1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:04,640 God for your presence. So God, oh, it's from 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:09,880 everlasting to everlasting. Jesus, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 3 00:00:11,040 --> 00:00:12,520 Amen. You may be seated here this 4 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,360 evening. Just a few announcements to 5 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:19,160 remember. This coming Sunday, the Champion 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:21,800 family will be with us. They'll be providing music for 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:25,880 our morning and evening service. And then brother Champion will 8 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:30,880 be preaching Sunday night. And so this whole scenario 9 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:35,520 kindly just exactly lines up with last year, meaning that 10 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:38,880 they're involved in their fair week, I think this week. 11 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,840 And so it's very busy. And so they'll be here on Sunday 12 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,160 morning running back to their church Sunday afternoon, running 13 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,240 back here Sunday night. And so let's be as supportive as 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,840 we can love on them. Thank them. 15 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:53,840 They agreed. They agreed to drink the 16 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:58,520 Kool-aid again and and come and be a part and I appreciate their 17 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:02,640 their willingness to serve the in the Kingdom of God and help 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,880 us during this weekend and so we're thankful to them. 19 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:11,000 So they will be here also then on July the 25th is game night 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:16,000 from 7:00 to 10:00 here at the church in the 27th of this month 21 00:01:16,280 --> 00:01:19,440 will be Brother Alex Mason in the PM service. 22 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:23,720 And if I were to just look ahead at just a little bit in the 23 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,080 month of August. We have a course, the Indiana 24 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,520 District Women's Esprit Conference that will be taking 25 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:35,240 place our fifth Sunday in that month will be Pastor Anthony 26 00:01:35,240 --> 00:01:38,000 Wilkes will be here on that 5th Sunday, Minister the Word of the 27 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,320 Lord in that AM service on that 5th Sunday in September. 28 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:47,240 On Grandparents Day we will have who is now Bishop and Sister 29 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:50,440 Sizemore. Bishop and Sister Sizemore will 30 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,440 be with us on a Grandparents Day ministering the Word of the Lord 31 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:57,200 in the Sunday AM and PM services. 32 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:01,440 National Men's Conference is in the month of September as well. 33 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,680 Registration is open right now. If you plan on going, it's early 34 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,199 bird registration and so the cost I believe is $50.00 right 35 00:02:08,199 --> 00:02:09,520 now. I should know because that's 36 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:11,600 kind of like my wheelhouse, what I'm taking care of. 37 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:13,360 But I believe it's $50.00 right now. 38 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,640 And so that's the 19th and 20th. And so go on and, and register 39 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:21,920 for that if that's you. In the month of October, we got 40 00:02:21,920 --> 00:02:24,280 our annual chili. I know already, right? 41 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:29,080 We have our annual chili dinner and we'll have our next revival 42 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:31,120 right after that. We'll have our annual chili 43 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:38,600 dinner on the the 11th of October and then that Sunday 44 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,800 through Wednesday, we'll be in revival with Tyler Smith and 45 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,160 ministering the word of the Lord. 46 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:46,480 So that'll be a great time. You don't want to miss that. 47 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:50,560 And then we'll be over into the month of November with National 48 00:02:50,560 --> 00:02:53,840 Youth Convention. I'm just kind of throwing it all 49 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:56,280 out and that's what's coming up. National Youth Convention will 50 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:58,760 be here in our fifth Sunday of that fifth Sunday. 51 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:02,440 We'll have Pastor Daniel Taylor from Oklahoma that's going to be 52 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,200 here, him and his family ministering the word and 53 00:03:05,320 --> 00:03:09,000 probably also providing song. And it'll be an enjoyable time. 54 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,320 Amen. And then there's December. 55 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,760 We're not talking about that. We're not talking about that. 56 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:18,520 Amen. We're going to be turned to 57 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:22,280 Genesis chapter 19. I got enough stuff here tonight, 58 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:27,000 probably last me two nights. But whenever I first was putting 59 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,320 all this together, I wasn't even sure about how all the music and 60 00:03:30,320 --> 00:03:31,680 all that. I thought I might just come in 61 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:33,800 here and start teaching, and I could teach for about an hour 62 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:39,200 and a half easy. And so I still have enough 63 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,200 information for this. So we'll just see how far we get 64 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,960 into it. If we finish this solitary 65 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:50,800 lesson, I'll be surprised. But if it happens, there you go. 66 00:03:51,720 --> 00:04:02,280 Genesis chapter 19 going to verse #12 ye man, it's like just 67 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,360 can't get through chapter 19. But mind you, chapter 19 has 38 68 00:04:06,360 --> 00:04:13,560 verses in my defense. The Bible says and the men said 69 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:15,560 unto Lot. So if you kind of remember where 70 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:20,959 we are here, there has been the same guest that visited Abraham 71 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:25,680 visit Lot at Sodom. Hospitality has been shown from 72 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:28,840 Abraham now from Lot and the people though of Sodom has not 73 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:32,000 been very hospitable. They've encircled the house 74 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,560 where Lot has brought them in. They're really wanting to take 75 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,560 advantage of them. The angels on the inside have 76 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:40,640 struck blindness for those on the outside, and they have 77 00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:41,920 pulled a lot back into the house. 78 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:43,520 And so that's where we are here in verse 12. 79 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:46,120 And the men, the men that Speaking of are the angels, said 80 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:52,920 unto Lot, Hast thou hear any besides son-in-law, thy sons and 81 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,760 thy daughters? And whatsoever thou hast in the 82 00:04:55,760 --> 00:04:59,720 city, bring them out of this place, for we will destroy this 83 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,400 place, because this cry of them is waxing great before the face 84 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,480 of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it. 85 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,600 And Lot went out and spake unto his sons in law, which married 86 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,120 his daughters, and said up, Get you out of this place, for the 87 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,760 Lord will destroy the city. But he seemed as one that mocked 88 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:20,880 unto his sons in law. And when the morning rose, then 89 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,840 the angels hastened, Lot saying, Arise, take thy wife and thy two 90 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:27,120 daughters which are here, lest thou be consumed in the iniquity 91 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,960 of the city. And while he lingered, the men 92 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:34,200 laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and 93 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:36,240 upon the hand of his two daughters, And the Lord being 94 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,520 merciful unto him, and they brought him forth, and set him 95 00:05:39,520 --> 00:05:41,880 without the city. And it came to pass, when they 96 00:05:41,880 --> 00:05:45,720 had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy 97 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:47,680 life. Look not behind thee, neither 98 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,360 stay thou in all the plane. Escape to the mountain, lest 99 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,720 thou be consumed. Then Lot said unto them, Oh not 100 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:58,720 so, my Lord. Behold now thy servant have 101 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:02,480 found grace in thy sight, and thou has magnified thy mercy, 102 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,160 which thou has shewed unto me, and saving my my life, and I 103 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,520 cannot escape. Notice I cannot. 104 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:11,200 Let's pause. There's a big difference between 105 00:06:11,200 --> 00:06:15,880 cannot and will not, and I cannot escape to the mountain, 106 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:17,640 lest some evil take me and I die. 107 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,800 Behold, now this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little 10 108 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,640 Let me escape thither. Is it not a little one? 109 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,000 And my soul shall live. And he said unto him, See, I 110 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,120 have accepted thee concerning this thing also, that I will not 111 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:35,400 overthrow this city. For the which thou has spoken, 112 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:38,760 haste the escape thither, for I cannot do anything till thou 113 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,200 become thither. Therefore the name of the city 114 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:44,720 was called Zoar. The sun was risen upon the earth 115 00:06:44,960 --> 00:06:49,320 when law entered into Zoar. So tonight I'm going to talk 116 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:54,120 along this subject matter. Lead well or lose much? 117 00:06:55,480 --> 00:07:00,880 Lead well or lose much. Can we talk to the Lord one more 118 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:01,800 time? Father? 