Welcome to a new
Carter Report series,
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The Game Changers.
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These rare individuals
appear once in a lifetime.
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Like a blazing
meteor across the night sky,
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they change the
course of history.
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They show us the way forward.
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Welcome to the Game Changers.
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So glad to see you here today.
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We're studying another series.
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Now we've talked
about the Game Changers,
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the Men Game Changers.
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But I made a real faux pas,
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I should have started
with the Lady Game Changers.
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And so having been
chastised by my family
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and the other ladies
whom I know, I have repented.
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And today, we're talking about
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the Lady Game Changers.
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You know that women
for thousands of years
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have been treated
like second class citizens.
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You know that, don't you?
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There the lady said amen.
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During the 19th
century in Great Britain,
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in days of Queen Victoria,
this formidable character,
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women were largely regarded
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as attractive ornamental pieces
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or play sets.
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But they were not considered
intelligent enough to discuss
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with their husband
weighty matters like politics,
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therefore they
were forbidden to vote.
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Let me tell you about
women's right to vote.
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In 1881, on the Isle of Man,
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should've been
the Isle of Woman,
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but the Isle of Man,
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which is a
British crown dependency,
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women were given
the right to vote
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as long as they owned property.
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That was 1881.
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1893, New Zealand gave
all women right to vote.
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This was followed
up, I think, it was...
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I think, it was
followed straight after 1895
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by South Australia,
not all of Australia.
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But then the whole of Australia,
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in 1902, gave
women the right to vote.
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1907, now this is
not an exhaustive list.
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But 1907, Finland,
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1917, Canada,
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1920, United States of America,
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40 years behind the Isle of Man.
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1933, Spain, 1944, France.
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1971, I was astounded
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to discover the
Switzerland, Switzerland.
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And in 2015, Saudi Arabia.
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Nothing
surprising about that one.
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A Protestant
country is generally first,
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then the Catholic countries.
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And last of all,
the Muslim countries.
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But all countries
have treated women
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as second class citizens.
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In the days of Jesus,
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the word of
woman "did not count."
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And so that's why,
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when Mary
Magdalene and the women came
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with the news of
the resurrection,
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the men said, "This
is just woman talking."
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It was
considered to be vain tales
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because of women.
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But Jesus change things.
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So let it be said
today loud and clear,
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women have done mighty deeds
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and they have changed
the course of history.
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And so today, we're
not just talking about
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the game changers,
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we're talking about,
who, the lady game changers.
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We're going to start
today with the mother of us all.
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Her name, of course, was Eve.
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We all go back to Eve.
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Therefore, we are all related,
whether we're black or white
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or brown or red or
whatever the color.
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We all go back to Eve, we
are all genetically related.
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And the story of Eve
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really starts in Genesis 1:27.
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And the TV audience,
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you've got Bibles on the tables,
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and the Bible
says, Genesis 1:27,
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"So God created
man in His own image,
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in the image of God,
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He created him male and female."
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He created them.
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Eve was probably
the most beautiful woman
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the world has ever seen
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because she came fresh
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from the hand of God.
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She was extremely beautiful.
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She was beautiful,
ladies, but she wasn't wise.
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If you turn to
Genesis chapter 3 in the Bible
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and verses 1 to 4, it
says, "Now the serpent," Satan,
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"was more cunning
than any beast of the field
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which the Lord God had made.
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And he said to the
woman, "Has God indeed said,
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'You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden?'
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And the women
said to the serpent,
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'We may eat the fruit
of the trees of the garden
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but of the fruit of the tree
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which is in the
midst of the garden.
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God has said,
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'You shall not eat it
nor shall you touch it,
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lest you die.'
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Then the serpent
said to the woman,
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'You will not surely die.'"
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And verse 5 and 6,
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"For God knows that
in the day you eat of it,
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your eyes will be
opened and you will be like God
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knowing good and evil."
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And here, he was
telling the truth.
