In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, The Promise and the Plan.

Every once in a while, somebody will say to me, you know what?

You talked about how good God is, and when you trust him as your personal Savior, he enters

your life and you have the Holy Spirit and things get better.

Well, I trusted Jesus Christ as my personal Savior, and things got worse.

And all of us have probably said that about some things. We think when

you trust Jesus as your personal Savior, have all these promises in the Word of God, and

sometimes it looks like real disaster comes following what we think is the promise of God.

And sometimes we can't explain what God is up to because

we want to do the right thing, but somehow it doesn't turn out right. And if you'll think

about Moses, for example, from the time he left the burning bush, he listened to God. He

was absolutely stunned about what he heard, what he saw.

And so he left the burning bush, committed to do exactly what God wanted him to do, and he

did. And he was to tell Pharaoh that he was to let the people go. Well, instead of Pharaoh

listening to him, he doubled their work.

Now they couldn't just make brick.

They had to find the straw to make brick with.

And so the number one enemy at this particular point in the life of the Hebrew children was

of all people Moses, because Pharaoh had doubled their responsibility

and his requirements. He was sure he did what God said, and he did do what God said. But the

outcome wasn't like he expected. All of us hit those things in our life.

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