1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:08,560 Have your seat in His presence. We are still taking lessons on 2 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:15,200 friendship and if you have followed critically, you will 3 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:21,920 discover that why we are teaching or dwelling on the 4 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,760 teachings of Christ of friendship. 5 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:35,040 We are drawing our examples from the Old Testament, so that will 6 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,200 tell you something about the structure of the Bible. 7 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:45,560 If you examine your Bible critically, you will observe 8 00:00:45,560 --> 00:00:55,240 that you have more of history of people and nations in the Old 9 00:00:55,240 --> 00:01:01,040 Testament. Yes, you have historical books 10 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:09,440 in the New Testament 2 but more about the history, genealogy of 11 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:13,320 Jesus Christ and the history of the church. 12 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,400 Praise the name of the Lord. So, and that is why it's been 13 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:22,720 very convenient for us since the topic we are dealing with is 14 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:27,280 about people. So we are taking the teachings 15 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:34,000 from the teachings of Christ in the New Testament and drawing 16 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:41,320 are examples as it relates to people from the Old Testament, 17 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:48,280 which is more, which has more of history of people and nations 18 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:53,200 for a start. Today, it's also important that 19 00:01:53,200 --> 00:02:00,920 I let you know that every teaching session is a dining 20 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:05,440 spiritual session, or a spiritual dining session rather. 21 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:11,920 Every teaching session is a spiritual dining session and 22 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:17,960 that is why we call this meeting this particular Congress or 23 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:25,120 convocation of God's people. Every early hour of Sundays 24 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:32,880 leaders break fast. So every teaching session is a 25 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:39,000 feeding session where we feast on the Word of God to make us 26 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,720 fit for the rest of life onto eternity. 27 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:46,680 The law we perform is good purpose in your life. 28 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:51,640 As I bring the counsel of God again this morning in the name 29 00:02:51,640 --> 00:03:00,000 of Jesus, then why is it important that the man standing 30 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:04,440 on any pulpit must be apartment to teach? 31 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:09,120 The scripture says a pastor must be apartment to teach. 32 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,400 One of the ways you can tell if your pastor is indeed a shepherd 33 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:19,680 is by the compassion he expresses. 34 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,760 One of the ways you can tell if your pastor is indeed a shepherd 35 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:30,880 is by the compassion he expresses. 36 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:43,200 Mark 634 and Jesus when he came out so much people and was moved 37 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:52,160 with compassion towards them. So being the Good Shepherd, when 38 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,320 he saw the multitude of the people and he can see through 39 00:03:56,320 --> 00:04:01,960 into their condition, he can see through into their lacks, he can 40 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,240 see through into the situations they were going through. 41 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:12,080 The response of Jesus was that of compassion. 42 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:18,399 He was moved with compassion towards them because they were a 43 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:28,800 sheep, not having a shepherd. Now their problem, they have 44 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:33,400 different symptoms. Are you with me? 45 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:40,360 But the root cause why the problems were there in the first 46 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:44,800 instance was because they were sheep without word shepherd. 47 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,840 And so as the Good Shepherd having diagnosed what the 48 00:04:49,840 --> 00:04:55,320 problem was, he stepped in. And the first function, the 49 00:04:55,320 --> 00:05:00,560 first role he played by stepping in OK, was what we have in the 50 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:07,840 last part of that Scripture and began to teach them many things. 51 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,440 Can you see the relationship between the shepherd, compassion 52 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,520 and the teaching ministry? Am I talking to somebody? 53 00:05:18,840 --> 00:05:23,960 So he dragonized properly that the reason they were in their 54 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:32,360 bad condition was because the large shepherd and as a Good 55 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:36,920 Shepherd, when he stepped in, he started to teach them. 56 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:41,400 Don't forget I said every teaching session is a feeding 57 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:46,320 session, is a spiritual dining session. 58 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,960 So in other words, when scriptures say he began to teach 59 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:56,840 them is he began to feed them, he began to give them food that 60 00:05:56,840 --> 00:06:00,560 would nourish them. Praise the name of the Lord, 61 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,400 praise the name of the Lord. So one of the way you can tell 62 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:07,920 if your pastor is indeed a shepherd is by the compassion he 63 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:12,520 expresses. And the first fighter sign of 64 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:15,720 that expression is the recognition of your spiritual 65 00:06:15,720 --> 00:06:20,480 needs. No, those multitude of people 66 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:25,640 that were there, OK, they may not even know that their 67 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:30,640 greatest need is a shepherd. Those who are physically hungry, 68 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,760 we think food is their problem. Those who have one's bodily 69 00:06:35,760 --> 00:06:39,160 sickness or the other, or those who have material life would 70 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,920 think that was their problem, whereas their real problem is 71 00:06:42,920 --> 00:06:46,720 that they lack a shepherd who will feed them with the Word of 72 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:50,200 God and by the nourishment they gain from the feeding from the 73 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:53,360 Word of God. If we address those problems I 74 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,840 pray in the name of Jesus as I come here constantly declaring 75 00:06:57,840 --> 00:07:01,400 the mind of God to you and as we are feeding on the word of God. 76 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:04,200 It will address all of your situations. 77 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:08,080 I said the word of God we capable to address all of your 78 00:07:08,080 --> 00:07:12,880 situations in the name of Jesus. I'm saying this that you should 79 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:18,120 not get tired, OK, of being taught again and again many 80 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:23,360 things the scriptures say and Jesus have been recognized that 81 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:27,120 they were multitude that lack is shepherd. 