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"So when the woman saw
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that the tree was good for food,
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that was pleasant to the eyes,
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and a tree
desirable to make one wise,
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she took of its fruit and ate.
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She also gave to
her husband with her,
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and he ate."
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Woman
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is naturally curious.
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And you know what curiosity
did to the cat, don't you?
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Women have many marvelous
qualities and characteristics,
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and high in the list is
the capacity of curiosity.
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We have a beautiful,
little granddaughter,
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and her name is Amiley.
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And she is just
now seven years of age.
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And since she was
two, or was it one,
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she's had two very
precious, important words.
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You know what they are?
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No. No.
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And not just no, but no.
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And the second one,
you know what it is?
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Why?
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And then if you answer that,
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you know what the
next question is, why?
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Why?
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So I guess,
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Amiley got it from Eve.
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I once went up there
Christmas time with Beverley.
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And I said to Amiley,
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"We bought you a
pair of new shoes."
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You know what she said?
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What color, grandpa?
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What color, grandpa?
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You see, they don't learn this.
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They don't learn this.
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It's born in them.
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And Eve was a...
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God bless them, she was curious.
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It's good to be curious,
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but not when it
leads you to disobey God.
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And she disobeyed God,
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and the result
was sin and death.
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And later on, they had two sons.
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It's quite
history, Cain and Abel.
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And the first man who
was born of the human race
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was a murderer.
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He murdered his brother.
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And on one day,
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Adam and Eve lost their boys.
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And Eve came to
know good and evil.
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Satan was right.
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But there is some
evidence that suggests
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she repented and
learned to trust in God.
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This is not definitive,
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but I think
there's evidence for it.
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If you look at
Genesis 4:25 and 26,
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the Bible says, "And
Adam knew his wife again,
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and she bore a
son, and named him Seth.
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'For God has
appointed another seed for me
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instead of Abel
whom Cain killed.'
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And as for Seth, to
him also a son was born,
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and he named him Enosh.
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Then men began to call
on the name of the Lord."
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It appeared that
when she had a boy,
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she taught him
about the Creator God,
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taught him about the law of God,
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and taught him
the Gospel of God.
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And then when he had a
family, the Bible says,
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"People began to call
on the name of the Lord."
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I think it's because
of what she taught him.
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And there's something else, too.
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I want you to notice this.
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This is quite remarkable.
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Genesis 3:20 and 21,
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Genesis 3,
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"And Adam called
his wife's name Eve,
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because she was the
mother of all living.
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Also for Adam and
his wife the Lord God
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made tunics of
skin, and clothed them."
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What does that tell you?
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It tells you that
God with His own hands
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slew a beast, maybe a lamb.
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And so blood was shed
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so that these
people might be covered
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by the grace and
the goodness of God
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which is the gospel.
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So if God covered
Eve with the garments
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that were caused by
the shedding of blood,
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I would suggest to
you that Eve was safe
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because she was under
the blood of the covenant.
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And even though
there was great sin
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and this is the glory of God.
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Even though there was great sin,
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there was great grace
because where sin did abound,
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what does the Bible say?
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Grace did much more abound.
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Second great lady
game changer is Sarah,
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the lady who had a baby
when she was 90 years of age,
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a woman of divine destiny,
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the mother of the Israelites,
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the mother of the Messiah
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who would redeem
Eve's sin and failure.
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Her name means princess.
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She is first
mentioned by name after Eve.
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And the Bible tells us
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that she came from
Ur of the Chaldees.
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"And Terah took his son
Abram and his grandson Lot,
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the son of Haran, and
his daughter-in-law Sarai,"
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later Sarah,
"his son Abram's wife,
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and they went out with
them from Ur of the Chaldees
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to go the land of Canaan,
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and they came to
Haran and dwelt there."
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So this woman came from Iraq,
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Southern Mesopotamia.
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I've been to Ur of the Chaldees.
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Once upon a time,
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it was a
marvelously sophisticated city.
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She went with Abraham
north to Haran's state awhile
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and then went to Palestine.
