Dr. Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, founder and president of The Urban Alternative, chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, and author of over 100 books, booklets & Bible studies. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on more than 1,300 US outlets daily and in more than 130 countries.
you do not have to guess when God wants
to let you know he is God in a way that
you have previously not know you do not
have to wonder and follow Alice to a
place called Wonderland to find out when
God wants to manifest himself glory the
manifestation he wants to become visible
because the one thing that will happen
that will let you know God wants to
become more real to you at a level that
you’ve never experienced him before is
when you are in a crisis when you are in
a crisis what I’d like to suggest you
today is a crisis is not just a crisis
it is a crisis but it is more than a
crisis a crisis is an opportunity to
experience God epignosis
the experience of God at a level you had
not previously known him if you’re not
satisfied with just information more
knowledge academic acumen in the
religious sphere of life about God then
you’re a prime candidate for a crisis
now I know automatically hearing that
some of you are saying well I don’t want
to know him that well
and I’m satisfied with the service and a
sermon but to miss out on who God is is
to miss out on how great God is when God
in the Bible wanted to reveal himself at
another level you will find this
consistent pattern he would either
create or allow somebody else to create
a crisis people would find themselves in
situations they themselves could not fix
they found themselves in scenarios they
could not solve predicaments that they
could not unravel circumstances that
they could not circumvent the crisis
you’re in a crisis when your options are
gone when everything you thought could
work doesn’t work when you spent all
your money and you weren’t able to buy
your way out of it when you talk to all
your friends and they couldn’t hook up a
connection to resolve a problem when you
lead on all the knowledge that you knew
about the subject when over-the-counter
doesn’t work and you’re in a crisis
you’re in a situation you can’t fix you
can call it what you want you can call
it a catch-22 in a pickle on a Ledge
between a rock and a hard place
as one of my good friends calls it a
trick bag you’re in a predicament
anybody in a predicament anybody here
been in a predicament
anybody here your life is a predicament
it’s just predicament I want you to
theologizing crisis I don’t just want
you to have it I want you to
theologizing I want you to put on some
glasses some HD glasses because they
sell those now and I want you to see a
little clearer in high-definition
your crisis and crises come in all forms
they come that’s financial crisis whole
bunch volcanoes and that kind of crisis
relational crisis circumstantial crisis
medical crisis I mean the one common
denominator is you can’t fix it it’s
bigger than you suppose just suppose not
suppose that’s that’s soft suppose God
has you in the crisis because he wants
you to see him at a level you’ve never
seen him before I like what Paul says it
and said Corinthians one he says God
took us not to death he says we were so
overwhelmed our crisis was so great we
knew we were going to die and then he
says and God did it so that we would
come to know the one who raises the dead
see if you’re not dying you don’t know
what the resurrection looks like cuz you
don’t need one
it’s one thing to say he’s a healer if
you’re not sick there’s a whole
different ballgame and say he the healer
and you are sick
it’s one thing to say he’s away makeup
if you already know your way it’s a
whole different ballgame and say he the
way makeup when you lost it’s one thing
to say he’s a provider what is already
in the refrigerator and the freezer and
in the bank Oh somebody wanting a sermon
today it’s a whole nother thing to say
he’s a provider when you don’t know
where your next meal is coming from and
like the widow of Zarephath you down to
your last dime God allows crises in our
lives to reveal God in a way you have
never seen him before
of all the stories in the Bible that
revealed God allowing even crafting
manipulating a crisis for the purpose of
our experiencing and knowing him better
is the most famous story in the Old
Testament Cecil B DeMille the opening of
the Red Sea that story is repeated over
and over and over and over and over
because it was the premiere crisis of
the children of Israel and it was one
they would never ever never never never
ever forget when God wants to move you
to a new level
to a deeper level of experiencing him
not just knowing about him he will
typically use a crisis now Israel had
expanded in Egypt and God was ready
for them to move now to a new place
called the promised land
but they had gotten comfortable where
they were they waited Japan everything
was going pretty good in Egypt the
problem is they could live comfortably
without God in Egypt and you can be
comfortable without God
many of you know non-christians who
don’t think much about God and I do it
