If you have your scripture tonight we're going to look at one of the most

familiar and most loved Christmas texts of all that's found in the book of

Exodus in the Old Testament Exodus chapter 13 that was a joke so I was hoping

you'd laugh but that's okay they laughed at the 1230 so I'll just think back to

that moment and how great that was Exodus 13 is a really powerful passage and I

know it's not our normal go-to Christmas passage but you'll understand because

we're celebrating Advent at Passion City Church and in churches around the

world and Advent basically means expectation it means that we're not fully

where we want to be yet God hasn't done everything we want to see God do and we

haven't fully arrived at the destination God has for us and so by saying that

we're saying that a lot of us understand what it means to wait like the series

is called waiting here for you and I think we all get waiting right how do you

are really good at waiting anybody that's like an expert waiter thank you so

much we all need to hang out with you how many of you are not so great at

waiting that yeah see that's kind of more than normal speed you know we just

don't get waiting you show up at the airport you got there on time you got

parked you got in you got checked in you did the thing you get to the gate you

get on the plane all of a sudden they close the door and then the pilot comes

on and says you know the little whatever switch thing daily isn't working right

they're gonna send somebody over from somewhere it's gonna take about an hour

we're gonna sit here and wait with no air conditioning you know on the plane

and nobody can get up out of your seat and when that happens our normal

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