Jesus is Real Radio with Daniel Fusco

When the children of Israel escaped enslavement in Egypt, God was giving them a new start. Freed from hundreds of years of oppression…the new path was light and unburdened. That’s exactly what you experience when you throw off your old life and begin again in Jesus. As Daniel tells the story of those final days in Egypt, we’ll follow God’s people from darkness to light.

In Egypt, Pharaoh asks the Children of God to compromise, over and over again. For us, we compromise all the time, giving most of ourselves to the Lord, but leaving some parts with the world. As Pastor Daniel reveals more about the plagues of Egypt, we’ll consider the investments we’re making towards His kingdom, and what we’re putting into the world. We have to serve with EVERY part of our lives.

Do you have a story of faith? Maybe you’ve been a believer for a long time, or perhaps you’re in the beginning of a relationship with God. Whatever the case, all those stories are worth telling. God tells Moses to share the stories of the Hebrews experience in Egypt with the generations to come…as we’ll continue to hear, it’s a testimony of adversity, hope and redemption.

God’s commands to us provide safety, a sort of spiritual security net. When we ignore them, or defy them…we can suffer. That’s exactly what happens with Pharaoh and the people who choose to ignore God’s warning about the coming plagues. But those who listen, who hear and are obedient, they remain protected. Not only will He protect you, but the Father will bless you as well.

Many people have heard the account of the plagues in Egypt. You may think you know the stories, but there are so many layers in the Bible, and it’s our tendency to stop too soon…when we haven’t hit on what God has to say to us. Today, Pastor Daniel will encourage us to go all the way. It can be a journey of uncertainty, but God is a deep well of knowledge and wisdom.

It’s worth considering, that living in this contemporary culture dramatically impacts how we view God. If you’ve formed a picture of God based on what you know about the world, you are getting a distorted image. We’ll find that, as Pastor Daniel takes us through the plagues in Egypt, a fresh perspective will help us understand what was going on between God, Pharaoh, and the Hebrew people.

False repentance. When you are sorry for what you’ve done, until you’re off the hook. That’s what Pharaoh does after asking Moses to tell God to remove the rotting frogs from Egypt. As Pastor Daniel will say, when we pause in obedience…often we never get around to it. Today we’ll find out why we can’t wait until tomorrow, and in fact we need a sense of urgency for God’s intervention.

IF you’re not sure that you want to follow God’s instructions, whatever they are…then don’t pray. Today, Pastor Daniel will exhort us to pray, and to pray specifically. In fervent prayer, God will use us…and we can change the world. But, we have to be available, because there’s a lot of work to do. Listen as Moses follows God’s commands, even when it’s difficult.

If you look at each plague that God brought through Moses to Egypt…the punishment for Pharaoh’s hard heartedness could seem harsh. But when you look at all of them together, we see that God was bringing lesser plagues, hoping for Pharaoh to release His people. As Pastor Daniel will teach, God works in the same way with us…hoping for repentance before judgment.

God wants you to know who He is. As we’ll hear in today’s message, God went to great lengths to show the people in Egypt who He is...through the miraculous. We love signs. Because of our need to know the outcome of events in our lives, it can be tempting to latch onto signs that give us hope. But God wants us to cling to Him, not the miracles...the message that they bring.