119 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,200 I love you, God. I appreciate Lord Jesus being 120 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:06,640 here. I thank you, Lord, for your 121 00:07:06,640 --> 00:07:08,200 word. God. 122 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:12,360 It is a relevant word. It's a pertinent word, God, not 123 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,680 just for them, but even for now. I pray, O God, help me to accept 124 00:07:16,680 --> 00:07:18,640 it as such. God, help it, Lord, to search 125 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,800 out all of the Lord areas of my own life. 126 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,360 God, help me to look upon him. Consider Lord, it's application, 127 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:28,800 God for today, for now, for me, God, for my family. 128 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:31,080 God, I don't want to fail to thank you and praise you Lord, 129 00:07:31,080 --> 00:07:33,720 for what you accomplished through your word and the lovely 130 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,040 name of Jesus Christ that I pray, Amen. 131 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:40,640 God bless you this evening. You may be seated in Jesus name. 132 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,160 We touched on it just a few weeks ago and I think chapter 19 133 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:55,320 encircles and has a lot to do with the headship of a 134 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:57,760 household. Absolutely. 135 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:01,520 The headship of a household because within this context of 136 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:06,880 the family, it's significant that these two men are angels as 137 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:13,480 they are spoken of in verse 12, that they consulted with Lot, 138 00:08:13,720 --> 00:08:16,280 they spoke to him, they talked to him. 139 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:20,480 They talked to him about the potential danger that that he 140 00:08:20,520 --> 00:08:25,480 and his family was in if they remained in Sodom. 141 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:30,880 I think it's important to note that the angels did not come and 142 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:35,480 talk to Lot's wife or bypass him and talk to his children. 143 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:41,159 They talked to Lot, they went to him, they went to the head of 144 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:45,720 the house, so to speak. They went to the leader of the 145 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:48,920 family because Lot was the one that should have been 146 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:53,920 responsible for educating his family about the pending 147 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:57,560 destruction that would come up on them if they stayed in the 148 00:08:57,560 --> 00:09:00,200 city. It was his responsibility. 149 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:03,120 Furthermore, even the Angels told him that you need to bring 150 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:04,800 them. You need to bring them out of 151 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:06,080 the city. That's your response. 152 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,520 We're placing that on your shoulders as your responsibility 153 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,600 and it should have been his and it's throughout scripture. 154 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:16,760 This is not some scripture making some male chauvinist 155 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,720 slant or anything like that. This this is having a 156 00:09:20,720 --> 00:09:25,200 patriarchal or a male LED type of thing is customary for this 157 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,760 time. Not only that headship belonging 158 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:34,720 to the male not just culturally but also the Bible spiritually 159 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:38,760 sets it as though the man should take the lead. 160 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:41,880 That's what we understand scripture starting all the way 161 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,520 back. Even with Adam it. 162 00:09:44,560 --> 00:09:49,560 Isn't it interesting that God created Adam 1st and then Eve 163 00:09:49,640 --> 00:09:52,920 and not the the the switch of that. 164 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:58,760 He didn't put Eve and then Adam. He made Adam 1st and then Eve 165 00:09:58,760 --> 00:10:02,440 and no, he then gave Adam before Eve ever comes into the 166 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:09,360 existence, the need to dress the garden and the need to guard the 167 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:14,960 garden, to dress it and keep it. And that garden was supposed to 168 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:20,000 be their home, right? And so here is God speaking to 169 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,480 Adam. I want you to work here. 170 00:10:21,480 --> 00:10:25,440 I want you to guard, if I could say it like that, y'all's house. 171 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,600 And he gave that responsibility unto Adam. 172 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:32,200 Furthermore, before Eve was in existence, God had a 173 00:10:32,200 --> 00:10:37,400 conversation with Eve about the tree of knowledge of good and 174 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:40,840 evil, the scripture says before she was even created. 175 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,560 Because that was to be his responsibility to safeguard to 176 00:10:45,560 --> 00:10:49,160 to, you know, give that further information to those who would 177 00:10:49,160 --> 00:10:52,160 need it. And so Adam was even the Bible 178 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,440 tells us in the book of Romans that Adam was even held 179 00:10:55,440 --> 00:11:01,600 responsible for the fall, even though Eve was first in sinning. 180 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,840 Again, that's underscoring then his role of being the male 181 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:12,640 headship, both literally and spiritually of their household. 182 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:14,600 This is the way that things are in Scripture. 183 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:18,080 When we read in the book of Job, which in reality, I know it's 184 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:21,160 right there before Psalm, but it should really in the placement 185 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,160 and scheme of things. The Scripture should be placed 186 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:28,080 somewhere in the early part time frame of the book of Genesis as 187 00:11:28,080 --> 00:11:31,560 far as its placement. Job, the book of Job highlights 188 00:11:31,560 --> 00:11:34,760 Job, but regularly we read in the first couple opening 189 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:39,000 chapters that he regularly sacrifices unto the Lord on 190 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:44,080 behalf of his children. He's acting then in a sense as a 191 00:11:44,120 --> 00:11:50,240 spiritual priest for his family. And so even in Job, this very 192 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:54,920 old book, we have a pre mosaic before Moses pattern that's 193 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:58,600 established where a father should be functioning as a 194 00:11:58,600 --> 00:12:02,720 spiritual head of his family. Amen. 195 00:12:03,040 --> 00:12:06,840 And so even recently, in just the last chapter, chapter #18 of 196 00:12:06,840 --> 00:12:10,400 Genesis, God even approached Abraham. 197 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:14,840 And remember, he surmised with Abraham this, he's like, should 198 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,160 I tell Abraham what I'm about to do concerning Sodom? 199 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:22,440 Remember, because he surmises that he can trust Abraham. 200 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:24,680 And this is the reason why the Bible says so. 201 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:29,400 He says, because I know Abraham will command his children and 202 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,160 his household after him. He knew that he would be the 203 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,080 spiritual leader of his home. He knew he would be that 204 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:38,880 fatherly function, a man in his home. 205 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:46,360 And so now in Genesis chapter 19, God is giving Lot the chance 206 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:48,800 to prove himself a worthy father. 207 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:55,200 God is giving Lot the chance to prove himself a spiritual leader 208 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:57,200 for his family. If I can. 209 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,320 It's kind of a last ditch opportunity here, kind of a last 210 00:13:00,320 --> 00:13:03,640 ditch effort that's taking place here because judgement is 211 00:13:03,640 --> 00:13:07,640 approaching, right? The hammer is going to fall up 212 00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:10,600 on Sodom. And up to this point, we got to 213 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:12,880 understand some of the responsibility that Lot's taken 214 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,480 anyway. Lot primarily has been 215 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,480 responsible for bringing his family to this location, Sodom 216 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:23,880 to begin with, responsible for that. 217 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:28,600 And notably, even whenever God investigates the outcry of the 218 00:13:28,600 --> 00:13:32,040 city of Sodom to come down and see if the things and the 219 00:13:32,040 --> 00:13:35,520 conditions of Sodom are asked what's being outcry from there 220 00:13:35,680 --> 00:13:39,920 notice. Did he not first come and tell 221 00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:42,760 Lot listen when he arrived at the city? 222 00:13:42,920 --> 00:13:46,920 You all are doomed, right? He so he tells them the 223 00:13:46,920 --> 00:13:49,520 situation they're in. So it's now Lot. 224 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,880 What are you going to do with what you've learned? 225 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,040 What are you going to do with what you have learned? 226 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:59,600 And so he shares it. He shares it with Lot, but 227 00:13:59,600 --> 00:14:02,080 before he ever shared it with Lot, he shared it with Abraham. 228 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:04,640 And the reason, one of the reasons why I think so is 229 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,040 because he knew the type of father that Abraham was. 230 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:11,480 He'll command his children. He'll lead his household. 231 00:14:11,640 --> 00:14:14,360 And so now he comes to law actually at the city. 232 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,400 And there's probably here here, because the way that Lot thus 233 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:23,000 far has led his family, Amen. And wondered if Lot would 234 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,720 command his children, Amen. Even wondered perhaps that, you 235 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:28,920 know, up to this time has been kind of questionable. 