1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,920 In addition to those things, there are other things, Amen, 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:05,560 concerning announcements tonight. 3 00:00:05,640 --> 00:00:09,560 So let me just go over a few of those before we get started to 4 00:00:09,560 --> 00:00:13,800 hear this evening. Minister appreciation for Alex 5 00:00:13,800 --> 00:00:20,480 and Grace and Piper, all right, is going on right now. 6 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:22,440 This week it goes until Saturday. 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:26,000 If you have any questions concerning that, you can see Jen 8 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:29,600 Cruise or Re Singer if you have any questions. 9 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:35,000 Also on the 15th of this month, we did this last year in the 10 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,600 month of April, on the 15th this month, there is a FAC membership 11 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:41,280 class. You're already a member. 12 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:43,880 You're already a member if you just come here. 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,120 But if you want to be a documented member of something 14 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:50,440 that's recognized by the government here with the First 15 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,040 Apostolic Church, then there's some criteria and such. 16 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,400 And if you like more information about that, there's a sign up 17 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,600 sheet on the bulletin board if you want to be a part of that. 18 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:02,160 Again, that's happening on Tuesday the 15th will be like an 19 00:01:02,160 --> 00:01:04,000 hour and a half from 7:00 to 8:30. 20 00:01:04,599 --> 00:01:06,640 And so if that interests you, there were several that went 21 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,120 through it last year and became documented members, so to speak, 22 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:13,240 of the First Apostolic Church. Also, everybody say Resurrection 23 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:17,800 Sunday, Yes, April the 20th. Amen. 24 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:20,280 We'll be here. We'll have one service that 25 00:01:20,280 --> 00:01:22,520 morning and we'll have a good time. 26 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:27,440 And the Lord, Hallelujah also that this is going to be the 27 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:29,840 last time that you're sitting in these pews, OK? 28 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,760 They're going to be cut here tomorrow to snatch these things 29 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:38,800 away. And Brother Alex and I are going 30 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:44,160 to make a quick trip all right Friday into Texas and come back 31 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:49,360 home. So with the seats, so all things 32 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:54,400 probably unloading on Saturday because even if we got in Friday 33 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:59,320 night, it'd be horribly late. So sometimes Saturday will be 34 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:02,240 unloading those and setting them where they need to set. 35 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:07,200 With that, I am going to step into the pastor that I grew up 36 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,680 under most of my years, which was Joe David Sizemore, and talk 37 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:16,560 a little bit about having cloth instead of wood that you're 38 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:23,080 sitting on. With that in mind, over the 39 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:25,720 years there's been a little bit under the everything under the 40 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,320 sun coming to this church. As far As for drinks, I've seen 41 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:32,240 pop, I've seen coffee, I've seen a little bit of it all. 42 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,520 And so we are going strictly to water. 43 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:38,240 I don't want anything in this sanctuary but water. 44 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,120 When I was growing up, you didn't get water in the 45 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:47,600 sanctuary, and so Pastor Seismar always told us no food or drink 46 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:52,160 in the sanctuary and so on food. I understand you got your real 47 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,000 young kids that we need to keep away from the sloppy stainy 48 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:58,080 stuff. All right? 49 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:01,960 Anything that's going to stain, anything that's good, let's 50 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:03,960 refrain from that. All right? 51 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,240 If we can do so, I appreciate that wholeheartedly and I'll 52 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:12,800 probably say that over and over. I'll probably sound like a 53 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:16,160 broken record. My pastor size, my pastor size. 54 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,120 Every time he got up, he talked about no food injury and he 55 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,760 talked about no one going to the bathroom during the preaching. 56 00:03:23,600 --> 00:03:25,680 He said if you need to use the restroom, use the restroom. 57 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,440 Right now. We're about ready to transition 58 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,880 service. He said let's go and go right 59 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:32,240 now. I'm just telling you what I grew 60 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,720 up on. And so we we have a whole lot 61 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:39,440 more latitude. I've given a whole lot more 62 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:45,080 latitude from what I was brought up under, that's for sure, Amen. 63 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:46,880 But we do need to be mindful of those things. 64 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:49,680 We're investing money in them, all right? 65 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:53,520 And they look good. And it several years from now, 66 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:57,000 them still looking good, all right, Amen. 67 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:59,680 So let's be mindful of that. And I hope that didn't kill your 68 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,120 spirit, Amen. Let's turn to the Book of 69 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:19,519 Genesis, Book of Genesis, we're in chapter #13, chapter #13, and 70 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:21,920 we're starting with verse #5. I'll read a few verses and 71 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:29,200 you'll be able to be seated. The Bible says with verse 5, 72 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:36,200 Genesis 13 and Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks and 73 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:41,360 herds and tents. The land was not able to bear 74 00:04:41,360 --> 00:04:44,480 them, that they might do well together, for their substance 75 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,880 was great, so that they could not do well together. 76 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,480 There was a strife between the herdman of Abrams cattle and the 77 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:57,480 herdman of Lot's cattle, the Canaanite and the Perazite, the 78 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:02,520 well there in the land. And Abram said the lot, Let 79 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:06,920 there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, in between 80 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,080 my herdman and thy herdman, for we be brethren. 81 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,600 Is not the whole land before thee. 82 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,960 Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. 83 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,400 If that will take the left hand, then I will go to the right. 84 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:22,200 That will depart to the right hand. 85 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,320 Then I will go to the left for a little while tonight. 86 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:28,200 I want to teach along this lines. 87 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,600 We only got 2 songs in last week, barely. 88 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:36,280 We got 2 songs in last week, so my son was teasing me before 89 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,200 church said dad, what if something comes again while 90 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:40,720 you're trying to do this? I said, I guess we'll just have 91 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,720 to skip it. No, I just took it. 92 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:45,280 Amen. Want to talk tonight about the 93 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:53,960 divide between sight and faith? The divide between sight and 94 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:56,560 faith? What's the New Testament 95 00:05:56,560 --> 00:05:58,480 scripture? I believe in Galatians. 96 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:04,640 We walk not by. Amen let's pray tonight Father I 97 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:06,640 love you. I thank you Lord for your 98 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,560 goodness. I thank you Lord Jesus for 99 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,240 meeting us here tonight God we're thankful Lord for the 100 00:06:11,240 --> 00:06:14,400 songs of Zion. God your spirit that we have 101 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:17,360 filled Lord Jesus here during that we pray that that would 102 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,880 Lord spill on the over Lord into this aspect. 103 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:23,920 Lord of the service are the reading of the teaching. 