WEBVTT 00:00:00.020 --> 00:00:01.640 This is not an auspicious beginning. 00:00:03.400 --> 00:00:07.000 This is the Lifespring One Year Bible, and coming to you from Riverside, California, 00:00:07.660 --> 00:00:11.460 podcasting since 2004, I'm Steve Webb, your OG Godcaster. 00:00:12.100 --> 00:00:15.940 This is the podcast that comes to you every day, and we're reading through the entire Bible in a year. 00:00:16.320 --> 00:00:20.600 I'm so glad you're here. Welcome. The website is LifespringMedia.com. 00:00:21.220 --> 00:00:26.040 Today is Good Memory Day. No, it's not about whether or not you can remember things well. 00:00:26.500 --> 00:00:29.840 It's about remembering things from your past that make you smile. 00:00:30.460 --> 00:00:31.920 Maybe a happy childhood moment 00:00:32.380 --> 00:00:33.800 Or you could look through old photos 00:00:34.400 --> 00:00:36.640 Maybe call someone you haven't talked to in a while 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:38.840 I'm blessed to have many good memories 00:00:39.170 --> 00:00:40.520 I'll share one later in the show 00:00:41.320 --> 00:00:42.780 This is The Law Monday 00:00:43.040 --> 00:00:44.460 We'll read Exodus 1-4 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.140 Then I'll share some comments on Exodus with you 00:00:47.580 --> 00:00:50.060 Then we'll talk about what happened in church history 00:00:50.300 --> 00:00:50.920 Let's begin 00:00:51.740 --> 00:00:53.080 Our Heavenly Father, we love you 00:00:53.130 --> 00:00:54.340 And we thank you for your word 00:00:54.400 --> 00:00:55.920 We pray God that as we read today 00:00:56.290 --> 00:00:57.180 You would open our minds 00:00:57.250 --> 00:00:59.840 Help us Lord to see what it is you have for us 00:00:59.860 --> 00:01:08.700 this in Jesus' name. Amen. Exodus chapter 1. These are the names of the sons of Israel who 00:01:08.770 --> 00:01:15.480 entered Egypt. Each man with his household entered with Jacob. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:22.740 Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin, Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher, all the people who were directly 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:29.820 descended from Jacob, numbered 70. But Joseph was already in Egypt, and in time Joseph and his 00:01:29.940 --> 00:01:35.640 and all that generation died. The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, 00:01:36.080 --> 00:01:40.600 multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them. 00:01:41.660 --> 00:01:46.760 Then a new king, who did not know about Joseph, came to power over Egypt. He said to his people, 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:53.000 Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are. Come, let's deal wisely 00:01:53.220 --> 00:01:57.840 with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out they will 00:01:57.860 --> 00:02:04.300 ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country. So they put foremen over 00:02:04.300 --> 00:02:10.340 the Israelites to oppress them with hard labor. As a result, they built Pythom and Ramesses as 00:02:10.679 --> 00:02:15.260 store cities for Pharaoh. But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more they multiplied 00:02:15.500 --> 00:02:21.720 and spread. As a result, the Egyptians loathed the Israelites, and they made the Israelites serve 00:02:22.020 --> 00:02:27.820 vigorously. They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:33.220 service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous. 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:38.960 The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, one of whom was named Shiphrah and the other 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:45.240 Puah, When you assist the Hebrew women in childbirth, observe at the delivery. If it is a son, 00:02:45.520 --> 00:02:51.800 kill him, but if it is a daughter, she may live. But the midwives feared God and did not do what 00:02:51.830 --> 00:02:57.220 the king of Egypt had told them. They let the boys live. Then the king of Egypt summoned the 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:03.060 midwives and said to them, Why have you done this and let the boys live? The midwives said to Pharaoh, 00:03:03.700 --> 00:03:08.960 Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for the Hebrew women are vigorous. They 00:03:09.160 --> 00:03:14.480 give birth before the midwife gets to them. So God treated the midwives well, and the people 00:03:14.820 --> 00:03:20.980 multiplied and became very strong. And because the midwives feared God, he made households for them. 00:03:21.980 --> 00:03:27.060 Then Pharaoh commanded all his people, All sons that are born you must throw into the river. 