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Is this house, God says where is
this house that you've built me?

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Fact of the matter is we can't 
contain him in any building. 

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Maybe the essence of who he is, 
but we can't contain him in just

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any building. 
Not all the buildings of the 

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world would be able to contain 
the Lord, Amen. 

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That we're thankful tonight for 
him. 

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This coming Friday and Saturday 
is a music conference at Haven 

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Penny at Haven Pentecostal 
Church in Henderson, KY. 

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And so there's information of 
that back on our bulletin board 

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or if you have any questions 
about it, the Masons either set 

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could probably help you out in 
that regard as well. 

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So just be advised that also 
this coming Sunday is our fifth 

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Sunday, and we will be having 
Pastor Anthony Wilkes and his 

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wife with us in that service. 
And so we're looking forward to 

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that as well. 
Amen. 

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If we could turn to the book of 
Genesis, trying to for some 

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reason I can't get into my iPad 
that's just doing whatever it 

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is, but Genesis chapter #21. 
Be there, say Amen, and we'll 

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give this one more try. 
Use my other finger. 

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Now I should be able to have a 
code, but you know, everything 

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has its own mind sometimes. 
Take a picture of you and do 

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that. 
Maybe we get a group photo 

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going. 
I don't know, folks. 

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It is what it is. 
That's fine. 

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I'll teach off my phone. 
You can get it. 

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Yeah, that's fine. 
We're going to start. 

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That just is proving for like it
seems like the past couple weeks

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of my life. 
Matter of fact, let me hit AO 

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course right now. 
It's all right. 

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That's fine. 
You can bring it up here. 

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Ever my spirit, forever I pray. 
In fact, the lust below of love,

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I'm singing peace, Peace. 
The wonderful peace, it's coming

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down from the Father above sweep
over my spirit forever, I pray. 

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In fact, the lust bellows a 
love. 

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One more time, Jesus, Oh peace, 
peace, oh wonderful peace. 

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Come me down from the Father 
above. 

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Sweep over my spirit, whoever I 
pray. 

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In fact, the blast below. 
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Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 
Lord, thank you for it. 

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God, when life's overwhelmed 
you, you'll hear, Pastor McGee, 

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if you're ever at this church 
and life's over, if you ever 

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come in this building, you hear 
me singing peace, peace around 

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here. 
You know it's in a fix. 

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I find great consolation in that
old course. 

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Every time I sing it, I just 
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just laying like a dove on my 
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Amen. 
Genesis, chapter 21. 

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Thank you, dear. 
Verse 15. 

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This is where we left off last 
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If you remember Abraham has 
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of Haggar his mother, and they 
have departed and they are 

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wandering in the wilderness. 
Start with verse 15. 

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The water was spent in the 
bottle and she passed the child 

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under one of the shrubs. 
She went and sat her down over 

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against him, a good way off as 
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said, let me not see the death 
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And she said over against him 
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God heard the voice of the lad. 
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Haggar out of heaven, and said 
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Fear not, for God have heard the
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Rise, lift the lad, and hold him
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I will make him a great nation. 
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a well of water, and she went, 
filled the bottle with water, 

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and gave the lad drink. 
And God was with the lad, and he

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grew and dwelled in the 
wilderness and became an Archer.

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He dwelt the wilderness of 
Puran, and his mother took him a

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wife out of the land of Egypt. 
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We'll stop there for now This I 
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tonight. 
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encompass everything going to 
talk about my wife told me to 

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tell you I had to make it so 
generic because I talked about 

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the weaning moment last you 
know, week had to be generic 

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this week. 
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God's plan for life and legacy. 
God's plan for life and legacy 

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in essence, what we've seen here
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Ishmael, Abraham's and and and 
Hagar Abraham had certain means 

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of dealing with it, of course, 
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and endorsed by God, right and 
now Haggar, Haggar has a means 

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of, of dealing with it as well. 
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God's plan for life and legacy. 
Thank you Lord God for your 

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word. 
Thank you Lord for the truth of 

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your word. 
They are words to live by God. 

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They are words, God, that are 
instructional for our lives, if 

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we'll see them and accept them 
and such God will give the glory

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for it in the name of Jesus 
Christ and I pray, Amen. 

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God bless you in the night, 
Jesus name. 

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Again, what have we left? 
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Last week they were released. 
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obligations to Sarah and to 
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Again, Haggar was a handmaiden 
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of sorts to Sarah. 
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Abraham would release both her 
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then relieved of any 
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And along with being relieved of
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relieved of any perks that may 
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the household of Abraham and 
Sarah way as well. 

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So the Bible says in verse 14 
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the wilderness of their sheba 
and they wandered there, 

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wandered there again, the word 
wandering tending to the 

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definition of like a stray 
animal or like a person who is 

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lost. 
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And something that kind of 
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considering these verses of 
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been this far, I went back to to
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Sarah, at that moment it was 
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Hagar because after Hagar 
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that Sarah picked up on that she
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of Hagar because now she had 
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And of course Sarah was unable 
to conceive that she was 

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despised. 
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that each time, both in Genesis 
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or Sarah I has been instrumental
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Hagar in Ishmael leave each time
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Genesis 16, she picked up on the
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Hagar had toured her because now
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and Sarah I couldn't. 
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because she's picked up on 
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Isaac, the promised son at, at 
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And so this this is interesting 
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time when she dealt with Hagar 
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born in in Genesis 16, the Bible
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dealt harshly with Hagar. 
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casting out Hagar and Ishmael. 
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as I'm saying all this in both 
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If there was disdain and if 
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instance, Sarah never dealt with
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attitude. 
She only just expelled the 

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person. 
She never dealt with what was 

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going on. 
She just showed the person the 

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exit door. 
She never addressed what was 

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going on. 
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baby with the bathwater. 
Now let's just get serious for a

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moment because that's easy to 
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My kids adopt something I said a
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book that I read. 
The issues are issues and people

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are people love people and deal 
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But it's easy sometimes to blur 
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lifestyle of an issue, that it 
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And so I'm not sitting here with
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I'm just saying I can see where 
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All right? 
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maybe, maybe part and parcel, 
that was some of Abraham's 

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struggle as he's telling Hagar 
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move on your way because as he 
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munker, but maybe he had in the 
back of his mind, you know what,

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We could have addressed the 
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Instead, we're just getting rid 
of the people because for 

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everything, I'm just, I'm just 
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It's just meandering. 
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does wrong, they probably have 
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right too. 
In the New Testament the Greek 

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word sarts. 
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Testament is translated as flesh
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you got to apply the meaning 
according to the context that 

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the word is used in. 
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mean a soft substance that's 
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It can mean the sensuous nature 
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It can mean the human or earthly
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God, that is prone to sin, 
flesh, all right. 

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It can mean all these different 
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So you got to see how it's used 
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I guess what I'm saying is this 
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literally his body, his body, he
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He had a body, all right, But he
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Paul looked back upon this 
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representing as one that was 
born after the flesh, right? 

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Born after a not just a physical
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nature that's that's prone to to
sin as well. 

