The Storm Was the Sermon!

You've done it. You know you've done it. You've prayed the prayer. And you prayed the prayer. That right in that moment, you meant it. Look, I know I know what it sounds like. I know what it looks like, because I've done it. I've done it. I've been in this place. I've done this very thing. Maybe you'll find yourself in this. You've prayed the prayer that meant it right there in the moment. Right there in the moment, tears in all. And you meant every word of it when you said it. But then Tuesday came. And you did the same exact thing. You swore you were done. You said tomorrow. About the exact same sin, the exact same hurt habit or hang-up. That so many times that tomorrow isn't a promise anymore. It's just the name of the room you kept living in, and you keep living in. You felt it, that little click. Every single time you said no to what you already knew was true. Not a door slamming shut, not something much quieter, something colder. Here's what nobody tells you about a hardened heart. It doesn't happen in one dramatic moment. It happens one small refusal at a time. Till the heart that once broke easily doesn't break at all. This week we watched a man live out, this past week, we watched a man live out every single stage of that process in order. On camera. In front of the whole ancient world. Nine plagues. Nine warnings. Nine separate moments where all he had to do was bend. He didn't bend. He broke instead. And he kept choosing to break. Plague after plague. Until there was nothing left to break. And here's the part that should stop you, Cole. Through every single one of those nine chances, God kept extending mercy to a man who had already proven over and over that he wasn't going to take five days. Nine plagues. One heart getting harder every time it had the chance to go the other way. The storm was never separate from the sermon. The storm was the sermon. And if you're honest with yourself, this evening, or whenever you're watching this, some part of you already knows exactly whose story this really is. Shalom. Welcome to True Word, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. This is our Sunday summation and deepening. Weekday episodes give you about 20 minutes and basically one chapter, maybe more. Tonight I want to give you something that that format cannot do: the chance to step back and see the whole shape of what God was doing across five straight days. Because some things only become visible once you're not standing inside a single chapter anymore. Once you step out of that whole, I'm going to tick some boxes, mindset. This week we walk through five of the most intense chapters in all of Scripture. In Exodus 7 through 11, The Plagues of Egypt. If you missed a day, go back after tonight because each one stands on its own. But tonight we're looking at what all five built together. What did they all build together? 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We'd love for you to click on subscribe on whatever it is, subscribe to that channel or add to your list. And usually about an hour, two hours after the uh episode airs on YouTube, we populate it there. Hello to everybody that we're streaming to all around the world and all the different venues that we're streaming live right now. And if you're listening on playback, thank you. I appreciate it. We love having everybody. And Colleen, thank you for the sound check. And uh thank you, everybody, there for being so sweet. Thank you to a listener uh who listened, who uh reached out this week, who listened my uh invitation and reached out this week, and we're helping them find a good church and a lot of good services around where he is, and and I'm in I'm enjoying that. I'm looking forward to it. And even more. So here's what we ask day by day, right? Okay, this is this is real. Day 60, what won't let you go? God picked a fight with Pharaoh's gods, and he picked he picks fights that he intends to win. He doesn't mess around. Day 61, what are you saying tomorrow to? Three plagues, three open doors, and Pharaoh chose the same word every single time. Tomorrow. Day 62. What are you like the morning after the storm? Oh, three more plagues, three confessions that sounded real in the moment, and then they evaporated the second the pressure left. And then day 63. How close can you get to the dark and still walk away? How many of us have been there? How many of us have been there? Oh, so close to the dark. We get so close to it. We know what's a problem for us. We know what's a problem for us. You so close to the dark you can feel it. And yet. And maybe, maybe you didn't get close to the dark, by the way. Maybe you were in the darkness. Maybe it was real jacked up. Real jacked up. Darkness so thick. You can feel it on your body. And yet you turn and you look at Israel, and Israel had light in the very same land. Then we have day 64. Are you ready before midnight comes? One one final warning given out loud, in advance, on purpose, because mercy always speaks before its judgment. And if you line those five questions up in order, you watch what happens, put two and two together, you'll see it before we're halfway through. So let's go in. The text. I'd say it's beautiful and devastating. Exodus 7 opens with two old men standing in front of the most powerful man alive. There's Moshe, Moses, who's 80 years old, and then there's Aaron. He's 83. God tells them plainly, I have made you like God to Pharaoh. Aaron