WHO GETS TO NAME YOU?

Good evening. Something has been naming you.

Not loudly. But something has been naming you. Not all at once either. Not all at once. Slowly. Quietly. Almost kindly. Your job. Well, it's been naming you. Right? Your job's been naming you. Your diagnosis. Your diagnosis has been naming you. Your survival story has been naming you. Your fear has been naming you. And the Egypt that you're living in, right now, it's been getting louder. While the voice of the covenant God is it's getting harder to hear. And somewhere underneath all of it, in the place you don't say out loud, the question is, does he still know who I am? Is the covenant still standing? Or did Egypt finally get me? This week, Genesis ended. And Exodus began. Shemut. The names. Exodos. Echhodos. That's what Exodus is, but really the name is Shemot. Shemut. Shemut. The names. And the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob showed up every single day. Every single day and said the same thing. I have not forgotten your name. I have not forgotten your name. I haven't forgotten your name. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Our God. Every single day. Consistent. And he said the same thing. I haven't forgotten your name. Stay with me here. Oh, I forgot to even say. Shalom and welcome to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. I'm Dr. Sean. If you're not already subscribed to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean, S H A W N on YouTube or Rumble, click on subscribe, hit the little bell for all notifications. I have a website called TrueWordfaithforLife.com, Trueword FaithforLife.com. And I my most recent book is True Word Faith for Life. And it's in the store at Trueword FaithforLife.com understore top. And then uh it's it's in every bookstore, but we we do the best. We get about a dollar a book from Amazon and any of the others. No shade on them, but and you don't get it any faster. But it's easy to order, so I don't I don't throw any shade on you for ordering it there. Today is our Sunday summation and deepening, and shortly before broadcast, I got uh bad news that uh a dear friend and a person that was very faithful in our Kala from the early days. Uh we we've lost two. Two. So this show is dedicated to Don and Wes and all those who love them, which are many.

Wes was a good dude. He's a different bird, but he was a good dude. And Don, an exceptional human being.

Sweet as he can be. It's a reminder. One day the heart that beats within us will stop. Are you prepared for that day? Up to you. You have to answer it the way you're gonna answer it. You know the truth, God knows the truth. So today's a deep day. Tomorrow's gonna be intense, 7 a.m. We start Monday through Friday, and get your fill Monday through Friday, because Monday through Friday, I'm gonna be off after that. I'm gonna be off air. The mic will be silent for a week.

And then the following Sunday, I will be back on air.

