Here I am. Who am I? I AM. (Exodus 2:23-3:15)

If you will stand for the reading of God's word we're

continuing a series that we began last week from Exodus.

Exodus chapter two is where we are this morning.

You can use the passage printed in your bulletin or also use

your own Bibles. Exodus chapter 2, 23 through

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315. During those many days, the king

of Egypt died in the people of Israel.

Groaned, because of their slavery and cried out for help.

Her cry for rescue from slavery. Came up to God, and God heard

their groaning, and God remembered his Covenant, with

Abraham, with Isaac. And with Jacob, God, saw the

people of Israel. And God knew now, Moses was

keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest

of Midian, and he has led his flock to the west side of the

Wilderness and came to Horeb the Mountain of God and the angel of

the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst

of a bush. He looked and behold the Bush

was burning yet, it was not consumed.

And Moses said, I will turn aside and see this great sight.

Why the bush is not burned. When the Lord saw that, he had

turned aside to see God Called to him out of the Bush, Moses

Moses and he said, here, I am and he said, do not come near

take off your sandals, off your feet for the place on which you

are standing. Is Holy Ground.

And he said, I am the god of your father, the god of Abraham,

the god of Isaac, and the god of Jacob and Moses.

Hid his face for, he was afraid to look at God.

And then the Lord said I have surely seen the Affliction of my

people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their

taskmasters. I know there's sufferings and

I've come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians

and to bring them up out of that land to a good and Broad land, a

land flowing with milk and honey to the place.

Ice of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the amorites, the

perizzites, the hivites, and the jebusites.

And Now Behold The Cry of people Israel has come to me.

And I've also seen the oppression with which the

Egyptians oppress them come I will send you to Pharaoh that

you may bring my people, the children of Israel out of Egypt,

but Moses said to God, who am I? That I should go to pharaoh and

bring the children of Israel out of Egypt.

He said, but I will be with you And this shall be a sign for you

that I have sent you. When you have brought the people

out of Egypt, You Shall Serve God on this mountain.

Then Moses said to God if I come to the people of Israel and say

to them the god of your father's has sent me to you and they ask

me. What is his name?

What shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I am who I am

and he said, say this to the people of Israel.

I am has sent me to you. You got also said to Moses say

this, to the people of Israel, the Lord, the god of your

father's, the god of Abraham, the god of Isaac, and the god of

Jacob has sent me to you. This is my name forever, and

thus, I am able to be remembered throughout all generations.

This is the word of the Lord. Thanks be to God.

May be seated. Thank you, Matt.

I asked Matt earlier, if he was read the text because my voice

is getting weaker, I don't feel bad, but it sounds horrible.

I know it sounds horrible because after the service at

9:30, a handful of cough drops showed up in my hands from the

sweet members of our church. So I apologize for the way it

sounds. We are in the second week of a

study on the life of Moses, Pastor Paul Global kick this off

last week with a remarkable. Sermon explaining really.

Why are we? Why are we here?

And I want to Echo a couple things that I think are really

important. The Bible is about one God.

The only god father, Son and Holy Spirit.

There's not an Old Testament. God, and in New Testament God,

sometimes when we read these Old Testament narratives that are so

powerful and beautiful, but sometimes we might have a

difficult time connecting to us because we're looking at it

often in the wrong way, not even intentionally.

But here's what happens, we misunderstand Christianity,

sometimes for things that are good but not the Ultimate

Reality of it. For example, Christianity is a

worldview but that's not the primary point of Christianity.

Christianity is much more than a worldview because it's about a

person. It's about a union that we have

with the Living. God Christ Jesus himself

studying in Old Testament book, like this is not a book on

learning, how to become a better leader.

Moses was a good leader and he Did many good things, he also

did some bad things. There's lessons we can learn.

That's not what it's primarily about.

It's not one more example of a better self help book that makes

us just a more productive human being or a more fulfilled

person. Certainly in Christ you will

experience the Abundant Life but that's not.

My Christianity's primarily about just a self-help book

checking list. It is about the story of God's

Divine and perfect intervention in rescuing his people from

here. Her titty away from him.

And he'll it is a reality of God's saving, those who are his

own. When we read a story like this,

I'm here about the burning bush, whether you hear it in a sermon

like this, or you're reading through the One Year Bible, or

you're just reading the book of Exodus, it's easy to hear that

story and think of it as being marvelous.

