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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Welcome back, my friends.
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We're talking today
about the lady game changers.
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Now no country in
the world impresses me
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quite like old
Egypt, ancient Egypt
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because that was the
home of the great Pharaohs
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and also the man
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who could have
become the Pharaoh.
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Now we're just going to
have a little continuity
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from the last section,
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and I want you
to take your Bible,
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and we're going to
talk a little bit about
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Jochebed and Miriam.
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And we're going to go
to the Book of Exodus 2:10.
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Exodus 2:10.
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Now just a continuation
of what we're talking about
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when we're speaking
about these two amazing women,
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Jochebed and Miriam.
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As you all know,
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Jochebed was
the mother of Moses,
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and what about
Miriam, who is she?
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She was his big
sister, but on those days,
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she was just a little girl.
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Now Exodus...
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2:10 says,
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"And the child
grew," this was Moses,
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"and she brought him
to Pharaoh's daughter."
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We think that
was Queen Hatshepsut
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who became one of
the greatest Pharaohs
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in the history of
the Egyptian empire.
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"And he became her son,
so she called his name Moses,
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saying, 'Because I drew
him out of the water.' "
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You know the story.
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And Miriam is standing there,
the little boy is in a basket
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floating on the
broad bosom of the Nile.
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And Jochebed is hiding somewhere
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because the decree is gone forth
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that all the little baby boys
have got to be put to death.
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And this was a terrible thing.
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And if this had happened,
if there'd be no Moses,
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there would have been no Israel,
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no Ten
Commandments, and no Messiah.
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And so here, you
got this little girl
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by the name of
Miriam, you think...
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How old is she?
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She's seven.
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You want to trust
the fate of the world
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to a little seven-year-old girl?
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Like my little
granddaughter Amiley?
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Well, maybe.
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But let me tell
you, folks, something,
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this little girl had
been taught the Word of God
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by Jochebed.
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She must have filled...
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You know, if you
don't train little children
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in the truth of the Word of
God by the time they're little,
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it's almost
getting too late to do it.
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How great!
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Roman Catholic
friends say, "Give me a child
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until he's seven years of age,
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and he'll always
stay with the church."
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And so this beautiful,
lovely little girl Miriam
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is taught there's
a God who loves her,
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and she's taught to be obedient
to her father and her mother
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and to look out
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for the other
members of the family.
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And so here, you've
got little baby Moses,
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and he's down on the broad bosom
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of the Nile among the bulrushes.
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It's amazing story.
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And so Miriam
finds the little baby boy
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with Hatshepsut.
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Hatshepsut opens
up the little ark,
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but Miriam is right there.
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And she says to
the beautiful princess,
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"Hey, I'm just
out for a walk today.
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Can I help you
in anyway, princess?
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Shall I get someone to
nurse this baby for you?"
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And Hatshepsut says,
"Yeah, get me a nurse."
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And when the nurse comes along,
I'm going to do something.
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I'm going to pay her some wages.
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So Jochebed is paid for
doing what she wanted to do
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more than anything
else, bring up her child.
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Did you know that the word Moses
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is not only a Hebrew word,
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it is also an Egyptian word.
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As the great archaeologist,
the great German archaeologist,
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Dr. Siegfried Horn
taught me so many years ago,
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when she called him
Moses, Hebrew means drawn out.
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But the Egyptian
word means born of.
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And most likely, he
was called happy Moses,
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born of the river Nile.
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All of the Pharaohs...
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Now most people don't know this.
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But most of the
Pharaohs of this time period
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have got Moses in their name.
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Rameses, or Ahmoses,
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Tutmoses, Kamoses,
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that's what they were called.
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This is the time
of the Moses Kings.
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And so
Hatshepsut, the beautiful,
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wonderful princess
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who became the greatest ruler
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of that time period in
the history of the world.
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I've gone to Egypt many times,
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and I've seen
the massive monuments
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of Queen Hatshepsut.
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I'm one of her fans.
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And when I look at
her magnificent stuff,
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I say, "I'm
walking in the footsteps
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of some of the greatest
people who've ever lived.
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And here is this woman
by the name of Jochebed,
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and so she gets the little baby.
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Folks, she
doesn't have him for long.