82 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:32,160 He stepped into their situation and he began to teach them many 83 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:38,000 things say Lord, I am here, I am available to be taught many 84 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:40,960 things and of course there are many things that you need to 85 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,640 know. So the first fact, as I am of 86 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:49,760 the expression of the compassion of the Shepherd after Christ's 87 00:07:50,360 --> 00:07:53,520 manner is the recognition of your spiritual name. 88 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,280 And then the second that now follow is the recognition of 89 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:06,360 your physical needs. And then the response that a 90 00:08:06,440 --> 00:08:13,080 Good Shepherd we give to the 2 needs, OK, we also follow in 91 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:18,040 that sequence. We also follow in that word in 92 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:23,720 that sequence. Let's push back that same gospel 93 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,720 to Saint Mark chapter 6. Maybe we should take the reading 94 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,960 from verse 30. And the apostles gather 95 00:08:30,960 --> 00:08:37,960 themselves together onto Jesus and told him all things, both 96 00:08:37,960 --> 00:08:41,520 what they are done and what they are taught. 97 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:46,920 Now the disciples that Jesus brought to himself, he taught 98 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,400 them. After teaching them, he sent 99 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:56,600 them out to teach others. And as they went teaching 100 00:08:56,680 --> 00:09:00,120 others, science, wonders and miracles were happening. 101 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,920 And then asked him to report back to Jesus what they had 102 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:10,080 experienced. Then vested one, and he said 103 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,640 unto them, Come ye yourself apart into a desert, into a 104 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:17,440 desert, please, and rest a while. 105 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:24,080 For there were many coming and going, and they had no less so 106 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:28,360 much as to eat. See, this one was so consumed, 107 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:34,640 OK, and baptized into the spirit of the Word of God, that 108 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:38,720 physical food really did not matter to them. 109 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:44,200 And they departed into a desert place by sheep privately in 110 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:49,600 verse 33, And the people saw them departing, and many knew 111 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:56,720 him and ran our food either out of our city and outwent them and 112 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:03,720 came together on to him. It was then that Jesus now saw 113 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:08,800 this much people in verse 34 and then was moved with compassion. 114 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:13,320 There was a clear gap between this multitude and the 115 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:17,920 disciples. Are you with me now? 116 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:19,720 This discip? The story started with the 117 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:22,640 disciples that had been with him, that had been taught by 118 00:10:22,640 --> 00:10:26,160 him, that I grew to the level whereby they have even become 119 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:31,920 teachers of others. But there are a set of new 120 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:38,480 people, majority huge number that came, who have not had that 121 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:42,320 opportunity of intimacy with Jesus and to have gone through 122 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:46,880 his school of discipleship. And so he was moved with 123 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,280 compassion towards them that their own condition can also 124 00:10:51,280 --> 00:10:55,960 change for the better. And then he knew that they had 125 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,080 other needs. He knew that they have different 126 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:05,680 reasons why they have no migrated to Him to follow up 127 00:11:05,680 --> 00:11:09,280 time to pick one miracle or the other. 128 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:14,240 But Jesus stepped all that down and started to teach them 129 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,160 because He knew that if they received the teachings, those 130 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,640 teachings will address their other problems. 131 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:27,720 Am I talking to somebody? But today multitude love to go 132 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:32,920 to places where they isolate their problem, OK for attention, 133 00:11:33,800 --> 00:11:37,480 rather than give attention to the teaching of the Word of God 134 00:11:37,680 --> 00:11:40,760 that will eventually address other issues. 135 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:50,440 So Jesus as a Good Shepherd, he responded force to their 136 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:55,880 spiritual need and then follow up with their physical need. 137 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,600 You will, if you now push the reading further, you will now 138 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,040 discover that after they have made themselves available to be 139 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,440 taught, they never complain. Are you with me? 140 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:09,600 It was Jesus, they were so engrossed in the teachings of 141 00:12:09,640 --> 00:12:12,480 Jesus Christ that they were hungry and they were not aware. 142 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:16,880 It was the disciple that I came up and said now that if the evil 143 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,800 has come and this will be going back, we observed that they are 144 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:21,560 already tired and they need food. 145 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:27,000 So and in that order Jesus now performed the miracle of 146 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:31,600 multiply bread, but before the miracle of multiplying bread and 147 00:12:31,600 --> 00:12:36,600 fish, he force sat them down and taught them. 148 00:12:38,040 --> 00:12:41,040 Are you ready to be taught? If you are ready to be taught 149 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,920 that you become great in the Kingdom in the name of Jesus? 150 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:50,440 So Christ, like pastoral compassion, is not expressed by 151 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:55,800 pity, but by teaching what is helpful to the congregation. 152 00:12:57,160 --> 00:13:00,640 So the foundation I'm laying today, okay, is for you to 153 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:06,200 appreciate better the reason we are giving ourselves to teaching 154 00:13:06,200 --> 00:13:11,400 you many things. Are you with me? 155 00:13:12,200 --> 00:13:16,440 So crash, like pastoral compassion is not expressed by 156 00:13:16,440 --> 00:13:21,240 pity, but by teaching what is helpful to the congression. 157 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:25,440 You now discover that this was later follow up with performing 158 00:13:25,440 --> 00:13:27,960 the miracle of multiplying bread and feast. 159 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:33,640 But the first thing he did was to feed them with the word of 160 00:13:33,640 --> 00:13:36,440 God. So talk to your neighbor either 161 00:13:36,440 --> 00:13:40,800 close to you or from a distance. Welcome to today's feeding 162 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:44,880 session. I can hear you say it. 163 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:50,240 Are you salivating already? Are you salivating already? 164 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:55,560 God will satisfy your hunger in the name of Jesus. 165 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:59,000 Now let us take a step back into last week. 166 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:02,960 We take a step back into last week. 167 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:10,160 It has been, I mean the focus has been Jesus discipleship 168 00:14:10,160 --> 00:14:17,520 model of friendship and how you can rise by proper behavior, OK, 169 00:14:17,760 --> 00:14:22,160 to become friends to people of higher hierarchy. 