104 00:06:23,960 --> 00:06:27,480 Lord Jesus of your word will not fail Lord to thank you God for 105 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:28,880 what you accomplished through it. 106 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:33,080 The love, the name of Jesus Christ that we pray, Amen, or if 107 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,440 I say Amen, God bless you may be seated in Jesus name. 108 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:45,240 So Genesis chapter #13 strongly, strongly emphasizes an idea of 109 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:48,720 separation. And at first, as we read it, it 110 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:53,680 seems to be on the surface as a very natural 'cause, right, that 111 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:58,520 the land cannot support both the herds and the herdsmen of Lot 112 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:02,880 and that of Abram as well. But I think by the time we 113 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:07,640 finish chapter #13 we understand that the division between here 114 00:07:07,640 --> 00:07:12,680 was more than just a natural division or because of herds and 115 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:16,560 such, but there was also a division between those really 116 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:20,280 that walked by faith and those that walked by sight. 117 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:24,280 There's more here than just a natural causation of too many 118 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,960 animals on one piece of ground. As a matter of fact, I think 119 00:07:27,960 --> 00:07:31,000 it's a separation of a man, as we looked at in previous weeks, 120 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:35,120 as a man, Abram, who is on a growth pattern, a growth pattern 121 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:40,200 in his relationship with God. He has different desires and 122 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:45,440 different aspirations for his life than his nephew Lot does. 123 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,440 And so for that matter, particularly here with Abraham 124 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,240 or with anybody with your experience and growth and walk 125 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,440 with God. The fact of the matter is this, 126 00:07:54,640 --> 00:07:59,160 maybe not everybody that starts the trip with you will see each 127 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,760 choice and every bend in the road the same as you do, even 128 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:10,920 your family, right? Because it requires more than 129 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,680 just going to the same places and experiencing some of the 130 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,960 same things for this to happen. We got to be convinced and 131 00:08:18,960 --> 00:08:24,240 convicted personally ourself in our relationship with God. 132 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:29,760 So there was no riding the coattail of Abram for Lot. 133 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,799 He was going to have to have his own relationship with the Lord. 134 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:39,039 And so of the things mentioned that Lot also had, the Scripture 135 00:08:39,039 --> 00:08:44,400 tells us in verse #5 that he also had flocks and herds and 136 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:47,080 tents. But notice among the things that 137 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:51,480 it stated that Lot had, there was not an altar found among 138 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,840 them. He has similar things as 139 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,160 Abraham, but the altar is not found among them. 140 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:00,600 Abram built the altar, if you remember, in Genesis 12 and six 141 00:09:00,600 --> 00:09:03,360 at Sycam. And he built an altar between 142 00:09:03,360 --> 00:09:07,440 Bethel and High in verse #8 of Genesis 12. 143 00:09:07,760 --> 00:09:11,280 And then he led the caravan. Memory went down into Egypt 144 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,280 because of the famine. He comes out of that. 145 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:17,240 He leads the caravan from Egypt back to that in between spot 146 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:20,040 between Bethel and high. All right. 147 00:09:20,200 --> 00:09:23,920 And so here we are now they're looking at everything they have 148 00:09:23,920 --> 00:09:27,720 their herds, their flocks, their tents and so and so forth. 149 00:09:27,960 --> 00:09:29,720 But what I want to get at is this. 150 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,480 Abram built an altar at these various places. 151 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:37,720 We don't see any indication, Amen, that Lot did or that among 152 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,640 his stuff per SE, that there was an altar. 153 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,480 And so the fact of the matter is this, we must not just measure 154 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,720 people by their possessions, measure them by their altars. 155 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:54,560 First Samuel Chapter 9 and verse #2 the Scripture says, and he 156 00:09:54,560 --> 00:10:00,160 had a son Speaking of Tish, whose name was Saul, a choice 157 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:04,360 young man and a goodly. And there was not among the 158 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:07,160 children of Israel a good leader person. 159 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:12,680 Then he from his shoulders and upward, he was higher than any 160 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:17,400 of the people. So Saul is quite a straddling, 161 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:21,880 you know, young man or individual seem like a choice 162 00:10:21,880 --> 00:10:26,680 person, none goodlier than him. He had all of these external 163 00:10:26,680 --> 00:10:30,840 standards, if you will, shoulders, heads above, upward, 164 00:10:30,840 --> 00:10:35,160 higher than anybody else. He was a choice, young good man, 165 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,480 none goodlier, the Scripture says. 166 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:42,040 Yet despite possessing the throne when he would as king, 167 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:45,880 and he did, having all the trappings of kingship, and he 168 00:10:45,880 --> 00:10:48,440 did. The Bible describes to us that 169 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:54,600 Saul lost God's favor because he disobeyed the Lord in a matter 170 00:10:54,800 --> 00:10:57,680 and acted without true worship toward the Lord. 171 00:10:57,960 --> 00:11:02,320 As a matter of fact, we read in Scripture that the only altar 172 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:06,760 that Saul ever attempted to build, he never finished. 173 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:11,000 The Bible says I've preached a whole message on this before 174 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:15,280 about unfinished altars. The first Samuel 1435 says this 175 00:11:15,280 --> 00:11:18,520 in the King James, it says in Saul built an altar into the 176 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:20,520 Lord. The same was the first altar 177 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:23,840 that he built into the Lord. Many other translations and you 178 00:11:23,840 --> 00:11:27,760 can read on it as well. Is states it as though he then 179 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:33,920 first began to build an altar or saw himself began building the 180 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,720 altar, meaning that he began to build 1 but he never completed 181 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:40,920 the building of one. If I could fit in these words, 182 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:43,040 laying some of the few first stones. 183 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,440 But Saul, we read in the Scripture, was so hasty to go on 184 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:50,800 to his victory that he didn't stay really to finish what he 185 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:53,800 started. And so the first altar that Saul 186 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:57,040 began to build seemed to be the last altar that he ever 187 00:11:57,040 --> 00:12:00,400 attempted to make. And yet on the other hand, you 188 00:12:00,400 --> 00:12:04,040 take that, you contrast in him against the life of David, who 189 00:12:04,040 --> 00:12:07,960 we know came to be king after Saul, who was a shepherd boy 190 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,480 become king. He is a man that seemed to 191 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,360 prioritize once again this building of an altar. 192 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:18,320 He even insisted unto those that he bought some land off of where 193 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,520 he was going to build an altar. They want to just give him right 194 00:12:21,520 --> 00:12:23,240 this auction and give him the land. 195 00:12:23,240 --> 00:12:26,680 He said no, I don't want to OfferUp to God something that 196 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:30,040 doesn't cost me something, right? 197 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,360 And so he wanted it to be costly. 198 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,960 He understood the importance of an altar and so he is willing to 199 00:12:35,960 --> 00:12:39,160 sacrifice whatever he could. So again, we don't necessarily 200 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:41,800 measure by possessions, measure by altars. 201 00:12:42,120 --> 00:12:46,080 Do they exist in someones life? Have they started and never been 202 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:49,320 finished in someones life? Or are they costly alters in 203 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:50,480 someones life? Right. 204 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:54,600 And so when we recognize these different groups involved in 205 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:57,880 this part of the land that we're reading about in Genesis chapter 206 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,720 #13 we understand how the land could have easily been over 207 00:13:01,720 --> 00:13:03,920 grace. The Bible says that there's a 208 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,040 lot. He has herds, Abram and herds. 