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Show Uncle Drew Poster
A new movie has just come.
A movie that I really hope to see soon.
Uncle Drew.
Uuuuuuuuncle Dreeeeew.
I’ve been waiting on this movie to come out ever since I saw that they were doing some of the filming in Conyers.
For all the non-Georgia folks in here, a lot of movies and shows are filmed in and around Conyers.
And part of Uncle Drew was filmed there.
I was hoping to get to see Shaq or Kyrie, but that never happened.
I honestly don’t even know if they were in town.
I never even found out where they were doing the actual filming.
I just saw on the facebook page that they were filming in town, and that was the first time I had heard of the movie.
Show Uncle Drew Poster
If you don’t know what Uncle Drew is about, it’s a basketball movie.
It’s a bunch of basketball stars, or former stars, dressed up in real elaborate make-up as old people.
They get the team back together to play in a tournament at a local park.
They’re old, so everybody thinks they’re terrible, of course, and I’m assuming they kill everybody until the championship.
And then they’re going to barely win the championship game.
I haven’t seen the movie, but that’s pretty much how every sports movie goes.
But what I’ve realized a lot of people don’t know is that this movie actually started as a Pepsi commercial.
They took Kyrie Irving, dressed him as a super old dude, and then went and filmed him playing at historic outdoor parks.
I want to show you a part of the commercial, just because it’s been a favorite for a while.
Start video at 1:04.
End at 2:56.
Here’s why I love it.
Because I’ve spent enough time around pick up games to know that people were going to be making fun of this old man the whole time.
Except they had no idea who they were dealing with.
They had no idea they were playing with the NBA player with the greatest handles.
They had no idea they were playing with an NBA all-star.
They had no idea.
So as we keep talking about God being Limitless, tonight we are going to be talking about God’s power.
That God’s power is greater than anything we could imagine.
That God is bigger.
And since we have been following Moses and the Exodus, we are going to go into the 10 plagues starting in .
And believe it or not, God was actually in the same scenario as Kyrie Irving in Uncle Drew.
We definitely don’t think of it this way, but the reality is that the Egyptians would have laughed off the idea of God doing anything against them.
Let’s get into a little bit of the historical setting of the Exodus.
In these ancient times, people groups, countries, were as strong as their gods.
At this time, the greatest power in the world was the Egyptians.
They had the greatest civilization.
They had the greatest army.
They were in control.
They built magnificient buildings and monuments, and very elaborate tombs.
And they had a lot of gold.
A lot of gold.
Since they were top dogs, they obviously had the strongest gods.
They obviously had the most powerful gods.
Now what situation was Israel in?
Well, they were slaves to the Egyptians.
That sounds like a weak God.
He lets his people be slaves to the Egyptians?
He’s not strong enough or great enough to get them out of slavery?
Dang.
What a loser.
And think back through Genesis.
Once we get past flood in chapter 9, God doesn’t do too much on a grand scale.
The story is primarily concerned with following the lineage of Abraham.
God does some great things with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, but the world at large has not seen much of the strength of God.
When Moses goes to Pharaoh to ask to let his people go, it is the puny Israel God against the great gods of Egypt.
And Pharaoh was considered to be a god on earth.
And it just sounds like an Uncle Drew moment.
The Egyptians have no idea what is about to hit them.
But as we look at the plagues, you will see how God specifically targets a few of their gods.
Let’s get into the Bible a little bit and look at the precursor to the plagues. .
This is the throwing down of the gauntlet.
This is God saying I’m here to fight.
This is God saying you have no idea what you are getting yourself into.
Why did God choose a serpent to begin his fight?
Doesn’t the serpent represent evil?
Wasn’t the serpent Satan in the garden?
Think back to history classes a little bit.
When you see artwork of Egyptian Pharaohs, what is always the headdress they wear?
Show picture of Pharaoh
A cobra.
So what does God do?
His snake devours the snakes of the Egyptians.
Pharaoh, you don’t know what’s about to happen to you.
I am bigger.
I am stronger.
I eat you and your snakes for breakfast.
So we are all on the same page.
If you are unfamiliar with the Exodus and the plagues, Moses is going to ask Pharaoh to let the people go a 3 days journey into the wilderness to offer sacrifices to their god.
This will be the way they all leave Egypt.
Moses will say let us go, or this *insert plague* is going to happen.
Pharaoh says no, then the plague happens.
They he begs Moses to take it away, and he will let them go.
Then he doesn’t allow it.
Repeat.
After attacking Pharaoh, God then moves to Egypt’s most prized possession, the Nile River.
The Nile River was essential to Egyptian life.
It was one of the primary reasons Egypt was about to survive as such an advanced culture because they did not have to worry about getting water and it provided great agricultural land.
The Nile was personified as the god Hapi.
And the first two plagues show God’s power over the Nile.
God is bigger.
God is stronger.
Exodus 7
Exodus 8.
And as always, the plagues stop as soon as Moses says they will.
God is bigger.
Plagues 3-8 show God’s power over every single area of nature.
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