170 00:14:23,040 --> 00:14:27,160 Just as Jesus looked at disciple one day and he said at this 171 00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:31,400 moment by the reason of the teachings you have accepted and 172 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:36,720 how much you have grown, OK, I no longer call you servants. 173 00:14:36,920 --> 00:14:41,960 You are now my friends. I no longer call you disciple, 174 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:45,600 but you are my friend. And we have been looking at the 175 00:14:45,600 --> 00:14:52,680 example of how Eliaza of Damascus, a servant in the 176 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:57,920 house, rose to become a confidant, OK, a covenant career 177 00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:02,840 of the spiritual heritage of Father Abraham's family. 178 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:08,960 So we are still taking back into that study particularly because 179 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:17,920 we have committed to paralleling lots and Iliasa so that you can 180 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:25,840 pick from these two which type of brother, sister you want to 181 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,160 be. So a step back into last week's 182 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:35,160 study reveals that Uncle lots less than honorable behavior. 183 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:42,400 So the behaviour of Lords can be described as one that is less 184 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:47,560 than honourable. So it's less than honourable 185 00:15:47,560 --> 00:15:53,600 behaviour carried incalculable negative generational 186 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,720 consequences. And we're going to explore that 187 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,440 today. Remember, he chose the plane of 188 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:04,480 Pseudo and forfeited the plan of God. 189 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,000 He chose the plain of Sodom. He forfeited the plan of God. 190 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:17,840 He mingled with a society that are not in any way related to 191 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:23,240 his covenant prospects in destiny for the fact that Father 192 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:30,000 Abraham picked him and embark on the journey that God has 193 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:35,840 instructed him to embark on with him when it was not mandatory 194 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:40,160 upon father Abraham to do so gave him the opportunity to be 195 00:16:40,160 --> 00:16:45,080 introduced into the covenant heritage of father Abraham 196 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:47,120 lineage. Are we together. 197 00:16:47,440 --> 00:16:54,360 So which means he had a lot of prospects, lot of prospects in 198 00:16:54,360 --> 00:17:02,720 that covenant equation. Then when you now examine him by 199 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:10,680 the wrong decision he took to disengage from Father Abraham, 200 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:14,280 you will notice that he eventually got married. 201 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:20,040 The probing question is from which land did you think he got 202 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:29,120 married from? Because we have an historical 203 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:37,440 trend of where father Abraham married from, an historic trend 204 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:43,440 of where Isaac married from, an historic trend of where Jacob 205 00:17:43,440 --> 00:17:46,400 married from. There's no such record about 206 00:17:46,400 --> 00:17:48,720 Lords if he told Dena Lutin Yahoo. 207 00:17:55,730 --> 00:18:01,490 We are trying to explore the incalculable negative 208 00:18:01,850 --> 00:18:08,960 generational consequences that is wrong choice brought upon his 209 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:13,520 posterity. So he most probably got his wife 210 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:18,280 from among the people that I was that the land God called Abraham 211 00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:24,280 to live. It's part of the fact that he 212 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:29,760 was so privileged to be taken along by Father Abraham and also 213 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:34,800 follow after the pattern and godly lifestyle of Father 214 00:18:34,800 --> 00:18:39,920 Abraham. So we're not taught specifically 215 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:44,320 from among which nations of people he marry from, but 216 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:49,280 certainly there is no record that he went back to his kinsmen 217 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:52,440 to get a wife according to the pattern established by Father 218 00:18:52,440 --> 00:19:03,790 Ibrahim. Then raising of his children, he 219 00:19:03,790 --> 00:19:09,680 raised his daughters even among these people, the people of 220 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:14,560 Sodom that were engaging in abhorrent practices. 221 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:20,240 So he raised his daughters among them, such that despite being 222 00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:26,280 virgins in an ungodly land, those lady tried so much, but 223 00:19:26,280 --> 00:19:30,240 they did not have either a father or a mother that helped 224 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,840 them. Because if the manner of 225 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:40,120 iniquity that is recorded about Sodom and Gomorrah was what we 226 00:19:40,120 --> 00:19:47,720 have, and those guests who stays who stay as fetching up to the 227 00:19:47,720 --> 00:19:50,840 moment when Sodom and Gomorrah will be destroyed. 228 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:59,920 Indeed those ladies were virtuous, but in spite of that, 229 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:06,960 the place chosen. By their father to live still 230 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:10,080 eventually had negative influence on their destiny. 231 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:19,720 The problem we don't know or most parents don't know, is that 232 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:22,480 the choices they are making today OK. 233 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:26,440 Whether I turn out well or turn out the other way is not only 234 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:29,160 about them, it's also about the future of their children. 235 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:47,760 The simple decision of we are Lord OK, we put in shock, we are 236 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:51,800 in, we practice his trade is what has brought these 237 00:20:51,800 --> 00:20:56,280 consequences. Am I talking to somebody We know 238 00:20:56,280 --> 00:21:00,520 it's about we are in in looked up and saw the plane of sudo 239 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:06,200 that it was good for commerce. It didn't factor in what is the 240 00:21:06,200 --> 00:21:09,320 spiritual condition of the land that was good for commerce. 241 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:15,880 Am I talking to somebody that is and that is your view of so many 242 00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:18,600 parents that are just about financial fortune. 243 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:25,040 You don't consider what is the spiritual climate, What is the 244 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,000 spiritual environment? What kind of influence the place 245 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,160 you are choosing to dwell will have on your children? 246 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:47,000 So this virtuous godly daughters eventually succumbed on that 247 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:55,200 situational pressure to a method of procreation that was even 248 00:21:55,200 --> 00:22:00,120 worse than the one being practiced by the accost people. 