I Will: How God Prepares us for the Journey | Exodus 5

Описание: Why does life often get harder right after we decide to follow God? In this study of Exodus 5, we discover how God uses the 'refiner's fire' of trials to prepare us for the deliverance He has already completed.

0:00 Intro: The danger of reading without context
1:20 Context: Moses, Pharaoh, and the 400-year wait
3:23 The Confrontation: "Who is the Lord?"
7:23 Bricks Without Straw: Why life got harder
11:13 The Purpose of Discipline: Correcting our hearts
13:20 The Hidden Conflict: Identifying the idols of Egypt
18:41 The Refiner's Fire: Conditioning the body and spirit
23:51 A Father's Protection: Why parents say "No"
28:43 Moses Questions God: "Why have You brought trouble?"
30:37 The Seven "I Wills": God’s unbreakable covenant
31:15 The Perfect Tense: Why the promise is already finished
35:42 2026 Vision: A plan to know His character more

In Exodus 5, we witness a frustrating paradox: Moses obeys God, yet the Israelites’ lives get significantly harder. Pharaoh, viewing himself as a god, tightens his grip and demands the impossible: full quotas of bricks without providing the necessary straw. When the people are beaten, they appeal to Pharaoh for mercy rather than crying out to the Lord.

This moment reveals a difficult but essential truth: God often allows a "refiner’s fire" to make life harder so that our hidden idols can be exposed and our spiritual "muscles" can be conditioned for the journey ahead. The suffering wasn't just a punishment; it was a preparation for a people who knew of God but did not yet know His character.

In this message, Pastor Josh Gerard reminds us that knowing about God is not the same as truly knowing Him. While the Israelites saw only their current hardship, God was already operating in the "perfect tense"—viewing their deliverance not as a future hope, but as a finished reality. Learn why your current trial might be the very thing God is using to reveal His "I Will" promises to you.

Key Themes:
Pharaoh’s false identity as a “god”
Misplaced trust in human systems instead of God
The danger of unremoved idols (Exodus 20:5–12)
Removing what keeps us from God
Pursuing God to truly know Him
God revealing Himself as “I Will”

Key Takeaways:
Get rid of what keeps you from God
Pursue God, and you will know Him more
God reveals Himself when we stop looking elsewhere

⛪New Beginnings Church - Brooklyn, Iowa
Pastors Josh and Tracey Gerard
Date: December 28, 2025

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