1 00:00:02,880 --> 00:00:06,760 He lives, he lives, he lives Amen and because he does the old 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:11,720 hymns as I can face Amen tomorrow as a result of that 3 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,560 Amen don't want to go Amen without him. 4 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:19,600 Moses said Lord, we we don't want to go up hit her except 5 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:24,080 thou go with us, Amen except thou go with us. 6 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:29,360 And so I want him to be with me. I need him in my today, thankful 7 00:00:29,360 --> 00:00:32,320 that he was in my yesterday, but I need him for my tomorrow, 8 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:35,080 Amen, as well. Hallelujah. 9 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:36,800 We're going to be turning to what? 10 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:44,160 You got it. Let's stand tonight, Amen. 11 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,240 We'll be turning to Genesis, the glory. 12 00:00:47,240 --> 00:00:49,720 Amen, Hallelujah. You know, I'm going to be 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,360 reading from 2 chapters tonight, both from the book of Genesis, 14 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,640 Genesis chapter #45 matter of fact, you might as well just 15 00:00:55,640 --> 00:00:58,800 just let your Bible lay open to the book of Genesis tonight. 16 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:01,240 Amen. Genesis 45. 17 00:01:01,520 --> 00:01:02,840 Amen. I'm going to read a verse there 18 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,640 and also be reading from verse 46 or chapter 46. 19 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,160 And brother Zach, if you don't mind, I'm going to be grabbing 20 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,400 verse 1/2 just for out of out of here to be get started. 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:16,360 I know it's somewhere in that list of scriptures later as 22 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:20,240 well, but let's just touch it. Let's just give it a kiss here 23 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:22,440 right as we get started. OK, Amen. 24 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:25,800 Genesis chapter 45 and verse #20 Amen. 25 00:01:25,800 --> 00:01:29,920 We'll read here this evening. This is all the story of Jacob 26 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:35,200 and Joseph and those 12 tribes or 12 brothers of, of sons 27 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:38,280 rather of Jacob. And just kind of set the thing 28 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,880 because I know we're kind of jumping into a story here, but 29 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:45,560 Joseph has been gone for many years, as you know. 30 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:49,040 He's went through being sowed into the slavery, been in the 31 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:52,200 the pit, so to speak. He's been in prison and he's 32 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:55,040 arose now to second command of Israel. 33 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:58,280 Famine is in the land, right? The brothers are coming to get 34 00:01:58,280 --> 00:01:59,880 grain. They've come back for the second 35 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:02,880 time to get grain. Joseph has revealed himself to 36 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:06,000 his brothers. And so now he wants everybody to 37 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:08,880 come to Egypt. All right, So that's the staging 38 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:11,760 of everything. And so this is this what I'm 39 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,920 going to read to you is what Egypt what Egypt said. 40 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:18,560 This is what Pharaoh said concerning going and get Jacob 41 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,240 and the others and bringing their families. 42 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:23,000 He said in verse 20, and we'll look at other verses of this and 43 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:24,840 more of this will make sense as we go along. 44 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,480 But this is what Egypt said of everything that that you bring 45 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:30,640 your little ones, your family, he said in verse 20. 46 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,720 Also regard not your. Stuff. 47 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:41,280 For the good of all, the land of Egypt is yours. 48 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:49,000 In chapter #46 we're going to read what Jacob actually did. 49 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:52,200 All right, verse one. I'm just go grab just a little 50 00:02:52,200 --> 00:02:54,880 bit there from verse one, brother Alex tonight. 51 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:57,360 And Israel. Israel is Jacob, remember his 52 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,680 name was changed. And Israel, chapter 46, verse 53 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,120 one. And Israel took his journey with 54 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:07,960 all that he had. Look at verse number six. 55 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:12,080 And they took their cattle and their goods, which they had 56 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,080 gotten in the land of Canaan and came to Egypt. 57 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:19,080 Jacob and all his seed with him, his sons, his son's sons with 58 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:22,560 him, his daughters, his son's daughters, and all his seed he 59 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,960 brought with him into Egypt. So I want you to see two things 60 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:29,240 here. Egypt says don't regard your 61 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,840 stuff. That's what it was told to 62 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:34,600 Jacob. But Jacob, when the trip 63 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,440 actually came to be, took all that he had. 64 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:47,040 Because the only way to survive in Egypt is not letting go of 65 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,240 some of the things that you have from the promise. 66 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:55,160 And for a little while tonight, I want to minister this Living 67 00:03:55,160 --> 00:04:00,920 in Egypt without losing Canaan. Amen. 68 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,240 Living in Egypt without losing Canaan. 69 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:08,560 Can we pray right now Father, I thank you Lord for your spirit 70 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,520 that we have felt and experienced God in this place 71 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:15,520 today I pray O God emboldened us Lord, through your word and by 72 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,880 your word God let it be words of life. 73 00:04:17,880 --> 00:04:20,760 Scripture says it is the Lord it's words of instruction. 74 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:23,840 I pray God you're able to captivate our minds right now. 75 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:28,200 Help us God lend a ear to what heaven may say Lord tonight 76 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,760 through his word God open myself to it. 77 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:33,720 I need to hear from heaven personally tonight, God, for my 78 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:37,120 own life and my walk and I'll praise you and I thank you Lord, 79 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,640 for what you'll do in Jesus name that I pray in the church say 80 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,720 Amen, Amen. God bless you tonight in Jesus 81 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,040 name. You might want to turn over to 82 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:47,720 John chapter 17 here this evening. 83 00:04:48,120 --> 00:04:51,560 I ask you the question tonight, how, how do you maintain or how 84 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,840 do we maintain a biblical identity and biblical scruples? 85 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:00,720 Without assimilating to the environment in which we live, is 86 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:04,480 is isolation. The answer is adopting the 87 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,120 worldview of our surroundings. Is that the best course of 88 00:05:08,120 --> 00:05:11,640 action for us? In other words, how can we best 89 00:05:11,840 --> 00:05:13,960 be in the world and impact our world? 90 00:05:13,960 --> 00:05:18,520 Without becoming like the world, Jesus gave us the answer in his 91 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,560 High Priestly prayer in John chapter 17. 92 00:05:21,840 --> 00:05:24,520 You can look through that chapter as I'm talking to you 93 00:05:24,520 --> 00:05:27,560 tonight, but Jesus is praying of this prayer. 94 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:32,560 It is His flesh that is crying out, if you will, to the Spirit. 95 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,880 He's testified that He walked in His earthly ministry and in His 96 00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:42,720 earthly ministry He made it His mode of operation of trying to 97 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:48,240 give glory unto God and make God's glory evident in the earth 98 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,120 in which he was living. And he even speaks to God in no 99 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:56,880 uncertain terms that God, I made your name known to your 100 00:05:56,880 --> 00:05:59,440 disciples. I made your name known unto the 101 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,960 world. And Jesus even says at a certain 102 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:06,840 spot, he says, now I'm going to give to this world and these 103 00:06:06,840 --> 00:06:09,760 people and those ones that I've rubbed shoulders with God, I'm 104 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,160 to give them things that I have received from you. 105 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:18,080 You'll begin to read in the Scripture, like verse #9 that 106 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,520 the Bible says that as Jesus prays, he prays for them, 107 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:26,680 Speaking of his disciples. And this is kind of weird and 108 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,120 awkward really for us. Says that he prayed for them and 109 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:33,320 not the world, and that that almost takes us back a few 110 00:06:33,320 --> 00:06:36,920 steps, you know, for him to pray for his disciples and not for 111 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:39,080 the world. That seems a little peculiar, 112 00:06:39,280 --> 00:06:42,800 but His prayer was for those that would still yet be 113 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,560 remaining in the world. After He had ascended, after He 114 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,160 had translated from glory to glory, so to speak, and was no 115 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:53,440 longer in the world, He was offering up a prayer for those 116 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,720 that would still be in the world. 