Thank you. Thank you, Robbie. That's very sweet. Thank you very much. I'll pass that on to Miss Colleen. Well, it was a fascinating guy. So it's done. So get your feel of me. Because, like I say, after Monday through Friday this week, I'll be here. Monday through Friday. And then I won't be here next Sunday. And that whole next week, I won't be here. So you have to get all wore out on me. I know. I feel like crying. And uh I'm sad as I'll get out. But we have lots of beautiful, wonderful things happening, and neither one of them would uh would be super excited if I was all sad. So we move on. We move on today. Today is our Sunday summation and deepening from the Power Week. I mentioned TrueWordfaithforLife.com, TrueWordfaithforLife.com. Go to the blog. You go to the blog, read the blog. Easy to read. And then there's an intense study guide. This is the most it's six, 6,600 words all total. It's the most intense, deepest blog post and study guide I've ever done. Not, you know, I've written two doctoral dissertations, actually, three, and the master's thesis and all that. But these are free. These are for you. They're a good read. So you asked about my moose work bible, Mooseworks Bibles. There's one. And uh another one's on its way to me. And then as I can afford to do the other two, because these are the primary ones I'm passing on to the closest family, and the ones that are they'll really appreciate them. Anyway. This week we covered days 50 through 54, Genesis 47 through 49, Genesis 50, and Exodus 1, Shemut 1. We watched, we watched Jacob receive God's provision in a foreign land without letting that land swallow his covenant identity. We watched him bless forward when he could he could barely sit up in bed. We watched him speak hard truth over twelve sons because character always outlasts sentiment. We watched Joseph tell frightened men that evil doesn't get final authorship. We watched two women, remembered not by their titles, but by their names, by their names, and we watched them stand between Pharaoh's death command and the life God had promised. This week moved from provision to promise, from silence to blessing, from character patterns to covenant hope, from guilt that could not receive forgiveness, to freedom that finally could. From the fear of Pharaoh to the fear of God. And the question underneath every single day is who gets to name you? Who gets to name you? Listen, you can do what you want. You don't have to do this. Nobody's making you do it. I'm just asking you to do it. But you'll either do it or you won't. Before we go on, and before we go in all in, if this week put its finger on something real in your life, tell me in the chat. I want to know where you are before we go any further. And by the way, not for nothing. As many of you know who are listening all around the world, uh you can send me a message at any time. By the way, thank you all for hitting the like. And those of you on Facebook, and we're streaming to eight locations right now, live. X, LinkedIn, Instagram, all of them. Anywhere, you know, I can think of to stream. And then afterwards, there's an audio podcast. It's audio only. Takes me about an hour or two to edit it and get it out there, and that populates out to every every podcast there is. So Amazon music, iTunes, iHeartRadio, all of them. So if you're hearing this on playback, whether it's on YouTube and you're watching it or rumble, or you're listening on audio playback, you don't have to look at this face. Listen, I need you to understand that I'm open to communicate. You just have to know the the way to do it. True WordFaithforLife.com. Contact. Easy peasy. Well, this week had a wound. Something has been naming you that doesn't have the right to name you. And we need to begin where Genesis 47 began. You're in a place God put you in. And you're grateful. You should be. But here is what we need to say carefully. Egypt wasn't oppression at first, most places aren't. Egypt was provision. God sent Jacob's family there. God used Pharaoh's storehouse to keep the covenant family alive. Goshen was mercy, a real gift from the real God. That's what that's exactly what makes this so difficult. By the way, how's the sound? I didn't even ask. We aren't talking about running to a bad place. That's not what it's about. Ooh, Egypt is so bad. We aren't talking about staying too long in a good one. The place God. It was the place he used to preserve you. Well, it isn't always what God has called you to become. Listen, some of you are in a season of major change in your life. A part of life where your gain is so immense, you're so grateful. And some of you, you're just trying to keep your head above water, emotionally, physically, financially, spiritually. And some of you say, hmm, Dr. Sean, I I have not been successful at keeping my head above water. I'm taking on water and I don't know how much longer I can go. The place God used to preserve you isn't always what God has called you to become. And when you've been in Goshen long enough, that's what that's how you probably have heard it. Goshen, Pennsylvania, Goshen Township. It's Goshen, but it's Americanized. When you've been in Goshen long enough, it starts to feel like the promise. It starts to feel like home. Like, oh, okay, this is where I am, supposed to be. Where you are isn't always where you're going to remain for a myriad reasons. Thank you, Robbie. God bless you. Day 51. It widened the wound. Are you blessing forward? Or are you so consumed over managing your Egypt that you've just stopped transmitting the covenant to the people watching your life? You just stopped talking about the Lord. You clammed up. Day 52 went deeper. Remember, if you were listening, what is your life actually saying? Not your intentions, not your public presence, your patterns, your, you know, the instability, the anger calling itself righteous, the comfort chosen over calling, the shame that hasn't turned yet. Day 53. Oof. Hey, welcome to the Philippines. David Golden Eagle 61. God bless you. Thank you for joining. Last week we had somebody listening from China, which was amazing. My um, the radio show I did, God and Country, The Collision of Faith in Politics, it was a much, it was a much bigger show. Um, we had people listen from China a fair bit, and we had a bunch listening from Philippines. They were great people, really great people. Uh they were very hungry for the gospel, hungry for the gospel. So day 53 asked the hardest question of the week, I think. You tell me. Do you actually believe you've been forgiven? I don't know. You know, do you? A lot of people say they do, but they don't live like it. They don't live like they've been forgiven. Maybe that's you. I don't know. I don't know your life. But I'll tell you this, I know mine. It's my biggest struggle. I have some chinks in my armor. I also have metal in my eye. You'll have to forgive me for keeping fussing with my eye. I got a little few little shards of metal in this eye, a few little in that eye, and I got most of it out, but man, I can't get this one piece out. And I'm just trying to be