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Will you join me in prayer?

Heavenly father, thank you today.

That it is a day.

You've made like every other day and help us to rejoice and be glad in it, not because of our circumstances.

But because of the reality that you have chosen us before the foundation of the world and that we are in your Forever family.

Got thank you that we get to choose you.

That we get to have faith that we get to come together, each Sunday and worship and join together and praise.

We thank you God because we are not worthy of this.

We don't deserve it but you make us worthy because you've joined us with Christ.

We are united with Christ and we celebrate that today.

We worship you because of that.

Today we worship you for who you are in Jesus name.

Amen.

But before we get to started this morning with the passage and the sermon before us, I have a public plea for prayer that greatly impacts our Communications meeting today.

On Thursday of this week.

Jim writers mother was admitted to the hospital in Columbia Missouri with stage 4, cancer.

Treatment options are not promising and so with this in mind and to be there for his family, Jim has declined to have his name before word for the to be part of the Elder board at this time in our Communications meeting later today.

Please be in prayer for Jim and for his family.

It's a hard time for them.

On the opposite end of the cancer Spectrum with a very optimistic medical team as to the outcomes.

Austin still goes back in for chemo today.

So I'll be there for the most of the week, so please be in prayer for the stove family, as well for salmon for Austin and for their kids.

There are other pressing needs prayer needs.

Please be in prayer for them.

Please be in prayer for each other as we come together and we recognize our need for a savior.

Let's just pray for these things right now.

God, we paused and we give thanks to you that you are willing to step in and participate with us your creation.

God, we ask that you will grant healing to both gyms mother and to Austin we recognize that you were the Great physician.

And that you, if you choose can supersede or work through all of the, the medical team, the advancements in scientific, understanding of them.

God for Jim's family that seems unlikely at this time.

So we asked for comfort and peace.

We ask for understanding, we ask that you will glorify yourself in and threw them all in Jesus name.

Amen.

I do want to thank Jim for being willing to go through the lengthy process that it takes to even get your name.

Put forward to be considered as Elder and then we stand with him.

The Elder board United in our affirmation of him as somebody who is a man worthy to take up that office.

But we also understand that priorities can shift we live in a world where R Us to destroy and cancer kills and evil is committed constantly.

One evil.

That seems to be in the midst of unfolding right now.

Is the alleged murder of Tyree Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee.

You haven't seen the news lately on the city of Memphis released footage of Tyree being detained and mistreated by the police.

And he died.

Three days later.

I have no problem publicly affirming all human life to be sacred.

Sanctity of human life.

Sunday was last Sunday and every human life is sacred.

Whether it's an unborn baby in Kirksville Missouri or whether it's an African American man in Memphis Tennessee.

What I want to draw your attention to this morning, is what reaction to these sorts of things.

You might have had set it another way.

What is your bias?

To believe that you don't have a bias, is to deceive yourself, we all have biases of many times but the challenge is recognizing your bias and living with an awareness of them so that your bias doesn't keep you from seeing the truth.

If you believe the the the polls in the news, you might say that one reaction to the news in Memphis is one that might be anti-police if you want to put it that way in and not the reaction to the news footage, put forward is to say, we demand Justice for Tyree.

And the answer to that is to convict these police officers.

That might be one by us.

That you might not be willing to consider all the facts because you're driving towards us.

And I'm not making a statement about whether you should or shouldn't know whether that is or isn't the case.

But, but to draw attention to how our reaction could be on the other end, maybe you might consider yourself and much of our country might consider itself, Pro police, and you might say, where the liberal media is is affecting.

The situation is not telling the whole story.

Tyree got exactly what he deserved and there should be no punishment of the police officers at least this is a this An extreme example of some of our bias.

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I think one of the challenges in determining your bias.

Is becoming aware of it.

Becoming aware that we have things that we think about that.

We don't see reality for how it is.

We see reality for how we perceive it.

And the question is, do we have some trusted people from trusted sources as it were that might be able to inform us and challenge.

Our biases, that might lead to life change because we understood the facts differently.

Wonderfully, Moses has somebody that steps into his life and points out an apparent bias that he has and it leads to a positive life change and Israel.

I invite you to stand for the reading of God's word.

As we come to Exodus 18 will read through the entire chapter Exodus 18, verse 1, I'm reading from the English Standard Version, you can read from whatever version you want.

Or you can read from the screen Jethro, the priest of Midian.

Moses father-in-law heard of all that God had done for Moses and for Israel his people how the Lord he brought his real out of Egypt.

Now Jethro Moses father-in-law had taken zipporah Moses wife after he had sent her home along with her two sons the name of one with gershom for.

He had said I've been Sojourner in a foreign land and the name of the other Elie Azar.

For he said, the god of my father was my help and delivered me from The Sword of farro.

Jethro, Moses father-in-law came with his sons and his wife to Moses in the wilderness where he was in Camp to the Mountain of God.

And when he sent word to Moses, I your father-in-law Jethro and coming to you with your wife and her two sons with her Moses, went out to meet his father-in-law and bow down and kissed him.

And they asked each other of the welfare of their welfare and went into the tent.

Then Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake.

All the hardship that had come upon them in the way and how the Lord had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptian, the Lord who has delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of pharaoh and is delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians.

Now I know that the Lord is greater than all gods because in this affair, they dealt arrogantly with the people and Jethro, Moses father-in-law brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God and Aaron came with all the Elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses father-in-law before God.

The next day Moses at to judge the people in the people stood around Moses, from morning, till evening.

And when Moses father-in-law, saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, what is this that you are doing for the people?

Why do you sit alone at all?

The people stand around you from morning till evening?

And Moses said to his father-in-law because the people came to me to inquire of God.

And when they have a dispute, they come to me and I decide between one person and another and I make them know, the statutes of God and his laws, Moses father-in-law said to him.

What are you doing?

Is not good.

You and the people.

With you will certainly wear yourselves out for the thing is, too heavy for you.

You are not able to do it alone.

Now, obey my voice.

I will give you advice and God be with you.

You shall represent the people before God and bring their cases to God, and you should warn them about the statutes in the laws and make them know the way in which they must walk and what they must do.

More over look for able men from all the people men who fear, God, who are trustworthy and I hate a bribe and play Such men over the people, as chief of, thousands of, hundreds of $0.50 of 10th.

And let them, let them judge the people at all times.

Every great matter, they shall bring to you.

But any small matter, they still decide themselves.

So, it'd be easier for you.