ok ok don’t need God they got a good
bank account they feel healthy
everything seems to be going well well
the children of Israel have become
comfortable in a place God didn’t want
them to stay so like a child when it’s
time for them to leave you know they
need to leave they don’t think they need
to leave why you believe when the food
is free there’s free the heat is free
the roof is free and all you do is
coming and going why are you gonna leave
you can be comfortable so let me help
some of you parents out with 28 year old
still living with you 48 year old still
living with you let me let me help some
of you out here you’re asking why won’t
they leave it’s too comfortable this
money not gonna leave so if you want to
move them on and move them out rawhide
if you wanna if you want to get them
going you’ve got to create discomfort
tell him you got to stop paying rent
help you got to buy your own food tell
you got to split the utilities tell them
you can’t use my gas card anymore tell
them you can’t be coming in whenever you
want to you make it uncomfortable and
they will reconsider their position but
if they know they can live there tell
their dying day ain’t going the way God
wanted his people to go somewhere he
wanted his people to leave Egypt where
it was comfortable and to go to the
place a promise where they would
experience him more personally and more
deeply because they could live without
the experience of God in Egypt so
according to the book of Exodus chapter
2 God allows there to be discomfort God
allow there to be difficulty God allow
there to be anguish among the people of
God because of his desire to move them
to a new place in fact look at chapter 1
verse 8 now a new king arose over Egypt
who did not know Joseph verse 11 so they
appointed taskmasters over them to
afflict them with hard labor and they
built for pharaoh new storage cities
verse 12 but the more they afflicted
them the more they multiplied verse 23
it came about in the course of those
many days the king of Egypt died the
sons of Israel side because of their
bondage and they cried out and the cry
for help because of their bondage rose
up to God things kept getting worse so
it says they cried up to God now they
not crying up to God prior to things get
bad have you ever noticed you don’t cry
up to God when it’s okay
you prayed in polite press then them
Christianese prayers them they’re the
same old same old prayers Lord bless me
Lord bless my you know now I lay me down
to sleep pray the Lord my soul to keep
if I die before I wake
pray to God my soul to take and you know
you know those nice those nice
sophisticated studious prayers but when
all hell is breaking loose and things
are getting worse not better
that’s the different prayer that’s a
different that’s a different contact it
says they cried up and their cry rose up
to God what does that tell us they were
not crying out because it was nothing to
rise up because things weren’t bad
enough yet when God wants to move you to
a new experience with him he will often
not all the time not only but often
allow your life to get worse not better
now I know that will contradict a lot of
theology that’s out there because a lot
of theology will tell you that the way
you know God is good is he’s blessing
you and they measured that by material
success well that is one way that you
know God is good but God is also good
when he precipitates a crisis because
the purpose of the crisis is for you to
find out stuff about him you never knew
to experience him and a whole nother
level so a crisis can be as good as as
good as what you typically define as a
blessing getting fired can be as great a
blessing as getting a raise
didn’t think about that
a downturn in your situation can be as
great a blessing and maybe even a
greater one then an upturn in fact
Hebrews chapter 12 says when God shakes
things up and causes things to be
disturbed it’s because he’s doing
something new that’s a New Testament so
don’t look at your crisis merely as a
negative thing that’s happened don’t lie
about it say it’s positive if it’s
negative I just want you to understand
that God uses crisis to expose himself
to us at a whole different level these
people cried out to God verse 24 of
chapter 2 says so God heard their
groaning ‘he’s never groaned hmm and god
remembered his covenant with abraham
isaac and jacob god saw the sons of
israel and took notice of them he paid
special attention that’s what took
notice means he paid in that what you
want with you in the crisis you want
special attention okay you don’t want a
general god when you in a specific
crisis you know general is good when I’m
generally okay when I am in specific
chaos
I need a specific God for my specific
situation
it says they called on God and he
remembered his agreement with them by
the way there’s a whole nother subject
but God has an agreement with you it’s
called the New Covenant
this was the Abrahamic covenant that was
the Old Covenant that promised that he
made Abraham that he was going to
protect his people God has a agreement
with you if you’re a Christian the day
is called the new covenant that’s his
agreement and his agreement is to seek
