Lakepointe Church with Josh Howerton
Jul 5, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
Josh HowertonHost

It's a, it's a high, it's a peak, okay? [laughs] I'm the only one who thought that was funny in any service.

For 400 years, the people of God have been under, uh, the people of God, by the purposes of God, have been under the slavery and oppression of people who hated God in Egypt.

Now, when you drop in in Exodus chapter three, what you got is God, in His sovereign providence, He moved his people into Egypt in His sovereign and good providence to incubate His people so that they could grow, grow, grow, so that He could prepare them to go take the land in Canaan and bring them into all the blessings that He promised them back in Genesis 13 and Genesis 15.

Now, what you have right here is for 400 years they've been under the oppression of these people.

Egypt at this time, let's hit-- We're gonna do some history nerd stuff for a second.


To put that in perspective for you history nerds, [clears throat] Egypt was the global superpower longer than the Greek Empire and the Roman Empire combined.

So you have two-- At this point, there's between two and three million Israelites that are enslaved in Egypt, and they've been crying out to God for delivery from the slavery to these people for 400 years.

Side note, how many of you guys who have been on Team Jesus for more than, like, 60 seconds have figured out that your timing and God's timing are different? Can I get an amen?
Amen.


It's a, it's a high, it's a peak, okay? [laughs] I'm the only one who thought that was funny in any service.

For 400 years, the people of God have been under, uh, the people of God, by the purposes of God, have been under the slavery and oppression of people who hated God in Egypt.

Now, when you drop in in Exodus chapter three, what you got is God, in His sovereign providence, He moved his people into Egypt in His sovereign and good providence to incubate His people so that they could grow, grow, grow, so that He could prepare them to go take the land in Canaan and bring them into all the blessings that He promised them back in Genesis 13 and Genesis 15.

Now, what you have right here is for 400 years they've been under the oppression of these people.

Egypt at this time, let's hit-- We're gonna do some history nerd stuff for a second.


To put that in perspective for you history nerds, [clears throat] Egypt was the global superpower longer than the Greek Empire and the Roman Empire combined.

So you have two-- At this point, there's between two and three million Israelites that are enslaved in Egypt, and they've been crying out to God for delivery from the slavery to these people for 400 years.

Side note, how many of you guys who have been on Team Jesus for more than, like, 60 seconds have figured out that your timing and God's timing are different? Can I get an amen?
Amen.
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