throws down his staff and it becomes a serpent. It becomes a serpent. Let's not skip over it. Oh, thank you, Miss Sharon. Miss Sharon says, the book, True Word, Faith for Life, has been such a blessing and sits on our end table in the living room. Oh, that's that's lovely. Thank you so much. We made it high quality so it could be in people's hands every single day. Good afternoon, Miss Nicole. Thank you for watching. Thank you, Robbie. Thank you, Miss Sharon, John, everybody else. I mean, all of you who are listening, who are on the live chat, it's awesome to have you here. So Aaron throws down the staff, it becomes a serpent. Pharaoh's magicians, well, they throw down their staff and they match it. Serpent for serpent. Then Aaron's serpent swallows every single one of theirs. And the outcome of the nine chapters ahead, well, it's already decided in that single moment. Even though nobody standing in the room knew that it was already decided in that single moment, it was decided. Water turns to blood. Water turns to blood. The fish die. The river Egypt worship as a god. Little G starts to stink. Starts to stink. This is this is their whole life blood is around this river. Pharaoh's heart hardened. He turns and he walks back into the house, completely unmoved. Exodus 8 brings three plagues in quick succession. Frogs first, out of the Nile and into every bed, an oven in Egypt. And for the first time, Pharaoh bends, calls for Moses, and he asks him to pray the frogs away. Moses, well, he gives him the easiest opening he'll get all week. Name the owl. Name the hour. Pharaoh says, Tomorrow. Can you imagine? He could say today, right now. Let's see. It's uh it's six forty-three uh Egypt time. Uh how about we go with 645? Hi, Tammy. Good to see you. Listen, he could have done that. Pharaoh, you know, uh they pretend to care about the people. They don't. It's the same way with the leadership in Iran. They don't care. They've murdered 43,000 of them right in the streets, just sniping them from above. They don't care. They don't care about their people. So Moses, he gives them this opening and he doesn't do it. Pharaoh doesn't do it. He says tomorrow. One more night with the frogs in his bed rather than bow. A little bit today, for the benefit of himself and also for his people, but he doesn't do it. The frogs die. The land stinks for days in the moment, the very moment the pressure lifts, Pharaoh's heart goes right back to stone. You know what? Gnats come next. Out of the dust itself. And even the Pharaoh's own magicians, they can't copy this. They tell him plainly, look, this is the finger of God. But he hardens anyway. Then come the flies. Hey Sean, good to see you, man. Tone spelled correct. I'm just teasing when I say that, by the way. S H A W N. That's how I spell mine. Flies. They were thick everywhere except for one place, Goshen. Where Israel lived. Wasn't a dramatically different place. The topography wasn't crazy different. It was the same, really. It was still Egypt. It's just that's where Pharaoh said, Well, y'all can live here. That's where Israel is. No plagues there. When there was darkness, there was plenty of light there. Frogs and all, they were like, mm-hmm. No, we're not going over there. We just hold out right here. The gnats, the flies, everything. No, no, we're gonna stay right here. We alright. We're gonna stay out of that Goshen. Israel lives there, they're God's people. We don't mess around with them. We go where God tells us. So for the first time, in the whole sequence, God draws a visible line in front of Pharaoh's entire court. Exodus 9, it raises the stakes again. Every animal in Egypt dies, all of it. Horses, donkeys, camels, herds, flocks, except Israel's in the same land, under the same sky. Devastating. I love animals, man. That would break my heart. But the animals in Israel are in Goshen, they're fine. Israel's in the same land. It's a contiguous land under the same sky. Oils break out next. Ever have one out. Oil's on everybody. Even on the magicians who used to compete with Moses. Now they can't even stand in front. They can't even stand in front of him anymore. They can't stand it. Then hail mixed with fire. It's the worst storm anyone alive has ever seen. And this time God warns Edra. He's benevolent. He warns Egypt before it falls. Get undercover. And whoever listens lives. Right in the middle of the hail, Pharaoh says the word. The Lord is righteous. I'm wrong. And Moses prays, and the hail stops. And the moment the sky clears, Pharaoh sins again. He hardens his heart again. He and his officials. Exodus 10 goes further still. Locusts strip everything green left standing on the land. Everything in the land, strip. Anything green, gone. And this time it's Pharaoh's, Pharaoh's own, his own officials. They break first. They tell him to his face, right? That could be a death sentence. Tell him to his face. Look, Egypt is already destroyed, and he won't fully yield. He still tries to negotiate. He tries to negotiate the term. Trying to buy time. Same thing in honest. Trying to buy time. Egypt keeps the flocks. This is this is this is the thing you have to understand. Egypt and little Goshen. It's no different than the land, the rest of Egypt. It is prospering. It's blossoming, it's blooming, it's growing. He tries to negotiate the terms, Pharaoh does. Keep the flocks here, leave the little ones there. But Moses refuses every counteroffer. Not one hoof stays. Then