But then, moving on, very quickly, friends, there is so

much here that we need to understand for the very life.

We are living today. When I was in seminary, we were

taught to prepare a sermon by asking a few basic questions and

then building around it. One of the first questions was

this what do we have in common with those two or four or by

whom the passage was written? That requires the grace of the

passage. Let me say it again.

What do we today? 2023 have in common with those

two or four by whom the passage was written.

That requires the grace of Passage.

And so every time you hear a sermon from this Pulpit, we're

trying to understand the people that it was written to.

The people was written by what was their need for God's grace.

When we understand that, we can see the direct application as it

comes to us. And there's so much here.

One of the things you're going to see and this is different in

Christianity, is it? Christianity is a religion that

is centered on divine revelation.

It's God. Feeling himself to us in

different ways so that we can see who he is, who we are and

why we need him. This passage begins.

I had to start at the end of chapter 2 because when you want

to understand something about what we might have in common,

you see that there is a people that is suffering the people who

are groaning. Look with me, back at verse 23,

of chapter 2. During those many days, the king

of Egypt died and the people of Grown because of their slavery

and they cried out for help their cry for rescue from

slavery, came up to God. Well, today it's doubtful, there

is a person in this congregation.

Who knows what it is? Truly like, to be enslaved to

have a Taskmaster or taskmasters.

Not like they did, this was an evil oppression of the people of

God that had them doing. Incredible unthinkable.

All labor beyond what you and I have ever experienced or could

imagine but enslavement still exists, there are incredible,

pictures and realities of evil, all over the world.

But the one that we all have in common just because we are human

beings, is that we are born in slavery to sin.

The ultimate oppression is that we were born in sin.

The Bible tells us all have sinned and fallen short of the

glory of God. Paul says, in Ephesians 2 that

we were Add in the trespasses and sins falling.

The course of this world. The power of the spirit of the

air that is now at work among the sons of Disobedience among

whom we all once belonged. So you and I and every child

that's born is born enslaved to sin.

So that's why Christianity is so powerful because this story,

going all the way back, thousands and thousands of

years. Even before Christ is telling us

how God is coming to rescue. His people not just the People

of Israel enslaved in Egypt but all of its people for all time,

what I want to do this morning is we look at this, very

familiar narrative, is I want you to see what God is doing

when someone his people cry out to him.

Think about what you're crying out to him for.

Now we have been in a season of deep groaning, we have been in a

season where we have experienced death tragedy where we have

Trauma where we have witnessed disease Brokenness all sorts of

things. Every person in here, if they're

in touch at all with who they are.

In this Fallen world has been groaning about something and

these groans cause us to cry. At least they should but not

into a vacuum, but to the very same God, that Moses is about to

see in the burning bush, the very same God, Moses is about to

see and the burning bush. Shhhh.

So, the way I would like to unpack, these verses is this

way, I want us to see how God responds to Israel.

Those rules Cry by first revealing who he is.

Secondly, how he reveals, what his plan is revealing, who he is

revealing, his plan to rescue his people and then I want you

to see the response that Moses has to what God has revealed and

then God's response to Moses and how Moses responded.

Let's begin. God answers Israel's cry.

And that answer began far away in the wilderness Moses was.

Once The Prince of Egypt, he was the one who was set and the

basket, who floated who was rescued, he had an incredible

picture, rest life in the Palace of Egypt, the most powerful

Nation on the planet. At the time, he had an

unbelievable sense of responsibility and pleasure and

power but had a Great fall. This great fall has led him now

to a place where he is serving as a Shepherd.

His father-in-law he's been doing this now for 40 years.

He's not a young man for 40 years.

He's been tending to the flocks of Jethro who's the midianite

priest, who is his father-in-law?

Now what I want you to see is that God is going to reveal who

he is first, he's going to reveal who he is without using

words and then he's going to reveal who he is.

As he speaks, Moses is going about his day and I think it's

remarkable that Moses got up that morning was tending to the

Sheep. Like he normally would was

leading them at says, to the West Side, Far Side far away and

he had no idea that on this day, God was going to reveal himself

to him first and a, theophany a theophany is a physical

manifestation of God, a visible manifestation of God.

