys. There, there are, I've told you this before. There are whole YouTube channels that proclaim to be, you know, just true faith Christians, and then they do nothing but run down other churches, other preachers. They their whole thing is looking for something to tear apart. And some churches make it easy, some pastors make it easy, some worship singers, you know, contemporary Christian music people make it easy. But you know what? I I scroll right past them. I'm not gonna give a person that's made their whole income off of tearing others down. I'm not gonna do it. Just not gonna do it. You know, we don't know all the story about so many people. But I told them, I said, listen, I'm gonna be waiting. And I'm gonna follow up with you. I said, I this coming week I have a very, very busy week. Big, big week. And, you know, not for nothing, but I still want you to reach out to me. I want you to go to church, find a church.

Don't measure them by that church. Ask God, help us to find one father.

You may have to go to several. Who knows? Or you may go to the first one and go home. Miss Colleen and I have been in a church where we were, if we lived there, well, that's where we would go.

Vineyard of Marysville. Miss Colleen, amen.

We have a great church here in Hampstead. Grace Community Topso meets in Topsil, South Topsil Elementary, and by the end of this month, right next to South Topsil Elementary, is their uh their building. The first phase of it, that's where they'll start meeting. It's beautiful, really beautiful. And then uh as they're financially f financially able, they'll they'll add on to it. They're already busting at the seams. Great church, great people, great pastor, great associate pastor, great bunch of guys that I normally meet with on Fridays. As soon as I finish here, I usually go. I'm not today, but lovely people. And they're not perfect. You know, and I'm not perfect. I'm so not perfect. If you know me personally, you know that that is the case. If you know my history, you know that that is the case. Are you listening to God's seven I wills? Listen, you've got to ask yourself: do you really believe what you talk about? You see, people come on here all the time, attempting to disrupt. They have no life. This is all they do. They scroll through live streams and they try to disrupt them. Some of them pretend to be Christians, but they'll hang their hat on one thing. They're a single-issue thing. Well, you don't say, Jesus, I'm not listening. You're trying to be a Jew. You say Yeshua, I'm not trying to be a Jew. Then you have others that, you know, well, are you a premillennialist? Are you uh, you know, every everything down the line. I studied them. There's lots of degrees behind me on the wall. I've studied them in in intense detail. Just stupid arguments, just as start arguments. Meanwhile, people are dying without the Lord, and they are condemned eternally. I won't say this name of this church, but hi Miss Linda. Linda Kahalan. Her dear son was a dear friend of mine. He is in heaven with a sweet smile. A handsome dude, man. And stood. He got pancreas cancer, and and it was stunning because he was so young. And he was so healthy, you know. So who knew?

Sweet faith. Thank you for listening, Miss Linda. God bless you.

Listen, there are things in life that can hurt us. All kinds of things. There are people with they're malcontent and but they can put on a pretty face, they can put on a nice dress or a nice suit of clothes, and they have great haircuts, and they know all the buzzwords. But when the time comes, they're not real. They're a mirage. Their faith is a mirage. I know a I know a pastor who this is crazy but true. He became a pastor because he saw it as an easy job. He said, I don't have to sweat in this job. I just keep working my way up to bigger churches with bigger salaries and better benefits, and I'll work for 20 years and I'll retire. I'll send another person out to deal with the sick people. I hate hospitals. I'm not going to them. I'm not going to somebody's home and standing beside them. You don't know what their house is like. It might smell, might be nasty. There's a million things that could stand in your way. But there are a lot of people listening right now. You are breathless. It's the kick in the gut moment. I don't know if you've ever been kicked in the chest or shot or whatever, even with bullet-resistant armor. It's like getting hit by a baseball bat. By a two by four swung by a real big strong dude. Sometimes things happen. You get a diagnosis you're not expecting. Chris Kalen, we never, in a million years. I got that call, I couldn't believe it. I was like, Chris, you gotta be kidding me, man. And then those you love, it's the same. And maybe you're listening and you've gotten the diagnosis or the prognosis. And your breath leaves your body. Maybe it's somebody else didn't harm you. It's it's your body. Your body said, hey, we got this little thing going on over here, and it's not a little thing, it's a big thing. And well, it's gonna take your life, and it isn't gonna be an easy end, and your mortality has now become a drifting mist, a breeze moving the mist. And day by day you get closer and closer to your end, and you can feel it. Some of you have loved ones who have gotten that diagnosis and prognosis. And you are devastated.