209 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:09,720 And then the Bible also includes to tell us that the Canaanite 210 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:13,480 and the parasite were also in the land. 211 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,480 And so if you have all of these people, and if they do have 212 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:20,520 herds and they're all in the same locality, that Land's going 213 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:24,240 to become over grazed or there's just not enough grass or there's 214 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:26,840 not enough vegetation there for all of them to eat. 215 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:30,280 They can be spread out, maybe get further spread out, but all 216 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,360 of them just localized to the same area. 217 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:35,320 It's going to be difficult for it not to be over grazed. 218 00:13:35,320 --> 00:13:39,400 Just sheer numbers alone would not allow them to be able to do 219 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,600 that. But then the Bible goes on and 220 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:45,040 says, it's not just this, but now there's strife that is 221 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,360 starting to occur. Strife is happening between 222 00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:51,320 Abrams herdsmen and Lot's herdsmen. 223 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,360 That's that's coming to the service. 224 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:57,320 The land could not sustain them collectively, at least they 225 00:13:57,320 --> 00:14:00,680 could not do well together in the same place as they're trying 226 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,640 to jockey or get what my herd should be fed over your herd. 227 00:14:04,640 --> 00:14:08,840 Strife arises in them. And Abram poses the question. 228 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,560 The Lot in verse #9 is not the whole land. 229 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:14,760 Is not the whole land before thee. 230 00:14:15,080 --> 00:14:17,960 And he basically says separate thyself. 231 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:21,960 Whole land is out here. I mean, it's not just this acres 232 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:23,600 right here. We have all of cane in here. 233 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:27,920 Separate, separate thyself. And so they couldn't benefit 234 00:14:27,920 --> 00:14:30,520 from the same area. This is causing strife among 235 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:32,680 brethrens. And Abram even pleads, he says, 236 00:14:32,680 --> 00:14:36,040 let let there not be strife among us, for we be brethren. 237 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:40,080 And the answer, he said least part of the answer to this 238 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:43,560 overgrazing and even to the strife that's between them, the 239 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,600 answer was separation. And Abram, he's going the extra 240 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,760 mile. And rather than choosing first, 241 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,280 he's saying you choose. If you take the right, I'll go 242 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:53,720 left. You take the left, I'll go 243 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:57,640 right, you, you choose. Matter of fact, Abram is not 244 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:01,800 telling Lot to leave Canaan. He's just saying we can't. 245 00:15:02,200 --> 00:15:05,360 We can't occupy this same space just right here. 246 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,560 He's not saying get out of Canaan. 247 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:11,160 He never even insinuates that. But we'll soon find out. 248 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:14,320 And before we're overnight, we'll soon find out that law, 249 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:17,920 whenever he chose his land, he really resorted to the area that 250 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:20,040 was at the edge or the border of Canaan. 251 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:23,680 Abraham didn't push him to that extent. 252 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:29,520 He chose that extent. And so throughout Scripture we 253 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,960 read often times, whenever strife happens between parties 254 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:37,720 or or men or whatever it may be, that oftimes separation. 255 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:42,360 Separation happens as a result of conflict even in the 256 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,320 Scripture between godly men and godly women. 257 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:50,320 Separation is the answer. It's a step sometimes, Amen. 258 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,600 Sometimes separation that happened in Scripture later 259 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:56,920 leads to reconciliation. You have the separation of Esau 260 00:15:57,080 --> 00:15:59,760 and Jacob in the younger lives, right? 261 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,920 Jacob goes away for a long period of time, comes back 262 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,080 fearful that his brother might take his life. 263 00:16:05,280 --> 00:16:08,040 But we understand there's a mode of reconciliation happens. 264 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:11,200 But separation allowed some things to heal, right? 265 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,000 That was between the brothers. Separation was the answer. 266 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:17,240 But then you have separation that also serves as warnings, 267 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,880 like for Cora and Dathan, the Byram that rebelled against 268 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:25,440 Moses and Aaron and and the Bible says, he said, separate 269 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:27,840 yourselves from their tents because the earth's going to 270 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:29,880 open up and going to swallow those. 271 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:33,600 And so separation was a means of warning and even judgment. 272 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:37,360 But there is also separation sometimes that comes alongside 273 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:40,320 us that's commanded just for spiritual health, right? 274 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,520 We read in Corinthians, the Bible talks to us about be not 275 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:49,680 unequally yoked with unbelievers, right? 276 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:53,600 Separation times is a mode of maintaining the holiness of God. 277 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:56,680 And so it comes in that mode. But we also see, like in the 278 00:16:56,680 --> 00:16:59,760 book of Acts, chapter 15, there's a, there's a disciple by 279 00:16:59,760 --> 00:17:03,360 the name of John Mark. And here is the apostle Paul and 280 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,720 Barnabas and John Mark, it kind of just jumped the scene one 281 00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:10,040 time on one of their missionary journeys and Barnabas is saying, 282 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,880 why don't we take him again? And Silas, why don't we take him 283 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:14,599 again? But there was a great 284 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:16,720 disagreement over taking John Mark. 285 00:17:16,920 --> 00:17:21,079 And the Bible says that Paul separated from John Mark and 286 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:23,040 Barnabas. And so you have Barnabas and 287 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:26,560 John Mark going one way, Paul and Silas going another way. 288 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:29,400 And so it seemed to be a very painful separation. 289 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:32,240 But as a result of the conflict, that's what happened. 290 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,880 And you know what happened? There was a multiplication then 291 00:17:34,880 --> 00:17:38,320 as a result of that because now you had two missionary parties 292 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:40,240 that had efforts that were going abroad. 293 00:17:40,480 --> 00:17:43,000 So it's just sometimes the things that happen. 294 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:47,360 So both Abram and Lot, they could have meaningful lives 295 00:17:47,360 --> 00:17:51,920 right in Canaan, but the fact of the matter is, again, Abram's 296 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:55,960 not telling Lot where to go. Lot's choosing where he wants to 297 00:17:55,960 --> 00:18:00,360 go. They understand separation is 298 00:18:00,360 --> 00:18:05,160 necessary, but the extent of that separation is really coming 299 00:18:05,160 --> 00:18:06,920 down to the choice of the individual. 300 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:10,440 When it comes down to Bishop, really we're going to see one 301 00:18:10,440 --> 00:18:13,400 that's going to do a faith walk and one that's doing a site 302 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:17,360 walk. Continue now in verse #10 of 303 00:18:17,360 --> 00:18:21,440 Genesis 13, the Bible says here it is Lot doing his choice. 304 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:25,080 And Lot lifted up his eyes and beheld all the plain of Jordan, 305 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,520 that it was well watered everywhere before the Lord 306 00:18:28,520 --> 00:18:31,000 destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So that's just giving us a 307 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:33,520 little forecasting of what will happen. 308 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:35,880 Even as the garden of the Lord. He looked at this. 309 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,240 Even as the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, as thou 310 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:43,920 comest unto Zoar. Then Lot chose him all the plain 311 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:46,640 of Jordan. Lot journeyed east, and they 312 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,960 separate themselves, the one from the other. 