Tomorrow is what you said Yesterday

Day 61. What are you saying about tomorrow? Good morning. You know exactly what it is. It's the thing you've decided you'll deal with tomorrow. Not today, tomorrow. You've been saying it for weeks, maybe years. It's not that you don't know it's there. It's crawling all over everything. Your peace, your sleep, your marriage, your money. You can't open a drawer without running into it. And you've got a way. Well, you've got a way. A way out. Sitting right in front of you. Right now, today. And you keep saying tomorrow. That one word might be costing you more than you know. Tomorrow. Shalom and welcome to True Word, Faith for Life. I'm Dr. Sean. I sure appreciate you. It is, I will say this. It is good to be here, and it's good to have you here. Whether you're listening live or on playback, some of you have woken up at four o'clock in the morning to listen. And I am immensely, immensely appreciative of that. Many of you have woken up at a time that, were it not for this, you wouldn't be waking up this early. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. Sleep is sweet, and the fact that you get up and you listen is awesome. It's a testament to what God's doing through this, not through me, through this. Day 61, Exodus 8. Frogs, gnats, flies, three plagues, three chances to return, or just turn. And three times Pharaoh chooses the same word tomorrow. My book, True Word, Faith for Life is at the link. If you're listening on uh YouTube, is that the link in the show description? It's also just a true wordfaith for life.com store. Easy peasy. It's in all the bookstores everywhere. But by the way, we're number four, number four uh religion podcast, Hebraic Worldview podcast in Norway. It's good news to know. I think there are only three others, but I mean what do I know? I don't know. Maybe it is. I don't know the numbers. I just know we're number four. We got a thing from from um Apple Music, Apple Podcasts. We're on all those. Spotify and yada yada. So if true word faithful life, the book is for you, if if this teaching is putting solid ground up under your feet, get a copy. It's not cheap. I think it's $38. Costs almost that to make it. So maybe buy two, give one away. I I have to give special thanks. I have to give special thanks to two very special longtime friends who sent in yesterday's mail inside a little card, a little sweet card with some sweet inscriptions on them. They sent support for this show that um I'm I'm blown away by. And uh those gifts blew my mind, and and I will put them to good use, paying off what I I went in I went into uh the other computer was completed and I stepped on faith and got a new computer, more capable computer, and um I was nervous, you know, a little bit. And you know, we had the wedding coming up and all kinds of things, and it was just oof. But um they have covered that, and I can't thank you enough. Thank you so much for sewing into this mission. Couldn't have come at a better time. Um touched beyond words to explain. From the stableys warm kehala to here and now, it's people like the two of you that keep me going on the most challenging of days. God bless you both. Well, today's question. What are you saying tomorrow to right now? What are you saying tomorrow? What are you saying tomorrow to right now? The frogs come first.

I like frogs, don't get me wrong.