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And so throughout Scripture I 
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we're constantly admonished as 
New Testament states, Saints to 

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mortify and it's not mortified 
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mortify means kill. 
It's not kill the flesh, but to 

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mortify the deeds of the flesh 
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might even talk about the 
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says in Romans 8 and verse 13. 
For if you live after the flesh,

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you shall die. 
But if you through the Spirit do

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mortify here it is the deeds of 
the body, ye shall live in all 

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that. 
I'm saying this, our flesh or 

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our literal bodies don't need to
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the flesh. 
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But we find in the few settings 
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that Hagar is seeing that 
perhaps he's struggling for 

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life, literally struggling for 
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His flesh did not have to die 
for the nature of the flesh to 

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die. 
And we all better thank God for 

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that because there would not be 
a living one among us, Amen. 

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Wouldn't be a living one among 
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The Bible says in Galatians 524.
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belonging to him have crucified 
the flesh with the affections 

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and lust. 
Again, it's not your literal 

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body has been crucified, but it 
is those that nature of the 

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flesh, that sensuous part of man
that is prone to sin, that part 

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of man has been crucified with 
the affections in the lust. 

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So the human body wasn't 
crucified. 

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Christ's human body was 
crucified. 

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Ours don't have to because his 
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And so I say all this kind of 
the preface, what I'm going into

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tonight, because without that 
clarity, sometimes we might be 

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confused why God would allow 
Ishmael to live in the 

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wilderness being a son of the 
flesh. 

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Why even allow him to live? 
He's Hagar, son of the flesh. 

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He's Abraham, son of the flesh. 
But here is a woman, and I 

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stated this last week as we was 
going to go into this week, Here

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is a woman that's lost in the 
wilderness, aimlessly wandering 

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in the wilderness with Ishmael, 
the son of her flesh. 

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And so when we're talking about 
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the only crucifix we really need
to be rallying around is the 

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death of the human earthly 
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I guess what I mean? 
And all that is this. 

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Sometimes we can crucify the 
person rather than crucify the 

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deed. 
So there's been some time that's

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passed already here in the 
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All right. 
Evidently they've been here long

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enough, however long. 
I don't know how long it took 

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Sister Sheila, but Abraham gave 
them a bottle of water and that 

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has now been spent. 
That has been spent at their 

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time here in the wilderness. 
And so Hagar is fearful now 

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about her son again. 
He's not a kid. 

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He's not sucking his thumb. 
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But none the less, she is 
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she she places him under the 
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The Bible says to us in verse, 
skip the chapter here in verse 

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#15 that she cast the child 
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And that word cast there is 
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It means any time that this word
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the object of the verb, any time
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the object of the verb, it 
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lowering down of a dead body or 
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grave or a person into something
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So that underscores then how 
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this guy is eating away. 
He's he's, he's going to die. 

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She cast him under that shrub of
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And so God here begins not as 
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a work in the wilderness. 
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listen, you can go through your 
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It'd be a good little topical 
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the different times that He's 
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the wilderness or wilderness 
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In Genesis, again, chapter 16, 
Hagar was disdain, Amen. 

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Disdaining Sarah because she 
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Now she was conceived and 
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Sarah. 
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moment flee into a wilderness 
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stripped her of all of this 
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humanity and not seen by anyone.
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wilderness. 
Then she came to that 

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conclusion. 
You are the God who ease me. 

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He reframed her, thinking a man 
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serve under her, knowing that 
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You look at the 40 years of 
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nation of Israel in the 
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Here they are while they're in 
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It exposes their unbelief. 
It exposes they're grumbling and

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they're murmuring. 
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It exposes their rebellion while
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it also teaches them to depend 
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They have to wait each day for 
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would come from a flintstone, 
and they're going to have daily 

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guidance. 
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moves from the Tabernacle, they 
move. 

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It also was a place where they 
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Moses in the backside side of 
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Midian wilderness, a Midian 
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the desert. 
It prepared a Moses to be a 

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humble deliverer, shepherd for 
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That happened in the wilderness.
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Elijah, we see him take a day's 
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it's there that he's empowered. 
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discouraged prophet, a prophet 
that's really requesting God 

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just take my life. 
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empowered that that that that 
just disappointed, discouraged 

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prophet was empowered to listen 
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in the continuing ministry. 
And from there he would go and 

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anoint some key people amends 
for some future things. 

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A man that his ministry wasn't 
over and all that shifted right 

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there in a wilderness. 
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himself in The Cave of a Dulum 
and all kinds of people that are

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in debt, discourage and like the
four DS show up, you know, just 

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not a ragtag group of people, 
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His leadership, his leadership 
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there in that aspect in place. 
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through scripture are places 
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It's where he can reorientate 
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Hagar is sure that Ishmael is 
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corner. 
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mother, she's feeling hopeless, 
right? 

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The water is spent. 
There isn't any around that she 

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she sees. 
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Grace, she don't want to see her
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She lays him under the shrub and
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That's a bow shot 50 to 100 
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Because she don't want to. 
She don't. 

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You know, you've heard some 
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to, I don't want to go to the 
hospital and see such and such 

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that's on their deathbed. 
I just want to remember them as 

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they are, right? 
And so here she's not wanting to

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be, she was there when the baby 
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She don't want to be there 
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in and consume what he's going 
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She can't, she's not able to 
bear this. 

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So she even says, she cries out 
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not see the death. 
She says in verse #16 let me not

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see the the death of the child. 
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She's feeling powerless to 
change any of this. 

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We're at a circumstance right 
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Only God can change. 
She wept, the Bible tells us in 

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verse 16, right? 
She lifts up her voice. 

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She wept, the Bible says. 
But evidently she has not wept 

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alone because the last sentence 
of verse 16 says, look at it 

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now. 
And she sat over against him and

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lifted up her voice, or lift up 
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Look at verse #17 and God heard 
the voice of the she's the 1 

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weeping. 
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the lad. 
God's heard the voice of the 

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lad. 
Now, the only way that this can 

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come about here, we have no 
record in Scripture that Ishmael

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cried out. 
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We're told that Haggard wept, 
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Ishmael may have been crying 
too, because God heard the voice

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of the lad, whether he literally
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musings of his heart and mind. 
We talked about that before here

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too, in the past 40 weeks. 
All right, whether he heard that

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nonetheless God was included 
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Now just just just walk with me 
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I looked up this word voice. 
I looked it up in the ancient 

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Hebrew lexicon of the Bible, and
it gives the old pictographs 

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like this real, real ancient 
Hebrew, right? 

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The pictographs like pictures 
and so the picture for the word 

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voice in Hebrew going from right
to left was the picture of a 

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circle with a line through it, 
which was like a sun at the 

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horizon. 
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which they don't show the staff 
like curved up, but they show it

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like AJ curved down a staff and 
the the the lexicon or said this

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it said the picture graph is a 
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horizon. 
The gathering of the light and 

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the picture of the shepherd's 
staff representing authority 

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said combine these gathering to 
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When the shepherd called the 
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That's interesting to me because
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God heard the voice, if you 
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like this of a young man, a 
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his staff or his authority. 
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when we talk about the son of 
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surrender. 
He heard the voice, the 

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gathering of Ishmael. 
We have all these different 

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variables of the wilderness, all
these different things no doubt 

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had help influence Ishmael to 
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Lack of water lost in the 
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I've noticed personally that my 
flesh cries out sometimes 

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whenever certain circumstances 
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When nothing else can reach my 
flesh circumstances, they'll get

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just right and there will be a 
gathering of my flesh that would

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normally not want to have 
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My flesh then starts gravitating
toward him. 