Well, this couple they described it as I've I've I've often heard this.

It was like a death in the family, or uh when this happened at this church. When they when they discovered it, he said, we you know, my wife and I had discussions when I came home from this one meeting and the wrong file was put in front of me. They had like 13 or 14 secretaries there. And not that there's anything wrong with that. I'm just 13 or 14 secretaries, full time. And and one of them put the wrong file in front of where it where he was sitting. They had placards with their names and all that on them, little tent cards. And he said, I I saw it and I opened it up, and I'm Realizing, wow, this is more information they normally give me. And then he saw some stuff and he went, ooh, what? He was a CPA and lawyer by trade. He wasn't some big, you know, big time lawyer, but he was, well, I guess he was big time. It was a really successful guy, but. And he said, I was. My breath left my body. I couldn't. I knew what I was looking at. I said, did you ever have any clue at any point, at any time? No. I thought these were the most godly people I'd ever been around in my life. I thought, man, they're they're gonna think I suck. If they ever find out the real me, I they're gonna be like, you can't be a deacon. They've chimed in and I I appreciate that she did this. She said, hey, if they knew the real me, they would never let me sing.

And they never would have. And he said, I came home, I put the file in my briefcase or you know, thing.

I don't know what you call it. And he said at first I was gonna call my wife and and tell her, look, I gotta talk to you. There's something really serious, and I just really need to talk to you one-on-one. No distractions. But he said every time I went to dial. Dial her number. Just he said I would press the little mouth thing on the car and I'd start to say call, and then I just couldn't. So he said I waited till I got home, drove in the garage like I always do, closed it behind me, realized I hadn't shut the car off. Shuts the car off. He's devastated. Just telling it, they were they were bawling. They were weeping. I want to tell you something really quick, though, and hang on to this. For every for every church that's not doing the right thing, there are a thousand that are doing beautiful things. They're trying to do it as right as they know how. So please don't look at one church and go, see, that's why I don't go to church. For everyone that does the wrong thing, there are a thousand that do the right thing. He said, I walked in and she heard the garage door go up, and she was like, hey, what took you? And then she looked up at him. She started crying. He hadn't said a word to her yet. She told me, she said, I just suddenly burst into tears. Tears, and it wasn't the loud cry, it's just tears just started coming down my face. She said, I knew where he was coming from. And she said, Oh my God. He sat down. He didn't have to ask her, hey, come sit down. She got him a glass of water. I thought that was funny. Got him a glass of water, which was sweet. Very sweet. They sat down at their kitchen table. And he started to talk, and he said, Dr. Sean, I couldn't. And if you're listening right now, I hope I'm relating this accurately. I tried to keep good notes. And he said, every time I would go to start, I couldn't. He said, I'm not a crier. I'm an accountant and a lawyer. I don't cry much. And he said, and she was patient. He said she never tried to pry it out of me. And he said, I would look up at her, and she just she was going through half a box of tissues, just trying to be patient and be quiet. And when I was ready, I was ready. And he said, for the next hour and a half, they sat there and he went through everything. He realized he had forgotten his attache or whatever it's called. I don't know, it's a leather thing.

And he said, let me go out to the car.