darkness falls, total physical, three days long, thick enough that the text says you could feel it. Yet Israel has light the entire time in the same Egypt. Hello, James. Welcome. So good to have you. That's awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome. So we're grateful you're here. All of you. You're all awesome. You're a blessing. I hope this is a blessing to you. So, darkness so thick, you could feel it physically all in your body. I don't know if you've been in that kind of darkness. I've been in that kind of dark, and I can tell you, you can't see your hand in front of your face. And yet, Israel is light the entire time. There's no darkness. In the same Egypt, Pharaoh then throws Moses out for the last time, and he warns him never to show his face there again. Egypt look, their leader is doesn't care about the people. I'm starting to believe he doesn't really care about himself. Exodus 11 closes the sequence with one announcement left. God tells Moses this is the last one. And after it, Pharaoh won't just let Israel go. He'll drive them out completely. Israel's told. Told to ask their Egyptian neighbors for silver and gold, four centuries of unpaid labor finally being repaid. And the Lord moves the Egyptians' own hearts to hand it over willingly. Then Moses delivers the final word to Pharaoh directly at midnight. Hear me now. At midnight, every firstborn in Egypt will die. From the throne to the lowest servant's house, and not even a dog will bark in Israel's home. So that Pharaoh will know exactly what kind of distinction the Lord makes. Moses leaves Pharaoh's presence hot. He's hot with anger. The chapter closes with God's own verdict on everything that's happened. Pharaoh would not listen, so that the wonders would be multiplied. And none of them are really about Egypt anymore. First, God was never punishing a nation. Somebody sent me a somebody sent me, you know, you get as you grow, you get ignorant comments, and then I get them. And uh there were a bunch of people uh on the backup channels, by the way. Don't, you know, I don't care if you join the backup channels, but you gotta join True Words, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. Um, the one with like around 3,000, 4,000 subscribers. The other ones are just backup channels. One time I lost the whole category, it's just gone. It was all gone. And um, I had no backup channel. So if they ever deplatformed me or anything like that, I have a way you know to stay in contact and rebuild. Otherwise, I don't. My point in all that is just join the main one. Uh subscribe, like. Click the little bell for all notifications. Phenomenal. So, first, God was never just punishing a nation. And so the question is from this guy and for the other people that he's rolling with. Says, um, you know, it's never okay for anybody to kill little babies. It's never okay. I'd never serve a God like that. You're fools. He's a he's evil, he's this, he's that, blah, blah, blah. My next question in silence came after is where do you stand on abortion? Where do you stand on it? I haven't heard anything yet. So, first, uh, God was never just punishing a nation, he was demolishing everything that nation trusted instead of him. One God at a time, one purpose, in order. And I'm gonna explain it to you. Maybe you've never had explained to you in the ancient Near Eastern language culture and context. But here we go. Remember, these are on purpose, one God at a time, in order. Hapienchrum in the blood. Hapi and chrumet, the frog goddess in the in the frogs, Gabe, the god of the earth, little gs, and in the dust turned to nat. The livestock plague struck straight at Hasor and Apis. Gods pictured his cattle. The boils humiliated the priest's physicians. They claimed to have healing power in Egypt's temples. The hail struck Nut, goddess of the sky, and Sit, God of storm. The locusts finished what the hail started, and the darkness went straight for Ra, the sun god, the highest deity in the entire pantheon. The very one Pharaoh considered himself. He was he considered himself he was he was considered a living incarnation of Ra, sun god, here on earth. That's what he thought. That was the story that he told. This wasn't God picking easy targets in random order. He worked his way up the whole hierarchy of Egypt's gods methodically until he reached the one sitting on the throne who believed he was divine himself. Second. Number two, Numero Dot. Watch what Pharaoh's own heart did across nine chapters, because Scripture uses three different Hebrew words for it, and they build on each other. Khazak to grow stubborn, Kusha, to grow harsh, and Khaved to grow heavy. Same root as Kavod, the word for glory, the weight that belonged to God's glory got rerouted, plague after plague, to the weight of one man refusing to bend until the glory he was stealing turned into the very thing that was crushing him. And scripture is honest enough not to resolve the tension underneath all of this for us. Sometimes the text says Pharaoh hardened his own heart. Sometimes it says God hardened. Both are true at once. Neither cancels the other out. A heart that keeps refusing eventually reaches a point where God simply confirms the direction it already chose. It chose that direction freely, refusal after refusal. That's not God manufacturing rebellion. That's God honoring a choice made so many times it became who the man was. Then this is the mercy hiding underneath the nine