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I want you to
look at Exodus 2:10.
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Exodus 2:10,
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the Bible says,
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"And the child grew,
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and she brought him
to Pharaoh's daughter."
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Do you think this did
something to our heart?
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You know, this is your boy,
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the son of your own body.
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Now we think this boy
is about 12 years of age.
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"She brought him
to Pharaoh's daughter,
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and he became her son.
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So she called his
name Moses, saying,
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'Because I drew him
out of the water.' "
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How old was this boy, Moses?
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If we go
according to the customs
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of the Hebrew people,
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he is probably
about 12 years of age.
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But she taught him.
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I want to say to
the mothers here today,
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never, never,
never, never give up hope.
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Many people say,
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"Think of the
world in which we live,
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they're evil."
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Think of the evil on television.
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And so we've got a
name around the world.
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Now, I want to
tell you folks something
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as one of those
violent countries
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on the face of the earth,
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and we pride ourselves on
being a-God-fearing people.
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In God we trust!
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And your chance
of being killed here
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in this country with a gun
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is just about the highest
of any country in the world,
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at least in the western
world, it's a dangerous country.
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There's a big problem.
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I think mothers and fathers
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have abdicated
their responsibilities
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to the teachers with videogames,
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the gods of this world.
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She had him,
folks, for 12 years,
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not very long to have a boy.
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What did she teach him?
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I think, she said,
"Moses, I want to tell you
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where you came from.
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You came from the hand of God.
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You're not something nothing."
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In our universities
today, we teach young people,
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the man, listen to
this, is the product of time
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plus matter plus chance,
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that everything is
the product of chance.
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You're not here
because God made you,
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you're simply a
cosmic accident."
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No wonder we murder
children in the schools.
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Imagine, you send
your kids to school,
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you don't know if
they're going to come home,
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because some lunatic is
going to go and kill them.
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It's because they don't
know where they came from,
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they don't know
why they're here,
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they don't know
where they're going.
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If you think this
talk is too strong,
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it is because
you are out of touch
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with modern culture.
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She taught him
where he came from,
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she taught him why he was here.
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"Moses, God has got
a job for you to do."
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She taught him
where he was going.
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"You came from the hand of God,
baby Moses, young man Moses.
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And you've got a divine destiny.
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You're not something nothing."
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One of the greatest
curses of social Darwinism
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is the infernal doctrine of
the survival of the fittest.
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The strong win, the
weak go to the wall.
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We crush them under our feet.
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This is often
the talk of the banks
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of the United States of America,
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and the buses of Wall Street.
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Nothing matters except
might, and we're going to win.
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But thank God,
Moses had a decent mother.
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She taught him
the story of creation.
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In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth.
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The greatest words
ever spoken on human lips
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are the words of Genesis 1:1.
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"In the beginning, God created
the heavens and the earth."
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I am a child of destiny.
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I'm not a cosmic accident.
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I'm not simply
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a planetary eczema,
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and not but
potential fertilizer.
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Don't believe that garbage.
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It's taught in every university.
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And then you got
kids that are taught
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these violent
games, the violent movies,
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the violent videos,
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and these crazy
people say to me,
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"It doesn't
matter what kids watch,
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it doesn't
change what they think."
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That's absolute insanity.
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It is lunacy.
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Because the
television people know
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that television commercials
have got the capacity
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to motivate you to buy stuff.
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That's what it's all based on.
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And then they say, "Oh,
now all the violent movies
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and the terrible things,
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that makes no
difference at all."
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Do they think we are
as crazy as they are?
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No, no, no.
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She taught him the
story of the Creator,
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and it never left him.
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"Train up a child in
the way he should go."
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When he grew up,
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he might look like
an Egyptian prince.
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But in his heart, my
friend, he was a child of God.
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He was a Hebrew.
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Remember this,
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it's an old
saying but it's true.
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The hand that rocks the cradle
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is the hand
that rules the world.
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I'm going to say something
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that is totally,
politically incorrect.
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I really don't care.
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Here it is.
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The greatest
profession in the world
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is the profession of
the mother with her kids.
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You see?
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And I hear people say,
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"No, you can't be a real woman
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unless you're doing
this, this, this, and this."