236 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:32,040 I don't know if he'll do with the information that I give to 237 00:14:32,040 --> 00:14:36,400 him what needs to be done. So I'll talk to Abraham first 238 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,600 because I have confidence he'll intercede, and then I'll talk to 239 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:47,280 Lot because if I'd say it like this, it's according to what day 240 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:53,000 it is, which way Lot's going. Listen, there's sometimes in 241 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:54,960 Scripture you're looking at Lot and then you're cheering him. 242 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,360 I'm like, man, great decision, right choice, go, go, go. 243 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:59,680 And then there's other times you look at Lot and you're like, 244 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,960 buddy, get your head out of the sand. 245 00:15:02,080 --> 00:15:06,560 What are you thinking? He he lives a life on both sides 246 00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:09,440 of life. He lives a life on both sides of 247 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:11,040 life. Sometimes his actions are 248 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:15,040 questionable. And so with that as a father 249 00:15:15,040 --> 00:15:18,320 function as a lot being a father, his actions are quite 250 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,920 confusing. It's puzzling. 251 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:24,280 You don't you're trying to figure out which side are you 252 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:26,640 on. Amen. 253 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:32,160 On one hand, the Bible tells us that his daughters evidently has 254 00:15:32,160 --> 00:15:36,600 lived in the city of Sodom for this this perverse place, mind 255 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:39,880 you, for this extended of time with their father and their 256 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:44,000 family, with the guidance of their father amid this perverse 257 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:47,440 place, Amen. And the Bible tells us basically 258 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:51,280 that they have remained virgins. The Bible tells us in verse #8 259 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,400 they whenever Law was Speaking of his daughters to give them to 260 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,800 those that were outside of the of of his house and his door, he 261 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,000 said they've not known man. They, they're evidently have 262 00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,960 have kept their virginity being in this very perverse place. 263 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:10,880 Amen That I believe also speaks Amen to the voice in the actions 264 00:16:11,120 --> 00:16:12,880 help of their father in their house. 265 00:16:12,880 --> 00:16:19,000 So but and it's it's a large contrast, but on the flip side, 266 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:24,320 the Bible says they are married or they are betrothed, like 267 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:32,640 engaged to men that in Scripture are strongly implied as men of 268 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:35,680 Sodom. So here's both sides of Lot. 269 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:39,720 On one hand, he's kept and has helped aid maybe with a voice of 270 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:42,440 his daughters staying virgins through their time, but being 271 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:44,840 the Sodom. But on the other hand, he's 272 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,200 evidently given his OK and endorsement as the father to 273 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:50,400 them being betrothed to men of Sodom. 274 00:16:52,240 --> 00:16:54,520 So here's lot Gordon, what day you want to meet him? 275 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:56,840 Hey man, what side he wants to show you. 276 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,400 Hey man, about who he is. And so here's God. 277 00:17:01,560 --> 00:17:05,800 He has this angelic visitation, Amen that he comes down and no 278 00:17:05,800 --> 00:17:10,319 even concerning these men that are supposedly or they are 279 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:14,599 betrothed to Lot's daughters. The Bible says in verse 14 that 280 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:18,240 I read in your hearing tonight that after he was told of the 281 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:21,400 destruction and that he needed to bring whoever sons in law, 282 00:17:21,400 --> 00:17:22,680 daughters and stuff out of the city. 283 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:27,319 Verse 14 tells us Lot went out. Everybody say went out, Lot went 284 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,080 out and spake to them. The last time we're talking 285 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,600 about Lot here in verses part of this, he's inside his home 286 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:37,840 because of men and Sodom on the outside of his home wanting to 287 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:42,360 do some vile and wicked things. Notice he went out of his home 288 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:47,280 to speak to the men that were betrothed to his daughters, 289 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:52,440 which could quite possibly mean they were among the masses of 290 00:17:52,440 --> 00:17:57,600 men that were around about the home wanting to do vile things 291 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:01,040 with the what not didn't know at the time with the men that were 292 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,920 inside his home. So that just starts to give you 293 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,240 a little bit of the characterization of these men 294 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:12,280 that his daughters are betrothed to that that's the type of 295 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:16,640 people that that that law says this is permissible for my 296 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:20,560 daughters to be engaged to think about it for a moment. 297 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,080 And so God has this angelic visitation. 298 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,760 He's given Lot. And one of the purposes I 299 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:29,040 believe that he's given this is for lot to have a chance to 300 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:33,640 exercise, Amen. Holiness, a chance to exercise 301 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:37,160 sanctification muscles, if he had any in his body. 302 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,320 Amen. Because the urging really what's 303 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:44,480 taking place in Genesis 19, the urging is a urging for 304 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,080 separation. The urging is a urging for 305 00:18:49,080 --> 00:18:52,360 separation. Note now not just a separation 306 00:18:52,360 --> 00:18:56,640 of his people, but a a separation of his things. 307 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:00,760 Yes, we see in the verse that is their sons is their sons in laws 308 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:03,200 is their daughters, you know, bring them out of here. 309 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:07,640 But verse #12 also says after he says thy thy sons or thy 310 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,800 daughters, He says, and whatsoever not whosoever and 311 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,240 whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this 312 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:17,040 place. So God's given the opportunity 313 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:22,800 to exercise, Amen, holiness, sanctification of both people 314 00:19:22,800 --> 00:19:27,040 and things, and to bring them out and set them apart, Amen. 315 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:31,760 From all the characterization, from the environment of Sodom, 316 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:35,680 Amen. And we see this because we need, 317 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:40,840 we need in our lives, places, people and things to be holy 318 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,160 Whenever, whenever the whole story of Aiken comes down. 319 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:50,720 And the children of Israel are going into Israel, right? 320 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:53,600 They're going into the land of Canaan, notably, and they're had 321 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,920 their battle against Jericho, right? 322 00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,800 And they were victorious. It was the spoils of that word. 323 00:19:59,800 --> 00:20:02,680 The Bible says God says you cannot take of them. 324 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:05,440 They're dedicated unto me. They belong to me. 325 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,640 Therefore to you, they are the accursed thing. 326 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,280 They're accursed to you. You can't take of them. 327 00:20:11,520 --> 00:20:15,920 And the Bible says that Akin took of the accursed thing. 328 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,360 He took these things, a Babylonian garment, a wedge of 329 00:20:19,360 --> 00:20:23,120 goat, some shekels of silver. He took these things and he 330 00:20:23,120 --> 00:20:25,960 placed them in his tent, the Bible says. 331 00:20:26,480 --> 00:20:30,400 Whenever we read in, in Joshua, I think it is Chapter 7 or 6, it 332 00:20:30,400 --> 00:20:36,160 is Chapter 7 where we read in Joshua chapter #7 that Aiken was 333 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:37,760 stoned. It wasn't just him. 334 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:41,320 He was stoned. His family was stoned. 335 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:43,440 They were also burned, the Bible says. 336 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:48,880 And the things that pertain to Aiken, not just what he took, 337 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:54,720 but what belonged to him, all of it was burned. 338 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:59,560 The Bible says he had taken the accursed thing into his tent, 339 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:02,640 into his living quarters. Look at it, Trevor or not 340 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,120 Trevor, He's not up there. That's Zach. 341 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:05,000 Sorry. Amen. 342 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,480 Joshua chapter #7 and verse 24, the Bible says. 343 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:14,800 And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achen the son of Zara, 344 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:18,000 and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of goat. 345 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:22,040 That's the accursed thing that he took, and his sons, and his 346 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:27,440 daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his 347 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:32,440 tent, and all that he had, and brought them into the valley of 348 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:33,640 a core. Verse 25. 349 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,280 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? 350 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,800 The Lord shall trouble thee this day. 351 00:21:41,040 --> 00:21:45,840 And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them, people 352 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:51,080 and things with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. 