I'm I'm a huge fan. I had a frog that came back every year. And um he would sit on my foot. I'd sit in my chair and he'd sit on my foot. Yeah. It was the coolest thing. I like frogs. I I just about kill myself trying to save them once they jump into my garage. Because they think it's a safe place and it would be if they could get out, but can't. So I run around trying to catch them like a crazy person. I like them. But when there are millions of them, and they're jumping out of the Nile, into the houses, into the bedrooms, the ovens, the bread that they eat themselves. The Egyptians bred their food. Where they sleep, where they cook. Egypt is covered in them. And for the first time, Pharaoh bends. He calls Moses and he says, Plead with the Lord, take these frogs away, and I will let your people go. And and Moses gives them the easiest opening he'll ever get. He says, Tell me when. You name the hour, and I'll ask God to do it. Pharaoh says, Tomorrow. Not now, tomorrow. One more night with the frogs in his bed rather than to bow today. Moses prays, the frogs die, Egypt piles up the corpses, and the land stinks for days. And the moment the pressure is gone, Pharaoh's heart goes right back to the stone. Next comes the gnats. Out of the dust of the ground itself, this time Pharaoh's magicians, they try to copy it and they can't. They tell him straight, this is the finger of God. And he hardens anyway. Then flies thick everywhere. And I can't stand a fly. We have to spell that word in my house because apparently our dog, Micah, can't stand flies either. Flies thick and everywhere. Except one place. Goshen. Where Israel is. For the first time, God draws a line. Not a coincidence, it's a distinction. Pharaoh negotiates again. Go worship, but stay close. Moshe or Moses says no. Pharaoh folds again, the flies lift, and the moment he can breathe, he's back to exactly where he started. Three plagues, three offers, three hardenings. And every single time, God sends Moses back. That's not weakness. That's mirth. Look, that's mercy doing math the rest of us can't follow. God already knows how this ends. He already told Moses Pharaoh won't yield. And he sends them back anyway. Because an open door is never wasted, even on someone who refuses to walk through it. One day it becomes the proof that nobody can say they weren't given the chance. Watch how each specific plague. Well, I'll say it, I'll say it this way. I think the thing that I want to illustrate is. Watch how utterly specific each plague is. Frogs come from the Nile. The very river Egypt worshipped as a god. Gnats come from the dust, the ground itself, the most ordinary substance in the whole country. Can't stand gnats. The gnosems. Imagine billions of them. Flies fill the air. They get up under your glasses. I know they didn't wear glasses, but imagine that though. Flies fill the air except in one place. Each plague is reaching into a different part of Egypt's daily life, and it's saying, There's no part of your world I don't already own. And Goshen matters more than people give it credit for. God didn't just spare Israel quietly, off to the side, where nobody would notice. He named the difference out loud in the middle of Egypt's worst week, in the in the face of Egypt's pharaoh's greatest magicians. Quite extraordinary. I put a comment up, Niner 1985. An unbeliever. I want to illustrate this. He's doing exactly what Pharaoh's doing. He's putting off his eternity tomorrow. So if you believe the Bible word for word, how do you reconcile Leviticus with the modern world? You just need to listen. Listen and learn. You've rejected it for so long. You've rejected it. You've rejected God. One day. Turn off the arrogance. Find a way to follow him. Find your way to faith. Look, Egypt, this was their worst week. They were a powerful place. Understand that. They were an extraordinary place. Understand that how powerful these magicians were thought to be. In front of Pharaoh's whole court, they could do nothing. God made sure everyone watching would know exactly who draws that line and where it falls, and he does that in our lives. If we let him. That's not incidental. That's the entire point of the plague. Might have missed that. The real hinge of this entire chapter is the word tomorrow. Pharaoh had now, now, right now, sitting right in front of him, three separate occasions, three open doors, three chances to walk through at the moment Moses offered it. And he picked tomorrow every single time. Because now men admitting his whole world was a lie. Just like uh just like uh what's his name? Nine or 1985. And who knows? Who knows who else? People spend their time going to faith-based YouTube channels and jumping on lives just to try to derail. What they what they do, I I it doesn't, it it bothers me in the sense that they're thumbing their nose at God. Pharaoh did that. Well, I do a I do a podcast that's free on YouTube, the same YouTube channel you're trying to hijack. Can you believe the Bible? Might give that a listen. I'm not making fun of you. I'm I'm I'm sad for you. Because I know what's coming for you. Same thing that was coming for me. And believe me, I don't