So as Moses is simply doing his work, He is about to have an

encounter that will change his life and the people of God's

life even our lives, but he is not expecting that.

That's how God works. Some of you today came to this

place, maybe just simply wondering about Christianity,

may be simply along with a parent or a friend.

A co-worker, a neighbor. Maybe you came by yourself.

Maybe it's because God today wants to reveal to you, who he

is, who you are, and who you could be in him.

Moses is simply doing his job. When suddenly the text tells us

that there is this bush and this bush is on fire.

Look with me at verse 31 now. Moses was keeping the flock of

his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian and he let us

walk to the west side of the Wilderness and came to Horeb the

Mountain of God. Now this mountain is also called

Mount Sinai. This is the mountain that Moses

would climb up. God would descend he would

receive the Ten Commandments. He received these that mountain

could be called Sinai or Horeb. It's the place of God.

Then in verse 2 it says in the angel of the Lord appeared to

him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush he looked

and behold the Bush was burning yet, it was not consumed.

Now we're tempted because we've grown up seeing the story on a

flannel board are seeing a cartoon represented by

vegetables. We are Tempted to not really be

overwhelmed with what took place.

This friends, this theophany actually happened on a place of

Earth that God himself created. Moses was doing his job tending

to the flocks when he saw something on fire, he'd seen

things on fire before actually, it's not that uncommon for

bushes and that climate to catch fire.

But We have no other evidence that a bush burned.

Like this without consuming itself in history, this bush was

on fire fire, captures your attention.

There's power in fire in the Bible.

Fire can mean many things will impact that over the weeks to

come. But in this case when Moses saw

it, there was something different.

This bush was not being consumed.

Aimed before God speaks a word. He is, revealing his glory, he

is revealing that, which is marvelous and magnificent and

Moses sees it. What Moses doesn't understand

yet is that God in his sovereignty, in the history of

redemption was drawing him to himself to this very place on

this particular patch of Earth where he was then from that

burning bush. That was not consuming himself

was going to speak. So it says again Verse 2 and the

angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of

the midst of a bush. He looked and behold the Bush

was burning yet, it was not consumed.

So what does this reveal to us about God?

Christianity is a religion in which God is revealing himself.

It reveals first that God is omnipotent.

He is all-powerful Gods power cannot be measured, your power

can be measured the engines, we create have power that can be

measured. Storms can be measured

categories, level 5, whatever it might be, we can measure power.

God's power can never be measured.

It's immeasurable his power is Manifest over and in creation.

This is a bush that God himself created God himself is now in

this Burning Bush, he is a powerful.

It also tells us that God is self-existent know.

Else is self-existent everyone else and everything else had to

come from something but not God, God is self-existent.

It's also a sign that he is self-sufficient as this fire

continues to burn and doesn't consume the leaves of the

branches. It just continues to burn.

It's unlike anything Moses has ever seen children.

Look at me, have you ever been? No campfire.

So what happens in the campfire you continue to add logs to the

fire because the fire consumes the fuel which is the wood that

is burning. So your father or your mother or

a counselor puts more wood to make the fire continue to go

This fire didn't need that because God is self-sufficient.

He doesn't run out of fuel. He doesn't grow weary.

He doesn't grow tired. His glory doesn't diminish.

God is self-sufficient. It's powerful that.

In this case, God described as a light, even later by Moses as a

consuming fire in the book of Deuteronomy, it draws people

towards it yet. It's powerful and dangerous as

well. One of the thing that's

important to note. Is that while Moses is drawn to

this fire to this bush that is burning?

But not being burned up, it's a picture.

It's a picture of something that would actually continue to run

through the history of the church.

This Burning Bush and here's what it is.

While Moses sees this astonishing Revelation he is not

yet heard why it's there. He's about to and what God is

going to tell him is that the people of Israel.

His people are in the fiery, furnace.

Furnace, his people are in the Flames of suffering.

His people are feeling these trials by fire, but they're not

consumed. Just like the church.

We sing A Mighty Fortress Is Our God.

This world with Devils filled will threaten to undo us.

We grown right now because sometimes it feels like what

we've been seeing isn't true. That the victory really isn't

ours because so much around us is broken.

That's why we remember the word of God, we're Christ himself

suffered and while the Victor thinking it was his Satan

himself, it wasn't. Christ was the Victor.