353 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:59,160 See by Aitken's own admission in Joshua 7/21, he said they 354 00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:03,440 Speaking of the accursed thing, he said are hid in the earth in 355 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:09,160 the midst of my tent. God even told Joshua. 356 00:22:09,720 --> 00:22:13,080 God told Joshua, he said a part of Israel has taking of the 357 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:17,280 accursed thing and God even told Joshua, he said, and they put it 358 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:22,400 even among their own stuff. That's verse 11 of Joshua 7. 359 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:26,520 So listen, there's no greater act of trying to camouflage 360 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,880 something like that then mixing an end with your stuff. 361 00:22:34,120 --> 00:22:36,600 Take a little bit of what's appropriate and mix it with a 362 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,120 little bit of what's not appropriate. 363 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,240 It's kind of like the lot saying we're going to keep your 364 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:46,200 virginity, but I'll give you to these vile men. 365 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:57,400 Someone say men lot didn't put the accursed thing in his home. 366 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:01,280 In our story, he even did 1 better than that. 367 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:06,080 He was so emboldened that he placed his home in the accursed 368 00:23:06,080 --> 00:23:11,400 thing. Does everybody understand what I 369 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:16,560 just said right there? He put his home in the midst of 370 00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:23,160 the accursed thing. Now you can't succeed with that 371 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:29,760 unless there's some definitive boundaries for your home, just 372 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,160 like we can't succeed in this hour unless they are there as 373 00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:37,920 well. Genesis 19 pictures both the 374 00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:42,640 successes and the failures of such boundaries or so-called 375 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:46,760 boundaries within Lots on life and his life of his House of the 376 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,440 both times of weakness and times of strength. 377 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:55,240 And the other thing that is necessary then in that type of 378 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,720 environment, a resident like Lot and his family in such a 379 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,000 compromised environment, remember he was vexed daily. 380 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:08,200 New Testament Scripture tells us it's not just having boundaries, 381 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:15,960 but you also need a motive of heart and a motive of mine that 382 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:20,960 God's Spirit is directing because the best of boundaries 383 00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:25,960 will fail at a in proper mode of heart mind, because it knows how 384 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:30,400 to remove the boundary. It knows how to ignore the 385 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:34,200 boundary. They they needed a Daniel 386 00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:39,000 motive, like when Daniel was taken into Babylon in chapter #1 387 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,160 of the book of Daniel. When the Bible says that he 388 00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:47,560 Daniel purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself 389 00:24:47,840 --> 00:24:50,880 with the King's meat, neither Amen. 390 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,200 Take any wine, Amen. Which the king drank, Amen. 391 00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:59,520 What was Daniel doing? Daniel was refusing to acquire a 392 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:05,520 taste for Babylon's diet. He was refusing to curb his 393 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,440 appetite to Babylon's menu. I'm not going to eat the King's 394 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,960 meat. I'm not going to drink. 395 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,400 I'm not. I'm not going to drink the wine 396 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,040 of the King's table. I refuse to dull and lower my 397 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,200 inhibitions with what they're providing. 398 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,760 He could have had boundaries, but it also requires A mindset. 399 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,040 Amen. Amen. 400 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:33,640 And so the angelic charge though, to Lot was absolutely 401 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,920 clear and it was concise. You can see it again verse #12 402 00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:44,240 he said, Angel said bring them referring to his family, his 403 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:49,880 things, bring them out of this place, out of Sodom. 404 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,280 You know what the angels were basically then telling Lot. 405 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:59,880 Your only hope at this juncture in the road Lot is that you got 406 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:09,240 to separate from the place. Listen, if you if you can't have 407 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:13,080 proper mode of mindset and heart for some of the things that 408 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,960 you're exposed to in this life, it might require total severing. 409 00:26:20,280 --> 00:26:24,840 If it's like the Scripture says that it becomes your master, 410 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:32,840 then then having boundaries are not good enough for you. 411 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,800 You got to sever it. You got to come totally out of 412 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:41,160 it and away from it and detach and discard. 413 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,200 The Bible says love these scriptures if I want to read 414 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:45,680 them. And you're hearing tonight, and 415 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:48,760 by the way, a lot of this I have tonight is scripture. 416 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:54,760 So that's why it's lengthy. John chapter #17 this is Jesus's 417 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,040 high priestly prayer, right? This high priestly prayer, the 418 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,920 Bible says look at verse #11 and then we'll skip down to verse 419 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:04,120 14. Jesus's words, He's speaking and 420 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:08,360 says, and now I am no more in the world, but these Speaking of 421 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:13,200 this, His disciples are in the world, and I am come to thee, 422 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:18,880 Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom thou has 423 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,760 given me. I want to pause there just for a 424 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:26,960 moment because this is the the the flesh of Jesus crying out to 425 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,120 the spirit. This is the the the flesh nature 426 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:34,360 crying out to the spirit nature of Christ Jesus. 427 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:38,720 He's praying in his flesh. Holy Father, keep through thine 428 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:41,920 own name, which we know the name of God. 429 00:27:41,920 --> 00:27:46,320 We know the name of Christ Jesus is that name, but he says keep 430 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,080 them through thy name. But name isn't just capital, 431 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,320 Jesus. We know according to Scripture, 432 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,080 that name always indicates nature. 433 00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:01,520 Keep through thine nature those whom thou has given me. 434 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:05,240 Oh, that that switches things up a little bit because I want them 435 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,400 to have what's keeping them through thy nature, keeping them 436 00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:11,120 with the same characterization that you have. 437 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,240 What is that? That's holiness. 438 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:17,560 That's righteousness, that's godliness. 439 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:22,960 Keep them with thy own name, thine own nature, those whom 440 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,520 thou hast given me, and they may be one as we are. 441 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:30,200 Look at verse 14. He says, I have given them the 442 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:35,160 same ones, the same disciples. I have given them thy word, or 443 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,760 by say word, give them my word. Jesus, of course, has all, all 444 00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,200 throughout his earthly ministry. He taught, He preached, He gave 445 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:47,960 them, yes, the Lord's word, his, his deciding decision and 446 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,040 guidance on certain things. But a word right here in 447 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,160 Scripture is more than just something spoken. 448 00:28:55,400 --> 00:29:01,040 The word Word is something that embodies a concept or an idea. 449 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:06,640 Hey man, here is Jesus. He says I've given them thy word 450 00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:11,440 and the world has hated them. Speaking of the disciples, the 451 00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:16,080 world's hated them because they are not of the world, even as I 452 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:19,880 am not of the world. The interesting thing about this 453 00:29:20,120 --> 00:29:22,760 is that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. 454 00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:29,000 He was, as John one says, the word become flesh. 455 00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:32,840 So there's interesting there whenever Jesus saying I've given 456 00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,960 them thy word because in a very literal sense, he was the word 457 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:40,280 made flesh. He had given himself. 458 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:45,840 He had given the embodiment of the concept and the idea that 459 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,560 God had from the very beginning of the world of a Savior. 460 00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:55,400 Huh, of one to grow up into the image and the stature of Jesus 461 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,120 Christ. He said I've given them, I've 462 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,400 given them by word. The world hates them and because 463 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,560 they're not of the world and I'm not of the world world. 464 00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:05,520 Verse 15 I pray not that thou should just take them, the 465 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,800 disciples out of the world. Don't take them out of the 466 00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:13,920 world, but thou but thou should just keep them from the evil. 467 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:17,880 Here is the mind of Christ. Here's the mind of Christ. 