think I'm any better than you. I just think I have better manners. Pick tomorrow every single time. Can you imagine? Every single time, his people depended on him. They begged for relief. And he picked tomorrow because of his pride, because of his arrogance. Because now meant that if he said right now, right now, do it now, that would be admitting that his whole world was a lie, that the gods of Egypt were nothing, and that the god of a few enslaved shepherds was the only real power in the room. Tomorrow let him keep pretending for one more night, and one more night turned into three plagues worth of one more night. And maybe this is where it gets personal. Because most of us have prayed exactly Pharaoh's prayer, even if we've never said it out loud in those words. We don't say take away the frogs. We say take away the pressure, get me out of this consequence, get me out of this situation. God, if you just get me out of this collection call. We name the storm and we ask for the storm to end, and we call that prayer. But it's not prayer. And but you know the thing is, God in his mercy often does lift the pressure. He doesn't always make us earn the relief first. And the second he does, watch what happens. Um, every bit is guilty, y'all. Watch what happens. We go back to normal. We go right back to that mud, to that mess. We go right back to it. Same pattern, same excuses, same closed door that we were banging on an hour earlier. God, let me out, please, please. If you let me out, uh. Except now we're not desperate enough to keep banging. That was close. That's relief that's not repentance. Relief once the frogs go and repentance once God Himself. Frogs are no frogs. Here's the part that's easy to miss. Tomorrow's never really about timing. Sounds like a scheduling problem. It isn't. It's about control. It's a polite, respectable way of saying I'll surrender. Not just I will. I'm gonna, I'm, I'm gonna surrender, but just not yet. Not today. Not while I still think I can manage this on my own. A little longer. Every single tomorrow that you've ever said to God was really a vote. A vote to stay exactly where you are for one more night. Dressed up to sound like patience instead of what it actually is, which is delay. Think about how many tomorrows add up to a wasted decade. Fayer didn't lose Egypt in one bad choice. He lost it one tomorrow at a time. Three plagues running. Until there was nothing to deal with, nothing to negotiate with. No bargaining. Goshen has a name now. And that name is Yeshua, Jesus. The line God drew between Israel and Egypt was it was never, it was never really about geography. It was a preview. It was a shadow thrown forward in time, pointing straight at the day when the line wouldn't be someplace on a map. It would be a person standing between judgment and everyone who belongs to him. Think about what actually made Goshen safe. Wasn't anything Israel did that week to earn it. They were standing in the same dust. They were descended from the same fallen humanity. Just like everybody else in Egypt. The only thing that made the difference was where they stood. Under whose covenant they belong to. That's exactly how it works at the cross. Nobody earns, well, nobody earns their way into the safety Yshua provides, thank God, because I never could. You don't get there by being good enough to deserve it. Any more than Israel deserved the flies staying out of Goshen. You get there by standing where he is, under what he has already done, covered by the blood that was never yours to produce in the first place. The same God, the same God who spared Goshen in the middle of Egypt's plagues, spares everyone who stands in Yeshua today, not tomorrow. Today. Perhaps others. It's where you're saying tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll believe. I don't believe in now because I think it's stupid. But tomorrow I'll believe if he does some miracles. He's done many miracles. He's done miracles in your life. You're still alive today. Maybe you will. Before you your heart stops beating. Maybe you'll place your faith in Christ and you'll serve him. I hope there are others out there listening. You're not standing in Jesus today. You're you're rejecting him. You say, well, I I kind of believe it, but I'm not going to make a decision today. Tomorrow. He never once told Pharaoh to wait. He never told Israel to wait either. The offer was always now. The same now Pharaoh kept refusing three times running. It is still now. The tense hasn't changed in three thousand years. First, if you want if you want to if you want to obey concretely, for real, I have some suggestions for you. First, name the tomorrow you've been hiding behind. Be specific. Not, I need to get my life together. What exactly have you decided to deal with later instead of today? Second, stop asking God to lift the pressure without asking him to change your heart. Look, you say, Lord, take this pressure up off of me. And God says, are you going to change your heart? And sometimes he lifts that pressure up off of us. Because we've promised him. We've promised him. Every time. If you do it, I promise, I swear, I'll. I'll I will do