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Newington Three Angels Church

Eric Walsh

Pandemic Fatigue

It's my pleasure to be presenting for you today in a recorded form.

We'll do a live session this Sabbath afternoon, where we'll kind of continue with some of the topics we start this morning.

I want to just get right into God's word.

And so let me just jump to our scripture reading, Psalm 13, which says, verse 1, How long will thou forget me, O Lord?

How long will thou hide thy face from me?

How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily?

How long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?

Lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death.

Lest mine enemies say I have prevailed against him, and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

A message this Sabbath is entitled Pandemic Fatigue.

Father God, we thank you for this opportunity to study your word.

Once again, Lord, I ask that you make me a nail on the wall, a rusty, sorry nail, Lord.

And upon that nail, Lord, I ask that you hang a portrait of Jesus Christ.

Father, let not Eric Walsh be seen or heard.

Instead, let us hear a word from the throne room of grace.

All right, we are gonna jump right into this.

And much of the time we're going to spend in Exodus, we will jump to Revelation towards the end and back to Psalms 13, as we just read.

This is more of a Bible study sermon and a lesson than it is a preaching sermon.

I may wind up preaching a little bit in here, but we wanna really study God's word.

As God is speaking to Moses, he says, "'And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people, which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

You know, 1 of the reoccurring themes is the word sorrows.

And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people, which are in Egypt, and I've heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows.

As we go through this, I'm going to show you how sorrows will reappear and how God's people often have to wait for God to deliver them from times of sorrow.

In Exodus chapter 5, after God met with Moses at the burning bush and gave him the hope that his people would be delivered.

By now, Moses had given up on the dream that he would be the deliverer.

That's what he was raised to believe and ultimately tried slaying an Egyptian to kickstart his freedom and the freedom of his people.

God did not mean for Moses or the Israelites to take up arms and fight or to use violence to fight.

So when, after the burning bush experience, as Moses comes back into the palace where he was once a prince.

In Exodus 5 and verse 1, it says, and afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, thus said the Lord God of Israel, let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go.

I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

Moses and Aaron say, listen, our people want to go and worship.

Our God tells us that this needs to happen.

Pharaoh's response, and remember that Pharaoh thinks himself a God, number 1, but number 2, Pharaoh also has grown up with a pantheon of gods, many, many gods.

And he is saying, wait a minute, I've not heard of Yahweh or Jehovah.

I don't know the God you're talking about.

Exodus 5, verse 3 says, And then said Moses and Aaron, the God of the Hebrews hath met with us.

Let us go, we pray, the 3 days' journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.

He does not threaten Egypt or the Pharaoh initially.

He says, listen, if we don't do what God says, problems are going to come upon us.

Pestilence, plague is going to come upon us.

If we don't do what God says, we're the ones that are gonna be in trouble.

You know, let us go that we might serve our God.

And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works get you unto your burdens?

And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and you make them rest from their burdens.

Pharaoh says, listen, you need to go back to work.

Then he says something that gives you a hint, not just into the struggle for freedom for ancient Israel, but for the struggle for freedom from modern day Israel.

The struggle that is going to come upon us.

He says that the reason you're asking for this is that you want to make them rest, rest from their burdens.

What do you mean rest from their burdens?

Well, at first glance, you might say, well, that's simple.

They just want them to not have to work so much or so long or give them a break from their work.

But I wanna submit to you that inherent in this is the call to go out far enough to keep the Sabbath, to be able to have a Sabbath rest.

Just as our enemy will not like this in the last days, The idea of a Sabbath rest will cause problems for the people of God.

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying, You shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore let them go and gather straw for themselves.

So as punishment, Pharaoh said, listen, they've got too much time on their hands.

So if you didn't use it, the brick, the clay, it would come apart when straw was put inside.

As the straw decayed, it made the brick stronger.

And the tale of the bricks which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them, ye shall not diminish aught thereof, for they be idle.

Therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

He said, Listen, and they have to make the same amount of bricks, even though now they have to go and find the straw to make their bricks.

We're no longer going to deliver it to them.

He says because they're crying to go sacrifice to their God because they're idle.

Verse 9 of Exodus 5, let there more work be laid upon the men that they may labor therein and let them not regard vain words.

And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

When the officers of the children of Israel had to deal with it, they came into Pharaoh because now the officers, the Hebrews put over the Hebrews to make sure that they could work were being beaten and chastised for not performing as well as they did in terms of the number of brick being produced.

Exodus 5 and 15 says, "'Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh saying, "'Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?

"'There is no straw given to thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick, and behold, thy servants are beaten, but the fault is in thine own people." They say, listen, Pharaoh, how are you beating us that we don't have straw when it's your people who aren't delivering the straw anymore?

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