He goes on to tell us that the Gates of Hell.

The fiery Gates of Hell, the fiery Gates of Hell will not

Prevail against his church? No matter what we go through,

whatever, fiery trials, you experienced.

Personally, are we experience corporately?

We will be fine. We will be ultimately secure and

Christ. It's a powerful image of this

fire. That doesn't consume Moses sees

it he turns towards it. Look will be not verse 4 of

chapter 3. When the Lord saw that, he

turned his side to see God Called to him out of the Bush

Moses Moses and he said here, I am.

Now this is a very important sentence.

Here's why look back with me at verse 2 and the angel of the

Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a

bush, the Hebrew word here for Angel.

Simply means messenger in Angels were commissioned by God created

by God commissioned by God, to bring words of Revelation.

But this phrase, the angel of the Lord is unique especially as

its Company by verse 4. When the Lord saw that he turned

aside to see that is Moses turned aside to see the bush.

God called him out of the Bush. This is not a created angel.

This is not just an angel that have been created by God to

deliver this message. This is God himself, this is the

theophany, and in our tradition we believe that it's actually a

pre-incarnate picture of Jesus himself.

The Redeemer the ultimate I am. So from the bush it says God

Called to him. So we've seen what God revealed

before he ever spoke a word. Now let's see what God reveals

about himself and his plan. As he speaks.

So what's the first thing he says, He speaks to words the

same word verse, for Moses. Moses, what does this teach us?

God knows his people's names. He knows the people he's going

to use. He knows the names of the

people. He's going to save.

He knows the people's names of all the nation of Israel. he

knows your name Bill, he knows your name Roy, he knows your

name Katherine, he knows your name Maddie, he knows our names

and God is the only one who can call us to himself and while you

might not realize it behind the scenes, even on a day like this

in Moses life, God knew because he ordained it that he would

meet Moses that that day on that patch of ground.

In the fiery Bush. That's not being consumed.

He says, first Moses Moses, it's personal and it's emphatic.

He wants his attention, Moses. Then, speaks notice how well he

starts out. This is in my Title Here.

I Am. Don't lose this.

Moses is talking to a bush. And it's on fire.

And it's not being consumed and it's real.

And what our children need most from us is to believe that, and

that it's not just a simple picture.

Something we color in a coloring book, that's fine to do, but

they need to see that. You believe it, that the same

God that appeared to Moses in that burning bush is the same

God that you are praying to. When you say, thank you for the

food that you've provided for us.

It's awesome. Moses Moses here I am.

What's the next thing? God says, look with me at verse

5. What does it reveal?

Then he said to Moses do not come near.

Take your sandals, off your feet for the place on which you are

standing is Holy Ground. This is the first time and the

whole Bible the word holy is used.

That's awesome. And God is speaking about his

Holiness from the burning bush. And the reason he's saying it is

Holy is not because there's something special about that

particular part of Earth that he the one in the burning bush.

I believe Christ himself created.

It's because his presence is there and what God is doing

right now is showing incredible Grace to Moses.

Well, God is revealing, as he shines through this hot fire in

this bush is that he's real that he's holy and that he's

approachable, but he's approachable on his terms and

until Moses knows who he is and knows how he wants him to

approach him for the sake of Moses, as life.

And Grace, God says to him, stop do not come one step.

Closer, we have to approach this.

Holy God, in his terms on his terms.

He's kind and protective here warning.

Moses you must stop. Do not take another step.

He then says, take your sandals, off your feet, that was a sign

of something, being sacred and type of Honor for the place on

which you are standing, is Holy Ground.

And now, what else does God reveal to him about?

Who he is? Verse 6.

He said I am the god of your father, the god of Abraham, the

god of Isaac and the god of Jacob.

Why was that important? What are you saying to Moses?

As you know who I am. I am not a new God.

I am the same God who was the god of your father, Abraham of

Isaac, the god of Jacob. When Moses hears these words

verse 6 says he hid his face for.

He was afraid to look at God. And if you think you wouldn't

have been, if you think God in all of his radiant, holiness.

This is just a friend who would love to sit down across from you

in a coffee house? Sipping a latte which by the

way, there's nothing wrong with that.