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And the ones who are doing
this, this, this, and this,
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generally are not
taking care of their children.
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You see?
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So if you want
to learn a lesson,
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and if you got
the courage to think,
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you think of Jochebed.
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The hand that rocks the cradle
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is the hand
that rules the world.
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Twelve years she had him.
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Jochebed and
Miriam, seven-year-old girl
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gave to the world
Moses who gave us the Bible,
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the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus,
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Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy,
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gave us the Ten Commandments,
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and gave us the
people of Israel,
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and they gave us the Messiah.
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And Jesus gave us the gospel.
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And without the gospel,
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as the people say
in Papua New Guinea,
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"You're something nothing."
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The gospel makes
women real women,
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and makes men real men.
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Without these two heroes,
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Moses could have ended
up in the Cairo Museum.
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I've been to the Cairo Museum.
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I've been in the
royal mummy room.
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I've been there
with a television crew.
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I've discussed
Hatshepsut in that class coffin
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with the great Dr. Hawass.
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I've looked down here
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at my old friend
Rameses the great.
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I have seen Tutmoses
III, the Pharaoh of the Exodus
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who said, "I will
not let Israel go."
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And when I went
into the Cairo Museum,
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I thought to myself,
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"If Jochebed
hadn't been a good mother,
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Moses would have
ended up in this dump."
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Yeah, it's a
dump for dead bodies.
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Who wants to be there?
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It's got plenty of
gold, but it's a dump.
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Now we're going to talk
about the first feminist.
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Listening?
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Vashti, we come to
the land of Persia.
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I've been there
lots of times too,
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one of the oldest civilizations.
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Esther 1:10 to
12, Esther 1:10 to 12,
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the land of Persia,
"On the seventh day,
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when the heart of the
king was merry with wine,"
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in other words, he's drunk,
"he commanded Mehuman Biztha,
00:14:52.12\00:14:57.06
Harbona, Bigtha,
Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas,"
00:14:57.09\00:15:02.60
how was that, all these guys,
00:15:02.63\00:15:04.87
"seven eunuchs
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who served in the
presence of Kind Ahasuerus,"
00:15:06.27\00:15:09.64
another name is
Xerxes, Xerxes the great,
00:15:09.67\00:15:12.51
"to bring Queen
Vashti before the king,
00:15:12.54\00:15:14.64
wearing her royal crown,
in order to show her beauty
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to the people and the officials,
00:15:18.18\00:15:20.38
for she was beautiful to behold.
00:15:20.42\00:15:23.89
But Queen Vashti refused to come
00:15:23.92\00:15:25.89
at the king's command
brought by his eunuchs.
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Therefore, the king,"
of course, he was furious.
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Little pot soon hot.
00:15:32.63\00:15:34.43
"The king was furious
00:15:34.46\00:15:37.03
and his anger
burned within him."
00:15:37.07\00:15:40.57
She used the power of no.
00:15:44.24\00:15:49.08
She said, "This is
an unreasonable request.
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You want to treat
me like a priced cow
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at the village fare."
00:15:58.49\00:16:01.52
She said, "I am
not a priced cow."
00:16:01.56\00:16:05.09
And she said to
the most powerful man
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on the world, one word, no.
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It's a good word.
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The Bible teaches the
equality of the sexes.
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People say, "I
don't believe that."
00:16:19.21\00:16:20.58
Well, come out of
the dark ages, brother.
00:16:20.61\00:16:24.15
She said, "I will not summit
to unreasonable sexes demands."
00:16:24.18\00:16:28.72
Vashti, queen of Persia
became a lady game changer.
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And I say, we used to
say as a boy, "Bully for her.
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Well done."
00:16:40.00\00:16:42.33
Now, she got
kicked off the throne.
00:16:42.36\00:16:45.37
And a beautiful little
girl by the name of Esther
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became the queen.
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Nobody knew, but she was a Jew.
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The Jewish girl
00:16:56.08\00:16:57.95
who became queen
of the Persian Empire
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became one of the
great game changers.
00:17:01.15\00:17:04.02
Now there was a terrible plot
to annihilate the Jewish race.
00:17:04.05\00:17:09.02
Got to tell it to
you, summarize it.
00:17:09.06\00:17:12.46
There was a good guy.