gentle with it. You only get two sets of eyes. So look, do you do you actually believe? Well, let's start with, you know, maybe you're when you were a kid, your parents, did when you got in trouble and you said, I'm sorry, and they said, I forgive you. Did you believe them? How about in your marriage? Maybe you messed up royally. Do you actually believe that you've been forgiven? Maybe your spouse said, Hey, I forgive you. It's hard to do, but I forgive you. And then look at God. God sees it all. Dense in my armor. Amen. Thank you, Robbie. So you say, I don't understand how God forgives would forgive. Why would he forgive me? Why would he forgive me? I know my life. I wouldn't forgive me. It was the hardest question of the whole week last week. Do you actually believe you've been forgiven? That's not a doctrinal statement. Rain in Vermont. Well, I'm glad you're inside, Robbie. Warm and plugged in. God bless you. Man, the difference. David moved from Michigan, USA, to Philippines. What a difference in topography and temperature. Good Lord. I'm look, I'm asking the question: do you actually believe you've been forgiven? And that's the hardest question for people to answer. Yes. Because people automatically answer. Hey, Sean, spelled correctly. Good to see you, man. Look, a lot of people will give the church the answer. Oh, I'm I thank the Lord. I'm blessed. I'm blessed and forgiven. You know, the Lord has blessed me. Look, I get it. I get it. I I you you want that. I want that. But do you believe it? Do you live like you believe it? In the way that you pray? Does it show up in the way that you pray, in the way that you still treat yourself like a servant, paying a debt when you've already been welcomed as family? You're still fighting battles while the war's already been won. Day 54, turned the corner into Exodus. Shimot the names. Thank you, Robbie. Thank you for that honesty. I assure you, if you've put if you've put your your sins, your hurts, your habits, and your hang ups at the foot of the cross, he absolutely has forgiven you. He doesn't mess around. Listen, if he can forgive the ones that are our covenant fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and many of those that come after, if he can forgive them, use all those. Good lands. He surely can forgive us. And we'll get into all that. Amen, David. Twenty years ago, forgiveness came into David's life, and he forgives himself and others. So I am grateful. Very difficult to forgive yourself if you don't forgive others. Very difficult to forgive others if you don't forgive yourself. It's a cycle. Day 54, it was a massive turn, right? Here we come into Exodus Shemot. Who do you fear more? God or Pharaoh? Because the answer shapes literally everything. And that's the wound of the week. Something has been naming you that does not have the right to name you. And this week, this week God kept showing up to dispute the title. We call ourselves all kinds of names. But God knows the answer. He knows our name. Now, the God who shows up at deathbeds, he never stopped shepherding. Even when Jacob stopped noticing the theological heart of this week was Jacob. We watched an old man who lived a complicated, limping, grief-filled, covenant-carrying life. We watched that life come to an end. And what he said at the end, he could have said anything he wanted. But what he said at the end is everything. In Genesis 48, by the way, these if you miss these messages, they're you can still listen to them. It's all free. You can listen free at any time. We pay so you don't have to. In Genesis 48, before he blessed Ephraim and Manasseh. Manasseh, Ephraim. Before he blessed Ephraim and Manasseh, Jacob poured out a cluster of divine names almost unparalleled. In the patriarchal narratives, he called God. The one shepherding me. The one shepherding me. Not the one who shepherded me. Present tense. Present tense. At the end of a hundred and forty-seven years, about to die. Look, he didn't call him the one who was once my shepherd. Not the one who was once my shepherd. Not the one who shepherded me when I was young and the road was clear. The one who is shepherding me right now, to this very day. He called God Hagoel. Hagoel, the Redeemer, the one who steps into broken places and brings you back from where you should have been permanently lost. How many of us can say, oh my lands, I should have been permanently lost? There's no way he would preserve me. There's no way he would. Why would he? Why would he? I don't deserve it. Are you listening? The one who steps into broken places and brings you back where you should have been lost, where I should have been lost, permanently lost, but instead he stepped into that place and he brought us back. Come on, somebody say amen. Somebody out there says, mm-hmm, yep, yep, yep, yep. Praise God. He did that. He did that. He did that in my mind. Oh, now that I think about it, wow, a God that didn't forgive and doesn't forgive me, well, he sure has helped me out an awful lot, an awful lot. He sure did redeem me. Because I surely would have been permanently lost. All would have been over. Then in Genesis 49, speaking over Joseph, he returned to the same, the same names. Hello, Max. God bless you. Amen. God bless you. Hey, Max, where are you listening from? Genesis 49, speaking over Joseph. Jacob he he returned to the same names. The mighty one of Jacob, the shepherd again. He kept coming back to it, the stone of Israel. El Shaddai, God Almighty. Jacob wasn't performing worship from a comfortable place. He was in the middle and right at the edge of dying. Here's year his years in in Hebrew is his scripture says his years were Miyatvaraim. Few and difficult. Well, welcome, Max from New York. God bless you. He could still stand at the edge of death and save the one shepherding me all my life long to this day. He's not given up on me. He shepherded me throughout. He shepherded me then. He's shepherding me now. And he will shepherd me beyond the one shepherding me all my life long to this day. Praise God. Listen, that's our foundation. Why wouldn't we learn it? Why wouldn't we learn it in the ancient Near Eastern language, culture, and context so that we understand it clearly and accurately? That is our foundation. We got to know the foundation, folks. We've got to understand how it all began. And we got to know what it means. Because if we don't, we won't, we will not understand. When we when we get into the fullness of Yeshua in the New Testament, you will not, if you don't understand this, you're not going to understand that. You'll have a thin notion of the gospel and what it really means. It's why I teach the way I do. Look, that's covenant witness from real, inside real suffering, the one shepherding me all my life long to this day, he said. Not, well, it was always comfortable. How are you doing? Fine. How you doing? Fine. Neither of you are fine, but you keep saying fine. How you doing? Fine. He didn't say it was always comfortable. He didn't say I always felt this presence. Yes, I did. He didn't say the road was clear and the answers came quickly.