plagues. God never once withheld a warning. Not with the frogs, not with the hail, not with the locusts, not with the darkness. Not with the final midnight. Every plague that fell had already been announced out loud in advance, with enough time attached to it to actually do something about it. Even in the middle of the hail, God gave Egyptians, who weren't even his covenant people, a door of their own. Whoever fears this word, get your household under cover. Some of Pharaoh's own officials took him up on it. Pharaoh's own men broke ranks and told him plainly that Israel, I'm sorry, Egypt was already destroyed, and Israel was. He wasn't surprised by a single plague that fell on him. He was worn nine times, and he hardened nine times. And the hardening was always a choice he made with full information, never an ambush. Nothing ever snuck up on him. Now, put all three together. And this week stops being ancient history, and it starts being a mirror. It's true. This is why I teach the way I do ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context. As the kids like to say, maybe they don't anymore, I'm already behind. If you know, you know. That's why I want to give this knowledge to all of you so you can understand. So you put all three together. And it stops being a history lesson, right? And I'm sometimes I'm nervous. I'm like, uh, you know, the algorithm doesn't like a bunch of history teaching, but I want you to know. I wrestle with the algorithm all the time. There will be a remnant that listens to this and goes, wow, I need that. They recognize it. And then they're all in, and then there's another part that says, This is too hard. This is this is too challenging. This is too history lesson-ish. I just want the fun stuff. Okay. And not for everybody. But if you're being honest with yourself and with God, this was a mirror. God still aims at what we trust instead of Him. Methodically, in order, until He reaches whatever throne we've built for ourselves. Our hearts still carry that same capacity to go from stubborn to harsh to heavy, one refusal at a time. We say it's everybody else's fault. Everybody but ourselves. Then the direction becomes permanent. We're so used to doing it. It becomes permanent, and God still warns before he judges. And I think that is a tremendous thing. I'm thankful for it. I'd be hopeless. Honestly, I'd be hopeless. I don't know about you, but I'd be hopeless. I hear the warnings. Sometimes I do heed them, and other times I wrestle with them. What about you? Try to justify, you try to explain away, you try to create all kinds of all kinds of well this is why. I do this because. What pharaoh have you been managing instead of asking God to break it? Think about what that actually looks. What does it actually look like lived out? It's the addiction you've learned to schedule around instead of surrender. It's a relationship you keep going back to because leaving feels bigger than you feel like you can survive. The fear that's been running your decisions for so long, you've stopped noticing it in the room. You've prayed about it. Hey, you've maybe even fasted about it. But somewhere along the way, you switched from asking God to break it to just asking him to help you carry it a little easier. That's not faith. That's management dressed up to look like patience. You know the one. Everybody listening right now, live or on playback, everybody listening right now knows exactly what drawer it's in. It's crawling all over everything. Your peace, your sleep, your marriage, your money. You can't open that drawer without running into it. But here's what tomorrow actually is. Underneath the sound of it, it's not a scheduling, it's a vote. It's a vote cast over and over to stay exactly where you are for one more night, dressed up to sound like patience instead of what it actually is. Delay. Fayer didn't lose Egypt in one bad choice. He lost it one tomorrow at a time. Three plagues running until there was nothing left to negotiate with. And that's the room that we talked about as we opened this episode. If you're honest, you've been living in it too. Thank you for joining Solovoldo and uh JMH Psalm 4. As a Catholic, I follow Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. I have to ask, what does, audience, what does your, what does your prayer life actually look like on an ordinary Tuesday? On an ordinary, not the day everything's on fire. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about Tuesday. I'm not talking about in the foxhole. I'm talking about the Tuesday when nothing is forcing your hand and nobody's watching and there's no hail left to survive. Anybody can sound sincere with the storm till going. The storm's still going, oh, I'm sincere. God get me through this in aisle and aisle and aisle and aisle. I'll change everything. You meant it then, completely in that moment. And he did get you through it. But the second the pressure lifted, so did your promise quietly. You didn't even notice it leaving the room. The Tuesday has no hail. The Tuesday only has whatever's actually true about your heart. Somebody's told you straight to your face, the way Pharaoh's own officials finally did. Somebody who loved you enough to say the hard thing out loud. Sometimes we have decisions we have to make. They are inconvenient, they are powerfully disruptive in our lives. But the math maths. The decision is the decision. Like it or don't like it. I don't like those