And all of what he had said, I he said, I realized I was a, you know, an excellent litigator, and and it was always the evidence, evidence item number one, item number two, item number three. He said, I realized I I had forgotten it. He said, I went out and got it. And then I was met with the struggle. Wait a second, do I have I done the wrong thing by sharing this? With her? It's breaking her heart. She doesn't even know really all about it yet. And he prayed and he said, No, um I'm gonna. It's the right thing. So he went in. He laid the file down. And he did it one by one. And she goes, why would they have shared this with you? And he said, I think it was a mistake. And she said, What do we do now? When I say it's devastating, it was devastating. I'd have been devastated. They love these people. They love this church. And he said, the only thing I could could think of to say to her is we pray. You don't seem it don't seem alright. And listen, the whole church wasn't doing the wrong thing. It was one little segment. People in charge. Oh, amen, Randy. Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. Welcome, by the way, welcome to Lorve. Lorvega 822. And Cliptomaniac. We are gonna pray for you in a second. Cliptomaniac. Clyptomaniac is Kutzerak. Breathless. We're gonna pray for that. They said in the weeks that followed, we just couldn't figure out what to do. And the only thing they settled in on was the right thing to do is to go to the people that are doing this. The leadership. And just talked with them. Maybe, maybe, maybe it's just the wrong thing. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but he knew he knew that he wasn't misunderstanding. And when they did, if you listened earlier, they took their key cards and escorted them out and said, You you're you will be trespassed. The police will arrest you if you come back. If you disparage us publicly, we will sue you. And they were Kutzir Rak. I thought this was an interesting piece of information. They drove the closest thing away from there where they would pull in and park. They said nothing in the car. Nothing. He said, I never realized how loud my heartbeat was and my breathing was until that moment, and we drove, we pulled into a dairy queen. We sat in the parking lot. We were shocked, we were devastated, and we barely could breathe. What do we do now? The rest the rest of my advice to them I will keep between me and them. Life is a contact sport. I'm sorry to tell you, it's a contact sport. Your family's gonna let you down, you're gonna let your family down. Your kids are gonna let you down, you're gonna let your kids down. Happens. Misunderstandings happen. No matter how good a communicator, and try to be an excellent communicator, no matter how good. Misunderstandings are gonna happen, hurt feelings are gonna happen, your feelings are gonna get hurt, their feelings are gonna get hurt. Cliptomaniac, contact me through true wordfaithforlife.com. That's my website. There's a contact button up top. Click on that. Give me your information, I will reach out to you. But we're gonna play. I don't even know your name, so we're gonna pray right now. Heavenly Father. So many of us have been in the Kutzerrak. Can't breathe. Devastated. And this your child, you know the story. Heavenly Father, I ask give them light, give them light to live, the light to right wrongs that they have done, and for your love and your seven I wills to assuage the hurt and to repair as only you can. In the blessed name of your son Yeshua. Amen. Trying to survive their broken family. I feel ya. The seven eye wills, they're still in force. Even when Israel can't hear them, you probably can't hear them. The couple said they looked up. Someone knocked on the door or the window of their car and said, Are you guys alright? Do you need me to call an ambulance? And they realized the parking lot's empty now, except for a couple of cars. They said, No, we're alright. We just got terrible news and we're just trying to catch our breath. Okay. Do you need anything? Do you want anything? Oh no, thank you. I would ask for some fries and a shake, but that's just me. They always make me feel better. What God has promised doesn't depend on whether you can hear it on your worst day. Listen, we've got people in chat right now. People in chat right now are living that life right now. Has there ever been a season where you were too crushed to receive what God was saying? And if you came through that, if you've been through that, drop a he kept working in the chat. But if there if you're going through it right now, but he is working in the chat. Look, a lot of people say the genealogy and the weight of names just bust all through that. Shimot, the names.

The Exodus.