your good even if you’ve got to use bad
to do it that’s why you can fall in love
with Romans 8:28 all things work
together for good to those who love God
and are called according to his purpose
God is for you even if he has to you
negative to prove it even if he has to
use negative to prove it
don’t resist God in a crisis run to him
in a crisis
cuz the crisis is for him to expose
himself at a level that you’ve not seen
him before
so they call on God well when they cry
out to God now Moses was pastoring his
flock the [ __ ] of his father-in-law they
call a little God this says God noticed
me my affliction is getting worse the
people are treating me bad they’ve
ruined in my life things are not going
well now Moses was pastoring the flock
of his father-in-law Jethro that doesn’t
seem to connect but you know the story
Moses is uh pastoring his flock and he
comes across a bush that does not burn
okay the burning bush it was the non
burning bush because bush is not burning
it’s on fire but it’s not burning
that’s called ladies and gentlemen a
contradiction a bush that does not burn
is a contradiction it doesn’t make sense
it doesn’t compute guess what Moses says
Moses I gotta look closer at this
because I’ve never seen this before this
doesn’t make sense if you want fire you
supposed to burn he walks over there to
the burning bush God says take off your
shoes Moses you on holy ground
watch this now Moses went over to a
contradiction and God was in the middle
of the contradiction God was in the
middle of the thing that didn’t make
sense
God was in the think see see maybe you
ought to run to your contradictions and
not from them because God was right in
the middle of something that didn’t make
sense take off your shoes
you’re on holy ground God go into a
situation that didn’t make sense and now
tell them now
tell Pharaoh let my people go okay
chapter two we need help God goes over
unbeknownst to them to a man named Moses
tell Moses I’m choosing you to go tell
Pharaoh answer my people’s prayer see
God may have your solution over there
dealing with their own contradictions
and he just needs to create what I call
divine intersection between your need
and your crisis and his solution so you
know the story Moses goes to Pharaoh he
says Pharaoh God said let our people go
Pharaoh says no he says no nine times
the tenth one was a doozy he says no we
said no once too much and now God kills
all the firstborn of the Egyptians he
preserves the life of the firstborn of
Israel the Passover which leads us to
our everything I just went over with
introduction which leads us which leads
us to our main scripture really chapter
13 and 14 or we can summary so this this
these two chapters are pregnant and they
are a preamble to your crisis to your
Red Sea experience Pharaoh knew he had
to get rid of these people watch this
now God forced the sinner to set the
Saints free by allowing the sinner
Pharaoh allowing the sinner Pharaoh
Egypt the world his people so they do
that verse 17 of chapter 13 now when
Pharaoh had let the people go God did
not lead them by way of the land of the
Philistines even though it was near for
God’s sake
the people might change their minds when
they see war and return to Egypt
hence God LED them around by the way of
the wilderness to the Red Sea oh this is
this is sweet freedom they finally get
freedom after the tenth plague Pharaoh
can’t take it anymore
he says y’all get out of here not only
did he say y’all get out of here they
gave them the money for the trip right
the Bible says they wanted to [ __ ] out
there so bad in Chapter 12 that they
took off all they go all the jury all
this silver all their wealth and turned
it over to them not only do we want you
to leave we gonna pay the fare get out
of here
so God now what’s this supplies for the
journey when he delivers them out of
their former crisis
in the wilderness and then it says God
did not lead them the near way in other
words God didn’t show them the closest
route because the full signs were there
and he knew if they ran into the
Philistines they would be so afraid so
intimidated they would want to go back
to Egypt so he took them watch this he
took them the long
all way around you don’t feel like God
is taking you the long way around
you finally get delivered you finally
see some blessing you finally see some
something-something you finally look
like God is answer your prayer and now
you got to go though
all way around not the direct route
listen if God is taking you the long way
around
nobody he’d taken a long time to finish
what he started it’s because he knows
their problems on the direct route see
the first aisle that was the problem it
was the quick way it wasn’t the best way
the quick solution to whatever it is
you’re facing if not always the best
solution that’s why you gotta follow God
because he’s got inside information that
you’re not aware of you don’t know what
you’re gonna run into if you go the
natural route the direct route which
would have been along the Mediterranean
Sea that would have been a great little
trip you know along the Mediterranean
you know with all that gold with jurian