it. I'll whatever you say. And then we don't. He lifts the pressure and we go back on it. Tomorrow's what you said yesterday. Stop asking God to lift the pressure up off of you. Ask him to change your heart. Relief isn't the goal. Surrender is. I say it all the time. Placing your faith in Christ, I think some of what people are afraid of, some of the folks that kind of try to hijack our chat, try to. What will I have to give up? I don't want to have to give anything up. How will my life change? As jacked up as things are, uh I don't know, other than this thing that's putting massive pressure on me that I want if there is a God, right? Stop. Stop it. Stop asking God to lift the pressure, the heavy thing off of you without changing your heart. Relief isn't the goal it's never been. Surrender is. If you want all the frogs, look, if if all you want is the frogs gone, you'll be back here again with the gnats and again with the flies. Third, do the thing today. Whatever surrender you've been circling, whatever conversation, whatever step, today, not after this episode ends, not after the weekend, not when things calm down. While you can still feel the weight of it. Because the weight is doing you a favor right now, a favor that comfort never will. I have for you a challenge and a choice. What have you been telling God? Well, tomorrow. Be honest. What would it actually cost you? What is the real cost? What would it actually cost you to make it today instead? Think about it. Name the real cost out loud, not the imagined one. How many tomorrows have you already spent? How many tomorrows have you already spent on this exact thing? Procrastination. Be honest about the number, even if it's embarrassing. Listen, I've done this very thing many times, and I can tell you it's embarrassing. Let yourself be embarrassed. Here's the choice in front of you. One more night with the frogs, the way Pharaoh, Pharaoh chose three separate times, or today with God, the way Israel was already living in Goshen all the whole time without having to negotiate for it. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, in the name of Yeshua, thank you for every door you've kept open longer than we deserved. Thank you that your mercy keeps sending Moses back even when our hearts keep saying tomorrow. For everyone who knows exactly what their frogs are, give them courage to say today. For everyone confusing relief with repentance, show them the pressure. Show them the difference between relief and repentance before the pressure builds up again. I pray this in Yeshua, your son's name. Amen. You've been you've been the deepest tomorrow you've been putting off is the question of where you stand with God. Just like those people in chat. I'm talking to you, you can still hear. Just because I won't allow certain things to be put on the chat, you can still hear. You know you can, and I know you can. And I know you're still listening. If the deepest tomorrow you've been putting off is the question of where you stand with God, don't put it off one more day. Pray this with me. Seriously. Handle this today. Stop messing about with this. Get real, get grown. No matter your age, get real, get grown. If tomor if if the deepest tomorrow you've been putting off is the question of where you stand with God, don't put it off one more day. Pray this with me. Seriously. Pray it with me. Yeshua, that's just the real name for Jesus. I need you. I believe you died for me and rose from the grave. I surrender my life to you today. Forgive me. Fill me. Lead me. I'm yours. Amen. If you just prayed that, welcome. You are in the family now. Go to true wordfaithforlife.com slash contact and let us know. I want to help you from here on out. As soon as I receive the message from the website, I will absolutely get in touch with you. Countless others know this to be true. You can know it too. Look, if this is your first time with us, or maybe you've been putting off this until tomorrow. Listen, we've been walking through scripture chronologically since Genesis, since, well, we started at day one. We're at 61. Tomorrow at seven, it'll be 62. I encourage you to go back to day one. There's a whole story being told. You don't really miss where it's going. The frogs died. The stink remained for days. And Pharaoh went right back to who he was before they came. Today's the only day. Today's the only day God ever offered anyone. Tomorrow has never once arrived the way we planned. Say today. Say today, while the offer is still standing in front of you. If someone you love has been saying tomorrow for too long, send them this episode today. In a minute, I'm going to pray a blessing over you, not that I'm anything special, I'm not. I'm going to pray it first in its original language, which is Hebrew. And then I'm going to translate it for you. I hope that you'll allow me to pray with you and for you. Thank you for joining. Thank you to all of you in chat. It's awesome to have all of you. It's sweet to watch you interact. Are you ready? And that means, 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. Until tomorrow at 7 a.m., if he gives me a tomorrow, shalom. Shalom alaikum.