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All this happened
some 4,000 years ago.
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But we will
discover that human nature
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is the same
today as it was then.
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Sarah was very, very beautiful.
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The Bible says that
through no fault of Sarah,
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he took her into his harem.
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She was a woman
with the wow factor.
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She had the ability to turn
men's heads and their hearts.
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Abraham said to her,
"Say you are my sister."
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And when he said
this, he told a half truth.
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But a half truth,
you all should know,
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is a total lie.
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And she was saved by the
divine intervention of God
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and saved from being a
part of harem's family.
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Sarah wanted a baby.
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She was unable to conceive,
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and this was a thing of
great disgrace in her day.
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And so, she said to
her husband Abraham,
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"I have a beautiful
girl who is my slave girl.
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She is a
beautiful Egyptian girl,
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she looks as fair as
the princess of the Nile.
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Her name is Hagar.
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I want you to go into her,
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and have my baby through her."
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Abraham said,
"Whatever you tell me to do,
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I'm just going to do
that as a faithful husband."
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He slept with Hagar,
and she became pregnant,
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and she bore a boy
by the name of Ishmael.
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But later on when Hagar
showed disrespect to Sarai,
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because she was now on top
of everything, Sarah got mad,
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punished Hagar and
treated her very unkindly.
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Some people think
that the Bible characters
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are sinless
people, and that's not so.
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Sarah was not a
woman to mess with,
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she was not perfect in herself.
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And about 14 years
later, three men came calling.
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This is one of the
most extraordinary stories
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in the Bible
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because one of those
men that came calling,
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if you can believe
this, two of them were angels,
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and one of those
men that came calling
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was Yahweh Elohim.
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And He said,
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"This time next year, Abraham,
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Sarah your wife is
going to have her own baby."
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And the Bible says
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that Abraham fell on
his face and laughed,
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and Sarah was in
another part of the tent,
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and she laughed and laughed.
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And God said to
her, "You're laughing."
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She said, "I'm not laughing."
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She's almost 90.
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Never give up, my folks.
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Never give up.
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Sarah is almost 90,
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Abraham is almost
100, and they laughed.
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And next year,
Sarah is pregnant,
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she is 90 and
still has the wow factor.
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Abraham is 100.
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Everyone is laughing for joy.
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Nothing is too hard for God,
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and the boy is called laughing,
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that's Isaac.
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The time comes for
Isaac to be weaned.
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You can read this
in Genesis 21:9 to 11.
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Genesis 21:9 to 11,
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"And Sarah saw the
son of Hagar the Egyptian,
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whom she had borne
to Abraham, scoffing.
00:16:15.60\00:16:20.11
Therefore, she said to Abraham,
00:16:20.14\00:16:21.81
'Cast out this
bondwoman and her son,
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for the son of the bondwoman
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shall not be heir with
my son, namely with Isaac.
00:16:28.25\00:16:32.22
And the matter
was very displeasing
00:16:32.25\00:16:34.42
in Abraham's sight
because of his son."
00:16:34.46\00:16:38.63
She's little hard, this
woman, little vindictive.
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Cast them out.
00:16:44.03\00:16:46.74
So they cast out in the desert.
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The
circumstances are so deplorable
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that it appears
00:16:52.54\00:16:54.18
that they're going to
die for want of water.
00:16:54.21\00:16:59.21
Then God intervened.
00:16:59.25\00:17:00.88
So He opens up a well,
00:17:00.92\00:17:02.42
and Hagar and Ishmael
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are saved.
00:17:06.09\00:17:08.46
Ishmael becomes the father,
00:17:08.49\00:17:10.66
as you all know, of the Arabs.
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And Sarah, the mother of Isaac
becomes the father of the Jews.
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And thus the feud
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between these two warring women
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is perpetuated
today in the struggle
00:17:26.81\00:17:29.74
between the
Arabs and the Israelis.