all that stuff that’s living large we
would have gotten to our destination
quick God says that’s not the best route
now watch this God says I’m taking the
long way around verse four this is
critical verse 4 of chapter 14 thus I
will harden Pharaoh’s heart and he will
chase after them and I will be honored
through Pharaoh and all his army and the
Egyptians will know that I am the Lord
let me tell you about this phrase I will
harden Pharaoh’s heart a hard heart
means a heart that is resistant to the
will of God it is a heart that is
refusing to submit to the authority of
God it’s a hard heart that is a refusal
a hard heart is not a struggling heart a
hard heart is a refusing heart it’s a
heart that says I don’t care what God
says let me explain how God judges God
judges by taking a hard heart and making
it harder
cousin chapter 8 we already read Pharaoh
hardened his own heart
so since Pharaoh hardened his heart God
said you ain’t seen a hard heart yet
imma let your heart get even hotter the
Bible says in Romans chapter 1 that the
wrath of God is revealed on all
unrighteousness and then it says and he
gave them up God’s judgment is giving
you more of what you want until what you
won’t now controls you see people think
was God’s judgment of him getting you
even getting you know one of God’s
primary ways of judging is giving you
more of what you want Israel said we
tired of this we tired of mana we don’t
want mana
we don’t want mana we want meat we want
meat we won’t be satisfied God till you
give us quail we want quail we’re tired
and it’s cornflakes from above we want
quail
we don’t want matter anymore and so they
crumble then crumble then crumble the
quickest way to a hard heart is
complaining they grumbled and grumbled
and grumbled and grumble grumble until
God couldn’t take it anymore
God couldn’t take it anymore a lot of
you have children like that no matter
what you get them they complain complain
complain complain complain Gargan take
it more he says okay I’m gonna give you
me I’m gonna give you me and more me and
more me and more me
you okay you want me I’m gonna give you
something I’m gonna give me some meat
man
Crale started dropping out the sky yes
just Birds just have heart attacks and
just dropping out the sky and just
that’s just quail all over the place
he gave them so much of what they wanted
they couldn’t have a little anymore and
he didn’t want it anymore because they
were resistant to divine authority God
helped them along never had a mother say
when you crying I’m gonna give you
something to cry fall
let me help let me help a little sister
out let me help a little brother out
since you gonna cry why don’t we just
give you more reason for it and so he
hardens Pharaoh’s heart and says what’s
this now when I harden his heart he will
chase after them the way God my prayer
is get Pharaoh off my back that’s my
prayer tell my boss leave me alone
change my mate tell my tell my situation
to go away that’s my prayer God said Oh
are we gonna make it worse I’m a
hardened Pharaoh’s heart so he won’t
stay home I’m a hardened Pharaoh’s heart
so he chases you I am going to make your
situation worse now what’s frustrating
about this is he just advances one
prayer by raising up Moses setting us
free from Egypt and then I’m back in a
brand-new crisis well after the first
crisis I’m praising the Lord I’m free
we’re free we’re not delivered Egypt
anymore and I got some money in my
pocket Egyptians have paid me well so
I’m excited now you thought God just
answered your prayer you run into
something else a few minutes later a few
days later a few weeks later and you
want to know God where did this come
from well God showed you a little
something earlier he wants to show you a
bigger something now because the reason
for a crisis our point is is to give you
a deeper more experiential knowledge of
God not information but experiential he
says i’ma make him chase you why are you
going to do this God God tells you in
verse 4 so that I will be honored by a
fool
this fool is gonna know that I’m God
okay now so the king of Egypt told the
people that had fled fair honest
servants had a change of heart toward
the people cuz as hard as now hard and
they said what have we done we’ve let
these people go from serving us what
were we thinking why don’t we let them
go and give them our money we don’t have
their service and so he tells them in
verse six get your chariots ready we go
on after these folk we gon deal with
these folk so verse seven six hundred
chariots all the other chariots of Egypt
all the officers over them and the Lord
hardened Pharaoh’s heart verse eight
king of Egypt and he chased down the
sons of Israel the Egyptians chased them
with horses and chariots verse nine now
all of a sudden we come to verse 10 as
Pharaoh draws near the sons of Israel
looked and behold the Egyptians were
marching after them and they became
third very frightened as the sons of
Israel oh watch this now what do they do
cried out remember last time the crowd
they cried out because they’re in a
crisis God has become God becomes really
important in the crisis being all fancy
is not your concern in the crisis in a