days, but the hard days are in our lives. Somebody loved you enough to say the hard thing out loud, and something in you found one more reason to wait, one more negotiation to try, one more version of mostly obeying instead of fully obeying. You're telling yourself mostly was close enough. Amen. That's the goal. Amen. We don't know history, it'll repeat itself. We see this today, every day, even while we know the truth. Amen. Nobody wakes up one morning suddenly blind to God. It happens one decline warning at a time, one small refusal stacked on top of the last one until all the warnings stop registering to you at all. And you genuinely believe you never saw him coming. Well, how did that happen? You blame everyone and everything else. Here's the one most of us don't want to sit with. Pharaoh heard the exact Pharaoh. He heard the exact same announcement that Israel heard on the exact same day from the same man, and he did absolutely nothing to prepare. Because somewhere underneath it all, he'd convinced himself wouldn't really come for him the way that it would for everybody else. Whatever you've been told is coming, it is coming for you too. It's not the version of you that's managing it. It's not the version that's asking for one more tomorrow. For you. It came for him anyway. It came for Pharaoh, came for his people, anyway. I want you to lay those five next to each other, and a pattern shows up that's uncomfortable to look at directly. Managed instead of surrendered, delayed instead of obeyed, relieved instead of repentant, blind instead of honest, out of time to change any of it, exactly the way he was. But here's the difference that actually matters though. And and it's it's the whole reason this episode isn't just bad news. Every warning, every warning this week gave him. Every warning those days gave him. And he still had a door standing open the entire time. So do you. The door hasn't closed yet. That's what makes tonight different from Exodus 11. You're not standing at midnight, you're standing in the warning. Every single day this week pointed to Yeshua. Jesus Christ. Every single day. Whether you caught it in the moment or not, every single day pointed to Yeshua. The staff that swallowed the staffs in Exodus 7, it's the same power that swallowed death the whole at resurrection. He didn't negotiate with the grave the way Pharaoh tried to negotiate with every plague. He picked a fight with it on purpose, and he consumed it. The way Aaron's serpent consumed every counterfeit Egypt could throw at it. The line God drew at Goshen, untouched. Flies covered everything around it. It was never really about geography. It was never about topography. Wasn't about weather. It was the first sketch of a person who'd stand between judgment and everyone who belongs to him the same way he still does today. Nobody in Goshen earned that safety that week. They were standing in the same dust as everybody else in Egypt. The only thing that made the difference was where they stood, under whose covenant they belonged to, exactly the way it still works at the cross. The boils that broke out on Egypt's most powerful men, the ones who couldn't hide behind their robes anymore, the same men who used to match Moses sign for sign, point straight at a servant despised and afflicted, who carried in his own body the affliction they could not carry in there. They were buried under a judgment with no way out and no power left to fight it. You know, he, he, Yeshua, Jesus, bore one too, willingly, on purpose, so we would never have to carry out the darkness that fell for three days, fell for three days over Egypt, fell again for three hours over Jerusalem at noon on a Friday, while the light of the world hung it on purpose, so that no darkness we walk through now gets the final word. Pharaoh treated every warning as one more thing to survive until the next one came. You know, the blood on the doorpost that made midnight pass over one house and not the next was never just a ritual. It was a preview, written centuries earlier, of the only blood that has ever covered a door completely. The blood didn't stop midnight from coming. It changed what midnight meant when it arrived. At the cross, God's own firstborn died, not Egypt this time, but his son, willingly, so that judgment would pass over everyone standing under his blood instead. The same God who picked a fight with every false God in Egypt, who warned before he judged every single time, who put light in Goshen while darkness covered everything around it, is the same God standing at your door right now, and he's offering you the same blood that made the difference then. Nine chapters of play. And every single one of them was building toward a cross. That's not forced topology. That's not forced typology. That's the whole point of the story. That's the whole point of the story. Are you listening? Here's where tonight stops being something you feel and starts being something you do. If what you've been managing as a substance, alcohol, drugs, whatever it is, poured out tonight, before you sleep and call, look, don't look, stop with the delay games. I'll do it tomorrow morning. No, you won't. Tonight. Whenever you're listening to this, do you hear this? Right now, go get the drugs, go get the alcohol, go with it. Whatever it is you're addicted to, get it out of the house. Before you go to sleep, call one person. One person that's a trustworthy person. You know one person. Don't