313 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,200 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the 314 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:56,880 cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 315 00:18:57,160 --> 00:19:01,080 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the Lord 316 00:19:01,080 --> 00:19:03,640 exceedingly. Again, give us a little, if you 317 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:05,600 will, pulse about the people of Sodom. 318 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,600 So here's Lot, he says, OK, I'll take first choice. 319 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:12,640 He looks, he looks out and he sees the plain of Jordan. 320 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:16,120 He says that's well watered. But notice what he likens it to 321 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:24,800 that's that's like the garden of the Lord and the land of Egypt. 322 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:32,120 In other words, the plains of Jordan looked like both to him. 323 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:39,320 And those 2 little phrases indicate really the nature of 324 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:42,760 Lot's choice. Again, remember from last week 325 00:19:42,760 --> 00:19:46,720 or two weeks ago, it's probable that Lot would not even been 326 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:53,000 familiar with Egypt had they not went down into Egypt to escape 327 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,160 the famine. You remember that you wouldn't 328 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,720 even have that as a standard of comparison had he not visited 329 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:02,520 there. So he's just come back from 330 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:06,760 Egypt with Abram and the others. That land of Egypt, that's a 331 00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:09,240 land of commercial commercialism. 332 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,000 It's materialism. It's it's easy wealth. 333 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:15,120 And he's saying what I'm seeing right now before me as I'm going 334 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:18,200 to take a choice. This looks a lot like that 335 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:23,480 place, but it also looks like the garden of the Lord. 336 00:20:23,480 --> 00:20:25,640 And when you talk about the garden of the Lord, it's talking 337 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,200 about exactly what you're thinking about. 338 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:29,400 And then all the. Back in the book of Genesis, the 339 00:20:29,400 --> 00:20:32,600 Garden of Eden, yet when you read in Scripture about the 340 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:36,120 Garden of the Lord or the Garden of Eden, it was always mentioned 341 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:38,920 in the mode that it is a place of divine fellowship. 342 00:20:39,200 --> 00:20:41,280 That's where Adam walked with God. 343 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:44,440 You know it and the cool of the day in the garden. 344 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,000 It's a place where there's there's peace, where there's 345 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,840 fellowship with God. Lord says, I see the plains of 346 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,280 Jordan ahead of me. That looks like the garden of 347 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,280 the Lord. That looks like the land of 348 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:58,000 Egypt. He thought that he was going to 349 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:06,360 place where he could have both, that he could have his garden of 350 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:12,160 the Lord desires and his land of Egypt desires wound up into this 351 00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:16,240 plain of Jordan. It looked like both to him 352 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:22,840 rather than one or the other. He was really competing for not 353 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,440 a either or, but a both. And folks, that starts to show 354 00:21:27,440 --> 00:21:30,440 us a little bit of the heart of the man. 355 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:36,640 He's one in a place that has a good mix of both, right? 356 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:39,320 I want to be able to make easy living for myself, advance 357 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,080 myself. I want all the cultural advances 358 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,120 of the city, but I still want fellowship with God. 359 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,160 I want everything to Egypt has to offer, but when I need the 360 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:52,760 garden. I want it to be available folks, 361 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:54,160 let me back up and tell you again. 362 00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:58,400 Remember among his possessions the altar wasn't listed huh. 363 00:21:58,800 --> 00:22:01,560 So he's seeking after a place now that has a compromise of the 364 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:04,160 two. We have an altar less man 365 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,720 searching for a place for a compromise of two worlds hoping 366 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:14,680 that he can live that line of both Abram the Bible says the 367 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:18,880 Welton Canaan. He's predominantly and yes, he's 368 00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,520 maintaining his nomadic life predominantly during his years 369 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,640 there again, he didn't even New Testament accident. 370 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:29,240 He didn't have a where he could lay his foot on the, the the 371 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,640 land that he owned ended up being Mac Pilet, the burial site 372 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:35,880 then of his family. And so he was nomadic and he 373 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:38,680 journeys, he he journeys throughout the land of Canaan. 374 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,200 The Bible says specifically in verse 11 that lot journeyed E we 375 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:45,640 looked in previous weeks, this constant East movement after 376 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:47,120 Eden. They were set outside of the 377 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:49,840 east of Eden. Cain went to the east of Eden, 378 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,960 Eden so and so forth, but he dwelled lot dwelled specifically 379 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:56,400 in the cities or in the plains of Jordan. 380 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:01,720 The Bible says in verse 12, he pitched his tent toward Sodom. 381 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:06,160 And remember, one of the reasons, remember who this is 382 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,760 back weeks ago. Remember the person who built 383 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:12,880 the first city that we have here in Scripture was Cain. 384 00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:17,320 He built the first city after he'd already murdered his 385 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,200 brother Abel. Remember after he murdered his 386 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:24,040 brother Abel, the Spirit of the Lord spoke to him and said the 387 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:27,400 ground is going to be cursed for your sake in particular in the 388 00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:29,840 tilling of the land. It's not going to yield its 389 00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:34,160 strength to you because of taking you shall be a Vagabond. 390 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:36,960 You're going to be a nomad in the land. 391 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:40,560 And so he starts out. He fled from the presence of the 392 00:23:40,560 --> 00:23:44,960 Lord, and he starts out as that, because the ground's not going 393 00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:48,240 to yield its strength to him. Now, like his father who used to 394 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,400 till the land, Adam, it's not going to yield the same strength 395 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,680 to Cain as it did Adam. And so his prophecy was true. 396 00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,000 You're going to be a fugitive and a Vagabond in the earth. 397 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:02,440 But we see them in Genesis chapter #4 What's Cain doing? 398 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:08,400 He's building the first city, this large or small settlement, 399 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:10,280 and he named it after his first son. 400 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:14,280 He named it after Enoch. He had been a wanderer. 401 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,920 There was no place for him to settle. 402 00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:20,200 But now he's built himself a city. 403 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,360 It's almost as though Cain is like God. 404 00:24:23,360 --> 00:24:25,680 You say I'm going to be a wonder in a Vagabond. 405 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:31,880 I'll show you, I'll make me a settled place, I'll create me a 406 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:36,480 city here and I'll settle down right here and and I won't 407 00:24:36,480 --> 00:24:40,360 wonder like has been prophesied. I'm going to settle down and I'm 408 00:24:40,360 --> 00:24:42,920 going to build a city. So there's something that's 409 00:24:42,920 --> 00:24:46,280 somehow attached to this idea of the first city. 410 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:50,200 Then it's in opposition than what God even had in plan for 411 00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:52,800 Cain being a traveler and a nomad. 