00:17:12.49\00:17:14.76
Now Esther is very beautiful.
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There's a good guy.
00:17:17.63\00:17:19.33
I think it was
Esther's cousin, and he's a Jew,
00:17:19.37\00:17:24.97
and his name is Mordecai.
00:17:25.01\00:17:29.31
As a boy, I used to
call him Mordecayay.
00:17:29.34\00:17:31.51
But I think I
might have been wrong.
00:17:31.55\00:17:33.01
Mordecai,
00:17:33.05\00:17:36.32
he's a good guy.
00:17:36.35\00:17:37.75
And there's a wicked man,
00:17:37.79\00:17:40.26
he's the very essence of evil,
00:17:40.29\00:17:42.32
very wicked man,
00:17:42.36\00:17:43.69
because he's got a program
to wipe out the children of God
00:17:43.73\00:17:47.70
and potentially the Messiah.
00:17:47.73\00:17:51.33
He is wicked, Haman.
00:17:51.37\00:17:54.77
Now if you look at
Esther 4:14 and 15.
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Esther gets tied up in
the intrigue of the court
00:18:00.51\00:18:03.95
because a decree has
gone forth from Haman
00:18:03.98\00:18:07.25
singed by the king
to wipe out the Jews
00:18:07.28\00:18:11.32
and potentially, the Messiah.
00:18:11.35\00:18:15.22
Now Mordecai sends this
message to his relative,
00:18:15.26\00:18:18.26
this little girl on the
court, now she's a queen.
00:18:18.29\00:18:21.73
"For if you remain
completely silent at this time,
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relief and deliverance
will arise for the Jews
00:18:25.57\00:18:28.37
from another place,
00:18:28.40\00:18:30.11
but you and your
father's house will perish."
00:18:30.14\00:18:32.87
Listen, evil prospers
00:18:32.91\00:18:37.48
because good men remain silent.
00:18:37.51\00:18:40.92
And so he says, "If
you're going to be silent,
00:18:40.95\00:18:44.82
God will bring
deliverance somewhere else
00:18:44.85\00:18:46.49
but you're going to die."
00:18:46.52\00:18:48.69
"'Yet who knows
00:18:48.72\00:18:50.63
whether you have
come to the kingdom
00:18:50.66\00:18:52.99
for such a time as this?'
00:18:53.03\00:18:56.46
Then Esther told
them to reply to Mordecai,
00:18:56.50\00:18:59.13
'Go, gather all the Jews
who are present in Shushan,
00:18:59.17\00:19:04.01
and fast for me, neither
eat nor drink for three days,
00:19:04.04\00:19:08.84
night or day.
00:19:08.88\00:19:10.71
My maids and I will also fast.
00:19:10.75\00:19:14.98
So I will go to the
king, which is against the law.
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If I perish, I perish.'"
00:19:19.79\00:19:22.49
Now it was not a woman's world.
00:19:22.52\00:19:26.56
It's a man's world.
00:19:26.59\00:19:29.53
The king had so much power
that if the queen, his queen,
00:19:29.56\00:19:35.30
his wife came in
to see him uninvited,
00:19:35.34\00:19:39.81
she would put to death.
00:19:39.84\00:19:42.78
Can you believe it, man?
00:19:42.81\00:19:46.68
A king had so much power
that if the wife turned up
00:19:46.72\00:19:50.12
unexpected, uninvited, he'd say,
00:19:50.15\00:19:53.79
"Off with my queen's head."
00:19:53.82\00:19:58.59
So the ladies
didn't do too much talking
00:19:58.63\00:20:00.43
back in those days.
00:20:00.46\00:20:01.80
That shows you
00:20:01.83\00:20:03.16
the tremendous
courage of Vashti.
00:20:03.20\00:20:05.53
"No, not going to do it."
00:20:05.57\00:20:08.97
You all need to learn that word,
00:20:09.00\00:20:10.41
no, not going to do it.
00:20:10.44\00:20:12.77
If it's wrong, I'm
not going to do it.
00:20:12.81\00:20:15.14
People come along and
say, "But, oh, you allow."
00:20:15.18\00:20:17.55
No, I'm not going to
do it 'cause it's wrong.