crisis you know you’re the crisis you
ain’t trying to be cute and no crisis
you’re not trying to be all
something-something look at all
sophisticated and spirit children
that ain’t a crisis hmm ain’t trying to
be sadiddy’ in a crisis in a crisis your
kid who’s listening see some people’s
like well you know I don’t like to pray
around people it ain’t bad enough yet if
it get bad enough you don’t care who
listening if it gets bad enough you
don’t care other people hearing you if
it gets bad enough you don’t get because
you are now desperate for God and god
guess what wants you to be desperate for
him they cried out because they are
scared to death they cry out and they
said to Moses in verse 11 were there no
graves in Egypt if we’re gonna die we
couldn’t leave died died back home
you got us die out here in this
wilderness it would have been better for
us verse 12 to serve the Egyptians that
cause when they were in Egypt they would
crying out get us up out of here up out
of here but they’re in a crisis Moses he
stands before the people and he says do
not fear stand by and see the salvation
of the Lord which he will accomplish for
you today for the Egyptians who you have
seen you will never see them again for
ever and the Lord will fight for you
while you shut up
okay when he says why you are silent he
does not mean no talking
it means no talking like you were just
talking a minute ago a verse ago
wouldn’t be better if we go back to
Egypt cuz we went back to Egypt we were
had graves in Egypt we could serve the
Egyptians shut up shut up shut up
that’s the silence he’s talking about
he’s not saying my mother couldn’t
whisper to her son and the father
couldn’t say any word to his daughter no
he’s saying that foolish is you just
talking about two verses ago why I went
you know why can’t we go back to Egypt
and I told you when we were back to
Egypt in other words complaining about
the very thing they asked for
complaining about the very thing they
asked for get us out of here God gets
them out here
if you shut up you’ll see the salvation
of the Lord what’s the implications if
you keep talking you’re not gonna see
nothing if you keep complaining you’re
not gonna see anything if you keep
grumbling you’re not gonna experience
anything if you keep blaming God rather
than looking to God you’re gonna be
you’re gonna be disappointed in God shut
up shut up shut up so we can see what
God can do you will not see them again
I love verse 15 verse 15 you might call
a conundrum say conundrum in verse 15 he
says the Lord said to Moses why are you
crying to me tell the sons of Israel to
go forward now why would I call verse 15
a conundrum
because I can’t find where Moses is
crying to God I mean let’s not miss
something
he says Moses why are you crying to me
but Moses was just talking to the people
God will deliver you God’s gonna fix it
God’s gonna turn it around God’s gonna
save you God’s gonna be your deliverer
and the next verse Moses was talking to
the people he says Moses why are you
crying to me that’s a conundrum I don’t
see Moses crying I don’t see Moses but
he said it to Moses so let me tell you
in my sanctified imagination what’s
going on here it says the people were
skurd they’re scared to death they cry
out to God Moses cuz he’s leader he’s on
the pulpit he’s standing up and saying
listen God’s will take care of this
God’s gonna fix this he’s away maker
he’s a bridge over troubled water
he’s a balm in Gilead he’s a bright and
Morning Star he’s so high you can’t get
over he’s so low you can’t get under
he’s so wide you can’t get around him he
is able to do exceedingly abundantly
above all you can ask a thing that Moses
is talking noise own outside but deep
down where Moses live
deep down in Moses ha
he’ll go fix it
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see Moses was crying too but he delayed
us so he can’t show it sometime I’ll be
up here and I’ll be stirred he says why
are you crying to me tell the people
much much when there’s a Red Sea does a
Red Sea where are we going Moses verse
16 lift up your staff stretch out your
hand over the sea and divide it and the
sons of Israel shall go through the
midst of the sea on driving I’m going to
show you something Moses I’m gonna show
all of Israel’s something I put you
between a rock and a hard place I put
you in a bad situation cuz you gonna see
something you ain’t never seen before
you’re gonna experience something you’ve
never experienced before I want you to
do something I want them to do something
I want you to hold out your rod the rod
that you used to lead sheep with that I
told you to throw down that became a
snake and told you pick the snake up by
the tail and it became a rod again yeah
that rod that they used to call the rod
of Moses that now it’s called the rod of
God that’s thick you hold it out over
the water you tell the people to march
everybody’s gotta exercise faith you
March even though it doesn’t look like
there’s any place to go I want you to
act in faith I want you to go forward I
want you tomorrow you don’t see what I’m
gonna do I know you don’t understand how
I’m gonna do it I just want you to march