00:03:27.340 --> 00:03:33.460 but all daughters you may let live. Exodus chapter 2. A man from the household of Levi 00:03:34.120 --> 00:03:39.480 married a woman who was a descendant of Levi. The woman became pregnant and gave birth to a son. 00:03:40.120 --> 00:03:45.840 When she saw that he was a healthy child, she hid him for three months. But when she was no longer 00:03:46.040 --> 00:03:50.860 able to hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him and sealed it with bitumen and pitch. 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:55.160 She put the child in it and set it among the reeds along the edge of the Nile. 00:03:55.620 --> 00:03:59.560 His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would happen to him. 00:04:00.420 --> 00:04:04.520 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself by the Nile while her attendants were 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:09.620 walking alongside the river, and she saw the basket among the reeds. She sent one of her 00:04:09.780 --> 00:04:16.200 attendants, took it, opened it, and saw the child, a boy, crying, and she felt compassion for him, 00:04:16.359 --> 00:04:21.180 and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children. Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, 00:04:21.420 --> 00:04:26.440 Shall I go and get a nursing woman for you from the Hebrews, so that she may nurse the child for you? 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.300 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Yes, do so. 00:04:29.720 --> 00:04:32.020 So the young child went and got the child's mother. 00:04:33.080 --> 00:04:37.620 Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages. 00:04:38.280 --> 00:04:40.200 So the woman took the child and nursed him. 00:04:40.860 --> 00:04:44.760 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. 00:04:45.200 --> 00:04:48.480 She named him Moses, saying, Because I drew him from the water. 00:04:49.300 --> 00:04:54.420 In those days when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and observed their hard labor, 00:04:54.770 --> 00:05:00.800 and he saw an Egyptian man attacking a Hebrew man, one of his own people. He looked this way and that 00:05:01.100 --> 00:05:06.340 and saw that no one was there, and then he attacked the Egyptian and concealed the body in the sand. 00:05:07.040 --> 00:05:11.580 When he went out the next day, there were two Hebrew men fighting. So he said to the one who 00:05:11.580 --> 00:05:17.779 was in the wrong, Why are you attacking your fellow Hebrew? The man replied, Who made you a ruler and 00:05:17.800 --> 00:05:23.240 a judge over us. Are you planning to kill me like you killed that Egyptian? Then Moses was afraid, 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:29.080 thinking, Surely what I did has become known. When Pharaoh heard about this event, he sought to kill 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:34.440 Moses. So Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, and he settled by a certain 00:05:34.740 --> 00:05:40.500 well. Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came and began to draw water and fill 00:05:40.500 --> 00:05:45.680 the troughs in order to water their father's flock. When some shepherds came and drove them away, 00:05:45.760 --> 00:05:51.560 Moses came up and defended them, and then watered their flock. So when they came home to their father 00:05:51.620 --> 00:05:57.860 rule, he asked, Why have you come home so early today? They said, An Egyptian man rescued us from 00:05:57.940 --> 00:06:03.000 the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock. He said to his daughters, 00:06:03.580 --> 00:06:08.420 So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him so that he may eat a meal with us. 00:06:09.020 --> 00:06:13.520 Moses agreed to stay with the man, and he gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage. 00:06:14.020 --> 00:06:19.680 When she bore a son, Moses named him Gershom, for he said, I have become a resident foreigner 00:06:19.820 --> 00:06:26.640 in a foreign land. During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:32.160 because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor 00:06:32.260 --> 00:06:37.900 went up to God. God heard their groaning. God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, 00:06:38.060 --> 00:06:43.720 and with Jacob, God saw the Israelites, and God understood. Exodus chapter 3. 00:06:44.580 --> 00:06:48.760 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, 00:06:48.980 --> 00:06:53.320 and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of 00:06:53.460 --> 00:06:58.440 God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. 