117 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,640 And His prayer was this, you see it in verse #11 He was praying 118 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:02,960 that those that were still yet in the world, namely His 119 00:07:02,960 --> 00:07:06,360 disciples, that they would be kept. 120 00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:09,760 The Bible says right that they would be kept. 121 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,880 He he seemed it seemed odd again that he would pray for them and 122 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,160 not the world, but he's praying that his disciples would be 123 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:18,200 kept. But the world, if you understand 124 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,440 this, the reason why he's doing this is because the world would 125 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:26,120 be left without hope. All right, without hope 126 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:30,640 concerning the message right concerning someone pointing them 127 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:35,360 to the Lord if it had not been for the disciples being kept and 128 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,600 keeping the name and propagating the name, fulfilling their 129 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:41,880 mission on the earth. Then as Jesus's hands and feet. 130 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,840 So he says I'm going away, but I still need a representation in 131 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:48,040 the earth. And so I'm going to pray for 132 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,200 them that they would be kept and that they would propagate your 133 00:07:52,200 --> 00:07:54,480 name everywhere they go, and that they would keep. 134 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:58,080 They were to be the agents of change in the New Testament 135 00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:03,000 Scripture, in the New Testament world, just as Jesus had been in 136 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:05,880 his earthly ministry. As a matter of fact, as Jesus 137 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,360 contemplates his ascension, his believers, he remember he said I 138 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,520 am the light of the world. But then he changes and tells 139 00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:13,960 them you are the light of the world. 140 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:18,040 You're going to be the agents of change in this world. 141 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:22,000 And so I need them to be kept, and I need them to also keep 142 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,240 their association and their identity with me and with my 143 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:29,640 message and with my concepts. And so why? 144 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:34,520 So that they could influence the world in which they are living. 145 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:38,240 Notice what the Scripture says Jesus even says here in John 17. 146 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,320 He says, I gave them the word Lord that you gave me. 147 00:08:41,559 --> 00:08:45,080 I gave them the same word, the same word that I had, I gave to 148 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,600 them. And I want them to tell others 149 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:52,080 about that word in their ministries as I did in my 150 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:54,760 ministries. He wanted them to know you can't 151 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,520 propagate or tell another gospel for that matter. 152 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:00,280 Even the apostle Paul said there's not another gospel, He 153 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:03,480 said, So I want them to say the same things that I said. 154 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:08,040 They need to be pan handlers, if you will, of the same message, 155 00:09:08,040 --> 00:09:11,200 the same word. And Jesus is quite direct. 156 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:16,440 Look at verse #14 He said they are not of the world, just as 157 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:19,840 I'm not of the world. And he said in verse #15 so 158 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,320 Lord, don't take them out of the world, right? 159 00:09:23,560 --> 00:09:26,320 He says they're not of it, but don't take them out of it. 160 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,120 Verse 18 even tells us He says I've sent them into the world 161 00:09:32,720 --> 00:09:37,560 and it's this otherworldliness aspect of the disciples that he 162 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:40,840 wanted to use for the world's advantage. 163 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,720 There's something even similar that's spoken in the New 164 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,520 Testament scripture. The apostle Paul is, is being 165 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:51,080 rebuked in certain terms by the apostle Peter. 166 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,800 The Jews, of course, had this idea that that that to be 167 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:57,480 Christian, you had to be Jewish. There was an idea of that 168 00:09:57,480 --> 00:09:59,400 floating down around in their age. 169 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,560 To be Christian, you had to be Jewish. 170 00:10:01,560 --> 00:10:04,120 And and that's what was being towed to the Gentiles. 171 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:07,640 But that wasn't true. But but the that idea was being 172 00:10:07,640 --> 00:10:10,080 shared. And here's what what what Peter 173 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,880 said to the apostle Paul in Galatians 214, he says, But when 174 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,880 I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth 175 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:21,520 of the Gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou being a 176 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:26,680 Jew liveth after the manner of Gentiles and not as do the Jews, 177 00:10:26,760 --> 00:10:31,960 why compel us, thou the Gentiles to live as the Jews? 178 00:10:32,120 --> 00:10:36,520 In other words, Paul told Peter, if this idea that everybody's 179 00:10:36,520 --> 00:10:41,480 trying to sell that you got to be a Jew, a man in order to be a 180 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,600 Christian, he says, then why are you living like a Gentile, a man 181 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:48,040 trying to convince them to be a Jew? 182 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,480 He said, how can you convince a Gentile to live like a Jew when 183 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:54,720 you're not even practicing a Jewish type of practice 184 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:56,880 yourself? He he was just basically 185 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,720 pointing out that's absurd. That's ridiculous. 186 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:02,760 Why would a Gentile want to be a part of something that you you 187 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,120 don't even practice? That's what he was saying. 188 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:09,760 Paul was arguing that it really, though, wasn't about being 189 00:11:09,760 --> 00:11:11,720 Jewish, but about being Christian. 190 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:15,400 But the essence, if I can say tonight, the essence of the 191 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,600 argument is applicable even for our life today. 192 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,840 Let me just put it another way. If a Christian behaves like 193 00:11:22,840 --> 00:11:26,680 everybody else, how can you persuade someone that's not a 194 00:11:26,680 --> 00:11:30,120 Christian to live a Christian life as being the best way to 195 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:32,200 live if you don't live in yourself? 196 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:39,240 That's absurd. Yeah. 197 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:41,600 I mean, it would be like standing on the soapbox saying 198 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:45,280 this is the best life there is living, giving testimony to it. 199 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:48,240 Yeah, over in the private sectors of my life and maybe 200 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,480 when I thought no one else would see her know, living not like 201 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:53,160 that. What type of message am I 202 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:56,040 sending? Is it the best life or is it it? 203 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,120 Is it the greatest thing that happened to me or is it not? 204 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,240 So you must understand, and I think it's important to look at 205 00:12:09,240 --> 00:12:14,480 this tonight, that Jesus does not transition to praying for 206 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:18,560 those that would believe upon his disciples word or the world. 207 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:22,040 He did not transition to praying for the world until he had 208 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,720 finished praying for his disciples. 209 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,480 And it was purposeful. He said I want them to be one 210 00:12:29,680 --> 00:12:33,200 with me as I am with God. What are you talking? 