00:17:29.78\00:17:33.75
The great fight
in the Middle East
00:17:33.78\00:17:35.35
that goes on now
00:17:35.38\00:17:38.19
goes back to two proud women
00:17:38.22\00:17:43.76
who just wouldn't get along.
00:17:43.79\00:17:47.23
Now she trains Isaac
to love and obey God.
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And then comes the great test.
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Genesis 22:1 and 2,
"Now it came to pass
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after these things
that God tested Abraham,
00:17:55.90\00:17:57.91
and said to him, 'Abraham!'
00:17:57.94\00:17:59.27
And he said, 'Here I am.'
00:17:59.31\00:18:00.84
Then He said,
'Take now your son,
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your only son Isaac,
00:18:02.54\00:18:03.88
whom you love and go
to the land of the Moriah,
00:18:03.91\00:18:06.35
and offer him
there as a burnt offering
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on one of the mountains
of which I shall tell you.'"
00:18:08.68\00:18:10.82
An extraordinary thing.
00:18:10.85\00:18:13.49
Here's the boy they'd hope for
and prayed for all their lives.
00:18:13.52\00:18:17.26
And the boy is now a young man,
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he's probably as big
and as strong as his father.
00:18:20.46\00:18:24.90
And God says to him,
00:18:24.93\00:18:26.27
"Go to Mount Moriah,
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offer him up."
00:18:29.10\00:18:32.47
It's three days
journey to Mount Moriah.
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Look at Genesis 22:9 to 11,
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three long horrible days.
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"Then they came to the
place of which God had told him.
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Abraham built an altar there
and placed the wood in order,
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and he bound Isaac his
son and laid him on the altar,
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upon the wood.
00:18:50.23\00:18:51.56
And Abraham
stretched out his hand
00:18:51.59\00:18:53.29
and took the
knife to slay his son.
00:18:53.33\00:18:56.56
But the Angel of the
Lord called to him from heaven
00:18:56.60\00:18:59.27
and said, 'Abraham, Abraham!'
00:18:59.30\00:19:01.80
And he said, 'Here I am.'"
00:19:01.84\00:19:03.61
You just think of this.
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He's a big,
strong, solid young man.
00:19:05.91\00:19:11.65
And he allows his
father to bind him
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and put him on an altar.
00:19:15.18\00:19:17.59
What does that tell you?
00:19:17.62\00:19:20.96
It tells me that
she must have taught
00:19:20.99\00:19:23.19
this young man to trust in God
00:19:23.22\00:19:27.06
and to obey his parents.
00:19:27.10\00:19:30.80
What so odd about this!
00:19:30.83\00:19:33.47
Trust in God and
obey your parents.
00:19:33.50\00:19:38.04
But then,
00:19:38.07\00:19:41.48
there's a ram
caught in the thicket.
00:19:41.51\00:19:45.21
God says, "Look around.
00:19:45.25\00:19:48.68
There's a lamb."
00:19:48.72\00:19:50.35
Abraham takes the
lamb and lets his boy go,
00:19:50.39\00:19:54.16
and he sacrifices the lamb.
00:19:54.19\00:19:56.73
Can you imagine
Abraham, Isaac getting home?
00:19:56.76\00:20:01.03
Abraham calls
at, "Sarah, Sarah."
00:20:01.06\00:20:04.20
He's been away for days.
00:20:04.23\00:20:05.60
She runs out.
00:20:05.63\00:20:07.34
He says, "Here is your boy.
00:20:07.37\00:20:09.10
Here is your boy.
00:20:09.14\00:20:11.91
God provided a lamb."
00:20:11.94\00:20:15.08
People say, "Folks back there
had no idea about the gospel."
00:20:15.11\00:20:19.25
This is the gospel, the lamb.
00:20:19.28\00:20:23.22
He was submissive
because she was a great mother.
00:20:23.25\00:20:25.65
From Isaac came Jacob,
from Jacob came Israel,
00:20:25.69\00:20:29.69
from Israel came
Jesus, savior of the world.