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And so God heard the voice of 
the lad and this say what you 

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will tonight. 
Maybe it's just basic force to 

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see but that's OK. 
The Bible says he heard look in 

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verse 17. 
He God have heard the voice of 

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the lad. 
He told to Hagar where he is. 

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That's simple, Brother Mason. 
But God heard the voice of, of 

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of Ishmael right where where he 
is, right in his present 

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situation. 
God heard the gathering of his 

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voice to his authority right 
where he was at. 

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What are you saying the night, 
brother? 

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Yeah, I'm saying this. 
I want people to come to church 

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and I want them to cry at an 
altar and repent with contrition

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and all that. 
But can I tell you that long 

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before they ever arrive here, 
God hears their voice that's 

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gathering in His direction right
from where they are. 

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Before they've ever stepped a 
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already been a gathering of 
their cry to Him, right in the 

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middle of their mess. 
Amen. 

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And so he's crying out to God. 
God hears him right there where 

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he is tethering of his voice in 
that direction. 

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That weak voice, that hopeless 
voice, that a strange voice. 

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but God had. 
God had heard it right. 

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Notice she's might just a 
distance from him, but it 

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doesn't even tell us that she 
picked up that she heard the 

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voice, but God heard the voice. 
I have great comfort tonight 

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that whenever other humans don't
hear my me crying out to God, 

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that God hears me crying out to 
God. 

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Whenever we don't pick up on the
crying of somebody, so that God 

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picks up on the crying of 
somebody. 

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So it had not gone unnoticed by 
God. 

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And they're in a predicament 
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They are totally isolated from 
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wilderness, but God knew where 
they were. 

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He hears us where we are, 
whether it's despair, whether 

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it's sin, whether it's the 
wilderness moments, He hears us 

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where we are again. 
He met Elijah in his despair, 

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and Gideon in this fear, and the
widow of Sarah Path and her 

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poverty. 
All these things God met them 

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where they are. 
He met Peter and his failure. 

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He met the apostle Paul in his 
weakness. 

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He meets them all where they 
are. 

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Because I find in my life that 
God often meets me in the point 

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of my need, not necessarily the 
point of my strength. 

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My neediness draws God. 
Not when I have it all put 

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together. 
So God told Abraham, you'll 

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remember last week God told 
Abraham that Ishmael was going 

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to become a nation. 
But we don't see that Haggar was

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in on that telling. 
She don't know, just like other 

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times God told Abraham about 
Sarah having a son and Sarah 

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wasn't around. 
He says Ishmael is going to be a

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nation. 
Hagar's not aware of the 

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conversation. 
He's not. 

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He's not even giving her 
instructions like we find in in 

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verse #18 where he told her to 
rise, lift up the lad and hold 

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him in thine hand. 
We don't read that prior until 

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right now, not until the flesh 
had cried out and there was a 

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recognition. 
I want you to follow this 

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tonight, that there was a 
recognition and really a 

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surrender and submission to the 
Shepherd's authority in that 

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moment. 
And it was them based upon that,

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that he says in verse 18 to 
Haggar, arise, lift up the lad 

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and hold him in thine hand. 
For if I say for or because of, 

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he's given us the why, why, why 
should I do this? 

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Lord, I will make him a great 
nation. 

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I'll make him a great nation. 
That the amplified says, Arise, 

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lift the Ishmael and support him
with your hand. 

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I'm going to make him a great 
nation. 

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Wait a minute, wait a minute. 
What's going on here? 

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Sometimes we view flesh is just 
flesh, but when you have 

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submitted flesh, that submitted 
flesh may unlock a potential 

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destiny, Amen. 
Abram already heard he would be 

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he would be a nation, but now 
this boy is went to a place of 

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crying out. 
God's heard his voice. 

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There's some type of submission 
that's going on here. 

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And now God's saying Haggar, he 
says go over, don't stay 

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separated from him. 
Go over and support him, if you 

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will, with your hand, because 
he's going to be a great nation,

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Amen. 
But it's it's amazing sometimes 

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how we act differently, the 
people or the things when we 

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understand the plans God may 
have for them. 

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The leadership gurus say this 
always view everybody with a #10

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above their head. 
On the surface they may look 

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like a low down good for 
nothing, but you're not to see 

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them as they are. 
You're to see them as they can 

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be. 
In other words, Haggar, while 

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you're laying what very frail, 
weak thing over underneath the 

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shrub. 
If you knew that was going to be

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a great nation, how much would 
you fight for it? 

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If you knew it was going to cry 
out just a few moments later in 

446
00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,480
submission to the King, right, 
with a recognition of the 

447
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,200
authority, how much would you 
how much would you try to work 

448
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:03,280
with it in a submissive state? 
I know I don't want to deal with

449
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:05,400
nothing that's unsubmitted. 
Yeah, but if it becomes 

450
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,960
submitted, it could unlock a 
potential that's on site. 

451
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:11,000
I've told you before, I believe 
God has destiny for everybody in

452
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,520
this world. 
There's something on their life.

453
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:16,720
But what will lock or unlock it 
is their point of submission to 

454
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,400
the higher power. 
Thou either bind it up or thou 

455
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:28,600
set it free. 
Amen, He said. 

456
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:30,040
Here, here's the Son in the 
flesh. 

457
00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,520
It's got submission. 
It's recognizing me. 

458
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,400
It's submission, she says. 
I need you now to support it. 

459
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,760
I need you to support it with 
your hand. 

460
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:42,200
Amen. 
I know he looked weak and frail.

461
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,120
He's the perishing boy before, 
but now he's the seed of a great

462
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,960
nation. 
You've just learned, huh? 

463
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,080
There's some, there's some God 
potential that's here now that 

464
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,360
he submitted. 
You can't do anything with flesh

465
00:32:55,360 --> 00:33:03,360
unless it's submitted. 
Old coal miner, preacher, right?

466
00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:08,040
What was his name? 
But Russell, They've all stated 

467
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:12,960
here 1000 times before. 
You can cast demons out, but you

468
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:17,120
can't cast out the flesh. 
You speak to a demon on the 

469
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,520
authority of the Lord Jesus 
Christ and it can go. 

470
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,720
You can't do that with flesh. 
Flesh has a will, and it has to 

471
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:32,960
bend its will into submission. 
Amen. 

472
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,560
So I believe there's destiny for
everybody, but whether it lives 

473
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:40,120
or dies, or whether it grows, or
whether it lies dormant, it's 

474
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:47,320
all at that point of submission.
Some, some of us at times have 

475
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:52,760
been driven by the deeds of the 
flesh, the works of the flesh, 

476
00:33:54,280 --> 00:33:55,880
like Galatians 5, the fruit of 
the Spirit. 

477
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:59,360
But the works of the flesh are 
spoken of there too, The works 

478
00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:02,280
of the flesh, right? 
All these different things, 

479
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:07,880
we've been driven by them, Huh? 
An amazing thing to me. 

480
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,600
The Bible says after she had 
done this in verse 19, that God 

481
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:15,120
opened her eyes and she saw a 
well of water. 

482
00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:20,280
This was my mind, because the 
way Scripture even reads almost 

483
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,120
it's not as though the well was 
never there. 