00:06:59.320 --> 00:07:04.140 Moses saw that though the bush was on fire, it did not burn up. So Moses thought, 00:07:04.320 --> 00:07:08.320 I will go over and see this strange sight, why the bush does not burn up. 00:07:08.940 --> 00:07:12.900 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from the bush, 00:07:13.340 --> 00:07:14.600 Moses, Moses. 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:17.760 And Moses said, Here I am. 00:07:18.300 --> 00:07:20.360 Do not come any closer, God said. 00:07:20.800 --> 00:07:24.320 Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground. 00:07:25.080 --> 00:07:29.940 Then he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:30.560 God of Jacob. 00:07:31.060 --> 00:07:34.400 At this Moses hid his face because he was afraid to look at God. 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:38.980 The Lord said, I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:44.040 I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their 00:07:44.380 --> 00:07:44.480 suffering. 00:07:45.090 --> 00:07:49.120 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up 00:07:49.220 --> 00:07:54.260 out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey, the home 00:07:54.270 --> 00:07:59.000 of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. 00:07:59.400 --> 00:08:04.180 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are 00:08:04.380 --> 00:08:09.820 oppressing them. So now go, I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of 00:08:09.940 --> 00:08:15.240 Egypt. But Moses said to God, Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites 00:08:15.580 --> 00:08:21.680 out of Egypt? And God said, I will be with you, and this will be the sign to you that it is I who 00:08:21.760 --> 00:08:27.020 have sent you. When you have brought the people out of Egypt, you will worship God on this mountain. 00:08:27.580 --> 00:08:37.940 Moses said to God, Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, What is his name? Then what shall I tell them? 00:08:38.740 --> 00:08:45.720 God said to Moses, I am who I am. This is what you were to say to the Israelites. I am has sent me to you. 00:08:46.420 --> 00:08:54.720 God also said to Moses, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. 00:08:55.400 --> 00:08:59.880 This is my name forever, the name you shall call me from generation to generation. 00:09:00.300 --> 00:09:05.640 Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of 00:09:05.860 --> 00:09:11.300 Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, appeared to me and said, I have watched over you and have seen what has 00:09:11.420 --> 00:09:15.880 been done to you in Egypt, and I have promised to bring you up out of your misery in Egypt into the 00:09:16.020 --> 00:09:22.640 land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk 00:09:22.820 --> 00:09:28.219 and honey. The elders of Israel will listen to you. Then you and the elders are to go to the king of 00:09:28.240 --> 00:09:33.520 Egypt and say to them, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Let us take a three-day 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:38.740 journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to the Lord our God. But I know that the king of 00:09:38.870 --> 00:09:43.960 Egypt will not let you go unless a mighty hand compels him. So I will stretch out my hand and 00:09:44.220 --> 00:09:49.040 strike the Egyptians with all the wonders that I will perform among them. After that he will let 00:09:49.040 --> 00:09:54.459 you go. And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you 00:09:54.480 --> 00:10:00.080 leave, you will not go empty-handed. Every woman is to ask her neighbor and any woman living in her 00:10:00.220 --> 00:10:05.080 house for articles of silver and gold and for clothing, which you will put on your sons and 00:10:05.200 --> 00:10:12.240 daughters, and so you will plunder the Egyptians. Exodus chapter 4. Moses answered, What if they do 00:10:12.340 --> 00:10:18.060 not believe me or listen to me and say, The Lord did not appear to you? Then the Lord said to him, 00:10:18.440 --> 00:10:24.080 What is that in your hand? A staff, he replied. The Lord said, Throw it on the ground. 00:10:24.220 --> 00:10:28.340 Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it. 00:10:29.020 --> 00:10:32.460 Then the Lord said to him, Reach out your hand and take it by the tail. 00:10:33.060 --> 00:10:37.580 So Moses reached out and took hold of the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand. 00:10:38.560 --> 00:10:43.320 This, said the Lord, is so that they may believe that the Lord, the God of their fathers, 00:10:43.740 --> 00:10:47.860 the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you. 00:10:48.720 --> 00:10:51.680 Then the Lord said, Put your hand inside your cloak. 