No.

He said he was always there. I want you to sit in that. Sit comfortable back in that for a minute. Because some of you are living in the unreadable chapters right now. You're in the part of the story where you can't yet see what God is building, but rest assured He is building something and He is building you. Where the distance between the promise and the fulfillment feels less like faith and more like abandonment, where you have not. Look, look, come on. I know somebody right now is right there. Hear me. Where you've been faithful and it hasn't yet been resolved. Where you've where you've prayed and you've prayed and the silence has been long. Where you have gone to interview after interview after interview and traveled far and spent a whole bunch of money and been interviewed a whole bunch of times by the same place, and you don't get the job. The silence. Sometimes the answer is in the silence. Listen, that's Jacob's word for you. He was there. Not he will eventually show up. Not trust the promise. No. Not trust the process. He was there in the pit. Jacob was thrown into a pit by his own brothers, and he was there. God was there. El Shaddai was there. Hagoel was there in the pit. He was there in the false accusation that this woman made, Potiphar's wife made against a totally innocent Joseph. He was there. He was there in the prison cell with no release date. He was there in the long years of Laban. Twenty years. That dude lied. Jacob, oh, how he loved Rachel. He loved Rachel. He said the time flew by. He loved her so much. He was there at the Ford of the Jabak. When the wrestling lasted until dawn, Jacob wrestled with the Lord. You couldn't always see it. And look, you may not be able to see it in your life today. No matter where you're listening from, no matter what you're going through, you may not be able to see it. In fact, I'll I'll just tell you, I'll be honest, no fancy preacher tricks from me. There have been many times where I didn't see it. I just didn't see it. And you may not be able to see it today, either. But the shepherd doesn't stop shepherding because you stop noticing he's a shepherd. Haroyote. Haroyote, the one shepherding me still to this very day. Amen. Thank God for his persistence and his patience. The crossed hands and the lion. God isn't limited by your ranking systems. Two images from this week. They deserve to be held together. Jacob's crossed hands. Instead of reaching out and crossing like this, he crossed his hands like this. I'm telling you, it was incredible. First time I read and understood that, I was like, whoa, that's a big thing that I've been skipping over. And then the scepter of Judah. When Jacob placed his right hand on Ephraim instead of Manasseh, it looked like a mistake, and Joseph tried to correct it. He goes, Not so, my father. This one is the firstborn. And Jacob said, I know, my son, I know. This wasn't some senile old man losing track. Not at all. This was a prophet reaching forward in faith to a future he could see, and Joseph couldn't. Those crossed hands stand in a long line running through Genesis. Isaac, not Ishmael, Jacob, not Esau, Joseph, not Reuben, Ephraim, not Menesse. Look, Genesis keeps showing us, keeps showing us, if we would just read it, if we would just read it and understand what it is. Genesis keeps showing us the God who is free. He's not obligated by birth order. He's not managed by human ranking systems or even expectations. He's not limited by what the family machine expects. The blessing isn't controlled by your position. It is given by the sovereign God who sees what no one else sees in you. He can see it. He's seen it all along. He has seen it all along. And then, well, the scepter of Judah. The scepter shall not depart from Judah. Look, Judah had the most complicated story in the room, y'all. Judah, not a good dude. Not a good dude. Did horrible things. Repeatedly. Genesis 38, the hypocrisy, the shame, the public failure. But then something happened to Judah, just like something might have happened to you when you came to Christ. My son and I had the most beautiful conversation today about baptism and communion and understanding the son's a very theologically curious person, and he studies hard and well. And he had this experience today in a church where that, you know, this, I know what tradition you went to, I'm not going to mention it, but and it was, and they did, they just willy-nilly did communion and willy-nilly did baptism. No talk of, hey, you must be saved first before you can be baptized and that baptism doesn't save you. And then communion. Oh no, just everybody. Everybody take communion. No, don't worry about, you know, repenting or any of that. Hey, don't worry about being a person of of the kingdom, a child of God, person that asked for forgiveness, repented of their sins. No, none of that. There are a whole lot of folks in a whole lot of churches out there. Though that are they're labeling people. They say, well, you can't be any better. Listen, there's a whole lot of people. There's a whole lot of people right now doing that. Some of them are family. They look at me and they go, Nope. Ain't no way in this world I'm gonna buy you being a preacher. Ain't no way in this world I'm gonna buy you being a theologian. Doesn't matter how many degrees you have, doesn't matter. Now, I knew you went. But here's the thing: something happened to Judah. By Genesis 44, he was offering himself as a substitute, he was giving his life as a substitute for Benjamin. The brother who once sold a brother into slavery volunteered to take his brother's chain. Come on, if you don't get this, if you don't get the connection. You gotta hear it, you gotta feel it, you gotta take it in your head and your heart and understand. The brother who once sold his own brother into slavery volunteered to take his brother's place in chains. That's not guilt managing reputation. That's not guilt managing its reputation, no, not at all. This, that right there, folks, is repentance. That is turning. That is Teshuva in Hebrew, turning away. And out of that turning, the royal line flows. Who would have thought it? Out of that very thing, the royal line, the messianic line, the line of Messiah Yeshua. Jesus Christ. It doesn't run through the sinless, but through the repentant. The repentant. Oh, the Lion of Judah. The Lion of Judah. From Jacob's deathbed poem to David's throne, to the throne room of revelation, where no one in heaven or earth can open the sealed scroll, and the elder says, Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, he has conquered. Yeshua, the lion who was also the lamb, the king who came from the tribe, Jacob blessed with a failing breath. Some of you came into this week feeling like your story. Hey, my story is just too complicated for this royal line. I've got too much failure. I've got too much history. I've got, look, too many people know what I did. Judah's story wasn't complicated. And yet it was so complicated. So complicated. You look at Judah and go, mm-hmm. Yeah, I know what's happening here. I know what's coming for you. Yep. And then you wag your bony little digit. You'll point at him and say, Mm-hmm. Yeah, you're bad. God will never choose you. And then what happens? Judah's story was absolutely complicated in the fact you had never seen it. We would have never seen it. He would have never seen it. But the royal line runs through him anyway. Our Redeemer and our King runs through the Lion of Judah because, not because of Judah's righteousness, but because of God's sovereign mercy and Judah's real repentance. The throne room of revelation doesn't hold a man who never failed. It holds a lion who conquered. And that lion came from a broken line that God refused to disqualify. And listen, I've got to ask you, if you're listening live, you're in the live chat, we have a vibrant, very respectful live chat. We invite you to join us every Monday through Friday, except for this coming week, we're going to be there. But then after that, after Friday, the mic will be silent Friday through, or I'm sorry, Sunday through uh this, let's see here. Let's see, uh Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. So next Sunday we won't be on, but the following Sunday we'll start up again and we're gonna be fired up because there's lots of good things happening in my family, and we're excited about it. We're so blessed. So, if that's good news for where you are today, tell me in chat. You say, hey man, I never heard that. Hey man, I never really felt that until now. I want to hear it. I want to hear from you. Come on, take a deep breath. If that's good news for you, right where you are right now, I want you to tell me. Now, take a deep breath. Here we go. The word that closes Genesis. Evil did not get final authorship. Genesis 50 gave us one of the most important sentences in the entire Bible. You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good. The Hebrew word underneath that sentence is hashav. Hashav. To think, to plan, to intentionally calculate, hashav. The brothers calculated evil against Joseph, but God calculated redemption through the same events. The same events, two intentions, incomparable authorities. You couldn't write in any better than this. And God's calculation wasn't passive. Oh no, it sure wasn't. He was purposefully, sovereignly recalculating what human beings meant for harm into what he had always been building toward. Then Joseph. Then Joseph asked the question that frees every wounded person in your room where you are right now. Am I in the place of God? He knew the throne of judgment didn't belong to him. He refused to sit in it. Then he wept. And he spoke to their hearts Viradabar alabam, alibom. He spoke to their heart. Intimate healing. The same kind of language used in Hosea, where God says He will speak tenderly to Israel in the wilderness. Then Genesis ends with a coffin. But let me tell you what that coffin was preaching. Pakod Jefkhod Elohim. God will surely visit you. God will surely act. That word Pekad, to attend to, to care for actively, to move on behalf of, it becomes the watchword of Exodus. Moses carries it into Egypt. Israel hears it and bows because they recognize it. Joseph said it on his deathbed, and it was true. It was still true four hundred years later. And here's where the story crosses toward Yeshua. Yeshua. At the cross, that wretched, beautiful cross. Human beings calculated death. And God, without excusing a bit of it, recalculated it as salvation for you and for me, and we would have never been able to do it ourselves. Peter, Kepha, holds both realities together in Acts 2. Delivered over by the predetermined plan and the foreknowledge of God, killed by lawless hands, raised by God. Human beings were responsible, but God was sovereign. Evil was evil, but redemption was greater. Glory to God, thanks be to God. Evil doesn't get final authorship when the covenant God is still writing the story. These are the names. God does not begin redemption with statistics. He begins with names. Then we crossed into Exodus. Fifty four days in Genesis. In Genesis. I got more notes from people saying, listen, man, you're never going to get through the Bible in a year if you take 50 days for each book. Good Lord, it's simple math. I said, Did you listen? Did you pay attention? Did you learn anything? Well, no, I didn't listen because, you know, I'm too busy. Okay, then you won't know the Lord. You won't know about God. You won't understand about the promise. You won't understand about the covenant. You won't understand what we've been through as a faith, as a kingdom, as a people of God. And Exodus opened with names. It read, These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt. But in Egypt, Israel would be reduced to labor units, a population problem, a threat to be managed, a people to be oppressed and eventually exterminated. Pharaoh counts heads. God speaks names. My goodness. That is the first act of resistance in the book of Exodus. Before Moshe or Moses is born, before the burning bush, before a single plague, before the sea parts, before any of it, God opens the book by naming his people. And the women who feared God are named Shipra and Puah. Say those names slowly. Shipra and Puah. Not Pharaoh's name. Their names. Not the head, not the most powerful man in the ancient world. He issued a death command over every Hebrew boy. Kill them all. He had the army, he had the system, he had the authority, he had the infrastructure, he had everything a man needs to win. Everything. And two women said no. Not with a weapon, not with protest, not even with an army. With the fear of God sitting heavier in their chest than the fear of Pharaoh. When the king summoned them and demanded to know why the Hebrew boys were still alive, they answered him directly to his face.