give me that. Oh, I don't know anybody. I'm not friends with anybody. My family's terrible. My friends are terrible. I don't have any friends. I don't have any family. Come on, there's somebody, and you know there is. Call that one person right now and tell them you did it. Create accountability. Not tomorrow's version of you, tonight. You're not gonna like this. Look, if your addiction is food, and you know, you know what exactly that you know exactly what that means for you. The binging, the secrecy, the way it's become the thing you run to. Instead of the God you claim to trust, don't wait for a diet plan. Stop making up excuses. Tell one person tonight what it actually has been doing to you. Silence is what's been keeping you alive, you think. If it's what you look like, what you look at, you know what I'm talking about. If it's what you look at on your phone or on your tablet or on your computer, when nobody else is in the room, you know what it is, whatever screen it is, whatever hour of the night it happens, delete the app. Delete it, block the site, put a filter on the device. Have someone create a password that you you don't know. Build accountability. You can't break through. Before you close this recording, get it done. Do it in the next five minutes. Don't wait five minutes. Do it right now. Start on it. Do it in the next five minutes. It doesn't take an hour for you to do it. It takes just a minute. And tell one other person you did it tonight. Because secrecy is the only oxygen that sin has ever needed. Look, if it's work, if you're if you're addicted to work, if you're a workaholic and you already know it, the hours that have quite look, they have quietly become your God and you know it. Oh, I have to work like this. I won't be able to survive if I don't. And you know, the truth is it's the identity you've built on being needed instead of being loved. Pick up the phone tonight, tell your spouse or someone who loves you. Oh, nobody loves me. Come on, somebody loved you. Tell them exactly what you've been avoiding by staying busy, not tomorrow, tonight. And if what's kept you from Yeshua isn't an addiction at all, it's fear. The fear that you'll you'll commit completely and you'll find out later you were wrong. The fear that you don't have enough information, you don't have enough knowledge, you don't have enough wisdom yet to have unrestrained faith. Hear this clearly. Oh, well, what if somebody asked me a question I don't know? But I don't know everything yet. I don't know all the answers yet. Pharaoh had every fact he needed and he still wouldn't move. Don't be Pharaoh. You don't need more information. You need to do what Israel did the night of the tenth plague, put the blood on the door before you fully understood everything about the blood. Pray the salvation prayer with me tonight out loud, even if your faith feels incomplete. Faith was never required to be unrestrained before it was required to be real. Tell one person tonight that you prayed that prayer. I'm gonna help you. Pharaoh had nine chances to do something specific, and he did nothing. He did nothing but negotiate the terms. Don't let your obedience tonight be another negotiation. Name it. Remove it. Tell someone before midnight. I have for you tonight a challenge and a choice. And here's the only questions that really matter now. And it isn't a rhetorical question. Whatever you've been managing tonight, the bottle, the drugs, the food, the screen, the work, or the fear that's kept you from fully trusting Yeshua because you've been wrong before about other things and you think you need more than you do. You've been between right now and midnight to do something about it. You have that time right now. Between right now and midnight to do something about it. Now feel something about it, do something. Tired of hearing feel. Don't bring me your your will I feel like. Do. Pharaoh had the same kind of window, nine separate times. But every single time he negotiated instead of move. So which is it gonna be for you tonight? Are you gonna feel this? Are you gonna agree with it completely? And then you're gonna let it evaporate by Tuesday, the way it evaporated for Pharaoh, every single time. Or you know, because every time the pressure lifts, every time the presser the pressure lifts off of you, you go, well, you go right back to the same thing. Or are you gonna do the specific thing tonight before you sleep? There will not be a tenth warning built into tonight's episode. It's the only one you have. Name it, remove it, tell someone before midnight. Father, in the name of Yeshua, pray with me. Father in the name of Yeshua, thank you for a week that showed us exactly how a heart hardens, one small refusal at a time, and exactly how patient you are before judgment ever falls. Thank you that every warning you gave each and every warning that you've given us was mercy first, not threat first. For everyone who recognizes, maybe they recognized themselves somewhere in these last five days, or maybe they recognized it tonight, don't let them leave. Don't let them leave here unchained. For everyone who's been managing instead of surrendering, delaying instead of obeying, relieved instead of repenting, blind instead of honest, meet them exactly where they are tonight. For everyone standing closer to their own midnight than they realize, get the blood on the door before this night ends. In Yeshua's name. In Jesus' matchless name.