249 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,240 What did they do? They made their father to sleep 250 00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:11,240 with them. You know when eventually the 251 00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:20,600 Angel came and pulled lots out of Sodom and Gomorrah so that it 252 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,200 will not be destroyed. The Bible mentioned to us that 253 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:31,720 the wife look back even when they have been instructed to run 254 00:22:31,720 --> 00:22:33,520 out of that land and never look back. 255 00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:38,040 The wife look back and she became a pillar of salt while 256 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:42,320 the why did she look back? She looked back because she 257 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:48,360 prioritized material things over her soul, over the salvation of 258 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:51,760 our life and of our family because when they were living, 259 00:22:51,800 --> 00:22:53,840 they have so much weight in that line. 260 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:55,920 When they were living, they were living with nothing. 261 00:22:56,040 --> 00:22:59,640 So on our mind where the ghosts and the jewelries, all the 262 00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:06,480 collections she had hey. And in the process, she did what 263 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:11,920 she looked back. Number one negative consequence 264 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,640 of the choice or the number two negative consequence of the 265 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:24,440 choice of father, Lord, a woman he chose. 266 00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:32,360 A woman that prioritise her physical beauty above the 267 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:37,040 prosperity of her soul, above the salvation of her life and 268 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,240 that of her and that of her family. 269 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:48,800 She looked back then the angels now pointed. 270 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:54,040 Lords go to the Monty. Lord said no. 271 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:58,800 So my Lord, let me go to the play now. 272 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,080 By the time we will get to the play it, you know when there is 273 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:07,800 danger. When there's danger you should 274 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,360 know that a right thinking person will run to the mountain. 275 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,680 Are you with me? When there is danger, either 276 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:25,080 fire or flood, whatever the danger is you are server on the 277 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:36,800 mountain than in the plane. But Lords chose to go to work to 278 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,080 the plane and he got to the plane. 279 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:42,640 By the time he got to the plane, he discovered that nobody was 280 00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,720 there with him. Every other I think person have 281 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,960 run to the Monty. Am I talking to somebody In the 282 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:52,120 first instance? He was not supposed to be told 283 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:59,440 to run to the Monty. When fire is spreading, it's 284 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:02,200 easier for the fire to burn in the plane. 285 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,040 OK, that will climb the mountain. 286 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:07,240 Even if it will climb the mountain, it will take much 287 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,080 time. Am I talking to somebody? 288 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:14,440 And if it is flawed, the same. But yet he was being told the 289 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:15,760 right thing. OK. 290 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:19,240 Meanwhile giddy occur. He was choosing his own way 291 00:25:19,360 --> 00:25:22,640 above godly cancer. Is that not your situation too? 292 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:32,280 What value did you put on godly cancer, Godly advice, godly 293 00:25:32,360 --> 00:25:42,150 instruction, and for every wrong decision you are seeing the the 294 00:25:42,150 --> 00:25:45,430 messy outcome. And yet you continue to follow 295 00:25:45,430 --> 00:25:50,910 that same path of evil, that same path that is destroying 296 00:25:50,910 --> 00:25:55,110 your life. That same path, OK, that is 297 00:25:55,110 --> 00:25:58,950 making you retrogressive instead of progressing in destiny. 298 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,280 So a situational pressure now came up. 299 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:08,600 And what was the situational pressure? 300 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:16,840 There was nobody around, OK, that we marry these guys and I 301 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,640 was no more than a gay, OK to stand there and give them the 302 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,800 right can say. And all of these were coming up 303 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:27,720 because of the wrong choices of the father. 304 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:40,600 So the lady concluded among themselves in their navity that 305 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,640 is this how we are going to continue and die without our own 306 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:48,920 children. Let's get our father drunk, OK? 307 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:53,160 And they make they get him drunk. 308 00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:57,400 The first night the senior sister slept with the father got 309 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:01,640 pregnanted. The second night the younger 310 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,960 sister slept with the father. OK got pregnant and the risk 311 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:15,860 pastor generation. So he raised his daughter among 312 00:27:16,940 --> 00:27:23,300 the pseudomites so that despite being virgins in an ungodly 313 00:27:23,300 --> 00:27:27,380 land, this lady eventually succumbed on that situational 314 00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:31,140 prayer to a method of progression that was a cause 315 00:27:31,820 --> 00:27:33,580 they made their father to sleep with them. 316 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:43,160 Now, what were the covenant prospects that Father Uncle Lot 317 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,600 bungled? Let's prove that more because of 318 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:54,720 his many wrong choices, starting with choosing to disengage from 319 00:27:55,560 --> 00:28:05,880 Father Abraham #1 his session with Father Abraham gave him the 320 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,000 opportunity of becoming the potential manager of Father 321 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:14,320 Abraham estates. We read in Genesis 24. 322 00:28:15,920 --> 00:28:21,520 That's why Father Abraham was trusting the Lord both in 323 00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:25,680 Genesis 15 and Genesis 24. Why was he trusting the Lord? 324 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:31,160 He appointed Eliza of Damascos the manager of his estate. 325 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:40,720 And we also saw that the first person that will have fallen 326 00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:50,040 into that office of honorable responsibility was not because 327 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,520 why it was with Father Abraham. Father Abraham allowed him to 328 00:28:54,520 --> 00:29:03,320 have his own flock and also have his own servant, so he had no 329 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:09,640 reason whatsoever OK to make the kind of choice he made. 330 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:15,520 But by that wrong choice he lost that prospect of becoming the 331 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:23,320 potential manager of Father Hebron estate #2 he lost 332 00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:30,520 personal prosperity. Because whatever he got from 333 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:37,280 Father Adam and Abraham and he took to the Plain of Sodom, and 334 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:44,640 whatever he multiplied in the Plain of Sodom were eventually 335 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:53,040 destroyed by fire. So he lost personal prosperity 336 00:29:54,600 --> 00:30:02,440 #3 You also lost protection under the patriarchal blessing 337 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:14,000 of Father Abraham, because at a point some enemy came and 338 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:20,520 conquered him, took him a slave, collected everything that he 339 00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:23,760 had. It was his father Abraham again 340 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:31,520 that someone, the servant of his house that have been trained in 341 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:37,840 warfare to pursue after the enemy, to rescue Lords and 342 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:42,560 recover everything that was stolen from him. 343 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:52,480 So if he were under the covering of Father Abraham, the enemy 344 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:56,280 wouldn't have messed up with him to the extent of capturing him 345 00:30:56,560 --> 00:31:02,280 as his slave. So he lost his freedom to become 346 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:09,320 a slave until the mercy of God and the compassion that Father 347 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,200 Abraham had towards him got him rescued. 