Look, the whole Exodus story is complex. We say, well, it doesn't apply to me because I'm I'm a New Testament Christian. No. Trust me when I tell you, you're an old testament Christian, doesn't realize why the New Testament matters so much. Why the Old Testament is our foundation. Listen, then Exodus six does something unexpected. It inserts a genealogy. Right here. A genealogy in the middle of the crisis before the pleas begin. Why? Because the God who makes seven I will statements is the same God who has been tracking covenant lines for generations. He knows the names. He knows the lineage. He hasn't lost the thread of the family through whom the promise moves, and it ends where it needs to end. This is the same Aaron and Moses, to whom the Lord said, Bring out the people of Israel from Egypt. The genealogy of God is saying, I know exactly who these men are. I know their tribe. I know their fathers. I know their line. And I choose them specifically on purpose for this. First, in the hardest chapters, God deepens the revelation of his name. El Shaddai was enough for the patriarchs. Yahweh is being revealed to a people in bondage. What you come to know about God in the hard place can't be earned anywhere else but the hard place. Second, the seven I wills, they are your inheritance. They're your inheritance. God didn't only speak these to Moses, he spoke them as covenant truth over a covenant people. If you are a believer and you have placed your faith in Christ, that's you too. And Yeshua the new covenant shouts every one of those promises, even louder than before. I will bring you out. I will redeem you. I will take you as my people. These aren't expired promises. They didn't expire. They're yours. And all of this points to Yeshua. The seven I wills reach their fullness in him. I will bring you out out of the bondage of sin. I will redeem you. His blood is the redemption price. I will take you as my people from every tribe and every tongue. I will be your God, Emmanuel, God with us, and I will give it to you, an inheritance, imperishable, undefiled, and it does not fade. Every I will of Exodus 6 has a body. His name is Yeshua. And the people who were too breathless to hear, he came for them too. He comes for them. Listen, a bruised reed, he will not break. A smoldering wick, he will not snuff out. He works even when you can't hear him. He's faithful even when you're breathless. He finishes what he starts. He never fails to finish what he starts. Now look, if you want a concrete place of obedience today, first, write down at least one of the seven I wills and carry it today. Not as some magic phrase, not as some sort of incantation, but as a covenant declaration. I will be your God. Put it where you'll see it. Second, if you're too breathless to receive the promise, say so. Tell God. Tell God, Father, I can't lift my head today. I believe you're working, but I'm breathless. Listen, that's you. That's you in chat. That's you. Tell God, I can't lift my head. I believe you're working, but I'm breathless, Father. Listen, that's honest prayer, and he hears it. Don't dress it up. He can handle it. Third, let the genealogy remind you that God knows your name. He isn't managing a crowd. He knows your tribe, your line, your story. He chose you specifically on purpose for this. The answer to Moses' lament wasn't a plan, it was a person. I am the Lord. I've heard the groaning. I've remembered the covenant, and I will, I will, I will seven times, and he means every one. You don't need all the answers. You need the one who is faithful to every word he speaks. I am enough. The seven I wills are already in motion. And he never loses the thread. Three lanes today. You can choose whichever one you identify with, but the one that's real is the one that's real. Maybe you're in lane one today, you've been obedient. You've said yes to God, and things didn't get better. They got harder, they got worse, and you did what Moses did. You showed up, you delivered the message, and the bricks didn't decrease. They increased. You're not failing. You're in Exodus five right now, and Exodus six is God's next word to you. Now you will see. Maybe you're in lane two. You're Kurtse Roek, breathless, crushed. You want to receive the promise. You want to lift your head, but the weight has been on you so long you don't have the strength left. God isn't condemning you for that. He kept working on Israel when they couldn't hear. You don't have to just regurgitate church words. Church sayings. How you doing? Somebody asks you, How you doing? Well, I'm blessed by the best and I'm ready for the test. Amen. Or you say, Well, you know, my life's a mess, but the Lord is good. Oh, amen, amen. The Lord is good all the time, all the time. Amen. Amen. And then you go on. My wife used to tell me all the time, listen, people all the time asking you after you got hurt so bad and got your prognosis and all that, and they said, you know, people ask you, how you doing? Stop telling them great. You're not great. Tell them. Don't tell everybody. Don't make it everybody's business. You know, 99% of the people you tell, you shouldn't tell because Daisy's gonna run your business out in the street. Don't don't say the performative phrases. Just be real. Maybe you're in lane three. You've never made a covenant with this God at all. You've been surviving on Egypt's bread. What the world can provide. And you've sensed there is something more. Exodus 6 says, there is the God who says, I will, not I might. Not I'll try if you earn it, if you're good enough. Not I will. Listen, I will if. No, it's