00:20:29.72\00:20:33.90
The girl who came
from Southern Iraq,
00:20:33.93\00:20:39.30
been there.
00:20:39.33\00:20:41.17
There came a game changer.
00:20:41.20\00:20:43.44
Sarah changes the
world and gave us Christ
00:20:43.47\00:20:46.47
who redeemed Eve's failure.
00:20:46.51\00:20:49.21
She teaches us to believe
in the God of the impossible,
00:20:49.24\00:20:52.55
the God of miracles.
00:20:52.58\00:20:54.35
What do you say about that?
00:20:54.38\00:20:56.28
Sort of amazing, isn't it?
00:20:56.32\00:20:57.79
Nothing is too hard for
God, and God provides a lamb
00:20:57.82\00:21:01.86
for His people,
that's the gospel.
00:21:01.89\00:21:05.23
Third lady game
changer is somebody
00:21:05.26\00:21:07.53
most of us know nothing about.
00:21:07.56\00:21:09.60
Her name is Hatshepsut,
00:21:09.63\00:21:11.77
the princess who
found baby Moses,
00:21:11.80\00:21:15.74
and this woman
eventually became the Pharaoh.
00:21:15.77\00:21:17.81
When you read the story
00:21:17.84\00:21:19.87
in Exodus 2:5 and 6,
00:21:19.91\00:21:25.81
"Then the daughter of Pharaoh
00:21:25.85\00:21:27.22
came down to bath at the river."
00:21:27.25\00:21:29.12
I think it was Hatshepsut.
00:21:29.15\00:21:30.85
"And her maidens
walked along the riverside,
00:21:30.89\00:21:33.36
and when they saw
the ark among the reeds,
00:21:33.39\00:21:35.92
she sent her maid to get it.
00:21:35.96\00:21:38.43
And when she opened
it, she saw the child,
00:21:38.46\00:21:41.63
and behold, the baby is crying.
00:21:41.66\00:21:45.97
So she had
compassion on him, and said,
00:21:46.00\00:21:49.07
'This is one of the
Hebrews' children.'"
00:21:49.10\00:21:51.24
Well, here is a pagan princess,
00:21:51.27\00:21:54.28
she becomes the lady Pharaoh.
00:21:54.31\00:21:58.45
I'm going by the best
of scholarship in agreement
00:21:58.48\00:22:01.42
with great scholars
like Dr. Randall Younker.
00:22:01.45\00:22:05.45
She was a pagan princess,
00:22:05.49\00:22:07.36
but God used her to
save Israel's savior.
00:22:07.39\00:22:11.93
No Moses, no Pentateuch.
00:22:11.96\00:22:15.26
No Moses, no Exodus,
00:22:15.30\00:22:18.07
no Ten Commandments,
00:22:18.10\00:22:20.10
no Israel, no Jesus, no gospel.
00:22:20.14\00:22:25.77
Because of this lady
whom I believe, later on,
00:22:25.81\00:22:29.84
came to understand the gospel
00:22:29.88\00:22:31.75
because she saw
the blood on the door.
00:22:31.78\00:22:34.35
What do you think
Moses would have told?
00:22:34.38\00:22:37.95
And so this pagan lady
00:22:37.99\00:22:40.99
that most of us
know nothing about
00:22:41.02\00:22:43.86
is one of the reasons
we are sitting here today.
00:22:43.89\00:22:48.26
At the same time,
in this great drama,
00:22:48.30\00:22:52.03
there are two
ladies, Jochebed and Miriam.
00:22:52.07\00:22:57.61
Look at Exodus 2:7 to 9.
00:22:57.64\00:23:01.54
Exodus 2:7 to 9,
"Then his sister,"
00:23:01.58\00:23:06.72
this is the sister of Moses.
00:23:06.75\00:23:09.52
She's about seven years old.
00:23:09.55\00:23:11.45
She's like Amiley.