I meet with God many times and those kind of places, but that's

not everything about God. God is that intimate, but

friends if I actually was doing that and suddenly there was the

physical presence of the real. God descending I would fall flat

on my face and so would everyone in there?

He's holy, he's set apart. He's awesome.

Moses hides his face. God reveals who he is.

I'm the same God, Abraham. I'm the same God of Isaac on the

same God of Jacob, he repeats that and will throughout the

Bible. Then he says, in verse 7.

What is so amazing. And the difference between

religions in this world and Christianity verse 7?

Then the Lord said I have surely seen the Affliction of my people

who are in Egypt, I have heard their cry because of their

taskmasters. I know there's sufferings God is

now revealing his heart for his people going back up to the end

of Exodus to Verse 24, it says in God heard their groaning and

God remembered his Covenant, with Abraham in with Isaac.

And with Jacob, God saw the people of Israel and God new

friends, this same. God that speaking from this

Burning Bush, to Moses, who heard the cries of the people of

Israel. One by one corporately.

He hears your cries. He knows how you're suffering

and he knows how you will suffer.

And when you suffer cry out to him.

So, we have these days of prayer.

Like next Sunday, we need to cry to the Lord because he hears our

prayers. The heart of God doesn't just

show up in the gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,

it's seen here. And even earlier God says, to

Moses and verse 7. I have surely seen the

Affliction of my people revealing to us, that he is a

tender-hearted compassionate God.

So then he moves Too revealing no longer who he is, even before

uses words. But then with words, he now

Reveals His plan look with me at verse 7.

Again, the Lord said I have surely seen the Affliction of my

people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry because of their

taskmasters. I know there's sufferings now,

here's the plan and I have come down, that's benevolent and

itself. I have come down to deliver them

out of the hand of the Egyptians.

Yes. And to bring them up out of that

land to be good and Broad land, a land flowing with milk and

honey, to the place of the Canaanites.

The Hittites, the amorites, the perizzites, the hivites, and the

jebusites. This land is massive, and this

land is fruitful and imagine if you have been enslaved and

you've given birth to children that are now enslaved, Oppressed

by these taskmasters. What would it sound like to hear

that? You are about to be set free,

not set free to go, wherever but to be led to a place that is

beyond what you can even imagine, which is actually true

for us to one day. God tells Moses his plan and

then he gets specific. And this is where Moses begins

to freeze. Freak out.

Verse 9. And Now Behold The Cry Of The

People Israel has come to me. And I've also seen the

oppression which the Egyptians oppress them.

Come first 10, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my

people, the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Now I want to read that again. And what I want you to imagine.

Is that which is true. A man who just got up that

morning to do the same job. He had been doing for 40 years

is speaking with someone inside this fiery Bush who happens to

be God. God says, I've heard my peoples

cries. He says in, this is important to

and hearing their cries. I've remembered my Covenant.

I remembered my promises. He's made a covenant with us

too. So Moses, that's my plan.

And here's how I'm going to do it.

I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the

children of Israel out of Egypt. Moses.

Who first heard the Lord say, Moses, Moses.

And he said here, I am now says in verse 11, who am I?

The second part of my title? Here.

I am. Who Am I?

Who am I? That I should go to pharaoh and

bring the children of Israel out of Egypt. before you Judge

Moses. Think about what God was asking

him to do. He was there for two years

before as The Prince of Egypt, he fled 40 years.

He's been a shepherd. Now, as he hears the Lord say,

I'm going to use you. To do what I've been doing to

you. Just as I've been revealing to

you who I am and my plan to redeem and to deliver my people,

I'm going to use you to reveal the news that I'm going through

you to deliver the people. So imagine what Moses is

thinking, how is this going to work?

I'm going to go to the Elders of Israel and then to Pharaoh

himself and say I was doing my job.

I took the flocks out to the West Side.

I saw burning bush. I've seen them before, but this

one was different. It didn't burn up.

You've never seen anything like it.

I know. And I hadn't either, and I know

that's amazing. But even more mins get started

talking to me. And then I realized, is it

talked to me? It was God.

And so I've come back after 40 years to tell you that I'm going

to lead you out from the oppression of this Egyptian

rule. And I'm going to take the same

message to Pharaoh so that this can begin to happen.

Is there any Wonder? Moses said, who am I?