And then the text says something that should stop us.

God dwelt well with the midwives. He gave them families of their very own. The king who thought he controlled the womb and the future is unnamed in this chapter. His name is not one of the names. Shemut is not named. He was the top guy, not named. But these two women, midwives, they are named and they are blessed. Don't think you can't stand up. Come on. Come on, you say, mm-mm. No, I'm just a little old me. You stand in the name of the Lord. Make sure you're right. Understand scripture. Understand our foundation. And then when you do, stand in the name of the Lord. Stop being chicken about your faith. Two women in a highly marginalized society were named. Their names were given by God. And yet the Pharaoh who had a thought he had all the power. Unnamed. The king who thought he controlled the womb and the future is unnamed in this chapter. The woman who feared God, these women, each one of them, Shifra and Pua, they feared God. They're remembered by name. Two women, you probably haven't ever heard those names. I guarantee you, most of you don't. You know, like, I don't know, he could be he might be making them names up. I don't know. Two women who changed the course of redemptive history by making one decision in a moment when no one powerful was watching. Come on, somebody. Somebody emulate those two women. We will not obey this command. We will not obey this command. How tall are you standing? How much do you raise your eyes to heaven?

Do you at all?

Those of you who are still going to work, you're not retired, and you say, I'm a Christian, but you leave your Bible at home. Lunchtime, you you know, you just go in the lunchroom and you know, you don't talk about your faith because you know, separation of work and faith, you know. Why don't we get in trouble? You see somebody over there, that other table constantly, every week, every week, every day of the week, you go there. You see this person, and this person, she is struggling. She is struggling. You can see she's being weighed down by the weight of the world. Why won't you tell her about Yeshua? Why don't you tell her about the Redeemer? Well, I'm afraid of my work. We will not obey this command. Well, my work says we can't talk about faith. We can't proselytize. My friends, that is not proselytizing, that is testifying to the goodness of God. We will not obey this command. And God didn't name the Pharaoh. He named these women, names you probably have never heard. The system still does this today. Do you know this? I want you to hear this. The system still does this today. It counts you as engagement, liability, resource, labor. It reduces you to what you can produce, what you cost, and what you threaten. But God still knows your name. He knew Shifra's name and he knew Pua's name. He has known your name longer than Egypt has had a word for you.

Before the diagnosis named you.