412 00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,400 And so it's in opposition to that. 413 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:56,400 So Cain would have been a wonder. 414 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:59,640 And so he establishes the, rather than tilling the ground 415 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,440 because there's a curse upon his life, because he's not right 416 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:06,920 with God. And so Cain's answer to his 417 00:25:06,920 --> 00:25:10,280 faithlessness, his own faithlessness is I'm, I'm, I'm 418 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:13,640 going to, I'm going to compromise my dedication here. 419 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:16,920 I'm going to go more for this worldly aspect, this civilized, 420 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:20,280 structured aspect. It's not coincidental then that 421 00:25:20,280 --> 00:25:23,680 we see then in Lot now gravitating toward the same 422 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:26,480 thing. I'm going to go toward a city, 423 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,800 namely Sodom. Kane built the first city. 424 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:34,200 Abram, what did he leave? He left UR, which was a very 425 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:38,360 established city. What did Nimrod have to do with 426 00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,080 Babel? He was the organizer, the 427 00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:44,800 designer, if you will, of Babel, the city of Babel. 428 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:48,080 So everybody that's like Abram, the nomadic, Amen. 429 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:51,400 So and so forth, they all seem to have somewhat of a dim view 430 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,680 toward the civilized life. They were more of the nomads, 431 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,120 remember? He was looking for a city. 432 00:25:57,120 --> 00:26:01,880 Yes, but who, whose builder and maker was God, the Scripture 433 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,120 says. And so Lot is headed toward just 434 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,360 like Cain and Nimrod, they're they're all headed in a bad 435 00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:10,440 direction as we see thus far here in Genesis. 436 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,280 And so there's a couple of phrases that are shared with us 437 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,640 in the book of Genesis that that Lot may have not known at the 438 00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:20,440 time, but he will. And that is that this plain of 439 00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:23,480 Jordan that he has picked that's well watered before the Lord. 440 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,800 That's the way it would be before the Lord destroyed Sodom 441 00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:33,400 and Gomorph, and that the men of Sodom were sinners and wicked 442 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,880 before the Lord exceedingly. That's what the Scripture 443 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,480 conveys to us. I don't know if Lot knew that 444 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:43,080 for a fact, but he will know them. 445 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:47,360 And so as a matter of fact, it's those two things that that the 446 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:50,280 people were wicked and and sinners and that God would 447 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:52,400 destroy. That gives us idea maybe why 448 00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:55,800 there was destruction that came upon Sodom. 449 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,040 And so we might want to let lot off the hook. 450 00:26:58,480 --> 00:26:59,920 Don't worry about it. You're OK, buddy. 451 00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:02,320 You didn't know that. You didn't know that that they 452 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,840 were wicked and that they were sinners and you didn't know that 453 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,040 you're headed towards a place that's going to be destroyed. 454 00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:09,520 You didn't know all that. But folks sitting in there 455 00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:11,720 somewhere along the way, knowledge had to come to this 456 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:14,000 man. The more that he got closer to 457 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,240 it, the more that he got engulfed in it, the more that he 458 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:20,920 exposed himself to it because he starts out pitching his tent 459 00:27:20,920 --> 00:27:23,520 towards Sodom later in chapter 14. 460 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:27,160 He's going to do well in Sodom. In chapter 19, he's become the 461 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,120 magistrate. He's sitting at the gate of 462 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:32,680 Sodom even later when the angels come to get him and his family 463 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:35,120 out of Sodom because indeed, it's going to be destroyed. 464 00:27:35,360 --> 00:27:38,920 The Bible says that while he yet lingered. 465 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:44,680 So, Jen, I'm just saying if he didn't know, he knew then. 466 00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:53,160 But it seems like his urgency to separate from that isn't a quick 467 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,640 movement or even a movement that he wants to do. 468 00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:58,280 So he's all along resorting to a city. 469 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,840 Just like King Lot has journeyed, though here in 470 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:04,760 Scripture, and I told you this just a moment ago, he has 471 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:09,040 journeyed really to the edge of the border of the land of Canaan 472 00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:12,800 as we knew it at this time in Genesis chapter #10 we're going 473 00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:17,280 backwards, the verse #19 and the Bible says, and the border of 474 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:22,760 the Canaanites was from Sidon as thou comest to Gerard, unto 475 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:30,200 Gaza, as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah and Adma and 476 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,880 Zeboem, even unto Lasha. So Sodom or the plains of 477 00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:39,520 Jordan, according to the enlistment of Genesis 10, was a 478 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:44,040 part of the border of the land of Canaan. 479 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,280 I know eventually the Lord wants all the Canaanites driven out of 480 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:54,680 the land, but I'm asking today, if you had first chance to leave 481 00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:58,560 just to get some more space for grazing, why would you go to the 482 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:02,160 furthest extent of the land that God had promised you? 483 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,800 What years ago whenever they did all the settlements right, they 484 00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:16,080 had these sections of land going West. 485 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,920 You have all that land and they of course, with purpose, they 486 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,520 pick the edge because others would pick the edge and they 487 00:29:24,520 --> 00:29:27,920 could have community yes, but for cane of them, he's just 488 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,960 saying hey, we just need to get away far enough away from each 489 00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,520 other so our herds can the yet lot goes to the very edge of 490 00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,480 what God has promised them. Just doesn't make sense. 491 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:43,680 Verse 11 indicates that Lot chose based again upon what he 492 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:50,360 saw in verse #10 he separated based on his choice, which is a 493 00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:53,440 pattern that's throughout scripture that starts with Adam 494 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:59,160 and Eve. Eve separated based upon what 495 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:03,160 she saw, or she chose based upon what she saw. 496 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:08,040 She saw the tree that it was good for food, and she made a 497 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,520 choice, and that choice then brought separation. 498 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:16,960 Separation always follows our choices, whether for good or 499 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:20,560 whether for worse. Separation follows your choices. 500 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,440 Your choice will cause some type of separation. 501 00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:27,600 It did for Adam and Eve. It did for a lot. 502 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,440 He saw, He chose, He separated. Amen. 503 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:36,360 Cain in the New Testament scripture, the Bible talks about 504 00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:38,800 his offering that he offered into the Lord. 505 00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:42,360 It was less than satisfactory and he separated. 506 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:47,400 He made a choice, and then he separated from God's presence. 507 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,080 He saw. He made a choice. 508 00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,880 He saw the the the porch, he saw the lentils or the beans that 509 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,480 his brother was making. He says, I want that instead of 510 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:59,280 my birthright. He despised his birthright. 