He shouldn't have. He should have seen enough to

say, here I am. If you can show up in the

burning bush and not make it burn and talk to me and tell me

what you can do, I'm in I get it what would be more powerful?

But that's not what he did. The conversation ended up being

longer and in this long conversation we find ourselves.

Because God in his own way, seeks to use his people to

deliver this news of rescue. Moses says, who am I I know it's

a question you at times, ask it certainly is one that I asked

but as he asked the question, who am I?

That I should go to Pharaoh began verse 11 and bring the

children of Israel out of Egypt. Notice how God responds Many

books have been written about how great a leader Moses was, or

how poorly he was because he was both.

But what you can't miss is that God doesn't focus on Moses.

God doesn't focus on Moses ability.

He doesn't focus on Moses. His gifts.

He focuses on himself when Moses his response to this holy God

who has revealed himself to him is, who am I God reveals more of

who he is first. Of God said, but I will be with

you and this shall be the sign for you that I have sent you.

When you have brought the people out of Egypt.

Do you hear that Sovereign power?

When you have brought the people out of Egypt?

Not, when you might bring the people out of Egypt, not, it's

possible. It won't work out as I've

planned God. Speaking in the past tense and

the future, when you bring the people out You Shall Serve God

on this mountain that. Is worshipped by the way.

So then, Moses responds once more Moses said to God verse 13,

if I come to the people of Israel.

Well, that's a problem. The one who began.

So, well, here I am. This is now seeing, who am I?

And then after God says, I will be leading you and it will

happen. Moses says if I go or another

translation. Suppose.

I go to Egypt. The people of Israel and I say

to them the god of your father's has sent me to you and they ask

me. What is his name?

What shall I say to them? God said to Moses, I am who I

am. And he said, say this to the

people of Israel, I am has sent me to you.

I have more to say, but I'm going to stop here.

I want to invite you over the next couple weeks.

We're going to pick this up at two weeks.

I want to invite you to ask the Holy Spirit to illuminate that

statement in your heart mind read, think study.

What did God mean when he said, I am who I am.

Tell them. I am.

Has sent me to you. The reason this matters.

Is because thousands of years later.

The ultimate I am is going to walk the earth after being born

to a virgin This is our story burning bushes in virgins with

child's. Not just a child.

The God, man. This man. seven times in the

Gospel of John, is going to say I am I am the bread of life.

I am the light of the world. I am the door.

I am the Good Shepherd. Moses was a shepherd.

But this Good Shepherd is going to lay down his life for the

Sheep. You're one of the Sheep.

I am the Good Shepherd. I am the resurrection and the

life. I am the way, the truth and the

life. I am the Vine.

Seven times Jesus says, I am and once more.

In John 8:58 before the religious leaders.

John 8:58

Who could not tolerate the things that Jesus was doing and

saying what he was revealing about himself, what he was

revealing about his father. And John 8:58.

John 8:58

Jesus says, this truly truly, that's emphatic, just like

Moses, Moses truly, truly, I say to you before Abraham, was I am,

Huh. That I am.

That is a person. That person gave his life.

So that all who would trust in him?

Could live in Freedom Forever delivered.

From the oppression of Satan and Hell forever that we all

deserve. What happened in Exodus 2 and 3

and on matters for what's happening in this place on April

23rd 2023. I am says so.

This. Holy God, set apart.

This consuming fire that has promised us that the Gates of

Hell. The fiery Gates will not Prevail

against his church. Cry out to him.

And he will remember his Covenant.

And he will deliver you. Holy Father, holy son, Holy

Spirit. Something we could never make

up. But it's also something we could

never believe if it wasn't for you calling us by name.

If today, Lord there are those in this midst.

Are those who might be listening online If the day is the day of

their salvation, would you enable them to hear you calling

them to yourself? Would they like Moses, say here

I am and surrender to you. Friend.

If that's you simply pray, that you are a sinner in need of a

savior and asked Christ to rescue you and then talk to me

or one of the other pastors or someone you came with to know

what that means because it means everything Father for us who

have known you for some time. Let us as we have our own needs.

Our own. Sufferings our own groanings,

remember who you are that you are the one who remembers your

Covenant promises to us. You hear our cries and you will

Deliver Us. Oh holy God we give you praise

in Jesus name. Amen.

Dan.