211 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,040 About. In other words, I want them to 212 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,680 be 1 not in the sense of being, you know, if you will, me in 213 00:12:38,680 --> 00:12:41,800 essence, but I want them to identify with me. 214 00:12:41,960 --> 00:12:43,880 I want them to be a oneness there. 215 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:46,040 I don't want that. I want this oneness to be that. 216 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:50,560 There's no variance in their mode of life compared to my mode 217 00:12:50,560 --> 00:12:53,560 of life. He wanted them to be one as I 218 00:12:53,560 --> 00:12:58,280 am, He said, with my Father, because that flesh that Jesus 219 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:02,880 had in his earthly ministry, the Bible says that Jesus did the 220 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:05,560 will and the dictates of his Father. 221 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,320 Anything that he was did, it's what his Father or the Spirit 222 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,880 wanted that flesh to do. He says I want that type of 223 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,240 oneness for my disciples. They're not living to the beat 224 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:19,840 of their own drum, but the beat of my drama is the rhythm that's 225 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,040 in their mind. It's the rhythm that's in their 226 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:23,840 talk. It's the rhythm that's in their 227 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,560 steps. I want them to have oneness like 228 00:13:26,560 --> 00:13:32,880 we have oneness. I Hey man, he desired that. 229 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:36,800 Someone say glory. So, Joseph, you'll just have 230 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:38,920 here you go walk with me. Are you happy? 231 00:13:38,920 --> 00:13:41,600 I mean, you're gonna have just walk with me here for a little 232 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,320 while tonight because Joseph has revealed himself to his brothers 233 00:13:45,840 --> 00:13:48,320 and he has requested them. Joseph has requested. 234 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:52,000 He said, guys, go back, Terry, not don't lose time in doing 235 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:53,320 this. I need you to go get dad. 236 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:55,840 I need you to go make sure all the families are gathered 237 00:13:55,840 --> 00:13:57,520 together. Come back to Egypt. 238 00:13:57,680 --> 00:14:00,640 All right, because there's still several years of famine that's 239 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,600 left. I believe there was five years 240 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,240 of famine that was left. He says you need to go get them. 241 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:08,360 And whenever they go to their dad, of course, their dad. 242 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,360 The last time that he knew to his own assumption by the 243 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:14,440 evidence of the bloody coat that was presented to him, his 244 00:14:14,440 --> 00:14:16,720 assumption was Joe Joseph is dead. 245 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:20,880 So now to hear that Joseph is alive brings great joy into his 246 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,520 life and in his heart. After assuming that his son had 247 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:27,960 been dead, he is now overjoyed. But listen to me. 248 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:33,000 Though that may be the case, Jacob still approaches this 249 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:37,560 decision with some care. Because before he'll ultimately 250 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:42,560 embark on this trip to Egypt, the Bible says on his way he 251 00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:45,520 stops by a place called Beersheba. 252 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,800 And he's going to out for sacrifices to God there. 253 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,200 And he's going to, if you will, converse with God there. 254 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:56,160 Amen. And this is reasonable because 255 00:14:56,160 --> 00:15:00,240 he is moving from Canaan to Egypt. 256 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:05,640 Someone say glory I, I please, please understand me. 257 00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,680 Whenever we talk about the Pharaoh Amen, that Joseph knew 258 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,080 and the Pharaoh that we would know when the children of Israel 259 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:13,640 was delivered from bondage. We're talking about two 260 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:16,400 different Pharaohs. I understand that I get that 261 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:20,800 they they've not yet had the 400 years of bondage Amen, in Israel 262 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,600 or anything like that. But what we must realize that 263 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:26,160 could be going through Jacob's mind is this. 264 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:31,760 I've had some ancestors that's already had some. 265 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:38,680 Dealings. With Egypt his dad did, his 266 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:44,000 grandfather did. The Bible says no sooner than 267 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,640 Abraham and Sarah made their trek from Earth Chaldees to 268 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:52,800 Haran to the land, a promise that there was famine in the 269 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:55,200 land. And what did they do? 270 00:15:55,520 --> 00:16:02,760 They went down into Egypt and it was their visit to Egypt that 271 00:16:02,760 --> 00:16:08,160 secured them a little handmaid by the name of Hagar that they 272 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:13,400 acquired from that trip to Egypt that would later become a player 273 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:18,440 in their impatience while they waited for the promise of God to 274 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:22,960 come to fruition in their life. And Abraham's union with that 275 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:27,120 Egyptian handmaid would produce something in their family that 276 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:31,000 would later. Mock and despise the promised 277 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,640 child, Isaac. And so Jacob, as he's thinking 278 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:39,160 about going down in Egypt, he says, I know that my grandfather 279 00:16:39,160 --> 00:16:41,880 went down in Egypt. And so I got to make sure this 280 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,120 is going to be the right option because he went down there and 281 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:48,240 got something that helped produce something in his life 282 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:51,440 that despised the promise that God. 283 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:56,440 So I got to consider real well about this trip to Egypt and I 284 00:16:56,440 --> 00:17:02,200 got to think here he said, my dad Bible says that Isaac in his 285 00:17:02,200 --> 00:17:04,880 lifetime likewise was a famine. And guess what? 286 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,240 He made plans to do what his dad had done. 287 00:17:07,599 --> 00:17:11,839 He's going to go down into Egypt, escape, so to speak, like 288 00:17:11,839 --> 00:17:14,920 his father Abraham. But the Bible tells us in 289 00:17:14,920 --> 00:17:21,400 Genesis 26 that God appeared unto Isaac and told him, don't 290 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:26,440 go down into Egypt. And as a result of all this, we 291 00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,120 see where. Isaac stayed. 292 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:35,680 In a time of famine in Gharar, a barren, desolate place, that God 293 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:40,000 caused Isaac to reap a harvest during the famine in a in a 294 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,480 barren place a hundredfold that year, and that Isaac grew in his 295 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:47,840 livestock and his herd and his cattle, and that he waxed right 296 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:49,440 in. The Bible says he became very 297 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:53,080 great. He had great store no doubt 298 00:17:53,080 --> 00:17:56,360 Jacob is thinking about. One of them went to Egypt, they 299 00:17:56,360 --> 00:17:58,680 picked up something that brought hurt to the family. 300 00:17:58,840 --> 00:18:01,960 One was told not to go down to Egypt and was blessed for 301 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,800 staying where they were. So what is a guy to do? 302 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,800 What does it got to do when you have that type of history in 303 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,360 your family? Not go because of what happened 304 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:19,040 to Abraham and Isaac. How could how could Jacob still 305 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:23,280 go and still make it? How can he go and not lose 306 00:18:24,680 --> 00:18:27,920 someone? Say man, oh God, like I got a 307 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,680 long walk to go here. Walk with me. 308 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:33,960 Hello, Amen. Egypt was sometimes called the 309 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:38,400 land of him because the descendants of Ham had settled 310 00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:41,800 that particular city. We know the character of Ham. 311 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:45,640 We know the character of that son, a man of Noah, as it was 312 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:48,520 brought to light. He was the one that uncovered, 313 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:52,120 or if you will, brought to light, the drunken, naked state 314 00:18:52,120 --> 00:18:56,280 of his father in his tent. Ham was the one that exploited 315 00:18:56,600 --> 00:19:00,480 his father's moment of weakness. And so no doubt Jacob was 316 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:04,760 wondering, should I subject my family to a place whose founder, 317 00:19:05,000 --> 00:19:09,160 a man and family origin, Amen, has a story of of lighting to 318 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,920 exploit another person's week. Is that what I should expose my 319 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:15,800 family to? And yet, whenever Jacob went to 320 00:19:15,840 --> 00:19:20,800 Beersheba and Genesis 46, God's word to him was this. 321 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:26,040 He said, Jacob, do not fear going down into Egypt. 