348 00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:20,760 I said last week that if your your divine conference is in a 349 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:26,240 village, you better stay there then move to the city where the 350 00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:30,320 company will be removed and your destiny will be in danger. 351 00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:36,440 Then he lost permanent, I mean permanent connection to the 352 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:44,760 Abrahamic Covenant. And that is another area we are 353 00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,720 going to prove properly do. There was a mention of it when 354 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,200 we're doing the reflection last week. 355 00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:59,000 And that permanent, permanent connection will have come by a 356 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:08,160 possible marriage between one of those daughters and Isaac. 357 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:17,760 Are you with me? If he has stayed in the state 358 00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:20,960 with Abraham and not moved to the plain of Sudo, there's a 359 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:24,640 possibility, very high possibility, that Isaac will 360 00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:25,960 have married one of those daughters. 361 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:33,920 I mean, I can't. You can put me through again. 362 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,480 No. Isaac will have married one of 363 00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:42,560 the daughters of Lords. Are we OK? 364 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:48,680 Are you following me? Asik will have probably most 365 00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,000 probably marry one of the daughters of Lot. 366 00:32:52,440 --> 00:33:03,740 And then if again the time he had issue with the destruction 367 00:33:06,300 --> 00:33:12,180 of Sodom and Gomorrah and the Angel said move to the mountain, 368 00:33:13,140 --> 00:33:17,260 maybe after the trouble was over, he now decided to return 369 00:33:17,260 --> 00:33:24,800 back to Father Abraham. Because the destruction of Sodom 370 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,000 and Gomorrah happened in chapter 19. 371 00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:35,840 The decision for who will marry, I mean who will Isaac marry came 372 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,680 up in chapter 24. Are you following the sequence? 373 00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:47,120 So assuming in chapter 19 he reunited with Father Abraham, 374 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:52,800 there may not be any need for Father Abraham asking alias of 375 00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:57,080 Damascus to travel very far again to go and get a wife for 376 00:33:57,240 --> 00:33:59,560 Isaac. Because the priority and the 377 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,480 concern of Father Abraham is that Isaac, my son, should marry 378 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:09,040 from our lineage and not marry from among the foreigners. 379 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:15,280 Am I talking to somebody? So he lost permanent connection 380 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:20,440 to the Abrahamic covenant through a possible marriage 381 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,719 between Isaac and any one of his daughters. 382 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:30,679 However, by his wrong choices he bungled all this. 383 00:34:30,679 --> 00:34:36,360 He disengaged prematurely. His wrong choice led to a number 384 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,960 of many messy outcome. He became vulnerable to the 385 00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,960 enemy's attack. He was captured by the enemies. 386 00:34:47,639 --> 00:34:51,040 The daughters stayed single because they could not marry 387 00:34:51,159 --> 00:34:56,000 homosexual Sodom men. Hello. 388 00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:02,520 Up to the point where the Angel came to Sodom, those daughters 389 00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,160 were described as virgins. Are you with me? 390 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,680 So they stayed pure because they could not marry homosocial Sodom 391 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:16,600 men. However, when all hope was lost 392 00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:22,360 due to the wrong choices of the father, AOB hear me, hear me 393 00:35:22,360 --> 00:35:24,240 well. Parents hear me, hear me well 394 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:28,800 again. The choices you are making 395 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:32,880 today, the consequences of them, will not only be about you, it 396 00:35:32,880 --> 00:35:34,560 will also be about these children. 397 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:41,240 So out of desperation his daughters got him drunk. 398 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,240 I made them father their children. 399 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:46,800 You'll find out in Genesis chapter 19. 400 00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,520 That story is captured in verse 30 to 38. 401 00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:01,560 Whereas these daughters of Lords should be Abraham first 402 00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:09,400 consideration as wife to Isaac. And I'll prove that because by 403 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,520 the time Isaac was right for marriage in Genesis 24, they 404 00:36:13,520 --> 00:36:16,040 were already defined by their father. 405 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,440 And of course, by the marriage standard of that era, Isaac was 406 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,960 free to marry any of Lot's daughters. 407 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:34,680 Isaac mother Sarah was that for all half sister to father 408 00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:38,040 Abraham, you know, in many places in the journey of Father 409 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,880 Hebram. OK, when he perceived that 410 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,360 there's going to be a problem or a contention over Sarah, he will 411 00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,440 not introduce Sarah as my wife. He will rather introduce Sarah 412 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:55,000 as sister. And he was not lying because 413 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:59,200 Sarah was Father Hebram after half sister. 414 00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:07,040 She was the daughters of Abrams father from another mother. 415 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:12,040 You can find out in Genesis chapter 20 verse 12 where I said 416 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:22,200 point blank that Sarah was my sister do not the daughter of my 417 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,360 mother but the daughter of my father. 418 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:31,200 So by the marriage standard of that era, it was permissible for 419 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:36,960 Isaac to marry any of Lord's daughters. 