468 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,600 I want to keep them in the world. 469 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,040 Don't take them out of the world, but keep them from evil. 470 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,040 There's only way you can do that. 471 00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:32,080 Boundaries. Boundaries and an affected mind 472 00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:37,320 and heart motive. Amen. 473 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:47,880 I am convinced that Lot could have survived in Sodom if he had 474 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,920 the proper boundaries and the right motive in heart and mind 475 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:57,080 living there. But God seen through his wishy 476 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:01,360 washy right here, wrong there, right Gordon? 477 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,560 What day that lot wasn't going to survive in Sodom. 478 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:07,880 He was going to have to be severed from Sodom. 479 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:11,120 Hey man, look what the script says. 480 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:12,800 I pray that you don't take the mound of the world. 481 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:14,920 Just keep them from the evil verse 16. 482 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,520 They are not of the world. They are not of the world. 483 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,200 The world is not their source. They are not of the world. 484 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:25,920 It's not their source, even as I am not of the world. 485 00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:29,880 That's interesting, isn't it, that the disciples of Christ are 486 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,680 not of the world, and the one that they are disciples of 487 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:36,000 wasn't of the world. Does that not bring up a full 488 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:39,560 picture for us? That if He wasn't and we claim 489 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:43,920 to have His spirit, then that same mentality should also show 490 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,760 up in our lives? That we're not of it, huh? 491 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,920 That if there is a blending in it, then we're not subjecting 492 00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,480 and surrendering ourselves totally to the spirit that we 493 00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:58,560 say we've received because He wasn't of it? 494 00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:05,920 Am I doing OK? He was not of it, he said verse 495 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:11,840 17 sanctify them that separate that's make holy them through 496 00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:15,160 thy truth. Thy word is truth. 497 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,400 Someone say Amen. He said as thou has sent me into 498 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:25,360 the world, Even so I also sent them into the world. 499 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:32,080 Verse 19 And for their sakes, I sanctify myself, that they also 500 00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:36,560 look at this, that they also might be sanctified through the 501 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,560 truth, which is, as verse 17 says, the word. 502 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,680 He's saying I lived in the world. 503 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,480 I was not of the world. I was kept from the evil of the 504 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,720 world. I was sanctified and holy and 505 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,600 set apart while I was in the world. 506 00:32:56,160 --> 00:33:01,480 And he says that was all done so that I might be an example to 507 00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:06,320 them, that they could live in the world, not be of the world, 508 00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,240 kept from the evil of the world, yet live holy in a sanctified 509 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:15,800 life while they're in the world. You will not find a better 510 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:19,920 father figure than your father figure, Christ said. 511 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,400 He said you have 10,000 instructors in Christ, but you 512 00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:25,640 only have one father. He was speaking to himself as an 513 00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:30,240 example of a nurture, counselor, instructor, and guider for us 514 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:35,440 being disciples of Christ. Verse 17, sanctify the word. 515 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,520 Sanctify means to make holy, to separate from profane things. 516 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,520 And he said in verse 19 that sanctification happens through 517 00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,280 truth. And verse 16 tells us that God's 518 00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:51,280 word is truth. Again, Jesus gave us God's word 519 00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:55,160 in verse #14 He said that, and Jesus gave us that both in a 520 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,480 verbal expression and in bodily form. 521 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:02,840 He was the Word made flesh. Jesus was the embodiment of 522 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,720 God's will and God's purpose for mankind. 523 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:08,920 What is that? Then when we really look at it, 524 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:14,480 He died out to the flesh in the life of Christ. 525 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:19,639 There was a dying out to the flesh on Calvary because he 526 00:34:19,639 --> 00:34:22,199 could have called 10,000 angels. The Bible says if he wanted to 527 00:34:22,199 --> 00:34:25,000 to sweep down and take care of it, but he had to tell his 528 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,280 flesh, not your will, his be done. 529 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:34,560 It was a dying out to the flesh so that the Spirit could have 530 00:34:34,560 --> 00:34:37,679 preeminence in the event of what took place. 531 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,800 That is the example of our Father. 532 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:46,000 That's the example of our Father, who the Bible says is 533 00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:53,360 the way, the truth and the life in so much that if we have the 534 00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:57,360 same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, yes, it quickens 535 00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,480 these mortal bodies. But Romans 15 says in particular 536 00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:03,640 then that that Holy Ghost will sanctify us. 537 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:07,640 That's in your Bibles. It says the Holy Ghost will 538 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:10,880 sanctify, set us apart, make us holy. 539 00:35:13,240 --> 00:35:16,720 So in Lot's dilemma, am I doing OK? 540 00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:24,760 In Lot's dilemma, separation meant a literal parting by 541 00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,800 getting away from isolating from Sodom. 542 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:34,200 And Lot's only means of safety from the pending destruction, 543 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:40,840 according to the angels, was for him to separate it from it all. 544 00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,640 Here's the thing. That generation compared to our 545 00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,960 generation, that generation didn't have the privilege of 546 00:35:47,960 --> 00:35:53,360 being filled with the spirit of the Holy Ghost, didn't have that 547 00:35:53,360 --> 00:35:57,480 privilege. So matter of fact, their level 548 00:35:57,480 --> 00:36:02,440 of spirit interaction was much of what they were engaged in at 549 00:36:02,440 --> 00:36:08,440 this moment, a manifestation of God or interaction with 550 00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:13,040 spiritual beings. That was the extent I know 551 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,040 sometimes and please don't mistake, I know sometimes like, 552 00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:18,400 oh, if we could just see an Angel hodgepodge. 553 00:36:18,800 --> 00:36:20,800 You got Christ's spirit living inside of you. 554 00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,240 And I'm not saying I'm not being totally derogatory here, but 555 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:27,640 we're a little bit living totally Old Testament if all 556 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,920 we're looking for is an Angel. You have the spirit of Christ 557 00:36:29,920 --> 00:36:34,400 living in you. You have a privilege. 558 00:36:34,480 --> 00:36:37,480 They didn't even have you. You asking for angels, something 559 00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,600 that they have, but whenever you talk about receiving the Holy 560 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:41,320 Ghost, you're talking about a privilege they didn't even have 561 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:46,080 yet. Amen. 562 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,840 And so that's all they had at this point in time. 563 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,400 And so separation here, talking about real, real stuff today, 564 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,720 sanctification, separation, setting apart, there may be some 565 00:36:56,720 --> 00:36:59,720 things already eluded this, but there may still be some things 566 00:36:59,720 --> 00:37:05,280 that require complete removal of oneself from place, people, 567 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:12,000 things, even as we Live Today. Often Scripture talks about that 568 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,160 in the moment that there is separation from something, at 569 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:20,880 the same time there is separation and to something and 570 00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:23,640 it's important to match the separation from with a 571 00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:28,600 separation unto because if not you separate from and you leave 572 00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:33,080 a void of being separated unto. What do you mean? 573 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:38,080 But I mean this Romans chapter 13 and verse 11, the Bible says 574 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:45,040 and that knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out 575 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,320 of sleep for now is our salvation. 576 00:37:49,320 --> 00:37:53,080 Everybody say deliverance. A lot of times when we see the 577 00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:55,760 word salvation, one thing we think about is death, burial, 578 00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,080 resurrection happening in our life. 579 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,680 But the base meaning of salvation is deliverance, that 580 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:05,440 our salvation to deliverance is nearer than when we believed. 