Coming up on the potter's touch.

God will remove anything and anyone who is standing in between us being reconciled to him.

And it is the most dangerous thing you can do

is to get in between me and God.

We see God inviting his estranged children to be emancipated not only to receive the, not only to relieve the oppression, but to meet them in the wilderness to worship him.

I want you to understand that they had not had a conversation with God for 400

years. They are the people of God. They are born to be with God, but they have not had a real

relationship with God for 400 years, in part because of their association and in some ways

assimilation with Egypt. Their association and assimilation with Egypt started out as a blessing

and ended up as a curse. Okay, started out a blessing because there was a famine back in Israel and Jacob moves

toward his family toward where Joseph already was in Egypt that they might get corn to withstand

the famine.

Everything that starts out a blessing doesn't end up a blessing.

So the first 30 years or so, it was a blessing and it was a wonderful thing. But when the Pharaoh died, there was a Pharaoh who died that did not know Joseph, nor regard his God.

From that point, they became enslaved and they entered into 400 years of slavery.

Watch this closely, but God knew it.

Not only did God know it, God arranged it.

Not only did God arrange it, God prophesied to Abram that this was going to happen.

He said, your seed is going to sojourn in Egypt for 400 years, and afterward they will come

out with great substance.

There is an expiration date on trouble.

If there's a date you go in, there's a date you come out.

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