322 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:30,400 He even said, Jacob, I'm going to go with you into Egypt. 323 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:35,320 He even said Jacob there in that place I'm going to make a view 324 00:19:35,320 --> 00:19:42,320 of great nation in Egypt. Look at Genesis 46 two through 325 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,400 4. You can read it with me and God 326 00:19:44,400 --> 00:19:48,320 spake into Israel the visions of the night and said Jacob, Jacob 327 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:52,360 and he said, here I am. And he said I am God the God of 328 00:19:52,360 --> 00:19:55,240 thy father. Fear not to go down into Egypt, 329 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,840 for I will there make thee of a great nation. 330 00:19:58,080 --> 00:20:01,440 I will go with thee into Egypt, and I will also surely bring the 331 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:05,680 up again, and Joseph shall be put his hand upon thy. 332 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:09,280 My eyes, what you understand tonight that there are two 333 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:10,960 different standards. Someone hear me. 334 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:14,440 There are two different standards for living in Egypt. 335 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:18,520 You have Egypt standard and then you had God's people standard. 336 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:21,680 Egypt standard for living in Egypt is this. 337 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:25,440 Don't worry about anything else. We'll provide for you what you 338 00:20:25,440 --> 00:20:27,680 need. Don't worry about anything else. 339 00:20:27,760 --> 00:20:30,960 We got the best that the world has to offer right here in 340 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:33,040 Egypt. You just adopt what we have. 341 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:36,080 You take what we have. You live with what we have and 342 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,720 don't you worry about anything else. 343 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:41,280 That is the standard of Egypt for living in Egypt for for 344 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,840 God's people, though it is quite different and quite contrary to 345 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,760 that for God's people is this. I might live in Egypt, I might 346 00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,240 have my housing in Egypt, I might be located in Egypt, but 347 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:54,720 I'm going to take with me everything that's in the land of 348 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:58,360 promise, everything that's associated with God and about 349 00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:01,360 God I'm going to surround my life with to be a. 350 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,560 So it's Amen. Note. 351 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,960 Note. Now, Joseph, after he revealed 352 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:13,600 himself to his brothers and learned that his father was 353 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:18,000 still alive, he urged them to come to Egypt. 354 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:22,080 I want you to notice what Joseph. 355 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,920 Says the Joseph that survived the slavery and the pit and 356 00:21:27,920 --> 00:21:36,160 being lied on in that land. Man that said, I can't sleep 357 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:38,840 with Potiphar's wife because that would be against God, 358 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:41,680 right? No law yet and established the 359 00:21:41,680 --> 00:21:44,560 man that did all this stuff. Here's what he says in Genesis 360 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,800 45. These are Joseph's words and 361 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:49,600 verse 9. He's having these words be taken 362 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:51,720 by his brothers, to be taken to his father. 363 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:57,040 Hasty, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith the 364 00:21:57,040 --> 00:22:01,840 son, thy son Joseph, God hath made me Lord of all Egypt. 365 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,280 Calm down unto me and tarry. Look at verse 10. 366 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:09,440 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be 367 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:12,520 nearer to me, thou and thy children, and thy children's 368 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,360 children, and thy flocks and thy herds, and. 369 00:22:15,360 --> 00:22:21,520 All that thou hath, Joseph's words was to daddy. 370 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:25,200 You come, but you come with everything you got. 371 00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:32,080 Look now, if you will at Genesis 45, I'm telling you, I got a lot 372 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,640 of Bible tonight. You won't be able to leave and 373 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:35,320 say he didn't say anything about the Bible. 374 00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:39,200 Genesis 45 and verse 17, this is Egypt's standard. 375 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:41,120 This is Pharaoh's words. Look at it. 376 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:46,120 Verse 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, 377 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,760 this do ye laid your beast, and go get you out unto the land of 378 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,760 Canaan, and take your father and your households, and coming to 379 00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:58,120 me, and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt, and ye 380 00:22:58,120 --> 00:23:02,480 shall eat the fat of the lamb. Now art thou commanded this? 381 00:23:02,480 --> 00:23:05,520 Do ye take you wagons? How the land of Egypt for your 382 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,920 little ones, for your wives, and bring your father. 383 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:12,040 And come and this is my text. And also regard not your stuff. 384 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:17,120 For the good of all. The land of Egypt is yours. 385 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,920 Let me break it down with some other translations. 386 00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:24,040 That whole idea also regard not your stuff. 387 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,200 Other translations say it like this. 388 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:30,440 Don't worry about your stuff. You can leave your stuff behind. 389 00:23:30,640 --> 00:23:33,840 You don't have to bring all of your things from your country. 390 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:38,560 Do not concerned about that stuff, never mind those things. 391 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:46,120 Give no thought to them. Someone say Amen, Amen. 392 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:49,680 It was as though Egypt was saying don't worry about your 393 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:53,720 stuff because we can replace your stuff with what we have. 394 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,480 We can replace your stuff with what we got. 395 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,880 It's no different than what Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and 396 00:23:59,880 --> 00:24:03,120 Daniel face when they were taken in captivity and they were 397 00:24:03,120 --> 00:24:05,880 trying to put. Their names upon them, and put 398 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,840 their influence on them, and their education in them to serve 399 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:12,480 a certain purpose. But Daniel and those boys, 400 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:16,320 before they ever arrived in that exile had already determined in 401 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,760 their heart, we're not going to eat the King's meat. 402 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,360 What are you saying? We got some stuff too. 403 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:29,560 We so it's Amen. And so chapter 46 then opens 404 00:24:29,560 --> 00:24:32,360 with those words I read in my text and Israel. 405 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:35,920 Jacob then took his journey with all that he. 406 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:45,040 Had of course. God's going to tell Jacob don't 407 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,560 fear going to Egypt because he already knew. 408 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,880 When Jacob left his homeland before he got to bear Sheba, he 409 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,080 was already bringing everything he had. 410 00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:00,240 Someone hear me right now. He already knew it. 411 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,360 He's going to tell no doubt Jacob that I'm going to go with 412 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:07,400 him because he was already taking all the goods that he had 413 00:25:07,880 --> 00:25:11,400 obtaining with him. He's going to tell him no doubt, 414 00:25:11,600 --> 00:25:14,920 but there's going to be increase and there's going to be overflow 415 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,960 because he not just had son and daughter and herds and flocks. 416 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:20,840 He had all that he. Had All right. 417 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:25,760 Come on. Yes, Sir, The only successful 418 00:25:25,760 --> 00:25:30,360 way to live in Egypt is to live there with the goods that you've 419 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:39,520 gotten from your promise. Now, this may seem weird because 420 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,160 they're headed to Egypt, particularly the land of Goshen. 421 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,560 The Bible says Jacob's face is directed toward that location. 422 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,640 And by Pharaoh's own admission, I won't go there because I 423 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:52,680 don't. You love the Bible, don't you? 424 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:56,280 Genesis 47 and 6 for a reference. 