581 00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:08,160 What do you say that well? Well, a lot of times we talk 582 00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,160 about the coming of the Lord when we talk about this 583 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:12,160 Scripture. You know, our salvation is 584 00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:15,000 nearer than we believe. Well, I've already been saved, 585 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,240 so I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about deliverance, 586 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:19,920 because salvation is a very elastic word. 587 00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:21,960 I have been saved. I'm being saved. 588 00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,480 I will be saved. The Bible tells me in the future 589 00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,240 that my body, this body is not yet saved. 590 00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:32,760 This earthly man, this mortal is going to put on immortality and 591 00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:35,000 this corruptible is going to put on incorruptible. 592 00:38:35,360 --> 00:38:39,760 At the moment of rapture, this body will be saved. 593 00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:44,600 And so today my salvation or my deliverance is nearer than when 594 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,160 I first believed. The deliverance from the O 595 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:50,440 corruptness of this flesh that I'm living in is closed. 596 00:38:50,880 --> 00:38:54,920 And verse 12 says the night is far spent, the day is at hand. 597 00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:57,480 Let us therefore everybody say cast off. 598 00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,280 You see this terminology in Romans, you see it in the 599 00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,400 Epistles. Often times you're taking 600 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,680 something off, but you're also putting something along. 601 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:08,560 And you typically don't take something off without putting 602 00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:11,320 something on. You take off the old man, you 603 00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:15,760 put on the new man, You got this take off, put on, cast off, put 604 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,200 on. It's that separate from separate 605 00:39:18,200 --> 00:39:21,240 unto stuff. And he says you cast off the 606 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:25,360 works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light. 607 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:30,320 Let us walk honestly, as in the day. 608 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:33,600 Notice the knot. The series right here is a 609 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:39,280 separation from not in rioting and drunkenness, not in 610 00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:44,480 chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envy, and that's 611 00:39:44,480 --> 00:39:50,280 separation from, but verse 14 is the separation unto But put ye 612 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:58,200 on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make everybody say no provision. 613 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:03,200 Make not provision for the flesh. 614 00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:13,480 To fulfill the lust there of that's where boundaries come in 615 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:17,840 place. Boundaries come in place. 616 00:40:18,840 --> 00:40:22,200 It's like going somewhere that don't allow you to have dogs, 617 00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:24,120 you know, when you go on vacation, but they're like, 618 00:40:24,120 --> 00:40:27,280 we'll make a provision for it. You know what they're saying? 619 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:35,280 We'll allow it this time, but that's not our standard 620 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:43,400 practice. And when we make provisions for 621 00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:48,080 the flesh to fulfill the lust thereof, we're like, oh, it's 622 00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,080 just, you know, I know this isn't the regular scheme of how 623 00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:55,720 things work being a child of God disciple, but just this once, 624 00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,600 I'm just going to make a provision. 625 00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,960 We teaching right now. Come on, I'm just going to 626 00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:09,920 accommodate. This isn't the regular fair, but 627 00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:11,600 we're just going to make an accommodation. 628 00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:15,320 And I'm not trying to be brutal pastor tonight. 629 00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:17,960 And I know there's a few people. It's like, man, but listen to 630 00:41:17,960 --> 00:41:20,360 me. We can accommodate ourself right 631 00:41:20,360 --> 00:41:28,480 out of being saved. We we we can accommodate 632 00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:30,040 ourselves right in the middle of Sodom. 633 00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:32,320 We can accommodate ourselves right in the middle of 634 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,160 destruction. We can accommodate ourselves and 635 00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,400 pardon me for being so, but we can accommodate ourselves to a 636 00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:47,370 first ticket to hell. He said cast it off and put on 637 00:41:47,370 --> 00:41:52,170 when we talk about separation, when we talk about 638 00:41:52,170 --> 00:41:54,250 sanctification, setting apart holiness. 639 00:41:54,730 --> 00:41:57,000 Amen. It may also mean and then we'll 640 00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:58,840 look at the Scripture in here. Just a moment and I'm not 641 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,800 getting very far, but you know far enough. 642 00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,520 Praise God. Sanctification, separation means 643 00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,720 also this not, and this is just the verbage of Scripture. 644 00:42:06,720 --> 00:42:10,200 We'll look at it. Not yoking with certain things, 645 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:18,240 not fellowshipping, not communing, not concurring, not a 646 00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:26,920 green with certain surroundings. Dare I say even certain populous 647 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:40,280 McGee 2nd Corinthians 614 be Paul says to the Church of 648 00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:46,880 Corinthians not an equally yoked together with unbelievers. 649 00:42:48,920 --> 00:42:51,840 The phrase unequally yoked together means do not have 650 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:58,840 fellowship with 1 not an equal. Oh, hold on now, don't don't 651 00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:08,360 have regular whenever you it's a mismatch when we talk about the 652 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:13,560 yoke like the old wooden yokes that a farmer would put a set of 653 00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:19,760 animals within for the purpose of plowing a field, he's going 654 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:26,040 to put two beasts that are the same typically similar height, 655 00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,640 similar personality, same animal. 656 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,440 Because I have, I've even read stories where people have people 657 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:41,000 over in the Middle East have have have observed a farmer 658 00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:44,720 putting 2 unequalled yoke animals within a yoke. 659 00:43:45,120 --> 00:43:50,280 One that was older or younger, one that was faster and slower, 660 00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,520 one that had height, more height than the other one. 661 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:58,880 What that does that affects the gait or the stride of the 662 00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,880 animal. One may walk quicker than the 663 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:05,120 other. One may be more anxious and walk 664 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:06,880 quicker because of the anxiousness. 665 00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:09,800 The temperaments are not the same because of one that's 666 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,000 taller, its strides going to be longer. 667 00:44:12,240 --> 00:44:15,000 And they have said whenever there are, when there are 668 00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,680 animals that are unequally yoked, he said all times it 669 00:44:18,680 --> 00:44:23,960 causes the yoke and those that are pulling the plow to walk in 670 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:28,520 circles because you have a fast Trotter and a slow Trotter and 671 00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:29,880 they're not getting a straight line. 672 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,240 They're they're not getting the work done. 673 00:44:31,240 --> 00:44:34,600 They're just going in circles. And whenever us as believers 674 00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:38,280 become unequally fixed and yoked with things, you're going to 675 00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,080 cause yourself a world of heartache. 676 00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:42,600 Nothing's going to get accomplished in your Christian 677 00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:45,480 journey of growth and maturity in God, and it's going to feel 678 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,080 like all you're doing is going in circles. 679 00:44:57,040 --> 00:44:59,920 He says don't, don't need this mismatch. 680 00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,160 He says for what? Still in verse 14, I know he 681 00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:10,760 says for what fellowship or what common interest have 682 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:12,920 righteousness with unrighteousness. 683 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,760 He's trying to ask where's the lines of commonality here? 684 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:24,400 He says what communion or what partnership have light with 685 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:26,080 darkness? Let's think about that real 686 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,480 quick. Light shows up, darkness goes, 687 00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:36,880 light leaks, darkness shows up. Place light and darkness in the 688 00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:38,560 same room. When you say, well, you didn't 689 00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:39,840 turn the lights down, it'll be a little dark. 690 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:41,840 I mean, let's just get real for a moment. 691 00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,240 He's just saying what, what, what kind of what kind of 692 00:45:45,240 --> 00:45:51,200 partnership can there be? Verse 15 and what concord you 693 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:55,720 would think musically, what harmony, what harmony have 694 00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:58,120 Christ with Belial. The word Belial is a Old 695 00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,200 Testament word. They'd often talk about the sons 696 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:01,960 of Belial. Yes, there was a literal 697 00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,920 individual, but it was also it was just metaphorically 698 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,760 speaking, Belial was known as worthlessness and wickedness. 