Before the system assigned you a number. God spoke your name. And he hasn't taken it back, and he won't. I'm gonna give you five things God formed this week. I want you to step back now and I want you to ask what God has been forming across the full weight of this week. I want you to ask this. I want you to hear it first. You gotta hear this now. Don't let your mind wander. Don't let the enemy steal away your focus and your mental acuity right now. Hear these. It's only five. It won't kill you. First, provision isn't the promise. Provision is not the promise. What God uses to sustain you isn't always what God has called you to become. Egypt can feed you. Egypt cannot name you. Don't let the place of provision become your place of identity. Goshen is a gift. Goshen isn't the goal. Number two. The blessing belongs to the next generation, too. Jacob was dying. He was barely able to sit up in his bed. And he still crossed his hands. He still reached forward in faith to a future he wouldn't live to see. Don't die with the blessing still locked inside of you. Because you're afraid. Because you've been hurt. Don't die with this blessing locked inside of you. The very people watching you live your life day to day, your neighbors left and right, the people across the street, the people at your workplace. Don't be coming up in there, running up in there late every day. Be on time. Be ready to work. Be ready to get her done. Know your job. Learn it well. If you're new, keep learning. Apply yourself. Don't be the lazy one at work. Don't be the negative complaining one at work. No. That's that you make a terrible witness that way. Don't die with the blessing still locked inside you. The people watching your life, they need what God has put in you. They need it. Pass it forward before you run out of time. Third, your life is all ready preaching. No, no, no. Not your intentions, not your public presence, your patterns. Watch what you do, not what you say. Genesis 49 isn't. Genesis 49 didn't perform comfort at a deathbed. It told the truth. It told the truth. I have to ask, what is your life saying right now? While you still have time to let Yeshua change it. Fourth, guilt is not humility. It's not. Guilt is also not repentance. There's no equanity between the two words. They're not tantamount one to the other. Guilt is not humility. Staying in guilt when forgiveness has already been given. You're fighting the battle still and the war has already been won. Staying in guilt when forgiveness has already been given, it's not even reverence. It's unbelief dressed all up in religious clothes. Joseph's brothers offered servanthood when they had already been offered sonship. The blood of Yeshua is enough. It is enough. Not enough for other people, enough for you. Receive. Receive what's already been given. Number five, fear God more than Pharaoh. Come on. This is especially true for some folks right now. You got a workplace Pharaoh. Maybe you got a family pharaoh. This is the turn from Genesis to Exodus. Whose voice is loudest in your daily life? Is it the system? Is it the paycheck? Is it the approval, the comfort, the diagnosis, the fear? What is it? Or the covenant God, the covenant God, who named you. He named you before Egypt had a word for you. Shiva and Bua, they changed the course of history by fearing God more than Pharaoh. And they didn't do it with an army. They did it with these two women. These two women, they made one decision. They decided. Decide. Resolve. Stand. Hashtag decide. Resolve. Stand. If you're listening on on X or you're listening on LinkedIn or or any of the other places, put that in the chat. Hashtag decide. Resolve. Stand. You gotta make a decision, folks. These two women, they made a decision now. They made a decision. And it changed history. Come on, somebody. They made a decision. Decide. Hashtag decide resolve stand. If you're on truth social, we don't stream to that because there's not a mechanism for it. If you're listening on uh Fathea, hashtag decide resolve stand. You say I have no power. I'm just little old me. Oh no, you're so wrong about that. Listen, they said we will not comply with a command that contradicts the king. Covenant courage rarely announces itself. It doesn't come with a crowd, it doesn't come with applause. It shows up quietly in the moment where no one powerful would notice if you just went along. Go along to get along. Hello, Miss Colleen and Paola. Me no more. You say, I can't do it, I don't have the strength. That's why I go along. In the place where fear. Oh, somebody right now, you're dealing with hard fear. You are paralyzed in fear. Somebody there is crushed and paralyzed, just frozen with fear. In the place where fear has been winning for a long time, in the room where Pharaoh has the loudest voice, the boss, the family member who won't get off your neck. You came to Christ and they won't get off your neck. Every five minutes they're saying, Oh, onward, onward Christian soldiers in a snide, ignorant sort of way. While they revel in your failures, and they revel in a moment of weakness. You almost were there where you were going to testify. And they said, and they barked you down yet again. And you choose the fear of God instead.

If I stand for the Lord.