425 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,160 Even by Pharaoh's own omission, Brother Reese, Pharaoh said that 426 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:05,120 Goshen was the best of the land of Egypt. 427 00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:12,400 And so if Goshen is the best that Egypt has to offer, why 428 00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:19,680 would you need anything else? Because the best that Egypt has 429 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:24,560 to offer still tales compared to the goods you've gotten from the 430 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:27,400 land. A promise. 431 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:34,000 It may be Egypt's best, but it's not Canaan's goods. 432 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,680 Look, now we got to follow this. I still got a lot of preaching 433 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,920 to. Do Genesis 46 and verse 32. 434 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,080 Now this is what Joseph is going to say to Pharaoh. 435 00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:50,160 Dad's come, everybody's come. This is his speech now that he's 436 00:26:50,160 --> 00:26:53,480 prepared for Pharaoh. Look at this now, Genesis 46 and 437 00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:55,760 verse 32. This is what Joseph's telling 438 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:58,360 Pharaoh. The men are shepherds for their 439 00:26:58,360 --> 00:27:01,520 trade, have been to feed cattle and they have brought their 440 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,040 flocks and their herds. Look at this now and all that 441 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:10,680 they have. They're going to be located in 442 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:13,080 Goshen. But Alex, the best that Egypt 443 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,960 has. They're thankful for the food, 444 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,120 no doubt from Egypt in this time a famine. 445 00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:21,280 But I imagine maybe in the back of Pharaoh's mind he's thinking, 446 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,840 I told them not to worry about their stuff, but they've brought 447 00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:30,560 all that they have. There's some aspects of the 448 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:35,880 promised land that they have brought with them because there 449 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:39,080 are some things that Egypt wouldn't have a suitable 450 00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,200 substitute for. I don't know if I'm talking to 451 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:44,520 anybody tonight. That's OK. 452 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:46,720 I preach to myself. Amen. 453 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,600 It's important to make our stance, ladies and gentlemen, 454 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:51,720 Amen. And Joseph followed through. 455 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,160 He just didn't say. That's what I plan on telling 456 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,440 Pharaoh if you look up. Chapter 47 and verse one, the 457 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,680 Bible says that he addresses Pharaoh. 458 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:03,400 The moment that he's addressing it takes record and he says all 459 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:07,360 that they have are come out Amen of the land of Canaan. 460 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:09,960 He actually told Pharaoh everything that they got has 461 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:14,280 come out of the land of Canaan. They were in Egypt, if I could 462 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,520 say, but they were not of Egypt. God sent them there and God was 463 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,320 going to keep them from evil there. 464 00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:25,560 They were in in just a a foreign land, Amen. 465 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:29,720 But they kept the goods and the sense of their promised land. 466 00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:33,440 Some of Joseph's brothers, about five of them, were presented 467 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,880 before Pharaoh, the Scripture says, and they even stood before 468 00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:40,360 Pharaoh and stated their position, and their position 469 00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:45,000 supported that they had brought. All they said, for we here is 470 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:48,520 our purpose. We are here to sojourn in the 471 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,480 land that we have come. You must understand very well 472 00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,840 what they're meaning by when they say we have come to 473 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,360 sojourn. That means simply this. 474 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,800 We've come to do well here for a time. 475 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,880 We come to do well here temporarily. 476 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:06,680 We come to come here just for a little space of time. 477 00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:11,120 A sojourner is someone that has no rights of citizenship. 478 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:12,880 In other words, we're. In Egypt. 479 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:15,520 But we're not taking up citizenship in Egypt. 480 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,640 We're just here for a space of time. 481 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,040 We're just here temporary. We're just here for a moment. 482 00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:25,320 Halo Noble Koshaya I'll tell you why. 483 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,080 I'm not going to adopt the best thing that Egypt has for me, 484 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:33,880 because Egypt's not my home. Egypt is not my residency, it's 485 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,680 not where I dwell. I'm a sojourner, I'm a Pilgrim, 486 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:41,120 I'm a stranger. I'm just here for a moment, and 487 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,920 in a moment I could be translated this. 488 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,520 We bring all we had because we're living for a different 489 00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,720 world, we're living for a different country. 490 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:10,000 They had the testimony of their great grandfather Abraham, that 491 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:12,800 the writers of Hebrews says that they confessed. 492 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,760 They confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims ought the 493 00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:26,600 earth, and so ought we be. Honey, if you do do the math and 494 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:30,480 the measurement, 70 years here compared to eternity after 495 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:44,440 death, you tell me where the big rocks should go first. 496 00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:48,080 Peter 211 says Peter's right. He says, dearly beloved, he 497 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,440 said, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, He says, abstain 498 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:56,360 from fleshly lust, which war against the soul. 499 00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,200 You know Peter, he's he's calling something back to their 500 00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:01,480 minds. He's calling, he's, he's saying, 501 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,120 you've gotten too comfortable, he said. 502 00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,040 But I beseech you as a stranger in Pilgrim, I'm calling you back 503 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,520 to what you really are. This earth is not yours. 504 00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:12,720 The pleasures of this place are not yours. 505 00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:14,360 The best? The rest of this place is not 506 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,440 yours. You're a Pilgrim and a stranger. 507 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,680 You have no citizenship here. He's trying to call something 508 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,600 back in their life, and so he admonishes them. 509 00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,880 Abstain from the fleshly lust. Don't entangle yourself and the 510 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,520 affections of earthly things. Don't entangle yourself and the 511 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:34,200 affections of this world. I know you've got access to the 512 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,440 best that need to pass, but this isn't home to you. 513 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:46,840 You're a sojourner. This is temporary. 514 00:31:47,080 --> 00:31:49,480 You're waiting. Sometimes the old preachers 515 00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:51,960 preach at funerals. We're just waiting to give our. 516 00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,040 Halle over here and our Luluya over there. 517 00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:04,960 Jacob took all he had because in the land of Goshen he was going 518 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:14,600 to create a little Canaan. Someone say, man, let me bring 519 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,360 it to you from a different perspective years ago. 520 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,240 I love listening to Ted Radio Hour published by National 521 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,440 Public Radio. It's a podcast you can listen to 522 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:28,680 if you want to. Got a lot of sometimes 523 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,440 meaningless information and stuff, and that's the type of 524 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:35,440 person I am. I heard a podcast there called 525 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,880 It Takes Time and where's one part of the podcast that 526 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,120 interested me enough actually did look up a Ted talk that the 527 00:32:41,120 --> 00:32:43,480 lady had given called Living on Two Planets. 