484
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,040
It's as though the well had 
always been there. 

485
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,000
Now her eyes are open to the 
well. 

486
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:39,400
Well's there all along, but now 
God has her eyes open to see the

487
00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:45,400
well. 
After she supports the submitted

488
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:49,719
flesh. 
After she supports that her eyes

489
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:53,560
are open to the well, it's 
almost as though she couldn't 

490
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:58,200
even see the established well 
until she understood the 

491
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:04,640
potential of that impoverished, 
impoverished flesh laying under 

492
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,400
the shrub of a tree. 
God opened her eyes though, the 

493
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,760
Bible says to both. 
She seen both the child then for

494
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,880
what he could be and also saw 
the well. 

495
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:16,560
And the Bible says she gave him 
drinks. 

496
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:20,400
She nourished him. 
I guess I say all this because I

497
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,160
think sometimes we've always 
just painted the Ishmael as some

498
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:30,000
evil that's deserving of death. 
His mockery needed to die. 

499
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,680
And yes, there had to be a 
separation to preserve the 

500
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,640
Isaac. 
But that's not to say there were

501
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:43,560
some redeemable qualities 
whenever flesh becomes 

502
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:49,960
submitted, where all of us would
be a dead end. 

503
00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:56,880
Verse 20 says God was with the 
lad. 

504
00:35:59,480 --> 00:36:02,920
What? 
Yes, God was with the lad. 

505
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,080
And Hagar found him a wife from 
her people. 

506
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:08,240
She was an Egyptian herself. 
And the Bible talks about how he

507
00:36:08,240 --> 00:36:10,960
grew and he grew where? 
Right there in the wilderness 

508
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,400
and he become a skilled person 
with the bow. 

509
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:22,280
Well, you pastor, I'm saying 
let's be careful about riding 

510
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:32,460
people off that they're unworthy
of greatness or they're unworthy

511
00:36:32,460 --> 00:36:35,740
of blessing or they're unworthy 
of XYZ. 

512
00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:39,220
Because the fact of the matter, 
God may be hearing their 

513
00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:41,820
yearnings before your ear is 
even heard it. 

514
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:55,560
If, if you could think, if you 
knew everybody's origin story 

515
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:06,520
and we wrote them off based upon
where they started, you would 

516
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:09,880
have stolen yourself from some 
great missionaries and 

517
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:19,400
evangelists and pastors and. 
Let's go on. 

518
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,440
We got to go, right? 
We're going to finish up chapter

519
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:31,440
21, probably verse 22. 
And it came to pass at that time

520
00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:34,080
that Abimelech, remember he was 
just in the last chapter. 

521
00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:39,720
Remember the whole she's not my 
sister, my wife scenario 

522
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:43,760
favorite Abimelech and Picole, 
the chief captain of the his 

523
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:47,040
whole spake and I'm going to 
just keep reading unto Abraham 

524
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:50,120
saying God is with thee and all 
that thou doest now, therefore 

525
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,840
swearing to me here by God that 
that will not deal falsely with 

526
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:57,840
me nor with my son nor with my 
son's son, but according to the 

527
00:37:57,840 --> 00:37:59,720
kindness that I have done unto 
thee. 

528
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,920
Perhaps he's referring to you 
know the episode in the last 

529
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,800
chapter you got your wife back. 
Everything was well. 

530
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:07,440
I didn't touch her so and so 
forth. 

531
00:38:07,720 --> 00:38:11,720
Thou shalt do unto me unto the 
land wherein thou has sojourned.

532
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,360
And Abraham said, I I will 
swear. 

533
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:18,760
And Abraham reproved Abimelech 
because of a well of water, 

534
00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,760
which Abimelech servants had 
violently taken away. 

535
00:38:21,760 --> 00:38:24,880
And Abimelech said, I want not 
who have done this thing. 

536
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,440
Neither didst thou tell me, 
neither yet heard I of it but 

537
00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:31,720
today. 
And Abraham took sheep and oxen 

538
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:34,560
and gave them to Abimelech, and 
both of them made a covenant. 

539
00:38:35,040 --> 00:38:39,680
And Abraham set 7 new lambs on 
the flocks of the flocks by 

540
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:41,560
themselves. 
And Abimelech send to Abraham, 

541
00:38:41,560 --> 00:38:44,440
What mean these seven new lambs,
which thou has set by 

542
00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,760
themselves. 
And he said, For these seven new

543
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:50,560
lambs shalt thou take of my 
hand, that they may be a witness

544
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,800
unto me, that I have digged this
well. 

545
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:58,200
Wherefore he called that place 
Beersheba, because there they 

546
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:02,640
swore both of them. 
Thus they made a covenant air 

547
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:06,480
Beersheba, that Beersheba. 
Then Abimelech rose up and 

548
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,560
picoll the chief captain of his 
host, and they returned to the 

549
00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:12,800
land of Philistines. 
And Abraham planted the Grove 

550
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,440
and Beersheba, and called there 
on the name of the Lord, the 

551
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,040
everlasting God. 
And Abraham sojourned in the 

552
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:23,880
Philistines land many days here 
by saying it came to pass and it

553
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:29,320
came to pass at the time. 
It's almost as though back to 

554
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:32,720
the previous chapter if you 
will, in chapter #20 that 

555
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:37,440
wherever Abraham when he prayed 
for Abimelech healing and his 

556
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,920
wifes healing and all of his 
maidservants healing, that their

557
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,640
womb would be opened up, if 
you'll recall that their wounds 

558
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:46,680
were healed and they were then 
able to bear children. 

559
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:49,600
And this also still seems to all
be in the same setting. 

560
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,760
And it came to pass at the time.
This is the same setting then 

561
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:55,920
when Isaac was born and given to
Abraham and Sarah. 

562
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:57,760
And this seems to be the same 
setting. 

563
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:02,000
Amen Of that taking place of 
when Abraham and Sarah are in 

564
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,120
this position of Gerar and Bear 
Sheba. 

565
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,680
Now location here. 
All of this happened at the same

566
00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:10,520
time that Abimelech has been set
back. 

567
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:12,800
With Abraham and Sarah in his 
land. 

568
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,720
And he has been observing all of
this. 

569
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,080
He's been observing how God 
opened the wounds of his own 

570
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:22,240
people by the prayer of Abraham.
He is observed how God has 

571
00:40:22,240 --> 00:40:26,120
opened up Sarah's own womb after
25 years of it being shut. 

572
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:30,440
He, he's observed, if you will, 
how Abraham has handled a very 

573
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:34,640
delicate situation with with 
Ishmael and Sarah, Sarah and 

574
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,400
these things. 
How he's handled all of this 

575
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,960
involving his household. 
He's taken all this in, and so 

576
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:43,320
it seems during the same setting
of preserving Isaac, the 

577
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:46,800
promise, and dismissing Ishmael 
and all these things that 

578
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,680
Abimelech exclaims these words 
here in the Scripture. 

579
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:55,520
He says God is with thee, and 
verse 22, God is with thee and 

580
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,680
all that thou do us. 
He's an outsider. 

581
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:00,920
He's not, He's not of the House 
of Israel. 

582
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,880
He's an outsider, yet he can see
the divine favor on Abraham's 

583
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:09,640
life, on Abraham's choices, on 
Abraham's decision. 