It's gonna draw air. Maybe I'll never hear the end of it. Choose the fear of God instead. Now, Yeshua was right at the center of the week. The coffin preaches because the resurrection is coming. Let's bring Yeshua where he belongs. Look, he's not forced into the text. It's where the text has been pointing all along. Jacob called God, Hagoel, the Redeemer, and he prayed that blessing over his grandsons. What blessings are you praying over your people? He was invoking a rescue he could feel the shape of, but not yet fully see. That Redeemer has a name, my friends, and his name is Yeshua. Jesus Christ, Messiah Yeshua. Jacob spoke of the Lion of Judah and a scepter that would not depart. Centuries of royal line would follow, but the scepter was always moving toward one throne. The lion who is also the lamb, the king who died for what his subjects deserved. Oh, we surely, I can say for me and me alone, I surely deserved to be on that cross. Heavenly Father didn't deserve a second on that cross. He didn't deserve a single whip of the cat of nine tails. He didn't deserve any of the disrespect he took, but he did it. And he did it for us. He died for what we deserved, the root of David, who alone could open the sealed scroll. Well, then comes the coffin. Genesis ends with a coffin, but the coffin was preaching. God will surely visit. And he did, not only in Exodus, but in Yeshua. He walked into the worst that death could do. He was laid in a tomb and he came out on the other side. The coffin is never the last word for believers. When the God of covenant is still speaking, Egypt may feed you, but Egypt cannot hold you. Why? Because the God who visited his people in Egypt is the same God who in Yeshua visited us at the cross. And he is still visiting today. Right now, in this room, wherever you are, if you're driving your car, if you're flying in a plane, if you're at work right now, or you're laying in your bed, and you've been thinking, man, I need a word. I need a word. I can't keep going like this. Heavenly Father is still visiting you. You've been in Egypt all week. And here's what God has been saying. I gotta ask, where has this week found you? Maybe day fifty was the one. You've been in Goshen so long you stopped praying toward the promise. The paycheck is your peace, the arrangement is your identity. Look, and Egypt has been gently, a little bit at a time, almost kindly, renaming you for years. You didn't run to a bad place. You stayed too long in a good one. And somewhere along the way, provision became the promise, and you stopped moving. God's word for you this week is the same word he gave Jacob. Get your bones out of Egypt. Not literally. But don't let them bury you here. This isn't your home. Maybe day 51 hit differently. There are people in your life who need a blessing. You know who they are. You don't have to struggle to know. You don't have to struggle to think of one. A real blessing. Not flattery, by the way. Not general encouragement. Not some bumper sticker theology, not some little quip or saying, not a little church thing that they popped up on the screen for two seconds. No, no, no. A covenant-shaped word that speaks their name, calls out what God has put in them, and reaches forward in faith to a future they can't yet see. And it is still locked inside of you. Jacob was dying when he crossed his hands, yet he still reached forward. The question isn't whether you have time. The question is whether you will use that time. None of us know the day or time. We don't know when that sky will split from east to west, and the Lord will return. This time not as a baby. Use your time wisely. Make a decision. Get off the fence. Maybe day 52 was the uncomfortable one. Maybe it was. The pattern Jacob would have named. You know what it is. The instability, the anger, the comfort chosen over the calling. He chose comfort over the calling. You knew. Listen, me too. Been there, done it. God whispers to us in our pleasure, and he shouts to us in our pain. The shame you have been managing. Some folks, the shame you have been managing instead of surrendering to Christ. Let me just say, your your life's already preaching. The people closest to you, they already know the pattern. And Yeshua, he's not waiting for you to clean it up before he speaks to it. He's speaking to it right now. The question is, are you? Are you listening? Listen, maybe, look, maybe day 53 reached the deepest place in you. You're still living like a servant when you've already been welcomed as a child. You're still trying to manage God. You're still keeping the ledger. You're still half waiting for the shoe to drop, for the real accounting to begin. Oh, you thought I was gonna forgive you, huh? Not as bad as you are. That's what you're waiting on. And it won't come. And Joseph is weeping. Not because he's angry, because the forgiveness is already there. It has been there. And you just won't receive it. You just won't receive it. You reject it. You disbelieve it. Today's word isn't complicated. Stop. Yeshua's blood is enough. Yeshua's blood is enough. Trust me, more than enough. Receive what has already been given to you. Pray as a child today, not as a creditor, but as a child. I'm going to give you the chance here in just a few minutes. Look, maybe day 54, that final day, Friday. Maybe that was the waking up chapter. And listen, it's free to listen to any of these episodes. On any of the podcasts, wherever you get your audio-only podcast, it's there. Free to listen on my website. We have all of them, truewordfaithforlife.com. They're free to listen to there. We pay so you don't have to. They're free to come back and watch on the YouTube channel, True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean SHAWN. And on mobile if you don't like YouTube. True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean SHAWN. It's free if you've missed them. Maybe day 54 was the waking up chapter. I had so many people send me notes. Beautiful notes. They say I've been fearing Pharaoh. I've been fearing Pharaoh longer than I've been fearing God. I've been fearing the system. I've been fearing my boss. I've been fearing my diagnosis. I had two people reach out to me, said, look, when you say you talk about your terminal illness, I understand. And they're a lot closer than maybe I think I am. Maybe more than doctors think I am. Maybe it's your account balance. Money is hard to come by for you right now. For myriad reasons. Maybe it was abuse of money and you ended up in massive debt, and it's so hard to get out of. Trust me, more money isn't the answer. Yes, it's good to have. And if you're, you know, you're due a promotion or uh to level up, certainly, certainly, you should be paid. For your value, you should absolutely be paid. But listen, financial problems, overarching and unrelenting debt is almost never an issue with money. It's an issue of attitude toward money. It's how seriously you take the stewardship that God has given you over it. Maybe it is the account balance. I had people write to me and say, look, I've been trying to get my family to approve of me. Just approve. I've changed. I'm not what they said I am, but of what they said that was true, yeah. And I've repented and I've said I'm sorry so many times, and I've taken it before the Lord. I've laid it at the foot of the cross, and yet still they don't forgive me. Listen, their approval is not your second identity. Let it go. Let it go. Live your life. Be consistent. Shifra and Pua, they showed you what real courage looked like. It wasn't loud, it wasn't dramatic. They didn't have an army behind them, just one decision. One. In a moment when no one power was watching. Come on. What did they say? Remember what scripture said we will not comply with the command that contradicts the king. You have that moment coming in your life, and maybe it's already here. Oh, you gotta get ready. All five places are real. Every one of them is. And here's what is true across all five of those places. God hasn't forgotten your name. He has not left you in Egypt. He hasn't changed his covenant. He hasn't run out of patience. He has not moved on. And he's still visiting his people. Listen that. All of these words, all ever all every bit of it in detail, and all of my research notes and and and uh annotated bibliography and footnotes, everything. It's all in the blog post for this week, and you'll find them for for every week of at weekly summation. And it'll be there and it's in great detail. Truewordfaithforlife.com. It is free. There's no paywall, there's no nothing. Go and use the study guide as a resource. You can copy it and paste it. Only thing I ask, copy all the way down, which includes the copyright. Everything we do, spoken or written, is copyrighted. Just give us due attribution. This week has been a diagnosis. Sunday is the treatment plan. Choose the wound from this week that most accurately describes where you are. Just one. You don't have to choose them all. Just choose one. If Goshen has become your God, name the provision that you've been treating like the promise. Name the provision you've been treating like the promise. Say it out loud. Father, thank you for this. But this