511 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:04,560 He made a choice and there was a separation from the blessing and 512 00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:08,320 separation from his brother. The Israelites on the good mode, 513 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,200 or rather the good. The Israelites chose to obey God 514 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:14,080 and follow Moses. Amen. 515 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,320 And so as a result, they separated from Egypt and they 516 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,320 were separated from their past life. 517 00:31:19,560 --> 00:31:23,240 The 10 spies, 10, the 12 that went into the land of promise, 518 00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,520 they saw the land, Amen. And they chose their fear over 519 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,360 faith and as a result, their separation. 520 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,160 Those ten died in the entire generation of those that were 20 521 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:36,920 years and older died in the wilderness. 522 00:31:37,080 --> 00:31:40,720 Because what you see, you'll make a choice upon, and your 523 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:44,920 choice will cause a separation. Yeah, yeah. 524 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:46,240 Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, bro. 525 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:48,040 Oh, yes, it does. Amen. 526 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,400 Every day. Every day, especially in the 527 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,800 life of you with the church. The choices you make is causing 528 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,280 separation in your life, for better or for worse. 529 00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,240 It's separating you unto the Lord, or it's separating you 530 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,760 from the Lord based upon the choices that you make. 531 00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:10,280 It's the pattern that follows. Orpa chose Moab. 532 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:17,560 Ruth chose Naomi with Bethlehem, Judah, there's separation and 533 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:21,920 the separation so vast, one of them later is incorporated in 534 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:28,720 the genealogy of Jesus Christ. It came down to a choice, came 535 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:32,400 down to a choice. So we're going to we're going to 536 00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,040 for that man, folks, every single one. 537 00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,760 Someday, the finality of time when things are all over, we're 538 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:42,840 going to have separation. Goat sheep. 539 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,880 What the I'm not being, I'm not trying to be mean. 540 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,520 That's that's a New Testament language. 541 00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:51,600 We'll set the goats on this side and the sheep on this side 542 00:32:52,200 --> 00:33:04,760 Tears, wheat, heaven, hell. And you know what these 543 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:07,920 separations will be based upon even the rich men and Lazarus, 544 00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:08,800 right? He said. 545 00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:10,080 There's a great chasm between us. 546 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:14,280 What their separation? One chose comfort in his life, 547 00:33:14,280 --> 00:33:16,280 the other was discomfort and couldn't get any comfort. 548 00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:18,720 He said they're separate. What does this all come down to? 549 00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:25,840 Choices. Choices verse #14 we can go on 550 00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:30,720 just a little bit here. The Lord said unto Abram. 551 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,040 After that Lot was separated from him. 552 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,360 Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art 553 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,440 northward and southward, and eastward and westward, for all 554 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,120 the land which thou seest to thee. 555 00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:47,000 Will I give it unto thy seed forever, and I will make thy 556 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,080 seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the 557 00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:53,440 dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 558 00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:56,880 Arise, walk through the land and the length of it, and the 559 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,480 breadth of it, for I will give it thee unto thee. 560 00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:04,520 Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwell in the plain of 561 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:10,040 Mary, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the 562 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,000 Lord. Now God gets a little bit more 563 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:16,480 detailed with Abram here. He's already talked to him about 564 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:19,639 a great nation. He's already talked to him about 565 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,280 him becoming a blessing. Amen to the people, all right? 566 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,440 He's already said these things, but now the land and people 567 00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:31,719 aspects are a little fuller definition here in Genesis 13, 568 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,639 God had Abraham after law made his choice. 569 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,920 God had Abraham said, now Abraham, right from where you 570 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,600 are, I want you to look basically in every direction of 571 00:34:41,679 --> 00:34:46,040 the compass from where you stood and everything that you can see 572 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:49,120 from this vantage point. He said, I'm going to give it to 573 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:52,560 you and your seed forever. Look at verse 14 again. 574 00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,800 Please look at that. He said, look from the place 575 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,600 where thou art. Look from the place where thou 576 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,360 art. Do you remember where Abram is? 577 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:04,840 Go back to the beginning of the chapter. 578 00:35:04,840 --> 00:35:08,000 Remember where he is. He came back from Egypt. 579 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,160 He went back to that in between place between Bethel and AI 580 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:18,520 where he first built his altar and now God saying, look from 581 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:23,400 where you're at. Look from the place of your 582 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:29,000 altar and look all around you. That altar was on Mount Ephraim 583 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,000 between Bethel and Hey I. It was a higher elevation. 584 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:37,280 Abram could possibly see everything that God had promised 585 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,800 to him in every direction from where he stood. 586 00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:44,040 If I can say like this, God says I can show you everything I 587 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:49,640 promised to you from your altar. Look right there from where 588 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:52,000 you're at. I'll show you everything right 589 00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,040 from the altar. Because I've learned in my 590 00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:57,480 experience in life that the altar gives us a vantage point 591 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:03,200 into our promises. Hey, man, there's times. 592 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:06,000 Oh, Brother Mcgee's lost faith in his promise. 593 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:11,120 But a good prayer meeting brings back to memory, brings vision, 594 00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:15,280 brings power, brings the possibility, and then rustling 595 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,960 back to my spirit. I can see it clear from the 596 00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,440 vantage point of an altar. Not just that, but he said, this 597 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:24,480 is what I'll give it to you and to your children forever. 598 00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,920 Sometimes it takes a good time at an altar that I can even 599 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,320 start envisioning some of the paths of the lives of my 600 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,760 children or at least talk to God about it. 601 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,840 I don't know how many times I've talked about my kids future from 602 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:41,880 an altar, future promises for them from an altar. 603 00:36:42,360 --> 00:36:45,120 Amen. Now notice, look at verse 16. 604 00:36:46,840 --> 00:36:52,360 Abram hears this along with the fact that I will make thy seed 605 00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:58,200 as the dust of the earth. Remember Sarah's condition or 606 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,600 Sarah, she's barren. She's barren, but he's telling 607 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:04,320 him this. He's not just saying a great 608 00:37:04,320 --> 00:37:05,920 nation. Now he's getting more and more 609 00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:09,080 detailed. I'll make your seed as the dust 610 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:11,680 of the earth. Abraham has something to hold on 611 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:14,800 to right now for sure, more specifically than ever that 612 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,920 she's barren today. But she's not always going to be 613 00:37:16,920 --> 00:37:20,120 barren, huh? My wife's bearing today, but 614 00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:21,600 she's not always going to be barren. 