528 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:51,720 Her name is Nagine Cox, she's an operations energy engineer at 529 00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:57,680 the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles, CA. 530 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:05,760 Her job is to manage and to keep touch and base with some of the 531 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:08,440 Rovers that have been sent to Mars. 532 00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:11,600 Just nerd out with me for a moment. 533 00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:15,640 Now, the difficulty in this Sister Grace's there's a group 534 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:19,800 of engineers and scientists that for a 90 day mission was going 535 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:21,920 to be communicating back and forth with this Rover. 536 00:33:22,280 --> 00:33:24,600 It's not like you could have a joystick on Earth and control 537 00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,400 the Rover in Mars. Distance is too far. 538 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:30,800 At night the robot would go to sleep and recharge its 539 00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,400 batteries. Don't we all need that? 540 00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,160 It would go to sleep and recharge its batteries on Mars. 541 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:39,240 And as it did that, it would send data back from the previous 542 00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:40,920 day to these scientists and engineers. 543 00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:43,560 They would get record of what the robot had done with the 544 00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:46,640 Rover done upon Mars. And based upon that, then they 545 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:48,880 would, through their their computer programming and 546 00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:53,040 everything, send new information about what it wanted, what they 547 00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,560 wanted it to do the next day. And so in order to keep this 548 00:33:56,720 --> 00:34:00,480 constantly going for 90 days, so why the robot was sleeping, they 549 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:04,280 had to be awake doing all the calculations and mutations for 550 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:06,200 this. Now herein lies the problem, 551 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:10,280 Brother Reese. A Mars day is not the same 552 00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:15,600 length as a Earth Day. A Mars day is called a soul. 553 00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,600 A Mars day is 24 hours and 40 minutes long. 554 00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,679 Our Earth Day, in case you don't know, is a 24 hour day. 555 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,520 But in order to have everything delivered so that when that 556 00:34:29,719 --> 00:34:33,880 robot woke up at 9:30 in the morning on Mars and would later 557 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,320 go to sleep at 5:30 at night on Mars. 558 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:40,800 In order to keep In Sync after that first day, all of those 559 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:44,040 group of people that was working on that Mars project had to come 560 00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:51,960 to work 40 minutes later every day because it's 40 minutes 561 00:34:51,960 --> 00:34:56,840 longer at Mars. I'll just hold after a period of 562 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,360 time After doing that for so many days, they're getting up in 563 00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:04,000 the middle of the night Earth time just to stay on Mars. 564 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,600 It got so overwhelming that someone said one day we. 565 00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,520 Need to do. XYZ tomorrow and she looked back 566 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,080 at them and said, you mean tomorrow, tomorrow or Mars 567 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:24,080 tomorrow? And so this differences of 568 00:35:24,080 --> 00:35:27,800 attending to a place that was far away and not presently 569 00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,840 living there. Then brother Alex Mason begin to 570 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:36,320 change their language when they started talking about today that 571 00:35:36,320 --> 00:35:38,720 man Earth Day. But if they were talking about a 572 00:35:38,720 --> 00:35:41,560 Mars today, they would call it a two soul. 573 00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,320 If they were talking about yesterday on Mars, they talked 574 00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:48,560 about yester. Soul. 575 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,520 And they were talking about tomorrow on Mars. 576 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,760 They talked about next or so or so Morrow. 577 00:35:56,880 --> 00:36:00,000 They used that language so they could keep track of are you 578 00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,880 talking about the Earth or are you talking about what we're 579 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:07,920 involved in on Mars? It got so dynamic. 580 00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:12,920 They actually had a watch maker make a watch that would keep 581 00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,360 Mars time. It was waited a little bit more 582 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,960 so it'd be a little slower, so that they could look down at 583 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,320 their hand and see a watch that Toad Earth time and a watch that 584 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:27,240 Toad Mars time. Someone say, man, they did this 585 00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:32,120 for 90 days, 90 days, getting up during the middle of the night 586 00:36:32,120 --> 00:36:35,760 every day, 40 minutes later just to correspond with what was 587 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:37,080 going on. Mars. 588 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,360 Hey, man. Because say she said this. 589 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,720 She says in reality, we were living on. 590 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:44,360 Earth, but we were on a Mars watch. 591 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:47,800 Hallelujah, she's saying. We were working on Mars. 592 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,160 Amen. But we were living on the Earth. 593 00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:53,840 We were attempted toward Mars, but we were living on Earth. 594 00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:57,080 We were focused on Mars, but we were living on Earth. 595 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,280 And he, she said the greatest challenge was this Amen. 596 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,920 Working and looking and focusing on a place that didn't 597 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:09,040 correspond where we lived. So it's Amen. 598 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,520 So it began to affect their language. 599 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,320 And so they developed another language and culture to be able 600 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,240 to understand one another. As a matter of fact, those that 601 00:37:19,240 --> 00:37:22,400 were in that group, in sciences engineers that were working on 602 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:25,560 that, they even came up with the nomenclature of calling 603 00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:28,680 themselves Martians and everybody else Earthlings 604 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:33,480 because they were on a time that was different from the land they 605 00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,880 were living in. I don't know if anybody 606 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:38,480 understands, but I'm preaching right now. 607 00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:43,000 They were living on a time different Amen than what they 608 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,240 were looking forward to. This is the testimony of those 609 00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:50,760 that were working in the program. 610 00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:53,120 They started to say, you know what? 611 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:57,760 We feel somewhat separated from the Earthlings here because our 612 00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,720 lives. Are so consumed with what's 613 00:37:59,720 --> 00:38:03,360 going on up there. We feel a little disenfranchised 614 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:06,760 and different from anybody else around here because they're not 615 00:38:06,760 --> 00:38:09,160 on our time. They don't have the same focus 616 00:38:09,160 --> 00:38:15,560 that we have or I'm about ready to have a fit here. 617 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:19,520 They begin to admit that they felt somewhat separated from 618 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,560 everybody else because, in a literal fashion, they were 619 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:26,000 living for a different. World and a different time. 620 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,680 I'm not making this stuff up, folks. 