00:10:52.020 --> 00:10:56.680 So Moses put his hand into his cloak, and when he took it out, the skin was leprous. 00:10:57.060 --> 00:10:58.440 It had become as white as snow. 00:10:59.220 --> 00:11:01.520 Now put it back into your cloak, he said. 00:11:02.100 --> 00:11:06.520 So Moses put his hand back into his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, 00:11:06.940 --> 00:11:07.980 like the rest of his flesh. 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:13.640 Then the Lord said, If they do not believe you or pay attention to the first sign, 00:11:14.140 --> 00:11:15.120 they may believe the second. 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:18.520 But if they do not believe these two signs or listen to you, 00:11:19.020 --> 00:11:21.800 take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. 00:11:22.100 --> 00:11:25.040 The water you take from the river will become blood on the ground. 00:11:25.880 --> 00:11:27.100 Moses said to the Lord, 00:11:27.800 --> 00:11:28.860 Pardon your servant, Lord. 00:11:29.210 --> 00:11:33.180 I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. 00:11:33.620 --> 00:11:35.280 I am slow of speech and tongue. 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:37.160 The Lord said to him, 00:11:37.720 --> 00:11:39.380 Who gave human beings their mouths? 00:11:39.820 --> 00:11:41.320 Who makes them deaf or mute? 00:11:41.700 --> 00:11:43.800 Who gives them sight or makes them blind? 00:11:44.280 --> 00:11:45.500 Is it not I, the Lord? 00:11:46.220 --> 00:11:49.560 Now go, I will help you speak and will teach you what to say. 00:11:50.380 --> 00:11:54.720 But Moses said, Pardon your servant, Lord. Please send someone else. 00:11:55.760 --> 00:12:01.120 Then the Lord's anger burned against Moses, and he said, What about your brother Aaron the Levite? 00:12:01.500 --> 00:12:06.460 I know he can speak well. He is already on his way to meet you, and he will be glad to see you. 00:12:07.060 --> 00:12:11.380 You shall speak to him and put words in his mouth. I will help both of you speak, 00:12:11.510 --> 00:12:16.799 and will teach you what to do. He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were 00:12:16.820 --> 00:12:22.680 in your mouth and as if you were God to him. But take this staff in your hand so you can perform 00:12:22.860 --> 00:12:27.560 the signs with it. Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, 00:12:28.240 --> 00:12:32.300 Let me return to my own people in Egypt to see if any of them are still alive. 00:12:32.940 --> 00:12:38.520 Jethro said, Go, and I wish you well. Now the Lord had said to Moses in Midian, 00:12:38.970 --> 00:12:44.800 Go back to Egypt, for all those who wanted to kill you were dead. So Moses took his wife and sons, 00:12:45.240 --> 00:12:49.860 put them on a donkey, and started back to Egypt, and he took the staff of God in his hand. 00:12:50.700 --> 00:12:56.400 The Lord said to Moses, When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the 00:12:56.530 --> 00:13:01.380 wonders I have given you the power to do, but I will harden his heart so that he will not let 00:13:01.390 --> 00:13:08.040 the people go. Then say to Pharaoh, This is what the Lord says, Israel is my firstborn son, and I 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:15.200 told you, Let my son go so he may worship me. But you refuse to let him go, so I will kill your 00:13:16.900 --> 00:13:22.660 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. But Zipporah took a 00:13:22.900 --> 00:13:28.400 flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it. Surely you are a 00:13:28.540 --> 00:13:34.040 bridegroom of blood to me, she said. So the Lord let him alone. At that time she said, 00:13:34.540 --> 00:13:40.720 bridegroom of blood, referring to circumcision. The Lord said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:46.820 to meet Moses. So he met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him. Then Moses told Aaron 00:13:47.120 --> 00:13:52.000 everything the Lord had sent him to say, and also about all the signs he had commanded him to perform. 00:13:52.940 --> 00:13:57.660 Moses and Aaron brought together all the elders of the Israelites, and Aaron told them everything 00:13:57.770 --> 00:14:03.200 the Lord had said to Moses. He also performed the signs before the people, and they believed. 