00:20:17.58\00:20:20.78
And he says to her,
"You come to the kingdom
00:20:24.55\00:20:26.82
for such a time as this."
00:20:26.86\00:20:28.19
This tells me there
is a divine providence.
00:20:28.22\00:20:30.76
She wasn't there by accident.
00:20:30.79\00:20:32.89
Vashti didn't say no by
accident, there's a plan.
00:20:32.93\00:20:37.03
And then she
said, "I'm going to go,
00:20:37.07\00:20:39.47
and if I perish, I perish.
00:20:39.50\00:20:42.20
I will do the will of God."
00:20:42.24\00:20:47.54
So I want all you,
ladies, to think about this.
00:20:47.58\00:20:52.15
Esther was a special woman
00:20:52.18\00:20:54.32
in the right
place at the right time.
00:20:54.35\00:20:57.45
She had courage, she
put a life on the line.
00:20:57.49\00:21:01.66
She was no
wilting little flower.
00:21:01.69\00:21:05.96
She saved her people.
00:21:05.99\00:21:07.73
Without Esther,
00:21:07.76\00:21:09.13
there would
have been no Messiah.
00:21:09.16\00:21:11.03
She was an amazing game changer
00:21:11.07\00:21:15.20
because she was
in the hands of God,
00:21:15.24\00:21:18.57
and she had courage.
00:21:18.61\00:21:20.21
She had fire inside.
00:21:20.24\00:21:22.21
She had a fire in her
belly, if I could say it,
00:21:22.24\00:21:26.75
the great game changer.
00:21:26.78\00:21:29.75
Another great game changer,
as we thunder to the end,
00:21:29.78\00:21:34.19
was Ruth,
00:21:34.22\00:21:35.59
a refugee from Moab,
00:21:35.62\00:21:40.23
a country that
most of the Jews hated.
00:21:40.26\00:21:45.07
Now the Bible tells us,
it's a lady goes over there,
00:21:45.10\00:21:49.40
Naomi, husband
dies, her two sons die,
00:21:49.44\00:21:54.18
and she's left with
two daughters-in-law.
00:21:54.21\00:21:58.95
And so she said,
"I've had no luck here.
00:21:58.98\00:22:01.28
I'm going to go back to my home.
00:22:01.32\00:22:02.98
I'm going back home."
00:22:03.02\00:22:04.55
And you read the story
00:22:04.59\00:22:05.92
in Ruth
00:22:05.95\00:22:07.82
1:14 to 17.
00:22:07.86\00:22:14.50
"Then they lifted up
their voices and wept again.
00:22:14.53\00:22:17.10
And Orpah," one
of the daughters,
00:22:17.13\00:22:18.97
"kissed her mother-in-law,
but Ruth clung to her.
00:22:19.00\00:22:22.90
And she said,
'Look, your sister-in-law
00:22:22.94\00:22:24.87
has gone back to
her people and her gods,
00:22:24.91\00:22:27.88
return after
your sister-in-law.'
00:22:27.91\00:22:29.81
But Ruth said,
'Entreat me not to leave you,
00:22:29.84\00:22:33.05
or to go back from
following after you.
00:22:33.08\00:22:35.78
For wherever you go, I will go.
00:22:35.82\00:22:38.69
And wherever you
lodge I will lodge.
00:22:38.72\00:22:40.82
Your people shall be my
people, and your God my God.
00:22:40.86\00:22:45.06
Where you die, I will die.
00:22:45.09\00:22:46.73
And there I will be buried.
00:22:46.76\00:22:49.03
The Lord do so to
me, and more also,
00:22:49.06\00:22:51.57
if anything but
death parts you and me.'"
00:22:51.60\00:22:54.30
What a tremendous word
from a woman who was a pagan.
00:22:54.34\00:22:58.84
She said, "I'm not
going to go back to my gods."
00:22:58.87\00:23:01.98
And so they go to
the land of Israel.
00:23:02.01\00:23:04.28
Here is a girl
who's a foreigner.
00:23:04.31\00:23:07.02
She's a refugee.
00:23:07.05\00:23:09.28
When they get there,
in the providence of God,
00:23:12.05\00:23:16.49
these are very wealthy, I
add this, "good-looking man."