621 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:36,280 I'll give you the resources you can go to and listen to it for 622 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:37,960 yourself. They even said this. 623 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:42,480 They said the more we focus on Mars, the more we lost track of 624 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:51,120 the world we were living in. They said they did in such a way 625 00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:55,320 that whenever they were at work, because it happened to be night 626 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,120 at Mars that time and daylight at work, they would pull the 627 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,520 blinds, put the foil up because they wanted the semblance that 628 00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:05,040 they were at Mars, that it's dark, it's night, right time. 629 00:39:05,240 --> 00:39:08,040 So we don't want what's going on in this world to affect what 630 00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:10,320 we're trying to perceive in the other world that we're. 631 00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:17,040 I would to God that some of us could blind some things of the 632 00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,440 real world in our life so we could keep the attention, the 633 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:25,600 focus, the heartbeat, the language, the time, the urgency 634 00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:39,520 of that place that. Because if you didn't keep a set 635 00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:43,560 pattern of language and a set pattern of lifestyle and a set 636 00:39:43,560 --> 00:39:46,560 pattern Amen of what you were attentive to, you could get 637 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:49,720 confused about what world you were trying to live in. 638 00:40:03,430 --> 00:40:05,670 They ended up saying Brother Fred, There's so many of them 639 00:40:05,670 --> 00:40:10,070 that talked about it. They ended up said that our our 640 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:16,360 consumption of that 90 days with Mars didn't just impact us, it 641 00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,240 impacted everybody that lived in our household. 642 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:22,880 There are pictures, I've seen them. 643 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:25,440 There was some fathers that had their wives working in that 644 00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:29,800 thing and however they arranged it, they had a job that had 645 00:40:29,800 --> 00:40:32,080 different shifts and they switched. 646 00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,520 They were taking their kids to the beach in the wee hours of 647 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:39,760 the morning. They got pictures of it because 648 00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:47,800 they were living on Mars. Time I'm going to take, Jacob 649 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:48,800 says. I'm going to take everything I 650 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,400 got from the Promise. And my sons and my daughters and 651 00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,320 my livestock, They're all going to. 652 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:56,960 We going to be in Egypt, but we're not going to be of Egypt. 653 00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,400 We're going to have a culture there, but it won't be an 654 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:01,360 Egyptian culture. We're going to have a language 655 00:41:01,360 --> 00:41:02,960 there. But it's not going to be the 656 00:41:02,960 --> 00:41:04,960 Egyptian language. We're going to have a practice 657 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:08,240 there, but it will not be all of the concerns of where we're 658 00:41:08,240 --> 00:41:16,320 living. Y'all doing all right? 659 00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,240 We'll bring something else to you for the sake of 660 00:41:21,240 --> 00:41:23,720 understanding. You go to New York City today. 661 00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,240 Some have been. You go to Chicago today. 662 00:41:26,240 --> 00:41:28,400 There's going to be areas in those cities. 663 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:34,640 They're going to be called Chinatown, Little Italy, Korean 664 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:38,000 town. They exist in those places. 665 00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:40,760 Why? Because there's groups of 666 00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:46,840 people, immigrants that came to America and they wanted a space 667 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:52,800 that they could live in, work in and preserve their culture in 668 00:41:55,480 --> 00:42:00,240 and preserve their identity. In so much so that buildings 669 00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:03,720 that are in those etched out areas of Chinatown and such 670 00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,360 reflect. What buildings might be like in 671 00:42:07,360 --> 00:42:13,680 China, the architecture, even the art in those places are 672 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:18,120 reflective of their homeland. In those in those neighborhoods, 673 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:23,720 those little enclaves, if you will, the people, they even have 674 00:42:23,720 --> 00:42:28,840 language schools that teach the mother language of their 675 00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,960 country. They're in America, but they're 676 00:42:31,960 --> 00:42:34,320 keeping their children familiar with the language of their 677 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,600 homeland. In those places. 678 00:42:38,800 --> 00:42:42,680 They have places of worship that are designated to the gods that 679 00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:46,000 they would worship in China or the gods that they would worship 680 00:42:46,000 --> 00:42:48,640 in Italy. They have cultural festivals 681 00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,720 that don't mean anything nor are celebrated in America, but they 682 00:42:52,720 --> 00:42:57,280 celebrated in that space because they're trying to keep an 683 00:42:57,280 --> 00:43:01,440 identity. What they've done is created a 684 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:05,040 community that connects them to their heritage. 685 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,960 What they're saying, we might be in America, but we're going to 686 00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,280 keep to our roots. I'm Korean. 687 00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:19,440 The food I eat is Korean. The language I speak is Korean. 688 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,600 The festival and community that I have is Korean. 689 00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,520 I'm in America. Red, white and blue, but I got 690 00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:31,600 some tenants of MyHeritage. That are not compromisable. 691 00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:36,480 You're not getting it yet. Let's go a little deeper. 692 00:43:37,080 --> 00:43:38,520 How many here has ever been to a zoo? 693 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:41,160 Anybody been to a zoo? No. 694 00:43:41,160 --> 00:43:42,760 We need to get up. A trip to Miska Park. 695 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,080 Me. Maybe not right now. 696 00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:46,360 All right. Not right now, Tracy, Not right 697 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:47,480 now. OK. 698 00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:54,640 You go to a zoo and the habitat for each animal in that zoo 699 00:43:55,240 --> 00:44:00,920 differs one from the other. They all do not have these 700 00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:04,280 identical same habitats for each animal. 701 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:09,880 The reason being these zoologists understand in order 702 00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:15,920 for that animal to thrive in a place that isn't home, we got to 703 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,960 make a habitat that's familiar to home. 704 00:44:21,240 --> 00:44:24,400 Someone hear me right now. They understand having a habitat 705 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,600 that's familiar to home is going to help this animal's 706 00:44:27,600 --> 00:44:29,800 well-being. It's even going to help their 707 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,560 health. It's going to help some of their 708 00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:35,360 natural behaviors. If they have a space though, 709 00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:40,720 it's not the safari of Africa. If they have a space that 710 00:44:40,720 --> 00:44:46,120 mirrors the safari of Africa right here in this zoo. 711 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,080 Depending upon the certain specifications and species of 712 00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,640 the animals, it may differ because some animals might be 713 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:56,840 prone to being climbers, other animals might be prone to being 714 00:44:56,840 --> 00:45:00,240 swimmers, other animals might be prone to be burrowers. 715 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:03,400 And as a result of that, they're going to make that habitat, 716 00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:06,280 Amen, that will match what they are prone to. 717 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:09,120 There's going to be ropes and there's going to be trees in the 718 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,440 habitat for monkeys. So they can still. 719 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,760 Climb and swing from 1:00 to another if you go over to where 720 00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:18,120 the Penguins. And the polar bears are. 721 00:45:18,240 --> 00:45:20,560 The temperature is probably going to be vastly different 722 00:45:20,720 --> 00:45:23,680 than what it will be for other habitats, but they're trying to 723 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:27,880 keep a means of normalcy for their life in a strange land. 724 00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,760 Their surroundings are there to make to support Hey man and 725 00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:36,360 promote what each native animal does and where they are from. 726 00:45:41,320 --> 00:45:45,040 I'm a sojourner. I've just made a habitat here 727 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,440 below. It mirrors heaven. 728 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:51,560 It mirrors the tenants of heaven. 729 00:45:52,240 --> 00:45:54,920 It mirrors the dynamics of He Who. 730 00:45:54,920 --> 00:46:01,360 Sits on that throne because the only way I've learned to be able 731 00:46:01,360 --> 00:46:04,720 to survive here is to have a little heaven down here. 732 00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:09,840 I've understood if we need to understand as a church, the only 733 00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,480 way we're going to be able to survive in this whole world if 734 00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,240 this place we call the church has a touch of heaven on it, as 735 00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:24,420 if you will likeness of heaven on it. 736 00:46:24,420 --> 00:46:28,340 I'm living in Egypt without losing Canaan. 