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[932.82 --> 933.38] You can read that
[933.38 --> 934.36] in verse 7
[934.36 --> 935.24] through 10.
[935.34 --> 936.22] God saw the misery
[936.22 --> 936.76] of his people.
[936.98 --> 938.24] He heard them crying out.
[939.12 --> 940.20] The people's cries
[940.20 --> 940.74] reached him
[940.74 --> 941.28] and he saw
[941.28 --> 942.18] how they were being oppressed.
[942.52 --> 943.86] So because God saw this,
[944.06 --> 945.26] he remembered his people
[945.26 --> 946.52] and he tells Moses
[946.52 --> 947.32] that he has come down
[947.32 --> 948.00] to save him.
[949.48 --> 950.16] All of this
[950.16 --> 951.00] because he is concerned
[951.00 --> 951.64] for his people.
[953.48 --> 954.46] And the result
[954.46 --> 955.40] of his concern
[955.40 --> 956.66] are the words
[956.66 --> 957.80] of Exodus 3,
[957.98 --> 959.20] verse 8
[959.20 --> 960.58] in our text today.
[961.18 --> 964.08] I have come down.
[965.36 --> 966.36] God had come down
[966.36 --> 966.96] to his people
[966.96 --> 968.10] and he was about
[968.10 --> 969.84] to divinely intervene
[969.84 --> 971.64] to get them out of Egypt
[971.64 --> 972.80] and into the promised land.
[974.08 --> 974.86] And then do you know
[974.86 --> 975.84] how the story goes from there?
[976.64 --> 977.84] God does come down.
[978.52 --> 979.42] He saves his people
[979.42 --> 979.88] from Egypt.
[980.00 --> 980.74] He leads them
[980.74 --> 981.94] to the promised land
[981.94 --> 983.16] and establishes them there.
[983.92 --> 984.92] And then generations
[984.92 --> 985.74] go by
[985.74 --> 987.34] and the generations
[987.34 --> 988.46] come and they go
[988.46 --> 989.30] and God's people,
[989.50 --> 990.56] while they're stubborn,
[990.56 --> 992.46] they would disobey God
[992.46 --> 993.66] and God's calling
[993.66 --> 994.42] on their lives.
[994.50 --> 995.12] They would sin
[995.12 --> 996.22] and they would worship idols
[996.22 --> 997.04] and they would bow down
[997.04 --> 997.74] to false gods
[997.74 --> 999.04] and they would take over
[999.04 --> 999.56] the customs
[999.56 --> 1000.84] of the people around them.
[1000.96 --> 1001.84] So much so that
[1001.84 --> 1002.66] it gets really bad.
[1002.72 --> 1003.62] They start sacrificing
[1003.62 --> 1004.46] their own children
[1004.46 --> 1006.00] to these false gods.
[1006.20 --> 1007.46] And it gets really,
[1007.66 --> 1008.94] really bad.
[1010.68 --> 1011.84] And God's watching
[1011.84 --> 1012.94] the whole time.
[1013.94 --> 1014.70] And he would always
[1014.70 --> 1015.28] be listening.
[1016.34 --> 1017.56] He'd always be speaking
[1017.56 --> 1018.10] to them,
[1018.52 --> 1019.68] telling them to turn to him.
[1021.24 --> 1022.08] But they don't.
[1023.68 --> 1024.50] And they suffer
[1024.50 --> 1026.48] again and again.
[1026.84 --> 1027.76] They become captives.
[1027.98 --> 1028.80] They become captives
[1028.80 --> 1029.42] to Assyria.
[1029.50 --> 1030.30] They become captives
[1030.30 --> 1030.84] to Babylon.
[1031.10 --> 1031.82] They become captives
[1031.82 --> 1032.44] to Persia.
[1034.06 --> 1034.98] Until one day,
[1036.84 --> 1037.80] God's concern
[1037.80 --> 1039.94] culminates
[1039.94 --> 1041.94] in Bethlehem
[1041.94 --> 1043.44] where once again
[1043.44 --> 1044.28] he comes down
[1044.28 --> 1045.98] as a baby this time,
[1046.06 --> 1046.94] not in a burning bush,
[1046.94 --> 1048.48] but with the same intentions,
[1048.60 --> 1050.36] to save his people.
[1052.72 --> 1054.62] This baby is born,
[1054.70 --> 1055.42] the Son of God,
[1055.46 --> 1056.48] who grows into this man,
[1056.54 --> 1057.44] who dies on a cross
[1057.44 --> 1058.64] and is risen from the dead
[1058.64 --> 1059.88] and he ultimately
[1059.88 --> 1061.22] defeats sin and death
[1061.22 --> 1062.36] for good.
[1064.66 --> 1066.16] See, God's concern
[1066.16 --> 1066.92] for his people
[1066.92 --> 1068.20] has been a permanent fixture.