420 00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:43,880 So we can therefore say that it was perhaps due to in 421 00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:48,800 availability of Lord's daughters that Abraham had to send Eliza 422 00:37:48,800 --> 00:37:54,080 to go back to another of his kinsmen, the man named Betwell, 423 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:57,560 the son of Naho, Abraham's brother. 424 00:37:58,960 --> 00:38:07,120 So the father of Rebecca, OK is Betwell, and is the son of now 425 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:14,000 OK, and now his brother to Abraham. 426 00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:19,520 And it was living farther away, and that was from there that 427 00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:27,600 Eliza had to source for Rebecca. So this era of Lords became 428 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:34,840 compounded and it emanated from a simple but costly error of 429 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:39,960 judgment of disconnecting from his destiny helper. 430 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:48,200 Whereas the opponent was open to him to occupy the office of the 431 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:53,640 heir to Hebram when Isaac was still being awaited, but he did 432 00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:57,600 not see that vacuum to occupy it. 433 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,560 So he made many wrong choices that turn out with mercy 434 00:39:04,240 --> 00:39:06,960 outcomes. I pray in the name of Jesus 435 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:12,360 decisions that we take, I will produce mercy outcome. 436 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:17,440 The Spirit of God will direct you away from such decisions in 437 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:23,480 the name of Jesus. No Imagine if Isaac had married 438 00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:26,520 any of those wonderful daughters, even Jacob. 439 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:31,280 OK, when he was to get married Rebecca came up. 440 00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:36,120 I said go to Laba my brothers house. 441 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,800 That is where you should marry the you should marry from. 442 00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:44,800 So from our study of our Elias of Damascus rose to become a 443 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:51,160 confidant of Father Abraham, we can deduce that friendship is an 444 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:55,760 institution born by long time interaction. 445 00:40:00,600 --> 00:40:06,280 Friendship is an institution borne by long time interaction, 446 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:10,760 the type that is characterized by loyalty. 447 00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:20,000 That was what Lot lacked, but ilias I had in abundance. 448 00:40:22,120 --> 00:40:27,480 So friendship is an institution borne by long time interaction 449 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,960 characterized by loyalty and not just mere cultural connection. 450 00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:43,400 So that was why Abraham didn't bother looking for Lords I hand 451 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:46,640 over to him. OK, He had to hand over to 452 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:52,080 Ilyasa of Damascus that has fulfilled that condition of long 453 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:54,840 time interaction. Characterized by what? 454 00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:59,880 Loyalty. So friendship, OK, that will 455 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:05,920 make you rise OK to the level whereby you benefit from both 456 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,160 the horizontal blessing that come from friendship and the 457 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:14,960 fatika blessing that come from being friends to people of 458 00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:20,400 higher Iraqi does not follow cultural connection line. 459 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:26,280 It follow long time interaction line that is characterized by 460 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:30,640 loyalty. It is never a short time 461 00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:35,760 spontaneous event. It's never what a short time 462 00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:41,720 spontaneous event? How much are we going to say? 463 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:49,960 Abraham knew about lots because it is engaged to Ali. 464 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:54,080 Are we together? Are we together? 465 00:41:57,480 --> 00:42:03,320 The sale boy OK is more trusted than you by your uncle and you 466 00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:05,480 will commit so much responsibility to him and then 467 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:07,320 you'll be complaining and grumbling behind that. 468 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:11,800 My uncle did not like me. Your uncle did not like will not 469 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,680 Will not. He likes you, he loves you, OK, 470 00:42:14,680 --> 00:42:19,040 but you have not satisfied the condition of long time 471 00:42:19,240 --> 00:42:23,400 interaction characterized by loyalty that can make him to 472 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:27,680 have been able to prove and test you so that he can now commit 473 00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:30,760 his estate unto you. Are you with me? 474 00:42:31,920 --> 00:42:38,000 You just want to count on cultural connection to get it. 475 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:42,480 It doesn't follow that way. So Elias has stayed long enough 476 00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:47,520 to be regarded as the Eddest, Eddest son of the House of 477 00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:51,600 Abraham. And then you will also read from 478 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:58,280 that account in Genesis 24 that it took Abraham a 10 year old 479 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:02,760 age before assigning him the most critical assignment of 480 00:43:02,760 --> 00:43:06,840 getting a wife for Isaac. Genesis 24 the 1st 2 verses 481 00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,280 again. And Abraham was who were 482 00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:14,640 striking in age and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. 483 00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:20,240 And Abraham said on to is eldest servant of his house. 484 00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:26,160 There were other servants there. Are you with me? 485 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:31,920 Lord was not yet dead. But this responsibility can't go 486 00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:39,400 to any short time servant and it can't go to the cultural line of 487 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:42,400 the Lords. OK, that was not stable. 488 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:47,560 Are we together? It has to go to the earlier 489 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,360 Sabbath of his house that rule over all that he had. 490 00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:58,120 And of course, as we try to wind down to continue next week. 491 00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:06,680 This aligned perfectly with our Lord Jesus Christ in the way he 492 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:13,480 also handled the progressive development of his disciple to 493 00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:17,680 the point where he said at this point I will not just regard you 494 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,880 as disciple, but I will call you my friend. 495 00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:23,240 So this aligned perfectly with our logistics. 496 00:44:23,240 --> 00:44:28,360 Christ Mulder who took his time before he designated his 497 00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:34,360 disciples as friends. It took him so more time before 498 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:42,080 he designated them as a friend In 1515 of Gospel account to 499 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:48,560 Saint John Hensford. I call you not servants, for the 500 00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:50,920 servant knew it not. What is Lord? 501 00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:59,440 Do it now. That's your uncle's business 502 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:03,560 that you want him to entrust to you. 503 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:07,400 How much do you know about how he's doing it? 504 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:15,880 But I have called you friends for all things that I have heard 505 00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,560 of my father, I have made known unto you. 506 00:45:21,320 --> 00:45:26,120 Then when we parallel this with the time he designated them a 507 00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:29,640 post to, you will discover that it didn't take him so much time 508 00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,040 before he designed them a post to. 509 00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,440 But it took him time before he designated them as friends. 