Amen.

If any part of this week, if any part of it has shown you, and maybe it's tonight, maybe you didn't listen before now, but you heard it tonight, and for whatever reason you've hung on. If any part of this week has shown you exactly where you stand, don't wait for a tenth morning. Don't do it. Don't do it. Pray this with me. Look, you can put off salvation if you want, but I'm telling you, if your eyes close to this world, before you have handled your accounts with God, you will go to an eternal hell. And that will be a choice that you made tonight. Relationship with God awaits. Healed in heaven awaits. Pray this with me. Handle this tonight. Handle it right now. Yeshua. That's right. You just talk right to him. That's his name, Yeshua. You probably know him as Jesus. Pray this with me. Yeshua, I need you. I believe you died for me and you rose from the grave. I surrender my life to you today. I ask you to forgive me. I ask you to heal me and fulfill me. Lead me. I'm yours. In your name. Amen. Look, if you prayed that and you meant that, welcome to the family of God. I encourage you to go to true wordfaithforlife.com. Go to the contact at the top or on the side. The side is a voicemail. It's two minutes. You pay for nothing on there unless you buy my book. Um, and if I could afford to give it away, I would. Click on those two things. Nothing costs you on that website. I pay so you don't have to. And just let us know. As soon as I receive the message, I will absolutely reach out to you. We'll build a plan. We'll have a way to give you the tools that you need. Many of them are right there on the website. It's it's amazing. It is a repository of everything you need to know. I'll help you. Countless others know that I will because I have, and I will. Until I close my eyes on this earth, I will help. Look, if it's your first time with us, I know it's weird. We've been walking through scripture chronologically, walking the story of God since Genesis. I encourage you, go to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. Go back to day one. I have I have a face for radio. If you want to do audio only, you can go to Spotify and search True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean S-H-A-W-N or Apple Podcasts or anywhere you do podcasts, you are welcome to do it. We even have a player on True Word Faith for Life. We do. It's awesome. Start at day one. You can stay up with us, but go day go back to day one and listen to day one, then day two, then do. And but but be listening, come back Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. People get up at 3 or 4 in the morning to listen live. Blows my mind, and I take it very seriously. I am now it's much shorter than this. So don't panic. And I'm working on making them even shorter. Drinking from a fire hose. But if this has been your first time, well I'm glad to have you. Listen. Nine plagues. Nine warnings. One heart. One heart growing heavier. Every time it had the chance. Every time it had the chance to grow, to grow softer. Instead. And through every single one of them, mercy went first. It always went first. The staff swallowed the staffs. The light stood in Goshen. The boils fell on men who couldn't hide from them. The darkness broke at the cross before it ever broke over Egypt. The blood stayed on the door. The storm was never separate from the sermon. It never has been. Your door is still standing open tonight. Walk through it. Walk through it. If somebody you know has been living through their own version of this week, send them this summation. Send them this link. Don't wait for their midnight to make you wish you had. The door that's still open for you is still open for them. Till we meet Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, receive this in his heavenly name. 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.