699 00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:11,440 So So what? What concord or what harmony 700 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,200 hath Christ with worthlessness and wickedness. 701 00:46:15,520 --> 00:46:17,160 Where's the harmony in those two? 702 00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:22,960 Not it'll be like picking 2 keys or different chords out of those 703 00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:25,280 different scales. There's going to be some there's 704 00:46:25,280 --> 00:46:28,280 going to be some discord. Huh. 705 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,720 What? What did Amos Amos said in Amos 706 00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:34,800 3/3 he posed the question. He said how can two walk 707 00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:37,360 together except they'd be agreed. 708 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,280 It's, it's amazing sometimes how it happens. 709 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,840 You know, I'm, we've done a lot of walking here. 710 00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:49,080 Then when he was on vacation, you know, we're walking down the 711 00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,960 road and I might start out with my right foot and Trevor start 712 00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:53,800 out with his left. But over time, you know what 713 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,040 happens? We both are walking with the 714 00:46:56,040 --> 00:46:57,600 same foot going forward at the same time. 715 00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,120 And what happens somehow we just auto correct with whatever we're 716 00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:06,880 walking with and we begin to match whatever we're walking 717 00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:09,600 with. And a lot of times it happens 718 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,360 subliminally, it happens involuntary. 719 00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,080 But here's one thing. I know your advocacy is not 720 00:47:17,080 --> 00:47:20,440 changing his walk. You know who's going to match 721 00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:26,960 you are. I'm still in Genesis, folks. 722 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:29,800 I'm just, I'm just kind of digging around and playing in 723 00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:38,400 the sandbox a little bit. Hey man, he says in verse 16, Oh 724 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:41,360 don't let me I don't want to quit on verse 15 here you and 725 00:47:41,360 --> 00:47:44,520 what part has he that believeth with the infidel or unbeliever? 726 00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:49,000 Verse 16 and what agreement or what accord or what approval 727 00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,560 have the temple of God, which you're supposed to be? 728 00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,600 No, you're not the year the temple of the Holy Ghost. 729 00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,680 So what what? What agreement or court of 730 00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:04,560 approval have the temple of God with idols for here in the 731 00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,520 temple of the living God as God have said, look at what God 732 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:11,200 said. I will do well in them and walk 733 00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:16,680 in them, and I will be my God and they shall be my people. 734 00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,680 Someone say Amen, he says in. As a result of everything he's 735 00:48:23,680 --> 00:48:27,720 just said, He comes to this climax as a verse #17 that you 736 00:48:27,720 --> 00:48:30,600 usually hear quoted in isolation from the rest of us. 737 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,400 But this is the whole context. Everything that was just spoken 738 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:39,080 and said then Wherefore, because of all that, for reason of all 739 00:48:39,080 --> 00:48:45,760 that, come out from among them and be separate, saith the Lord, 740 00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:49,560 and touch not the uncling thing, and I will receive you. 741 00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,080 We got to back up here for a moment and I feel the Holy Ghost 742 00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:55,000 right now that word touch in the Greek means this. 743 00:48:55,040 --> 00:49:00,760 We're just thinking, Oh no, no, it means to attach oneself to, 744 00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:05,080 to fasten oneself to or adhere to or cling to. 745 00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,360 He says touch not the uncling thing. 746 00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:10,960 Don't fasten yourself to that. Don't cling to that. 747 00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:15,000 Don't attach yourself. I'm not. 748 00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,920 This is a whole different word about just brushing up against 749 00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:21,360 it and rubbing shoulders. This is a fixation I'm attached 750 00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:24,280 to, I'm clinging to, I'm adhering to, He said don't you 751 00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,320 do that. Come out from among them. 752 00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,720 Be separate, saith the Lord. Don't cling to that, Don't 753 00:49:29,720 --> 00:49:32,640 adhere to that. Don't touch that and I will 754 00:49:32,640 --> 00:49:33,560 receive you. Why? 755 00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:37,560 Because I want to dwell in you and I want to walk in you, and I 756 00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:39,600 don't want anything to prohibit that. 757 00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:52,640 I'll receive you verse 18. We're getting there. 758 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:54,840 I know I'll have to quit here soon. 759 00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,240 You don't even have the time. I got 18 pages and I'm just on 760 00:49:58,240 --> 00:50:06,960 page 8. And he does, He continues. 761 00:50:07,520 --> 00:50:11,840 And I will receive you verse 18, and will be a father. 762 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:21,160 And to you, all those that protector, that instructor, that 763 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:29,040 counselor, everything that a spiritual head of a household 764 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:37,520 should be, He says, I'll be that to you, instructor, provider, 765 00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:43,640 guider, all the things, and ye shall be my sons and my 766 00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:48,520 daughters. What the Lord's saying, He said 767 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,840 in all that I know. Your household might not been 768 00:50:52,840 --> 00:50:58,680 very trustworthy, he says. But if you stay in cahoots with 769 00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:04,480 me, I'll make you a part of my household and I'll be a father 770 00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:07,880 to you. And when you can't get no 771 00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:10,840 guidance from your earthly father, and when your earthly 772 00:51:10,840 --> 00:51:12,480 father will put you in harm's way. 773 00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,200 And when your earthly father will compromise, and according 774 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,120 to what day it is, whether or not he's going to be holy or 775 00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,840 unholy, he says, if you depend upon me, I'll make a household 776 00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:24,480 for you and I'll be a fuck. Hello, Bushai. 777 00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:28,760 I'll be a I'll be a father to you. 778 00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:33,240 You'll be my sons, you'll be my daughters, said the God, the 779 00:51:33,240 --> 00:51:45,600 Lord Almighty. The Scripture says when God had 780 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:50,680 set judgment and destruction for Sodom. 781 00:51:51,720 --> 00:51:55,680 Here's here's the end. Here's the end Thinking here is 782 00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,680 here's what we got to come to terms with. 783 00:51:57,880 --> 00:52:01,040 If God has set judgment or destruction for that place, 784 00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:05,920 Sodom, then you don't want to have anything to do with that 785 00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:14,240 place. Oh, brother Magay, listen, I 786 00:52:14,240 --> 00:52:19,960 understand, I understand. But even in the Book of Numbers, 787 00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,920 whenever Cora, Dathan and the Byram had done their deed of 788 00:52:23,920 --> 00:52:30,240 rebellion against Israel, Moses and Aaron, the word had come to 789 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:39,640 Israel and even to Corazon. Family destructions coming to 790 00:52:39,640 --> 00:52:45,520 Corus tents. The earth's going to open up, 791 00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:51,360 and it's going to swallow them. Here's my advice. 792 00:52:52,760 --> 00:53:01,920 Separate yourselves. Separate yourselves from those 793 00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:08,000 tents of wickedness, from those tents of wickedness. 794 00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,400 Look at it and and it's there and there's, heck, I don't know 795 00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:14,240 if you want to go there or not, but #16 and verse 26, here's the 796 00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:15,320 warning. Amen. 797 00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:19,560 And then this is quite detailed that Moses gave, he said touch 798 00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:26,320 nothing of theirs, Touch nothing of theirs, referring to Corin, 799 00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,960 his tents in that household. He said touch nothing of theirs 800 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,160 lest ye be consumed in their sins. 801 00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:39,440 Does somebody hear what I'm saying right now? 802 00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:42,640 If it's meant for destruction, you don't want anything to do 803 00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:49,880 with it. Oh, God, the Bible says there 804 00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:51,160 was a time. When you look at it, it's 805 00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:52,520 Jeremiah. It's up there in my scriptures. 806 00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:53,760 Jeremiah 51. I think it is. 807 00:53:54,240 --> 00:53:57,160 There's a time that Babylon is doomed. 808 00:53:57,320 --> 00:53:59,560 There's pending destruction coming from Babylon. 809 00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:02,840 And this is what the Jeremiah, the prophet Jeremiah says. 810 00:54:02,840 --> 00:54:05,840 Jeremiah 51 and verse #6 this is what it says. 811 00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:08,000 It says flee. Everybody say flee. 812 00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:11,320 The understanding of who the subject is that should be 813 00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:13,280 fleeing. If you read the other verses of 814 00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,440 Scripture, it's Israel. He's talking to Israel. 815 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:20,640 He says flee out of the midst of Babylon. 816 00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:24,280 Now let's just think here for a moment. 817 00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:28,880 They are in Babylon, of course, really of their own doing. 