00:23:16.52\00:23:22.20
And his name is Boaz,
00:23:22.23\00:23:25.87
and he owns half of Israel.
00:23:25.90\00:23:30.37
And in this story, he
is called the redeemer.
00:23:30.41\00:23:35.21
He's the redeemer.
00:23:35.24\00:23:37.25
And they're
gleaning in the fields,
00:23:37.28\00:23:39.71
bringing in the harvest,
and there's a law in Israel
00:23:39.75\00:23:42.08
that poor people can go
along behind the harvesters,
00:23:42.12\00:23:45.49
and they can pick up
00:23:45.52\00:23:47.06
bit of wheat, bit of corn.
00:23:47.09\00:23:49.62
And so she goes down there,
00:23:49.66\00:23:52.36
and she's picking up
a little bit of wheat.
00:23:52.39\00:23:56.46
This man comes
along, and he says,
00:23:56.50\00:23:58.43
"Hello, there.
00:23:58.47\00:23:59.80
Hello, there."
00:24:03.07\00:24:04.41
He says, "Where
do you come from?"
00:24:04.44\00:24:06.04
Oh, she said, "You
wouldn't want to know."
00:24:06.07\00:24:08.54
She says, "I come from,
00:24:08.58\00:24:15.08
I come from a foreign land."
00:24:15.12\00:24:16.85
Now I can't read
you the next text,
00:24:16.89\00:24:18.49
I got some other text here,
00:24:18.52\00:24:19.85
but I'm sort of
running out of time.
00:24:19.89\00:24:23.32
But you know what happens?
00:24:23.36\00:24:25.56
The Bible tells us,
00:24:25.59\00:24:29.33
he notices her, she notices him.
00:24:29.36\00:24:32.40
And after a little
courtship, they get married,
00:24:35.84\00:24:41.18
a foreign girl.
00:24:41.21\00:24:42.91
And she becomes the mother
00:24:42.94\00:24:46.45
of King David
00:24:46.48\00:24:50.02
who becomes the father
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:24:50.05\00:24:53.92
Within the veins of
the Lord Jesus Christ,
00:24:53.96\00:24:58.36
you have...
00:24:58.39\00:24:59.93
the blood of a gentile.
00:24:59.96\00:25:05.70
You know why?
00:25:05.73\00:25:08.27
Because God doesn't care.
00:25:08.30\00:25:10.64
She was a refugee from Moab
00:25:10.67\00:25:13.78
who achieved true greatness,
00:25:13.81\00:25:17.25
and she became
the mother of David
00:25:17.28\00:25:20.82
who became the father of Jesus
00:25:20.85\00:25:23.45
who gave us the gospel,
00:25:23.49\00:25:25.55
who came and died for
our sins, our refugee.
00:25:25.59\00:25:30.36
Lessons learned, listen.
00:25:30.39\00:25:32.99
Where there is great
sin, there is great grace,
00:25:33.03\00:25:36.77
and nobody is perfect, only God.
00:25:36.80\00:25:41.17
Nothing is impossible with God.
00:25:41.20\00:25:43.57
And God has got
a plan, and a time,
00:25:43.61\00:25:46.51
and a place for everyone.
00:25:46.54\00:25:48.88
And no one is more important
00:25:48.91\00:25:53.68
than the mother in the home,
00:25:53.72\00:25:55.45
the greatest
career, to be a mother.
00:25:55.48\00:25:59.45
And remember, the
hand that rocks the cradle
00:25:59.49\00:26:01.79
is the hand
that rules the world.
00:26:01.82\00:26:04.49
And therefore, today,
00:26:04.53\00:26:07.06
we proudly salute
00:26:07.10\00:26:12.17
the lady game changers.
00:26:12.20\00:26:15.40
God bless them all.
00:26:15.44\00:26:18.47
Amen.
00:26:18.51\00:26:19.84
Jesus said, "All
authority has been given to me
00:26:26.58\00:26:29.75
in heaven and on earth.
00:26:29.78\00:26:32.19
Go, therefore,
and make disciples
00:26:32.22\00:26:34.06
of all the nations,
00:26:34.09\00:26:36.46
baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son,
00:26:36.49\00:26:40.46
and of the Holy Spirit.
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