584
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,800
And what he picks up on, 
probably quite greatly, is this.

585
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:19,080
He sees that Abraham has some 
peace with God, and so he, 

586
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:23,320
abimelech wants some peace with 
Abraham because Abraham has 

587
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:25,920
peace with God. 
Amen. 

588
00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:28,840
The Bible tells us a New 
Testament scripture in the book 

589
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:35,080
of Hebrews 12/14. 
As much as it lies within us, we

590
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:37,720
should live. 
Anybody know the next word? 

591
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:44,720
Peaceably with all men? 
That's a horse pill to swallow. 

592
00:41:50,140 --> 00:41:51,660
It's not as much as lies within 
us. 

593
00:41:51,660 --> 00:41:54,780
We should live peaceably with 
all of our family or all the 

594
00:41:54,780 --> 00:41:57,460
people that live in our 
household or all the people that

595
00:41:57,460 --> 00:42:03,980
we like, all the people that 
we're friends with, all men. 

596
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,960
The last verse tells us that 
Abraham's going to be sojourning

597
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:14,320
in this area for many days. 
Folks, you want a sense of 

598
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:18,080
friendliness if you're going to 
be living among some folk for a 

599
00:42:18,080 --> 00:42:19,720
while. 
I don't know when's the last 

600
00:42:19,720 --> 00:42:22,680
time you've been forced into a 
house that with a bunch of 

601
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,120
people that you might not know 
very much. 

602
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,520
I've been there. 
We do it almost every time when 

603
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:28,360
we go to prison. 
A lot of them repeatedly go, but

604
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,200
we've all shared one house. 
You going to have some 

605
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:37,480
friendliness or the Hatfield and
the coy's going to break out. 

606
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:46,840
Amen. 
But Abimelech, he wants peace 

607
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:50,960
with Abraham because he, he, he 
realizes Abraham has peace with 

608
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:58,640
God and he wants the spillover 
of Abraham's peace with God. 

609
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,440
See, Abimelech has figured out 
what, what, what Potiphar 

610
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:06,960
figured out about Joseph. 
Now I'll make him a steward in 

611
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,360
my house and he has favor with 
God. 

612
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:15,640
And if his God cup favor gets 
too full, he being in my house 

613
00:43:15,880 --> 00:43:21,120
is going to spill over on me. 
Hey, man, look at it. 

614
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:22,720
Genesis 39. 
This is going forward. 

615
00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:25,040
Look worth jumping chapters of 
Genesis, brother Reese, mark it 

616
00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:28,280
down the calendar. 
Genesis 39 verse #2 And the Lord

617
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,480
was with Joseph, and he was a 
prosperous man, and he was in 

618
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,160
the House of his master, the 
Egyptian. 

619
00:43:34,160 --> 00:43:38,440
That's referring to Potiphar. 
And his master saw, look, he's 

620
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:42,720
picking up on this, that the 
Lord was with him and that the 

621
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:45,240
Lord made all that he did to 
prosper in his land. 

622
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:47,880
Like that's somebody I need to 
get to know. 

623
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:50,400
That's somebody I need to be 
friends with. 

624
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:52,840
Seems like what they touch turns
to goat. 

625
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:54,280
I need them to touch some of my 
stuff. 

626
00:43:56,240 --> 00:43:58,400
The Lord made all that He did to
prosper in his hand. 

627
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,440
Verse 4. 
And Joseph found grace in his 

628
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:05,240
sight, in the sight of this 
Master, and he served him, and 

629
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:07,520
he made him overseer. 
The Master made him overseer 

630
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,360
over all his house and all that 
he had put into his hand. 

631
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:12,760
Look at verse 5. 
And it came to pass from the 

632
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:16,400
time that he had made him 
overseer in his house over all 

633
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:21,000
that he had, that the Lord 
blessed the Egyptians house for 

634
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,520
Joseph's sake. 
And the blessing the Lord was 

635
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:26,640
upon all that he had in the 
house and in the field. 

636
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:31,320
What is that part of it says? 
I want to, I want to make peace 

637
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:33,320
with this man because he has 
peace with God. 

638
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,160
I want to find favor with this 
man because has favor with God. 

639
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:40,200
And if God gets, you know, so 
much favor on him, he needs to 

640
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,080
put it somewhere else. 
I want to be close to him. 

641
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:50,320
And so Abimelech requesting of 
Abraham that he would be kind to

642
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:51,360
him. 
They're going to make a 

643
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,120
covenant. 
They're striking some swearings.

644
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,400
And I'm not talking about curse 
words, OK, oaths. 

645
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,520
And they're going to be kind to 
him and his descendants during 

646
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:03,840
his stay in the land, right? 
And that he would be kind to his

647
00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:04,920
land. 
It's not just the sense. 

648
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,320
He's also his land. 
And that makes sense. 

649
00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,400
If Abraham's going to be staying
in the land, he should treat the

650
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,640
land good because he's going to 
benefit from the land that he's 

651
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:16,920
treating good. 
I said a long time ago, I 

652
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,600
preached A sermon here called 
Harvest and seeing talking about

653
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:21,800
indigenous people and they 
started wrecking their land and 

654
00:45:21,800 --> 00:45:23,440
they make this quote. 
I just want to share it again 

655
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,360
because it still sticks in my 
mind. 

656
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:29,160
They said that it's hard to 
survive if you degrade the land 

657
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:35,360
that gives you life. 
So when you go treat the land 

658
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:38,560
good because that same land is 
what's going to feed you while 

659
00:45:38,560 --> 00:45:40,600
you're there, that same land 
going to help you. 

660
00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:44,440
You could do it. 
It may not be quote UN quote 

661
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,640
what you really call home, but 
it's home for now. 

662
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,960
Let's go to the prophet will we 
prophet Jeremiah 29 seven. 

663
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,960
This is Jeremiah talking to all 
those exiles that take it away 

664
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:02,080
the Babylon away from home. 
But this is Jeremiah's 

665
00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:05,520
admonition. 
He says and seek the peace of 

666
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,080
the city. 
Whether I've caused you to be 

667
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,280
carried away. 
Captives, wait a minute, breaks 

668
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,280
on. 
I'm being taken away from my 

669
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,320
home in Jerusalem. 
I'm going to be a captain 

670
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,160
Babylon. 
And you're saying seek the peace

671
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:20,240
of that city, Babylon. 
Yeah. 

672
00:46:20,520 --> 00:46:23,080
And he goes on and says pray 
unto the Lord. 

673
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:26,280
This is his admonition to them. 
Pray unto the Lord for it. 

674
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,520
What? 
I've been taken away by these 

675
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,000
low down good for nothings. 
They don't believe like we 

676
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,160
believe. 
I have all this stuff and you're

677
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:38,240
telling me to pray for this and 
pray for them and seek the peace

678
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:41,360
of this place. 
He says pray unto the Lord for 

679
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,800
it, for in the peace thereof ye 
shall have peace. 

680
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:49,440
He said that's where you'll be 
living for the next 70 years. 

681
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,200
That's where you'll be living 
for the next 70 years. 