is not my God, and this is not my home. Then take one action step today. Take one action, do one action that demonstrate, that demonstrates God owns what Egypt has been claiming in you. If you've been silent about the blessing of God on your life, choose one person. One. I'm not asking you to be Billy Graham. I'm asking you to be you. But I'm asking you to be a person of the covenant, a child of the king. I want you to write, speak, or pray a covenant-shaped blessing over that one person this week. Dispense with the flattery. Truth. Bring covenant truth. Say their name. What you see. I'm not talking about being prophesying over the life. I'm not talking about pretending to be a prophet. I got a word from the Lord. No, no, no. Tell them what you see in them. And tell them what you're believing God for in their life. Listen, if the pattern is what needs addressing, name one. I'm not asking you to confess it to me. I'm asking you to confess it clearly to God. Don't make excuses, don't butter it up. Take one concrete step of repentance and invite one person to ask you about it. In 30 days, yes, that's an action step. No, we're not just doing one thing one time and going, well, I said something to him. They didn't say nothing back to me. So I didn't ever follow up with them because if they wanted help, they would get it. Where were you? Where were you when you were in the mud of your unbelief? When you were climbing around in that muddy pit. Where were you? Now that you're all cleaned up, you don't want to go back around the messy. Confess it clearly to God without excuse. Take one concrete step of repentance and invite one person, say, hey, I've done these things this week. One good, faithful person that you can trust. Invite them. Say, look, I'm going to follow up with you in 30 days. But if I don't, and even if I do, listen, beat me to it. I want you, I want your help here. I'm being accountable here. And then listen, if guilt is still running your faith, say this out loud right now. Don't wait till some point in time. You can sing you, there's no microphone on you. The audience can't hear you here. I want you to say this out loud right now. Yeshua's blood is enough. Say it. Yeshua's blood is enough. I am not a servant paying a debt. I am a child who has been received and delivered. Then I want you to pray as a child today, not as a creditor, a child. If Pharaoh has been louder than God in your life, name the Pharaoh. Say, I will fear God more than this. Then take one step of obedience today, in the exact place where fear has been winning the war. One wound. One step. That's how Egypt loses its grip. I have for you today a challenge and a choice. Here's the challenge. This week God asks five questions in five days. Day one, will you receive my provision without surrendering your identity? Day two, will you bless forward before you run out of time? Day three, will you let me speak to the patterns your closest people have already been watching? Day four, will you receive what I've already given you? And day five, will you fear me more than Pharaoh? All five point to the same threshold. Who has been naming you? Egypt has been loud, the culture, the system, the guilt, the fear, the comfort. They've all been naming you for a long time. Some of them have been naming you so long you've stopped noticing it was happening. But the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he still knows your name. He named you before Egypt had a word for you. He's naming you right now. You are a covenant child. You belong to the shepherd who doesn't lose sheep. You belong to the redeemer who steps into broken places. You belong to the lion of Judah who conquers and reigns. Egypt absolutely can feed you. But Egypt can't name you. That's for God and God alone. Only the covenant God holds that authority, and he is still speaking. My friends, prayer isn't asking for an easy journey, it is asking for a strong back. Let's pray. For real, let's pray. Even if you're listening on playback, let's pray. Father, in the name of Yeshua, thank you for this week. Thank you for Jacob's honesty, his limping faith, his willingness to say, My years have been few and difficult, and still speak the blessing, still reach forward, still call you shepherd at the edge of death. Thank you for Joseph's surrender. Thank you, Father, for Joseph's surrender, for the question that frees us, am I in the place of God? Thank you for those two brave, courageous women that no empire could stop because they feared you more than Pharaoh, because they knew whose voice was final. Forgive us for the ways Egypt has been naming us, for the provision that we've mistaken for the promise, for the blessings we have held back, for the patterns that we've been hiding behind gifts instead of surrendering to you. For the forgiveness we have heard about but still haven't received. For the fear of Pharaoh that has been louder than the fear of you. Speak louder, Father. Shepherd us, redeem us, remind us of who we belong to. Bekod Ifkhod, you will surely visit. You always have, you still are, in the name of Yeshua. The lion who conquered, the lamb who was slain, and the shepherd who doesn't lose his sheep. Amen and amen. Praise God. Thank you for the privilege and honor of praying to the living God. And listen, look, I told you I was going to give you a chance, and I don't make that up. If you've never surrendered your life to Yeshua, this is the week to do it. Don't wait. You do not know what waits for you right around the corner. We've had five days, five days of watching the covenant God refuse to let Egypt win. He kept Jacob, he redeemed Joseph, he named Shifra and Pua. He promised, I will come for you. And he came in Yeshua, the lion of Judah, the root of David, the Redeemer who crossed every distance between your Egypt and His throne, between your sin and your redemption in Christ. He isn't tallying up what you owe. He already did what you couldn't do, and he's calling you right now. He's not calling you to perform. He's not calling you to clean up first. Come just as you are. He's not calling you to earn what he has already offered. He's calling you to come home. Now's the time. Don't wait another moment. Pray with me. Yeshua, I believe you are the Son of God. I believe you died for my sin, and yet you rose again. I turn from my sin in every Egypt that has been naming me. Forgive me, cleanse me, make me new. I receive you as Savior and Lord. Teach me to follow you. Amen. Oh, glory to God, what an honor, what an absolute honor. Amen. Mary, Mary, Mary. Thank you for listening. God bless you, sister. God bless you. God bless you. Listen, if you prayed that prayer today, folks, welcome to the family of God. Egypt doesn't get to name you anymore. They have no power over you anymore. You aren't alone. You're going to feel alone, but you're not alone. Reach out to me at true wordfaithforlife.com/slash contact. I'll personally connect with you. I'll help you take your next steps. And let me just tell you this. Let me just tell you this. I am good at helping connect people with bodies of believers, people who are a good community. They're not perfect. We're not perfect. None of us are perfect. And listen, as Pastor Russ said at Virginia Creek Ministries today, listen, there are a bunch of hypocrites over in there in that church. Somebody told him. Stop worrying about it. Stop thinking about what everybody else is doing. You worry about what you're doing. Listen, I will personally help connect you with churches where you live. I've connected people overseas in crazy places. I can do it for you and I'll do it for you. I'm excited to do it. I'm excited to help you take your next step. Listen, if you gave your life to Yeshua today, or if you have questions, my door is open. Listen, if this week fed you, share it. Why would you keep this to yourself? Not because I'm some big thing. I'm not. I'm small potatoes. Don't nobody know my name but the Lord. But if this week fed you, share it with someone who needs to hear that Egypt doesn't get the final word. Maybe they're carrying guilt they can't put down. Maybe the hard land has been renaming them for years. Maybe they still need to know that God still knows their name. Maybe they need to hear that the coffin isn't the ending. Send it today. And now I have a blessing for you. I'm going to say it in Hebrew, and then I'm going to tell you what I'm saying. I'm going to say it first in Hebrew, then I'm going to tell you what I'm saying. Are you ready? I want you to receive it. I don't want you to reject it. I want you to receive it. Honestly, I want you to receive it. Put yourself in the in the mental and spiritual place where you need to be in order to receive this blessing, not because I'm some big thing. I'm not. I'm not. But God is. And this blessing come from Him. May Adunai bless you and keep you. Ye air Adunai Panavilakha Virchuraka. May Adunai make his face to shine upon you and show you his grace. May Adunai lift up his face toward you and give you shalom. Until tomorrow at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Shalom Bishem Yeshua, Vishhalom Elachim. Peace in the name of Yeshua and peace be upon you all.