00:14:03.930 --> 00:14:07.640 And when they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their misery, 00:14:08.010 --> 00:14:09.860 they bowed down and worshipped. 00:14:11.820 --> 00:14:14.760 All right, in chapter 4, verse 24, we read, 00:14:15.260 --> 00:14:19.680 At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. 00:14:20.260 --> 00:14:22.520 Did that grab your attention when you heard it? 00:14:22.980 --> 00:14:24.820 Why was God going to kill Moses? 00:14:25.680 --> 00:14:30.840 Well, we're not specifically told why, but it's always good, as you've heard me say more than once, 00:14:31.400 --> 00:14:33.640 it's always good to look at the context. 00:14:34.150 --> 00:14:35.180 So let's do that now. 00:14:35.760 --> 00:14:43.220 First, notice that in chapter 3, when God told Moses that he was going to send him to tell Pharaoh to let the Israelites go, 00:14:43.800 --> 00:14:45.340 Moses questioned God, 00:14:45.820 --> 00:14:49.340 Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt? 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:51.200 And then Moses said, 00:14:51.680 --> 00:14:54.980 Suppose I go to the Israelites, my emphasis, 00:14:55.660 --> 00:14:58.280 suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, 00:14:58.300 --> 00:15:03.080 The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me what is his name, then what shall I tell them? 00:15:03.620 --> 00:15:04.940 Suppose I go. 00:15:05.180 --> 00:15:10.880 Okay. And then in chapter 4, Moses says, What if they don't believe me or listen to me, 00:15:11.080 --> 00:15:16.600 and they say, The Lord did not appear to you? Then he said once more, Pardon your servant, 00:15:16.840 --> 00:15:20.980 Lord, I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since you have spoken to your servant. 00:15:21.050 --> 00:15:25.880 I am slow of speech and tongue. And then God tells them that he would help Moses speak and 00:15:25.970 --> 00:15:30.720 tell him what to say, at which point Moses says, Pardon your servant, Lord, please send somebody 00:15:30.760 --> 00:15:37.200 else. Now, we're told that the Lord's anger burned against Moses, and he said, well, what about your 00:15:37.400 --> 00:15:44.180 brother Aaron the Levite? I know he can speak well. So, at every turn, Moses questions God. 00:15:44.940 --> 00:15:50.460 This is not an auspicious beginning. Clearly not the image of Moses we think of, the image of a 00:15:50.810 --> 00:15:55.020 courageous, strong leader that Charlton Heston delivered in the movie The Ten Commandments. 00:15:55.740 --> 00:15:57.740 But here's the most serious issue. 00:15:58.980 --> 00:16:03.440 God had been preparing Moses to be the one to lead Israel out of captivity. 00:16:04.400 --> 00:16:07.420 Moses was to be the leader of this chosen people. 00:16:08.220 --> 00:16:13.600 And in doing so, Moses also would be God's representative to Pharaoh 00:16:13.980 --> 00:16:18.540 and to all the nations that would hear of the things that were going to be happening in Egypt 00:16:18.870 --> 00:16:22.300 to cause Pharaoh to finally let the Jewish people go. 00:16:23.180 --> 00:16:26.920 Therefore, Moses had to have his own house in order. 00:16:28.480 --> 00:16:32.140 So it's in verse 24 that we read that God was going to kill Moses. 00:16:32.380 --> 00:16:35.520 And then, in verses 25 and 26, we read, 00:16:36.060 --> 00:16:42.080 But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin, and touched Moses' feet with it. 00:16:42.520 --> 00:16:45.520 Surely you're a bridegroom of blood to me, she said. 00:16:46.000 --> 00:16:47.220 So the Lord let him alone. 00:16:47.700 --> 00:16:51.820 At that time, she said, bridegroom of blood, referring to circumcision. 00:16:52.680 --> 00:16:58.700 So, we know that Moses had not had his son circumcised, and he knew that he should have. 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:05.020 Every Jewish male had to be circumcised, and it was the responsibility of every Jewish parent, 00:17:05.500 --> 00:17:12.380 especially Jewish father, to have this carried out. So, Moses was sinning by not obeying this 00:17:12.610 --> 00:17:18.439 very fundamental command. Moses had to learn that when God says something, He means it. 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:24.860 Now, immediately after we read of this event, we're told that God told Aaron to go into the wilderness to meet Moses. 00:17:25.360 --> 00:17:29.420 And when they met, Moses told Aaron everything that God had told him to say, 00:17:29.580 --> 00:17:31.860 and about all the signs he had told him to perform. 00:17:32.420 --> 00:17:35.820 And this time, I'm pretty sure that Moses had a new respect for, 00:17:36.160 --> 00:17:39.280 and conviction about, the mission that God had assigned him. 00:17:39.600 --> 00:17:40.500 What do you think? 