818 00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:32,920 They would want to cry and oh, you know, we're by the rivers of 819 00:54:32,920 --> 00:54:35,120 Babylon. How can we sing the Lord's song? 820 00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:38,960 Such evil land as though some like they came in the night and 821 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,120 took them there, which they did, but they were only taken because 822 00:54:42,360 --> 00:54:47,200 of their own sin and basically what was happened was judgment 823 00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,840 and repercussions as a result of not keeping the Lord's Sabbath's 824 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,360 and various other things that took place. 825 00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,440 That would be an interesting topic for another time in it 826 00:54:57,080 --> 00:55:00,280 that God's people spent 70 years in captivity because they didn't 827 00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,960 keep the Sabbath's. They didn't keep a time of rest 828 00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:10,320 to reserve for worship. Oh God, I got sticky fingers. 829 00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:13,520 Right now it just feels kind of. But none the less. 830 00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:17,240 So they are there, he says. Flee out of the midst of Babylon 831 00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:23,320 and deliver every man his soul. Be not cut off in her babylon's 832 00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:28,200 iniquity because payday's coming, but you don't want to be 833 00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:31,200 there for payday. You don't want to be associated 834 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:33,240 with that. You don't want to be a part of 835 00:55:33,240 --> 00:55:35,240 that. You don't want to cling or be 836 00:55:35,240 --> 00:55:38,640 adhering to that because see, there is the therein lies some 837 00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:40,480 of the problem of those that were taken to Babylon in 838 00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:42,240 captivity. You know, when some had 839 00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:46,160 opportunity to go back home, they never went because they got 840 00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:49,080 the taste of Babylon in their mouth and they got the mentality 841 00:55:49,080 --> 00:55:52,360 of Babylon in their head and they started liking Babylon more 842 00:55:52,360 --> 00:56:02,160 than they liked home. He says, But be not cut off in 843 00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:04,600 her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance. 844 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:08,160 He will render unto her a recompense. 845 00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:12,760 So whenever God marks a place or a person or a system for 846 00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:19,240 judgment, His call is to separate, leave, flee, avoid 847 00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:26,000 association and connection because to remain attached and 848 00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:28,160 listen to pesto very well. And I see where I'm already at. 849 00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:37,280 I see it everybody being Lot's wife, look behind you to remain 850 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:40,200 attached. Listen, sometimes it's not just 851 00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,760 that you're physically attached. Sometimes you're emotionally 852 00:56:42,760 --> 00:56:45,680 still attached. You can be physically removed 853 00:56:45,680 --> 00:56:48,000 but still emotionally attached to Sodom. 854 00:56:50,520 --> 00:56:53,880 You can be physically removed from Egypt and still be 855 00:56:53,880 --> 00:57:03,890 spiritually attached to Egypt. And in this, it's in. 856 00:57:03,890 --> 00:57:05,170 We'll get there perhaps next week. 857 00:57:05,450 --> 00:57:07,890 But that's that's the story of Lot's wife. 858 00:57:10,050 --> 00:57:16,250 She left physically, but there were still some emotional, 859 00:57:16,250 --> 00:57:20,610 spiritual, there were still some attachments that drew her to 860 00:57:20,610 --> 00:57:24,640 look back. It's the same thing that 861 00:57:24,640 --> 00:57:27,680 happened to the children of Israel, that after four hundred, 862 00:57:27,680 --> 00:57:31,480 430 years of bondage in Egypt, they're gone. 863 00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:34,120 They're in the wilderness, they've had deliverance, they've 864 00:57:34,120 --> 00:57:36,800 crossed their Red Sea glory. Hallelujah, Amen. 865 00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:38,920 But they're talking among themselves. 866 00:57:39,160 --> 00:57:42,520 Oh, I wish we had the food of Egypt still. 867 00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:45,040 And we've been wondering about getting a trip back to Egypt. 868 00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:47,840 They're away from it, but their heart and mind is still 869 00:57:47,840 --> 00:57:53,640 entangled in it. We need a separation of not just 870 00:57:53,640 --> 00:57:57,840 our physicality, but of our emotions and our spirits. 871 00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:02,320 I dare to say some of the struggle of Apostolic people 872 00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:06,120 sitting on pews is that they physically left the world, but 873 00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,640 emotionally and spiritually they're still deeply entrenched 874 00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:25,860 in the world. Oh man, I guess this is just as 875 00:58:25,860 --> 00:58:29,040 good a place to stop as any staying with me, 876 00:58:42,850 --> 00:58:44,250 man. I feel you, Holy Ghost. 877 00:58:48,130 --> 00:58:50,090 Oh Jesus, Jesus. Jesus. 878 00:58:50,090 --> 00:58:51,970 Jesus. Can we just begin to talk to the 879 00:58:51,970 --> 00:58:53,810 Lord? Hallelujah. 880 00:58:53,810 --> 00:58:55,290 Right now. I need you, Jesus. 881 00:58:55,530 --> 00:59:01,850 I need you, Jesus, Oh God, I need thee, O Lord. 882 00:59:01,850 --> 00:59:03,170 I need thee. I need thee. 883 00:59:03,170 --> 00:59:04,770 I need thee. I need thee, O Lord. 884 00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:10,040 God, You have a plan, You have a way of escape, Lord, you have an 885 00:59:10,040 --> 00:59:12,880 alternative. God, You have means and you have 886 00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:15,440 ways. God, if I just adhere to the 887 00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:18,040 means and the ways. If I just put in place the 888 00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:21,480 boundaries, Lord, if I just allow my motives to be swayed 889 00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:24,960 and influenced by the spirit and the directing of my heavenly 890 00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:27,960 Father who will create a household for me, God, If I'll 891 00:59:28,200 --> 00:59:32,800 just somehow receive, Lord, a spirit God that will fight for 892 00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:36,560 me whenever I surrender totally to it to allow me to come back. 893 00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:41,080 Lord, the fellowshipping Lord and the communing, oh Lord Jesus 894 00:59:41,080 --> 00:59:45,480 and the accords God that I make with unsavory things that would 895 00:59:45,480 --> 00:59:50,520 wish to dilute and compromise and jeopardize the Lord my life 896 00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:55,360 and my walk and my talk and my relationship, I pray, O God, 897 00:59:55,360 --> 01:00:01,160 with you, oh God, the offense about me. 898 01:00:01,160 --> 01:00:05,320 O Lord, help me to understand the things that simply cannot be 899 01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:07,720 tolerated. And that must be severed. 900 01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:11,000 God, the separating God you have, Lord, empowered. 901 01:00:11,000 --> 01:00:13,480 You prayed the prayer in your last prayer here on earth. 902 01:00:13,680 --> 01:00:16,600 God, you put me in the world, but I'm not of the world to keep 903 01:00:16,600 --> 01:00:19,840 me from the evil of the world. Oh, God, you've done it. 904 01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:22,440 Lord Jesus, that I'd be sanctified through your word. 905 01:00:22,440 --> 01:00:25,560 That your word is truth. God, you're the very embodiment 906 01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:27,120 of every will and purpose of God. 907 01:00:27,320 --> 01:00:30,400 That it's a possibility. Oh God, it's a possibility. 908 01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:32,960 Lord, you were not in the world. We're not in the world. 909 01:00:32,960 --> 01:00:34,520 They hated you. They'll hate us. 910 01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,280 God, you did everything you did as an example. 911 01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:41,440 God bless us as your disciples could have been done in us as 912 01:00:41,440 --> 01:00:55,560 well. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, 913 01:00:55,560 --> 01:01:00,120 yes, yes, yes, yes. Help us to lead on well, God, so 914 01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:04,600 that we don't lose much. Help us to lead well, God, so we 915 01:01:04,600 --> 01:01:06,360 don't lose much. God. 916 01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:10,400 Let fathers, let me and God be spiritual leaders in their home 917 01:01:10,400 --> 01:01:13,320 and their families. Help them, Lord Jesus, to be 918 01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:17,240 beacons of reason, God of the instruction of the Holy Ghost. 919 01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:20,680 Help us not to live Lord Jesus, dual lives. 920 01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:25,200 Help us not to live Lord dual lives God and bring confusion 921 01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:27,480 and puzzling among the generation that is. 922 01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,760 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 923 01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:44,160 I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. 924 01:01:45,160 --> 01:01:52,200 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 925 01:01:52,560 --> 01:01:54,400 God. I love you, Lord. 926 01:01:54,400 --> 01:01:55,920 I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord. 927 01:01:57,680 --> 01:02:01,800 Someone said thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah. 928 01:02:01,800 --> 01:02:05,080 Hallelujah. I guess that's part A of this 929 01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:07,280 lesson. Part B will be next Wednesday. 930 01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:09,320 Amen. Haven't had to do that in a 931 01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:14,080 while, but you know, you know, Amen. 932 01:02:14,440 --> 01:02:15,480 God bless you. Have a good week. 933 01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:17,760 Please remember Sister Brendan and her family in prayer 934 01:02:17,760 --> 01:02:20,600 tomorrow again. She'll arrive at the hospital at 935 01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:25,400 5:00 and I know that because being there with my own 2 936 01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,040 parents, I know her children and stuff. 937 01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,760 Everybody will just be it just be a pins and needles scenario 938 01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:34,360 because of the seriousness of everything. 939 01:02:34,360 --> 01:02:37,800 So Please remember her and then it's going to be a long day, 940 01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,920 Amen And they're going to need the help of the Lord, Amen. 941 01:02:40,920 --> 01:02:44,120 Pray for me that I can be of some help if just a supportive 942 01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:48,440 encouraging, you know, face Amen among them Hallelujah God bless 943 01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:51,800 you tonight Jesus name came come on Sunday I'll be in the AM but 944 01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:55,400 the champion be in the PM champion music Amen all day. 945 01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:58,760 Amen Amen. God bless you in Jesus name.