682
00:46:53,360 --> 00:46:56,800
That might not be home, but 
that's where you're at right 

683
00:46:56,800 --> 00:47:00,320
now. 
And as you seek the peace of 

684
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,520
that place and pray for that 
place, the boomerang effects 

685
00:47:03,520 --> 00:47:05,280
going to come back because 
that's where you're currently 

686
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:08,520
living. 
So you can bowed mouth the world

687
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:13,400
all you want. 
Somebody hear me right now. 

688
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:17,480
And you and bad mouth the city 
of Mount Carmel, you want that 

689
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:19,720
might not be home right now, but
that's where you're living. 

690
00:47:21,240 --> 00:47:23,840
And you need to seek the peace 
of this community. 

691
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:27,320
And you need to pray for this 
community because this is where 

692
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:29,800
you're certainly stationed at. 
It's going to have enough. 

693
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,800
I'm not sitting up here charging
everybody to hell. 

694
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,760
No, brothers and sisters, we 
need to be seeking the peace of 

695
00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,560
the community in which our feet 
are planted, where we live, get 

696
00:47:40,560 --> 00:47:48,600
our groceries, go to work. 
Mason, what would it do for an 

697
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:52,520
outsider like Abimelech to see 
some of you have peace with God 

698
00:47:52,520 --> 00:47:54,600
here and then say, you know 
what? 

699
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,960
I'd like to have peace with them
and know them because I like 

700
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,800
what I see that they have with 
something. 

701
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,200
But you'll never have that if 
you don't seek the peace of 

702
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:16,550
where you're at. 
Not only the Bible says, because

703
00:48:16,550 --> 00:48:21,990
the Bible says here, let me find
it, bless it, assurance. 

704
00:48:22,150 --> 00:48:26,150
Look at verse #22 this is what 
this is what it been like said 

705
00:48:26,150 --> 00:48:30,640
to Abraham, God is with thee. 
You know, there's something very

706
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:33,280
similar to that new test 
description book Acts chapter #4

707
00:48:33,480 --> 00:48:35,400
with Peter and John, the lame 
man scenario. 

708
00:48:35,720 --> 00:48:39,840
Remember they brought before the
people and Acts chapter #4 the 

709
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:41,800
governors and those of high 
rankings. 

710
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,200
And they said with these, these 
be ignorant man. 

711
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:47,480
But they said these men have 
been what with Jesus? 

712
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:51,600
That's the way it was said, 
Newton says. 

713
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:53,720
They've been with Jesus here in 
the Old Testament. 

714
00:48:53,720 --> 00:48:57,800
It says an outsider recognized. 
Not only so it tells me that not

715
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,680
only can people tell if you've 
been with Jesus, they can tell 

716
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:11,730
whether God is with you. 
He's an outsider, the outsider, 

717
00:49:12,250 --> 00:49:14,010
he said. 
But I perceive that God's with 

718
00:49:14,010 --> 00:49:16,890
you. 
How I've been sitting over here 

719
00:49:16,890 --> 00:49:18,810
observing while you've been in 
my land. 

720
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:23,200
I've seen my own family healed, 
you prayed. 

721
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:27,080
I've seen your own wives open up
after 25 years of bareness, and 

722
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,680
I've seen how you've handled 
difficult situations in your 

723
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:37,400
home. 
I perceive, honey, you don't 

724
00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:38,480
listen. 
It's great. 

725
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:39,960
And you need to have a Bible 
study turn. 

726
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:41,320
You need somebody, a Bible 
study. 

727
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,760
But your Bible study's never 
going to be any more effective 

728
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:45,360
or loud than the way that you 
live your life. 

729
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:53,480
It will either support what you 
say from that Bible program or 

730
00:49:53,480 --> 00:50:05,540
it will contradict. 2nd 
Corinthians told us we'd say 

731
00:50:05,540 --> 00:50:10,100
this all the time. 
He said ye are epistles 3 things

732
00:50:10,100 --> 00:50:15,300
written, known and read, 
written, known and read by all 

733
00:50:15,660 --> 00:50:17,540
men. 
Your epistles written, you're 

734
00:50:17,540 --> 00:50:23,140
known and read by all men. 
How they how they read that 

735
00:50:23,140 --> 00:50:26,160
again? 
How do you treat others? 

736
00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:30,680
How do you handle stressful 
situations? 

737
00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:34,680
There's even a better one. 
How do you handle blessings, 

738
00:50:39,440 --> 00:50:43,400
God, not just how you handle 
stress. 

739
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:48,000
How do you handle being blessed?
You're arrogant, egotistical. 

740
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:50,480
God. 
Brag about it. 

741
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:57,200
Well, God, I'm done going home 
right now, huh? 

742
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,000
Then they can pick up gods with 
you based upon all this type of 

743
00:51:02,000 --> 00:51:04,080
stuff. 
God is with. 

744
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:08,440
God is with you. 
I've seen how you handled 

745
00:51:08,440 --> 00:51:11,800
Ishmael and that whole Sarah 
situation, how you manage that 

746
00:51:11,800 --> 00:51:14,160
conflict and that tense 
situation. 

747
00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:21,520
Your life's been speaking 
loudly, Abraham, before you ever

748
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:27,440
opened your mouth. 
So Abraham and the Biblic 

749
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:29,800
entering a covenant, he's got 
peace with God. 

750
00:51:29,800 --> 00:51:32,720
I want to have peace with him, 
you know, but let me have a 

751
00:51:32,720 --> 00:51:37,480
share of the deal. 
And so that's the reason of 

752
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:39,480
Scripture. 
We see animals come into play. 

753
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,520
Maybe they were possibly for 
sacrifice. 

754
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,640
And there's an exchange of 
gifts. 

755
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,160
And again, there's some swearing
of oaths that are taking place. 

756
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:52,800
And after Abraham swore, after 
Abraham swore, he says I will 

757
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:56,400
swear. 
And Abimelech's been talking 

758
00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,120
about now be kind to me and my 
sons and my sons, sons and sons.

759
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,080
You know, he's getting all the 
generations covered. 

760
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:05,440
Be kind to me in the land. 
Then look here. 

761
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:13,480
Abraham reproved, Abraham 
reproved, he rebuked, he 

762
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:18,160
corrected Abimelech. 
All because of something that 

763
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,880
was going on with a well he had 
dug. 

764
00:52:23,200 --> 00:52:25,200
Abraham brings up the whole 
wells situation. 

765
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:28,760
I dug it. 
There's some of y'all folks that

766
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:34,240
took it violently from me, cast 
a little shadow on this whole, 

767
00:52:34,720 --> 00:52:36,160
you know, loyalty agreement 
thing. 

768
00:52:36,200 --> 00:52:38,680
You know, it's about ready to 
shake down here. 

769
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:42,280
But Abraham goes there 
nonetheless. 

770
00:52:45,680 --> 00:52:48,120
Because they're talking about 
all these terms of the peace 

771
00:52:48,120 --> 00:52:50,560
that they're going to live with,
right? 

772
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,720
Abraham says. 
Why I need to bring this up? 

773
00:52:55,240 --> 00:52:57,760
And in that I say this and 
please hear me and don't 

774
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:02,600
misunderstand or misconstrue me.
But living peaceably with others

775
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:10,240
also doesn't mean you have to be
a doorman or ignore injustice. 

776
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:20,280
We can pursue peace and yet do 
as maybe what should have been 

777
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:24,920
done with Ishmael, address 
issues without writing off 

778
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:29,840
people. 
Amen. 