510 00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:41,680 That again bothers the facts. OK or confirm my position that 511 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:44,440 the highest form of interpersonal relationship is 512 00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:54,600 what is friendship wasn't work or lose or what opposed to am I 513 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:59,600 talking to somebody. So please know that it did not 514 00:45:59,600 --> 00:46:03,960 take him so much time or so much time to designate them as 515 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:09,960 opposed to Luke 613. And when it was dead, he called 516 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:17,040 on to him his disciples and of them he chose 12 whom your whom 517 00:46:17,040 --> 00:46:21,640 also he named apostles. That happened very highly in his 518 00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:24,520 ministry. Am I talking to somebody? 519 00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:32,360 So it's important that you now know this related to your office 520 00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:39,560 OK of service is different from your office of God's confidence. 521 00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:46,560 So be an apostle, pastor, evangelist, Esteria. 522 00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,960 All these are service level relationship. 523 00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:55,360 They are only present to friendship level relationship. 524 00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:03,320 I'm a pastor, I'm an evangelist, I'm an apostle, I am a dicky. 525 00:47:03,360 --> 00:47:09,120 All of these, they are service level relationship, they are 526 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:12,320 only president to friendship level relationship. 527 00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:16,360 So you can come into those offices, OK where you are here 528 00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:23,920 to be a friend of God. You will notice that not all 529 00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:28,200 patriarchs of faith operated at the friends at the friendship 530 00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:31,880 level with God. Not all patriarchs operated at 531 00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:36,680 the friendship level with God. I pray that we so grew that God 532 00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:41,000 will be able to trust us OK to the degree that will become his 533 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:47,360 friends in the name of Jesus. So in the same manner that not 534 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:52,520 all patrias rose to the level of being friend with God, not all 535 00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:55,200 pastors operate at the friendship level with God. 536 00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:58,960 Not all pastor operate at the friendship level with God. 537 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:06,120 After Abraham. We have to wait and it was Moses 538 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,280 time before we have another friend of God. 539 00:48:11,720 --> 00:48:15,480 Go read your Bible critically after Abraham. 540 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:20,920 We have to wait until it was Moses time before we had another 541 00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:24,960 friend of God, Not Jacob, not Isaac. 542 00:48:25,360 --> 00:48:30,720 I think that friendship status, why it is never a cultural 543 00:48:30,720 --> 00:48:34,680 inheritance. I said that already when we are 544 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:43,480 looking at Lords Iliaza Ibrahim that it didn't follow the 545 00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,400 cultural connection line. Are we together? 546 00:48:50,440 --> 00:48:57,160 So friendship is never a cultural inheritance, rather 547 00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:00,680 friendship is learning and loyalty based. 548 00:49:05,880 --> 00:49:17,720 Someone O3 verse 7 He made known his ways unto Moses, his acts 549 00:49:18,720 --> 00:49:25,720 unto the children of Israel. 2 clear categories of relationship 550 00:49:25,720 --> 00:49:31,600 with God, the one that know his way and the order that is just 551 00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:35,880 either a beneficiary or a spectator of his acts. 552 00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:38,760 And you can fall into any category. 553 00:49:39,840 --> 00:49:44,280 OK, but I pray over my destiny I will fall into the Moses 554 00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:47,560 category. I will know the ways of the law. 555 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:53,640 Hello, Jesus is a miracle worker, but it's also the way, 556 00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:57,800 the truth and the life. So do you know Him as the way, 557 00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,000 the truth and the life? Or you only experience Him as a 558 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:05,800 miracle worker, as one that give you bread, as the one that hands 559 00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:08,480 out your prayer? Or do you know Him as the way, 560 00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:10,800 the truth and life? You are safe. 561 00:50:10,800 --> 00:50:18,840 Far from starting the journey of becoming a friend of God, He 562 00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:25,920 made known His ways unto Moses. No wonder Moses who can become a 563 00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:34,710 miracle worker. He could pass the rest his acts 564 00:50:35,150 --> 00:50:42,350 unto the children of Israel. They needed protein, oh quirky, 565 00:50:42,910 --> 00:50:48,950 they needed food. Manner in down their water was 566 00:50:48,950 --> 00:50:51,830 bitter. So they were either spectators 567 00:50:51,830 --> 00:50:55,310 of the wonders of God or partakers of the wonders of God. 568 00:50:55,470 --> 00:51:00,640 They didn't know the way of God. Even those that were companions 569 00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:07,040 to Moses, OK, one day they stood up and said, is it only Moses 570 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:10,720 that God is speaking to? We are also prophet and God say 571 00:51:10,720 --> 00:51:16,240 well OK, in this Kingdom there are men and there are boys. 572 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:28,960 The men's know the ways of God. The boys, the girls, they only 573 00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,600 see the hearts or experience the hearts. 574 00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:43,560 Numbers 12 and Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses, that's this 575 00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:49,080 one, because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married, for 576 00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:50,880 he had married an Ethiopian woman. 577 00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:57,400 And they said, had the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses? 578 00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:03,080 Are they not spoken also by us? And the Lord had it. 579 00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:09,040 I said to you already that not all patriarchs rose to the 580 00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:12,920 level, not all matriarchs rose to the level of becoming a 581 00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,800 friend to God. In the same way, not all pastor 582 00:52:16,960 --> 00:52:19,200 operate at the level of friendship with God. 583 00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,640 Service level relationship is different from friendship level 584 00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:30,040 relationship. So they were at the service 585 00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,000 level relationship and they were comparing themselves with a man 586 00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,640 that has rushed to the level of friendship relationship. 