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Welcome to Day 2201 of Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.\nThis is Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom\nWhat Does God Want \u2013 God Was Betrayed By His Family \u2013 Daily Wisdom\nPutnam Church Message \u2013 02/05/2023\nWhat Does God Want? -\xa0 God Was Betrayed By His Family\n \n\nLast week, we continued our series with the overall theme, which is to answer the question: What does God want? The answer we discovered was that God wants you along with every person who will ever live. In other words, God wanted a human family. God wants co-workers to take care of His creation. God wants you to know/ who you are/ and why your life has value to him. /He loves you /and desires that you also love Him. Last week\u2019s message explored the three rebellions in Genesis 3-11. After those rebellions, God chose to restart his human family with Abraham and Sarah, which resulted in the nation of Israel, God\u2019s portion or, as we refer to Israel, as chosen God\u2019s people. Deut 32:9: \u201cFor the people of Israel belong to the\xa0Lord; Jacob is his special possession.\n\nThe history of biblical Israel was a long, meandering affair filled with triumph and tragedy. God wasn\u2019t surprised. He knew what to expect from people. God had always known what he was dealing with.\n\nWearing Out Your Welcome\n\nGod let Abraham know that the future of his descendants would be challenging. He was honest. Genesis 15:13, Then the\xa0Lord\xa0said to Abram, \u201cYou can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years. That was the bad news. God provided some hope in Genesis 15:14: But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.\n\nSure enough, the descendants of Abraham, now led by his grandson, Jacob, whose name God changed to \u201cIsrael,\u201d eventually wound up in Egypt under the thumb of Pharaoh (Exodus 1). They\u2019d gone there with God\u2019s approval to avoid a famine (Genesis 45:5-11). Where they went wrong was that they didn\u2019t return to the land God had given to them after the famine was over. Instead, they stuck around in Egypt way too long.\n\n \n\nWhile in Egypt, the Israelite nation grew numerically, so much so that Pharaoh got paranoid about being able to stay in charge of the country (Exodus 1:8-10). He put them into forced labor and exterminated new babies if they were boys (Exodus 1:14-16). But God intervened and made them grow even stronger (Exodus 1:8-21).\n\n \n\nAll told, Israel spent four centuries in Egypt under harsh conditions. Eventually, God intervened and preserved the life of a baby boy named Moses. God engineered circumstances, so the baby was raised in Pharaoh\u2019s house, right under his nose (Exodus 2:1-10). Moses led a life of privilege but one day committed a capital offense, murdering a man in a fight that began as a defense of a helpless Israelite. He fled Egypt to escape justice.\n\nMoses found a new life in a desert place called Midian. God met him at Mount Sinai in a burning bush (pre-incarnate Christ), an encounter that would change the history of his people and the world (Exodus 3:1-15). God sent Moses back to Egypt to confront Pharaoh.