779
00:53:32,240 --> 00:53:38,520
Because real, real peace, it's 
going to require some openness, 

780
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:41,600
but it's also going to require 
understanding. 

781
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:49,720
Most things when you talk about 
conflict, things like that rise 

782
00:53:49,720 --> 00:53:54,280
and fall on the point of 
understanding, misunderstanding 

783
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:57,440
understand. 
I, whenever before I ever redid 

784
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:00,200
my office, I had a little little
small, little square piece of 

785
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:04,120
paper. 
I, I had three words on it up 

786
00:54:04,120 --> 00:54:07,240
there as a constant reminder for
me that said, seek to 

787
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:11,360
understand. 
Seek to understand. 

788
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:14,680
Because people come to me with 
all kinds of garbage sometimes 

789
00:54:15,440 --> 00:54:19,120
or there's garbage that I 
observe and rather try and 

790
00:54:19,120 --> 00:54:22,960
interpret on this side. 
I say, God help me to understand

791
00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:27,880
because it might not be all as 
it seems. 

792
00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,160
And other times it's just 
exactly as it seems. 

793
00:54:36,760 --> 00:54:40,000
So after Abraham has cleared the
air about that, the Bible says 

794
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:42,760
they they made a covenant. 
So look, here's two adults. 

795
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:47,720
Here are two adults that could 
work through an issue They're 

796
00:54:47,720 --> 00:54:53,400
not even of the same faith. 
Here are two adults that could 

797
00:54:53,400 --> 00:54:56,320
work through an issue about a 
well that had been violently 

798
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:59,040
taken. 
Abraham brings his seven U's as 

799
00:54:59,040 --> 00:55:01,160
a witness of proof that I did 
dig the well. 

800
00:55:01,240 --> 00:55:03,640
We're going to come to agreement
that I did dig this. 

801
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:05,680
This is mine. 
They were able to come to 

802
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,200
agreement and they didn't walk 
away home. 

803
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,720
So if we on that go burn your 
own offering, you know, make a 

804
00:55:11,720 --> 00:55:13,760
no covenant with you. 
No, they made a covenant. 

805
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:19,560
They are able to work, pass 
their indifference, their 

806
00:55:19,560 --> 00:55:21,680
misunderstandings, because 
Abimelech says. 

807
00:55:21,720 --> 00:55:23,400
This is the first I heard of 
this today. 

808
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,400
I didn't even know about this. 
You didn't even tell me about 

809
00:55:25,400 --> 00:55:28,840
it. 
Can we just stop for a moment? 

810
00:55:29,520 --> 00:55:32,520
How many times do we have 
conflicts where we're expecting 

811
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:35,360
the other person to read our 
minds? 

812
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,840
We are upset at them because 
they don't know what we're 

813
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:47,040
thinking. 
Paper him sitting over there. 

814
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:51,000
That's my will. 
Abimelech don't know, can't 

815
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:52,520
believe he's doing that. 
That's my will. 

816
00:55:52,560 --> 00:55:54,600
He should know that. 
Not saying a word though. 

817
00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,480
Sometimes we think because we 
have knowledge, it's public 

818
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:06,920
knowledge or that we know 
something. 

819
00:56:06,920 --> 00:56:12,000
Everybody knows It's not the 
case. 

820
00:56:13,560 --> 00:56:17,320
Again, from my experience just 
on this side, shortness of my 

821
00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,840
life and what I've been exposed 
to, there's a lot of conflicts 

822
00:56:19,840 --> 00:56:21,440
that just come down to 
understanding. 

823
00:56:27,340 --> 00:56:32,580
But we're ready to shoot all six
out of the barrel because they 

824
00:56:32,580 --> 00:56:38,340
should know my mind for how I 
feel. 

825
00:56:39,580 --> 00:56:42,340
Oh God, I almost feel like a 
therapy session here. 

826
00:56:44,340 --> 00:56:47,360
I'm not a therapist or the son 
of a therapist. 

827
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:50,880
So they was able, though, to 
make a covenant. 

828
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,400
Abraham gave, gave the testament
that it was his. 

829
00:56:54,400 --> 00:56:57,120
They went away. 
Beersheba means well of oath or 

830
00:56:57,200 --> 00:57:01,040
or well of sevens. 
It kind of applies to both 

831
00:57:01,200 --> 00:57:04,760
aspects there with the seven ewe
lambs that came about, what 

832
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:06,520
happened here? 
I'm coming to the end. 

833
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:08,760
I know I'm dragging the lake 
here. 

834
00:57:09,200 --> 00:57:14,160
The Bible says after all this 
scenario, Abraham gives this 

835
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:18,880
name and that he also plants, 
the Bible says a Grove in verse 

836
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:23,160
#33 he plants a Grove and he 
called on the name of the 

837
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:26,160
everlasting, the everlasting 
God, the eternal God. 

838
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:29,560
He plants. 
What they call this Grove was a 

839
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:34,400
tamarisk tree, a tamarisk tree. 
Let me tell you a little bit 

840
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,200
about tamarisk tree. 
We'll close this up. 

841
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:41,040
A tamarisk tree is a tall shade 
tree. 

842
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:46,440
When it is grown, it has deep 
roots and it needs a little 

843
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:51,400
water to survive. 
They say it will survive where 

844
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:56,000
most other trees will wither. 
It grows, mom. 

845
00:57:56,360 --> 00:57:59,720
This is how fast? 
About an inch per year. 

846
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:06,800
But they say they're almost 
impossible to uproot once 

847
00:58:07,200 --> 00:58:12,440
they're established. 
They grow slow, but when it's 

848
00:58:12,440 --> 00:58:19,000
over, they'll have become big. 
They say this is the same for 

849
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,880
the tamarisk, and it's common to
some sayings that we even hear 

850
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,680
today. 
They say you plant a tamarisk 

851
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:27,920
tree for the next generation, 
not yourself. 

852
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:37,400
Abraham's going to stay at 
Beersheba for many days back 

853
00:58:38,360 --> 00:58:42,320
whenever the Lord told him I'm 
I'm your exceeding great reward 

854
00:58:42,320 --> 00:58:44,920
and Abraham says, but God, what 
are you going to even give me 

855
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:48,600
because I don't have a 
offspring. 

856
00:58:49,880 --> 00:58:53,440
Anything you give me. 
I don't have anybody to give it 

857
00:58:53,440 --> 00:58:55,920
to after me, except maybe the 
steward of my house. 

858
00:58:57,200 --> 00:59:01,360
Abraham back in that day 
probably wouldn't be planting no

859
00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:04,840
tree like a tamarisk, but he's 
at a different juncture in the 

860
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,200
road today. 
Not only was he promised a son, 

861
00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:11,240
there's a little boy he could go
get and put right in his arms as

862
00:59:11,240 --> 00:59:16,600
he's digging the hole for that 
tree. 

863
00:59:17,520 --> 00:59:22,800
It's not for himself. 
It's for generations to come. 

864
00:59:24,040 --> 00:59:27,480
His son will benefit from that 
tree. 

865
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:31,680
If I didn't say like this, 
Abraham in many ways was leaving

866
00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:36,440
the legacy both through the well
and through the tree. 