hold out your rod and I will do the rest
let me explain something to experience
spiritual deliverance you must exercise
the faith that you can all they can do
is March they couldn’t separate the
water that was in God’s ballpark but
Moses could hold out the rod and they
could move forward as far as they could
go
did it happen God said the Egyptians
will know that I am the Lord and I will
be honored by Pharaoh and his chariots
the angel of the Lord came before the
camp the color cloud moved before them
the army of the Egyptians verse 20 is
the cloud of darkness yet it gave a
light at night thus the one did not come
near the other Moses stretched out his
hand verse 21 the sons of Israel went
through the midst of the sea watch us
now you you rarely hear sermon on this
we all know they went through the sea
but there’s another miracle yeah there’s
a miracle that the water divides okay
Charlton Heston Cecil B DeMille I got
you on that one
the water did divide but if he of a
miracle dry land
the dry land dry lay the land is not
supposed to be dry if you’re gonna see
if you’re gonna see you can’t roll carts
and animals and you can’t do that on
that kind of muddy surface
you can’t move two million people who
are being chased in a smooth way unless
the land is dry so while it is awesome
that God whipped up the wind and caused
there to be a wall that blocked the
water it’s also staggering that the
ground is hard hard enough for them to
roll the chariots over all the different
wagons over and what they carried all
their goods in the be able to walk on it
that was a miracle
they went over on dry land and the
waters were like a wall the Egyptians
verse 23 pursued verse 24 and the Lord
looked down on the army of the Egyptians
through the pillar of cloud and first 25
he caused their chariot wheels to swerve
he made that chariot will drive with
difficulty so the Egyptians said let us
flee then Lord the Lord said hold out
your rod Moses and the water comes back
together and they returned verse 28 and
covered the Egyptians and the sons of
Israel verse 29 walked on dry land and
the Lord saved Israel that day from the
hands of the Egyptians and Israel saw
the Egyptians dead Israel here it is saw
the great power the Lord had used
against the Egyptians the people feared
the Lord and they believed in the Lord
and in his servant Moses well here it is
when they saw his power what kind of
power delivering power because they were
in a pinch up a creek between a rock and
a hard place when they witnessed his
power it’s not enough for you to come
hear me
he’s got power you already know that you
can tell yourself that but when he puts
you in a crisis and you get to say to
power that you talk about here about
Amen about tell others about but you see
it with your own eyes oh now you know
him for yourself you you know him well
for yourself you’ll let you get to the
bottom he’ll let you get down to the
last bill he’ll let you think you look
like you’re gonna lose your home he’ll
let you get fired
you’ll let the things go well you’ll let
pulse sometimes go left he’ll let
circumstances not appear to be in your
favor but instead of grumbling and
complaining and making your heart heart
you ought to say God you have now
created an opportunity for me to see you
at a level that I have never witnessed
you before and I’m looking to you to
overcome or override deliver turn tweet
flips twist to override the Egyptians in
my life that’s a different testimony
June 11th 1963 George Wallace stood at
the front door of the University of
Alabama and he said of two Negro young
people you ain’t coming in here he was
backed up by the police force he was
backed up by the citizens and he said
segregation now and segregation forever
you ain’t coming in here but the white
house which is up north from Alabama the
white house said oh no oh no no the
University of Alabama is going to be
integrated so the National Guard
was sent from up north to the state of
Alabama to March the two students into
the school they surrounded the students
and said it’s time to go to class the
students were in a bad situation because
they were surrounded by the Egyptians
they were surrounded by those who had
taken a strong stand and had hardened
their hearts in the name of segregation
the National Guard said much it’s time
to move forward but if you look down
there there’s every reason not to move
forward
cuz the head of the state says we’re not
moving and you’re not getting here but
there was a word for applause the word
for Washington was I won’t the God to
get them to where I want him to go but
there was a block they were told they
must up to the door George Wallace said
I’m not moving the head of the National
guy I love this he said to George
Washington he says well let me explain
this to you clearly you have the option
of moving yourself all the other options
of us moving you we don’t open up this
see we gonna open up this door I don’t
care about your cops your police I don’t
care about your pettalia
because applause has the clamps
cuz we open it up here I know it looks
like your boss is telling you to do
exceedingly abundantly above oh you can
ask in the middle of a crisis