00:23:11.49\00:23:12.82
"Then his sister said
to Pharaoh's daughter,"
00:23:12.85\00:23:15.62
we think that's Hatshepsut,
"Shall I go and call a nurse
00:23:15.66\00:23:20.10
for you from the Hebrews women,
00:23:20.13\00:23:22.23
that she may nurse
the child for you?"
00:23:22.26\00:23:25.23
Just found this
little baby in the bulrushes.
00:23:25.27\00:23:27.90
"And Pharaoh's
daughter said to her, 'Go.'
00:23:27.94\00:23:30.87
So the maiden went and
called the child's mother."
00:23:30.91\00:23:36.08
People say, "I can't
believe in a providence of God."
00:23:36.11\00:23:39.38
"Then Pharaoh's
daughter said to her,
00:23:39.41\00:23:41.15
'Take this child
away and nurse him for me,
00:23:41.18\00:23:44.99
I'm going to pay
you for being a mother.'
00:23:45.02\00:23:48.26
So the woman took the
child and nursed him.'"
00:23:48.29\00:23:52.26
We've got here
two amazing women.
00:23:52.29\00:23:56.23
When Moses was born,
00:23:56.26\00:23:58.47
Miriam was about
seven years of age,
00:23:58.50\00:24:01.74
like my granddaughter Amiley.
00:24:01.77\00:24:04.07
My American
friends, my granddaughter,
00:24:04.11\00:24:06.68
our granddaughter Amiley
was born on the 4th of July.
00:24:06.71\00:24:11.38
How American can you get.
00:24:11.41\00:24:16.12
But God trusted
the fate of the world
00:24:16.15\00:24:18.05
to a seven year old girl.
00:24:18.09\00:24:20.12
How well her
mother had trained Miriam.
00:24:20.16\00:24:23.06
She watched over
her baby brother,
00:24:23.09\00:24:25.76
she was reliable and dependable.
00:24:25.79\00:24:28.43
She saved her
brother from certain death.
00:24:28.46\00:24:31.67
What a great little girl.
00:24:31.70\00:24:33.90
Jochebed only had him
for a few years, how long?
00:24:33.94\00:24:36.97
Look at Exodus 2:10.
00:24:37.01\00:24:40.78
We're not told exactly,
00:24:40.81\00:24:42.14
but I'm going to
tell you what I think.
00:24:42.18\00:24:44.05
"And the child
grew," this is Moses,
00:24:44.08\00:24:47.38
"and she brought him
to Pharaoh's daughter,
00:24:47.42\00:24:51.29
and he became her son.
00:24:51.32\00:24:54.29
So she called his
name Moses, saying,
00:24:54.32\00:24:56.46
'Because I drew
him out of the water.'"
00:24:56.49\00:25:00.86
He's probably 12 years of
age, think what she taught him.
00:25:00.90\00:25:03.90
She had him for 12
years, only 12 years.
00:25:03.93\00:25:06.84
She taught him who he
was, where he came from,
00:25:06.87\00:25:11.84
why he was here,
and where he was going.
00:25:11.87\00:25:15.41
She told him the
story of the creator.
00:25:15.44\00:25:19.68
It never left him.
00:25:19.71\00:25:23.18
He might look
like an Egyptian prince
00:25:23.22\00:25:27.39
on the way to become Pharaoh.
00:25:27.42\00:25:30.79
He may look like
an Egyptian prince.
00:25:30.83\00:25:35.66
But in his soul,
he was an Israelite.
00:25:35.70\00:25:39.10
I want you to know
this, the hand that rocks
00:25:39.13\00:25:43.10
the cradle is the
hand that rules the world.
00:25:43.14\00:25:46.81
I want you to know this,
without these two heroes,
00:25:46.84\00:25:52.25
Moses could have ended
up in the Cairo Museum.
00:25:52.28\00:25:57.65
Amazing!
00:25:57.69\00:26:00.19
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00:26:00.22\00:26:02.92
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lady game changers.
00:26:02.96\00:26:06.66
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