00:17:40.900 --> 00:17:41.740 Love to hear your thoughts. 00:17:42.140 --> 00:17:42.660 Don't be shy. 00:17:43.120 --> 00:17:47.300 Tomorrow, we'll be reading in 1 Samuel again, with chapters 16-20. 00:17:52.379 --> 00:17:55.940 Our verse of the day today is Exodus 3-5. 00:17:56.580 --> 00:17:58.640 Do not come any closer, God said. 00:17:59.080 --> 00:18:02.600 Take off your sandals, for the place you are standing is holy ground. 00:18:03.040 --> 00:18:04.540 Exodus 3-5 00:18:13.860 --> 00:18:18.300 our associate producer today is life spring family berean brother michael hainer who sent in his 00:18:18.420 --> 00:18:24.140 weekly seven dollar and 77 cent donation thank you brother michael and god bless you and minion 00:18:24.460 --> 00:18:30.679 boosted 221 sats for yesterday's show thank you minion god bless you as well beloved the life 00:18:30.700 --> 00:18:34.680 Spring One Year Bible Rewind isn't meant to be something you just consume. 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:37.320 It's meant to be something you participate in. 00:18:38.140 --> 00:18:42.440 Value for value means it continues because people choose to participate. 00:18:43.200 --> 00:18:45.900 If the time we spend together in Scripture has mattered to you, 00:18:46.400 --> 00:18:49.480 consider how you might participate in keeping it going. 00:18:50.220 --> 00:18:51.000 Your prayers matter. 00:18:51.330 --> 00:18:52.080 Your notes matter. 00:18:52.540 --> 00:18:53.960 Your financial support matters. 00:18:54.500 --> 00:18:56.400 You can find all the details right here. 00:19:05.740 --> 00:19:07.880 On this date in 1563, 00:19:08.340 --> 00:19:11.820 Elector Frederick III signed the preface to a landmark document, 00:19:12.260 --> 00:19:13.640 the Heidelberg Catechism. 00:19:14.280 --> 00:19:15.640 Now, if that word is new to you, 00:19:15.690 --> 00:19:18.800 think of a catechism simply as a Q&A guide for the faith, 00:19:19.220 --> 00:19:23.200 a series of questions and answers designed to make the deep biblical truths 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:25.380 easy to understand and remember. 00:19:26.320 --> 00:19:33.620 The Catechism is built on three pillars—our misery under sin, our redemption through Christ's grace, 00:19:34.090 --> 00:19:37.300 and how we live in thankfulness for that salvation. 00:19:38.240 --> 00:19:40.960 It's a roadmap from brokenness to a life of worship. 00:19:41.760 --> 00:19:46.780 And while it remains the gold standard for Reformed and Presbyterian churches, its reach is even broader. 00:19:47.300 --> 00:19:54.480 Because of its gentle tone, it's been adopted by many Baptist and global congregations who value its focus on personal assurance. 00:19:55.220 --> 00:20:00.280 It's best known for its first question, what is your only comfort in life and in death? 00:20:00.680 --> 00:20:07.620 The answer is that I am not my own, but belong, body and soul, to my faithful Savior, Jesus Christ. 00:20:12.220 --> 00:20:17.640 As promised, in observance of Good Memory Day, I'm going to share an event that makes me smile. 00:20:18.140 --> 00:20:23.580 I talked about this specific memory almost 20 years ago on the Lifespring Weekend Music Show, 00:20:23.740 --> 00:20:28.160 episode 23 to be specific. So if you heard that one, you probably remember it, so you don't have 00:20:28.160 --> 00:20:32.840 to listen anymore. I'm kidding. I don't even remember. I don't even remember that I said it. 00:20:32.840 --> 00:20:37.060 I had to look it up to see if I'd mentioned this. So anyway, when I was a little guy, 00:20:37.500 --> 00:20:42.720 my parents took me to Las Vegas a few times. Now that I think about it, this was when the Rat Pack, 00:20:43.020 --> 00:20:48.760 Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., etc., when they were the number one act in Las Vegas. 00:20:49.220 --> 00:20:56.300 My mom was a huge Sinatra fan, and my dad liked Dino, so they probably took me there so they could see the Rat Pack. 00:20:57.380 --> 00:20:59.280 Duh, that just now occurred to me. 00:21:00.520 --> 00:21:04.280 But they also took me to see Jerry Lewis and Red Skelton, two different trips. 00:21:04.940 --> 00:21:10.160 Now, the younger LifeSpring family members might not know either one of these guys, Jerry Lewis or Red Skelton. 00:21:10.270 --> 00:21:16.020 If I had to guess, there's probably a better chance that you know Jerry Lewis than Red Skelton. 00:21:16.520 --> 00:21:19.360 But at the time, both of them were big stars. 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:23.200 Jerry Lewis from Martin and Lewis fame and the movies they did and stuff. 