587 00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,200 And they said had the Lord spoken only by Moses? 588 00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,120 Had he not spoken also by us? And the Lord had it. 589 00:52:46,240 --> 00:52:50,760 Please young man, when God start to move you, I started to know 590 00:52:52,720 --> 00:52:58,360 to operate in some levels, OK, those babas OK, because they 591 00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:01,240 don't have so much energy to jump up and down the way you are 592 00:53:01,240 --> 00:53:02,840 jumping off. Be very careful. 593 00:53:02,960 --> 00:53:06,360 You may not have attained the level by which they are 594 00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:14,710 operating we go. They may not have your charisma. 595 00:53:15,670 --> 00:53:20,870 In fact, they may lack your kind of popularity, OK, but the kind 596 00:53:20,870 --> 00:53:25,520 their own kind of route has grown deeper, deeper, deeper 597 00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:27,600 down there, though you have grown taller. 598 00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:35,360 Am I talking to somebody? And they said had Lord this 599 00:53:35,360 --> 00:53:38,240 spoken only by Moses? Had you not spoken also by all 600 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:44,680 and the Lord had it. You know, you you, you know what 601 00:53:44,680 --> 00:53:48,920 was tempting them to do all of that because as at that time the 602 00:53:48,920 --> 00:53:56,880 road of Iran, OK, as boded almond and the rod of Moses is 603 00:53:56,880 --> 00:54:11,520 there as dry as it was. I am I talking to somebody is as 604 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:15,640 dry as it has always been, but it has never lost its potency 605 00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,760 because as a relationship, OK, that happened between God and 606 00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:22,480 Moses. OK. 607 00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:33,320 That convert potency upon that road? 608 00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:48,280 Verse 3 Now the man Moses was very meek. 609 00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:54,880 Kumar Brad Khakri Kumar le billboards everywhere. 610 00:54:59,760 --> 00:55:03,120 Are you with me? Because since we are not seeing 611 00:55:03,240 --> 00:55:06,840 his face on the Billboard everywhere at every junction in 612 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,400 the city, he may not be as popular as this one that are 613 00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:19,640 always on big billboards. It's not about how much, it's 614 00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:23,120 not about billboard appearance, it's about how much of God's 615 00:55:23,120 --> 00:55:32,730 grace you carry the protest confound you by your intimacy 616 00:55:32,850 --> 00:55:42,140 with God. Now the man was this was very 617 00:55:42,140 --> 00:55:45,820 mean above all men which were upon the face of the earth. 618 00:55:45,860 --> 00:55:53,880 But you will not see it in this mannerism that it carries such 619 00:55:53,880 --> 00:56:00,320 grace. What it does so far only let me 620 00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:04,680 pay. Let me pay both. 621 00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:10,680 Say you go and read it. Well, by the time it was, it was 622 00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,240 not only the rod of Iran that was attractive. 623 00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:26,440 I saw Rene Yatto. Hello. 624 00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:41,280 It's not by the rope, it's by the potency of your spiritual 625 00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:52,960 anointment. Talking 626 00:57:09,370 --> 00:57:18,250 to somebody. And the law specks suddenly. 627 00:57:18,250 --> 00:57:23,370 On to Moses. Moses will not answer you in 628 00:57:23,370 --> 00:57:25,770 this matter. God Himself took it upon himself 629 00:57:25,770 --> 00:57:29,530 to answer it, and unto hero, and. 630 00:57:29,570 --> 00:57:33,010 Unto Miriam come. Out E3 onto the Tabernacle of 631 00:57:33,010 --> 00:57:36,450 the congression and the three came out and lock him down in 632 00:57:36,450 --> 00:57:39,690 the pillar of the cloud and stood in the door of the 633 00:57:39,690 --> 00:57:43,530 Tabernacle and call Heron and Miram and they both came forth. 634 00:57:43,530 --> 00:57:47,410 Oh yeah, ambassador. And he said, here now my words, 635 00:57:47,890 --> 00:57:51,770 if there be a prophet among you, I, the Lord will make myself 636 00:57:51,770 --> 00:57:54,890 known unto him in the vision. I will speak unto him in a 637 00:57:54,890 --> 00:57:58,570 dream. You. 638 00:57:58,650 --> 00:58:01,170 See the things by which we judge and we. 639 00:58:01,170 --> 00:58:05,170 Raise men of God to be very high in this day are the things that 640 00:58:05,170 --> 00:58:07,090 God said. They are the lesser parameters. 641 00:58:10,330 --> 00:58:15,650 He said. If there be a prophet among you, 642 00:58:15,850 --> 00:58:20,090 how the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision. 643 00:58:20,210 --> 00:58:27,570 Oh, Pastor, for now I will speak out to him in a dream. 644 00:58:29,050 --> 00:58:33,810 My my savant Moses is not so Moses. 645 00:58:37,130 --> 00:58:41,250 Is God talking to somebody? Is somebody upgrading and 646 00:58:41,250 --> 00:58:45,090 learning? He said My. 647 00:58:45,090 --> 00:58:47,610 Most my Sabah Moses. Is not. 648 00:58:47,610 --> 00:58:52,170 So who is faithful in all? My house. 649 00:58:53,490 --> 00:58:56,330 So what graduated into the? Frenzy level was. 650 00:58:56,330 --> 00:59:06,450 Faithfulness, not the gifts. With him I speak mouth. 651 00:59:06,650 --> 00:59:11,730 To mouth so when God speak to Moses, there is no drama about 652 00:59:11,730 --> 00:59:17,650 it. Hello, are you with me? 653 00:59:18,490 --> 00:59:20,770 OK, where you are your friend? If I don't sorrow, is there any 654 00:59:20,770 --> 00:59:24,050 drama about it? Does he follow any particular 655 00:59:24,050 --> 00:59:26,890 protocol? Am I talking to somebody? 656 00:59:33,810 --> 00:59:36,610 Within my speak, mouth to mouth, even apparently are. 657 00:59:36,650 --> 00:59:41,930 Not in dark speeches and the similitude of the Lord. 658 00:59:41,930 --> 00:59:46,130 Shall he? Behold, wherefore then were ye 659 00:59:46,130 --> 00:59:51,650 not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? 660 00:59:58,830 --> 01:00:00,630 Let me draw the country here by saying. 661 01:00:02,270 --> 01:00:05,230 God desire. Is that we rise. 662 01:00:05,230 --> 01:00:09,130 Beyond the multitude status to the friendship status. 663 01:00:12,850 --> 01:00:15,410 But why we are saying this? It's. 664 01:00:15,410 --> 01:00:21,970 Important that I draw this important caution that when we 665 01:00:21,970 --> 01:00:27,650 emphasize friendship status, we are not saying graduate House of 666 01:00:27,810 --> 01:00:34,970 discipleship status. So, so that somebody will not go 667 01:00:34,970 --> 01:00:37,330 ahead and be boasting. Up I was a disciple man. 668 01:00:37,570 --> 01:00:41,930 Or you're Lola. I told you the example. 669 01:00:41,930 --> 01:00:47,130 Of Jesus Christ. Philippian. 5. 670 01:00:47,810 --> 01:00:50,370 From verse 2, do you go with God? 671 01:00:50,370 --> 01:00:56,810 He didn't see see that say something entitled to and then 672 01:00:56,810 --> 01:00:59,290 start to misbehave and equate himself with God. 673 01:01:02,090 --> 01:01:04,650 So. Be warned, you don't graduate. 674 01:01:04,650 --> 01:01:09,690 From the discipleship status to attend the friendship rank, but 675 01:01:09,690 --> 01:01:18,170 rather you excel in discipleship to be regarded as a friend so. 676 01:01:18,170 --> 01:01:24,010 You you excel in discipleship. Moses. 677 01:01:24,250 --> 01:01:28,610 Faithful in all my house. Then he became the friend of God 678 01:01:30,370 --> 01:01:32,970 alias I stayed. Long. 679 01:01:33,010 --> 01:01:38,770 Enough he remained A servant, yet the manager of the estate. 680 01:01:39,610 --> 01:01:44,970 Are you with me? And then Abraham, can I say? 681 01:01:45,010 --> 01:01:51,330 Oh, I commit everything. Into your hand, including Isaac 682 01:01:51,570 --> 01:01:53,570 my. Son, how my son will. 683 01:01:53,570 --> 01:02:00,650 Get it right so you excel in discipleship to attain the 684 01:02:00,730 --> 01:02:03,770 friendship stick. You don't graduate out of 685 01:02:04,730 --> 01:02:08,210 discipleship. God bless you in Jesus name. 686 01:02:08,850 --> 01:02:11,250 Don't be left in the dark. Get proper. 687 01:02:11,330 --> 01:02:13,490 Understanding of life through the Word of God. 688 01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:16,170 My people perish for lack of knowledge. 689 01:02:16,330 --> 01:02:19,090 The Word of God is an illumination which gives 690 01:02:19,090 --> 01:02:21,690 direction. Remain placed as Reverend was 691 01:02:21,690 --> 01:02:25,490 far and illuminates your mind with the Word of God with all 692 01:02:25,490 --> 01:02:27,370 simplicity and clarity.