737 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:42,160 Everybody doing OK? There you go. 738 00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:52,460 Hee Haw, Hee Haw. It's what we're doing here 739 00:46:52,460 --> 00:46:54,420 below. We're trying to navigate a 740 00:46:54,420 --> 00:46:58,100 temporal dwelling while we're holding on to eternal promise. 741 00:47:00,340 --> 00:47:04,260 And so the balance is trying to stay in the world without the 742 00:47:04,260 --> 00:47:11,680 world getting in me. And Jacob understood isolation 743 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,680 wasn't the answer. What Isaac did, Isolation wasn't 744 00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,320 the answer. And he understood also that 745 00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,560 assimilating, adopting his surroundings of Egypt wasn't the 746 00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,680 answer. So he understood if he was to be 747 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:26,240 an agent of change, the only thing he could do is work toward 748 00:47:26,240 --> 00:47:28,080 heaven while he was living on earth. 749 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:32,360 Stay with me. I'll close. 750 00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,680 I'm surprised I got through all this this quickly. 751 00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:36,600 I know you might not think it's quick, but it was to me. 752 00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:42,960 So what you're saying the night pastor, I'm saying this, listen 753 00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:44,840 to me. Here's my advice to you. 754 00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:55,200 You need to take all you have, your faith, your values, your 755 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,160 testimony. You need to take all you have 756 00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,480 wherever you go below here. You need to take all you have, 757 00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:03,760 not just your children or your family. 758 00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,280 You need to take all that you have. 759 00:48:05,480 --> 00:48:08,680 And so the question then I posed to you tonight is this, are you 760 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:13,200 living as a sojourner in this world or have you grown too 761 00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:19,960 comfortable with Egypt? See, because that can easily 762 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:26,800 happen. Naomi went down into Moab. 763 00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:29,560 She was just going to sojourn there. 764 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,120 Ten years even pass. She's without husband, without 765 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,080 two sons. Now. 766 00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:42,160 Her temporary stay turned into a little bit longer stay and 767 00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,960 things started to be subtracted from her life until finally she 768 00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:46,720 says, you know, I'll go back to Bethlehem, Judah. 769 00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:51,640 So you got to be careful that the sojourning doesn't turn into 770 00:48:51,640 --> 00:48:57,720 a residence. Listen, I know we all, you know, 771 00:48:57,720 --> 00:49:00,000 we're in this world day, man, you know, don't be a renter, you 772 00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:01,040 know, invest in something you can own. 773 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,400 Listen, whenever it comes to spiritual things in this world, 774 00:49:03,720 --> 00:49:09,480 just be it. Just be a renter because the 775 00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,000 place that you're living isn't worth you investing your money 776 00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:18,600 and your goods. There's some things that people 777 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:19,800 rent. Oh, Lord help. 778 00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,800 And I know sometimes you got to make do what you got to do. 779 00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:24,760 But if they would give me the option to buy, I would say no 780 00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:31,040 thank you because I'm not willing to invest what I got 781 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:33,880 into this. I know you say it's the best you 782 00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:37,520 got, but see, I'm not from this country. 783 00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:46,220 I'm. Not from this country. 784 00:49:46,780 --> 00:49:49,820 You think it's the best because this is all you've been exposed 785 00:49:49,820 --> 00:49:51,900 to. But I've been exposed to 786 00:49:51,900 --> 00:49:58,120 something better than your best. I'm not from this country. 787 00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:00,920 You don't know what I've been exposed to. 788 00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,680 You don't know what I've felt. You don't know what I've tasted. 789 00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,480 You don't know what I've handled. 790 00:50:16,240 --> 00:50:19,000 You sing those songs. This whole world is not my home. 791 00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:24,480 I'm just passing through. I'll stand for Jesus and let the 792 00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:33,320 world go by. I wouldn't take nothing for my 793 00:50:33,320 --> 00:50:36,160 journey now. I got to make it to heaven 794 00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:43,760 somehow. We got to set our affections on 795 00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,840 the things that are. We got to abstain from the 796 00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:47,800 earthly lust. We don't need to get entangled 797 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,640 in that. I beseech you, as Peter did 798 00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:55,760 those, he said. Ye are pilgrims and strangers, 799 00:51:00,720 --> 00:51:03,040 Fred. Tomorrow I'm going to get up and 800 00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:06,040 I'm going to carry all the goods that I have of Canaan into my 801 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,640 workplace. I'm going to get up tomorrow and 802 00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:11,760 I'm going to carry all the goods that I have amid and among my 803 00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,160 lost family. I'm going to get up tomorrow and 804 00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,320 I'm going to carry all the goods that I have of the promise into 805 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:23,600 my community. Because we need to be creating a 806 00:51:23,600 --> 00:51:29,000 little heaven, little pockets of the Kingdom influence within 807 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:35,120 this world. Each one of our life should then 808 00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:39,880 be a testimony that while they're living here, they don't 809 00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:53,150 belong here. 810 00:51:53,270 --> 00:51:58,470 I can imagine maybe some of those Egyptians where they just 811 00:51:58,470 --> 00:52:00,030 don't keep things like we keep things. 812 00:52:00,510 --> 00:52:02,390 They don't say things like we say things. 813 00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:05,040 They the affairs of their life and the way in which they act 814 00:52:05,040 --> 00:52:07,240 are different than what we do. Thank God. 815 00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:17,640 If you want everything that Egypt has to offer, then live. 816 00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,280 Just live like Egypt. But if you want everything that 817 00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:25,000 Heaven has to offer, keep the right times and keep them 818 00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:35,840 separate. I feel the Holy Ghost. 819 00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,000 It would be wise for us tonight to flood these altars with 820 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,520 lifted voices and lifted hands and say, God, I know where my 821 00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,160 feet are presently seated. I know where my feet are 822 00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:47,720 presently planted. But I got a heart. 823 00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,760 I got a mind that stuck up on the affections for things that 824 00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:54,400 are. Above God, oh God, it's that 825 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,120 place above that has dictated my culture. 826 00:52:57,320 --> 00:52:59,960 It's that place above that's dictated my language. 827 00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:03,480 It's that place above God. I'm not on the same time, folks, 828 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,280 do you understand? We're not on the same time. 829 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:08,640 There is a timetable that is ticking. 830 00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,480 We're not on the same time. There's. 831 00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,960 People with their head. In the sand, thinking all the 832 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,680 time of the world is before them, but there's somebody that 833 00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:19,160 has a pulse of heaven time saying, you know what, 834 00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:23,000 something's going on there, something's happening there, 835 00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:26,880 something's about right. We got to live in Egypt with how 836 00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:32,600 losing Canaan come on, somebody, somebody needs to talk with God. 837 00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:35,800 If somebody's been getting confused which world on what 838 00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:38,280 planet they're living on, it's time to get it straight. 839 00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:40,040 It's time to get it straight. In our hearts. 840 00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:42,760 Straight in our minds. We need to come to terms with 841 00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:44,280 it. I've taken everything. 842 00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,720 I've taken everything. I've taken everything that God's 843 00:53:47,760 --> 00:53:51,360 promised me and given to me. I'm not relinquishing anything. 844 00:53:51,600 --> 00:53:53,600 I'm not trading Egypt for anything. 845 00:53:53,960 --> 00:53:56,280 No, no, no. Keep going to keep what I got. 846 00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,560 I'm going to keep what he's touched me with.