00:21:23.500 --> 00:21:25.400 Huge box office successes there. 00:21:26.180 --> 00:21:32.820 And Red Skelton had been in movies, but his comedy variety TV show by this time was in its eighth year of a 20-year run. 00:21:33.420 --> 00:21:38.220 Both were very funny in their own unique ways, and it was always very clean comedy. 00:21:38.980 --> 00:21:42.740 Anyway, I was about five years old when we went to see Jerry Lewis. 00:21:43.220 --> 00:21:45.840 This would have been around 1959, I think. 00:21:46.080 --> 00:21:50.020 It was a dinner show, so, you know, there was a table in front of us and waiters and everything. 00:21:50.190 --> 00:21:54.060 And I don't remember much about the show other than he was funny. 00:21:54.150 --> 00:21:55.020 I remember laughing. 00:21:55.880 --> 00:21:57.300 But there's a good memory part. 00:21:57.860 --> 00:22:02.260 Being only five years old, I had a hard time seeing the stage, sitting in my chair. 00:22:02.540 --> 00:22:04.920 We had good seats, but I was too little. 00:22:05.600 --> 00:22:14.340 I don't remember this explicitly, but my mom used to tell me that one of the waiters told my parents that I could sit on the table so that I could see the show. 00:22:14.620 --> 00:22:15.040 Isn't that cool? 00:22:15.740 --> 00:22:16.960 Now here's an even better memory. 00:22:17.440 --> 00:22:20.280 The next year, my parents took me to Vegas to see Red Skelton. 00:22:20.760 --> 00:22:22.840 I remember enjoying that show very much. 00:22:23.620 --> 00:22:28.640 And after the show, my parents took me backstage to his dressing room. 00:22:29.220 --> 00:22:31.080 I have no idea how we got to do that. 00:22:31.620 --> 00:22:33.960 Maybe my dad slipped the maitre d' some cash. 00:22:33.980 --> 00:22:34.420 I don't know. 00:22:34.580 --> 00:22:40.980 But regardless, I remember so well Mr. Skelton's warm smile and gentle handshake when he greeted me. 00:22:41.640 --> 00:22:44.380 He was so sweet and kind to six-year-old me. 00:22:44.880 --> 00:22:50.100 He gave me an autograph on the evening's program and formed a good memory that has never left me. 00:22:50.170 --> 00:22:56.520 As a matter of fact, that signed program is framed and hanging on the wall in my studio just a few feet away from me. 00:22:56.940 --> 00:22:59.140 I can turn a look at it, and there it is. 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:03.700 I'll scan it and put it on the show notes page for this episode if you'd like to see it. 00:23:04.040 --> 00:23:12.900 It hangs right next to the signed picture of Dick Clark from when I met him many years later, also in Las Vegas, when I was working for a couple of radio stations. 00:23:13.560 --> 00:23:20.140 And next to that is a signed picture of Dion DiMucci, of the Wanderer and Runaround Sioux fame and so many other hits. 00:23:20.640 --> 00:23:23.800 I met him when he came into one of the Christian bookstores I managed, 00:23:24.360 --> 00:23:30.140 and he sang a rewritten Christian version of The Wanderer a cappella right there in the middle of the store 00:23:30.580 --> 00:23:34.200 when I told him that The Wanderer was one of my all-time favorite songs. 00:23:34.740 --> 00:23:38.300 And to this day, whenever I hear a Dion song, I say, hey, there's my buddy. 00:23:39.500 --> 00:23:41.780 Good memories. God has blessed me for sure. 00:23:42.160 --> 00:23:46.360 I've met so many people in my lifetime, there are many, many more stories I could tell. 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:47.540 Well, how about you? 00:23:47.780 --> 00:23:50.400 I would love to hear or read about a good memory of yours. 00:23:50.840 --> 00:23:56.120 Send them to comment.lifespringmedia.com or email me at steve at lifespringmedia.com 00:23:56.200 --> 00:23:58.640 or text me or leave a voicemail right here. 00:23:58.860 --> 00:24:05.560 LifeSpring Family Hotline, 951-732-8511. 00:24:14.440 --> 00:24:20.580 Beloved, Moses learned that obedience matters, but he also learned that God wasn't finished with him. 00:24:21.380 --> 00:24:23.820 Well, as we read through Judges, take heart. 00:24:24.280 --> 00:24:26.140 God keeps working with willing hearts. 00:24:26.880 --> 00:24:28.980 Until tomorrow, may God bless you richly. 00:24:29.380 --> 00:24:31.860 Thank you so much for being here and including me in your day. 00:24:32.440 --> 00:24:33.520 My name is Steve Webb. 00:24:34.560 --> 00:24:34.660 Bye. 00:24:36.900 --> 00:24:42.620 All the programs in the Lifespring Media family are made possible by your value-for-value support. 00:24:43.360 --> 00:24:43.700 Thank you. 00:24:45.620 --> 00:24:53.040 The Lifespring One Year Bible Rewind is a Lifespring Media production hosted by Steve Webb, the OG Godcaster since 2004.