I will. I will take you as my people. I will be your God. That offer is open to you right now. Listen. Here's where it lands, folks. You've heard seven I wills today. You've heard five messages this week that you thought never would ever apply to you. Because oh, they're early Old Testament. Bunch of genealogy. That's the age of the law. We're in the age of the grace. Don't throw it away or you'll miss it. You've heard seven I wills today. You've heard preaching that's led you to this point all week long. And not this Sunday, but the next Sunday. Remember, we're going to be quiet Monday through Friday. Listen to past episodes. Go back and listen. It's free. I don't know why you wouldn't. You've heard seven I wills today. Every one of them has been kept or is being kept or will be kept because the one who spoke them is Yahweh. The I am, the all-sufficient one. His name is the guarantee. The question isn't whether he will, the question is whether you'll let him. Will you trust the seven I wills today? Will you let the promise be bigger than the pain? Will you say yes to the one who has already said I will to you? Before we pray, I want to speak to those of you in lane three for just a minute. If you've never made that covenant, if you've never said yes to Yeshua, today's your day. Today's your day. And maybe you've put it off and put it off and put it off. You're afraid of getting ridiculed, you're afraid of what so-and-so might say. You're afraid of what you have to stop doing and what you'll have to start doing. Put all that out of your head. Put it all out of your head. If you've never made that covenant, if you've never said yes to Yeshua, today's your day, today, right now. Whenever you're listening, the same God who spoke seven I wills over the breathless, enslaved people is speaking over you right now. I want to lead you in a prayer, and it's not a magic formula, it's a covenant moment. You're turning toward the God who has already turned toward you. That listen, if that's you, pray this with me. Pray this with me. If you're driving, don't close your eyes. You don't have to close your eyes no matter where you are. You don't want to close. That's that's that's a construct of a later time. There are many reasons for it. I'll I'll explain them another time. I did a I did a speaking of things you can watch for free while I'm not here next week, um, is I I do a whole thing on prayer. Go listen to that. It's intense, it's awesome. Not because of me, but because it's God's word explained in a way that's true and and and makes sense and is easy to understand. Thank you. Thank you to all of you who have answered in the in the chat. He kept working. He kept working, he keeps working. Tracy, thank you. Folks, if you want to put a name to when you're praying, if you write down prayer requests, pray for Tracy. Tracy, I encourage you to reach out to me. TrueWordfaithforlife.com. Contact. As soon as I receive the message, I'll reach out to you, and we'll figure out a time and a way to communicate. I don't make that promise lightly. Listen, God spoke seven I wills over a people. They they were so breathless they couldn't even hear them. Every one of those promises has a body. His name is Yeshua, his name is Jesus. If you've never entered that covenant, today is the day. Today, pray this with me. Yeshua, I need you. I believe you died for me and you rose from the grave, and I surrender my life to you today. Forgive me, fill me, lead me. I am yours. Amen. Praise the Lord. If you just prayed that, whether live or on playback, welcome. You're in the family. Congratulations. God just said I will over you, and he means every word. Contact me through the website and let us know. I will walk with you. Any step, I'll help you. We want to walk with you from here. Father, in the name of Yeshua, we thank you for every single person who is now in the covenant, who is now in the family of God, who has now placed their faith in your Son Jesus, for his great sacrifice and his fulfillment of the prophecy. Thank you for keeping your promise. In the name of Yeshua, thank you for not being offended by Moses' why or by ours. Thank you for answering the deeper questions. Thank you for the seven I wills that haven't expired and never will. For everyone breathless today, Father, for everyone kutseruak, crushed and short of breath, keep working on their behalf. Let the I wills be true even when they can't hear them. Give them one breath, then another, then the strength to lift their head. For everyone hearing the seven I Wills clearly today, let it go deep, let it become the ground they stand on. I am is enough. His name is the guarantee in Yeshua's matchless name. Amen. Seven I Wills. One God who means every word. A people too breathless to hear. And he kept working anyway. His name above all names. A covenant that doesn't expire. That's Exodus 6. That's your inheritance. Stand on it. Listen, if Exodus 6 met you right where you are today, send it to somebody who uh somebody who is breathless, somebody who's obeyed and watched things get harder and is starting to lose their grip. Tell them, God still says, I will. Seven times. And he means everyone, send it to them today. Now I'm gonna pray, a prayer of blessing over you. I'm not anything special, so don't think it holds any more power from me than it does from you. I'm gonna pray it first in Hebrew, the language of God. And then I'm gonna tell you what I said. Are you ready? Take a deep breath. May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace in Yeshua's name. Shalom, shalom. Shabbat, shalom.