615 00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,600 Now look verse 14. Look how it starts. 616 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:30,560 And the Lord said unto Abram, everybody say the next word 617 00:37:31,240 --> 00:37:35,360 after that Lot was separated from him. 618 00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:41,560 You remember when God spoke to him? 619 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,360 And then God appeared to him, you know, later and now God 620 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:47,160 speaking to him again. But God didn't speak to the 621 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:52,800 Lord, didn't speak to him until after everybody say after, after 622 00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:59,120 Lot was separated from him. There are some words that will 623 00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:04,520 not come to you until certain things and people are separated 624 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:08,080 from you, that may have the wrong influence on you. 625 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:17,440 Amen. Jacob separated from Esau. 626 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:24,600 You know what happens. He has a dream at Bethel, a 627 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:28,440 ladder that reaches into the heavens, angels ascending and 628 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:32,040 descending. Moses separates from the House 629 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:35,400 of Pharaoh. He lives 40 years on the 630 00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,640 backside of a desert in the wilderness. 631 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:43,040 And it's there that it receives the call from God to be a 632 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,920 deliverer for the children of Israel. 633 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:51,320 Gideon the Bible says in Judges he destroyed his father's altar 634 00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:56,760 to bail and then a few verses later this Bible says, and the 635 00:38:56,760 --> 00:38:59,640 spirit of the Lord came upon him. 636 00:38:59,880 --> 00:39:02,360 What are you saying? Some things don't happen till 637 00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:07,400 after the separation. Some things don't happen till 638 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,680 after the separation. So there are some promises here, 639 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,440 Amen. Even more detailed for Abraham, 640 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,840 revelations from God. He said, I'll talk to you. 641 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:20,120 I'm going to God speaks after law had separated from him. 642 00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:22,440 Because folks, there's some things, let's get real, there's 643 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,120 some things in your life that may be holding your back. 644 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,160 You may not even venture for some of the promises God has for 645 00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,000 you with the extra luggage and baggage you don't need right 646 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,720 now. And so he's got to say that's 647 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:41,960 got to be separated before you accept someone say Amen. 648 00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,440 My phone battery's about ready to dead. 649 00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,160 That means my time will be, oh, it's up there. 650 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:56,080 I tried. So Abram has a walk that's by 651 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:58,840 faith. God says look in every 652 00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:05,040 direction, it's yours. Lot says knew you see it in 653 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:10,120 Scripture, but he's like, I'll take the plains of Jordan. 654 00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,800 God's like with Abraham, I'll give you all this that you can 655 00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:20,440 see more southeast and West. God instructed in Abraham. 656 00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:23,760 What did he instruct do? He says walk, go, walk the 657 00:40:23,760 --> 00:40:28,000 length of it. The breadth, the width of the 658 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:32,680 land, go walk the distance of this that I'm going to give unto 659 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,280 you. That was a faith walk, folks. 660 00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:38,920 I know it was a literal walk, but it was a faith walk. 661 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,120 It was a walk in reality for the culture of their day. 662 00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:47,880 It was a walk of ownership to Robert Alter. 663 00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,760 He said walking around the perimeter of a piece of property 664 00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:56,040 was a common legal ritual in the ancient Near East for taking 665 00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:58,560 final possession. As a matter of fact, what I'm 666 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,720 saying they could have this agreement and everything, but it 667 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:06,520 wasn't final until the new quote UN quote owner walked the 668 00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,440 distance in the perimeter of the land that he was about ready to 669 00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:14,800 received God saying Moses go walk it because this is the this 670 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:21,360 is the final step for ownership. Walk N walk S walk E walk W 671 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,200 because this is going to be yours. 672 00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:28,120 And so Abram and Lot they both journeyed from their current 673 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:34,120 location between Bethel remember and high between the House of 674 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:36,440 God. What means the House of God and 675 00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,800 ruined or ruins. The Bible says that lot 676 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,280 journeyed E. Again, I don't want to put a 677 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,800 whole lot much emphasis here, but just enough. 678 00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:51,360 Where they were standing high was on the east. 679 00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:58,600 Bethel was on the West. Lot journeyed E away from 680 00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:03,760 Bethel. Lot journeyed E toward high or 681 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:07,800 the runious heap or the ruined. Matter of fact, he walked beyond 682 00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,480 what was ruined, and he pitched his tent towards Sodom. 683 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,440 The consumed, the scorched, the burnt. 684 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:17,560 That's what it means. He pitched his tent towards 685 00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,720 Sodom. They both departed from the 686 00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:24,640 location of the altar that Abram built. 687 00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:32,840 Abram dwells in Hebrew. Lot pitches his tent over 688 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:37,320 towards Sodom. Note that whenever Abram left 689 00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:40,880 that place of the altar and he goes to Hebrew and he goes to 690 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,480 the plain of Mamre, do you see what he does? 691 00:42:43,680 --> 00:42:49,800 The Bible says that he builds, he pitches his tent and he 692 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:57,280 builds yet another altar. He builds another altar. 693 00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,760 So this chapter really, if you start at the beginning, it 694 00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,320 started with an altar and it ended with an altar, but they 695 00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,520 were both altars that Abram built. 696 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:12,000 Lot pitches his tent towards Sodom, but nothing said now that 697 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:15,400 he separated from Abraham that he built his own altar. 698 00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:21,840 It just says that he separated and he pitched his tent. 699 00:43:22,800 --> 00:43:27,560 But I guess that's what we grow to expect when we've grown 700 00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:29,840 dependent on others building the altar. 701 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:36,920 If you don't have their company, you'll remain alterless when no 702 00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:41,360 one else is around. If you've grown dependent on 703 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:51,840 somebody else, someone say, man. And I remember over the years 704 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,560 and, and it's true, I remember over the years my grandparents 705 00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:56,520 passed away. I remember my dad saying he 706 00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,720 noticed a difference whenever his mom died because of those 707 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:02,720 3:00 early morning prayers that she prayed. 708 00:44:07,720 --> 00:44:10,160 God. Listen folks, don't grow 709 00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:12,080 dependent on other people's altars. 