867
00:59:36,440 --> 00:59:40,480
And the Bible says, look, he was
proclaiming Bishop, the name of 

868
00:59:40,480 --> 00:59:49,240
the Lord, the everlasting, the 
eternal God calling up in the 

869
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:50,880
name of the Lord. 
Again, name. 

870
00:59:50,880 --> 00:59:53,080
Whenever you talk about name, 
you're talking about reputation,

871
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:56,000
you're talking about nature. 
He's calling all the reputation 

872
00:59:56,000 --> 00:59:59,640
and the attributes of the 
everlasting God here upon this 

873
00:59:59,640 --> 01:00:02,760
spot. 
And I can't help but also think.

874
01:00:03,360 --> 01:00:05,840
And it's interesting, this 
again, nice little topical study

875
01:00:05,840 --> 01:00:08,600
for you as you go through the 
Bible and look at trees. 

876
01:00:08,960 --> 01:00:12,040
I can't but think that maybe 
Abraham is heralding back all 

877
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:16,800
the way to the Garden of Eden, 
which had a garden that had many

878
01:00:16,800 --> 01:00:20,080
trees in it, evidently because 
they could eat of every tree in 

879
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:24,120
the garden. 
Except heralding back. 

880
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:30,000
Heralding back to the paradise, 
the Eden, the fellowship with 

881
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:37,240
God, the blessing of 
reproduction, all the things. 

882
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:39,400
Just going to plant a little 
tree right here. 

883
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:41,880
Amen. 
As a reminder for me and 

884
01:00:41,880 --> 01:00:45,200
generations to come, God's plan 
for life and legacy. 

885
01:00:45,200 --> 01:00:47,800
I know that's generic. 
Just stand with me. 

886
01:00:47,800 --> 01:01:01,700
Anyhow, 
remember our heads today. 

887
01:01:03,420 --> 01:01:05,740
I wonder if we could just start 
talking to the Lord. 

888
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:12,120
And there's just so much stuff 
just in chapter 21 that we've 

889
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:16,440
just already looked at that has 
so much application to our 

890
01:01:16,440 --> 01:01:22,160
lives. 
How we deal with the flesh, how 

891
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:26,600
Abraham dealt with it in its 
unsubmissive state, how Haggard 

892
01:01:26,600 --> 01:01:28,560
dealt with it in its submitted 
state. 

893
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:34,080
So many different things. 
The peace, the way that we live 

894
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:38,120
our lives, so many different 
things. 

895
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:45,080
God, I pray, O Lord, tonight, 
help me Jesus, God, to adopt the

896
01:01:45,080 --> 01:01:47,960
plans of scripture. 
God, for the plans of my life. 

897
01:01:48,760 --> 01:01:51,360
Tell me God, I pray, Lord, for 
understanding. 

898
01:01:51,360 --> 01:01:55,280
I pray God for understanding. 
God as I live from day-to-day. 

899
01:01:55,280 --> 01:01:59,080
Lord, among others that may not 
be like me, Lord Jesus may not 

900
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:02,840
be like me at all, but Lord, 
will they be able to witness 

901
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,960
that God is with me? 
Will the baby be able to witness

902
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:08,480
that God is with me? 
I pray, oh Lord, Holy Ghost, 

903
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:11,800
help me, help me. 
God with hands, The Lord Jesus 

904
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:15,240
of diligence, the Lord to handle
issues and people. 

905
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:20,160
Lord God in two classifications,
The Lord in two classifications 

906
01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:23,680
that handle each. 
I pray, oh Lord, today, God, I 

907
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:27,920
pray Jesus today that you would 
help me, Lord, to support God, 

908
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:30,600
to support those things. 
The Lord that on the surface and

909
01:02:30,600 --> 01:02:33,800
Lord from the standpoint of now,
they seem frail, they don't seem

910
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:37,320
noteworthy, but God, there is 
destiny, Lord upon their lives, 

911
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:40,720
God and in their submissive 
state that can unlock that 

912
01:02:40,720 --> 01:02:42,320
destiny. 
Help me, Lord, to be supportive,

913
01:02:42,320 --> 01:02:46,440
the fan, the flames, God of 
submitted, Lord, God, people and

914
01:02:46,440 --> 01:02:49,960
submitted aspects of people's 
lives, God that can grow into 

915
01:02:49,960 --> 01:02:53,600
something, Lord, meaningful Lord
Jesus, even in the Kingdom, help

916
01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,800
me God. 
Help me to have an awareness. 

917
01:02:55,800 --> 01:02:57,800
God, I don't want to stick my 
head in the sand. 

918
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,080
I don't want to think Lord 
Jesus, that God, the way that we

919
01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:04,160
just handle one thing is the way
that you we handle everything 

920
01:03:04,160 --> 01:03:05,560
God as though they're all the 
same. 

921
01:03:05,560 --> 01:03:08,400
But God, they all have their 
nuances and they all have their 

922
01:03:08,400 --> 01:03:11,520
Lord differences and they all 
have Lord, their little Lord 

923
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:14,240
Jesus, things that are not 
exactly like the other. 

924
01:03:14,240 --> 01:03:16,400
Help us Lord to take it. 
God taste by case. 

925
01:03:16,400 --> 01:03:20,600
Help us, O Lord, help us, O 
Lord, today God help us to be 

926
01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:23,040
wise. 
O Lord, help us to be wise. 

927
01:03:23,040 --> 01:03:25,880
Give us knowledge and 
understanding, O Lord, and the 

928
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:29,360
affairs of this life, God, with 
people or the faith people not 

929
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:31,640
so part of the faith. 
Help us, God, to be your 

930
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:35,560
representatives, Lord, in the 
earth Ambassadors, I pray, O God

931
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:39,600
in the earth, God, let them know
that we have spent time with you

932
01:03:39,600 --> 01:03:42,720
and that you go with us. 
I pray, O God, let there be, let

933
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:45,080
that not be disputed. 
Let that be known. 

934
01:03:45,080 --> 01:03:47,960
Let that be clear. 
I pray, O Lord Jesus, today, 

935
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:50,840
touch your people in this week. 
Lord, as they go their separate 

936
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:52,480
ways. 
I pray God, you would empower 

937
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:54,280
them. 
Help them, Lord, to be the salt 

938
01:03:54,280 --> 01:03:57,640
and the light Lord of the earth.
Lord Jesus, in this hour, God, 

939
01:03:57,640 --> 01:03:59,800
if we've ever we needed it, we 
need it today. 

940
01:04:00,080 --> 01:04:02,800
I pray in the lovely name of 
Jesus Christ, let the peace over

941
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,280
shadow us. 
In your name, Amen and Amen. 

942
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:08,480
The church say Amen, Hallelujah 
and Amen. 

943
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:12,520
God bless you tonight. 
Remember Haven Pentecostal in 

944
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:15,680
Henderson, KY, Friday and 
Saturday, opportunity Sunday 

945
01:04:15,680 --> 01:04:18,560
here in the morning. 
Pastor Anthony and Sister Lisa 

946
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,280
Wilkes will be with us and 
they'll be a blessing to you. 

947
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:22,720
I know, Amen. 
God bless you. 

948
01:04:22,720 --> 01:04:24,720
Have a great week. 
Amen. 

949
01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:26,200
Let God go with you.