710 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:18,240 You need to learn to pitch your tent and build an altar where 711 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:26,200 you live because pre adventure, they go off the scene someday 712 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:28,840 and then you're left altarless because you never took no 713 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:33,200 interest on how, how do you how do you do this? 714 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,280 Amen. How do you do this? 715 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,120 So it's more in my opinion, than just a natural separation here 716 00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,280 in Genesis 13. It's a separation of two people 717 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,040 that's on two different growth patterns or two different 718 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,360 patterns overall. It's it's the difference between 719 00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:52,240 faith walkers and just site seekers. 720 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,080 Amen. Between Lot and between Abram. 721 00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,480 You'll stand with me tonight. I don't want to hold you much 722 00:44:57,480 --> 00:45:01,880 longer. Genesis 13 herdsmen dispute, 723 00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:06,200 yes, but a lot of times in many ways, it's a lesson in choices. 724 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:10,760 It's a lesson in priorities. It's a lesson in spiritual 725 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,800 vision losses. That that looks like a that land 726 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:16,960 looks like a good compromise of the two. 727 00:45:17,880 --> 00:45:20,600 That's what I want. I'll choose to walk over there, 728 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:22,560 but Abraham says I'm going to I'm going to walk by, I'm going 729 00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,440 to walk by faith. I'm going to trust God's 730 00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:29,400 provision rather than just what my eyes can see, what what God's 731 00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:32,080 going to do. And we see his life just marked 732 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:36,240 and demarked by altar after altar after altar. 733 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:43,720 And Lot will see his life just marked by compromise, by not 734 00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:45,760 choosing to go when he needed to go. 735 00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:50,920 And so both of their paths in essence are then created by 736 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:55,600 their choices. One will lead to a divine 737 00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:56,840 inheritance. The other will lead. 738 00:45:56,840 --> 00:46:00,440 Of course, we know his he'll lose his wife and his 2 girls 739 00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:04,400 again are going to sleep with him and create the Moabites and 740 00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,040 the Ammonites was going to be some big troublemakers for 741 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:13,320 Israel vast different destinies. And it all comes down to 742 00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:16,360 choosing. But Mason taught it all his 743 00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:18,640 years as a because I heard it from their young people all the 744 00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:22,880 time. Your choices frame your life. 745 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:29,960 Your choices frame your life. So the question is, are you 746 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:33,720 building altars and trusting God's promise, or are you 747 00:46:33,720 --> 00:46:37,280 pitching your tents toward the border of what God has for you? 748 00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:43,240 Just trying to get on the edge. Years ago, I read a statement. 749 00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:48,360 I read a book. It was a yes, my statement, Alex 750 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:51,920 gnawed. I think the solo climber that 751 00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,840 that climbs the mountains and stuff without any any ropes or 752 00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:59,000 any anything, just hands right and chalk. 753 00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:05,480 And he said something to to the degree says sometimes you just 754 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:10,320 got to you just got to push the edge, He said, because it's fun. 755 00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:18,600 Well, I'm just telling you, you're thousands of feet up in 756 00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:22,840 the air and you just want to push the edge because it's fun. 757 00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:25,360 Yeah, I had it here in my notes. I thought I could find it. 758 00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,800 He said if you're pushing the edge, this is good too. 759 00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:30,280 He said if you're pushing the edge. 760 00:47:30,280 --> 00:47:32,160 He said eventually you'll find the edge. 761 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,440 What he said was there are some things you got to push that far 762 00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:46,480 because they're that cool. But you know, most of the people 763 00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:50,000 that have been solo climbers that like to push the edge, they 764 00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:53,000 found it. They're no longer alive today. 765 00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,280 They're no longer a matter of fact, statistically. 766 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:02,120 It's just a matter of time for people who practice that before 767 00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:06,120 they do. If you're always looking, have 768 00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:11,840 the choice to try to find the edge of what's godly, but just 769 00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:21,960 on the skirts of being worldly, you'll find the edge and it 770 00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,920 won't be near as cool as you thought it was. 771 00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,480 We're framed by our choices. It's a faith walk or a sidewalk. 772 00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:32,400 Hallelujah. Let's close our eyes tonight as 773 00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,400 we end in prayer. Father, I pray God that you're 774 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,840 able to come in here. I pray, O Lord tonight that 775 00:48:38,840 --> 00:48:43,040 you're able to help us God to be altar builders God in our lives. 776 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,520 Let our life be demarked God by the altars. 777 00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:49,440 The Lord that we build. Help us O God today not to have 778 00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:54,600 an appetite that is Lord a blending, if you will of what we 779 00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:58,080 could Lord get by with that would still yet be Lord 780 00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:02,080 consecrated and godly and to the Lord know help us to walk the 781 00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:05,720 width and the the length and the breadth Lord of the promise God 782 00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:08,600 that you have given to us. Help us to look up and let our 783 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:11,720 eyes survey the area. Help us the Lord to have a ear 784 00:49:11,720 --> 00:49:13,800 attuned. God that there are some things 785 00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:16,520 that may be brought to our life and spoken into our life. 786 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,160 God after modes of things being separated from us and us 787 00:49:20,160 --> 00:49:23,240 separating from things. God, that gives Lord a fuller 788 00:49:23,240 --> 00:49:26,440 dimension of what you want to do and what you desire to do. 789 00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:31,080 Lord Jesus, in our lives, pray, O God, give us a vantage point, 790 00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:34,440 Lord, of the future, Lord, from the place of where we are, from 791 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:37,880 places of consecrated altars, Lord, from places where we first 792 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,880 built Lord altars, the Lord and had dedication, Lord Jesus to 793 00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:44,000 you, help us not separate from that. 794 00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,280 Remove ourselves from that. Or Lord, have a life that is 795 00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:49,640 undisciplined or no longer practicing that. 796 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,560 I pray, Jesus, we want to be smack dab in the middle of the 797 00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:56,040 promise, God, that you have for us, Lord, and have an irritant 798 00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:59,120 to your voice. God, what you will say, God lead 799 00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:03,560 us, Lord, we will follow. We want to walk by faith and not 800 00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:08,080 by sight or our own desire. In the lovely name of Jesus 801 00:50:08,080 --> 00:50:13,960 Christ, that I pray and the church say Amen, Amen. 802 00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,200 Now, since these pews are leaving tomorrow, if you got 803 00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:20,560 stuff in this sanctuary and you set up housekeeping in a mailbox 804 00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:23,920 with things, take it with you, OK, Take it with you. 805 00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:26,640 You might check the little pockets in the back there. 806 00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,880 You got candy wrappers in there and trash from whatever. 807 00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:31,760 Take that out of there. Clean that out. 808 00:50:31,760 --> 00:50:34,720 Please don't let that stay in there. 809 00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:36,560 He may get that stuff out of there. 810 00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:38,560 So just clean up your area around there. 811 00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:40,920 Amen. Because these things are, these 812 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:42,840 things are going to their next.